skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, i missed the "cranking" article the first time around, and it's touching (especially to a parent). It especially applies to coding while having a family. I believe part of the reason so many engineers struggle with this is related to things like impostor syndrome and the desire to be "on top of it all". That last bit is especially tough in a field which continually changes, the latest and greatest in tech and startups is in your face daily making you feel you aren't doing enough: "why didn't I think of that" is a recurring theme in my readings of HN for example...
When I was in 5th grade, Tuck Everlasting was required reading:

http://www.amazon.com/Tuck-Everlasting-Sunburst-Natalie-Babb...

Yes, it's aimed toward 10 year olds, but it's pretty relevant here. It'd probably take less than an hour for an adult to read, which should be just a blip on your quest for immortality. :-)
Considering IE9 is one whole generation behind the other browsers, it too should be considered a legacy browser.
My view is that math is by a wide margin the most powerful and valuable topic for the future of information technology entrepreneurship for at least the first half of this century, but to make this promise real the mathematician has to be the founder, CEO of the company, and the math will not be an advantage in seeking equity funding.

An interesting comment. I wonder if the YC funding process is at all an exception, a funding process in which mathematics background might be an advantage.
This is great. would totally pay for this. and I love love love that you put your source code up. Open source is so cool.
Niche product for niche audience therefore keep the price high, if you reduce to 0.99 you will have to sell 4 times as many. As the niche audience has had the source code made available to them they can compile it for themselves if they require!
Paying more money for a better therapist is somewhat like paying more money for better wine and scotch. You don't want to pay too little, but there's a point where you reach diminishing returns, and it's more about a tradeoff between time and money, or the ability to say you spent money prestigiously.

The best therapist I ever saw charged the typical amount. It had to do with who we both were as people.

If you want to drink better wine and scotch, then educate yourself, associate with knowledgeable people, and devote time and money to finding what you like. The same probably goes for therapists.
> Of course you enjoy it. It makes you feel smart.

You know what's funny? I think this is exactly what the author would call a "stupid" remark - it's meant to say something nasty about the person you're replying to, and you don't even gain from it!

You see, the irony here is that the author isn't actually talking about stupidity and intelligence. He's actually talking about people who engage in lose/win, win/win, lose/lose, or win/lose behavior.

He calls those "helpless", "intelligent", "stupid", and "bandit" - but normal definitions of stupidity and intelligence don't really apply, as he notes that Nobel laureates often engage in stupid (lose/lose) behavior, despite being intelligent under normal definitions.

Your comment here? It's a pretty good example of lose/lose behavior - it's designed to be a bit of a jerk towards me and makes you look snarky in the process. Lose/lose. So yeah dude, stop doing that ;)
You're being that guy. Plus, you're wrong.

Mega- is a standard SI prefix, and the use of "megaton" to denote one million tons is entirely correct. Yes, it's also true that "megaton" has a second meaning. This fact does not invalidate its other meaning. In fact, if you bother looking this up in actual dictionaries, you'll find that the normal mass definition is often listed first, and the explosive definition is listed second, for what it's worth.
Just being devil's advocate, but it would be in your best interest to take sites down.
I was actually thinking about this a couple hours before I saw this. Crazy. Just not about the anonymity part. One thing I came up with was that instead of a trusted website bootstrapper to show a new node to the swarm, one of the nodes could update a DNS record to point to itself. If that node fails, another node is choosen to update the record.
IE 9 is already out there. It works on Vista and 7 only though. If only Google comes up with a way to work fully with MS's Group Policies, Chrome will most surely take over the enterprise world. I think the big enterprises which use MS technologies keep IE still going. It's not like they have a choice though.
Hmm, hadn't thought of that, but are you referring to orchestrating DoS Attacks, etc?
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I want clothing embedded with sheets of Graphene. Imagine the protection! I ride a motorcycle, which is one of the most dangerous daily activities one can do, and something that exhibits these properties could save me a lot of pain in wearing armored gear etc.

There are also a range of applications in the military and security industries.
The article implies that the drugs are effective.

> The customers get the products they were paying for (albeit counterfeit versions). If they aren't complaining, there's not immediately a reason for banks to intervene.
I should have been more clear and said "require" instead of "involve". Yes, math can improve almost anything, but you can do an acceptable job at McD with no math knowledge. Still, it's a McD job, and if you had learnt some math then you could have found something a lot better.
Wow what a lot of complaining. App developers are free to charge what they want and users are free to purchase or not. You would think that the readers of a site as focused on entrepreneurs as HN is, would realize that.

Very few apps in the App Store are also available open source on Github. I'm buying it just because of that and I hope the developer keeps working on it.
Here's HN for our Blackberry Users
We have more important high-tech ventures to fund over here, such as location-based social photo sharing services.

In all seriousness, though, I think we're at a point with graphene comparable to the earliest days of the integrated circuit. We can imagine faster and smaller adding machines, but we can't quite yet imagine an IBM PC running VisiCalc. And the iPhone isn't even science fiction yet.
What do you mean by "persistent"? Unlike Git, in Fossil you cannot rewrite history _at all_. It's an immutable collection of artifacts. There's no rebase. See http://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/concepts....

Zed lost his working copy. You can do this in git by running "git reset --hard".
One thing that surprises me is how when MS comes up with non-standard technologies for IE it makes them look like the bad guys, but when Google comes up with non-standard stuff (aka bleeding edge innovation) everyone embraces it. Imagine Microsoft launching something like the IE App Store.
You should consider taking donations. It'd be a good way for people that can build it themselves to show their appreciation without having to give 30% to Apple.
Ask HN: Why isn't Internet Explorer better?
I haven't used IE in ages, except to check what a website looks like in it. Probably most people here are the same way.

Reading another IE-bashing thread on here, I stopped and had to ask something - why isn't IE any better?

You can say with IE6 that they had the complete market share, no competition, and got complacent. And then, you could say they were playing catchup.

But why haven't they caught up now? Microsoft's core strength was quickly emulating a new kind of software once the concept was proven and the demand was there.

Have they lost that mojo? Is their personnel not as good as competition? Do they not want to copy? Some mix of unwillingness or inability...?

So yeah, I don't get it. Microsoft has billions of dollars and IE is one of their core programs that normal people using Windows use a lot. Why isn't Internet Explorer better?
Can this thing shutdown Nvidia GPU to save battery and can this be used to run Unity.

I ask this because I got a laptop recently without proper research as Nvidia seem to release there drivers to linux, which they did but without Optimus support.
Reading the default HN website from my iPhone sucks (small voting arrows, table layout doesn't degrade gracefully to a small screen, etc.) I'm glad to see that you stepped up to the plate and solved a problem that many of us have experienced. I'm more than happy to shoot you $5 for your solution.

I do UI/UX work and would love to point out a few quirks I've noticed if you're interested. You can find my email in my profile.

By the way, releasing the source code was a classy move!
I think contemporary gender theorists would be very surprised to hear that they think the way our society constructs gender produces identical psychological proclivities.
breach?
Is there an explanation for why Fossil destroys the working copy when a branch is made? Is this expected behavior?
I'm using the one from Michael Grinich. Simple and useful. I particularly like the integrated Readability function.
Using it now. $5 well spent. Great job on this - very intuitive and clean. Very impressive at such a young age - you should have your pick of internship opportunities!
Corporate Mac sales surge 66% as Apple makes huge enterprise gains
Really? I noticed a different trend -- The Green Tea Fad. More and more people talking about how they no longer drink coffee, because it contains the most dangerous drug in the history of mankind -- caffeine!
【Help】 How can I add a digital signature to document?
Yup, people need to stop being cheap. Bought the app immediately after opening the link, and I probably would have at any price.
Yeah or whatever it takes to make money.
Indeed. As a Java guy, I was a bit surprised ruby's default library didn't have them (when I started with ruby, anyway; way pre-rails; it might now). Trivial to implement, but still.
The "reasonable doubt" part sounds very much like Freenet[1], though IIRC Freenet typically has fairly poor data throughput.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenet#Technical_design
git reset --hard will only orphan commits, they're still there. git reflog will get you to them fast and I'm sure there's many other more exotic ways to find them. Admittedly garbage collection will remove them at some point but that's generally a lot further away than 'oops'.
You can't rewrite history in git either. You can however make new commits that are different from the old commits somehow. A branch in git is basically just a pointer to a set of immutable commits. http://hackerne.ws/item?id=2524993
France had an unfortunate history of self censorship from the media and active control of the public media from the president(de Gaulle that controlled the only TV channel, Mitterand ordering illegal wiretapping of journalists)

The actual french President is a control freak. Sarkozy has strong relationship with most of the private media owners and is using it.

He has since the start of his mandate tried to control the internet eg.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/may/13/france...

He is (ab)using a common view in France that speech should be controlled and freedom of speech isn't absolute. For instance, it is illegal to make xenophobic or racists comments. La quandrature du net is doing a good job of exposing the latest of his attacks and, hopefully public pressure can shame him out of his willingness to control everything.

He likes the French motto of "Liberty, equality fraternity". If enough people see him trying to replace the first one by censorship, he might be less aggressively trying.

Fortunately, his approval rate is record low, part of this is likely due to his abuse of power and willingness to control everything. Unfortunately, the best opposant is currently accused of sexual abuse.

Then, another member of the G8 is Italy, with Berlusconi as the president....

Interesting countries, all in all.
PCI DSS eCommerce Questions Answered
skip the wiki page, here is the DEFCON presentation in quickview:

http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:mQa724u3AvoJ:w...

and the whitepaper:

http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:uWb7WlywH9gJ:w...
These kinds of articles are seriously insulting to the leadership of the companies involved in the IPO. I seriously doubt that the board of LinkedIn would let themselves be scammed by a bank. If the article is true and this scam has been going on for years and LinkedIn allowed it to happen to their company then that would send me a signal not to invest. However, I think they knew the risks and choose a lower IPO to ensure upward price movement on the first day.

There are many ways to IPO (auction, etc) and you have to keep in mind that a big IPO pop makes everyone feel good about the stock. Yes, perhaps LinkedIn possibly could have made an extra $352 million, but if that strategy resulted a $70 IPO with no pop then they would have lost $1 billion in market cap. Pricing and seeing an upward trend have a big impact on the perception of value. Stocks are not priced according to some logical rational algorithm, it's about perception of value and big returns and amazing articles about how it doubled in value on it's first day help fuel those perceptions.
It would be great to see a standard emerge here. I've watched with interest as JSONPath and JSONQuery proposals have been presented, JS ports of Linq, and this latest proposal: RQL –

http://www.sitepen.com/blog/2010/11/02/resource-query-langua...

There's an Arel-style JS implementation to build RQL strings using chained methods, which makes it quite conducive to composition and makes it feel more like functional programming.

Along those lines are D3's selections:

http://mbostock.github.com/d3/#selections

... and jLinq

http://www.hugoware.net/Projects/jLinq
It was a bug and it has been fixed: http://www.mail-archive.com/fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.or...
Yea, I realized that embrace and extend is not the worst of MS's evils. For example, MS extending ODF would have been much better than what MS did with OOXML.
You might want to check out RQL, which builds on JsonPath:

http://www.sitepen.com/blog/2010/11/02/resource-query-language-a-query-language-for-the-web-nosql/
This seems like an interesting idea/solution to one of Internet's issues.
The challenge however is how do you persuade enough people to start using it? And then the more people use it the more important it becomes and people just won't stop using it.

Facebook is a typical example of how important is to have people adopt a technology. Prior to Facebook was MySpace, yet the former managed to impose and finally replaced the latter because more and more people started using Facebook. With Twitter it's pretty much the same adoption process. Because most people into micro-blogging use it, it is now virtually impossible to come up with another micro-blogging platform that can replace Twitter. And the conversation could go on forever with countless examples.

I'm sure there are so many great ideas out there that get wasted just because people won't start adopting them.
"(and not just Russia)"
Interesting angle, considering that article doesn't mention Russia anywhere else nor links to anything which does.
> I know people whose lives are so consumed by their quest for immortality

Name three. And please note that Voldemort doesn't count because he's not a real person.
Wow, sorry man. Didn't mean to waste your time/bother you. I just looked it up in the dictionary I had handy, as the wording seemed strange to me.

In any case, I am glad I learned something new today!
A bit creepy yet fascinating at the same time.

Operator "Marmalade Skies LLC" and Tail Number "N2N" if you want to stalk Steve Jobs.
This is the event that I ran last November. It was successful enough that people have insisted I run it again.

So I am.

There's nothing interesting about the technology in the web site, or anything else like that. I'm announcing it here because a few people have expressed an interest, and some of you might enjoy it.
A hell of a lot of business processes are built on esoteric (and localized, as in a script sitting on a computer in the office) Excel and Access functionality - the Western Australian mining industry being a prime example.

This whole "let's move everything to the cloud" movement seems primarily to be driven by people who don't have a lot of work to do on computers besides browse websites, email, and write blog posts. They may do a lot of other work, but their computer use is fairly limited to a few tasks.

Meanwhile, business users are only going to make the jump when the multi-billion dollar companies that employ them feel comfortable having confidential information stored on a server in some other random country (i.e. probably not in my lifetime).

That's the problem Google and the other "cloud" providers have to overcome before they can claim victory - not some minimal use case like this.
Douglas Crockford said : "I have good hope for IE10, but all previous IE should die".
>Considering IE9 is one whole generation behind the other browsers

Now consider how bad IE8 must be. It doesn't support some 10 years old standards, such as XHTML.
Yes, it's a synopsis of a lot of stories. But I feel obliged to point out that, in real life, I know a number of people in quest of immortality who lead quite awesome lives on a day-to-day basis, because the same style of rationality and nonconformity that leads you to seek world optimization and indefinite life extension also leads you to, say, polyamory.

I also know some sad people in quest of immortality, but they were generally sad before they found out about that stuff. In general, I think that seeking immortality has surprisingly little effect on your prior personality. It's just something you do if you have enough of a logical frame of mind to think "Life is good, death is bad, and Voldemort isn't a real person", but the logical mind is the cause, not the effect.
>actual

The word you're looking for is "current".

Let's have a little patience. We're getting rid of Sarkozy soon enough, but we need to find a suitable replacement. There's the rub.
I love the app and idea...but I log-on with my OpenId (Google email).

Does the app support me logging in like that? I remember it didn't when we looked at beta screenshots a few weeks/months back.

Looking great otherwise though!
Chuck Moore's Comments on Forth [1993]
Green tea has a lot of caffeine too.
What's with the downvotes sans replies?
"But it's green!"
Automatic braking 'key to safer roads' [video]
Yes, but "green" and "tea" make it sound a lot healthier. It's every marketer's dream come true.
The best shit ever. I feel like God when i take that pill
> If the product were open source, you could improve the product on your own. But again, totally up to you on whether or not that's how you want to spend your time. Personally, I'd much rather go find a superior product than spend my limited time trying to clean up someone else's code.

My company's ERP system (like every other software I use) is free software, namely OpenERP (previously known as TinyERP). However I employed an external specialized service company to build our system around it, and paid this company good money (about 30000 euros IIRC). I myself developed free GPL software for similar amounts of money, several times.

You must extirpate from your mind the ridiculous idea that Libre software is free as beer. It definitely isn't. When used professionally, you must plan to spend money, possibly big money on it. The difference is that you have the choice to spend money where it matters.
That... honestly sounds horribly pointless to me. As in, I read that and thought "Aaaaiieeee!" Am I the only one who feels that way?
Hello could you send me the invitation, please.
For reference:

http://www.stashtea.com/caffeine+and+tea.aspx

Not that much really.
I'm glad they approved the app. I just bought it and it's fantastic.
Agree with parent, disagree with grandparent. If there's one thing you learn when you're doing philanthropy, it's that people who give to charity this year will probably give to charity next year; and people who are planning to give to charity "next year" will, next year, be planning to give to charity "next year". Donors donate, nondonors don't.
I mostly agree with the principles behind this post, but not the implementation. For starters, voting invites design by committee. And giving everyone veto power only makes it worse. I think the better alternative is to empower individuals to be the final decision-makers about their work unless of course there's a good reason to override them.
From reading the mailing list thread, he didn't lose committed work. He lost uncommitted work. He told fossil to revert everything. I have no dog in this hunt, but I think its important to read the mailing list thread. There you can see people asking if he lost committed vs. non-committed changes.

From this message, emphasis mine: http://www.mail-archive.com/fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.or...

fossil revert -- This is what destroyed my work.
They were *uncommitted changes*, so once I did this
they were gone. I didn't realize it'd nuke them
until it was too late.
This is correct: mass spec analysis showed that the correct active ingredient was present in roughly the same concentration in the pills we ordered compared to the store-bought brand version of the drug.
Who cares?

As soon as you say the words "track," "anonymous," or "freedom," I stop reading.

Time to move on.
A lot more easy to follow IMO is the powerpoint presentation
It depends on what you mean by "history". Moving refs around is already "modifying history" in Fossil world.
Thanks for posting, that's interesting.

Original article, much longer, here: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/05/20/apple_makes_hu...

Unfortunately, key details are missing, notably what they are being used for. For example, are these being bought as unix servers? Much enterprise and turnkey software is not available native for Mac. Perhaps this is mostly for running open source stuff like MySQL and Apache and they are buying them instead of Linux machines because they are well configured? Or are they installing Windows on the Macs? I have seen a number of Macs the last couple years in professionals offices which are running Windows.

We should also note that the more expensive OS X Server edition is gone for Lion, having been merged with the cheaper consumer version. This will probably accelerate adoption for server use as well starting later this year.
Based on your research:
What's the chance of actually receiving the ordered meds?
What's the chance that the meds would be of reasonable quality (right formula, etc)?
What's the chance that the card used for transaction would be defrauded? I.e. charged another sum after some time or whatever.
Its easy to detect these features, ideally one would only load this lib if the features are supported.

The -webkit-transform: translate3d(0,x,y) (3D, not 2D transforms) property forces the element to be hardware accelerated under mobile safari, without this, the redraw would be around 10 times slower. This is the whole point of the library (hacking around a known issue in mobile safari)

Besides, he states that the code requires iOS. It is not a mistake to include vendor specific code in this way when targeting a specific platform for optimisation.