skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know you didn't ask me, but you might find something you like here: https://github.com/samsonjs/config (dot files) and https://github.com/samsonjs/bin
Agreed. I think that was Cringley's best point, and also why I sometimes get frustrated in the valley. Some people say they like ideas here, but what they really like are startups and the effects of the ecosystem.
DC is small. Without the Federal government, it'd basically be an exurb of Baltimore. I am not too concerned by how much the motorcades are tying up DC traffic.
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Apparently this license was so perplexing for IBM laywers, that Douglas had to make a special exemption:

"I give permission for IBM, its customers, partners, and minions, to use JSLint for evil."

Previously posted on HN source: http://wonko.com/post/jsmin-isnt-welcome-on-google-code
I can't find fault with your arguments because I'm sure they're true for many cases (and the 'plugging the holes' is entirely valid).

That said, my gut feeling is that at least a plurality of people are Googling terms like 'basecamp' rather than typing them in as URLs. And I doubt that those who do type in URLs are fickle enough to write off the task on one failure. Proving it either way would be laborious (but would make for interesting research).

Good catch on my phased/fazed mismatch, btw! ;-)
LIFE’s photographic history of computing
IAds surging against Android
And use tools that are aware of directories: tar -C, NERDtree for Vim, zsh globbing.
When my Daughter was born (now three) my wife insisted that I and everyone who has regular contact with her focus on her hard work and not simply say "you're soo smart!". It's tough to make that association but I think I've seen actual results from it. My daughter is about three weeks into ISR swim classes and I can see her shift into her "hard working" face even when she's a little upset or crying. She knows that she has to work hard (show visible effort) at staying calm or calming quickly or trying new things if she wants her reward (her favorite thing in the world: Futurama). It's one of the few developmental guidelines my wife has laid down and I've come around to see it as the most important because to be frank I didn't learn that lesson until WAY too late.
Mark Suster to Twitter on behalf of users
If the story had been written in terms of a barrier faced by entrepreneurs --- as a war story from someone actually operating a company, as many of us here do --- it wouldn't generate the same enmity.

Also, please keep in mind that there are two factors influencing our perceptions of stories: first, the story itself and how strongly it adheres to HN; and, second, the comment threads the stories have been shown to generate in the past.
How is this bootstrapping and not just working on the side?
Well, this was just the most graphic example, there are more subtle ways to create a mess. Directory names are far from unique, a misfiring 'cd tmp' or 'cd src' can easily lead to nasty surprises, even without 'rm' ever getting involved at all.

And you do know that CDPATH also affects shell scripts, right?
These really do reflect the most significant releases of each browser, regardless of arbitrary major/minor/micro version number changes... Firefox 3.6 was as major a release in that universe as Chrome 8 was in theirs.

Check the Wikipedia pages for each major browser to see just how much changed in the versions represented. (Perhaps I should link them!)
This is the best issue tracker I've ever seen. A+++++ would buy again.
There is no way this is going to survive. It is a huge threat to the public perception of the authority of the US federal government and they will make sure it does not exist in short order.
Also, pushd and popd. And "cd -". And ctrl-Z and fg to jump out of your editor for a moment. And dragging dirs from the Finder (or whatever) to the terminal.
Obama’s Silicon Valley “Tech Supper” – Who Sat Where? Why Was He There?
Recreational physics roundup
If there wasn't an artificially created shortage of TLDs, people probably wouldn't abuse country domains.

Besides, this game has started long time ago. It's not like .com, .net and .org bear any meaning either. Domains today are not really semantic. They might have been 15 years ago, but not now.
Socialcam: A Look At Justin.tv’s Upcoming ‘Instagram for Video’
> Attempts to keep all investment activity well-regulated and conformant to some definition of legitimate. Thus minimizing the risk that my money manager is going to lose my money on an illegitimate, thinly disguised gambling platform like the Hollywood Stock Exchange.

As opposed to losing it on a regulated, totally-not-gambling company like Enron, or in a regulated, totally-not-gambling market like sub-prime mortgage derivatives? Similar arguments could be made against the other two items as well, under the general framework of "regulatory capture". Your arguments presume that government regulation agencies always act in the best interest of the general public.
I know this is a 'quick and dirty' solution, but it just screams security flaw. I am nervous about accepting credit cards period - much less collecting it into a file and trusting myself to encrypt it and secure it properly.

I agree with the thinking and sentiment though, and appreciate the suggestion.
Well, turns out you taught me something!
Looks like I kinda missed the point.

Although I'm not planning on leaving paypal any time soon. Their fees are just simple. Merchant Accounts have so many different fees you have to keep track of, and on top of that you have gateway fees.
I think it's neat how, at times in the second video, the wings are phased with the camera, so it looks like they are completely stationary.
memorab.ly is taken :(
Thinking about your URL design in the first stages of a project is only required when using a framework that inextricably links URL structure to functionality like django, RoR, symfony etc.

I'd prefer to use big hideous query strings until the project works, then use mod_rewrite to do whatever the hell I want with my URLs.
Auto-rotating buttons on HTC Incredible S
I think this was the point of the article.

To answer your question, because no matter how smart you are, there will come a time when you HAVE to work extremely hard. If you don't learn this skill early in life, you will suffer simply put.
It's staggering to me that these companies are clipping the ticket for 2-3% for ALL credit card based commerce in the world. That's a lot of money.
Researchers optically turn ON/OFF eating behavior in mice.
Have been using since private beta. Has revolutionized the way we work.
It's such a shame that people who want to be popular define "smart as"

smart = results/effort

It gives them an incentive to slack, and while that may work in the lower tiers of the school system, they're going to hit a brick wall at some point, and for many, it will be too late for them to do anything to catch up.

I also recall someone on Quora referring as the distorted picture in places like Stanford described as the "duck syndrome": on the surface, everyone seems to be coasting calmly, but below, they are paddling like mad.

* * *

Praising kids and people can be so friggin' difficult. I remember playing football (soccer) in school, and I was a bit of a geek, but when I played, I would sometimes get all these "compliments": "Nice one, kmfrk!", "You played a great match today" from class mates and the gym class teacher. Most meant well by it - some didn't - but even though I wasn't very old, what was going on was very transparent. (I was a blatantly bad player, except as a goalie, so I took the compliments about my role as the latter more to heart.)

It downright annoyed me, because I knew that I was awful.

It has made it very hard for me to discern actual praise in my life.
[Site owner here]

Aha, I was wondering why my site had had 578 visitors in the first hour after midnight... I'll keep an eye on the 512Mb VM that is my terrible excuse for a server and make sure it stays up.

A quick note about the lessons: they're not a complete intro to WebGL -- I've got ones in the works on picking (mouse selection of 3D objects) and shadows. And, of course, there's a near-infinite amount of 3D graphics learning that I'm not realistically ever going to cover... though I'll do my best. It's fun, after all!

I'm also continually updating the older lessons to make sure that they keep matching my current understanding of best practice -- if you're interested in updates, I tend to post about that on the blog, along with weekly posts listing interesting WebGL demos around the net.
http://nymag.com/news/features/27840/ is the non-print version for anyone that ran into problems with the javascript on the print page.
Just to help sell it some more: autojump basically watches where you cd and builds a model (of some sort) that guesses where you want to go based on a few characters.

For instance, I have a project called "structured-prediction" deep in some folder hierarchy, and I can just type "j stru" or "j pred" or even "j uct" and it goes to the directory.

The best part is that it figures this out automatically. You don't have to remember to bookmark anything.
Great, yet more formats that I have to try and get around Google Docs with. Worst of all is PDF: Some of us have browsers and platforms that don't hate the format, and viewing PDFs natively in Safari/Chrome is a million times better than sending them through Google Docs for mangling.

Easily my most despised GMail "feature", that.
One thing the article did not really answer was why this is necessary - why is it necessary? I thought that public and private keys were a pretty secure way to SSH into a machine.
It's possible that it is all a work of fiction, but Greg Hoglund is an accomplished security researcher. It's certainly a realistic scenario that Hoglund discovered them himself, or purchased them from someone else if he didn't have time to do the vulndev. That being said, if it is fiction it wouldn't be the first time a contracter mislead the government about competency.
You can't do that, it violates the mastercard/visa agreement. If you want to store credit card details you have to get full PCI/DSS compliance and that includes things like third-party auditing. It's a process that's far more complex than simply obtaining a merchant account.
Video of How Google is stealing from its Adword Users
Why do people keep using that word - schadenfreude, when peinlich would be more suitable?
Is Google Checkout any good?
Its got a lot more going for it than previous technologies. The ones I can come up with off the top of my head...

* Based on OpenGL Embedded which is itself based on OpenGL (a standard that's been around forever)

* Tied to an already hot technology (HTML5 and more specifically the Canvas element)

* Backed by Google and Apple (and because of that able to capitalize on Flash being blocked from the iOS platform)

* Already included in every major browser (except IE9)

* Perhaps most importantly it has the bandwidth to pull of things which previous technologies really didn't.

To put it in one succinct sentence I think it's good technology that's hitting at the right time and that its timing is what sets it apart from previous efforts.
What's wrong with 2checkout's recurring billing solution ?
I'm obviously biased, having put time and effort into this particular one, but I think it may do better than the previous attempts. Two big things that I think help it:

* It's built into all modern browsers, either in production (Chrome) or early-access/beta (Firefox, Safari) with the exception of IE9. And with Chrome Frame, the lack in IE might not be a huge deal.

* It's as low-level as successful APIs like OpenGL and Direct3D (obviously being based on OpenGL). This means that it gives a stable basic API that people can code to that will work across browsers, across platforms. They picked OpenGL ES 2.0 as the baseline because it's the 3D API used on mobile devices, iPhones/iPads and Android devices being the most important. While this low-level nature can make it a bit of a pain to program if you want a higher-level API (like, say, VRML's or X3D's) it also means that people have a solid baseline on which to build higher-level APIs. There are a bunch of good ones already, for example GLGE, SceneJS or SpiderGL.
All previous Web 3D efforts have been complex high-level scene graph APIs. WebGL is different: it simply exposes the underlying hardware acceleration primitives to Javascript in the most direct way imaginable.

OpenGL is an industry standard that already has a proven track record and wide adoption. Furthermore, 3D graphics aren't the only application of OpenGL. Hardware-accelerated 2D graphics (faster and more flexible than Canvas) and general-purpose GPU computing (faster than C on a CPU for many important applications) are both enabled by WebGL.
There's also the USA issue with .com. Sure, ICE seems to be targeting torrent domains for seizure for now but no one knows who they'll go after next or if your business will be collateral damage from some other seizure, with no due process or recourse.
It's not actually that bad. I recently wrote a script that sends me daily emails of all .com domains that are expiring that day, sorted by length, and by a measure of how "English-like" they are (just using a frequency table for pairs of letters). I was surprised by how much good stuff is available.
They're plenty secure.

Unless you lose them. Authentication isn't just about allowing people you know in, if they know the secret pass-phrase that never changes. It's also about knowing they are who they say they are. Two-factor authentication radically improves that second aspect (in most / ideal cases).
You can't unsubscribe from the culture.

This is one of the most profound things I've ever heard, and it has applications well outside of Reddit.
I like this: https://github.com/MarcWeber/path-selector
So browsing graphical tabs is quicker for you then using "Ctrl+RightArrow" or "Ctrl+n" or some variation of one of those? Traversing my screen or tmux sessions is usually much faster than using a mouse.
A lot of people would disagree, and hence the koan.

Personally, I see closures as objects that the compiler cooks up on your behalf. This coming from a compiler background, where said compiler is usually implemented in C++ :P.
Yet another time saver: if you need to execute only a single command in another directory, use:

(cd /path; command)

This will cd to /path, run command, but return you to your original working directory. This works because the parens create a sub-process, and the cd command only affects that sub-process.
DropZap 2.5 released with Game Center support.  Free for a limited time.
Check it out:

http://dropzap.com

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dropzap/id338490375?mt=8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l50GHMOzSK0
- Backed by Google, Apple and Microsoft (and because of that able to capitalize on Flash being blocked from the iOS platform)

- Already included in every major browser (if you include IE9)

You're right about Google and Apple (and Mozilla are there too) but not Microsoft -- the IE team have explicitly decided to not implement WebGL for IE9, which I think is a mistake. MS seem to be focusing their intention elsewhere, if they come up with a "WebDirect3D" or some kind of Silverlight-based abomination I won't be surprised...

Definitely agree with your other points, though, especially re: Flash.
In order to reduce the clutter, I sometimes use
http://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=100
to only show stories above certain score. The threshold can be set to any desired value.
Just make up a word, that's what we did.
Have you verified with legal counsel that Dunkin' Donuts will license Deez Nutz for perpetual use?
Thanks. I don't know where I got that (above post edited accordingly)
With all respect, your answer was non-responsive.
I agree with you, it's not that I'm trying to say the whole thing is a work of fiction, just that things are often (partially) misrepresented. I believe the breadth of the claimed in house and unused code is unusual, but certainly not impossible. There seems to be a lot of people that attempt to sell/broker other peoples code that they aren't in possession of (since IP protections in these cases are non-existent)

Regardless, it seems anon got a SQL dump, root on a web server and a ticket box, and a google apps admin account - these aren't the types of places marketable vulnerabilities are usually kept.
It depends on what are you referring to with the real world. Are you talking about money? Yeah, sure, you can even have 200x accomplishment with .1x effort.

The message is the culture of effort, and I could not agree more. If you "teach" your kids to optimize their time, for them a test score of 8/10 would be enough if they need to dedicate 5 times less time that they would have to get a 10/10. Eventually this will derive into decreasing more and more the effort and, with it, the results. Knowing when to optimize is also a learned lesson, which comes (again) from effort, failures and success.

I have felt what they describe in the text, and... I wish somebody would have praised my effort back then. If we check most people that have accomplish something in their lives, they have done through effort. Yeah, sure, more variables are needed (you can't run like Usain Bolt or think like Gauss only by effort) but if there is a common characteristic, this is effort.
I've found /r/soccer is pretty low on the "internet culture" stuff. And /r/gamedev, while too small to sustain much interesting discussion, does provide good links.

But yes, any large subreddit on any topic is infected with all the rage comic and meme garbage that Reddit inexplicably loves. You have to figure that the average age must be around 18-20, which becomes very tiresome if you're more than a few years older than that.
I don't know the details on whether UberMedia asked for your email, but Twitter can email any Twitter account that has authorized UberTwitter regardless.
Quick app to gather all of our blocklist domains
Did you even read the link you put in your comment? reddit did not "censor" anything. We simply fixed the the algorithm that was accidentally ranking that reddit to high. It was never popular enough to be in the top 10.
Adobe Ideas. A good idea.
Did you even read the link you put in your comment? reddit did not "censor" anything. We simply fixed the the algorithm that was accidentally ranking that reddit too high. It was never popular enough to be in the top 10.
No, no, no. Colin Powell could have been President! If they went after Bush, they'd certainly have gone after Cheney...
It's not about complexity or raw computational power, it's about functionality. One area where brain research still struggles to model the basics is how the brain actually integrates information over time, and how internal models and representations are formed.

The "classical" synaptic response model was always good at explaining basic signal transmission, but it was essentially stateless. Now we know that neurons are far from stateless, there is extensive chemical modification going on working at different timescales and I guess this "new" discovery is also an important piece that was missing from the standard model. It may explain advanced neuronal states that surpasses simple chemical sensitization and suppression - and it may also provide hints about how feedback works in learning and building internal representations.

ANNs and other AI techniques are getting very good and efficient, but one reason why general artificial intelligence (as in artificial persons) continues to escape us is that we still don't have a good model how the brain organizes and improves itself to form a consistent but autonomously adapting unit which can rightfully be called a mind. I hope that AI people can use these pointers provided by bio research and advance toward this goal.
GitHub security bug?
Slick website. Ugly Car.
The problem here is that you were comparing yourself with the rest of the people.

I have trained track and field for some years now and if I would try to compare myself with Michael Johnson, I would always be a failure. But in every sport you are (at the end) just trying to improve yourself and competing against yourself. My point is that you could have been doing a good game (for you) even without being anything similar to Pele, and maybe they were praising you for that.
I feel like reading this article may make me react in the same way that the sample groups of the tests did. Hopefully in the much greater long term, that'd be nice. Good thing I read it(maybe).

I had noticed the same pattern in myself. My parents would tell me that I'm smart, and then I'd get pissed and frustrated at my math homework if I didn't understand the concepts within a grand total of 15 minutes. Then Discrete Math hit me and I realized that there would be no way for me to survive on just 15 minutes of attempts of any problem/concept(but I'd still be frustrated all of the time).
I find it odd that JSLint/JSHint is made up of one giant source file, seems like its setting a kinda bad example (unless such a thing is actually considered acceptable by javascripters).
A point of clarification: The recording industry is not the music industry, it's just one part of it.
I doubt that has anything to do with it.../r/startups has more subscribers than /r/Entrepreneur does...

http://www.reddit.com/r/startups/
Appending ";cd -" on the end will have the same effect.
God, that's horrendous.

It certainly turns me off Posterous -- quite strongly. I simply cannot stand stuff like that.
Would you mind sharing that script?
Traversing is not the issue here, it's more about having an ad-hoc way to watch things side-by-side by dragging a tab to a window and vice versa, and about having a proper scrollback.

Yes, screen, tmux and vim have split window modes, but those are cumbersome to operate (and I'm saying that as a year-long ion3 user) and the scrollback issue has not been addressed by either up to this day.

Or, to put it more generally: Terminals are sadly stuck firmly in the 1970s. There has been near zero innovation beyond emulating them in tabbed windows and setting xterm titles. Heck, we're moving backwards. OSX ships with a terminal that doesn't even support 256 colors. ZModem is unheard of except in fairly exotic/old emulators such as Zoc. Support for "advanced" terminal features (double-size fonts, graphics mode) is rare.

I spend >8hrs/day inside a terminal. I would happily pay a 3 digit license fee for a modern terminal emulator that adds the features I mentioned and innovates beyond. There's infinite room for innovation by leveraging special ESC-sequences (server tells terminal what to do), drag & drop, integrating with tools like screen, ssh or even building new CLI tools that interface with the terminal in a smart way...

I want vim to tell my terminal to display NerdTree in a native side-car widget like TextMate. I want an "open" CLI-command that downloads the target-file from the remote server and displays it locally without me having to futz with scp. I want to drag & drop files onto the server that I'm currently ssh'd into. I want the term to maintain my entire session (including all tabs and remote connections) across reboots. And, yes, I'd like to have my remote screen windows line up neatly as native tabs.
If you're using Chrome, Gmail opens PDF's using Chrome's own viewer now.
If somebody blogs about the challenges of being a Seattle-based entrepreneur who is boycotting flying (or getting harrassed at airports) because would you see that as on topic?

> the comment threads the stories have been shown to generate in the past.

Stories about the TSA have been shown to generate a lot of antipathy from you and your friends in the past. So is your argument that this should give you veto power in the future?
There are also a lot of scripts that assume CDPATH isn't being used; for instance any hadoop-based project will break if it's set.
The highly sophisticated autorun technology? Shrugs.