skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They don't really -- in particular, the picture you might have from high-school physics lessons of electrons orbiting a nucleus like planets orbit a star is really wrong. And it's not really the same forces; the way an atom looks is mostly down to the electromagnetic force, whereas the way a solar system looks is mostly because of gravity.

On the other hand, it is true that Newtonian gravity and the electrostatic force (i.e., what the electromagnetic force becomes when you make the approximation that there are no moving charges) have very similar mathematical forms, with the same sort of differential equation governing them. What Newtonian gravity and electrostatics have in common is mostly that they are convenient simplified approximations; you could say that they're so similar because there's a limited repertoire of differential equations simple enough to make good approximations. (There's a bit more to it than that; for instance, inverse square laws fall naturally out of the geometry of a 3-dimensional world.)
Turing could be named the "father" of computer science (among others) and Babbage was the "father" of the digital computer.

I'm not disagreeing with you, though.
Getting involved with protracted git usage discussions is like trying to follow Doc Brown explain the vagaries of the time continuum[1].

[1]http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091109190826AA...
Also, just announced that Andrew Warner of Mixergy is the keynote speaker.
I hope you're correct :)

From my understanding, this is one of the reasons that we have legal frameworks that discourage monopolies.
Visual App Creator now supports iPhone. (In addition to Android & Flash.)
If you eat fortified food and get out in the sun enough, then sure, this may apply to you. But if, like me, you try not to eat food that's been heavily processed/fortified and you live where days are short in the winter, then you still might not be getting enough vitamin D in your diet. If the tests are suspect, you'll never know...
Some people get depressed when they find out how huge the universe is... What is the big deal about bigness? A cow is much bigger than you, but it is a ridiculous animal and you are a valuable person. You know it's a cow. It doesn't know anything. it just stands there eating grass (grass!) and mooing. And if it were bigger, that would only make it more ridiculous.

- David Deutsch
How does one get an invite to an event like that? Are they common? All I ever heard of are the 'MS Tech Days' for which you have to pony several thousands and you don't even get cool stuff, afaik.
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Well, I think that's a slightly disingenuous response when you consider that most people discover new sites through a search engine - and Google is one of the most commonly used search engines on the planet :)
> It may never replace your main web browser of choice, but it's really good at some frequent tasks - like checking out your Tumblr dashboard, Hacker News, etc.

That sounds like a niche that a lot of folks (including me) would like to see addressed. I like what I saw in the YT video and am planning on getting Cyberspace ASAP.
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To undersell CDNs, Level 3 calls itself a CDN to clients, a backbone to "peers"
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It would be hard to just copy/paste the example as it uses Quplo's proprietary syntax (flow, a prototyping markup language). You'd have to load it in quplo for it to work, and we didn't want to suggest that you needed a quplo account just to check out Scatter.
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Yeah, right. Mr Assange is currently having the time of his life, travelling around the world, pretending to be on the run from authorities which don't seem to have much interest in actually pursuing him, talking to the media a lot and having possibly-consensual sex with hot Swedish chicks. You think he wants to go hang out in Quito for the rest of his life?
This is going to put a serious damper on many ebay sales from Japan -- especially high-end camera and lens sales.
Could you expand on what you see as the bloat? I find the base distribution of CakePHP to be very lean, and using it on half dozen production projects, I have found no issues with speed, especially with proper use of memcached and media compression.
>Contrary to ML, it doesn't require variables to be initialized when declared. The typestate system checks (statically) that they are not referenced before initialized.

What's the point, then?
I doubt Assange would really consider it. In my opinion Ecuador is just trying to appear brave against the U.S. without really doing anything. That pays a lot in the internal politics in Latin America.
agreed. i like codeigniter, which is an order of magnitude or two faster than cake.
http://avnetlabs.com/php/php-framework-comparison-benchmarks
And they didn't have a live TV press briefing every morning. Or even a non-live press briefing every morning.

On the other hand, they did have to worry about pamphlets asserting various things about the moral standards and marital status of their mothers.
tldr: Brendan Eich is seriously considering major syntax changes for ECMAScript Harmony -- something akin to a DecafScript (he says), sitting in between CoffeeScript and JavaScript as we now know it.

The blog post he discusses in the podcast is: http://brendaneich.com/2010/11/paren-free/
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As someone who has been only a light user of java.net (attempting to checkout code, navigate source repositories online, etc.) I cannot imagine how anyone could have much faith that a new architecture for this service would be any better.

Very odd that the Oracle VP states that in order to remain a part of the "Java community", Hudson should remain hosted on java.net. There is no way to quantify this but it seems like a very, very tiny minority of OSS Java projects use this service for hosting.
It does. Search the chrome extension library.
It just wasn't meant to be.

You seem to be taking one journalist's opinion pretty seriously...

No SDK for Windows or OSX?

Forget about the old Linux-only Maemo SDK. The Nokia Qt SDK is what you want: http://qt.nokia.com
Now it's $6B? 4x their six month old $1.3B valuation?

Does anyone know earnings? ~$100M? 60 P/E?

If this deal goes through I wonder if it'll get regarded as this bubble's high water mark, similar to the AOL Time Warner deal on Jan 10, 2000. NASDAQ began its free fall only two short months after that deal.
Nothing stops the user from using only the frontpage of jottit that provides the exact same functionality with no additional complexity.
The article is confusing. It doesn't state how much vitamin D is too much or what the consequences of having too much vitamin D are. Then there is this paragraph:

"The body also makes vitamin D from the sun, although in the winter in the northern half of the U.S., the sun is not strong enough for vitamin D production. While their diet may not supply enough vitamin D for many people, the sun provides enough to make up the difference, the report said."

Apparently, in the winter people should take vitamin D supplements.
Also, I believe Pixar used the Mac voice for the ship's navigation computer in WALL-E
Using Android would put them in direct competition with (very) low-margin Chinese manufacturers. This is what Apple got right: if you have your own operating system and ecosystem nailed down correctly, people do not mind paying larger margins, and you are in a different game.

I guess this is what Nokia is aiming for with Meego. But, despite the excellent work of the Qt trolls, it doesn't really seem to get off the ground...
There was a pretty good discussion of the alternatives available to Nokia on ESR's blog yesterday - http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=2772 - all the real alternatives: Windows Phone 7, MeeGo, and Android were discussed.
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Ask HN:  Are you a rebel?
One would expect a lot of people on HN to be rebels, but one might wonder from the comments on this site whether this is so. For example, there is surprisingly little criticism of computer science, social networking, employment, etc.

It seems that there are few true rebels as most people try to be part of one group or another. For example, I would not consider people who are part of a counterculture to be rebels if they are part of a large group.

Are you a true rebel?
I think the "chronic underfunding" is just as much a canard. $10K per non-special ed student should go a lot farther than it does.
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For a long time I've debated writing an article in a similar vein of this one by Schneier. I studied structural engineering in University and you would not believe how easy and cheap it is. With a solid iron pipe and the right knowledge you can kill hundreds of people and delay hundreds of thousands.
I was polyphasic for about six months a number of years ago. My schedule was a fairly standard 6x20 minute naps (commonly called the Uberman schedule). After the initial (very, very difficult) adaptation period, I felt great nearly all of the time. I would get tired right before a nap, but by the end I didn't need an alarm to wake up after 20 minutes, and naps left me feeling completely refreshed and alert. I was in graduate school at the time, so my schedule was pretty flexible, and I had a mixture of cognitively demanding work (my research: a project in geophysical fluid dynamics) and less mentally demanding work (grading, family and home responsibilities). Again, after the adaptation period, I wasn't particularly cognitively impaired.

There is a lot of misinformation out on the web about polyphasic sleep, both by its proponents as well as its detractors. Some of the things that have been written (polyphasic sleepers only get REM, for example) are just false. One problem is that there isn't a very large body of peer reviewed literature on the subject; the canonical reference is a volume of conference proceedings from 1991 which can be hard to lay hands on. The fact that (a) adaptation takes a long time (on the order of weeks) and (b) the polyphasic schedule is incompatible with the way most people live their lives has made researching it difficult.

I'm currently involved in a polyphasic sleep experiment organized by the folks at Zeo. They asked for some volunteers to use their hardware to monitor our sleep as we either adapt to a polyphasic schedule or (for those already adapted) function on one. We're not following any kind of rigorous experimental protocol, so this isn't going to be publishable research, but it will at least provide us with some measured anecdotes.
I'm from Uruguay. Here US is hated by only a few, left ideas oriented people. I think the reason that make US to be hated is because its support to dictatorships and its imperial behavior over almost every country.
But trust me, it is hated by only a few (at least here and the surroundings).
Ironically compay is a huge Lua proponent, having brought over some ruby-born projects like HAML into Lua... :)
I've had Maemo in my pocket nearly four years now--first the 770, then the N810. I love my N810. The browser's only so-so, but the xterm is fantastic. I can do development on it, running gcc, python, python3, clisp, guile, hugs, mosml, emacs, and I forget what else. git and svn, of course.

When I got a new phone a year ago, I considered the N900, but held back because its 3G was only for T-Mobile. (Yes, I actually travel in areas where T-Mobile doesn't have 3G. I spend one week a year in a spot where they don't even have GSM coverage.) But I figured I'd get its successor in 2012 or so.

Then Nokia and Intel announced MeeGo. I still haven't seen a good explanation for this--merge two OSes, only one of which has shipping products, instead of dumping the one that doesn't? Cue sinking feeling.

Nowadays I don't think I'll ever run MeeGo. Even when I get an Android phone, I'll have to carry my N810 until it dies. When it does, I'll have to try building a decent dev environment on Android. People have xterm running on it, but it doesn't have most of the tools that make Unix useful.

Sigh.
Search is only but one avenue for discovery, look at the rise of social and social media. Also they do have the right to an editorial process, you can't really expect Google to cripple their application so that a useless linkfarm can get preferable exposure because they are claiming to be a competitor.
If your definition of being a rebel means not being "part of one group or another", then I would speculate that the number of "true rebels" on HN is zero.
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> One would expect a lot of people on HN to be rebels

Why?
There is almost nothing to get off the ground yet… Running meego on some cheap netbook is meaningless, I can put anything there and I'm going to use it in the same way, I want some tablet or smartphone form device.
Because entrepreneurship involves rejection of authority -- namely a boss.
Ask HN: What should be the most important thing(s) in the life of a businessman?
What things do successful entrepreneurs hold importantly in their life?

Do these essential things tend to differ among entrepreneurs with differing specialities, e.g. engineers, designers, marketing... ?
Probably not the best idea.

Related video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuWpgRQuXU4

More info
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=21...
Well, not part of a large group.
Nice idea.

I know it's early days but the header and the takes that reads "Previous Look | web page snapshots over time" doesn't seem a very high resolution i.e. the text looks a little jagged on Chrome.

This is petty I know but it's the first thing I noticed.

Functionality wise though, nice work :D
Indeed, there is a lot of hate in the Latin America which is harvested by many politicians for their own political gain.(in the same way that Palin and Co harvest hate against illegal immigrants) One day the U.S. will have to acknowledge to start the healing process. It is amazing, the other day I was watching "The history of the U.S" and they completely skipped how the U.S. took California, Arizona and New Mexico.
The rest of http://codicesoftware.blogspot.com/2010/11/linus-on-branchin... is also interesting:

"It's actually made worse by rebasing. A lot of people end up rebasing on top of such a random kernel (again, just because it's the 'most recent'). It's very annoying."

"Not to mention that rebasing easily results in bugs of its own, when you do hit merge conflicts or double-apply something that already got applied (and wasn't seen as a duplicate and merged away automatically, because the code had been further modified since). We had that in the
DVB pull request just yesterday."

For me, this sounds like a problem with either the tool or the development process. Any thoughts on how to do it 'properly'?
Why do you think Craigslist was particularly effective, and how did you convince management to pay $11/hour?
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The proposer suggests here http://goo.gl/4P4Wa (slide 39) and here http://goo.gl/p7ReQ that local rebinding violates the expectations of the callee, but it just seems to me to be very unintuitive.
I did indeed - thanks for the reminder! But I also believe that not just designers but anyone who wants to succeed in this industry needs to be a great communicator. It is also a skill most people don't seem to value.
These benchmarks are from two years ago. The version of Cake used isn't even a stable release (1.2 RC1). Either way 1.3 has replaced 1.2 and is plenty fast for 99.99999% of sites.
Very nice parallel to the time before the second world war. But the post should also have given a credit link to Martin Niemöller: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came
I don't know anything about Hudson. But when I see stories like this (big bad corporate imposes their will on open source), I always think the drama queens (on both sides) are busy having "meetings" instead of doing actual work.

Want to fork? Then fork! You don't need anyone's permission. In this day of DVCS it's about two commands to fork back should relations improve. Using github is different only in degree, not in kind, from using a different IDE on your local machine. You don't have to have a holy war about it. If your development is better as a result you will win, if not you won't. It might be fun to throw a little tantrum, but it won't make the code any better.

If I'm a developer, especially a developer on a project for which I'm not getting paid, I'll do the development using whatever the hell tools I want, thanks. And if someone tells me I can't, frankly, it's not really up to them.
I can only speak from my experience as an American living in Argentina for a little under 10 years, who was a Spanish major in college, and has travelled a fair bit around the continent.

The idea that people in South America "hate the US" has never been my experience. People in the USA on both the right and the left seem to have a paranoid fantasy that everybody everywhere hates Americans. Right wingers think people are jealous of us, while left wingers think we have pissed people off too much because of our abuses of power. I think both of them suffer from the same root problem: the delusion that people everywhere are obsessed with the USA and Americans.

In my travels, people I meet usually see the USA as just another country like any other - they may have a more or less favorable opinion, but Americans are lumped in the same category with Bulgarians and Poles as "foreigners." I've also observed that people are usually smart enough to separate the USA's government from its people. When Bush was in power, people used to sometimes ask me about him, usually in the context of "wow, I really feel sorry for you having a guy like that as your leader." Keep in mind that Bush was extremely unpopular here in Argentina.

I know this may be hard for some Americans to come to terms with, but while there are things that make us a wonderful country, and also some terrible aspects of our past... we are really just like everybody else, and at least in my experience that's just how people here have treated me.

Your milage may vary. :)
In the U.S. at least, a normal, healthy diet is something of a contradiction. Michael Pollan wouldn't need to promote "eat food, not too much, mostly plants" if people were doing it already. I agree with you completely on your other points, but telling some people to eat a "normal" diet will be interpreted as, "eat out of fast food restaurants and freezer cases," because for many in the U.S., that is a normal diet.
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It’s funny when evil telecoms fight each other until I realize no matter which one wins, we lose.
But now I have to go online to download the bits. And how am I going to read it in bed? If you'd be less self-serving and think about the rest of us for a change you and print the article out that would be appreciated. It's only 50 page but it would probably be better to get it bound as well.

I expect this by end of day, please.
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No. I refuse to conform to expectations of non-conformism. (And you may all be individuals, but I'm not.)
definitely agree that the state of CI projects for Ruby/Rails is not great. I was using CruiseControl.rb on Rails 2.x with success, but getting it to play well when moving to Bundler/RVM was way more difficult than it should have been.

I always thought Integrity showed promise, but then you have this: http://builder.integrityapp.com/integrity
It's Integrity watching itself, and the last build from Jun 26th has failed. That doesn't inspire confidence.

So for now, I'm sticking with Hudson. It is a bit heavier, but it's available as a package on Ubuntu, so installing and maintaining is cake. I also like that fact that its flexible to do builds for any platform/codebase, which lets me consolidate all CI into one CI app.
Why is working without js an advantage? Do you often browse on browsers that do not possess a js interpreter?
Why we want reproducible builds
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I used to be on that side, but with Reddit's success and their use of Markdown I've decided that it is OK for even the non-technical audience. (Though there still should be the little "formatting help" button like they have nearby)
I think a Zynga IPO is likely to be an ever crazier proposition that gets snapped up.
"Just two people lined up at Orange's London flagship store on October 21, creating an embarrassment for both the store and for Microsoft as the amount of press outnumbered the actual line."

Well at least nobody got hurt!
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Autonomous battle robots making their own tactical and possibly strategic decisions? I see no way this could go wrong.
I once had an "potential investor" come in to see my top-secret project (I was much more paranoid in those days). She loved it and called me back two days later and asked to meet with me for breakfast. When I arrived, she was wearing a transparent shirt and no undergarments, which freaked me out a bit (not relavent to story, but weird nonetheless). Instead of discussing money, she told me, flat out, that unless I hire her to be the president of my company, she will put me out of business. She claimed to have six people from Sun's Java team ready to start copying my software. She said she'd go to the Demo conference that year (where I was going to be presenting on-stage) and would badmouth me to everyone in the audience to insure that no-one would talk to me about financing at the conference. Then she stopped and waited for my answer. I thought about it (<500ms) and told her that I would not be hiring her. She basically told me I should should shut down my company because she was going to make it her job to ruin us starting that afternoon. Well, needless to say, even with complete insight as to what I was doing, a (supposed) team of engineers on tap, and a plan to ruin me, she never shipped a product. But I wish she had because we ended-up "pivoting" a few months later and it was the pivoted product that took us to the finish line.

Generally, copying won't happen until something has momentum in the marketplace. If, for example, I heard about Groupon before it launched, I would have reacted by saying "How are you going to get a lot of local companies to participate? Are you going to hire a team of door-to-door salespeople? It just can't scale." And I, of course, would have been wrong.

As far as bookmarking+todo lists goes, I was prototyping that idea a few years ago, but scrapped it because I didn't see it getting the kind of traction needed to be successful (at that time). Perhaps I will be proven wrong again!
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There is never a straight answer to these types of questions.

If you're just getting started then Heroku is probably the easiest and cheapest way to get started.

I seem to have the perception that many apps do something like Heroku --> EY --> Self-hosted/managed as the app grows