skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most people absolutely do not find it reasonable that you can't buy one copy of a movie and show it to the whole neighborhood. In fact they assume you can; people do it all the time.
Come on now. I am the founder of page.ly (if that was not clear) and what could be wrong with a little celebratory call out back to this community, which does not seem to be all that welcoming all of sudden.

A 1000 new visits over an hour or so from hackernews was kind of novel for us.
You're probably right, I was quoting from the overcompensation graph, the other chart actually says 8 sessions/week for endurance.
Not exactly. If you are doing strenuous enough weight training, your cardiovascular system is going to get quite the workout.
And in a rock lifting competition they would win easily. I don't see your point. You pick an arbitrary metric that you happen to be good at and declare victory.

As it stands, all you've done is point out that there are different tasks and depending on your target task the ideal body composition and training routine differs.

If you want to be good at pullups you should probably let all your leg muscles atrophy and just build lats and biceps.
But it's in the developers' even BETTER interest to move them to Chrome or Firefox.

Why wouldn't they just install this?
http://code.google.com/chrome/chromeframe/

Microsoft is obviously doing this to keep IE relevant.
How useful would that list even be, after all the attention this has gotten wont that IP list be absurdly long? Maybe there trying to use it to form conspiracies by association.

Well my IP is there. I don't own any Sony products, was considering a PS3 (since the price is right), and I almost never mod those kind of devices, but out of principal I don't think I could justify getting one now.
Great article covering the past 20 years of malware
Optimization is actually easier in assembler than it is in Python. Fewer moving parts.

Your compiler is almost certainly better at optimization than you are, though. This was just not always true, nor was it always true that you could even get a compiler.
Chocolate Tycoon
I dunno. I was always told free-weights are better than isolation (because you'll exercise complementary muscles), don't train the same thing until the second day after, and you won't get far if you don't push yourself.

For a massively-super-summary: that's all they said, in 6 pages.

The rest of it is a lengthy exposition about how his motivating force was someone who told him how pathetic he was, made him realize it instead of just hear it, and then made him do the above.
IPv6 on home routers and DSL/cable modems: Fail
Start up selling to the enterprise? How to pass the initial “smell test"
One constructive criticism: it makes it too easy to just mash the left and right arrows. Take that feature away :)
I have to second that comment about them being "probably pleased as punch to show off their cool project to someone interested enough to ask about it."

I've been invited to some cutting-edge work just because I asked and showed a bit of interest. Almost all of the researchers I've met were more than happy to talk about their work and seem surprise even to have someone as enthusiastic about their work as them.

One researcher once said something along the lines that it was comforting to have someone contact him about his research - at least he knows his work didn't just disappear in the deep end.
Shouldn't that be "Great article covering the past 20 years of Windows malware", given that the article title is 20 years of innovative Windows malware?

All computers don't run Windows anymore.

Beyond that, isn't the real question "What sociological factors have prevented Linux, Mac, etc from attracting the dense cloud of malware that Windows has?"
That's funny. I followed your lead... but I was less polite.
I hear you regarding Python.

Re: const inferrence - I have been thinking about it on and off for a while now and I think C++ has it backwards to what it should be. Consider the case when I am implementing some function and need to call foo() passing it variable bar, but don't want foo to modify it.

The way C++ offers to solve this problem is by having me first code a version of foo that swears that it does not touch its argument. So effectively I need to code foo in a way that anticipates const usage, i.e. make it forward compatible with const expectations of external code. Expectations that may or may not materialize, but yet I still need to be mindful of them. This seems excessive.

The way I would rather do it is to state that I expect foo() not to modify my variable when I'm issuing a foo call -

foo( const bar ); // note the spacious padding :)

and then let the compiler decide if this restriction can be satisfied. Note that this example assumes that bar is a local variable. Another common case is when bar is a given and already a const, and then I can do just this -

foo( bar );

In other words, const-ness should be a property of just variables. In a vast majority of cases deducing if a function is const can be done automatically -- and this is what I want from my compiler.

Am I missing something? This is a complex subject, so probably I am.
One of my friends who is a designer, completely sick of IE6, puts this Javascript on every site he develops: http://ie6update.com/

Click: Click here to see a demo!

--------------------

Recently I finished a CSS book, maybe 500 pages long. About 80 or so pages were dedicated to "and to get this to work in IE6, you have to do this hack." IE7 maybe had 10 pages, and IE8/Firefox/Chrome/Safari/Opera were merely footnotes sprinkled about.
Does that mean we can't place job ads for the Amazonian Guard?
Fifteen Reasons News is Bad For You
What about people who just saw it in a feed and out of curiosity looked :S
Haven't a number of courts ruled that an IP address isn't a person? I feel like that should apply here.

Edit: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/02/court-confir...

I guess they don't want to sue the visitors just reveal identity? This seems like shaky ground for Sony.
Just to prove you are a human, please answer the
following math challenge.

-6 + 5 * 0 = ?

(I guess I just got lucky?)
Very true, in my mother's generation overweight people in China were seen as 'freaks', as in circus freaks. This was even when there was enough food to feed everybody, most people remained in shape because

1. The food was whole.
2. People were very active, particularly where my mother grew up(Shanghai), mothers usually got up at 5am to get the fresh produce from markets everyday, people walked around a lot, bicycles were a luxury item.
Their diets are better than what my schools (any of them) served for lunch. Seriously. If that's all people ate, our prison population would be half what it is now, it'd simply kill at least half of them off within a few years.
I don't want to sound prudish, but can we please leave the pop-culture jokes at the expense of the mentally ill to other sites?
Reddit: I'm Four Years Old. AMAA
Geotrio Wants To Be The YouTube For Tours
You're misunderstanding a little -- he's saying that the USA is like its own Schengen Area (according to wikipedia, ~400 million). So for travelers from outside the EU, you just need one visa to enter and then you can move about freely. Similarly, you just need one US visa and you can go from NY to California freely.
Drawing Attractive Maps with Canvas
CBS Acquires TV Guide For Online Video Clicker
I agree... usage issue: another example is modify a phone so it transmits at non-standard frequencies I'm in my right to do it. If I'm at home or a non-public place that's shielded I can do what I want, but the public airways outside are under FCC regulation and then I'm breaking the law not for doing the modification but for using it in regulated space. It's the same way a companies tests out development phones and transmitters before getting a licence.
If you're going to link to an NYT article, can you please at least use an affiliate link?

EDIT: I tried adding a couple to this comment, but on testing them, I'm still hitting the login-wall.
Wow, that IS a nice summary and bibliography. Thanks for posting it!

There are some other good presentations on C/LP in the same directory, too.
Duostack (Ruby/Node.js platform) releases docs & info on pricing
IPad 2 pixels
Oh, come ON. You wrote this essay specifically to be encouraging. Somebody responded saying they felt discouraged. You failed, and you're getting feedback. You have something to fix if you want to encourage people. Stop being so defensive.
I know it's in developers' even better interest to have all users using Chrome or Firefox. I've said this numerous times and I don't think anyone is arguing against that. But there isn't going to be a link on Microsoft's site to Firefox. I can't figure out why people keep bringing this up. It's not like it hasn't occurred to me -- I'm a designer too. I know how much it sucks fixing IE problems in layouts. What I also know is that there are waaay fewer problems with IE8 than with IE6 and since this is the best we can hope for that's what I'm trying to convey here.
hi spike!
Hmm, sounds like Redhat is really looking for a BSD type license.
Yeah, even as someone who works with computers all day I only upgraded my desktop less than a year ago. Sure there are a few nice things that Windows7 does but coming at it from the regular users perspective, unless things stop working that they use frequently there isn't a lot of motivation to upgrade. So unless games stop supporting XP, browsers as a whole move away from it, computers actually start doing something a lot cooler with the latest version or some exploit starts owning all XP installs I can't see a great amount of motivation for the average user.
Are you just taking this sample from a random time you looked at someone in the gym? There's a very good chance that these "bulked up" guys were near the end of their workout or have already heavily fatigued their back somehow. Either that, or they probably had a lot of bodyfat in which case obviously body weight exercises for reps wouldn't be their strong suit.
Sony is acting like a company trying to maximize profits, it's our government that's tasked with defending 'the people'. If the government is the enabler, why not protest them?
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Make a donation but, at the very least, share it with your friends so that we can get Peter some of the money he deserves.
Using DNS as a thin ID system
"These statistics obviously cover just the kernel. The Linux environment is much larger than that..."

Being strict, actually isn't Linux just a kernel? Just being a BSD troll.
I totally did it for the magical internet monies, of course :)

Step 1) Post intriguing, funny link to HN, Step 2) ???, Step 3) Profit
Pretty sure the bulk of the security updates were part of the 3.0.4 update, unless you mean this one which I didn't think was that big of a deal. https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/90aede67711476f0a63fdc...
Losing one or two of the big ones (fb or twitter) would be a glaring hole in their offering and it also seems like the same thing would trigger companies to cut them off; namely, too much success.

I know they're smart guys (by proxy of YC) so they must have some answer to what happens should one of the handful of social networks that matter cut them off, but being on the outside looking in, it sure does look like a precarious position.
Hey Yuri long time no see. Facebook me if you're ever in Seattle.
Because a lot of companies rely on IE's rendering engine. There are a lot of sites (mostly internal but external as well) that use technologies like ActiveX which only work on IE's engine. For example, almost every site served up by an ip camera uses an activex plugin to view video.
Everyone not from CA run a script to access GeoHot.com?

This way Sony will have to try the case in NJ.
Here's why Red Hat has to do this:

http://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto041820061...

Financial Times: Is open source going to be disruptive to Oracle?

Larry Ellison: No. If an open source product gets good enough, we'll simply take it. Take [the web server software] Apache: once Apache got better than our own web server, we threw it away and took Apache. So the great thing about open source is nobody owns it – a company like Oracle is free to take it for nothing, include it in our products and charge for support, and that's what we'll do.
I wonder what the judge almighty thinks about Sony's rootkit projects..
#winning, after some research, appears to be related to Charlie Sheen's newfound popularity on Twitter: http://twitter.com/charliesheen
Guy who took a picture of his face for 8 years FouTube Facebook scam
That would make "clean" patches, meaning you get no real history of why things changed, which is important in understanding a large project like Linux.
Remember that just the idea of a plugin, ActiveX object or layer that communicates with one tech to another is a patent infringement - and yet we are now coming to a point where the open web is embraced over the patent-encumbered.

Apple's camp will talk shit about Flash and how Flash should die because it's patent encumbered, but because iOS has a hardware H.264 encoder suddenly the rules don't apply and it's just fine to be presenting junk science as reasoning so long as its convenient.

You're spending more time trying to convince people to give up the idea of a truly open format instead of just conceding that it's an absolute necessity. Patent trolls might... is not a good reason to give up a necessary measure of innovation.

I'd still be on WebM's side regardless, but I feel like if the tables were turned and WebM was Apple's idea, this conversation would be going a little differently.
The author's article is just another opinion, and something that happened to work for him. I've found that mixing things up works for me, and not because it "shocks" or "confuses" the body, but because the biggest obstacle - like he mentions in the early parts of the article - is boredom. However, he's a little too dogmatic in his approach.

Finally, I have a huge problem with the article being entitled "Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie" when he fails to define "fitness." He keeps talking about seeing changes in the body--is that what fitness is? Becoming more muscular and lean? What about cardiovascular endurance? Or is it both? He spends too much time bashing the health & fitness industry and not enough time defining what good health is.
Nintendo's Iwata On Design Lessons, Social, Mobile Risks
You know Safari DOES support XP?

No one uses OS 9 anymore. Loads use XP. Get it? It's Microsoft's mess to clean up, and browser-wise, three separate efforts can do it! If Microsoft can't, they should pass the ball to someone who can.

Anything else hurts the web.

You may have posted the most one-sided, thick-skulled, baseless comment I've ever seen on HN.
have you factored in your (assuming you're in the US) rather brutal judicial system?
You are a Microsoft astroturfer, right?
(Before downvoting, people, read up on this. Microsoft does it. "coderdude"'s "website" is a vaguely Microsoftian coming-soon page...)
I don't know how much traffic their infrastructure is up to serving, but Iceland is supposed to be good in that regard. When the US tried to subpoena the Twitter account records of an Icelandic MP, the US Ambassador to Iceland was called in to explain TF the US thought it was doing. (Twitter was also able to quash the subpoena on appeal, and as it was regarding an Icelandic citizen, it's not directly on point.)

All that aside, it was my understanding that they wanted to remake their Internet image as a privacy haven of sorts -- the kind of place someone like Assange/WikiLeaks could safely host their service. I'm having a spot of trouble finding relevant primary sources; can anyone else help point me in the right direction?
You guys should avail of Nico's skills.

Nico has done several excellent designs for our startup.

Thanks Nico!
Logical timestamps are an extremely simple idea that knocked me on my ass when I first worked them into a system. Also a great thing to look up to get a "flavor" of how distributed systems work.

I feel like if you walk into a job interview knowing the corner-cases of a two-phase commit and being able to solve a problem using Lamport timestamps, you're probably in the top 90th percentile of dev applicants.
I did. Two points - he was 20 at the time, and so likely had few health concerns, and no dependents.

Perhaps I'm just associating too much risk with this kind of move, but I don't think so.
You ignored everything parent actually meant. Nice strawman.

Not to mention that you suggest migrating XP users to IE8 instead of e.g. firefox provides a "migration path" to IE9? Which you just defended as OK for Microsoft to not provide to XP users.
I guess you missed the articles here about about Microsoft's massive commitment to backward compatibility and why they do it?

From just the other day :http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2281045
and http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html

Ditching the current rendering engine would break a ton of apps.
NASA research satellite plunges into the sea (AP)
WordPress DDoS Attacks Primarily From China, Possibly Politically Motivated
I'm sure they don't care about people who just loaded up the home page. They are more than likely after the IPs that downloaded the files that are posted on the site (maybe they will try to tie them back to IPs used to acces PSN?)
That is sooooo Microsofty of them!
What? I'm almost flattered that you went through so much trouble to peg me as a Microsoft astroturfer. :)

I hate Internet Explorer. Do not get me wrong on this point. I hate it with a passion. I just know that IE8 > IE6 and that MS isn't going to link to Firefox or Chrome. If everyone was on IE8 (not even IE9) I would still be a happy camper.

Also, what part of my coming soon page is Microsoftian? Now you've got me curious. (Obviously so that I can fix that so that others can't figure out my true motives.)

Edit: Aw bummer. I was kind of flattered until I realized you created that account 15 minutes ago to troll. Your other contributions to HN:

"Shut. Up."

"You ignored everything parent actually meant. Nice strawman"
As you said, they are likely to be only cut off if they meet "success". If that happens, they will have leverage.

Any way, at this point, they must have their blinders on. If they got preoccupied with figuring out solutions to tentative risk, they'll never take the first step (i.e., to be successful enough to be blocked).
+1 for pricing details
If you accept that Waterloo is part of the Golden Horseshoe (a possible point of contention, but born and raised here I've always thought it was) then Toronto and Waterloo are similar and connected in the way that San Francisco and San Jose are, though on a small population and density scale.

I don't know much about the Valley, but the impression I have is that it is a large area with regions that focus on different aspects of technology and I think that is true for the Golden Horseshoe.

I am missing some, but there's a large number of great schools (York, Ryerson, McMaster, Sheridan, Conestoga, Waterloo, Laurier, Guelph) that tend to act as focal points for regional specialties, highlighted by the differences in focus by tech organizations like MaRS and Communitech.

And if you extend a bit towards London and Stratford you get excellent culture and schools like Western and Fanshawe, and in the other directions towards Markham and Kingston you get highly educated knowledge workers.

Organizations like the Ontario Centres of Excellence (http://www.oce-ontario.org/) - who I am not directly connected to but professionally benefit from and generally admire - are viewing this part of the world as much bigger than any one city, and I think that is necessary.

If there's anything we have that is similar to Silicon Valley (which benefits as well by relative proximity to LA and San Diego) is that this is a high density population area, at least as far as such things exist in Canada.
The DreamOS Operating System (written in Scheme)
I always forget about that. I suggest: http://www.bugmenot.com/view/nytimes.com
Google Cranks Up M&A Machine
Seems like physical robots are now entering the so-called "uncanny valley" reached years ago by special effects and video game artists: the thing looks real, but as soon as it starts to move, the deepest recesses of our subconscious at once alert us that it is, in fact, nothing more than a futile and imperfect facsimile of life.

That said, the suggestion that this could be a real human acting as a robot is definitely plausible. And that, on its own, is a remarkable accomplishment, really.
No, he's right. The most powerful force shaping the future is intelligence. Natural selection on biological genes is orders of magnitude slower.
I don't see any reason why ActiveX couldn't be bolted on to Webkit. As for backward compatibility they update their engine all of the time; perhaps quirks mode could be left as the old engine.
IMHO you don't understand Calculus good enough yourself. It's one of the most powerful tools humankind has come with. A couple of simple ideas aplicable practically everywhere.
Is that a fact? I think I installed XP with IE7 straight off the disk once. Maybe it was slip-streamed. Hardly seems like a lot of work for the netbook OEMs to create a slipstreamed install with IE7/8.
Haha this is seriously awesome... almost makes me miss doing hours and hours of calc every day :)
You are right, that sentence should have said: "If a high school drop-out with nothing but a typing diploma could do it, you can at least try too."
However, the argument that multitasking on computers is bad because humans can’t multitask is flawed.

That was right in the article itself.

I believe the author's point is that focus/attention is more important than being able to "multi-task". Refer to Daniel Simons's experiment (the invisible gorilla) on selective attention.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJG698U2Mvo
Within the scope of this discussion, that's somewhat facetious. The main reason cited for wanting people to move off IE6 is security concerns rather than HTML5 support, and for good reason - I don't care whether people can use the latest-greatest version of gmail, I care whether they're unduly liable to become part of a botnet that can bring down gmail for everyone.
true genius.
lets get rid of IE7!
This is an interesting thing for a guy who's been registered for a half hour to say.
we need to get rid of IE7
If IE wasn't relevant, this wouldn't be a discussion here.
You are clearly the typical XP+IE6 user being targeted by this campaign.
People can multitask perfectly fine when the tasks they are doing are automatic (that's why you can usually drive and have a conversation [with a passenger] at the same time without any difficulty). When you're doing multiple things that require cognitive resources, your brain has to share its (surprisingly limited) short-term computational power/memory, resulting in decreased performance.

There aren't many things people do on computers that are automatic (at least not many things I do). But I'm typing this on a computer with three monitors, and I can say objectively that my efficiency is way higher than if I had one small screen with at least two clicks to get to my next app.
Hi Spike,

I am asking a question on continuous deployment here. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2288382

Was wondering if you can spare some advice for me?

Thank you.
I'm a web standards astroturfer, myself.
He has only so far made like 5 comments and all were responses to me. Including "Shut. Up."

I'm pretty sure someone is just really uncomfortable with the things I'm saying so they created this account to help combat my lies.