skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isabelle Stengers and Dider Gille write in 'Body Fluids'

"What will we say to those who ignore advice and continue to make contacts known to be at risk? Will we treat them as irresponsible, to be lectured to, put under observation, and converted? In that case, our future scenario is assured: that of the child in the glass bubble, for whom the outside environment means death; that of the obsessional struggle against all unmonitored contact as potentially the source of death."

While they are here writing of 'safer sex' discourse, but I think their reminder that our bodies are necessarily exposed to danger. There may be, after all, fates worse than death and perhaps the over-sheltered, over-mediated life (one thinks of Huxley's Brave New World) comes about when all we do is think of the children.

But this is all very speculative, so who knows?
I find this article difficult to believe re the wage. 900 yuan is a very difficult wage to live on in Shenzhen, and I doubt that people are leaving their home towns to go and work in shenzhen and just earning 900yuan. Or does this exclude board and food?
When you say "newer edition", are you referring to the edition from 1994 or is there an even more recent one?
I liked the XKCD survey's "gender" question better.

Q: Do you have a Y chromosome?
It isn't so much the DRM as their choice of a DRM solution that only runs on Windows and Mac desktop systems. (Strictly speaking WinMo 7 as well.)

There's no reason to lock out my Droid like that, or my Linux desktop for that matter.
Doodle 4 Google
In some ways, the more fun fact (which I had known and forgotten) was that it was built for SGI.

<offtopic digression>
Damn they made good (albeit expensive) computers back in the day.

Some of their pricing was even crazier than the 486SX (a DX chip with a laser run through its math coprocessor) which at least started as reclaiming processors which failed QA.

For example, the Challenge DM could be converted into a more expensive model (that allowed for more expansion) simply by removing a single screw that shorted out a portion of the backplane. We called it the $10,000 screw.

An SGI salesperson told us about it (and then sold us an expansion board which worked fine).
</offtopic digression>
The only thing that I've seen that tried to split executing application code between the display server (i.e. the bit you have locally) and the application process was NeWS:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS

I had great fun programming with this (especially with the Hypercard-like HyperNeWS environment).

Once you the hang of interactive programming in PostScript it was a lot of fun.

Of course, you could argue that web browsers are doing this with Javascript - but that's at a different level of abstraction.
According to dishwasher Pete, it involves lots of swearing. If you don't use the F word more often than Tony Soprano, you don't fit in.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dishwasher_Pete
Ninjas to the rescue as thugs pick wrong alley
To be fair, it still is nuts.
A simpler counterproposal: Don't post things to the internet that you don't want to be on the internet.
I never will understand why any VC or hired-gun-big-name-CEO would actually expect founders to stay at a suffrage level and insist on dangled carrots of "big payout later when the IPO drops." It may never happen, and in fact, there's a huge chance it won't, and it's not always the founders fault. Sure, founders should make sacrifices, but as the author of this article said, when the payscales are adjusted due to an influx in capital or revenue, they should get some kind of raise.
Actually I don't see it as ridiculous, and neither do a lot of people[1]. Recognising the technical features/limitations of the device, the kind of software that would be useful is obviously different to that of the iPad.

Your two reputation questions are good. How can Apple ensure that only I can install apps on my device and not others? I have some ideas, but as I'm not privy to the internals, I have no idea whether they are feasible or not. Perhaps an iTunes preference (plist-style would be fine, it doesn't have to be exposed in the interface) that allows unsigned applications to be added to the list of apps in iTunes?
As for (b), I have no idea. Looking at the reputation of the Mac and OS X, I don't think it's that big an issue, but I can see the difference in reputation usability-wise of the desktop versus the Cocoa Touch products. I attribute this to the difference in interaction paradigms and the hard work that Apple put in to polishing the UI, rather than the business/legal restrictions.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wireless_router_firmwar...
Fear Is A No-No
Whistle-Blowers Become Investment Option for Hedge Funds
OpenID was DOA when they decided that URLs were identities rather than email addresses.

You can argue all you want about the technical merits of that decision, but the reality is that email is identity for pretty much everyone that doesn't code.
I use it to keep up with friends on platforms I don't have an account on (like twitter) or to share news clippings and I've taught my Mom to use it instead of sending me FWDFWDFWD mails.
http://www.dailytech.com/Apple+Reveals+Child+Labor+was+Used+...

That Apple independently investigated this and is taking some effort to change how their suppliers operate is both impressive and (from my understanding) very unusual in the industry.

Edit: Downmod because why, exactly? Is it bad that Apple is doing this investigation?
Newer and older are '94 and '86, respectively.

The (at the time de-facto) standard for Prolog shifted between the two editions, and the latter has several more chapters with larger example projects. Still, the core of the book is about logic programming itself, with Prolog is used an example language.
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Investors who write code
Another... social networking site? I don't get it.
Lost: The 14 Casting Tapes That Started It All
At a previous job, one of my coworkers implemented a fairly complex role-based access control system by linking a prolog interpreter to our application. Our problem domain was...very unusual, so this was probably the best solution.
What Seven Years of Source Code for Flickr.com Looks Like (video)
5th hit
Relationships matter in business and how you treat people will redound to you in time for good or for bad. There would be no good reason normally for Mr. Blank not to refer good prospects to a particular world-class VC firm with which he had dealt except for this bad experience with one of its representatives. And I don't blame him. It is a classic case of reaping what you sow - the big-name partner for his condescending ways and the junior guy for his arrogance.

It works the other way too. People can and do remember kindnesses and gracious acts from those who do them out of sincerity because they care about the people involved, even in a business context. It is just such acts that inspire the best of relationships that can last for decades.
What do you guys think of taking calculated risks as an entrepreneur?
Moive "The Social Network" Depicts Facebook CEO Zuckerberg As 'Sex Maniac'
Social standards: understanding Google's new APIs for Buzz
more than likely people will just search for: MIA maya album.

I think something similar happened with a few smaller bands back in the p2p days who tried to make themselves 'unsearchable' and therefore 'unpirateable'. Pirates always find a way.
On a similar note, the BCS' Professional Contractors Group thinks that e-voting is a good idea!

http://www.pcg.org.uk/vote

I do hope their members give better informed advice to their clients than this.
Igor's Blog: Mnesia - one year later
Beautiful.

It reminds me of http://demos.thejit.org/example/rgraph/example1/

Edit: also, http://donsbot.wordpress.com/2009/03/16/visualising-the-hask...
"Pythagoras knew it, but Bach demonstrated it: without mathematics there is no music." [1]

RIPJSB.

[1] http://www.ntnu.no/gemini/2000-06e/32-34.htm
http://pragprog.com/titles/btlang/seven-languages-in-seven-w...

Keep in mind you will not learn enough about any of these languages that you can run off and build something. Each chapter covers a different language and primarily discusses some of the features of each that you may not see in another. It's kind of like a programming language buffet where you can have a small taste of a bunch of different things.
A linux module dependency visualizer
A couple ambiguous questions. What other dynamic languages have I formally studied? Does that mean weakly typed? In that case none, though obviously I've picked them up here and there.

> What percentage of your work time working on software projects is spent not writing code?

If we're looking at actual time I spend writing code, probably 5%. But then that's not counting reading code and testing code I've just written. So I don't know, it seems like that's a very small sliver of development when it feels like people are wondering how much time one spends in meetings or doing mockups.
What does humanity gain from keeping him in school "learning about dangling participles", as he put it?

If you can even frame justifying his existence in terms of what humanity gains from it, then still encouraging him to do whatever he can is good as long as it's something challenging and positive and not just dropping out.
ATM inventor John Shepherd-Barron dies
Thanks a lot. Your "It's like taking a word frequency (output of MapReduce) and building original text with that? You just don't have data to do that" made me understand what doesn't make sense to you. Your last paragraph made me understand why it doesn't make sense to you. The weird thing is that, from my point of view, your "you don't have the data" statement is not really true, because in my model I have an oracle (more specifically, one or more human authors) which supplys the missing data (before compilation), so I can in fact "build original text" from the input. Now I'm looking for a name which describes that this happens. Any suggestions?
I tend to use a slicehost slice to do my own outbound mail (I use Google Apps for all inbound).

Assuming you have a slice first you'll need to set up your DNS entry pointing to the slice and a reverse DNS entry in the slicehost manager. See these resources for more information:

http://articles.slicehost.com/2008/9/2/mail-server-slice-set...
http://articles.slicehost.com/2007/10/24/creating-a-reverse-....

Next set up an SPF record for your domain to legitimize your new mail server:

http://articles.slicehost.com/2008/8/8/email-setting-a-sende...

Finally you'll want to install the mail server software and configure it. I have a blog post that shows the standard config needed to configure the mail server and set up DKIM and DomainKeys to help your mail look legitimate:

http://blog.nimbu.net/setting-up-a-postifx-outbound-mail-ser...

Check out the links at the bottom of the article for more information about DKIM and DomainKeys.
There are lot a of females who like to deflate smug males with trick questions.
Please excuse my ignorance but can someone explain to me what message is being given to developers?
Is it to develop in Java (for Android) or to develop in HTML/css/Javascript combo?
Reddit releases VMware image with their infrastructure stack baked in

69 characters.

PS I'm still pissed about getting ninja-banned.
Searching for "plus slash minus" does bring up correct results. So does searching "chk chk chk" (i don't know why people call them this, I haven't heard of the band until today, but amazon told me this was a related search so I tried it on google).
Ok, thanks!

Turns out it's still available at Amazon.de, just ordered it along with "Clause and Effect".
Why not? Could you please elaborate.
Tonika: Own your social ties
Godel's Incompleteness Theorems are probably some of--if not the most---misunderstood concepts in all of mathematics (rivaling Cantor's Uncountability Theorem).

While the usual analogy for the first theorem is drawn to the liar's paradox ("This is a false statement."), it's important to remember that it is only an analogy. The first theorem states, in layman's terms, that we can construct a valid mathematical statement which is complete and utter nonsense. (Much like "This is a false statement." is neither true nor false, but nonsensical.)

The second incompleteness theorem simply states (again, in layman's terms) that the consistency (where we say something is consistent if it contains no contradictions) of certain systems cannot be shown from the rules of the system itself. (Or alternatively and more correctly, if you're able to show the consistency of these systems using their own rules, then they're inconsistent.)

That said, please remember that these are mathematical theorems and as such their "applications" to other areas such as metaphysics, even by their creator, are not rigorous or necessarily meaningful. They live where they belong: in the depths of mathematical logic, in the heart of mathematics.
Case in point: searching for "plus slash minus" to find the band "+/-"
I understand money matters if computers are "just a job" to you. I knew lots of folks in college who chose Engineering for that reason. But some of us actually like what we do. I would have paid to do my 1st job out of college. For me, if the money is enough, then it quits mattering.
A good way to discourage learning in fields like mathematics, science, and programming.
There's an interesting question in this post, namely when should you as a founder expect to get paid after an investment and how much?

If you get money from the three Fs (friends, family, fools) as much as possible would go in to the development of the business. In this case probably your salary would be low if not non-existent.

But for larger investments soon you reach a point where it's OK for you to take out even a decent salary and start living of the invested money.

What's your opinion on where the thresholds are for different levels of salaries?

For example, watching the BBC show Dragons Den, the investors always assume the founders will not use the invested money to pay themselves. These are investments in the $100K-$1M area.
That's more accurate.

However, at the end of the day, everything can be logged anyways. If someone is really concerned about this, they shouldn't be using the internet.

Edit: I want to be clear. If someone is concerned about the fact that things can be logged, then they are better off not using the internet, as pretty much everything has the potential to be logged. This is, after all, what the complaint is: the potential of being logged.
The Guardian Open Platform
Having lived in three parts of the world (USA, Germany, Hungary, being hungarian), let me tell you, this is one of the things that make America a great place today: embracing innovation, entrepeneurship and taking risks.

In many countries, if you tell your parents and friends you're going to quit your job and start a company, they'll tell you you're crazy. That's what they told me. The USA is much more embracing towards entrepeneurial attitudes.
Walking Could Recharge Your Smartphone or MP3 Player
JXTA handles this by specifying neither. Instead they have a "pipe" abstraction. Once peers discover each other they can open a pipe that may, depending upon the network conditions, be a fast TCP implementation (when a direct connection is possible) or a slower, but usable pipe built on HTTP with polling (for being able to traverse firewalls).
American Idol Top 2: Finalists Revealed
Does this screw up font smoothing on *nix or OS X?

Now someone just needs to figure out how to get IE to play nice.
I love how the characters developed.

Only a few days left until Lost ends. Living with it since 2004, it'll be like losing a good friend.
Of particular note to some hackers: it is written in Go.
Dunbar's Number
This is a great resource to share and I'm glad you did. I'll be using today in fact.
The article rather un-critically accepts the necessity of DRM. That very necessity is quite questionable, given that almost all video uploader to YouTube don't really care about their "property rights", and are more concerned with getting the message out there, with escaping obscurity.

This is the kind of article that makes people get on the ol' tin-foil hat about how media conglomerates carefully control ("censor") the content they put out there.
Allowing users to charge an app to their existing cell phone bill might actually be worth 30%.
The problem is, he's not just risking his own life. Everest is climbed often enough that he's risking the lives of others, too. If he is near another climbing party and something goes wrong, he could block the route, create an obstacle, trigger an icefall, or otherwise endanger them. Granted, he's climbing the less-crowded north route, but it's still a potential difficulty.
Okay I don't get it. If Graham is afraid of a Steve Jobs world, why did he answer iPhone to that question?
How to Recognize Competition
Exactly. It's happened so queitly and unremarked as well. It's the scope of your "etc." which is growing.

Doubleclick ads, embedded youtube videos, centrally hosted frameworks such as jQuery, embedded RSS feed aggregation, Google Charts / sparklines, Maps, custom site search with autocomplete, Google Talk client, Picasa images, Waves, iFramed Docs/Calendars...
Oh My Goddard An Early Look at Fedora 13
Ask HN: Care to take a look at my beta RC. Site and give some feedback?
Hi Hackers,
after some improvements I'd like to have some feedback from you smart folks on my site. I hope you intuitively figure out what it is and how it works (that's part of the feedback), and you will probably love to check this section: http://http://www.mcsquare.me/technology/hackers/

The ToS and legal-stuff is underway, and I'm open to each suggestion.
ps: Single founder, bootstrap.
Thanks.
A little more detail and background here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/may/20/cash-machine-invent...
Very interesting presentation of information. Making diagrams focused on one locus is very powerful. I think the mistake of a lot of dependency graphs in GUI builders was the failure to provide very focused, contextual displays. Doing this can help you comprehend how an individual piece fits into a larger network without getting lost in that network.
Maybe it's my dislike of the show itself, but I have nfc how this is hacker news....
The company had growing revenue, but it wasn't clear from the article the company had already become profitable. So most likely they were still burning through their VC investment and so keeping costs low is the responsible thing to do.

People also tend to have very different views on what a starvation budget is. Some people will assume a starvation budget is $10.000/yr, others will assume it's $50.000.

So we don't really have the information needed to draw any conclusion.
ICandy: 2010 Shanghai World Expo Edition (slideshow)
html and javascript are like assembly language. when/if this convergence happens you'll be using something like GWT or NaCl.
Anyone interested in a fantastic 1 hour talk on summitting K2, check this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zkC9IMQmYA

I've seen this in person (Chris is the CEO of my climbing gym and I saw this in a library near by) and it was awe-inspiring to say the least.
Mostly essays.
Jindal: 'The Day We've Been Fearing Is Upon Us' [oil spill]
Disaster is probably too strong word, but given current browser and operating system share Google's new fonts are much less useful than they appear to be.

Despite what it may look like according to most vocal people on the web, great majority of people still use Windows.

New Google fonts look noticeably worse than default fonts on all browsers in Windows XP/Vista/7.

Well rendered old fonts are still much nicer than ugly rendered new fonts.

Which means if you will use these new Google fonts, user experience for majority of your visitors is going to be worse than before (unless your visitors are heavily skewed toward OSX or Linux).
A post like this makes me wish I could upmod more than once.

I am new to the startup world and do not really understand the finance in the 5th point. Is there an article or something that could elucidate on this as I am not one "who has been through even a single financing with a startup will know this"?
I'll echo the sentiment except from the windows side. I had the mozy pro deployed on 5 users laptops that were frequently connected to 100mbit internet connections. I never was able to get all 5 machines to continue to backup on their own. I constantly had to force the backups, add more resources (even though it should have auto purchased more storage), and deal with users complaining their computers were much slower.

The worst part was the outlook archives, large multigigbyte files it would try to compress and encrypt without splitting.

We use jungle disk now, nobody notices it and it works.
Do people really not remember the time when adverts were animated GIFs?

Adverts were blocked before Flash, non-Flash ads are being blocked right now by various means, and they will continue to be blocked in the glorious HTML5-ad supported future.
Mobile OS web-browsing share [from all Tumblr-hosted blogs]
If I choose to answer this question at random (with the constraints of having to choose one of the choices) then the chance of it being correct is going to be 25%, because I am answering at RANDOM, therefore not using any intellect and not applying any sense to the question.

However, the question merely states IF you choose, not that you have to.

Therefore, I am entirely correct by answering either A or D.

Thus it is not unanswerable and is incorrect in stating so.
Trivially in this context means the program can be written without discovering a new algorithm first.
have you seen www.yawtv.com , its similar but there you can fire a search and play the videos i.e to say if you search for 'lady gaga' or 'michael jackson' you can play all the songs present on youtube non stop and instantly.
Which is why I said "..HTTPS is a good idea".

There are valid reasons why serving everything under HTTPS isn't always a good idea. The obvious one is CPU cost, but cache performance can also be affected. See, for example: http://blogs.msdn.com/ieinternals/archive/2010/04/21/Interne...

http://blog.pluron.com/2008/07/why-you-should.html

(I'm not saying that https isn't the best option. I'm just pointing out other options that can work with plain http.)
So -- no change?

I believe that's another way of saying "no problem here"

If that works for you, great. I believe there is a problem, however.

I can picture a college party, in the not-too-distant future, where people do stupid things. Everybody is live-recording everything. By simply attending, did you just voluntarily post something on the internet? Or does your rule expand to "Find out who is recording what at all times around you and don't do anything when you are in their presence that you wouldn't want posted on the internet"
Web or iPhone OS applications to make money?
I'm sad to hear that they didn't cast Alan Arkin as the dad.

The question is: what happens when a smart, pithy collection of short statements uttered by an old man and documented by his loving son gets taken over by the writers' guild and turned into sitcom boilerplate?