skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"HEY TWITTER, TAKE THE SO CALLED KANYE WEST TWITTER DOWN NOW …. WHY? … BECAUSE MY CAPS LOCK KEY IS LOUD!!!!!!!!!"

At least he's honest.
There would also be nothing to prevent you, as a coach, from applying the same full-court press strategy back to the pressing team. Even the coaches of the team in the article conceded that this would have defeated them. So the interesting question is why nobody did this...
MechQuest - Web RPG
Rackspace Cloud Adds 8,000 Customers
Kanye West (1) throws a temper tantrum (2) on twitter (3) in all caps (4), reported on techcrunch.com (5)... yes, five good reasons not to bother clicking on this headline.

I think that's a new record.
This is hilarious. "My roomates are a little weirded out",since I, you know, grow viruses in the attic... With sewer water.

Having worked in a virus lab in the past, I CAN reassure folks that you can't order dangerous pathogens without all sorts of certifications you won't easily find, say, in your garage. But this is still not a very good idea. Mixing bacterial or viral strains together in a human-like environment... somebody slap that kid. How will he test it's efficacy, anyway? On his roomate with an ear infection?
"Open drug testing." If everyone already has little drug-replicator-dispensers attached to their desktops, they can sign up with much less hassle than a conventional drug trial to test something. A lower barrier to entry means that, further, you'll get way more people signing up, and therefore even better statistics and faster trials.

Of course, animal testing and such will still happen, and happen slowly; this will only speed up the trial once the drugs have been declared potentially safe for human testing.
they like technology.

thats about it.
NTSB releases video animation of Colgan Air 3407 Crash
The NTSB page doesn't work well, it can also be seen here: http://www.greenvilleonline.com/article/20090512/NEWS01/90512007/1001/NEWS
Rom Exercise Machine
If the video doesn't play for you it's on a number of news sites including this one: http://www.greenvilleonline.com/article/20090512/NEWS01/9051...
i wonder if someone has already taken them....quietly....

What other way would there be? The line of "officials" who've decided your find should be theirs would stretch around a NYC block. Secrecy is the silver perl of salvage.
Earlier discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=506352
...or write to anyone who is at a university. Skype / IRC are my standard mechanisms for such. I can usually get most papers inside of 10 minutes by pinging a couple people.
Well, just the right amount of choice (just enough to occupy your mind, but no more), where all choices lead to situations involving similar amounts of choice, is commonly known as "fun." We're trying to optimize for a specific level of choice (the "fun" level), and we go over as often as we go under—over leads to stress, under leads to helplessness.
"Happiness" is a vague emotion, like love, not an objective, short-term, measurable one, like calm, contentment, or excitation. However, all states of happiness usually share in common a factor of endorphin release.

Endorphins are basically one of two basic mechanisms for "fitting" data in the brain-as-neural-net, with the other being pain: pain is the reinforcement mechanism that trains your neurons to not do that again, while endorphins tell your brain to do please do that again. People are "happy" (have endorphins) when they're doing things that their body encourages them to do. To be happy is simply to be one with your body's material desires (though note that your brain is part of your body, and it has material desires of its own, for things like friendship.)
MIT Harbors The Most P2P Pirates
Google Takes Steps Towards A More Structured Web
> "commons"

I'm not sure if you were looking for help on this one, but "similarities" is the word most Americans would use.
Just stop doing it. Do you really need 1,000 movies? Do you really need 10,000 songs? Just stop stealing stuff. There's plenty of great free content on the web.

I hear this all the time. I couldn't agree more. But if I don't need 1000 movies and 10,000 songs, and I do enjoy the great free stuff on the web, isn't the result exactly the same for the producers of said "things of value"?

Would it not be better for them if I did believe that I needed their movies, "stole" 990 of them and bought 10, than if I decided (as I do more each year) that I just don't need that stuff in my life?
Haunting.
This makes me wonder what's under Gowanus' millions of gallons of oil and sludge. Maybe we don't want to know.

I'm somehow reminded of the homemade submarine in 2007: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/04/arts/design/04voya.html
They left off Jason Bourne.
Given Rush Limbaugh and the amount of partisanship on the web, I don't think choosing partisan writers is a mistake at all. Extreme positions attract readership. I think the mistake is that the guy discussed isn't partisan enough. He seems like your run-of-the-mill liberal.
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Study: 41% of all PC software installed is pirated
Everytime the idea of registering a .ly (Libyan) domain occurs to me, I think of those terrorists from "Back to the Future."
Wow! This reminds of Knuth's MIX, core wars, Post-Turing machine et al.

In http://bigzaphod.org/whirl/llvm/whirl-llvm.cpp, I'm intrigued by the block:

extern "C" {

#include "whirl-runtime.c"

}
I was not referring to the media coverage. I was referring to Google's practice of piggybacking on others' PR efforts - http://www.marksonland.com/2009/04/google_likes_to_steal_oth.... In Wolfram's case they did it twice in rapid succession. That is what's interesting.
Cool, but not really on-topic for this website.
Ironically, the "Readability" site uses text embedded in images. Needless to say, this is totally unreadable by many of the people most interested in the service.
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he didn't miss the point, that is contemporary "journalism." in other words, the story is skewed towards the most controversial possible angle.

it beggars belief that, after dozens of stories on the topic, each with its own universe of commentary, most of which pointing out basically what you've said, that they are unaware that their premise is flawed.
Empirically prove or disprove String Theory, without building a particle accelerator the size of a galaxy, :)
Nice tale. Another reminder to always test on dev before pushing updates.
Google: 15,000 searches = 1 cheeseburger (hold the fries)
Identity Theft: Do Not Become A Victim
Moments after stepping out of the taxi, Rachel plunged through the entranceway of the hotel lobby eager to put behind what had been a terribly exhausting day. Flight delays due to weather had caused her LAX-MDW-BWI trip to take nearly eleven hours to complete.
It sounds to me like the argument here is that newspapers, faced with their current crisis, should be producing different (i.e. "hipper" and less "partisan" or old-fashioned) content.

I'm not sure that this is the case - I'm fairly certain that all the to-do about media implosion has to do with distribution channels. I haven't heard much doubt expressed about the quality and relevance of reporting in the Times, for obvious reasons.
While I enjoy hating on fMRI studies as much as the next guy, it's a little harsh to say that this study proves nothing. Brain activity is proportional to blood flow/energy consumption. We can argue about the linearity of that relationship, the spatial and temporal resolution, the problems of averaging to increase signal-to-noise and other interpretational issues, but it is still a proxy for neuronal activity.

To use your analogy, I'd say it's more like looking at the spatial distribution of temperature in your CPU. Even if it's just driving the screensaver, at least now you know something about which registers are involved. Likewise, the authors in this study have implicated a couple of areas as being involved in the process of daydreaming.

Where I would criticize this study, is the part where they conclude that there is a connection between daydreaming and problem solving on the basis that executive function areas are active during daydreaming. It's a suggestive link, but very tenuous.
Perhaps by "the most bankrupt nation on Earth" she means "the nation with a populace most likely to declare bankruptcy."

Semantics aside, this is a decent overview of personal bankruptcy in the US, although it feels a little light on insight. After reading this I wish I'd seen some suggestions for future US policy or maybe some nuggets of international perspective.
But if you read the text of the law in question, it covers a variety of offences including computer breakins. Your perception is that hacking is the focus of the law and it's been misinterpreted to include this other activity, but in fact hacking is only one of several things covered by it.

It's Ohio revised code 2913.04.b: 'Unauthorized use of property - computer, cable, or telecommunication property' and is available here: http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/2913.04

Am I the only person here who took the trouble go and read it?
Since you seem to know Andrew so well, how do you explain that he lives in Santa Monica and does most of his interviews over Skype? Really though, if you spent some time on mixergy.com you might appreciate what he does instead of blindly judging Andrew.
Anyone know of a no-nonsense, minimal mumbo-jumbo way of starting?
Comparing Windows XP vs Vista vs 7
This has been some of the most readable, accessible online documentation I have seen for Rails since the site was launched (was it 6 months ago? I don't recall now). It's not an ideal reference, but I always refer new Rails users to this as a key resource.

I am still surprised by the apparent absence of definitive, useful online Rails documentation. (Especially when compared with Django's quality online docs.)
How First Time Entrepreneurs Can Work With Investors
Judging Honesty by Words, Not Fidgets
http://mail.saigon.com/~anson/ebud/mfneng/mind0.htm, from this discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=587032. It's Buddhist meditation but has decidedly less mumbo-jumbo than anything else I've ever seen. You need to get a proper pillow. http://www.matsmatsmats.com/yoga/yoga-meditation.html is the cheapest zafu/zabuton set I was able to find. Buckwheat filling is probably better in a durability sense than kapok filling, but it makes a noise when you shuffle whereas kapok is silent. Coupon here: http://www.retailmenot.com/view/matsmatsmats.com
Well, so far nobody's really addressed the known issues with self-supplied metadata (see http://www.well.com/~doctorow/metacrap.htm for one good and old roundup)...
It's text messaging, email and Instant message before it.

I guess Im a hypster but see endless possibilities and uses for this new form of Internet communication!
New CIO Acronyms: DNS, DHCP and IPAM
It's missing some chutzpah, but I really like the idea. I have played around with nano loop [ http://www.nanoloop.de/ ] and tweakbench has some awesome freeware vstis [ http://www.tweakbench.com/ ]. Most of these attempts, however, have either a horrid UI or lack a robust feature set. While I have not done too much coding in the vst/signals area (some dsp in MATLAB I suppose) I would totally be down for coding a really solid 8-bit sound emulator. If anyone wants, feel free to ping me and discuss it -- davenport dot mike at gmail
Nice find! Thanks for sharing!
Twitter Blog: Small Settings Update
I give it 24-48 hours before the setting is back. This seems like the Facebook method for releasing changes to me. It's a 3-step process:

- Take away or change features users like
- Withstand PR storm while increasing awareness
- Change it back and look like the good guy
Funny, this linked off to "Kind of Bloop", which is a project I'd never heard of...two of the songs the guy putting Kind of Bloop together wants 8 bit covers of, I made covers of when I was maybe 17, or so, on my Amiga using ProTracker. I wonder if I still have those files. These days I've got a C64 for chiptune making at home and a GameBoy for chiptune making on the train.
I am very happy whenever I see hackers taking interest in audio software. There has been some fascinating progress in technology/processing ability in the last 5 years or so, but it's always fun to get back to the basics (as Bloopasphone does).

One sound creation tool that might be of interest to hacker/music types is Reaktor: (http://www.native-instruments.com/index.php?id=reaktor5_us). It's something like a visual programming language with an underlying scripting language, and bundled with a dizzying number of modules and programs.

In Reaktor, casual users get ordinary interfaces to bundled preset virtual instruments but as you might imagine, you can dive very, very far down the rabbit hole.
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I have to recommend technomancy's starter kit. I've been using it (and slowly customizing it to my own needs as I learn emacs) for the past couple of months.

http://github.com/technomancy/emacs-starter-kit/tree/master

Some of the forks include yasnippet as well, which I too use.
very cool... i have started to like the webapp framework for app engine but i wish it were more like juno.
I think most founders (who are not already wealthy) would rather get rich than have a good time doing their startups. I think you really do have to choose sometimes. If you always choose to do the easy thing (like hire people to do things you could do yourself) you're not going to do as well as if you chose to suffer some pain.

Scenario one: Pocket $500k/year profit over 4 years. At the end you've got $2 million saved up and can probably sell the business for another couple million because it's lean, proven, and profitable.

Scenario two: Spend that $500k/year on salaries while trying to build a much larger business. If you fail you could walk away with nothing and selling the business isn't all that profitable because the burn rate seems to be high. Even if you succeed you've likely given a lot of equity away, it may take much longer, and your share might not even be as much as if you had taken the other route.
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you can pry bash from my cold, dead hands.
Journalist-baiting before Shane Fitzgerald (1992)
Even though I sometimes enjoy his articles, I can never read Malcolm Gladwell without thinking of this:
http://candid.livejournal.com/770034.html
I completely agree. I meant low pay relative to the kind of money/equity a COO generally receives. That doesn't mean you have to provide low quality support.
The Post Mortem of a Venture-backed Start-up
New Google Search Features: We're Not Dead Yet; Not Even Resting
The idea of routing annotations is used extensively in the Recess PHP Framework, except that in Recess the annotation also takes the HTTP verb (GET, PUT, POST, etc.) to make beautiful, RESTful URLs even easier to work with.

http://www.recessframework.org/page/routing-in-recess-screen...
At least this time it was posted after it was possible to have read it in the actual magazine. I always cringe when I see news.yc threads around articles for WIRED and The New Yorker a week before I have my hard copy.
Its not really new its just different, myspace/facebook+blog+phone = twitter to me.

The only new thing is search and the phone making things quicker but less substantial.
That's one of the (I think) less appreciated benefits of running on a service like EC2. You can have all the plans in the world and still find yourself up the creek without a paddle when some impossible or very hard to revert upgrade goes wrong. But with EC2 it's a simple as taking a snapshot of the image prior to upgrading. Even better, you can fire up a brand new instance based off the current production image and upgrade that and only bring it on line when you're happy it's working - then just decommission the old one when you're done.
You know you have a good programming language when comments are a key part of the control flow.
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It could come from the police though, if most peoples wages are being pushed down then so can police officers. Remember we only pay them the wage that they get paid, because that is wage that is required to get someone qualified to do that job. If other qualified people are willing to do it for less then they police should have their wages decreased.
Try taking zsh away from me and my cold, dead jaw will reanimate and seek your throat.
Python’s hidden poisoned apple for GPL applications
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What's "stupid" about the case? I've been following the case when topics came up on HN, but I still can't understand why everyone is siding with TPB, an organization that advocates piracy. Yeah, they weren't hosting the material themselves, but they encouraged their services to be used to illegally distribute content that did not belong to them, did they not?
It's also much more comprehensible than previous attempts. For your average web developer it's just adding a few attributes here and there as tidbits, and as a benefit, you get bells and whistles from google. The big turning point will be if a browser maker with market share builds support for recognizing them - the minute that happens they will pop up on web pages everywhere.
Interesting bits from the article:

In an interview in the March 2008 newsletter to the Grant Study subjects, Vaillant was asked, “What have you learned from the Grant Study men?” Vaillant’s response: “That the only thing that really matters in life are your relationships to other people.”

“What we do,” Vaillant concluded, “affects how we feel just as much as how we feel affects what we do.”
What licensing can do is provide an incentive for general practitioners of a particular craft to follow a certain set of standards and guidelines for basic safety. If licensing is required for access to certain materials and maintaining your license requires either passing some sort of "don't be an idiot" safety course (or having your "lab" available for inspection) then this low bar can keep some of the idiots out of the way and can be used as a stick with which to beat upon well-meaning people who engage in gross incompetence regarding safety.
> Imagine if Woz had to get a license to do what he did?

Let's try to imagine all of the worst-case scenarios for what might have happened if Woz instead created a monumental fuck-up. I can't really come up with much beyond him losing several grand and going back to work at HP. Let's try that same exercise for some hypothetical person who imagines himself to be the Woz of DNA...

> Suffice it to say, I think the risks are worth it and regulation is a blunt weapon which eliminates most of the bad AND the good.

Given some of the potential risks involved, the good would have to be pretty big and explained pretty well to the lay public before you will ever get past some deep-seated fears of what the potential downsides are to this endeavor.
Hackers don't accept the reality they're presented with. They learn how to change it.
But you're saying that cocktail hour by Blanko.com would not be a great networking event as it would be characterized by wanton douschebaggery? I'm trying to catch some of those too, just to experience them.

Sorry to pick your brain, but I'm 'exploring' valley/provincial market differences for fun.

Which groups suck? :)
Was just a way of expression my friend(s)
What's going on with Hackety Hack anyway? The website still says March 7th, which has, obviously, come and gone.

He's obviously free to release it whenever he feels like it (or never), I'm just curious.
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Priceless for the term dictionary.

Heh, Tom-Tom Club. Genius of love indeed.
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efficiency expert. perk point: you get to fire people!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_efficiency_expert
Color-shifting cuttlefish inspire TV screens
Interesting. Next up, airplanes with feathers.

But I love how nature continues to inspire us.

If my TV looked anything like a cuttlefish, I'd watch it a lot more.
Market Fear Continues to Subside
Twitter's "Small Settings Update" Is Anything But
I think it can rival a structured dataset if it is done correctly. The big advantage that google has, and I know there was a paper they put out about it a couple of months ago, is that they have access to such a large source of data that they can use a great deal of sources to weed out the noise by only using the stuff that appears over many sources.

Then you could also assign sources a reliability rating based on how acurite the information they provide is compared with other reliable sources.

Kind of like a new pagerank but for data integrety.
I was pretty sure you needed to buy the book before you get that, I tried to follow links for a while to get the RWH pdf before and didn't succeed.

Edit: Seems that they are linking only to the site and not a pdf for RWH so it could well be legal :)
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What is karma?, what is the (2) in my login name ajayjetti(2) after logging in
how do the submits get scores here? Whatever may be the techniques, hackernews rocks.
Twitter Decides We’re Not Smart Enough For @Replies, Changes Them Again
oh so the (2) is karma
"The problem is that there's a lower bound on what government can spend and still be effective."

True, but it would only be relevant if we were anywhere even remotely near that spending limit. I can cut about 75% out of the Federal budget and government will still be "effective". No Social Security, Medicaid, much smaller military, and a lot less subsidizing, but laws will still be passed, police services will be untouched, and all the truly basic functions of government will continue on.

I for one can't stomach a definition of "basic effective government" that includes things that didn't even exist 100 years ago. What we need from our government is law, order, basic public safety, defense from our neighbors, and little else. What we want is another story.

I'm not advocating this. I'm substantiating my point that we are nowhere near the true "lower bound". Which is good, actually. If you're implicitly claiming that we actually are near the lower bound, and I also add the observation that we may very well be mere months or weeks away from no longer being able to afford the government we have (that bond auction story is scary), then we're all in real trouble when the upper bound of the government's spending drops below the lower bound of the government's spending. I think a lot of people are about to re-learn the difference between "want" and "need".
They haven't implemented the killer feature yet... the ability to highlight and annotate documents, and share those highlights. For instance, you read a paper and find some portion interesting, I want see that portion and then if I need more info I can read the whole thing.

Also, I want them to integrate with the university library system like google does so that I can get authenticated access to the documents.