skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Ever since I found out about the amazing middle click function, I manage to stack up probably 50-60 tabs by the end of everyday. It's hard to imagine how we managed back when there were no tabs on browsers.
I don't usually play the part of armchair psychologist, but this essay appears to me to be an excellent example of projection.

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

The author assumes that because he doesn't know what he's doing, other people also don't.

I disagree. Sometimes people can know exactly what they're doing, and be fairly confident about the possible consequences.

I made a viral hit similar to the author's YT instant, and I very much did not know what I was doing. Then I did it again with different code, without leveraging the existing user base, just to see if it was all luck. It wasn't. I think a better argument would be that "sometimes successful projects are successful by accident", but that would make a terrible post title.
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Application store!
While karma is meaningless, I appreciate your reply instead of just voting me down. I was wondering what was wrong with my post and appreciate any feedback that can help me provide better comments in the future.

In my experience, those who are passionate about a topic want to learn about all of the topics surrounding that topic. If you like to drive, you're probably going to want to know what makes a car tick and even get your hands dirty. I know that's not true of everyone, but generally speaking, I think it is.

You don't have to be passionate about driving to be a good driver. However, given the choice, why wouldn't you want to hire the guy who lives and breaths cars if they are also an excellent driver? Their additional skills will not hurt to have around, even if they are not directly applicable to the job at hand.

If you are at all interested in the job, you're going to apply no matter what the ad says is required. However, the long list of requirements gives you some insight into what the company does. Asking for a C++ programmer could mean anything, but if you also need MySQL experience, you've got a good indicator that you're going to be writing code that interfaces with a database. This helps you weed out the candidates offering jobs you may not be at all interested in.
Clojure makes great strides in this area, by claiming for itself the reader macros for [] and {} in addition to (). [] is always used any time variable binding takes place, for example. It also more closely follows the JSONy conventions used by Python, Ruby and Javascript.
The unfortunate thing about JS syntax highlighters, is that people reading your site via an RSS feed don't get the highlighting. On the other hand for some sites that isn't an issue.
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"it still isn't the way i'd do it."

I look forward to your attempt!
Is there an iPad native client for skype? IIRC the ipad client was the pixellated iphone version
Thanks for the link, I had never seen that one before. Through link jumping, I managed to find a blog written by a guy who had a similar experience: http://web.archive.org/web/20040401192741/www.senderogroup.c...
Guess what people do in real-life web-services?

Instead of being able to send null DateTime, the WS dictates that the client must send something. Therefore, the client sends Epoch date thus the code must handle this properly.

What about dealing with Database when NULL actually means something (in certain situation, we do want to put NULL instead of some random value/junk).

There's always trade-off.
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We need to build the Rails architecture if you go with Rackspace which you may NOT want to do in the beginning. Still investigating but wanted to hear if anybody already using rackspace cloud and their experience.
Cop Tells G20 Protester "This Is Ain't Canada Right Now" [0].

[0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UlTUVcxFNk
Different memory types resides in different parts of the brain. Driving is a classic example - when you first start, you're trying to keep it all in your mind at once, and it's living mostly in your short term / working memory, which tends to be in your frontal lobe (bit above your eyes). The more you use a physical skill, the more it gets into your "muscle memory" and this is in effect transferring to the cerebellum, the small plum-like 'add-on' at the base of the brain (below the knobbly bit at the back of the skull). It's quite common for memory damage to spare things like 'muscle memory', partly because it lives somewhere else. Another curiosity is that vocabulary is resistant to damage - if the person can still speak (which in turn can be prevented by a huge variety of neural injury), you can get an idea of the level of their pre-event education by listening to the level of words they use.

Neurology is fascinatingly complex and we've really only scratched the surface of what we can learn about the brain. It is very unlikely that you would hear anyone that worked in neurology flat-out refute any combination of symptoms. I used to work in a seizure clinic and heard of a guy that had a seizure when he saw orange circles. No other colour circle or other shape orange, just specifically orange circles. This was confirmed through EEG testing. Never heard of another case like it, but you get unique things like this reasonably often in neurology.
Why on earth did his wife ditch him? This seems like the worst punishment. I wouldn't care so much about the jail time if I had my girl on the outside waiting for me. Without that it would be a lonely hell.
Ward's Wiki was the first wiki, and as such, many of the pages were a mess. When you winnow through the crap, there's a lot of pure gold.

I was active at Ward's Wiki from 1999 to 2002. I just spent some seriously nostalgic moments clicking around.
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I agree the fonts are better on scribd, but don't brush off the ads. I find this very challenging to read with the ads moving around & the toolbar at the bottom sliding in and out. Additionally, scribd opens the document at a zoom level too small to read. When I click the zoom button, the ads overlap the document and I can't read it. If I click the fullscreen button the scrolling is so jerky its very hard to consume. So at least for me, the reading experience in Google Docs is superior to Scribd.

BTW this is on Chrome 12.0.742.60 on a new MBP. Perhaps scribd is better optimized for other browsers/platforms.
The hyperlink is taking out the ' for some reason. Not sure why exactly.
i don't quite understand the implications here. when i was trying to understand the physics involved at the time, i thought there was some uncertainty about this - it's quite a complex problem to work out exactly what the effects will be (you need to consider issues like whether steam will form, for example - that was important at chernobyl). so it wouldn't surprise me if someone said that there were risks involved...
Here's the flippa listing:
https://flippa.com/138899-The-Inquisitr-a-rare-opp-to-buy-a-... for stats and revenue numbers.

I had seen it while it was listed. Annual net revenue of ~$108,000. Which I presume was Duncan's salary.
As a long-time Java developer, I absolutely abhor the assumption that everything can be safely subclassed and overridden unless it is explicitly declared as final.

Implementation inheritance breaks encapsulation. It creates an intimate entanglement between the internal implementation details of the super- and sub-classes. Every time you extend a class or override a method that wasn't explicitly and carefully designed to be subclassed and overridden safely, you are _writing hacky code_.

There are, of course, places for hacky code. If you understand why something is hacky and feel it's a worthwhile trade-off then by all means you should be able to do it. Java, though, encourages people to pepper their code with such hacks before they have learned why they shouldn't.
I'd like advise to read http://www.draftymanor.com/bart/systems1.htm and the five following chapters, too.
I have the book by Gall and it's both an amusing and informative read (especially if one has some background in complex systems).

This failure/flaw perspective is very useful for finding problems to develop products for.
Agree people are always talking about it. But they're rarely doing a decent job of defining the culture, adhering to it, and hiring to it.
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He didn't say they weren't useful, just that Java the Language doesn't need it, due to the fact other languages that have interoperability with Java on the JVM have these features already. .NET isn't as language rich as the JVM currently unless I missed some major changes.
He's 1 in a billion.
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I would. MacRuby adds to the experience once you already know what you're doing. As an introduction to Cocoa, it adds a lot of difficulty too.
This is one of the first observations someone learning the subject would make.
The link title is my #1 complaint with Lisp. I think it has many strengths and it's homogeneity is a strength, but also it's biggest weakness. Not a showstopper, of course, but it is a turn-off for me esp when I consider cases like having to parachute in and understand a new codebase or maintain something I wrote years ago. Python, in comparison, gives more visual cues as to what's what. It has less power, but more readability.
The failure of Second Life
I'm not demotivated by taxes as such. What demotivates me a bit is when high taxes are applied to moderate incomes (see cold progression http://www.economypoint.org/c/cold-progression.html as we call it in Germany). What demotivates me more is when I fundamentally disagree with the (ab)use of tax money, e.g., giving it to the social welfare industry, the big corporations, a.s.o., but it just demotivates me to pay taxes in this country (to say it this way), it certainly won't stop me from doing business.
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Good on him, it must have been hard yakka running a site like that.

I hope he got paid in AUD.
Sale price equal to 22 months of revenue.

Is that low, high or just about right?
It's often practically true, though.

While every method I can think of differentiates itself at a lower level than regression/classification, and thus has interpretations in each, it's not always feasible or easy to make the "flip". Often times the approximation steps that make the algorithm tractable depend on the objective function.
It's better than I did on Flippa last time I sold a site there, but mine was showing a downward trend in revenue. https://flippa.com/84185-11-000-month-revenue-no-1-in-market...
I always enjoy these Java vs. C# threads. They are like dispatches from a world where there are only two, absolutely terrible, languages. It makes me happy that I live in a world where I can choose between dozens of languages, some of them actually decent.
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I saw an iPhone commercial today.

It said if you don't have an iPhone, then you don't have the App Store, the world's largest selection of apps.

Which says to me that they're acknowledging smaller selections of apps elsewhere. And which shows Apple using the word "app" in a generic way, since if those apps are elsewhere they are another kind of app that are not Apple apps.

Just sayin'.
Baillargeon's study was able to detect object permanence as early as 3.5 months.

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

As we've gotten cleverer at constructing methodology, we've found that babies acquire knowledge faster than Piaget thought in almost all areas.
What is technoratimedia ads and why do they pay so ridiculously high compared to adsense - Id be wary of that. If you lose that ad network deal, the bulk of your income is gone.
It prints "2%n2", where %n is the platform-specific newline; but that's not really important, as your point is still made.

I can see how that would become a problem, a potentially terrible problem, but for a situation like that, wouldn't private methods solve that problem?

I can see more complex situations with this, but at some point, and they'd be annoying to break down. I don't throw out my position on this, though, as good documentation could help at least a few cases of this. Also, newer versions of Netbeans encourage the use of the @Override attribute, to help ensure things like this down happen, I imagine (I don't actually know what the @Override attribute is for, as I've only used it in large Java projects where I was the only developer).
Incredible and remarkable story.

Quite honestly, I am amazed/impressed that her husband also persevered and stuck through what must have been a very trying and long recovery process.
http://ajaxorg.github.com/ace/build/editor.html is pretty sweet, real time text editor (many languages) with highlighting support.

See more info at http://ace.ajax.org/
I found one on ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/IBM-T221-WQUXGA-Display-not-NEC-PA241W-A...

Currently $1,700 to buy it now. 203 dpi. You need Windows 7, Linux, or OSX. I don't believe Windows XP and earlier are capable of scaling properly.
I think using it is still appropriate when you know the user isn't intending to really leave the page they're on.

For example, clicking on a help link (while filling out a screen) or anything else that would disrupt what the user's doing unintentionally.
Misuse of 3-D digital lens leaves 2-D movies in the dark
I did that same joke in fourth grade with a piece of rock salt I'd picked up on the parking lot. The kids at lunch asked what it was, I said, "Sodium chloride, yadda yadda yadda and it's in your food!" "Ewww!" (That was Melissa Abbott. She pushed her tray away and then hit me when I told her it was just salt.)

Good times. Good times.
Because it's one thing for your husband to be obsessive about security theater - and it's another thing for your husband's obsessive activities to get you arrested.

My wife would have divorced me, then killed me, then chopped me up and fed me to the dog, then killed the dog.
Nope, he lamented the skyrocketing AUD many times on twitter. I would not be surprised if that was a factor in the sale.
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re: genders - I learned the hard way that "pollo" and "polla" have completely different meanings in Spain when I ordered a chicken sandwich.
I wasn't going for the legality of the issue, I was going for it's overall more dangerous to drive while using the phone.
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Math coursework is one coursework type which many students find painful. It is much difficult than that of any other coursework as practice is as important as theory. Therefore, students doing math coursework should be conversant enough with it to obtain good results.
Indentation and convention both help (as does experience).

Python:

def spam(self, eggs):
for egg in eggs:
if egg.color == "white":
egg.crack

Which goes to:

xxx xxxx(xxxx, xxxx):
xxx xxx xx xxxx:
xx xxx.xxxxx == "xxxxx":
xxx.xxxxx

CL:

(defun spam (eggs)
(dolist (egg eggs)
(when (equal (color-of egg) 'white)
(crack egg))))

(Ignore the fact that this example was clearly written with object-oriented Python in mind :P .)

Which goes to:

(xxxxx xxxx (xxxx)
(xxxxxx (xxx xxxx)
(xxxx (xxxxx (xxxxx-xx xxx) 'xxxxx)
(xxxxx xxx))))

I don't think there's a huge difference.
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I agree with you completely, but I do think the biggest thing holding people back is fear, either that they won't do the right thing or they will fail.

As I told my kids tonight, be do-ers, not spectators.
Yeah, but the law also allowed her husband and children to stay by her side.
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I recently have switched to half time at work so I can push forward with my startup. Worked out well for me (still have some outside income), and for my company (they were dependent on me as a single point of failure, so me leaving over 6 months means I can train my replacements).

Most importantly, I've felt a renewed sense of purpose. I can't emphasize enough how much my productivity has soared and my spirits have risen.

It's scary as hell, but I've never felt more alive.
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Your remarks remind me of something I read eons ago about a guy getting arrested for owning a still and allegedly making moonshine. He claimed he was a collector and did not make moonshine. There was some remark in the trial about "but you had the equipment". His comeback was along the lines of "By that logic you should also arrest me for rape." He was then asked if he had raped someone/was confessing to rape. His reply: "No, but I've got the equipment for it."
All the EC2 instance types mentioned in the article are 64 bit PV.
You can also do the same for some other browsers. http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/disable-fake-location-firefox-i... explains how.

I've had mine set to area 51 for a long time now.
My company agreed to let me work 4x10 hour days a few years ago. My salary was under the market rate, and they couldn't afford any additional money (public sector). So I requested the compressed schedule, and have been able to work on my startup much more effectively in the interim.

It also paved the way for my recent shift to 21 hours / week with them. For a guy like me, the extra time was worth more than marginal income.
yeah but they aren't saying "the world's largest app store" ... (and that would actually be in contradiction with the amazon suit)
This is a really disappointing take on Second Life. I don't know that it's more or less accurate than the truth, but I hope the author is wrong. I hope that the technology simply isn't there or that the infrastructure is simply lacking.
I don't think HN readers, particularly those reading this story, need to be advised, yet again, to just give up and live with their dysfunctional and corrupt legal system.

People will "get in the way", regardless of the danger. Some will protest because it's the only way they can sleep at night. Others will be dragged into the fight by circumstance or just find themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Here's another big story from the Toronto G20. This guy didn't do anything remarkable besides have an odd name:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/how-a-m...

Let your civil liberties slip away and eventually parts of your life, inoccuous as you may live it, will go with them.

The only discussion worth having is over what rights we have and how to protect them.
I agree that the JVM is a bigger memory douche than a vodka-and-Red Bull addict with a new haircut, but I disagree that GC is a "meh" problem. In fact it seems that the CLR is still evolving in this area and can have serious issues with multi-GB heaps -- as does Java unless you incant the right incantations:

http://www.simple-talk.com/dotnet/.net-framework/the-dangers...

Of course, one might say "don't use such big heaps dummy!" But that's a workaround. Due to fragmentation, sub-second GC latency is still a tough problem even for 1-2 GB heaps.

If C# would lead the way in a GC-friendly memory management scheme (maybe regions or something similar) they might win a lot of Java converts.
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I've done this a few times in other countries, such as Mexico, Argentina, and Colombia. I'm interested in Guatamala as a future possibility, but I don't know much about it.

If you have some free time, can you give a run-down of your experience so far?

mike [at] logicalmike [dot] com
"the last time".

You're right to infer that the Christians did their fair share of burning as well, if not more so in this case.
I wish a startup would learn from Second Life's issues and try to execute the original vision. I think Minecraft has proven the widespread appeal of building and inhabiting virtual environments other than the traditional MMO.
What's the appeal with Second Life to garner such fame from media like the BBC investing in it? [0]

[0] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4766755.stm
Perhaps if Second Life found a way to incorporate Bitcoin, they could attract some press again. Maybe IBM would hire an economist to create a virtual IMF, backed by Bitcoin reserves.
Depends on the type of business, where the revenue comes from, age etc. but I'd say slightly on the higher end but fair.
See also (2001): "LINE Is Not an Emulator. LINE executes unmodified Linux applications on Windows by intercepting Linux system calls."

http://sourceforge.net/projects/line/
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OSX is actually pretty good about file associations in general; every app publishes a list of extensions it can open, and the list you get in the Open With context menu is generated from that. The difficulty is simply that almost everything in OSX can do one thing or another with image files, and without any association to an already-open app, the OS doesn't know what you're trying to accomplish. Are you converting the image to a different format? Viewing it? Editing it? Attaching it to an email? Setting it up as album art for some songs you have? Etc.

The real problem is that files represent a noun-based model of user interaction, and apps a verb-based model, but what we want is neither; in the user's mind, he is actually performing a task, and both the relevant data and the functions to manipulate it are subservient to the task being accomplished. (Disclaimer: with this in mind, I've been working on a GUI that would have a sort of to-do list/notification system as the system shell and hierarchy of organization under which both data and applications reside, thus always giving both each datum and app a context it can examine to determine what apps, or data, respectively, are relevant to its current instantiation.)
I always cringe when I hear Ira Flatow remind Science Friday listeners they can participate in the conversation via "phone, email, facebook, twitter and Second Life"..
Virtual memory usage might be at 2 gigs?
I hate getting political on HN, but, more than anything else, at least in the USA, healthcare costs are a huge cause of this. That health coverage is tied to employment creates a fixed cost on employers per-employee, rather than a transferrable marginal cost. It is nonsensical that we manage to have both high unemployment and long work-hours, but yet, it's cheaper for this to be the hiring pattern.

All of that said, within the scope of software development (more relevant to this board), a major factor is Brooks' law, which leads to the startup culture of 80-hour weeks being "how things are done".
I'm new to Rails and am currently working through the tutorial at railstutorial.org. I'm a PHP/CodeIgniter dev so a lot of the features are new but many concepts are familiar.

Browsing the linked GitHub code on the OP's link relating to the new secure_password stuff - does this make the authentication code used in the above tutorial obsolete - the commented example on GitHub indicated included BCrypt based password storage/authentication method ... ?
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