skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love this quote:

"Even if Thesis hadn’t copy and pasted large swathes of code from WordPress (and GPL plugins) its PHP would still need to be under the GPL, Mullenweg wrote on his blog. He also began encouraging Thesis users to abandon the theme and seek GPL alternatives."

Thesis was caught red-handed with GPL code. However, it still bothers me that the guys over at Wordpress would have still considered it a "derivative work" if it only had function calls to WP. Even before they found the code, Mullenweg was saying it was under the GPL, which is wrong.
Jeff Jarvis: Why Does Everyone Take Cheap Shots at Facebook?
The problem is that even if you are on the schedule, everyone else is not. It just doesn't seem practical to me to take mini-naps every 20 minutes.
VCs Are Living On Borrowed Time
Not really. The resource investment should be the same in both instances, in fact the rich would have an even easier time raising a kid to maturity which is when a child becomes a resource to their parents so I still don't buy it.
This is Boomerang, Welcome.
You can do anything at Boomerang.
Anything at all
Why people think computers can't
On slide 13, Mark (or is it Mark Peter) starts off with 'location'.

Can you provide some insight into why this is important?
Does SF, matter vs Salt Lake or Vancouver?
Does Tahoe matter vs. SF (I ask that being from Whistler, BC, but understand that many VCs won't invest outside their home country).
You can't "shut down" a discussion on ongoing behavior(in this case, people using Java as their primary language technology) that easily.
You would be surprised. People who grew up under Soviet education are a lot more cultured and worldly than Americans. Hint: if your worldview is a cartoon, it's probably inadequate to reality.
Turns out sleeping pills cause more problems for me then the benefits they present.
I'm going to go research the perception of time and figure out how to control it so I feel like I have more time. Thanks for your input, I'm looking forward to when I can live off free lancing on my own time.
That's weird because their newest API features allowed you to do just this, I think. It's called their Adaptive Payments API and the category of payments that would be applicable to your girlfriend's business is called Chained Payments.

More info here: https://cms.paypal.com/es/cgi-bin/?&cmd=_render-content&...

BTW, I'm in Toronto too and use PayPal for my startup, so if you have any other Q's, email me. My info is in my profile.
'indexes operations research topics both algorithms and problems.'

I have no idea what that means. Is it a highly technical and niche market?

If you can make it simpler to understand what problem you are solving, you may get better feedback.

Is it an 'index of research topics which aggregates information surrounding those topics'? That's the most i can figure out from what you've said.
I'm not sure why you got downvoted. It's a perfectly sane opinion.
The obvious weakness here is that there are no code examples. Code monkeys want to see code. If you are going to try to pitch a new language, show of your stuff.
Have any tips and tricks to dealing with the bottleneck of our current time system?(Can you unthrottle my time?)

Lots of people are prisoners of conventional lifestyles. Walking away from a lot of that has changed my relationship to time, very much for the better.
In what ways is it more macro-friendly?
Read, then comment.
It's an interesting article for me because right now I'm trying to learn Chinese. I'm mostly interested in learning to speak the language, but I've discovered that it really helps to be able to read as well. Chinese has a very small palette of sounds, which means that there's a lot of ambiguity. The same sound and tone could be represented by many different characters and have many different meanings.

But there's no way I can do the traditional approach of writing out each character hundreds and hundreds of times. I don't have the time or temperament. So I'm hoping a combination of flashcards and watching TV (most Chinese programs seem to have Chinese script subtitles, I assume to serve the various dialects that share the writing system) will do the trick.

That's one issue the article didn't fully address: the importance of that muscle memory in learning and retaining the characters.
I don't see how that has any relation to HN, but wow. That was one of the most poignant, beautiful, moving expressions of a person's heart and soul that I've ever read.
Pilot Group backed this. Pilot Group also backed and sold off DailyCandy to Comcast for $125 mil. Disney shut down Ideal Bite shortly after the acquisition.

Was there ever really value in this company?

I will say yes, but getting that payday is tied more to who you know--Pilot--than what you do.
I don't necessarily think it's bad. It's evolution. It's much more efficient to have each character represent a sound (western way) than a word (Chinese/Japanese/etc way), anyway. The cultural loss is sad, sure, but in the end, it's survival of the fittest.
What's the easiest way to remap keys on a Mac, if I'm using Synergy to send the key events from my Linux/Windows PC?
The device, no bigger than a conventional laptop, … – by which they mean "about 1/4 the size of a conventional laptop"

… along with 2GB RAM – Almost certainly they mean 2GB of flash.

… powered by a 2-watt system to suit poor power supply areas. – Ok, that's it. You have overspun my ability to respond.

Except, in the picture, I think the man's eyes say "Take the picture already and let me stop touching this ghastly thing!"
Ask HN: Review my Weekend Project - Where to go to lunch
I put this site together to help my co-workers and I decide where to go to lunch. We were in a rut going to the same places all the time and there were many difficult conversations about where we should go (“I don’t care, you pick”, “I don’t really have a taste for anything, you decide”, …).

I have ideas about how to make the site more useful (let users customize the list of potential restaurants before the random selection is performed, let users save customized lists for use again another day, etc.), but I am not sure if this site is something anyone would find helpful.

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Currently, the site only provides reliable results for two US states. If you would like to see some sample results and you do not live in a covered area you may want to try the zip code for Beverly Hills, CA.
And then if you read a little more you'd see that this blogger hadn't structured it very well and seemingly contradicts one para with the following one:

A bachelor’s degree in journalism, media studies, mass communication, or some similarly named program along with at least a few years under the tutelage of editors is the best preparation for calling oneself a journalist.

Suggesting that one needs a BA along with years of tutelage.

In any case I'd like to retitle the piece "No true journalist". She sounds like a cabinet maker bemoaning the Ikea-isation of furniture.
The person who introduces the story is terrible.
You could also do a parallel payment, then you don't get in the middle of the transaction just divert part of it to yourself.

Another good thing about adaptive payments is that you can specify who pays the fees. You can split fees between everyone or make the sender or a particular receiver pay the entire fee.

API documentation and what not here: https://www.x.com/community/ppx/adaptive_payments

Oh, forgot, the bad news for adaptive payments is that everyone involved in the transaction must have a PayPal account; No credit card transactions.
Since 2001, has pinyin begun to appear in day-to-day writing? Cursory image searches puts it on street signs and a mention of National Common Language Law promulgating its use.

If someone forgets a hanzi, is a pinyin substitute acceptable?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_language#Other_phonetic...
Let's put it this way: most symbol based systems (Chinese and Japanese kanji) aren't very scalable because each symbol represents multiple objects/ideas. The only way these languages can grow to incorporate more and more modern ideas is to get deconstructed into characters that represent sounds (Japanese hiragana).

I for one think that it's a positive thing to move away from the symbolic characters - it'll make languages easier to learn and let more people communicate with each other.
It also seems to cut out quite abruptly, makes you wonder if there is more...but I don't really feel like searching it out.
Here's why (and I'm flammable):

Because it sucks. Seriously. I don't want another bloated framework like tiles, struts or even Spring MVC (and yes, I know it's the 'less bloated' framework).

You know what the best user interface is for Java apps? XML, JSON or Java. You know what the best framework is for a webapp? Me either, but it better fucking be html, css and javascript.

It's not rocket science. For fucks sake if I wanted a framework for my front end I'd use the native language.
I don't know about most apps. We have a free navigation app that's not even in the navigation top 100 right now, and it still gets 500 new user launches a day. Just recording that would put us over 10k events.
I don't think CSS and images were a sticking point. If my recollection holds, when Matt asked the Software Freedom Law Center for an opinion on Thesis, they said that the PHP would have to be GPL'd and the other elements wouldn't have to be.
"There is no reason to view the poor as stupid or in any way different from anyone else, says Daniel Nettle of the University of Newcastle in the UK. All of us are simply human beings, making the best of the hand life has dealt us. If we understand this, it won't just change the way we view the lives of the poorest in society, it will also show how misguided many current efforts to tackle society's problems are - and it will suggest better solutions."

I strongly disagree with this statement. This view means that humans are taking the passenger seat when they can in fact take control of their lives. If you live by the motto of "well this is what life gave me" you will never go anywhere.
This crazy idea comes around every few months:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1464142

I think it's self-evidently crazy. You don't have to be a genius to tinker with your sleep pattern. The fact that such a vast majority of the seven billion contemporary humans nonetheless has a normal sleep pattern (i.e. monophasic to moderately biphasic) is a pretty big signal that it's part of the basic design.

And that's without even pointing out that there is actual science on this topic. Here's Stanford's heroic effort to convince you to get some rest:

http://www.stanford.edu/~dement/

http://www.end-your-sleep-deprivation.com/

I need to read this stuff for inspiration. But not now, because I should really get to sleep.
This is probably even worse with Japanese, because if you can't remember the kanji, you just write the kana. Since pinyin isn't used the same way for Chinese and zhuyin is mainly used in Taiwan, mainlanders are still forced to somehow figure out the character (probably ask someone else) if they really want to write something.
You don't nap every 20 minutes, you nap for 20 minutes every 4 hours (resulting in a total of 2 hours of sleep per day).

But, even as someone who works for himself and thus has more control over his schedule, napping every 4 hours seems a bit impractical to me. That's why I've been looking at the everyman sleep schedule (http://everything2.com/title/Everyman+Sleep+Schedule), which entails 3 hours of sleep at night and then 3 20-minute naps during the day. Apparently the everyman schedule is much more forgiving if you move the naps forward or backward an hour so than the uberman schedule.
I didn't really like the article much either. I cannot pin-point exactly why but something about it bothers me. However, the main point of the article is that if you get exposed to different environments, people, that are out of your circle of comfort you will probably get inspired by some of them to come up with a new idea. Doing completely different things from your routine will feed your creativity. That, I believe, is not bullshit.
Is the music still being done by Daft Punk?
> Even before they found the code, Mullenweg was saying it was under the GPL, which is wrong.

Which you _believe_ is wrong.

Which Mullenweg and the FSF believe is right. Which is the reason the LGPL exists.

Just because you believe it to be the case that users of libraries are not derivatives of those libraries does not make it true. Nor does the belief of the FSF and others that it does make that true.
I dunno. My friends with iPhones in Taiwan preferred the handwriting recognition to phonetic IMEs. I think the article is a bit sensationalist.
tl;dr: SpeakerText is their startup, the SpeakerCave is their house or apartment, and no mention is made of it being cave-shaped or made of speakers (bummer).
In general, Paypal isn't geared to do a good job of supporting larger clients, which $500k/mo definitely qualifies as (in the Paypal world).

Their turning you down was doing you a huge favor. Better a little annoyance now than a lot of pain later when they decide you are violating their TOS midstream, and hold your funds for a few months.
This is awesome. But the colors seem to interact badly with the terminal backgrounds in Mac OSX. I also can't get any of the function shortcuts (F8 = pastebin) to work; I just get gibberish instead. Also I get a crash when I resize the window:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/bpython", line 8, in <module>
load_entry_point('bpython==0.9.7', 'console_scripts', 'bpython')()
File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/bpython-0.9.7-py2.5.egg/bpython/cli.py", line 1739, in main
banner=banner)
File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/bpython-0.9.7-py2.5.egg/bpython/cli.py", line 1636, in curses_wrapper
return func(stdscr, args, *kwargs)
File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/bpython-0.9.7-py2.5.egg/bpython/cli.py", line 1706, in main_curses
clirepl.repl()
File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/bpython-0.9.7-py2.5.egg/bpython/cli.py", line 996, in repl
inp = self.get_line()
File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/bpython-0.9.7-py2.5.egg/bpython/cli.py", line 589, in get_line
key = self.get_key()
File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/bpython-0.9.7-py2.5.egg/bpython/cli.py", line 567, in get_key
self.idle(self)
File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/bpython-0.9.7-py2.5.egg/bpython/cli.py", line 1579, in idle
do_resize(caller)
File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/bpython-0.9.7-py2.5.egg/bpython/cli.py", line 1591, in do_resize
curses.endwin()
_curses.error: endwin() returned ERR
the main complaint was about having to say the same thing multiple times, Generics does imply at least some additional syntax but the degree to which java or C++ requires it is excessive.
what are u trying to make ?
Busy Beaver grows grotesquely faster than that.

Think of it this way. Imagine your scenario, like you just laid out. Now write a program to actually find the number in question, including all input (in this case, some representation of the number you gave, which itself can be encoded as something less than the raw base 2 representation). Now, convert that program to the most efficient possible representation in the Turing Machine encoding in question, which for these sorts of problems are often surprisingly small.

Your problem fits into a small handful of states, a few tens tops, and relatively small "input" too (as encoded by the states in some manner). Therefore BB(a few tens) is at least that large. In fact, that's an unbelievable underestimation of BB(a few tens).

While we humans are thinking we're all clever stacking exponentials on exponentials, the Busy Beavers are off doing things we can't even conceive. Arrow notation and hyper arrow notation and every other such bit of notation are all very, very small functions, and therefore well covered by BB(very small); what concept or concepts does BB(50) exploit? Certainly nothing that would fit into English very comfortably.

I think this helps a human to grasp BB() at least a little; the cleverest, biggest numbers we've ever managed to express without the BB notation are usually in the form of functions quite easy to express with Turing Machines of not that many states. BB grows fast.
Log rotation isn't just about disk space (although why you'd want to waste Gigs of disk space on storing old log messages locally is beyond me), it's also about helpful to segment logs for easier and quicker searching and reporting, either manually or with scripts.

Not to mention it's pretty much automatic these days. It's not like it's something you've got to go out of your way to configure.
I was really hoping for a clear explanation of what treehouse is. What I got was info on how awesome and important photos are and the feeling that I need to install software and explore to get clarity on the app.
The egg is worthless, the chicken is priceless.

You need both. One is the beginnging of the road, the other is the end. Many things happen in between. Let's not see the world so black and white please.
I find it hilarious that three people thought to return the highest possible number by underflowing unsigned ints (that are being treated as arbitrarily large ints). It's a funny hack even if it doesn't teach you anything like Loader's does.
Muscle memory was entirely neglected and is, in many aspects, the most important "memory" for writing Chinese characters, esp. under time pressure. The way that characters can be reconstructed that are "forgotten" by your Chinese speaker is simply that they go back to their visually retained memory of what the character looks like and then render it piece by piece. I've seen this happen to a Chinese lawyer friend of mine who was Peking University grad -> Harvard JD (not a dumb cookie), but after time in an English speaking law firm tripped up when asked to write even simple phrases that I, a foreigner, could still write fairly easily.

As for your problems learning the language, there is no other way other than rot memorization, and if you don't have the time, you shouldn't even bother. Seriously. If you can make the time but don't have the temperament, go somewhere where they will beat it into you Chinese-style, because there really is no other way to memorize the thousands of characters necessary to be proficient in Chinese. If you become serious and are looking for recommendations ping me and I will give you some.
Thanks Petalpete. I appreciate your feedback. I'm curious, purely for feedback sake, how old are you? We're noticing interesting differences in feedback depending on age. We will continue gathering info and make the necessary changes.
A consumer website to help people find and talk about TV shows but I need the TV lineup/times to do it.
This is actually an active research area so a google scholar search can turn up interesting stuff from various security conferences. Here's a summary of what I've read and heard about:

If a chip has unecrypted personal data stored on it an attacker can easily gain access to it by stealing the device. If encryption is used throughout the chip then side channel attacks can usually break the encryption. This requires something like an oscilloscope, some resistors, and a soldering iron. The danger of this attack to a consumer depends upon what's stored on the RFID chip since the consumer will notice if someone has stolen their device and will have it disabled in short order.

To clone a tag that doesn't use encryption, for instance a tag that just sends an ID, you'd need a reader to query the tags and some device to copy the responses. This is probably the easiest attack but the reader, which needs to transmit a strong radio pulse and then listen for a response, either needs to be very large or in very close proximity and you could protect a card in your wallet by surrounding it in a metal mesh (which forms a faraday cage) so it's not clear how dangerous this could be in the wild.

If the communcation channel is encrypted then an attacker could listen to the query and response from a legitimate reader and RFID tag and could then replicate the legitimate response later. However, if there is any timestamp or counter involved this won't work.
I've never had an extension killed by an update and I run several, so I'm guessing it's that extension's fault.
Config management tools are awesome, if you've got enough servers to warrant the learning curve, the "chicken and egg" problem with getting the config management tool installed in the first place, AND if you can get your entire sysadmin team on board with consistently using the tool and only the tool for any changes.

If you've only got a few servers, or if you've got a very heterogeneous environment.. then they might not be worth it. If you've got a lot of servers, config management tools may save your life.

The tools do keep improving though, and Puppet and Chef are miles ahead of earlier tools and even every commercial tool I've yet seen. But this is still an area with a lot of opportunity for innovation.
While I notice a lot of people falling back into kana (especially for harder kanji) when writing by hand, it's usually rather embarrassing to have to write common words in kana when in front of other people. If you're making a presentation or doing sales, you definitely don't want to be writing in kana.

I'm in the same boat as patio, as I write notes by hand MAYBE once a week (now that patio quit the dayjob, I'm sure he writes a lot less often).

While my reading is still at a high level (Lv 2 of the Kanji-kentei) my writing is worse than an elementary school student (currently lv 8 in writing).

As an aside, in this post I misspelled about 3-4 words and would never have been able to correct them if I didn't have spellcheck... so this definitely isn't a problem limited to character-based languages.
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Surely not every day, but frequently enough, I read a submission and related comments on HN and say to myself, "Ahhh, this is why I continue to come to HN!".

This is definitely one of those.
I upvoted you for the link to the old thread, but why is it self-evidently crazy? Just because most humans do something by default doesn't mean it's an optimal solution. Many things that people do by default are a result of environmental training but are not necessarily optimal behavior (here in China people juggle walnuts between their fingers in an effort to ward of arthritis, but as far as I can tell that behavior is just as likely to encourage arthritis as protect against it).

I also attended Dr. Dement's Sleep and Dreams class while I was at Stanford. His class was basically a propaganda program for students to get more sleep: He even gave us extra credit for sleeping during class. The man is a true believer in getting tons of sleep and that does indeed say a lot towards discrediting people who vouch for polyphasic sleep schedules. I tend to trust what he says, even if he was rather old and eccentric.

On the other hand, what's going on with all of these people who write such glowing reviews of the process? Are they just delusional?
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Thanks for the link to the "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" book. I just bought a used copy for $7. I'm running out of good stuff to read, and I love getting good book recommendations from people. Hopefully it'll be a great read.
or an offshore proxy
Tornado Web Framework/Server hits 1.0
Xcode 4 public preview - Single window, LLVM 2.0, streamlined editing
I find it interesting that you say that each character represents a sound in western language, while not in Japanese or Chinese.

In Japanese こ can only be pronounced one way.

In Chinese (I believe) 子 can only be pronounced one way. It also has an associated meaning which is handy for learning new words.

In english, what sound does C make?
ex) Chair Care cycle

Why can I pronounce Ghoti as 'Fish'?

Read <-- How do you pronounce this? Is it Red or Reed?

I actually find the looseness of English spelling to be much more of a hardship than learning a number of different pronunciations.