skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=A+Theory+of+Type+Polymor...

First link.
Since it's tagged as "Humor", yes I'd say this is an attempt at humor. Also a good one at that too. I enjoyed it.
Could anyone explain the if it was really about idealism, Firefox would remove the plugin API that Flash (and e.g. Silverlight) uses argument?

I'm genuinely curious as I've seen this from both Gruber and Mark Pilgrim so clearly some people who aren't known for being loonies think there's logic there, but I'm just not seeing it.

Basically I read it as if they are saying you're not allowed to choose your battles, or be pragmatic in pursuit of an idealistic goal, you have only two options; to be more extreme than Richard Stallman or you have to shut up and follow the crowd.

And even that ignores all the plugins that don't push patent encumbered formats that would be collateral damage (or is he suggesting a plugin blacklist? For patented code, all proprietary code, any code that Gruber thinks makes them hypocrites?). Or is there more here I'm not seeing?
Isn't this the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroes_journey described with a graph?

I guess he's famous (I looked him up) but I found the writing style hard to read.
I think it's more to do with eInk than anything else.
Or maybe not...
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http://www.python.org/download/ is not blocked from Shanghai
Why chart the emotions of the protagonist to evaluate the story? The value of a story is not in how happy or sad the protagonist was - but how it makes you feel.

If I had to evaluate stories, my vertical axis would have 4 parts. From top to bottom:

* Unpredictable and irrational

* Surprisingly Unpredictable

* Tolerantly Predictable

* Predictable and stale

The closer the story is to "Surprisingly unpredictable" the better it is.

Cinderella, Kafka, Hamlet - all reach that point.

(But to be fair - Cinderella reaches that point only because its amongst the first few stories you ever hear.)

Titanic reached that stage for many teenage girls by killing the hero.

The best book I've read - Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov reaches that "surprisingly unpredictable" point too.
you know it and the brand it was from if I'd phone you up and shout "WASSUP".

I doubt that most people would. They know the meme; they remember the commercials, but what brand? I mean, without looking, I believe it was beer, but I'm not totally certain even of that.
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This was particularly strong wording on China's part. Anyone want to bet what actions follow up the words?

I don't believe that China doesn't care about Google leaving. I think, despite the party line, they are reluctant to ban access to Google outright because of the symbolism it would bear to the Chinese technorati. But then again, I've never been to China so what do I know.
It's a few years old but Empirical Analysis of Internet Filtering in China http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/filtering/china/ may be interesting
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I'm hoping that the new features (GPU!) can be used in place of the existing systems rather than adding yet more cruft to the existing graphics system that has accumulated so much cruft going from GBA to DS to DSi. Probably wishful thinking, though, and I bet it'll be even more of a PITA to program.
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... and openlayers.

I'm curious as to how they made the buildings. I'm guessing some serious SLD magic, but it would be interesting to know.
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Will this site be targeted by Chinese hackers as well if they decide that their current ruler is not a dictator??? we need to protect freedom of speech!!!!
I wish there were an idiot mode for unix that would tell you exactly what the command you just entered is going to do. I'd be turning it on all the time when using commands I rarely use.

It would be nice to know I'm about to do something that I don't intend. As long as the system doesn't ask me "are you sure you're sure you're sure?"
Thanks a lot for your informative answer. Really.
That was probably mostly what I wanted to know - if 100mbit is enough.
In that case I'll use my old pentium something, ubuntulize it and stick it in the store room.
Power usage is not really a problem - economically. Unlimited usage, fixed price, included in rent...
Also, during my 25+ years I think I've experienced one power failure so power failure is not a problem either. Though perhaps a UPS might be wise to invest in anyways. At least along the road.

Tahnks a lot!
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If it has food, soft drinks, and good conversation, I'm totally up to taking a train out to Osaka/Tokyo/etc once in a while. I just have to ask my boss if I can... oh, wait, no I don't. :)

P.S. If you like iPhone development I'd be happy to introduce y'all to the local iPhone club at my ex-employer. (30 minutes + short bus ride from Nagoya.)
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Where do you as founders fall into this scheme?

Or does a different scale apply to you? If so, fair enough.

At a place I worked before, I was pretty embarrassed when I found out I was earning 15% more than a fellow colleague on the team who was just as good if not better than me, purely because I happened to join when market rates were X, whereas he joined when they were X-15%.

I suspect this is a big reason companies don't want employees to talk about compensation.

Though where I am now, we have an "everyone gets the same raise" policy, combined with hiring practices that ensure substantial variances in skill of employees. Not a great situation either.

So I think the fixed scheme really depends on getting your hiring absolutely right, if you screw up, you have to be willing to face up and let the person you screwed up with go.
Beian http://www.miibeian.gov.cn/ only applies to servers inside of China. China law can't extend outside its borders. It is free to apply for a beian.

CNNIC passed a rule at the end of last year that essentially means only companies registered in China can hold .cn domains http://www.cnnic.net.cn/html/Dir/2009/12/12/5750.htm

You can host whatever TLD site you want in China (.com etc.) You just need to register it and get an ICP (beian). It's a form of publishing and all publishing is controlled. So why would you host in side of China? Speed. Traversing the GFW slows everything down.
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Isn't it a little bit patronising to write I don't really know how safe Russia is as a country and then expand on how unsafe the country is? You then write that he should pack up and run off to the US; what's your reasoning behind that?
It's not that bad. There are many thousands of people in Moscow with much greater fortunes than that-
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He's referring to Hamlet's starting situation, which is same as Cinderella's (despondent girl, mother dead) except that the sexes are reversed (despondent boy, father dead). From there on, the story is different.
He's not teaching any more. He has been a recluse and stopped publishing since 2003 or thereabouts. Basically he's been hiding in his moms flat since then.
Well, I can only second what InclinedPlane already said and would like to add: While your idealized calculation [naturally] supports your point, it doesn't match up with what I've seen in reality.

In most companies you don't have one programmer per rack but many programmers per rack. The hosting costs are usually dwarfed by the programmer salaries, often as much as to make the former appear as a rounding error.

Consequently you should in almost all cases optimize for developer-performance, not for software performance.
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Why chart the emotions of the protagonist to evaluate the story? The value of a story is not in how happy or sad the protagonist was - but how it makes you feel.

It's a rather good starting point for analyzing stories. Most of the stories he mentioned (with Kafka being a notable exception) aimed to make the reader identify with the protagonist. Therefore, it's the protagonist's situation that matters the most. Also, bear in mind that he wasn't charting the emotions of the protagonist, but the protagonist's fortune.
I was looking forward to, well, you know - some content.

It's basically a short "list" of things that are cool at Google each followed by a comment along the lines of "but I can't really go into detail".
I recalled immediately that it was Budweiser and I haven't seen it in years. I wasn't even old enough to legally drink when they originally aired.

My memory (usually block it out to begin with) in recalling brands from commercials is terrible so I'm inclined to believe most people would remember. But we are both just guessing.
i didn't know that vonnegut went to grad school with saul bellow. i'm always pleased to hear about when favourite authors of mine knew each other before they were famous.

edit: who downmodded the comments of everyone who enjoyed the article? sheesh, if vonnegut's not your bag, then just abstain
echo, as he says, was built into the korn shell, whereas grep was a binary he deleted from the filesystem.
Perelman made every effort to stay out of the public life, yet every few months someone robs him of his right to privacy by snapping a picture of him in public, often in unflattering appearance.

Just leave him alone. Don't visit any site that preys on him.
That had way less content that I imagined.

I still hope it does turn into a series and he can give us some more information.
Thank you for point this out, I promise I'll read more from him, I generally only read the iPhone-related articles from his blog and this is the way I saw it, of course I could be biased, and generally I am, to comment about anything. But thanks anyway.
>> "it is odd for a consistently profitable company to avoid debt"

It's also probably not true, unless 37Signals uses their debit card for every random purchase they make.

A credit card is a perfect example of why debt is not categorically bad. If you pay off the debt within 30 days, you have a 0% interest rate. You also probably earned some kind of rebate, airmiles, or loyalty points. And you probably saved time over trying to pay for the product using cash or check.

Purchasing with a credit card is a small example of how intelligent use of debt can be a wise business decision.
Redhat's default bashrc aliases rm to rm -i. The i stands for idiot. (But of course, -f overrides -i, so maybe it's actually a wrapper. Who knows.)

What we really need are transactions or a versioned filesystem. rm -rf *? rollback!
Is it too late for JavaFX to succeed?
I would have hit Control-D just to get the free trip to New Zealand :)
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Why do you mention Kafka as an exception? I've always felt his characters were very easy to identify with. They're the confused part of you, constantly buffeted by processes you don't understand. Surely everyone feels a little like that at times?
Not even during the bombing of dresden?
And more than 5 of these sticking out of your device could easily break.
This reminds me of a story I once read. Good news, bad news? Who knows?

http://www.spinwwweaver.net/goodnews.html
Interesting. I've read many horror stories about people wanting to get a job at Google and going through the interview shredder.

Apparently, once you're in, it's a paradise. Well, at least compared to what you had to go through.
I didn't say get Palm Pre or Pixi (the hardware). I meant the OS. The Palm hardware is nothing to write home about.
The trouble with all of these questions is simply that they are designed to force a big contradiction - and whatever answer you give the questioner usually has an "aha but....." ready for you.

The issue is that these problems are never "real world" and so are irrelevant to any actual discussion. Contradictions are, clearly, problematic - but only if we are going to face them. Until then they are just interesting diversions (pretty much like all of capital-E Ethics)

I'm not sure there is a real world problem that is completely morally insoluble.
Does anyone know how it works? It's hard to find any real information about this...
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The most probable display technology is Autostereoscopy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autostereoscopy), since it doesn't require glasses. It's already available in standalone 3D displays, and Hitachi have shown it off in a mobile phone form factor.
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Or some charity of his choice
Look at his thumb - he really doesn't cut his fingernail
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Seabed surveying (sonar, etc) - Hopefully, I will be able to travel a lot with the projects.
Lost in translation, apparently. The original russian title,
http://www.pravda.ru/science/19-03-2010/1023431-perelman-0/ , says

Российский математик может отказаться от премии в миллион долларов

which http://translate.google.com/ gives as "Russia mathematician may refuse the prize of one million dollars"

Not quite the "Strange Russian Genius Declines Million-Dollar Prize from USA" in the linked page.

(However, "does not accept" would be accurate - misleading, but accurate ...)

P.S. had to hunt a bit for the original, because the English version is under 'society', instead of the original 'science'. That may tell much ...
ironic that people on chatroulette care about privacy.
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Command line mysql client has a i-am-a-dummy mode where you cannot run a query like "DELETE FROM table". You could of course run "DELETE FROM table WHERE 1=1" but at least it saves you sometimes.
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I was talking about this with Ashish (who's fairly well known in the Python community as a web automater, and broke WP hash cash a couple of years ago) at PyCon a little while back: even though audio files have distortion applied to them, the threshold at which you can distory audio data and still have it be understood is much lower than with visual data - so a lot of people look to test to speech as a CAPTCHA breaking mechanism.
That command actually matches any line. You seem to have confused it with egrep ".+".
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That's interesting -- not that you don't know who Vonnegut is (though that IS interesting) but that you thought it was hard to read. I mean, to each his own of course, but at least to me, Vonnegut has always been one of the authors whose works were easiest for me to consume.
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I don't really get what's awesome, crazy or herethical ...
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Busybox is a binary that inspects argv[0] to determine how to behave. This is very different from shell builtins that do not launch a new executable, and will thus function correctly after the executable is remove from the file system. As far as I know, you cannot get busybox to perform it's other functions as "builtins". But if you have a functional debugger, it should be possible, though computing offsets is likely to be hard without another machine (chances are that the busybox binary has been stripped).
Damn, why can't I edit my comment. I made a mistake in the first sentence itself. Just imagine I said "I will just say like everyone else" instead of what is written initially.
No offense taken. The comment wasn't about Sam at all. It was responding to the feelings of the parent comment and making an observation. Heck I didn't even RTA.

(Although I continue to make the observation that if by some miraculous means Sam were Joe to me, we would be having the same conversation. Hence the frustration in the GP)
I'm wondering: would it be possible for a compiler to check if parts of the javascript code could run on another core?

For fun I created a 3D-render-engine in javascript + canvas (path tracing from lightsource). And I'm amazed how javascript speed differs in different browsers. Opera 10.50 and Chrome are like 3 times faster than others. But multi-threading would increase the speed even more (improving my program skills also...): www.thuijzer.nl/jsrender
Ask HN: I use and love Python. What's the best book to learn C ?
So it's 2010. I know enough C to be able to read and patch small apps where I find bugs, but I'd like to sit down and properly learn the language, in a way that encourages neat, usable code for my colleagues, that meets whatever the current standards are for C and covers modern topics like threading. I'm planning on using this to develop Python modules or hack on small Unix tools.

I've previously read K and R and found it understandable but a little boring. I really like the Head First series (but alas they have no C book) or anything with lots of examples.

What's the best introduction to C book you'd recommend?

Edit: Thankyou to everyone who's responded.
3D games? Sounds like we keep getting closer to augmented and virtual realities like they had in Minority Report.
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Well, my Firefox found the 3.6.2 update so it must be live already.
Click the image to enlarge, and to enlarge again to full size click the icon at the bottom.

I think the next one I make will be examples of using aggregate functions.

If you have suggestions for cheat sheets to make let me know.
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Sadly terribly Mac centric. There must be great looking Windows, Linux or Android software out there, right? Or web apps?
I'd suggest you start dissecting small programs written in C. Those UNIX tools you were talking about? Grab some UNIX tools, see how they work. Dissect cat, grep, etc. It's the best way to learn.
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It IS that easy, the trouble is finding the niches that are profitable that other people haven't already found. Getting in late to the game limits your choices to either 1) Being MUCH better at SEO than the more established people working the same strategy, 2) Finding a new niche that has somehow been overlooked by all the other people doing the same thing you are or 3) Finding less profitable niches in which to fill the need and game.

The reason that everybody isn't doing it is many-part, but the highlights are that SEO isn't that easy for the lay-person, and it actually does take quite a bit of work and commitment. There is a very big initial workload to setting up a site to generate passive income, and like a fire, it needs constant stoking to maintain, and will start by making VERY small amounts of money at a time (My first attempt grossed an average of $12 per month).

Simply put, the 'easiest' way to make money isn't really all that easy... and as for 'lowest risk', I'd completely dispute that too. If Google changes an algorhythm, or categorizes you as spam, or you're linked to by an unsavory site, then that could all go away. If you're hosting 50 sites on the same IP address, and have actually managed to get them to profitability, and Google bans the IP, now what?
What I really want to know is what "tbray" sees as the next google. Now that he is inside he surely must have a different perspective on what could be dislodging/game changing for the mammoth company.
Almost all applications are either for the iPhone or for the Mac. I also notice and appreciate the sophistication of a lot of these kind of programs. I still enjoy Tweetie's awesome iPhone UI every day I use it.
It makes sense. Writing prose works the same way. Learning to write is all about reading.

One thing I've noticed is that I like to reread. I get through a lot fewer classic books than many of my obsessive-reader friends because I take time to revisit books over and over. And it occurs to me that this, too, is a key activity in writing: One must read sentences and paragraphs again and again to refine them.
I think you are ascribing powers of omniscience to him that he, perhaps, does not have.
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Hmn, good point. I remember wanting to see how top got some of it's stats a while ago and wandering through the C source. Something simpler would be pretty quick.

fetches the coreutils source

Thanks.
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I don't think the graphs were a serious attempt at literary analysis. They were just a way for Vonnegut to do what he does: thinking-out-loud about the human condition.
K&R is still the best book on C. Short, simple and accurate.

C++, on the other hand, is a moving target. Difficult to know what to recommend, apart from suggesting you get something modern which concentrates on using the STL, and perhaps Boost.
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First, K&R. Second , C interfaces and Implementations by David Hanson.
Thanks a lot, this was exactly what I have been looking for.

If I could ask, how mature would you rate yourself to be, in comparison to stackexchange? In, say, preventing gaming of the system, DoS prevention, etc.
I was probably careless when I did my research, but I just found a company that does the exact type of sentiment analysis on Amazon reviews (as I have independently envisioned):

http://techcrunch.com/2008/06/30/pluribo-is-cliffsnotes-for-...

Not sure how to react to this but sigh.
This is exactly what the fictional John Forbes Nash, Jr did in "A Beautiful Mind". Does anybody here know whether he really did, or if they got it from somewhere else (Feynman, perhaps)?