skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This guy's goal was apparently to get all his calories from home, rather than supplement his diet with fresh home produce. In that situation it makes little sense to grow anything but potatoes or yams. Nothing else is as easy, nutritious, and calorie dense. Subsistence farmers the world over know this. Throwing down a dozen different plants is fairly silly.
Perhaps the three votes wouldn't be cast in their favour anyway?
The obsession people have with 'genius' is due to a misguided understanding of what genius is and an assumption that it somehow makes life significantly easier. It's the same obsession people have with the lottery and believing it will solve all their ills. Smarts and money are both capital; through hard work you can get more.
Have you even used PHP? There is nothing in your above statement (or linked code sample) that isn't done just as easily in PHP. Iterate over records using foreach, check. Closing database connections automatically (or out of scope), check. I could do grouping with about the same amount of code, too. PHP has it's ugly bits but it's not significantly different in capability from most other procedural/OO languages.
Only showing the bookmarks bar after opening a new tab is much less efficient for my case: I have a number of bookmarks that I want to open in tabs, but it's a varying subset of the toolbar set.

To do it I now I just command-click all the bookmarks I want opened, and they open in background tabs. To do it with a hidden bookmarks bar I'd need to open a new tab first, then click.
"Zionist" Intel & IBM Blacklisted By Iran
Clojure (or any functional language) doesn't have a tiny
fraction of the libraries/frameworks/documentation that
PHP does.

Well, you get all those Java libraries out there for free ('free' as in automatically, not necessarily 'free' as in without paying)
Dropbox is hiring a Web Engineer
Having seen the subtle damage that can be done by vandals to cars parked in public spaces, I'd be concerned about keeping a roadable aircraft in airworthy condition. Anyone who has done some light aircraft flying will know how closely one must attend to details. 'planes are usually kept inaccessible to the general public, partly to prevent random damage.

I'd be very concerned about parking this anywhere other than at the airport or in a garage under lock and key, which makes it much less useful than it might first appear.
I will personally be switching my apps over to Rails 3 and 1.9.2, when they're both ready to go.

Might as well do it all at once, you know?
Well I was being a little tongue-in-cheek, but Kaczynski was also a smart, talented mathematician who also expressed desire to secede from "normal" society.
And I guess those musicians also own IKEA furniture [1]. Guilty by association.

[1] IKEA's founder was involved with a pro-nazi movement once. He apologized later.

(Edit: Corrected history. Thanks!)
I use it to go back multiple pages at a time via the drop down list.
And COBOL is a horrible language.

But, I still think Fortran was pretty sweet. Also still has a pretty large user base. Especially among engineers.
I'm not going to argue over it, and yes, nearly any argument against Nazis turns ad hominem.

Here's a bit more context: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg1S9n81ras

But am pretty sure one can rationalize their way out of anything.
Resource Management, and stability.
> The point is by giving it "their best shot", the students were revealing their lack of understanding of the subject material.

But why shouldn't students presuppose that they don't understand everything about the subject material (and thus the way they form guesses reflects it)? Why shouldn't they assume that there might be some counter-intuitive wrinkle that was not covered yesterday which will today be explained? The experience of finding such things out is common for them, that is a major reason they are there at school... finding out things they didn't know, and being told things about the depths of a topic that isn't always obvious on the surface.

Do you not see anything the least bit odd about holding them so guilty for making that presumption in this case?
Free Work for Sale
y team was about halfway through a small phase of a large project that had a solid estimate in place. Out of the blue, account service started freaking out. At a status meeting we were being called out for causing the project to run over budget. We shouldn’t have been anywhere close.
Hacker News? In what way is this something "that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." ( http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html )
Application Approval, for Web Developers.
Dragon's Den (Canada & UK) & SharkTank for the pitch/investment side of business, though not exclusively tech focused.
> But it's also good to be Top Dog from time to time; the teacher often can learn more than the student.

Even in those cases, I think there is an advantage to choosing people who have the potential to become better than you are. It's really gratifying to teach someone something, and then watch them grow to the point where they know more than you do on the subject.
How about a number 0% - 100%. I think we as humans could grasp this system without having to interpret or count bars.

Also, less room for apple to graphically misrepresent signal strength.
This is news?
The bookmarks toolbar is my place for quickly dragging in stuff I might want to revisit later. For those times when the site doesn’t have a RSS feed or just isn’t interesting enough to subscribe to. Maybe some article I definitely want to read but just don’t have the time to read right now.

I don’t have to worry about deleting things (old stuff just gracefully disappears to the right but is still searchable and in approximate chronological order – my bar has 201 bookmarks at the moment) and some custom ordering is possible (if something is super important I will just not put any stuff to the left of it which means it will stay where it is and not disappear).

Sure, bookmarks are searchable through the address bar but that means the approximate chronological structure gets lost. The bookmarks bar has also a reminder function. Whatever I put there I can forget because I won’t have to search for it. It will just be there. A quick glance whenever I open a window is enough to know whether there is something I absolutely wanted to check out again.

The bookmarks bar is tremendously helpful for me and I couldn’t live without it.
Though I had seriously considered it, I decided not to return it (and do worry that I may yet regret that decision).

I use my phone for voice calls infrequently, so the speed upgrade, better camera, and amazing display outweigh the reception issue for me. I also spend a lot more time with WiFi available than not, and WiFi reception doesn't seem to be affected.

It wasn't an easy decision though. I paid a premium for a device that is effectively defective by design. That stings no matter how you slice it.
horribly difficult and unpleasant it would actually be.

I seriously doubt that he knew what he was talking about. The biggest problem in subsistence farming is the risk you take. All the knowledge you need is out there: we've been growing food for thousands of years and are still researching how to get better at it. Yes, it requires hard physical labor, but beyond that, it's not at all difficult on a small scale.

You want to have a small garden? Find a bit of land and prepare about 3'x3' of it: Dig it up, turn the soil over and make sure it isn't too sandy (add mulch if it is) or clayey (add sand if it is). If the area regularly gets flooded, then build a small wall around it and fill with dirt so you have a 3x3' raised bed that will drain properly.

Then plant one row each of squash, potatoes (for the experiment you can just cut an eye out of a potato you would eat and plant it) and tomato seeds. Potatoes go about 3" deep, squash and tomatoes about 1/2" deep. If you're in the Northern US you might need to use tomato plants instead of seeds since it's already July.

If you want to, you can build a no-effort compost heap next to it: just dump your organic kitchen waste in a pile next to the garden. At the end of the growing season, work the pile into the soil and it will get more fertile every year.

Check daily to make sure the soil doesn't get too dry (water in the evening) and pull any weeds you see. Don't do any more than this and you'll be eating squash, tomatoes and potatoes in three months. With a plot only 3'x3' it will take only a few minutes a day. It's that easy.
It is if you want a job at a startup. Which many people on HN definitely do.
Mutopia Project - Sheet Music for Everyone
Thanks. I can reproduce your example.
Broken rather miserably everywhere I try it. It's always one or more of: the controls are mis-sized; the controls aren't even remotely in the correct locations; the text field is way too small; there's no submit button; the controls don't respond to clicks (especially the one that appears as the top-of-three on the bottom. language?).

Neat idea, would love it if it worked, and might be perfect if embedded, but as is? Fail.

(on Safari 5)
For List-like structures getting stuff strict enough isn't too much of a problem. But not everything is a simple fold.
Interesting stat on a particular battle front, although I think the bigger picture shows the trend of Android winning the "devices sold" war.
I hate ad hominem arguments but in this case I feel I must. The author, although a woman herself, has a clearly defined agenda that smacks of misogynism. Here is a telling quote from her interview with the Esquire Magazine:

There are a lot of homely women in women's studies. Preaching these anti-male, anti-sex sermons is a way for them to compensate for various heartaches - they're just mad at the beautiful girls.

Every one of her articles is based on exact same formula: women claim they are disadvantaged, men are disadvantaged.

ARE THERE MORE GIRL GENIUSES?
American boys have become second-class
citizens in the nation's schools.

THE EQUAL PAY DAY REALITY CHECK
The claim that American women face wage
discrimination is groundless.

BASELESS BIAS AND THE NEW SECOND SEX
Claims of bias against women in academic
science are exaggerated; meanwhile men are
becoming the second sex in American higher
education.

WHY CAN'T A WOMAN BE MORE LIKE A MAN?
Evidence of gender bias in math and science
is flimsy at best.

I wouldn't rely on her musings for intelligent insight. The studies she presents are cherry-picked and her arguments are so one-sided and cliched it barely qualifies as an opinion piece. The recent article in the Atlantic (http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/the-end-...) was much more balanced and insightful.
Ask HN: What Was Knuth's "Earthshaking Announcement"?
It was an item here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1470996 -- I've Googled and it seems there's actually nothing?
It's insanely difficult to start, but maintaining when you get in a habit isn't TOO bad.

I just moved to a new place a few months back and had to dig out a garden. The existing soil was CRAP, I literally spent 4 solid days of digging and amassed what I estimate to be nearly 1000 pounds of rocks in my driveway, merely from digging out a 30x8x1.5 foot section along my driveway. The soil is so poor that even bringing in 2.5 yards (two very full pickup truck loads) of premium organic soil and mixing it in has yielded horrible soil. It will take a year and some more serious cash to make that soil any decent.

However, once that is done, it's merely daily watering/weeding and thinning and eating. Of course, there are no chickens (yet, still have to make a run and coop) to complicate things, but it's all about making a habit and sticking to it.
this is a message board created by the ycombinator founder, its audience is pretty much made entirely of people who would like this job.

there is an entire section dedicated to jobs at yc companies, it is not off topic
Well since the response on the "Who's hiring" threads lately has been pretty good I think we can consider it a news.

Anyhow, there is one spelling mistake on the second line under "Nice-to-Have's." IT should be proficient and not Profiient.

Not a big deal really but might turn away some language nazis.
Just FYI, the older Box is hiring 9+ engineers

https://www.box.net/jobs
So, outsourcing doesn't solve your problems, it just shows them to you. Where have I heard that before?
Many things here are not news, but some interesting startups things (Dropbox is an interesting startup, a YCombinator one), also, comment "This is news?" on all the "ASK YC" threads :-)
> Outsourcing works, else it would not still exist.

Isn't this like saying, "Thousands of satisfied customers can't be wrong?" Thousands of customers can be wrong. Thousands of companies can pay dearly for outsourced services that end up hurting their business.
That seems like a bolt-on statement to me, included to suggest some possibility of future funding/social good in order to justify a grant or other government funding being used to finance this research.

Scientifically, it's fair enough - hair testing can be used to detect drug use, for example. But people generally drink many different kinds of liquid per day, and only the most consistent and unusual intake patterns would be much actual use. Great for CSI-style plots like 'it's said he will only drink wine made in the village where he grew up...start staking out high-end barbershops.' If you're trying to match a hair found at a crime scene to a particular suspect, you just compare his DNA with that at the root of the hair sample.
This just looks like a massive step back from a MVC setup to me. How do proponents of using Lisp for web development handle interaction with designers?
Distros: that's exactly why I've ended up with Debian, over and over again. I'll install something else, spend a weekend getting it working, learn all sorts of interesting stuff, and then get frustrated at all the little things I have to do to make it a satisfactory experience. I then go back to Debian, where everything just works. (I tried Ubuntu once; it was just different enough from Debian to really irritate me, but not enough that I was really learning anything.)

>>>For example, if I am writing an essay/code and I have to switch to command line to type in a long command to access some book somewhere in my system then in the heat of the moment command line would just drive me crazy. <<<
See, for me it's the opposite: the command line is perfectly natural, almost more like an extension of myself, but GUIs drive me nuts. I think that's just a personality thing.

Other resources online: you seem to have already discovered MIT's OCW. I know other universities (e.g. Yale) have similar programs, but they're nowhere near as extensive as MIT's, and they tend not to have what I want. I've also found course websites from all sorts of universities useful.

If you can get access to a good research library, that's enormously helpful, as a lot of things (e.g. TAoCP) just aren't online.

And of course Wikipedia is awesome; I often use its "references" and such for textbook recommendations.
Well, there's this one at least:

http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/
Initially, problem appears to be fixed. I can hold the phone around an inch away from my face, at varying angles, while the screen remains disabled. Before, any cradling of my phone / shoulder would make the screen active, but now it remains disabled.

Just tested against a co-workers by placing on a flat table and moving fingers to cover up the sensor... mine seems to work consistently within about an inch of cover-up, his is hit-or-miss even while physically covering / pressing on the sensor.
Ask HN: Should I launch anyway if unhappy about my product?
I've been working on my startup full-time for 13 months now. (http://taketake.com)

I can't seem to nail that design - that feeling I'm looking for. We've changed the UI and the design roughly 5 times now. 6 months ago I stumbled on the Lean Startup philosophy; the launch early, scrappy and iterate doing customer development. I kept telling myself that I will launch in a few weeks so it was too late to "start from scratch" and apply the Lean Startup idea. But it's been 6 months now and I can't seem to get out of this stupid cycle of me being unhappy and wanting to have everything perfect before I launch.

Because of this, other startups like Blippy, Swipely (and gdgt to some extent) beat me to the push. My reaction when I saw this was to try harder and build features they don't have - so that when I launch our site we would one-up them.

Now I feel like I was wrong. I should have launched months ago and done more customer development to make sure I'm not building something people won't care about.

Somehow it is so difficult for me to release something that is not perfect. I can hear Gary V. telling me to "quit the bitch train" and launch already.

At this point I have three competitors; gdgt, Blippy and Swipely. They've got big launches with lots of PR attention and now getting traction while I'm losing my time pixel by pixel.

I guess I'm scared of failing and don't want to launch because of that - or I'm trying to pull a Steve Jobs with the resources of a non-VC backed startup.

Should I just take my time and release when I'm happy about my product and not care about my competitors getting traction - or should I hurry to get in the market to get my piece of the pie asap?

Your thoughts are appreciated :)
Many Mirrors (Kaleidoscope by SOFA)
Actually, Ingvar Kamprad wasn't involved with neo-Nazis, but the original Nazis. Good point nonetheless :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingvar_Kamprad#Nazi_involvement
Yes, yes it is. It is similar to Apple looking for Antennae Engineers. It must be a sign that Dropbox is having issues with their web operations, and they are about to issue an open letter to their users.
I think that is better to know exactly where you are at, rather than to assume one way or another. That way, when it comes time to use your skill (or lack thereof), you know exactly how far you can go.

The assuming that you're below average thing - it is just a reminder to be humble and to constantly work on your basics - having a beginner's mind.
well 1/2 receive you still have to send it to something such as the forever slow google reader.

Its not built into chrome like it should be.
A friend of mine said that Apple should just switch to showing either 4 bars or no bars (and patent this of course). With proper customer education everyone will soon be able to see the wisdom of this decision. It either works really well (with a some room for improvement) or it doesn't, and it's AT&T fault.
I think the key is to either succeed or fail fast and cheap. In order to do that, you should launch early.
Yeah but is the real-world antenna performance more than 18dB better? Probably not, because that would be revolutionary. So the net result is still negative.
iTex.

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Knuth "also stated that this successor of TeX will have features like 3-D printing, animation, stereographic sound."
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Source: http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/07/01/2153202/Stop-the-...
I don't have a definitive answer for you, but here are some more references:

http://searchyc.com/earthshaking?sort=by_date

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1477213

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1476852
Ooh, I hate that behaviour. I'd rather the address field just work with previously-typed URLs the way it used to. Or at least that it made some small effort to use previously-typed URLs once in a while. As a developer, it used to be easy to visit/revisit a handful of pages without having to create a bunch of bookmarks I'd only wind up deleting at the end of the day. Since the address bar became "awesome", bookmarking became necessary. (At least Chrome uses typed URLs in preference to either bookmarks or search. Now if they'd allow API access to things like disabling JavaScript and displaying background images...)
If it was merely about getting stuff for free as in beer, I wouldn't be at all alarmed by the current legislative trends regarding copyright.
I use Flock daily. It's based on a not-so-up-to-date version of Firefox and I've seen at least a few "review-my-site" posts here where the site barfed catastrophically. I also use IE6 fairly often (mostly for testing though).

>> Do you know anyone that is still on a very old version

Yes. Most clients I work with either have employees on IE6 or need to support it for their users (usually both).
The article doesn't seem to be much about free will but rather about which choices are conscious and which are not.

Free will means that, out of all life's choices, I can choose whichever I want.

It doesn't mean I'm always conscious about my choices.

It doesn't mean I would not want to limit my choices consciously or unconsciously: suicide is very well within the free will of each person but few choose to exercise their free will that way.

It means there are no "don't"s or "can't"s. For example, if you think you can't act in some controversial way in some social situation, you're wrong. You surely could, if you wanted to. You might have internal limitations such as that you fear too much. It still doesn't rule out that you absolutely could.

As long as there's no gun pointing at you, you can choose whatever you want. In fact, if there is a gun pointing at you, you can still choose your own way, even if you end up dead.
> Perhaps the smartest man in the world.

For fuck's sake, can we stop it with this bullshit. Yes, Perelman is a mathematical genius. He is undoubtedly a talented and extremely intelligent individual, but the statement above adds unnecessary sensationalism.
nice. what steps did you take? did you do a reset and delete all settings on the device? when you say "restore from original instead of from backup", what do you mean by "original"? do you do both steps (reset on device, then some restore from itunes?)
Everything else?

How about child-rearing / anything to do with children? Males are pretty often feared as being pedophiles if they work with kids.
That's just while Congress is physically in session (another use for the filibuster...?). Search "Larry Craig" or "Luis Gutierrez" for some recent arrests of American representatives.
HackerVille
I think it's pretty common, in fact. The idea is to prevent interested parties from abusing the legal system in order to prevent members of government from performing their responsibilities or gain leverage on them.
This is just one style, not representative of all Lisp web development. You can have any style you want. With continuations you can even use a procedural style where your program describes a workflow of multiple pages.

(Whether MVC is the right style is a topic for another discussion.)
What *does* it do? (William Zinsser)
Aside from the fact that people didn't talk that way back then, the converse argument also holds true. We always have believed ourselves to be at the apex of knowledge. In 1610 the hubris belonged to the church, today the hubris belongs to those who believe science has all the answers.

The nice thing about science is at least it is actively questioning itself all the time. However individual scientists can easily subscribe to a philosophically materialist viewpoint without adequate evidence simply because they've spent their whole lives devoted to physics. The study of the correlation between the brain and consciousness needs to go much much deeper before they even hope to come close to having a crack at the free will debate.
Funny, I'd actually have expected it to be an audience full of people who'd like to create this job. :)
What you're describing doesn't sound like outsourcing or even offshoring to me. It sounds like expanding the business in new geographic areas.

Successful manufacturing companies would never think of sending off a spec sheet to the cheapest contract manufacturer and then just sitting back and waiting for the first production run. But somehow, companies have no problem sending off a software spec and just sitting back and waiting for a product.