skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Working with RE<C, Google.org will make strategic investments and grants that demonstrate a path toward producing energy at an unsubsidized cost below that of coal-fired power plants.

I don't know if this covers your concerns about ratepayer swindles?
Discover New Music - MMOG Written In Django
I still haven't worked out the protocols for matching encoded locations -- hopefully it is possible. I fear you're right, I may not be able to get beyond a simple challenge-response type of comparison without disclosing some information.

Cool thing is, since I got interested in solving this problem, I've learned how R-Trees work! :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert_R-tree
Ask YC: Has anyone used Amazon Mechanical Turk?
Hi there

We're considering trying out the Amazon Mechanical Turk for data input to one of our systems where we feel the quality of data is very important. We have a crawler and are wanting to categorize the information. We have looked at algorithms for this (with good results) but are wanting to check these results and also add to them. Amazon sure gave this a crazy name, but I'm curious to find out if anyone has actually used it and what are your findings
Voyager 2 Spacecraft will cross "termination shock" in Late 2007 or Early 2008
Consistent Hashing and why you should care
Scribd should just slurp the whole internet... everyone's quality of life would rise dramatically.
Loopt supports a broad range of devices already, with greater accuracy:

https://loopt.com/loopt/phones.aspx

More are on the way :)
Hi. Thanks for finding our startup :)
They're on to us Sam!
Apple Bonjour: Secret Weapon?
Bonjour is Apple's implementation of Zeroconf that is included with Mac OS X. Bonjour is a service discovery protocol which has the primary function of discovery services on a local area network (LAN). It uses multicast Domain Name System (DNS) service to locate devices such as computers, printers, and services that those devices offer. The beauty of this is that it allows non-experts to connect to these devices and services in an easy and automatic fashion. No complex DHCP or DNS messiness.
Good catch; I didn't read the PR that carefully.

'Unsubsidized' is indeed promising - it seems to preclude direct kickbacks. It leaves open the possibility that Coal could be made deliberately uneconomic (e.g. C02 caps), and that the GOOG energy might be made economic through the sale of ancillary products (Renewable Energy Certificates) for which gov't creates an artificial demand.

At this point, though, I'm just being suspicious. I suppose GOOG deserves the benefit of the doubt, and it costs nothing to give it to them. We'll see what, if anything, they come up with.
Great idea and fantastic presentation. The player doesn't work in Opera 9.5 for me, but I'll use something else for now. [edit:] What I like most (from the design) are the completely AJAXified pages with psuedo-URL anchors. This is the first time I've seen it be useful instead of distracting. But, I wish I didn't see the spinner when changing the volume. Or anytime, really - maybe a corner loading box?
can you give us a short introduction to your startup?
Using PS3 to Crack Passwords
thesixtyone is a music discovery game. There's a good, brief intro to how our site works if you follow the "learn more" link on our front page.

We're two guys, myself (James Miao) and Samuel Hsiung. My background is in video games while Sam's is in web applications. We made thesixtyone because we wanted to make finding and listening to new music as fun as possible.
Music didn't work for me with Firefox/Flash on Ubuntu.

I'm not sure if that's due to sudden server load...
It looks like such a fantastic idea!

Can hardly wait until the music actually plays on my system (Ubuntu/Firefox) :) I submitted it anyway because its awesomeness was immediately apparent.

(Also on my other system, with Flash off, ALL the pages get replaced with "Upgrade to the latest version of Flash here". The pages render and then are immediately replaced with that message.)
The sound doesn't play in Ubuntu for some reason. That's something we're trying to fix. You should be able to watch videos however.
Awesome site guys! You also just reminded me about the new ATAL EP that came out yesterday.
Thanks, Jason. We love Disqus.
Very cool. Interesting to see social voting explicitly described and implemented as a game, I'm curious how spending/gambling points and leveling works out. Though if it takes off, I imagine you'll have your hands full with gaming/spamming ;)

One thought: the faq interface is cute, but I prefer to read the whole thing at once.
I can play songs with Opera 9.5 build 9665 on Windows.
Looks good! Could you please explain point acquisition and what does that green bar mean? When I signed up it says 1 --- 2 with green thing in the middle... what is it?
We're working to get you listening! It's been tough b/c we don't have an Ubuntu box yet.
Seems pretty clever. Not letting arbitrary barriers stand in the way.
What is this document from, a court case or something?
It has begun. http://www.ask500people.com/questions/if-you-voted-republica...

;)
Really nice! Seems that they have also made a Symbian S60 version of the app, used to be Java only (J2ME).

Finds my position in Finland with ~1 km accuracy, and it is actually quite fun to see where the tower you are connected to is. For me that changes when I change my position in my kitchen...
It's really fascinating to see the beginnings of something as huge as Facebook.

Is this written by Zuckerberg, or one of the guys suing him for "stealing" Facebook? Is it a journal, or a chat log, or something else?

More details plz!
Yahoo Offers Contextual Advertising In PDFs; Yes, PDFs
New Google Maps feature could simulate GPS on iPhones
Tim Berners-Lee dream for Facebook five years hence
http://www.02138mag.com/magazine/article/1764.html is what links to this, they have more documents. The best is this, http://www.02138mag.com/asset/1135.html, it's an email where Zuckerberg talks about working for the ConnectU people.
It its current form Loopt is a niche product because it requires GPS. The salient feature of "My Location" is that it doesn't require GPS - this is what make it a game changer.
My money would be on Taleb.
Thanks. The primary way to earn points is to bump songs. If songs you bump get bumped by others, you'll earn points. The green bar shows a user's progress en route to the next level. I'll leave you to figure out what the 1 and 2 mean!
From the article:

... the commander of this "great force".

Despite his having preached "enlightened moderation", President Musharraf ...

How I understand it is this: in British English you don't place punctuation in situations where the quotes serve to offset and not so much to quote a source. (Do you understand what I mean? When the quote is a letter, number or just a word or two.) To be honest, I always thought that of American English as well, but I guess I'm wrong.
I wish people would test their pages with a text-only browser more. The article whole article was interspersed with the phrase "permalink to this paragraph"
Geni Clone Growing A Lot Faster Than Geni
Straight Out Of Left Field: Google Experimenting With Digg Style Voting On Search Results
Report That Facebook May Cave on Beacon: Victory For Users May Be Nigh
> If they don't remember giving you their permission, they'll mark your email as spam

which makes changing domain names so hard.
http://www.honeynet.org/
http://www.honeyd.org/
On the possible consciousness of rocks and panpsychism (title by Kottke)
You might want to look into secure indices. It's still very new but seems to solve your problem.
I wish I can filter the xkcd. :(
Wow, great. Now Google knows my e-mails, what pages I google for, and where I am.
You think you're nerd? So, why your savings aren't on ^QNET?
Aaron Swartz's Bubble City
I just realized that if you are willing to mess with the system behind the scene, you can drive the community where you want. An easy systematic way to do it would be to make votes of people who vote like yourself (or a trusted group of people) automatically matter more (think kNN). In this way they are likely to push stories you would like but haven't noticed yet.

I am sure this would be perceived as unethical, but I have no idea where the line between such an approach and normal editing/moderation can be drawn.

Of course you can make personalized rating for everyone based on such a recommendation system. But you can also make your taste the default (when someone has not rated enough items) and in this way work to avoid fragmentation in the community.
i got a server error
If the probability for black swans cannot be estimated, how do you identify the possible black swans (to position yourself accordingly as Taleb advises)? I think he swept this under the rug.
It's back online. Sorry about that.
Someone had to do it, thanks guys for implementing it :) . Hope it scales well. Btw, I like how the audio stays on while you change pages, Slick.

The points system is nice also.
"... Today's enemy? Newsflip, one of the crummy little online news aggregator sites, which was threatening to write him out of the history books by dumping the technology he'd single-handedly invented, news notation analysis (NNA), and going with some upstart competitor that didn't even bother to have an acronym for a name. Sure, Newsflip was a tiny site in the scheme of things, but if it switched it would set a dangerous precedent ..."

First chapter wasn't a bad read. Sarah sounds a bit too much like JT in Snowcrash on a hoverboard. But it was this paragraph that really peaked my interest. Substitute:

- NotABug for Newsflip

- NNA for reddit in lisp

- Wayne for Aaron

Art imitating life?
the feature that the music continues to play in the background it's a really nice one
Don't nearly all phones now sold in the US have GPS?
Your code at its kernel level must have this simplicity. But at the edges, where you're accommodating the minds of users, inevitably it gets a little messy.

Absolutely. Your core code is usually targeted to programmers, that is, (hopefully) formally thinking folks, so you may choose to be as succinct as possible here. At the same time UI code may become illogical, non-linear mess only because their users can't think formally. Bookkeeping/accounting software is a perfect example.

Those developers who prefer working on compilers, libraries or operating systems are actually those who want to get the most out of programming. Maximum joy, that is.
What's significant about whether particles there are travelling above or below the speed of sound? Surely there are not enough of them to produce the sort of compression waves that cause problems for supersonic jets.
They all support GPS for the purposes of E911, but I don't think most of the phones that triangulate position from tower data support GPS for application developers or anything other than E911. http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/gps-phone2.htm
3G iPhone Coming Next Year
Product Management and that Pesky Computer Science Degree
Mistakes About Mistakes
Three Cool Add-Ons For Microsoft Outlook
Web 2.0 and Advertising: Do We See Eye to Eye?
Great article, but horrible writing he says.
Maybe startups should take the trouble to offer localized versions within a couple months of launching. The Samwers are taking advantage of the fact that startups are ignoring something that's probably trivially easy.
i remember voting/tagging image results not long ago. how is this different?
Sure. But a good xkcd cartoon is still just a well-painted bicycle shed.
Understanding Scope and Binding in JavaScript
The reason that consciousness eludes science is simple: nobody has ever given a proper definition of it. All talk about consciousness is therefore only hot air.
Never said it was easy. Believe me, I know. Of course there's no guarantee. That's where the determination comes in. Don't understand how you inferred that I said either.

And yes it is cheap relative to other businesses. Try opening a restaurant with only 2 laptops, some determination, but no money.

I'll rephrase myself: "You don't even need much incremental money". You have living expenses whether you do something or sit on your butt. Better to do something.
He's saying you cannot identify the possible black swans - almost by definition.
OK, you're right. But one could still claim that's 1 designer too many and 1 developer not enough.
Who? I have no idea who she is.
Classic CS book online: "Essays in computing science" by Hoare and Jones
This is really neat. A web form to accept party invitations? That's not a bad idea at all.
The manuscripts of Edsger W. Dijkstra
Awesome, do you have any idea what language their app was written in? (server side)
How Technology Almost Lost the War: In Iraq, the Critical Networks Are Social Not Electronic
It's written in PHP.
http://particletree.com/features/web-app-autopsy/
For what it's worth, I read about this on a couple of other sites.

From what I understand, particles build up along the compression front, causing a sort of magnetic storm for things passing through it. The effect is magnetic and not compression-based as it is in jets. One anonymous poster on /. claimed to be from JPL and said they were worried about having some of the electronics in the spacecraft fry as it passed the boundary. For some reason that made me think of old Star Trek episodes -- "Where No Man Has Gone Before"

I also learned that, far from what we've been told, there IS sound in space. It travels around 100km/sec in the near vaccum, but nobody has come up with a way to measure pressure waves at that extreme low inensity. Sounds like a cool thing -- wouldn't it be neat to listen to the universe?
Having the thumbnails show in the email itself means people don't have to break their stride to know whether the photos are ones they're interested in. I keep in touch with a lot of family and old friends using the same email. Different people care about different photos.
Is Computer Science Dying?
Who will make it into Hell first, PayPerPost or TextLinkAds?
Both of these models have falling out of favor with God. With no PR left to trade, paid link revenue no longer adds up and evidently sellers are looking elsewhere for revenue, while persistent link buyers are moving onto pastures new! So where does this ultimately leave TLA and PPP?
The Fake Steve Jobs Video Motivates Me
ConnectU used to look like junk back in August 2007: http://web.archive.org/web/20070826023826/http://www.connect...

Now, it's REALLY similar to Facebook once you look around the inside. It's pretty ridiculous, because it seems that ConnectU was recently updated to appear just like Facebook to make their case stronger ?!
A pool filled with a non-Newtonian fluid
Yup, as rms pointed to: http://www.02138mag.com/magazine/article/1764.html
Consider adding some fancy ?ref= params, too.
It doesn't matter whether they do or don't. The problem with GPS receivers is that they do not work reliably indoors. If Loopt relies entirely on GPS to locate users then this offering from Google is superior.
Hmmm...cutting your own hair to save time. This, I like. But how do they do it? Flowbee? Clippers?
I like the idea of banning sites from my personal search results but I think if they turn it into a social setting (reddit, digg) it will have a lot of potential to be a really bad idea.
Facebook | Great Regular Pictures by Email
Do you like nice pictures? Want some of you Family?
The best portrait photography in the world!!
In addition to everything else, this is great marketing!

Don't understand our concept? Look at what others have done with it.

Chances are you will find something there that will strike a nerve.
How to get the perfect christmas present for the family....
>With judicious use of SEO tricks, he can still get them to pop up in your Google search, even though nobody in their right mind would ever link there or even want to visit there in the first place.

Blame Google for that.
She's the co-founder of Pownce.
It's all about the density. Even what we consider nebulae are small fractions of an atmosphere. Sound as we think of it just doesn't apply.

But for SciFi shows that don't respect the audience enough to have no sound in space, I choose to believe they just placed simulated microphones near the explosions. The particulate matter and smoke could temporarily host the sound in space.

Also, sound travels slower in lower density areas, not faster. Where did you get this 100km/s number? I think it is a neutron star where the matter is so dense, sound waves move so fast as to cause relativistic effects. But of course all our models for sound would fail in a Singularity. Just add sound to the long list of things we have no idea how to model in Black Holes.
I haven't dealt with it before, but I'm told i18n is a pain -- not close to trivial.

A good system would be automated though -- making adding the Russian language equivalent site at startup.ru scalable in software.
Maybe She Wanted it Written in Assembler?
How to Manage Overachievers
Is that a reason or a symptom?
1 and 2 seem to be contradictory.

If I know a location, and then I hash the location, and then I can find (with some precision) the true locations of the nearby hashed places, this constitutes an algorithm for reversing the hash of such nearby places. Or at least narrowing the search space down significantly. So we just contradicted the first property you want.

What are you really trying to do?
Anyone know how to try this on an iphone?
I'm in way over my head, but I'll keep going. Hey this is the internet -- lack of knowledge never stopped folks from talking about stuff before! You're probably much better-informed.

This sound question is very much like the "if a tree falls in the wilderness and nobody is there to hear, does it make a noise?" By sound I mean pressure waves, which exist I guess everywhere (from what I am hearing) except for a complete and total vaccum. But at the level of just a 1-1000 particles per cubic meter, there's not enough matter there to make something like the human eardrum work. So yes, it's sound, but no, we could never hear it. Does that make sense?

Here's one of the comments I sourced for my post. Like I said, I am a complete novice in this area.

http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=373279&cid=2...
Rules against downloading personal data in bulk for commercial purposes are not arbitrary barriers.
I think it is definitely a reason.
What Would You Be Willing to Outsource Locally?
What would you be willing to outsource locally and by what means? What will give you the required trust level to feel comfortable with posting a request online? Here are ten ideas.
The New Version of Gmail Adds Group Chat
The updated Gmail chat is only available in the new version of Gmail.
Asking the wrong question at eBay
wow, I checked verizon and tmobile and didn't find something like iphone unlimited internet access for a different handset. What am I doing wrong?
Google Tries Digg-Style Searching
I have to admit I understand Haskell a lot less than I thought I did (which wasn't much to begin with -- I've done maybe four or five Euler Project puzzles with it and nothing else).

I tried this same Fibonacci function on my machine using GHC 6.8.1, and it's clearly O(1.62^N).

I withdraw my earlier dumb statement.
Would you agree to receive up to 6 ads per day on your phone in return for a free service?
Secret?
What phone and plan do I buy to get this? I'm confused.
Now that computer scientists have discovered that the statistics and probability research of the past few decades completely applies to any interesting problems, there should be at least a few more good years left.

Regardless, computer science would never actually die. It would just deadlock or attempt to solve the halting problem.
Sounds like they'll collect data that's extremely useful for ad targeting.
Why can't we get rich like Zuckerberg? (comic)
http://joyoftech.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/1038.html
it's pretty easy to tell the difference in a brief conversation too.

look for comments about how smart you are, or how 'i could never do that', versus comments like 'its so cool that you know all this stuff', or 'im not very interested in that'
The Hacker's Diet

http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/www/hackdiet.html

It is a great book.
How Does Bruce Schneier Protect His Laptop Data? With His Fists -- and PGP
Start a competitor to FaceBook called EarBox.
Or, as a way to augment page rank. Or, as a way to recommend search results to you.
I was hoping for NoseBucket
Intern Job at I Can Has Cheezburger? Must be willing to bathe Happy Cat!
That comment was over my head I think.
Student research makes the pages of top scientific journal
An answer to the "please enter your password" problem might be a fake shell there for the sake of pleasing stupid customs officials.
It's amazing that computer scientists never consider the possibility that they are wrong -- it's always students who are misguided.

In my view, computer scientists are wrong. They have limited the scope of the field to exclude application-level creativity. And in so doing, they have severely restricted the potential of the greatest invention of all time.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=box+your+ears

box your ears

To strike someone on one or both their ears with the flat of your palm,this totally destroys their balance and usually destroys their eardrums if done right.
Even in a graphical browser, I found the permalink icons really intrusive. I'm used to things like that being used to sign off posts (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/29/erskine_steps_down/), and it breaks the flow to see them at the end of every paragraph.
I would submit that to properly define something, you have to understand it. Since consciousness is not understood, it has no definition. Talk about consciousness isn't hot air; it's an effort to understand.

Science tends to be inductive: we have to leap from particular experiences to abstract principles. With consciousness, we have the experiences but haven't made the leap yet to principles.
Only like the phoenix.
Interview with Andrew Hyde of Startup Weekend
We (skribit.com) got an email like this within a week of our launch..
is this the best thing that could have happened to Scribd (if they can utilize it) ... many congrats a nice new way to generate profit, could mean a lot to them

and for everyone else even slower pdfs uhhhhhhhh
I agree that simplicity and elegance are key, but in my experience the UI does not inevitably get messy. The same rules apply, but you have to work at different levels of abstraction. The central structure and algorithms of a UI are no longer about the data itself, but about transforming the data (and transforming the transformer!). There's a special brand of programmer crack reserved for those who create elegant and flexible UI code.
I also love how his initial idea for FaceBook was putting pictures of Kirkland residents next to farm animals to see who is hotter..
So really you should start a site called EarBoxZuckerberg.com
The First Web 3.0 Interface Launches! Anyone Have a LOLCAT?