skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious if full-disk encryption works with Time Machine. Since upgrading to Leopard, Time Machine is one of my favorite features, and I know FileVault users can't back up home directory files on Mac OS X.

In theory, there's no reason a file couldn't be backed up from one fully-encrypted disk to another fully-encrypted disk, as long as the copy can be authenticated.

But Time Machine likes to treat its target disk as "special"; I'm not sure if this is simply due to the presence of "/Backup.db", or if the entire disk needs special formatting.

Of course, if PGP is targeting the enterprise, businesses may already back up their Macs in some other way and not care if Time Machine works.
I'm a believer in grief counseling. Instead of asking a bunch of hackers who can at best somewhat relate due to something somewhat similar, go ask a professional trained to help you in this sort of situation.
This is 100% correct. My book sold over 100k copies the traditional route, there's no way it would have sold more than a few k with my pushing it myself, even though I had a widely read blog in the niche.

It's just like the equity equation. Also, being published once makes it easier in the future should you desire to go that route, while self publishing does not.

The way I see it, a writer self-publishing is like a hacker building his own servers and running them from his basement.
A decent book contract is more on the order of 10% of list price, with increases at certain volume levels.
You could do it as a series of tweets @fakearrington is still available.
The best consulting advice I got, and revisit is from Jerry Weinberg's "Secrets of Consulting".

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0932633013

Highly recommended.
You're not going to get very much faster than a full table scan with this setup.

If an int column has values from 1-10, indexes don't help, for the obvious reason that there will only be 10 index buckets to put things into. I will bet more than one of your 40 (40?!) columns has a restricted set of values.

You could try playing with the order of the where clause, and/or try sticking the entire database into RAM.
I'm not sure what the best way to put this is without sounding insensitive, but death of a loved one, although tragic, can be an opportunity for a sobering-up unlike any other. lyime, maybe this is a good time to re-consider the fundamentals in life, take some time to think about what you want and where you are going?
You should be looking for both a programmer and a UI designer, since both are shit without the other.
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Or if it's going to a customer who is using a large enough quantity that efficency gains of a few percentage points are big savings.

If Google can shave .5 percent off their electric bill by using a more efficient cooling fan on PSU's going in to their server farms, it's worth it to spend a fair amount to realize that savings, especially since they know their usage is going to grow.
my response: so what?
This is more a personal question, it all depends on your start up & your current situation.
I second this, and want to add to it.

This is particularly important if you feel like you might have conflicted emotions. For example, it will be almost impossible for you to process your emotions, if you are actually feeling anger (for him putting you through this) or guilt (for being angry, too, or "I could of stopped it" type thinking) involved in the complex emotion you are trying to process called grief. These are all legitimate ways to feel. A professional will know how to sort out those different feelings and process them. It would be hard to do that on your own.
+1 for the awesome comment

EDIT: Misleading title--nothing to do with neurons or 'unreality'...
If I were doing this, I would write a quick Perl script that uses Gungho for crawling your site, HTML::TreeBuilder for extracting the text, and Text::Aspell for spell-checking the page.

But, I probably wouldn't do this, because spell checking is irrelevant. It won't tell you if your prose makes sense, it won't tell you if you've used the wrong words, and it won't tell you if the content is out of date. It's best to go through your site and see if it all makes sense. Only a human can do that.
I'm not sure I agree.

If your side project is really important to you, and this event derails it considerably, then you risk your memories of your friend being tainted with resentment. If it is a matter of a couple days, that is different.

You should process the emotions (by seeing a grief counselor) but you should be open to deciding to keep with your project so that disappointment over derailing your project does not morph with grief and other negative emotions from your friends dying.
When you say re-consider the fundamentals of life what exactly are you referring to? What should I think about, sorry just trying to understand what you are saying.
I think that drfanke is suggesting that you load in half the compressed dictionary ( or a third, or whatever percentage works), and then because the document has been sorted in alphabetical order, you simply start comparing words. When you get to a word that is alphabetically after the last entry in the current dictionary, you load the next segment of the dictionary. It's not a bad approach, and even has the interesting property of enabling a load of speed enhancements of the algo, because the next word in your document is going to be nearby to its spelling in the dictionary...

Does anyone know if this algo was ever actually used?
A9.What about this Search Engine?
There's only one rule for startup success guys.

That rule is to build stuff that some defined segment of the market will want to buy and to build it so when you sell it at the price they think it's worth that you will make a whole bunch of money.

Every other rule, consideration, or other form of pontification on this subject is total B.S.
I think the most convincing evidence I've seen to date that says we're in a real recession (probably too early to start using the "d" word but that may be coming sooner than we all think) is that the border patrol apparently apprehended some illegals a few weeks ago as they tried to sneak back into Mexico.
Become a specialist at being a generalist
The logo of Throbbing Gristle looks similar.
Structured Procrastination - "the art of making procrastination work for you"
Javascript won't help you much when it comes to dynamically uploading content. Adobe's got a really flexible uploader in Flash, and the nicest Javascript interface I've seen to it is http://swfupload.org/, though it does take some work to integrate.
Gas does cost $10 a gallon (in Europe).
CGDL: Compact Gradient Definition Language - GradientServer.com
You should come to Turkey and ride a bus. They know how to run an affordable and effective bus system. (Effectivity is a rare sign in Turkey though.)

You also get free snacks and beverages on busses there.
The background radiation has fluctuations, but until the data from WMAP came out, these fluctuations were thought to be consistent with a nearly-scale invariant Gaussian distribution.

In general, however, the background radiation is pretty smooth -- smooth enough that before WMAP the larger fluctuations were essentially unknown.
I'm sorry to hear that, lyime.

The reality is that coping with such an event is different for everyone.

You owe it to yourself to keep your best interests in mind right now. And if that means putting off your startup and getting finals extensions, then you absolutely should.
This is something that I just put together, the result of about 6 months of mulling over the concept. This site explains just what CGDL is, showcases the gradient server rendering engine (all the gradient color fades are generated from CGDL), and incorporates a CGDL editor that lets you create and edit CGDL strings.

Please check it out and let me know what you think. And if you look at the source, you'll see some other clever tricks that you might want to discuss as well.

I am also considering the application of CGDL to print, video, flash, desktop apps, OSs, etc. Pretty much anywhere you can use a gradient fade.

Thanks!
The problem is that attention is a zero-sum game. If a person doesn't have the time to tag or manipulate his or her photos while producing more and more, what's to say that other people won't all have the same problem?

Are we to believe that for each person who generates 10X as much content there will be that many other "consumer" types that will pick up the slack?
Was eBay a Fad?
Does anyone have an idea how he could have managed to cast the vortex in his bathtube?
If not ingrained in the company theory and practice or if they do not strive to be ingrained they are nothing more than high paid figure heads.
Sorry, I went for the link-bait-headline instead of a serious one.
You know, I seriously, seriously think that transhumanists have an easier time dealing with death. We're not all conflicted about death. We have no concept that we ought to be bottling up the anger. We don't think we ought to be "coming to terms" with death. Making peace with death is not a goal. Death is horrible and we have to stop it.

There, that's it, you're done. That's the resolution.

http://yudkowsky.net/yehuda.html

(my little brother, he was 19)
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No problem, it's hard not to be vague... I'm not sure how close you were to your roomie (I've been close to most of mine), but I imagine I'd take time to reconsider my friendships, my ambitions, goals, etc. Is your startup really all that important right now, or can it wait a couple of years? What do you want to do now that you're graduating - would you be happier doing something else (academia, traveling, volunteering, teaching)? Should you get a puppy? Or a new haircut? Write an emacs extension? Read that book you've been meaning to (or one you haven't)?

I've been very fortunate not to have lost loved ones so unexpectedly as you just did, but I find letting my mind wander in times of such stress is the best way of coping with loss.

On the other hand, this probably varies by personality, so consulting a professional (shrink, priest, rabbi, etc) is probably your best bet.
now who wouldnt want to run their app on that.
Ten Odd Jobs, With Pics
Not really news, but I enjoyed it when I read it several months ago.
What about it? It's more cluttered than Google, takes longer to load, and only lets me search e-commerce sites.

It seems like restricting my search options while making the user experience worse is not a recipe for success.

A9 has been around for a while, and I haven't heard any convincing reasons to use it.
Amazon launches service to sell low-circulation films
With the economy slumping, I wouldn't be surprised to see a resurgance at Ebay.
No. eBay was a good idea at the time executed without enough mobility.

Auctions are losing a ton of share, and fixed price has been gaining pretty steadily.

This might be because fixed price distributors have gotten smarter at setting prices, not because fixed price is inherently better than auctions.
I think the problem is that FileVault (and presumably PGP) stores your home directory as one large file, so every time any change is made to any file it has to backup the entire home directory.

I have the same problem with Parallels images... any time a change is made on Windows filesystem in Parallels the entire image needs to be backed up (several GB). I ended up excluding the Parallels images from Time Machine.
Or at a startup that's on its way to replace eBay :)
Polaris VC: is the idea more important than the team?
Thanks for the reply. My roommate was close to me otherwise I wouldn't have posted this on YC. I think I am going to seek professional counseling as many of you have recommended. In terms of reconsidering things... I have always put my relationships with friends/family in front of everything else. I believe that people are more important then anything else and so I give me best in that respect. Although I find my self happy when I am doing what I enjoy the most. For me it is technology, it is learning and it is applying. This is why I am here; being part of this community.
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DHH actually plugged that book at RailsConf this year and sales on Amazon shot up to top spot in consulting section. Yeah, it's a great book!
I was hoping he'd start telling the story of how he became a world champion ping pong player! Got kinda disappointed when it didn't happen.
My condolences.

I went through the death of my brother many years ago and it was hard. Looking back, I did some stupid things and some good things. From my experience these may help you:

* Acknowledge your emotion. Cry when you need to.
* Talk. The face-to-face conversations I had with my friends were truly life-saving. Even the times they didn't say anything.
* Talking a stranger on a bus journey also helped in my case. There was something about it that also helped.
* Spend some time alone in a place that you love.
* Writing also helped a lot. I wrote a lot. Most of it without really thinking - just pages and pages of anything and everything. It was a great release.

Take care.
Are you sure you are not mixing up mathematics with astrology? The term 'mathematician' (or better - its equivalent in the day's languages) was often used as a synonym for astrologer.
Good interview, I'd love to see their reader drop in price. Still too expensive as an impulse purchase for the masses.
I think I am going to seek professional counseling as many of you have recommended.

Great idea. Just don't go to anyone who can prescribe you pills.

For me it is technology, it is learning and it is applying.

Well put. But here is what keeps me up at night: as the tiny fraction of humanity's population lucky enough to be born in the right place at the right time, we have more ways of "applying ourselves" than the vast majority of people ever born has. How do we figure out what the best way of applying ourselves is? Is it grad school, or startups? If it's teaching inner city high school, why not rural India?
Good point. In practice though I like to keep 1 networking process/thread, and use the other cores for other tasks, such as database access, and other operations that might block. Or just long operations that need to get done without compromising other connections etc.

After all, the actual networking code isn't cpu heavy.

That way you don't have to deal with any synchronization or concurrency issues in the networking code at all.
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Check out this video from his augmented reality post: http://perception.inf.um.es/%7Earuiz/dynamic.avi
You're thinking that having the OS save everything in a context switch is better than you just calling a different function to do a piece of work for one of your connections? Not really.
I'm sorry for your loss.

Some milestones, perhaps self-imposed professional ones, can wait. Others, like doing well on finals, can't. We all have responsibilities. Prioritize as best you can.

Now might be a good time to call in some favors from friends, family, and your school's faculty. Ask your dean and professors what policy is in situations like this. Talk to your friends. Go to your family.

Part of community is providing aid in difficult times. Don't hesitate to use the resources available to you.
I have a friend at UCI who got bitten by this.

The problem is that the financial burden of identity theft too often seems to hit the affected rather than the companies responsible. If UnitedHealthcare had to pick up the full tab for resolving the problem, then they might see the value in investing in a better system down the road.
It sounds strange that you do not use 'the' before Song Dynasty. I am not a native English speaker - did you do that intentionally?
Do not forget Leibniz.
Dude I don't know about you but I don't really give a shit if people downmod me here or anything. I'm just here to learn and enjoy the ride :-) but uhh ok I'll downmod you just for the hell of it.
Wasn't this article here last week? (albeit on another url)
Perhaps you should do a http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burrows-Wheeler-Transformation first?
Perhaps we'll also roll up our sleeves and make some stuff again, instead of being the worlds "office space" and letting the rest of the world do the building for us.

Americans were always so very good at making stuff. Rockets, cars, computers, fun stuff. Seems all we make these days is weapons, fast food, and the same movie over and over.
Me too - some years ago.
Finals can also be put off. The school will certainly have a leave of absence program.
Well, there were banks which developed, offered, and sold the financial products you now call "Liar Loans". And those banks did so in plain sight of governmental institutions supposed to do checks and balances. The whole system obviously didn't work as intended, so I doubt that blaming the customers will help much in learning from the mistakes that were made.
Maybe they also confused it at the time and all mathematicians were associated with astrologers?

Surely this must be a decided thing in history...
Yes: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=207995
Thanks for filling in for my laziness :)
A factor of nine improvement has been noted elsewhere on this forum: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=196994
Yes, and in some situations, you can easily tap into googles spell check for you own automated needs.
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Seems a bit short-sighted from the RIM lot. According to the rumours, the iPhone 3G is going to be subject to the same carrier discounts as any other phone. That would totally blow away the BlackBerry's only advantage (price).

Because let's face it, the BlackBerry (I am cursed to be the owner of an 8800 that I completely and thoroughly hate (bought before the iPhone was available)) is really bad when compared to an iPhone. At a similar price, only an idiot would buy the BlackBerry.
Is this a reasonably heuristic? (I use it, too - so I want to know.)
Apple to profit from iPhone application sales
The next '$100 laptop' may be the future design for all
Malt beer.
The revised visual design is wonderful and clear (the check scanning process screen especially) and I'm sure the touchscreens will be a lot more pleasant to use.

However, I don't understand why they force the user to distinguish between depositing checks and cash. The scanner can tell the difference just fine I'm sure.

Actually, it'd be cool to not have to push a deposit button at all – just start sliding checks in and it'd know I was depositing and switch to that mode.
britannica has the chutzpah to comment on anything to do with the web?
That is a spectacular essay. Thanks for the link. I have questions about your take on transhumanism, but I don't want to derail this thread. Email?
JQuery UI 1.5 Adds Effects and Themes
2.5 kW !!! /add your own Doc Brown...
This article [] was linked in the Reddit comments for this post - it goes into an explanation of bloom filters and then includes the code for a spell checker implemented with them.

[]: http://ipowerinfinity.wordpress.com/2008/03/02/bloom-filters...
Twitter Betting it All on the Apple TweetStorm
Promotion on Mac software
Just thought I'd post this for those of you who use Macs
It's the jQuery UI plug in that has reached the 1.5 milestone. The latest jQuery release is 1.2.6 - the headline had me worried - I though I had dropped way behind.
Does PG really need a book? Maybe to make a little money, or for the vanity of being a published author, but his legacy is online. It's just the new medium.
Understanding CSS z-index
No More Virgins in New York
this is very serious all round>

http://thenextweb.org/2008/06/09/slide-says-no-more-facebook...
> Averroes was a pretty crappy Muslim by today's standards.

Today's standards are the problem.

The above mentioned scientists did consider themselves religious Muslims (Averroes reconciliated Aristotle with Islamic thought in the face of attacks from traditionalists, and more generally was a very very accomplished religious scholar). They just didn't accept the narrowness of the clerical representation.

The eminence of these scholars were not flukes but a result of a successful effort by many caliphs to promote science and learning across the empire (f.ex. Harun al-Rashid who is widely recognized for this).

As for admiring Hellenistic thought that is universal to earlier Muslim scholars. That is what allowed them to be great, the ability to assimilate foreign ideas.
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Of course no one would care. New ideas are always repelled by inertia. Why do you think we still use the terribly inefficient QWERTY keyboard?
I've found that posting about it on the Internet often helps.
It's the

@{$h{$k}}

syntax that's fugly. +1 for Python.
Sorry. Fixed it.
Which database server are you using? Do most queries include conditions of the form C=3 on a limited number of columns? Are any of the columns large?
Sounds like what you want is a bitmap index. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitmap_index
Is the 80 character line limit still relevant?
JASON report on "Human Performance" (pdf)
When my mother died about 6 months ago it was hard, but I was surprised at how fast i could put my self together and concentrate on my real dreams. I started to learn programming for seriously(before that it was just some curiosity) Started orienting myself and stopped wasting time, because I realised i have no time to lose. You have to be great and have to work hard at your goals. I still wish my mother's guidance and support were here, but i manage pretty well on my own. In the morning when my aunt came to tell me she said "you are a philosopher,you understand, life sometimes sucks" It takes some philosophical patience and understanding to deal with a tragedy, and its always hard. Hope you all take care of yourselfs and not do stupid things, just try to understand your situation and take time to heal if its needed. I needed only a week before i started school again and its nice to talk to people. If i have something as an advice it should be something like "Don't isolate yourself" I know some hackers are loners by nature(im a pretty extreme case) but its good to be around people, that's why we gather in times of tragedy.
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Email Marketers Not Taking Advantage Of HTML Tags And Alt Tags 
"Approximately half of all email users are suppressing images by default. And email marketers aren't using the two strongest tools to fight back i.e.- HTML text and alt tags."
I can't speak about the entire site but I actually think some ways they use Ajax are ideal.

http://www.elance.com/php/search/main/eolsearch.php?matchTyp...

I love the sliders on the left side - much better than the old drop downs.
Ask YC:What kind of music do you listen to?
I will like to know the type of music other hackers in here listen to, to get into sync with their hacking? I listen to enya and some meditation music to really get in sync when i hack. so i will like to know, what music do you listen to?
>How do we figure out what the best way of applying ourselves is?

if we could figure that out and everyone figured it out and applied themselves we'd hit utopia overnight.
WHAT if someone invented a better mousetrap and the world yawned?
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What other things did you dismiss based on that heuristic?

Since you probably missed Harry Potter because of it, I am going to claim that you miss some good things with the heuristic. On the other hand there is doubtless a lot of crap that is popular.

Would be interesting to see some statistics, but maybe people have to do that on an individual basis.
It's pretty, and kudos to someone for doing something unusual with laptops. However, typing without tactile feedback sounds miserable, and it looks like $100 is getting farther away, not closer.
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