skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait, science isn't creative? Someone go tell Einstein that his bizarre, nonsensical ideas about the universe can't be correct. Warn Galileo that thinking outside the box is anti-science. Let Pasteur know that meat doesn't rot because really small things are eating it.

Science is creative. We just don't usually think of it because science is that crazy thing with math and they like have this "scientific method" that they always follow. But why are experiments actually being carried out? Maybe someone has a crazy theory that under the right circumstances, a liquid can have 0 viscosity and start defying gravity. Or that there are forms of life that don't even need Phosphorous, one of the "key ingredients" to life.
Maybe we need to find a clearer definition of FU money.

It should most likely be the value of current, highly liquid assets that ensure one's long term financial security and independence.

A steady income of $250k a year should be enough for most people to enjoy a very comfortable life and potentially build up a certain amount of wealth. But what happens if you loose that stream of income (due to illness or a change in economic or political factors)? You may run out of your accumulated savings quite quickly and in turn loose your independence and security.

So far, the suggestions have been:
$2 million,
$6 million and
$20 million.
Interesting, but I'm completely baffled by the plugins. Why do I want the current weather and my last few twitter messages in my commit log? Isn't that completely irrelevant to what I'm committing?
It also became the most expensive redirect/domain parking in history.

While YouTube has become one of the most utilized new services in web history. YouTube, as I am sure everyone is aware, effectively brought video convergence to the internet (en mass).
The video on their home page is great.
Hah I just used this for colors on a graph. Excellent little app.
Very slick, though the dot for St. John's is in entirely the wrong spot. Last I checked, it was still up here in Canada!

(Also, I very much dig that the back button actually goes back through the cities you clicked on, and not immediately off the page.)
If only conference prices weren't so depressingly high. I discovered three interesting ones in a reasonable distance through Lanyrd---awesome site!---but don't want to pay 1000+.

The expense could easily pay for itself through networking, as you make new contacts and find new opportunities, but if you don't know the conference, that's pretty unsure.
Sorry, yes, both of those numbers are for all time.

However, the rate stands. It's not correct, according to the source on 8000ers, that 4000 people climb it in a year. Indeed, the list shows that number is for all time as well.
What a very responsible way of releasing this.

Not that it would take a competent hacker more than a few minutes to figure out how to disable the blocks but at least this rules out a chunk of the 'l33t' crowd from having their way, which just might buy someone enough time to get it patched.
I'm also impressed by the specific details of what counts and doesn't count as Earth being destroyed:

"Teleporting Earth to another location or alternate universe where it is still able to support life is specifically excluded."
I think it might actually get a few customers, because people would like to show off how much money they have. That said, I really don't think I'd ever use it...
Is it similar to ZeroMQ(http://www.zeromq.org/)?
> This is entirely voluntary.

Indeed, and I've pretty much done it. But it takes effort. You need credible replacements for the mindless time, and then you need to actively push yourself towards the new stuff as opposed to the old stuff.

The credible replacements is everything. If you commute by car, you need either:

-Some audiotapes/audiobooks/podcasts

-Someone to carpool with

-Some way of not driving any more (car service if you're wealthy enough, taking the train or bus otherwise)

...otherwise you're going to listen to the radio. What else is there to do while driving?

So it takes some effort. Totally doable though. I just calculated out how much time I spent on pop culture this year - Only one movie (Robin Hood, meh - I would've seen Inception except I was in the back provinces of China when it was released, and then it was gone from theaters when I was back in civilization), less than ten hours of TV (mostly tennis), no pop music except what was on when I was wandering through stores playing music or at a bar, no newspapers, and a few hours of trashy magazines while sitting in an aeronautical engineer friend's bathroom (why he reads them is beyond me, but it wasn't a terrible use of time while in his bathroom).

But this is only possible because I've got a list of stuff to do - a Kindle loaded with good books, an mp3 player loaded with audiobooks/podcasts, Hacker News/LessWrong/Google Reader loaded with good blogs, Lichess.org for when I want to play a game of Chess, and a list of temples/mosques/ruins/parks/beaches to go to.

It's not enough to just "opt out" - you need to "opt in" to some comparable activity to fill your time.
I agree, but this is orthogonal to the point I was trying to address. mechanical_fish, in a cousin thread, is talking about the same thing I was.
Hmm... not sure how they plan to pay for the IT infrastructure to support the deluge in traffic to the e-stamp site, however: They should offer the stamps for free - but make them larger and sell ads on them.

Bonus - make the stamps into coupons. People can use them to mail stuff, recipients can redeem them for discounts on the services of the advertisers who use them.

"Mailpons" (I know it sounds too close to, uh....)
Oopsa daisies. UTC in Sydney is currently +11 (daylight savings).
Here is some wikileaks information about US practices in Afghanistan that is quite shocking:

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2010/12/wikileaks_te...

For those who don't click on the link, the article refers to cables in which US diplomats discuss how to quash a journalist writing about a private US military contractor procuring young boys to be sex-party favors in order to help motivate Aghan police recruits. The argument that the US diplomats discuss using in order to prevent publicity is that this reporting will "endanger lives".

Here is the cable: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/...

I think this is quite scandalous and shocking. Maybe it's just me. I don't understand why stuff like this has not received much press coverage in the US.
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Cmd+` has existed for almost as long as the MacOS itself - and I'm not just talking about MacOS X here. Interestingly, BeOS also used the same shortcut, maybe because a number of Be engineers initially worked at Apple and the original BeOS was Mac-only. You can also use Alt+` in GNOME with the same effect, though you might have to enable a setting in GConf first.
I am with you on that accord. Being cold sucks and climbing is really addicting. Alpinism is too dangerous and cold for my tastes but to each their own. Life is risk management. Not everyone rides motorcycles even though they are really enjoyable in fair weather.
It's constrained creativity. Not much fun.
We actually don't know what Google cares about, nor do we (including you) know what Future Google cares about.

But your point is moot, because whether Google cares or not is irrelevant, if someone else gets a subpoena and Google hands out the keys and the data, which is conveniently backed up in the cloud.
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We're both wrong. It's 4000 people all time who have reached the summit. There is no number on the site indicating the number of attempts.
> Norms will only keep improving if people keep complaining.

This may be controversial or offensive, but it's the truth so I'll take the heat for saying it:

None of the most successful women I know really care or complain about things like he/she in the English language. For the most successful women I know - I'm thinking of an investment banker, lawyer, and chief editor of a magazine in particular - the idea of causing a fuss over pronouns is so low on their radar that it wouldn't happen.

Again, I'll take heat for this, and so be it - but I think people who complain about that sort of thing need to go do more relevant stuff in the real world. Most people who are actually hard working, enterprising, expansive and successful (professionally or in other worthy endeavors) simply don't have time to be upset and pedantic over this sort of thing.

Anyway, I'll take the heat for this now. It's not 100% the case, but the general pattern certainly holds.
Two solutions: 1) Be a speaker, and 2) Go to BarCamps and Unconferences instead. I've been to a number of free BarCamps which have competed extremely well with expensive events in terms of both networking and quality of talks.
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Great read. I was surprised to see how much it was priced at. It would be really interesting to see the price set to iPhone app store levels for one month and compare adoption to income.

At the current ~40 sales per month, I would venture that the many many thousands of WP users would adopt a $1.99 version of this more readily than the current $15 price.
Ask HN: Do you have trouble reading long documents online?
On a daily basis, I find myself struggling to keep my place while reading a long document online. I don't know if many others do it, but I find myself selecting a portion of text so as to mark my place if I have to answer the phone, reply to an email, etc.

When reading a book, all I have to remember is "right page, second paragraph". On the web, the page of a lengthy article might be thousands of pixels long and the current screenful/viewport is changing as the page is scrolled.

So I'm curious to know if anyone else has the same problem, and if there is a best practice solution as a developer and as a reader?

Many of us share an intense dislike for documents split into tiny pages (usually for the purposes of bumping up ad views). Even without ads, waiting for the next page to load (given that 90% of the load will be for surrounding junk) isn't that fun.

Do long documents need more pull-quotes, horizontal rules, section titles or some other method of separating areas?

Added: TL;DR - I struggle to keep my place when reading long documents. Wondering if others have the same experience and if there's a solution.
The last few months have been mostly occupied by arguments about hypothetical security holes — not in WebSocket itself but in other software that WebSocket might be used to exploit. During this time, virtually no actual work on the protocol seems to have been done. The recent paper (flawed as it is by ignoring framing) purporting to demonstrate such a security hole seemed to catalyze browser developers into a decision for a few days, but then the list collapsed into nitpicking and misunderstandings again.

Meanwhile all of the alternatives that are being debated in the IETF are different from the WHATWG version that is deployed in some browsers today, so even if Mozilla did ship Firefox 4 with WebSocket, that version is already obsolete; we know there will be a replacement but we don't know exactly what it will be.
Wait 13 years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran#FORTRAN_77

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran#Fortran_90
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I was referring to both the author and Shteyngart using the masculine pronoun to make what I had written, "more personal" (instead of using "they"); a bit loose, I know, but this is a casual discussion medium.
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I have trouble reading long documents anywhere. :-)
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BestGifty is a fun way to make your Wish List for the Holidays, your Birthday, or your Wedding by letting your friends do it for you.

I'm in the middle of a much larger product that has had a large time arch and this idea just kind of hit me the other day. I wish it had hit me a month earlier so that it could have been better shape for the holiday run...oh well...I got it out now instead of waiting a year.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on the good, the bad, and the ugly(I'm a hacker not a designer....you won't hurt my feelings).

Coming soon:
-Comments in the app, or by using facebook's comment widget
-Achievements
This is just a good guide for people on the internet in general
Not to forget that IQ tests (for whatever they may actually measure) had to be constantly rescaled over the last half century to stay centered at 100. So an average IQ these days is comparable to a borderline genius IQ from the middle of the 20th century.

Edit: it's called the Flynn effect, and if this phone had decent copy and paste, I'd give you the wikipedia link, which you now are forced to find on your own. But at least I can rest reasonably assured that your general intelligence is sufficient for solving that task ;-).
Yep, that is kind of the untold story in the polarized positions on the subject. There are a lot of large volume purchases who would not exist today had they not relied on pirated software early on. It would be nice if there was a program by the major software vendors that a small company just starting out could get a 2yr grace period on licensing and then pay a small overage when the time was up. The reality for most of the small shops 2 years is going to weed out the ones that could not survive and most that do could cover the cost of licensing by then.

I was with a company that did the same and went on to become a very large Adobe product purchaser. Adobe made millions of the fact that this company pirated software to get off the ground. We also had an agreement that we make it right ASAP. I agree that when that is in the charter people become more aware of the tradeoffs because when it comes time to make it right they want that number to be as small as possible.

Personally I am torn on the subject, small start-up are using the money to put it into developers pockets and pay the bills, in doing so they can grow to revenues that allow them to purchase the licences. Usually more seats than they would have got up front because the company has now grown. So in the end the software companies are getting revenue that would not have existed in the first place had they not relied on pirated software. On the other hand there are some shops that never plan to make it right and that is just not cool. As with everything in life when you peel back the onion it's never black and white. For me personally, if they had plans to make it right when revenue supports it then I would be cool with it. As well, as a software vendor, I would be cool with a company doing this (I would never put it in writing). If they become profitable everyone wins, if they don't well then the software vendor would have never seen that revenue anyways.
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Wait till you see my startup: pick a number!

--

Actually, the ability to pick a color out of a picture is quite cool - but would be better if you could pivot that selection to do further searching, such as "Pick a color, then show me all the pictures in my phone that contain that color" "Show me all the pictures that match this new palette I made" "tint selected picture with the color/palette I choose"
Ahahaha, life lessons from someone who thinks Dexter is worthy of intellectual consideration.

And who gives The Republic serious consideration for the present?...Oh i see you're speaking in Ann Arbour tomorrow, of course you do, just like that "The Republic Is America and The Republic Is Awesome" lecture that is taught in full seriousness in the Yale online courses...now it makes sense, the delusions of apparently omnipotent wealth.

So much high school lovin tonight, what's up pups?!
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This is different from the bare-bones quiz linked from Chrome's "New Tab" page. In any case, I filled this new one out too since it lets me actually tell them I'm a developer.

Yes, I'm desperate ;)
You're trusting a lot more than Google. You're trusting unknown parties from your future who will be able to get subpoenas against you if they wish, should you ever inadvertently get into certain types of relationships with such as yet unknown parties.
Bringing up Mars in this discussion makes me think of Olympus Mons. The same kinds of folks attracted and willing to risk their life on being the 1000th person to reach the top of Mt. Everest may be even more attracted to being the first person to scale the tallest mountain in the star system.
i'd have to disagree. a ton of the slowdown in modern sites is due to lack of front end optimization. optimizing CSS rules is probably a waste of time, but the other basics (outlined by Steve Souders) can make a huge difference. as he says, 80% of the time is spent on the front end.

a lot of web sites and apps that depend on the database are aware that this is the bottleneck and optimize for that without giving the front end much consideration.

go look at the waterfall chart for techcrunch.com and tell me where you think their problem is.
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It's specially ridiculous when you consider the fact that as a grad student you are actually PAID to study (granted, it's not a huge amount, but the point remains). So essentially, I come here, get paid to study, learn from the best, and go back home where I can put my skills to use for people other than Americans.
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To put it as simple as possible, Google SEO is like the worlds fastest librarian in the world's largest library, and not only is she fast, she knows where every book is by memory, and not only that, she has the 10 best books for your search, in her pocketï¿½ It doesn't get much faster than that.
There's no need to pirate windows for QA. Microsoft offers free virtual machines loaded with different versions of IE specifically for QA purposes, see http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=....
> It's constrained creativity.

Constrained by the bounds of your imagination and physics. Like errrm.. Art!

> Not much fun.

I think that needs a qualifier: "according to me" or something like that, I personally think science is great fun.
The feeling you get with XCode is that it slows you down. I'm a java developer by day, iPhone dev by night. Eclipse/Java are _light years_ ahead of XCode/Objective-C. My gripes with XCode include everything from the build process, the awkward debugger, Interface Builder, and all the way down to little minutiae like key bindings that just don't make sense (try selecting a block to indent it, every other IDE in the world uses tab, XCode uses Cmd-] wtf?).

Not to mention Objective-C, which, as you allude to with garbage collection, is a far more inferior language than java. There's things like passing undefined messages to objects which only generate warning at compile time, and sometimes those warnings don't appear in XCode -- so when your code doesn't work, you're left scratching your head. And why isn't the + operator overloaded for string concatenation?

Finally, Objective-C is a very awkward language to use at the keyboard. Object notation [] in particular slows me down a lot - somehow (at least for me) it's easier to type () than it is to type [].

Thanks for the article, now off to download the android SDK!

P.S. I'm not saying Java is a very elegant language - far from it - but, in my opinion, it's more elegant than Obj-C.
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Neither Self nor HotSpot uses tracing. It's a relatively new compilation technique, the implementation in the original tracing paper used java bytecode as the source language.

I think you are confusing tracing with adaptive compilation.
It's definitely not available in current JavaScript interpreter in different browsers.
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How Wikileaks has woken up journalism.
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The wavefunction collapse in the Copenhagen interpretation is ugly. Many-worlds is elegant, as long as you're willing to accept googols of unobservable near-duplicates of yourself.
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Pheasant is small, I'm the author so I'm biased as to whether it's good though.

http://getpheasant.com
This is very cool, but Salt Lake City is in the United States, not Canada.
but you actually need to own a copy of some form of windows to run these.

these are windows virtual pc [1] images

Supported Operating Systems:Windows 7;Windows Server 2003;Windows Vista;Windows XP

[1] http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/default.aspx
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Am I the only one that finds most conferences to be a waste of time?
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Thanks to the internet I can work anywhere in the world. Thanks to HN, Reddit and my RSS reader I can keep up with the cutting edge of my profession whereever I go. Thanks to email, jabber, skype and facebook I can travel the world without losing touch with my friends and family. Thanks to couchsurfing.org I've made friends all over the world and experienced dozens of different cultures. If the internet is making you lonely, you're doing it wrong.
Apache has many differing mpms - you can use an evented mpm similar to how nginx handles connections. Anyways since this 'attack' is making a full tcp connection a simple fix would be to limit the amount of full tcp connections from one source.. or if you feel particularly evil add it to a blacklist of tarpitted connections and then reverse DOS the attacker.
He's off by a "'s". St. John is one of the US Virgin Islands.
I've sidestepped the issue and just use instapaper on my iPad and iPhone to read long articles. Instapaper holds my place for me between sessions, so I don't have the pain of remembering where I am.
Great quote from John Naughton of The Guardian:

"The most obvious lesson is that it represents the first really sustained confrontation between the established order and the culture of the internet. There have been skirmishes before, but this is the real thing."
Sure, a single windows license isn't cost prohibitive. You can easily find them in the < $100 range on Newegg, SoftwareMedia, etc, not to mention the numerous promotions they run which can bring a license down to the $50 - $70 range. Someone else mentioned BizSpark, which can help defray even these minor costs. In either case you only need one license and then you can just remote into the machine and pick your VM whenever you want to QA.