skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still can't wait for the day I can simply lick my choice-of-screen-at-the-time to get a high, akin to LSD. :P

ponders whether licking an image of blotter paper works just as well
Thanks for the head's up...
Sorry about the bubble rant again, but may be interesting for some of us
This might look like it in the screenshots, but it's nothing like it in actual practice from a functionality or performance perspective. :)

Awesome blog, though.
"People are motivated to get them by a return on their investment, not the happy notion that the world is marginally less bad."

I've always understood that as well as restricting other companies from competing with a patent holder, there is also an element of "mutually assured destruction" which would potentially allow negotiation and cross-licensing with companies asserting a patent. Didn't SUN maintain patents for exactly this process?
FWIW, we're using the Amazon Linux AMI (from Amazon themselves) and are quite happy with it.

It is a pretty minimalist AMI, which is what we wanted. One caveat: it is in beta.
While I wholeheartedly agree with conserving our natural resources, I'm pretty sure this law is going to be overturned on the basis that it is unconstitutional and violates the First Amendment's freedom of speech. It's been a long time since my Constitutional Law class, but IIRC there are many precedents, several involving Jehova's witnesses (they were a persecuted minority at the time), passing out leaflets and flyers and having similar laws passed and overturned.

Here's a similar situation in Texas in 2005: http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/federal-judge-texas-man-...

U.S. District Judge Ruben Castillo ruled earlier this month that the law violates the Constitution because it gives state officials too much discretion in determining when to issue permits and prohibits religious exhibits. Castillo also faulted the law for banning people who want to distribute leaflets from approaching the public without providing an exception in cases where people consent to being approached.

“The judge reaffirmed the First Amendment principles and showed that the First Amendment rights are valued in Chicago,” said Elizabeth Murray, whose client Kevin Cantrell filed the lawsuit in April 2004 against officials at the Thompson Center and the state Department of Central Management Services. The center is the state's main government building in Chicago.

“This also protects more than just religious leafletters. It protects all who want to leaflet, so it is of great value to the citizens of Illinois,” said Murray, an attorney for the Alliance Defense Fund, which represented Cantrell.
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I've always offered to take on equal care of our kids. I just have failed at that whole lactating thing.

So in all seriousness, there are biological factors at play, and our parenting choices DO impact our availability. You certainly can make different parenting choices than we do, but every parent I know puts kids before work.
I think the goal is to replicate the mild hallucinations that accompany certain psychedelics, such as the "breathing" of textures.
I know an enterprise b2b webapp that pays 12% of the first year and 3% each year following as the businesses renew.
There's a really nice discussion on Stack Overflow about this:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/186338/why-is-require-onc...
I have three-year old and a six-week old son. I'm the father. Given that my wife and I do try to split duties as it makes sense ("Ain't mama happy, ain't nobody happy"), I have to say that right now, I couldn't do the traditional startup 14-hours-a-day thing either.

And ye gods, would I ever not care to combine the traditional startup stress and a colicky baby.

Baby care and startups really don't go together very well, and it's not really a gender thing at all. In fact, the reason I'm on HN right this second, rather than working on my pet Haskell HTML normalization library (or, in other words, "quality time I could be working on a startup"), is that I am literally typing this paragraph one-handed as I have a bottle in the other. Even when he's snoozing while I've got him, I am virtually incapable of Zone when my brain knows that at any minute, a piercing scream that I must drop everything to service may emerge. There may be some set of people who can work through that without short-changing the kids, no sarcasm intended (not all kids take the same level of care, either, this one has been much needier than his older brother), but I can't say it's unfair to consider a baby to be a negative indicator for a near-term startup effort, regardless of the gender of who is having the baby.

(I mean, do you even want to get startup-married to someone who would short-change a baby for your startup? There's commitment, then there's just plain bad priority decision making. Babies, pets, and startups: If you're not willing to commit to what it takes, it's better just to not.)
Third paragraph:

> In something of a reversal, the app is available only for Android at present. The iPhone version is being written currently. Users can also use the website to report corruption.
I utterly detest software patents and the inaccurate view of innovation they embody. In theory, software patents should encourage innovation. In practice, it looks like they hinder it, and instead enable a legalized form of extortion and parasitism.

I'm glad that software is unpatentable here in Costa Rica (as far as I know). I hope we never get infected by this detestable legal concept. As someone who develops software for international markets, though, I'm afraid I'm not immune to this issue, even if software patents are locally unenforceable in my case. I hope developers in other countries (the U.S. in particular) will care enough about this issue to organize and seek reform. Please, do what it takes to convince or hire legislators to remove or drastically reform this misguided legal concept!
context: Adam Langley is a Chrome developer.
The subway stations are absolutely worth seeing in person. They're incredible.
The require vs. require_once was a byproduct of this research: I was really interested in __autoload vs. require, as that seems to have fewer numbers online for it.
That's... beautiful. But the pictures remind me of a skateboard park, heh.
I think it's clear that they didn't really know what they were getting into. Much like GNU freebeards designing a core system and "throwing on a GUI" ends with a terrible mess, a bunch of UI guys inexperienced in systems software yields a beautiful failure. Think of that 'programmer hierarchy' poster: "Ruby programmers consider themselves superior to everybody but are not aware of the existence of non-web languages." You need to have different backgrounds or really deep experience to come out with something great.
I'm interested to find out if you're right. I guess ultimately it will take advertisers pulling their ads from the yellow pages for them to stop publishing it.
Black curtains? Training materials? No central event? New hardware to install but no manufacturing or shipping or boxed stock rumours to match?

Could be a service offering.

Could it be the official step-down of SJ?
You could move to Canada or somewhere so that you don't keep supporting the bad system with your tax dollars. That's about the only thing I can think of that might have any effect.
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Great! Let's go and check it out!
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It will be shorter, maybe not by half. But keep in mind that the "reality" you are talking about is in some aspects an artifact of the language in which the rest of the software system has been constructed. For instance, some edge cases (such as special treatment of nulls, some exceptions) happen to be less important in Clojure and other "Java.next()" languages.

I do hope someone will post an equivalent Clojure program. Unfortunately, my knowledge of Java is limited, and I have not touched Clojure in many months now, so cannot do it myself. Sorry.
"After its discovery, it was generally believed that any atmosphere thick enough to keep the planet warm would become cold enough on the night side to freeze out entirely, ruining any prospects for a habitable climate.... To test whether this intuition was correct, Wordsworth and colleagues developed a new kind of computer model capable of accurately simulating possible exoplanet climates.... To their surprise, they found that with a dense carbon dioxide atmosphere -- a likely scenario on such a large planet -- the climate of Gliese 581d is not only stable against collapse, but warm enough to have oceans, clouds and rainfall."

Question. How the bloody hell do you validate a computer model of how an atmosphere unlike anything we can observe in our solar system works? Did someone fly out there and verify it before publishing? And I'm supposed to believe your computer model iterates correctly over geologic time? Really? Really?

(Obligatory-but-totally-serious that this is still cool work not counting the computer model part, and to be honest I don't really care either way what the computer model says; I would be equally skeptical if they produced a model that claimed any outcome at all.)
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Buying RIM made more sense in my mind given RIM's penetration in enterprise market.
MIT Professor uses Light to map & control the brain.
I really have to agree with the other reply that fooling around with re-compiling a kernel is definitely beyond what I would consider to be a rational expectation. You may not think it's that hard, and it may not be for someone whose sole job is to do just that, but for the vast majority of admins that are wearing many hats this is going to be a unneeded time sink.
interesting, as an alternative to this how about how janus does it with a .local file?

https://github.com/carlhuda/janus/blob/master/vimrc#L147
http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/3924
The above comment is correct.

The archive does have to be accessed by users though, since users can access listings from many years back.

The entire archive seems to be under 4 TB from what he described in the video (2 billion documents at 2 kilobytes each). They do not retain photos.
One way to improve cpu-bound performance is to switch to something like HipHop for PHP [1], which compiles PHP down to C++ and runs that. Granted, this incurs a non-trivial switching cost.

However, it's scary to me that someone is suggesting the potentially fatal-inducing use of "require" over "require_once" (if you call it twice on the same file, you end up re-defining whatever classes or methods were required and the script dies). It seems like optimizing for developer time and simplicity over cpu utilization is better here. Using HipHop would incur a one-time operational cost, but I suspect it would be worth the additional developer and speed gains.

[1]: https://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php/wiki/
Never taken good psychoactives have you?!

You cannot simulate the solvency of consciousness and ego.

If you experiment with psychoactives don't do so alone and make sure you are in a safe secure environment with people you trust and preferable have experience with psychoactives themselves.

Tread carefully - a full on trip is a VERY confronting experience if you don't know what to expect.

You might just as well trawl http://www.pown.it/ - but 9.5 points for the link bait
2nd generation AppleTVs already run iOS.
For the curious, previous HN discussion on this wifi captive portal trick ("WISPr"): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1674911
The Philippines isn't even pinned on the map. That seems wrong.
Even with an ultra-modern division of labor, 50% of raising a baby is a lot of work. I wouldn't recommend overlapping that phase of your life with founding a startup.
Isn't crazy that people are allowed to dump things on your house and car? And this is protected because somehow it is free speech? Forget that it forces you to clean up afterwards.

So companies can impose costs upon you. You have to be responsible and see the garbage to its rightful place. And deal with garbage all over the urban landscape.

But if we changed this and required companies to ask first, this would supposedly be too costly for them. But only because we've been forced to subsidize their activities all along.
Its completely reasonable to rule someone out for funding because they have a child (although the "woman" thing isn't completely fair). Anything that will take time from the startup will negatively impact the startup's chance, and when you don't have a lot to make decisions on, whether there are obvious distractions is a fair way to make the call.
Report all quantities of radiation in Banana Equivalent Doses rather than Sieverts.
Im not sure it has "hit beta". Im running a CR-48 on the beta channel, and I'm up to date running 0.11.257.91. Switching to the dev channel doesn't seem to provide 0.12 when I hit update.
No, I'm saying you should run the kernels that Amazon provides and/or a time-tested one.
And their rationale for doing that is?

Looks like their judgement didn't work out so well this time. I'd be wary of running the latest untested kernel for no reason other than "because we can".
I'm on dev with

Chrome OS 0.12.433.38 (Official Build) dev-channel x86-mario
Google Chrome 12.0.742.50

Maybe need to catch up a few releases first.
Do we really need an entire article about this? Seriously, if you couldn't figure this out on your own in about 10 seconds, you're in the wrong line of work
There should really be no reason why __autoload() should be significantly slower than require_once(). It's even trivially easy to ensure your classes are __autoloaded()'d from absolute paths to make opcode caches happy.
Are you in Canada? Keeping up with the changes?
It is :)

Hacker News nuke threads are almost as puzzling to me as BitCoin threads, but I keep coming back for some reason.
For the average couple, there's a window of about 2 days in which the woman is out of commission. (Yes, that's simplifying things.)

I vehemently disagree. Actually, I think it is an utter load of crap.

I've had the good fortune of seeing many of women in my friends and family have children. To an individual, these are unbelievably talented women: savvy, smart, driven, and focussed. Ivy League and MIT degrees all around: undergrad and graduate.

The reality that I've seen is that a pregnancy and childbirth slows them down -- temporarily -- both physically and mentally. It can be difficult to keep focussed when you're spending your first trimester getting sick every day.

A lot of them talk about "pregnancy brain" somewhere during their third trimester. Keep in mind that these are women that slice and dice differential equations and have been quoted by the Supreme Court.

Afterwards, the constant interruption of a newborn every 2-3 hours is debilitating for both parents. I know this because of how I watched my own productivity and focus redouble when my youngest started sleeping through the night. That can take a while. If you're a wuss, like me, over a year.

I'm not saying you can't juggle having babies or children while starting a company -- I've done it, twice -- but pretending that there is no impact is ludicrous.
Tell HN: I've started lots of businesses and I've got a bunch of great job offers.
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IntelliJ 10.5 has been released
I have found a few uses for binaural beats such as power napping, stimulation for studying, and meditation/relaxation/anti-anxiety.

For psychedelic effects...meh

One interesting experiment I have tried is looking at brain wave recording of monks in pubmed and trying to recreate the frequencies, with mixed results.

This week, I am blindfolding myself for a few days and expect interesting results.
One cool thing is that the Google Android App Inventor is built out of Kawa. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_App_Inventor)

I believe Kawa is also currently a bit friendlier on Android as Clojure has some overhead. (More at http://dev.clojure.org/display/design/Android+Support)
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English? Hah. I'm against the whole patent charade but if we're going to grant them, the inventors should be forced to disclose the entire goddamn source code, development infrastructure, and version control repository which proves that they've actually invented something and not just handwaved in the direction of an idea.
After staring at 'Deep Down' for a couple minutes, then at the rest of the room, it does kind of look like my houseplants are waving around. It's a start!
...8 months before the iPhone was released.
I love it when I come to a thread, HN or reddit, and I read the first comment and think "Cool, I'm done with this topic, no need to read ay other comments. <clicks x>
By using __autoload and a class/file naming convention, you can get away with using just require, and not having to write require statements manually. Decreased time for developers, and near optimal load times.
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Apparently you can opt out at: http://yellowpagesoptout.com/ If enough people do so then it would achieve the same thing.
I'm pretty sure this law is going to be overturned on the basis that it is unconstitutional and violates the First Amendment's freedom of speech

Nobody's saying they can't print the books, they just can't dump their spam garbage on my stoop like they do every four months.
Just a note - this functionality was not in the initial day-1 release of the iPhone... I don't recall which update had this, but it was well after 1.0
Sensitivity analysis. Elements of the simulation are based wholly on proven, low-level physics (for example, calculating the amount of heat absorbed by a given amount of CO2 from a given amount of sunlight) whenever possible, and when that's infeasible the modelers test a range of possible values to see what happens. For example, you can't exactly calculate the density of condensation nuclei in the atmosphere (used for calculating cloud formation behavior), so they just ran the simulation with a bunch of believable values. Another example is pretty clearly laid out in the first sentence of the "results" section:

We performed simulations with 5, 10, 20 and 30 bar
atmospheric pressure and 1:1, 1:2 and 1:10 orbit-rotation
resonances for both rocky and ocean planets (see Table 1).
Idiots are rampantly downvoting everything on the site lately. It's another sign that the quality of participants here has declines as the site's popularity has grown.

At this point I'd be happy to see the whole karma system canned.
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Yeah, with Google search patents, they have been published years after the system was developed and is probably much evolved by now. Looking at the text in them, they only provide very vague guidelines to say SEO's try to learn more how how ranking works.
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Why do you think it would get you kidnapped or murdered?
i just came here to say something similar. one way (perhaps the only way) an efficient streaming approach is possible is if it can be "chunked"; if there's some number of input digits that can be represented as a whole number of output digits. that's possible when going between base 2 and 16, for example, but not when one base has a factor that isn't present in the other.
I thought Microsoft did help fund the project when it was part of Novel. In the end, having a healthy .net community is in Microsoft's best interest, even if there is not a direct set of sales involved.
There is not enough data in a vague orbit and vague size (in a dataset that until recently contained a spurious planet) to feed a simulation like this, which means that the simulation was, mathematically necessarily (and I do not use this term lightly), made up from nearly whole cloth. And then we have no way to verify anything that it did say, assuming it even started from the correct place, especially with regards to stability on geologic time. Even an 99.9999999%-per-hour perfect simulation will still diverge on geologic time scales. For all we know, an atmosphere with a mountain range here will freeze out in a century, whereas a mountain range there could in fact result in a stable atmosphere over geologic time. This is all information-theoretic necessity. This is entertainment, not science.

That may be all the scientists claimed. It's still a fun result, even if I wouldn't put my grandchildren on a flight to Gliese on the strength of it. I'm reacting against the certainty expressed in the article.
Why is there no: "No software, or other patents, point" button - I'd click that for sure. With thousands of votes - I'd love to see the make-up of the vast majority of this question.
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It's 20 light years away, so that could take a while. (I still want to do it, though.)
If you want the job, I encourage you to apply. The worst case is that you get rejected, and you lost a few hours of your life interviewing.

At Google, logic puzzles are frowned upon for interviews. I personally ask questions that I expect candidates to be able to reason through and gradually refine into a good solution, there is no grand aha moment in the problems that I ask.
I could, but I would continue owing taxes to the U.S. for 10 years after giving up my citizenship. I could move to a country that doesn't have an extradition agreement with the United States and refuse to pay, but I don't really want to limit myself to those countries. I could also make my living under the table, but that would be against the law. I wouldn't want to break the law, because if I did that I might get kidnapped.
You can't just switch to the dev channel and immediately update. You need to wait until the next dev version releases to download it.
Ok, I think I see what you mean now, and I agree with you. They've shown that the distribution assuming some set of priors includes some particular, interesting outcome. This is the first planet we've ever seen where we can say that given how much information we have about it, though, which means that it's still cool.
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Offtopic: am I the only one struck by "about 2 hours of WTF'ing"? For a truly elusive bug, one that you stuff and hang over your fireplace after hunting it down, 2 weeks seem more appropriate.
Agreed; I think that bit was more about tribal counter-signaling signaling than anything substantive.
It is unclear to me what the punishment for sedition is, but I think it is safe to assume that it includes being kidnapped (arrested), and attempts to defend oneself against kidnapping (resisting arrest) are usually met with murder (use of force).
Except, that's not what the author said. He said "practically" that.
I've been playing around with CoffeeScript and docco a bit lately and I thought I'd share this little project. Thanks to Jeremy Ashkenas for creating these fantastic tools.
Cool! Any plans to come to the US?
Why couldn't you promote anarchism through the political system?

Sorry, just had to laugh. Anyway, vote for Ron Paul and at least you might get something.
CentOS if you can't use RHEL.
Poll: Do you support copyright?
Given the results of software patents poll (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2552740) i wonder, if copyright poll results will be completely different.
Copyright should be abolished
Only while author is alive
BTW, England's "Daylight Saving Time" is called "British Summer Time" (BST), which I always thought was an enchanting time zone descriptor.
I wonder, if results with copyright poll will be completely different? The poll: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2555088