skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not emotionally unstable to be upset with rejection it's the normal reaction (and to be honest there's probably no psychological phenomenon that's been documented more than that). Beyond that I think suggesting it's just "free stuff" shows a complete misunderstanding of what's going on here.

Google is trying to start a movement with the Chrome OS. They're trying to win people over to the thinking that you don't need a desktop. So the dynamics here are more like a political party than a giveaway. As such people are bound to get emotionally invested and their feelings of rejection are bound to be amplified if they are rejected from that movement (imagine a political party that only accepted people's support after an application process)

As I said it's a necessary step because this is a testing process and Google does need a certain profile of person to test. But that doesn't mean it isn't going to sting people if they don't get in.
I bet most of the enterprises that are concerned about jailbroken iOS devices being a threat to their security are the enterprises that force IE6 and its security panacea upon their employees.
If it's the cost of a boat that concerns you, take a look at this Instructable series, wherein the author details how he got a free yacht and set about repairing and improving it:

http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Get-a-Free-Yacht/
That was an interesting read...
I don't think so. Liu is always criticized for his moderate attitude against current regime. After Tian'anmen Massacre, the reformers were split, some hardliners were exiled to the United States or Europe nations, some moderates were left and Liu is one of them. He had a hope for the politic reform inside CCP and had the very precious ability to see small changes towards bright direction. Personally, that earns a lot admiration from me.
Right. It's not about the cables themselves, it's about driving the government apparatus to degrade its own effectiveness by tightening security, increasing compartmentalization and reducing collaboration.

The genius of this approach is its asymmetry. In response to Bin Laden's 'investment' of $100,000 and 19 lives, the US sacrificed thousands of soldiers, spent trillions of dollars and destroyed a reputation and moral authority that took generations to build.

The US did most of the damage itself.

Similarly, in response to Wikileaks' disclosures that mostly confirm what's already well known, the US is already overreacting.

Looks the US is well on its way to multiplying Wikileaks' investment untold thousands of times.
How are they deciding who to send these to exactly?
Thanks, I just reread the manual page and found tmux new-session -t which behaves similarly to screen -x. When I asked on IRC, I was told that tmux did not support this mode so I didn't pursue it further.
"How did we, as X, get to be this way?" is a question the human race has been pondering for millennia without really cracking the nut.
OK, cool. :)

It has crossed my mind that the "Great Filter" is simply that between here and "sustainability" is not an impossible path to follow in the mathematical probability-0 sense, but that there are so many local optima that end in global disaster that nobody ever makes it through.
The man has a heart of stone, soft loving stone.
Exactly, but I also throw in music from languages that I don't understand. I'm loving Korean and Japanese pop at the moment.
Blah. Just as I convinced myself my app was lost in the flood and I wasn't getting one and your post keeps the painful hope alive. :P

Is Google sending warning emails yet that people have a package incoming or are they still going the surprise route? I'd imagine not everyone lives in an area where a package is safe on their doorstep. shrug
trac is pretty easy to setup.
I think what has helped Android's uptake is that it's freely alterable without having to ask someone's permission.

Networks and handset manufacturers can use Android as a base and push whatever features they like without having an Apple or RIM complaining.

A major part of making it freely alterable is that the manufacturer/network can make it locked down to the end-user, even if Google doesn't mind people having root on their handset the networks hate it and the networks are the handset manufacturer's customers, not end-users.

I think that's why most comparisons to the desktop PC market break down for me: Dell and Apple's PC/Mac customers are almost always the end-user of their device (corporate sales excepted), so the driving force behind what goes into those products is very different. The network is the one paying the handset manufacturer, so phones are designed to meet the needs of the network.

Apple and RIM have done some good work to try and change this by taking ownership of the relationship with the end-user and reducing the network to a mere carrier of data. Android is pretty much the exact opposite: by being free it becomes 'free to suit the networks' and 'free to make it match network branding'.

That's not to say that Android is bad or otherwise technically lesser than BB or iOS, but I'm pretty certain that it's free availability was a huge factor in the uptake from multiple manufacturers.
Right, but oil is also fungible. If you remove the portion of it that is used as fuel, you have much more left over to supply the chemical, plastics, and fertilizer industries.

72% of domestic oil consumption is for transportation [1]. If we eliminate that use, then the amount of oil needed to power all other usages is less than 1/3 our total oil consumption. You can get pretty far down the Hubbert curve before total production is less than 1/3 what it is today.

[1] http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/aer/pecss_diagram.html
I had the same assumption about their capabilities, but then I read this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran#Science_and_technology
Thanks for this! There's the nostalgia I was looking for ;)
I'd guess far more than 5,000 at the rate they are going. I wonder how much they have spent so for what is basically an alpha test...
I have run trac and redmine, I like trac more since I grok the python and find it pretty easy to hack extensions.
I too have to second the dancing. It's lots of fun and it throws you out of your comfort zone in a good way. It'll force you to develop socially and once you start to 'get' the dancing and get into it, you will improve in dancing. Most people are also very forgiving (as a guy at social dances, I've occasionally danced with girls many levels above me and found this to be true).

BTW, you might find going straight from coding all day to dance class an interesting experience mentally. :P
Peak Oil is only important when you look at the downstream effect. To me, the real question becomes - who has the oil, who needs the oil and who controls the oil?.

The U.S. has made a habit of equating it's political and economic stability with it's ability to continue pulling in oil at stable prices which, in my opinion, is the reason for many of it's recent wars.

There's is no shortage of oil world wide, but regardless of quantity the price shifts for consumer countries will continue to impact their economy and continue to cause these wars.

It would be nice to see alternative technologies become cheap enough that the US dependency goes away, but then you have another question to ask yourself, what will the countries who currently capitalize on Oil profits do? What will the geopolitical landscape look like then?
Boat.

It's my understanding it is reasonably easy and cheap (compared to shipping to Europe or similar; $500-$2000 is the range I've heard of people paying), but I haven't actually done the research on the subject yet. I have the additional logistical problem of getting my dog safely through (and she's too old for me to be willing to inflict flying on her, even a short distance), but I'm guessing we can catch a boat, as well.
I agree and I'd also like to hear some of you downvoters speaking up.
Ranking Programming Languages by Size of Community and Number of Projects
Headphones and white noise can serve the same purpose as silence.
Windows vs. Mac is now Android vs. iPhone. Microsoft slacked off, and lost its place to the equally-ambitious Google. Desktop Linux never had a Google to push its adoption.
You need to put that into context: He went through the Cultural Revolution. The fact that he is treated with respect and according to the rule of law is indeed something to celebrate, compared to what happened before.

Also, his key point is "blame the system, not the people".
FW:FW:FW:FW:RE:RE

In all seriousness, however, this is something the geek/hacker community has been harping on for decades, and something that nobody else gives a rat's ass about. The MSM will continue to call people who use LOIC or exploit password reset features "hackers", because 99.9% of their audience won't know the difference.

If they ask you directly, correct them. Otherwise, just let them do their thing. There's absolutely nothing to gain by insisting that ignorant people use the correct terminology.
It looks like someone just downvoted everybody... Some people are jerks.
Thanks for the show. Idea is good, I have 2 feedbacks
1. I agree with the sound quality comment. The echo made it annoying.
2. When I tune into an interview I want to mostly hear from the guest. I turned it off after I found that the interviewers were doing most of the talking. I understand that your aim is 'conversation-style' but most viewers are probably tuning in to hear from the guest.
Where are these packages being shipped from ?
I can’t disagree with you enough. Taking the standard meaning of “jailbroken”, your examples don’t actually work. The whole point is, you don’t just install “trusted” apps from any source, be it the App Store or your hypothetical corporate whitelist, to a jailbroken iPhone. It is a security problem for an enterprise.

A jailbroken iPhone poses a risk in much the same way a Windows PC poses a risk — that’s why IT forces everyone to run McAfee. Jailbroken phones will also need malware detection!
Boat would be the only option for a rig as big as mine, and "really expensive" is a relative term. The cost of living full-time in a motorhome is highly variable and often has a very different shape than living a more stable life. When I'm doing very long trips, I probably spend more on gas in a month than most people spend on rent and food (I spent about $2000/month on gas during my Alaska trip, totalling about $5k for the whole journey). Spending $1000-$2000 for a ferry or ship to take my motorhome across wouldn't be what I would consider a show-stopping expense, and it's my understanding that that's the ballpark for this particular trip. It's just another thing to budget for. Moving, in a traditional fashion, to South America would probably cost even more, so from that perspective it's a bargain.
I think the Torch is going to be RIM's Vista. They released a supposedly premium mobile device that in practice had obvious deficiencies even relative to products that rival brands had already established in the market for some time. When has that ever worked out well?

FWIW, when I was looking into mobile support for a start-up I'm involved with, using Blackberries was the obvious choice: business focus, we all prefer keyboards to touch screens, etc. Unfortunately, after much time looking through RIM's web site trying to figure out which of the various centralised IT systems we're setting up could easily be hooked into Blackberries for mobile access, I had gone nowhere. Their web site is full of buzzword bovine excrement, but it told me little or nothing about what sorts of protocols were supported for e-mail, calendaring, etc. They kept mentioning integration with a couple of big name tools like Exchange Server, which might be helpful for larger and more established businesses that use that kind of tool, but the fact is, we're a start-up on a budget and we don't. We're also a start-up with finite time to consider our options for infrastructure stuff like phones that don't actually make a product we can sell, and RIM's time expired before I had even scratched the surface of knowing what I needed to know.
You probably signed up on the short form during the window during and some set number of hours after the presentation. Right?
I think applying that degree of psychological analysis to such a trivial situation is a bit insulting to people who actually suffer from genuine rejection. What you're saying could be said about any closed beta that Google has done for any of their products. I have yet to meet or hear about anybody emotionally scarred from those experiences. Have you?
No, Sherlock Holmes is the Sherlock Holmes of kicking arse, as demonstrated in the recent movie. Holmes' superior deductive abilities enable him to quickly detect an enemy's weaknesses and capitalise upon them; this serves him well against common street thugs.

When milliseconds matter, though, training and experience beat logic. And Batman has years of martial arts training followed by quite a few more years of practical ass-kicking experience in the streets of Gotham. This is why Batman could whup Sherlock Holmes and Mr Spock. (Sequentially, at least. Put them together and they'd outwit him with some brilliant plan.)
I think the US is plenty capable of pulling this type of thing off. They've done something somewhat similar a long while back... well, allegedly anyways.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian_pipeline_sabotage
Show HN: Flattehn: A Chrome extension to hide points / users until you've voted
My Zipcode is in there but I live near a University.
Reason for its existence: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1991973

I hope you like it! Let me know here / on its page if you have any requests. Work on it is likely to stall for a week or two while finals roll through, but I fully intend to make it more flexible in the future.

Want a FF / Safari extension? Let me know, I'll consider it, though it'll have to wait for a bit. I haven't made extensions for either.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1996558

Enjoy :)
I may have missed your point, but there were a couple of reddit clones floating around at one point. No doubt they're all dead by now, but not for lack of effort.
I wonder what effect this will have on paid downloads. Offerings may rise, but I suspect demand will slightly drop for current ones.

I've always felt very comfortable making purchases from the Android store due to the gracious refund policy. Now there is a small fear of buying a crappy application and being interrupted before testing it out. An hour may have been a better compromise.
FWIW, -mfpmath=sse is default on x86-64
This is precisely how and possibly the best answer I've ever heard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7X7sZzSXYs
Just imagine if they had to do an emergency abort and blowup the capsule in midflight.

There would be a mysterious burning cheese smell across the country :D
When the price of an app is a dollar, it doesn't seem like there's a whole lot of risk. If the game sucks, ah well, you're only out a dollar. For more expensive apps it's possible there will be some more risk, but I find that I typically don't know the true value of an expensive app until I have been using it for some time.

I think it would have been interesting if they had made the refund available (1 hour * ceil(price in dollars)) from the time of purchase, but realistically I think the simple solution is sufficient.
No need for TinyURLs here, and many readers prefer to see the true destination (http://www.switched.com/2010/10/19/japanese-humanoid-bot-bus...) before clicking.
Get a dog. Seriously. Cures loneliness. Great prep for human relationships. Also puppies are people magnets.
I want to respectfully disagree with “Good design is unobtrusive.” I happen to be a fan of unobtrusiveness but I think it’s not the only good way of doing things.

Old cathedrals are seldom unobtrusive. I don’t think that they must be badly designed because of that. We can and should allow design and art to occasionally mingle, even at the price of increased obtrusiveness.

The nod to unobtrusiveness doesn’t seem timeless to me. It seems like a too narrow endorsement of a particular style.
Apache != open source

Apache wants Java under ASL, Oracle/sun don't want competitors forking their code and making proprietary. That's why Sun chose GPL. No fine-print, just GPL. You can make 3rd party implementation based on OpenJDK and get TCK. Red Hat did it with Iced Tea.
OpenJDK is real deal. It doesn't track "Oracle Java", it is other way around. You can get TCK under acceptable terms, Red Hat got it for IcedTea. You only can't release you source of your implementation under other license than OpenJDK (GPLv2) but that is fine for anybody except Apache. That was same with Sun, they also didn't want Java under BSD license (or ASL) and Oracle didn't change anything. They just sued Google, which Sun also wanted to do.

If Java was really not free, and if patent grant in GPLv2 really don't work, why then Oracle doesn't sue Red Hat over IcedTea? Jboss is killing WebLogic.

It is laughable to say that Microsoft giving estoppel support to Mono by not yet killing it, while Oracle actually distributing OpenJDK under GPL is not enough support for you. Java is not a problem at all, just don't use stuff like Harmony or Dalvik.

Also, Apache license don't really have strong patent grant (or at least not stronger than GPLv2). It doesn't apply to future patents, and it doesn't apply to things that are developed by some other contributor that is not patent holder.

What MS is doing is not opensourcing, they just dump code under ASL. That means their continued development is closed, and they file for patent affter they dumped the code. Any feature they add to their proprietary version might also be patented. So when someone else reimplement that feature and adds it to free version, Microsoft can still sue them. But if you patent something and release it under ASL, you give patent grant to proprietary forks too. So there is nothing stopping anyone for taking it proprietary, extending it, and then patenting extensions to exclude you.

GPL patent grant only applies to derivative works which obviously must be GPL too. So it is more fair. Problem with Apache is that they don't want GPL, but that is only ancient GPL vs BSD debate. OpenJDK is free as it gets, and .NET specification is solely controlled by Microsoft (and they only put some parts in ECMA but only "as is" with no other parties having a say), while Java at least have some kind of pretence of standard body, JCP.

Java is lot better choice than .NET and Mono. That said, I reduced the usage of Java (long before Oracle-Google case) and do mostly things like Ruby on Rails and pure C.
Saying "that kind of post isn't appropriate here" and "you aren't funny" isn't civil? Really?
I get so sick and tired of people assuming that hacker == cracker or script kiddie.

But I don't see much of a solution, except saying "good hacker" and "bad hacker". Non-hackers just don't get it.
Cool!

It would be good if there were a way to reveal the author without upvoting. Maybe in doing so, the arrows would hide?
I use to work in a noisy office environment where silence wasn't really an option. The best solution was noise canceling headphones and a white noise generator. I now prefer this over silence any day.

Here's a great native Mac OS app for that (source available):

http://code.google.com/p/noisier/

I has White, Pink, and Brown noise with an adjustable filter.
Main easy-way is to click the "link" link. I don't hide the author (or points) on reply-pages.

edit: oops, forgot to add downvote hook. Coming!

edit2: added :) You can force an extension update by going to chrome://extensions, expanding "developer mode", and clicking "update".
This is an interesting counterpoint to the OP (from your link):

When I was starting to learn Linux after getting frustrated
and formatting Windows ME off my HDD, I quickly learned how
to ask questions the smart way: go to a Linux-promoter's
forum and say, "Windows does <insert task> better than Linux"
or "Linux is bad because it can't do <insert task>". Every
time I did this, I was flooded with solutions... unless I
was right. Either way, I had my answer. Meanwhile, if I
asked questions the smart way as recommended by Raymond,
I'd be lucky if I received any answers -- I'd have already
done a bunch of research, and this would be clear, so
nobody else would feel the need to do experimenting or
research on their own to figure it out.
Yep. Though I think Linux can wipe the tears from its eyes. It can be consoled by the fact its kernel and much of its userspace will be in everything without a Microsoft or Apple logo on it for years to come.
Before reading the article, I thought it was going to be about a universal manual for web browsers.

Such a thing would be immensely helpful.

Say, for instance, that your site asks the user to disable their popup blocker, or install a bookmarklet, or upgrade to a newer version of IE. It would be great if everyone could just use a "how do I do this?" link that goes to a neutral site with instructions. Sort of like whatbrowser.org, but with info on how to actually do stuff.
If you are still in college, do study abroad.

It's a great way to meet new people, both from your home country and the country you are visiting. Living in one country you get accustomed to a certain way of life, so this can help you break out of your comfort zone to try new things. Studying abroad was really an eye opening experience for me; definitely one of the best decisions I ever made.

Also, have you tried dancing? :) As Woody Allen said, "80 percent of success is showing up."
Trust me on this: no. I used to have ABingo ignore hits from several common bots. I then got around to implementing JS challenges. Participants in A/B tests prior to login immediately decreased by 75%, to about what my GA stats showed.

P.S. As long as we're here:

request.user_agent =~ /\b(HttpClient|Baidu|Gigabot|Googlebot|libwww-perl|lwp-trivial|msnbot|SiteUptime|Slurp|WordPress|ZIBB|ZyBorg)\b/i

That, theoretically speaking, is supposed to catch most common well-behaved bots. Feel free to copy/paste it if you want, as it is better than nothing, but it probably won't get you in the vicinity of good numbers.

Incidentally, since page views are a vanity metric which don't really matter, I don't think that worrying about "good numbers" is that productive either way.

The only reason I was eventually convinced to care for A/Bingo is that artificially suppressing conversion rates can through statistical tests off, and A/B tests actually create actionable information for my business. For people who blog because they want to be heard, though, would lying to them to tell them they're more popular than they actually are actually hurt them? That strikes me as being close to the canonical white lie, in response to "Does this dress make me look fat?"
I filled out the short application just a few minutes after they had the announcement and received one two days later. I received no conformation but I did receive three phone calls by a member of the Google ChromeOS team. I missed UPS trying to deliver it to me so Google tried to get ahold of me to make sure I get it.

They are definitely trying to get these out and make sure you get it. I have no connections with Google and I am not a member of the press so to receive this level of service was amazing.
Agreed - I think the biggest problem I see with the user name being hidden unless you click on the link is that it makes the comments a bit harder to follow in big threads (especially where people end up being referenced by name).
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