skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have experienced exactly what are you are talking about here and at least this was my problem - I was not happy simply because my mind kept jumping from one thing to another, I would spend all the time on news aggregators,checking emails, reading some random stuff,jumping from one task to another without concentrating on anything and not fully completing anything on interenet.I always wanted to join some open source project but everytime I would just manage to download the sources,maybe do some sample work and then get distracted onto something else.Then I thought maybe I was just lazy and tried all sorts of productivity tips and tricks to get out it.

Then one day I was reading a Buddist book on Medidation and it had some really useful advice( and no I am not at all religious but at least what that book seemed to me was very clever mind hack).It asks you to just "Let go" , don't think about your past, don't think too much about the future.Just focus only and only on what you are doing right now.If things are meant to be they will be, if you like programming just go and program , don't bother too much on what is the problem,eventually it is only but logical that you will get good at it, you will obviously start working on areas that interest you,you will become skilled enough that you can probably get a job in the field you like or maybe open up your own company.I think the key is you have a computer and you have the interest, just go an program and don't bother too much about doing something "important" or writing "Poetry".

The book btw is Mindfulness-Bliss-Beyond-Meditators-Handbook
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> If the cost of "we act" exceeds the benefit, it is not "good."

I think the point is that of the four possible outcomes (in order of costs: no action and no climate change, action and climate change is real, action but no climate change, climate change is real but no action), this is the second worst outcome.

All other things being equal it really comes down to a risk assessment. Yes - this, the third option, would be seriously painful from an economic point of view. But the fourth, which is what the overwhelming majority of climate science tells me you're proposing, would be an unmitigated catastrophe.

We're being asked to make a bet. My bet goes on spending the money for the same reason I have life and income protection insurance. I don't think it's a waste of money if I fail to die prematurely or incur serious injury. Plus, in real terms, the cost is similar.
Excellent points. I have found myself making some of these mistakes (ie. whitespace changes mixed with other changes) and do feel bad about them later.

I'm going to post a link to this at the top of our project's Trac page to remind everyone of the (a) right way to do it.
It's nice to see people still follow the old security PR playbook:

http://chargen.matasano.com/chargen/2009/4/1/how-to-hidehhha...

The "modern" game Microsoft plays is boring. It acknowledges and thanks researchers, often accepts worst-case assessments of impact, and fast-tracks fixes. What they don't understand is that our stories need an antagonist, someone we can name and pillory. Thanks, Claire Cranton at GSM.com, for giving us one.
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It doesn't appear to handle SRV records either. These are used for various things eg the extremely widely used SIP protocol.
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At least some HTML was handwritten: http://github.com/voloko/uki/blob/master/app/functional/wave...
And so long as consumer satisfaction on those tiny screens and tiny keyboards is so low, it's a market Apple's not going to touch.

Which is also why the hypothetical tablet, if it exists, absolutely will not run Mac OS X. (At least, not while it's out and about, doing it's tablet thing. It's at least plausible that it might act more desktop-y if it docks as a peripheral.)
I think the GP meant a varnish, not a paint.
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Adrian Bejan, the guy who created/discovered Constructal Theory doesn't seem to be flakey at all: http://hcr3.isiknowledge.com/author.cgi?&link1=Search... and http://www.mems.duke.edu/fds/pratt/MEMS/faculty/abejan/
While I agree with most of your comment, there is something to be said for preparation. Do you think it's unwise of me to wait until after I pay off my student loans (a year, perhaps) to quit my job and start my own business? Keep in mind that student loans are one of the only loans you can't get out of with bankruptcy. This is the kind of very specific preparation that doesn't have to keep escalating. I'm reasonably comfortable walking away from a failed startup with nothing; what I'm not comfortable with is being saddled with an ever-growing debt I can't get rid of.
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Is she saying that the raw radio data is copyrighted? Or the software?

Because either way, wow.
Nice, but I question if this needs to be made into a plugin. There's a need to hook up things on the server side, and the same thing can be accomplished by writing 20 lines of code.

Here's something I wrote for my translation site:

jQuery(function($){
var save_txt = '{{ _('Save') }}';
var saving_txt = '{{ _('Saving...') }}';
var saved_txt = '{{ _('Saved') }}';

function save(){
$('#save').val(saving_txt).attr('disabled', 'disabled');
$.post(window.location.pathname, {
action: 'save',
translated_text: $('#translated_text').val()
}, function(html){
$('#save').val(saved_txt);
});
}

var timer;
$('#translated_text').keyup(function(){
window.clearTimeout(timer);
$('#save').val(save_txt).attr('disabled', null);
timer = window.setTimeout(save, 5000);
})
.focus();

$('#save').click(function(){
window.clearTimeout(timer);
save();
return false;
});
});
This might be easy for you to do, but that's also only if you can shake the feeling of worry. I'm some punk kid, with tattoos and ear gauges, and when you combine that with my general distrust of authority, and mix in how terrible the consequences can be, it's not just the process that causes stress with flying. I don't carry a knife, but I do some craft-y stuff sometimes, and I constantly worry if I've accidentally left something in a pocket somewhere.
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Yeah -- that's why I cited Stephenson in the essay I wrote about Avatar: http://jseliger.com/2009/12/27/thoughts-on-james-camerons-av... , which got upvoted on HN yesterday. I assume whoever submitted this link thought, "Stephenson ought to get a place of his own here."
thanks. something still seems odd to me, but perhaps i am just too cynical. or perhaps it is being misapplied? when i have more time i will look at constructural theory in more detail.
Of course you can make imperfect or active one-way mirrors.
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Hmmm, I think it might have problems with underscores in hostnames. Before you say that underscores aren't valid, they very much are. They're used for DKIM and SIP for example:

root@haven:~# host -t txt dkim1._domainkey.grepular.com
dkim1._domainkey.grepular.com	TXT	"k=rsa; p=MIGfMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBAQUAA4GNADCBiQKBgQDwe0CGlJQq6Y0poniuhn80rsC1kKrcVg19STXqgM8wxe4HidRjr8KfSfCo0wcgqVq8saqsB0JCt2WOquRlUG5qRtrZag6G/wpYkRYCjYm8VsaJDxNZFpiauXeyz9HGKkHTo2QxLVIYFzkSo7ZtRQNnUB1N12/v5BscLk6X1DlmawIDAQAB"

root@haven:~# host -t srv _sip._tcp.grepular.com
_sip._tcp.grepular.com	SRV	10 0 5060 voip.grepular.com
root@haven:~#

Not just underscores. You can shove almost anything in the hostname part of a dns lookup...
"A site created by the GNAA, which opens windows of 6 shock sites that fly around so you cannot close them. It also plays really loud sounds of a guy saying "HEY EVERYBODY IM LOOKING AT GAY PORNO", a few minutes after, sounds become more loud and screams and a Jews.WMV (which is gay porn video) windows open really quickly, they may crash your computer if too many of them opens."

Good lord. Thanks for the heads-up and the clarification.
I was only saying that in discussion of Genera, the only argument for Genera's superiority was how much information it presented. I've never Genera's interface but the criteria of amount of information presented seemed a bit off.
Although the "James Harry Potter Gold Medal" sounds kind of weird, it is a real award: http://www.asme.org/Governance/Honors/SocietyAwards/James_Ha...
@tudumo - good idea, thanks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_North_American_countrie...
That probably means there are 299 million wireless devices using GSM.
This includes lines that are over 340 characters long.

If there is no limitation on line length, I can replicate it in one line of code.
New York Characters in Sound and Images (also see UI on NY Times homepage)
Even at movie theaters? I've seen movies in many states, and never ran into one that charged tax on top of the ticket/concession price.
incidentally, Stephenson prefers "speculative fiction".
Eric has an uncanny knack for helping us see the light.

My favorite part:

"These beliefs are rooted in fears that make sense. But, as is often the case, the right thing to do is to address the underlying cause of the fear."

This line of reasoning is generally much more persuasive than the "you're an idiot for being scared of this, get over it."

And for the record, I think this whole continuous deployment thing is on the path to truth and justice.
@chris_smeder thanks
"North America" includes more than the United States: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America
Um, is this the same guy? CFO of South Pacific Oil?

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/willis-eschenbach/14/a54/935
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> the scrollbars aren't the Wave-style scrollbars.

This is a classic case of something being a feature, not a bug!
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Did anyone honestly think Apple might put out a big iPod touch that was less capable and less responsive than an iPod touch?
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I had my first customer two weeks after launching. (He actually got a refund -- but I learned two things to incorporate into version 1.02.)

My main plan when starting the business was acquiring customers through SEO, with the possibility of eventually "cracking the AdWords code" and figuring out how to acquire them profitably through there. That is pretty much still the plan.
It depends. I've taken train journeys in Spain where the security is almost as strict as the airport, although a lot faster. I am not a fan of security theater either but it's as much about quelling general passenger anxiety by making a demonstration of vigilance as anything else.
Can anyone explain the injection part? I didn't understand how getting the passwd file helped in any way with injecting a php error, and why code got executed in the end.
I wasn't necessarily thinking of the bathroom situation (although you certainly make a valid point).

My point I suppose was that flight attendants are in a lot of cases not going to be able to physically enforce their will on passengers. This is where other passengers step in, they are the ones who will come to the aid of the flight attendant to restore the peace. This doesn't mean that everyone will be throwing their own judgement out the window if someone has to use the restroom or complains about having to put their book away.

It should go without saying though that reactions will seriously depend on the situation.
Does anyone have an extra Google Wave invite?

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you missed me too, @azharcs
Thanks Patrick, glad to see BingoCardCreator doing well.
Tell PG: Email alerts. 
Hey PG,

I think that it'd be really cool to have email notifications when someone replies to our post/comment.
For our first product, we used eBay, starting an auction at $0.01/free shipping and letting it go for a week to see where it ended up. We got lots of bidders and a better price than we expected, and most importantly lots of interest.

After that, we did several more eBay runs to test different copy / pricing, and then with that information, launched our own web store (normal fixed-price checkout, non-eBay) about 8 weeks after that first auction.

Now with 2nd product, we've already got an established reputation and traffic in our niche, and developed the 2nd product specifically around the feedback we were getting from customers.

This is for a consumer product, hybrid of physical parts + content. Not sure that you can apply the eBay concept to a SaaS, but depending on what you're doing, it may actually be possible (i.e. if people would be naturally searching on eBay for software to fill that need, then put up a 12-month subscription as an auction!).
From a recent paper by two German Physicists

(a) there are no common physical laws between the warming phenomenon in glass houses and the fictitious atmospheric greenhouse effects, (b) there are no calculations to determine an average surface temperature of a planet, (c) the frequently mentioned difference of 33 degrees Celsius is a meaningless number calculated wrongly, (d) the formulas of cavity radiation are used inappropriately, (e) the assumption of a radiative balance is unphysical, (f) thermal conductivity and friction must not be set to zero, the atmospheric greenhouse conjecture is falsified.
No thanks -- keep your security checks out of our train system. If people insist on flying they can pay the price at the airport.
@apgwoz
The problem is that these aggregators become saturated with so many options that the ability for these indie developers to build a sustainable and long-term business around these distribution channels becomes difficult.
I meant @reply me on Twitter, but this works too, I suppose. Just keep it under this thread.
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So you sent an e-mail to some public relations person at an interest group (gsm.ORG btw). You should approach your service provider or handset manufacturer, who (in theory) could take direct action as described in the presentation from ccc. This is one of the reasons for having an open phone.
The passwd file didn't help, it just showed him that he could retrieve arbitrary files via an open/improperly escaped PHP include().

His injected worked by causing an error to be written to a log, and then reading that log back through the PHP include. The error that was logged contained an arbitrary string (the HTTP request, with the malicious PHP code), which was executed by the server.
That explains it! It does break the principle of least surprise though...
Your not missing anything.
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Gifted? Like a child prodigy?
I don't like Linux, I think it is a curse, technically poor and the ultimate worse is better.

But I respect the fact that you did it, you kept it together, kept it going, brought people together on a worldwide project. Your pragmatism is refreshing. You've probably saved us from the world according to Stallman and Raymond so thank you for that. You come across as a nice guy when I've heard you speak.

So, after everything I've said in public and private I would like to take this opportunity to wish you happy birthday from one hacker to another, great job, keep it up.
Interesting. With all due respect, I think you should redesign your site www.nerdkits.com
For this to count as a feature and not, umm, a dodgy implementation of a parser, it would have to convey some advantage... But what?
Before we (OK, "they") go making changes, I'd like the school to ask the underperforming students what the school can do to help them improve. While I suspect a long list of wisecrack responses, it's still remotely possible the troubled students have a vague idea what really needs to be done.
I'd say darkgray wolfhound before wolf, the legs are pretty long for a wolf.
so, very eventful?
Yes, but you hate tablets. I still say they're going to be a hot item in 2010, and if Apple launch one in January they'll be enjoying a boatload of cash by year-end from it.
"2. Tomorrow's ad exchanges will resemble the stock and options markets for equities."

Already largely the case. See adwords.

Largely the case for online advertisement only. Traditional media is still surprisingly backwards.
Moon surface temp:
equator Min 100k, mean 220K max 390K
85°N min 70 K mean 130K max 230K
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon

Earth: min 184k mean 287K max 331 K
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth

PS: NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has used its Diviner instrument to probe the insides of permanently shadowed craters on Earth's satellite. It found mid-winter, night-time surface temperatures inside the coldest craters in the northern polar region can dip as low as minus 249C (26 Kelvin). The Diviner instrument observed the lowest summer temperatures in the darkest craters at the southern pole to be about 35K (-238C); but in the north, close to the winter solstice the instrument recorded a temperature of just 26K on the south-western edge of the floor of Hermite Crater.
I was looking at the source. I'm interested in the include function. Anyone know how he does that? Is he compiling all of the individual JS files down to one minimized file? If so, what's the best way to do that?
recommendation seconded. Miller smashes a number of idols.
And now they have, that's the point

Right now there are employees of GCHQ, NSA, Mossad, whatever the KGB is called this week, smirking at that assertion, they've probably had the capability for years. All this does is level the playing field a little.
Seems like they go together to me.

Why yes, it seems like the climate is changing.
Hmm. I actually don't have fear of continuous deployment. I just see it as a natural thing to do.

It make sense to me that you want people to test your game for gameplay feedback so that you could tweak it until perfection.
Comparing to the average temperature between 1961 and 1990 seems spurious. If this window of time were changed you would probably get substantially different anomaly results.
My PC's power supply operates on the terawatt scale. Specifically, it operates on the very low end of the terawatt scale.
My point was users will always want the option of explicit storage control (which ChromeOS lacks) until local-to-cloud syncing is essentially transparent. This takes a a lot more bandwidth and ubiquity than is currently available.

A reasonable technical analogy is the use of overlays (user controlled) vs virtual memory (automatic) by programmers - until hardware support, memory and disk sizes and speeds were available, overlays were the practical and desired memory management technique. Similarly, the cloud has to be much closer in availability and access speed to local storage before users don't have to bother with much explicit control of data storage location. I think that's a lot further off than the author and you assume.
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As a material scientist myself, I was curious about their study. So I pulled up their paper in JAP.

My first thought before reading was that the high intensity laser pulses were causing local heating such that any impurities in the solid (ie carbon) diffused onto the surface. Nope, they did an EDS scan and platinum was clearly the dominant element. There were traces of carbon but I think this was due to impurities in the microscope.

So basically what happens (my educated guess) is that the laser pulses break up the surface structure such that different phonon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonon) modes are excited when certain wavelengths of light are shined on the surface. Just so happens that wavelengths in the visible range are absorbed so the sample appears black. To create different colors, I guess they just found the correct amount of power and wavelength laser pulse to create the phonon mode that they need.

I don't believe they oversold their technique. Scratching won't really cause this phenomenon. Corrosion maybe, but I doubt they could achieve the same optical properties. Fragility is a legitimate concern, but I'm guessing that if they are interested in industrial applications they will do mechanical testing of the structures.

EDIT: I'd also like to add that I think it's perfectly OK for a scientist to upsell their work. We live and die by the grant system, and funding agencies are all looking for "broader impacts." I'm rather impressed that their group was able to drum up this much press.
Is it still your blog post when all you do is copy and paste an article from the Times?
Feature request thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363
"Because climate is a flow system far from equilibrium, it is ruled by the Constructal Law. As a result, there is no physics-based reason to assume that increasing CO2 will make any difference to the global temperature, and the Constructal Law gives us reason to think that it may make no difference at all."

Sorry, but that is stupid. Just because changing one thing (ie making a short cut in the river) doesn't change one other thing doesn't imply that no matter what you change, nothing will change. Also, the author never seems to have seen a redirected river in a bed of concrete.

It's been nice to have learned about the constructional law, but other than that, I have to take this article with a grain of salt. It clearly doesn't seem to be neutral in motivation.
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Very tactful -- I'd be very happy to hear specific thoughts on this from you or the rest of the HN community! Send me an e-mail, or post it here.
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Ableton suspends development (of music SW) to focus on bug fixes
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Fine - I am waiting for the big waves this paper will make if it turns out to be valid.
Poor article. Good introduction to the issue, and then... the end. It's missing a body!
Multiple issues I solved when doing similar things:

1) Must have some sort of queue-like behavior, or race conditions. In other words I want a guarantee that all saves happen in order (imagine a checkbox, and due to latency in network traffic of the user checks it on, then off. What state was saved the on or off for one of them? I don't like these race conditions) this can happen for any input type.

2) What happens if the data must be extracted weirdly, or weird parameters sent to the url. A data extractor is a useful concept to have be passed in.

3) Indication to the user that it works. Like what gmail does. A useful feature.

4) What if its not a form, or different elements go to different urls? Also a useful thing to do.

This sort of tool became a cornerstone of some very cool form interaction mechanisms.

I guess the idea of this plugin would be to have a gracefully-degrading auto-saving form that preserves values while the user types for recovery purposes.
In fairness, that's basically what the airlines do as well, they just have more hubs and the hub and spoke model itself is less visible because of the higher speeds involved. Presumably a more viable rail service would involve at least more hubs and hopefully also higher speeds.
Find a local meetup, and try to connect with people in your area who have cool ideas. Then put together a team and start building.

BTW, if you happen to be in the NYC or Philly area, email me.