skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks :)

I now know the structure, that's why I "grew" to appreciate Gardner nowadays (albeit now I also find he's doing many things "simple as possible and even simpler" (contrary to the Einstein quote) and thus... still unnecessarily convoluted, so I'm not sure if I like him already).

I know your email, but have nothing of value to say ;]
Thnx guys, I found another link: http://everything2.com/?node_id=1683000
Ohh... and just now do I get the joke.
Is there any way to turn it off? For now I'm just using the "ignore" feature to block as many of those people as possible.

The fact that it's constantly moving is very distracting, and it adds so little value.
Black tea contains about as much caffeine as Red Bull (per liter). Admittedly less than coffee, but hardly minimal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caffeine
SICP in Clojure (In Progress)
Holeys is a true Canadian success story
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=900866
Sometimes the mere -appearance- of a conflict of interest is nearly as bad as an actual conflict of interest. Citizens in a democracy should be able to believe with confidence that their elected representatives are doing what they think is right, rather than doubt whether their elected representatives are really doing what's right for those who give them big campaign contributions.
I really don't think it matters. Rails and its gems will most likely surpass it in no time: http://gems.rubyforge.org/stats.html
Don't underestimate how much convenience is worth to people. Netflix's value add over Blockbuster was convenience, Amazon's entire business model is "convenience". I can get people to come to my house, take all my laundry, and return it after it's been cleaned.

People value convenience in different ways, for sure, but I suspect there are a ton of people who would value the sort of convenience that Hulu can technically offer. I'm one of them, but I'm not entirely optimistic about how good their execution will be.
It was probably necessary, the only other options would have been to continue with the VM-T which the soviets were using for the same task on smaller space parts, or the An-124. The VM-T would have been underpowered for the Buran, it was really used to carrying smaller parts and only had a payload of 50,000Kg (1/5 of the An-225, and only slightly higher than the 42,000Kg of the Buran orbiter).

The An-124 on the other hand was too short, even though it had adequate payload capacity. So the An-124 would have been needed to be extensively modified to carry the Buran anyway. They may have over-engineered it somewhat, but then better to over-engineer than under-engineer and end up with an embarassing accident.

The 747-100 that Nasa chose to use for the SCA didn't need quite as much modification to make it usable, and had a fairly high payload rating anyway (around 170,000Kg), and was long enough to carry the shuttle.
If you click the options gear-like icon, there's a "Hide Chat" option.
The article is interesting, but the conclusion that all antidepressants on the market are flawed is not correct, mostly because different antidepressants target different systems in different ways. I took Celexa for over a year, it worked OK but not great, and then after reading the wikipedia article on treatment of depression, I tried SAM-e, which works much better (200mg Jarrows in the morning with a B-complex supplement to break down the homocysteine). Prior to Celexa, I tried Zoloft, which was completely useless.
Disney’s Neuroscience/Advertising Lab
I moved noisy feeds out of Google Reader and into FriendFeed. I use the FriendFeed notifier http://friendfeed.com/about/notifier to have items popup on my screen in real-time. If you follow a few key people & feeds on FriendFeed, all the interesting news should reach you.

It's mostly invasive, and now I don't have to constantly check anything and I don't feel like I'm missing anything either. If it's important it will probably popup more than once. In fact, it's how I noticed this post http://friendfeed.com/newsyc
Do antivirals and the flu-vaccine even work?
Ha, that seems a little strong. I know lots of intelligent people who purchase cable.
Tweetie + Instapaper was my replacement for Google reader. I dont have to mark tweets as read as well. Lazyfeed is good too.
Evolution isn't that impressive. Humans could build human-level AIs if we had millions of years too.
Terror threat ? What terror threat would that be ?
Worked great for me right up until the break for lunch.
And if San Diego doesn't keep current on their fees the airport could go somewhere else, like Shanghai.
many more here:

http://worldmysteries9.blogspot.com/2009/02/abandoned-space-...

Actually looking at them side-by-side I think that's the original page, the posted link a very nice re-working with a bunch of new material.
Question for debate: is twitter a fad or an icon?
Sounds like a newspaper!
SproutCore 1.0 RC1 - HTML5 Application Framework
From the Java world, that seems odd:) Scaling your DB and/or caching layer is a lot harder than scaling sticky session based app instance with minimal db interaction.
What's the problem? The standards compliant layer would perhaps just not be as fast as the native metaphors.
Oh, please.

http://scienceblogs.com/effectmeasure/2009/10/journalists_si...
Hopefully it's simply to obscure to get any kind of pre-order status.
I think it's more interesting than that. they obviously picked the tweets as those search streams have all sorts of junk in them. so, they had to pluck out tweets that sounded twitter-ish, but not too twitter-ish. not sure if this was done by humans or robots.
I'm sorry for misinterpreting your intention.

And no, I was not just thinking of ionic solids. For instance take ice. A molecule of H2O has no net charge, but locally there is a pattern of positive and negative charges on the surface which results in a predictable crystal structure. Most molecules aren't that strongly polarized, but no matter what there is always some pattern of charges, and atoms will tend to line up so that positive meets negative and they attract. They will do this even when passing by quickly, hence the Van der Waals forces.
Haml, the 10th most downloaded gem on there, still hasn't switched to Gemcutter.
As I found for myself, Gardner (and his approach) is not for everyone. You're one of the others. I'm trying to create material that's not "tricks" and stuff, and is more aimed at people in your position. Partly because I think I'm better at that, and partly to complement the other approach.

I'm pleased you've found something you like, and wish you the best.

EDIT: for clarity.
Well, the Earth is over 70 percent water. It seems that expanding our habitable space to exist on a marine environment is more feasible than, say, building a colony in outer space.

Grumpy travelers' concerns aside, it could be a really neat concept akin to a destination in and on its own. Like an EPCOT center, but factoring in the economic, environmental and social issues of building a floating city. An engineer's dream . . ..
White House opens Web site programming to public
It doesn't help that many writers and publications use clever and cryptic headlines that often are the sole way of judging whether an item is worth clicking or not.
Is it Possible for a Spacecraft to Fly Straight Through Jupiter?
Wheelize Your Potential
Comparing caffeine content in tea vs coffee is a tricky argument to make. The caffeine content in tea varies on many factors, including oxidation level, steep time, and leaf agitation. On average, the amount of theine/caffeine in a cup of tea is much less than that of a cup of coffee.
I wondeer if this helped their downfall.

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=fashion
CNN Redesigned
But how would newspaper know what interests me?
The rats, after decades of development, are believed to be the most depressed in the world.

I'm not against animal testing in general or this sort of thing in particular, but I found that sentence strangely evocative.
"With the massive sprawl surrounding SD I think you'd have to go a good 2 hours from the central city to find a big enough patch of land to build a new airport."

Not even close. San diego is not really that big. For example, it is a 30 min drive from downtown to alpine which is a small town in the middle of nowhere, where the more sensible plans put the new airport. That travel time can be shortened with high speed rail and it would still be many times cheaper than that ocean pipe dream.

Oh and 30 min in a car or on a train will be soo much better than 45 min on a shaking sickness inducing ferry.
Additionally, tea has other elements (l-theanine, for one) that seem to give it a different profile of side effects.

Drinking green tea gradually over the day (carrying around a thermos, perhaps) seems to give most of the benefits while minimizing side effects, provided you like tea. The worst aspects of coffee & caffeine come from having a whole bunch at once, then spiking and crashing.
I use hacker news. Seriously though, I've been wishing google reader allowed you to rate what articles you like and to what degree you like them, then have an algorithm sort them by how much it thinks you would like them. Maybe I should make that...

EDIT: looks like people mentioned services that do something similar.
That's why we are "sapiens", our physical strength is not as good as ancients homos but we are smarter. Smarter proved to be better than faster or stronger. We may be wimp, but we survived.
Specifically, it's a good rebuttal to the nagging feeling that maybe giving in and drinking coffee would help him focus. The same approach might help with quitting smoking.
Could you please clarify with a short example of the style you'd recommend? As a non-JavaScript programmer tackling a problem of a kind I haven't dealt with before I'm sure there are glaring deficiencies in the approach I took. However I'm not quite sure what specifically you'd recommend that I'd do differently.

Also note that some of the overloading stuff you are looking at is there because my next step is to start doing linear algebra and multi-variable calculus. So I'll be throwing around things that I can't simply use + and * with.
I did check the link, but I thought that you were only referencing the benefits. I'm sorry for the misunderstanding.
Current status of the adaptation:
http://sicpinclojure.com/content/current-status
Apps that help you live in each other's pockets? You'll be pushing for communal living next.
> Climb inside to experience rickety-looking Soviet computer panels and monitors. It takes guts to fly into space with these...

Eh. It takes guts to fly into space tout court, of course, but I don't think those look rickety. Solid, proven, dependable, as used by dozens of spacecraft and kosmonauts!
They stopped recording. Why waste bandwidth broadcasting an empty room?
Startup School: Paul Buchheit Wings It, Tells Us What He’s Learned
Seems like a Herculean task for one person.

I wonder if the author considered making it a wiki and enlisting the clojure community's help?
_why may not be, but many others are:

http://github.com/shoes/shoes
Here's A Greasemonkey Script To Keep Track Of Your StackOverflow/SU/SF Accounts
> Was the development of the a225 overkill?

Nope. They went for the awesomeness factor.
I imagine that they are only for OLPC because of some copyright agreement. Anyway it would be nice that they were available to the rest of the Internet (or may be they are and I did not read well the news).
Why not build the airport 40 miles inland, in the desert? There's no shortage of desert land in California. Wouldn't that make so much more sense (by orders of magnitude) than build a floating airport? Just wondering...
I was being facitious suggesting that somehow a Linux install would be substantially different from one VPS provider to the next (likewise that Python would be any easier or harder to hack on than Ruby).

While I agree that playing with production code is generally a bad idea, there are certainly times it's called for (granted, 2AM may not be one of those times, if a few hours later you can be in your "normal" development environment)
It used to be the case that DRAM was more sensitive to soft errors than SRAM until about 8 to 10 years ago. Today, soft errors in SRAM are more of a problem than in DRAM. The capacitance per unit cell of DRAM has remained relatively constant, while the capacitance per node of SRAM has shrunk dramatically with transistor scaling. So even though SRAM actively holds data, contrasted to DRAM, which passively hold data, SRAM's low capacitance makes it more susceptible to soft errors.
I like to think that people vote on a comment based on the content, not on the (current) score. It is not particularly unlikely that twenty-four people thought:

This is a worthwhile comment! It points out something that I did not realize, and change the meaning of the article to a degree. I may as well vote on it, that it may move upward in the list and other people read it earlier than other comments.

Also remember that +1 isn't specified to be "Insightful" or "Informative" like Slashdot; nor can you vote a "half-good" comment up a half-point. Instead, to achieve the same effect, a half-good comment must appeal to half as many people. This comment happened to appeal, on its own merits, to twenty-four people.

(Does this mean that the highest-voted comments might be the ones that appeal to the biggest percentage of the site, rather than the ones of the highest quality? Hmm. Does that mean that for the voting system to work well, a good percentage of users must specifically only vote comments that are very good?)
Even if coffee's net effect is zero -- you're as stimulated with it as you are without it -- it can still be positive. Think of it as a way to dial up your adrenaline; instead of being excited at random times, or by external events, you're excited when you need to work, and calm when you want to relax.
Sequoia Capital Invests In Bump Technologies (YC W08)
Just like Sweeperbot! http://sweeperbot.org/
http://feedscrub.com is such a service
The Mentality of Incrementality
I would not call it out of reach. You can download OpenSolaris and use it. The Gnome desktop is a bit older than Ubuntu or Fedora, but, still, it's usable.
What kind of a nonsense question is that ?
Achtung Criminal Investigation Against YouTube Underway in Germany
If you look at the status page, he wants to implement community features including editing.
More details: http://techpresident.com/blog-entry/whitehousegov-goes-drupa...
What's wrong with scheme?
If I could give your comment more points, I would.
Will recordings of the talk be posted online, preferably with slides attached?
It would be wonderful if they were and i am sure that i'm not the only one that would appreciate it.

Watching inspiring talks like these are a real godsend for me, especially since i don't have the possibility to attend anything similar to this in real life. We don't have many web or startup related events here in Gothenburg (Sweden) and the availability of them online is as close as i come to meet these incredible people. :)
Disagree. He practiced his invention at least once.
You'd be surprised at what's possible. I'm actually working on one right now.
Must Know Marketing Tips from Jay Abrahams
Yeah, I think "over built" would be a more applicable critique, if you're trying to find one.

Those are some very substantial looking instrument panels.
It's the same thing. The purpose of the Firewire patents was to collect licensing fees.
Authentication Gotcha with Google Wave
Now that folks are actually collaborating with Google Wave, I have noticed an interesting gotcha (see http://www.dynamicalsoftware.com/cogenuity/integration/google/wave) when using FireFox.

The only way for the embedded wave to identify the user is if the user used Google Friend Connect when authenticating with the application. If using the embedded wave's own login GUI or just logging into wave from a separate tab, the embedded wave doesn't recognize and grant access to the user.

Has anyone else here run into this and did you find a work-around?
Rich Hickey has some interesting things to say about learning clojure via SICP.
http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_thread/thread/...
Home roast, decent grinder, and a press pot... Doesn't get much better...

While I do drink coffee for the caffeine (and experience withdrawal symptoms without it), a substantial motivation is that I simply enjoy the flavor of a properly made cup of coffee.
... vis-a-vis wiser ways of spending transportation money, considering the most good for the greatest number and reducing carbon impact?

Time to take more holistic views of how these systems inter-relate, rather than focusing on narrow visions.
You'd all dig the Dojo.
Junkflash - Get Gossip Superpowers
Gio Wiederhold: Database Design, 2nd Edition.
What is Junkflash?
Junkflash is a new way to access celebrity news. The Junkflash browser add-in recognizes and tags up celebrities you come across while browsing. When you point at a celebrity name a sidebar appears showing the latest published headlines about that person. These are aggregated from the feeds of 50 top celebrity news sites.

Why is it cool?
Junkflash users doesn't have to search sites or clear out feeds to find gossip they’re interested in, Junkflash brings relevant celebrity news to the context of your browsing. When shopping for movies or music, watching clips on YouTube or reading a movie review and a celebrity is mentioned, Junkflash shows you the latest gossip about that person right there and then!

And when you're already at a celebrity news site, Junkflash lets you see other sites angle on a story, or more recent developments.

“Junkflash brings gossip closer to gossip fans.”
I agree and would love a link to the archive when it's created.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=897669

You should try searching with SearchYC.com.
I have been using Shaun Inman's Fever (http://feedafever.com/) recently to try and filter out what is 'hot'. Its an RSS reader but lets you have feeds that are only used as indications to link up other good posts. It works by showing you articles that lots of people are linking to.
The website runs on Drupal, which has multi user editing, revisions etc. The 'book' module (included in the default installation) is basically a wiki. So, the infrastructure is already in place.
This is quite a comical comment given today's earlier HN article about how google has done exactly this, sort by magic:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=900345

Alas it didn't last long in the rankings.
P.S. I'm the guy whose computer was being used to present, who's been doing tech in the front.
You are obviously missing my point. But that's alright...
Exactly. Every picture of space shuttle control panels "look" old, but are (most likely) state of the art technology. It must be the beige toned cases that immediately make us think "rickety looking". They are created to work, by NASA... not make by Apple, in order to look sharp.
I like my spacecraft overbuilt, you insensitive clod ;-)

The Soviet shuttle had some definite advantages over the American design. It had no engines of its own, it could carry a larger payload. Another nice touch was that it could be mounted on top of the booster instead of its side, preventing Columbia-like accidents. And it was fully automated - the only time it flew, was unmanned.

Truly a great piece of equipment. Very impressive.
Obama Offers Millions for Muslim Tech Fund
One of the odd things about SSRIs that I learnt recently...

I was reading up on peripheral neuropathy, since I'm suffering some nasty nerve damage in my feet due to diabetes, and discovered that SSRIs are one of the most effective treatments for peripheral neuropathic pain. (which probably didn't help with my diabetes diagnosis, since I've been on a SSRI (paroxetine) for anxiety for the last 3 years, and it was the pains in my feet that led to testing for diabetes...)
Everything's a laughing matter if it happens to you, so by the Golden Rule it should be a laughing matter if it happens to someone else.
Yes, it's less (about 1/3 to 1/2), but it's significantly more than cola. Don't switch to black tea if you want to kick your caffeine habit.

Here's another source:

http://www.stashtea.com/caffeine.htm
Nothing, but if you're starting from scratch and know you'd have a real world use-case for Clojure sometime soon, why not learn its APIs, warts, etc rather than Scheme's?
I gave a conference talk in May that was well under the time limit - I took barely 20 minutes in a 25 minute slot. It was a much smoother talk than one I gave in March where I tried to fit more material in. From now on, I'm going to err on the side of including less material, and giving myself more breathing room.
"a press pot"

Try a Chemex: http://www.chemexcoffeemaker.com/ . It's not as bitter.
Startup School: An Interview With Mark Zuckerberg
Nonsense! You have no sense of opera. Where would we put our SFT [1]?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submerged_floating_tunnel . This is probably the best transportation system ever.
I would have reacted the same way if someone had claimed health benefits for e.g. Coca Cola. :-)

It just haven't reached the public conscious yet that coffee weirdly seems to be such a good lifestyle choice.
Playdar - Music Content Resolver
I really don't have a better alternative as I'm kinda struggling with the same problem.

Anyway, my interests are kinda broad, so to use "curated feeds" like Hacker News or basing them on Twitter volume wouldn't really do it for me. Also I quite enjoy finding unexpected things that I didn't even know I'd be interested in.

I'm an information junkie, what can I say.

I DO know quite well what I'm NOT interested in though. Very few solutions let me filter out crap I'm NOT interested in. I think that approach would work the best for me.

I wish information I read was accurately classified using some standard metadata conventions. It'd be so much easier to deal with. Obviously with the sheer volume of data, and the diversity of the sources, that's probably completely impossible to do in any reasonable way. Still, I wonder, if a popular RSS platform would implement some sort of standard, and then let their sources come on board if they wished to...I wonder how quickly it'd be adopted.
Zuckerberg's talk is tremendous so far. The guy's killing it. His grasp of details at the company is pretty darn impressive.
Kind of off-topic, but I'm pretty surprised clojure doesn't do TCO.

Is that a JVM limitation?
The chat widget is horrible. I resized the browser to get rid of it. They're also updating the "x Views ... " text below the video every once in a while, which is annoying.
Hint: it's a beta

Report it! :-)
This has nothing to do with the patent system. The invention is specific to Ryan and Ellie. Esoteric and fun, IMHO. I hope Ellie is a patent lawyer. It would be delicious.

[0045] In the ideal situation where Ellie accepts the diamond ring, Ryan should sign the patent application and deposit the patent application with the United States Postal Service. Preferably, the United States Patent and Trademark Office receives the patent application and, upon examination, issues a patent on the same.

[0046] In the drawings and in the specification, there has been set forth preferred embodiments of the invention and although specific items and methods are employed, these are used in a generic and descriptive sense only and not for purposes of limitation. Changes in the form, timing and manner of events, as well as a substitution of equivalents, are contemplated as circumstances may suggest or render expedient without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention as further defined in the following claims. Furthermore, nothing in the aforementioned description of preferred embodiment is to be interpreted as an admission by the applicant of prior art.