skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reason IMO hypertext is not a popular medium for narrative is that it is difficult to write. Narrative often draws power from unfolding events at a particular pace and in a particular order. Hypertext makes it difficult for an author to establish a particular pace/order.

I find that the less linear a narrative is, the more homogenous the options/nodes available are. E.g. the options available outside the main storyline in a game like Fallout, or the structure of the novel 253 http://www.ryman-novel.com/info/home.htm. I say outside the main storyline with ref to Fallout because the main storyline is linear: since it's hard to spin a good story without linearity.
"rsync source host:destination" just works, no need for options :)
So all but one have to share a glass? Seems unpractical.
Testing in post-secondary is usually very idiosyncratic. At best they teach to a textbook and test that textbook evenly. More likely, a professor teaches their angle on a subset of the topic, and then grades based on that.

Because of that, if you understood the 3rd year Algorithms courseware from MIT, you would likely fail the midterm for 3rd year Algorithms at your local university.

Fixing this is very difficult, since it would mean you need standardized tests to measure post-secondary topics. Implementing that (and keeping it up to date) would be extremely difficult and contentious.
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Because a checkout allows to update afterwards, which means deployments are faster.
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One for HN:

Q: Why did the two vectors start an internet-based company?

A: Because they thought they had a good dot product.

One for a t-shirt (stolen off the Internet):

Math problems? Call 1-800-[(10x)(13i)^2]-[sin(xy)/2.362x].
Good news but I really hope Google figures out how to solve DeadlineExceededError. They are popping up from time to time for my app (http://www.knowcase.com) and I don't think it's datastore related.
The monospaced or proportional fonts aren't the issue; it's that HTML treats all sequences of whitespace within text as a single space. It's quite annoying to those of us who like our double-spaced sentences. When a word processor generates HTML, every double-spaced sentence ends with this:

[space]&nbsp;

Or even this:

[space]<span class="something-about-space">[space]</span>
Not if he invests in other stock that he could sell afterwards.
Not really a joke, but possibly good for a t-shirt:

"sec(C)"
just use whathtefont.com
In the fall of 2009, Mr. Apollinax discovered a method of simplifying mathematical expressions with profound, wide-ranging consequences. Mr. Apollinax has given it the name "indiscriminate cancellation". We see its power and reliability here:

16/64 = 1/4 ;Cancel the 6
19/95 = 1/5 ;Cancel the 9
26/65 = 2/5 ;Cancel the 6
49/98 = 4/8 ;Cancel the 9

Using his new tool, Mr. Apollinax quickly discovered and prove several surprising theorems, including the following:

sin x / n = six ;Cancel the n

But the most celebrated application of this method of Mr. Apollinax is his amazing discovery of a deep, unexpected connection between the theories of complex numbers and trigonometry and the preparation of Mexican cuisine:

sin / cos = tan ;definition of tangent
i / co = ta ;cancel n and s
i = taco ;multiply both sides by co

[Martin Gardner wrote a couple of April 1st columns about Mr. Apollinax. Worth checking out. Also, it's kind of a cool computer science problem to find number pairs like 16/64. I'll mention that if we generalize it to "abcd...x / bcd...xy = a/y", then there are seven nontrivial (where a,b,c,etc. aren't all the same digit) 3-digit pairs, including 484/847.]
Ask HN: Is anyone using Outlook 2011 and figured out how to quote text?
I understand from this review http://goo.gl/7IlM2 [nzmac.com] of Office 2011, that previous versions came with a "Paste as quotation" option, though this has now been deprecated. I don't use HTML but prefer plain text authoring, and there appears to be no way to quote text. Google is returning little information, other than a few people asking the same question.
fatass.
Can't repeat this enough: the main reason I develop on appengine is that it removes server admin headaches completely from the equation. Ok, you get other headaches in return, but most of the time it's stuff I can deal with.
As far as I can tell, the PS3 has no DVORAK option for usb keyboards. I am so mad at sony.
Here's one but it's in French.

"Qui se cache derrière le nombre 1.09861228866811... ?"
"Hélène de Troie. (ln 3)"
IBM employs more Attorneys than Engineers.
Got to love that apparenly iPhone, Android, and Blackberry are "all". Targetting the early adopters makes sense, but making your tagline a blatent lie doesn't.
Reminds me of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_linking
Ditto for Firefox 3.6.12.
I'm more familiar with the horse's ass diagnosis than the Asperger's one.

You use a word that I find very interesting: "outrage". I find it interesting that you don't seem to conceive of a middle ground between "clinical lack of emotion/empathy" and "emotion completely overwhelming everything else".

You're right that my emotional response (yes, there is one) is tempered by the relative social distance between me and the victim. This is, of course, normal - otherwise, we wouldn't even blink over a somewhat-thwarted sexual assault attempt, as we would be far too focused on the daily atrocities of the world that routinely dwarf it in magnitude.

Your phrasing was that, "perhaps... you think the victim wasn't really part of your community or worthy of defending". This is, indeed, a person I have barely heard of before now. She is a good bit further removed from my social circle than the metaphorical next-door neighbor you sprinkled throughout your comment.

My strong emotional reactions are the property of the more inner concentric circles of my social graph. Perhaps yours reach more outwardly in the graph, and that's fine. I would caution you, however, about doling out psychological diagnoses simply on the grounds that one's emotional reactions do not strictly coincide with The Neilk Standard.
Except that his conclusion is way off for the Marijuana part. There are lots of countries where Marijuana is legal and/or tolerated, so apparently the legal systems are a lot more flexible than the US, or Yegge's estimates for refactoring costs in the legal system are way off.
To view this page in Firefox I have to add an exception for the certificate. Firefox now displays a hint that this is a secure connection (http://imgur.com/d9kEd). It's up to me to remember that this specific site uses a self generated certificate and that I shouldn't place the same level of trust in this certificate as I do with others.

If this guy wants to use SSL he should do it properly.
It's not a version for browsers in general. It's an iPad web app.
Polish Developers Are Joining U.S. Startups – But Staying In Poland
Via Cron Jobs ? http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/config/cron.htm...
It does at least begin with the common misconception that it is in fact possible to compile a list of common misconceptions.
From the FAQ at http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

> How do I make a link in a question?

> You can't. (This is to prevent people from using
> this method as a way of submitting a link, but with
> their comments in a privileged position at the top of
> the page. If you want to submit a link with comments,
> just submit it, then add a regular comment.)
Amazing performance. If it had a button to manually trigger the waves instead of sending them off automatically (allowing me to rethink things more), my afternoon would be gone now.
what do you mean? People said they weren't communicating enough, so now they are writing blog posts like this regularly to keep us updated. Nothing wrong with that at all.

The only thing to be critical of is they are poor at giving time frames, but it's hard to be critical of that without having experience launching a hardware product.
Well u can, you have to contact them! See settings.
Q: What's purple and commutes? A: An Abelian grape.

Q: What's yellow and equivalent to the axiom of choice? A: Zorn's Lemon.

An engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician are riding on a train through the countryside. They look out the window and see a black cow. The engineer says, "Look, all the cows in this county are black!". The physicist sighs, and says "No, at least one cow in this county is black". The mathematician shakes his head sadly and says "There is at least one cow in this county that is black on at least one side".

Q: Why do Jewish mathematicians prefer complex analysis over many other fields of mathematics? A: because it is Cauchy'er.

I was never able to get this one to work out, but maybe someone smarter can do it. There was a line in a physics book I read once that said something like "electromagnetic fields can be described by anti-symmetric tensors of the second bank in four dimensions". I tried to set up a story involving Jewish industrialists who were elected to public office, and who owned farms, being attacked by a bunch of jew-hating males from a local choir, who also happened to work for the a small local bank, who had their farms surrounded and did coordinated attacks from North, South, East and West. The punch line was to be something "elected magnate's fields were defiled by anti-semitic tenors from the Second Bank in four directions". But I never could come up with a story that would end with that, and would bring to mind the corresponding physics so as to make that a groan-worth pun.
By accepting the certificate, you've indicated that you trust that the certificate is genuine. At that point, it's as good as any CA-signed certificate. The only difference is that you made a decision to trust the certificate, rather than trusting a CA to verify its authenticity.
That's the dogma, but is there a reason for it to actually be true? All we know for sure is that there isn't a clear winner yet.
I did not say that I fed it with any real information about me. About the only thing they got was my e-mail address, and they could have gotten that with a better webcrawler.
This is the kind of stuff that appears on a TV Show here in the UK that I love called QI, presented by Stephen Fry, who by the way, is a big geek like us.

Youtube is your friend if you're not familiar with it.
This is by far the most interesting thing I've seen on Hacker News in weeks.
There are 10 kinds of methematicians, those that count in ternary and those that don't.

(Not many people, even mathematicians and computer scientists, get that one. I think it's better than the usual crap binary non-joke, and wish I could remember where I heard it)
Explain this to me, because one of us is misunderstanding https. As I understand it, the danger of a self-signed certificate is that you don't know if it was issued by the site owner. You don't get the certificate authority's trust by proxy, but if the certificate is genuine, it's as secure as any level 3 ssl certificate. The only thing a CA certificate is guaranteed to get you is the ca's rubber stamp that they issued it.
To be honest, a devaluing currency is precisely what you want to invest in a country, as it makes exports from that country way cheaper.
How is "remember me" functionality implemented in famous websites?
I want to implement a login system of my website. I want to know how can I implement a "remember me" functionality. I've read about this on the web, but I want to know how this is implemented by the big guys like Google, Facebook or Amazon.
Oldie but goodie,
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1729268

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1465001

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=401511

... and more.
Sorry for the duplicate submission, but the Wikipedia page title changes all the time.
Look into the ProxyPass directive, but I don't think that'll work in htaccess.
The true solution, which won't work until everyone thinks of the Internet or Earth as their nationality, is to do away with borders altogether.
Git Server Protocol Specification
If there were four founders, did they not negotiate to set any other board members up before to outnumber the one VC board member?

Sounds like they had bad legal advice.

So what was the term or terms that screwed them in the end that let the VCs take control?
Don't do so to male conference-goers either.
VeriSign Labs - Projects from VeriSign, Inc.
On pricing
Interactive rendering in Aqsis 2.0, an open-source Renderman system
The latest screencast of very fast interactive rendering within Aqsis 2.0.<p>Aqsis is an open source 3D rendering solution adhering to the RenderMan standard
Forget Google or Facebook, watch out for Tencent's next move
What about:

"I'm too 1/cos(C) for my shirt"
Cocaine: how it's made and cut with a deadly cattle deworming drug
An engineer, a physicist and a mathematician want to catch a lion. The engineer goes to Africa, builds a cage and traps the lion in it. The physicist builds a fence around Africa and pronounces: "I've trapped the lion". The mathematician builds a cage, climbs inside and pronounces: "I am outside".
MapCrunch - StumbleUpon for Google Street View
Facebook plays dirty and now they got a little dirt thrown back at them, and I think they deserve it, because they are giving Microsoft the advantage by integrating with Bing. I'm happy that there is search engine competition, but not letting Google do the same is simply unfair.
i'm trying to get ryan carson (FOWA) and geeks on a plane (GOAP) to visit india in '11. will love to have you here as well.

on another note, the first seedcamp 'india' edition is happening in mumbai dec '10.
What's the take-up like compared to the only other tor-based system I'm aware of, eCache?

(web interface: https://ffij33ewbnoeqnup.onion.meshmx.com/)
I use a FF extension called Scrapbook Plus and set its store to be on Dropbox, meaning it syncs with any computer I move to. Works a treat.

One key advantage of this: the data is on my hard disks and it really uses Dropbox only to sync. If Dropbox ever goes out of business, I still keep the data. If I were using Delicious or whatnot, I'd have to figure out backups separately.
Here is a related report from the CDC:

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5849a3.htm

First, I think it is too easy to write off the Columbians not cutting the cocaine themselves. It used to be that the drugs were imported in as pure a form as possible, to reduce the weight and volume that needs to be smuggled. But what has changed today is that the Columbians no longer control the entire supply chain. Mexicans pick up the coke from Columbia and transport it themselves across the border.

In the 70s through to the 90s, Escobar, Ochoa and Lehder controlled everything from production to distribution in the USA (usually with Americans they hired - such as George Jung and the guys featured in Cocaine Cowboys). Today the Mexican cartels control all the smuggling and distribution in the USA - so it actually makes sense that the Columbians are cutting their product in order to increase profits.

I read up on Levamisole to get more information about it (its melting point is 30% higher than coke - molecular mass of a third more) . I was looking into this speculating that the reason it is used as a cutting agent could be because it isn't picked up in purity tests that the cartels use. For some reason the CDC and DEA are finding it (perhaps because they explicitly test for it) while the Mexican cartels are not. It is also suitable to use as a cutting agent since it is metabolized into a compound that has similar effects to amphetamines (which have also been used to cut coke with previously). The article suggests this, as there is currently no easy test kit for Levamisole.

Second part I would speculate on is that Levamisole is somehow finding its way into the production process unintentionally. It could be that livestock in Columbia is treated with the drug (de-worming etc.) and that the labs are contaminated because of the fertilizer used, or because of some other part of the process.

Nowhere online does it mention the quantities of Levamisole found in the cocaine, which makes it difficult to speculate on the source. If it was one part per thousand, you could narrow it down to contamination or impurities passing through, if it was 1 part in 5, you could argue that it is a cutting agent.
Tagalog: a faster way to develop, a better way to log
This reminds me of the changes Microsoft had to make to the timezone map in Windows 95:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2003/08/22/54679...
http://roflcopter.pl/math-jokes.jpg
This is a recurring pattern in history of "enterprise software" (for whatever it means) the fade of technologies and the high-cost of maintainability for those legacy systems. This is a common business model in the software (or hardware) sold to large corporation. Usually the customer wants just something that works for their business and don't always understand the implication on relying on their ancient systems. And by extension, those large corporation just paid (a lot) for maintaining the legacy system up and (somehow) running...

As mentioned in another comment, this is allowing some space for better designed software where the large corporation can't find something versatile enough. The history in software is just a circular loop with a feedback input (where the innovation is coming from other companies or individuals).

Oracle is only playing on the field of legacy systems to maintain. At the end, this is great for start-ups, free software developers or individuals who are innovating. For us, this is a brand new world opens with plenty of opportunities...
Storage options on App Engine
I hate Java it has the following reasons:

- it turns programming into a typefest

- it assumes that a project has an architect and that architect can plan everything right from the start

- it's slow

- it's highly inconsistent, int v.s. Integer

- it pretends to be strongly typed, still you get a bundle of runtime errors, that it can't protect you from, also you have the Object....

I hate C# because, it's: Java + bloat.
In this post they're communicating badly: the heading tells readers that they're almost there, the content of the post is a big disclaimer about why they might not be true.
Really? Citation?
You're right, very interesting!

.com: http://goo.gl/maps/y58a
.co.in: http://goo.gl/XP6a3

And China has its own take on the border as well:

http://goo.gl/9E4zb

I couldn't find a Google Maps site for Pakistan, but am wondering if there are any other countries that might take issue with the borders here?
Amen brother. I've worked at a place where our 'deployment script' logged into each of our production servers and ran svn up in working copies. This company handled thousands of financial transactions every day.

At my current company we have a decent sysadmin, so things are a bit more sensible (a combination of svn export, running tests, then an rsync to our production box.)

Don't be saddened, be angry. When you do start doing stuff on the web, do it properly so other people don't have to eventually maintain the nightmare you might have created!
Note to self: Do NOT read Techcrunch comments. Ever.
An old one :

Why do mathematician mistake Halloween for Christmas ?

Because to them, 31oct = 25dec
I had the same curiosity when I started graduate studies. This book helped a lot, it goes through this and many other academic/technical issues, giving a good insight on the "non-spoken" rules of the game and how scientists actually think. It was some kind of an underground classic at the time I went through it (earlier edition) and a very light and entertaining read.

http://www.amazon.com/Winning-Games-Scientists-Play-Sinderma...
The certificate isn't unsigned. It is signed by cacert.org. I finally decided to stop paying CA's for something which should be free a few weeks ago. Hopefully they'll get their root cert in the major browsers in the not too distant future, but I'm willing to put up with people seeing the browser warnings until then. My website is primarily read by geeks anyway, who should know what it means.

If you want to install cacert.org's root certificate in your browser, visit here: https://www.cacert.org/index.php?id=3

Kik.com has over a million users transmitting login credentials and private conversations. secure.grepular.com doesn't.
Would like a calendar/timeline view and a search function.
All that can be found in good books and without a blabbering blowhard in front of a blackboard

Yes, if you already know what books to read, which algorithms to study, even what the correct vocabulary is so you can look things up and speak to other programmers unambiguously.

You can't escape Rumsfeld's Theory, especially if you've never heard of Rumsfeld's Theory.
They simply set a second cookie ID with a much longer expiration.

With most webapp frameworks, the default cookie that is set for session management only lasts the lifetime of that browser window being open.

If you let me know what lang your backend is in, I could point you to a reference to do this. eg.

PHP - http://au.php.net/setcookie
Django - http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/http/sessions/#s...
Thank you much for crafting this finely worded commentary!!! One point to add:

Many economists assume equilibrium in their models. Often, economists will invoke [Nash] equilibrium as the resting state of the economy. This simplifies their maths, but seems like a dubious assumption for most real world situations. Human activity is biological, and evolving. Economies are complex systems composed of biological entities (humans), and need not ever reach equilibrium.

Out of respect for the recently deceased economics genius, B. Mandelbrot, I urge brave souls to learn his two cents on the topic.
"I love how Chrome tells me that this link is insecure (something wrong with SSL). Oh coincidences..."

See https://cacert.org/ and install their root if you think the CA model is broken and should be free.

"Besides that, I don't quite understand what separates this from any other IM platform..?"

GTalk, MSN, Yahoo Messenger, AIM, ICQ and Skype all encrypt your login details. Kik doesn't

GTalk, ICQ and Skype all encrypt your actual conversations. Kik doesn't.

All of the above mentioned IM services have publicly stated that they don't log IM conversations. Kik hasn't.
"Amazon buys Diapers for $540 million" would also have been a set up for misunderstandings in it's own way.
The phone doesn't have the model number on it anywhere. It's a Bold from Verizon purchased a few months ago.

I blame Exchange for the slow push mail. It always takes forever to notify the desktop client of a new message. (But the Blackberry is still slower. I have often read and responded to a message before my Blackberry alerts me of "new mail".)
It was, I suggest, the aftermath that actually provided good grounds. For instance, several 'giants' of literary criticism were demonstrably shown, because they'd ill-advisedly chosen to stray into topic areas which they were ill-equipped to handle, to be talking nonsense. One topic was mathematics where it was shown very clearly that a certain well-known 'intellectual' was manifestly ignorant of the mathematics she enjoyed quoting in support of her 'arguments.
You could look at their JVM play and continued MySQL Community Edition development (presuming that happens) as giving them a foothold in the non-legacy fields; there's a lot of fun stuff happening on the JVM these days, and MySQL is still (for better or worse) the default first open source RDBMS that people tend to use for new projects.

Whether they see it that way or not is a completely different matter.
Good math jokes split into two groups: either they're funny, or they make you feel clever for understanding them, I think. The latter are more fun.

Simple Level:

What's special about plants in the maths common room?

They have square roots.

More Educated:

Why can't you plant wheat in the integers mod 6?

Because 6 isn't prime!
They possibly have an infinite amount of time to share the glass around