skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The one of the main activities of a man is to support their own [de|i]llusion and avoiding to see things as they are. ^_^
I always thought TL;DR was more dismissive than "Summary"
Yes. But not an acronym, and no summary present.
.Net frameworks are not identical to the JVM. The general principle of the JVM is that it remains binary compatible across all versions (this limitation forced severe constraints onto the implementation of java generics, for example). In contrast there are multiple versions of the .Net runtime (CLR) that are not compatible. MS often makes breaking changes across major versions of the CLR.
Restoring your iPhone 3G to OS 3.1.3
I had installed iOS4 on my iPhone 3G and saw it crawl to becoming an iPaperWeight. It was horribly slow in launching every app and the keyboard was so slow it was unusable.

I had to restore it back to 3.1.3.

spicyj gave me the starting point here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1453553

I ran into a few problems, here is how I got it to work:

1) Download 3.1.3 firmware for iPhone 3G from http://www.felixbruns.de/iPod/firmware/.

2) You have to put your phone in the appropriate DFU mode for downgrades. (Whatever DFU stands for).

Switch of your iPhone, connect the USB cable to your mac / PC and put it in DFU mode with following instructions - Click the Home + Power On button for 10 seconds exactly - Release the power button and continue to click on Home. The display should never turn on, but your iTunes should recognize the phone and warn you about recovery mode.

3) Option click the restore button and choose the 3.1.3 firmware you downloaded. Let it perform the recovery.

4) If it fails with an error 1015, click ok. The firmware is restored, but you have to snap the phone out of the recovery mode now.

5) Download iRecovery as explained in this link.

http://www.ihackintosh.com/2009/09/recover-iphone-3gs-from-apple-logo-or-recovery-mode-loop/

6) As explained there, copy the libusb-0.1.4.dylib to /usr/local/lib and give it executable permissions.

7) Run ./iRecovery -s from the extracted directory.

8) Set autoboot to true inside the iRecovery console:

setenv auto-boot

saveenvs

fsboot

9) I had to do fsboot thrice and nothing happened. It should have rebooted by now.

I did a power down and restarted the iPhone, and it was back up on 3.1.3 firmware.

If you run into problems or your phone is stuck in the recovery icon mode (USB port meets iTunes icon), please check out iRecovery and read all the possibilities there (there is a reboot command which might work, I didn't try it).

The downside to this is since my last iPhone backup was with iOS4, I could not restore it, I had to setup my phone as new. That is something I can live with.

Upside - the phone seems MUCH faster now ;).
They have a direct connection. The government is currently propping up billions, maybe trillions, of bad debt. That's what this financial crisis is all about - it's not part of the normal business cycle.

If not for TARP (and the other alphabet soup programs) and the Fed Reserve currency intervention, much of that debt would have defaulted, resulting in a deflationary depression.

A portion of many startups' customers would have found themselves cash limited, and/or unable to borrow more in corporate paper markets, etc. They would have gone into survival mode or outright failed as their own revenue streams dried up. Same with the VC money.

Whether the stimulus trickled down to the startup economy I don't know, but it's the bailout of the financial system and money printing that is keeping massive amounts of cash flows from drying up.
My wife was raised Buddhist. We talked extensively about the affects of meditation after reading an article on the over-use, abuse and misunderstanding of meditation in some Western mainstream practices. The article covered a few obvious but damaging cases: depressed and marginal personalities attempting to meditate for hours during a first attempt. What struck me when talking about it with my wife is that meditation is a skill; it's something you have to learn to do and something someone else should probably teach you so that you use it responsibly.
From the article:
"The danger for those who do is that many instructors call the problems a welcome sign of enlightenment, as in Long's case, or proof of the student's insincere effort. In either situation, teachers encourage the student to meditate longer."

Excactly the same behaviour is observed in this HN discussion: upon reporting problems caused by a meditation praxis, people get confronted with the accusation of not doing it right and encouraged to do more.
This seems to be fairly arbitrarily double-counting all sorts of things. Taxes are levied at pretty much any transaction, so of course if you bundle multiple transactions, you get higher supposed rates. You could take it as high as you want with this accounting approach. Say you invest your money in a company, which earns profit, and pays corporate income taxes, then it reinvests that money for 10 years in a row, earns a profit each year, on which it pays income tax each year, then pays it to you in dividends. Then you reinvest that money in another company, and repeat. Then after some time, you use that money to buy some equipment, paying sales tax on it, and use that equipment to earn money, paying taxes on that income, which you then use to buy cigarettes. Oh my, you've paid about 99% tax at this point! That's the nature of taxes levied on transactions: if you run money through arbitrarily many transactions, it gets taxed at a rate arbitrarily close to 100%.

Mostly though it just seems like a content-free anti-tax whine. Is this really HN material? Is HN now the libertarian anti-reddit, purveyor of embarrassingly superficial economic analysis with strong political content massaging the viewpoints of its audience?
As a former user of Lulu, I'm very happy to hear about the improvements in print quality and can now move Lulu from "Oh hell no, never again" status to "viable alternative next time Blurb wants to charge me $80 for a 50 page book."
"Move to New York City and make $500,000" -- Ok where do I sign up?
I think tl;dr differs from a summary in that it is written as a response to hostility coming from someone who thinks the post is verbose. When I have seen it used, it has consistently been more terse and to the point than summaries generally are. It may seem awkward and inaccessible to those unfamiliar with it, but I do think it is a specific enough form of a summary to warrant its own term.
many states now have mandatory tests starting at 80. My late stepfather lost his license, as did my MIL. Good decisions in both cases.
I highly suggest "The Tibetan Book of The Dead" and "The Power of Silence." Try to find the TBOTD version translated by W.Y. Evans-Wentz if you're not one for happy meal, watered-down philosophy. Take these texts with a grain of salt at first only because they will be thoroughly alien to your mind; once absorbed use wisely.

"...that which clingth not no fall can come. Where no fall cometh, there is rest, and where rest is, there is no keen desire. Where keen desire is not, naught cometh or goeth; and where naught cometh or goeth there is no death, no birth." -GB, TBOTD

"Cutting our chains is marvelous, but also very undesirable, for nobody wants to be free." -CC, The Power of Silence

EDIT: btw yogic flying is for idiots. Those who've practiced meditation for years and those fewer who've reached Nirvana have accessed and gained control enough to manipulate what they call the dharmakaya which is connected to the right temporal lobe I believe (also referred to as the silent mind). Those with this degree of mastery have OOB experiences with great maneuverability.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharmakāya
ATMs!
The Russian version of tl;dr is niasilil: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cacography
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Law school is more of a lotto than medical school. They really aren't even comparable. My old college roommate makes $300K a year as a dermatologist.

The WORST you do as a doctor is about $120K/yr which is one of the best salaries you can make as a programmer.

Doctors don't become Google rich but if you are looking for a solid stable job that pays a lot it's still one of the best.

Law is different because there is no limit on the number of lawyers minted each year. Every year is a new record number of lawyers. A law school grad isn't guaranteed any job at all, even with a degree from a school like Yale. In contrast, doctors can literally kill people and keep their jobs.
But think of how many more iPads your startup could have if only you didn't have to pay taxes. Sure, you'd have no roads to drive on and someone would just steal the iPads from you at gunpoint... but at least the government would be out of your business, leaving you with plenty of time to do God's work: creating a startup to share cat pictures with your coworkers.

(Sorry, this is how I view the HN collective when taxes come up. Cue reply from tptacek in 3.. 2.. 1..)
that looks and sounds cool at least: niasilil!
I think if I had that kind of knowledge of a fucked up disease hanging over my head, I'd put more than .3% of my net worth into the research. I'd want to REALLY move the needle, like alot.
Just curious, how did you do the inflation adjustment?
You're actually satisfied with your RSS reader?
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This confuses marginal tax for effective tax. If you move to NYC and make $500k, your marginal tax will be pretty high (~48% between Federal, State, and Local, 1.45% for Medicare, a little over 1% for SS due to the cap at ~100k.) So your marginal tax rate is around 50% (high, but still a far cry from 87%). His blurb about dividends makes no sense at all because they don't get taxed when you buy the shares, only when you receive income, meaning they don't increase your marginal tax when you're already in the top bracket.

But even after all that your effective tax rate something like 6% lower. So you're paying about half of 87%, and you're in the highest earning 0.5% of the nation. And that is, of course, all assuming no deductions, which is also unrealistic.
Well I don't know about you but as a New-Yorker who earns half a million a year, has millions invested in profitable companies and "reinvests" the dividends in a debilitating cigarette habit this article speaks to me on many levels.
I think the real question is how does Reddit differentiate itself from Digg?

Keep in mind which came first.
Now you know what V8 is really for.
I don't think the problem is HN's collective view on taxes per se. It's the general black and white nature that refuses to see reality in shades of grey, which in turn causes that. For a community that so frequently pats itself on the back for being intelligent, you rarely see a nuanced discussion of anything. Taxes aren't all good, so therefore they must be all bad. Ditto intellectual property, Microsoft, etc.

I wish there was a month here where everyone had to argue the opposite point. It'd at least be a blast.
Yep, "too long / didn't read" has a negative vibe, it's both dismissive and a little insulting to the author of the target piece. Plus, it makes the person saying it look a little lazy or lacking the ability to focus and read through anything longer than a sound bite.

"Summary: <whatever>" is nice because it is impersonal and provides a useful service to other readers. Here is a brief summary of what the piece is about. Useful and not impolite.

(--btw, I'm the author of the "This Meme Must Die" article being discussed, Synisma)
> Is this really HN material?

No, it isn't, it's ignorant drivel. As you said, the money isn't being double taxed and it's deceptive to pretend so.
Looks very cool.

Of course, I am already fantasizing about it being merged to the main branch. Assuming it will work well, is this something that can get into 3.2?

I saw this release schedule for 3.2:
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0392/

I see that 3.2 alpha 1 is due today.
Word on the street is that they are trying to position themselves as an Oracle acquisition. Their valuation seems a bit inflated, but I could see them selling for $300-500million.
Make something and get someone to buy it. I worked for quite a while on a side project but always had doubt until the first sale. People giving you money for something you made is a big confidence boost.

Teach. I've taught a college course for a semester and was the main trainer/teacher on a product/api we developed. Teaching others something you know will make you aware of how much you do know and how well you know it. And it is enjoyable if you don't mind the public speaking part.
Assuming it's on the same machine: perhaps they have an instrument which runs on Windows 95 and they do some light data processing, or use Matlab to make it interoperate with another device?

We've had a similar need in my lab, although it was Windows 2000. We buy new machines alright, but some instruments can't be easily upgraded due to the computer being integrated with it, the drivers being proprietary and specific to the OS, etc.
That's funny! :) I guess I should have made the article shorter so you could have gotten to the very end of it, which was:

Summary: TL;DR Sucks, Summary is Better
The path from a pure python user-level threading library to eliminating the GIL in CPython is longer than the subject implies.

Something to keep in mind with Python/Perl/Ruby anyway: Making your app run on 2 cores makes it 2x faster. Implenting your algorithm in Haskell instead makes it 50x faster.

Cooperative userspace threads work very well for the kinds of applications you write in Python.
Designer (Tobias Wong) Kills Self While Asleep?
LOL @curses; those are Borland BGI and Turbo Graphics, man. To run curses at that time, you needed a 25k Sun Workstation.
agreed. TL;DR by itself actually makes sense. It means something distinct from, "in summary: <blah>".
Did you not exist 10 years ago? Sheesh. I still get Windows 98 hits in my server logs, mostly zombie boxes running bots.
I don't publish my rate (let's just say it's not even half of $1k/hr except in extraordinary circumstances, like most developers I know consulting on non-specialized stuff), but I am at no shortage of clients right now. If I could actually slow my flow of emails from interested individuals, businesses, and recruiters for consulting and jobs, I'd be so happy...

This is a signal from the market that you're not charging enough. What if you could get fewer emails and calls, work half as much, and make more money?
> Oh my, you've paid about 99% tax at this point!

I know you were trying to be sarcastic, but you actually made a pretty good point. A small marginal increase in taxation has a drag effect that multiplies exponentially over time.
I have the luxury of living in a city that's pedestrian friendly, so I got rid of my car. Never have I felt wealthier. I walk and use the subway. Cars are a time and money sink in ways that you don't even realize at first.

* They cost a lot of money and the value depreciates quickly.

* They break down. When that happens, you have a problem that you have to respond to immediately no matter what else is going on. If the subway breaks down, you are late but you don't have to fix it.

* My transportation costs are very predictable. I don't have any sudden major car repairs that cause a financial crisis.

* My current transportation costs equal my former car insurance costs.

* Car keys are big and unwieldy.

* Car alarms suck.

* I don't worry about that funny noise in my engine anymore.

* I don't have to replace my tires. I just have to buy new shoes more often, which is less expensive.

* I don't have to ask around to find a good mechanic.

* I don't have to take the time to have the oil changed and the tires rotated.

* I don't have to take time out of my week filling up my car with gas.

* I spend zero time looking for parking spaces.

* I don't have to pay parking tickets or worry about speeding tickets.

* Instead of spending my commute in a stress-inducing traffic jam, I spend my commute walking, which is naturally stress-relieving.

* My car doesn't get scratched.

* Because I walk a lot, I've probably added 10 years to my life.

* I don't lock my keys in the car.

* I don't spend any more money or time on car washes.

* I don't spend time or money getting my car inspected.

Unfortunately, the majority of Americans don't live in a walkable city. :( But at least you can offer your support for projects that will make your city more walkable.
calm down I just thought it was an interesting conjecture on future of OS X. If you dont like, dont upvote.
Your method of grading the tests fails. I couldn't determine if you were counting number of times compiled against the person, or just looking for something VERY specific in the final result, but both methods failed to properly categorize technically right solutions, even if they didn't meet what was entered as "correct". Even worse, there's no interface to determine what solution you were even looking for, requiring the test requester to either trust your (unique) judgements on correctness of answers or review the playback of every entry, removing the major benefits of the site. The fact that every person gets random questions also doesn't help compare capabilities of different testers. And the final thing missing, the ability to see the requirements + final code submitted without going through the playback.

Note: This isn't a "wah, I did it all right and it said I was wrong!", I specifically used correct, valid answers that were unlikely to match the model you were looking for (empty for loop body for decrementing a variable to a certain value, etc.).
Toolchain and development cycle. Windows 95 systems programming is trivial, and not in a good way. You can access privileged system registers and memory areas directly, until you crash your box. Once you learn how to write a VxD it's a matter of tweaking it for other purposes, since the great difficulty lies in just getting the skeleton to work.
TL;DR also breaks my brain's English parser. Bad. In the same way that reading .NET in an otherwise legal English sentence tends to annoy me. Character not expected! Abort! Stack trace!
Yeah google has been following my javascript obfuscated links for quite some time now.

It's actually a tad annoying because there's no way to do a "nofollow" in javascript.
The Gnome project has a reputation and a long history of removing preferences that people want. The 'Ubuntu interface preferences' are largely Gnome preferences, and taken on and individual basis, are generally quite reasonable. The only 'mess' I know of is the fact that the preferences are displayed in a giant dropdown menu, instead of in a control applet interface, like OS X, Windows, and SuSe do. Gnome actually has a control applet that should take the place of that dropdown, but Ubuntu chooses not to use it.

OpenOffice.org is a disaster whose problems go far deeper than the UI.

Also, rails is changing things by preferring convention over configuration? What year is this, 2005?

In the end, here is my complaint: You are taking what is essentially the best case scenario, proprietary or not, and saying that it means software with a copyright license is more usable than software with a copyleft license. Stop doing that, it does the general discourse about software a disservice.
You're right but that was my point: I'm asking all of you to join forces with me to help destroy this meme. Won't someone think of the kittens?!?!?
That's an interesting point. I'd actually kind of like to see a tax analysis with a dynamical-system sort of bent. It seems like that must exist? If you view the economy as a highly circular network of cash flows, then different taxation policies are basically inserting different amounts of drag or siphoning into different parts of the system. Then when that same money gets spent by the government, it's being reinserted somewhere else in the same system. All rates are "100%" or "0%" in the long run, in that any dollar inserted into the network will eventually be taken as tax, and then eventually disgorged back into the non-government economy (assuming connected components/etc.). So it seems some other way of analyzing the effects is needed.
Is there a need for your first sentence, the praiseworthy one?

I was asking if most of the sites would work with browsers in that day...and I didn't know Opera and Firefox still support them.
Experiment With Beautifulsoup, Web.py and Appengine
V8, Chrome, and the Developer Tools do run my code, just when I ask it to. Guess it makes sense Google is asking it to too.

So what, they must be able to query and manipulate the dom, only after Javascript has run.

jsdom -- DOM in Javascript (V8 via Node.js) -- is a nice little hack and mind bender. Why can't the document be a javascript object that you manipulate??

Javascript all the way down. and up.
First visible comment: "I would love to see it to bad Obama, gutted our awesome space program to give illegal aliens free health care."

Can we just burn down the internet yet?
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Curious if anyone has any explanations for the surge in walking. Did people who were able to walk previously but chose not to suddenly decide to do so in the late 1990s? (Why?) Did a bunch of people move into walkable areas within that relatively short time span? Did these projects the chart mentions really improve the pedestrian infrastructure noticeably enough in that period of time to encourage a large increase in walking by people who previously didn't due to lack of things like good sidewalks and pedestrian bridges? Some combination?
Having lived in two countries that have free public health care at a good level, I can say that starting my own business is much more relaxing in that environment. I would not dream of doing the same in the USA at my age or family situation.
There's been a really strong and justified precedent set for using regulation for this; drunk driving. In fact, regulation for impaired elderly drivers may be even more justified than it is for drunk driving. (I'm not defending drunk drivers, here, just to get that out of the way. Driving while drunk is an incredibly stupid decision.)

Drunk drivers are only impaired some of the time, whereas many elderly drivers are impaired all the time. Because of this, it's possible to test, in advance, whether or not an elderly driver is safe behind the wheel. You can't give a drunk a sobriety test every 12 months to certify them safe to drive; you could do that for elderly drivers.

Enforcing testing for elderly drivers also has the advantage of being a largely preventative measure, rather than a punitive one. The demographic it targets is also more likely to obey or respect that law, generally has more options for free or cheap transit, and is likely to be more deterred by the prospect of a sentence.

The downside, of course, is that being old is not a preventable condition; ompaired elderly drivers don't go out to the Frothing Otter on weeknights for bottled arthritis. Drunk driving can be easily demonized because the drunk driver made a choice to be impaired. The elderly can't be demonized for being too old or crippled, so it would be hard to push anything through. They're also extremely sympathetic defendants.

Elderly driving certification is certainly bad PR. But it's as justified as the original drunk driving laws. (Original meaning before they evolved into the nightmare they are today.)
Likewise, as a former Lulu employee, I'm happy to see them getting positive mentions. They aren't perfect and their offerings have warts (like everybody) but by and large, they have a very nice offering.