skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you click through to the original wsj article this was all shamelessly stripped from, the actual statement is that the open and close door buttons are ONLY activated by the fireman's key. So it does serve a purpose, just not for most people.
Existential. Push button anyway. The other way lies nihilism.

No.. no... don't push the button. It's the only way not to be sure.
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In my experience if points/comments < 1 for a story there is a flamewar in the comments somewhere.
The people I know with Asperger's are anything BUT introverted or shy. They overshare. They overtalk. They're oblivious to social norms. Shyness and introversion, if anything, to me, seem like an oversensitivity to social norms.
I would say "Al, old chap, I've got bad news and worse news, the bad news is there is no God, the worse news is the Universe plays dice with itself"
Every once in a while this will be brought up and debated to death...

See my last attempt in Feb 2009: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2009-February/...
In my experience losing 85 pounds with calorie counting, hunger is mostly related to how much fiber I'm taking in. The more fiber I get, the more satisfied I am a few hours later.

From what I've read, we evolved to eat a far greater amount of fiber than most American's eat today which is one of the significant problems with our diet.
30 with several of the wrong answers being my 50/50 choices with the actual correct answer. Nearly all of the ones I got correct, I was instantly certain.

One, I think "ashamed", looked just like the expression on a character in a TV show, SGU colonel young, and I realized he nails the mood perfectly.
My previous building in Miami had it connected, but possibly to allow more capacity per elevator. Four elevators is not enough for 21 floors of ten units each.
How is that different from Paul Graham's essays? They are always linked here and this is where the discussion takes place.
Ah 26, always a bit disappointing when you get the average score. One issue for me was that since english is not my native language I had to look up quite a few of the words describing different emotions.

Even so I was actually a bit amazed by my own ability to read the different emotions quite quickly since I'm worthless at reading people in real life.
Strict timing is the #1 problem you need to solve if you want people to take your tool seriously. Check out ChucK and Impromptu if you haven't seen them. Both are 'strongly-timed'.
Is sending out one packet that firesheep happens to break firesheep a DoS? It's not even targeted at that computer--it's just sent out on the network.

What about if I setup a device on the network that blinks a light whenever it sees that packet? I'm not trying to kill firesheep--I'm just trying to blink that light, and firesheep happens to be grabbing the packet and breaking.

I'm not just trying to be difficult; I'm genuinely interested in what would and would not constitute an illegal DoS under US Law.
One problem is just how successful 'medieval' computer programming is. A decent programmer can write software that works nearly all of the time. Very few programmers have any incentive to write provably-correct software.

The other problem is that I have to build software on top of buggy libraries. Even if I prove that my bit of code is correct, I might not gain much.

I sometimes hope we get to this provably-correct world, I just don't see it happening any time soon.
Sorry to break it out to you but you picked a bad example; the equivalent Python code has the same WTF effect:

Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Oct 17 2010, 15:53:05)

[GCC 4.4.3] on linux2

>>> a = int(10)

>>> b = int(10)

>>> c = int(1000)

>>> d = int(1000)

>>> a is b

True

>>> c is d

False
They aren't the same kind of thing. On eBay, every item is separately auctioned, whereas items on the AH are fungible. The stock markets do have similar tools.
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Basal metabolic rate is something developed in hospitals for bed-ridden patients on total parenteral nutrition. It is the calories you burn just staying alive. If you, a healthy person walking around, eats at your BMR, you will, definitely, loose a heap of weight. However, the BMR for the average human is quite low.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basal_metabolic_rate

Also, on brief review, Taubes appear to thoroughly misunderstand the issue on a variety of levels. I'm going through more of his material, if I am mistaken, I will report my error.
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Why is it that every time I visit scripting.com (about twice per year), I'm met with niggling little issues like reload loops or the lovely javascript link to the loopback address -

"http://127.0.0.1:5337/scripting2/editor/controls?username=da...

I think Dave needs a new tool.
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Or even find the option -- hiding it well is important.
Conversely, HEAD sometimes doesn't accurately reflect the headers for a resource available via GET. For example this is the case with App Engine's broken webapp framework (and every app that consumes it):

$ curl -sD- http://appengine-cookbook.appspot.com/|head -1
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
$ curl -s --head http://appengine-cookbook.appspot.com/|head -1
HTTP/1.1 405 Method Not Allowed
Five bucks says the drones aren't manufactured here, now are they?

If it is a military drone, it's almost certainly manufactured here. The military is very careful about ordering things manufactured in the US, for both political and logistical reasons. (if you do get in to a real war, you don't want to have to ship your ammo and spare parts over from the other side of the world on highly vulnerable cargo ships. And, well, if your war material is made in china, you are going to have a difficult time with your saber rattling. Also, representatives will almost certainly get re-elected if they can bring in a bunch of highly-paid defense jobs to their district. )
Goodbye code.mixpanel.com too? Page won't load. :(
Lucene crapped out? Can you elaborate? We're using it in a project since it seems like a very popular library for indexing.
"If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine."
The Warren Buffett opinion piece the author links is a must read too. His ideas around Import Certificates are novel and were ahead of their time in 2003. It seems to be something that both the Democrats and Republicans could support to address the trade deficit.

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2003/...
For those, like myself, that were wondering why there is talk about Opera Mobile being released, tomorrow, for Android -- I thought I already have Opera on my phone. After brief gleaning, I have Opera Mini, and here is what to expect with Opera Mobile: http://www.opera.com/mobile/specs/ -- mostly just the rendering engine being available to the device, as opposed to being server based.
People like to feel in control, but not the responsibility that comes with the power. This looks like a (dishonest) way to combine both tendencies.
How about putting the database back up without the comments ?
AT&T Mobility Settlement (class action settlement for Internet Taxes)
Roman multi-tool from 3rd century CE (Like a Swiss Army Knife, but Roman)
I'm also a little curious about the gender data from a different perspective. I don't know whether the eyes were randomized, but, when I took the test, all of the "romantic" emotions (e.g. flirtatious) in the test were displayed with female eyes. If that's the same way for everyone, I can't help but think that that would skew the results.
funny part is...it's on the rackspace cloud.

Though probably our fault since we gave it a crappy box.

Edit: 512MB of RAM should be enough...
hey kgermino,

Sorry to butt into the convo, but I was a summer intern at a major "traffic light" operation (for lack of a better term) in the southeast (aka, they did all of the traffic lights and systems for the southeast USA). It will seem almost shocking to many here on HN, but the traffic control industry is lagging behind drastically.

I believe the newer systems started going IP based just a few years ago, and (gasp) wireless networking of traffic lights is a really new thing. It has to do with the environment the system must handle and how "tamper-proof" it must be, which leads to hardware and software being waaayy behind the curve.

The main point though, is that it would be very reasonable to think that some hardware, especially if installed before the 90s, wouldn't have "software" to just "turn off monitoring". Even the newer boxes aren't completely controlled by software, they have physical circuitry that operates as a "fall-back" to make sure that things like two green lights on adjacent roads can't be green at the same time, even if the software was hacked, had a bug, etc.
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http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?sourceid=chrome...
I think what I missed was a great big screenshot of browser with a "Send To BarryDahlberg" button in it.

Random feature suggestion, when someone receives a link they should be asked "How do you want to receive Minklinks in future? Email, Twitter, Farcebook?" That way the receiver gets the choice and the sender never has to bother signing up for any of them.
No. Even with intense glycemic index spikes, the area under the curve isn't enough.
Yeah, not exactly a ringing endorsement of rackspace that the rackspace-hosted blog saying they're leaving is down under the load.
22...I think I got five or six wrong by second-guessing my first instinct.
I think it would be interesting to repeat the study with people of the same ethnicity but different developmental backgrounds. IE. East Asians that in east Asia and Asian-Americans. Presumably, there is a large developmental component. Anecdotally, my cousins in China have a significantly harder time distinguishing between white people than I do.
I remember looking at a high-school yearbook from the beehive hairdo era and remarking to the owner, Geez, you all really wanted to look just alike. I went to high school in a day and place where the girls grew their hair long and left it down, and in looking at that yearbook, all I could see was the beehives.

In fact, at a second look, of course the faces were quite distinguishable. No doubt they were more readily distinguishable then and there because varying hairdos did not distract one from the faces.
Trying to run a service-based dev business to support creation of products. That consulting grew to consume 100% of our usable time and resulted in a period of pretty intense burnout, personally.
if you prefer learning in a lecture setting I'd suggest taking the stanford iphone dev class online (free from itunes) http://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/iphone-application-devel...
We built Shoply to kick eBays ass - does it?
I'm suprised to see a setup using 50+ instances running on RackSpace cloud, wouldn't it have made sense to start moving towards dedicated servers by then?
The main difference would be enforcement. Someone running firesheep has a chance of being detected, investigated and arrested if the crime is reported (even if that chance might be rather low).

If someone is already breaking the law they generally can't turn to law enforcement for protection unless the second crime is far worse than the first. Even if they do report it, practically the FBI is unlikely to show any interest - but may be inclined to arrest the firesheep user as they likely confessed directly to a federal officer.

It's unlikely that sending out a malformed TCP packet would ever be prosecuted in any case, if it would even be illegal, except for seriously extenuating circumstances.

Morally you'd certainly be in the clear as well imo.
Good luck to you Shereef. You know my interest in that space :-)

I still think the home page is terrible, because of the amount of vertical scrolling (5 pages on my computer!). But the video rocks!
Not necessarily. I can see some value in having a different organization for explaining the program to someone new to it vs organizing it to make it easy to maintain for someone familiar with it. For example, for maintenance you'd like to have all of your constants defined together and usually near the top, but for documenting you'd probably prefer to introduce constants when they're needed.
I guess you already understand the very basics of web development. HTML, CSS, CSS positioning, sql ... otherwise learn then in that order.

You should learn Ruby the language.

Gems are essentials in the ruby ecosystem. Do you know how to create a your own gem?

Learn the in and outs of basics things. Create your own minimal authentication plugin? Create your minimal testing framework.

Learn sinatra, a more simple, more fun way to write ruby web applications.

Ruby is a lot about DSL. Create a dsl, or extend the testing framework to be more like rspec or bacon ... or create your own minimal siantra-like framework.

Automatize your tasks, script all your daily activities using ruby.

And many other things that you can do with Rub, but also learn emacs.
I meant, PG's restriction of spidering HN at the rate of a few pages per minute, not posts limited to PG as the user.
It's different because there is nowhere on Paul Graham's website where you can have a discussion about the individual essays(or at all).
I would add some type of Categories, the current trends bar is cool but If I want something particular it should be easier to look at all things for that particular area like electronics or clothing
Make sure you explore the limits of EBS before assuming it's a perfect solution. We've found it to have incredibly slow throughput at times.

Some reference links:

- http://orion.heroku.com/past/2009/7/29/io_performance_on_ebs
- http://victortrac.com/EC2_Ephemeral_Disks_vs_EBS_Volumes
- http://stu.mp/2009/12/disk-io-and-throughput-benchmarks-on-amazons-ec2.html
Not necessarily. Sometimes flexibility is worth more than having the minimum possible cost per clock cycle.
Indeed. Hope it's not a huge file.
It still doesn't make much sense. What's to distinguish this from, say, Ubuntu running on an EeePc? There are some vague noises about sharing, but not much else. On http://www.gdium.com/node/518 it looks like there's some sort of admission process, but I need to register to see it, so... meh.
That sounds like a great idea. My goal is to get the basic MVP out of the way in November but I've got a bit of time between december and january where I'd like to see how the initial bit goes then start looking at adding features. I think allowing the receiver to choose how they receive minklinks could be quite disruptive, especially if there was something like notifo or prowl support.
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There is no ultimate goal, though the idea of harnessing zero point energy if it is possible is certainly intriguing, it might allow us to stop the universe from ending in heat death, that would be quite an accomplishment.
Buckminster Fuller predicted a future in which physical structures are increasingly replaced by information (with the implication that the information accomplishes the same task as the physical structure, but better).

I work as a government contractor doing engineering for the FAA. Most of my senior peers, and our bosses are of the baby boomer generation. (Strangely, the middle generation is entirely unrepresented here and we have only baby boomers or a few milennials, no one in between.) They have a good handle on how digital logic gates and analog circuits work, but they don't quite seem to know the right way to think about software. (Example, true story: My boss came in the other day and asked how much variation there is in flashing rate of some lights we're controlling. The programmer of the control unit was perplexed and said, "The flashing is done entirely by software, so... there's no variation." My boss said, "OK but what I mean is, how does the flashing rate vary with temperature?" That's what I mean by them not really having a handle on how software differs from circuits.)

So, combine these two things: physical things being replaced with information, and a generation of managers who don't really "get" software. Now, you take these things that would have been aspects of the schedule as separate hardware pieces to be developed or other physical things, and chuck more and more of them over the fence into this nebulous category of "the software" and (in the minds of the schedule-making people) it's kind of like a black hole: stuff disappears into and the radius doesn't increase, but it's also a massive heavy thing that's hard to think about.

So my argument is that not all of the difficulty with estimating the cost of software is the "fault" of the programmers or the nature of software. You have to look at the fact that software is doing more but nonprogrammers don't know how to think about software and so throw it all into this sort of schedule black hole.
As NeXT proved, you can have good sales to high-end finance firms without being commercially successful.
Quoth the article: Lastly, we moved over to the Rackspace Cloud because they cut a deal with YCombinator (one of the many benefits of being part of YC).

Can anyone say what this deal is, or is it secret?
What is the limiting factor here?

I am curious because it seems like almost any configuration & setup should be able to serve a blog post to the volume of request that come with being at the top of HN.
http://normalkid.com/2009/07/22/app-icons-are-itty-bitty-ban...

Relevant blog post. There was a sml group study that confirms your concerns.
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Unfortunately, there are several reasons why Apple would think to prohibit its users from installing system-level "hacks" (as they would call them) or plugin extensions. The most "important" or foremost of which being that which will allow piracy. I am not endorsing Apple's closed system model, but simply stating one of its reasons. Deny it or not, such plugins can and will exist and as long as such are active, this will be a problem. I know, piracy is a completely different subject, but it's a reasonable issue affecting Apple's decision IMHO. I do have to say that the PRIMARY reason why I jailbroke was in order to add nonexistent functionality through add-ons. Heck, it's the same reason why I "hacked" my PSP so many years ago. I like having freedom to change certain settings, the kind of which that won't affect anybody else but me, and I am definitely taking the risk. As long as Apple uses an App Store model, it's as you say saurik. There will still be restrictions because Apple will be the middleman. As long as somebody is in control of any one thing, they will take the steps necessary to enforce their beliefs.
Interesting hypothesis. I'm a 31. I wonder what the range of "normal" is.
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Very well put. I have realized that most people automatically think that just because something is in Cydia, it /definitely/ means that it was rejected from the App Store; like that's the only possible explanation. But it's not. I think that you have a great point that Apple should change the App Store and allow extensions, and tweaks, and everything else. Or, even better, make a /different/ app, like an Extensions app, where you could download Extensions. If it wasn't for extensions, Apple would probably not have advanced very far since 2007. Many of their ideas come from the jailbreak community; multitasking, homescreen wallpaper, 3rd party software itself! I'm sure they realize this, they just think that they have made a system and people should not be changing it. I think it would be a /major/ benefit to their company to allow extensions. Monetarily, for one, and people are just generally happier.
That's the number one feature I want in a Lightbox: for middle-clicking and ctrl-clicking to open the image in a new tab, rather than running some slow-as-molasses JavaScript animation that pops up a modal box and completely screws with my expectations of how a web page will behave.

This CSS-based lightbox actually looks like the first good Lightbox I've seen, in terms of usability.
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This would make it a Crime of Opportunity, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_of_opportunity.
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Used to work at a place that tried outsourcing QA. Truly awful idea. They started off by just trying to get them to document the process they would be using to QA. They failed.
Does anyone else feel like the questions were strangely distributed? I'm not exactly sure why. I guess I would have expected many more suspicious or confused faces, and I don't think I found very many. (Ended up with a 27.) I also saw the word "puzzled" as a potential answer, but I don't remember choosing it as an option. For that matter, puzzled seems like an emotion in which one would rarely see the subject's eyes.

Or is this perhaps a part of the test, in which is is intentionally testing a subset of possible emotions rather than a wide gamut?
You misconfigured it, then, I'm afraid to say... Number of threads = server memory/maximum memory usage per thread - 10% margin for overheads.
Interesting. For whatever reason it didn't even occur to me that traffic lights would still have a "hard-wired" circuit available to operate the lights. I'm a Computer/Electrical but I tend to think in terms of coding rather than being able to solve problems with circuits. But that's interesting and makes me think I should look into an internship/coop in that area. Thanks
We had these issues as well.

I'd certainly try AWS, but I'd wait a couple of months before shelling out the upfront cost for the Reserved Instances.
As we are seeing in here there are numerous APIs available (like the one made available via a torrent download, twitter bots, searching, or alternative look & feel) which they must have been doing their own parsing of this site. Would that actually be good to have a official API for all sorts of hacking needs?
Very neat, I checked out the other stuff you've got on there and it's pretty sweet.

Seems like a lot of people have missed the point that this is just a hack to see if a light box in JUST CSS and HTML could be made. Because theres no JS or actual logic, this demo just leverages the browser to maintain the state. It's a necessary side effect that the back buttons behave this way, and it could be coded to behave differently, but that would defeat the purpose of the exercise.
Communication is vital. If communication breaks down then everything else turns to shit.

Also, handshakes don't cut it as much as we may want them to. I'd love to be able to trust people, but in matters where money is involved no one can be trusted.

I learned this the hard way. Please, use my mistakes to your advantage.
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I'm confused why you needed a feed of all stories as they're submitted.

Is that substantially different from the new feed?
http://news.ycombinator.com/newest
It's kind of old, but that doesn't deter from the fact it is an interesting read. I am not an iPhone Developer, but wouldn't mind getting into it in the near future and it is cool to read about the process.

Side note: As a published Android Developer, the stark contrast between the app submission of the two is amazing to me.
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