skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not 100% sure if this is still true, but that used to be an option you could set on your iPod through iTunes. The default was to automatically sync (and delete music that was no longer in your library), but you can change it to only add or remove music when you explicitly move it to or from your iPod.

As for my personal opinion on the topic, I'm known by my friends as being someone who uses older stuff by choice. My phone is ancient, but it's because I'd rather have something that's proven to long-lasting, unbreakable and robust, rather than something that has the latest features.
My first thought was, alarmingly, lobbyists.
If you've not seen any evidence that sacrificing health for work is a losing strategy, you haven't looked hard enough:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kar%C5%8Dshi
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why am I a stupid asshole if I say I don't like muslims? am I stupid asshole if I say I don't like christians?
21. Can't tell what you do. Summarise your purpose.
22. OnMouseOver popups
23. Annoyingly low information density / short pages
24. Obscured prices
25. Restrictions on password complexity
26. 'Requiring' irrelevant information from me
27. Requiring a login for things that needn't
28. Spyware ("connecting to peopletracker.example.org")
29. Doesn't work well on a mobile browser
30. Not supporting deep linking
Apple Says Jobs Has Returned to Work
Thanks for posting this link. Good to know about. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be an indication of the value of those hypothetical cash prizes. Or did I miss it?
Video of student-made shopping kart go cart. 45mph
Did not know that :)
right, but immediate death isn't on the line. a decrease in our standard of living over the next 50 years is on the line. since spending billions of dollars decreases our standard of living as well there is a valid debate: which course decreases our standard of living less?
Drug-Resistant Flu Strain Turns Up In Denmark but Doesn’t Last Long
Michael Jackson is important, but why is this not a bigger story...
That sounds like a big project. I've never encountered anything related to video that is solved with a simple technical solution. Unless you're talking about something like Google's Video Sitemaps.
We're hoping we can mobilize students as a marketing force, but we're not sure how to do it.

This first "application", Classlet Assignments, doesn't even require students to create their own account or visit the site (they can, if they prefer). How would you integrate the Facebook API or other social platforms with this application?

We'd also like to build other applications, including ones which target students, but we'd like to get one application right before we build others. Do you have a suggestion for a student-centric application (or features) which would drive viral adoption and could help convince schools to buy?
What I hate about NetBeans is that they ship the OS X version as a .mpkg. Why not simply a disk image that has a NetBeans.app? I don't trust installers.
The facts about climate change are so obscured from the public view that it often seems to be an ideology, as you put it.

About the naming though, I wouldn't say that 'climate change' is a retarded way of putting it, because it describes what is happening quite accurately, but I do like your way of putting it. 'Global climate crisis' seems to capture the problem much better.
>> How do you measure consciousness at these ages?

You certainly ask some weird questions. It's apparent that you and I define consciousness differently - and I'm sure the same could be said between most people. When you say consciousness, do you mean alertness and reaction times? self-awareness? awareness of surroundings? Or the state of being awake? If you define it more specifically, I'm sure it will be more obvious how it could be measured.
Cheat detection is a successful industry also. I know that many existing solutions integrate with services such as <http://www.turnitin.com>. We are tracking requests for this kind of functionality; maybe as a premium feature?
No thanks, my health is more important than money.
Your immediate death isn't on the line. WHO says that people are already dying as a result of climate change: http://www.who.int/globalchange/news/fsclimandhealth/en/inde...
This reminds me of the schoolgirls in New Zealand who tested Ribena and found it contained almost no Vitamin C: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/mar/27/schoolsworldwide...
As for using a bank account or email, I would feel perfectly safe using both over Tor, as long as I entered the https: myself

DNS lookups are made through Tor. This means that a compromised exit node could phish your email or bank account. Unless you do the DNS lookups yourself off-Tor, of course, but then you won't be anonymous.

I would feel less safe using news websites, since my activity with these could be used to identify me as the same user over a number of exit nodes.

How? Torbutton doesn't use your non-Tor browsing cookies. And you can block cookies altogether anyway.

The second is the timing attack. Tor is low-latency and not a mix[3], so packet size & timing data can be correlated to determine whether two hostile nodes are on the same tunnel. You-H-N-H-Dest, where H are hostile nodes and N a neutral node. The one beside You is a guard node, and can determine its status as such by observing how often you connect to it (your node connects to only a small group of guard nodes). The second H is the exit node, and knows what the Destination is. A simple timing attack plus the mutual connection to N links your ip to the destination. There are 1800 tor nodes[4], I'll let you do the math on how long it would take an adversary with a very modest budget (or 20 zombies) to land two hostile nodes in this configuration. It's not very long, given that your 3 outbound tunnels reconstruct every 10 minutes.

You're right on this. I knew about timing attacks, but I didn't know they were so easy. I though you needed a big infrastructure like Echelon.

I think a solution for Iranians would be using I2P or Freenet, or even Tor if it's just with .onion websites, because then the traffic never leaves the darknet and therefore it's more resistant to a timing attack (You might need something like Echelon for a timing attack in this case). The problem is they wouldn't be able to use Twitter, Google or any other Internet sites.
The point is precisely that - what does the rest of the app matter if 60% of your users are deleting it in frustration after the first screen?

Also - the web portal requiring maiden name and phone number is a bit extreme. It is as if DD's goal of getting user data outweighed their desire to make the app easy to load and use.
Cory Doctorow's "Overclocked" has a great little story in it called "When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth" that always comes to mind when I read headlines like this:

http://craphound.com/overclocked/Cory_Doctorow_-_Overclocked...
There's some pictures of vegan pancakes here, and to me, they appear indistinguishable from pancakes with animal products.

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=22912210

Allergen free, gluten free, vegan pancakes
This is the worst advice I ever saw, and I hope it's not taken seriously by new startup founders.

I used to work 14 hours a day, with 5 hours of sleep, and another 5 hours for everything else. This lasted for only 3 months, but were enough for the following to happen:

* I exhausted myself. I tried being on schedule and keeping up with the original pace, but in fact my productivity lowered so much that I was LESS productive than in a time when I used to work 3-5 hours a day

* I had developed serious health issues ... because of sleep deprivation I began having supra-ventricular tachycardia episodes

* I became isolated, and lost touch with friends. Lack of social interactions leads to depression and paranoia, and I was there

* I couldn't hold the project in my head and I couldn't see the bigger picture anymore. I was unable to make pragmatic decisions anymore, and whenever I had to make a choice, I got lost in endless arguments (paradox of choice at its peak)

* Good software projects require so much more than technical expertise. When you're exhausting yourself to work, you're bound to lose touch with the real world

* I ended burned-out, and I'm still recovering

Most people are unable to work for 6 hours per day (in the zone). If you're able to constantly maintain 8 hours per day, while maximizing your performance, then you're already ahead.
This not hacker news, even when it's written by 37signals.
I guess its just an editors comment, and the source article is "Brief Report: Long-Term Control of HIV by CCR5 Delta32/Delta32 Stem-Cell Transplantation"

Anyway, I can't access it as well. This is the way scientific journals promote knowledge :/
got it :) It's called Moodle.
Yes. You may not like (the ethics of) Christianity and you may not like any Christian you have ever met, but that still makes it a ridiculous thing to say that you "don't like Christians". It's the kind of sweeping generalization that causes a lot of unnecessary animosity. It's counterproductive, it offends without intention and it a display of a lack of clearness of thought.
I'm assuming by "best results" you mean "the greatest probability of not consuming any animal products whatsoever"

For the "best results nutritionally", you're probably better of eating animal products, including ones that have been cooked.

http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2008/09/15/he_co...
Yes, the non-repeating nature of generators is a little unintuitive to start with, especially when you are familiar with the way lists work. But, they are no more unintuitive that floating point rounding errors (1.1 + 2.2 != 3.3). Simply learn the type and move on.

And if you need to repeat the generator, use itertools.cycle.
Consciousness is binary. It comes on, and stays on until death or mental incapacity.

If you are talking about thought capacity, analytical thought, ability to form and evaluate philosophical positions, etc, etc... those continue to grow your whole life.

Speed of thought peaks at right around 40. You will slow down after that, but the quality of thought won't diminish.

Finally, innovation -- this probably does peak around 30ish. You spend most of your twenties learning news things, and coming up with your own ways to integrate them into your world view. That integration breeds innovation.
After 30, your worldview is more stable, and needs less integration, so innovation also is more rare.

Every individual will be different, of course. Everything above is just generalizations...
That's what "float in water" means....
Because Krugman is intellectually dishonest and because he's a public figure. His opinions shape the thoughts of the population. Nobody reads my opinions. Thank goodness I am no public figure.

If you're going to address the public, you should be honest. Krugman is an economist. He constantly sells half-baked, hand-waving arguments as absolute truths. And this is not because he's a "liberal". The same happens with all the "conservative" economists who also write dishonest articles.

Economics is hard. Very hard. An "expert" who tells the public he does not know will be frowned upon. But that's the point: experts don't know everything, and should not claim to know more than they do.

Greenspan himself wrote that when he ran the Fed sometimes they were completely "lost" and made decisions based more on gut-feeling than solid economic theory. Greenspan is pretty much retired now, so he can afford to be frank. Krugman still has a career, so he can't afford that.
Anything that is not common knowledge in this regard would be interesting.
Gmail for Mobile HTML5 Series : Cache Pattern For Offline HTML5 Web Applications
Commercials I Hate
People have always died in the climate (weather) related accidents... It is just media that has made all these events "accessible".

When bad things happen, people want to know more... And this in turn means more $$$ (or €€€) for the media companies.
Easy get off the Microsoft stack and use objective-c :)
It's an interesting point because I'm always amazed at how many sites of major companies I visit and they make life really hard to sign up or buy their products. It often involves a phone call or to send an e-mail to the sales department - I wonder how they can stay in business, but clearly it works otherwise they wouldn't be turning over $10m+.
I haven't heard that many 'full recovery, no viruses left' HIV stories.

"one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind"
No, nothing like that I'm afraid. I'm approaching it from the content producer's POV, so it won't be viable for videos that already exist, although with a little work they could be brought into it..
And 4 Red Cross workers kidnapped in Afghanistan (http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9906E6DA1F3EF...).

> I'm asking how they live up to their claims.

That should have been "how well", "whether" or "if".
Refactoring Rails tips from Yehuda Katz
The climate is described by the laws of Physics and Chemistry. And also Biology. These have NOT changed. The phenomena have not changed. The dynamics haven't changed. What may have changed are the inputs: more CO2 emissions, more CO2 and methane emitted by the biosphere, more intense solar radiation.

If the weather is a dynamical system, it is (by definition) always changing. Moreover, "change" only means things are not static. It does not quantify how much things have become different. Better call it a crisis because the measures being proposed to fight the problem suggest that, indeed, this is a crisis.
The subject matter is interesting, but what I find most interesting is a blog performing real, 'hard-hitting' local journalism, of genuine interest to a very specific social subgroup.
You can also slow boil a lobster without causing them to react.

The trick is to react soon enough that the change is minor without over reacting and that's hard. I would propose a ~1% carbon fuel tax which funds wind farms which are then sold on the open market. You end up with a huge change at a small cost.

Option 2, create an semi independent government agency like the post office which takes 1 billion and builds wind / solar / hydro power plants. Use the "profit" of electricity sold to build more power plants and let exponential growth take off. This depends on the expected rate of return and could be accelerated with some debt financing.

In 20 years we may find it was pointless but we will have built infrastructure which is useful. Compared to a 2,980 billion dollar annual federal budget you can get a lot done with a change that's hard for most people to notice.
What about sleepwalking? What about dreaming? Are those at the same level of consciousness as being awake?

How aware are you of yourself and your surroundings in a factually correct way?
On top of that only 15% of cholesterol in our bodies comes from dietary sources (http://health.howstuffworks.com/cholesterol2.htm) the other 85% our bodies produce. To add to your argument: why would our bodies make such an abundance of a substance if it wasn't good for us?
Not to mention, almost the entire article is quoted from some other article.
because it's an isolated incident of a weak mutation - you need to see patterns greater than one or two incidents before this is anything but an anomaly.
Is that a picture of your marketing campaign? That is hilariously awesome. It looks like how I bring groceries home from the store or how I take my laundry to the laundromat.
n+1: A popup that says "saving images is disabled!!" whenever you right click.

n+2: Tiny fonts. I can use a scroll bar, thank you very much.
> tend to overestimate Quincy Jones’ role

Also, clearly wrong (as any hardcore MJ buff will tell you).

Compare the example demo link to the finished record and it is much sharper, the sound is tighter and the customary "wail" is very QJ :)
If I may correct you.

The ethics of messing with people are not the main barrier, they are no barrier. It's the legal restrictions - the government regulations which make any kind of messing with perfectly willing humans very costly and time intensive.

Since you're all about decreasing the cost of experiments and regulation for humans though, I take it you are going to be one of the first to sign up for the next generation of human experiments that have little to no regulatory standards?

Yep.

But willing volunteers are not in shortage and are also no barrier to the advancement of science. It is once again the regulations, their cost is to the cost of paying human drug testers as Everest is to an ant hill.

In other words: You can't give me what I want, because the government is protecting me from me. Only in recent years has the FDA been willing to soften its restriction if I happen to be dying, but even then only if I'm really close to the end. Then I can legally try the cutting edge drugs.
Seems the contest will be announced in the Fall... so this is the announcement that there will be an announcement (don't you just love politics).
7 habits of bad managers
I'm not sure which fallacy you're committing, but I'm sure it is one. Someone can wish for others to have the ability to make certain choices while not necessarily wishing to make that choice themselves.

Maybe your parent post doesn't want to, but I'm sure lots of very sick people would be willing to try almost anything.
I find this paper on the first view a bit weird.
Please let me explain why. First of all Erlang has for instance here [1] proven to be viable for HPC. Erlang is useful mostly for high scalability problems e.g. Clusters etc.

The authors claim that their pthread implementation scales better than Erlang. This is most confusing as I suspect them to have made design errors in their Erlang system. They wrote they "ported" it. Erlang is a SSA based FP lanugage specifically designed for soft real-timeness and scaling out of the box. There are even works currently to get it running under hard realtime constraints [2]. While this is not exactly targeting high performance it is still important to point that out. If performance is so crucial a fortran based implementation might be better probably.

Thirdly, I suspect that the portation of their system doesn't take care of language pitfalls like proper tail recursion etc. which would explain the problem in scaling.
(See page 1 section 3)

Other thoughts in bullet version:

- Pseudocode is iterative style, Erlang is a FP

- "variance was negligible" -> Error bars in Graphs would tell us that.

- Point 6.1 actually gives me the impression that a implementation in C++ would be preferrable compared to Erlang due to the emphasis on performance

- I think the memory issue on the last page is the key why erlang performed so badly... "multiple invocations of the GC"

Of course regarding the memory footprint I have to agree this is clearly a disadvantage for Erlang compared to manually tuned memory management.

Comments? :)

References:

[1] High Performance Computing in Erlang, http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1411273.1411281

[2] Tworards Hards Realtime Erlang (HARTE) http://www.erlang.se/workshop/2007/proceedings/05nicosi.pdf
Look up "climate" and "weather" before you make silly arguments about what can be claimed about them.
My brain seems to be a bit happier with a level of blood sugar that leads to weight gain, even with exercise. Caffeine doesn't seem to completely offset this.

Any suggestions?
…all in one album by a Black aritst when such a thing was not only unheard of but frowned upon…..

"I don't know what it is, but if I'd heard of it, I bet I wouldn't like it."
At least from my perspective, teachers don't pay for anything. Most of the education IT market here targets schools (in the UK), with price points to match.

I agree most solutions are fairly complicated (dashboard, moodle). A lot of UK schools are starting VLE (virtual learning environments) with this kind of functionality (albeit more complicated).

I agree about data protection issues although this must be possible to circumvent (probably with the school's consent). Students are typically blocked from accessing outside email at schools.

Selling in to the UK publicly-funded system is a pain. Distributors and VARs may help.
For Tech Companies, Downturn Serves as Cause for Common Ground
*I apologize for the previous grammatical mistake.

From my friend's point of view, your service will not be considered without cheat-protection so I don't think it should be appropriate as a premium feature. I may be wrong, but my take on freemium is to allow the user to recognize the value when under the free plan and the use of premium to make things faster, larger, or better. In that vein, I would suggest automated grading for absolute or relatively absolute answers as a premium feature (i.e. integral x = (x^2)/2 or a single US founding founder would be part of a set {Thomas Jefferson, James Adams, ... }). That way, grading is completely automated. I'm sure teachers will pay for such a feature.
English is not my native language and I don't claim to have perfect command over it. In my native language, "climate" and "weather" are denoted by the same word, and the context makes it clear which one is which. Moreover, I am a physicist, not a writer.

What exactly is "silly" about what I wrote? Are you going to claim that the laws of fluid dynamics and heat transfer have changed?
Quite the contrary (that research makes the common logical error of assuming that just because something may have conferred a selection advantage over eons of evolution, that it does so today in a world with no calorie/nutrient scarcity). See the following thread and article:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=676446

and

http://www.amazon.com/China-Study-Comprehensive-Nutrition-Im...
I also thought it was quiet interesting, considering some of the rubbish my licence fee goes on, I'm pretty sure this one is insignificant on the expenses front.

It took me by surprise that there are a generation of kids out there who have probably never seen a tape, these are things that were cutting edge during my time growing up, even the move to CD. I remember taking my cassette players apart and fiddling with them to see how they worked. Unfortuantely you cant really do that with the modern stuff, which is a shame.

I'm turning into my father!
Total sea ice is as high as ever: 'On a global basis, world sea ice in April 2008 reached levels that were "unprecedented" for the month of April in over 25 years.' source: http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=3066

Could warming have caused ice to melt in the northern hemisphere and grow in the Antartic? It's possible, but the explanation starts smelling like a "just so story". The explanation by NASA that the loss of Artic Ice is caused by cyclical changes in global wind patterns seems to better fit the facts. (see http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/quikscat-200... and http://wattsupwiththat.com/2007/10/03/nh-sea-ice-loss-its-th... )

You people are hopeless. Data, facts, evidence -- none of it sways you. It's like some religion.

Please, let's stop with the personal attacks.
I can understand the frustration caused by this kind of bug, but it's actually pretty easy to fix:

generator = (x * x for x in xrange(10)) # A generator
my_list = list(generator) # Build a list, reusable

That's the Python way of doing things: trust the programmer, & let him make mistakes.

Also how does C# implement this kind of "smart" laziness? It seems to me there will be other more obscure problems: what happen if the Enumerable have side effect? Is the side effect repeated or is the result cached? Python's generator are implementation is simple: there's no tricks, magic, & layers of abstraction.
I've played a few different variants (some with 3 seeds, some with 4, some with captures, some without) but all of them involved "relay sowing".
GameDr Video Game Timer Teaches Kids to Hack
Referring to Bing, Eric Schmidt said "We benefit from Microsoft’s continual re-entering into this market. We encourage them to continue with this strategy."