skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe I'm just in a strange mood, but that is one of the most bizzare statements (with context) that I've ever heard. It's like something directly out of George Orwell.

"Party officials recently voted to approve a measure that would decrease the amount of poison included in medicine."

ahem

"New techniques developed by party scientists have caused medicinal purities to reach an all time high!"
All these products, with the exception of the Xbox and SQL Server, owe their success more to marketing than to anything else.

Windows XP and Windows 7 are sold bundled with computers - you basically can't buy one without the other. The case of Vista is different - it was so awful people bought computers with Vista (counting as a Vista sale) and upgraded them to XP. Low sales indicated people put off buying new computers because it wasn't worth it - the new computer with Vista would be worse than the old one with XP. Windows 7 success was caused, in part, by those computers - they wouldn't last forever and, one day, would have to be replaced. Windows 7 was being bundled by then. And it was good enough as not to warrant upgrades to XP.

Office has no credible competition. Weren't various versions of Office using undocumented Windows APIs that their competitors couldn't and, thus, had lower performance and worst integration with the environment? I remember something in these lines. That and bundling it with Windows in corporate licenses that made others non-competitive.

And, please, Sharepoint is a joke. The only reason someone still uses it is because it's impossible to migrate its contents to any sane platform. And, of course, fear of admitting such an incompetent decision choosing it.

As for SQL Server, it's a decent platform. I have to admit it is Microsoft third best product, behind only the natural keyboard and their mice.
A lot of the “aren’t you afraid that somebody is going to use that against you?" remarks are reminiscent of the early days of the internet, when people were afraid to put pictures of themselves or their contact info online. There's now a $50 billion dollar company dedicated to doing just that.
Why not start the video with some form of that explanation? Right now, it seems to assume a visitor already wants to delay batches of tweets, but has been frustrated by 'scheduling' in other tools.

Also, my questions about any such tool would be when do the buffered tweets actually fire, and if I can control that timing, and if Chrome has to be open when they do. The video offers no hints.
Anonymous & Anthropology of Hacking
Ask HN: Evaluating a pre-seed funding offer
We are a newly formed team who was recently been offered a small amount of pre-seed funding.

We're evaluating the offer, and we wanted to get HNs input on what some important things to look at would be.

Some of the things we're doing are:

Evaluating the term sheet by

- looking at what other pre-seed funds are offering

- asking a local entrepreneur support organization to go over the terms with us

- having an attorney friend (experienced with startups) look it over for any hidden "gotchas"

Gauging the potential benefits of the relationship by

- reaching out to the local community and asking for feedback on the investor

- asking the investor what kind of involvement we can expect from them going forward

- asking the investor for contact info of other companies in their portfolio.

What other things would you do? Any general or specific pieces of advice? Have you been through this before - do you care to share your experience?
Chicago the leader for online coupons and deals
looks like there's a mirror here... no idea how it got there...

https://www.transferbigfiles.com/efcac5e7-121d-44a2-b790-35a...
This brings a whole new meaning to "fork me on github".
What it is against is, misapplication of methodology.

Yes, and the author rightly points out that latent variables do not exclude the possibility of microstructure. That doesn't mean the use of the latent variables is a "statistical myth", unless you define the term "statistical myth" so broadly as to include temperature and pressure.

g is not as useful as T, since its ability as an explanatory variable and verification in experimental settings are sorely lacking.

This is both undisputed, and unrelated to the author's argument. The difference between our pre-Boltzman understanding of T and our contemporary understanding of g is one of precision. The author's argument was independent of precision, so invoking precision to protect his argument is disingenuous.

You might want to criticize the confidence levels of g. That's a perfectly legitimate thing to do. But that's not what I'm responding to.

So it would have to be wielded carefully, one eugenics movement is enough.

Not sure about that. The Dor Yesherim organization does such a great job of eugenics, I'd love to see further eugenics movements in other genetically isolated groups.
And that is not the whole of his career. If I am not mistaken, NT is the third os in which he has been the head dude: RSX-11/m, and VMS being the other two.
I'm sure these SEO finds follow the rule of cockroaches... For every one you see, there's a dozen more that you don't see. I'm sure this makes it frustrating for everyone who's playing the game legitimately. If one guy jumps the turnstile in the Subway, it's fine. If everyone jumps the turnstile, you feel like a chump for paying your fare.

I'm starting to think that Google's influence on the web is more and more negative. By giving an economic value to a link, spam is rampant. I run a coding wiki, and every day there are dozens of spammers flooding in no matter what kind of wall I put up (nofollow, capture, delay in posting, ip blacklisting...). All of these walls are bad for users and discourage participation. Websites are now being coded more for Googlebot than humans. Every link is treated as suspect. No-follow was supposed to help, but from the looks of it, spammers don't care since they get paid by the link.

We desperately need an end to the pagerank monoculture; either from Google or from their competitors. Hopefully it's replaced by a truly open standard, and not a walled garden like Facebook.
The Guardian’s Wikileaks Book Is This Generation’s “All The President’s Men”
The Guardian’s David Leigh Talks About Julian Assange and Wikileaks
My co-founder and I were just looking at that game. Our startup is a game studio, and our focus is on procedurally generated content: environments, characters, narratives, graphics, even gameplay mechanics. It's a very exciting time for this sort of work, especially since the incumbents like EA and Activision can't pursue procedural generation as whole-heartidly as us independents.
IETester also seems to use the OS's installed version of IE's script engine, and not the target browsers engine.
Respectfully --- I don't even know who you are, so I can't actually harbor ill will towards you --- but this is batshit. IP law isn't special-purpose legislation. It's among the 17-or-so powers specifically delegated to Congress by Article I, Section 8 of the US Constitution, along with things like "maintaining a navy" and "coining money".
CMD+} and CMD+{ appear to be the OS X keys for switching tabs.

They just worked for me in Safari, Chrome, MacVim, iTerm 2 and Terminal.
Exactly this; I'm thankful for the warning about biases, but this poll won't be used to impart any real advice - it's more about setting the scene with some anecdotal evidence; i.e. the fact that people have voted in some numbers for a variety of the options is interesting in itself.
Http://Free-Bottle-for-your-Valentine.html
Because it only gives you screenshots, not actual webpages you can click. That might help find glaring CSS bugs, but is relatively useless otherwise.
Google says Sorry for Spamming CR-48 Notebook Owners
Change

<input type=text name="u" size=20>

to

<input type=text name="u" size=20 autocorrect="off" autocapitalize="off">

Docs: http://developer.apple.com/library/safari/documentation/Appl...
Thank you. This is what I thought had to be done, but wasn't exactly sure. So thanks for finding the documentation that covers it.
Just completed survey. Great idea and looking forward to seeing the results.
Is California the most miserable US state to live in?
Looks great. Like subsonic except w/ a nice UI.
I don't want to start a flame war, but I think static typing is overrated.
Ask HN: What are the best books on startups?
I saw this list (http://bit.ly/go7yE4) and wondered if there were any others. Not how-tos like four steps to the epiphany, but more general reading, maybe case studies, or theory, or something fun like that. What are your recommendations?
Yup. He also wrote a compiler book in the 80s. He once gave me a mini-lecture on old architectures from the 70s and how 'we kids had it easy these days'. It was awesome, even if I didn't catch any of the content until he started talking about x86 :)
Whether or not you're free to do private R&D on a patent-protected technology, most people don't. After all, the reason IP laws exist is that people ostensibly won't do research if there is no financial incentive to do so.

This leads to the somewhat paradoxical result that no innovation would happen if IP laws didn't exist, and yet a large percentage of today's industries were founded or developed by people who pretty much operated with a casual disregard for other people's IP. Perhaps this is why PG looks for "naughtiness" in founders. The modus operandi of most startups seems to be to do what you were going to do anyway, ignore any patents or prior art out there (but don't willfully go out and copy people either, or if you do, restrain it to borrowing general ideas and not whole chunks of code), and then use the inevitable lawsuit as a PR boost.
This is freaking awesome. I'm so excited to follow the progress of this project. Filled out the survey and "liked" all of it! =D
During prohibition, certain bitters were legal because they were considered "nonpotable". Angostura falls under this category, whereas something like Campari or Fernet Branca would be considered potable. Basically they didn't think anyone would be able to drink enough to get drunk from it. I assume a similar logic applies today.
Since we're on the topic, I'd like to point out this project: http://www.quelsolaar.com/

The team behind that website are making an MMO game featuring procedurally generated environments and rendering techniques. They're developing all their tech in-house, with a rather small team, and releasing some of their tools for others to use. They've got a fascinating 3d modelling program, for instance, that you can download and fool around with.

I'm co-founder of a startup game studio focussing on games with extensive procedural generation (note: not at all related to the above — mad respect for those guys, though). If you've got questions, I'm an open book. It's an exciting new trend in this industry, and we're going to be all over it.
"Your weekly chocolate rations have been increased from 100 grams to 80 grams."

It's actually even more accurate than you might think, because APAP works by acting on the endocannabinoid system. Essentially acetaminophen works exactly the same as weed, the only difference between tylenol and weed is that one kills several thousand Americans per year and the other kills zero. Well actually there is one more difference: weed actually works amazingly well as an analgesic, whereas tylenol doesn't do anything. (Except kill people.)

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi...
Considering that the English language is quickly de-evolving into a hybrid form of SMS and inner city slang we need to solve this problem within the next 10 years let alone 10 thousand years from now.
I am thinking about taking a course from them. I was hoping that I would be able to get some reviews from you guys about whether or not I should do it. Has anyone taken a course? Any thoughts?
Have you heard of Dwarf Fortress? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_Fortress#Gameplay

Some of the most exciting procedural generation I've yet encountered. Not the most visually impressive game, but the code behind it is mind-blowing.
Not quite. It's more like shooting anyone crossing a bridge, would it be to get to a hospital, sightseeing, or bungee jumping off it.
Awesome. Great idea
I haven't directly but I just happen to be staring at Pivotal Tracker which handles it pretty nicely. The do as you say and push a little lightbox which says "A system change has occurred requiring a refresh of this page.
Please click 'OK' to reload Tracker."
The Personal Genome Project [personalgenomes.org] is aiming to recruit 100,000 people to publicly release their DNA sequence and medical data. The website currently has phenotype and medical history data and genotyping data for the first ten participants who are all well-known scientist.
Personally, I had forgotten most of these stories, so it's interesting to see how much everyone changed (and stayed the same).

No, it's not unique to hackerdom, I know.
The new version could also be interpreted as saying 'the breeze from ceiling fans can reanimate the dead'...
"Which is it?"

No patents. Just a recognition of being first which entitles you to one year advantage over your competitors. And you have to have a product in the market in that year, so no patent trolls sitting on their asses collecting fees.

"funding comes from investment"

Well, yes and no, I bet you most of scientists and researchers work their butts off for recognition first, then money. When Flemming discovered penicillin he wasn't thinking on patenting that discovery, and I bet he wasn't being funded either, he just did it for the love of science and the greater benefit of humanity. The same can be said of Tesla. For the joy.

The same we code day and night for the love of our profession.
I don't believe thin uses a pre-fork model, though I could be wrong on that account. I went through some pretty intense memory comparisons between the two over the past month, I'll have to write it up tomorrow.
Ibuprofen is also not-so-great for your kidneys, although not nearly as bad as acetaminophen is for your liver.
The Finnish press is currently having a field day with the fact that according to filings Elop still owns a substantial amount of Microsoft shares, while holding no Nokia shares or options at all. He blames it on insider trading laws :-)
So you can strip the lining in your stomach and intestinal track instead of blowing your liver. The article is correct: there is no value in adding anything to the hydrocodone and many possible down-sides.
Given that Jamie _is_ relatively rich from his Netscape shares, I'm guessing he probably thinks it was.
Do You Really Know Bill Gates? The Myth of Entrepreneur as Risk-Taker
Personal experience only, but I don't know the last time I've seen a programming or web-tech related webcast that wasn't made on a Mac.
What about Zed Shaw?
Yes, with some of the dross that is beginning to make it to HN front page I'm more inclined to agree that there is "one born every minute".
The tipping point
http://www.amazon.com/Tipping-Point-Little-Things-Difference...
http://steveblank.com/books-for-startups/
What the Internet revolution looked like in 1994
Definitely not. No matter what some article says, its awesome to live in Cali.
Which practice?
I think they are 3D renderings
Maybe you should get buy in from your higher ups before you deploy something like this inside your company?

Just a suggestion.

There are plenty of valid reasons why a company wouldn't want their employees discussing potentially confidential topics on a hosted web service.
About Family essay
Students studying sociology or psychology will be assigned the writing of the family essay. This type of essay will have students trying to understand the sanctity of family and how important family is to ensure a strong society.
Your statements about weed are very likely exaggerated in one direction, while the statements about acetaminophen are exaggerated in another. The cited journal article does not give full backup to the statements in your post.
"Increased from a measly .1 kilgrams to a full 80 grams!"
I was really confused when I woke up this morning to find 255* unread emails on my phone.

* It seems that Apple uses a single byte to represent app notifications as the true number of unread emails was closer to 300.

Edit: thanks
Non-story. Wake up get 60 emails, delete them all quickly using gmail, never think about it again.

I knew what happened right away and I assume the people who got a CR-48 figured it out quickly as well.

Nicest feature of gmail is that I can quickly and easily using keyboard shortcuts delete all the junk email. Wish outlook 2003 webmail was this simple at work :(
Whilst .co is rising in popularity (and Godaddy are starting to throw their weight behind it), I'd still avoid using it mainly because consumers are so used to the .com extension.

However, if you really want the .co extension then you could purchase all 3 suggestions you mentioned above - XXX.co, getXXX.com and XXXapp.com and then redirect the other 2 domains to one of them (most likely being getXXX.com)
When you want to use 1.9. You should really only be using the 1.8 branch if time or money prevent you from doing the upgrade.
I feel bad for JC Penney who got connect by a shady SEO firm. Google's reaction of completely delisting them sounds like a kill switch action, not an algorithmic tweak to ignore spam. It almost seems like Google just doesn't have the technology to detect and remove spam pages. I'm pretty sure I can do this over a weekend [1]. I wonder if it's because the problem is hard technically, or because Google doesn't have the incentive to do so.

[1] for those who don't remember, this is a tongue in cheek reference to an infamous comment on HN that somebody made claiming he could clone stackoverflow in a weekend.
I hear this protocol will become much more important with the advent of cloud brewing.
Just show in a long series pictures inscribed in granite a happy productive group of humans and animals, having offspring, eating/drinking/being merry, then show them digging and investigating the radioactive symbol. Then show a picture of the entire tribe being sick, showing the radioactive symptoms to humans/animals in pictures. Then show every life form obviously dead. Put that radioactive symbol all around, in the ground and at the entrance of the waste.

If an alien culture comes to investigate, it will probably be much more highly advanced so they will treat our warnings as "cute and endearing", as we treat a mouse warning us about an oncoming cat.

The only creatures who could be helped by this warning is humans (if we decline back into the stone age) or some other form of life that takes root on earth long after our ecosystem goes away. I think the whole issue is irrelevant. Just keep it contained and add pictures describing biological decay in the presence of this area.
I looked at the Thin code again and it uses Open3 to spawn multiple instances of itself as subprocesses.

Intuitively I'd expect that method to consume more Ram than forking because there's no opportunity for COW at all. However it'd be interesting to see what you measured, looking forward to your write-up if you get around to it.
Related Reddit thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/fjehg/what_impa...
I think you mean "byte" (8 bits) but that's unfortunate...

At least it didn't wrap around to 0, right?
From Wikipedia:

"Paracetamol also modulates the endogenous cannabinoid system.[44] Paracetamol is metabolized to AM404, a compound with several actions; most importantly, it inhibits the uptake of the endogenous cannabinoid/vanilloid anandamide by neurons. Anandamide uptake would result in the activation of the main pain receptor (nociceptor) of the body, the TRPV1 (older name: vanilloid receptor). Furthermore, AM404 inhibits sodium channels, as do the anesthetics lidocaine and procaine.[45] Either of these actions by themselves has been shown to reduce pain, and are a possible mechanism for paracetamol. However, it has been demonstrated that, after blocking cannabinoid receptors with synthetic antagonists, paracetamol's analgesic effects are prevented, suggesting its pain-relieving action involves activation of the endogenous cannabinoid system.[46]"

And as I have posted before, marijuana is an anxiolytic, anti-inflammatory, anti-angiogenic, anti-viral, antibacterial, neuroprotective, and pro-neurogenesis. It's down the most important of any drug there is. Plus it increases your IQ by an average of 6 points, decreases your diabetes risk by 66%, and can be used to treat everything from Parkinson's to cancer. There is even some research suggesting that up to 50% of all infant mortality may be the result of marijuana deficiency.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1979857

http://www.matrixmasters.net/salon/?p=258

http://www.mediafire.com/?4s8s6w9bwpmg24u

http://www.safeaccessnow.org/section.php?id=125

http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=7002

http://www.matrixmasters.net/salon/?p=153

http://www.matrixmasters.net/blogs/?p=212
sounds like a good application for Fluidinfo: http://www.fluidinfo.com/about/

if they made it a bit more accessible, scientists could potentially share some of their data, and new research could associate their related findings with the original data.
This is why you always, always, buy your dope from hillbillies.
Personally, I've found it difficult to get much attention online. I guess I've just been off doing weird stuff for too long to interest most programmers.

Every time I hear stories of so-and-so making a website that caught on like wildfire overnight, it's often times attributable to a good network of contacts who already knew that person and all tweeted for him.

I think having contacts is very important, and those people who can conquer that fear of sharing too much are the ones who'll build the best relationships, and by doing so, have more frequent successes.
This is definitely true but replace 60 emails with 250. I woke up to my iPad downloading 250 emails and I was definitely a little confused. Not anything to freak out about, though. Especially since those who received them were already testing an early stage operating system on development hardware.

EDIT: Ah. Gmail's threading makes it more like 60 threads.
Jamie has done ok and has been great at documenting his assorted endeavors, be they at Mosaic (All Hail the Company) or Netscape/AOL/Mozilla. He also did pretty well in the process, enough to buy / renovate / and provide entertainment at the DNA Lounge and through his blog about that whole process. Oh, and he still runs it and has provided some fun musical mixes over the years.

Unfortunately, he was one of the few in the mid 90s that were pretty active in writing (now referred to as blogging) about their experiences. His writings are both amusing and informational, I wish more had.

A good deal of the early Netscape crowd did quite well. Many are still involved in startups to this day -- Andreesen doing VC work, Montulli/Treuhaft doing some cloud storage, Tom Paquin @ OnLive, etc.
Ask HN: Selling B2B Software to a Chinese company
So my start-up sells B2B software for small to medium-sized companies, primarily productivity tools for researchers.

Now an institute in China is interested in the software but they are insistent that they want to host it on their servers. Pros/Cons? Yes/No?
That was the first guest post I've ever read on Techcrunch that was genuinely interesting and didn't read like droning self promotion. Thanks, Justin!
Believe it or not I was actually working for these people at the time they were thinking about this. It was kind of mind-bending to have all these stolid DoE types talking about such a sci-fiish problem.
It's fine if some people dig it up and get sick; the lives of a dozen people in 10000 years really aren't that much of our concern. What they're trying to avoid is people building a city on top of the waste, drilling down for water or other resources, then contaminating a large metropolis.
http://www.assistly.com/