skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Technically yes, but Scientology is very paranoid. For one, it has been accused of censoring internet access for its members, so they might not trust low-level staff to edit it.

Censorship:http://www.xenu.net/archive/events/censorship/index.html
After watching this and learning a bit more about it, many of the comments in the other Wave submissions seem blatantly uninformed.

I suggest you all watch this.
It won't go to court. Nothing of any value stays on w* without proper citation (so there goes libel), and since there's no financial consideration for participation in or use of w* the CoS can't claim injury in the legal sense.

They do have awesome videogame-style powerups, though... http://carolineletkeman.org/sp/images/stories/claims/eternit...
I'd really like someone to investigate how much money the AIG bailout saved Harvard. AIG was in the credit default swap business and Harvard invested heavily in that area. There were a lot of interconnections between Wall St, AIG, Harvard, and the government (Marty Feldstein, Larry Summers, Robert Rubin, etc). Somebody ought to look into this.
Yet another reason to make higher education universal and free. Just like where I live, Sweden.
Intelligence: Finding an error in a Knuth text.

Stupidity: Cashing that $2.56 check you got.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth_reward_check)
I tried calculating 8^140. Eight bits in a byte, you know.

This is what happens at the end of a week of crunch. (On the plus side, you guys aren't paying me for what I'm writing today.)
To be fair I think the article is aiming for any type of startup including those that sell food for example, not necessarily Tech/Web startups.

For Web/Tech Startups (as used by us for a web-startup)

- Google Docs

- Redmine or TRAC or Github

- EtherPad

- StackOverflow

- Skype or GoogleTalk or AIM or <IRC Channel Somewhere>

- emacs or vi or <fav free editor>

- RealVNC/TightVNC Server or Screen (presistant workspaces)
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I thought it was OK, maybe we're just jaded? Well, I'll nominate http://www.crowdspring.com/ for cheap-n-cheerful logo or other design. You can always do a makeover later.
The Scribd Story and the Trip Method
It should also be pointed out that SharePoint was Microsoft's fastest business to ever reach $1B annually.

You think Google made Wave federated out of the kindness of their hearts? Expect an enterprise version.
I wouldn't be surprised if they filed anyway. Scientology does have a reputation for filing frivolous lawsuits. Hubbard did say that lawsuits were great for harassment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology_and_the_legal_syste...
More interesting to me (since Overstock.com and Traverse Mountain are nearby) was the linked article ( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/06/wikipedia_and_overst... ).

It is interesting to think about how much power the Wikipedia inner circle has over public dialogue. Wikipedia is often people's first stop when trying to find out about something new - if they show bias, it could change that dialogue significantly.
As a programming language Python would be more suitable, 'cos it's more generic.

When it comes to Econometrics or any other statistical analysis, you would probably call built-in/library/module functions to calculate things like Gini, Theil.

Most of these functions are available for python or even R. So you can learn the basic syntax for both, and figure out what is the best way to do what you need, as you go along.
Sadly, there is no population-count instruction on PowerPC. The closest thing you get is cntlzw (Count Leading Zeroes Word).
Wikipedia is a private website - it's fully within their rights to decide who can or can't contribute. Hence, there's no grounds for a suit.
El Reg has a long-standing grudge against Wikipedia. And they're showing it here. :)
Unicode is history repeated as tragedy.
This is a surprisingly fun read!

Knuth has a sense of humor - who knew?!
Depends...how small can I print them?
Best Buy Wants To Fund Your Startup
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Myself, I liked turns out that only 9 of the first 275 checks that I've sent out since the beginning of 2006 have actually been cashed. The others have apparently been cached. (from the same page)
Three possibilities depending on what the voices in your head are saying

- If they are random useless sayings: ignore them (see a doc)

- If they are good ideas : write them down

- If they tell you to do anything harmful: go see a doctor immediately

It's healthy to talk with your self in your head... like playing devils advocate and viewing the same problem/idea in different perspectives... but if it's unintentional, might be something else. Wish you best of luck.
True, depending on what you mean by "bit". I'm not sure it is entirely trivial to interconnect the instruction-parsing parts, and memory operations might also be interesting. The ALU would be pretty simple, but you'd lose a lot of speed there (assuming something else didn't kill you first), as even if you have two CLA's (seems unlikely, given the additional complexity), you'd double the time it would take to stabilize the outputs.
It's somewhat simple. You just design the finite-state table and either use a ROM (microcode) or some sort of hardwired logic to implement it.

I'm glossing over a lot of stuff here, but a simple CPU is just that, simple.
A cute technique for avoiding certain data race conditions
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucination#Auditory_hallucin...

If it's enough of a concern for you to ask about here, you should seek other expert (medical/psychological) counsel, or at least discuss with a trusted friend or family member, in person.

Where people have previously mentioned similar experiences to me, the incidents were ultimately attributable to either (1) drug use (including misprescribed stimulants); or (2) onset of mental illness. However, the Wikipedia article also mentions a movement to manage hearing voices without considering it a medical problem:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearing_Voices_Movement

Still, since it's bothering you, I think you should talk to someone wiser than this comment thread in person.
This is kind of content-free and contradictory. "Just because you have an idea doesn't mean it's a good idea" vs "bounce ideas off of smart people" vs "Trust your instincts and dont' worry about others' opinions".

Also "Trip method unit"? "Ideation"? That quality/time graph? Is this a joke?
The CoS doesn't often let little details like that get in their way.

See chris11's link in this thread.
I'd rather change the social norms than continue working with limiting technology - wouldn't you?
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Another vote for 1and1, been with them for over 4-5 years, not a single issue. I love how they hold on to the domain after a year after you cancel it... just in case you want it back without any extra charge.

I've never used them for hosting, just domain names, and would definitely recommend them.
I guess I'm not hip or social enough to get it. It's like a glorified e-mail/IM client with avatars and social networking stuff, and a bunch of other things super glued to it? Seems like it might be too ambitious. Maybe there's a good idea in there somewhere but, looking at the tools/sites I use now, I can't imagine why I would want to use this instead. I certainly don't want to waste my time duplicating my efforts on more than one site/service/whatever. Looks like there might be a decent barrier of entry too just figuring out how all these parts work with each other and how you can modify them to work the way you want them to.
The hearing voices movement is interesting. Just makes me wonder: maybe for some hearing a voices is just a minor anomaly in their brain, similar to people who can hear colors? What I mean is, perhaps we all have voices in our heads, but only for some they actually become audible - because brain regions "overlap"?

I don't think people who can hear colors are considered to be ill. If anything, they are considered to be advantaged?

(This is the first time I think about hearing voices, I have no real knowledge about it whatsoever).

Edit: found Wikipedia article, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaesthesia - think I mixed it up, it is usually seeing tones as colors, not colors as tones. But other things, too, like "numbers, days of the week and months of the year evoke personalities"
The beginning outright says "the world's greatest university", which also made me cringe a little. If at least the author gave some kind of metric...
Do you think it will really be seamless? That's where almost all of these types of all-in-one deals fail for me. They are completely seamless if you want to play by the rules they set and the interfaces they build. When you want to break out of that mold they're not really so seamless anymore. I know it's an open protocol and blah blah but I'm not sure I want to spend all this time making a screwdriver into a hammer when I already have a perfectly fine hammer.
Mac and Windows at any rate.
Is this a joke?
No, it is not. As a slide show only it might be hard to see the point. But having listen to the speech and knowing how Trip approaches problems, thinks through it and emerges with new ideas it makes a lot of sense. There is a reason why he is very successful.
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Ray Taylor has been offering legal representation for over 39 years in criminal defense matters with high profile cases to his name in the Texas area.
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I would only say that I can't imagine that Last.fm lost any users due to the TC story. The intersection of the users of Last.fm and those that would read, believe and act on this TC story are probably pretty scant.

That said, this recap in the guardian is pretty lame. What's with finding it so awful that last.fm doesn't have dedicated PR staff. It's not so terrible to let engineers talk with non-engineers.
TC seems to post a fair number of stories that are "too good to check"
please email me, i have a couple ideas i want you and/or somebody to implement regarding notifications ;) aaron.blohowiak@gmail.com
Is our biology to blame if we're not the sociable type?
Gross. The S/N ratio on twitter was already on the decline, crap like this is going to make the problem even worse. I deleted my account about a month ago and haven't looked back.
Excellent. Please send me an email (jon AT jrock.us) and I can give you more detail (and help you implement).

Basically, CPAN modules are just archives (usually tar.gz). There is a program called the "PAUSE indexer" that examines the archives, and generates a mapping of module name => archive file. The CPAN client fetches this file, and then knows what archive to download to install the named module.

All github would need to do is maintain this index file; the rest is handled client-side.

(The indexing algorithm isn't much more than this: http://github.com/jrockway/metacpan/blob/be78711a6f12afd3b71...)
and that reason is google spamming more textual data (mostly copyrighted) than any site (including wikipedia) on the web
Apart from the obvious "seek help" answer, try meditating. Some practice clearing your mind might help.
Similarly perspective-bending ideas (which I first learned about via Snow Crash):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicameralism_(psychology)
Is Wave Bloatware?
pretty cool game
"If they are random useless sayings: ignore them"

This seems irresponsible advice. There are serious conditions whose symptoms are hearing voices. He should at least consult a doctor.
Rumors of our Demise are Greatly Exaggerated (Rubinius)
I've long believed one of the ISA designers was a Japanese, as eieio means kinda hooray in Japanese.
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My point is, that just characterizing a CPU by saying it's an n-bit architecture, doesn't say very much about the complexity of the real thing.

You should not fall prey to the (in other contexts appropriate) assumption that an increase of one bit inherently doubles complexity (confusing linear with exponential).
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Ah.. I knew I was missing something :)
Thanks for explaining that
I hate shopping at Bestbuy.

But this can be a really good thing for certain types of startups, such as those who need access to the general population and consumer market. Not just access, but a DIRECT/MASS access. This is a match made in heaven for those.

VCs are there for Startups who want Money. Incubators/YC are there for Mentorship/Guidance. BestBuy will be there for those who need direct market access.
Why I don't like Twitter
Twitter though popular cant not kill blogging as many claim it to be. Here are the reasons
Exactly what I thought of when I read Tichy's comment. The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind might be total BS, but I can't say it wasn't a fun read.
What are the download stats?
The coefficient of sqrt{n} was further improved by O. Macdonald. Brilliant.
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This means that there are presently two references to Old Macdonald on the front page, the other being EIEIO.
How charging for articles could hobble the future of journalism
We're getting somewhere. So why do obscene stuff should, in your opinion, be controlled by the government? I don't mean why it's distasteful or unhealthy or something like that, but what makes you want to cross the line from "not socially accepted" to "men with guns ruin your life"?
Science in Our life and day to day activity
a deeper look at how the popular theorems in science play a significant role in our day to day life.
Whats the common factor between real estate agents and terrorists?
Why News channels suck ?
If you test positive for breast cancer does it really mean you have breast cancer for sure?
Find the answers.
Still problematic.

If TC wants to be taken seriously as a source of information, then TC has to start getting the fundamentals of reporting. The Friday thing is one of these; requesting comment from the subject of your story is another.

Without attention to these details, TC will be (and will deserve to be) seen as nothing more than a gossip rag. Of course, if that's what they want...
stackoverflow maybe?

Only a Q&A - but the up/down voting on answers is kinda nice.
I think most startups get by without the majority of those tools. Some of those might actually slow you down. Free isn't always "free" if you have to invest time learning the quirks of each tool.
Aren't you going to need somewhat to actually calculate things? NAND would do it.
Python may be a bit more difficult than you'd expect. The tools -- easy_install, pip, etc. -- are built around a core which, though it can use alternate sources to look for packages, happens to have things like heuristics for screen-scraping pypi.python.org hard-coded in.
Straight out of the pages of a Charles Stross novel. Life in the 21st century does have it's benefits.
Ranting for the sake of readership, more likely. A journalist tends to write what sells after all, especially one who boasts about making money from your work :)
That, AND healthcare
Education and healthcare were once clearly seen as something to be provide by society as a value to society.

Having more educated citizens benefits an entire society, not just those citizen.

Having healthier citizens works similarly.

Certainly both education and healthcare been private for a long time BUT often effectively on a non-profit basis.
See a doctor and do it soon, unless you're in your late teens or early 20's, in which case do it yesterday. That's the peak age range for the onset of schizophrenia.
Just my two-cents but I think there is too much content on the frontpage. It is a URL shortener and if it was my site, I would just put:
- a logo
- the 2 textboxes + 2 buttons
- a very quick tagline / description of your service
- the API info, news, faq, feedback can be small text at the bottom or something...
I haven't experienced what you describe, but have had different involuntary auditory experiences for years. The key for me has been to learn not to be bothered by them. Everyone has involuntary thought processes; I don't see why some shouldn't be connected to the auditory parts of the brain.

It helped me to see that what was bothering me was not whatever I was "hearing" but entirely a secondary process - thoughts about what I was hearing, like worrying or frustration. I don't know if that makes sense, but it's a critical point and I recommend it.

Equally helpful (and intimately related) has been to develop simple somatic awareness. A good way to grasp this is to pay attention to the space between thoughts. That is silent, so it is a mode you can shift to when you don't want to deal with mental chatter. Having that option provides relief. It is also grounded in the body in a way that most thoughts are not (I'm speaking purely experientially). Developing that awareness over time gives you greater inner depth, which turns out to be invaluable in a lot of ways.

If the auditory stuff never settles down, maybe the space "between" thoughts is inaccessible; in that case I switch to the silence behind them. Inner silence is never far away, but you need to find your own way of connecting with it.

As I said, I don't know if this will make sense. These things are hard to articulate. I will say that sometimes they are challenges that pay off if you learn what you need to learn.

As for whether you're going nuts, who cares? You can be a balanced, well-grounded nutcase. This is an example of a secondary idea that pretends to be about the underlying experience but actually isn't; it's a meta-worry.
AAA on X86 is not bad....
By the way, i386 NOP is in fact XCHG EAX, EAX
This is old news.

In any case, does that apply to the cheque on the wiki article?
I just saw a campaign poster for the Pirate Party yesterday. It advertised voting for the German branch of the Party in Frankfurt.
Are the voices you, or not?
Just curious - have you done both? I have, and my preference falls to wire-wraping. I'd be interested to hear an alternative opinion from someone who's done both.
Actually, I think that just the opposite should happen. The goal of higher should not be crude "job skills". The value of higher education includes a wide view of the world and broad participation in intellectual life.

This goal should be furthered by private foundations and government. More things should be "priceless".
I find these sorts of pages on wikipedia even more fascinating than the content itself. The core community is incredible. This primary source is so raw, genuine, but true.
How could you not know? The number of jokes packed away in TAOCP (especially in the index) is significant, and he humor shines through in his video lectures.

In fact, his first publication was in Mad Magazine.
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Better than most 'how to be successful in 10 easy steps' presentations. The most impressive aspect was listing early failed ideas and what was learned from them.

I'm still not sure I see the point of Scribd, because I had no problem reading PDFs and the like on originating sites before it came along, but hey. Also, we desperately need a new namespace. I am so sick of cutesy homonyms. It's like that phase a few years ago where all edgy books/movies/ articles had a title of the form 'Verbing the Noun'.
For myself I only buy a monthly one "Le Monde Diplomatique", because of the quality articles (I buy it even if the articles are freely available after a month), I didn't find any other one with such quality and limited ads. I'm curious to know the reason why you people buy less newspapers?
Yes, and they're doubly arrogant because they don't seem concerned with making money with it. The callus bastards. It's almost like they're just sitting there enjoying themselves...
They look just like regular checks, though, to the casual viewer. I'd scan mine and post it, but the check is at the office and the scanner is at home...
Suprisingly balanced article by a mainstream (i.e. non-geek) newspaper.
What baffles me is how incredibly incompetent the PR operation of CBS is. This is after all one of the biggest media companies in the world.

Instead of issuing an unequivocal joint CBS+Last denial, they keep stressing how unimportant a source blogs are. This isn't just a matter of truth but also one of professionalism. It's yet more evidence that media companies have been living under a stone for many years and any startup should avoid ending up in the claws of one of those.
Github server gem as authorname-projectname so duplicate of same project should be removed from this counting.
That will give actual number
Post a message for one of the meditators at Dharma Overground. They might have some insights on what's going on there.
Are we in control of our own decisions? (video)
Isn't this exactly what your bank or credit card company should be providing? (Only massively cheaper than they do now.)
There are almost nothing new about this project - the big idea is "lets put all out services together" under new buzzword with the same proven strategy - "we will host and monetize your data" and "we published an APIs, you wll code it out".

The same principle is about technology - put it all together XMPP + XML documents (for easy data extraction and indexing) (google docs) + version control (git) + wiki-style editing (wikipedia) + maps, of course + profiles (facebook) + feeds (twitter).

And it will probably work, because it is targeted for mobile devices (android) as clients which means instant and short messaging by definition.
California prepares for 'the Big One'
The Twitterverse v0.9 by @BrianSolis & @Jess3
i'm more than confident that these anti-wave stories are pissed off existing social networks operators/investors.
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I read about several management consultancies that offer such a quantitative approach for lots of money. Perhaps its easier to sell from the outside?
drop drugs
Good question. I wish more people responded to this.
The tanning beds are a bit much, but in general I don't see what's wrong with a nice dorm. Just because most of us put up with crappy living conditions as freshmen doesn't mean there's anything noble about it.
May be it should not be people's first stop. If any one uses Wikipedia in an argument I ask for an authoritative source.
To clarify this, hearing voices in the way you describe is a common symptom of schizophrenia.

More info is available here: http://www.schizophrenia.com/diag.php

No one here can diagnose whether or not you have schizophrenia. Only a qualified, experienced psychiatrist can do that. And if you have schizophrenia, you very probably need medical help because it can get worse with time, if left untreated.
Why not just two different prices? Just make sure to call it a cash discount, instead of a credit card markup.

This way the store does not care how a customer pays, and the customer can decide for herself whether fifteen cents are worth the convenience.

(By the way, why aren't you paying with cash? I find it much more convenient in general than plastic cards.)