skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Open source Cocoa implementation for Windows and Linux
Podcasts just got evolved
Also let me know if you'd be interested in contributing.
Yandex Launches Search for Startups
You definitely should just come live in SF. You'll have a much better opportunity to network and meet potential employers. Everyday there is at least one event in the SF Bay Area for you to attend, whether it's a meetup, drinks, or hackathon you'll undoubtedly find work here faster if you're living here.

I can't speak to making the move cheaper since I moved out here for college with virtually nothing. If you're worried about the price of rent, you could consider living outside of the city. While living in SF is probably more desirable you can live south in places like Mountain view, Palo Alto, Daly City or over in the East Bay like Berkley, Fremont, etc. You'll easily be paying half your rent if you choose to live outside of the city. If you don't bring a car, or sell it when you get here you can still take BART or CalTrain into the city for events and for interviews.

Hopefully this helps. :)
The small minority of people may have a point, but it's the wrong point, since the real problem with the notation of electric charge has nothing to do with the formulas which are used, but with the connotation that people give them of somehow representing a surplus or deficit of electrons, neither of which is true.

The only real relationship between the charges is that they are opposite. The terms positive and negative have no other meaning. As for the formulas, either way will work just fine, as long as everyone is consistent. Pick something and stick with it.
Some people are replacing their computers with the iPad and the iPhone. The media is doing a very good job of saying that the iDevices are the future of computing.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9175600/The_iPad_is_t...

http://gizmodo.com/5506692/ipad-is-the-future

http://www.macworld.com/article/146038/2010/01/ipad_future_s...

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/02/ipad-future/

http://techcrunch.com/2010/01/27/ipad/
It simply means that I am not going to play any political game with the system. I am not going to try any intervention into their system. The rules are too rotten. It's futile.

Authorities don't like to be challenged. They don't like their rules to be questioned. They don't like people to make their own "right of exit". To them, not following the "rules of society" is a threat.

If you understood that, than you see that I don't see the government as a vital machinery of some sort. It exists by force. It's the modus operandi
of all governments.

All the solutions that I proposed is exactly opposite of that. My first solution is counter-economic on a purely voluntary scale. Seasteading moving to a location where you won't be harassed by authorities. It's non-violent, and non-coercive.

That's an ideology in itself.

But I do not expect governments to sit idle. They will certainly will not approve of a voluntary charter city created by libertarians. They did it in the past and will do it again.

Think of Snow Crash. In there, they have various enclaves and franchise area such as "Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong". But the US government itself is rotting away. Inside, jobs are mere make-works. They have surrendered much of their terrority to various entities and corporations. Then they just get ignored by everybody.

I want them to make ineffective government systems irrelevant, or at least co-existing, and competing. I want a world where rules are being optimized, instead of become a source of corruption.

Then, we can finally escape the dangerous race of technology versus government decay. Either technologies elevate us to singularity status, or the government causing systemic collapse and we're back where we started, or worse, nuclear annihilation.
BP Oil Spill Gets Unreal: Developer Visualizes Size Of Catastrophe With UDK
It's not that the marketplace is working -- it's that we've perverted and destroyed the marketplace and instead we have a free-for-all for handouts based on policies created by whatever gets votes.

When did an efficient marketplace for medical services ever exist in the United States? "Buyers" have always depended on the ethics and professionalism of doctors; very few people have the education and sophistication necessary to second-guess them. People have always tended to trust doctors, if only because it was the least bad option, and when they don't trust doctors, the result is a thriving market for superstition and quackery. So if the buyer's decision is reduced to which doctor to trust, then you need a way to compare doctors' performance. Creating a way to compare doctors' performance would be a big undertaking requiring some kind of unified, centralized push for standardization -- almost certainly by the government.

There may be other ways to actively construct an efficient market, but simply removing the perverting force of regulation will not restore a previously existing efficient market, because the market for medical care has never been efficient, regulation or no.
It would be nice to have a database of stories, successses or failures from entrepreneurs. It would be great motivation and educational.
email me, address is in my profile.
Jesus, virtual desktops have been around since the mid-80s. Crediting them to Gnome is like crediting cars to Preston Tucker.
My biggest concern with this guys method is he simply glosses over exercise.

I agree with him that exercising for weight loss is a _lot_ harder than simply not eating shit/unhealthy food (or excess amounts of healthy food)

However going into caloric deficit without a solid resistance training plan is a sure way to shed more muscle than you likely want.

You shouldn't think in terms of weight loss, you should think in terms of fat loss. You don't want to be shedding muscle. A simple resistance/calisthenic training program such as body weight exercises like pushups/planks/squats/burpees/pullups(if you can) will ensure that you have a better chance at retaining muscle, while shedding fat.

Also, using scales is simply not an accurate way to measure fat loss. The simplest way to measure your fat-loss progress at home is the good old tape measure.

Good luck.
Daring Fireball: Apple’s System Apps
Maybe he claims the difference is obvious, but not to my aging eyes (especially at smaller point sizes). Sadly, getting older has had more influence over my choice of fonts than pure stylistic preferences.
As long as the html5 has buggy dancing scrollbars of doom on firefox, I will be grateful for flash scribd links. Everyone can hate on flash all they want, but the flash version in this link was a big relief compared to the html5 version.
The Ten most worthless college majors
10. Art History
9. Philosophy
8. American Studies
7. Music Therapy
6. Communications
5. Dance
4. English Lit
3. Latin
2. Film
1. Religion
If Facebook, Microsoft or Adobe had such an announcement, the whole internet and HN community would have been enraged.

It seems people are more tolerant about Apple privacy issues.

Is it because the present issue is interpreted as a lesser issue?
Amazon Web Services: Clouded by Duplicate Content
I use UNIX time. So there.
Are you in Europe? In the US, AT&T forbids tethering. I think the new update allows you to tether but you have to pay for it.
Chicken parts, bone-in.

The bone regulates temperature and moisture levels.

Trust me, it won't overcook. If you're worried, turn the oven down to 350 F.
You can do replace stuff in-place (and other low-level stuff) in the IO Monad.
View of Southern Lights from ISS
You can derive trig identities yourself using Euler's formula. This is a fun hack, easily worth the couple of hours you'll spend getting to understand it.
Titans Of Industry Don't Really Like Free Markets
Look at the textbooks used in data structure courses at various schools.
Since apparently nobody has yet posted here about it, the current state of all this is that Patorjk sent an email to Github, and they've taken the project down.

http://github.com/marak/asciimo/
This is one thing the Palm Pre got right. When you first turn on your phone, it asks if you'd like to always allow location info, or if you'd like the phone to ask each time. If you say no, any app (even the pre-installed ones) must ask every time it wants to get your current location. If you say yes, it gets out of your way and doesn't bug you unless you change it in the settings.

Of course, if you say yes, it also periodically sends data behind the scenes. Strange, but it's better than making this completely uncontrollable.
On an island in the middle of nowhere, my iPad (without cellular or gps) knows its precise location. No google van or wifi mapping car could have come within a mile of the wifi access point which is only on sporadically.

I presume my brother's iPhone 3gs correlated the wifi access point and his coordinates for someone when we opened the cabin this spring. This may be an "after the fact" license update.
My constant pruning of spammers leaves me with rather depressing follower stats: http://i.imgur.com/r3tRN.png

The same goes for who I follow. I only follow 57 people as of writing, but 99% of them are people I'm truly interested in. I try to never follow more than one or two new people per week, that way I can easily see if they're worth following, or just people I'll end up skipping past.

http://twitter.com/ashleyw
> Wouldn't life be better with a few simple business laws that everyone can understand and follow?

Life would be better with a few simple laws that everyone could understand and follow.

On the one hand, some laws are complex because they deal with a complex reality. You want free speech, but you don't want libel, but you do want robust debate over potentially libelous issues, and you don't want copyright infringement, but you do want fair use . . .

On the other hand, some laws are complex because the people writing them don't pay any penalty for their complexity. Nobody expects to understand laws, so nobody complains when they can't.

And on the third hand, complexity isn't always that hard to boil down for people. I often encounter code with about 60 lines of legalese in the header. Blah blah proprietary software blah blah authorized personnel blah blah etc. One of my favorite encounters was with a piece of code that replaced that header with something reading, roughly, "Hey you! This code belongs to XXX Company. If you need to use it, you need their permission or you need to destroy it. . . blah blah blah . . . . Make sure anybody you show it to knows this stuff."

I thought, awesome. Why don't my EULAs have a paragraph like that?

Rule of law was a good idea. It's still a good idea. But next revolution, we need to implement a scheme incentivizing the creation of clear, simple, just laws. Might not always be possible to get all three, but I've got to believe we can get closer.
This strikes me as a sketchy use of "opt-out": why would anyone actually want this? They're clearly hoping that most people either don't find out, or are too lazy to bother.
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i think it's because many people think apple actually has some sense of concern for its users privacy and security, unlike some of those other companies.
I like most of the changes, and I am definitely going to try it out (I'm using Inconsolata and must say I love it quite dearly). There's one thing I can say I don't like about Mensch, however, and that is the lowercase "q". It is very close to an "a" or "alpha". Reading "query" in the rendered example feels wrong.
it's not in your profile you have to put it in the about section if you want other members to see it.
The post gives you a hint as to why: it can make you a more powerful programmer by giving you access to more powerful tools in certain specific contexts.
And that might be fine if you see an l and a 1 next to each other and you want to know which is which. In the real world where you see one or the other and want to know which it is, this is really unhelpful.
A slight tangent, but I recently ran across a fascinating theory on the origin of base-12 systems. If you use your thumb as a marker, you can touch four finger joints on each hand for a total of 12 positions. I tried it and it's a surprisingly natural way of keeping count. Here's the source paper:

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Babyl...
In very sad news they've removed the Shoutcast integration inside of VLC. This was one of the great 'hidden' features of VLC-you could view essentially any type of video or audio through a very slick integrated menu.
Darn AOL for strong arming them into removing the feature.
Experiment Track Thyself: Make an experiment tracking database.
How about a 4chan style message board in the sense that posts expire very rapidly, but also in that only single topics are allowed for certain time intervals. For example the site could start off with a 24 hour cycle in that dialog can take place on a certain topic (such as BP oil spill) based on the first message that has come in that day. It'll need some means of aggressively pruning out (marking as spam) messages that are deemed off topic, but this can be a voluntary (karma based) or a machine learning approach that could also be tweaked or plugged in beyond the 4 week development period. The initial version would just keep topics on lock down for an additional 24 hour period, before permanent deletion. So basically there is one active topic, and one previous topic for review.
Yeah, until now.
Kmail (the KDE client) is pretty sane. Worth a shot.
"If I have a USA stamp in my passport, I will get one crore dowry.”

Needless to say, the guy was not offered a job.

I'm lost at this point in the article. Why wasn't he offered the job, and what is a crore dowry?
I worked with an Indian guy for a few years. He said that in India it is extremely unusual for a person to not follow an extremely rigid career track. It's the legacy of the cast system pigeonholing people into various professions. In the caste system, your identity very narrowly dictates your job. In the west, job and identity are far more distinct.
"You left your Laptop and your Camera in in a car? Really? Unattended? And it got stolen? Sucks to be you, I hope you had insurance!"

That's about what I would expect a police officer to say. At least, that's what they say here in San Francisco. Then you file a report, and make an insurance claim. Do you have a friend at the ISP they use who could sort through some logs for you so that you could go and retrieve it yourself? That's probably your best bet for getting your property back, and that's quite the long shot.
Oh, well, this is something entirely different than copyright, since copyright is not specifically for businesses at all. It certainly doesn't fall in the broadly understood definition of "trickle-down economics."

What you're doing would be kind of like if I called the policy you're endorsing "socialism" and pointed out that that rarely works and is widely discredited among economists and everybody else. Makes for good reading I guess, but it wouldn't be very honest.

The widely accepted view on copyright is that it's needed to protect creators' ability to profit from their work and encourage the production of more such work. That's why it's written into the legal codes and sometimes constitutions of almost every major political entity in the world. Most economists similarly embrace its efficacy -- with caveats, in many cases, but the overall consensus is for. Misnaming it "trickle-down economics" changes that not a whit.
php MCs worldwide yo.
"The police won't do anything. We had a laptop theft where someone just walked into our building and started picking up laptops. He basically said "hey I'm from IT and we are upgrading, I'm picking up old laptops and then you'll get a new one in a couple hours." He walked out with 14 laptops."

The guy who stole these 14 laptops should get arrested, go to prison, then come out and become a best selling author on the topic of Social Engineering (which means he'll sell 1,000 copies, but still, a good use of his craft).

That being said, did it really represent a gross loss of $30k? A $2k laptop is worth $1,200 the moment you open the box. Were they old laptops? Mostly depreciated? $10k in an ATM is always worth $10k.
Er, that's not a complete misunderstanding of recursion. Recursion is recursion regardless of implementation-- he misunderstood one way of implementing recursion.
“As an analytical framework, economics can come unstuck when dealing with the net. Because while economics is the study of the allocation of scarce resources, the online world is distinguished by abundance. Similarly, ecology (the study of natural systems) specialises in abundance, and it can be useful to look at what’s happening in the media through the eyes of an ecologist.”
A crore is 10 million (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crore)
So is excess protein, which can stress the kidneys. The right balance, for the right lifestyle.
WWII British plans to build an aircraft carrier from ice
I used to be a manufacturing engineer, and from the perspective of a potential buyer I always thought it was a massively saturated market.
But what if the (community of) hackers can actually modify the system during runtime, using same techniques as voting stories up/down to write the code?
Hey great question which is coming up with some interesting answers.

I too do a bit of beekeeping but mountain biking is my main passion.

@RiderOfGiraffes nails it when he says you need to get into that zenish state. It happens when what you are doing requires total commitment and concentration. Riding a log 1m off the ground or going into a big jump does that for me. And afterwards I always feel refreshed and ready to get back into it (usually with a raft of solutions that wouldn't have come to me otherwise).

It doesn't need adrenalin though. I can't get into running because it gives me too much time to think, but try orienteering, which gives you something to think about.

And if you're trying to get into the zone of not thinking doing whatever it is your doing and you're on your own I always find an ipod on reasonably loud volume helps silence the other noises in your mind.
Personally I have five VPS servers (all hostname'd / subdomain'd after US presidents):

- 1x UK VPS for websites (hst. / truman)

- 1x US VPS for websites / backups (jfk. / kennedy)

- 1x UK VPS for apps/services e.g. VPN (usg. / grant)

- 1x UK VPS for testing/dev (fdr. / roosevelt)

- 1x US VPS for.. nothing, really (gwb. / bush)

Not 100% sure why I still have gwb... hence it's name, I guess.

Not the most efficient use of servers, but only $100-200 (cant remember) a month, and it's nice to have that level of flexibility.
VLC was my preferred player in Windows, and still remains my default in OS X. There is nary a format which the orange pylon cannot handle. Thanks to the VLC and FFMPEG guys for all the hard work!
> Why wasn't he offered the job

Presumably because he now seemed to be interested in the company only for its US connection, and might leave once he had his passport stamp.

> what is a crore* dowry?*

A lot of money:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crore
Most people don't become millionaires through inheritance, extreme income, and so forth; they become millionaires because they save more than they spend, usually by a substantial amount, invest widely, buy a house and keep it, and marry and don't get divorced. Stanley and Danko's book The Millionaire Next Door describes this phenomenon: http://www.amazon.com/Millionaire-Next-Door-Thomas-Stanley/d... and what wealth in America actually looks like.
This is the first time I hear about Cocotron - and it seems to have quite a lot of activity based on the part of the changelog that I just looked at. I wish there was a bit more information on the Wiki pages (there is none at this point).

More info would certainly facilitate developer adoption to what seems like (at the very least) a pretty interesting project. Kudos to the developers - looking forward to hearing more about it.
The studies that have been done on protein stressing kidney's were on bunnies, animals not meant to eat much protein in the first place. Send me any other studies, though.
It's my impression that the feature was dropped b/c it didn't solve the underlying problem with gem versioning/distribution.

Github got behind gemcutter early and urged everyone to make the switch. In the rare case when you want to install a gem version of an obscure fork, you can just install it as a submodule instead.
I'm suggesting that the reason they dumped me was that they felt the companionship love but not limerance. I guess I'm simply complaining that they need to feel limerance for it to be successful in their minds.
I was responding directly to your attempts to diffuse big brother concerns by implying judicial review would occur.

The requirement of judicial oversight does not preclude big brother attempts at censorship. Particularly when the courts feel they are deciding issues of national security. Your citation of the Bush administration does nothing but affirm this point.

Taking your argument about critical infrastructure at face value (which is still a big leap, as you've yet to define any concrete scenarios other than a power outage), there are better ways of achieving the same end goal without denying american citizens their natural and constitutionally affirmed rights.
New Xbox 360 protects itself from overheating
That's a slow way of becoming a millionaire. People want to become millionaire the fast way.

It's still hard work though. However, you can probably combine the advice in that book and speed up the process of becoming a millionaire.

Once you get to that, I think you can live off a 3 percent interest. That's 30,000 dollars. I am pretty sure you can manage that if you live like a college student.
Even though its called weight loss, most people I know want to lose fat, not lose weight. If you skip exercise altogether you'll go from being large fat, to average fat, and finally to skinny fat.
sometime, when I read a comments in hackernews, I know that I don't know so many things :)
I understand Cocotron can't borrow code from GNUStep, but can't GNUStep borrow code from Cocotron?
Here's one idea: Take Open Text Summarizer (http://libots.sourceforge.net/) and turn it into a web application which takes in an URL and returns the same document summarized.
Sure, but the link could go to a dynamically generated page; for the truly rare (or nonexistent) errors the response will be sparse, but for the cases that arose semi-frequently after the app was released into the wild, the website could have up-to-date fix info.
No more fakakta zeroes.

You sir, are a mensch.
Of course, some people will complain about the efficiency costs of a more fragmented banking system, and these costs are real.

How bad can it be with the types of technologies available today?
And the one week where you're $10000 short of making payroll, I'm sure everyone will appreciate having the nicer chairs. I can't believe so many people are saying this is a good idea! Yeah they're nice, but I'd wager that most of the companies HN readers will be starting/working for can't afford it.
I seriously have always suspected this. If you're going to use a value to represent the perfection of a circle, why not take the derivatives of its properties (area, then perimeter, and once more) until you get a constant? 2pi is that constant.
Wondering what the technical problems with the ATI drivers were.
It could, but the two codebases are completely unrelated, so it might not always be useful.
We have not yet converted the API that is used on HN over to the new viewer. This should be done fairly soon.
If you use the tip of each finger as well, you can count in hex to 0xff with two hands ;)
I can't really tell from the phc page, but HipHop at least doesn't "speed up PHP code". It converts the code from PHP to C++. That isn't speeding up PHP, that's unraveling the PHP and respinning it as C++.
Srsly, you should be able to pull it all off for well under $750 including fees, registered agent, etc.
How Pixar Cheated Death (reposted from June 1, 2006)