skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"respected news network" at least from my point of view, this is a bit of an oxymoron, call me paranoid, but I'll take a good peer reviewed academic paper for my facts any day.
Ionic-powered nanosatellite can go to the Moon on drops of fuel
Life of An Email, After It is Sent [Stats]
Oh Draco, you do get your reward for not going over to the dark completely...
Wait, seriously? I thought you were being sarcastic until I read the second sentence. Mainstream news networks in infamously bad at evaluating the accuracy of scientific research, and often end up reporting ridiculous things even if they're drawing inspiration from valid science.

The way to evaluate the validity of normal scientific research is typically to see if any respectable research journal has published it. And as far as I can tell PLOS counts as a respectable journal. Before you really start believing the results you want to look for other people duplicating the results, but publication itself means that yes, this is serious.
Nice to see such an important and modern project written in Perl, which people around here shit on all the time.
Also, John Kay's "The Long and the Short of It: finance and investment for normally intelligent people who are not in the industry".
There are many viruses dangerous enough that humans tend to die instead of developing resistance. I think that is enough reason to want this sort of drug around.
The lawsuit had the potential to turn into a landmark case

Can someone explain what would be landmark about MegaUpload suing (or winning) against UMG like this?
The Washington Post has become the FarmVille of journalism
It’s unlikely that e-ink will ever compete with LCDs when it comes to watching videos or playing games, but e-ink definitely has the edge on reading.

When they can inexpensively support enough reactivity to support touch interfaces, it goes much beyond just reading.
Automating Document Creation and Document Production Service
Big Update: We added A-G-E to our A-P-I (age detection is here)
What I’m really looking forward to are outright foldable

In many ways, foldability is just the medieval substitute for a dynamic display. Instead of switching screens, you flip pages. Instead of zooming maps, you unfold the whole thing, then fold over everything except the part you're interested in.
My reputation slowed down to a crawl after becoming a moderator.
Website is offline due a database connection error.
Spotify and The Echo Nest integrate APIs
When SO first came out I was on it quite a bit but as the community grew larger, I found that I rarely added much value to answering questions beyond what other users were already doing. Now I use it as a great reference tool, like searching how to fix weird IE7 issues (yes, my company still officially supports IE7). For that, it's been a great tool.
I agree, often I've wanted to add something, but I'm unable to because I haven't participated enough.

I'm on the wrong side of the chicken and egg, so I just leech.
The ridiculous thing is that he's only 7 years younger than the CTO of Facebook, and a mere 3 years younger than the CEO.
To get an idea of how large a 2.5 inch wasp is - check this.

http://pective.com/pic/garuda-wasp
So aggressive! I'll be the first to proudly proclaim that I know practically nothing, and am a terrible programmer. But I'm not mediocre. Mediocrity == doesn't know how to ask questions, decompose problems, troubleshoot or research. Calm down bud.
Already exists, e.g. F# in Visual Studio. Note however that type inference and dynamic typing, although similar on the surface in that you don't have to write type annotations, are completely different things.

The OO tenet says "Don't couple unrelated things". The converse of this is "Don't decouple related things", which is equally valid yet often ignored. Decoupling X and Y means that in the cases where you want to use X and Y together you need to connect them together again. This is a bad thing if in 99% of the cases you want to use X and Y together.

An example of this is the Java file API. In an effort to decouple a reference to a file, a reference to a stream of the file's contents, a reference to an arbitrary stream, reading from a stream, and reading from a stream in a buffered way, we end up with FIVE classes (File, FileInputStream, DataInputStream, InputStreamReader, BufferedReader) that will almost always be used together simply to read the contents of a file. This is of course an extreme example. A better design is to "couple" these things together in a gimmeTheContentsAlready(filename).

Likewise, the Opa guys are expecting that most people who use their stuff will use their database interface, and their language on both the server and the client, their easy client/server networking, and their http server. Shipping these as separate components would induce a lot of work to integrate them together again.
It's because we've been training to understand that "if it isn't on Google, it doesn't exist". That doesn't seem to be true though (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_Web), but in practical terms, it is...
Installing Rails on OSX is trivial. If one really needs this process streamlined, maybe you shouldn't be coding? Or maybe you should just stop using a computer?

Similar to the Svbtle drama, this is yet another post lingering on the front page that has no business here.

I thought this was hacker news. Seems more like "check out my super cool project that you can't use unless you're awesome or you pay me" news. :(
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky
The alternatives are pulled from http://alternativeto.net so adding to their site will add to the zero-click info.

You can contribute to tech-related searches by contributing to the open source zero-click info (see this tutorial https://github.com/duckduckgo/duckduckgo/wiki/Open-Source-Pl...).

You can also send in ideas here: https://duckduckgo.uservoice.com/forums/5168-plugins.
Neither can people, but computers have the ability to see through the dark, rain and snow. They have the benefit of GPS. They have the benefit of being able to work with embedded sensors in the roadway (which to be fair is in its infancy, but you know that's where it's going).

I like people a lot, but I would not bet on a person driving better than a computer. Our reaction time is way too slow and sensory input very limited.
I've donated a little to SIAI and to Against Malaria Foundation. Probably not as much as I could afford to.
So did DHH give permission to use the Rails logo for this project?????

"The use of the logo is restricted as it always is when talking about a trademark. When the logo is used in a commercial setting, such as part of the promotion of a book, it legally requires that the trademark holder has been involved and stands behind the quality of the book. If that's not the case, you're on the way to lose your trademark.
So I only grant promotional use for products I'm directly involved with. Such as books that I've been part of the development process for or conferences where I have a say in the execution."

http://www.rubyinside.com/david-heinemeier-hansson-says-no-t...
3 Lifelike HTML5 animated homepages
So use the drug the second time around, too. It uses a property common to all viruses to work - not something that could be defeated with evolution a lá bacterial infections and antibiotics.

Speaking of which, I wonder if this would stop us using bacteriophages for treating bacterial infections. They show a lot of promise, again, because they're not resilient to evolution of their target bacteria, but they are viruses themselves.
Nice curve.

March 1st caused me to go from DDG dabbler to browser default.

Still use !g, but I find that I recommend DDG more often than I use !g.
StackOverflow is one site where I never saw the appeal. I have stumbled upon it a few times through it being a top result during search, but the content seemed fairly flat, for lack of a better term.

I suppose if you have a very specific question, it gets the job done. However, in the more traditional forum model, I find the discussion that follows the answer to be far more valuable the answer itself. The StackOverflow implementation seems to discourage continuing the conversations once suitable answers are found.

It obviously works well for a lot of people, but I just don't get it. Voted do not use.
How a Multimillion Dollar App Was Made in Half a Year
You only need 50 reputation to comment anywhere on the site. That's only 5 upvotes on a good answer or 10 upvotes on questions. It's an extremely low bar to get over.

Note: You can always comment on your own posts (questions or answers).
I like the idea of these being unfurled like a scroll, held in front of the reader: "hear ye! Hear ye!"
There is a little bit of gaming in SO that makes it hard to compete with others that are more dedicated to the site.

For example, posting a quick answer and then editing it with the answers from others to complete your answer is one I've seen. I don't believe it to be unfair just that it takes effort beyond technical skills to get high rep values in SO. John Skeet aside, he's all technical skills ;p
Oracle Wants $100M+ Android Settlement, Google says 'We'll give you $2.8M'
Get Browser Plug-ins for Interactive Browsing
The article outlines a step-by-step resolution process for web browser issues that might result from faulty plug-ins or add-ons.
I don't know how big these can be but I would love to see columns wrapped in this stuff with scrolling patterns, maps, text etc
DevCamps–More Opportunities to Learn Windows 8 Development
That was my first reaction playing with my tablet with the Android for the first time. I am a Windows user and I could not believe how Microsoft blew this field.
I rarely post anymore, but I have enough old content in popular tags to gain close to 1k a month through random upvotes (that's about three votes per day).
I participate a lot, but almost exclusively in the (HTML5) Canvas tag. Because I don't answer much else I've got a smallish reputation for a frequent visitor(12K).

I'm the top answer-er for the Canvas tag, having answered around ~10% of all questions ever asked about Canvas on StackOverflow.

I would say that reputation numbers don't necessarily measure engagement per se in S.O. very well.

I've found that if I answer a general JavaScript question, even if its an absurdly simple one, I garner more reputation in a few minutes than if I I give a detailed answer to 2-3 in depth canvas questions.

If I wanted to pad my reputation I could definitely answer more general JS questions that crop up, but I really enjoy helping people with their canvas projects, so I sorta stick to that domain and try to help with my slightly-more-unique knowledge.

Anyway, reputation numbers aren't that important to me. At the end of the day, this is the only encouragement I need:

http://i.imgur.com/POZmt.png
The problem with the SO reputation system is that one-sentence answers to some very basic problem end up earning you > 100 reputation, but a long, well-written answer to a niche question gets you maybe 10 or 20.

I'm not really sure what the solution to this is (it's not dissimilar to the situation here since the comment scores got hidden).
Man, tell me about it. I was in the top 10 when I became a mod, now I'm on page 3.

btw, this is Bill. :)
Argh! I accidentally downvoted you when I meant to upvote you. Damn tiny arrows on the phone and no ability to reverse votes. My digital apologies.
So funny, and true in a lot of cases. Ultimately, though, I think your naked superman with X-ray vision just has problems with communication, working with people, and most of all adapting efficiently to his environment.

The X-ray vision guy is blatantly choosing to continue bumping into things where the more efficient solution is to put things in place, leave them there, and remember not to walk into those places. That's the failure to adapt to the environment. A mathematician who made an honest effort to, at the least, not upset the software could do pretty well. Probably.
Site went down. Here is the cached link:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.fsf...
Macs are being spied on just like Windows machines
Sounds like you're threatened some by this - it was hard for you, therefore it should always be hard for everyone for now and forever.

Yes, I'm threatened by this. But not in the way you think, because as shown above, it's not really hard. It's 5 lines. What's wrong with kids these days?

I'm threatened because I'm the guy who comes in to clean up after "junior programmers" who couldn't even be bothered to learn 5 lines to install their dev-environment and who consequently also don't have the slightest clue about basic realities such as "diskspace is finite" or "No, /Users/Bob/rails/tmp is not a valid path in production".

At least give the kids a chance to learn. Don't lure them with shortcuts that result in unsustainable habits that cause great frustration in the long run. Unlearning is harder than learning.

Rails with its false sense of simplicity is breeding plenty diletantes already as it is. We need less of that, not more.
Thank you for posting this on HN! This is exactly the kind of underreported bleeding-edge engineering I hope to discover on places like HN.

It's very easy for mainstream journalists to jump on new technologies once they've been developed, but it's up to engineers and scientists themselves to make exciting potential directions better known.
> I think doing customer development for a different market that you don't especially know or have easy access to is tough

That's exactly the point. It's hard to serve a market you don't know, so get to know it! Thanks for sharing your experience =)
The Digital↔Physical
It could also make viral gene therapy considerably safer, and generally reduce the potential bioterror risk of having genetics technology around.

Even if the drug had nasty side effects, it would be great as a last resort similar to ultra-powerful "atomic bomb" antibiotics.
There is no cult of personality at play here. There has really been zero talk of Curtis the person as opposed to Svbtle the thing.
> In short, the 'chicago school' economics lead by Milton Friedman posit that as-free-as-possible markets, de-regulation and privatisation are economically beneficial.

They are. You want a comparison? Let's compare Chile to North Korea, and the wealth gap in those nations. Free-as-possible markets aren't perfect. They may not even be good. But they're better than the alternative.
Gave him your contact info.
Here's the MITLL press release:
http://www.ll.mit.edu/news/DRACO.html
I'm in Steve's class at Haas (U.C. Berkeley), and our team has undergone 4 pivots in 8 weeks, which is 1 pivot every two weeks. Every time we spoke to customers, there were revelations, both with respect to what will not work, but also what we can change that might work.

Lather Rinse Repeat...
But do we need to cure all viruses? Do we know that all are hostile to humans?
Awesome. I've heard of duckduckgo from a coworker and use it regularly.

I'm creating an art site and have a search feature. I made sure to include duckduckgo along with google, and bing as search providers. It only makes sense, right?
I Cover 99 Platforms but Ain’t Hit on One
Go to kickstarter or some other funding method that will NOT patent or copyright this. Something like the JOBS acts would provide. This is too disruptive to have in the hands of big pharma.
Hold up.

1) If you don't agree, don't contribute (time or money). You're doing OSS wrong.

2) Obviously Yehuda has given a lot to Rails and other OSS communities. He recognizes a problem (regardless of its origin) that he wants to fix. Posts like this will drive people like him away. I know my life is easier because of the work Yehuda has done. If you don't like it, go back to Rails 2.X, or help fix it yourself.

3) Thinking back to the Rails 2 days, things weren't dramatically better for dependencies and getting Rails setup. This project would be applicable then.

4) Posts like this will only drive away the contributions of a smart, giving person. Lots of people make a lot of money off the work the Rails Core Team has done, don't label one of them a thief because they need financial help to focus their improvements on a specific pain point.
there's already a goodie for base conversions (though currently base conversions are done via Wolfram Alpha, not sure why).

Ideas for more goodies are on https://duckduckgo.uservoice.com/
SSL certificate monitoring
Around 27000 but I haven't been actively participating since I've 20000, it's still an awesome site but one day I just simply lost interest in participating.
I get a little 'interest' too, about 300 - 500 monthly.
The Streisand effect in all its glory
Side note: have mercy on your readers and make the text contrast a bit higher.
I made a website here: http://textbookcentral.com.au/
Like yours it fails to solve the business problem. I managed to broker, so far, dozens of textbook trades out of tens of thousands of visits and thousands of buy/sell interactions.

Do you (or anyone else) think it's worth it for me to put Ads on my website? I have resisted so far because I thought the revenue would be insignificant.

- 2000 - 4000 visits (higher during semester breaks, lower in mid-semester)

- 2000 - 3000 visitors

- 20000 pageviews

- 6 page/visit

- 1:20 visit duration

- 8% bounce rate

Once upon a time patio11 suggested I become a part-time person becoming the other side on any textbook sell or buy transaction. I didn't do it because I figured to make a loss of at least $5-$10 on each transaction to make it worth while for the other person to buy from me to make it worth it for them instead of from the store. I would've bankrupted myself doing that for the 1700 textbooks requested/offered. (Also got to know someone who had more headway into this same problem my website was solving; he owns a real book store near a university).

Looking at your example I think maybe I can make income from ads instead... but I'm not sure if a quarter of visits can equate to a quarter as many ad conversions.
Congressman Kicked Off House Floor For Wearing Hoodie
Keyword "Syria" in Facebook comments on public posts triggers this censor
I have found the signal-to-noise ration to be fairly low every time I look. It's great that there are so many beginners having their questions answered, but I have other things to do with my time.
Will Canada have its own US-style sub-prime crisis?
I redirect to Google for my site search at Fight Aging! at the moment because it returns far better results than DDG, and with my ~8000 posts and countless topics doing a great job with my own custom search just doesn't make economic sense. If DDG could do as well as Google for the archives I'd switch in an instant; I prefer the idea of sending users somewhere other than Google for queries that may involve medical conditions. But results are the trump card; they have to be good.

I tend to cover any given topic in a brace of interlinked posts across years, and all topics are complex. e.g.:

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=site%3Afightaging.org+...

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Afightaging.org+gut+bacteria

DDG misses the AGE connection in the results, which is important in this topic.

Many searches are upon specific factors or markers or genes, and for these DDG falls down badly e.g.:

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=site%3Afightaging.org+...

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Afightaging.org+IL-1

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=site%3Afightaging.org+...

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Afightaging.org+p27
I love using DDG through the Tor network. http://3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion
Its the same on most sites, my rep has stalled mostly after becoming a moderator on Super User and its the same for most of the others there.

However, it doesn't mean that the sites stop being useful, I read a lot of questions, but rarely feel the need to ask a new one.
I use DDG a lot.

The reality is, it's not as tuned a search engine as Google is. However, I find it to be a more serendipitous search engine. It's better in breadth than G, IMO. That is to say, the top hit on Google is more precise if I want a specific thing, but the breadth of results on DDG is much more useful than Google in general.

As a matter of fact, it reminds me of the '90s, where a search could teach you more than just the one thing you were looking for.

I like it... most of the time. :-)
/r/lockpicking is a fun place as well, there is a lot of good info posted there.

Also be sure to look at Schuyler Townes lock picking how to videos.
It's great to hear that DDG is doing well. The problem is that I will never switch over to it due to its shortcomings compared to Google and even Bing. I tried to give it a go for a day or so, but quickly realized the results being returned were not good enough.

1) It's not as accurate as Google. Sometimes DDG might return a better result (such as https://duckduckgo.com/?q=alternative+to+picasa), but 9/10 times Google is much more accurate.

2) DDG is playing catchup to a search engine that has hundreds of employees and a 10+ year head start. The types of queries DDG is trying to solve now were likely solved years ago and have been finely tuned numerous times.

3) I think this good video http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2012/03/video-search-qualit... about sums up the type of problems they are solving now and how advanced their platform is. Google is tweaking an edge-case scenario that is only .1% of their traffic. That is more traffic than all of DDG.

4) If DDG is all about respecting privacy and not tracking users, then use Google or Bing in incognito mode. Problem solved.

I'm not trying to be negative, but all signs point to a losing battle.
This would be great for viruses that the immune system can't get rid of on its own, like herpes or HIV. For stuff like the common cold, it'd probably be best to let the immune system deal with it (same how you wouldn't use antibiotics for a minor bacterial infection).
First of all - make sure you've covered the quick wins: use nginx, php-fpm, cache as much as possible in memory (PHP's APC is easy enough to use). Make sure that MySQL is optimized and has the same easy quick wins covered (e.g. query cache).

And then have fun with the advanced topics :)
The current 'London' Situation is starting to annoy alot of people. The Olympics is a classic example of an event that is for the entire UK but most of the north (inc. Scotland) and west (including Wales and Ireland off the coast of England) will not benefit. Take a look at this image of a map of the events:

http://img804.imageshack.us/img804/395/olym.png

The UK has one of the largest number of Football Clubs in the world. Every Major City and Town has a Football Club and the smaller towns have Rugby Stadiums. Some cities have BOTH. Leicester, for example, has The Tigers Rugby Statium a stones throw from the King Power Football Stadium.

Why are these cities not benefiting from such a hugh event and why is the Govenment not investing in the creation of Tech Campus's in all major cities in the UK?
If I was a person from outside of the UK and looking to setup a business in the UK I would absolutely not choose London as my base! I understand all of the reasons in favour of London but I think there are better alternatives. London is full of the type of people who like to make a lot of noise but get little done, costs are extortionate and you can get most of the benefit of London from outside.

My personal choices would be a city along one of the major rail routes into London or one of the major University cities. So they would be Bath, Bristol, Oxford, Cambridge and perhaps Birmingham / Warwick. In fact most of these cities have their own start up friendly environments that are linked with the universities and plenty of VC and PE firms in those cities. All of which are less expensive and much more welcoming and friendly places to be, less ego too!
I believe f# type providers are an implementation of what you're describing:
http://research.microsoft.com/apps/mobile/video.aspx?id=1500...