skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You need a current to flow in order to induce a magnetic field in the second iron ring.
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If it isn't broken, don't fix it and I don't think textual configurations are broken, i.e. you are solving a problem that really isn't a problem. Based on my experience with Flipper (a MySQL master-master tool), SQL configurations are very hard to maintain and understand.
Why is everyone a hacker these days?

BTW, GWT is one option. Some JS libraries such as JQuery is another.
>There is android + iphone and symbian has no chance there.

I'm not sure about other countries, but here in India it's exactly the opposite. Though iphone and android are steadily increasing in mindshare.

>Not great software for a limited device like a phone.

Not everyone buys a phone for apps, most people (atleast here) look for better voice clarity/battery life/multimedia capabilities rather than apps.

>Nokia's conservative and limited vision on innovation.

I think "slow" is the correct word here.
It seems as though the author may have an interest in promoting Python as the choice.

Clearly the author has made a strong assumption that the peculiarities of Python syntax and semantics (`import`, `sys.stdin`, `for` ... `in`) are somehow clear to Python novices.
I'm excited for it. The story sounds interesting (although it seems embellished), and the actors look great. I loved Rashida Jones in Freaks and Geeks, The Office, Parks and Rec, etc.
We use and maintain this: http://www.acunote.com/open-source/javascript-keyboard-short...

It's modeled on Google Experimental, and other Google/vi-style shortcuts. Would love to see something like this implemented in HN codebase.
Australia, Denmark, Russia, etc.

Actually I seem to remember that the only countries in Europe who are allowed to play are Germany, France and the UK.

It is being frustrating because it could be fixed tomorrow - the issue is that Google is using its own payment system (google checkout) instead of a real payment system such as paypal.

If you ask me, it borders on what Microsoft did with IE and netscape in the nineteens.
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a Turing machine has an infinite tape. a typical computer has finite memory. therefore, it's tape is upper bounded by a constant function. this is a kind of linear bounded automata:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_bounded_automata

linear bounded automata don't have a halting problem. it's perfectly decidable. this doesn't detract from the fact it may take a long time to decide, but it is a far easier problem than halting on a TM.
Software is different because it combines three properties: 1. You have to maintain it over time, 2. It is technically possible to destroy it and start from scratch, and 3. It is difficult to objectively evaluate the cost of doing that in advance.
Vimium for chrome gets you closer anyway.
They are not.

But it is a general problem with Google, they don't give a shit about you if you aren't American (take google voice for example, they also only work in the US).
Mecca on the Hudson?
If you think this is bad you should take a look at the EU Common Agricultural Policy which represents almost half the EU's entire budget.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Agricultural_Policy
Well, "charging what the market will bear". And why couldn't he be an order of magnitude above average? The "good coders are ten times as productive" meme is alive and well on HN.

(Note that "ten times as productive" depends a lot on what you are doing. I concur that one of these "wrap an RSS feed" apps probably does not significantly benefit from hiring a truly excellent coder versus a competent one.)
The engine was designed to be a simple toolkit; dropping assets into a folder and writing a couple scripts. Entire training applications could be written without touching a line of C/C++.

Sounds like he cloned (at least some) of the system behind Unity3D. I have used that on a couple of projects and if I had a chance to push code to their repository I would have done so too. Worst piece of crap since Win ME.

Anyway the explanations he come up with aren't very useful: he hasn't talked with the developers at all, because if he had he would have known that we change the libraries because they aren't powerful enough. The only way they can become powerful enough? By being so general they might as well use C++.
As an aside, this reminds me of something Fred Brooks mentioned in one of his essays in "The Mythical Man Month".

I don't have my copy handy, but he was explaining that the great cathedrals of Europe (some of which took hundreds of years to complete) were only possible because generations of architects were willing to subjugate their own sense of aesthetics in order to maintain the original architect's vision.

If each successive architect decided to start from scratch, the building would never have been finished. And if each decided to build their part consistent with the styles of the time, the building as a whole would be a mess.

His argument (IIRC) was that programmers need to adopt the same mentality: overall consistency in the design takes priority over "doing it your own way", even if your way would be better (if the whole system were redone from scratch).
I recently experienced a dramatic increase in my confidence level by realizing one fundamental fact:

I don't need other people's approval to make me happy. I derive my happiness from things that are very personal to me.

This leads to knowing exactly what I want, not caring about other people's approval and generally not needing other people or some particular thing to happen to get what I want out of life.

I now look people directly in the eye and its funny because you would have sworn I had aspergers before this.
ExtJS, now Sencha, is another option.
VNC client using HTML5 (Web Sockets, Canvas) with encryption
here's how http://code.google.com/closure/ by google themselfs
If you are using Conkeror, you can use create a page mode, specific to a site - http://conkeror.org/WritingPageModes

Conkeror seems to have a reddit mode already in place, may be you can cook up a mode for HN - http://conkeror.org/PageModes
The Dunning-Kruger effect: If you aren't practicing it, start.
"Who's your janitor?"

"We don't have one"

"Who cleans the floors?"

"I do."

"You're the janitor"

FWIW I'm the cleaner, kiln technician, website team, chief scrubber and bottle washer, etc., for a company too.

I realise they're doing things differently. If people come to them all ready set to buy they still have to go through some process even if that process is only payment - someone manages that in some way. Maybe they take online payment and do delivery with no human interactions from the company side but someone still set that up, they still have a sales person.
To the extent that it ever worked, it still works - Google doesn't index mailto: links.
Having used both for a couple of years each (not at the same time) I'd have to say that TFS is the more frustrating of the two. So long as you're on a fast corporate network and in Visual Studio it's ok. The moment you try to edit a file outside VS you get problems. Say you're comparing two files in a comparison tool, the files will be readonly. You can overwrite but TFS doesn't know that you've changed that file so you have to manually check it out. Sometimes devs forget to do this.

Another bug bear is the Pending Changes list in VS is cached so if you have two instances of VS open things can get out of date and confusing.

And try opening your solution when you're off the network. Dialogs start opening everywhere. Assuming you click the right things you'll be ok... until you go back to the office. Then you'll have to prompt it to go back online and wait while it figures out what you changed.

I've tried explaining to people who've only ever used VSS and TFS that things don't have to be this way. But they tend to imply that source control is just complex and it's not the tool's fault.

By contrast, within a week of using SVN the tool faded into the background and I rarely thought about it.
True, although I think writing new code tends to be more fun rather than actually faster...
I have to disagree without about Visual Studio.

It lacks support for something as simple as automatically inserting the method declarations for interfaces when you had to implement them, let alone promotion of variable declaration to fields. And there is essentially no way to uninline a method. Eclipse has _all_ these things.

And this is still a problem for the 2010 ultimate edition.
http://www.jimdo.com is another one.

Posterous creates a webpage for you consisting of your social media activities, blog posts, etc. and you can post easily via Mail.
I'm a Mootools fan myself. I use it over the seemingly more popular libs like jquery because very little of my JS code is actually touching DOM. I usually start my projects by creating all my "classes" (actually prototypes, etc, but classes make sense to most OO people).

I primarily code in Py, but I do really want to sit down with GWT some day, it looks badass.

In a lot of my projects I just use raw JS. Big libraries scare me sometimes and honestly, JS isn't that hard if you know what you're doing and know how to code around the main browser issues. I like some of the functional paradigms from mootools though (well any other lib for that matter), and the XHR handling.

(sorry I didn't really answer your question -- just rambled a bit before I go to sleep)
I have found the opposite. Especially in bright daylight.
Being negative helps decision making
Nice!

How have you met him? Are you his student?
Beating Interpolation Search & Binary Search
I had a great experience with a very simple practice called Vipassana. I wrote about it straight after doing a 10-day course of meditation - 9 days of no speaking was an event in itself: http://weblog.squareapple.net/archives/2004/11/26/art_of_liv...

A book I've really appreciated on the practice is called "The Art of Living: Vipassana Meditation" - http://www.amazon.com/Art-Living-Vipassana-Meditation/dp/006...

Both the practice and the book are honest and simple in approach. I used to hunt for complex, cerebral stuff, dismissing anything else, but have slowly realised the error of my ways.
Apparently, everyone's copying Google's layout.
I can't imagine that Apple would have gone to the trouble of giving this kind of display a name & logo if they were only intending to use it on one product.
I'd guess using something like http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=inflation+rate+in+US+fr... to establish a mean rate and then using "compound interest" formula?
To put things into perspective that's 0.035 bicycle trips per person per day.

In the Netherlands 26% of all trips are bicycle trips, so probably more than 1 per person per day. To put that into perspective, fifty years ago this was more than 80%. The budget for cycling is about 2 times higher than in the US (per capita).

I think the group you should focus on is children. In the Netherlands 49% of primary school children (4-12 years old, no helmet ;) cycle to school, 37% walk to school and 14% use a car. I bet the ones that use a car are exactly the ones that don't use a bike later in life.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2007/feb/15/who-was...

>Milton Friedman played three roles in the intellectual life of the twentieth century. There was Friedman the economist’s economist, who wrote technical, more or less apolitical analyses of consumer behavior and inflation. There was Friedman the policy entrepreneur, who spent decades campaigning on behalf of the policy known as monetarism—finally seeing the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England adopt his doctrine at the end of the 1970s, only to abandon it as unworkable a few years later. Finally, there was Friedman the ideologue, the great popularizer of free-market doctrine.

I'd have to suggest that this statement came from the 3rd Friedman. There is sort of an irony here. Friedman saw monetary policy as a zero sum game. I think that was a fallacy.
I've heard the cost in lcds is far more about the size of the display vs the resolution. Ive seen replacement lcds for projectors, very small lcds with very high resolutions for faily cheap prices.
>"What it doesn't do is make it easy for you to understand which section of the cover your actually editing"

Hope he proofread.

FWIW I make these mistakes (homophones) at a depressingly increasing rate; I blame it on dying neurons.
don't we take pride in calling ourselves hackers? Why on earth otherwise are we on HN? :P
1.9.1 still has quite broken items, and 1.9.2 has even more broken stuff as it's very much still in development. This is why people haven't switched.

That said I'm starting to see people use 1.9.1 syntax in tutorials, tips and blog posts.
New forms of funding
Disruptive and innovate investment models I've come across lately
pyjamas?!

http://pyjs.org/
I don't like Python. Does that make me a bad person?
I don't like Python.

I love C. I like C++ too. I used to write a lot of Java when I was a kid (as in high-school kid) but now that I've written quite a bit of C and C++, Java seems more like a toy language. I did enjoy Java back then, however. I yet to do any major work in C#, but it seems to be a powerful language, especially when handling certain kinds of complexity.

I've been learning LISP on weekends for two weekends now, and I find it interesting. I know little bits of Haskell (am planning to learn it later this year) and seem to like it too. Maybe I like the idea of liking Haskell, I'll know for sure once I actually start writing Haskell.

Coming back to the point - I don't like Python. I've never liked it. I've tried working on various Python projects but have always found some or the other excuse to prematurely back out. And mind you, I love coding - I spend most of my time writing code or learning new stuff about code.

My question to the hardcore python lovers is this (and mind you, by hardcore I mean the kind of people who wrote Exaile, not the kind who hack up a Python script every now and then to organize their iPod): No doubt many of you have come from C / C++ / LISP backgrounds. What is the paradigm shift you experienced? I look at a piece of C code in a certain way - how do I look at a piece of Python code? How do I think about Python? How do I think in Python (copied that one from Bruce Eckel)?
Thank you Alex, that was inspirational!
Did you mean Tweetsville or really, Twitterrific?
How to calculate today's Stardate.
The Javascript spec probably doesn't specify a fixed memory limit, so limiting the space arbitrarily to X mb is not that different from limiting the time arbitrarily to Y s.
It's not like they will be walking around in shorts and t-shirts.

Frankly, I think there is some good reasons for a mars base. It's a shorter distance to the asteroid belt where mining could become a profitable idea.

At the very least, aiming for mars colonization would give us something to strive for and develop technology for. The stuff that came out of the moon program is still incredible today. We need big ideas. Somehow back in the 60s and 70s, big stuff managed to get built. We should return to that style of doing things. In my city, Montreal, they can't even replace a damn interchange built in the 60s which is failing apart. One project, compared to about 5 similar scale projects built back then. Instead we get some odd trash disposal system (read wired this month).
That final quote is a mind-blower, could not have put it better myself. Hits the nail on the head. Thanks a lot for it.
depends...

If you are marketing to business people, it seems to be best to puff yourself up as much as possible. they eat that shit up, as far as I can tell. I bet his massive ego gets him some work.

When marketing to technical people, the opposite seems to be the case. In my experience, it's best to say "Oh, I'm nothing" and then proceed to show or do something pretty cool. Adding in a few words like 'perhaps' or "I believe" can make your message come across much more positively when dealing with the technically focused, and can do the opposite when dealing with the business focused.

(note, while "I think" or "some people believe" adds a touch of humility, "In my experience" can go either way. It can imply that you feel you have a great deal more experience in this area than the other people in the room, adding to confidence/arrogance, but it can also imply that what works for you might not work for others, making you seem less confrontational.)

This is one of the things I find interesting about hacker news; it seems to be populated by people who are halfway between those two worldviews.
Don't just find someone who does good graphic design, you want somebody that understands interaction design/HCI who is familiar with affordances and can help you flesh out the key use cases.

remember that design is not just lipstick for your app, it starts at the beginning of the journey by analysing what you want to achieve, what you want your users to be doing and, ultimately, how you go about designing the system itself to help users achieve their goals. you would be surprised at how heavy an impact design can have on your architecture.
You are assuming that it is a big fuck up that affects a lot of units and/or people, and that the way a phone is held usually doesn't affect its reception. You are also implying that the iPhone 4 antenna has worse performance than its predecessors. Neither of these things are conclusive, and some reports suggest the opposite.

Hypothetically, what if these things aren't true, then what would be the appropriate Apple response?
I once went to a lecture given by a psychoanalyst who was also a Buddhist. His main point was that Buddhism and analysis were very similar means of self-introspection.

Does anyone here have a perspective on both to share?
Dead men farming - circa 1842: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1081/1081-h/1081-h.htm
Greece selling its islands to save economy
Oh my. Will this end up like NOKIA's failure to deliver on the interface promise? See comparison between the animatic and real life: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJpEuMidcSU

I've got serious issues with the disconnect between advertised and delivered user interfaces, especially when it comes to flow.
You needn't sit on a couch, cushion cross-legged ..
You can very well walk in a park and keep your focus on breath or feet or on the ground in front, or the bushes and greenery, all the while ignoring any thoughts that come up.
You can also sit on a park bench looking at the trees, focusing on the looking, being aware of looking.

This is known as awareness of awareness, or consciousness of consciousness which does sound fake but its very simple and effective. You soon start getting a feeling of what you really are as opposed to the belief of being a body/mind.

Being aware of this "I-feeling" is considered by many to be the fastest or direct path. This I-feeling is also found in the present moment when there is no past or future.

or Be aware of what is present between thoughts.

or Put your focus on what is conscious of existing.

There are tonnes of references that point to the same thing in different words:

- Power of Now (Tolle)
- Michael Langford (albigen.com - full book available)
- Youtubes of Papaji, Mooji, Tolle and many others
Yes, the market forces to make the library easier to use clash with the forces to make it hard to use. You can't make it super hard to use, because then nobody will choose to use your library. You can't make it too easy either.

Fortunately the way humans are wired makes it relatively easy to get out of this trap: feature lists. Humans love long feature lists. You can add a lot of complexity without scaring people off.

> you're implying that the incentives are wrong with OSS in general

Yes, I am implying that for code that isn't developed for use by the company itself, or by non commercial programmers. This is very unfortunate, but whether you like OSS does not (or should not) change this. I have been thinking about ways of avoiding this, but so far I have not found a model. What I want is a business model where:

1. The programmers do what they love and do best: coding, not support

2. The primary activity (programming) brings money in, not some secondary activity

3. Good libraries should earn more money

4. The code is open source

A dual licensing model like Qt seems like the only way.
I don't imagine the eventual Mars settlers will want to pretend and be under the control of the (US|Chinese|British|etc) governments, at least once there's a significant number of them. Wouldn't they want to form their own nation there? It'd be interesting to see how a society progresses when it's virtually under no threat of war or foreign hostilities at all... It'd also be a great way to reduce existential risk.

Some political ramblings, feel free to stop reading.. I lost some respect for Obama when he extrapolated numerous things well beyond his possible term limits, the space program specifically. I want to see him try and do more exciting things while in office. Though I believe the limited budget is starting to make NASA be more innovative again.
Oh.. And the music, the dancing. +1 for the title of this thread :-S
You do have a good point, but as I've learned to raise my rates without feeling ridiculous about it, I've gotten more and more emails and calls. I also don't have the balls or the experience to demand a regular $1k/hour rate, or even half that at this point. I suspect if I had both the courage and the appropriate experience/knowledge I could demand that and more easily, and still have the same problem...just with lots more money involved. I have charged clients close to $1k/hour occasionally during emergencies and with specialized work, but I can't deal with constant stress from trying to deliver my idea of what $1k/hr consulting should be, even with fewer hours. I usually don't have the experience or knowledge to do so :)

Interestingly enough, most of the criticism I've read about Mike and this whole thing from other iPhone devs and such is not focusing around the rate. They're more focused on whether or not he'd actually be able to deliver something worth justifying that rate. Alas, that question will only be answered by whether or not Mike is successful in securing enough hours with clients that will pay that.
I don't think Google is winning hearts - rather, they are losing hearts more slowly than Apple.
The Dalai Lama says pretty much the same thing quite a bit. A quick read along these lines would be The Universe in a Single Atom.
You better ask: "How can WE write an interface like Gmail?"
Especially in the original sense of hard-working "biological entities that can be mistaken for humans" ;-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R._(Rossum%27s_Universal_Ro...

Incidentally, another story by Karel Čapek - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Absolute_at_Large -
features a "reactor that can annihilate matter to produce cheap and abundant energy [and] as a by-product, the absolute. The absolute is a spiritual essence".
Not to quaffle, but please do add 'Ask HN' the next time you post a question.
I don't remember where I read it, but you're only a true hacker if some arbitrarily large enough community has bestowed that label upon you. As of today, hacker is almost synonymous with programmer, and people who can compile a C++ program sometimes think themselves as 'hackers'. It's kind of sad, but I don't really care. The media has long since killed the term for general usage.