skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually prefer readable code, but I accept that others appreciate small size as well.
I did too, initially, but I immediately realized that didn't make sense, because it's about the US government.
Seconded. I flunked out of lots of classes where I was the one who learned the most. My attitude was pretty undisciplined, but it was also intense. I drove my professors to despair by failing the introductory courses and getting A+ on honours courses.

I'm not saying that makes me amazing or anything, but it's quite possible to fail university out of sheer love of knowledge; in fact far more likely than doing so out of ignorance. Someone who is determined to stay ignorant is going to do very well in university, since their attitude will be realistic; they'll quickly figure out the shortest route to getting a good mark. Actually learning is not the shortest route.

Also, professors have to realize that at least 4 times out of 5 you are just taking the course because of the bizarre credit requirement system, which is in part designed just to funnel students to every bloody department, whether people are interested in it or not.
I don't think everyone is necessarily happy with JavaScript, but it is the de-facto standard, and there is no realistic alternative.

Sure, we could add a new language, but with various competing implementations we will probably get at least the same amount of interoperability problems as we have had with JavaScript.

And because of backwards compatibility browsers will still have to support JavaScript indefinitely in addition to the new language.
I think the difference between making a friend and making an acquaintance is sharing stories. Emphasis added in italics below

> At the Jefferson Boulevard entrance to the campus, the guard at the gatehouse broke into a smile upon hearing Haden’s name. The guard, Eric Johnson, stepped out from his kiosk and explained that in his early 20s, he worked for a messenger service. One day he completed a downtown delivery to Haden, who stopped to converse with him for a few minutes.

With the exception of his time at Oxford, Haden has spent his entire adult life as the guy everybody knows as soon as he walks into the room. His friends say Haden’s gift is that he leaves knowing everybody else’s stories.

"He has such compassion and humility," said J. K. McKay, who caught Haden’s passes at Bishop Amat High in La Puente, Calif., east of Los Angeles, and at U.S.C., where they were coached by McKay’s father, John.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/23/sports/23haden.html?_r=1&#...
What are you talking about? How do you "remove XSS" — it is not some feature of HTML what you can just "remove".
And no, security was not ignored.
I really enjoy Haml: http://haml-lang.com and its partner in crime, Sass: http://sass-lang.com

Don't be fooled! They just happen to be written in Ruby, you can use them from within Python projects just fine, though it'll take some setup.
Tragically ironic.
If I'm understanding your use of the word "anti-competitive" correctly, then any government, simply by virtue of being a government, is "anti-competitive". So what would constitute "healing"? Total anarchy? Welcome to Somalia.
"Behold! I have brought to you Socrates' man!"
20 years ago a game's aim was to prevent you from advancing to the next level. It was frustrating sometimes, but the reward was bigger (= telling your friends you reached a certain level). Now most games do everything to help you proceed. Meh. Boring. I'd rather have a challenge.

I remember when I beat the track record on the (totally unforgiving) F355-racing arcade machine once.. People were actually applauding.
Less is more, more or less - finding the minimum features is hard
This is a great discussion of challenge by perfection (few saves/retries), as I pointed out here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1725036

Some people like that. It might not be a suitable challenge for casual gamers with little time on their hands, although that can be greatly mitigated by allowing save-quit.

I first saw someone use the save-quit approach on the Gameboy Advanced for Dragon Warrior: you quit the game, saving your progress, and when you come in again, it restores you perfectly and deletes your save.

I am not sure how something like that would work for a game like Galaga. It might be too disruptive.
I think we can argue this point until we're both blue in the face, but without data or input from someone who actually knows this market we won't really get anywhere; for example I find the example of people googling for places to go out while they're in another place highly hypothetical. As I see it (this is not a personal attack, although I see how it can easily be construed as one - I mean this as a 'meta-cognitive inference of the origins of your position in light of your previous statements and general demographic of this site', so feel free to correct me if you feel I'm mis-characterizing you), you are looking at this from a technology-warped lens, placing too much emphasis on an aspect close to you (i.e., websites). Again I don't have data, but I'm quite convinced that the amount of people who are out on a friday night and google'ing for a place to go is very, very small; so small as to put the accessibility and SEO-iness of the event's website pretty much at the bottom of priorities for a promotor / club owner.

Then again I've just been reading the 'intellectual hipsters' article also on the front page (http://lesswrong.com/lw/2pv/intellectual_hipsters_and_metaco...) so maybe I'm just an idiot trying to argue a contrarian position from made-up assumptions on smartphone use amongst the club-going demographic :)
Sure, we like to talk about ideas, but some ideas are more enjoyable to talk about than others.

I would absolutely disagree that intelligent people “realize social standing is often an illusion and not overly worth worrying about”. Humans are social animals, even if some of us recognize the existence of important things other than social standing.
You ignore the fact that the purpose of DRM is to minimize piracy, not prevent it completely.

if it introduced even a slight inconvenience in pirating the games it would probably already shave off a nice amount of pirating.

PS: Puppy Games is just one guy trying to make a living from his games, it's not really much of a "company".
It might be worth pointing out that the person who died is not the inventor of the Segway, that would be Dean Kamen.

I'm not saying that anyone claimed it was, but just pointing it out to avoid confusion.
Caffeine is a complex substance, its interaction with your body is going to have a personal element.

Some of its properties: it is a diuretic, a vitamin C inhibitor, it increases your blood pressure.

Anadin Extra is merely Anadin with added caffeine.

So you should treat it with appropriate measures. Just saying it affects sleep from its stimulation effects is not the whole story.

Your body has a daily cycle. I would contend that staying up after midnight creates more imbalance than not. "Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise" is not as glib a suggestion as it sounds.

I know from direct experience as my doctor told me "go to bed before midnight and throw away your alarm clock" and I've thanked him for it ever since.

Back to the coffee : I've experiemented with it on myself. My results are "no more than 1 litre fresh ground a day (about 30g of beans I think), all before 14:00hrs".

And if you want to lose weight, drink it right after meals.
In his book, "What Got You Here Won't Get You There", Marshall Goldsmith says that everyone has the capacity to be like Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton is a legendary communicator who makes anyone feel like they are the most important person in the room[1]. When are we like Bill Clinton? When we want to make our best possible impression - first date, job interview. The difference is Bill Clinton does this all day long, with everyone. Extraordinary energy.

[1] But on Tuesday, Obama could not praise his one-time rival too warmly, jokingly
recounting how Clinton's famous schmoozing skills had persuaded him to attend.

"I think everyone knows what it's like when Bill Clinton asks you to make a commitment," Obama said.

"He looks you in the eye, he feels your pain, he makes you feel like you're the only person in the room. What could I say? I was vulnerable, just like all of you have been vulnerable, to his charms."

http://www.soundanalarm.net/BillClintonWorldSaviour2009.html
Sounds intentional to me. If you were on a runaway scooter about to go off the cliff, you could just jump off the scooter back onto the ground. Sure, you'd eat some dust, but you wouldn't die in a river.

It seems like it'd be pretty hard _not_ to do this even if you were trying not to do it. Something is definitely fishy here.
I've used Sammy for the routing functionality of a new touchscreen kiosk which is about to roll out in a couple of museums in London. Really impressed with it and can't wait to use it for other applications.
Without the release of Photoshop and the other pieces of the tool chain, it was destine to fail. Why they would ever think it would succeed without the rest of the tool chain is beyond me. If they fooled themselves with the fact that developers could use a virtual for photoshop etc. Then it makes no sense to purchase a separate licence for linux, I would just buy the licence for the windows virtual.

It amazes we that whoever is in charge of this decision does not have the capacity to understand that. I would question their competency in their role. If they have no intent of releasing a full Linux tool chain then it make sense to kill it off as it will never gain traction without the other tools that developers of flash applications use.

I am just floored that they would have ever though it would succeed without the other tools and then to blame the economics of Linux as the reason for failure shows a firm denial of the understanding of reality. If I used as PC platform, I would run Linux, I prefer Unix operating systems because I cut my teeth on them so I always feel comfortable on them the thing that would stop me from using it would be the absence of the Adobe suite. One of the major reasons I run OSX is due to the fact that it is the only Unix OS that runs the Adobe suite.
Reading this reminded me of "I, Robot", although as unwind correctly noted, Mr. Heselden did not invent the Segway.

Terrible thing to happen, rest in peace.
I assume it’s a process of “the people I hang out with, who are in my economic class, are all driving BMWs and Lexuses, and I feel silly parking my Subaru next to their cars”.
The only real point he makes is that taxing the rich too much will drive them abroad. As far as i know there is no proof for this.

Proof that this occurs: http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2006/08/20/100/

Another far more dangerous effect is that the rich might produce less. If they produce goods abroad, the only deadweight loss is the cost of shipping. For every good/service not produced, we lose the entire consumer surplus. One famous (albeit historical) example of this is that actor Ronald Reagan only made one movie a year - due to high taxes, making two movies/year earned him virtually no additional income.

The only remaining question is the degree to which these effects occur.
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I remember this phenomenon from high school English class. The teacher would ask an obvious question, and inevitably someone would reflexively provide the non-obvious wrong answer.

I assumed the thought process was this: a teacher hardly ever asks questions with obvious answers, and I rarely understand what's going on, so when I give an answer I'm going to say the opposite of the obvious answer because that will probably be right.

It's similar to how under-educated people will use reflexive pronouns and words they don't understand in order to sound educated or important.

I know there is a better name for this than "meta-contrarian." Unfortunately my education is failing myself here. :-)
The more difficult question is how to install node as an unprivileged user? Here's how

wget http://nodejs.org/dist/node-v0.2.2.tar.gz && tar xzf node-v0.2.2.tar.gz && cd node-v0.2.2 && export PREFIX=~/opt && ./configure && make && make install && echo 'export PATH=~/opt/bin:${PATH}' >> ~/.bashrc;

Otherwise any npm package will be able to rm -r you.
Report: US would make Internet wiretaps easier
This feature is already here: Appcelerator's Titanium

It supports Python, Ruby, PHP and you can do things like <script type="text/python"> or <script type="text/ruby" src="myfile.rb"/>. They have made an underlying object system that can act as a bridge between Javascript and Python/Ruby/PHP, it's called Kroll.

Kroll's source code has been released: http://github.com/appcelerator/kroll

Obviously, there are bound to be multiple gotchas when using such a bridge between languages, nevertheless I thought it was pretty impressive the first time I saw it.

http://developer.appcelerator.com/doc/desktop/python

Scroll to the bottom of the page for an example of using jQuery via Python.
Seem here, except I was a kid watching it in the 90s.
I think this fact might better go unsaid.
He does.

Some of them are hackers, but it seems a lot of them he meets through his other hobbies: wargaming, shooting, swordfighting, etc.

ESR is programming's William Shatner. His various doings get this big inflated ego ascribed to him, but in real life he's just this guy, you know?
Do you mean as in "Ask any five year old child, and ey can tell you that death is bad." ? I've only ever seen it in this post and I figured it were a couple of typos, or a CMS eating 'th' for some reason.
We cannot know for sure. One commenter over on the article site brings up the point of a heart attack while driving.
Would (just like in any other vehicle, granted) cause a loss of control and might explain a great deal.
But again - we cannot know and shouldn't judge without more details, imo.
Mike,

You're totally right. I should have been more explicit in my example. Once in a while, if I have enough admin work to do, I might write a task that says, "administrative tasks," so when I do hit inbox zero and complete all of those little tasks (that do add up to more than an hour), I can keep track of accomplishing it.

I don't think there's any conflict between our two approaches at all. I believe our system is:

- Product based: all tasks that go on the board directly relate to our product
- We're ok with resetting on tasks as well. It's just that if it takes more than two days, we obviously got the task wrong, and it is either too big or there's a bottleneck. There's no punishment for not completing a task.

I used to dislike the idea of to-do lists because I wasn't good at following up with them. This idea adds a social element, which has helped me a lot in getting better at organizing my day.

Would you be open to trying this with your team for one day? It's a very low-overhead technique, and you never know - you might just end up enjoying it. And even if you don't get much out of it, maybe someone on your team will.

Can you see some value in that?
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This is a comment pointing out that the idea is probably copied shamelessly from http://faultline.org/index.php/site/item/incendiary/ which in turn copies equally shamelessly and equally without attribution from David Moser's wonderful short story found here http://consc.net/misc/moser.html .
So if it isn't outsourcing then presumably it's because we are educating too many people with CS degrees? That should be easy to fix....
In some situations is better (more safe) to be an introvert. In certain job contexts, with a lot of competition and gossip going around, is better to tell the other people the least amount of information about any weak point that you have. Well, they are friends or enemies?

I don't know if I am an introvert people, I think I should talk loudly and speak a lot in the right context, but I think there are my sharps in this swimming pool trying to get some bite.

I think I would enjoy a lot at a party with hundreds or thousand of introvert people, they are a lot more preferable to those that never listen, never stop talking, never thing before speaking and are motivated to propagate any new gossip aimed to laugh down someone.

Perhaps there are not introvert people, only people not in the right context and that are used to take it slowly when making new connections.
Review my site: NagReminders (inspired by AwesomenessReminders)
I was very impressed by the AwesomenessReminders concept. After seeing a tweet from Susan Orlean (http://twitter.com/susanorlean/status/24414323004), I mentioned to Zack how cool it would be to have something called NagReminders where a real person calls you and politely nags you or reminds you of your set target or goal (http://twitter.com/rahulcee/status/25037352841). After tweeting this out, I realized how much I loved the idea. So I decided to do it myself. I got the domain the same day and created the website (after spending a lot of time trying to get Paypal to work). So here it is. What do you guys think? Is it a valuable service?

http://www.nagreminders.com/
A sentence I extracted from a particularly idiomatic piece of portuguese:

> O primeiro, presença ofuscante na consciência social, tem nome definido e inscrição temporal supostamente clara: a crise financeira global.

If you translate it idiomatically to English you have

> The first of them is the global financial crisis.

But if you translate if literally you have

> The first, a blinding presence in the social consciousness, has a definite name and a supposedly clear temporal inscription: the global financial crysis.

You will not believe me, but in portuguese all this extra unnecessary rhetoric reads a lot better than the equivalent in english. Also, there is a tendency in portuguese to write using as erudite a word as you can think of, which in English mostly sounds pathetic. I'm looking for better examples right now.
There's a plugin for Xfce4 called Notes that I use. It's hands-down the best such program I've used, so much so that it's a real barrier to switching away from Xfce.

In the past, I've used text files on the desktop and e-mail drafts. This program (text only, no formatting/embeds/hyperlinks, does have named notes) sits on my top menu bar, and in one click opens up to fill half my screen. If I've used it today, it'll open up where I was last. Another click and it's gone, automatically saved.

I don't know exactly how much I get out of it, but I definitely recommend some form of note-taking for everyone browsing the Internet.
Why? Because despite surface appearances, the BCS is a lobbying group for employers. They want talent to be a commodity. That means "cheap" and "interchangeable". And it doesn't matter if engineer A isn't any good from that point of view; what matters is that engineer B is a 1-for-1 replacement.

I saw this as well when I was doing Mech Eng at college: time and time again, we were told, by the IMechE, our supposed professional body, that there was a huge shortage of mechanical (and other) engineers. I gather from physicists and chemists that they are told, there is a huge shortage of scientists. But any fule kno, the laws of supply and demand apply. I still get contacted by recruiters in engineering, offering me in some cases less than half of my present salary to go back...
title should read something like "why the open source libraries written for node.js disappoint me"

fyi, check out a new realtime framework for node: http://github.com/LearnBoost/nodestream
Not every dev team hacks like Spiderman
OK, but it's not going to minimize piracy at all. Big-name games get pirated more and more and their attempts to "minimize piracy" are much more intrusive.

If those don't deter people, a little flash of a name isn't going to deter people. The people who consume pirate media are just going to wait for it to pop on the torrent, just like anything, and crackers will have it out in a jiffy (assuming there's an audience that wants it...) specifically because there's nothing to crack. You just register the game as "1337 h4x0rs group", or better yet, go into a hex editor and replace the name of the person to whom the game is really registered.

If people aren't deterred from cracking out SafeROM etc., they are not going to be deterred from cracking out a little name flash. They aren't even going to bother with it, probably, and will just put the game out there. So what's the point? I don't get it at all. Who is deterred by this?
You can easily injure yourself on one. You might find some Youtube videos that show it in painful details, I've watched some people go down live.
Usually this only happens if you do something risky or dumb (one example is if one of the wheels gets temporary stuck/runs free from my experience). In that case no - you won't just jump off. I'd more describe it as being thrown off..

The original article (as I mentioned in the dupe thread of this news already) has a comment that suggests that a medical emergency (heart attack, for example) might have lead to the whole accident. Sounds reasonable at first.
How wrong can you be?
32. Still no signs I'll ever change weight... Maybe when I get to 50 :)
You might be thinking of hypercorrection, which does seem to intersect at points with meta-contrarianism.
I stand corrected :-)

But the point still stands - a chaplain in uniform on the battlefield wouldn't be tried and executed at a drumhead.
Yeah, all I could think was "physician, heal thyself."
No, they don't. People driving them kill people.
Interesting, but the article actually says hardly anything about sleep, and "generalists" here means "organisms with the ability to change in response to their environment". There's not the slightest suggestion that human beings who are more "generalist" need more sleep than ones who are "specialist" in any normal sense.

Incidentally, sloths and armadillos sleep for about 20 hours a day. Are they generalists?
You're right of course, that's a possibility. I don't mean to be passing absolute judgment on the matter. Just saying there's got to be something more than "I accidentally drove off a cliff, sry", as the article seems to imply. I don't really understand why I'm losing karma at such a clip for it. :(
Impressive bio:

Mr Heselden grew up in the Halton Moor area of Leeds, leaving school at 15 and working down local pits.

He worked as a miner before losing his job in a wave of redundancies in the 1980s.

His engineering business went from strength-to-strength and he had a fortune reported to be £166m, making him one of the top 400 richest people on the UK.
While specialists count sheep to get sleep generalist try to build a framework for selling those sheep, so they have a lot more work to do while sleeping.
I meant because it is a CFD I am getting 25 / 1 exposure. IG markets interest is very low also though
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Actually I don't understand why anyone buys a Ke$ha album at any price...
If the owner of the Porche company drove his Porche off a cliff then yes, I imagine the same sort of thing would happen.
The models I've driven have a speed limit (either in "beginner" or "expert" mode, 9kph/~20kph respectively, iirc). If you hit that, the segway is actively working against the inclination of the handle. Basically you can try to push with force and lean with your whole weight against the handle, it just won't move away. On the contrary: Fighting it to hard leads more to you standing upright again or getting a small inclination to the back, _although you try to do the opposite_.

I have a disclaimer of my own though: I've ridden them on ~flat terrain and only fought these safety mechanism there, trying to go faster. I'd expect them to work just the same going downhill though.