skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While treating sunk costs as sunk is good, it's also important to avoid futile thrashing between alternatives, and to recognize that you have imperfect information at all times. There are times where it makes sense to continue to solve a problem the same way, vs. switching to a newer and better solution as soon as it is epsilon better. (generally, people have a lot bigger problem with treating sunk costs as sunk, but there are cases where they thrash back and forth and end up completing neither)
Yeah - I think that was the intention of the author. I used to work in AI research so I'm probably being a bit harsh.
I see its actually more than just thinking because he has a repo called "Io port to Javascript (node.js)" on github: https://github.com/stevedekorte/oia
A lot of my project ideas come on plane rides to or back from a nice long vacation. Since there's no internet, I'd just sketch stuff out on a piece of paper. If there's a cute hostess I'd use her to bounce ideas off of.
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This is very good. Sometimes it was some kind of guessing game to choose a kernel release to use in our environment.
It's not entirely about loving Visual Studio, it's mostly about VS being something you have to use.
I think the intersection of programmers who use Vim and programmers who use VS for their day job is much higher. I do a mix of .NET, Perl, Javascript, and HTML at my job, so depending on my current task, I may be using VS2010 or Vim, so it is very nice to use the same set of keybindings between applications.
Hmm I'm not sure, there isn't anything I can think of that it 'replaces' in VS; only the editor parts, obviously. I mean you can still Ctrl-F to search in a file, but a vimmer would use /<regex> of course. But well if vsvim works... I'll keep an eye on that project.

(as a side note, I wonder what motivates people to write plugins like this for fun. If the rage-inducing experience that is writing addins for Office is any indication of what it's like to write plugins for Visual Studio, I'd rather burn off my nipples with a hot poker than writing one of them in my spare time).

Anyway what I love about ViEmu is how over the years it has managed to incorporate things to give it the true Vim experience that VS couldn't do, like search highlighting, easy 'search for word under cursor' etc.

(maybe newer versions of VS have these things build in, I've been using ViEmu and Visual Assist since VS 2003 so I'm not 100% sure any more of what comes from these plugins or what is 'native' functionality :) ).
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"Different" by Youngme Moon. This book was given out at the Business of Software 2010 conference, and she also spoke there. It's basically a call to arms for meaningful differentiation with organized business case studies of companies that have achieved it.

http://www.amazon.com/Different-Escaping-Competitive-Youngme...
My experiences with it have been that it is less feature complete than ViEmu, but the author has been great at implementing things that I create a bug report about on the github for the project. So if you use it and you find something not working equally well, make a bug report https://github.com/jaredpar/VsVim
Ask HN: Review my app: Hacker Weekend
Here's the URL: http://hwknd.com

It tracks tweets for new github.com repositories created this week, and posts them in a nice searchable list. It also displays languages used, collaborators and you can view readmes inline by clicking on the project's void.

There's also a search landing page for bookmarking purposes at: http://hwknd.com/search

Searching is word separated OR, and also indexes readmes and language names.

And a Language Wars chart (total lines of code this week): http://hwknd.com/languagewars

Also, if you sit on the home page, it will automatically inform you for any changes and display a (!) in the title, and then auto-refresh on window/tab focus.

It is written in node.js and runs completely stand-alone, with only a few modules dependencies (no extra processes).

Source code is at: http://github.com/stagas/hwknd.com (might be a bit behind in features) and is MIT licenced so you can fork it or clone it and run your own version.

I apologize for double posting this earlier this week, but there have been so many additions and features since then (it was just a blank page back then, all of the above was missing) that I felt I should repost: http://apps.ycombinator.com/item?id=1955488

Feedback and suggestions are welcome.
Agreed. This crosses the line and becomes a terrorist act in itself.

During WWII it was treason to reveal the activities and movements of troops, operations and shipments of factories and transport critical to the war effort. (And everything was critical to the war effort.)

Any possible sympathy for the good that Wikileaks is doing, has been undone.
I cannot upvote you enough. I wonder if I can hack this onto my wordpress blog.
Eating Animals, by Jonathan Safran Foer

Exceptional book about the environmental, social and individual costs of industrial animal farming. Also somewhat philosophical about consuming animals and cruelty against them.

http://www.eatinganimals.com/
However, when you see the MathML rendering of Firefox, you immediately see why something like MathJax is still _required_. We would need widespread support for MathML rendering that is actually readable. That will take another while.
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what is the difference between the Wave protocol and websockets in HTML5? To me, they seem very much the same, yes?
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Why is this not widely known? Amazing stuff.
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But not 8K for a high- or low-income family?
Basically, the new profile has become more ad-friendly than what it used to be, user friendly.
No, I don't like the way my communications (Wall Posts) have been sidelined and ads have become the most prominent feature in my profile page.
That's a great idea. Gifts such as those will give you experiences and the basis for more experiences over a lifetime. Physical gifts can sometimes do that, but not as often.
Shouldn't be surprising since Hans Rosling (the guy in the video) co-founded Gapminder.
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The Catcher in the Rye by J.D.Salinger because of the Holden Caulfield in me who couldn't tolerate all the phoniness around.

Also enjoyed The Man Who Knew Infinity by Robert Kanigel. After reading about Hardy in this book, I have read "A Mathematician's Apology" which was excellent too.
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192.0.2.0/24 is actually intended for use in examples and documentation, just as it was used in this announcement.

Per RFC5737 - http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5737.txt:

"The use of designated address ranges for documentation and examples reduces the likelihood of conflicts and confusion arising from the use of addresses assigned for some other purpose."
The King of of the UAE even begged the US to bomb Iran...

Obviously Iran wants the bomb, and given the crazy guy in charge it should make anyone feel _very_ uncomfortable. The last time they pursued this the Israelis at some point bombed their reactor.

Why would Iran risk an outright attack just to build nuclear power plants? Doesn't make sense on any level. A nuke on the other hand is a guarantee that nobody is going to attack your country, ever, again. Invaluable.
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It seems like every other country has hopes for creating a startup mecca/silicon valley clone. Russia, Chile comes to mind, unfortunately startups work only under established governments with a solid legal and business foundation.

It's awfully hard to do business when your operating budget is overtaken by bribes to officials.
How difficult would it be to normalize decibel output from a speaker, with an upper cap for max?
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Yeah. If you working on a nuke for Iran, you know you're a target for the Mossad (at the very least). Whether you call yourself a civilian or a soldier doesn't matter.
Tell HN: like Hacker News, in Hebrew
For the past few months, I've been teaching myself web development by way of cloning HN. I'm mostly there now, and I'd like to put it to some use.
I asked myself what HN-like site would people find useful and also keep me interested, and my very unimaginative answer was: HN, but in my Hebrew, my native tongue.

So, if you are interested and patient with bugs, the site is: bitorama.com, and available invite codes are 'hn1', 'hn2', ... ,'hn100'.
Discretion != dishonesty.
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Who says they have to be terrorists? If there is a war with Iran, guess which country is next to their shores at missile striking distance? Besides, what do you know of terrorist goals?

The goal you stated for terrorists is not mutually exclusive with attacking economic and military targets. Bin Laden himself said that his goal is to bankrupt the US and attacking those installations would make a pretty good target for achieving that.
Looks ugly here. The letters are overlapping.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/388822/mathjax.png

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I miss the time super-villains would hire scientists and fly them to paradisaic islands...
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I totally agree with you. In terms of not getting the original content not getting the recognition it deserves, this is exactly right. We write a lot of original content, that unless it gets many votes very quickly, does very little on HN. And often someone may link to it, or re-blog later on and get credit.

When it comes to videos, especially TED talks, etc... we try and put up really high quality stuff that our readers will appreciate. Is it fair that we can get traffic off of other people's work sometimes? Probably not. TED talks, and this video from today are a tremendous amount of work and we should probably not always link to our blog.

I will say, however, that on HN, I have more than just this one account. My other "dummy" accounts are used to submit others content etc... Although this account can start doing that as well. Anyways, thanks for the comment, it is very true.
Rework

Some things are exaggerated. That's what I like about it.
Worth doing a Hacker News spreadsheet?
I get ideas by naturally wanting things easy and believing others want things easy too. So once i hit a difficulty, i start looking for ways to make things easier for myself and others.
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As usual comments are welcome and very desired!
Brilliant indeed. Now available as a TV-series as well. And a sequel is out, World Without End: http://www.amazon.com/World-Without-End-Ken-Follett/dp/05259...
So, you are just re-linking from news site which in turn have links to the actual content so you are leveraging TechCrunch/HackerNews to do a lot of pre-sorting for you - assuming you link to the actual site of course and not HackerNews or TechCrunch - because that would give away your source and make your twittering a bit more useless.

This is my number one reason to avoid twitter: it is just all re-tweets of re-tweets of news sites and almost never any unique, REAL content. It's all just a huge noise floor.

If I want interesting articles without having to wait for someone to twitter it, I'll just follow one of the countless news sites out there - no need to wait for your tweeting and it will benefit the site and community of that site - not just a single person trying to promote themselves by trying to show how they follow the latest news.
When I had a Facebook account, I thought it would be nice if I could configure it such that if somebody tried to tag me in a photo it would automatically show a comment to them saying either:

User x has opted out of being tagged in photos. You will not be able to tag them.

And/or:

User x has requested that people don't post photos of them on Facebook. Please take this under advisement before posting such photos. You might want to ask their permission first.
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I read those a few years back and they obviously come highly recommended, but in the same vein of historical fiction the best this year was: "Drood", by Dan Simmons.
Certainly the World Trade Center was a 'soft' target, but I wouldn't describe the Pentagon as anything other than a military target.

Also don't forget the biggest terrorist attack prior to 9/11 against the US was not the previous (mostly failed) WTC attack, it was the two embassies in Africa (somewhat militarized considering every embassy has a wall and a detachment of marines) and prior to that the USS Cole. And a ways back we had the marine barracks in Beirut. Terrorists are not afraid of military targets.

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_United_States_embassy_bomb...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Beirut_barracks_bombing
What's wrong with Firefox's MathML rendering? The MathJax MathML example looks fine with Firefox 4 on Windows 7 (it seems to be using Cambria Math to render symbols).
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In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust, because he shows that there's writing after Dostoyevsky, and because he probably was a hacker.
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I would go with those two for the year so far - I have high hopes for Tron Legacy though...
Congrats. Glad this is working out for you and that the income is better than previous pay. I first saw $2k and was a bit disappointed, but didn't realize you were in Poland, and that this was double your earlier money.

Keep up the good work!

Plug: This is the sort of thing we'd like to see more of at the next indieconf! :)
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You might look back into the WoT. Since Jordan's death, Brandon Sanderson has been finishing up the series, and (IMO) the latest books have returned to a level of quality rivaling the first three.
It's called a Limiter or Compressor and musicians have been using them for decades.
I wouldn't really call it security by obscurity, you can probably find most of this information already. When I was in high school I had a map of the natural gas pipelines and power transmission lines in my state (public records). Since the forest is cleared for both, they are great places to go skiing in the winter on the hilly parts or ride around on ATVs or horseback in the summer.

The leak to worry about is the priority. What is the difference between a super critical oil refininery and the average refinery? I bet the average terrorist niether knows or has the means to find this out, but now there is a hit list in their hand given to them by the leakers. Going back to my example, we knew we were under powerlines, but is this just some random line to a town or is it THE line to New York City. I didn't know and I didn't care, but this might help answer questions like that for people we don't need or want to be telling.

If that doesn't damage our national security, I really don't know what does.
Ask HN: How did you make your first mega bucks as a hacker
Success stories are inspiring. Please share your story of your first break as a hacker...could be a gig, product, whatever!!!!!!!!
Square? Really? I would say that is a rectangle. But I guess geometric precision would not have given you the headline you were going for :-)
It seems to me that GoDaddy does this for free? I've also used Slicehost for free.

Is there a difference between their free DNS offering and Amazon's paid version?
I must say this is a very pretty render for a web-based text. Too bad the justification breaks when zooming in/out.

Also, the computation takes a while. Is this a dynamic programming algorithm? Maybe browsers should support this natively.
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Why? It was funny. Might appeal more to those of us who have experienced academia.
I see no hyphens... breaks (eg: lines 3-4), but no markers for them.

edit: wait, they're there when I zoom out a couple levels. Weird.
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There are far too many people who do this, and it provides absolutely no value. Why would I be interested in 10+ links a day from somebody I don't know who is just picking his favorite articles from sites that I visit anyway?

Imagine if everybody on Twitter did this, it would be unmanagable. The most successful Twitter accounts (and in-turn, most followed blogs etc.) are people who write and produce original content. That is what I follow on Twitter and I assume most people in the HN audience would be doing the same.
The last time they pursued this the Israelis at some point bombed their reactor.

That was Iraq, at Osirak.

But your larger point is correct. Nobody in foreign policy circles takes Iran's claims about having only a peaceful nuclear program seriously. Especially not when two of the main facilities were built in secret before being uncovered by dissidents and Western intelligence agencies. No country pursuing a purely peaceful nuclear program builds enrichment facilities in secret.
That's probably a bug, what browser and operating system are you using?
My question is: why haven't the tv manufacturers figured out a way to automatically regulate the volume to prevent loud commercials? It doesn't seem like it'd be impossible to solve and it'd be a great selling point.
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Google Charts API does not work over HTTPS. It redirects you to Google's homepage after showing a certificate warning.

Also, https://google.com/ redirects to http://www.google.com/ and https://www.google.com/ redirects to https://encrypted.google.com/.

EDIT: Looks like I am wrong: comment below suggests that HTTPS now works for Charts (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1974878)

EDIT EDIT: Nevermind, it does not work. https://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=p3&chd=s:Uf9a...
You are right. A serious enemy would have this information. You can be sure during the Cold War the USSR had a list just like this on us, and we had a list just like this on them. And we pointed the nukes at each place on that list. I would wager a couple countries still keep a list like this.

The terrorists are not like that. They don't have the resources. But they do have the means to blow people up and kill in the dozens or hundreds at a time (and on 9/11, thousands at a time).

If you worked in one of those oil refineries in Qatar that yesterday wasn't a a terrorist target, but today is, would you be happy about Wikileaks? Most of these are far from obvious to laymen, which most of the terrorists are.
Oh, I was wondering if it was just me. A few lines seem to have hanging right margins. This is probably because my morning lean-back browsing is done at +2 zoom-factor in Safari.
Same here, Chrome 8.0.552.215, Mac OS X 10.6.5.
In the documentary Swedish national television made about him, he says this regarding that TED video:

"If I count the number of minutes I've been teaching, this video teaches more than anything I've done in my life. All the articles, books, courses... None of it can compare with this one video. That's a humbling experience."

The documentary is now available on youtube, with English subtitles: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_7howQzatw
It looks really good in Firefox! However, I just tried printing the page and though it still looks decent, the justification is a lot worse than when rendered on-screen.
The other way to solve this problem would have been for TV manufacturers to install limiters in TVs. The technology has been around for decades but it has never caught on. Regulation is a less-ideal solution to the problem vs technology because the feedback loop is long. Install a limiter in your TV today and the problem is solved immediately.

Seems like the manufacturing side might also be a market failure--it's a feature that most/all consumers want but since the market is fiercely price-competitive no manufacturer wants to pay for it. Still, it seems like a feature that Sony/LG/etc could advertise and gain a small amount of market share for.
I knew I saw something like this before. Thanks for reminding me.
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The official unofficial Verizon iPhone waiting list. Made the site in under a day using .net and jquery.
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Zooming is problematic, I haven't quite figured out a reliable way of fixing it yet. The problem is most apparent in Webkit based browsers, Firefox seems to handle it much better (though there are still some small problems--most can be fixed though.)

Yes, this is an application of dynamic programming. The computation is actually quite fast, most of the time is spent in retrieving the text metrics (put each word in a span, retrieve width and move on to the next word.) If that can somehow be alleviated it would become a feasible solution.

I agree with you that browsers should support this natively (Internet Explorer actually does.) If you are interested, I've written a bit on this subject in this Typophile thread: http://typophile.com/node/71247
Thanks Kreci, I've been refreshing your site in anticipation of this post =)
This plus the typeset library, I do wonder when will we have an online/ebook of TAOCP?
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I'm getting "Uncaught ReferenceError: Float32Array is not defined" on Chrome on OS X. Anyone else get it to work?
Yes and it's a doozy. dual core.
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Some TVs do have this feature. It's called Smart Sound on my grandparent's TV.
Secret is pretty high. In the movies you all these folders stamped TOP SECRET getting passed around the time, but that is actually really rare. It is a pyramid and the bulk of it is Distro D/For Official Use Only, then there is a bunch of Restricted, then a bit less Confidential, and then significantly less Secret, and then a tiny tiny bit of Top Secret. And there is nothing higher than that civilians can handle.
Is classification copyright? I get the feeling that people are conflating the two issues. I don't know if classification goes with copyright but my general sense is that they aren't linked.
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Even if browsers would support MathML, humans like to write LaTeX, so MathJax is still useful to convert from LaTeX to MathML.