skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't like Soap for the same reasons everyone hates it.
Having said that, in the Java space there are plenty of tools that turn the Soap experience into a bearable one.
With CXF, for instance, is quite trivial to generate client code out of a WSDL file. The generator binds the request/response payload to Java beans so the developer doesn't have to understand the intricacies of the protocol.
Debugging is also simple.
I can't believe they waited until the egyptian internet was taken down. They should have put this out days ago.
1. enter e-mail address

2. go to e-mail

3. refresh

4. refresh

5. count to ten... refresh again

6. maybe it's in my spam folder?.. no...

7. final refresh

8. give up in disgust

minutes pass

9. e-mail finally arrives in inbox; delete it

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I effectively use this method to log in to Amazon (I have a habit of always changing my Amazon password to something so secure I can't remember it for more than a minute at a time), and it makes me less likely to log in (I want to add this book to my wishlist, but I have to log in first? Maybe I won't bother then).

To be fair Amazon password reset e-mails are usually in my inbox by the time I switch to my e-mail, but some sites are slower.
Oh I wish somebody would bring that 1980 technology to Java / .NET.

It would make things so much easier for me.
I'm not sure this actually is related to FHI. Certainly, don't sign up for it on that basis until you've checked with FHI to make sure you'd actually be working with them.

FYI, the Future of Humanity Institute does have an opening for a postdoc in computer science who wants to branch out into more philosophical/futuristic areas, i.e., they want an academic who already knows algorithms and wants to learn philosophy of mind and rigorous futurism.
The main interesting that if translate japonese version of I hate you (Watashi wa anata o nikumu) into english the result is the same: http://translate.google.com/#en|ja|I%20hate%20you
(imo) Just another sign that Google, like any other big company, is being overrun by incompetent PowerPoint slinging managers with stupid ideas, optimizing for short term results. Or maybe they are just running out of ideas as the company bloats and ages. See the catch-up-to-bing-with-junk-UI-redesign efforts for example.

If this is a success then one more small step and we'll get image ads for search. The same justifications(and PowerPoint Decks) can be reused with minor tweaks.

This does seem like bait and switch, as jacquesm points out. Sad, but IMAP + Adblock should be enough as a short term fix I guess.

I haven't yet used AdBlock on Google ads because they are largely unobtrusive text ads, but if this junk starts showing up in my Inbox I will.

Longer term Google needs some decent competition, especially in the search space. Too dominant a position in any market is fertilizer for hubris.
This isn't about Facebook, it's about narcissism.

"Facebook is "like being in a play. You make a character," one teenager tells MIT professor Sherry Turkle in her new book on technology, Alone Together. Turkle writes about the exhaustion felt by teenagers as they constantly tweak their Facebook profiles for maximum cool. She calls this "presentation anxiety," and suggests that the site's element of constant performance makes people feel alienated from themselves."

You make a character. People feel alienated from themselves. This is textbook stuff, or at least will be until the next edition of the textbook is published - Narcissistic Personality Disorder is being pulled from the DSM. Facebook didn't inadvertently engineer a platform that induces us to represent ourselves as the star in our own movie, they merely built the tool that their users demanded.

The sense that you are special, the desire for admiration, a grandiosity that leads you to exaggerate your achievements - these are not symptoms of having a Facebook account, but symptoms of pathological narcissism. The issue is not that we are seeing other people portray their lives as perfect, but that people feel the desire to portray their lives as perfect. Given a communications platform, people are choosing to elevate themselves and establish themselves as superior rather than bond and seek out similarities.

The fact that this article introspects and sees Facebook only from the perspective of how it affects the individual user rather than how individual users affect others is itself symptomatic of narcissism. The article could have just as easily have been subtitled "By Making Us Look Good, Facebook Is Making Other People Miserable". It seems trivially superficial, but it's one of the most pressing issues in our society. We are preoccupied with ourselves and no force is trying to check that desire - the media supports this fixation, politicians flatter us, even churches have moved from a culture of submission before god to one of spiritual satisfaction.
I have to agree with you. Apple won't saddle iOS with a stop-gap feature that won't be necessary in 5-10 years when iPads will be cheap enough that everyone will have their own.

I would bet that Apple has a lot data from Macs being brought in for repair and from new setups that would indicate that only a small percentage of users actually use more than one user account on their Macs.
I Believe Essay
An “I believe” essay can be written in many elements. It can be about the poem “I believe” or it can be about a specific belief you may have. Whichever method utilized to write the essay, students need to be able to write it comprehensively.
If it hadn't been for religion, we wouldn't have spent 1000 years in the dark ages.

So the preserved knowledge is only a tiny slither of what they destroyed.
I have been using Sublime Text for about a year now and it's my killer app for Windows. I've had to learn to use msysGit and plink/putty/pageant just because I had to have Sublime Text as my environment.

I've already informed my boss he has to buy ST2 as soon as it's available. It is, especially with Zen Coding plugin, one of my favorite programs (design/function/utility) that I've ever installed, and I've tried a bunch of the "programmers" text editors for Windows and Linux.

Thanks Jon!
I love HN. I have a small server in Egypt and I've just been trying to figure out what the hell is going on. Then I come here and see this link. Explains a lot and hopefully means that I may have my server back eventually. And I was blaming the hosting provider...
> > In theory it might be beautiful, but I'd say 5x5 is a pretty awful way to start if you are new to lifting weights.

> Then you've obviously never tried it. It's actually a wonderful starting program. I lifted for years and never made remotely the progress I have on 5x5. I wish I could go back and tell myself to start it sooner!

Yes I have tried it and I love it. I'm actually doing it right now. But you really do not catch my point. You say "I lifted for years and never made remotely the progress I have on 5x5". I say: good for you. Of course you should continue on this program. But as you said yourself you had years of lifting experience before starting on 5x5. My point is that it is a no good starting point if you have never been lifting before.
There's more to college than spending and making money, I think.
Deconstructing the algorithm: Is Qwiki website just smoke & mirrors?
Ask HN: Anyone Else Feels an Increase in Duplicate Submissions ?
Well, I havent actually computed the rate at which duplicate stories get submitted. But off late it definitely feels like that it has increased.

Some examples:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2133267
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2151406

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2150934
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2150934

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2143079
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2142664

I am sure there were others.
Targeted Web Traffic - 1 Minute Domination
I'm pretty sure they're using quotes there as actual quotes -- as in, the 'developed' part is a literal quote of something someone said or printed. BBC News does this all the time.
You should read the "Laundry" novels by Charlie Stross (hn:cstross) for another explanation...
> It starts with Turing's work before he died.

Does it also cover his work after his death?
If you manage to get it working, would you help a fellow Arch user and submit it to AUR?
Hip mobility and glute activation, in that order. Every day, for a month or two would be a good start.

http://stronglifts.com/7-dynamic-stretches-to-improve-your-h...

http://stronglifts.com/how-to-optimize-posterior-chain-power...

Do some military presses, pushups and pullups on top of this and you'll be ready for action.
You've successfully identified a fundamental problem with society, and it is by no means limited to Quora.

I think the search engine privacy feature is a fantastic innovation from Quora to help absolve potential problems in the future. (eg: you google my name and see my Quora answers on Sex)
Sorry to be raining on your parade here. The first wave of "democracy" the Arabs had is when the colonial rulers left and they ethnically cleansed their countries from Jews and established Soviet-style "people's democracies". Then we have Gaza, which also had a people's revolution and is now even more of an impoverished and belligerent dictatorship. Now we are getting a similar "revolution" in Lebanon.

But don't let facts interfere with your worldview.
Three unique features of Lisp in 2010
The Bermuda Triangle of Productivity
Calibre was mentioned in the article as being able to convert PDF's into epub format. I had my hopes up for a second, so downloaded it and tried it on a textbook and a smaller scientific publication.

It threw up on both the math equations and figures. It didn't handle the general formatting of the book too well either.

To my knowledge, a good PDF->epub converter has not yet been built. Any takers?
The important part is Disallow: / right after the allows.
I guess you would have to ad a secret to the page you want to login to, that said page could display, and another one it could ask you for.

Hm, might become too inconvenient. The only advantage would be not having to remember the password.

This makes me think the traditional password recovery mechanism should also work that way. You should have to enter your new password first, then get the confirmation link to save it.
I am a sucker for a good Pac-Man article, and this one offers a few pellets.

The site's ad-intrusive layout, however, seems to demonstrate that the Number #1 thing we learned from Pac-Man was that he should convince the Ghosts to form a collective and use GroupOn to buy vouchers to (presumably) eat the pellets together??
Mobile phone vendor share update. Biggest winner: Other
Tesla was an undisputed genius. Crazy, yes (I particularly liked his portrayal in "the Prestige"). But one of those rare super geniuses that history looks back on reveres as something just a step up the evolutionary ladder.
Camber control ahead of its time (2002)
That's coming - stay tuned. Here's the next instalment http://ow.ly/3LUc2
How to get desktop notification for Gmail
There are no facts here yet. Egypt is still as we speak literally in the midst of chaos. You cannot yet know what will be built from the rubble and neither can anyone else, except those who will be doing the building.
Bill Milliken (now almost 100 yo car designer)
I've been using Sublime for quite some time on Win7, and I'm in love.

I keep trying to use Linux as my development platform, and I won't use a Mac (I got beaten with a mac as a young man. It's an emotional reponse), but for some reason I really dislike every nix text editor I've ever tried (emacs, vi, vim, gedit, kate, etc...) and constantly surprised at how ugly and inelegant the text editing world seems on the nix side. BTW, I'm not trying to flame or argue, this is just IMHO.

I've recently been doing some work with mongrel2, lua and Tir, which means that I have to develop on Linux, but I've been very crabby about using text editors that I really dislike. So, I'm really glad to have a port of sublime that works on linux.

Thanks for all the hard work, and I'm really looking forward to the new changes. Keep up the great work!
Just as a little tidbit, the phrase "deru kui wa utareru" (kui = kugi), 「出る杭は打たれる」 means "The nail that sticks out gets hammered down".
My roommate has it at home, for fitness related games I think it's a godsend, but then again the Wii has already taken that with games like Wii Fit. Being a video game aficionado I'm scared that this is going to replace controller-based games with the advent of Move and the WiiMote as well. I might have to go to the handheld market for less gimmicky gaming depending on what the next gen holds.
not judging by this search -- http://searchyc.com/submissions/duplicate?page=1&sort=by...

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also some linkification:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2133267 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2151406

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2150934 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2150934

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2143079 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2142664
As posted, the translation is ungrammatical.

http://translate.google.com/#auto|ja|YOU%20%20HATE%20YOU

gives a grammatical (mis)translation.
yeah, the article title should have been:

Briss Trims PDFs so They Fit Better, Look More Impressive in Your Hand
I've noticed this, too, but that's still another anecdote, not data.
Questions for Designers from Engineers
New form features in HTML5
"It's hugely inefficient to transmit power wirelessly."

Just because it hasn't been done yet, doesn't mean it can't be done. There may well be physical properties of our reality which haven't been discovered yet that will allow the efficient transmission of power through the atmosphere.

If you look at it from a needs basis...the world needs much more power (every Indian and Chinese family is eventually going to buy a fridge and a TV, and ricecooker etc etc). We can't go on indefinitely building billion dollar power stations to support that need.

There are two alternatives. An efficient way of transporting power long distances (continent to continent)...or...eventually localised power harvesting will be so cheap and ubitiquious that transporting power long distances won't be necessary. (Solar panels so cheap, like newspaper, they can be put on the roof and walls of every mud brick house).

Never say never is all I'm saying.
Wow.. I'm really impressed. Later I'll try it at home to see if it looks this good under KDE to.
Although the price is a bit steep for me (given that I live in Argentina, 59$ represents ~7% of my monthly income), any chance the price is going to go down in the future?. How does this product's price compare with similar ones in the market?, maybe I'm a bit disappointed because of my low income.
Hey tel,
I wrote the article, thanks for your agreement, allow me to quickly explain myself.

The gradients served purely as a background to the image in the article. I wasn't suggest that every diagram ever should have a gradient backdrop.

Overlapping data points was a laziness of my behalf, I was just throwing these examples together in Omnigraffle. The colours in the Markov chain aren't meaningless, they are just out of context. (The idea came from a dash I designed where the app distinguished customers by colour type, so I followed that convention in the chain).

Most of all thanks for reading my article, and for your considered feedback.

Regards,
Des (@destraynor)
It's a pretty spot on comparison. I moved here from Sydney about 3 years ago and feel basically the same. Though I don't have the same aversion to tipping that he has, probably because I (having grown up in the US before immigrating to Oz) understand how to work the system—particularly in bars. As for the unicycle/mustache thing, I lived in Newtown in Sydney, and that sort of thing wouldnt have garnered more than a doubletake there either ;)

Still, I miss my four weeks of vacation and my stress free access to medical care. Oh yeah, and the extremely efficient government agencies. The difference between Aussie immigration (DIMIA) and American (DHS) is striking.
So the chip executes the code to the spec as perfectly as the imperfect human wrote them?
Redis: the AK-47 of databases
I've been using Sublime Text daily for the past months, and I'm really, really happy with it. I've jumped from one text editor to another mostly within a few weeks of usage; most of the editors just didn't feel that good (e.g. cluttered UI). The last text editor I actually enjoyed working with was SciTE (http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html). But then I somehow managed to find Sublime Text, gave it a try, and since then I've been using it daily and never went back.

The only critic I have is directed to the missing Print function, but it's only a minor problem for me; it's not like I don't have any alternatives to accomplish this task.

Summa summarum it's a very good text editor IMHO, and I'm always learning a new, convenient function by accidentally hitting CTRL + random key (e.g. CTRL + D).
My life with Google Voice Number Porting
In my place, I bet only 10% of 'engineers' know about Nikola Tesla. Pity. Even his contemporaries (and ones with a similar vision and thought) like Sir. J C Bose are not quite well-known.
Live updates from Facebook about protests in egypt
Not many, AdBlock is free.
Could be a nice product if enough webmail interface providers would be able/willig to work around AdBlock.
Enter page, type email, hit enter, wait 5-10 seconds, "You are logged in."

Apparently simple to implement for both customer and provider and takes alway all the headaches from account registering.

I would pay for that.
Stratfor: Egyptian Unrest Continues http://youtu.be/tPX1qe8bH1s (2:58)
It's Gandhi, not Ghandi. Sorry for nitpicking, but I hate to see the name mangled of someone I respect a lot.
This reminds me of the top post yesterday.
Amazon Kindle e-book downloads outsell paperbacks
Perhaps I'm using it incorrectly, but the Folders option does not seem to be working for me on 32 bit Ubuntu 10.10
Everything is mostly always measured by money. And it seems like the author of the post reckons it's really easy for everyone to become entrepreneurs. I would say let the kids do what they want with their life - provide some guidelines but don't stop them if they want to go to college.
I have already moved the bulk of my e-mail from gmail to my own domain. I was expecting something like this from Google - once an advertiser, always an advertiser.
There's a major flaw with this chart: companies that offer more than one connection service have all their services lumped together. The reason Comcast, Cox and Charter are at the top is because they're cable-only systems. Most of the other companies on that chart offer a mix of DSL, wireless and FTTH services.
It's been some time since I saw an email take more than 5 seconds to arrive.
Care to elaborate?

I just glanced over the Command-T docs and it seems to be a one-trick-pony ("search in path") whereas FuzzyFinder supports a wide range of scopes (path, buffers, tags, etc.).
Part of his proposal is that people would never be forced to leave. I suspect that many grad students would trade a year or two longer researching at a more relaxed pace, combined with some less intellectually intense manual labor, for how things work now.
"What is consciousness? How is it that I have an idea of self? What are my perceptions? How do I model the world around me? What's up with free will?"

I think by trying to create True AI we will learn more about these questions than philosophy will ever be able to teach us.
For many, college is a place to safely transition from childhood into adulthood surrounded by peers doing the same thing: making the same mistakes and sharing advice.

It is also where many make the core of their life-long friends. The serious ones - the ones who come to births, marriages and funerals. It is also where many of us met our partners.

Starting a business will not provide all this.

I would suggest doing both. Start with college. This way you will have many of the support structures you will need to get you through the tough times and should it all go wrong you will have people to help you get back on your feet.

College is also a good place to find intelligent, like-minded founders.
I too am an Aussie in NYC, having moved last November for work (in my case, Google).

NYC is an amazing city, particularly if you're willing and able to pay the exorbitant Manhattans rents. Or you're sufficiently socially skilled and/or lucky to partake in the great private welfare system that is rent stabilization (and rent control but that's mostly irrelevant these days).

To me NYC exemplifies Western capitalism, both the good and bad parts. There'd is incredible commerce--and wealth--here. But there's also poverty and homelessness for those tha have fallen through the cracks in the system.

One thing America excels at is service, whether it be retail, restaurants, businesses or whatever. Ther are of course exceptions but for those Americans who complain about service: compare it to most other Western countries and you'll appreciate it that much more.

Despite all that the American experiment seems broken--eve dying. Health care is a disaster (not that I'm necessarily advocating public health care). Social security is a ticking time bomb. Most governments are in serious debt, even to crisis levels. Once you see cities and possibly states default (or just require a bailout) you'll see a fresh eave of financial scandals.

Wall Street seems addicted to debt, to the point of being the engine of financial collapse. Most Americans live beyond their means. America has a number of engineering marvels from the 20th century that look like not being repeated any time soon. They're simply not economical anymore. Think the Moon landings, the Golden Gate bridge, the Hoover Dam, etc.

A lot of the country seems to be in decay. The culture seems increasingly fractured. Honestly it reminds me of the dying days of the Roman Empire. I'm sure there was incredible wealth in Rome the day before it was sacked.

Still, it's hard to argue with a fresh mozzarella slice from Bleecker Street Pizza.

Oh as far as tipping goes, I agree it's strange and I often have to check tipping etiquette in various situations but remember it isn't mandatory (built in service charges in restaurant bills notwithstanding). Example: last week I took a cab from SFO to Mountain View (expensive!) and the driver had no clue. He kept going the wrong way, asking for directions from my phone, ignoring me telling him which exits to take, etc. I didn't feel bad stiffing him on the tip although he still felt entitled to it.
"To my knowledge, a good PDF->epub converter has not yet been built. Any takers?"

Check out eBookBurn.com, which is a site I launched last month (http://denis.papathanasiou.org/?p=468).

It lets you upload pdfs and attempts to parse them into editable text.

The pdf parsing is based on my experiments with pdf-miner (http://denis.papathanasiou.org/?p=343), and while still imperfect (in general parsing pdfs is a difficult problem), it works fairly well for certain types of whitepapers.
Should Tumblr care? David Karp tells users who complain to "go away"
every time I read about the high tuition fees at US universities and extraordinary costs of higher education in the US, I wonder why only a small number of students are going to study in old Europe: no tuition fees in a lot of countries; good universities all around; no necessity to master the local language perfectly as there are a lot of programs with English as the language of instruction; many locations with relatively low costs of living (you can easily master your life with $800-$1000 a month in many areas/cities in Europe with very good universities); a thriving student life