skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's run with your Saddam example. When you say "He died beautiful", you mean that he was beautiful at the time of dying, but the dying is purely incidental to him being beautiful.

You could also say "He died insightful", which would mean that he was an insightful man at the time of dying, but the dying is once again incidental to him being insightful.

Now, logic breaks down when you say "He blogged insightful", but I'll analyse it anyway. Here you're saying that he was an insightful person, who happened to be blogging. But you're not relating his insight to the blogging at all, so it makes no sense to tell us that he was an insightful man at the time he happened to be blogging.

English isn't my first language, but I'm pretty sure the above is correct.
> This person fnid2 has an axe to grind about me and has been doing it frequently at Hacker News.

I don't think it's you specifically. He grinds the same axe about most people who make money, are involved with finance, and capitalism in general. Tends to think building significant amounts of wealth is "irrationally selfish", and that we could collaborate instead of compete because there's enough to go around. Smart guy in most ways, but a bit of an idealist and not up to date on the historical record of ownership-by-everyone vs. individual, private ownership.
As a purist of a different kind, I see it as more of a fundamental problem in the way HN/Digg/Reddit/etc. voting works, in that it's heavily sensitive to voting in the initial period, which is often pretty random, and then stuff that happens to get a few upvotes in that early period tends to snowball due to the feedback loop of being on the front page -> more people see it -> more people upvote.

Apart from its slower speed (too few stories per day), I actually see the Slashdot model, warts at all, as somewhat superior; or the Kuro5hin model as a vote-driven alternative. How's that for crusty purism. ;-)

I try to personally insulate myself from the fundamental brokenness by not using the HN front page, and only looking at the /newest page.
Apple iPad Price Still a Concern
A book is a startup, so use lean startup principles
I think a way more of 20TB
Some alternatives: Throw nginx (for HTTP) or HAProxy in front of your services, or use LinuxVirtualServer.
You just barely missed the kicker:

The Oxford American Dictionary defines insight as...
Poll: Does newest Firefox freeze up on you?
I am using Firefox 3.6 and it keeps freezing up on me at least once an hour.

These freezes last from few seconds of complete unresponsiveness and up to 5 minutes. I have all plugins disabled except for the default one and the Flash player. The freeze-ups started right after a recent upgrade from FF 3.0 to 3.6. There are numerous threads on Mozilla forums regarding this issue, but no real advice except for "run in safe mode" and "switch to IE, lol".

As you can imagine this is exceptionally annoying. I would like to get some real stats on this issue and share it with people on Mozilla forums. Please help.
Just have a kid and you will learn by yourself. If he is colic, you will get even less.
Thanks for the link to the other thread. It has some good discussion. Some good stuff to think about.
We referred to ourselves as kids because we regularly ponder the implications of becoming dinosaurs and consider Nerds a viable food product. It has nothing with our age, so much as a mindset.

To answer the question, we're 22 (Caitlin) and 25 (Blake). No actual children are involved with the experiment. Does this clear the age question up?
I always seem to learn at least one new trick with each of these.
Please do it. I'm more or less in the same situation of the OP, and your answer gave me a fantastic energy boost.
To your point, I don't think my former work colleague knew he was kind of out of it.. I can only describe it if he had been up all night smoking pot and was still feeling a little of the effects the morning after.

To the health point: I think polyphasic sleep may also increase your desire for high fat, sugar and salt foods because it destroys the meal cycle.
Just one small little nit: Dysan wasn't founded until 1973.
Source is talking to the external IP of destination's NAT device and vice versa. They are not talking using their internal IPs.
Regarding #1, there are a lot more fish in the sea, and you can catch a lot of fish with $1M. It often makes sense to sell any property at the peak of its value. It's possible (perhaps likely) that Chatroulette is at its peak value right now.
There's an RSS feed and a Twitter account if you guys want regular updates. We definitely want to let people keep track of what we're doing. Gives us some accountability as well. It's easier to keep going with the experiment when you have friends paying attention.

The Twitter handle is http://twitter.com/dymaxionduo
What was this documentary called? I'd like to see this, too.
Sneak Peek: The iPad’s iBookstore
I know Samy well. Probably more than 10 years.

He's one of the best of the best. I'd hire him in a second if he'd let me.
Not Everyone Using noSQL is a Rails-Lovin’ Ass-Clown
Yeah. If you have 1TB HDDs, that looks about 6 or 7 HDDs high, and the area of the top, if rectangularized, looks like about 8 HDDs. So that's ~50TB by a very rough estimate.

And I think you can actually buy either 1.5 or 2TB now, so that would make it ~100TB.
It's about 18" in diameter.

I used to use one as a doorstop for my office, in its translucent plastic carrier.
I think the words "kids" seemed to come from the fun and informal style of writing that we tried to use.
'These books are demotivational since after a while I start to think that everyone except me got their start coding assembly on a PDP-10 that they built themselves over the weekend when they were five years old.' Awesome.
I can't speak for Blake, but I have a horrible meal cycle as it stands already. Inconsistent in everything, mostly nutritional value.

Already, a few months ago, I tried to schedule myself into small healthy snacks every couple hours, instead of a few large and pretty unhealthy meals.

With this strict schedule on sleep, I'm eating within the first hour of waking up. (Eating a couple apples seem to help for the late night snacks.) Small breakfast after the 6am nap, small dinner right after my 6pm nap, etc. Some healthy-ish snacks sprinkled it the middle (but no too close to naptime).
Asynchronous Tracking for Google Analytics
It seems name-calling has replaced discussion these days...
Hacking March Madness
I never said everyone did aspire to solve interesting problems. But the point of this thread, as so many others, is what do you do with opportunity given to you to work on whatever you want.

I'm of the opinion that working on video games, generally speaking, is not much more rewarding both to yourself and society as it is to play them. If you had $500k, 2 years, and many ideas on how to make the world better, why would you waste it on building something that serves no purpose other than sheer escapism or entertainment?

I get a very negative reaction when I criticize certain pursuits as not being worthwhile, as has happened before, but it's due to a misunderstanding of context. I say this not in the context of life in general (as I said, I play video games and don't always work on interesting, difficult problems) but instead in the context of having the opportunity to change the world.

The truth is, these opportunities come across very rarely, and when they do, it's important to deeply consider how you spend your time. Sometimes you want to have fun, but that goes hand in hand with the fact that life is short.
If you're making a conscious decision then I don't consider you a moron at all. And I'll readily admit that I'm being unkind to refer to those who do it unconsciously as "morons" - it's at least 50% Facebook's fault, possibly more. However I do consider it somewhat "moronic" to put all your information into a public space that openly states it is public and then complain and get upset that it is public later on. This happens regularly (last instance I saw was a bunch of people getting upset that a newspaper reprinted information, including photos, of a person from their facebook page). Politicians are all too ready to act to come to the "defense" of these people with new laws that might severely restrict or impede innovation in this space.
nbga.js is what I used before. JavaScript heavy pages could be affected quite a lot by the traditional way of including GA.
I resent the title. Loving/liking/using Rails doesn't make you an ass clown. That title gets people's attention for about 20 seconds, and that's about it.
A lot of people think there is a fixed amount of wealth, so if your slice of the pie is larger than theirs you are being greedy and taking from the them. I don't know why incorrect ideas like this one persist, but it seems to keep coming back again and again.
Don’t be a Grin Fucker
Points I took from Rework
This could be solved with a wireless pressure sensitive stylus with a capacitive tip. I think such a product would make digital artwork a killer app for the iPad.
I don't think this is the place for ads. A shame it's from Brazil.

Wish I could report.
How London's Pirate Radio keeps hidden
Lucky guy... All I have is a tape reel I place between my books.

I say it's my FORTRAN compiler.
Sorry but Where's the rest of the post? It leaves off abruptly at with little actual info. I will be changing the positioning of those buttons as soon as 10.4 is installed too, but I'm sure Canonical did more work than that in 6 months.
"Javascript hosting is not exactly rocket science. So, okay, they have a shiny plugin store now. Great. Pig + lipstick?"

The "revolution" is not that third-party modules are hosted on the Yahoo! CDN. That's been the case for a while now. The cool part is that in YUI 3.1.0, using third-party gallery modules is as easy as adding the module name to your YUI.use() call:

YUI().use('gallery-history-lite', function (Y) {
// Boom, I'm using the History Lite gallery module.
});

The real power here is not just that it's easy to use third-party modules, it's that it's easy to use third-party modules in conjunction with official modules, and YUI intelligently concatenates and loads them using combo-handled requests for optimal performance. And you don't need to worry about any of it.

"There is not a single snippet where YUI is less verbose. In every non-trivial snippet YUI is more verbose, often significantly so. The difference may seem small in these trivial snippets but it hints at what happens in real-world codebases: YUI complexity does pile up exponentially, not so with jQuery."

You seem to be asserting that verbosity === complexity. This is untrue.

Where YUI 3 really shines is in large applications with many loosely-coupled components -- exactly the kinds of "real-world codebases" you mentioned. In these environments, YUI 3's modular architecture, flexibility, and consistency make it possible to keep your codebase maintainable while also ensuring optimal performance by allowing you to easily tailor the components loaded for a given page to suit the specific needs of that page, rather than having to load huge monolithic chunks of code that will never be executed.
Microbes thrive in harsh, Mars-like lakes
Idea: Chat Roulette variant for two-player flash games.
It's "something [Dave Winer] gave up on long ago" because he has one of the lowest reputations of anyone in our field.

Here's a pretty good introduction: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2003/04/21/whats_your_winer... (read the comments)

He has a long history of fucking over business partners and customers, developing mediocre ball-of-mud software, writing terrible specifications and being the worst spec-maintainer of all time. Thankfully most of his technical efforts have been unsuccessful, despite the effect his self-aggrandizement had on the media for much of the last decade.

Unfortunately a few of his clusterfucks did slip out: XML-RPC, SOAP, and his epic mismanagement of RSS (which only ended with a headshot from Atom). The man singlehandedly set the web's progress back about a decade! If not for him, the nightmare of WS-* would not have existed -- the likes of Microsoft and IBM would have done something stupid in a big way, but they wouldn't have pretended it had anything to do with the web.
Ogg Objections
We're going to revamp the HTML support so that users can write the heart of the DOM in a separate HTML file.

As for access to Javascript, not yet. Although there is an undocumented hook to get at Javascript objects and attributes, it isn't ready for consumption.
> However I do consider it somewhat "moronic" to put all your information into a public space that openly states it is public and then complain and get upset that it is public later on.

I am with you 100%.
I suspect much of this won't work at all for fiction... but then again, is that true?

Would you read an incomplete piece of fiction and provide feedback to help shape its direction?

And, as an author, would you take people's advice about how you're supposed to change your baby to suit their demands?

For non-fiction books, though, this is a no-brainer.
For the moment, we're focusing on providing support for 2d world-style programming. We haven't looked into OpenGL bindings.
Man says dad's order got him out of accused killer's truck
Well, Jessica did just that and she wrote a book - "founders at work". Anyone who wants to find an answer to this question can just read it. My impression was that working too hard does not correlate with success.
That would be a "Winchester" drive. I remember for some time, the "stack of disks" icon was used in diagram as a shorthand for "hard drive" or "permanent storage". Not sure if that's still in use.

Interesting example of how technology changes its external shape -- usually into some nondescript boxy thing, but the old designs live on as iconography. Like diskette icon as a shorthand for "Save". Or this one still going strong in Latin America:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Road_Sign_Peru_Prohib...

"No horn blowing" -- that would be the horn of a Ford T on that sign...
According to you. I have tried several different versions of Ubuntu (8.04, 8.10, 9.x) and every time, I have to edit pages of config files. Add repositories, remove repositories, something is wrong with the networking, my usb is being weird, have to change something to allow it to get the proprietary ATI drivers, blah blah blah.

Linux people always come out and say everything is perfect and linux is ready for the desktop. Sit someone down at a linux box who has never used a command line and they will demand a change of OS in a few days or less, simply because you are required to have esoteric knowledge just to make the damned thing usable.
It's really cheap here in Alabama, and taxes are quite low too. You may not think much of the culture, but I assure you that it exists and is quite interesting, sometimes hilarious. Huntsville is a nice area with lots of engineers, artists, entrepreneurs etc, but I would recommend Madison which is a suburb.
America hates aging
Merlin Mann Presents 3 Free Talks at Rutgers University
A million for a top-notch education, with a ton left over at the end to invest in whatever he chooses.
I bet they do, they're quite fun to watch.
While I thought the new look was pretty nice for about 10 minutes I soon found that it just clashed with everything you ever use. For example, you end up with a bright white webpage in your browser against all the dark grey in the menu's. Different sections of menus aren't delimited and it all just looks a mess once you get past the initial excitement that the default isn't brown.

Like everyone else I don't get the change in the button positioning but its a pretty simple fix to put them on the other side (I know thats also no excuse!).

The boot time was much improved on my fairly ancient laptop and Firefox 3.6 feels quite snappy. Seems like everything loads a little bit faster.

Thats my impressions after using it for 3 days!
There are two at our mall, both of which were jammed (the arms were clogged with fallen-over drinks) when I discovered them.
Gotcha, thank you!
Great stuff Amit!
I say the opposite, lets redesign everything under the sun. If it works, we'll use it. If it doesn't, we won't.

Why do people expect simple projects presented on a blog to have all the answers? Is it not possible to just take it on face value and entertain the idea?
I'm using the mentioned UNR (Ubuntu Netbook Remix) and have been very impressed. It's working great on the street-available Asus eeePC 1GB as a Ubuntu/Win 7 dual-boot.
Thick Buttons - keyboard replacement for android
Felix Salmon: The negative bag-check fee
Already posted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1164161
is this hacker news or hater news? I think i'm in the wrong place.
Human capital: literal truth, fairy tale or myth?
Glass Coke bottles are still sold in South America (in my country Uruguay for instance).

Even more, most people agree that it is "tastier" (just because it keeps cold better I suspect, and I hope it's not because something from the plastic container seeps into it!)
"There's nothing unusual in that agreement. It sounds like every other social network."

Indirect, concepts, ideas...does it mean that if you help someone on LinkedIn answers section, they own the solution?
A swedish student, Thomas Jönsson, performed a similar "polyphasic sleep" experiment 2 years ago. He slept 2.5 hours per day; 25 minutes every 4th hour. His aim was to improve his potential and performance on a wide front, and he increased results in several contexts (learning, and physical exercise being the most notable ones). He kept his experiment going for about 6 months. He was 23 years old at the time.
I'm not sure that promoting an alternate development model really means "the enemy" of FOSS. If you'd ask RMS, he'd probably say so, but I don't see why Apple's closed model and FOSS' open one can't co-exist. Also, it's not like Apple is attacking OSS, it's playing nicely as well as sponsoring several large projects.

If Apple is the enemy of FOSS, we've got a rosy future.
Sorry, the parallels do not work that far. Listening to your customers as you go along is a great idea for a startup and a really terrible idea for a book. If you listen to your customers you are guaranteed to get a very mediocre book. A good book has to continually challenge and surprise the reader.

Imagine if Dostoevsky had listened to his customers when he wrote "Notes from the Underground." Most of the people reading the first couple of lines would say "please change the main character." By the way here are the first couple of lines:

"I am a sick man.... I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I believe my liver is diseased."

So this would never have been written if Dostoevsky actually listened to his customers. And yet it is one of the best books ever written.

But releasing early and often is an interesting proposition for books. A lot of writers had to do that, because they published their books in serial fashion as they were writing them. Many other writers would continuously rewrite their drafts and would never release anything they had not completed and edited. And you can definitely notice when you are reading a book that a writer was writing and publishing it as he went along. But it is hard to say which one is better. The books that are published as they are written tend to be less organized and with less cohesive story arcs, but they can also be more original and pleasantly surprising.
I've been holding out to read Rework until I can get it on iPad. This was just the dose I needed to get me through.
Also, the more I think about this...

One cycle of three hours hardly encourages the body to enter REM. That person might've only gotten one 30 min sessions in that 3 hour cycle. Once we have transitioned, our body will be getting four 30 minute sessions of REM.

Again, I want to emphasize that I'm not an expert on this, I've just read a lot. I think my thoughts would align with other polyphasers, though.
Hate the title. Agree 100% with your point. I always speak up - to a fault.
It's meant to be taken in the voice of the original guy and his penchant for making fun of folks using rails.
The long-term effects of short-term emotions
No, it's tastier in third world countries because they use real sugar instead of HFCS: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/11/magazine/11fob-consumed-t....
I read the title and thought "Apple". Everything about the company smells of evil, and I am reminded of this every morning when I need to download my news podcasts for the road; I have always copied and pasted audio files into every MP3 player I owned, but with the iPod, I need to launch the horrible iTunes and drag programs into my iPod. Should I plug my device into any other computer with iTunes, it would attempt to reset its memory and initialize it for this other iTunes :-/
I was actually thinking of a machine where you insert your bottle and a screen lowers. It then does a quick scan to confirm it is a bottle of the correct dimensions and weight. It lowers a rod into the bottle and steam-sterilises it. It bakes the outside of the bottle so the bottle reaches >100 degrees for several seconds.

It then chills the bottle. It could do this by pumping refrigerated water into the bottle and then extracting it again.

Finally, it rolls a label onto the outside of the bottle and fills it with a refreshing beverage. Optionally, it could then seal the bottle.

This machine is then installed like a vending machine, but with far greater capacity (it could mix drinks with filtered water on site) and lower cost.
Should be a matter of changing 2 lines of code; one to run the status command, one to parse the output.
Instantly made me think "Olive oil. Yummy."
Not just in developing nations...you can get glass bottles of Coke in the US made with real sugar as well.
Pricing Surveys Are Worthless
failure in logic.. these are two very different questions:

a) How much would you pay for the new magical device iHype that will solve all your computing and media needs?

b) How much will you pay for a big iPhone (sans phone)?
Kudos - Hva? Ikke noe Kudos? - ITavisen
Every day I am more convinced that the enemies of FOSS are the borderline morons that descend on articles like that one to "tell it like it is" with "M$ IS TEH DEVILZ LOLZ" prose that only makes everyone else shake their heads in disgust or shame.

Microsoft would do a far better job at discrediting FOSS if they simply flooded the internet with astroturfers that mimic the FOSS nutjobs.
I'm expecting the filter legislation to be dragged out till after the election then dumped once they win especially if (let's hope) Fielding loses his seat!. I think the only reason it has been dragged out this long is face saving on Conroy's part.
"They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."

- Carl Sagan

Be cautious about valuing being non-mainstream for its own sake. The valuable thing is not being non-mainstream, but being non-mainstream and right. What you are different about matters.

If you value being non-mainstream for its own sake too much, then you risk that being a part of your identity. That is dangerous because then it will be extremely difficult for you to rationally consider arguments and evidence that you are wrong. And most new ideas are wrong.
Discount Brand new HP Pavilion dv7-1000 Series Battery
Also, it's not like Apple is attacking OSS

Apple's lawsuit against HTC effectively asserts that Android is illegal. That's a rather big deal; there are three mobile computing platforms that matter, and Android is the only one that's open.
Interesting he was able to improve physically. I've always been tempted to try an extreme sleep schedule, but one thing has kept me from doing so -- I go to the gym regularly, and evidence has shown that sleep is an essential part of muscle growth.
Programming in Martin-Löf's Type Theory
http://www.cs.chalmers.se/Cs/Research/Logic/book/

I'm reading it from time to time. Useful for me.
The title is only true if you sit downstream :(
James Cameron: Watching Avatar on an iPhone is dumb