skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A quote from the author: "I hope other sites violated by Power.com such as Google, Microsoft, MySpace, and Hi5 put a stop to websites like Power harvesting user data."

However, Facebook uses exactly the same method for harvesting contact details from other sites: http://www.facebook.com/findfriends.php

Should Facebook sue itself?
2007 Web start-up funding (2/2): Investment size and implied valuation
A TortoiseSVN-like plugin for Nautilus
I had a news.yc that covered a similar topic. If the company actually knows what it's doing they should allow for about 6 months where people can get their social graph / other data from the website.
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Did you try rebooting?
Glad to see you are actually prepared to refer to something to back up your arguments. It looks like you are interpreting those grey bands to be a maximum error margin. I can't see that actually mentioned anywere on the graph and since there is no accompanying article it is difficult to be certain that is the correct interpretation or of course when the predictions were made. Those grey bands also go back in time which sheds some additional uncertainty on the matter.

The graph isn't quite large enough to gauge the precise expectations but it seems that if you believe that the climate has cooled in the last 10 years it would disagree with that graph. However this is not necessarily the case as is argued in the following article

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14527

I'm sure that as you are reading the article the words 'babble' and 'hype' will be crossing your mind. But the fact is that science involves a great many complexities and a often this invloves a great deal of thought, consideration and - yes - 'words'.

> Not being able to predict the weather tomorrow may not mean you can't predict the climate 50 years from now, but not being able to predict the climate 5 years from certainly does.

It is quite easy to come up with a function that defies this explanation. Try this

T = N*2 + 5R

Where R = random number between -1 and 1 (different for each year)

and N = the number of years from the start

For N < 5 the effects of the random factor 'R' can predominate. However as N rises the true nature of the relationship with Y will become aparent. 'Signal plus noise' situations like this are very common in science.

It is a good thing that there are those who disagree with the majority view on issues. However without solid scientific arguments it is easy to see how those views are disregarded.
This may spell the downfall of facebook. It's the users data, not facebooks.
Would it be much worse than traveling to a 3rd world country today, though? Granted, typically travelers get some vaccination, but overall, not that many (mostly Hepatitis?).
Any reasons not to buy? Not sure I understand the type of account, is it a virtual root server?
Or, we could just accept that our bodies are not something we should be ashamed of.

Isn't it a bit weird how you cannot show a couple of nice boobs on a news site, but you can show a man who's had his legs blown off by a bomb and is lying in his own blood slowly dying? Which is more obscene/offensive/likely to cause upset?
cxml-stp is http://www.lichteblau.com/cxml-stp/.

Basically, it's the W3C DOM, but Lisp-like. As an example, CL has a function called "find-if". It visits every element in a sequence, and returns a new sequence containing the elements that match the supplied predicate function. (Think "grep" in Perl.) The DOM doesn't have anything like this, but STP does -- find-child-if and find-recursively-if. That means you can write something expressive like (find-recursively-if (of-name "p") document) to get all the <p> nodes in the document, rather than writing the traversal code manually.

I have used DOM in a variety of languages, and it only feels natural in Java. No other language is crippled the way Java is, so it doesn't make much sense to use the W3C standard, unless you just want to port existing DOM code form one language to another. (Standards are good for legacy code, but not so good for new code.)
The Irish Economy’s Rise Was Steep, and the Fall Was Fast
From Facebook's T&Cs:

"By posting User Content to any part of the Site, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to the Company an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, excerpt (in whole or in part) and distribute such User Content for any purpose on or in connection with the Site or the promotion thereof, to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such User Content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing.

You may remove your User Content from the Site at any time. If you choose to remove your User Content, the license granted above will automatically expire, however you acknowledge that the Company may retain archived copies of your User Content."

So, one would think that if you were to delete your FB account, all your (their?) content is removed. Doesn't look like that's the case: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7196803.stm

I'm surprised the media hasn't paid more attention to this.
No, seems to be shared hosting. VPS is +15$/month.
I think your ideas about this period are similar to ideas that the chinese people have about the U.S - many think that the U.S is overrun by gangsters and terrorists and lots of other dangers.

Why is that? Because people only write about the drama.

If you actually travel to any existing country where there are small villages, you will see that strangers are always treated with great friendliness and respect. If someone walks in to break the monotony of your cow herding, your instinctive reaction will not be to kill him.

It's the same with robbery - there are a lot of stories about robbery, but in reality, human societies don't function when people steal a lot. It's not true now anywhere, and I doubt it was true back then. So robbery will likely not be a problem.

(Remember also, those who wrote history where those who rode in fine carriages, and such people likely thought a lot more about robbery than the common guy)

Warlords in the north did not have an information apparatus - you could live for a while before they would become aware of you, and even then the interest shown in you would probably be more benign than not.

Cleanliness is something you really would not be able to maintain. Imagine the process:

1. Wake up
2. Get a bucket
3. Walk a kilometer to the next well
4. Walk back holding 10 kilograms of water
5. Bath yourself with this freezing water (be careful not to catch pneumonia)
6. Somehow either invent soap or buy some expensive soap
7. Do the same, but for your clothes
8. Avoid being too close to any children or anybody who is in any way grubby, because they will instantly void your work
9. Be considered wierd for doing this everyday

Cleanliness is not that easy in a cold climate, and it's not that neccessary compared to a warm climate.
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Are they any good though? I'm looking at hosting for a single Wordpress blog at present (well, actually, I signed up for a host a fortnight ago, they took my money and never got back to me, so I'm looking AGAIN).

But claims like "Storage: UNLIMITED + 50GB!" put me off a little. Aside from it being a physical impossibility, I don't even need 1GB of storage. What's Dreamhost actually like? They seem to be trying to tempt people in with big numbers on the homepage, which is the sort of marketing used most often by ripoff merchants.
Managing the Facebookers
Maybe one could start a lottery.
The way to monetize users should somehow be PERFORMANCE BASED rather than purely subscription based. Yes, subscription allows for great filtering of people..and yet, maybe it feels too costly at first (because the whole value/match is delayed to much later?). There must be a way to get money out of the HUGE satisfaction of finding the girl/guy when this happens - and this could complement (if not remove) the need for an entry cost to accessing the pool. For example, dance clubs make most money out of drinks (fun related) not from entrance fees (access to the pool of people). Maybe pay in order to go on a 2nd date? Pay every time you click on a profile (point system)? Pay a bonus when you find a match (how to prove...)? Do you know if this kind of stuff was ever tried or what do you think?
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Thanks jd - I found out a few months ago that Python JITs weren't as fast as Java JITs, but had never quite grasped that there was solid reason why.
Don't you know? It's okay when THEY do it. Just not when YOU do it.
Hope for 1200. 800 wasn't that great.

Be humble, mute, and helpful. If you know latin, work on learning the current dialect/script -- you'll have a shot at declaring yourself a "wise man from the east" and go for the job of physician. I would be careful with the Prester John references, your mileage may vary. As one commenter pointed out, you should be able to make aspirin from willow bark and penicillin from mold. These two alone, plus hygiene, should make you a miracle-worker. Be prepared to saw a lot of limbs off. You could also be the first to use opiates in medicine, which could alleviate a lot of suffering in that time.

After 1100 or so, the crusades are well under way. Most of the nobles will be coming and going to the various crusades. They started in the Levant and ended up being next door as crusades were eventually preached against heretics. As physician, try to attach to the church -- they're on the ascent. Perhaps with some luck you can get noticed by the pope and end up with a (relatively) cushy job in Rome.

Don't do the man-at-arms thing. You'll suck at it. Don't try for any kind of social revolution -- people were pretty tolerant during that time, but by 1200 the church was getting very sensitive about outliers. You don't want to show up on their radar. Stay away from southern France -- the Cathars were nice folks but trouble is on the way for them.

If I had the choice of picking a city (besides the Rome-physician thing), I'd go for Genova, Pisa, or Venice. Great cities with fast growth and more of an open culture. They made out like bandits transporting nobles and supplies during the crusades.
I've been spending the time working on a server-side javascript platform I'm calling Rapture. Uses lighttpd, V8 via llv8call(the v8 engine is freaking FAST), and couchdb. It's still very early but it's been really fun to work on. It's definitely me scratching a huge personal itch.
Sorry about the dupe. I saw a 'delete' option on the older article (which points to non google-code site which has less info) and thought the article would be deleted accordingly.
NaughtySVN seems to a similar project:
http://naughtysvn.tigris.org/
To use private APIs or not to use private APIs?
My only problem with this article is that the author doesn't consider the possibility that private APIs aren't as robustly tested as public APIs. Having had to deal with the public API issue, I know that those things have to be bullet-proof.
This one always catches me out on a clean install of Ubuntu, if I remember correctly you can't use "vi file.txt" with vim-tiny.
Just another UI framework?
I am ammused that you complained about people's inability to write without swearing and then immediately followed up with a comment starting with a swear word.
Thanks for the insight. It's interesting why the external work supplied to the plants still costs less than growing plants that can do these things itself. I suppose chemistry and mechanization in agriculture are just much more efficient than their biological counterparts.
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I had an excuse - sorry, opportunity - to use the online mockups app this year to generate some basic example page layouts for my boss. I was impressed by the speed at which I was able to just throw things together (normally I spend about 3 hours trying to remember how to use MS PowerPoint.. ick!)

All I have to do now is convince the boss I need the desktop version!
I spent a good amount of time writing code for http://overtrainer.com including adding a blog and incorporating some of the feedback I was given here on HN (Thanks again HN!)
No, PyPy is a full Python implementation that uses program analysis to identify and JIT the JITable parts of the code.

The FAQ says that PyPy is a drop-in replacement for CPython unless you depend on a CPython extension module. http://codespeak.net/pypy/dist/pypy/doc/faq.html#is-pypy-a-d...
Might need a bit of web development done here too, got any previous work we can go off?
If I met someone who told me "I have two children, and one of them is a girl," I would be pretty sure they have one girl and one boy. If they had two girls, they would have said "I have two children, and both of them are girls." So the English statement has some implicit information. On the other hand, if I were given a riddle with that statement, I would know the implicit information may be intentionally misleading. In this case, as Paul Buchheit says, the statement does not have enough information.
Minix is also a microkernel, which is a whole different can of worms.
i'll invent a search engine startup and conquer the wo ... wa ... wait a minute
Ive bought cheap (under $%) non-prescription reading glasses at a local drug store. If they retail for five bucks, the wholesale cost is probably half that, and the cost to produce half again. Why not sell those to the developing countries? At least regular glasses won't fog up with algae in a short time. It's a clever idea making water-filled glasses, but how practical is it really?
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Several years ago my prescription glasses broke, so I replaced them with cheap non-prescription glasses for about five bucks. They weren't quite as good (I have astigmatism) but they were serviceable. Only recenlty did I get another pair of prescription glasses specifically for computer use. I spent several hundred doillars (even after insurance discounts) and they are not significantly better than the el cheapo ones I have been using. Yes, there is value in getting regular eye exams, but non-prescription cheap glasses work just fine for lots of people (and mine won't get filled with algae after a few weeks).
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Twitter suffers phishing expeditions
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The Realtime Ping Server (FeedBurner is completely broken)
Richard Feynman on Youtube
If you include m and f in the universe of possibilities, then you must add the following combinations as well :

7) m/f

8) f/m

You are not allowed to skip arbitrarily some of the combinations of your universe (wich is now [M, F, m, f]). Probability : 2/3 =]
Same, but:

+ Spotify
+ Outpost Firewall
+ Autoruns and Process Explorer
+ WinSCP
- Ultramon and Audacity

Notepad2 instead of Notepad++
Sounds exactly like how people survived the famous "Jack Attacks" of Commodore fame.
British police to routinely hack into PCs without a warrant.
Oddly enough I've always found command-line SVN lacking. Visual indicators seem to take version control to a much greater level.

Eg, if I see an odd emblem on something I don't remember modifying recently, I can inspect and diff. It could be some minor string fixes, or something more substantial. Either way, rather than doing a whole-tree commit (which wouldn't include a comment for the file I didn't remember editing), I'll now do a granular commit to that single file with an appropriate message.
Robots are part of our future
There is no doubt about it; human evolution and performance are limited. Our intelligence and physical abilities are restricted and we cannot survive without vital nutrients, air and other elements, necessary for our frail human nature. Therefore it is vitally important we improve and protect our abilities, and what better way to do so, then with mechanically engineered devices.
Maybe this is because English is my first language - but I cannot imagine how "I have two children, and one of them is a girl" could mean: "I have two children, and the gender of one of them is #{my_first_child.gender}." - if someone was to confer that meaning I would expect him to say: "I have two children, and the gender of my first child is girl". But frankly as someone already pointed out - normally the sentence "I have two children, and one of them is a girl" would implicitely mean that the other child is a boy.
Thanks for this, just installed!
I think markus may be wrong. If you look at the partners page it just seems like downtoearth.com is just a lead gen site for all other dating sites...
How to seo a wordpress blog
Hi bootload. Re: the "hit by a bus" scenario, I'm working on it on two fronts: one is hiring a second person, which I will need to do soon. The second is to entrust the company to my family in case I die, so that they can sell it if something happens to me.

Re: desktop vs. web, yes it's a surprise, but as I say above, a desktop app which syncs to the web is a pretty good proposition...we'll see more as I build my "web connectors" this year.
Dwm and wmii are along the same lines, but written in C, in case you happen to be running an architecture whose GHC port is lagging.
Simplicity is complex. - gold qoute...

I did a redesign for a major site that sells to consumers two years ago, and we focused intensely on usability, particulraly the flow from ordering a product to checking out and paying. The result was an immediate jump in turnover of 25%. And this was without A/B splittesting which would probably have gotten the number even higher.

Usability is pretty hard, but it's unbelievably rewarding - I'm constantly amazed that a lot of people don't take it more seriously.
Title should be, "A terrible thing happened recently, You might not care"
Sigh, reminds me of the good old times...
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Promo code 202 is up to $21.48 now.
Windows 7 cuts out parts of mp3s?
I've noticed deezer is always used at parties too. Every time I introduce people to spotify they switch sides however.
replace 'mysql' with 'csv files' and the arguments still hold..
It says 'promo code not valid in your region' for me. I'm in India.
It's all a question about the correct precodition definition. I think people who heard about conditional probability know that the correct answer is "2/3". Most people will just imagine the first precondition "they have two children" and forget the second one.

What about going in the opposite direction and simply ask "What is the probability that a mother has a boy and a girl?" I think many people would answer "1/2", too, simply adding the precodition "she has 2 children" ;)

The origin for this is - I think - an implicit context people are thinking of without real awareness of it. You think quicker with implicit context.
I've found the Subversion interface for Emacs (psvn - http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/?SvnStatusMode) very useful for this kind of overview, inspection and "selective" commits.
The drop in replacement is slower than CPython. Likely to change in the future, but still.
Unfortunately my main site hasn't given me an excuse to tinker with the setup, so I'm going to ask here.

Right now I use Apache 2.2.x in front of a pack of Mongrels and mod_cache is enabled to cache content based on Expires headers. (I tried Passenger over the summer but it still had issues at the time).

Now with mod_cache, mod_proxy_balancer and my mongrels I have a very stable setup with only two programs. What sort of benefit would there be to using nginx and say varnishd along with mongrels?

I know varnish is a much more flexible cache than mod_cache, but would there really be a performance boost of any note?
People really should learn to write abstracts
Seems like the creators thought in terms of "if we will build it, they will come". Marketing for this film seems to have been badly planned. Why didn't they release it regionally first, doing some marketing along the way?
Quite happy with that - thanks for the tip :) I need a website for my open source project, plus I want to test out a few domain/product ideas so that's ideal.
John Carmack FTW.
I was slightly mistaken. It works because I have Gmail Notifier installed. It sets OS X's default mail application to Gmail.
Richard Stallman on the state of GNU, 25 years on
Apple 17-inch MacBook Pro to go Unibody, sans removable battery
Based on Swing and WPF? I've never used either... but I've only ever heard bad things about both.
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I have them, and I can't say that I'm a fan. I use it as an image host, and its very slow. Also once a file I hosted got popular and they shut it down after 5GB bw got used up in 2 hours.
I've been using Dreamhost for about three years. I have monitoring running on my services. It's probably been down for a total of about 5 hours in that time. It's never taken them more than 2 hours to respond to a support request. On the whole, they've significantly exceeded my expectations for cheapo hosting.

It's definitely not suited for heavy web apps (SugarCRM, notably, is painfully slow), but it does fine with things like Wordpress.
I'm not sure where to begin.

Demon-Haunted World is about skepticism, and how to use science and rational inquiry to avoid scams, pseudoscience, hoaxes, and possibly religion. It is not a strictly atheist book, although you could read it as one if you tilt your head properly.

But how can you not know anything else about Carl Sagan?

He wrote many books popularizing science, including Contact, The Dragons of Eden, Broca's Brain, and Cosmos. He also co-wrote and hosted the series Cosmos on PBS, which is the most-watched PBS show in history, and well worth watching on DVD.

He was founder and first President of The Planetary Society (http://www.planetary.org/). He was an avid supporter of SETI. He assembled the gold plaque that went into space on Pioneer 10, and the golden records that went out on the Voyager probes.

As an astronomer, he made several important hypotheses about the structure of other planets, particularly Venus, and drew connections between Venus and Earth-based global warming and greenhouse emissions.

He was active in investigating UFO claims, including serving on the Ad Hoc Committee that reviewed the Air Force's Project Blue Book. He was convinced of the probability of extra-terrestrial intelligence, but equally convinced that we had not encountered it yet.

Most importantly, he brought us the phrase "billions and billions", even though he never said it himself until long after it was a joke.

Here's a collection of quotations: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan

And one for the road: "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
Carmack or Michael Abrash? Read Graphics Programming Black Book ( http://www.amazon.com/Michael-Abrashs-Graphics-Programming-S... )

Abrash did amazing things with assembly to get Quake to run on the 486.

I don't know if Carmack, Abrash, or someone at SGI (it's in OpenGL source code too) came up with it; but it seems like witch craft to me.
This aspect of Dreamhost needs more exposure. They do not have the resources to back up the promised bandwidth and storage.
> pay in order to go on a 2nd date?

You haven't really thought this through have you?
It's the difference between the situation where a child is chosen and then the gender announced, and the situation where a girl is found, and then the gender announced. If you started out saying "Is one of them a girl?", and only continuing if the answer is yes, then the probability changes.
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Or none of the above? http://www.beyond3d.com/content/articles/8/
Definitely a case of "if we will build it, they will come" instead of iterate, iterate and listen to others.

Also could have run it through some models à la http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/10/16/061016fa_fact6