skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why couldn't an open system allow for different profiles? E.g. personal, professional and public. Facebook has started to get the right idea with its lists feature - but there needs to be far more control - a completely separate profile, option to target statuses to certain groups etc.

Inevitably the solution will be a decentralised social network which other providers can tap into - core functionality such as profiles (and location?) should be as portable as a wordpress blog: either I get someone else to host it or I host it myself.
looks like the order changed, here's a pic of the actual schedule that someone posted: http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/756/scheduleyo.jpg
So funny how Republicans use the word "freedom" (as in "Internet Freedom Act") when they're actually taking freedoms away (like Net Neutrality)
Thanks for this, I updated the address last night with the correct location.
Tackling Concurrency with STM and Clojure [pdf slides]
I have dismissed a huge spectrum of "negative" reactions as all bad; these range from short and quick despair followed by action to fix the situation, to the more extreme total emotional breakdown and road-side sobbing. The brush need not be that broad, but you can usually gauge how much of a go-getter someone is by seeing their reactions, unconstrained by social appearances, keeping face, etc. People can fake calmness just by being shy :-) so you need to take into account how well someone takes bad news; I have seen people who made nothing of complete disasters and always had a plan B for everything.
The js code uses c/c++ paradigms instead of good js i.e. Operator overloading in c-style isn't ideal but functions can accept a single associative array to accomplish the intended functionality. Interesting goals of getting symbolic math in js though /applaud.
I agree that if I set up an expectation that I didn't follow through on, I would be rude. The fact is that I'm very, very clear about my position on the phone, so she has no reasonable expectation that I'll check it regularly.
I think the special interests donate to folks they know they can influence. (Everything in government is about getting the votes they need, right?)

Which may be why Obama got a lot of donations from individual taxpayers and not multi billion dollar corporations.
Chromium is the development branch's name; official "Google Chrome" releases are just snapshots of this project perhaps with additional branding installed. That's how I understand it, anyway. So yes, I've been using Chromium the whole time.

I think it is worth it. It performs much, much better than even the nightly builds of Firefox. The interface is also exceedingly faster than Firefox's interface (moving tabs around, etc.), and this makes it much more pleasant to use.

I switched because Firefox was crashing incessantly because Arch linked it against an incompatible (newer) version of SQLite. When Chromium crashes, just the tab goes down. This is so nice.

I haven't experienced much crashing though. The only problems I've had were a one-time bug that snuck into the build where it wouldn't special-case your keystrokes in a text box so it would read out shortcuts while you were typing (meaning backspace made the page go back) but this is expected and it was fixed in the next build (which I downloaded immediately, naturally) and problems with Flash.

In the build I'm using now, Flash behavior is erratic; sometimes the buttons will work on YouTube and sometimes they won't. Zoomify's buttons never seem to work. Also, occasionally a video will lose sync with its audio and start playing about five seconds before the audio kicks in. As such, if I want to watch something on YouTube, I often find myself using Firefox to do so. If you're a big YouTube or Flash user you might be too annoyed at this to switch. Otherwise, I heartily recommend it.
Bit of a waste of time. Caffeine is a stimulant, a real drug just like any other. A drug being legal does not make it less a drug. Caffeine tolerance is real and involves changes to brain chemistry : http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/113369008/abstrac... Coffee delivers high doses of caffeine, which works by stimulating adrenaline http://health.howstuffworks.com/caffeine-awake.htm production... so if you stay hooked on a stimulant for a long time, of course it has a negative effect on your performance.
Michael Green is the next Lucasian Professor of Mathematik
2009 Black Friday Ads Leaked To Internet
These slides are from a talk Mark Volkmann gave at the Strange Loop Conference, he has a more detailed article on Clojure's implementation of STM here: http://java.ociweb.com/mark/stm/article.html
If you aren't throwing up after the challenge is finished...
Nonsense. You can be annoyed without being a jerk.

I believe that position is closer to mine than the OP's.

He is saying that any bit of emotion is bad and a dealbreaker.
Richard Dawkins targets teenagers with myth-busting illustrated book
No reason given for why they did this. Is AT&T for better international roaming? Or did they just give Amazon a better deal?
"The question of whether or not evil is possible in a world created by a good and omnipotent God is basically equivalent to the question of whether or not it is logically possible for good to exist without evil."

No, not really. Apples and oranges.

"The problem doesn't really arise in any interesting way for the Gods of non-Judeo-Christian-Islamic religions."

Lack of imagination here. You really can't imagine various gods for whom the question of evil arises in any interesting way?
OK, now the video is stuttering so you can blame Justin.tv. It wasn't when I was watching earlier.
That might be true, but those people are frankly stupid.
Ask HN: Better alternative to daily RSS feeds reading?
Every day a few articles interesting to me are being published on the web. What technology do you use to discover them, while filtering out the rest?

I've been using Google Reader for a long time, and while theoretically it should save time by eliminating the need to visit each website individually, I noticed that opposite is sometimes true. The main issues I am struggling with are:

- with more feeds added to the reader, the noise is increased

- the very act of being subscribed to something can create a feeling of "obligation" to check and "clear" the feed.

- the technology fosters the attachment of "checking what's new," in a similar way email does, and that wastes even more time.

Of course, all of those issues can be alleviated by proper feeds curating, unsubscribe mercilessly and insist on discipline to not check the feeds too often.

Anyway, I feel there is a time to discover/invent some new technology to deliver my daily reading to me, something which would avoid the need to subscribe to sources. Recently, for example, I discovered that when something truly interesting is published, it will usually appear on twitter, and also being retweeted several times. I've been quite successful to use twitter search to discover new stuff for the keywords I am interested about, and the services like Tweetmeme are promising, too. But I didn't found yet some service which I can truly replace Google Reader with. Maybe that's also a good startup idea. What's your experience?
Digital Strangelove (or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Internet)
There are few examples of truly getting content for free. Time is far more scarce for many of us than money is. The only times I even consider stealing content is when nobody is willing to take my money for it.

Of the top of my head, I downloaded Star Trek for my dad a couple months after it came out. He was bedridden and I wanted to see it with him. I would have delightedly paid the cost of taking a family to the theater--$30 to $50--to stream it online. Naturally, that wasn't possible so I spent an hour downloading it.

It's just seldom as easy as point and click and watch. I had to download 2 or 3 crappy cam versions first.
That is true, but would you really want to pay for a service that also beamed ads at you?

Most people on the internet are willing to watch ads, plenty of people are willing to pay for stuff.

But when you start something that competes with something else that costs money and your selling point is that your service is free, how can you be surprised when people don't want to pay?
The REAL Twitter Revolution (interesting video)
Video is really choppy, seems like there is a lack of bandwidth somewhere.
"By any measure, $20 billion is a lot of money, but Englund claims his group isn’t seeking any government funding all they need from the Washington are airport rights to this swath of ocean."

Although it seems a little unlikely a request for government funding won't materialise in future it would seem that it wouldn't be for the entire amount.
Will falling Energy Return on Investment lead to economic collapse?
I really like the new look, seems a bit faster too.
Git: Your New Best Friend
Citigroup's "Hail Mary Pass": How To Know Citigroup Is In Serious Trouble
Bilder on the Legal Regime for Mining the Moon
Only true if the goods are in perfect competition with each other which is not completely true of any information good, and especially not true for many of the TV shows that Hulu hosts.
Itamal Arel on Artificial General Intelligence
Interviewing a chatbot would be very inefficient. YC has enough work set out for them already.
Startups, the Agents of Evolutionary Engineering
PST

9:30 Paul Graham

10:00 Greg McAdoo

10:30 Jason Fried

11:00 Break

11:30 Chris Anderson

12:00 Paul Buchheit

12:30 Biz Stone & Evan Williams

12:55 Lunch

2:30 Mark Zuckerberg

3:00 Mitch Kapor

3:45 Tony Hsieh

4:15 Mark Pincus
It was an oldie, but a goodie. Since I wasn't aware of it (I wonder how much other great info I'm missing), I suspected it was worth sharing. Sun's still kicking though, although more from Java and web growth than from solaris.
I was about to say something similar. For example, imagine if someone posted a topic saying (hypothetically) "Obama received more campaign funds from gay/lesbian organizations than McCain" (replace gay/lesbian with pro-choice, gun control, whatever). I doubt it would be interpreted as "He is in their pockets". It feels wrong to cast aspersions on someone's beliefs the moment they receive funding from some organization.
I probably didn't deserve a 104 points for finding it, but it's like who's line is it anyway. The points don't matter, what matters is that you guys enjoyed the read.
"Ritalin and Adderall target just the specific parts of the brain used in learning and for concentration."

Ritalin (methylphenidate) boosts dopamine; Adderall (amphetamine and dextroamphetamin) ups the level of dopamine and norepinephrine. Caffeine effects levels of adenosine and dopamine.

There is nothing targeted about this, nor do the chemicals only work on select parts of the brain. Now, perhaps for certain practical effects, boosts in dopamine and norepinephrine are better than reducing adenosine and boosting adrenaline.

But brain chemistry is complex, and it's simplistic to think of any of these things as specifically targeted to parts of the brain used for specific tasks or behavior.
Seriously? $7 for 4 oz. tea is really not bad. Even rather expensive high end green teas are much cheaper than (say) fine wines.
See also:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=893507

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=900352
Sorry about the problems; they should be fixed now. We had a bad uplink at the site.
"Commercial flights already take the better part of a day, even for short jumps. I can't imagine having to arrive at the ferry terminal 4-5 hours before my flight so that I can get to the terminal in time to spend 2 more hours waiting for ticketing and security and all the other delays."

Presumably this airport could be used for flights that are long enough already that it doesn't matter nearly as much. Say, at least most of the way across the country. (And international flights, of course, where a few extra hours on top of 24 is unnoticeable.) SAN would be for the short hops.

The effectiveness of this depends entirely on the current distribution of flights on SAN, though, which I don't know. I've only done relatively short flights from SAN. For everything else I end up taking a commuter flight up to LAX (which is much, much faster than driving).
When, and how, did you get the impression that YC requires their applicants to grok enough AI to be able to write a decent chatbot?
Making a Google Wave-like History Slider
Or better yet, simply avoid stories about politics. This article is more about McCain and money rather than network neutrality.
http://www.lazyfeed.com
The New Old Thing: Once you announce a date, you're already late
Although factually correct I don't see the relevance given that this game is Flash based and written in actionscript. Am I missing something?

Also, why not link directly to the php site? http://php.net/mt_srand
Yes, getting a second monitor would require playing with the "xrandr" command. It's not that hard, but definitely not for normal users.

The situation is thankfully improving though, and I'm happy for that. It's nowhere near ready for consumers (as much as some people like to claim), but it is getting there, and it has a really good and steady improvement rate.
US is now in midst of 2 national emergencies
Rare Photos of the Russian "Buran" space program
Bad Working Conditions, part 1
Soviet infrastructure never fails to amaze. Simply colossal.
I grew to like Gardner's writings somewhat now. They however, indirectly, had almost
devastating effect on my earlier life, promoting sort of mathematics I never
could do.

There is "bag of tricks" culture of mathematics
(http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~wtg10/2cultures.pdf) where one often stands
no chance against a "tricky" problem without prior acquaintance with "tricky"
sort of shortcut principle. I was always too slow and never grokked or scored
this sort of mathematics. I barely found anything profound or beautiful in Gardner's
SciAm columns. They were scary like black magic more than they were interesting. My teachers all from this school just bashed me and didn't told
me there is richer structured, theoretical and constructive side to mathematics. The same
year I qualified to the International Physics Olympiad I got non passing grade
in mathematics, at which point I dropped out of HS, went to do what unexpectedly
turned out mathematical physics and now I'm for a degree in pure mathematics, several
tantalizing years later than if my teachers were not so enchanted by Gardner's
tricks.
My understanding is that Adderall amplifies brain activity in whatever part of the brain you are using. Coffee just
stimulates everything.

Of course that's a major simplification, but this is what I mean by "targetted".
Just to follow up - the stream has gotten a LOT better - watching Chris Anderson now. Awesome!
Startup School: Jason Fried of 37Signals On Startups, Crack Cocaine, And More
Was watching the stream on Justin.tv, but it was hard to get a connection and the audio started chopping up ever few seconds.

Really disappointing.
Probably harsh, but nevertheless my point of view.
When i look at http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=microsoft+vs.+apple+vs+... and compare apples size in terms of employees, revenue... it's a _huge_ company with lots of money. Now i look at what it does in the open source world...
From my perspective a lot of what i see on macs today has it's origins in the open source world and apple wouldn't be where it is today with open source (webkit came from khtml, mac os x kernel partly from freebsd, calendar server is based on twisted, afaik). Now you tell me that the company that tries to lock it's customers in their ecosystem with a lot of proprietary software&hardware (hello quicktime, hello itunes), that it's particularly open source friendly? It sure as hell is not. I could nearly bet that MS does more open source then apple. If it's not already the case, apple is heading in that direction.
i like the data tracking and chart, but the conclusion is a little weak...maybe he's getting better at concentrating and coffee has nothing to do with it. (or rather, i suspect both are influences)
This is really dumb. Do we need any more evidence that the US patent system is broken?
Denied. Patent troll. :)
Agreed. Re-thought and now flagged.
Or the one that fixes the bus.
It all boils down to a simple thing:

Entitlement.

If you feel entitled to stuff then all the problems in the world are caused by and supposed to be solved by others.

If you have a 'get up & go' attitude then there is not much that will faze you, after all, you trust in your own competence and judgment to solve things.

There is a certain 'complaint' culture, where everybody is just whining about stuff all-day-long. It really can get on your nerves sometimes. So, you complain. Fine, now what are you going to do to fix it. And if the answer is nothing then stop complaining.

It's very scary how pervasive this is in society.
Tim Armstrong’s Secret Project Is To Turn AOL Into A Low-Cost Content Machine
I haven't drank Red Bull in a few years so things may have changed.

I checked the amounts of caffeine and other "medicinal" ingredients myself when I was doing physical labour and drank them regularly.
No, he's saying that negative emotion is all bad and a dealbreaker.

And I fully concur with that. When faced with adversary circumstances you can choose to be active and constructive (and polite to boot), or you can be inactive and negative (complaining, whining, 'why doesn't anybody do something' and so on).
The unfortunate thing is Sen. McCain portrays himself as standing up against the lobbyists and special interests but he's still taking the money. His votes are still favorable to them. Seems really hypocritical to me or at least it makes him look really bad even if he's not doing anything shady this time.
You might like http://www.newsbrane.com
"When such a proposal takes five years or more, the individual might threaten to find a more skillful artisan."

Very true.
Makes you wonder what would be construed as infringement. So, if someone else proposes to "Ellie" will the guy be sued under this patent ?
Startup School: Wired Editor Chris Anderson On Freemium Business Models
Not really, you would have to just modify the StoreKit library to act like a sandbox account all the time, or with the specific app, therefore all in-app purchases would be marked as successful. With server side in-app purchases, you would have to circumvented receipt verification, but there's probably a way for that.
Yeah, their stock was trading around a P/E of 60 for a while. Its the first and only time I bought a put on a stock. Complete irrational exuberance.
Oh come on. Everyone and their mother saw this one coming. Anyone who bought shares of Crocs was only playing a game of timing.
Just a followup... I was sucked deep into a rabbit hole on the basis of this article, and I ended up experimenting with Chameleon:

http://chameleon.osx86.hu/

I don't have anything to report about the Rebel EFI (the "limited trial" aspect scared me off), but I can confirm that there has been TONS of progress with other EFI emulators, and that I am extremely impressed...
There's been a few St Andrews articles recently, any other St Andreans here?
The comments on the post are mind-numbing. People need to learn to take things as they are.
It seems he's aware of what his experiment does and does not say.

Causation or not, he's achieving more intervals without coffee.
That's fascinating - thank you for sharing it.

I travel a lot, speaking to students all over the UK and beyond, and I've found something. Sometimes to get the audience hooked I'll present a cute little something that's odd, unexpected, or counter-intuitive. Many of the students light up wanting to know more.

But others find their intuition challenged and get very defensive. The result is that they are completely turned off, unwilling to engage. For them I need to take a step back and show that there is ordinary stuff that is of itself intriguing - challenging and fun.

It sounds like you needed to be given more structure, more development, more flow. It's there, but most school teachers don't know about it.

My wife says the impression she was left with from school was that math is just a bag of rules with no unifying theme. The "bag of tricks" is a similar problem.

I hope you're now starting to see the beauty and elegance that comprises the main body, as opposed to the cute wrinkles.

I'd welcome an email from you if you're interested. If you reply to this we'll work out a way to get in touch.
For him at least, the data is proof enough. He thought he might have needed coffee to stay productive, and he found that he didn't.
Think of it as interpretive dance: what could be more poignant than using one fundamentally broken institution to propose engaging in another? Oh, wait...this is supposed to be a happy occasion.
I think one problem is that users want more than just share and hide information selectively. I want each of my "friends" to believe that I share everything with them because they are soooo super special.

If my "friends" know that I'm hiding something from them, they feel bad, and they may not be my "friends" for much longer.
Today I met a great Debian Hacker who works with an MNC. He was into gold business and is from commerce background. After knowing this from him, I understood one thing - its the interest should be driving us, and its worth spending more time developing interest in something rather than trying tested paths.
Can one be a senator or congresswoman in the US without taking money from interest groups like these? If you can, do you then have to be a millionaire? How does it work? Just curious.
I find that with Harvard alumni, I usually know they went to Harvard within five minutes of meeting them. And I'm not typically doing the asking.
The chat on that stream is as bad as youtube comments.
If you log into Public Pair (http://portal.uspto.gov/external/portal/pair) and look at the prosecution history (tab labeled "Image File Wrapper") you will see that the examiner denied this application, and that the application was abandoned by the applicant in Oct of 2007. The system seemed to work quite well in this case.
While the stock price has certainly crashed, Crocs is still worth $650M dollars: http://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NASDAQ:CROX

If that's a fad, I hope I can create a fad business someday.

Maybe the Crocs business strategy was exactly right - milk it while it's trendy, and then keep a good business at the end.

It's not like these shoes are Nintendo Wiis. There is absolutely no limit on how many you can produce. If Crocs hadn't saturated the market, then all those knock-offs would have stolen more of the total money to be made on the idea.
Was the development of the a225 overkill? How come a 747 is sufficient for the shuttle?
I've been experimenting with coffee for a few years now, but I've never tried to quantify my results quite like the author did.

I've been everywhere from 1 cup a day to gross overconsumption. In the end, coffee doesn't seem to significantly impact my concentration. If I get 8 hours of sleep, don't drink any alcohol the day before, and stay hydrated, I can be productive no matter how much coffee I drink. Even more, I found that Morning Coffee makes me dehydrated and irritable, so I usually drink a cup or two after lunch to keep myself going. On occasion I've quit for 2 week intervals just to start from scratch, but quite frankly I'm addicted and never mind starting up again :)
Startup School: Ev Williams And Biz Stone
If they hadn't produced to sustain and satisfy demand, they might have made less money, if the trend was destined to falter anyways.
Or they donate to people they know are already sympathetic to their cause, and who have maximal PR and regulatory influence. Why would you spend $1 on John Barrasso if you could instead give that dollar to John McCain?
Internet Archive Opens 1.6 Million E-Books to OLPC Laptops
Try mint flavored coffee?
This could also be an episode of The Office where Dwight Schrute is put in an hiring position :)