skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's nothing wrong with doing things to increase your self confidence. For some people, a good-looking body can be one of those things. In the end, it's a self-correcting mechanism: the ones who are doing it just for others will lose interest after a few months. Doing it for yourself can keep you going for years.

For me, weightlifting was the activity I enjoyed. It started out as me being really skinny and wanting to gain weight, but got to the point that being muscular was just a pleasant side effect. The true enjoyment came from the endorphin release of moving heavy weight, the satisfaction of getting stronger every week and just knowing that there was a direct correlation between how hard I worked and what results I achieved.

Where I take issue is okeefe's comment about not wanting to be a hypocrite. You like what you like; it's not hypocritical to be attracted to someone slender and athletic if you are overweight and out of shape.

FWIW, I have never cared much about what people look like. If I like someone enough I will probably find her attractive - that's been proven to me time and time again and the range over which it holds is pretty surprising.
OAuth would be ideal. I made the feature request minimal to make it more acceptable =)
Since there are so many system monitors built, can we build something of a human monitor? A device that can detect motion like the IPhone/IPod/IPad. Once it's not moved for a long time, like a day (allowance for sleep), it would transmit a signal to a center and someone can call back in to check. It can be worn around the neck.
So, regardless of what you use to create the ebook, where can/should you publish it once it's done? I know you can post it, say, on your blog to download, but what else would you do. (Submit to Amazon, or iBooks, or more?)
Not to mention that if you are in a different country, for a US site to comply you must also give the DMCA claimer rights to sue you in their country. So a Frenchment posting a YouTube video and getting a DMCA notice in US will have to agree to go to a US court in return for their content being put back up. Evil.
Possibly not. The X-15 (while arguably a rocket with wings rather than an aeroplane) was much faster and less pretty, and you won't find so many nine-year-olds with posters of it.
Agreed. How about an emergency HN pub night tonight at Sin and Redemption? Say... 7 PM? I could submit it to the main page.
I don't think that it ever benefits someone to become helpless. Letting your social guard down is one thing, but throwing up and passing out is another.

The heavy drinking comes from ancien regime/Wall Street machismo culture, but keep in mind that most of these guys have been drinking for a while and many are overweight. If you can't keep up with them without getting yourself into a compromised position, don't try.
I mean, I have watched groups of elementary school teachers work on the same sort of problems they assign (fractions being one example) and struggle mightily. They understand the basic concept of what a fraction is, but many of them get bogged down in the algorithms because they don't really understand what the algorithms represent.

What is a "common denominator" beyond "the thing you put fractions over to be able to add them"? Many of the teachers I've worked with would struggle to explain this to students.
I can definitely see an argument for logging; particularly as relates to project and developer metrics.

But 'Bug Tracking' is used to describe much more than 'Bug Logging'. Bug tracking software packages define themselves and pitch their value based entirely on how they handle that 'everything else'.

Ergo, if you reject the 'everything else' (as the author does), you are rejecting bug tracking software.
Skills for Software Smoke Jumpers
Wait, what problem are you seeing with copy&paste? I use it every day across multiple apps and I've never noticed a single problem.
FTA: Several hundred years ago, the Japanese witnessed death regularly, with bodies buried by family members and samurai displaying severed heads in public. These days, such moments are rare.

Indeed, it is a crying shame that displaying severed heads in public has become so rare. Seriously though, can't Time magazine do a slightly better job editing?
Dean Kamen with Bionic Arm on the Colbert Report
"Sigh" is right. This isn't a patent. It's an application that hasn't been examined yet. Come on people, try to learn a little bit about the subject before trolling.
We're going to be building up our engineering staff.
There is a Colonel Walter L. Watson though:

http://scafricanamerican.com/public/pdf/honorees/112004.pdf

The story feels a little strange though, the amount of 'mystic' connection between the plane and the pilot would make me worried if someone that prone to it would be piloting a 747 I'm a passenger on.

The pilot would be 'Brian Shul' http://www.sleddriver.com/
It seems to be from the book 'Sled Driver' by Brian Shul [1] according to the following website [2], on which I found the same article of the parent link.

I'm a bit confused though, as I have read the part about the groundspeed check before, I found it again here [3]. This version is longer and worded more beautifully in my opinion. The poster below that is mentioning that it's from the same book so I'm a bit confused.

[1] https://galleryonepublishing.com/sleddriver/index.html
[2] http://blogs.jobdig.com/wwds/2007/11/19/sr-71-now-that-was-s...
[3] http://www.expressjetpilots.com/the-pipe/showthread.php?3197...
Giles Bowkett on the iPad: don't think of the children
Why couldn't SendGrid get blocked?
Nevermind, I confused ThinkPad with the Think Different slogan -- I mean, Apple isn't the only company with stylish computer products, but I think they are the most recognized for having stylish computer products on a mainstream popular culture level, which blockbuster movies try to appeal to. So in the question of, "Should we use an Apple product or some stylish computer from relatively obscure brand X?" most movies will go with Apple.
When you bleed you need band-aid, but it's best not to bleed in the first place.

Ideal situation is where you don't need a bug tracker.
Can't believe no one's said Vancouver yet. Oh well, it's only 10:30, everyone else must be sleeping in.

[Edit: Oh wait, imack is in Vancouver, but he's from Waterloo. That explains why he's up so early.]
Well, when I learned Latin, the plural of -um was -a. Just like the plural of -us was -i. People say campuses, but they also say alumni (not alumnuses). One should be consistent, imho...
Strangely enough, this Rand fellow sounds quite Roarkian.

I have to say though, the NeXT logo looks a bit too 80s...
Yeah, the claims are weird here, even just in terms of format. Usually claims are these dense paragraphs you can't interpret without a background in patent law, but here, the entire first claim is a few short clauses:

A method for developing a computer program product, the method comprising: evaluating one or more refactoring actions to determine a performance attribute; associating the performance attribute with a refactoring action used in computer code; and undoing the refactoring action of the computer code based on the performance attribute.

The only really limiting factor is that it could be read narrowly to require a very close "associat[ion]" between the "refactoring action", the "performance attribute", and the "undoing"; e.g. some sort of "refactor-and-keep-only-if-faster" button in Eclipse.
Hope they get it. And they can defend it. In fact I am hoping for a patent on computing (damn can't do that). We need to prove by extreme example that the patent system is broken.
This ignores a critical use of bug tracking - communication. This approach might work in a small local team, but falls apart in a bigger organization or in a distributed environment. Bug tracking software is one place to store information about the bug that multiple people can comment on. The person discovering the bug might not be a developer, and often not. The person testing the bug shouldn't be the developer; QA is doing it. If the fix involves several people and they need to add input, they can add in their comments in the bug tracking system. Cvs/Svn/Git can tie with the bug tracking ticket to create a reverse lookup. There are so many benefits to have a bug tracking system.
And they say ideas are a dime a dozen.. Yeah they are.. but good ideas are not..

It's all about execution right? Not exactly. As this list proves: good ideas are hard to find, don't like to be let out of their secret boxes and don't exactly grow on trees.

So no.. it isn't all about execution as so many people have said on this board.. It may be that through execution you come to refine the original idea but to make something people want you need a good idea + good execution.
Modern ninjas do most of their work in no-harm kidnappings due to Japan's idiosyncratic (no reciprocity) and somewhat xenophobic custody laws. If your spouse is ethnic Japanese and flees to Japan with your child, and you have legal custody but live elsewhere, Japan won't surrender the child.
That no one is forcing me to use it is true, but completely irrelevant to the discussion.

> that will probably leave the iPhone in the dust within about 6-12 months

If I had a dollar for every time an open source advocate claimed incorrectly that their preferred solution would leave its proprietary competitor in the dust in "just a few months," I'd have a lot of money. Not so much in the opposite direction.
The Stealth Mode: Trada’s Position on Staying Stealth
<obvious>They should replace "rockstar", "hero", and "ninja" with "douchebag"; it's just as unprofessional, but more accurately describes the people who'd describe themselves with any of those labels.</obvious>
I'm aware of what an OOM killer is, but it strikes me that the rules are a little different on a device where the resource constraints and mode of operation will frequently demand all the resources for a single process.
Thanks for the comments, everyone! I don't really disagree on the "external factors" (getting a job, providing for your family, etc.). I think their role is overwhelming, and I say that in the post too. My point is simply to consider the role of pedagogy (and contrast the pedagogies of non-mathematical subjects in high schools in the US and India) and wonder if that has a role to play in the fact that so many "bright" students in India end up being engineers and doctors.

Perhaps, there's also a relationship between the external factors (probability of getting a job, job prestige, etc.) in a developing country and the style of pedagogy in schools that cater to the middle class, although at this point, I can't really think of a mechanism that makes things the way they are.
Agreed! I want to build our entire community site around Github, but I don't want people to provide their usernames/passwords, and I'd prefer a way to specify whether or not they're providing access to SSH keys, which I don't need.
Captain, can I use my iPad now?
Good call on the offsite backup. I do something very similar to your idea.

I rented a safe deposit box at my bank, and every month or so I head over and get access to it to swap out my hard drives with the latest backup. That way even if the house burns down, etc., I'm covered.

It's low-tech, but it scales quite well. I can store multiple terabytes at a secure, offsite location for about $50 / year.
Perhaps he built an A-12 model. This was the direct predecessor of the SR-71, designed in the 50s. A very similar aircraft:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_A-12
Ask HN: How do I acquire funding for a startup non-profit?
It seems that my killer idea is not a fancy new something that will make me millions. In fact, it's quite the opposite: a non-profit. It's unique enough that I am almost sure of its success, though again that doesn't mean my bank account will explode. I suspect even if all goes well I would take a serious hit to my income should I work on it full time.

That said, I do want to work on this full time.

I have never tried getting funding before. Does anyone have any experience or pointers specifically related to a startup non-profit?
Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) and Amazon SNS are both messaging services within AWS, which provide different benefits for developers. Amazon SNS allows applications to send time-critical messages to multiple subscribers through a push mechanism, eliminating the need to periodically check or poll for updates. Amazon SQS is a message queue service used by distributed applications to exchange messages through a polling model, and can be used to decouple sending and receiving components.
Made a script for HN: "News Consumer". Less drama, more news. Tested in Chrome.
I always figured that the C in CAP is more about scalability. If you keep adding servers indefinitely, it becomes slower and slower to commit every transaction to every server. But if you ditch the C, you can write fully in parallel to all servers.
This is true, but I wouldn't necessarily say it's a smoking gun- "concept models" come out long before the actual plane is built. I remember playing a computer game called "F-22 Raptor" in 1997, and the plane officially entered service in 2005.
Do not rearrange your keys or buy a Dvorak keyboard. This is counter-productive as there's no point switching if you're not going to learn how to touch type.

There's plenty of typing tutors for all platforms, a surprising number support Dvorak and working through their graded lessons will get the common keys memorized in no time.

A print out, open window or desktop background with the key layout will get you through the early stages.
> this road leads to Microsoft Word

I wouldn't mind walking down the road to one of the most successful and widely loved (not to mention profitable) pieces of software in the industry.
Croatian blogger arrested due the Croatian Homeland War Veterans Register leak
Part of California's problems (certainly not all!) are exactly because the taxpayers have too much control of what is spent and borrowed. The number of social welfare things that appear on the ballot when voting time comes around is crazy, but no-one will vote for the taxes required to support them. Only if the state politicians had full control of the books could they say "there's no money for this" and not have their hands forced by the voter to spend money they don't have.

Californians want a welfare state, but won't pay for it, and you can't have it both ways (personally, I prefer the welfare state and higher taxes, but that's just me).
I'm with Linode as well but I have to say Slicehost has awesome guides that can really show you everything you need to do to setup your vps.

Have a look at the following link for example. [1]

[1] http://articles.slicehost.com/2008/4/25/ubuntu-hardy-setup-p...
How to Set Up a Mail Merge in Gmail
I think it's fair to count those though. If you have a DART tag on your page, the request needs to be handled by DART's ad server regardless of if it returns an image or a redirect to another network.
There was a saying on the Lockheed Martin Skunkworks department where this plane was designed: "If she looks beautiful, she'll fly beautifully"
The story feels a little strange though, the amount of 'mystic' connection between the plane and the pilot would make me worried if someone that prone to it would be piloting a 747 I'm a passenger on.

Really? "Mysticism" scares you so much that you'd rather your flight be piloted by a clock punching union man then what the Air Force deemed to be one of the best?
Ask HN: iPad (software) annoyances?
I've noticed a few. What are others we should bring to Apple's attention?

To start with, I can't read the hover text on XKCD.

I can't resize text areas while I'm posting to sites like HN.
GDGT is a decent site, but is it really worth investing in? Maybe I'm missing something, but is it that different from Amazon user reviews?
google wave (vision), anyone? http://www.jasonkolb.com/weblog/2009/09/why-google-wave-is-t...
Hushmail? See http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2007/11/encrypted-e-mai/
It also seriously channels the ~1990 Windows logo with that color palette; I realize it's magenta and not blue, but still...
Wow, I didn't know the staff was that large. Thanks for the clarity; I can definitely see how talent can get expensive...
Sorry for the FriendFeed Link, but there is no English articles yet.

Briefly, Marko Rakar -- blogger, founder of http://pollitika.com, winner of the 2009 e-Democracy Award, and the only Croatian member at the latest TED US, was arrested today in relation to the leaked registry of Croatian War veterans, which was (illegaly, but with great public interest) published at http://registarbranitelja.com by yet unknown parties.
This is awesome to hear.
Why Men's Friendships Are Different
I like the more complete version of the "ground speed check" story (which I heard from Brian Shul directly): he says he and Walt hadn't really "clicked" yet, that they were just kinda co-inhabitants of the same jet but not really a team, until that moment. It was when Brian was about to ask the question, and the radio clicked on and Walt asked the exact same question, that he felt they finally became a team.

For those concerned with the level of "mysticism" in this: Brian Shul is a remarkable pilot from a technical perspective. But do you really want to read his technical descriptions of flight? He's done a good job of describing the sensations in a way non-pilots can understand.
I just wanted to chime in that the reason I'm a programmer today is that my grandpa helped program the navigation systems on the SR-71. I found that slightly inspirational :)
Strawman much ? There is a long way to go between a clock punching union man and a person that does not let his love for the machine get in the way of objectivity.

Personally I think that those bits are just to juice up the story, but you really have to wonder at passages like: "Like the combat veteran she is, the jet senses the target area and seems to prepare herself." and "There seems to be a confirmed trust now, between me and the jet; she will not hesitate to deliver whatever speed we need".
While progress may be spurred by the hobbyist, it does not share the hobbyist's ethic.

Well said. The hobbyist also won't necessarily like the money making form of it. Does that sound familiar?
Austria
Well, as a non-profit start-up it seems like simply asking for money would be easier than for an average start-up. Presumably people are willing to donate, if it's a good cause, and you can base your appeal on the good you'll do, rather than the likelihood that they'll get return on investment.
I went to a DHH talk in Copenhagen when he left Denmark for the US. One of his major stated reasons was the insane Danish car tax (180%). He would probably not have been able to afford it had he stayed behind :-)
IPad's Lack of Flash Is Not Due to Any 'Shortcomings' With Flash; Blame Apple
A Java jouster

lances hazards far and 'yond

with cruft but correct.
i find this [http://www.sunlakesaeroclub.org/updates_web_data/050828/SR71...] to be even more amazing...
You're right, that was too flippant. I also hope people didn't stop reading at that point, as what I'm really advocating is the volunteerism.

If I had edit powers remaining, I would remove that line.
Situational Awareness for Your Git Repositories
In the company case, you could try taking it based on any material as far as I understood... let's say demonstration videos or any content that you could claim really and request the hosting company to take down the site.

Yeah - white house was a bad example really, but there has to be something government-related which is hosted on shared servers (local communities info sites / city hall?)
Cute mainstream article that gives the ignorant masses a phony Hollywood view of what it's like to be a programmer.

A real day in the life of a rockstar/ninja/whatever isn't so glamorous:

- Review actual results of Run #27 and compare to expected results. Isolate 4 discrepencies.

- Scour through 1200 lines of code, looking for obvious flaws that would have produced 4 discrepencies.

- Isolate functions and run new test.

- Enter debugger and enable trace checkpoints.

- Realize it's been 6 hours since you farted. Fart.

- Revise test data and run again.

- Modify checkpoints and build fresh logs.

- Add 9 more outliers to test cases.

- Put logs on another session. Find glasses.

- Grab a soda and some chips. Read the source code again.

- Call wife. Have dinner without me.

- Run one more test. Still have discrepencies.

- Realize the expected results were calculated wrong and your program was right all along. You ninja. Log off.
Dominican Republic
Maybe some people have a different definition of "progress". I would argue that a dumbed-down device is geared more towards luddites.
Artistic freedom. I am the lizard king, I can do anything.
That's so cool. Imagine, most of us don't even have dad programmers, and you have a granddad programmer and one working on such interesting stuff to boot.

Is he still alive today? And if so does he still work with computers?
which is why I think we should consider radical decentralization too.

The Swiss have another great thing too with their decentralized cantons. You can actually LEAVE your canton and join another one. Or start a new one.

This is the ultimate in discipline for government. Competition!
Properly calling acquaintances such and not friends
And yet Apple freely distribute powerful devkits and a youtube video showed the iPad being 'jailbroke' within a day of release.

Not so long ago people were talking about how the App Store had ushered in a new age of bedroom programming. Some of this commentary is getting truly grotesque - the Guardian had some muppet saying if the iPad catches on 'we will have reached an Orwellian future through Huxleyan means, and have only ourselves to blame.'
Watts is fun, but not very practical or informative. The anti-intellectual tendency of Zen makes it relatively difficult as field of self-study. All schools of Buddhism necessarily rely on teacher feedback, but the dependence in Zen is particularly acute.

The book I learned from is Wake Up To Your Life, by Ken McLeod. Mindfulness in Plain English is also excellent, and available for free online.
I use xmarks. But I miss some sort of "Panic erase". If I lose my laptop or gets stolen, there's no way to erase my passwords from firefox. A gadget identification like Dropbox with the ability to exclude it from an access list would be great. (I know, it's wrong to save passwords in firefox, but sometimes its easier than copying them from my keepass DB)
That's not a question from the article... Does the poster suggest it isn't worthy for some reason?
Claims typically start out broad, and then refine further to get at the core of what exactly it is they are patenting. Since many patents are extensions or improvements on existing things this seems to be a common theme in the patents I've skimmed over. This patent application just keeps everything vague and broad, which I suspect is common in many software patents.
if(!$_POST['name'] || strlen($_POST['name'])<3 || strlen($_POST['name'])>50)
{
$errors['name']='Please fill in a valid name!<br />Must be between 3 and 50 characters.';
}

This is a little presumptuous. "Sorry, people with 2- and 51-letter names."
Seems generous to me even with that info. I don't know the packet size/charge per notification but I have trouble imagining the scenario in which one goes from 0 notifications (today), to using up 100,000 free notifications, and then to using up so many notifications you care/notice $0.10 per GB - all by June/July
I feel like upvoting this doesn't properly convey the notion "I want to do all of this stuff too."
Naive question. If you bombard gold with high energy particle beam, would you be able to bounce off some electrons and get gold isotope? What color would it be?
IPad is Steve Jobs’ final victory over Steve Wozniak