skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW: I'm not sure I buy that 21 minute Mozilla build, unless he was working on a cold disk, or unless the build is doing a bunch of stuff with broken dependencies. If the build was just done, the file metadata is in the page cache, and you can read a staggering number of dents in 21 minutes.
The problem with ports on OSX is that it installs an "alternative" OS on the side of your real OS. That's quite confusing sometimes.
> which is why most applications in these windowing systems can't run without at least one window open.

As opposed to "application buildup" MacOS users experience since the OS7 days, when they are on a clean desktop and five applications running for no particular reason.
People, especially in the U.S., underestimate the amount of noise and outright corruption in determining what makes something successful, established, and well-known. They also personalize success and failure to the extreme.

What differentiates the intelligent is that they're able and willing to question their assumptions. Such people tend to be more liberal, which is why the left is much less cohesive (and in a two-party system, much weaker) than the right. Ask any liberal about Obama and you'll hear 10 different disagreements and criticisms, whereas Palin can do no wrong among her fan base.
Where do atheists come from?
The brain scanner that feels your pain
" If we have free will, so do subatomic particles, mathematicians claim to prove."

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/35391/title/Math_...
The killer device, for me, will be the one which allows me to respond to a tweet while I'm walking or doing something else, without having to interrupt my attention or look at some input device.

Is anyone researching that?
PR for Startups
On some BSDs (including Mac OS X) there is a signal, SIGINFO, to which cp will respond by printing out a status report. You can send this signal by typing ^T.
More diligence and less capital coming for startups (and their investors)
Yeah, I'm not sure I buy it either. A full Mozilla build takes roughly 24 minutes on my Windows notebook (it's a Core i7, but Windows has slower process creation than Linux).
Soundview (http://www.summary.com/) has been doing this for quite a while. Their summaries are decent and make them available in a number of formats.

They do a lot of mainstream business books - there may be an opportunity in offering this product for niche markets or special focus areas.
To extend the metaphor, you must also keep the knife sharp. It's not enough to just practice and work hard and be intelligent. We must also be insightful into our own lives as humans. At least in my life, my emotional and physical state impact my productivity more than anything else. Sometimes you will see a very dedicated, intelligent person flame out or they get into personal drama and cannot focus like they used to. For me, the answer is to workout 5 days a week and make time for family and women.
Narus develops a scary sleuth for social media
Browser Shootout: IE vs. FF vs. Chrome vs. Safari vs. Opera
I think her design problems are pervasive...

This is what twistori looks like for me: http://imgur.com/D920M.png
Good ideas are meant to spread
run away unless you have special training is solid
Democrats did not exactly try to prevent people from buying homes they couldn't afford--or to prevent the government from spending money they didn't have.

"Corporations" have done pretty okay, insasmuch as they are still capable of spending less than they take in.

Private health insurance is still very exciting to, e.g., Canadian politicians. A health care system in which costs are not paid by a) the physician, or b) the patient, is necessarily going to have high prices, shortages, or both.

But regarding "Too Big to Fail," in Influence, Robert Cialdini writes about a cult that predicted apocalypse on a particular date. Before the apocalypse, they were insular; after they missed their deadline, many members became aggressive recruiters--they had to invest more in the cult, so they wouldn't admit to themselves that it was a sham.
Can the Daily Kos talking points. There is plenty to not appreciate about single payer healthcare systems. Private health insurance done correctly (much like auto insurance) would be an excellent solution.

It's the misguided legislation like tax benefits for employers providing healthcare that causes things to break down.

Here's an excellent article (I think I found it here) about how health care could be done right:

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2009/09/how-americ...

*Edited thanks to mcantor.
For those of you interested in making it a permanent replacement for cp, you can use this Python script:

#!/usr/bin/env python
from sys import argv
from subprocess import Popen
copy_from = open(argv[-2],'r')
copy_to = open(argv[-1],'w')
Popen("pv", stdin=copy_from, stdout=copy_to)
copy_from.close()
copy_to.close()

Just alias cp to it in Bash.
University adds:

* it forces you to take classes that are good for you but you probably wouldn't take on your own

* social connections

* space to experiment on who you are as a person

* chance to get laid
this is a big deal and start of what I hope will be a trend!
This reminds me of how Brave New World had elevator operators (this is what the Epsilons did) and large filing cabinets.
Ya. I was also thinking of just coding it and submitting a patch...
Only because they had the windows monopoly though, and were using it to build a monopoly in office apps.
A friend of mine expressed the problem described here in a more formal manner in this paper: http://gittup.org/tup/build_system_rules_and_algorithms.pdf

He ended up creating his own build system, "tup" < http://gittup.org/tup/ >, based off of it. It also has the property desired in this article that, "No-op builds should be O(1) and instantaneous, and most other builds should be O(WhateverChanged)".
There is often a divide between developer needs and security.

A desktop developer wants their machine to run as quickly as possible to allow them to compile and run quickly. This may tempt them to turn off virus checking.

A challenge in security is making work without being too onerous. If security measures become a hassle for users, they'll find a way around them.
What's the point of this?

All it shows is that someone without scientific training is incapable of drawing conclusions from data out of context; they can't "check for yourself". I tought the only people that don't know this are journalists, bloggers and politicians.
But surely a couple hundred hours of Halo plus a couple weeks in a martial arts class (plus the aforementioned high IQ, of course) are enough to armchair-quarterback a knife fight, right?
Understanding What the Latest Linux Kernel Release Means for Mobile
1. HTTP includes verbs to handle everything you mentioned. Posting is a POST, listing is a GET, getting a single message is a GET, subscribing is a POST, deleting is a DELETE, etc.

2. Many networks use proxies and caches such as squid, varnish, etc. My servers are locked down with iptables, and I would have to open up ports in order for them to speak a new protocol

3. What's your point? Your protocol is just a layer over TCP. Why not just use TCP? And TCP is just a layer over IP. Why not just use IP? Following your logic takes us back to early DOS days where each program drives each piece of hardware directly.

4. Your argument against using HTTP is that ... people are just going to use HTTP anyway?

5. With libraries such as Rack and WSGI setting things up to speak HTTP is too easy. Not to mention node.js, mochiweb, etc.
I do not see a correlation of level of intelligence and ability to work hard, especially it cannot be said of verse correlation. I do not believe that Intelligence cases man to be lazy and less prepared for challenges. On the contrary, intelligence helps man to cope with challenges and problems if he chooses to do so and has a strong character and mostly important desire and ambitions. Intelligence helps dealing with challenges efficiently and successfully.
Google Responds To Privacy Concerns With Unsettlingly Specific Apology (Onion)
Rule 1. Avoid the sharp edge...
I disagree that this is about IQ or intelligence. A truly intelligent person understands how little they actually know. It is only those who think they are intelligent who have they ego to think that things will always come easy.
You can already get that here:

http://duckduckgo.com/karma.html
Great article; thank you for the link. But, from the HN rules:

If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)
Hacking your dreams
Apple's patent attack (details on the patents involved)
Very disturbing.

Of course, a secondary point is that there's a hidden human rights cost to law enforcement's demands on communications companies. Even if you have the touching faith that your country's law enforcement agencies always acts in a proper and upright manner, the whole world ain't free. Some brutal and oppressive governments are going to get their hands on the same functionality if we make companies include it.
Um... in what universe would you want an interactive terminal gadget to become the default implementation of cp? Yikes.

Still, nice pointer to the pv tool, which I hadn't heard of.

Still still, the linked awk snipped is awfully clever and more fun to read.
First off, I think AirBnB already falls under "travel". This is just a rideshare idea. Craigslist has this already–if their rideshare section was as big as, say, their dating section then I'd say "great idea. make a site for it." ... but it isn't.

For most people, I'm guessing the free gas does not outweigh the inconvenience of coordinating the pickup and/or going even slightly out of one's way.

Great business ideas save people time and/or money. This is saving people a little money at the expense of their time.
"Just in case" versus "just in time"
There's obviously no way of telling. However, most criminals avoid murder - it's messy, people get all upset. I was in martial arts for a long time, the first thing they tell you is that you don't want to fight. You want to run away unless you have no choice. So, you learn to strike hard and fast at multiple targets. This gives you space and then you run, preferably throwing your wallet or some cash behind you. Nobody typically carries a week or even a month's salary as they wander about. Dead is really dead and the only priority is to get out. That kind of attitude is very different than trying to not be robbed, which is much more likely to get you killed. In the first case you could argue he had to fight this guy because OP was hanging around watching the action. If I'm with some guy with combat training and somebody pulls a knife? I know he can take care of himself, I'll toss whatever valuable in my pockets out there (always wise to keep cash outside your wallet in rough area) then run like the devil was behind me. Even if he's as fast as me, I've got adrenaline and the lead from him grabbing the cash. lol why I am writing so much I do not know...
Before switching to Ubuntu late last year, the last time I'd used Debian on the desktop was around 2000, so it's true that my experiences with Debian are mostly 90s-era. However, it's still the case with Ubuntu that it's common to install something, try it, and then be unable to get things back to the way they were before (mostly speaking of desktops, WMs, and themes, here). It's not uncommon to allow Update Manager to update things and then find that programs that were working fine suddenly don't work. This happened to me just in the last month with Wine, and happened a while before that with PulseAudio.

I have the patience and time to spend a day changing my config until things work again, but it's certainly a ways behind both Mac and Windows in this area. Additionally (while I'm venting), Ubuntu trains you out of reporting bugs because if you actually reported a bug whenever things went wrong, it would be a part-time job. I actually had fewer update problems with Gentoo ca 2003, though at the time I had things to get done and just wanted stuff to work, whereas now that that I don't depend on my home system to make money, I find fixing the problems fun. :)
> If the anti-botnet vendor's assertion is true, that the botnet was ordinary/amateur, then the much of what the media called 'advanced persistent threats' and 'state sponsored' attacks would be incorrect.

That conclusion doesn't follow from the premises offered.

Govts use amateur tools all the time. Govt does not imply competent or well-run - see your local DMV for an example.
Apple has documented certain APIs. Others they have not documented.

They call all class interfaces and view hierarchies "private apis" and forbid access to those APIs by developers. If you use them and apple figures it out, no app store for you.

There is really little difference between the private and public APIs other than the fact Apple has or hasn't blessed them for use.
Really looking forward to this.
It fits nicely thinking of that scene as well. Every now and then an Einstein shows up and breaks the regular rules.
I like Shakespeare: http://shakespearelang.sourceforge.net/
For example: I come up with a system where basically I define 1 xml file which is then read by 3 different mechanisms to generate the m/v/c of a web application. the definition significantly saves times on web development when using the system.

Now look the argument is "oh its just a few algorithms used in a certain way, that should not be patented". however how is that any different than creating a ammo holder for .45mm bullets which can be put into any gun that can use .45mm bullets? Its just taking some metal and springs and putting them together in some novel way which has not yet been done before.

Remember once you see the invention that is TRULY innovative AND simple but nobody quite thought of using it that way before, it becomes a no-brainer. You start to think "yea given a few hrs I can make one of these myself without any special training or anything, without even looking at schematics, or even taking the one I have apart" but the fact is that nobody thought of it before.

The fact is, it was mentioned in a '96 letter, we must decide what part of programming is the "words" and what part is the "innovation" so that people can't do the equivalent of copyrighting words, but they can copyright books (the end product). (yes I am aware that patent != copyright, but try to see the analogy)
Groupon’s Andrew Mason tells how he grew site to be a profitable consumer hit
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1067969

You probably couldn't have known that, because that submission points here:

http://maxklein.posterous.com/radically-improving-sales-for-...

which then redirects to the one you've submitted. It got 66 comments and 136 points just over a month ago, so it will probably be popular again.
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You challenge my point and you don't even have an account. Argument Fail
I tripped while practicing defence.

I find it somewhat hilarious that you had a clear demonstration that accidents can happen in fights, yet you still advocate escalating to violence before verifying if the violence can be avoided altogether.
'Funeral' being held today for aging Web browser
A CSS3 Overlay System
No.... Not at all.

Sorry if I'm misunderstanding your reply due to its brevity, but again, error correction is the primary concern of these barcodes, and given that they are good error correctors, you can put what data you want within them, be it an underlying visual programming language or text.

If by "yet" you mean your proposal is to expand on these visual languages by making a programming language + error correction system, you're not adding any value that didn't exist before, it is the same thing as what already exists.

And besides, it's better to just give the user a URI and then they can download the application from a more robust location.
Today Show Wii Curling Fail
WiFi location is fast and works indoors and in the concrete jungle, that's the advantage. It may not be accurate but it could be self-correcting - the iPhone could feed info back into the skyhook system about the location of a new hotspot after it gets the call tower and GPS info.

I have no proof that it does, but I have an anecdote. The first time I plugged in my WiFi point at a new address, the phone connected and thought I was at the old address - until 5 minutes later when if shot me across the country. Never happened again.
Already posted here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1160552
Most valuable point in here, vital for startups: You can’t sell someone the solution before they’ve bought the problem
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say you've never been held up by someone with a weapon. If anything, if the guy only has a knife, you might have good odds running for it. Fighting someone with a knife is a bad idea statistically even if you're Bruce Lee.
Ask HN: Abandoned ideas, domains, projects?
My domain registrations are up for renewal for a few of my forgotten side projects, and it popped into my mind, "What am I going to do with these?"

Do you have any abandoned projects? If so, what are you going to do with them?
I see reddit has arrived.

I see Autoadmit has arrived.

Private health insurance done correctly (much like auto insurance) would be an excellent solution.

I can't take this seriously. You've got to be kidding. From any reasonable ethical standpoint, how is it a "solution", rather than a severe indignity, to accept a regime that requires people to buy insurance policies on their own bodies? That's fucking morbid.

Car insurance is fair and generally works because people have the right to choose how much insurance they need. If you don't want to pay or can't afford premiums to insure your $250,000 Ferrari, then don't buy one. On the other hand, no one chooses how much health care he or she needs; we'd obviously like it best to need none.
To extend it to a number of recent articles about kids (summarized):

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Kids who were told "you must be smart" when they succeeded were less likely to take on harder tasks later because they might fail, and seem stupid.

Kids who were told "you must have worked hard" when they succeeded tackled harder problems later and ended up learning better, because they perceived greater reward for doing better, not looking better.

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If you're smart, but you don't do anything you can fail at, you won't learn. Try. Fail. Try again.
Technically there is still an on-going lawsuit with Novell and SCO, about who owns UNIX.
I know it's not a new idea, but I wonder if the time has come when the filesystem model is replaced with the database model. I realize that a relational database simply trades one hierarchical structure for another, but it seems that the schema-free and arbitrary structure of a "NoSQL" model might make a better fit for the globs of data that comprise a modern storage drive. The key is in having a powerful and intuitive enough searching algorithm that you can actually find what you need.
Data, data everywhere
http://www.economist.com/specialreports/displayStory.cfm?sto...

Might be a relevant read too.
And I don't mean saved my life in a hand-wavy, metaphysical way, like "Punk rock saved my life" or "Martha Stewart Every Day Living saved my life". This is not your typical vague Tomato Soup for the Soft-Seller's Soul crap—I can name dates and numbers.

This bit promises a literally life saving--i.e. you would be dead otherwise. The rest of the post is great, but opening with this is a big distraction since the post turns out to be exactly what you promise it isn't.
Yeah, but the dude had a gun. Maybe you held it together enough to not pee in your pants and still have some perspective about the situation, but I'm guessing there wasn't much question about what you were going to do.
I was thinking about this particular type of ad hominem argument the other day and decided I loathe it. Imagine if people told Plato he couldn't write about philosophy because he didn't go to harvard and get a degree in philosophy. Or tell galileo that he was wrong because he didn't have a degree in astronomy.

Valid scientific investigations don't require scientific training. This person, who wrote some code and plotted some numbers on a graph may know more about math and programming and data visualization than many of those running weather stations, so it isn't productive to say this person has nothing to contribute because he's someone without scientific training.

You don't even know that statement is true. Regardless of its truth, the numbers, the code, and the result should speak for themselves. It doesn't matter whether the investigator is trained in science or not.

As a "trained" computer engineer, I am personally capable of taking a raw data set and plotting their numbers on a chart and drawing conclusions from them.

Of course there are additional steps one could take with this data to help the human mind comprehend it. I'll tell you one thing for sure, the chart looks nothing like this scary one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Instrumental_Temperature_R...

Why? If you have scientific training, refute the facts, write another set of code, analyze the data and see what you get. Is it different? Can you replicate the results?

Or can you just say this person doesn't have any scientific training and write him off? Personally I think it's awesome that someone is taking the initiative to test a hypothesis. Really, there is nothing more scientific than that. It takes work and I commend this person.
Patent number: 7479949 http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=dCKzAAAAEBAJ&dq=7...

Filing date: Apr 11, 2008 - Issue date: Jan 20, 2009

Less than a year from filing to issue!!!?? Do "frequent filers" get in a special priority queue at the USPTO?
Processing cattle is a kind of filter/map operation: walk the list of cows, assessing each one on a set of criteria, and then processing the cows that meet the criteria.
42. To send email, you put a document on someone else's stream. To add a note to your calendar, you put a document in the future of your own stream. To continue work on an old document, put a copy at the head of your stream. Sending email, updating the calendar, opening a document are three instances of the same operation (put a document on a stream).

Sounds like a gap in Unix's file metaphor. Would it be reasonable to copy a file to /proc/mail/coworker@company.com/ and have the right thing happen?

57. Nowadays we use a scanner to transfer a document's electronic image into a computer. Soon, the scanner will become a Cybersphere port of entry, an all-purpose in-box. Put any object in the in-box and the system develops an accurate 3D physical transcription, and drops the transcription into the cool dark well of cyberspace. So the Cybersphere starts to take on just a hint of the textural richness of real life.

I think mobile phone cameras will be the "scanner" here.
Is anybody else having problems w/ GOOG's search results often being stale, several year old links? Particularly when searching for issues with software projects? I've noticed it more recently, and I'm not sure if it's because of the topics that I'm now searching for, or if it's a more general GOOG problem.

They really need to modify their algo such that freshness is more of a factor.
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