skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, since CNN decided science wasn't newsworthy enough to actually spend money on, what do you expect? There's no reference to the story that a quick search on CNN will reveal.

Besides, look more closely. It's not FoxNews, it's sourced from LiveScience. Which I suppose is my cue to cry "No linkjacking!" and cut&paste http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/090123-teleportation-... .

This whole whining thing about Fox News is just ad hominem embedded in a fashionable, trendy pose. It's still a fallacy. This is better science reporting than any I've seen on a mainstream site in a long time... precisely because it's sourced from an actual science site, which puts it rather far ahead of almost every other mainstream source other than perhaps the NYT.

(I'm not using mainstream as a pejorative here, just a descriptive term.)
The difference is the ability to duplicate that information. For normal face to face recognition, it is reliable because it is impossible to totally duplicate another person even if you are given complete knowledge of every identifiable feature of that person.

Electronic biometric identification, on the other hand, can be flawlessly duplicated provided that you have accurate information on the aspect of the person being used to id them, as well as the method of transmitting the data.
Ask HN: What kind of text analysis/processing system do you need?
Or may be you know an unsolved problem, which requires some textminig?
An engineering solution we could build today: nuclear power. Ask any mainstream environmentalist what they think about it. See also opposition to GM food.

This doesn't even get into the horrified reactions you hear when you bring up geoengineering. Climate models (which we trust, right?) tell us that careful geoengineering can prevent reverse AGW.

Side note: the idea that the Patriot act was sitting on the shelf for years is more than just a rumor. Joe Biden confirmed that he wrote the original version of it in 1995.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10024163-38.html?tag=newsL...
"Still, I'd rather prop up an industry that's designed to inform, educate and expose corruption in the world, than prop up industries that do little but feed our unsustainable, consumptive habits."

Expanding on gaius' point, if they actually did those things more frequently, maybe they wouldn't need propping up. Instead they are actually "designed" to do the latter.

"Given that at least 50% of the compelling things I read on this site originated in the New York Times,"

I call foul. As I write this, there's one thing on the front page from there, and only 4 in the top 100. If that ratio is correct, you should stop reading HN and just cut straight to the NYT.
Very nifty result, so it's a pity about the lead:

Scientists have come a bit closer to achieving the "Star Trek" feat of teleportation.

This is like me picking up a trowel and claiming that I've come a bit closer to the feat of moving the moon from one orbit to another.

Words cannot express the loathing I have for the term quantum teleportation. Those of us who have read the Star Trek Technical Manual [1] get the joke, sort of, but for everyone who doesn't already understand the physics the metaphor is broken, and now we appear to be stuck with it. It's a shameless piece of linkbait that also seems designed to confuse the issue: It confuses the communication of quantum states with the movement of objects, and it subtly encourages us to think of this phenomenon as a weird, magical, "spooky action at a distance". ("Action at a distance" is the very definition of "teleportation".) That's a concept that we need to get out of physics education. [2]

One of the fun bits of Feynman's QED lectures is his grumbling about names like quark, which were relatively new when he gave the lectures. He doesn't seem to have been a fan of the Gell-Mann school of name selection. (Or perhaps he just enjoyed teasing his colleagues?) But quark turns out not to be so bad: at least it's an otherwise meaningless word (flavor and color are only a little bit worse). But imagine if physicists had chosen to call quarks "cheerios". Every news article on particle physics would be accompanied by a photo of some breakfast cereal, and people would keep asking about the milk.

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[1] This article really is about a "Heisenberg compensator". That much is true.

[2] The phrase "spooky action at a distance" is a holdover from Einstein, who coined it in order to ridicule the concept of quantum entanglement. Unfortunately, Einstein was wrong: entanglement is real. But he was also really eloquent, so his argument lives on despite being wrong.
Nagios is OK for "is X > Y?" type alerting, but it's very poor at "has X changed since T?" and forget "is X greater than it was 24 hours ago AND greater than it was 1 week ago and is Y as well, then page me".
Django-smtpd allows you to handle email messages just like Django processes HTTP requests.
Summary of what I think this says (it's really long, in several posts, and I only skimmed): we don't know what the supposed contradiction was that Godel found in the Constitution.
Actually, TechCrunch did feature it on their main page as well. It did bring traffic, but not so much that our servers were choking, as we had thought might happen.

Thanks for the kind words about the pitch--it's hard trying to nail that kind of thing down. :-)

We have stumbled a couple of our pages on our own and that has done a little, but we got a little carried away, and that seemed to reduce the significance of our stumbles for it. Now it's mostly users stumbling that has brought traffic. The weird part is that it's often just one page that brings a lot of people in.

The downside with StumbleUpon is that it brings traffic, but little of it builds the userbase. It's a spike and that's generally it. Nevertheless, it does get the brand out there, which is helpful.

And as for website children… we’ll just wait and see what comes of that. ;-)
Y'know, Monty Python is special, people love them, and their pitch asks for support. Not everyone who gave up their goods in HQ would see a 230x improvement in sales. So this isn't a good test of the 'give it all away' idea.
This is what I use as well. I'm surprised there aren't more users here.
Thus the use of "at least"
Easily Send Large Files Via Email
There are many ways to share files,but this is the simpliest. Maybe not the best, because you are limited to files up to 100MB , but certainly the easiest way. Just go to usend , add file, write email and click Send it Out .
http://www.ladyada.net/learn/arduino/

I would also suggest browsing the rest of her site as it is a treasure trove of information related to electronics.
I use Rails for my bigger project, but I kinda like Google's webapp (the default on AppEngine). It is enough, and I assume it works the best of any framework on AppEngine.

One of my projects is a location-based role-playing game for mobile phones that we will be launching soon. The entire game engine is hosted on AppEngine and uses the webapp framework.
The website proclaims this loudly:

> This is a quick hack. Never use this in the wild.

Would be nice to know why, and what the alternative would be.
I once used Spirit successfully, even though at the time I was not as well-versed in C++ as I should have been. I tend to like boost, because it makes a lot of things easy that would otherwise be difficult and/or time-consuming to write in C++.
(Talking on a cell, carrying an umbrella, multiple people on one bike, dresses, suits.)

Sign #458 you have been in Japan to long: you had to read this sentence six times to realize it was not ironically listing "things regular people do on bikes every day".
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Blackberry Curve 8310 Red brand releases their newest phone in the Curve line and it really astounds. The attraction of Blackberry phones is that they are designed with speedy messaging in mind. Not only do users expect to easily send text messages.
>> But do book sites really help sell books? As in so much of publishing, no one quite knows.

How could it not?
The problem with ethics, is that noone really cares about them. The consumer really doesn't do the research, so even the slimiest businesses continue to operate.

There needs to be more consequences for being unethical...then maybe people would think about cheating and lying to millions
s/Funny/A/

Fixed that for you.
Ermm, no. Not even close. Access is a tool for building simple GUI database applications that also happens to contain an embedded database for said applications. This is what I meant in my GIMP comment; the Linux community doesn't understand what the users of any of this stuff are trying to do. So they just make something that looks a bit like it, and wonder why no-one seems interested in switching.
I know exactly what you're talking about and have done a similar thing in one of my own projects. Basically, you need an iframe to contain the HTML, and fetch the actual page through the server. If you load the page directly though the iframe, Javascript will not be able to manipulate its contents.

I've posted a Pastie of the Javascript code here: http://pastie.org/369649. It does use jQuery though. The w variable points to the window object of the external page that's loaded, so you can pass it around to other functions. Note that 'pageframe' is the ID of the iframe element.

As for the server side code, I used Django, with Python's urllib2 to load the page and BeautifulSoup to turn relative urls into absolute urls. If you end up using BeautifulSoup, note that even though it's supposed to handle invalid HTML, there are some pages that still won't work because Python's HTMLParser library isn't robust enough.
I like this suggestion (for whatever that is worth).

There are one or two submitters that I am 99% sure have their tinfoil hat folding instructions memorized and do not submit things that I personally find interesting.

Additionally, there are several mindless attention whoring sites that seem to post a three-layer linked synopsis of what is, to me, a non-interesting story.

Being able to apply some high-level filters might allow people to see the items they are interested in better. It would also allow you to filter out submissions from sites that you read directly.

At the same time, there is something very unique to the approach here, and as valueless as some of the items I mentioned are to ME, they don't really get in my way.
Video: UFO at Inauguration Day 01-22
How Obama will use web technology
a reuters-like named entity extraction tool that lets me define my own entity definitions to be extracted from the content i supply
White House Tech More Tired Than Wired
Okay, I understand what they're talking about now. They're not talking about teleportation, which they've done many times at much more impressive distances, they're talking about the teleportation of information, which means you could have near-instantaneous communications between us on Earth and someone anywhere in the universe.

One end could be in downtown New York and the other end could be in the Andromeda Galaxy; so long as you transported the entangled particles.
I make a pretty penny designing polls and other landing pages for my clients. Polls are mostly effective on the 'less educated' and 'younger' demographics because most people worth their weight in anything know that it's just a pre-sell on someone's service (usually a scamming affiliate deal for ring tones or acai berry diet pills--which still makes some people millionaires).

Sure, you can create a gimmick similar to this one, but eventually people will want to see the real meat that tells them you can be trusted. If you want sign-ups there are definitely better ways on a per-hour or per-dollar invested basis. But it can be fun every once in a while. Just be careful it won't cut some of your reputation as a worthwhile company away.
Well, this is why you're seeing blogs get syndicated on sites like the NYTimes and WaPo. The blogs get distribution and the sites get to have coverage they otherwise wouldn't.

This is why the whole "the Times should curate all the news that's fit to display" isn't the same as saying "the Times should be a Digg clone". Jane Galt became Megan McArdle on the Atlantic. Marginal Revolution has great analysis. Grist does this for environmental news. They all have their biases - but that's OK.
Thanks.

Do you remember if Spirit increased compile times significantly (a usual complaint with Boost?)?
Also what architectures/compilers were you using?
How to customize OS X KeyBindings (e.g. C-e, C-a, etc.)
Company directories, basic email administration 101 (role@domain rather than bob@domain for when you expect the role to need an existence outside of Bob's), search engines, and social networks solve all the use cases for this technology much better than the technology does. Well, OK, maybe when you want to spam 50,000 professors who have graduated from Harvard since 1960 you have to do a little more work. I don't think that is a bad thing.

To: "All Researchers Doing Semantic Analysis"

From: "Rest of World"

Subject: "Solve a problem. [You're not using semantic analysis] is not a problem."

Body: Disregard message if you weren't applying your work to email. That was not one of the options the system supported. Sorry for the spam!
No no no no no. No.

http://www.flownet.com/ron/QM.pdf
Just discovered this; it's nice to have things like C-w (delete last word) in all (Cocoa) apps, as well as the ability to jump between words without using option+an arrow key. There's even marks, although they aren't as useful as in vim or emacs as the text field doesn't seem to automatically scroll back up...

Here's my DefaultKeyBinding.dict (it goes in ~/Library/KeyBindings):
http://sporkage.com/DefaultKeyBinding.dict
The Linux and BSD /proc is a pale imitation of plan9's, though. The most interesting ideas in plan9 are inherently incompatible with Unix because they're direct consequences of a deep overhaul of its security and file/namespace systems. (Much deeper than, say, adding sudo.) The free Unices' /proc filesystems attach to the global filesystem namespace, but on plan9 each process can have its own, and consequently what you can do with them is very different.

(FWIW, I detest the plan9 GUI, and am more interested in microkernel-based approaches such as in Minix 3, but getting into that in any real way is so far down my spare-time-fun list that I can only consider myself a curious onlooker.)
The Founders warned of several ways that America could be turned into a Dictatorship. Washington warned against political parties, calling them a form of despotism, which would, if left unchecked, lead to a worst form of despotism.

John Adams warned of the people voting to gain "wanton pleasures, the capricious will" and how that would cause a decay into anarchy.

As far as contradiction goes, there a a few areas that the Constitution is rather vague. The place that comes to mind is the conditions under which a President can suspend Habeas Corpus. Does Congress need to declare a national emergency first? Or can the President do this himself? The Constitution does not provide much guidance on the federal courts. This is also an area where we must be vigilant- to ensure that activist judges don't take over our country.

Other than a few areas of vagueness coupled with the fact that freedom requires a virtuous and moral people (Washington and Adams), who are ever vigilant in the defense of freedom, I don't know of any outright contradictions in the Constitution. I suppose that is why it is part of the reason for it being amendable- so that future generations can give further guidance to their servants in government. (Which, in itself, could lead our nation into despotism).

Anyone who thinks that America could never turn into a dictatorship is fooling themselves, and would be wise to remain vigilant for freedoms sake.
Q4 venture investing plummets; silver lining in cleantech?
My soldering skills are a bit rusty, but I know my way around electronics.
I've seen that before, but I'd forgotten about it. Thanks
That is in fact my first project, I'm looking for things beyond that.
That's a great idea, and sure t amuse my kids as well. Thanks
Startup saves first tree
The MPAA & RIAA are all about distribution. They want to maintain a lock on content so they (the distributors) make money, not the artists.
DreamIT Ventures Opens Up Applications For Summer 09 Funding Cycle
How about something, oh, I don't know, peer reviewed?
I Believe In Corporate Fridays, His Catalog Gives Style Advice For A Facebook Tradition
Presumably it has something to do with an amendment that prevents future amendments, or gives that right to a single person (dictator).
Calling All 'Hackers': http://dreamitventures.com/node/12
The idea behind copyleft boils down to "I'll share with you if you share with me". And Creative Commons boils down to "I've got some copyrighted work; I choose to share it under certain contitions".

If ASCAP want to argue against these ideas, they've chosen a hard task for themselves. Probably all they will achieve is reinforcing the music industry's image of being out-of-touch dinosaurs living in the previous century.
> The average person has yet to even think to question bog-standard intellectual property practices

I'm not sure that's true. Many of my friends aren't computer geeks or copyfighters, but most of them share music and movies and use P2P applications. For many people the concept of recorded music as something you buy just doesn't exist.
It's just like any form of marketing. It's can be difficult to prove that somebody bought a book because of the book's website. From the tone of the article, it doesn't seem like many publishers have really tried that hard to do a really good web analytics implementation to find more information.

Also, the website could be really ugly or offensive, which could scare off a potential impulse buy.
spelling error "devloper"
I thought "nice Flash" work, then I realized -- it's not! Nice canvas work, it's very smooth!
From the article:

> There is no ftp(1) command under Plan 9. Instead there is an ftpfs fileserver, and each FTP connection looks like a file system mount.

So, an application which needs access to files on another system can make one call to ftpfs, then return to using normal system calls to read and write files. With ftp, you would have to write an application to deal with the ftp client's api instead.

Presumably this advantage wasn't enough to get Plan 9 lots of users.
There are historical examples of unethical behavior that was noticed and consequences occurred. But the amount of unethical behavior that wasn't noticed, and wasn't recorded in history, is unknowable. We don't know what percentage of unethical behavior history catches up with.

As I see it, a sufficient reason to be ethical is that it's right, not because it's rewarding to wealth or reputation.
or drop the URL into your Supermemo flashcard schedule
What/Who is DreamIT? Is anyone familiar with these folks?
I haven't been reading news.yc much lately... but is this really what gets voted up now? A fucking 404 message?
Ask YC: Any web designers in the NYC area?
Curious if anyone in the NYC / LI area is interested in partnering with 2 developers?

We're looking for a like minded person with a complementary skillset.

matt@perplexedlabs.com
Gimp does have 48-bit colour, ever since they added GEGL support.

And really, Pantone? You can't even accurately display Pantone on monitors, as Photoshop tells you if you've even used that feature. You only use Pantone colours for the printer.

Lastly, gamma? You can apply a gamma layer if you'd really like to. I don't see what the big deal is.
I guess I should conclude this by saying "Stop spreading the FUD" but you likely just heard those buzz-phrases from a friend and are repeating them here. Gimp is a wonderful and professional program that performs quite well for most people's needs. It most certainly is "on the table".
Apple Celebrates an Anniversary | TechJaws
Is Higher Education The Next Bubble?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=245227
Can Social Networking Turn Young Eygptians Into a Force for Democratic Change?
"Once the classic meaning of a phrase begins losing ground to a less useful but more apparent one, it's time to tell it goodbye." - "beg the question", Roy Blount Jr., _Alphabet Juice_
Digg Layoffs Mean More Than Just Cost Cutting
Adventures in Delclusionism
True. The "specific emotion" bit seems like nonsense, in retrospect. I guess it would be more accurate to say that "fuck" can be an effective way to convey sharp emphasis, or the vague frustration you mentioned.
Cocoa with Love: Multiple virtual pages in a UIScrollView with just 2 child views
Point taken.

What I got from the post over all was the suggestion that the poster was merely arguing semantics, as if insisting on precise use of words was not important, or that it's OK to knowingly misuse words in the service of some vague higher motive.
Managing Windows Services
In the context of business, the person who creates the most wealth is the most moral. In other contexts, handing out pennies to orphans may well be more important.
he he, yes a bit ;-)
monit & munin are of great help to me.
@jrockway dude that 404 message is not exactly "fatally funny"
BUT I think if all webmasters made an effort to be bit more creative with their 404 pages the world would be a better place and less peeps would die of congestive heart failure
I came to Hacker News and completely stopped visiting other news sites because of retarded posts being voted up elsewhere. I really hope that trend doesn't start here, as well.
I don't even think it's an advantage to application developers. Some of the ideas behind application-filesystems have been discredited (for some of the same reasons as RPC was discredited), but more than that, it's just not that much more convenient for the application developer.

In every programming environment I can think of, you're only ever a library call away from FTP anyways.
already done...
http://www.yakkay.com/
well, not a hairdo, but definitely not a helmet.
... we will offer you a $5,000 DollarshipTM to participate in DreamIt ...

!!
Hmm, my point in writing that page was not to say that I am a great coder...
The idea was to explain to people one path they might take to learn computer programming.
People always ask me how to become a computer programmer.
I just thought I'd spell it out.
Who cares what kind of coder =I= am.

By the way, I didn't submit that thing to here.
And I don't know who did.
Nor did I even know here existed.

Enough bout that. I've got a midi sequencer to write.

...Steve
What kind of monitoring are you looking for?

Generally what is out there is either

a) long term graphing and trend analysis (that lets you determine that you will need more disk space in 3 months) or

b) watching for a service to go down, in which case you send an email or SMS.
The Mac at 25 - interview with Andy Hertzfeld [video]
Overall the quality of their writing is a bit low. This doesn't mean their program is good or bad, but it just leaves a bad first impression for me.

But I would also like to know more info - perhaps someone needs to whip up a a review site for early investment companies.

Lastly I was wondering why they separate 'innovator' vs 'strategist' vs 'hacker'.
Which means Read The Faq and Manual... :)
I largely agree. I think they're on the decline now. I don't know if whatever follows them will be better, but I'd like to think there's at least a chance.
So what is the tally of incubator/Y Combinator like programs out there?

1. Y Combinator
2. TechStars
3. DreamIT
4. ?
This is great, but if you use OS X and need a more powerful solution, I would recommend http://www.malcolmhardie.com/sqleditor/.

I keep the DB schema of my current project open at all times. When I change something in the database, I immediately make the change in SQLEditor (and vice versa). This is a recent change in my workflow, but so far it has reduced errors when moving from our development to live environments and reduced the time needed to look up obscure fields or relationships.