skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
good short article

he's totally right in how he contrasts asking someone out vs riding a motorcycle without helmet. and yes, starting a company has little physical downside (if crafted with reasonable caution, by doing things like minimizing expenses early until business model proven, etc) but a huge potential physical upside (great wealth and freedom).
Actually, I have been pretty disappointed with iPad apps. Many, many iPhone apps haven't been ported over, and the iPhone app experience on the iPad is pretty shoddy, not even using the Retina graphics.
$10? If I understand the license[1] right - it's more like $0.10 to $0.20.

[1] - http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/avc/Documents/AVC_TermsS...
Agreed. Additional parts that I can't see myself doing:

- Finding guys doing cutting-edge work like eye tracking software in the 80s

- Convincing those guys to invite me into their workshop and look at their code

- Glancing over any unfamiliar code--let alone math-heavy code--and making useful optimizations while the author looks over my shoulder.

And I find that unimaginable in Python. I can't even imagine considering the idea in assembler.
Do Royalty-Free Standards "Stifle Innovation?"
The issue is less that they link to their own browser, and more that the likely outcome is that it will push the adoption of another nearly obsolete browser.
I'm not sure if you're right or not, but if you are right it's very interesting because I've been here since almost day 1 and it's not as if my old comments routinely got down-voted. So if what you're saying is true, not only has the hivemind's up-vote heuristic changed - I've changed my posting habits.
Opposite can mean opportunity
"Fitness" is defined relative to the task you want to accomplish. For most sports and athletes, if you are fit for that sport, you are "fit" in the sense that you are healthy. But athletes training for different sports may have vastly different abilities.

I think it's also worth noting that not all weight training has the goal of "looking like a bodybuilder."
And indeed that is often a good solution. But it's nice to hack socially at times too. Edinburgh Hacklab had a coding event last Wednesday; I went along, got a fair bit done (the fact that I was in a different environment helped my productivity), chatted with friendly people, showed them the project I was working on, got help with some CSS stuff, etc. Overall a productive way to spend an evening.
The temptation of seeing this depressing bullshit upvoted is too much to resist.

> You know what - actually the story does not make me feel like I can do it. It makes me feel like he's probably hundreds of time cleverer than me.

I'm not, it was just hard work. Lots of it. I suck at math and plenty of other subjects that would come in quite handy as a programmer, probably I'm very much unsuited to the job based on my 'talents'. It's all about persistence.

> He was handrolling assembler as a teen - back then I was doing VB6.

When I was a teen VB6 didn't exist for another decade or more, and assemblers were too expensive but an opcode list could be had as a 'datasheet' for free from the local electronics store.

> All these programmer stories about how they developed OS kernels in x86 MMX extensions when they were 4 years old on Sinclair machines while skipping 4 grades and making hundreds selling lemonade never make me feel like I could do the same.

Such stories do not exist.

> They just make me feel like those guys will always be ahead of me - they started so much earlier.

Yes, just like all those hardworking kids that started even later only to go to even bigger successes.

> I want to hear about the talentless hack who used VB6 to clone some popular software and convinced a big company to purchase it for a few hundreds of thousands after he spent most of his teen years reading science fiction and watching movies. That would make me feel like I could do it.

Why would you like to hear about that? Maybe this article wasn't for you? It is targeted specifically at people currently stuck in jobs held back by peer pressure wondering if they have what it takes to work for themselves and to pursue their own goals in life even if they're not born in to wealth or have a natural talent for 'X', whatever 'X' is.

Way to go to take a positive thing and to try to twist it around into a negative and a depressing thing.

Really, stop being a negative influence and try to see that talent is in large part offset by dedication and time put in. If you want to succeed at something, anything, that does not require some kind of genetic component then go and pursue it relentlessly and be excellent, or at least as good as you can do it, whatever it is.

And with that I will sink back in to retirement, congratulations to those that bet with me that I would get sucked back in, be assured this is a one time affair but I did not want to see Max undo my work.
And his links, OMG. SO SMUG! Half his posts seem to be about digging up the bad sentences from iPad competitor reviews.
A bit late in the day, but FWIW, here is the clickable link:

http://www.madebyargon.com
The real bubble | Seth Levine
I'm using Linode server w/ pretty standard Cap deploy. Using jammit and minification tools to pre-process some assets (like widget js code).
Amazon.com: State of California stands up to anti-tax attack
For recursion vs. looping, it really depends on what you're doing. In my js experience though, most of the time looping is either faster or equal to recursion, while being significantly easier to understand at a quick glance.

In this case, the loop will outperform recursion because of all of the slice calls in the recursive version.
You've been a user for 1469 days and you just noticed now that jobs (http://news.ycombinator.com/jobs) don't have comments?
Not to entirely disagree with you but

Or you can just eat the actual plants and animals and be done with it.

You don't just grab a potato out of the ground and eat it whole. Or jump out into a field of cattle with a fork and knife ready to go. You can do that with some foods, not so much with others. If the metric is "you must be able to eat it right out of the wild with 0 processing" you're going to eat a lot of raw tomatoes and peppers and not a whole lot else.

In many cases, you have to process the food source to make it edible. Rhubarb for example has poisonous leaves that will kill you. The green bits of the tomato can surpress cardiac functions. For most animals you can't just start biting chunks out of them. You may have to remove internal organs that are inedible, bones (I don't see many paleo eaters advocating cracking open thigh bones to get at the marrow very often btw), etc.

http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/news-10-poisonous-fruit...

In some cases, edible parts may contain bad stuff, pork meat for example is well known to be unsafe raw. I'm pretty sure cavemen ate pigs (or at least boar). Cow brains may contain prions. etc.

I do agree with you that food manufacture from chemical components on up is likely not complete, but there's not really much of that in the industry. Even highly "processed" foods like hotdogs or McDonald's chicken McNuggets are just ground up and cooked scrap meat and connective tissue (all paleo friendly!). They have all the stuff that's in meat anyways. The process to make imitation cheese doesn't generally fall under that kind of manufacturing process.

Many common and cheap foodstuffs also don't contain much nutrition. Vitamin fortified rice has probably improved the lives of a billion people.

People also get all kinds of scared when the chemical names for common food components are used. Should I use "salt" or "sodium chloride"? Should I avoid all foods with Monosodium Glutamate (good luck with that)?

But like anything it all just comes down to moderation. Nutmeg is great and natural, but if you eat too much of it you'll get have hallucinations and may die. Who knows what's in a clam, perhaps if you eat clams 3 times a day for a year (a completely possible scenario for a caveman) you'll have serious health problems like mercury poisoning or some other issue.

Who knows?

and there is probably stuff in the part you are throwing away that is good for you.

You may also be throwing out stuff that's very bad for you. It's all conjecture.
> Red Hat often talks about upstream first, the practice of openly developing kernel features and bug fixes as part of the most recent upstream kernel before we ship them in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. We know the value of getting code open from day one, debating it in the public forum, and letting it mature through a cycle long before it reaches our customers’ data centers. As the kernel community is well aware, it is standard practice for Red Hat to submit fixes that we find in supporting our customers.

[...]

> Why did we make this change? To speak bluntly, the competitive landscape has changed.

[...]

> but rather only to our customers who have recognized the value of RHEL and have thus indirectly funded Red Hat’s contributions to open source that will advance their business now and in the future.

Translation : RH believes in the shared source model as initiated by MS, and not in the free software model were knowledge is valuable and should not be hidden, and were new advanced are done on the shoulders on giants.

From now on, I consider RH as a traitor for the free software community, and will handle it like that (unless they change their unacceptable behaviour)
"Given that everyone using IE6 is, at best, running Windows XP, and given that Microsoft have stated that IE9 won't be available for pre-Vista SP2 OSs, the most recent version of Internet Explorer they could ever hope to upgrade to is IE8."

unless they upgrade Windows. Which they should.
Russia. International code +7
I tend to like open world games, sneak thief games, and RPGs.

favorites:

Zelda: A Link To The Past

Final Fantasy 6

Thief 2

Blaster Master

currently playing

GTA4

Monster Hunter Tri

Far Cry 2

Dead Space

The Legend Of Zelda
> Typically I roll with Django, but have been super impressed with the Rails 3.

Can you explain what specifically you like more about Rails? I've been using Django because my initial exposure to Rails confused me - after running the basic "start project" command there were dozens of files generated - compared to the 4 that get generated with Django (and the 3 or 4 more when you start a Django "app").

I'm also curious if you're planning on turning this site into a money-maker, just because it says joining will get you "50 free", but I don't see any pricing anywhere else?
CSS3 Maker - Wysiwyg tool to create CSS3 code snippets
Do geeks always need something to bitch about? Microsoft is at least making an effort to do as most people wish, getting users to upgrade from IE6.
The market is a very complicated, dynamic system, and the best you can do is run experiments to try and figure out how some small part of it works. It's only a waste of time if you construct poor experiments: otherwise, failure just gives you some more information about the system. With this new information, you can go and try something more likely to be successful.

A related trick is to keep the scope of your experiments small so you can feed that information back into the development of future experiments very quickly. (cf. Col. John Boyd's "Patterns of Conflict")
It isn't insatiable by definition of a bid and an ask on the USD.
It's because American airports stupidly don't have sterile transit, unlike practically every other country. I'm a Canadian, and when I transfer through LAX and go through customs, I pop out in the arrivals area. There's nothing to stop me from hailing a cab.
You account balance is purely stubbed out. Right now there is no balance tracking (so it's basically free until I bake that in).

I probably should have put some thought into pricing before posting on HN, but pricing is one of those eternally difficult things so I punted for now.

International SMS verifications should work, but some people are currently reporting issues with that. No voice verification for International planned (for cost reasons).
Great post. Thank you for showing me(I already knew but it's nice to see an example) that for most people business ownership is not something that happens overnight. I too work in a job I hate and burn the midnight oil learning how to program. Continued success to you and per the instructions in the article, I'm now following your tweets as well. Take care. :)
You also arbitrarily decided that number of pull-ups was going to be your metric for determining who was more fit.
If it makes you feel any better, the guy is talking about 1982. If you were 'in' to computers at all as a hobbyist during that era, it typically meant low-level tinkering. Not at all unusual. My own personal stories from that period sound today like I was a young engineering genius, but I wasn't. The same kids who learn Rails now were the ones doing assembly back then. And plain ol' luck is still as relevant today. And, of course, persistence.
Hey, I don't know if you've noticed the pattern over the past 15 years, but there's always another "obsolete" browser. You can't "win", it's just about the progress. There is no point in the past 15 years where you've been able to just code to the latest beta of your favorite browser and nothing else.
They are withholding the intermediate steps between their kernel and a vanilla one. They are not withholding the source code - you can study it, change it and even diff it against the vanilla kernel to see what they changed.

I bet some comments may even help you figure out why they made a specific change.

Unfortunately, I believe all Oracle will just pay some proxy for RH support and get the same individual patches.
That is a bit different then. I agree about the conference, I have never been inclined to go.

The impression that I get is that the program is full of self-proclaimed experts who pack themselves and their 2 page bio's onto panels to talk about subjects that nobody outside of that room cares about, and that nobody in the room will ever actually implement or do anything about.

I applaud the effort of setting up an area of sxsw that is more hackerish - but it would probably be better to just organize something separately, preferably in a different city and at a different time.

Edit: relevant: http://ttk.me/t4AY6
As long as auctions maintain a BTC ratio over 1.0 with short tails, the appetite is effectively insatiable, especially at the enormous rate of issuance over the last few years.
They probably wouldn't be visiting ie6countdown.com.
If anyone wants to contribute to a FOSS project but aren't confident about their coding chops: fleshing out bug reports and clearly defining their scope will make a HUGE difference.
Fairly easy to answer:

$ host -t NS ly.
ly name server phloem.uoregon.edu.
ly name server ns-ly.ripe.net.
ly name server dns1.lttnet.net.
ly name server dns.lttnet.net.
ly name server auth02.ns.uu.net.
Criminal Hackers Responsible For Most Data Breaches
It sounds like the problem you both have is a high sense of entitlement for something that the license doesn't entitle you to have...why is Red Hat at fault for asking you to pay for something that wasn't at all free or easy to create?
Maze generation: Weave mazes
Everyone has to take off sweater, sweatshirt, coat, shoes, and sometimes belt and watch.

I have flown in JFK, LAX, LAS, and MKE since the body scanners started. There's usually at least one line that uses a metal detector still. So I always pick that line.

It is a joke, though, to see middle-class, middle-aged women in a long-sleeve shirt and jeans getting a body scan and then a subsequent pat-down. What a waste of my tax dollars.
The banner is supposed to be ugly - that way people will notice it and not mistake it for part of your beautiful site.
And replace it with what? Companies that will charge 30% of all the money for content that goes through their devices?
It's sound business because I'd rather RedHat continue to be the leader in the space of commercial open source than Oracle. We've seen what Oracle does to open source since they acquired Sun and it's not pretty.
Torture-testing Backup and Archive Programs (1991)
Tell that to Steve Jobs.
Without trying to be one of the snarky commenters, I would humbly suggest that the submitted link is one solution.
Not much progress going from one non-html5-compliant browser to another. It still means everyone's stuck having to support flash and other proprietary plugins. IE9 at least allows us to move forward with modern standards.
And this is why my favorite Mac shortcut is Cmd-Alt-H (hide all windows except the one in focus)
Super Commando Dhruva
or even like this: "shipped code on [platform] to [n] users/companies/clients for company A from march to august 2010"
Even if there is a 0% infant mortality rate, if everybody dies around 30, the average life expectancy can still be 30. Like I said, this is easy to test, there are still quite a few hunter gatherer cultures around, and they aren't exactly struggling to deal with an elderly care problem. This is pretty well studied. What you are supplying is conjecture, or perhaps an interesting hypothesis.

"I think it's closer to the truth to say that cavemen...lived a natural lifespan closer to modern man." Test it! I honestly don't know the answer, the data I managed to find in 10 minutes of searching says that hypothesis is incorrect -- but as you rightly point out my data includes infant mortality in the averages (I believe). But if you can find data that says "excluding infant mortality, pre-agrarian cultures have an average lifespan of 70-80 years" I'll be more than happy to accept that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy

According to the entry above, there's a measure called e5 that should supply the relevant figures.

And I think it's a straw man to say that accepting a "caveman" or "hunter gatherer" diet means we need to accept -every- aspect of "primitive" life.

I'm not really attacking the diet per se, many of the recipes are actually pretty tasty and are generally pretty healthy. I'm attacking the faulty line of reasoning given as to why one should do this.

"it seems to be pretty healthy" is wishy washy, but okay

"You should eat this way because evolution made you to eat this way therefore it's healthy" is not, it present a long chain of reasoning that falls apart at almost every link, but it's presented as a kind of science, which it's not by this reasoning.
"If you add exercise to a person's lifestyle without adding calories, they will lose weight. It's that simple. There is research to show this. I cited some of it."

That's great. There is also research that shows that acceleration due to gravity at sea level is 9.8 m/s^2, but that has little to do with what the OP said, which is that "exercise tends to increase people's appetites." You're refuting something he never claimed.

"He never, in his entire blog post, mentions the fact that the fat person is also eating 7 extra strips of bacon each day."

I'm guessing because that's not the case? You're begging the question by showing that his claims don't work out according to the calories in/calories out model.
False dichotomy alert!

Getting rid of Microsoft doesn't imply going to Apple. You must realize that there are other entities in this market, frequently offering better products, often for free.

Getting rid of a company that despises fair competition, that promotes bogus standards in order to confuse the market instead of doing something it once did adequately: build products its users want, would be quite good for the market.

But you get some points for writing an answer. It seems others just opted to downvote what they don't like to read.
Their server's taking a beating it seems, but Google Cache has it - http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:YOhLK7I...
Nice job on the layout, very clean. I too would be quite interested in your notes about design and layout.
you should really avoid using rails 3.0.4 now. there is a security bug in rails 3.0.4. it is recommended to upgraded it to rails 3.0.5.
Uh,

If, hypothetically, they were able to close, to own, the source they were dealing with, it really wouldn't matter how much they'd invested in the previously open source. It would be just source they invested in 'cause they wanted to sell it and there would be nothing "altruistic" about it (and no benefit for any who didn't pay them).

So, no, they can't compensate for withholding information by investing in open source. They might currently be only withholding an "acceptable" amount but their investment in open source and their information-withholding can't be naively compared to see if they "balance out".
I am surprised how people spend too much time on useless things instead of solving really interesting problems. You can at least use some machine learning to present a pictures of increased interest to each user. Or present pr0n pictures based on personal taste.
Japan develops mobile phone with human touch
On the one hand, a story like yours of success through sheer determination is awesome and uplifting. On the other hand, the idea of working that hard, for that long, is overwhelming to many.

A lot of people don't think themselves (and may not be) capable of the sustained effort you put in. (Generalizing from my own case is possibly unwarranted, but it's uncomfortable to say this about myself directly. =/ )
Interesting. I always think Australia's as being pretty culturally homogeneous, but obviously that isn't really true when you look really closely. I am curious to know what part of .au did you grow up in / live in? I grew up in Tasmania, lived for 10 years in Melbourne, and the last 5 in south east Queensland.
Real life HAL 9000: computers reacting to human emotions?
>I guess what I'm getting at is that you need a process which you can run yourself even when things go very wrong.

Okay. So now the question is how do I go about getting that?
I've got no real reason to. XP works fine, and it's secure enough. Java isn't installed, and flash is enabled on a case-by-case basis (<3 Flashblock). The odds of me suffering an exploit will go down as hacking efforts shift to the newer versions. This is after not suffering _any_ attack, malware or otherwise, in all the years since XP came out, so I'm not terribly concerned.

I'll probably have this laptop (and XP) for another year or so.

Now, try convincing someone who _doesn't_ know much about computers to upgrade. All these "everyone should upgrade" declarations I keep seeing won't do it.
I visit the Bay area yearly, and every time I make sure that my connection is in Europe and I never have to connect in the U.S. I've visited a ton of countries (including China), and the U.S. is definitely the most hostile to visit.
They're trying to get XP users to upgrade from IE6 to IE8. This is a problem because IE8 is already obsolete.

It would be preferable to encourage people to run pretty much any other browser on XP, because they are all being actively updated with new features.

The point, which doesn't have anything to do with Microsoft-bashing: Don't run this banner on your site.
Ugh, we all know 99% of English-speaking users on IE6 are forced to use it at their workplace. That's going to be so annoying.

Maybe those IE6 Business-users should get their user-agents changed to:
"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) - YES I KNOW IE6 IS OLD, TELL MY BOSS"
Channelsurfing.net owner arrested for linking to sharing sites
hardly anybody names their classes in all capital letters (note that naming template parameters [T, MAXN in this case] in all capitals is quite common)

Agreed. My code and a lot of C++ code I've seen uses uppercase for template parameters, but never for classes/structs or methods. (Actually, I generally follow the Java conventions for capitalization of class names, method/function names, constants etc, though I use underscores in local variables.)
I use "Maximize window" for this purpose.
Investors? What do you think this is… Twitter?