skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some notes:

First, these guys are the real hackers. Not Carmack, Woz, Bill, or Zuck, or all the super-cool guys that made the bucks and then coasted (technically). These guys are living the life just because they love it. They're a much better representation of the inner hacker in all of us than those stories of riches and fame. I got the impression they would continue doing this no matter what their financial circumstances.

Second, they've done their time. Somebody should set them up with an annuity so they can a) continue, b) learn to live without worrying about money, and c) tell stories to kids 40 years from now about how it all came together

Third, this article left me gobsmacked. I'm left with one conclusion: this is art. If you're collecting these crayon receipts? Save them. They're going to be worth something one day.

Of course, just like the game plays out, it might all amount to nothing. If I had to bet about the value of their work, I'd say it drops off short-term (next 20 years) then becomes super valuable around 2030 or so. This seems to be the pattern with semi-famous labors of love with cult followings. Seriously. Save whatever you can get from these guys.

Very cool story.
This distribution has stripped hard disk support from the kernel. It is intended as a relatively more secure browsing platform (with support for DoD two-factor authentication for email access, etc.). I provide it to my parents for browsing the web, and my tech support calls from home are gone.
I'm getting the "you device is not eligible for requested build" error in iTunes. Never had this before. Anyone here who did successfully activate?
From what I've heard, not really. He tests a lot (he posts about it on the devlog), but I've heard he doesn't use version control even.
I remember the Oklahoma bombing and the first picture was of some random brown muslim guy. Turns out, it was a white athiest.

Look up the FBI stats on radical muslim bombings on US soil vs radical christian vs radical athiest bombings. In fact, I seem to recall that radical jews had more attacks on US soil than radical muslims.

And since 9/11 was so neatly sown up, we'll never really know who was truly behind it.
What about the .name TLD?

I own (for now.. I'm not sure if that can be disputed if more people with my rather rare last name apply) lastname.name

So - you can reach me, if I finally finish my migration and stop being a lazy bastard, at firstname@lastname.name - which is rather good imo.

Sure, I've got other legacy addresses, but this could be a viable alternative to a gmail _identity_.
1978? Really? So Marylin Monroe was a time traveller? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4SLSlSmW74

(Also, if she was a time traveller, I wonder whether copyright laws are prepared for cases where time travellers are infringing copyright before the work was created)
Where's the "first twitter engineer" part, smart guy?
Oh god there is a Linux version now? Which means I can play it under screen? or from my iPad?

Thanks, there goes all my free time.
No, the analogy is someone steals something from an American, while the American is in the UK. That gets tried in a UK court.

No, wait. Someone steals something from an American while in the UK. This 23 year old publishes a list of where to buy stolen goods in the UK. That gets tried in a UK court too.

No, try again. Someone steals something from an American while in the UK. This 23 year old publishes a list of where to buy stolen goods in the UK. Someone takes a copy of this list to the US. The US then tries to extradite the 23 year old because someone brought a copy of his list to the US.

If the "make available" doesn't hold water, how does "make available a list of places that are making available"?

(Answer: because it doesn't have to. The DoJ is a for-rent organization)
Not at all. Those people were hurt by the corporation not securing their information. They were hurt the moment they used the service. The hack didn't open an otherwise locked door, it just made public (to the likes of you) what anyone with knowledge of escape sequences and SQL could have already seen.

Lulzsec's hacks hurt the companies whose reputation was right-sized, but justly, and helped the people by exposing the weak security. I'd rather know my CC was leaked so I could cancel it than learn years later I'd been subtly overcharged while under a false sense of security.

Nobody is glad more people died in crashes before seat-belts, even though we're glad that we now have seat-belts despite and we know we only have them because so many people died. Similarly, we aren't specifically glad that people's accounts were leaked, but when we're using a more robust service in five years, largely due to this publicity, we'll be thankful regardless.

btw, you mean 'Woe'.
I'm not sure I'll be able to change your mind about this, but I'd like to express my opinion on your sentiment and leave it at that.

I think that maybe you're wrong about a few things here. First and foremost, that your slide was recoverable.

I'm a car guy myself. Like you, I insist on manual transmissions with rear wheel drive. I've been to driving schools, read extensively about how suspension affects handling dynamics, and turned a few wrenches in my time. Even with all that, I try to remain humble about my own driving abilities and the fact that while I enjoy it, I don't drive professionally, so I shouldn't expect professional results.

Your comments about skid recovery apply to the input controls that are available to you as the driver. They don't apply to the input controls available to the traction control systems in your car. For every subtle detail that you learned about handling using the steering wheel, brake, and clutch, there are equivalents for the systems available to the traction control system, such as individual wheel braking.

Stopping a slide is about controlling rotation. You cannot use the brake to directly rotate the vehicle because you only get one brake pedal. The best use of that brake pedal, as a driver, is in controlling the speed and weight distribution of the automobile. That is the most you can hope for.

"My issue with Mercedes's Traction Control in particular isn't even that it makes drivers lazy. It's that in at least that situation, it can't tell the difference between power-induced oversteer and breaking-induced oversteer. In that situation, it reacted EXACTLY WRONG. It doesn't matter whether the driver is competent or not if the system makes the opposite changes that it should."

The stability program in a Mercedes absolutely knows the difference between power-induced oversteer and braking-induced oversteer. It uses accelerometers, yaw sensors, throttle position sensors, and individual wheel speed sensors to infer your intended direction of travel. Braking the outside rear wheel does transfer weight forward, but it has a far more significant positive effect on correcting rotation because of the asymmetrical application of braking force. Your slide was simply unrecoverable. You think that it was recoverable, but you'll never know for sure. Based on the physics involved, I think you're wrong.

I've tested the limits of these systems myself. My 2006 GTI had ESP. I took it out to a dirt road and explored the limits under slalom conditions and hard turns. These systems are amazing at recovering slides that can be recovered. If I pushed hard enough, I could "break through" to an uncontrollable slide, however. When you "overshoot" your mark, brake, turn, then hit a rumble strip (which significantly reduces available traction) you end up in an unrecoverable slide.

The irony here is that your Mercedes' ESP system didn't almost kill you, you did.
Blow says Social Game Designers Hate People
Do you create things to degrade the life of your consumer?

Thanks to Hostile for posting this with in the Dwarf Fortress Post.
Hostile, thank you for posting this, Do you think that any other designers are like him?
Right. I thought about including a description of pursuit movement, but omitted it because I didn't think it came up frequently when viewing web pages. Humans actually have a whole bunch of special-case eye movement patterns, like the "catch-something heuristic" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaze_heuristic), which we share with dogs! (http://www.mansfield.osu.edu/faculty/dshaffer/Shaffer%20Publ...)
This puzzle is mentioned in the lovely documentary Wordplay[1], which ostensibly follows a cadre of competitors in a year of the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament. Well worth a watch, and I believe it's on Netflix.

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0492506/
You mean something like about.me :p ?
This was good. If you're interested in some further tech/visual neuroscience crossover, the intros to these two posts I made have some relevant information:

http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/08/frame-wars/

http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/19/a-guide-to-3d-display-techn...
I'll second your first paragraph, but would prefer to leave the comments. HN is one of my two primary news sources, largely due to it being the only place I've found this quality of discussion. When something really significant happens, I enjoy participating in a discussion about it with the HN crowd.
The purpose of a corporation by definition is to maximize the bottom line for the shareholder.

No, the purpose of a corporation is to faithfully carry out the corporate bylaws. There are many corporations that do little for the shareholder's bottom line: private schools, charities, self-styled socially responsible businesses, co-ops, government-run public service companies, profit-neutral public utility companies, and many others.

I sympathize with your idealistic sort of thinking but it is unreasonable.

Google could easily start a service department and run it as a profit center: simply require a massive credit card charge or wire transfer before they will help fix your account. That they do not is an intentional choice.
My comment is still true as of today.

And I'd say there's at least even odds the sale of T-Mobile to AT&T fails to go through.
Great article. Funnily enough, the Metafilter post referenced is actually the one I put up in 2007:

http://www.metafilter.com/63759/All-go-no-show
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"Reciting "money++ is the only thing that matters" as the definition of a corporation is brain-dead"

That wasn't my intention, and my definition was ambiguous, you are right. I wrote that off the top of my head. To be more accurate, it is "to maximize shareholder value."

This includes building a solid brand name and maintaining a good reputation via ethical practices.
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Norwegian oil companies are drilling in Islamic countries: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statoil_operations_by_country

Oslo is known for the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oslo_Accords, an attempt at peace between Palestine and Israel.
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If you use this with Coffeescript, you don't need the backslashes. :)
I agree. From what I can tell, the site appears to be a platform for launching sidebar ads. The content seems to be an afterthought.

Just look at their definition of Chrome OS. "Chrome OS is basically a crippled netbook that currently requires constant internet connection to function, and to allow Google data-mining and ad serving."

Last time I checked, Chrome OS was an operating system, not a netbook. And a netbook whose main job is to surf the web isn't a "crippled" netbook...it's just a netbook.
Caskets on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dap...
Hardware can be easily rigged. A keylogger can be installed on the real keyboard to capture the typing when LPS is running. It's better to carry Dod issued Netbook to do secure business.
Yeah, because manually re-entering data that exists already is just what a geek wants to do with the next few months of their life.

Not.
I think it did work for Poland. The only economy in the EU that did not shrink during the financial crisis.
Life without Google Analytics
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I don't know where you are coming from saying Carmack 'coasted (technically)' after he made his bucks. He is about a hard core coder as they come. Its not like he took some CEO desk job after Doom came out. From the first commander keen all the way through probably Quake 3, the stuff he wrote was all cutting edge.
When the host burns you, just point your DNS to a new host and the emails stop bouncing in hours.
On the other hand, Yahoo Messenger is huge, and Yahoo mail is even bigger (bigger than GMail). And Yahoo has built, for all intents and purposes, an entire clone of Facebook into them. And do you know who cares?

Nobody, that's who.

So while email integration is important, it's clearly not sufficient in itself. I don't think AOL really missed an opportunity here - they were doomed either way.
Here's one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2686825
The only thing that virtualenv does is isolate a set of libraries to use with the default system python. If you have Python 2.6 installed, but want to use Python 2.7, you're responsible for setting it up yourself.

On the other hand, perlbrew allows you to manage completely separate builds of perl, and the associated tools like cpan/cpanminus will install to whatever the currently selected Perl is.

For example, my perlbrew at work looks like this:

% tree -L 2 ~/perl5/perlbrew
~/perl5/perlbrew/
|-- Conf.pm
|-- bin
| |-- cpanm
| `-- perlbrew
|-- build
| |-- perl-5.12.3
| `-- perl-5.14.1
|-- build.log
|-- dists
| |-- perl-5.12.3.tar.gz
| `-- perl-5.14.1.tar.gz
|-- etc
| |-- bashrc
| `-- cshrc
`-- perls
|-- current -> perl-5.12.3
|-- perl-5.12.3
`-- perl-5.14.1

You source the appropriate ~/perl5/perlbrew/etc/{bash,csh}rc for your shell, which creates a shell function called perlbrew.

% type perlbrew
perlbrew is a shell function
% perlbrew
Usage:
perlbrew <command> [options] [arguments]

Commonly used commands:
init Initialize perlbrew environment.
install Install perl
list List installed perls
use Use the specified perl in current shell
switch Permanently use the specified perl as default
mirror Pick a preferred mirror site
off Permanently turn off perlbrew
version Display version
help Read more detailed instructions

Examples:
perlbrew install perl-5.12.3
perlbrew install perl-5.13.6

perlbrew list

perlbrew use perl-5.13.6
perlbrew switch perl-5.12.3

perlbrew switch /path/to/special/perl
perlbrew switch /path/to/special/perl special-perl
# later
% perlbrew list
* perl-5.12.3
perl-5.14.1
/usr/local/bin/perl (5.8.8)
/usr/bin/perl (5.8.8)
% perlbrew version
~/perl5/perlbrew/bin/perlbrew - App::perlbrew/0.19
% perlbrew available
perl-5.15.1
i perl-5.14.1
perl-5.12.4
perl-5.10.1
perl-5.8.9
perl-5.6.2
perl5.005_04
perl5.004_05
perl5.003_07
% perlbrew install perl-5.10.1
Attempting to load conf from ~/perl5/perlbrew/Conf.pm
Fetching perl-5.10.1 as ~/perl5/perlbrew/dists/perl-5.10.1.tar.gz
Installing perl-5.10.1 into ~/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.10.1
This could take a while. You can run the following command on another shell
to track the status:

tail -f ~/perl5/perlbrew/build.log

(cd ~/perl5/perlbrew/build; tar xzf ~/perl5/perlbrew/dists/perl-5.10.1.tar.gz;
cd ~/perl5/perlbrew/build/perl-5.10.1;rm -f config.sh Policy.sh;patchperl;
sh Configure -de '-Dprefix=~/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.10.1';make ;make
test_harness && make install) >> '~/perl5/perlbrew/build.log' 2>&1
Installed perl-5.10.1 as perl-5.10.1 successfully. Run the following command
to switch to it.

perlbrew switch perl-5.10.1
I'm an indie game designer, and I find this is by no means an uncommon view among game designers.
On a related note (pardon me from replying to myself), as we should "...not accept anything and everything that may affect a hacker in some way, shape or form," I am strongly opposed to stories like "OS X Lion Released Today" or "Linux 3.0 released." In essence, these tidbits are just noise, worse than "current event" type stories because they are related to hackers, but really offer nothing interesting of value that we couldn't find on other sites (slashdot, techcrunch, et al). It is actually a news event disguised as an article.

More "Researchers develop tattoo that monitors glucose levels" and less "iOS 5 beta 4 is out," please!
Seems like it is still quite flaky. Rebooting my iPad helped things along for me.
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We kinda started something... http://cloudHQ.net/dropbox Basically real-time synchronization between Google Docs and Dropbox (and other services). You can also synchronize Basecamp to Dropbox. Gmail and other Google and 37signals services are coming soon.

Backupify is also an option, but they backup to their own storage which, again, is not owned by you.
My point was, from a "how well-known are they" standpoint, these other guys earn a lot more points for just being rich and famous than they do for being great hackers.

No doubt many of them continue to do great technical work that constitutes "great hacking" in anybody's book. But that's not why (by and large) people buy the books and become fans.

If you are focusing on the technical skill of hackery then you are going down the wrong trail. I'm talking about living the life of hacking, as most hackers understand and would actually practice it, as opposed to being a famous hacker. Let's face it, odds are you'll never be a billionaire with your own rocket company. But you just might spend 20 years of your life working on a pet project. These guys are our guys. They're us.
Love it! Sure it's not perfect, but it's a huge improvement already. I've had similar ideas myself but haven't gotten around to implementing them. The existing HTML input controls are clunky and haven't kept up with the pace of web development, maybe we can improve on them using CSS & JS until we develop a new set of canonical input primitives that then become standardized.
Toyota owns Lexus.
A robot that flies like a bird
Thanks for offering your opinion. While I want to respect the GP's personal experience, your comments echo my feelings. My favorite part of a Mercedes (and this is surely true for other premier makes) is that everything seems to have been thought out and engineered ^1. And with my own personal experience of the cars TCS, I felt it very hard to believe that the Mercedes TCS would be so simplistic.

^1 Not to say I don't have my issues with the cars -- stuff like a crappy Chinese made iPod interface.

Edit: That video is stunning. Thanks for the share.
john@smith.com

you want to see how bad it turn when you do chin, li, etc? soon we will run out of website names!
Well, I certainly don't agree with your description of what software development entails. You need a text editor, but you also need to be familiar with a whole ecosystem of tools, libraries, platforms, procedures, and general technical knowhow. You need to commit your changes; you also need the project owner to think what you've done is worth merging into the main branch. The suggestion that it's something you can "be amateur about" is making me giggle.

If anything, it's the development behind closed doors that you can "be amateur about". Work done in public is too embarrassing and too unlikely to attract any interest to do a bad job on.

But that's kind of beside the point. Even if the expertise is rarer on research, I don't understand why that matters. Wouldn't that be an argument for pooling the resources you do have? I mean, if there are only four people working in a field, wouldn't it be better if they all could critique a new work, and if they were able to watch it progress and influence its direction (maybe stopping mistakes early!), and if the judgement of a new work came with their written opinions on its worthiness attached?
Things to Remember when Printing your own Labels
Labels are the first and foremost attention capturing thing on a product and they should be made in the best possible way.
To support my point, here is a video of Tiff Needell testing an older version of ESP in a Jaguar on a sheet of ice. The ability of the system to stop a car from sliding out of control under these conditions is just mind boggling.

This 6:21 start point shows both (with/without) tests:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-hHWSQhKuc&feature=fvwre...
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They say a humble foreign policy will prevent shit like this, but I was always hesitated to accept it wholesale.
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quick Google brings that in the SFPD they have several models in use, among them is SIG p226 chambered in 9mm
> Reading your comment is just depressing and is a prime example of the Dunning Kruger effect. I have a PhD in economics.

You must think you know a lot.

> No other country has been responsible for lifting more people out of poverty than the U.S.

That's like Microsoft taking credit for putting a PC in every home. In other words, claiming credit for a rising tide you were doing your best to fight.

> China and India are eradicating poverty at record levels because of the open borders for trade with the U.S.

Silly economist, there aren't open borders. Just try to move between China and the USA without unreasonably more money than a Chinese worker could earn.

Also your free trade comes with conditions attached - forced sale of resources for instance, or lowering of safety standards. More temporary income for some can't compensate a country for losing its natural resources at unreasonably low prices.

But yes, that we've outsourced production to them and lowered some existing barriers to trade has sent a lot of money their way. You seem to be operating under the trickle-down delusion though.

> Iraq is seeing rapid growth rates in its GDP,

Of course, get the resources flowing and lift the embargoes and the economy bounds up, though only to a fraction of what it would have been without the invasion.

> as its own government openly embraces us and wants our troops there to stablize its country,

Every dictator we've propped up has embraced us and thanked us for our troops - it's why we picked them.

> so they can safely build its country.

We don't have the government we want in the USA. How likely is it we've given them one they like?

> And guess what? It's working. Iraq's death rates are tumbling

We've stopped killing Iraqis? No? Oh, you just mean we just aren't killing them as quickly.

> and now it's even lower than ours

Bullshit. But even if it were it's another example of claiming credit for your limited role in cleaning up a mess you already started. In this case it just means you're bombing Pakistan more.

> I wish you would rely on actual data and facts for your responses.

I wish your PhD wasn't so narrow you were unable to see the facts for the data.
Right. I just think it would be better said as "people are not cameras." Seems many people think your eyes are somehow immune to the optical qualities that cameras have to deal with.
Same thing here.. I was searching the error in Google and found a bunch of blog/forum posts saying that adding the following comment line to /etc/hosts, restarting iTunes, and trying it works:

# 74.208.10.249 gs.apple.com

I was totally skeptical because it's a comment line, but I thought, "wtf, i'll give it a shot. it's just the hosts file." and it worked.

iPhone is restoring now with 9a5274d.
Makes sense, I guess: Java was based on Objective C which was based on Smalltalk (and C).
Sacrifice some level of comfort? Huh. I use AirBnB to book places that cost about the same amount as a hotel, but are significantly nicer.