skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a misconception. If you just want a satisfying mental image of the Universe: It's really big, it doesn't have any point defined as its center, and it doesn't have any wall-like borders. Aliens living 14.6 billion LY away from us see a Universe that looks just like what we see in all directions.

If it is limited in size at all, it's because it wraps around on itself ("if you go straight long enough you end up where you were"). Nobody has firm evidence that it actually does wrap around on itself, and there's reason to believe that if it does, it's on a scale that's much larger than we could ever hope to observe. We will likely never have any sign inconsistent with it being literally infinite regardless of whether or not it is.

If you want a better answer than that, you'll need a very firm grasp of special relativity and a basic understanding of general relativity and the metric expansion of spacetime. In which case, read this: http://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0310808.pdf
Personally, I like JavaScript; but I realise that for some people this is like saying that you have solved the problem of dog poo by creating a machine that turns it into cat poo.
There are great performance improvements using that. http://we-love-php.blogspot.de/2012/07/using-v8-javascript-e...
How do you see that?

Genuine question - given that the linked article quotes a judge calling the whole dispute ridiculous, and the article calls it an almost laughable amount.

I think the whole set of patent disputes is stupid, and this damage claim meets all the criteria to be called ridiculous. I mean... 2.5 BILLION DOLLARS!!!!

There just is no way that any design patent is worth that.
This would be awesome if i could set personal preference for the review sources. I really don't care what Yahoo voices or some of the other 'critics' think but you are bound to have some reliable critics in there that i do care about.

Maybe even more so than for movies readers tend have more in common with some critics then others and the 'meta' opinion is just not that interesting.
As someone who has worked with a fairly involved fabric deployment & provisioning process, I'm forced to agree. Fabric is great for what it is, but you lose so much by not using chef.
There are different kinds of dimensions. There are simple, Euclidian dimensions where each dimension is perfectly orthogonal to the others, where parallel lines never intersect, etc. But there are other possibilities, non-Euclidean spaces and volumes. This is where the example of the sphere comes in. If you were a 2-dimensional being you could be on a plane or you could be on the surface of a sphere. Similarly, if you are a 3-dimensional being, such as us, you could be within a simple R^3 volume, or you could be on a hyper-sphere or another non-euclidian volume. The math is a little more complex, but similar.
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Clearly not the way they "should" handle this. But it is a way of dealing with a broken system that Apple is constantly abusing recently.
Must be.
I find it strange that my 2010 MBP can't use AirPlay when my iPhone 4 can work fine.
Really hope someone comes out with a hack/mod to fool the OS into thinking I have the proper hardware.
"parents (and especially fathers) report relatively higher levels of happiness, positiveemotion, and meaning in life."

Me too. My kid is the best thing ever, from a guy who never wanted kids.

We've evolved to have kids and protect them, that's obviously necessary. The way that plays out is that kids bond to their parents, and that bond is expressed as love, and man what a great thing to be loved by your kid.
Why Can't Microsoft Count to 0?
Data Visualisation of Historical Summer Olympic Medals
Just a tip: the confirmation email went straight to my spam folder (with a very high spam rating). You might want to think about using something like mailgun or sendgrid for better deliverability...
We've played around with:

OpenTSDB: http://opentsdb.net/

StatsD: https://github.com/etsy/statsd/ (description here - http://codeascraft.etsy.com/2011/02/15/measure-anything-meas...)

OpenTSDB and StatsD seemed great for getting TS data in and producing nice dashboards, but they didn't seem to fit our needs for performing custom analytics on the data.

At the moment, we're leaning towards leveraging Cassandra based on our scalability requirements. Check out http://rubyscale.com/blog/2011/03/06/basic-time-series-with-... and http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/advanced-time-series-with-c... to get an idea on how cassandra can help.
While visually I really like the design, in terms of usability I'm not entirely sold on it. Book covers can be hard to read (for both the title and the author) and there can be many different cover designs which people may not recognise. I would strongly suggest adding adding the title and author as static text that you can see at all times.

One other point, I don't think the disparity between positive and negative cloud icons is big enough. On Rotten Tomatoes it's crystal clear.

Love the site concept. Have been looking for a site like this for ages. Looking forward to seeing it grow.
Ironic that being disposable makes it 'greener' than a steel bike that will last for 10+ years

And steel or aluminium is a lot more recyclable than cardboard.
I think many programmers don't put an emphasis on design because they think it doesn't matter. They would rather get something done rather than make it look good. There is nothing wrong with this approach, but I would say the first step is to realize that design is important, too.

Many people say, "oh, well, I don't have design skills". I think everyone has design skills, it's just something you have to work at. And the first step is to pay attention. I like this line from the article: "I started to look at things, and I saw what looked right and I tried to memorize it." That's basically the advice I would give too. Even if you can't design, you can tell what looks professional from what looks half-baked. The next time you come across a well-designed site, ask yourself, what makes this so much better than other sites? Is it the way things are laid out? The choice of font? The colors?

And once you have a good foundation, look to the details. Consistency in spacing or alignment, emphasis of elements, etc. Use your instinct - if something looks bad or unprofessional, fix it.

That's really all there is to it.
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This is almost the best part of every OS X release.
Do to my consulting work, I've been several times through such walk.
Really cool idea. As you grow you should definitely keep news papers in mind as a possible acquirer. Best of luck!
And there goes my spare time... Every OS X release I'm more eager for Siracusa's review than the actual disk (or now download) itself :-)
I'm not sure a guilt-based approach is going to work best for the majority. I'm no psych major, but I'm certain positive reinforcement has better influence overall then otherwise.

The other thing you point out which seems unrelated to the motivation end of things seems to be communication with fixed times to meet. While I think the encouragement of other people going through the same steps you have to perform builds motivation to continue, are there other reasons why this is important to you?
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I immediately thought of Shigeru Ban and his paper tube buildings - http://www.shigerubanarchitects.com/SBA_WORKS/SBA_PAPER/SBA_...
John Siracusa breaks down the available formats for his OS X 10.8 Review
OS X Mountain Lion available on the App Store
NEW RELEASE: Apache Tapestry 5.3.4
The iPhone 4 can't AirPlay Mirror, it can stream audio and video though. The same thing applies with older Macs.
The publishing industry is a huge component of academia. If it implodes like many are guessing it will (and honestly, the writing is on the wall), it's going to send ripples through all of academia.
What exactly is open source here?
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How WP Engine Reached $1M In Sales In Less Than A Year, with Jason Cohen
Can any of you know what padmapper.com is about through landing page?
is it business? private? is it like taskrabbit?
that's what i mean... can i do it as well?
Google upgraded their calculator
Yeah... in the Travel genre, there are exactly two books. Nice idea, but not enough content to be ready for release.
So he wants to replace something informative like restrict by this expression "(* p=* p) & (* q=* q);"?!

Yuck, I would fire the developer with such clever tricks in our code base.
Am I missing an obvious single page link, or do they really want you to pay not to have to click through 25 pages?
The quickest/easiest way is to subscribe: http://arstechnica.com/subscriptions/

You can pay $5 for a month and then cancel it. For the amount of work Siracusa puts into this thing, it's worth it.
Is there a copy of you reading this article? (Max Tegmark)
Square is a very exciting product without a doubt.
And it's also the type of product that might bring harm to the economy or society.

The very common practice of paying "cash in hand" to certain professionals such as plumber, house cleaner and many others, can take up a whole new level.
Resulting in very costly loss - quite possibly - of billions of dollars (depending on the country) in tax evasion. Of course not all freelance and self employed professionals dodge their taxes but would be silly to say a lot of them don't.

Also, if it fall into the wrong hands, it can be used by pickpockets and other crooks, to skim the victim's card minutes after the card was stolen.
One might argue that credit card transactions are not settle in minutes, but rather in days and sometimes only after 30 days that the payment was made, the merchant/crook would be credited with the monies. But some transactions do credit the merchants within few hours or a day or two - and for those type of transactions crooks could setup their biz and start transferring monies to several accounts making the funds very hard to trace and of course, getting a new device every so often because it wont take long until Square's fraud prevention realise that one particular device is the root of too many complains/fraud alerts
Here is an alternative way to look at the advice:

Avoid the future tense – If you looked at 100 presentations, which would really stand out? The ones that stand out are from teams that have accomplished a lot and have a clear path to making money, not groups that are still figuring it out. You obviously want to talk about the future, but the future is fluff so more substance is better.

Avoid overusing buzz words – Buzz words are commonly filler for teams that don’t know what they are doing. I’m sure that if you had a real product making money and a clear path to success you could still get funded using buzz words, but you wouldn’t want to use them because you would have more important things to talk about.

Understand the mechanics of your business – You should be an expert on your business and have thought of all the options and can explain the pluses and minuses of each option. If you are starting a grocery store (obviously not a VC fundable business, but stay with me), you would need be able to explain why you choose the Trader Joes style over the Wholefoods style or over the Walmart style and be able to explain each of those businesses and why one can be more or less profitable than the others.

Pitch me your team – There is a lot more written about this other places.

Target the right business – He says in the first line, be better than everyone else in your market, and I think that is a requirement. No one wants to fund a product or business that has no edge whatsoever.
This bugs me too. I really don't want to subject myself, the team or my company to such arbitrary judgements. I wouldn't want the money, suggestions or control of an investor who liked the company because of what I wear or the buzz words I threw. I'd rather work on the idea/company to get it to the point that it automatically attracts the right investors.
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I have a question I haven't seen answered anywhere: How does these glasses work with focus? When I'm looking (and focusing) 5 meters away, how can I see an object overlaid there? Surely, I'd have to focus on the glasses, 3 cm from my eye, no?

How do they fix that?
I wouldn't be so harsh. Both Puppet and Chef come with their own (enterprisey) overhead and it's Yet Another Tool to understand and maintain. Chef in particular feels like an over-engineered solution for anyone managing less than hundreds of servers, it adds a lot of cruft (centralized server, authorization, protocols, etc.) that most people wouldn't need. I believe a lot of people like it for the sole reason they are not experienced managing servers, so they can just use pre-made recipes and call it a day.

Anyway, you can go a long way with just a bunch of scripts leveraging Fabric's API. I have setup ~10 servers for a news portal I run from the ground up in just a few lines of code. Managing dependencies is not ridiculously difficult as you make it sound, package managers (apt-get, pip) already handle that for you without any overhead.
The visible curve of the Earth is due to atmospheric distortion? What? Surely not. Surely the curve you see is the horizon of your view?
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Read Bret Victor's amazing post on the subject: http://worrydream.com/MagicInk/
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Jesus. I dont know how many words are in the OP but I'm sure it's an astonishing number. And all made available for free. Are you really zipping through the piece that fast that a five second intermission is too much to tolerate for a free massive article?
The server needs to respond with a Vary header which tells the user agent (the browser) how to identify what it should cache.

[1]https://developer.mozilla.org/en/HTTP/Content_negotiation
So how much is it going to break once I update? I need my Mac for work today - I guess I'll hold off for now.
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Yes, they do. Do you have a problem with that? Why?

Besides, the page breaks are not arbitrary (like on so many other websites), they actually make sense. They are basically chapters. I do not think there is anything wrong with those kinds of page breaks. (Though your personal preference may be different and if it is you are free to pay, suffer through the page breaks or not read the review. It's up to you.)
I think many programmers don't put an emphasis on design because it's really frikin hard. A really good visual design is like a really good system design. It takes a lot of thought, experience, and a ton of work to achieve.

With enough experience you'll get significantly better, and like programming there are some core concepts that will continue to be useful. However, like programming, it's also changing constantly and requires effort and passion to keep up with it.

One person can certainly achieve both, but it's definitely not an afterthought; "oh yeah, I need to do a little design here, shouldn't take too long".
There is no single page link for non-subscribers.
If you bought one of the updated models from June 2012, don't forget you can get the upgrade for free: http://www.apple.com/osx/uptodate/
Yeah, it's one thing to arbitrarily break up an article to get page views. It's another thing to break up a huge long page to make it more accessible.
Yeah, that was our hostel in NYC. I asked about that, and they kind of looked at me funny, as if I was paranoid or something. If figured the best way would be to semi-jokingly show her my ID regardless and be friendly and chatty in the hopes she'd remember my face with the room number.

In hindsight I might have tried asking for a different room number's key to see if she was paying attention and then quickly correct myself "No, just kidding, my room's 208 not 210. I just wanted to see if you'd give people any room key they ask for". Maybe that would've made them see the issue.

Instead, I took the easy route and made sure to never leave my netbook, passport, tickets, etc in the room (all the rest was replaceable and we were travelling light).

I would have probably done differently if I wasn't in a foreign country on a different continent and still getting used to the cultural uncanny valley of NYC being "almost, but not quite like Europe", so I opted for the safe choice of not being a bother to these obviously hard-working people.
Yeah, i just saw the link on the side to buy it for my Kindle (which is what I wanted anyway), so I deleted the comment.

Apparently decades on the internet have made me immune to advertising, even for things I want. :)
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I agree that Ars deserves the page views, but if you really want a single page, use Readability:

http://www.readability.com/articles/6ynwkoyx

Pictures seem to be stripped out, though.
They often sell PDFs and ebooks for their major articles.
FWIW, Siracusa works very hard on the pagination of these so it makes sense and provides a better experience than the un-paginated version, it's not just auto-split page view inflation on which your knee-jerk reaction has been conditioned.
And yet soft AR, e.g. Aurasma, may revolutionize many areas:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frrZbq2LpwI

That is, do we actually need hard AR right now?
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> Jesus. I dont know how many words are in the OP

About 25000

edit: more precisely, from Siracusa's blog: 25935 words, 167 images, 206 external links
So glad I waited and am having a late lunch today.
Apple Releases OS X Mountain Lion on Mac App Store
OS X Terminal: Jumping Around in Command Text
> or do they really want you to pay not to have to click through 25 pages?

You can get Ars Premier, buy the ebook or use some sort of stitching reader.

Not that I have a problem clicking through 25 pages when each page holds 1000 words and is a self-contained section or a pair of sections. Siracusa pays close attention to pagination in order to pace the article, in my experience of his reviews the page breaks are actually welcome as they give natural "yield" points for doing something else before coming back

edit: in fact, Siracusa notes (on his blog):

> I actually like [pagination] for very long articles because it helps me keep my place across multiple reading sessions. I can remember I was on page 8 instead of remembering my exact position in a very long scrolling web page.

> [...]

> Some people think Ars Technica forces me to break my article up into many tiny pages. That’s not the case. I choose how to paginate the article. I like to break it up by topic, if possible, which means that the “pages” vary widely in length. This year, Ars Technica actually asked me to merge several pages together to reduce the total number of pages (and I did).

So not only did he decide the pagination based on his desires regardless of advertisement money, ars actually asked him to paginate less.
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550 TV licence evaders caught in Newry
You may have to click the "Buy" button a second time.

I live in Europe so I'm used to seeing prices with added VAT. When I launched the app store, however, my item was priced at the U.S. price of $19.99. However, after getting this error once, the app store was reloaded with the correct price tag and a functional buy button.
Valve Teases L4D2 With Zombie Penguins
"Unfortunately, the people writing checks..."

You will know the true revolution is here when "the people writing checks" has moved far closer to "the consumer".

I actually expect about 80% of the true revolutionary reform to essentially come out of the home schooling movement, and trickle up to the universities, who will hold on to the traditional ways the longest. While what the universities are doing now is a critical step, I don't expect them to ever escape "University lectures and homework, but on a computer!" on their own, except that they will eventually have no choice.
OS X Mountain Lion: The TUAW review
OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion review
I believe the author is stretching it. In the iceberg photo case, that's just barrel distortion from the camera lens.
It's highly legible!
I looked but couldn't find this - is a Mountain Lion upgrade available for OS X Server yet?
I really dislike this trend Rails has brought that a Model maps directly to a database table.

I've coded in CakePHP, Rails and ASP.Net MVC3, and out of all three MVC3 was the cleanest one for me just because any Model you created was just a simple POCO class. It didn't map anywhere and prevented you from shooting yourself in the proverbial foot. Problems inherent in Rails and CakePHP if you aren't careful.

I even asked a question on SO about this issue, ZERO responses if you can believe that. I guess the silence is answer enough. ;)

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11424719/where-do-viewmod...
Definition of a review, by ArsTechnica : http://imgur.com/RdohV
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But the actual administration is if anything worse: 100-page proposals via hugely bureaucratic processes (NSF's are at least only 15 pages), unwieldy multi-country consortia, periodic mandatory status update meetings in Brussels, the works.

Tell me about it. I was 7 years in "academia" in the EU and 4 of those years was working in a FP7 (Seventh Framework Programme) project. Man, the amount of administrative baggage we have to do is amazing. "Libre research" is a myth, between monthly deliverables, 6-month review, half-way Brussels project review, you could not make a lot of research.

And then you have all the administrative controls, I kid you not, I had to log what I did every day in two places (one in EU FP7 timesheets (in Excel), and another one in my institute's own software (a terrible java program)). Sure, the upside was that I got to travel a lot (the project had about 7 participant countries).

Now I returned to the industry, I am in a company from the Silicon Valey as a "simple" software engineer (even though I have a PhD) and I could not be happier. Moreover, after a couple of months in the position I have made several contacts which are bringing new opportunities.

I am happier at my current "fast paced" job now as I was while I was in academia doing papers just trying to publish papers for the sake of it (that is how I felt).
Check this book out - there's a whole section on mentors...

http://www.amazon.com/The-Students-Guide-Success-Connections...
What's the benefit of using virtualenv in production? And actually what's the benefit in general?
No compatible XCode release yet, it seems. Holding off since I can't afford being unproductive at the moment.
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Wait, we need to defend parenthood?