skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tend to hallucinate (mostly classical) music when I am about to fall asleep.
Thanks, appreciate that. Very nerve wracking pushing something out there to the public that I've put so much time and effort into!

The user experience is meant to be one of the key differentiators and I'll continue to try and improve it as time goes on and feedback comes in from users.
It's not really recent (FWIW, this is ad blog not ad hominem).
First, Cooks Illustrated is an incredible resource. I've been a subscriber for years, both in print and for the (indispensable) website that collects all their recipes. No CI recipe has ever failed me; most document in meticulous detail why each choice was made.

Second, Cooks Illustrated may have the same editorial policy as Consumer Reports, but it's really not the Consumer Reports of food. 80% of their content is original research on recipes and techniques. At the end of each issue, they have 2 "Consumer Reports"-like sections, one on a piece of equipment and one on an ingredient. But that's a feature, not the engine.

Third, in fairness, CI has other revenue streams: a lucrative line of cookbooks (several new ones are issued every year, and their flagship cookbook also goes through many editions) and 2 popular PBS television shows, which PBS stations pay them to run. Most magazines don't operate like this.
Yeah, and I'm not sure what the alternative is. Why is "a few special characters" more of a problem than anything else? Is active FTP, maybe the best example of commands and data on completely different channels, all that secure, especially considering the ability to trick the server into connecting someplace else?
Generally, a carbon neutral world would be a benefit, regardless of the effects on climate change. We'd ensure the sustainable operation of the planet - regardless of how many of us there are - because we'd be maintaining the earth's resources in their current balance. Right now, we're converting a good chuck of them from one form to another, which eventually - even if this isn't true now - will have some sort of repercussions.

That being said, being completely carbon neutral is pretty much impossible given the way our world is currently set up.
No. Contrary to the RIAA party line, people did not stop paying for music when it became easy to obtain for free. The industry was not "decimated" by file sharing, they were surprised and pissed off by it. iTunes didn't succeed because it convinced people to pay for music--it succeeded because it was the nicest way to do so. It's not magic, it's not mystery, it's just building something that doesn't suck. Old media companies still have trouble with that concept. Exhibit A: "Already an NYTimes.com member? Log In Now"

Ugh. The punchline is the same TechCrunch "Apple Tablet" rumor that JUST WON'T DIE. It's like the HN version of a Rickroll.

(edit: The Game)
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I've visited SCORE in New York a few years ago... didn't find them too useful. They did not offer much beyond vague common sense advice, even on those issues where they could have easily been more prepared and specific (incorporating vs. LLC, finding a good accountant, health insurance, etc).

It was kind of like visiting a retirement home and talking to some nice folks, pleasant but nothing more.
This is indeed a valid security issue. I am picking on the simplistic recommendation ("use a language that forces explicit initialization")
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Scott Adams Blog: iPhone Baby Application 01/12/2009
True us android users need some love too. Although I'm a little embarrassed Android hasn't fixed that problem yet. I mean it's smart enough to recognize a street address and give me 1 touch directions to that address. So I can't imagine it would be to hard to have a regex running for websites too but oh well.
That explains why Obama is so skinny.
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man, my site is totally worthless now
http://www.millionzimbabwedollarhomepage.com
I get your point, but as a counterpoint let me mention that I did not pay hundreds of dollars up front for my copy of iTunes. Nor can I purchase individual articles, columnists, etc. at a fraction of the cost of a subscription to the whole paper (because I don't give a hot fudge about Sports, Entertainment, Style, etc.).
Maybe a pfsense firewall: http://www.pfsense.org/
Handiest feature: VPN servers (OpenVPN and PPTP)
I don't understand what this means.

If we only had %1 as many stories out there, this would be quite a boring place.

I asked Kevin Rose once about niche social news sites, and he told me that taking a social approach to aggregation is a "drastic solution" that requires a drastic problem.

If we only had %1 as many news stories being reported, would the problem still be drastic enough to require a solution like this?
i don't believe carbon credits were mentioned in this thread of discussion.

the point presented is that you can't expect a pure cost/benefit analysis of presenting any real justification, or lack thereof, for an intangible concept. how much, in dollars and cents, is freedom from slavery worth?
Mostly within JavaScript libraries; i.e. for a flatten method.
It would have been best for CO2Stats to help Google to buy carbon offset and further work with them to reduce their energy consumption etc....

But I guess not every company cares what Google thinks off them and they just spit it like it is.
are you saying that farm seizures in some way affected the level of education in the country?

Yes, if you mean the real attained education levels, rather than simply credential levels.
And mainstream news orgs aren't?
I know. It was a joke, thus the ":P", and so was the "O RLY?". But maybe the emoticon wasn't clear enough and I should've added an interrobang there? Anyway, thanks for the -10 karma points.

BTW, I do my spreadsheets with a Von Neumann derivate of a finite state automaton.
I have set up BackupPC before. It is not quite the same as dropbox and probably won't fill the client file-sharing and change tracking need; it is a backup system, that you can retrieve files and directories via a browser. It is more like SonicWall's CDP or something (it is not continuous and on-the-fly like SonicWall's product, the last I checked, but with the newer linux kernels having inotify built in, it is technically possible to do it).
I used to be able to do this when I was like 4 years old, just by having my eyes closed for a few minutes. I told my mom that I was seeing things when I closed my eyes and asked her what it was. She acted very worried so I never mentioned it again.

By a year later the effect went away and I've never experienced it since- But I kinda remember what it was like.
Stop and Breathe: Avoiding Fear-Based Decisions
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Changing values in place?

A1 = 0.1*A1

Can be useful if you need to convert values, etc., but don't want to create an entire new row/column
I am a long-time subscriber. Cook's Illustrated almost makes cooking into a low-risk venture (especially when cooking for friends). My personal pot-luck guarantee/favorite: Teriyaki Stir-Fried Beef with Green Beans and Shiitakes. Subscribe to their email list just to read the Editor-in-Chief's emails - show how you can live on a farm and off the land if you provide value to people who don't live on a farm..

My one criticism is the recipes are not typically health friendly (you can adjust) and the fact that they keep on sending me 'subscribe' email spam for 'Cook's Country'.
Umm I think google is doing fine with renewable energy initiatives by itself actually...

Real ones - like installing solar panels all over the roof. Instead of imaginary "buy carbon offset" ones.
Load up boxee on it and connect it to your tv
If you don't already have a redundant computer as a backup, consider making the spare share it's disk and using one of the rsync snapshot scripts out there to backup your important stuff regularly. Putting a comprehensive script on it that will get all your email out of your webmail accounts, download any other stuff like pics in your flickr account that you care about, and etc would be a good idea.

Put a kill-a-watt on it and see how much power it draws, to consider whether you should leave it on all the time. Booting it up once a week and running the backups might be smarter. As a rough back-of-the-envelope figure, at 11 cents a kilowatt-hour running one watt for a year costs a dollar -- so if it sucks 80 watts sitting their with no monitor (a reasonable figure) that's $80 bucks a year, if you are paying more than 11 cents it is correspondingly more.

You can never have too many backups, and in my experience having the data on a complete separate machine is more reliable and easier to recover from than USB disks or other schemes. If everything else dies, just flip on the backup machine and start working from there, presuming it has the necessary software installed.
the point presented is that you can't expect a pure cost/benefit analysis of presenting any real justification, or lack thereof, for an intangible concept.

And my point is that you can, and should if the actions to be taken are worthwhile.

For instance, a cost/benefit analysis for not having slavery is rather straight forward from the nation's point of view. There are several points in favour of abolition, ( national economic benefit from taxes/increased workers, improved relations and trade with other countries) and few against beyond the direct comfort of the slave owner.

C/B has little to do with dollars and cents and everything thing to do with gaining the best possible outcome from a particular action. This is the entire point that newt0311 was making: The green lobby needs to present a case that shows there are significant benefits (overall) to the costs associated with each of these changes. It's not a hard argument to make, and shouldn't equate being compared to slave-traders.
I think his point was that cost-benefit analysis is subjective. Your supposition that it's not limited to monetary concerns alone is valid, but perhaps naive. The fact that most people don't do a "proper" analysis is the very nature of bias.

If you talk to many environmentalist they see it very much as a moral argument. Perhaps it's a different moral level for many of us, but not to everyone.

As such while his argument used an extreme example, I would not consider it as nonsensical.
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The cost/benefit analysis for slavery changed because the coefficients for several variables on the slave-side changed away from 0.

The green lobby often measures cost in "oh, we're so rich and privileged anyway and any amount of emissions that's less than before is worth it"... I.e. unrealistic coefficients. We're simply not at the point where a few grams of CO2 here and there is death or survival in 2050.

In reality, society is interested in solutions with the highest reduced emissions pr. cost-unit, but the green lobby don't seem to be too interested in giving those out.
I'll definitely be there.
Segway inventor wants to know: When should I quit?
Why is the site offline? If I can't see what the startup is about how do they expect me to research about the company before applying?
This happens to me as well. Sometimes I also hear random disconnected sounds: a bell, pots clanging, voices, etc. There have been many nights where I've actually struggled to sleep through all the cacophony.
Aquarium?

http://www.unlikelymoose.com/more/macquarium/macquarium_gene...
This article makes me smile because I am a Hacker News groupie.

People can passionately follow art or music or movies and no one thinks them odd for not producing some of the same- that's how I feel about programming. I just like following it, especially the underlying philosophies. I'm an armchair hacker- oh, I've put a few things together in my day but they're the programming equivalent of Harry/Draco slash.

I guess this means Y Combinator's Hacker News has an official fangirl ;)
Or if you have a distaste for linkjacking: http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/phoenix-technologies-hype...
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Or make the only "work" behind the last 15% of the bar a timer.
Lesson learned: People will pay for premium content, even on the Internet.
If you talk to many environmentalist they see it very much as a moral argument.

And that's the problem. They may as well have a Bible in their hands and go knocking on doors.

More people can be swayed by explaining that a particular action has a direct benefit and is therefore more effective than the current one than by saying "repent for the end is near" and "you're a backwards hillbilly who is evil for not seeing this my way".
YouTube launches Househub & Senatehub
25 Years of Macintosh
If you do any web development build your own server or build one just to store your files.
strangely enough, some hn profiles do have clickable links in them. case in point:

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mattmaroon

i've tried to figure out whatever the trick is, but i can't.
spitting it how it is would be here http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/powering-google-searc...

the conflict of interest is the irritating part.
Microsoft is not a web company
The people whose jobs were "stolen" can be employed in more productive ways than schlepping file folders around.
JQuery 1.3 final release scheduled for Wednesday
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And for those people who think they need a ping pong table, I bought this as an impulse purchase while at the bookstore and brought it into my relatively conservative office. And it's sad but true that that one $10 purchase generated more positive kudos than anything I'd done recently. Yes, it has hard paddles and the net is tiny but a ping pong break can do you good - (as long as the conference room next door (thin walls) isn't in session).

Desktop Table Tennis

Publisher: Metro Books

Pub. Date: March 2008

ISBN-13: 9781435105966

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Desktop-Table-Tennis/Andrew...
True, I stand corrected.
It is snake oil
Zimbabwe is number one in percentage of total unemployed who have secondary education (85%).

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/lab_une_wit_sec_edu_mal_of...

The brains have reason to drain.
Honestly, this is the best solution. I've tried to resurrect old workstations as various servers and they have always ended up collecting dust in a closet somewhere.

The only one that's seen success is the media center that records television, and that's only because the capture card didn't have the right drivers for my current desktop.

The other most common uses I hear (servers to tinker with Technology X) can just be done in a VM, which will generate far less noise, heat, and power bills.
Somehow no one mentioned what I've run into a lot with green initiatives: they're treated like public goods (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good).

i.e. "It's nice to know that someone else can solve that problem so easily and I benefit directly regardless."
I think your rant is somewhat misplaced as inferring the user desire in this case is not always possible. In general, I find it to be dangerous behavior when merely adding data changes formulas. I think the proper action is to insert a row.

On the other hand, having defined tables with in a workbook is great idea, but it makes the whole application a wee bit more complicated. I'd like to see it in something of a hybrid between Access and Excel, where you can mix structured and tabular data.
While I love Visual Studio, I have to say that Flex Builder 3 is very nice, just as nice as VS in my opinion. What do you like more about VS that Flex Builder 3 lacking?
Second for anything near Union Sq. It's easy to get to for those of us who refuse to pay Manhattan rent.
Let me tell you why EHR/EMR is a joke:

There are no standards.

That's it. Epic, Cerner, GE, Dairyland, OpenVista, and the 180 other people who make electronic medical/health record software all have proprietary file formats and standards. The systems can't talk to each other, and there's a ginormous industry in jury-rigging protocols to make them semi-sorta work. It's a joke.

Of course, in the only place where we've had a standard, we've seen massive innovation in technology. Radiology's DICOM standard is, to me, the single reason why we've gone so far so fast. Because everything is portable, vendors actually have to innovate rather than relying on lock-in.

If Obama wants to save lives through EMR, he's going to have to dictate a file format standard. My contacts and friends at these firms have told me that it would take up to three years of full-on full-time development for everyone to change their software to work with a new file format. But until we do, every dollar that goes to EMR is nothing more than corporate welfare.
i think you're mistaking the consequences/effects of something for the thing itself.

freedom is not the sum of the value of its effects, nor is a cleaner planet.
Thank you. Yes, I should have used the engadget link.
have you run the math? It would be interesting to see some numbers.
I can possibly be down.
I think something that mixes structured and tabular data together would be great. If you had a worksheet style
"dynamically typed" structure that was supplemented by some structured tables of data that could be easily referenced and updated by Excel style formulas, it would be very useful. In this way the spreadsheet sits as a layer on top of several database tables that can be shared between users. I sort of imagine the ultra-flexible spreadsheet on one monitor and this floating collection of data tables on the other one. It's a hybrid.
Correct. They aren't.

Have you read much "citizen journalism?"

Have you tried to look to local neighborhood blogs to find out what's happening in your town?

Here in Chicago there's one blog that does a decent job of this, http://www.uptownupdate.com

But its a labor of love. What happens if the writer gets ill and has to take a break for a month or two? Who's covering Uptown then?

There are a few other neighborhood blogs like it that don't update more than once or twice a week or that are filled with hateful invective.

Or let's look at it this way: Did you learn about the in's and out's of the latest Pentagon policies from your wacky neighbor up the street?

Citizen journalism should really be called "amateur journalism" and treated as such. Valuable, valuable things can come from amateurs: photos, facts, reports etc. But amateur news services....are not news services.
1. create a Table and then have an option to create the corresponding mySQL. (Relation DB Design)

2. create a mySQL Dump from the Table Data.

3. Other cool MySQL Optimizations.
/. uses tagging for this and I think it works well.
Why would this necessarily be a benefit? This same argument could have been made at any time in history. For millennia humanity has benefited from converting resources from one form to another. What has changed?

Trying to be carbon neutral would have the obvious drawback of significantly slowing economic growth. Is there a benefit to being carbon neutral that outweighs this cost?
And you're right. More often than not you as a coder don't have a choice in what language to use.
I agree, hence my use of scare quotes around "stolen."
In "Surely you're joking, Mr Feynman", Feynman went over a few experiments he did to notice what happens when you're falling asleep when he was an undergrad. He concluded that your thoughts become more and more random and flooded as you get closer to actual sleep, until your brain gets overwhelmed and passes out.
Not a lot of people contribute value. Myself included. I just felt I had to call out the douchebags who talk about blogging and twitter via my blog and twitter ;)
You have no God-given right to your business model
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I'm not saying this type of thinking is the be all and end all. We're emotional people after all.

What I am saying is that if you intend to take a course of action, and more importantly attempt to convince others that your course is correct, you need to present a proper analysis of the benefits and costs of your option so that they can be compared with the benefits and costs of other actions.

The nobility of abolitionists isn't why 600,000 Americans died in the Civil War. Nobody gave a damn about slaves. The end of slavery is just a fortunate outcome.
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Mesmerizing. I must have watched for five minutes.
Ask HN: Need A WSYIWYG Editor for Web Development Frameworks
I have seen a lot of web frameworks that have made the development of web apps easy and fast. I especially like Django and Google's App Enginge, that tries to follow the MTV model very nicely.

I being more of a back end programmer have a hard time designing the forms in HTML. Is there a framework/plugin that you can use to design the web layout.(like Cocoa Touch's Interface Builder)
I'd rather have Pandora for news.
Set it up as a media center with XBMC (http://xbmc.org/) its miles ahead of MythTV or any others that I've come across.
Nothing has changed, and yes the same argument holds true regardless of climate change. Being carbon neutral means that resources are being used at the same rate they are being created, ergo, sustainability.

Is there a benefit to being carbon neutral that outweighs this cost?

I don't honestly know.
"It breaks backwards compatibility with the 2.x line but has cleaned up some syntax issues." cries a little
It feels the same way when I'm waking up. Whatever I'm doing in the dream seems incomprehensibly crucial, then I realize it doesn't make sense, and then that I'm dreaming, and then that I'm awake.
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Sounds like a perfect example of the "fixed" vs. the "growth" mindsets that Carlyn Dweck describes in her book "MindSet".

http://mindsetonline.com/
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Take the passage of Prop 8 in California -- libertarians do not think that marriage should be something that the state meddles in at all.

Examples abound. I just mentioned one deregulation example because such things are often touted as libertarian accomplishments when in fact markets are often still highly regulated and the deregulation was just a handout to one interest or another.
I may have inadvertantly replied to the wrong post...
I have a sign above my desk:
"If we knew what we were doing, we wouldn't call it Research"
--Einstein

As a Ph.D. student, what was more daunting than the realization of just how much I didn't know, was the day I realized that I had more questions than I could find answers to in one lifetime...makes you feel rather...mortal.
None of those look fun or useful. Talk to your friendly local dealer and he'll be able to provide something better.
Yeah. I have why's guide, the function info from php.net, the erlang guide, and a few others.

The best way to learn a new language, I find, is in a park on a sunny day, without being distracted by IM or email or… ahem… news voting sites ;)
>> We're quantifiably more bacteria than mammal.

I was referring to this: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=strange-but-true-humans-...

> So you think humans are the general solution for the global^Wuniversal optimization problem?

It's not that we're physically optimal, but that we're good enough to be able to manipulate heat to an extent that makes metallurgy possible, which allows us to non-trivially optimize our environment to ourselves.
There's certainly that argument to be had, as to whether reducing carbon emissions is a worthwhile goal at all. If it's not, CO2stats is clearly worthless.

However, many many people (including myself) believe that it's a real problem that we need to address. If that were true, you have to grant that CO2stats is a great step in the right direction.
Call me a conspiracy theorist, but

1. Rich nations see developing nations growing rapidly, relying, as the rich nations do, on oil, coal, etc etc

2. Rich nations start to demonize and do all they can to force developing nations to stop using coal, gas, etc and only use renewable energy.

3. Rich nations stay rich, poor stay poor.

That seems to be a benefit for rich nations to push such an agenda.