skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you missed the point. in the private sector you don't need to justify costs back and forth to each other...either the product is wanted at its current production costs or it isn't. would it be used if consumers had to pay the full cost of its development? or do they only use it because those costs were offloaded to the taxpayer and it can essentially be given away?
36 Agruments For The Existence Of God [with associated flaws/fallacies]
For now we may only have little letters. But soon as it is adopted, HumanMarkup will revolutionize online communication: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=h...
I would absolutely love it if Nokia could get a foot hold in iPhone territory, but I seriously doubt that's going to happen as long as Nokia doesn't bring in carrier subsidies. As it is unsubsidized Nokia smartphones are simply unaffordable especially when considering unlimited data plan charges.
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/in_the_know_should_the...
It seems a stretch that he would refuse the treatment from his wife whilst treating 64 other sufferers. The study would have gone through the local ethics committees, probably with second opinions etc. I would be curious as to whether the ethics committee knew his wife would be amongst the trial group but I would find it difficult to condemn him if they didn't.
Quite like the idea, and the execution seems simple enough. What I would add to your site tho, are examples of the actual examples :). Now your examples are just code, while it would be nice to see them. Either next to the code, or with tabs, or... You get the idea. Kind of how the jQuery site does it.
once you accept that

1) humans are animals

2) before the age of 10 or so children are pre-rational

parenting should make a whole lot more sense. children do not come into this world ready to accept logical reasoning as justification for behavior modification. you have to train them that the alternative is unacceptable.
This isn't going to be good for the end user at all. Right now for the most part search engines can focus on improving results. This will just degrade results by fragmenting them, and detract from efforts to improve results.

If there's any sign that Bing is inferior to Google it's that Bing has to artificially decrease the value of Google.
Then you could start sending requests via proxies ... and sooner or later the site would start blocking legitimate users.

Either way, the majority of all new traffic comes from Google right now, and if a website has exclusivity for Bing, it would surely lose a lot visits. And it's definitely not worth it unless Microsoft pays really well for this privilege ... and I'm not sure they can do that, even if they are Microsoft.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test-driven_development may help you.
I use SubEthaEdit or TextWrangler depending on what I'm writing. SubEthaEdit has better syntax highlighting for some things, including Go, but TextWrangler acts more like I want it to.
This is like paying a candidate for not contesting in elections aka pagerank.
Doesn't vim have ispell support?
Paying for exclusive content, which other parties did not previously hold the rights to, is constructive manipulation. In this case Microsoft would be paying to detract from Google's value, which is destructive manipulation. In the former case the total output is not lessened, in the latter case the total output is lessened.

Ideally there would be no manipulative tactics at all, and all competing entities would do so by merit and product improvement alone. In this case all possible actions would be additive to total output.

Microsoft's tactics of destructive manipulation however is the worst you can get.
I have a problem hooking up my TV to my PC

I have a problem making my playlist play good songs, but not just then keep repeating those songs till I got sick of them

I have a problem finding good accessories for my home that match the color, tone and style.

Socks & Underwear. Regular delivery. Cheap price.

Daily Expenditure: Hassle free non-detailed tracking.

Easy & short reading material for travelling. Something that pushes only interesting and current reading material based off an interest of mine - "business", "science fiction", "humour" and so on
http://cetus-links.org/
Panthers WR Smith OK after minor car accident - Gvke
Here are some links that might be useful:

- http://hackerhackernews.com/

- http://news.ycombinator.com/lists

- http://hnsort.com/
I can't see this working. I believe that the sums needed by websites to forgo Google-sourced revenue are likely to be overestimated by the sites themselves, and would require Bing to overpay, even though accurately measured costs would still likely be enormous.

Mark Cuban wrote a little about this recently:

http://blogmaverick.com/2009/11/13/google-murdoch-madoff/

He estimates 125k sites at 1,000 USD average per site, with that distribution favouring larger sites.

Thing is, my sole significant web presence is my occasionally updated blog with a mere few hundred subscribers, but even I wouldn't take 1,000 USD to delist it from Google - and that wouldn't be what's on offer for my end of the spectrum.

It's simply too dangerous not to be found. If you did a search for a key phrase, and it didn't turn up in Google, would you turn to Bing or some other search engine? Not likely for me: I would rather think that the site had gone out of business, or has some technical issue, or a malware infection, or something similar long before looking at these kinds of business issues.

It's like not showing up in the yellow pages, or a storefront disappearing from a casual stroll down Main St. To accept a bribe like this marks you out as a non-serious business, IMHO.
What do you suppose would be the odds of a literary theorist getting a parody of a physics paper published in a physics journal?

Well, actually...

http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/
>Sometimes it's easier to break into the page with Firebug and extract the .flv URL and download it manually for later viewing, than to wrestle a Flash player into behaving sensibly.

Or you could let it buffer fully, and then use Nirsoft's VideoCacheViewer to save the video to a permanent location.
As a physics journal editor you could publish articles by French lit. profs which would save their lives, but which any competent physicist would see were clearly bluffs, so wouldn't you be somewhat obliged to do so?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Market_Access to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRIC
Ask HN: What's your favorite Windows Text Editor?
Hi guys,
I've been developing on Windows for quite some time now. I am using Textpad for all my coding needs, but I find it lacking in some respects (like regex search). So to all you Windows based developers, what text editor do you use and why???
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Google chief favors net neutrality but is wary of regulation
This is a fascinating subject.

I recommend the novel "Oracle Night" by Paul Auster for its treatment of this topic. At the core of "Oracle Night" is a short passage from Dashiell Hammett's "The Maltese Falcon," reproduced in full here: http://www.fallingbeam.org/beam.htm. This story within a story within a story is about a man named Flitcraft who is walking to lunch one day when a beam from a construction site falls next to him, narrowly missing him. The experience rattles him so much that, after lunch, he walks away from his job, wife, kids, and city, and starts a brand new life elsewhere, never looking back.

Another work that touches on similar themes is the novel "Fearless" by Rafael Yglesias, made into a movie in 1993 starring Jeff Bridges.

As you say, it can indeed be sobering to consider how thin the threads are that tie us to our lives.
A different window manager is a different system to 90% of consumers. Is there any reason a company can't run a proprietary WM ontop of the linux kernel? If there isn't, are there or have there been any companies that do so?
With regards to physics in particular (my specialty), I think it's important to understand what part of physics you want to learn, and in what depth.

If you want a good, basic introduction to mechanics and E&M, I would point you towards Serway. The problem is that Serway is a very basic book, and not really written like physicists think.

A step up from Serway is The Mechanical Universe.

The best intro physics book on E&M for physicists is Purcell.

The Feynman Lectures are great, but you have to be willing to devote serious time and effort to studying them. Especially if you're new to physics, and thinking like a physicist.

If you want another step up past the Feynman lectures, and you're willing to devote a serious amount of time to it, the Landau and Lifshitz series is incredible, though very advanced. If you can make it through all of those, you're among a rare group indeed.
The Importance of Having Rainwater Tank Installed
Drinking water scarcity has always been a huge problem in Australia. However, things are taken care and managed by preserving rainwater that can be stored and later used for drinking and other home use. Based on this, there is a great increase in the number of rainwater tanks that are installed all over. The Australian Bureau of Statistics has also reported that the percentage of families that are sourcing water by using rainwater tank
I don't condone it in any way but
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adderall
is extremely effective.
The world mistakenly confuses us for a tolerant country: we're not. We're just indifferent.
Tiny nitpick: Microsoft was the 8th most profitable corporation in the world, last year. I am sure there are a lot of products that they sell extremely well, besides Windows / Office.

Also, while they may not have produced many successes over 3 decades of platform wars, they have certainly ruined many competitors.
FIFA 10: O Melhor Jogo de Futebol: EA SPORTS
Re #1: meh. I guess you're right, though it's not a terribly useful point in this discussion.

Re #2: Bullshit. You've clearly never spent any time around kids if you think that kids younger than ten are "pre-rational". Kids start to reason way before age 10.
Let me see if I understand. Your psychiatrist claimed that by exercising your "right brain", you'll be better able to perform "left brain" functions?

Is this scientific? If so, I'd like to see references.
For instance my main beef with it is that in a world where Ruby exists there's no excuse for that kind of crappy all over the place syntax.

In a world where Lisp exists, there's no excuse for syntax.
Salesforce Chatter - CRM meets Wave / Friendfeed
Wouldn't this "pre-calculated" version work only for a certain combination of text size, line-height, element widths, and zoom settings?

A pre-calculated version is not much different (conceptually) from just creating a static image containing the image and the text.
Shouldn't there be four quartiles?

And I don't agree with your view, Haystack has some outstanding designers and agency. Only problem is it costs $99 a month to have a big listing, which is too expensive for most freelancers.

I would also suggest asking designers at http://themeforest.net/ if they do freelance work. Template designers must deal with design and code as well as customer support. So they're typically easy to work with and not overly concerned about "art".
Chronicles of Mystery: The Scorpio Ritual 
Sylvie is an average archaeologist living an average life until the famous Professor Oliver Leroux disappears mysteriously! Sylvie decides to track him down, so she goes to Malta to look for clues. After realizing that Oliver had uncovered a dark secret, that many people want to remain hidden. Chronicles of Mystery puts you in the middle of an ancient legend and hot on the heels of the missing professor. Find Professor Leroux in this Adventure game!
As I understand it, Fox's ultimate goal is not to de-list themselves from the Google, but to force Google to pay them for indexing.
AT&T launches its own sad retort to Verizon’s ads
Copyright law doesn't cover google indexing the page for its search engine anymore than it covers me posting a list of my favorite songs on my blog. Would you argue that someone can't develop a song recommendation engine without acquiring a license for every song in their database? By your argument this very site is infringing the copyrights of all the authors HN ever links to.

I know how to use wikipedia too and did in fact use it. Why should his opinion on this be relevant?
It certainly doesn't have a right to publish those materials. It has every right to index them.

I agree that Google News will need to die if the publishers don't want them to list their news there, but the actual search engine itself?

Indexing is not publishing. How many times do we have to fight this battle?
"But today, with smartphones permeating our lives and going everywhere we go, it makes a good deal of sense to have someone keeping a close eye on what those apps do."

No it doesn't. To use their words from two paragraphs up:
"The software market for personal computing has existed in this way for nearly three decades, and while there have certainly been some problems along the way, I'd argue that overall we're better off without Microsoft or Apple or some other organization approving software applications before they're released to the market."

So it doesn't make sense now, it never made sense, and I don't see how it could make sense in the future.
"From my experience in dealing with them, designers can either produce incredible work but be extremely difficult to work with, or produce eye pollution and be great to work with." -- The above designer you mentioned is neither.

can you elaborate on "but be extremely difficult to work with" -- ??. How a designer who produced excellent stuff was very difficult to work with?.
I don't think it's entirely clear yet what direction Azure will take. The base offering using only .NET and Windows with simple storage is priced almost exactly the same as google app engine. It's difficult to compare to Amazon because the architecture is so different. Google and Azure (I believe) won't let you do any serious computation in memory whereas Amazon does support that very well.

However, look at SQL Azure. Microsoft thinks that their SQL offering is worth paying 66 times what you pay for google's database (or Azure BLOBs&Tables) and that's just for storage alone ($1 per GB, maxing out at 10GB right now). Add data transfer and you may get to 100 times.

Yes SQL Server has vastly more features than google's db, but does it make me 100 times more productive or profitable? I don't think so. If I need more SQL features I could run Postgres on Amazon or use Amazon's MySQL service for roughly 10% of what SQL Azure costs.

So if SQL Azure is the model of what's to come then I think it's indeed more of the same.
Ah, come on! The rules governing how s-expressions are made up are still SYNTAX!

But I do agree with your point ;-)
start being the key word. look into brain development. the field of child development has known for years many things that parents refuse to apply.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_cognitive_development...
http://pablotron.org/?cid=1557

Pablotron persists to other "backends" for none html5 browsers:

* flash: Flash 8 persistent storage.

* gears: Google Gears-based persistent storage.

* localstorage: HTML5 draft storage.

* whatwg_db: HTML5 draft database storage.

* globalstorage: HTML5 draft storage (old spec).

* ie: Internet Explorer userdata behaviors.

* cookie: Cookie-based persistent storage.
"There are indeed things you can't say in Holland.

Oops, yes, I forgot about the fate of Pim Fortuyn."

I live in the Netherlands (as opposed to "Holland"), and this poor rhetoric device beats everything I've read about the matter in terms of oversimplification and naivety.
I've realized that the times when I manage to force myself to implement just one more feature for the day, refactor one more API, etc. are the most productive. So, I try to keep that in mind when my focus is waning and I want to skip off to HN or Hulu, and things get done.

One word of advice for retaining your current attention span: do NOT, under any circumstances, start playing any of the Tony Hawk games. The ability to instantly reset the level when a mistake is made destroyed my attention span when Tony Hawk 2 came out years ago. It took me a month to realize this and get back to a normal level (exaggerating, of course).
French Lit is harder. Much harder per Kolmogorov complexity, but even if you're running it on monkeys, getting the right answer out to the limits of evidence would be a huge work of detective and archeological and historical study far beyond the source text. You would be attempting to reconstruct someone's mind from the outside in, with very fragmentary life-logs.

IOW, French lit only seems easy because academics aren't aiming to be right. They just want an informed guess. In physics, this is considered the start of an investigation, not the end product.
Again, I am shrugging.

Whatever you say, someone will complain.
Thanks, I was thinking in terms of hashes (which doesn't really make sense for searching/ordering).
You can all thank twitter for that. They only give access to their feed to a few selected buddy companies.
It was just a matter of time until other sites follow and try to cash out on this!
[This means publishers appear to be using some leverage with search engines, forcing them into the position of possibly having to purchase the right to index their content.]

Yes, that's correct, I think. They (or at least Murdoch) wants to do that. Most of the folks here seems to defend Google, and some of their points are valid, but let's try to look at the issue from the publishers point of view. As it is now, Google just index their content, make a good money out of it, and then give back only a link to that content. And when publisher wants money for the indexing right, Google just says to them: "Shut up, be happy that you've got a free link from us." But... why should the publisher agree with that? They have a full right to ask money for indexing their content.

Now, I think this will be interesting. So far, Internet users have a perception that "there is everything in Google", and it's also Google's core mission, to index all of the worlds information. But it seems everyone just supposed Google should have a right to index everything for free, so now everyone seems surprised that it's not so.

But, it is not Murdoch who drilled a hole to Google's strategy, it was Twitter. Google admitted they are willing to pay for indexing rights, so Murdoch demands the same. I am really curious to see what Google will do about it.
"and this poor rhetoric device beats everything I've read about the matter in terms of oversimplification and naivety."

It would be useful to the rest of us(who don't live in Holland) if you could explain why the "rhetoric device" is "poor", "oversimplified" and "naive" (vs a bald statement that it has all these qualities).
Spotify client released for Symbian
Any experiences? At least here in Finland people have been waiting for this.
if you want to help, don't forget that it's open source : http://github.com/opencongress/opencongress
Please read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fooled_by_Randomness before you take a plunge.
I read most of the Graphics Programming Black Book by Abrash in high school. I read through the first section on assembly optimization almost completely in order, and used some of the graphics algorithms in an ancient Linux framebuffer project. Great book for learning about performance considerations. Unfortunately the included CD-ROM was crushed early in my ownership of the book.
Microsoft and News Corp in Discussions to Remove Newspaper Content from Google
Let's say News Corp and Microsoft did this. Let's also assume that News Corp did other things to monetize their data, such as putting it behind a paywall, preventing bloggers from quoting large sections of articles, if the Tories win the British election getting them to shut down the BBC's news website, etc.

I think this could be an enormous opportunity for Google. They could create their own news service (or maybe buy one). They could integrate it with Google Ads, Reader, allow commenting social bookmarking, etc done in an open way to get as much external take-up of the information as possible, and maybe integrate it with Google Maps so that people could have a personalised local news service.

The cost of this? BBC News has an annual budget of £350 million, so something in that area.

If a lot of Google's competitors are voluntarily de-listing themseves from the open internet, everyone would flock to Google's option.
Even in a capitalist society, you need some socialist parts.

The best example would be the roads. Who paid for it ? Tax payers. End everyone is happier for it.
Or, perhaps, instead of data entry, a more universal data format and communication protocol for exchanging and synchronizing date information, so that supermarket purchases, websites etc. automatically add the data to a person's centralized calendaring system. This is something I want to make a (small) part of my current project, so someone please beat me to it, and then you can make a plugin for my project once I've launched :).
For me it's 45-60 minutes, but longer pauses afterwards (15-30 minutes). I only started doing this recently, but so far with good results.

The other thing that helps me since a long time is having a todo-list in which the top-task really always describes exactly what I'm working at now. Even if that task is only "figure out what to do next".
There are two kinds of anime, and they're very similar to the two kinds of personal computers we have today. Studio Ghibli produces the kind of anime that's identifiable to Apple products—it's high-quality, expensive, has its own style, and is aimed at a very wide audience, sometimes ending up in American theaters. Additionally, the content (software) produced to go along with the format (hardware) is developed in-house.

Meanwhile, most other anime producers are like PC manufacturers—they compete to produce a commodity as cheaply as possible. First, they're adapting manga that has already been written, illustrated, published, marketed, and merchandised, so the customer development half of their business doesn't need doing. They simply churn out adaptations of the books they receive, and people tune in; it's a pre-made market.

Second, people don't care about the visual quality of anime. It's great when it's exceptional (I can only think of Ghibli work and FLCL at the moment), but no one expects it to be. Mostly, anime-watchers tune in to experience a visual dramatization of a story that couldn't be executed in live-action without a ridiculous budget. Things in space, giant robots, fantasy creatures that aren't just actors with bumpy foreheads, etc. They don't expect great visuals, just the bare minimum needed to understand what's going on, so they can enjoy the story without having to imagine the narrative themselves (and though they do still end up having to read the dialogue, this doesn't require any form of visual imagination.)

Given these two factors—that the studio's only job is to adapt a manga to the screen, and that they may do this as badly as possible and still not lose any of their following—it's no surprise that it's a process that has been outsourced and reduced to manufacturing "more work with longer hours = better" conditions.
I consume on Twitter via hackerlinks: http://twitter.com/hackerlinks - (personally over Twitya http://twitya.com/#hackerlinks) ..parses the new comments for links and posts up the result - check it out, over 500 followers and stabilizing
-- it is a bit of a hosepipe so open wide
A 'Large' Project Means Nothing
A nice toy.... Shows that node.js and javascript is actually a nice coding environment for server software. However, I am not confident of its stability or performance yet.

A Redius client library for node.js would be interesting.
The surgery may be experimental as a treatment for MS. But the procedure itself for unclogging the veins sounds fairly straightforward for vascular surgeons, Zamboni included.