skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
XFEL is probably going to be a better way to look at biological macromolecules (though I'm not sure if the resolution would be high enough to see atom-sized details).

It's a kind of the opposite approach: instead of slowly collecting information from extremely static scene they will blast the sample with very powerful X-ray laser, taking snapshot before shattering it to pieces.

http://www.xfel.eu/en/research-examples/structure-of-biomole...
iPhone3GS, without contract and SIM-free (you can use it with any operator), as it sell in Italy, is 599€. So 500€ is cheaper (specs are better).
I used to be able to google names and view their profiles. Now I can't. I think that's a change. (Maybe I just never found anyone I didn't have a 3rd degree relationship with?)

Regardless, it's impressive that LinkedIn has found a way to monetize data created by users, straight-up. Even if it's annoying. It won't actually stop me from using LinkedIn, after all.
While this irks me because I use LI quite a bit, but this is the reason why LinkedIn > Facebook. They know how to monetize really well.

I have always wondered why Facebook doesn't charge annual fee for their service. They are at the point where if they charge me $20/year, I am too dependent on it to not pay that fee. While you can argue another free service may come along and take all that away from Facebook, but building a 250M user base is not trivial...
Yelp Sneaks Augmented Reality Into iPhone App
Tarsnap: Online backups for the truly paranoid.

Myself: Strive for excellence.
Allow me to rephrase:

UML modeling tools will generate code that fulfills your model. You'll get more-or-less complete headers, with your objects and method prototypes, and you'll get implementation stubs. If your design is sound, then the process of filling in the guts of the implementation can be quick and straightforward (ideally, but I find this usually pans out in practice).

If your project requires code to come from UML, then any architectural changes are made in the UML tool, not directly in code. This means that the model is always accurate. In my company, the models are the primary documentation; if you need to know how a module works, you can look at the model and see every object, attribute, and relationship, both within the module and to other pieces of the project. And unlike every other piece of documentation I have ever seen, these models are guaranteed to be accurate, because they literally write the code.

A process like this requires you to think -- a lot -- about the design of your program before you even open a text editor or IDE. That's what I mean by a mandatory design phase.
If you reinstalled XP the only remaining common theme would be, well, the keyboard.
"I don't know if I am going to be able to do this" never gets old. Also, "I hope this isn't going to crash the server someday" gives me a warm feeling late at night.
> No. Not even close. Rimuhosting owns the box in question. You can't possibly break into your own box.

I don't think you're familiar with the common uses of "bordering on".

> What would you, as a security professional who was dumped into the role of running a hosting data center, do when a box on your network (which has thousands of other boxes) has been rooted and is sending out spam at a rate of a million messages per day, even if you know that your paying customer is not responsible for sending those messages?

I'd stop the server without gaining root against the client's wishes, immediately inform the client, and try to get things cleaned up to everyone's satisfaction (except the security cracker who rooted the box, of course). I wouldn't gain root on the box in violation of the client's obvious wishes, particularly after articulating specific policy saying that you can remove my initial root access to the box if you like, and shut down specific services that are making my life difficult for reasons entirely unrelated to the client's running of the site, then send an email later pointing out my policy that fails to mention I might do this.

Privacy is security, after all: http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=293

Nothing you say in your hypothetical examples in any way justifies accessing the customer's data, particularly by breaking in to the system. Shut it down? Sure, if circumstances call for that. Start meddling with server configuration and establish what amounts to a rootkit on the system (in effect, if not in technical truth) without the client's permission? That's just shady.

> No amount of hand-waving about your "rights" makes that less true.

Perhaps you should stop waving your hands about that straw man, then.
This would only be correct if Linux users made up 91% of the computing world.

It's like if there were articles still posted about how people should get a monitor which displays at a higher resolution than 800x600.
Relationships among Scientific Paradigms - map of knowledge
The reason I don't use consumer-grade Western Digital drives has nothing to do with a specific drive failure event, and everything to do with the fact that consumer-grade drives from WD are basically factory seconds of WD's enterprise-grade drives.
Ask HN: Has the advertising model worked for anybody?
I'm just curious to know how many people here have successfully made a living off of advertising on their blog/website/app/etc...
Hiding names should be optional, like "showdead." Then you can choose for yourself instead of getting stuck with a system you dislike.
Those "clouds" are probability clouds. It means that the electron should be in the vicinity of the cloud at any given time.

Also, consider that an electron is 1/1000 the size of a proton.
Some links closer to the point of origin:

Pentacene on flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/ibm_research_zurich/3839799374/

IBM Research Zurich (pix of lab) - http://www.flickr.com/photos/ibm_research_zurich/

Article in MIT Tech Review - http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/editors/24040/

"The imaging work is described today in the journal Science."

Fun search result on www.sciencemag.org for ibm+zurich

Science 10 July 1987 - 'IBM's Zurich Lab Is "Flower" in Europe: Two major discoveries—the scanning tunneling microscope and superconducting ceramics—highlight IBM Zurich lab's success in tapping Europe's scientific talent'
That went well for you.
Screen is a good tool and does have a collaborative feature. But it requires the following:

1 - install screen and configure the collaboration on your server

2 - create a user on your server for the other person to login

3 - the other person logging in must be able to route directly to your server. The ip for the server must be public and SSHD listener must accept connect from anywhere.

4 - The other person can login and "collaborate" with your screen session whether you are logged-in/watching or not. The only security is to shut down your screen session or change your screen config file / stop the sharing.

5 - with screen you cannot interactively/quickly change modes between read-write, read-only, etc...

ShellShadow works as a client terminal relay. You setup a session between you and another user. You use the ShellShadow client (enhanced PuTTY) for your collaboration. There is nothing to setup and manage on your server. In fact your server is oblivious to the collaboration. One extra cool feature is this works with any terminal you can connect to: your Cisco router, your iPhone CLI, etc...
Fanatical service, man.
If there's something in the terms and conditions that says they reserve the right to change the configuration on your system because their explicitly identified policies for dealing with high CPU usage aren't working, I might back off from the "borderline criminal" descriptor -- but I'd still say that's a great way to make customers feel violated and run like the wind to other service providers. As many others have pointed out, a much less invasive approach would have been to simply pause the server and get in touch with the client -- especially after the service provider asked for permission to get root access, and was turned down.
Only if you're publishing (republishing, cough cough) content about certain areas of medicine or law where adsense payments go through the roof.
The apartment manager wouldn't have the ability to "pause" the apartment and wait for permission from the tenant to enter, though. The situation isn't strictly analogous.
I read the title and detected a bit of outrage. But really, I think this is great. If we want resources like this to exist, somehow they will eventually have to make money. Ads aren't going to work here, but this might. So it seems fine to me.

(Actually, I have no use for LinkedIn, so I don't even have a profile. If I want to get a job or hire someone, I have other resources available. I believe they are called "friends".)
I was trying to, but the connection would close before I could even issue a HEAD or GET.
So . . . the deeper the comment, the sooner it "expires"? That makes in-depth discussion kinda difficult.

. . . or are you saying that one cannot reply right away, but after a while one can, if the comment is at greater depth -- and I just have to wait?
> I was under the impression that he was able to do a GET once he established a connection...

No: As I said: "Telnetting directly to port 80 connects fine, but the server closes the connection instantly before I can even issue a request."
Solar Roadways to Prototype First Ever Solar Road Panel
I haven't done too much with it yet, to be honest — things have been a bit crazy at work — but FRP seems like a really interesting potential approach to JS-based web interfaces, and I can understand the desire to write Haskell and then compile it to JS (the assembly of the web, as plenty of people in the last three years have said). FRP JavaScript doesn't seem to have taken off in a big way in the three years since Flapjax came out, but perhaps we'll see that change soon.

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1771
They have very good goals but their new approach to have database files memory-mapped gave me the chills.

Ups:

* No in-process cache required.
* Very clean design.

Downs:

* Every read from disk would bring a lot more data than required.
* 64-bit process required to support large files.
* Since they use a JavaScript VM this would consume 40-60% more memory
because of double pointer size.
* V8 is x86 only so they switched to SpiderMonkey
(slower, even with upcomming tracing.)

The project looks very promising and the developers are top-notch but IMHO it's very green and small for my project. Maybe the next major release will be a killer.

I am not any kind of authority in this area so please take this comment with a grain of salt.
Yep, that'll be it. I hadn't seen any of the threads asking not to use it (as I'd been offline for a few days moving apartment), and wasn't aware of how abusive it was. I've emailed pg asking if he can unblock my IP.

Thanks.
In other words (in case that was too succint for the OP) - just wait a while and you will be able to reply.

It's supposed to keep the lid on flamewars.
is adsense the only way to make money in advertising? why not sell your own ads the way TechMeme does?
I do have a static address, so unfortunately unless pg decides to lift the ban, I'm stuck with having to switch to leeching my neighbour's connection just to use HN.
EVE Online player run bank 1.2 trillion ISK in the red, freezes all accounts
my understanding of the "Expanded LinkedIn Network profile views" is that you can view the profiles of folks you are not connected to and the ones that are typically a 3rd/4th/ no connection to your network.
Visualizing Trending Topics in Twitter
New Attack Cracks WPA Wi-Fi Encryption in a Minute
LinkedIn actually makes a lot of money from ads, their CPM is crazy... ~$75 last I read.

Think of their demographics
I'd say it's 3D in the sense that it's a height map rather than a cross section. (We've been able to see cross-sectional images of bonds for some time using transmission electron microscopy, I think). It's not a full three-dimensional structure though, and it'd only work on flattish molecules like this.

It should be noted that this sort of resolution has been attainable for some time using scanning tunneling microscopy, but I'm pretty sure this is a first for atomic force microscopy. STM doesn't give you a very good image of bonds -- in fact bonds are generally the thing you _don't_ see, since STM works by pulling electrons in/out and bonds are stable places where electrons really don't want to come out of or go into. AFM, on the other hand, shows bonds very nicely.

You can sorta make out where the aromatic rings are. I'm not sure why it's so bright at the ends -- any organic chemists out there who can explain that?
Why do most of the articles in the series start with "...Not"?
Flux Theory (of everything)
And they also charge for 'inmail' (drastically, see the link) which means if you accidentally stumble upon someone you'd actually like to talk to (potential business partner, employer,..) you gotta pay, there's usually no other way to talk to them.
This was an interesting read. You see lots of puff pieces telling you why you should use a language, but here's a sober experienced voice explaining how ocaml worked out for them. Warts and all. The warts are the most important part to know about.

It's sort of interesting what's happening in the finance industry today. You see less and less java/c# and more erlang, ocaml and ADA.

The CS geeks won out.
> Whoops, now you're talking about dictating the recording industry's business model back to it, because you don't like the one they chose.

We dictate business models in much the same way in other cases where a particular business model explicitly relies upon violations of individual rights -- such as telling people they shouldn't pursue a business model of armed robbery.

> If that's your argument, why are you tilting at windmills? Why aren't you instead writing a blog post advocating that musicians ditch the recording industry?

I've done that too. I like to write something new, and non-repetitive, from time to time. Do you just regurgitate saved copies of your old material all the time? You're right -- that would be boring.

> Is it unethical to disobey the law?

All else being equal, there's nothing about the law itself that makes it unethical to disobey. There are some laws it's unethical to disobey; there are others it is not. There are cases where disobeying a law would be unethical even if the law itself is unethical, but those cases are not defined merely by the fact it's a law. Feel free to dispute that, but you should do something more impressive than offer a circular argument (which is the form most "but it's the law!" arguments take).

> The argument I responded to, which you've now jumped into the middle of

Jesus fucking Christ. This is a public discussion venue. I am sick and tired of people coming up with the "Why are you interrupting my discussion?" excuse to dismiss comments in public discussion venues. Try actually addressing points made rather than inventing spurious excuses to shut people up when you disagree with them.

> the idea that because copyvio is rampant, the law must be wrong

That's not the argument that was advanced. The argument is that a bad law predisposes people to disregard even the good purpose of the law (assuming it has any good purposes), and may even predispose them to disregard other laws in general. There's nothing in that argument that reverses the causal relationship between behavior and the ethicality of a law the way you just did.

You're right that violation of a law doesn't make it a bad law in an ethical sense (though it might make it "bad" in an enforceability sense, depending on how it gets violated). That's not the obvious interpretation of preceding statements on the subject, though -- at least as far as I've been able to determine.
Wow, this never occurred to me. Great observation. Funny thing is, I personally used a Mac until OS X, and not since. So, ever since they came up with a decent OS, I haven't used it.
If you go too overboard on this track, you turn into this guy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YBxeDN4tbk
Sorry, maybe I used the wrong word; learning certainly requires work, but it shouldn't be treated as a chore.
Apple to iPhone developers: Please make your apps less useful
I'm not sure exactly how you think that addresses my point. Perhaps you're fallaciously affirming the consequent.
God, I wish you can turn off the synthetic engine noise. Part of what's exhausting about driving is the constant droning noise.
I agree. Would anyone care to share how they DO benefit from LinkedIn?
"The argument I responded to [...] is the idea that because copyvio is rampant, the law must be wrong"

No, it has nothing to do with often violated laws being wrong. It has to do with broken social contracts. As I said in my original posting, copyright was formulated as a contract between society and an artist. The deal is that if an artist shares his work with society, then society will allow the artist to have a limited time monopoly on the work. In return, society gets ownership of that work once the monopoly's time period has expired. That is a social contract that isn't terribly hard to justify.

Our new contract, apparently, is that an artist can create a work, share it with the world, and profit from every time the work is shared. Not only that, but when the artist dies, his next of kin get to keep that deal going. For all of eternity, given the trends of the last several decades. That's a deal that is repugnant to me, and to nearly everybody that I've met. It's not something that I can find any way to defend, so convincing people that copyright is a just institution is quite difficult.

I want copyright to be just and defensible; I write software for a living, and I like being able to profit from its sale. However, I can't explain that copyright has any moral basis when it clearly doesn't. The only reasons that I see not to violate copyright today are fear of legal reprisal and personal feelings of loyalty towards individual content producers. Loyalty is good, and fear of punishment can be effective, but I'd love to have a law that's founded in some sort of morality.
Stupid question, but in this context what does "PIC" stand for? The best I came up with was "Partially Inlined Code."
Call-Center Jobs That Pay $100K a Year
It sounds like loitering teenagers are a big problem in the UK. I wonder why the "solutions" seem to be in the form of driving the kids away rather than solving whatever the actual problem is. Provide the kids with activities, send adults out to talk to the kids, let them work, etc., etc.

Treating the symptoms doesn't cure the disease.
The funny thing is that I do used Xing, the European competitor to LinkedIn, and even though I have more contacts in LinkedIn, I really don't use it.

In Germany when I go to business events almost everybody hits up the people whose business cards they were handed within a day or so; in the US I've tried the same to discover that a large percentage of the people that I meet at founders' meetups aren't on LinkedIn.

The first use case makes a lot of sense for me -- if nothing else, it's an easy way to convert a business card to a vCard and have contact info track the person in question over time.
Happy 150th, Oil. So Long, and Thanks for Modern Civilization
I was more impressed by that before I bought the app and saw they had spelled Celsius as Celcius... I mean if you are going to piss around with fonts and colours for so long, you would think someone would get the names of the units right (well you know, being a unit conversion app and all).
Work on something millions use: Intern at Justin.tv this fall
Regardless of what the headline says about "3D", this only works on flattish molecules. Using it to study a protein would be like a blind man determining the structure of a truckload of candy floss using a chopstick.
Personally speaking, I wont pay if facebook starts charging me $20/year. Rather, it might improve my life because I wont waste anytime on it. However, if google starts charging for gmail, I will totally pay an annual amount as long as they open a customer service center.
Two of my biggest use of LinkedIn right now:

1. Request for introductions. If there's anyone I want to get connected with, first place I go to is LinkedIn and see if he is friends with any of my friends. If a friend of mine knows him, I will ask my friend to send a personal intro.

2. Look for outside experts. Yesterday I was looking to connect with some iPhone game devs. I posted a discussion on 2 LinkedIn groups (GameDevs, and Social Game Devs), and I have received over 10 messages already.

It's a really powerful tool to create professional relationships.
Quite. It's one half of a Zen proverb: a person cannot be told the truth- they have to realize it internally.
> If you don't use RIAA offerings, why aren't you advocating that other people do likewise?

I do advocate that other people do likewise. The fact that I don't do so with every breath -- including the virtual "breaths" used to say what's in a particular piece of writing you happened to stumble across -- doesn't mean that I don't do so in general.

> If you think that's the argument you are making, then where do business models come into the picture?

Why are you trying to tell me I'm not allowed to have more than one argument?
If my VPS was on the same host I'd pretty much demand they do exactly that.

Actually I'd probably demand they stop the instance, so I reckon he got a free kick if they only stopped the offending service.
Let me try to offer an ethical argument:

Copyright is a violation of property rights because it offer authors control over a consumer's property via restriction of the consumers or recipient's ability to reproduce and build on the work, which the recipient and consumers presumely legitimately purchased from some other sources.

Therefore, it is absolutely irrevelant what economic meteric that are used to justify copyright until you resolve the issue of ownership.
Before online gambling was cracked down on in this country, I knew a blogger who made a lot of money through gambling affiliates. As I recall, she saved money by living in Costa Rica at the time, but she had a good year or so.
True, but if you want to calculate your own EV over x years, you need that kind of data.
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This was linked in the comments of the 10 dimensions article of New Scientist.

In the article there was also a mention of another of this theories, E8:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Exceptionally_Simple_Theory_...
I suppose as long as LinkedIn doesn't become the next Classmates.com (in terms of holding data and contact info ransom after years of collecting them), I don't care too much. Glad to know they're paying the bills, and someone finds value (they're willing to pay for) in the service.
So if that proverb is a truth, why are you telling it to me? :-) That is just a statement that Zen monks used when they were logically cornered, I guess. I used to use it on my sister when I was a kid: "You won't know. Even if I explain, you can't comprehend." I think I used this to get her to trade her real coins for some "wax coins" that I made.
Thanks for your feedback!

I agree that the process (open app -> enter code -> send message -> paste) is a bit cumbersome but still I can't cope with the onscreen keyboard for message longer then a few chars. I still think that somebody out there feels the same pain, sale stats will tell us the truth :)

The next release will have a "persistant pairing" flag that will allow users to skip the "enter code" phase to make the process a bit faster.

Unfortunately opening the app with the message already written is not possible with the current SDK :(
You're literally saying that having a government is a net loss. Are you serious?
CDC employs social networking sites to educate people abut H1N1 (aka swine flu)
The first link in your blog post is broken