skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are from maritime research, and they compared computer modeling of climate changes to astrology, so the step to reading guts of whales doesn't seem so far fetched to me. Japan is famous for needing whales for scientific research, so I just put 2+2 together.

I must admit I missed all pages of the article after the first, though (bloody pagination). Now reading, I can at least sympathize with the notion that man made global warming is only a hypothesis. However, that holds for anything science says, doesn't it? There are still varying degrees of belief based on the known evidence.

Overall the whole article did not have much content, or did it? The only content is basically that there are 3 japanese scientists who don't believe in global warming and 2 who do (or something like that - in any case the real information content is close to zero).
Maybe he expects a draft from you ? If it's good it should get things moving really fast.
Doesn't regulation limit the power of the politicians, too? And the taxes would have to be increased for specific spending, not for stuff the politicians might prefer to spend the money on.
You have basically summarised what I've learnt from HN - I learnt that I am not alone, and there are all of these other enthusiastic, energetic people out there who have the entrepreneurial drive to make a change. "You are not alone" - thanks HN!
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Ever since Haunted House appeared on the Magnavox Odyssey back in 1972, many video game developers have been refining their dark arts in order to create games of increasing complexity and sophistication with one aim: to scare the crap out of us.
This is a few years old now, and I just submitted it to see if it had already been posted and what discussion there might have been. (The title doesn't tell the full story either; he ends up experimenting with a lot more than that).

It's scary in a way the benefits he does see, notably from HGH.
Stupid console tricks: Getting the names of your Twitter non-followers
To nip this one in the bud: Atlas doesn't generate code. It serializes the objects that represent the "views" and other objects. This has a number of advantages over the code generation method.

Also, I think Atlas allows for the sort of abstractions you're looking for. It comes with a bunch of built in widgets which are great, certainly for prototypes and simple UIs, but even fairly advanced ones too. But if they're not good enough, or you have some custom widget/layout you can easily add it to Atlas as a plugin and treat it as if it were a built in component.

But I'm certainly interested in hearing more about the problems people have with these sort of tools.
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I used to do this when I had a desktop. I prefer waking up to Eye of the Tiger rather than annoying beeps. Now I generally use my iPhone, although the default selection of ringtones aren't much better.

Actually, a cool app would be an alarm that plays music from your music library. iPhone apps are sandboxed so you couldn't do this directly, but maybe you could stream it from a remote file? Hmmm...
I think Python documentation is a great resource for learning it.
i'd probably define some helper functions to check argument values and such:

config = backup(
directory('/media/programming', exclude=['log_files', 'temp_files']),
directory('/media/documents', exclude='archive')
)
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Once again, they should've linked to the more enlightening original article, available here: http://weblamp.princeton.edu/~psych/psychology/research/pron...
Convincing someone of something you believe in and abusing your influence are two very different things.

I don't think pg implied that he bullied them into implementing this, only that he talked them into it. And I can't imagine that YC would last long if pg got into the habit of bullying its start-ups into implementing his personal requests.
It's called http://sleep.fm & it's similar to Iron Man's alarm clock in the movie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXH2K2ZlrjQ and also to what you created!

Right now wakes you to various types of weather forecasts, time and also the day and date. We'll be adding more sounds and options too!

Please...would be great if you used our service :) Less hassle for you to create something on your own. Were all ears too for other forms of wake up communication people will find useful!
Here's my theory of dating sites - free sites like plentyoffish/okcupid actually cost guys a lot more than paid sites. When everyone is forced to pay per month, everyone is proactive and actually tries to get some dates going. On free sites guys chase girls, and girls ignore 95% of messages because they're in no hurry and many just opened an account because they were bored. Amount of time guys waste costs them much more than savings from not paying the subscription fee.
Yeah I laughed when I saw the headline, thinking to myself "some people need tricks to get out of bed?, how silly". My daughters wake up at 6:30 every morning, that means I'm up too no matter what. Problem solved.
Since you're now asleep, I'm free to trash your comment here and accuse you of all sorts of bad behavior, and I have 12 hours to get away with it :)
Writing on paper has one advantage: because you can't revise things, you're forced to finish the first draft before you start on the second.

So, what you produce may not be as good as it will get later, but at least it's complete.

The major disadvantage of writing on paper is of course when you have no idea what you're going to write ahead of time, because then your first draft is going to be very, very low quality.
Hacker News is one of the places I go to "spin plates." In some ways it's a productivity enhancement inasmuchas I keep my mind active when otherwise needing a quick break.

HN is also my primary tech portal. While I still visit slashdot, I've found HN to be faster on stories that appear there, and I've also found more relevant items here.

For instance, there was recently a thread here regarding list copying in Python. Though I've used Python for years, I'd never known the information that was in the linked article. It's now a part of my personal Python knowledge base.

I like HN. I read it regularly, whether at work, at home on the computers, or on the go through my iPhone. It's that good. Thank you!
I really like this evolutionary-way of writing. Small little improvements and changes until it sounds better and fits better to the rest of the paragraph/text/code.
I found out that if i am disciplined enough when writing code this way the result is much much better.
When i was working in corporate world there was always some distraction (boss, time constraints , ...) to break this flow resulting in not so good code.
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I thought it was a genetic algorithm writing an article somehow

You have great intuition, because it actually was!
Should I start hogging up subdomain names?
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This is absolutely brilliant!!

If this were only available when you guys were writing code for Viaweb, and when you were writing On Lisp -- what a wonderful thing it would be to learn from. It would show the thought process behind what went into writing what you wrote!
Starting from the 5th last paragraph:

The funny thing is that the OOP world have found one way to manage the
complexity and the code-bases that grow ugly: They are using unit
tests, and practice the art of writing testable code. ("Testable code"
is something that is simple to write unit tests for. )
Even in his portrait René Descartes looks somnolent.
Jamis, thanks for all the hard work you have put in these libraries. You have made my life so much easier and I will be forever grateful for that.

I'm sorry to hear that you burned out and I hope that you will quickly recover.

I respect your decision and I believe you did the right thing. Your health comes before a few folks that are not willing to put the effort to fix things that bother them about the libraries.

You've already done way more than was required of you. Thanks!
That's how it's been for me too. Part of me misses feeling not-battered. The rest of me really enjoys the energy I have despite that.
Thanks, I signed up and sent feedback. That Youtube video is marked as private so I can't view it; I thought I'd let you know in case it's something you often send to people as a demo.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=378424
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=439822
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=121779

Also what mkuhn said - ThinkPython and Dive into Python are both great books.
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From the FAQ:

Q. Can TCHunt locate hidden volumes?

A. Yes. However, TCHunt cannot differentiate between a standard volume and a hidden one.
I'm guessing that the people downvoting you aren't aware of the part you played regarding Facebook's being made.

I'm going to agree with kolya3 in part, however. Ideas are good, but execution matters a lot more. Part of that's because execution means deciding exactly how to implement things, and that's where Facebook really signs. Everything works beautifully on a level I don't think any other site has reached. It's perfectly compact.

That's why I have the interest in Zuckerberg that I do. I'd like to know how much of Facebook's design philosophy is his, and how much is somebody else's. If it's his, then to be honest I'd forgive him for a lot of other shortcomings.
It would be really interesting to see timestamps, particularly in longer works.

Two reasons: 1) You could see when the Eureka! moments occur. 2) To easily get a real measure of how long it really takes to write.

I have a real problem with 2), both with underestimating how long it will take to do things I think will be easy to write, and overestimating things I think will be hard. Of course, there's a lot more to writing than typing, but it could provide important information that is tedious to track at a high level and impossible to track at the level of granularity that this app could.
I'm fairly sure your site is easy to find with a quick google search but why not make it easy for us all and update your profile here as well?
That was a terrific rip-apart! Definitely made my morning.

I'm always curious about how much being a nerd makes people antisocial, versus how much being antisocial makes them nerds.
If Microsoft claimed that IE was the first browser to offer tabbed browsing, a dedicated search field, etc. - would your reaction be the same?

And how is Opera inferior to Safari? Opera's market share is lower than Safari's, of course, since it's not bundled with any operating system, but that does not mean it's inferior.
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I haven't looked through Opera's page very much, but Firefox certainly does the same in reverse. They've fixed up their claims - before they were even worse - but they still claim a lot of pseudofeature crap that doesn't matter, while admitting that function-wise, Safari's at least on par with them. (When it first came out the marketing talk was much worse: it reminded me in the worst way of things that palm readers say.)
What do you find to be complex about AJAX?
Don't forget time dilation. If you move one end of the wormhole through space, both ends will be off in time too. It's more noticeable if you move it in relativistic speeds, but anything very fast should do the trick quite well.
I personally read a lot and I think the electronic medium will add an additional layer of value: annotation, collaboration, access to a large amount of knowledge without having to lug around paper. Print's slowly dying because it's not linked to rest of the content in the world.

I don't think content creators are dead by any means, but I do think there have to be devices and mediums that enable more than the create and publish model.

When Amazon designed Kindle, they tried to make sure the user experience was as close to a book as possible. When I go on a plane, I would prefer not lugging around 4 books in my suitcase vs just using a Kindle. There is something about the print medium that's very pleasing, but I think e-ink and e-books will co-exist like theater and t.v. Although many can say that the T.V. will cannabilze all theater going activity, there is something unique about the experience that the solo activity cannot capture.
Great find, I had been looking into trying to extend the PIL to support some CV features; had no idea that this was out there.

God, I really could've used that sample K-Means algorithm during last semester when I was taking DIP.
The title sounds interesting, but it's a video, which is sort of a non-starter for me unless it's something like a personal message from Donald Knuth to me. It says I don't even have the plugin in any case.

Is there a transcript?
Please do! I would use it.
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Climbing is different from typical gym workouts. It puts far more stress on your tendons than your muscles, and tends to exert injurious forces on your muscles when it does work on them. Tendons take longer to heal than muscles.

Plus, most climbers have a series of rapid warm-up and cool-down cycles -- climb, stop, belay, climb, stop, etc. -- which doesn't get the heart rate going the same way that an extended aerobic workout does.

Your climbing will tend to improve if instead of climbing a few hard routes, you climb a bunch of routes about one full grade below your maximum ability. Bonus points if you can score a belayer that doesn't mind the boring end of the rope for an entire evening. As your muscles become fatigued, your body will start trying to get lazy and sloppy, and that's where your technique will actually improve. Straining on a really hard route doesn't do anything good for technique / body position / etc.

(Former climbing instructor from Livermore. I really miss it, can you tell?)
Listen people, I'm serial. Man-Bear-Pig is a huge threat, and if you can't see that, and you continue to down vote this thread, I will demand a recount of your down votes. If I don't like that recount, I will appeal to the Imperial Senate and keep appealing until Palpatine gives me a count I like. I'm serial. I did not invent the internet for you just so you could ignore Man-Bear-Pig. You people are about to experience an inconvenient recount. This is serial people.
What all do I need to do in a support environment before Daylight Savings starts?
Hi all,

My company is supporting the following applications for an US client:

IBM Mainframe
DB2
Unix
Teradata
Oracle
SQL Server 2005
Lawson

Since Daylight Savings will start by next month, I would like to know your general thoughts about what all we should be careful about so that we can avoid any bad incidents?

Thanks,
Visakh
Sorry, I don't understand Fahrenheit.
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Might I suggest, from the watcher's perspective, it'd be handy if the final feature sets the vertical scrollbar such that the currently playing change is on the screen?

It might be kind of jerky during the editing stage, but it's better than scrolling around trying to find out where the action is. ;)

What I learned from this is that I write very differently from the way you do. My first draft is almost straight stream of consciousness, and then I go back and reread and edit several times. You seem to make several attempts at each sentence before finding one you like, and then edit the whole thing.

Of course, I may just not realize how I actually write, since I don't have a playback of anything of length to watch.

What I'd really be interested in watching is some famous programmers working on code with this kind of playback. Not sure if it'd actually be enlightening, but it would be fun to experiment with.
i thought about doing something like this in javascript for the comment or feedback boxes on websites, so you could see what people really think

This web site sucks and you are a moron\b\b\b\b\\b\b\b\b\b\\b\b...\b\b\b\b\b\\bb\bGood day sir, I can't seem to find how to cancel my account. Thank you and I hope you are having a pleasant evening.
I recently joined the "workforce" and wish I had had more advices as a student.

It's a good but incomplete article, I would add :
- Working is hard, it's a very difficult commitment. You'll have to keep motivated with little help and you'll be alone in difficult situations.
- You'll be paid less than you think you do in the first years, but it will gradually increase
- The caricatures you see on tv are mostly true in the corporate world
- A lot of stuff you'll learn in school is bullshit, it'll be either obsolete or inadequate at work
I take my four-year-old to preschool in the morning, which means I have to wake him up so he can get dressed and have breakfast in time to catch the bus. Which means I have to get up before he does.

On weekends, the boy stays in bed until 8:00. Unfortunately, his brothers do not follow his example.
Skin has light receptors that help the body changing states. It helped me a lot to find out this.
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Nice. A more scientifically plausible version of the "monkeysphere."

http://www.cracked.com/article_14990_what-monkeysphere.html

It felt weird that a satirical website would have such a profound article; it's good to know that more serious consideration into the underlying concept has been made. (The above wiki article once made heavy reference to the term monkeysphere, but had it edited out over time. There's still quite a bit of text about it on the discussion page.)
http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_python.html is a good source
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Even without the playback, if legislative documents were versioned and the revisions were public, we could at least watch the diffs and call people on the pork and poison pills they insert into bills.
fleaflicker has a "front office" feed displaying a league's recent activity. I launched it 4 months before facebook's friend feed. A cool idea but hardly original or patentable.
Hey sweet, thanks for mentioning that. I didn't know they could go there ... it's much better now.
"If you look at government bonds (a.k.a. TBills), they'll tell you exactly how much interest a truly risk free investment is worth"

That used to be true, but it isn't strictly true any more. The Credit Default Swaps for US Treasuries are priced to imply that you need to subtract around 1/10 of a percent (100 basis points) from the yield to get the real risk free rate. See http://www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/analysis-reports/sunrise...
One way to avoid meanness is to apply a principle known colloquially as "Miller's Law." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Armitage_Miller

To understand what another person is saying, you must assume that it is true and try to imagine what it could be true _of_.

That is, when you see someone wrong on the internet, instead of trying to force them to agree with you, identify what they know that makes them believe their assertion.
You held factory workers to a very high standard, and I commend you for it. However, I believe even a factory worker is likely to learn new words through hearing them, either from his bosses, or from television. The amount of reading they do is bound to be small, and of common language (think US Today, not the "fancy" New Yorker or NYT).

As an interesting side-note, I cannot recall the American equivalent of British tabloids. Are there any ?
I love Freakonomics, it's a large part of the reason I'm studying economics but that chapter is a catastrophic pile of wrong. Two articles picking it to pieces

http://www.bos.frb.org/economic/wp/wp2005/wp0515.pdf
http://islandia.law.yale.edu/donohue/Joyce%20%282004%29.pdf)
Am I right in thinking this is solely a webapp at the moment? I wouldn't really want to leave my computer on overnight. Can you recommend an app for waking from hibernation ready for your service to kick in?
You're probably thinking of an emacs mode that does this on its own, but it would also be excellent to have an emacs minor mode that integrates with Etherpad. Ideally, you just do M-x etherpad-buffer and emacs tells you a URL that you can then send around and let other people watch / co-edit whatever you're editing in emacs.

To make this work, Etherpad would need to provide an API, though not necessarily a well-documented one. A supported API might make sense for Etherpad, though. Imagine being able to load a Wordpress plugin that enables playback of your blog posts. Or something that lets you co-author blog posts on etherpad. Oh, and greasemonkey scripts that let you co-edit any elements in a web form. OK... let's not get ahead of ourselves...
'Oldest English words' identified
You wrote an entire book on legal pads?!

I mean, I guess people wrote books before there were computers, so I shouldn't be that surprised, but I just realized I can't imagine writing anything longer than a couple pages on paper.

I remember arguing with English teachers in middle school that I thought better while typing. They insisted that I hand write my rough draft anyway, and I hated it.
I haven't read the article in full, but I wonder why the author hasn't used laconi.ca (the free open source software which is used by identi.ca). Why should you be creating a new microblogging solution when a perfectly good open platform exists?
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Ask HN: Should Ebook publishers provide a syntax highlighting option for code listings?
I own tons of Ebooks and I run into a brick wall when I see a code listing - mainly because of a lack of syntax highlighting (no syntax highlighting makes a code listing look one dimensional to me). If it is so easy to "personalize" a PDF with my name and email address, why stop there?

Syntax highlighting for code listings should be an option when making a PDF purchase.
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Currently a web app but soon available on other platforms and we'll be adding Celsius soon too! Though for your forecast for today we currently speak the temperature in descriptive yet general terms...i.e. freezing temperatures with heavy snow or your forecast for today will be warm with showers.
How can it be a pure Python package? Surely you need something of openCV installed. Am I reading it wrong?