skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When? It's not like anyone is asking you to write the shuffling code by hand, so when is time so precious, and space so constrained, that it's beneficial to use this "brief" incorrect solution over taking the 5 minutes to google a correct solution and copy-pasting that?
Bit of a high price point but I've had very good experience with Kerio Connect. It's similar to Microsoft Exchange but has much better compatibility (Can be run on Linux, UNIX or Windows) and supports many more protocols and features
Wanted to comment on the article but all I could think about was "READ THAT EMAIL IN YOUR STATUS BAR"
I'm not in SV (Seattle instead), but I'm already tired of "work parties". For once I'd like to talk about something other than vim vs. emacs, Android vs. iOS, Python vs. Ruby, etc etc ad infinitum.

The homogeneity of this environment is aggravating. It takes a lot of work to break out of it. I'm not sure what it is about geeks, but much of our community seems to take pride in being about tech - and only being about tech.
This is exciting news. Was beginning to feel lonely :)
To be honest, it seems very superficial to me - like most philosophy. It starts with an arbitrary premise ("the brain wants to process symbols"). Since the premise is arbitrary, it doesn't help me at all.

To me the interesting bit is "why does the brain want to process symbols". Which is probably better answered by evolution theory than by philosophy.

Another example of the shallowness of philosophy: "I think, therefore I am". Again, an arbitrary premise. What does it mean to exist? Again, philosophy does not seem to be interested.
What GLAAD or other non-profits did technically should be illegal. They are no longer a non-profit activist group, they are an advertising/lobbying agency.
The Berlin Phenomena
HTC Buys S3 Graphics From VIA, WTI For $300 Million
Sigh, the world totally changes if you turn your back a year while writing a hobby project, move to another country and so on... :-)

Thanks for the reference, it looks good.
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Yeah I think HN did some hurt :b
I got too excited about child_process.fork before I read the description. I was imagining it would be like C where I can fork, setup the env and exec. That would probably be tricky and very ugly to implement, though..
Artificial intelligence in trading: k-means clustering
As soon as philosophy gets to even a fraction of the use mathematics has, then maybe it will be worth looking to for answers.
Joey Hess keeps his home directory in git, if I recall correctly.
Making it easy to find a good virtual assistant of this type would be a much larger market than Bingo Card Creator or even Appointment Reminder.

Intelligent agents, but outsourced and vetted for trustworthiness.

You have a vision here, you should consider this as a market to build a site around.
How long until they start supplying dormitories?

We geeks really are 21st century medieval monks, and I, a UX designer and developer am nothing more than a manuscript illuminator.

I am tempted to put "Limner" on my next business card.
Amazing that anybody would actually put 3rd party API code on the main execution path for rendering their site. What's the best case result? That your website renders correctly after only a 1 second pause?

This sort of widget is best lopped off entirely, or if you think it's absolutely essential, it's something that you load from javascript after all your resources have finished loading and rendering.

Never put your users' experience into the hands of a 3rd party. Other people's code is, nearly without exception, non-debugged, brittle garbage. Wrap it in four layers of try/catch and for the love of jebus, keep it out of your critical path.
After all the trouble Apple went to to secure the boot loader, I expected this to be a really complicated procedure. I saw the Tweet today and I went on the site, clicked on "install" and Cydia started installing.

I was blown away. How is this even possible? Did they find another userland exploit that allows you to write to the boot loader? I am very, very impressed.
Would you guys be interested in setting up a "study group", sort of a Procrastinators Anonymous for wanna-be developers?

I can't begin to count the books I've skimmed over and not completed a single exercise. LPTHW was really nice in the way it gave you nothing else to do but exercises. Perhaps something as simple as a small, tight-knit forum (plenty of free forum providers) & IRC channel (something like freenode #python-studygrp) can be useful to bust the barrier of "I'll just start on that exercise/project/book when I'm a bit less tired." Somebody shoots an idea of something they've been meaning to do and others can jump in with brainstorming, ideas, pair programming and general "let's just do it" attitude.

Hell, I know I've been meaning to write a python script to draw a daily histogram of the creation times of Opera bookmarks, but I never got around to it. If I had a twin, I'd prod myself to hunker down and just write those <1KLoC.

So if anyone's interested in the group thing, just drop me a line so I can set it up tonight (CEST timezone here).
Errrgh! That's a shame his site died - a great tutorial on giving character to your characters. When the player sprite is standing still he independently (and subtly) adds breathing motion and limb motion, and blinking.

If you make games, then bookmark it and come back later!
False promises of type-safety
Finance: not to be confused with capitalism.
IPhone Application Development Opportunity - Simple Apps for Small Firms
With millions of users and billions of downloads, iPhone application development field is buzzing with activity. A lot of people enjoy different types of iPhone apps; it fulfills their entertainment, business, utility and various other needs.
Not so related to perks but Steve Blanks published an intriguing article on the second tech bubble that I thought was a very good read.

It's called "The Internet Might Kill Us All" - http://steveblank.com/2011/06/22/the-internet-might-kill-us-...
Well it's not a framework but asp.net mvc can actually do pretty much exactly this with data annotations.

http://www.asp.net/mvc/tutorials/mvc-music-store-part-6
yup. was going to replace my aging x60. tried out an ssd and it's rocking like new.

[this is for personal work - python apps, web pages etc - for "real work" where i often need to run several vms, i have a nice little shoe-box-sized "desktop" with sub-100W amd 6 core, 2.5" raid + ssd, etc]
Hey, if coders are willing to trade code for sodas and laundry then so be it. Let me know where to send the sodas. Soads and laundry are a LOT cheaper than salary.
Increase your price until just enough demand exists.
Good! Much better than blaming their paying Apps customers (in front of their users) for things they didn't implement:

http://www.google.com/support/+/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answ...
This is great, apps users finally getting some love. I Can't wait to try it out.
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I thought, "I think, therefore I am" was an answer to the question, "how do I know what is real and what is not?"

So, for example, we're all stuck in some virtual reality world and everything is fake, how would we know? How do we even know, for that matter, that we ourselves our real?

Well, we're wondering about it, so therefore we ourselves are definitely real in some way, even if everything else is fake - "I think, therefore I am"

Although most philosophy never draws a conclusion, I actually quite like this "proof".

And further, just because philosophy rarely draws conclusions, it doesn't mean it's not worth thinking about, if just for the fun of it.
Agreed. Humans are notoriously bad at crystal ball gazing as Gartner proves every year about smart phones.
One of the two books, Positioning or Immutable Laws of Marketing, also mentioned that the companies that have switched their positioning have destroyed their existing brand and recreated it in a different way.

I think that Google and all the major tech companies are re-positioning themselves as technology companies rather than search, ecommerce, hardware, etc.
The Value of Learning a Language [1985]
I would rather people look to philosophy for answers to their intractable problems than religion.
we couldn't manage to devise a system where every user
has unique credentials to access sensitive systems
without those systems themselves being able to decrypt
the user's data?

In the case of the GMail web interface, which I can tell you it's better than any desktop client I ever used, no, it isn't possible.

It isn't, because then Google cannot render email messages in the browser for you. And if it did decryption with Javascript, it's still their client and their client can still send back information about your emails to them.

Then you've got the problem of losing functionality. I love GMail because it does a good job of searching through my emails, or filtering them. And, ever since I switched to GMail, my spam problems are over.

Of course you could argue that with encrypted emails, spam is eliminated because you can just filter away messages for which you don't have a decryption key.

But this also represents a usability problem - getting the decryption key of every user that sends you email it's a PITA; and it would also prevent unsolicited emails that you do want (like old friends contacting you for the first time, or job offers).

Really, for encrypted email to work, you have to trust the client and it cannot be the default.
I like this. I haven't discussed money yet but seems like a good option.
Being what I call a "computer hobbyist", I have used quite a few operating systems over the years, and one of my all time favorites is Nextstep (along with BeOS). In fact, I still prefer the overall look of Nextstep over Mac OS X, even now, many years later.

Back in 1996, I bought a used Nextstation from a company called Spherical Solutions, run by a man named Sam Goldberger (IIRC). I loved that computer, but sadly, it was killed by a good old Florida lightening strike in 1998.
I realize it is easy to pick on philosphy, but if you're going to write off one of our oldest disciplines it should at least come from an informed place: "I think therefore I am" is not Descartes' premise, but one of his conclusions. Even as a conclusion, it is mostly misunderstood. The point is not that it is the thinking that brings one into being, but that there is something there that must exist in order to do the thinking. Other translations I have read have it "I am deceived, therefore I am," again the point being that something must first exist in order to be deceived. His original "arbitary premise" is that he must first discard everything he thinks he already knows.
The cached version works perfectly: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?sourceid=chrome...
There are many ways to share knowledge.

The most obvious would be "write a blog". But to be honnest, you may as well use your knowledge in the process of building a tool to share it :)

Here comes the engineer approach : List your knowledge, structure it, and think about how people would like to get access to what you have to offer. You might come pretty close to what Khan has done with http://www.khanacademy.org/

Feel free to contact me (nsebban at google's mail thingie) if you want to talk about this topic in more details...
In the long-term, as machines become able to do more jobs better than humans, people will simply not be willing to pay any price for an error-prone human to do a worse job than a cheap machine

Actually I think they would. Being an employer of a human would be a sign of prestige for the wealthy.

Just imagine you're at a future cocktail party and your host unveils his pretty human waitresses. He's obviously wealthy to afford a real human instead of using robots like everyone else
From http://blog.iphone-dev.org/post/7295551750/jailbreakme-times...

"Q: Do the holes discovered by @comex put my device at risk?
A: Yes. We recommend installing PDF Patcher 2 in Cydia once you’re jailbroken to eliminate this risk (any firmware version)."
Apple and Google blow away RIM in US market share
Mikeay2's Public Profile Page
Richard Branson on Thinking Big
I just saw that two minutes ago, so it is a userland exploit. That's fantastic, I can install Grooveshark now!
What's sad was how expensive Openstep was once Next was solely a software company. I had a Nextstation and decided I wanted a copy of OpenStep 4 for my PC. Next was asking for something like 800 dollars for a copy.
One of the fantastic things about moving to Italy for me was meeting lots of people who do various things in life. Sure, I have friends that I can 'geek out' with from time to time, but even most of them have plenty of non-programmer friends. Also, being a programmer, as far as I can tell, seems to be regarded as a job like most others, not something too terribly nerdy or uncool.
DummyNet ~ Test Web/Network App by tweaking Network Latencies & Bandwidth
The original iPhone 4 Prototype Appears on eBay
I just had to register to comment on this one.

Wow, that struck a chord. Pretty much every sentence rings true, especially the peer encouragement one. For me it's the availability of easier entertainment - why write that python bookmark creation date histogram plotter, when I'm tired and can just waste the evening reading Reddit? Oh, and there's the procrastination habit I've been nursing for over a decade.

On the other hand, having someone as a sounding board to bounce ideas off, and additionally to guard me from going off tangents and getting distracted - that helps make some progress.

Have you scouted around for a local hackerspace (http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/List_of_Hacker_Spaces)? I did, but I'm using the language barrier (expat) and some leftover social anxiety as excuses to not pursue that road.

All else aside, would you be interested in starting a sort of a study group - just a place one can post their ideas and have others provide brainstorming, feedback and motivation?

I think that may work - I remember my most productive streaks were when a friend had an issue to solve and I would swoop in on the opportunity to help. When faced with a similar issue of my own, I would endlessly procrastinate and often fail. If others have also experienced similar situations, creating such a space to facilitate pair programming could increase everyone's productivity.
Meh, didn't work for me. iPad.
It works on the iPhone 4 as well (or at least: it did on mine). Was amazed by how fast and easy that was.
Reverse Engineering the Marijuana 'Munchies': What Causes Binge Eating?
>15 is usually around the age that kids start getting proficient enough with their computer that they can figure out how to bootleg movies. 25 is about the time that they mature out of it.

Asserting that pirating is a question of maturity first and foremost is a very daring thing to do, to say the least.
Macbook Pro over then 3 years but plan buy iMac(performance is better for me, I want keep open: RubyMine(for ror projects), AppCode(for iOS)(both java based apps) + mysql server + postgres server, also chrome with 10-20 tabs + firefox(for development I like firebug) + skype etc)
Of course. I'm just trying to think up a way to service the demand.
Do you happen to know any good site/source to get a job there in one of those start ups/tech companies?

I am oriented towards data analysis/mining and I happen to be working in Germany, it would be just amazing to be able to apply for some cool jobs in Berlin.
Mikeay2: I will record a KILLER 60 second audio or video
That's interesting, I didn't notice it. It looks like the bottom income level is primarily people who took a business loss.

As for my confusion, I'm only looking at people near or below the US poverty line. Business owners who take a loss are defined by the government as living in poverty. You might argue that the government overstates poverty, and I would agree with you.

As for the sources of income section, it is clearly incomplete. If it weren't, consumption would be equal to income + change in net worth.
Sadly, the service will be discontinued soon (june 2012). I don't use it but I find it cool to have an alternative network like this.
How is "best" intro book defined? I typed in "economics" and I got a book on an introduction to Austrian economics. If the best economics textbook is one praised by Ron Paul and Ayn Rand, count me out.
Special Intelligence Report on the Rustock botnet Takedown
An Open E-Book: E-readers are collecting information about you
Well, to stay with the example of file handles, one might forget to explicitly close the file. The finalizer would then act as a safety net and close the file as soon as the object is garbage collected.

But indeed, it is a very bad idea to rely on that. Even in languages that have reference-counting garbage collection semantics (such as Python) it is recommended to explicitly close files, as someone might still have a reference around.
Tennessee Land for Sale
I'm from Tetalab, a hackerspace in Toulouse, France, and we still use the minitel for some hacks with arduino:

http://www.tetalab.org/images/tetalab/MSM.jpg

It's a neat interface, everybody here in France remember it from the 80's, and it quite easy to hack it.

We should soon release an arduino lib for eveybody to hack it, but it'll be quite hard to find a minitel if you're not in France (nobody use it anymore, it's quite easy to find second-hand, but surely heavy to ship...)
Ormv - the plain text blogging system [PHP]
We might be abe to help if you can identify what type of work it is that needs to be done.
Works fine on my 3GS running 4.3.3
I hope they fix this fast, this is a huge security risk.
I love the clean design. Focus on the functionality, branding below, concise explanations of what's what.

Thumbs up! :-)

You may want to explain the files aren't uploaded to server -- that they never leave the computer (security); you may also warn upon exceeding 32KB size (IE8 limit).
What iOS version?
Just as much, because large mills give the ability to monitor your workers. Getting people to clock on 8 hours per day (or, before the socialists changed it, 14+ hours per day) gives you much more ability to extract labour from them.
if anyone is interested, i wrote a script to improve that a little. obviously it's no replacement for dns, but it makes it easier to share the data - it treats your hosts file as a database that can be both dumped to a file and updated from various sources, including web pages. https://github.com/ghettonet/GhettoNet
Sure you're on 4.3.3 and not 4.3.2/4.3.1?
C'est ou ça à Toulouse? J'habitais à Toulouse (l'hyper-centre) pendant trois ans.
Google Adwords To Make Money Online Fast
Extending COBOL with Scheme and Brainfuck
Nokia paid employees millions of dollars to not leave a decade ago
Nice move google, I think...
I don't understand, you're a consulting and graphic designer (labour) yet your in stealth mode with a service that can't be scaled beyond one person?

Seems like a silly thing to be in stealth mode about, plus it doesn't even sound like you have a product. (Not that a service business isn't a good thing)

Why are you even asking for help if there is no way to streamline it?
Worthy to Use Twitter Tools for Mac
Twitter hasstopped being just a source of entertainment in the leisure time and has becomea main stream social site which people use for their business, networking,advertising, marketing, and so on.
8 Reasons Why I Blog About Yoga
You can certainly get part of the big picture from reading Hacker News, but if you're going to learn anything in depth, I seriously suggest taking a class. That way someone else has already done all the hard work in collecting all the material in easily digestable chunks and even gives his or her valuable time in trying to make you understand it all.
If you want to read it, the work-around while their blog is down is hop over to Google Reader, click Add Subscription, and paste in the URL of their blog (http://blog.mailchimp.com). This is my go-to work around for accessing blogs which were killed by traffic.

But what is the work around for writing blog posts such that they don't get killed by routine events such as showing up on the HN front page? Turn off Apache KeepAlive. Apache KeepAlive is to dead blogs as smoking is to lung cancer: not only does A certainly lead to B if you give it enough time, the existence of B strongly implies A!

For more on this topic:
http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/19/running-apache-on-a-memo...
It seems I got it mixed up with a different comment. My apologies.
sounds like some form of prototype/landing page / mockup design service. dont really know why that would require stealth mode.
Yammer comes to my mind, too.
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Online Product Designer Service, Custom Online Design Application Tool Services.
Online product designer offering service for online application tool, application implementation, systems integration, software, development application, application maintenance.
Forget Hyper-Scale. Think Hyper-Local Scale.
Shoot: Medieval Archer 2 - Free Online Games
Ask HN: Emerging Markets Startups
A lot of the most common examples of innovation in emerging markets (TaTa's $2500 car, P&G's Shampoo designed for cold water) come from large established firms.

Does anyone know of examples of small startups, not based in the Emerging Markets, who have created successful products aimed at them?
The Post-PC era will be a multi-platform era
I wonder if anyone will take this research and look at the appetite suppressing qualities of nicotine in light of this... perhaps a totally natural drug is already available to block CB1 receptors!
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I think many more people have Google+ than realize it. I signed up first day, never got any email, and signing into GMail one day, I happened to look at the upper left corner of the black bar and there was You+. I clicked and had Google+.
Sounds funny I know. I'm not in actual stealth mode, but need to keep everything off-record so am in stealth for purposes of this thread.

It's a service-business based off of customizing a product I have (think wordpress).
The flaw with coin saving is that, from what I'm told at least in my country, that the banks charge a fee for processing coins.
This is good news. For geeks with their own domain for email the free apps accounts are great. The downside is that they are usually slow to rollout new services. Looking forward to trying G+
It makes me a bit sad to realize that even I remember minitel, though I grew up with the internet, and not in France -- not because I'm into tech history, but because in 2002, that's how old my high-school French textbook and its helpful cultural asides were.
Personally I have seen tons of spammy referral links from .co.cc domain. Well, the pretends to be "linking" to my article/post but the content of their referring page are complete junk that has nothing to do with the linked posts.
How Apple Uses Its Cash to Keep the Latest Technology for Itself
So if one wants a webpage that won't be Googlable, one just have to use a .co.cc domain... It might be a feature, actually.

EDIT: okay so I've just been told "robots.txt". Didn't thought of that, heh.
68 million US gamers will spend $ on games
A Google+ loophole used for a creative campaign
Indeed, and Comex gave them a heads up ~3.5 weeks ago that something was amiss in PDF. Let's hope they found it and are just going through the last testing cycles for the new patch?!
Google+: profiles must be visible, will boot private profiles after July 31st
Everyone hailed Minitel in the 1980s. It was touted as an example of what gov't should do (these were also the days of Japan, Inc. kicking everyone's ass, also showing what gov't "should" do for industry). Yet along came the Black Swan of the Internet to slay it. Central planning never works.
I'd like to take issue with:
"manufacturing has not switched to a production-on-demand model"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-in-time_(business)
Remember: Bill Gates actually loses money if he takes the time to pick up a $100 bill in the street.
That's how it works, now. There is no burden of proof.