skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surely you aren't of the opinion that one should trade the majority of their young waking life for money to have a decent standard of living, and then the moment they are finally freed from having to "earn" a living they immediately must ratchet back their standard of living to poverty levels?

Absolutely. Excepting, of course, the expedients of planning for your own future instead of relying on the government, saving and the miracle of compound interest.
Afraid.org - freedns.
> Curta calculators contributed to the saying when describing the process of calculating, "Cranking out the answer."[citation needed]
Libevent is rock solid -- it handles the event loop for memcache, among other things. This guide looks like a great improvement/accompaniment to libevent's docs.

One problem with using an event dispatcher like libevent is that libraries that make their own blocking calls won't cooperate. That means you'll often be stuck with limited capabilties, unless you write your own libraries or hack up existing ones.

There's a Python project called gevent (http://www.gevent.org/) that works atop libevent. It monkey-patches the python socket module with a version that automatically cooperates with libevent's loop. It uses greenlets to make code written sychronously run asynchronously behind the scenes. If, for example, you want to use an Amazon S3 library that makes use of python's httplib (which would normally block and choke your event loop), it'll automatically work with gevent/libevent. If you need to handle lots of concurrent connections and don't need to be working in C, check it out.
USB 3.0 is optical if I understood the article correctly.
47 mandamentos para pequenas agências digitais
Todo freelancer um dia tem o sonho de ter sua própria agência, seja qual for seu seguimento em nossa área. Com isso, segue a dica para o sucesso! Acompanhe o slide desenvolvido por Andre Matarazzo coordenador da agência Griingo.
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Watch African Cup of Nations 2010 Games Online, African Cup
African Cup of Nations has started now and The African Cup of Nations is the most watched soccer events in Africa and African Cup of Nations also is a major event and people from around the world watch African Cup of Nations on their T.V or they watch African Cup of Nations online live
Seriously, The Rules simply do not work if you're looking for a loving, equal partnership. It's all manipulation and games. Same with the "pua" approach. The vast majority of people do not behave this way toward partners or potential partners.
On the Page Load Time of Quick-UX
I think you need to make a choice between having political articles (which this is, essentially) and polite, rational discussions. I have seen very few examples of both coexisting for long on the internet. They're not that bad here, yet, but how long will it be?
Brazil is easily one of the best movies ever.
IQ and Trading Profits
Three blog posts I'd love to read (and one that I wouldn't) (2007)
Glad my favorite editor went with my favorite dsccm!

It's only to be expected that vim would eschew the rampant fanboyism of other tools, and go with the best.
The Pneumatic Post of Paris
Laptops are becoming potentially useful as servers, especially considering that they have what amounts to a built-in UPS that can run for up to 12 hours (in this case), without the problems inherent in a conventional UPS (price, single point of failure, etc.). ACPI even offers flexible event-driven power management to protect your data. The only problem is that I haven't found a laptop that offers server-oriented options in the BIOS. For example, I would like to tell the laptop to hibernate when power is disconnected and battery is dangerously low, then wake when AC power is restored. Extra points for providing a sleep stage before hibernation, depending on battery levels. I'm not a big fan of WOL for this purpose.
You know what just struck me reading this? When did newspapers start debunking scare stories about the weather, rather than spreading them and indeed just making them up from nothing themselves when bored?
> A "self-replicating probe" is either so weak in capability that it would hardly amount to colonization, or so strong in capability that it would amount to a rival life form.

Why do you assume that? There are plenty of self-replicating machines on earth that have been extremely successful at colonizing their environment, but we would not typically view them as "rival life forms".

> What functionality would you build into such a probe and by what means would you prevent a "boomerang" effect wherein it comes back and causes problems in the home system?

The simplest method would be to have them accept any order signed by a standard public key. I'm not sure why people tend to assume that a self-replicating machine cannot be controlled. There are plenty of self-replicating programs that are controlled very effectively.

> Additionally, if all you are talking about building is a device that would, encountering our solar system, take up residence in orbit, take pictures, and report "back" - how do you know there aren't already several of them present?

Because if have been many intelligent species in our galaxy over the past billion years, it seems unlikely that all would be careful to remain undetected. Certainly our species has little interest in hiding its activities.

> Colonization, as opposed to mere migration, was pretty much always, more or less by definition, for resource extraction.

Plenty of species on Earth colonize new environments without bothering to send resources back to their origins. And there have been plenty of human colonizations not linked to a controlling empire, especially when we were just hunter-gathers.
> "What we learned from Vietnam?"

Apparently nothing.

> "Why is the Palestinian problem not solved?"

Because the U.S. continues to supply arms and funding to Israel.

> "Why did we export manufacturing to cheaper labor"

I think you answered your own question here: because it's cheaper.
The Art of Zenware and Why You Should be Using it
I love these systems.

The main branch of the New York Public Library had (still has?) a nice shiny brass system in the research room. You filled out a request on a little card and the librarian would put it into a metal canister and send it down to the stacks. I last used this in 1993 or so when I was a grad student in a literature department.

Then you would go to the big reading room and wait for your number to comeup on the big board. Some wonderful books there ( I remember getting a version of Vincente Huidobro's Altazor that looked like it had a dedication from the author.) And a beautiful old building to sit and read in.

The pnuematic tubes added a nice 'steampunk' feel to the experience (although that word didn't exist yet). I would have been reading William Gibson at the time I am sure though. I know that I read the "Difference Engine" about this time.

It is so remarkable how these systems still exist in the 'older' modernist cities. I say older in reference to NYC because of the fact that it hasn't gone through a war so the intfrastructure is quite a bit older than the larger European or Asian cities. It is different in other cities. When I was in Seoul I would frequently visit a market that was near one of the old city gates. A freestanding market a few thousand years old. That's old - there is nothing in NYC that can touch that. The old stuff in NYC is a few hundred years old at most.

In NYC, the subway is still switched by hand at some places. There is a steam heating system under the streets that, on cold days like this billows up and forms impromptu clouds. And the brass pnuematic tubing at the NYPL.

These systems - especially the older bridges, streets and the subways - are crumbling. And in some ways the "must have exposed brick in our apartment" nostalgia for an older verdegris patina-ed existence is a false desire for something that never ways.

But you can't help but marvel when crossing something like the Pulaski Skyway in New Jersey (think the Soprano's opening shots) or taking the subway under one of the river tunnels or walking up over the Brooklyn Bridge - that so much was possible with relatively little.

An idea that was beautifully expressed in some of the writing around the recent open-sourcing of the Apollo Lunar Module code from the first moon landing.

http://atlasobscura.com/places/pneumatic-system-new-york-pub...
I think it is in some ways comparable to working in assembly versus a high level language.

In assembler you place every instruction, every part.

A high level language that gets compiled (or even compiled twice by a jit) outputs millions of instructions, many more than the largest hand coded assembler program.

Nobody in their right mind (or of a (in)sufficiently long lifespan) would even attempt to do such a thing manually.

Just like modern cpu designs could not be duplicated without a functioning computer make the masks.

So, 'old' programmers feel the same sense of being removed from the machine instructions and the complete knowledge as electronics people do from being removed from their components and visible, traceable wiring.

Not that long ago there was a posting here by a man who built his own computer, out of ttl logic circuitry from the ground up.

It's an excellent exercise in gaining control of the machine.

But as soon as you want to do something that is competitive in the marketplace then 99 out of 100 times you end up using that high level instruction grinder anyway.

Only guys like dark_shikari and people that are busy with smaller embedded systems get to enjoy that feeling on a daily basis. For everybody else that is just as alien as an electronics person that insists to build a complicated piece of equipment out of individual resistors, diodes and transistors.

When the first thin film circuitry appeared in the mid 70's (or at least, when I saw it for the first time, I must have been 10 or 11) the only thing other electronics hobbyists were wondering about was how they were going to repair them.

That's just as inconceivable to me today as it would be to perform surgery on in integrated circuit.
I think there are a enough programming articles here that it will keep most of the mouth-foaming politics-fans away.

At least I hope.
That guy must have problems walking with balls of that size. That's so courageous to walk into a guys office when you are just a startup without funding and offer him a job. And he actually accepts. I could not do that. I don't even KNOW people who could do that.
Ah, having kids does probably justify the MagSafe connector...
Can IQ predict career success?
It's too bad that no standard method for a asynchronous events has been developed for Unix in general. Where I work, there's one single library for concurrency, and every program or toolkit uses it. We do a lot of network programming, so it would be unthinkable for any performance intensive application to do blocking calls exclusively.
Clearly it should be "omit needlessness", otherwise you're adding something just to fit a silly rule.
You are my favorite person today.
Why? How? Git was purpose-built for the Linux kernel. Like any DVCS it has a big learning curve, but it's even more complex than Hg -- and for reasons that are largely irrelevant to people not using it for massive distributed open-source projects with thousands of contributors.

I know git has enjoyed a surge of popularity among the web 2.0/3.0 intelligentsia, but honestly, Mercurial is the more suitable DVCS for 99% of the stuff on github.
Surprised that none of Pinker's 5 nominations got through to the top 100. Perhaps he writes too clearly?
All craftspeople argue about tools. Be it sewing machines, chisels, knives, scissors, paints, brushes and just about anything else you can think of. Everybody has their favourite brand and design. The reason you don't see it is probably because you don't hang out at the right (online and offline) forums.
It's a diary entry by somebody with political opinions, not a political article.

The difference is that nobody is espousing a certain point of view, trying to convince me to do something-or-another, telling me how one party is good/bad, telling me how some policy is great or awful, or convincing me that some political change must take place.

Keep up the crusade against political articles if you must, but let's not throw away the fact that normal people have opinions, okay? I like people with opinions, even those I don't agree with.
Illegal prime
There is a huge difference. If I decide to withhold my dues to a coop I belong to, the worst that they can do is not renew my membership. If I own a house in Cooperative of Berkeley, as you put it, and I decide that I no longer want to pay my dues (property taxes), they'll take away my house and might even have me prosecuted for tax evasion.
The Sad Saga of Silicon Graphics (1997)
Almost every legal adult who lives in a city chose to live there. Yeah, choices have practical constraints, and yeah, it can be difficult to change once you've committed. But that's true of almost any complex product available on the free market (CRM systems, a university education, database software, operating system software, etc.).
Motorola did in fact pay Lucas to use the word. I don't think that necessarily means Lucas had a valid case against them, though; I think companies sometimes seek more clearance than they need in order to mitigate risk.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/01/07/cnet.google.nexus.one.bla...
Some people, given the same price curves and risk profiles, will take advocate action sooner than others.

The opinions of those who are later on that curve are not more valid than the opinions of those who are sooner on it, or vice versa.

The people who advocate action sooner do not disbelieve in innovation. They just have different risk and utility functions, and these result in different advocated actions.
Simulator:

http://www.vcalc.net/curta_simulator_en.htm
Venture capital backed open-source software vendors not getting acquired
> Sixty days later we convinced Silicon Graphics to license us all of John’s code for a dollar.

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You Release Late and Infrequently
If it wins... I am seeing more and more people switching to Chrome now :)
Us & Europe, Yes, thay are in Trouble . But in Emerging Markets, it's only the top 10 % who can afford/ will want the RIM/Apple/Google phones. So they still have some legs there for the nxt 5 years.

It's a fundamental change in the way mobile phoes & their markets work that has caught them. and i guess there'll never be that Nokia Domination again in US & Europe.
Or a second battery.
That scares the shit out of me. I am planning to start offering a paid option on my startup and using Paypal (so far it was free to everyone)...

Is there a simple solution (at least as a backup) to paypal? I am not in the US, so most of the recommended solutions I see only work for US companies.
Bookmarklet doesn't work for me in Chrome.
"While giving Symbian a makeover it is also pushing a new operating system, called Maemo, for the grandest, computer-like smart-phones."

I guess that quote shows quite well what's wrong in terms of attracting developers.
Ask PG: Feature request, remove yourself from the leaderboard
I know that the top entry on the leaderboard, pg's is invisible. I've had one too many 'you're a karma whore' messages and wouldn't mind a checkbox in my profile so I can remove myself from the leaderboard.

Maybe others would like that option too?
All "good" publicity for the phone and the company.

The company rep seemed to quite cool about it ,what i didn't understand though was why was the reporter apologising ? The company rep did say - the phone is unbreakable do what you can and the reporter just proved him wrong, so why apologise, he should have said - "well mate you are wrong , this phone is in fact breakable".
No, this not works because is html-encoded.
There are three output to HtmlSanitizer: .html and .text should be used for visualization while .val should be used to store data as it try to preserve data inserted.
Anyone who has lived in Berkeley/Oakland (right next to each other, for those that don't know) for any length of time will know what you say is completely true. Berkeley is far friendlier to homeless people.
"Go to your bank and try to open a checking account with a debit card with no minimum balance, a positive interest rate, ability to transfer money instantly without writing a check (basically a wire transfer) for free, no insufficient fund charges, no monthly fees, free online and mobile banking, etc."

You just described ingdirect.com.
Painful Lessons - The story of Dan Ariely (of Predictably Irrational) [pdf]
Very good idea and app, but I keep getting internal server error every other click.

You might want to check your server settings and logs for 503's...
The Molasses Disaster of January 15, 1919
libevent tries to provide a common interface to select, poll, kselect (on BSD), epoll (on Linux), and comparable calls on Windows. It's not a standard part of Unix, of course, but it seems reasonably portable.
Bookmarklet explained:

if not jquery: load jquery
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Hacking is one of the few art forms where the medium is itself an example of the art. It is natural for good artists to be passionate about their art; to love and hate certain examples of it. Working constantly with those examples is sure to amplify such feelings.
This article is from 1997, but the comparison to Apple is amusing:

SGI's sexy image prompted a Wall Street analyst to label it the new Apple. Sadly for SGI, that may prove all too true. Now, like Apple Computer Inc., the Mountain View (Calif.) company is a stark anomaly in booming Silicon Valley.
JsPDF generates PDF documents using pure JavaScript
How Sports Betting Sites Conduct Online Marketing
Note that gevent is a fork of Eventlet (http://www.eventlet.org/), and there have been talks of reincorporating changes that went to gevent back into eventlet.
The Case Against Vertical Navigation
K. Obviously a lie when he said you could hammer it with a nail. Force/Area = Pressure. If the pressure from hitting the corner of a fish tank with normal arm strength can break it, then I am sure a hammer would drive a nail right through the phone.
Two great books for those who need to re/freshen up their statistics:

http://www.amazon.com/How-Lie-Statistics-Darrell-Huff/dp/039...

http://www.amazon.com/Cartoon-Guide-Statistics-Larry-Gonick/...

I haven't had a chance to check out the manga guide to statistics but that might be a decent introduction, as well.
I agree, but would note that high art and self-actualization are also mostly work. And, in fact, there are lots and lots of Haters' Handbooks for high art and self-actualization as well.

To pick an example at random: I am given to understand that one of the routine tortures of classical musicians is to play Pachelbel's Canon, a thoroughly tedious earworm that is requested at nearly every chamber-music gig. One of my friends in college ran a classical music radio program called Anything but Pachelbel. And there's a very fun section of Robert Greenberg's lectures, How to Listen to and Understand Great Music, which could easily be retitled The Pachelbel Haters' Handbook.

And one could definitely write The Science Haters' Handbook. The author of Piled Higher and Deeper is doing a marvelous job.
How (and why) to partition your hard drive
Why not remove the leaderboard altogether ? I don't see what it brings, except competition because people want to get listed.
Schneier on Security : 768 Bit Number Factored
16 Infographic Resumes, A Visual Trend
On frequent releases: I absolutely love that there's a new interface tweak almost every time I login to my GitHub account.
I went and looked for the date after this sentence:

While rivals such as Sun Microsystems Inc. ride the Internet wave and even IBM enjoys a comeback, SGI has been mostly an onlooker at the tech party.
Agreed. My gf has the Nokia Booklet, and its 11 hour battery life really is sweet. She charges it at night (some nights), and then can just use it all day without any worries. The downside is that a 1280x720 display just doesn't show all that much data. My Sony gets about 7 hours of battery life, which isn't quite enough to get through the day, but its 1600x900 resolution is actually enough to get some work done. I'm sure looking forward to the end of that compromise.
Good idea, but it would be better if we could just create chatrooms on they fly for every conceivable web page we visit.

Say I am on google.com and I click on the chat bookmarklet (or jetpack, or extension), it should be able to create a public chat for that url (or any) and start chatting right away.
I know that the black list approach to css is dangerous, but there is someone that saw the alert on the page http://patapage.com/applications/pataPage/site/test/testSani...? and if yes how?
Sure, but libraries underneath you have to cooperate for you to use it to the fullest potential. That no common means have been invented for that is what I'm sad about.
That's a really good idea. Social grading would be useful in that case. There's no support for that right now, but it could be added in the future. There is a way to comment on individual homework assignments, so that could make due for now. I'm wondering if people would want to grade anonymously or have the grades be public.
This is a feature of pretty narrow appeal, so I don't think I'd want to clutter the source with it. (I'm not listed because no admins are, but the others don't have enough karma for it to matter.)
Vint Cerf urges standards for cloud computing
This Factorization of a 768-bit RSA modulus, http://eprint.iacr.org/2010/006.pdf, is the paper linked to by Bruce; I didn't want to link it as the main link because it's a pdf (and the comments on Schneier are usually very worth reading).
Encouraging Collaborative Conversations in the Enterprise: 6 Reasons
If you want one to be used mainly for PDF you need to go for a larger screen, so neither the small kindle nor the nook. I think price tag starts at about 500 and non of them has internet access or keyboard anyway.
I bring this up whenever I want to point out how law lags behind technology and ends up doing silly things like making a number illegal, or making cracking cyphers like rot13 a felony. That is to say, breaking even simple encryption a felony, not rot13 specifically.

People always get amused that a prime number could get them in trouble.
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I would be inclined to downmod this, but instead I have to agree with the sentiment of 'fences not walls' when it comes to security, since too much security can be a bad thing.
Mr. Frakes is being kind enough to give us a glimpse of forehead-slapping. If anything, the REAL 4th conclusion: write down the stuff you do that involves _locking you out of your machine_
Better not use one in public: people will think that you're trying to detonate a handgrenade!
Your comment is painfully embarrassing to read. Instead of attacking what I said (or me), try asking: "could you elaborate on what you think the article is misrepresenting?".
Whether it is a "political article" or an article that talks mostly about politics is not a relevant distinction to davidw's point.
>Go to your bank and try to open a checking account with a debit card with no minimum balance, a positive interest rate, ability to transfer money instantly without writing a check (basically a wire transfer) for free, no insufficient fund charges, no monthly fees, free online and mobile banking, etc.

You can in fact open bank accounts like that in many countries (e.g. England). Charging for simple services like wire transfers is an odd US practice.
I believe he said "you could hammer a nail with it" (00:20). So you're not hammering a nail into the phone, you're using the phone as a hammer to drive the nail into another surface.

It would probably still break if you used the screen as the hammer, but I guess he meant hammering a nail using the side of the phone (which is what you'd normally do anyways).