skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
second that. Techcrunch has been in my zonefile since then pointing to 127.0.0.1 to avoid the temptation.
SVD is the swiss army knife of linear algebra.
Too much CD "work" is just an excuse to not build something . . .

Precisely the opposite of the model Ries talks about.
The point is well made by the case of Maher Arar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maher_Arar

Arar was not suspected of communism, but it's a fine example of the US disappearing someone just like China has done to Xu Zhiyong.

To be clear, I think the US is miles (km) ahead of China in regard to human rights. But, both countries need to do better, and as a US citizen, I think I bear more responsibility for the crimes committed by my government than for those committed by China.
Can you please recommend some of your new findings? It's always interesting to read alternatives to TC.
There's no need to chuck away the old code if you stay on the JVM, remember. You can develop the new functionality in Scala, Groovy, Jython, Clojure, whatever you want. It's not about rewriting existing code, it's about getting a competitive advantage when writing new code.
I doubt the technical regulatory infrastructure is sufficiently vigilant for them to notice, but as far as I understand their TOS, yes.
I agree that there's a ton of value there - but I've been involved in projects where the "suits" want to do all sorts of bullshit AdWords/Facebook Ad tests, surveys, storytelling, and God knows what.

For fuck's sake, you have a vision. Act on it. Then get some feedback.
Big Brother Switzerland: real-time Internet interception to start on August 1
I joke that my domain purchase may or may not indirectly fund state-supported terrorism.

As far as my customers are concerned though, I think you'd be hard-pressed to find that 1% knows that .ly is Libya.
It's more than a swiss knife. It's a sledgehammer!! It breaks almost any problem you may encounter...
Well, if they are kind enough not to ignore you, maybe they will develop to your friends.
EU-India free trade agreement draft includes ACTA-like passages
Hmm,

The fact that state imposes cap when it wishes should make it more likely that the state can also impose loan levels when it wishes. Moreover, I have read a number of news items

I think the idea of 'forced loans' came from the same area as fables of state-planned road running through schools and kindergartens

Uh, the point was not about exactly which projects the Chinese state choose to impose but that the Chinese can impose project and solely and only on bureaucratic initiative, even those projects involve considerable hardship on people. A well-known example of this is the Three Gorges Damn - up to a million people are thought to have been displaced by this initiative.
She was leading 4-1 and serving at 40-30, meaning that she was one point from winning the game

Eh, what?
"Vocal learning, the substrate of human language, is a very rare trait. It is known to be present in only 6 groups of animals: 3 groups of birds (parrots, songbirds, and hummingbirds) and 3 groups of mammals (bats, cetaceans[whales/dolphins], and humans).

All other groups of animals are thought to produce genetically innate vocalizations.

To understand this concept, it is important to distinguish vocal learning from auditory learning. Auditory learning is the ability to make sound associations, such as a dog learning how to respond to the sound "sit". All vertebrates have auditory learning.

Vocal learning is the ability to imitate sounds that you hear, such as a human or a parrot imitating the sound "sit". Currently only vocal learners have been found to have forebrain regions dedicated to vocal learning and production of these learned vocalizations. Vocal non-learners only have been found to have non-forebrain vocal regions responsible for the production of innate vocalizations." http://www.jarvislab.net/Evolution.html
Smart Parking Meters Hacked — Free Parking For All
BTW, this was discussed on HN last year as well:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=424835
Didn't even say what he thinks software developers should know coming out of school.
Tilt/Recline Adjustment by Subjects with ALS using Brain Computer Interfaces
Certainly hours of time for hacking could be gained by eliminating the need to change underwear.
I have an old SGI keyboard that I'm absolutely partial to and a simple dual screen setup with two fairly large monitors a good 2' (60 cm) away from my head.

It works, but after sitting for > 10 hours I have to take a fairly long break.

move my desk up (or down) 2 cm and I end up with very had shoulder pain. It took a lot of trying to get it right.

Chair is a fairly cheap office chair but it has lots of stuff I can change to force changes in position during the day.

I removed the armrests because they make my arms hurt like hell.
Oh, my. It is free as in "freedom", you idiot, not free as in "gratis", RMS would tell you. And he would be right. You've debunked only your own misunderstanding of the problem...
This post tells a bit about it.

Basically that all the donation and ad revenue are unaccounted for. I certainly wont donate a cent (pun highly intended) until this is cleared up.

http://dag.wieers.com/blog/the-burden-of-keeping-things-priv...
Here's an interesting book on US dumpster diving:
http://www.amazon.com/Science-Dumpster-Diving-John-Hoffman/d...
> Isn't that beautiful? Does it remind you of open source at all?

Yeah, but not the GPL.
This is the goodbye from Mark Tarver regarding Qi. Submitter, next time please add a bit more info to the title. Thanks.

Edit: Thanks for the title update.
Manipulation and abuse of the consumer credit reporting agencies
Social scientists in China, trained as so many of them were in a Marxist framework, are actually very frightened by the example of Yugoslavia. Regional economic disparities in China are even greater than those in Yugoslavia before Yugoslavia disintegrated. Maybe Chinese people are very different in general from Western people (but the Chinese people I know best aren't all entirely different from people elsewhere in the world), but if Marxist theory about how the masses respond to economic circumstances is at all correct, the central government of China has something to worry about.

As another participant point out in another recent HN thread, China has a long historical experience with regional splits and loss of authority by the central government. To speak of China as having a 3,000 year history (as one entity) is hardly more accurate than to speak of Rome (the empire) as having a 2,500 year history. There is some cultural continuity from the very beginning in both cases, but twentieth century Chinese history was full of years of regional warlords and a very prolonged major civil war (which arguably hasn't ended yet).
The OSS book, Vim Recipes is really great as well, and if you know something that isn't on there just fork it and push it yourself.

Here's another one a Byte of Vim, also free on a CC license, but not as good as the Vim Recipes I've found.
"We frequently break news before the WSJ and NYT"

That's not so hard when you don't observe the same standards for verifying a story. The impression is that TC simply publishes early and often - statistically, some of it turns out true.
A regularized singular value decomposition is one of the most powerful machine learning algorithms available. Two decent open source implementations are SciPy (http://www.scipy.org/) and SVDLIBC (http://tedlab.mit.edu/~dr/svdlibc/).

Timely Development also posted the full c++ code they used for the Netflix Prize http://www.timelydevelopment.com/demos/NetflixPrize.aspx
Wow. That should have come out a long time ago. A good time for all open source projects out there to become accountable about their donations. And to stop donating to those that are not accountable.
Cyberwar - U.S. Weighs Risks of Civilian Harm in Cyberwarfare
I had fried pig ears on a salad at The Spotted Pig in NYC and they were f'ing fantastic. If I could source pig ears, I'd eat nothing but pig ears from now on.

And bone marrow. Om nom nom nom nom.
My agreement is a simple outlining of what we've discussed, but the thing says that it is just a guideline for the spirit of our engagement, and the only thing binding is that we agree to mediation if we have any dispute. Mediation > Lawyers!
Does buying a .ly name contribute money to Libya?
Funny how it puts this other post today on HN in perspective. Something about trust and keeping things foolish: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=736522
This is fun, particularly "your id is kind of a douchebag".
Indeed, the time-honored Drudge Report methodology.
I'd like to know why he went missing for so long as well, but it's hardly our business now is it? ;)
RSS of course, except for one thing: there is no viral aspect to RSS. If you belong to my feed, no one else knows. Your friends don't know. At least with twitter, once you follow me, people who like you may check out who you follow (assuming it's not in the thousands :-)

Other people here quoted a ratio of 10 to 1. That sounds about right. How the viral aspect (and growth) of twitter changes that number when you look at tour subscriber growth over a year, I don't know.
In Malaysia, this is even worse. The government actually has the right to arrest someone "without the need for trial in certain defined circumstances".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_Security_Act_%28Malays...

For example, the recent "Teoh Beng Hock" case happened in Malaysia. This guy was found death "at the premises of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission headquarters" after he had been taken there for questioning the same day.

Malaysian police classified his death as "sudden death". Committing suicide? He supposed to marry his fiancee who has a 3 month-old prenancy on this coming September. Can you imagine a guy like this would commit suicide?

I am Malaysian myself(currently in US). I usually do not care anything happening in Malaysia. But, I really think that this incident is just too suspicious for me to believe in the government anymore.
Video: simulated race car drivers race each other (evolutionary computation)
Pygame - python game development module
The OP made a point of mentioning the potential effects of fractional reserve banking, but apparently "forgot" to mention that the Fed can raise reserve requirements any time it wants to reduce the effects the OP is concerned about.
Off the top of my head (it's a mental list and some saved pages/bookmarks I'd have to track down):

Scratch (MIT)

Alice (Cornell, IIRC -- just saw that an update is due next week)

One or more versions of Logo (e.g Berkeley) (recently, there's at least one that's hosted in the browser; might lower the gap since no explicit installation is required).

A couple of things I'm forgetting right now.

When I run across these or particularly a nice introduction to one or another, I forward the page on to the parents FYI. When/if they start to respond with "tell us more", I'll go more in depth (and excavate those pages and bookmarks).

Suggestions welcome. Since they're not my kids, my approach has been somewhat lackadaisical.
Super! I know a kid that has been literally begging me to teach him programming and I have been looking high and low for something like this. The closest I got so far was a logo in javascript: http://www.calormen.com/Logo/
This sounds like you've read the 4 hour work week and then went to an MLM recruitment meeting.=D

This not meant to be derogatory in any way, I do feel that you've put much thought into this. That is just my impression of the concept.

I think in theory, this is great. However it seems to me like rather than one person starting one business, you have "a team" starting multiple businesses on top of managing their partnerships. I'm all for collaboration, but it seems to me like more work is being added, then taken out.
I think you misunderstood the point he's trying to make. Here's the conclusion of the article:

The problem is that FOSS is part of an equation that has never been properly balanced. The other part of the equation is an economic one and one that has not been thought through. Instead ad hoc and unconvincing explanations have been floated for why FOSS makes money when in fact, as presently constituted, it so often does not and is parasitic on conventional capitalism or state money

It's a rant about the economics of FOSS, not freedom. And you know what? He's right.
Yes. I'm very much in favor of "desired results quickly". For kids, that may be something cool and graphical and/or audible.

For adults, it's often solving a problem at hand.

I think that the ability to gets things done, that one desires, draws many people in. A large initial learning curve before that happens is often a deal breaker.

Once you're engaged, that's the time to keep teaching you more.
Oh, I thought it was much more of a hack than the "Hacker's Diet" -- which is just low-calorie eating, after all. I've done low-calorie, and this is so much easier that it's not even funny. Plus, it appears to be a hell of a lot healthier.

And I designed my diet after reading Gary Taubes -- "Good Calories, Bad Calories" is very much not a diet book.
HTC Touch Pro2 Unlocked
HTC Touch Pro2 introduces a new worry-free interface that makes multi-party calling as easy as tapping on your contacts. It is a way to seamlessly transit from email to a single or multi-party calls as well as a flawless means to
My defense of TC: in a world where everyone is too scared to voice a clear opinion, TC will tell it to you straight.

When they see torture, they don't say "enhanced interrogation techniques" (http://twitter.com/dangillmor/statuses/933969163)

So many other media outlets will not dare say anything negative about the news they cover.
this isn't a soap opera. It's their business, even if they decided to make part of the thing public.
I'm currently working independently as a consultant, but I think it could be neat to band together with other freelancers. Getting projects and establishing a "brand" would be easier with more people and more project volume, and we could match up projects to team-members according to their availability and skillset.

I also don't think it needs to be tied to bootstrapping a startup.
Why Standards Fail
Vim Recipes:
http://vim.runpaint.org/toc/

A Byte of Vim:
http://www.swaroopch.com/notes/Vim

This cheatsheet has worked really well for me:
http://www.viemu.com/vi-vim-cheat-sheet.gif
There is a model that deals with this kind of problem, it's called the ransom model (not the most ideal name but it gets the point across nicely).

It was used successfully on blender, the basic idea is you build what you have to build closed source, the risk is yours. And then when you've built up a following you set your ransom price, the price that has to be met for you to open up the source.

If the product is any good I doubt it would be hard for the author to get his minimum wage and the world would be a better place.

Free software, so many choices :)
I wouldn't think outside scrutiny would be sufficient. Since a revolution is going to happen from the inside out, its the people of China that would need to know whats going on and decide to act. This is difficult because of how controlled information is in China.

Separately, the size of the country may make a revolution difficult though because of the amount of coordination (explicit or not). The government can probably stop any small revolution but its (more) doubtful they could stop a large one. I guess this means that the more pleasant sort of revolution is more likely to be successful (if a revolution is going to happen at all).
Why Apple doesn't want to fix the Apple Store
you can also check http://technorati.com/pop/blogs/ I guess
> If you ever feel the urge to rush: Don't.

That ought to be printed out in 122 point font and pasted on every wall behind every monitor. Take your time to do it right, that way you don't have to do it 'n' times but only once. A quick fix usually only leads to more trouble down the road.
Solved! Download the new version from the site.

Tell me if it gives you a weird error message after you close the program.
I solved the Vista problem - please re-download it and tell me if it works on Win 7 now.
Open source is a great thing, but I fear that it has led many to believe that they are entitled to the software (both the use and the source) they are using.
Yep, that's a deluded fantasy all right. See "Ultimate Resource 2", "The Resourceful Earth", or "State of Humanity" by Julian Simon or "Earth Report 2000" by Ronald Bailey.
"Emacs was supported financially by people working at the MIT AI Lab, which means that it was funded by Uncle Sam. It was not invented by Richard Stallman contrary to popular myth, although he did grab the sources and improved them and tried successfully to claim as much credit as he could. It’s real cost in market terms was effectively many thousands of tax dollars and it was paid for as such by Joe Schmoe."

This is an interesting bit of history. Is that a correct description of the history? How many other now "open source" projects began with that kind of initial taxpayer subsidy?
And my business is my business. We used to use CentOS and now we switched to another open build of RHEL.

I have nothing against them, they all seem to be great guys, I would have a beer with them. But the image of the project as a whole has suffered, and because of a lack of perceived stability and reliability we decided to switch.
Cash For Clunkers is a government scam to gain access to your computer
But not only do you have to like the other people, you have to like their side projects, since everyone shares until ramen profitability. But most "side project" ideas are terrible. It seems to me that you'd end up with a bunch of megalomaniacs who are mediocre people.

I'm not trying to be a wet blanket, but this strikes me as an incubator (ugh) where the inmates run the asylum. To me, the safest thing is still saving up some money, having a really good idea, and finding some technical friends to go "all in" with you for a year.
I find it amusing that although Mr. Tarver himself seems to admit his ideas on the future of Lisp could be better presented by omitting his strawman arguments supposedly debunking the "ecomonics" of open source efforts, he nonetheless can't seem to restrain himself from including them.

My suggestion to Mr. Tarver: if you want me to take your language ideas seriously, save your "opinionating" until after your technical ideas are widely adopted. As much as I'd like to try out a promising language like Qi, an ideological rant against open source won't help convince me or anyone else it's a good idea.
Under Gnome, you never have to edit Xmodmap directly for this. System>Preferences>Hardware>Keyboard>Keyboard Layout>Ctrl key position

You can also swap in Esc into that slot, if you're a vi user.
"However, by looking on CD or magnetic tape, you are not able to tell whether your data is readable or not."

Since the paper is not human readable, you still don't know whether you have a backup or a printer fart. Also, I just don't see any need for this, the density and read/write time are so ridiculously worse than even floppies, it just sounds useless.
When I ran into wrist, finger, and forearm issues a few years ago, I did the following (in order of what I think helped the most): Good chair with arms lowered too far for me to lean on them, switched to tiled window manager and stopped using the mouse almost entirely, made myself move around more during the work day taking breaks to walk out for tea or just to get some air, and became more conscious of my hand position throughout the day. The only thing I've kept is the chair (an Aeron) and some of the better working habits, and the problems have not returned after several years.
I still read TC and enjoy it most of the time, but I had the same feeling about that emission article. It was just tabloid style.
Hi

I'm from Switzerland, and I was wondering if anyone could recommend me a good dedicated virtual host with a reasonable amount of traffic for not too much money. I'm gonna go vpn baby! (obviously not one in Switzerland nor Germany, more like Russia or something :))

Thanks in advance
Regarding the environmental impact and sustainability:
http://www.westonaprice.org/mythstruths/mtvegetarianism.html...

Here's another take:
http://www.second-opinions.co.uk/vegetarian.html#link1

One missing piece regarding the idea of sustainability of ruminant farming versus grain farming is that the former tends to rejuvenate the soil, and can be performed in areas unsuitable for crop growth. The latter, on the other hand (unless performed in concert with ruminant farming), encourages deforestation (to locate healthy, nutrient dense soil), using up the nutrients in the soil, maintaining the soil via petroleum fertilizers, and then abandoning the land once depleted/eroded.

Ruminants are a key piece to the puzzle in sustaining the fertility of the soil when growing crops.
The idea is that everyone is working on their own side project half of the time. If other members of the team collaborate it is in exchange for equity. No one is being asked to work on a startup they are not interested in.

Hopefully a group of entrepreneurs that are working together to create startups are also helping vet each others ideas. Going back to other people's comments, the team dynamics would be pretty important. If you think of your partners as inmates in an asylum the whole thing is probably doomed to failure no matter who is providing direction.

I actually have started a company with savings, which was enough money to support one person (me) for a year. I doubt I could have found other people who happened to be temporarily financially independent at the exact same time and interested in my idea. This way seems more practical to me.
Profiles of Singularity University Graduate Studies '09 Students
Trust me on the sunscreen (and the future of journalism)
checking out xmonad (is that what you're using ?) right now.
Typo, apologies. And it's still a pretty interesting article, even if you think it is junk.

O.o You have to be a crackpot to make typos?
Although it contains some truth, I don't believe it accurately reflects history or Stallman's claims. jwz's[1] page on emacs history is more useful.

1- http://www.jwz.org/doc/emacs-timeline.html
I don't really follow your first two sentences. I am interested in starting a company that I remain in control of, or at least share ownership with the other people doing the work, rather than having random people with money telling me what to do. I am not familiar with MLM, but the 4 hour workweek struck me as finding a way to do as little as possible so you could become a globetrotting rich kid.

As to your final point, it is a valid one. Splitting ones attention between a customer focused consultancy and a startup could well be too much. Ideally each person involved is simply bringing their current employer in to the fold, rather than going out and finding new customers they have no relationship with. I felt this was something I could have done with most of my previous corporate jobs, but it probably isn't universally applicable.
It works as is on Ubuntu.

PythonTurtle screenshot with a dragon curve http://img35.imageshack.us/i/screenshotpythonturtled.png/

>>> def dragon(level=4, size=200, direction=45):
... """From http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Dragon_curve
... """
...	if level == 0:
...	go(size)
...	return
...	turn(direction)
...	dragon(level-1, size/1.41421356237, 45)
...	turn(-direction*2)
...	dragon(level-1, size/1.41421356237, -45)
...	turn(direction)
...
>>> dragon(10)
Having a vision is important, and it gets the ball rolling. The important part is: Get feedback as you're acting on it. The problem comes when you spend too much time in the cave building, or too much time not building crap, doing a survey. Do both!

The middle path of product development :)
BRL-CAD. BSD. Bind. There are quite a lot of them, actually.