skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In reply to your EDIT:

No, I see them as simply following the industry's best practices, which BP conspicuously did not. If necessary, I see the subcontractors, the ones who really know which end is up, pushing back a lot harder, asking overbearing oil company managers if they want to be another BP.

That plus making damned sure your BOP is working (there's some question to whether it failed or simply hit the unshearable coupling section between two pipes) is all that's needed as far as I can tell.
Something's gone pear shaped in this discussion if I have to weasel my way through it. Sorry. I'd just like to point out again that it's not like we're arguing about anthropogenical global warming here. Developmental psychology, along with (I hope) common sense, suggests very strongly that 4 years olds are not 14 year olds.

I've cited researchers (both with litanies of studies) downthread.
I don't think there is anything wrong with some light jogging. Try not to push yourself too hard, but ease into things.
i just did speed tests with my coworkers 3GS running 3 and my 3Gs running 4 and camera, settings all were a lot faster with iOS4
If the application running on the server needs to generate a lot of random numbers, yes.
What I would really like to find is some pick up soccer or roller hockey on the weekends then. I really don't particularly feel like I need to run and I would rather play a sport to condition.

I did a lot of 5x5 stuff back in high school when I played football so I have some experience. That was 4 years ago though and I must say that I was real sore the first week of this program.
I'm glad you're open to treating 10yos in a rational and non-dehumanizing way. That'd be a great start.

But I don't see anything about being younger than that which changes what constitutes a rational way to approach a disagreement.
I was a senior manager in Accenture's consulting practice (left in 2002), and still work in the consulting industry. You could probably contact an Accenture recruiter to get an "official" answer. The following is just my opinion.

If you currently have what it takes to get hired by Accenture, doing a couple of years at a startup is probably not going to hurt your chances of being hired later, but it probably won't help you get much of a "jump start". The early years at Accenture focus on "acculturating" you to the consulting life (and specifically in how Accenture does things). Most of the big consultancies follow this approach, as a consistent approach is a key success factor for them (much the same reason why the military gives everyone the same basic training). In some cases the big consultancies will hire someone in at a senior level, but typically this is for people with industry-recognized expertise.

BTW, my advice would be to take the start-up role, unless you need the steady income of a corporate job (e.g., you already have a family to support). You won't have the same kind of freedom in the future. I still wish I'd tried to interview at Microsoft when I graduated in '85, rather than taking the safe path in IT.
My understanding --- which I can't in any way back up --- is that exposure to nudity was pretty much the norm for most of human history, in that families lived together in single rooms.

It's the (accidentally or otherwise) killing people part that bothers me about this.

I've studiously avoided exposing my (now 10.5 and 8.5 year old) kids to sexual material because it's unpleasant for me to have to deal with the questions (though the boy's pretty much already gotten the details formally now).

But violence still bothers me.
FlightCaster (YC S09) uses it in production: http://www.google.com/search?q=flightcaster+clojure
Life is going to deal out enough stubbed toes without us having to arrange for the occurrence, right?
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This Device Provides Clean Water for Pennies a Day
Is that a part of the new health care legislation?
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I'm a little bit wondering why Microsoft hasn't surprised us yet. Yea Microsoft. They had this Surface thing for years, which is allegedly pretty cool, why not turn it into a tablet? They also showed a pretty slick prototype, that later got canceled, despite the positive impressions. And It's not like it's a small company with no resources or money.
I thought this was about the movies. ha!
Weird. My work machine is 64-bit Linux, and since we use GWT I have to use Firefox for debugging, but I have not noticed any performance problems. I have unfortunately noticed, however, than even with compressed OOPs, Eclipse, GWT, and maven devour memory like beasts!
In german and english leagues the cheating is not so prevalent.

However, what you say might still be true, they really do not care about the cheating that affects the game so much.

I am just trying to help you understand why soccer will not be big in USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand.
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FMRI studies suggest that children prior to the age of 7 don't have a fully developed (or useful) concept of empathy.

Therefore, when your 4 year old eats your 5 year old's cookie, it isn't productive to demand that the 4 year be held to account for "how it would make YOU feel if HE ate YOUR cookie". It's confusing and irrelevant to the child.

Since parents for most of the last century have used exactly those words on little kids, I have illustrated a disagreement between me and a hypothetical parent, and resolved it with a very, very basic finding of developmental psychology.

That disagreement is not very relevant to whatever it is our disagreement is, but it does illustrate that the logic you're deploying isn't... um... controlling? here.

Incidentally, isn't it a little bit weird that I'm taking this side of a discussion against the author of the "Don't Fight" iPhone application? =)
So, I bike to work, and then when I get there, I take my bike up the stairs, usually two steps at a time. Someone asked me once whether it was hard to run up the stairs with a bike. I responded that if it was, I would keep doing it until it wasn't.

The mentality to test your limits when you have the opportunity has served me well over the years.
xeno, I think you're being too philosophical about this.
I posted this here because I think the actual actions of the child, against overwhelming odds, are probably a more credible indicator of its future than any images of filth he may have encountered. If you believe that playing this game and seeing hookers and blow will turn you into a delinquent, then what this kid did should turn him into IronMan.
I haven't had any issues yet. I have a 3G and it seems to be running great. I just have to update some apps that have an update in the app store and I should be right.
Our public crash stats lend some support to Jobs' claim. Flash is by far the biggest cause of crashes on OS X Firefox.

It is the largest problem on Windows as well, but the proportions there are more even because a lot of Windows installations crash due to viruses, trojans, toolbars, av programs, and other crapware.
TimeshareJuice Founder to use UI/UX to conquer established competitors
Last week I received the new TASCHEN print of Byrne's Six Books of Euclid. It is gorgeous and considered a "facsimile" of the original. It comes in a box with a separate "behind the scenes" book.

See for example spreads, etc: http://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/classics/all/06724...
I work with a small company with 5 employees. We wanted to go with some of the established players like webex or gotomeeting but found the pricing to be prohibitive and overly complex.

I have not done the research but I can say that if we had found a lower priced and simpler alternative then we definitely would have bought into it.
So, it would be better to play a sport of some sort on the weekend? Like some soccer or roller hockey? I am not a huge fan of running.
It never says that it generates true random numbers, just a "better" random
I like this one (http://www.idquantique.com/true-random-number-generator/quan...) better.

If I understand both correctly, the Quantis one generates a random number that didn't exist before generation due to quantum measurement principles, whereas the Simtec one uses a high noise environment in which the number does exist before measurement.
I have heard from atleast 2 sports orthos that squatting is bad for you knees. I guess it shouldn't matter when you are doing it the right way with adequate recovery period but nevertheless its easy to screw up your joints .
One even said that squatting is a very unnatural moment for human body and is best to avoid it .
We don't use Pig, we use a Clojure-based query language for Hadoop that we wrote called Cascalog:

http://github.com/nathanmarz/cascalog
This is silly. The whole reason that cryptographic random number generators exist is to avoid the need for lots of entropy. You can start from 80 bits and "bootstrap" it to whatever quantity of random bits you need (and the seed entropy needed is available from /dev/random). PRNGs come with the guarantee that telling the difference from "true" random numbers is a hard problem.

You might claim that the hardness guarantees of PRNGs are not enough for you -- they are based on some assumptions after all -- but that is a specious objection, because those are the same assumptions that underlie all of digital security and e-commerce.
Downvote me all you want... If you're living on some planet where you don't read about WP exploits 3, 4, 5, times a week, please send me its coordinates so I can beam over there.
See upthread. The Department of Psychology at Iowa State and Harvard Medical School Center for Mental Health aren't evangelical Christian pressure groups. Let's not bring culture war into this.

Oh, the answer to your second question might be sometimes they can't.
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IPad hack vs. OWASP Top 10
Notice on how they use "high-quality" in the first three paragraphs?
I don't know enough about GTA, but it seems as if he was able to play without severely bad experiences. Granted, running over the lady was questionable, but apparently his dad managed to convince him it was a game.

Also, not sure how much can be done against nightmares. The imagination is there - you can't always predict what scary ideas it might create.

That said, there are probably lots of other things to do besides playing GTA...
I won't cry if this gets flagged but I like any HN discussion that touches on parenthood, because it's another experience besides coding and entrepreneurship that I might share with people here.
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> Recommends situps, which destroy your back.

Citation needed, big time. Everything I've ever heard (from high school and college level athletic trainers and strength coaches) has said that a strong core helps your back. I can back this up anecdotally, as years of heavy squats made it painful to drive far in my car's crappy driver's seat, but some ab work (and other exercise) made the problem go away.

When I googled I got http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/17/core-myths/ which basically said "A couple of experts question the (what has so far been considered) the authoritative study.

Ab work and lower back work (hyper extensions) just seem like the way to strengthen ones back. Is there another solution that I'm not aware of?
Over the last two years I've gone from 220 to 190. The only change I've made was to start riding my bike to work. Granted, I am fortunate enough to live somewhere that makes that possible. Since making the change I now think that I won't move somewhere that I can't do that (at least most of the year), and I won't take a job that won't allow for it.

I have proven conclusively to myself that I am incapable of following a regimented exercise plan. I need to be forced/tricked into it. I don't think of the ride to work as exercise, I think of it as "going to work". In that way, I've managed to trick myself into about an hour and a half of exercise per day that I ride into work.

The downside is having to buy all new clothes, but the upside is I no longer need an inhaler to have sex.
Quite - making this sort of mistake repetitively was why I made a substitute. It's like a word I mispronounce every. damn. time. :-)
Ah, after Apple's HTML5 fanciness website (http://www.apple.com/html5/), Google finally responds with a neato site! Btw, this is an excellent resource as well http://diveintohtml5.org/ (of course, the site refers to it as well)
Quantity 1 £36.00 with plenty of quantity discounts. Might be just the thing to make sure your VMs have enough entropy (I've read this can be an issue when they start up).
Pretty cool, but man it's annoying though to press back button. Wish it were more ajaxy.
Sports participation is linked to aggression (for example, http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118735417/abstrac... and http://hk.humankinetics.com/jsep/viewarticle.cfm?aid=8936)
I completely disagree. Doing as few as 30 pushups/day has resulted in dramatic increases in strength in addition to weight loss and NOTICEABLE tricep formation [i.e. other people commented on it]. This coming from a guy who worked out (off and on, but mostly on) from the end of senior year to senior year of college.
I don't know if you consider this "real-life", but I used Clojure to implement and run stock strategy backtesting trials for my master's thesis project. I defend my thesis on June 29th.

The big reason I used Clojure was that it was easy to parallelize my program; however, running independent trials with many different parameter-sets is one of those "embarrassingly parallel" tasks.
Hence SIPSorcery and the related stack, which do let you take advantage to call over 3G/GPRS or Wifi
What do you mean by fringe science? The authors in that wikipedia article claim most studies have been flawed, and even their own can't show causation.

I also still remember being a kid, which gives me a somewhat biased opinion, I guess.

My own non-scientific guess would be that peer pressure is more important. Personally I was never much into watching gruesome movies, for example, but for a while it seemed to be a test of courage among other kids my age. So essentially kids might have been watching more gruesome stuff than they really liked because of peer pressure. Or they really liked that stuff - then I wonder why?

Also as kids we loved Wild West stories, would dress up as Cowboys and Native Americans and shoot around with toy guns. The totem pole and the associated torturing were a particular favorite. We never mistook play for reality, though (no real torturing).
I don't. I just glimpse the list and click on whatever I like.
I work at Etsy. I launched a new search tool powered by Clojure last week:

http://www.etsy.com/explorer

It's used for the autosuggest and facet suggestion on the sidebar.

We'll be posting more about this on our tech blog sometime soon.
Hmmm. Well, in addition, the other night, I was looking at the java vm spec and mulling over some dissatisfactions with jad. Where could that lead.

Oh, and, as I told "First Blood", quoting from Watchmen, "you think i am in here with you, but, really, you are in here with me."
Why are there properties labeled with a "webkit" prefix? ... surely that's not in the HTML5 standard.
Actually, yes. At the end of his "tutorial", he explains in more succinct words what those functions do, and he use simpler examples. I suggest that instead of hiding them somewhere at the end in the middle of a paragraph, he put them in emphasis at the begin of the document.
I'm not going to take the bait on the "squatting is bad for your knees" claim. There's plenty of literature and information out there that debunks this claim; maybe someone else wants to explain. . .

And sure, if you want to play sports on the weekend that's great. See how you feel. If it starts to affect your weight training, then you will have to evaluate it. If you don't care how fast you will make progress in your lifts, and you'd like to play some sports, there's obviously nothing wrong with that. Just understand that a program like Bill Starr's 5x5 is really a program for intermediate lifters, perhaps not intended for people who want to do other activities as well.
I'm a programmer messing around with dev kits. I think building a million of something is a Maserati Problem (TM), at this point.
They clearly said during Google IO that Unity was running on NaCl though. And this site html5rocks looks very neutral and their demos don't force you to use any browser in order to be tested unlike Apple demo.
They look very nice and are high output (4Mbps to 16Mbps max for the PCIe version) but are quite a bit more expensive, 890 € to 1165 € quantity one.
I'm using it to verify replication between a big sybase instance and a big oracle instance. This isn't rocket science but performance is much better than it was in Python and the code is about the same size.

I'm also and to liberate data from a MeetingMaker server that's only available via a Java api and make it available in Rails apps. Obviously the superior expressiveness of Clojure makes the code base a lot smaller and makes more sophisticated processing of the data far simpler than it would be in Java.

Hopefully more soon.
Sam Ruby's response to HTML5 Rocks
That's the standard way to implement unfinished specs, firefox does the same with the "moz" prefix.
I've always heard cycling is the most energy efficient form of transportation for a human, period.

Why exactly do situps destroy your back? I am rather fond of doing hanging situps (hanging by knees) with weights. I wonder if they are just as bad...?
In short: Awesome new iPhone Apple.

AT&T, you still suck.
Peet's.
Ask HN: how do you deal with the job skills chicken-and-egg problem?
say I want to break into internet startup world, but my programming skills are currently confined to desktop dev. many job listings I've looked at want experienced software engineers that can build highly scalable web sites. how exactly do I build these skills without actually having a web site that has millions of visitors? and how do I demonstrate these skills to a potential employer? it seems like I can't get the job without the experience, and I can't get the experience without the job :P
Your job postings mention Scala in several places. Are you using both internally or is this Clojure project more of a one-off?
Yeah, me too, but that didn't happen when you were FOUR, right?

Let me disclaim right here that the kind of bad parenting on display in this article is of approximately the same valence as the bad parenting I inflict on my kids on a weekly basis. I'm just saying it made me queasy is all. The kid, who is clearly awesome, is going to be fine.
DocuHarvest is a web application for extracting valuable data from documents (just PDFs for now):

https://docuharvest.com

Short reason: JVM perf/libs + persistent data structures + lisp goodness (macros etc.) is a helluva package deal.
Dennis Mortensen Opens a Discussion about the Future of Online Media
I found this article incredibly disturbing.

Instead of plowing into the rear of the car ahead of him, he swerved to the right and popped up onto to sidewalk. In doing so, he accidently ran over a woman walking towards his oncoming car. He was incredibly ashamed of himself and profusely apologized.

I was an extremely sensitive young boy. This would have been deeply affecting to me at the time.

“It's okay. It's only a game. It's not real”, I reassured him. After a few minutes of me explaining the difference between a game and real life, he felt comfortable enough to continue playing.

Dear god.

I really hope the scene played out like:

- Child was disturbed

- Father was reassuring

- Child continued playing entirely of his own volition

And not like:

- Child was disturbed

- Father was reassuring and encouraged child to continue playing, because it's okay to kill people in a game

- Child continued playing
> but the tech press loves to promote the huge success stories, and many others love to follow them.

One of my friends met the developer of Air Horn.
The #1 downloaded free app for endless weeks.
He said the guy had over three hundred apps on the App Store until he hit it big.
Really big.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/air-horn-free/id348184873?mt=...
Take that upvote as a "it seems to be working well in this situation" vote.
This page is just one small part of "The Hacker's Diet". Looking at this single page removes much of the underlying context of the whole strategy. See:

http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/e4/

or

http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/

The site provides an unconventional approach to losing weight (and exercise). I've found it motivating and useful. I take from it what resonates with me and leave the rest.
you're right! Fixed.
We expected something different from Mossberg?
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Same problem here; iPod frequently doesn't respond to headphone controls, and apps slow to a crawl and become unusable ( >1 minute to respond to clicks).

Do you test/debug apps on your phone? Is it possible that this is triggered by using debugging tools? It seems like everyone else is not seeing what we're seeing.
I don't think morality is about empathy. I think the "how would you feel if..." arguments are bad. So I wouldn't consider this a significant problem, if true.

I don't know if you've read through my app, but I think you will find it's consistent with my views in general, and thoroughly fails to advocate empathy.

I would be more inclined to point out that if there is a disagreement about a cookie, it is in everyone's interests to use a truth seeking process to find out the right thing to do. Then everyone can win. With fighting, someone loses, and it will sometimes be you, and even if you win the other guy uses his creativity against you instead of cooperatively.
Noticeable tricep formation means nothing. Muscle size != muscle strength by any measure. It's also not hard to make your muscles pop for short periods of time. If you're doing it every day I wouldn't be shocked if the "gains" you were seeing were actually just daily swelling.

30 pushups vs. doing absolutely nothing, yes you will see small results. You will also cap out in < 3 weeks at what you can gain.

Not to be a dick but please do define dramatic.
Classic Mossberg review - thumbs up of course! I really wonder why Apple wants to hide specs for another 40 some days. I really hope there's a ATT alternative states-side. And 3g is old news, when do we get to use Clear 4g or something along those lines?
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But I like philosophy :-)

And I like truth.

Feel free not to read my stuff though, shrug.
I am pretty sure many of the HN here already have access to google voice with the trial period. I do like it a lot, but I know some friends they could not get in, so I thought maybe a good idea to post the news of the all open Google Voice now.
Actually, they showed it running under the Unity plugin, but said they had a NaCl version somewhere else. Then, the VP said "it's a full 3D game, it's very rich, and it leverages a lot of HTML5 APIs". I wonder which HTML5 APIs the Unity plugin is leveraging.

Here's a good example of the headlines that went around:

Google IO 2010 reveals 3D Lego Star Wars running in Chrome with HTML5
http://www.casttv.com/video/eb54nk1/google-io-2010-reveals-3...

:)
> Why are random pivots not practical?

The cost of true randomness is really high (in execution time)

> And why do you say there are no truly random quicksorts?

Because pseudo-random numbers aren't really random.

The only reason this is important is that the pseudo-randomness means that its possible the construct an adversarial input, which could drive the quicksort to take N^2 time.
It's slightly useful for stamina training, but it's a very inefficient way to train.

But yes, mostly referring to weight loss.

I can't do 100 pushups right now, but probably about 50-60 (as is obvious I train for strength not stamina). In about a week I could get it up to 100 pretty easily, and I would not be lifting any more weight and I would not be losing any more weight. So beyond being able to do more pushups nothing would really change.