skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not the brightest guy in the world. But I can tell you that human companionship often comes in forms that you do not expect.

I wouldn't look only for technical people to talk to and hang out with. While I'm sure that shared interest can create a strong bond between you, there is more to life and the soul than computers.

I'd like to recommend three books to you that really changed my perspective on how to deal with people. Arguably any value I have in communicating with people comes from the lessons of, or derived from using, these books.

1) Life Would Be Easier if it Weren't for Other People
2) How to Succeed With Women
3) The Demon Haunted World, Science as a Candle in the Dark

The first is the most important, how you convey yourself to others and how they convey themselves to you. However, the book focuses on the dysfunctional aspects of communication. This book has made my more worth living in every single way.

2) How to Succeed with Women. You didn't mention whether or not you have a girlfriend. This of this like Cosmo with useful advice for me. Basically, it is how women look at dating and how men often don't even come close to thinking about what they want.

3) Just a great book on human nature.

Good luck buddy. Got carried away.
Indeed, his twitter stream has him complaining about people asking him to hurry up :P (http://twitter.com/#!/comex/status/84126363598065664)

The leak prompted quick action, lest Apple close the bus sized hole.
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The link is dead, anyone got a mirror?
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I agree that the Google brand feels old, and is too diluted already. I would keep the "Google x" name for search related products, and, use "Google+X" for user-centric products.

It would be more consistent, and would passively, but massively, promote Google+.

I would also gradually phase out the old brands in order to prevent the user revolt that's to be expected from such a brutal change.

{title:Picasa, theme:Picasa}
{title:Picasa, subtitle:Google+Photos, theme:Picasa}
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I used Live Mesh once. Then, out of the blue, after a reboot reboot it started deleting all my files. I got in touch with the Live Mesh team and was told that I should remove files with unsupported extensions (WTF?) from my synced folders and see if my files came back. I think they were eventually able to recover some, but not all, of the stuff that was lost. This was early 2009, so maybe the client has improved since then, but I can't bring myself to trust it.
So I'm trying out LiveMesh on my Mac right now. Installation was easy and so was setting up the sync folder. I copied about 100MB of source code into the folder and it started syncing right away. However, it's just killing my CPU. I have a Core i5 MBP and CPU utilization is 100%-130%. Memory usage is quite low at ~70MB. I don't recall Dropbox killing my CPU like this when doing a simple sync.
I wonder if it's doing some sort of encryption?
As much as I hate to use the word tax in this instance, it seems like it, and it hits your pocketbook my friend. The cost is passed onto you and I and it's nothing but a fictional tarrif. Smart people don't shell out $700 on a new device or get tangled up in a 3-year contract that puts a $2100 dent in your budget over 36 months. They curtail the hit by shopping thrifty. Additionally, market atmosphere that feeds off of luxury goods bragging rights tends to pull shit like this all the time. Create hype, add marketing and hysteria, cover all legal ends by patenting, cross-licensing, charge $COST + $MARGIN + $FEES. Galaxy SII campaign is a good example.

Now, there's no intention of sounding anti-capitalist, what have you, but the mobile market
seems like a giant red herring.
i never really saw many co.cc domains in the search results anyway. From what i've heard, many of the co.cc domains were used for distributing malware.

If you provide a free hosting service, you have to be prepared to constantly deal with spammers and phishers.
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Here's something that's easy to forget: Everyone else at a Hackspace or a meetup or a user group is there for the same reason as you. If they just wanted to write a bunch of code they'd be at home in their bedroom. If they go to one of these events, they're hoping to meet like-minded people. The more people there, the better. So they'll be pleased if you attend.

This goes double for the organizers, by the way. Imagine organizing one of these events: booking the space, posting about it online, arriving early to set up ... Your biggest nightmare would be that no one shows up. When you arrive, walk up to the organizer, introduce yourself, and thank him for his effort. I guarantee you he'll appreciate it.
Neurology and related sciences can help illuminate what our interests are, but cannot resolve the moral problem of what to do when those interests come into conflict. Science can tell me what kind of diet a child needs to grow into healthy adulthood, but it can’t tell me under what circumstances it would be moral to take money from the wealthy (or, heck, the middle class) in order to feed starving children.
Seems like a cop out to me. It kind of says, our technology can't weed these results out so we are just going to not deal with it. I am sure it is difficult problem; don't get me wrong. However, I'd rather see Google say that some fancy algorithm determined co.cc domains are junk and has relegated them appropriately.
With the current state of patents, probably 'use electricity to do stuff' or something similar.
What next for us?
I for one believe touch screen tablets will be everywhere... like smartphones they start in a niche (high end) markets and soon become mainstream.

Our restaurant menu iPad system is really storming. Now we're doing systems for Hotel Rooms, Arena/Stadium Boxes and even Private Hospitals.

What do you think we should do next?

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child_process.exec is different from n*x system exec. Node is still doing the fork()ing and exec()ing behind the scenes. Exposing those calls in node would give you direct access to the child process before executing your commands.
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The timing of this is interesting, they must feel emboldened after getting a cut of the Nortel patents. May they die a thousand deaths.
That's rather trite, especially considering it follows that standard wise-mystic pattern of "two statements which contradict each other." Someone wrote a comic about it but unfortunately I can't find it.
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The Minitel was so entrenched long into the 90s it quite significantly hampered the original deployment of the 'net in France:

* No need to register anywhere to use it (your identity was connected to your landline)

* No maintenance or security issues

* No compatibility issues (everything was pretty low-tech, but following strict standards)

On the other hand, it had online payments, payments to sites (the national access provider charged based on access time depending on the service you connected to, and part of the money was funnelled to the service provider) and social media-based civil resistance (french university students coordinated strikes using Minitel as early as 1986). As a result the french population was not really taken aback by those capabilities in the interwebs, they were kinda used to them.
The best approach these days is to compare the results for "<PRODUCT> sucks" with "I love <PRODUCT>" and see who wins
I don't know, Google News actually doesn't seem very spammy to me. I just searched for "diabetes" - this is usually a good one to check if an index is spammed - and while it brings up some sensationalist garbage (that's life for you), it doesn't seem to find anything which wants my credit card number right now. Even a spam-king search like "weight loss", while it finds nothing interesting, doesn't seem like pure spam.
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Don't you lose the key features of Dropbox as a service: de-dup, sync, share, etc.? In that case, why not just store your stuff directly in S3 and cut out the middle man?
Never had any issue. Give some examples of what doesn't seem to work for you.
Smart people don't shell out $700 on a new device or get tangled up in a 3-year contract that puts a $2100 dent in your budget over 36 months

If you're going to use your phone anyway, why wouldn't you get "tied" into a contract? Contracts aren't made to screw you over - they're made to retain customers over a certain amount of time. Considering the heavy regular by the FCC in the US and the CCTS in Canada, you can't really even get screwed over.

This is completely aside from the point I'm trying to make, but you're never really tied into a contract if you're smart. Customer service reps at all the major phone companies are so poorly trained, that forcing a mistake is extremely easy. There are also other regulations in place, that makes escaping a contract without a fee, very possible.
WTF? Why is this here?
Apps is not compatible with quite a few Google products currently - including Google+.

It's a great product, but as soon as you start paying you do feel like you've become a second-class citizen to Google.

Possibly indicates that non-paying domestic customers are worth more than £33/year to Google in revenue.
During sleep both hemispheres show large scale inactivity. There's no different in activity between the two hemispheres. All of our brain needs sleep. Just because only one half of our brain is responsible for speech doesn't mean we don't use it when we're awake.
0.5 rips apart the whole event loop system and replaces it with a new one to support windows. It's much more unstable than 0.3 in that respect, which has mostly just seen API changes and feature additions.
Great, and now that you let the secret out, the wires to the domain registrars are on fire, bringing us names like "i-love-my-acme-grill.com". :)
maybe I'm just used google's crap, but after using DDG for a week, I found that it gave results that i didnt want more often.

Then again, maybe it is just the interface, Google has a cleaner interface IMO making it easier to see results.

And its also likely that i didnt get used to some of the special additions in DDG like tags and what ever else.
Google+ is already doing massively better than Wave and Buzz (by search volume)
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Sure. But it is still ad hominem regardless.
I agree with the above, but it is also ok to just look at other people's work at the event and not talk to anyone if you don't feel like talking at first.
I have a binding for *nix fork() here:

https://github.com/felixge/node-nix

However, you need to know what you are doing, otherwise you'll have multiple processes draining the same file descriptors which will give you some nice surprises : )
I completely agree with you on that. I find it really annoying and frankly a bit simplistic to debate those types of things. It is one of the biggest turn-offs to being friends with a "geek" for me.
I never understood why those in camp (2) don't have a proper Google account not linked to Google Apps, and just forward all their mail along? That seems like the brain-dead obvious solution (and means that if you ever want to move your domain name or get rid of it a few years down the line, you always have a permanent address to fall back on).
Interesting, but I'm surprised the guy sounds so angry. PageRank gets credit for being an engineering feat not a mathematical wonder... When people refer to PageRank as "elegant" they are commenting on its simplicity of concept.
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Why do people split articles into multiple pages like this? Does this increase ad revenue somehow?
Yes... for example, it shows how easy it is to recognize encrypted (or random) data, as it is too uniformly distributed to be anything else.
Why why why why why are you a developer?
Regardless of whether PageRank is "bad math" (the author being the arbiter of what's bad), it was never about being formally anal, it was about solving a problem -- making search much, much better than the then-competition.

PageRank solves the problem with flying colors. There is nothing wrong about having hidden constants that you tweak until you get the results you want. The alternative would be to, instead of coding what has become Google, attempt to find a more general solution. Maybe you'll find it. Maybe. And if you do, by the time you have, someone else will have come and made Google instead of you. And for what? Mathematical purity? Phobia of constants?

I suppose the author also feels much of physics is also bad, since it's riddled with constants upon constants, all of which are "ticking time bombs": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_constant
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I wonder what former employees of Skype would have to say about this, startup employees owning a piece of the company.
Would you consider requiring a password for access to your files a bonus? For me, this "feature" is a deal-breaker.
I'm looking into listing a site on google news. Can you elaborate on the problems you've encountered when trying to list?
Take a look at game search terms, like Warcraft. There are plenty of sites that sell in game currencies or items, along with sites that republish news from other sites mixed in the results.
Did Apple plan to build the iPod back in the 80s? Did Google plan that they'd build Android back in the 90s?

Just because the government didn't initially plan for the Internet to envelop our lives 30 years later, doesn't mean that it wasn't a successful centrally planned project that benefited society. Most things are centrally planned. Much of private industry relies on centralized chains of command. I am not sure what the OPs point was, but seemed more like a veiled jab that suggested centralized government programs are always failures. When the facts are that Minitel shouldn't be classified as a failure & the Internet shouldn't be classified as a poster child for decentralized initiatives.
We geeks really are 21st century medieval monks

I don't know if monasteries are the right metaphor. Maybe more like highly paid company towns.
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Ask HN: I need a desk
I'm looking for a desk to put in my apartment. I'd like enough room to comfortably sit 2 24" monitors, and still have room to work on the problem sets for my math courses (this means books and paper thrown everywhere). I'd like to have an L shape desk, but if I can find one long enough then a straight desk will work too. The desk shouldn't be any longer than 6 feet.

If those requirements aren't hard enough then here's another one: I can't afford to spend more than $250, unless I really like the desk in which case I might consider doing $300.

Where can I find such a thing?
No templates. Come up with your own, something unique to your product. Templates are a great indicator of someone who doesn't really care about their product. If you don't have a designer, hire one. I'm available =) http://www.wellroundedgent.com
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A number of very large logistics/hauling companies were still using it as a sort of extranet a couple of years ago.
Domains ending in .co.cc are subdomains, just like domains ending in .example.com or .uk.com. When people buy a subdomain then their purchase is not regulated in the same way as a domain (eg ending in .cc or .com) is.
thanks for the review. I hit the site was about to give up but will review it later. Bringing life to characters through animation is well worth checking out for a budding clientside coffeescripting, canvas slinging, html5'er

The google web cache was viewable:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:QKa7OUg...
The issue is, it's no longer web 1.0. You don't have a few thousand geeks with domains, you have about a billion users with blogs, tweet streams, and facebook pages. And so Pagerank, which implicitly works off domains is busted.
Misleading headline. The employee in question was not an Apple executive or even an Apple employee. The employee worked for Flextronics.
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I met my first wife on Minitel (Brazil had a several Minitel networks operated by its telcos that operated from the early 80s through mid 90s). I met my second wife at a party.
I guess so, but you'll get a lot more out of things if you do :) For me at least I find it just gets so much easier the more you do it, pretty soon you'll find that "hi, I'm XX, what are you working on?" comes out as easy as anything. But no one will expect anything in particular from you so don't worry about it.

Another bit of advice that might help, hacker spaces and user groups and the like have mailing lists. You can join those before you go along. It's totally normal for people to post a "Hi, my name is XX and I'm interested in YY. I'm planning on popping down sometime soon so see you guys then" and you will most likely get at least a few welcoming replies when you do that.
The math in the original 1998 PageRank paper might not be mathematically 100% sound, but why would they need that in the first place? Do you really think you need a formal analysis before you build something? This is not academia, you know - if you need a formal proof of everything you do, you'd never get anything done.

Besides, the paper you're referring to is 13 years old. Why drag it up now?
Takeover for me means change of hands of ownership and power of decision in the company, and whatever your technical or managerial arguments are I think the resulting company was owned by Apple's stockholders, Steve Jobs probably among then after the acquisition, not by NeXT investors.
This isn't really news. I did the math a month ago and came to the same conclusion. That I could probably make a little money if I don't mind heating up my house (costing more in AC costs) and dealing with the noise of the computers running all the time.

The projected profits, at the prices that day, were pretty sad.

A week later I learned that the better the machines and programs get at producing bitcoins, the harder it is to actually earn one, so the machine works harder for the same output. (The whole market is in on this, not just 1 machine, so it's possible to be ahead of the pack... But they -will- catch on eventually.)

At that point I realized that even if I built a perfect rig that paid for itself every 3 months, I would have to continuously upgrade it to keep up with the market.

It's simply not worth it.
I also did the math - figured I was better off buying Bitcoins than mining them. It's marginal though.
Bada is in a different segment of mobile devices - not
sure how you can compare WP7's sales with Bada's.

But they can be compared, as they are in the same market and more than that ... customers who purchased Bada phones, aren't able to purchase something else without a second contract for at least 1 year, or 2 years more commonly.

I'm not sure how you can't compare WP7 sales with Bada, since one of them is clearly preventing sales for the other.

Just see how it worked out for Apple.

I'm not sure what you're suggesting here. Did I miss anything?
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This was a good thread about building "notes compressions": cheat sheets, outlines, other mnemonics on paper

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2658818

Yesterday, there was this woman in a coffee shop (probably a PhD student) who had the smallest densest handwriting i've ever seen, doing this for a Physical Chemistry text. There must have been 3,000 words on each 8x11 page.
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.edu domains are only granted to organisations accredited as providing higher education by the U.S. Department of Education.

Wikipedia claims that it started out as a general TLD, as did .gov and .mil, and only became attached to the Dep. Education in 2001, which I am sure is wrong - I'm sure they adminstered it earlier.
Correct on many fronts, but the regulations you speak of are local to whichever market you're in. Here, in Canada, a person will be nicked $20 x number of months left plus I think $10 x number of months left on data plan. Altogether, it is capped at around $300 - $400 just to leave.

That is insane when you compare it to what it actually gets you.
does anyone know if this is reliable for guessing file type? how would you code a file type guesser using this techinque?

perhaps relative distributions would be close enough to the "general pattern" for a particular file type to be guessed?
Rumors are HP is going to license WebOS to Samsung. I think Samsung could run with WebOS, more than they ever did with WP7.
I think this is a better example of why you need to have code in place to fail gracefully.

try
{
file_get_contents(http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.xml?screen_n...);
}
catch (Exception $e)
{
}

OR

if ($contents = @file_get_contents(http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.xml?screen_n...)
{
//stuff
}
You can't merely say that an illegal act is justified because it was conducted to expose another crime (or immoral action, or what-have-you). "Suspicions", even commonly held ones, do not suffice as burden of proof -- hence Constitutional amendments on unwarranted search and seizure, or outcry over racial profiling and illegal immigration. Can I break into my neighbors house because I think he's beating his wife? If not, then why is his computer system not sacrosanct as well? And if so, then aren't we advocating vigilantism? And if he is, in fact, guilty, then am I absolved of B&E? What if he's innocent; am I protected by the "purity" of my purpose?

Conversely, the whistleblower regulation comparison is an interesting one, though my understanding is that it's designed to expose corruption where there is no external proof: you have to be an insider to have access to (or even aware of) the incriminating information. But in an age where information is public, and so too may be the indicators of crime. And in that case, might an outsiders' crime (e.g., hacking) parallel that of an insiders' (e.g., breach of confidential information), and, if conducted for the same purpose and with the same outcome, be afforded the same protection under the law? But this raises the question: if the information is public, then shouldn't we expect the authorities, if the suspicion is sufficient for a warrant, to conduct their own (legal) inquiry? Is this a simple failing of law enforcement? Or (tinfoil hat time) corruption at the "highest levels"? Or a fundamental shift in power (and, perhaps, responsibility) to the common man and the court of public opinion?

Heavy questions. Could it be done in the public interest? Of course. Is it morally (or legally) justified? Perhaps. But maybe the real question: are the so-called hacker/advocacy groups somehow noble in their purpose? This, I doubt -- at least to date.
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To me, going to Microsoft for security is like going to the desert for ice-cream. The article seems quite biased, since "embarassing security failures" tend to happen more often at Microsoft.