skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately the article fails to make clear what contribution these researchers made.

As the article states, quorum sensing is not new (I learned about it through HN some time ago, via this video http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/bonnie_bassler_on_how_bac...).

The researchers claim to have discovered the "common root" of all quorum sensing, which they dub "sensing potential." However, their definition of sensing potential essentially devolves into a restatement of quorum sensing. The closest they come to identifying a mechanism is stating that the volume ratio of bacteria to environment matters. This in itself is hardly a breakthrough, and certainly does not describe a mechanism, an analysis, or an analysis framework (all terms thrown out in the article).

I'm guessing the fault likes not with the scientists, but with the writeup. It reads more like business journalism than like science-- a breathless announcement of some undefined boundless potential, couched in terms that make it impossible to understand just what is new, useful, or remarkable.
I never knew that, had to sign up for HN just so I could thank you for that info, now google search when EE shows up I don't have to skip those.
Playing Devil's Advocate, (and for the record I believe in evolution)

"Evolution" is a big, broad weasel word. If you mean species variation due to natural selection pressures? Sure. Intra-species changes? Okay sorta, although such things are really hard to observe. The origin of life, the universe, and everything? Probably not. At least not in such broad and vague terms.

Evolution is more of a general idea of how things work which is then honed and applied specifically in different circumstances. It's not truth in the sense that Newton's Laws are truth. The broad term is much too vague to be included in a truth engine, in my opinion. It's not that it's false -- I believe the correct phrase is that it's not even false.

And you would understand this if you weren't part of the evil cabal that lives in my bathroom sink!

Ok. Sorry about that last part.
All I see is a red-bar strip. Is this an animation or something (I've tried Mozilla, Safari)
And how exactly would that help? As the article points out, even if everyone were an organ donor that wouldn't significantly impact the massive waiting list. It's also the case that people who are receiving the organs probably aren't the best candidates for organ donation anyway.
I agree - Though during the partition era, one of the key issues of the region was water and its control, thus both countries laying claim. (There are more issues of course, but the strategic control of water was one of the main factors.)

Indeed, 'national pride' blinds folks in both countries. I do not see any resolution of the matter anytime soon as the water shortages become more acute over time, as clearly illustrated by the story.
Zoom in all the way and look on top
I managed to overcome the slacker lifestyle. However, this was forced upon me. I found myself without a home for a short while, then living with two roommates who were 10 years older than me. They were mildly dysfunctional slackers, and much worse off than myself. I think having a visceral reminder of what could be your future is a pretty solid motivator.
It would be WAY to arbitrary, and the harder you tried to make it work, the more it would look like what we have today.

Ultimately, a human (or multiple humans) would have to decide what was true, and what was false. I would almost be amused to see somebody ATTEMPT to do this job.
First Person: Frank Ahearn
What's the answer? Systems 6, 7, and 8 certainly weren't worse than the competing Windows.
If you're anything like me, I hope I can explain to you what's that and how to fix it.

I started digging into Rails and writing my first project with it while working on my dayjob. At this time I was still taking bass guitar classes and spending my last year at the university. Having all this things at once did not allow me to work on each one of them long and hard enough. Which led to procrastination. Which led to general unhappiness.

Then I decided to eliminate the less important things one by one. I quit the bass guitar lessons, then graduated from the university, then quit my job. Finally, I only had my Rails project on my mind. One thing. I became extremely productive and felt happier. Of course, later I had to look for another job (which I also quit), but I knew this was going to be temporary and I'm working on my new project again now.

I'm actually 23 and I imagine things are a bit different for a 30 y.o., probably with a family and responsibilities. But it seems to me that the real reason for procrastination is not being a lazy jackass. In fact, lazyjackiness is a reaction for trying to do too much things at a time and not thinking about the real priority, which is going to make you happy both in the short and long run.

So my advice to you: find a way to concentrate on this one most important thing for now, by all means find this way.
The upside for Microsoft is Google completely failed to capitalize on their head start with Google Docs. An online version of Office is going to be huge for Microsoft. People who wouldn't pay $300 for Office 2010 may pay $30/year for more storage and features of an online version. The free version is a gateway not only to an up-sell a Pro version but also to other Microsoft web services. In my opinion Google basically handed Microsoft a golden opportunity to extend their 2nd biggest product to the web by failing to develop Google Docs into a legitimate, fully featured, online office package. They forced Microsoft's hand, sure, but they are doing them a favor too by forcing them to change their business model in a good way. This is finally a service where Microsoft will have an opportunity to compete with Google toe-to-toe without the disadvantage of being late to the game.
yes that is definitely one of my problems, not sure how many grand plans I have made in the last 10 years where I wanted to do 5 different things at the same time and all have failed almost even before I began
When I make that point, I make it even stronger: If China was merely growing at the same rate as an established country, that would actually be surprising. Undeveloped countries moving to developed country status should be expected to develop more quickly than developed countries.

The reason China may exceed others as a world power is that the developed China will still be five times larger than the US. It will take longer than people who naively project a continuous trend for China think it will take, though. And then there's the matter of India, too, which doesn't strike me as a natural Chinese ally.

If you have a hard time understanding why, imagine a time portal to the United States fifty years from now opened up in downtown Manhatten (and suppose they are causally disconnected, parallel universes, so forget sci-fi paradoxes and stuff). Trade would begin, and technology would begin advancing very rapidly in the developed world as we learned how to build fusion reactors (probably) and grabbed their computer tech, bought copies of their educational materials, etc. (Presumably we'd trade for oil or something.) That's the sort of situation the developing world is in; they can buy things essentially decades or centuries (in some sad cases) ahead of their "natural" technology for the price of money, and advance far faster than the people who were at the same level of tech, but were at the apex of the world, did.
My product places on Bing's front page and gets crowded out by content-free SEO sites on Google. Go bing!
they might cheat and just use activex objects. Of course this means that office won't work on non-windows computers, but I have a feeling they won't care about supporting those.
Only once.

I had an asterisk server with polycom phones on a network not connected to the internet and because I'm lazy all the phones had 1234 as their SIP password. If you're inside the building, you don't need to hack the server, just use the phone in front of you...

Fast forward a couple of years and now some of us work at home or telecommute. So I had to configure an asterisk server hosted in a datacenter. I used the same config files for the autoprovisionning of some of the phones.

Well, one of the account got exploited(SIP scanner that tried simple password on common extensions) and called thousands of numbers in Colorado(from Québec, so long distance) to fish for credit card numbers. Our termination provider saw that these calls didn't correspond to our normal usage pattern and deactivated our account until I called them.

In all, it only cost us 10$ in long distance fees because of the audit server of our provider(unlimitel.ca). Now all the phones and servers in our business have strong passwords. And I had no excuses, the phone are auto-provisioned so phone users don't even see their SIP password...
I'm a procrastinator, but that didn't stop me learning guitar or becoming a writer. I can easily write around 2,000 a day, just because I want to write, but that didn't come without a lot of effort.

As a procrastinator you'll never have the motivation to do something creative unless you force yourself to do it. I've wanted to be a writer since before I can remember, I was writing stories at 10 years old that were about as talented as a large bowel movement.

I'm now 21, I successfully procrastinated myself through highschool, college and into immigrating to another country. I'm forcibly unemployed (I don't want to jeopardise my immigration as I'm moving for QoL not money, UK->Canada) which gives me ample opportunity to procrastinate, but I quickly put an end to that.

I spent several months writing at every opportunity possible. When my wife naps, I'm on the computer writing. When I'm home alone, I'm writing. When I'm on the train I'm thinking through the next few paragraphs, I'm having arguments between characters in my head.

My advice for doing something creative, you've got to devote every free second you have to the task. Any work breaks, especially lunch breaks, the daily commute (either read a book on the train/bus or listen to an audiobook if you drive) . . . when you've done what you planned then you can procrastenate.

I've done my quota for the day, that's why I'm wasting time on HN and not working. I've always been lazy and I've never let it stop me from doing something I wanted to do.

It's entirely your choice if you do something creative or not, but to change who you are you've got to live the new life before it'll become you.
As a teenager the problem seems to be twitter doesn't solve a problem most teens are having (facebook status updates are good enough for them) and not enough people they care about are using it.
I hate to belabor the point, and I'm pretty sure you get it anyway, but it's not the general subject or tone of the story that matters, it's the exact wording, which would be very hard to guess, especially for longer excerpts. It's not a matter of finding a "story" that's hard to guess, it's a matter of finding exact wording. I'll guess there's going to be some kind of trouble with the space shuttle next week, but that doesn't help defeat rsync.net's scheme.
The search engine would return only those aspects of evolution that are known to be almost certainly true. See for example this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUxLR9hdorI

Newton's laws are not truth but merely an approximation that suffices in most cases.
Woah I don't know what I expected when I clicked this link, but definitely not upskirts.
I don't know - I find that telling yourself you're great just leads to ambiguity; I mean, what exactly are you great at?

As an observation (and whether or not it's right), we tend to view the world in terms of people who 'are' great or people who 'suck at' things, if you see what I mean. As such, "I'm so great - why can't I write this parser" becomes a much less helpful notion than "I suck at writing parsers" because the former implies failure whereas the latter implies a much greater scope for improvement.

I admit that it's all a bit hand-wavey, but by and large I find that my positive thoughts tend to be general ("Ain't life grand?", "Man, this world is awesome") whereas the negatives often settle on specifics ("My handwriting is embarrassing!", "I don't comment my code nearly enough") - I think we can all agree that knowing specifically where things are going wrong is far more useful than knowing were they're going right in general.
Rumor $800 Apple Tablet Coming In The Fall
Excellent article that dwells into release management (or lack of it) in two big open source projects.
As other posters have mentioned, this is advertising more than it sells. It's merely encoding a torrent in a PNG in an obvious way. The idea that it "can't be searched for" is true only on the assumption that search engines will index on content of a page. Obviously a popular hid.im format will attract search engine specialization.

This is not steganography, it's merely an obscure variant of the .torrent file format.
Software license issues chart - useful summary of vendor- and customer positions
Heh, I thought we were the only HN couple :-P this "hacker" thing looks less creepy now that she reads a few interesting articles a day.
That's not very well hidden. The PNG file format is a tagged file format, which has several "ancillary chunks" which a torrent file could easily be stuffed into (since torrents are a glorified text format).

There's no need to jam it into the image channel itself and produce this thing that's obviously a hidden message.
Snipt.net is the one I use and it keeps me coming back because it allows me to have my own personal snippets (which can be either public or private). Perhaps you should let people register and do the same (or "flag this revision for me" if you want everything public?)
I really like the design and way that your site works, a lot of really nice elements in there.
It's really hard to harden yourself against code getting interpreted by the browser (and thus allowing someone to steal cookies and impersonate other users). Here's a long article on exactly how complex it is (as known today):
http://tstarling.com/blog/2008/12/secure-web-uploads/

Personally, I just don't trust web uploads on the same domain. Put them on a subdomain or better yet a completely separate domain, preferably served out of something set up to never execute any code whatsoever.
Maybe, instead of struggling against yourself, why not try to figure out what you really want.
I don't mean what you believe you should want, based on your talents, but what you actually want.
Perhaps what you really desire, you think is wrong or out of reach, so you focus on things that you believe can be done, but eventually doesn't fullfill your soul.
But above all, don't despair, because you're not alone in these quest, and it's not an easy one.

Best wishes!
It usually takes a view or two for the ad network to "learn" you. This usually happens with smaller networks though, google should know who you are by now (assuming you have been to other adsense enabled sites.)
But the aspects that are most useful to you are different to the aspects that are most useful to me. Recently I've been trying to write a wrapper for a C library in a couple of different languages, and raw memory access would have made my life much easier. But the languages didn't have it, making my work more difficult.

I think the (paraphrased) aphorism "Make the common, simple. Make the hard, possible" is apt.
Neatx: Open Source NX server
I've been HDD-free for a few months now; I can't imagine going back. It's not just latency that's an issue for me, it is also reliability (I've had 6 HDD failures in the last two years in various devices around the house.) I also worry less about damaging something if I drop my laptop.

For my latest work project (I do scientific computing), I realized it's easier to do it on my laptop instead of the workstation. Since my laptop has an SSD, I can just use the filesystem as my database. This means that I can have have millions of files (literally, millions) lying around and process them using the good old Unix shell. It greatly reduces the development time compared to using a database. Just for giggles I tried doing this on a machine with a hard drive, and it was more than one hundred times slower.
From what I read, it sounds like they use mostly JS (as it works in Firefox and Safari). I did see mention that perhaps a few corner case features use Silverlight (which I expected to be 100% of the features), but it remains to be seen how much they depend on that.
The plan was to allow users to create public/private wikis, very much like Reddit's subreddit system. The creator would set access permissions, so it could work as a personal library, or a collection for a blog/BBS/open source project. Any suggestions on this would be especially helpful... I'm working on implementing this over the next few days.
http://hid.im/about/format

Wow, way to completely blow the opportunity for any kind of subterfuge -- they even use a magic number!

The torrents aren't hidden at all, and could be crawled, reversed, and identified with no more effort than if they were just plain torrent files.
Agreed. One addition, you can tie habits to objects either consciously or unconsciously. You probably didn't feel like that guy who'll train at 6am every day when you got up in a pair of boxers, but when you got into your gym stuff I bet that changed entirely.

I bet there's a ton of joggers who don't feel like going out when it's -5C and there's the first sign of snow on the pavement, but they put on their tracksuit and go.

I'm a writer. I sit down at my desk in front of my laptop, turn on the lamp, feed Curly, Hugs and Kisses (my three goldfish who would get multiple daily feeding's if I didn't drop this step after the morning) open my laptop, plug in a pair of noise-cancelling headphones, set itunes playing and open my word processor. I quickly start writing where I left off. I don't even need the steps any more, I just sit down and write.

I have a pair of track pants (the disgusting ones with a plasticy outside) that when I put on I'll paint any room you put me in. I painted a room that was 40ftx40ft and then painted the ceiling. These became work pants unconsciously, they were just a crap pair of pants I didn't care about ruining, now they're a uniform.

They teach these kinds of cues in psychology for people with anxiety disorders. That when you pull on your right ear lobe you associate it with a happy memory, eventually you'll trigger the happiness when you do the action. This is what most children do by accident, they have a blanket or toy that soothes them and can be used to keep them calm.

Habits and routines are very powerful if you learn how to use them, but it's best not to rely on them or you can cause other problems (hence why children shouldn't be allowed to keep a blankey too long, or they'll develop a psychological dependence more powerful than cigarettes).
I don't think I disputed anything in your first two paragraphs, but let me know if you think I did. As you say, the strongest wins, so why rely on something like adverse possession? If you're saying it ought to apply here solely for the purpose of preventing violence, then, as I said, it doesn't seem necessary. USG's military and propaganda arms are powerful enough today as to make this irrelevant.

Of course, if most of the residents are very dissatisfied with their sovereign and are willing to take extreme measures, they have a chance of winning regardless of immediately available firepower. This is where the question of legitimacy matters, because a sovereign will have at least some trouble if its residents do not accept its legitimacy, even if it wins in the end.
I'm not convinced living abroad always engenders positive change. I lived in Japan for a year and I don't remember another time in my life when I behaved in a more unhealthy manner.
You're right -- but do you expect users to View Source to confirm its posting to an SSL url? How else would they be able to tell if a MITM altered the form to post somewhere insecure?
In case you are too lazy to enter the URL at the top:

http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/what-your-computer-does...

There you can find more nice figures.
Were you able to accomplish this transition while maintaining a relationship? (Genuinely curious, no insult, slight or negative implication intended)
Fair enough, though it's worth noting that letters to the editor are carefully selected and edited while comments usually aren't.

I bet the New Yorker gets letters complaining about the length of its articles every month, they just don't subject their readers to them.
I'd like to think I've been successfully changing my personality continuously since I first started caring.
There are a lot of academic papers on detecting things like skin-tones, common shapes etc in photos.

Sorry I don't have any links off-hand but search for nude image detector or porn detector etc and you should run into some PDFs.

I remember reading one by google guys about how they implemented the safe search filter for image search. It all comes down to identifying some features of the photo and running in through a trained ANN or SVM.
So it does. Somehow I missed it when trying to upgrade a friend's blog.
lambda being crippled in Python is the same story as with C++ and reflection.

It's pretty simple: Python's syntax doesn't let you have a statement inside a statement. Even if it did, handling blocks would be a nightmare!
Pictrue of tony romo and jessica simpson break up
It's all about where your friends are. I still use ICB.
I set up a sendmail that was hacked to send Chinese spam. Lesson learned: don't set up a sendmail server unless you really know what you're doing. I think I nuked the whole server and started over.

Edit: In fact, we ended up moving those domains over to an Exchange server to let the Microsoft guy run them :(
Very nice! Have you considered adding pinyin for people who speak mandarin?
Your assumption is it was Google's goal to drop a lot of money into developing Google Docs just so that Microsoft would then risk losing a fraction (i.e. people that are just barely willing to buy Office) of its revenue while crushing Google Docs out of existence.

A master plan indeed!

And Vista had a million versions. Office already has a lot, but the new one is online and free. There's SURELY enough distinction there for customers to sort it out
What's the difference between Less and Sass?

Don't both almost similar syntaxes and do the same job?

EDIT:
For anyone else who also want to know more about these two, here's a blog post by Nathan Weizenbaum, the developer of Sass. http://nex-3.com/posts/83-sass-and-less
Posterous adds Google Maps integration
So humans have to review each page (and periodically re-review them)? No, that doesn't sound commercially viable at all.
I'm don't think I would call this "self-help". Sure, it seems that people with low self esteem feel worse if overly complimented, but how can people like that raise their self esteem if they think they're no good? Isn't that the real problem, and not how they feel at any one time?
Why evolution is true:  the strongest evidence I have ever seen.
Yes, it would significantly impact the waiting list, as the article points out! Making everyone a donor would mean the waiting list would start decreasing instead of increasing. To get the list down to zero within a decade (without monetary compensation) you would need that plus other techniques mentioned in the article.

This is a general idea for all organs- most other organs cannot be taken from living people and thus cannot use techniques mentioned in the article.