skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had bride&groom M&Ms, complete with pictures of the lucky couple, at a wedding I attended recently. They were a smash hit with the guests... largely for the sheer novelty of it.
Seems like we'll continue with the red=Republican thing for the forseeable future.

There isn't anything intrinsic about communism that says "red, that's the color!". It was just a useful convention.

I don't know how much the Nike swoosh can say, perhaps movement/agility?. It's always been fairly meaningless to me, aside from the whole being the Nike logo thing.
I'm afraid it's a fundamental problem, not related just to press per se.

Titles fight for attention, the most spectacular/salient ones win. Even here on HN, with much more sophisticated readers than general press/web have.

This is Red Queen effect:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_queen
Yes there is - I sleep each night and wake each day.

That's different. Your consciousness continues while you sleep, although you usually lose all awareness, mindfulness, and capacity to form memories. There are, however, yogis who are able to remain aware of their cognitive processes during both dream and deep sleep.

However, when a person is dead, the general consensus seems to be that the consciousness has left the body-- it's either elsewhere, or it has ceased to exist entirely. If the materialist explanation of consciousness is correct, then it's plausible that "someone" will awaken when your body is resurrected and will have your memories, but it won't be you, because you won't exist to be experiencing it.
Agreed, since RSS feeds can be emailed to you. It's more flexible.
Canada/USA Mathcamp: What year?
"... I wonder if it's because the "pilots" get all the stress but little of the thrill ..."

Look at the type (and the mentality) of candidates who are being drafted to do this, "Hundreds of US fighter aces reassigned as drone pilots" ~ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/04/flyboy_equals_drone_...

Forget It! ... I'm wondering what
happens to the morale and career
motivation of an [F-15] Eagle##
driver who suddenly gets the nod
to be Drone Boy

Hardly the desk-bound computer types.
Where do you get free from? http://www.campaignmonitor.com/pricing/

I do enjoy the API. I actually just spent all day working on implementing part of it in a Wordpress plugin. It's SOAP as opposed to REST, but I guess you can't have everything in life.
Not really. If I did understand the details - due to the egg -shaped orbit, the distance at which moon is closest to earth (perigee) over the month/year varies every period. The current event is additionally happening over a full moon, which brings extra effects on its visible size, brightness and tides on the sea.

"today's event will be the closest lunar perigee since 1993, at 221,560 miles (356,566 kilometers) from Earth."

On average, the Moon is 378,000 km away, and at furthest, it is 399,300 km away from the Earth's surface. So, yesterday's full moon was 6% closer than the average.

Update: I found a apogee and perigee calculator http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/pacalc.html

Last closest was in 1993, which was also a full moon.

Mar 8 8:36 356529 km ++ F- 1h

Yesterday's in 2008 :

Dec 12 21:38 356567 km ++ F+ 4h
I understand your point but bringing ∞ or א-numbers into a non-mathematical discussion in a such hand-wavy fashion is really a form of fallacious argument (albeit unnamed as far as I know) and will almost certainly lead to even lower-quality discussion.
> Unless you're sending over 10K emails a day, hosted is the way to go. I might make a writeup on the process once I get some free time... let me know if anyone's interested.

We're considering rolling our own email server setup. We send about 30K emails a day in the form of a daily newsletter, and are getting ready to build a custom community update users, that will go to about 10K per day.

A long way of saying I'm VERY interested in your experiences with your setup.
OK, so maybe I read too many fantasy and sci-fi novels, but I'm less interested in the problems of coming back from the dead. What really interests me is the related problem of how to kill someone securely.

Take, for a prosaic example, vampires. Shooting a vampire will almost certainly NOT kill them -- sources differ but they might not die, might die but revive immediately, might die but revive the next night, etc. So how to kill a vampire definitively?

I think, based on the union of all the vampire lore I've heard, you have to:

* stake him

* stuff his mouth with holy wafers

* cut off his head

* burn the body (both parts, presumably, but better to keep them separate)

* bury the ashes on hallowed ground

* ... at high noon

* drop a nuclear bomb on top of the church

THERE. One vampire, securely disposed of.

I'm sorry if this digression into the fantastic was a waste of time for you. We now return you to your regularly scheduled intellectual discussion of cryogenics.
Because a human life is so incredibly short that decline and death are rapidly impending, and it's difficult not to think about them constantly. Perhaps I'm unusual, but I think about death-- my death, not just the abstraction-- several times per day. And I'm not a depressed or morbid person, so I think this is pretty normal.

It would suck if the final act of existence were painful decline, followed by eternal oblivion. It could well be the case, but I'm glad that if it is, I'll never know about it.
For the purposes of this message, I define "pay" as "money out of your pocket, including the money spent 'purchasing' 'bids'."

In a real auction, if you are willing to pay twice the market price, you are almost (but not quite) guaranteed to win, and you will almost (but not quite) certainly be paying less than 2x market value. The only person who can beat you is someone willing to pay 2x+change. (When you lose, you don't have to pay anything, but that's not directly related to your point.)

In a Swoopo auction, if you are willing to pay twice the market price, you are only slightly more likely to win, rather than reasonably assured, and you can be beaten by anybody willing to put up $1+current bid, which, if you've poured twice market value into the bids, is still fairly low. (And when you lose, you still pay.)

An auction has a rational mechanism for manipulating the probability of your winning in proportion to your desire to win, as expressed by the money you're willing to pay. Swoopo's system is far, far less rational, and you can pour massive resources into an "auction" and be beaten at the end by somebody paying a mere fraction of what you are paying, even though they end up with the product.

It's a night-and-day difference. One system is rational and what most would consider mostly fair. One is crazy and what most would consider a scam.
I'm not convinced that medical science is so far behind determining life. Once a person is pronounced dead, I'm convinced they're brain dead. So it's useless to preserve someone when nearly all of their information on the state of their mind has been lost.
Seems like we'll continue with the red=Republican thing for the forseeable future.

"We" are a very small minority. Everyone -- the US included -- knows who Reds are. Only Americans, and folks who follow American news fairly closely, know what "red states" are.
My best guess on implementation for that is to send back a list of selectable rectangles along with the PNG, then highlight them via javascript. No clue how they're copying it to my clipboard, though...
You could always work as a company employee (seishain) at a major Japanese company. They essentially can't fire you. You essentially can't quit.

In times of economic uncertainty, this sort of arrangement holds a lot of appeal to people. Believe me though, oh boy, there are downsides to the expectation that worker and company are joined at the hip forever.

A common opinion among my friends: "No matter how bad it is, above all, don't quit. If you quit, you'll never work for a decent company again. You'll be hakken shain (temp) for the rest of your life, condemned to perpetually poor conditions and ceaseless economic uncertainty. It would be like being American, except with worse pay. looks around Sorry, Patrick. When I said like an American, I didn't mean like you. But you're not American, anyhow, so its OK."
You should give it a shot. You might have to gmail the docs to yourself though, which could rival Acrobat startup time.
I smoke; most of my family smokes, around half of my acquaintances. As best as I can tell:

External messages (warnings, PSAs) have a negligible effect on people who already smoke. The psycho/physiological considerations are much more a factor than how graphic a warning message is.

Instead, they should be doing this study on people who don't smoke. The real goal is prevention.

Personally, I'm a programmer so I don't worry about warnings anyway, only errors.
I like the way Reddit does this -- when someone replies to a comment you made, your mailbox icon at the top right glows red.

Doesn't solve the question of following whole threads, but it's great for dialogue (not just because I notice when people reply to me, but because other people notice when I reply to them).
I'm as against censorship as the next guy, but the government is filtering content, they're not taking protocols away from us. Worst case, the government gets the backbone. Wasn't this scenario the design target of the original ARPAnet? Network survivability in the face of massive topography holes?
iFart And Pull My Finger Battle To Stink Up The App Store.
Ok, I think it is more like ... Mar 1993, Dec 2008, Nov 2016 ... mark the "local minima" if you plot month over month distance of the moon at perigee.
I liked the post-election New Yorker cover:

http://bagnewsnotes.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341cc90353ef010535f...
I upvote articles that I don't have time to read, but want to keep track of. I've been doing this for at least a year, since the /saved?id=vlad feature came out (articles a user upvotes are available via that suffix to the url.)
Android does the same for PDF attachments
http://www.rei.com/product/752777
it is really something to see yourself in candy form. I was at a convention where they had pics of the speakers on them. It was amazing how detailed the pictures were on such a small, irregularly shaped, and quickly produced product. I winder how long until someone starts laser images of Jesus and the Virgin Mary into chips and whatnot to sell as "visions".
Value of my life (at least to myself): infinity,

I seriously doubt this. There are numerous activities -- smoking, eating delicious food, having risky sex, crossing the street -- that people routinely do despite the incremental risk of mortality. I've read that when you divide the extra money by the increased death risk (e.g. a $10K lump sum payment for a 1% chance of dying, as you'd get if, for example, you switch to higher-risk duties in a mining or lumber job), the average person values his own life at between $1 million and $10 million.

If you do spend all of your time on maximizing your probability of survival -- making money for medical care, reading medical journals in your free time, not doing anything that's really fun and slightly fatal -- I'd believe you. Otherwise, you suffer from cognitive dissonance.
Have you seen their 100% Off auctions? You're buying the right to bid, to buy something for $0 regardless of the final price?

Come on, this is going to get slapped down so hard it isn't even funny.
Worse is when you think you've proved it to be bad memory, but it turns to be something way more ridiculous.

I dealt with a batch of 60 identical PCs that would occasionally fail in odd ways during the disk imaging process, and upon further inspection would fail memtest spectacularly. It didn't make sense, as they were stable when running an operating system, just not in memtest or while imaging. Plus the memory tested fine in other computers!

I eventually figured out that while the BIOS was in real mode, the USB controller would write to extended memory when the USB mouse sent it events. They would have no problems with the mouse unplugged, and the problem went away with a BIOS update. It took a lot of yelling to figure this out!
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Why not assume that in the future they'll harness the universe's full computational capabilities and emulate every single being that has ever lived?

Because if you assume it will happen, you have to assume that the mostly likely explanation for your existence is that it did happen.
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How to find the best iPod Cheats.
2002 and 2003.
Certainly a better and more genuine favor than you get at most weddings, will they have custom Viagra in time for the seven year itch?
An annoying attitude. I spend 2 dollars on a box of crackers. Here's the rough process:

1. Farmer takes out a loan at Wells Fargo.

2. Loan clears, Farmer buys seed, etc.

3. Farmer grows 2000 acres of wheat.

4. Summer passes, farmer harvests wheat, and it travels 1000 miles to be processed.

5. Nabisco (Altria) buys wheat for a pre-agreed price (determined months ago by the Chicago futures exchange--a bunch of speculators who took risk on themselves so Nabisco and Joe Farmer could get to business.)

6. Nabisco puts the wheat (plus 10 other commodities) into its industrial mixers, ovens, packaging machines, fleet, etc, until it winds up at Walmart.

7. Walmart (which did 1001 separate things in order to make the deal go down) puts a $2.00 electronic price on the crackers.

8. I show up, put some plastic through a device, some digital numbers go through 2 thousand miles of wire to 5 different financial institutions, and then I get a box of crackers. Game over.

I've participated in 500 billion dollars worth of business without even realizing it, getting a day's worth of calories for a tiny percentage of my daily income. That's "evil" somehow?
Haha, it is interesting to note that most custom offerings currently focus on the youth market, or product traditionally bought by younger customers. I wonder if we will start to see these products "age" with their customers of if it is a perpetually youth based niche?
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Could be, also might be that these things always require using a computer and the olde aren't that into it?
They are passing some of their earnings on to Google in the form of advertising buys. I just saw an ad for them in my Gmail account.

So one step that could be taken would be for Google to ban them from their advertising network. Would Google do this? I don't know, but the answer would be revealing.
Unfortunately smoking errors tend to be fatal ones.
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My technique is super low-tech. In my bookmarks bar, positioned conveniently below the site's favicon, I have a folder which is called "For Later". Into this folder I drop stuff I'll want to come back to at some point. Then (and here's the super part of my super low-tech claim), when I'm done with it I move it to another folder called "x" which I periodically delete and re-create.

This works everywhere with no extensions or anything, I use Foxmarks to sync the bookmarks themselves between machines (which you could skip if you only used the one machine), that's it.
I was hoping for something interesting, but it's just a graphically prettied-up version of something that could have been thrown together in 2006. Or 1996. Or 1826.

* The rich didn't get that way 'manipulating capital markets'. The biggest investors in hedge funds tend to be pension funds and college endowments, both of which provide big benefits mostly to the middle class.

* The 'unregulated bubble economy' is a funny phrase for an economy fueled by mortgages. Either mortgages are more regulated than, say, stocks, or I didn't hear about: a law making dividends completely tax free; a law making capital gains tax-free if you worked for the company in question; two giant federal agencies that bought hundreds of billions of dollars worth of stocks, and wrote put options on many more, with the express purpose of inflating their price; a strong lobbying effort to get broader stock ownership, including getting members of low-income, low-credit minorities to speculate in dodgy stocks. The mortgage market looks really weird if you imagine its rules being applied to any other market.

* It's funny to compared taxes for 'the wealthy' and 'the working' -- the rich people I know work a whole lot harder than the poor ones. And since capital gains and dividends are paid out of profits taxed at the corporate level, even reducing the capital gains tax to zero would put the rich at about the same level as everyone else; as it is, income earned by a corporation you own part of is taxed more highly than income you earn directly.

* The headline about two thirds of corporations paying no taxes was highly inaccurate. It referred to a study claiming that during a multi-year period, at least two thirds of corporations paid no taxes in at least one year. In other words, if you surveyed ten people about their eating habits and found that five of them skipped breakfast once a week, this headline's standard of proof would allow you to argue that half of them were starving.

I don't want to cover the rest, but those were the most egregious points.
I suppose, but don't you think there are enough 40yr olds+ who would be interested enough in computers? or is it an outgrowth of the MySpace/Facebook "Broadcast Identity" thing?
Myself what do you guys think? http://aconsapart.com/
"One system is rational and what most would consider mostly fair. One is crazy and what most would consider a scam."

The term "scam" requires that the person being scammed was not given the facts upfront. This is not a scam by any stretch of the imagination since the company posts the technical details plainly and clearly on their website. You may not like the way the business is structured, but it is certainly no scam.
The mailchimp API is topnotch. The only issue is their admin panel is too AJAX-y and bogs down when your mailing lists are several hundred thousand people.
I really like this idea too, just like stars in Gmail. A star would appear next to the article name in the index page (and detail page). One click and a star next to the article.

Works like a charm in Gmail. No need to even float stars to the top, just allow the user to filter only starred articles with one click.
The problem with the compiler is that it implements a language whose rules, applied to the code I just wrote, yield a bug. That this language is consistent with the spec makes it no less a problem.
http://symbolics.com/ doesn't look like it's been updated too much since then either.

Here it is from 98, no divs, no doc-type: http://web.archive.org/web/19981207002851/stony-brook.scrc.s...
I had that fire for a couple years and it was one of the most exciting and rewarding times of my life. Working on getting it back right now and it's good to have that feeling in my gut again.

Thanks for the brief but highly motivating post, kareemm.
If you know which comments on a page are new, then you also know which ones are old. The easy answer is to just gray out the older posts (only remotely challenging because the gray background of the page is about the color I WOULD have suggested for old comment text) -- and just leave the new comments as they are.

That allows you to easily skim the page for new content, while still allowing you to see the new posts in context.

A Digg-style collapse would also probably work, but for some reason, I see grayed out text more in line with the ycombinator mantra.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/35045

"The patient couldn't be revived because the tissues of his brain and heart had suffered irreversible damage from lack of oxygen. This process was understood to begin after just four or five minutes. If the patient doesn't receive cardiopulmonary resuscitation within that time, and if his heart can't be restarted soon thereafter, he is unlikely to recover. That dogma went unquestioned until researchers actually looked at oxygen-starved heart cells under a microscope. What they saw amazed them, according to Dr. Lance Becker, an authority on emergency medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. "After one hour," he says, "we couldn't see evidence the cells had died. We thought we'd done something wrong." In fact, cells cut off from their blood supply died only hours later."
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"It will likely be called a raffle because buying the "tickets" costs money and you will very likely get nothing for it."

It is NOT a raffle because a raffle winner is selected 100% by chance whereas at swoopo the winner is the person who bids the highest price -- and bidding the highest price is not based on chance.
Enough! Grow a fucking spine already!

Islam is religious absolutism. Under an Islamic regime, you're a Muslim or you're a dhimmi or you're a slave. If you self-identify as a Muslim then you are incompatible with every significant ideal of America.
"Its not an auction if bidding costs money regardless if you win or not. Its more of a raffle."

Show me the law that says this and I might begin to believe that you have a point here ... but right now I do not. I don't know much about auction laws, but I've never heard of it being illegal to charge for participation, and if it is in fact illegal then there must be someone online who has complained about it or files a case somewhere ...
I could not get anything from your web site. The only link to something and that is 404
"Some companies," I told Jane Hulbert, "are even registering the names of their competitors."

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.10/mcdonalds.html
Don’t get me wrong - both applications are funny, and I’ll probably use them to play a prank or two over the holidays. But I fear that developers will now flood the App Store with similar juvenile apps looking to make a quick buck

This.

I'm all about fun, pointless apps that just let you waste time for hours on end, but he's got a point. Apps are going to come in left and right that are just, overtly DUMB. And when it happens, I can't wait to hear the faint giggle of Steve Jobs sitting in his office as the blogosphere starts to erupt "what's the deal with all of these dumb applications??"

The general population has a seemingly insatiable appetite for dumb shit

Furthermore, this made me chuckle because the first two comments validate the sentence so easily.
I use Illustrator and Fireworks. I use photoshop for some special effects but try and stick with vectors as long as i can until the gif/jpg stage so as i can transform them easily.

A lot of the most frequently used special effects in PS can be used in illustrator now in vector format which is handy like drop shadows etc. PS was never really built to make graphics, just to manipulate photographs but it serves the purpose to some extent. you might use it for blending a photo into a gradient for a banner and things like that but you can also do this in FW.

If you want to learn how to make graphics for web - get Fireworks and/or Illustrator, it'll make the job a lot easier and Fireworks has the best engine of the three for compressing images for the web. you'll notice the difference. The three all work together though.
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I liked the pre-election New Yorker cover:

http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/1/C/2/new-yorker-oba...
I think that you'd have a hard time tracking down the cranberry juice, unless you are some kind of universe-reincarnationalist,
Thing about how much less appealing this article would be if it were titled "My Amazing Brain" or even "Our Amazing Brains". That's amazing. These New Scientists know nothing about my amazing brain- perhaps it will get it's own article someday.
Left out "Lack of support in IE6".
I thought Applers were too mature to be into this sort of thing.
Space pier, an alternative to the space elevator.
" 'life' (and any subsequent words) was ignored because we limit queries to 32 words. "

That's not a very Googley thing to do...