skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The wise man avoids the face-brake. :)
An unusual and revealing angle on who takes to innovations and why. Useful for anyone interested in why some innovations succeed and others fail, why some people resist change and others love it, and why mini culture wars like PC vs Mac often break out.
"For my own education, I made an alternative rendering"

Please upload it. A side-by-side comparison does have an educational value on itself.
Why are networks so hard to build?
Wow. Next headline:

The editor for a technology news site knows nothing about technology he reports on.

Given the widespread availability of information pertaining to the attack, at the very least, the AFP could have been expected to have taken action to shut down websites and IRC channels belonging to the group, even if it couldn't arrest its leaders.

Those are some serious expectations... which wouldn't have done a lick of good even if the AFP had worldwide jurisdiction (and flew around on magical unicorns) as the author thinks they do.
yes for all the grumbling - there things like Cog that seem to do exactly what he is asking for.

I have to say I'm on the opposite end of the spectrum - I use a great deal of the features in iTunes - I keep video in it, I keep TV in it , I have a massive music library , I have several machines round the house that I and the family use to listen/watch stuff. I have an iphone. I buy things in the store.

In all I love the fact it is all integrated and works together without me having to think about it (apart it, must be said, for stupid DRM on video which is a pain). When I used to run winamp on a PC back in the day I used to need a collection of perl scripts to manage the library...
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What are the book that a novice should read before/during his first web start-up attempt? I bought 4 steps to epiphany. What do you think about that book?
What he said.

Apple would not design iTunes like this, if not for the need to deliver it on Windows. It breaks many of its own design rules.

The saddest part for me is seeing the open source desktops head down the same path when this could be a key differentiator for them. Like Apple they bundle a full working desktop with apps that can work together and build on the same libraries. But they don't.

Instead the future appears to be continuing with the totally inappropriate iTunes clone but switching to one that comes with it's on Mono VM and is becoming an independent development platform. It's latest feature is built in photo management! When I read that it was one of those satire is dead moments.
Space doesn't look like that, pathogens don't look like that, atoms don't look like that. There is a reason it's called false color photographs. The real thing is quite bland and the human eye has only evolved so far.

Outside of the scientific community, the photographs have very limited value. The meaty information is in radio telescopes, but the oscillation of the magnitude of stars doesn't sell newspapers and people like to know (or think they know) what they are paying for.
I do that too, but it doesn't work perfectly.

For instance, how do you select all your tracks with genre Game, without also getting "Love is a losing game", or creating a smart playlist.
None, not even HTML 5 but XHTML 1.1. I was mistaken/too eager to see it.

I hope it'll be the new AJAX, like in my clients saying "I want that".
I personally think its an utter joke that you need a client side app to view the ITunes website. That isn't how the internet is supposed to work.

If M$ did that there would be hell to pay, but Apple is "cool" so it's just FINE, apparently.
Images like these always bring up that Brother Cavil's (from BSG - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407362/quotes) line: "I want to see gamma rays! I want to hear X-rays! And I want to - I want to smell dark matter! (...) And feel the wind of a supernova flowing over me!"

I don't know about you, but it's deeply moving for me.
I fail to understand why web-page authors would prefer this over MathML, especially given that:

1. MathML is a W3C standard.

2. Preventing page breakage due to NoScript.

p.s: I haven't used either - the few (very rare) occasion I have required to display an equation/complex expression, I construct it externally (MS Office mostly) and paste a screenshot of it :)
Given the Python example in the article:

def f(n):
num = 0
while num < n:
yield num
num += 1

what's wrong with:

function f(n) {
var num = 0;

return function () {
if (num < n) {
return num++;
}
}
}
Text copy worked for me. (Firefox 3.5, Ubuntu Jaunty)
Follow up by the NYT available at: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/09/google-plans-tools-...

PS: can anyone please edit the URL and remove the '#' at the end? It's caused by the FriendFeed bookmarklet and may lead to duplicate entries.
This is so silly that it hurts a little bit. As has already been observed in the blog comments, it's an ad, not a business plan.

Ouch, my stupid hurts.
Man Arrested after Saying No to Prostitute ??   
It was Rocio Palacios who first noticed the woman who appeared to need help.
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while i belief in machine consciousness, i don't think human-like intelligence - as described in popular science fiction culture - is likely (though not impossible). intelligence: yes. superhuman intelligence: yes. but human-like intelligence, as in "thinks like a human, reasons like a human"; no * . the bodies, senses, cultures, etc would be just too different.

so silicon-based intelligence would be very strange and incomprehensible for us, and i doubt we'd recognize it as an intelligent being easily.

* with the possible exception of eliza
Seeing how consciousness is defined as being aware of one-self, machines will never be conscious. Since, we program machines and give them everything they know, every last algorithm, I don't think that we will ever be able to code a consciousness algorithm.

Read more about the weak and strong AI theories to understand what I mean.
Why couldn't the machine partake in the social construct? It could be programmed in.
humans evolved, while machines were built by humans.

The design of machines evolves all the time.
What is MathML support like in most of the popular browsers currently in use today? Better or worse than the support for jsMath? I'm guessing the answer to that question is an answer to your first question.
How about an opinion that's so muddled that it's not even wrong?
The full page version has a (pretty good) search function. I'm not sure why they don't have it the embedded one. Even if you just got taken to the results in the full version.
It doesn't have even half of anaconda's features and it installs only a few packages. No wonder that it's so fast.
* Hackers and Painters

* Founders at Work
most excelent. the article describes both worlds, geeks and their management, in a objective fashion. i used it to know more about myself and how people may see me, as i come from a technical background
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The code's pretty simple and there's still a lot to do in terms of making it easily installable, but hopefully it's useful to some people.
I use the codecogs service to convert LaTeX to PNG:

http://www.codecogs.com/png.latex?\begin{bmatrix}4,1&1,3...

Just put that in the "src" attribute of an <img> tag. Works everywhere, no JavaScript, no installs, nothing.
I know that, and I choose to ignore it and stand in awe of the structures in which our entire world would fit a gazillion times.
Am I the only one who doesn't find these things cute?
Schneier on Security: File Deletion
I don't see how "being available" can be a prerequisite when choosing a domain name, unless you're bootstrapping. In which case you might not really have a choice.
Swarm of 100,000 generators will produce power on demand
Kudos for being open and honest. These guys are the poster child for PR.

Hyperbole may sell, but we don’t want to sell it.

Well, you sold it for a long time.

The clear text passwords thing is incomprehensible. These guys have move knowledge about rails in their toe jam than 99% of the "rails experts" out there and they can't implement hashed/salted passwords? Come on. How is this not a show stopper?
They're trying to be clever and witty. It is starting to look like they're trying too hard. Phrases like "Uber-Productive" and "Super-smart" make it worse.
I do not find this code too nice.
excellent article, especially this paragraph hits the nail on the head. read it, boss

IT pros complain primarily about logic, and primarily to people they respect. If you are dismissive of complaints, fail to recognize an illogical event or behave in deceptive ways, IT pros will likely stop complaining to you. You might mistake this as a behavioral improvement, when it's actually a show of disrespect. It means you are no longer worth talking to, which leads to insubordination.
Seems extremely slow. I wonder if they're suffered a slashdot effect.

Also, previous services that I have used similar to this have been pulled or put behind a paywall, so I'm reluctant to use a web service like this.
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Imagine a scientifically minded human being from 500 years ago encountering a present day computer, complete with software, internet access, the whole bundle. If asked to speculate on how the computer worked, being a person of science, they would have to admit that they didn't know. But pressed to form some sort of model of it's inner workings, they would likely come up with some fairly simple explanation centered around one all-important aspect or another: a single magical power of some sort that is the basis for everything mysterious about the computer. He would be very unlikely to imagine that countless layers and dimensions of technology needed to come together to make the computer possible.

This tendency towards oversimplifying the unknown seems to be fundamental to the way we think and it runs through the history of human speculation. Consistently, our beautifully unified theories about gods and ether and magic are replaced by the messy, complicated realities of physics, math and biology.

One of these beautiful unified theories which we are having a particularly hard time letting go of is the idea of "consciousness", alleged to be a single remarkable quality of some sort which is both essential and unique to the mind. That vague description is as close as you will come to a consensus on the definition of consciousness, and it still won't please everybody. Despite there being no agreement on what the word actually means, nearly everyone is nonetheless quite sure that whatever it is does exist and needs explaining.

In the time when the brain was utterly baffling, before we knew about neurons or brain anatomy, the model of the mind based around consciousness was at least reasonable. But now we know essentially how neurons work, how they can grow into complex useful systems, and the staggering quantity of them that make up a single mind. We have managed to isolate many aspects of human thought to particular areas of the brain. We've observed people functioning without certain fundamental faculties when parts of their brain are damaged, faculties which we would have intuitively considered indivisible from the mind as a whole, but which we are now forced to consider handy peripherals which we could do without, if need be.

As the gap between our intuitive understanding of the mind and our scientific understanding grows ever smaller, as we explain one faculty after another, cleaving them from the plausible kernel of the mind, and as the operative definition of "consciousness" continues to vary wildly from one navel gazing philosophy major to another, sharing nothing in common but the spelling, its career as a thought provoking topic of conversation nears its end, to be followed by its retirement to a quaint artifact of our ignorant past.
Uhh, just finished a week's intensive training in a supposed to make stuff more rapid .net based framework, and coming from a Django / Code igniter / Ruby on Rails / Grails background I'm utterly stunned that anyone would claim that the basic asp.net environment is a productivity boost over a top of the line MVC framework like Django?

Maybe the problem is your competence rather than your tools? I don't mean to be blatantly offensive, but wow, asp.net > django? Really? ... Man..
It does. Even current versions of IE can show PNGs in iframes, believe it or not ;-)
IEEE Spectrum: Quantum Chip Helps Crack Code
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Your are a biological machine? Really? Exclusively?

Who did convince you of that? Science?

Science is only science, science very often is wrong, and has to correct itself, sometimes decades, or even centuries later.

I know that I'm not a biological machine. I know that there's a voice inside myself that asks many many more questions than any science will ever be able to answer.

Now, where do these questions come from? Certainly not from my brain. My brain is not able to ask questions beyond its own capabilities.

So, let me repeat the initial question: are you a biological machine, and nothing more?
But surely that's broken. If I dig something but then add a friend AFTERWARDS, they wont see the shield as the bucket for my digg didn't contain their user id at write time. Am I missing something?
No problem, host it yourself: http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/textogif/textogif.html
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There's a substitution cipher at the end. Spoiler alert:

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The language (and the features) presented in this presentation are from Fortress, which Guy and other Sun researchers have worked on for some time. On the project page one can download Fortress 1.0 and also check out Fortress 1.0 specification:
http://projectfortress.sun.com/Projects/Community/

It's a pretty ambitious project and it looks like they are going to succeed. The focus of the language is to create a new Fortran, but personally, I think the scope and the ambition of Fortress are bigger. Viva la Guy Steele :)
See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=806050
It's akin to having a group of people sketching on a large piece of paper, trying to build on each other's marks to create an accurate representation of a scene, and someone comes in a scribbles all over it saying "but I see scribbles! All pencil marks are valid! Don't be so limited!".

He/She's allowed to have such an opinion, but this discussion is trying for a particular feel and that isn't contributing helpfully to it.
Yeah, this turns me right off too. Largely because I wouldn't want to work with people who found this kind of thing cute.

A job ad with well-written English is much more impressive.
ACtually the full page version highlights the results but doesn't navigate to them. Also it seems to be substring search, not an indexed one.
I'd figure that eval is in the same class as goto and for example Pythons vast dynamicness and metaprogramming abilities. Let's call this class the class of extremely powerful programming constructs.

A GOOD programmer can use such an extremely powerful programming construct and write good, readable code with it which just makes you go 'wow, this is ... just clean, and I get what it does in a second', which is nicer than any code one might produce without using these tools, even though everyone knows that this class of control constructs can create a horrible mess.

However, a BAD programmer can take this class of extremely powerful programming constructs, and create a horrible mess which requires more time to understand than a rewrite would take (more than once, probably).

And now, the third fact you need to add into the mix is: Bad programmers usually don't think they are bad programmers. The realization 'I am actually a pretty bad programmer' is one major step on the path to being a good programmer, as absurd as it sounds. Thus, a good programmer will usually not use this class of extremely power programming constructs, because he knows that he will probably produce a mess with them (and probably miss some really nice solutions), while a bad programmer will probably use them happily, thinking he produces clean and nice code (but he is not).

And this is the reason why gotos, evals and mind-bending meta-programming is not always bad, and not always evil, but we must not admit this, because otherwise, everyone will start using it :)

(yes, I am aware that this is some sort of black/white-imaging and the solution is somewhere in the middle for everyone, but it shows the point much nicer)
hence the robots who think for themselves in science fiction.
and the backwardsly un-emergent Alzheimers when circuits blow
fun to think about
Agreed. If I were looking for a job and saw this, I'd skip over it without a second thought.
In a perfect world, we would have open platforms and open infrastructure to go along with open source. Just imagine: a hacker organized and run telecom ...
I like their puzzle at the bottom and the subsequent page. I for one really like pomegranates.
> What do you think about the relational model makes it so "impossible" to scale?

ACID and the CAP theorem.
But we can't even successfully predict how proteins will fold (only about 70% are predicted correctly) and we presume we know all about chemistry and physics. Yet what we model, and what we observe, are quite different.

If true machine consciousness is possible, it's a lot further off than we would like to think.
That went wrong. You cannot upload pages here if you thought that. This site is for sharing links.

http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

(Why were people upvoting this submission? Bots?)
Very effective. What's scary though is that it apparently took being posted on HN before someone took it serious.

At least now that procedural hole seems to be fixed and this will never happen again.
> It doesn't have even half of anaconda's features and it installs only a few packages.

That's often a good thing. For headless installs, a Python and GTK-based install doesn't cut it.

"pkg_add pkgname" fetches a package and its dependencies once you choose a mirror, anyway, and using text files rather than menus to configure the system means you can keep your configuration in VC, configure a typical system by just applying patches, etc.
Yeah but then you'd have to deal with raptor attacks http://xkcd.com/292
The name of the album or the artist are the kind of "seems like it should work" that doesn't work. Lots of artists reuse album names as (all or part of) song names, or there'll be other metadata in the ID3 tags that happens to match an album by a different artist, or whatever.

Also, the grid view would be more useful if you did get album art for most albums, but most of the icons I see are a gray musical note. This is one of those better-in-theory features. :)

Anyway, though I use it today for lack of an alternative, I'm still holding a grudge against iTunes for destroying my music library back in May 2003 when I switched. I only had five thousand tracks or so at that time, but most of them didn't have any ID3 information because I'd ripped them from CDs myself over the years, and the filenames already contained the information I cared about, which was visible in the CLI (I came from Linux); the ID3 tags were invisible metadata I never paid attention to. Then I imported my music, and iTunes helpfully arranged all my MP3s into "Unknown Artist/Unknown Album/Unknown Title (n).mp3" based on ID3 information that didn't exist. Thanks, iTunes.
You can also contribute by donating, buying CDs, porting (or helping to test ports), answering questions on the mailing lists or IRC, etc.

http://openbsd.org/faq/faq1.html#Support
CSS was designed for vendor extension. This is why browsers are supposed to ignore selectors they do not understand. Mozilla and Opera use this too.

What you are comparing this to is different: a browser that does the wrong thing with a standardized selector.

And, of course, HTML violations are in a different class, as it does not have extensibility built into the spec like CSS has.
Five is not representative. Period.
Twitter to add money making features
Academic Evolution
They generally pick blue for the shorter wavelengths and red for the longer wavelengths. This corresponds with human eye, its just that most of the wavelengths fall out of the visual spectrum. I don't think that is arbitrary.
I've read all the comments, checked out the website, and I still don't have the slightest clue what "human-consensus forecasting system" means.
>Specifically for telephony, does one need something else?

Often, yes. Device manufacturers and operators have traditionally been very cautious of allowing low level access to telephony APIs. For instance, getting access to the audio uplink and downlink of a GSM conversation is quite tricky (often impossible) on other platforms, so if it is possible on a real Android device as you indicate then that is a big win. If you get the downlink then you can record calls - not something that everyone wants, but something that certain industries view as essential, e.g. for recording of financial transactions made via a mobile phone. If you get access to the uplink, then you can mix audio into the call. For instance you could make a voicemail system that sits entirely on the phone itself, answering calls and playing messages to callers (when you're in coverage anyway!).

With Nokia's Symbian based phones, it is a constant game of cat and mouse to try and access these things, despite having paid partnering fees, making individual paid requests for APIs, and explaining the business case directly to Nokia. They told me directly that I can't have access to such things, and if I manage it today on certain phones with some creative engineering, then those loopholes will be closed in future. You'd think I was trying to harm their business, not create compelling applications that result in businesses buying more of their phones.

The status quo seems to be based on the assumption that every developer is an evil hacker intent on bringing down the network or sending millions of SMS messages to cost the end user money. To get round this, either you are forbidden from doing anything telephony related, or you have to put up a dialog and ask permission first ("The application wants to send an SMS message, is this ok?"). I have a simpler solution: in order to run software on most phones, I have to sign it with a paid certificate to say it came from my company. If I write harmful software, then revoke my certificate so it will no longer install and I can't distribute software any more. In the mean time, let me innovate, please!
Nothing wrong with that. Just don't call it HTML if you do. Microsoft was chastised for taking a good standard, and extending/changing the standard so if you wrote HTML for IE it was seriously broken on any other browser.

Apple doesn't write it's HTML for you or anyone else's browser. Their markup is specific to iTunes and should be viewed as such.