skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My initial response was that's a feature, not a bug. Then I realized that there are plenty of real uses for animated gifs.
- you can't bookmark or link to any page you come across - the address bar will always contain the digg bar URL

- it's very insecure - phishing becomes much easier because the actual address is never shown
Just like MSNBC didn't block Wikileaks when Wikileaks made their parent company, GE, look bad.

Oh wait, they did do that.
The ipad supports Bluetooth keyboards. It even has a special apple version available that also holds the ipad up as a screen.
Go to apple.com/ipad and look around a bit or watch th keynote of the ipad's release. How to attach an external keyboard is explained in both places.
I'm curious which version of Toy Story 2 this was done too as the film was originally slated as a straight to DVD edition.

When it turned out Disney wanted to do a screen release, there was a mad rush as the first iteration of the movie wasn't that great and Pixar had to get John Lasseter off his break to "fix the film"

(there's an interesting story how they basically re storyboarded the film in a weekend with sharpies)

The rest as they say is history. The second film was more successful than the first at the box office.

EDIT - thought I'd share a source. The Pixar Story, you can watch the appropriate part here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjrPCIDqbwQ

Starts at 4:30 in
I can totally relate to what you're saying.

My story: I found some professional success (atleast monetarily so) early and in parallel through college-life. I thought there wouldn't be much to the transition to pursue a bigger goal post-academics.

Seems like I was totally wrong. Ever since, I've been facing a huge motivational crisis, total mismanagement of time, Unkept promises in my professional as well as personal circles and most of all, to myself.

Currently, I still stand potential with whatever I thought was my biggest chance to make it big in life professionally. However, the only thing that can seem to provide me any kind of respite / mental peace is slacking off on junkie travel-getaways.

Personal-life has hit new lows. Complicated-relationships turned irredeemable. Finally, there seems to be a self-imposed lethargia to any kind of social life (when not travelling); Life, monotonously so has boiled down to some work -- 8 hours a day, and IRC (with other minor randomities) the rest of the time.
Not necessarily, they were all in a mad dash to get the film done because of a change by Disney and a major rework of the film.

I posted a little about this http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1246745
Wow... full of logical errors...

Among the countless counterexamples one could cite against any claim to an “innate conscience” is the fact that the 9/11 hijackers regarded their murderous actions not as abhorrent, but as sublime.

Poor logic here. Hitchens would claim that it was their religion that perverted their innate sense of right and wrong. To search for such a sense, I can only imagine you would need to look at very young children and even then it would be hard to discount the cultural/upbringing factor.

The claim to “innate knowledge,” like the claim to knowledge through faith, is a form of mysticism, the claim to a non-rational, non-sensory means of knowledge.

Not if its been observed enough. You don't need to be able to explain something down to the quantum mechanical level to assert it exists.

How can religious belief be wrong if the “innate consciences” of billions of people tell them that it is right?

What? Historically, most religions were spread by a small number of individuals. How is this innate? (Someone correct me if I'm wrong on the history).

If man’s ethical ideas were innate, if his biology predisposed him to irrationality, if he had no choice about whether to commit evil, then the entire field of morality—which presupposes that man does choose his actions—would not only be pointless

No one is claiming there is no choice, merely that our moral decision making procedure is imperfect and/or very flawed.

Why does an “ethical realist,” who claims to believe that ethical truths are waiting in reality to be discovered, insist that ethics must be grounded “intuitively,” via “irreducible leaps,” rather than rationally

In part, this might be because introspection is, in some ways, inherently self limiting. There is nothing logically incoherent about saying that "this is far as I can break things down."

The whole discussion of how senses are needed to even write a book is silly. You can't take someone's argument to an extreme and then point out how silly it is. The claim isn't (or shouldn't be) that "senses are useless" but that "our senses are not perfect receptors of the outside world."

Overall, the large problem is that the author is looking for a perfect answer to questions when the thought process behind it is still in its infancy.
I used them when I bought a minified url for my site using the Haiti TLD. Seriously they have good reach ;)
How The Quest For Efficiency Turns Small Problems Into Big Ones
He's living his life within emacs, as the Lord intended, and I imagine he is thus quite pleased.
Are Y Combinator and Techstars a good deal for Entrepreneurs?
Having strong convictions and living in pain is cool if it makes a difference in the world. I'm not convinced RMS not using anything that has 'unfree' software makes any difference to anyone or anything. He's deluded himself into believing that he has more freedom than people who use closed source software.

I wonder if he wears a digital watch, owns a TV, drives a car, uses a printer etc etc. All of which have closed source software within.
Wow. What? I have now realized that all this time, I had absolutely no idea what Paul Graham looked like!
Blizzard mulls Aussie World of Warcraft servers
Why should something that is basic functionality require third party services?
You'll be happy if you plan your career so that you can retire by 40.
It's funny how much founders like gardening. I wonder if there's something to that.
Flowdock Tries to Help Turn Conversation to Knowledge
iPhone OS 4.0 event announced for April 8
Cool, but essentially totally useless due to lag.
Great plug in the review for a kickass iPad app called StreamToMe ($3). I've been using it to mount my entire video library on my mac mini (with external HD), and have access to view everything on my iPad. 1tb of movies / tv shows + iPad is an amazing combo.

BTW... anyone know a good site to get like an RSS feed or something for new ipad apps?
We teach math linearly, because we follow the child's brain development.

numbers are quite an abstract things, and proportion is even more so. the next step, the percentage, add relative point of views too. you just can't teach that to a child that literally can't tell his right from his left.

Well, you can, but he won't really understand it and it is effort down the drain.

So I know that here we all are CS/EE/whatever, and probably knew more math then our elementary school teachers, but there is a reason to these steps, even if the said teacher never know about it.
SSIR should read SSRI (Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor). Only adding this comment to be helpful to anyone that needs to Google it for help.
In addition to learning about their setup, it's great to put a face to so many interesting online names. Thanks for putting this together waferbaby. Direct link: http://usesthis.com/
The user experience gleans a lot of simplicity by abstracting hiding the filesystem. If you can't monkey with files, you can only break things programmatically.

It's definitely different, and frustrating for superusers, but I think it will be perfect for the majority of the population.
It's not Ebola, and these are all people who worked on Toy Story. John Carmack isn't going to leak Doom 4. I'm pretty sure he can be trusted with that one.

Why would you give away your life's work to some thieving bastard on the internet who you'd never met and didn't care about you, anyway?
Modern Maturity: Create More, Consume Less
Win95 was kind of the creation of a new type of computing. Now that the market exists, it doesn't need to be sensationalized to get a toehold.

At least, that's my first thought.
Yes, and then you have to teach your users about this new program... for what exactly?
Tell the boss it's about tennis! The only possible better association would have to be golf...
It's worth sanity checking statistics - 340000 hours is equal to nearly 39 years, which seems a bit on the high side for a single school in a single year...
Man! The microsoft version of the future is really awesome.
I think often the only way to figure out if you want something is to try it. Traveling seems like a good idea, or other things to get some exposure. Do you want the same things as your stb fiancee?
This is a strong issue for me so I will attempt to be restrained.

In the wake of the religiously motivated atrocities of 9/11, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens have penned best-selling books

This wasn't a good start; I feel it is something of an invocation of a parallel to Godwin's law.

The middle bit spends a lot of time debunking the idea of innate morals. I happen to agree there; Hitchens is, I think, wrong in some respects (I only read him once; so there is almost certainly a subtle message as well). But the conclusions drawn are rather inane and, really, fall foul of the same mistakes the writer highlights.

I skipped to the end at that point to see the conclusion was "Ayn Rand" - that's a lot of words just to get to that point...
Which would be good since it would already be installed.
There originally was... "iSync." However, Apple has all but forgotten this app exists, and the UI is very rudimentary anyways. About the only thing it was every used for was for handling old school file system syncing with Bluetooth and USB cell phones from about 3-5 years back.
Whatever you do, do something different. Join the Army. Move to Thailand. Dump your girlfriend, if you have to.

Good luck.
Move out from States: a country of depressed people who think that work is remedy for everything.
They are actually starting to build powershell into a lot more of their core apps. You can really do a lot of cool things with powershell. It's just an ugly looking language, IMO, so I tend to use iPython as my scripting language. It's really nice to be able to drop in to PowerShell if you need it, though.

I run Win 7 at home, on all my boxes, and I'm running Win3K on EC2 as a server. I can remote in from my phone, as well as my netbook without any problems. My deployment is automated and scripted. I'm going to switch to Server 2008 soon, so I can get a remote shell if I need it.
How does "survey_period=2009" reduce the options to "MacBook vs. Compaq Whale"?
>I wonder if he wears a digital watch, owns a TV, drives a car, uses a printer etc etc. All of which have closed source software within.

I'd never seen a pic of RMS before the above link, but given how he looks like a cross between a hippy, a geek and a caveman, I'd say highly unlikely.

(btw, not trying to put the man down, I admire his work!)
Is ripping your CD collection to play on a player theft or fair use? These proposals mark any file not bought from a marking service illegitimate and may be unplayable on the iPods of the future.
The iPad is a $500 tax for being a fanboy.
Prezi is very nice and I've seen a couple of presentations which have benefited from the hierarchy and demonstration of relationships. However, this presentation seemed to be animation simply for the sake of animation. The spacial relationships seem to have almost no bearing on the logical relationships. I too was unable to finish the presentation.
J and APL always win these things but J and APL symbols are really semantically and contextually loaded so each symbol does like 10 lines worth of code in other languages.
I think the majority of this article was just intended to show that the "New Atheists" don't have any better justification for their moralities than the religious people do, and that morality must be justified with reason, not from feelings.

The footnote was meant to recommend the reader to a source of moral guidance that is actually justified rationally and grounded in reality. (Objectivism.)
I'm sorry but you can both allow files to be moved (photo, music, movies, documents) and abstract the file system.

When I move the photos from my camera to my computer, I don't have to deal with the file system at any moment.
Hey, what happened just then? (about go-test.it)
So how about we turn this into a what's your set up thread?

Hardware: I'll get started. I have three Macs: a Mac Pro, a MacBook Pro, and a MacBook Air. I also have an iPhone. The MacPro and the Air were bought by my company, the MacBook Pro is my personal machine.

I find myself using the MacBook Air a lot. I can take it anywhere with me. When I'm not using it, I'm using the iPhone. If the Air had a SIM card slot I'd probably use it even more.

On the MacPro I have a 24" Samsung monitor. All the other machines I use with their native screens. I also have a Kindle.

Software: I use emacs for writing and coding. I use a mixture of Firefox and Chrome for most everything else since so much of my computer life is in the cloud. Bits of software I love are: Dropbox, Notifo, Evernote and TweetDeck.
I don't think the CD metaphor for music is dead yet, but both the iPhone and iPad show the iTunes icon when they need to be connected (i.e. at activation).
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Superior threat identification systems
Looks like we'll be able to tell camera's from RPG's soon enough.
Looks like we'll be able to tell camera's from RPG's soon enough. I wouldn't mind my tax dollars going towards equipping every chopper with this sort of imaging technology... though hopefully they'll go beyond what the article discusses (predator-style heartbeat weapons-lock) and use it for something that's even more useful: making sure the person you're shooting at is actually an enemy. I can't imagine that the signature of a weapon would be much more difficult than that of a heartbeat to detect.
The best backups are the ones you take home at the end of the day. Our IT team is quite small and we don't have Pixar money, but we are able to afford a few USB drives. The important stuff to keep a company running (tax records, receipts, etc.) are copied to a folder. It's not exactly terabytes of wireframes and renderman files, a few thousand office documents takes up 1GB at the most.

We tried backup software but each one stored it in a proprietary format and we had no way of checking files to see if they were valid or not. And testing a restore was way too much work. USB drives work because I can see the files, I can open the files and that's good enough for me. KISS
It's like someone said to a design agency "Imagine a world where everything is touch sensitive". Frankly I'm pretty sure that I don't want to sit down and my boarding pass in my back pocket sell all my stocks.
Earthquakes from niceone.org
I figured this might be interesting to some people, especially given the comparative number of quakes in the last couple of days
Hedonism and "devil may care" may be the same thing, but neither are rational self-interest as described by Objectivism. To answer your question, Objectivism does provide a rational foundation for ethics (obviously, beyond the scope here). It defines a very precise set of virtues, which are objective, based on facts and reason; which will explain why everyone's rational self-interest can be compared and work compatibly. It's not at all "what happens to feel good to you". The virtues are principles based on our nature as human beings, not concrete actions like worshiping idols.

I won't go into detail, but basically the foundation is: humans need to respect reality, use reason, and not be dependent on others but be productive to survive. This is how we each survive, and thrive. The standard of morality is life, ones own human life. Sacrificing your values is working against your own life. According to these principles, faith, mysticism, and using force against other people are all bad for your own life.

The point of the article is that altruism asks for sacrifice. Is there a rational basis for accepting it as a moral code? It's always been founded on religion throughout history. All the New Atheists do is say instead that altruism (or utilitarianism) feels right to them. This is not reason. Why does it feel right? And what about people for whom it doesn't feel right?

I like a lot of what the four horsemen have written and said in defense of science and atheism, and how they debunk religion and some of its more monstrous ethics. But, when they try to provide a positive ethics, they only offer what feels right.
What a fantastic way to extinguish through overanalysis any joy that might have been had from the simple pleasure going for a quick drink after work. I realise that drinking cultures might vary enormously but I just don't recognise the fraught environment that is being presented here; I have never seen anyone put under pressure for not drinking, and "White wine won't mix with the whiskey crowd"? Really?
I like to go out with work colleagues on occasion. I find that if you are going to spend eight hours a day with some people it helps to get to know them personally a little bit, and this in turn eases the working relationship. This doesn't have to be achieved by going to the pub; that's just a social norm. In some cultures a convivial gathering might mean drinking sweet tea and smoking a hookah, but in mine it involves booze.
I second the SSD recommendation. It's a must have on any Macbook Pro.
The primary point wasn't really to reduce the number of addicts, but to manage their addiction and prevent them having to become muggers, hookers or burglars to feed their habit, dying from badly adulterated drug supplies and contracting diseases from bad practices. And, relevant to this article and thread, putting the money earned from these illegal activities straight into the black market for drugs.

Despite the horror stories and wild hysteria people can function and hold down jobs while dealing with heroin addiction just like alcoholics can.

But still, I've never heard of methadone programs increasing the number of addicts (unless you count the ones that don't die as a result of the intervention). What's the causal link and how do you separate out addicts that would have become addicts anyway? Because if you didn't already have an addiction problem you wouldn't realy need the methadone program in the first place. So some actual science would need to be done to get a clear answer.
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A person is not a conclusion. The article ends by advocating Ayn Rand's ideas and works, clearly. Whatever one's views might be of her doesn't invalidate everything that precedes.
Infrared Saunas - A Footstep In the Direction Of Higher Wellbeing
In this text I am going to begin by clearing up what infrared saunas are, how it is different then the traditional sauna and what are the benefits of using it.
I'm not sure why they had to take the rather sound message of "make useful stuff and you'll be happier" and dress it up with all of that "Be A Real Man" wankery.
Lectures in Quantum Computing Since Democritus (U. of Waterloo Course)
Correct. But now we have to wonder why the Linux desktops are so keen to follow their example.
I've been a happy customer of them for more than three years now. They're awesome -- super-responsive support, absurdly low fees, and very very easy to set up.
I've so far avoided installing iTunes on my Win7 box, for much that same reason - it uses an obscene amount of resources, when I can use something like Foobar2000 with appropriate plugins to do the same job with no significant CPU or RAM footprint.
Ohm Studio announced : a collaborative online music sequencer
Indeed. It was the whole point of the article, really though. The writer took each of the "new atheists", listed their theories and pointed out where it doesn't sync with the writers views.

But there were also no solutions (something the writer calls dawkins et al on a few times) to the fundamental questions - until the end when Ayn Rand is presented as the answer (and I mean her works in the possessive)
I find it sad that almost every commenter here so far has not only defended the New Atheists, but they've also defended intuition and innate-conscience based morality.

You're doing the exact same thing the author of the article accused the New Atheists of. Stop defending emotion based morality and start arguing for rational, reality-based morality.

I'm still studying Objectivism myself, but as far as I know, Ayn Rand has already based morality in reality. The article stating this at the end doesn't seem to be intended as a baseless assumption. It's basically saying "Here's a reality-based morality. For its validation, see Rand's works." I'd listen to it and actually try to understand where Rand was coming from before attacking her. I see idiotic attacks on her philosophy every day, and not a single one of the attackers understands or has even tried to understand it.

If you think there's an alternative to Rational Egoism, base that alternative on facts, not on personal feelings or the whims of large groups of people.

Again, stop arguing for emotion based morality, and start basing morality on facts.
I hope you make encryption mandatory on those USB drives. Losing one could cost you (your) business!

Simple GPG encryption or even truecrypt containers work wonders.
Collaborative sequencer
Shows how much you know.

I unknowingly buy tainted MP3s from a retailer. Under the doctrine of first sale I can re-sell these MP3s. So now I legally sell a full mp3 player or maybe lose it and someone hands it into the police but I never claim it. The new owner now has a means to do me harm.
Exactly. Attendence checking doesn't take 5 minutes per student per class, yet that's what's being claimed by the math....
Yup, I have used them once and found out their service was super simple to use. Awesome stuff.

The post has an interesting number "$1 million", which is their revenue. Good to see hear they are making that much of money by keeping things simple (and not raising money).
You stop having to teach new users that a program called iTunes does a wide variety of non tune related tasks.
I completely agree. And when you look at what is taught and how, you may be glad that instruction is not possible for at least part of the day.

I've listening to the mises.org podcast of Murray Rothbard's For a New Liberty and it deals with the subject extensively.

I've concluded that there really is no good reason to coerce people to use their brains. In fact, its impossible.

Maybe that's why Albert Einstein said “It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.”
Is it just me who expected to see a list of hair styling products? ;)
It seems that socializing over alcohol is the lowest common denominator for after work activities. Personally I would rather socialize over a nice meal or go play some multiplayer games or plan an outing to an airsoft field. But after work, in a metro area, the bars are plenty and accessible.

I wish someone taught me the strategy of socializing over drinks. As an introvert, I avoided these kind of events and really didn't get anywhere in terms of progressing through the corporate ranks. Realizing that I needed to change me behavior, I started joining these events. It really is a good opportunity to grease the bureaucratic wheels found in corporation to get things done during the work day. It's a teachable skill.

Now my work day really doesn't end when I leave the office. It's "business beers" in the evenings.
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I don't get it, wasn't this released almost a month ago?
http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2010/03/introducing-pypy-12-rel...