skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That goes against so many ethical and legal codes... This is how you end up with a repressed society.
ICloud opens new possibilities for Apps
Any site that needs real speed will be using APC or eAccelerator anyway, so that's not really relevant.
I've been scratching my head as to why Skype has really dropped the ball on their iOS client. The released Skype for iPhone. The most recent significant change they made was to allow it being used as a background app (one which kills your battery within hours).

Aside from that, they act like they didn't even know the iPad came out. Doing even the most basic "port" of Skype to the iPad couldn't take more than a day of developer time if they had the original Xcode project for the iPhone app.

As-is, Skype for iOS is really clunky and does some pretty stupid stuff (like taking 45 minutes as it tries to download every conversation I've had for the past 3 years and nearly crashing the phone). I can't fathom why Skype is ignoring it. Unless someone did something stupid, like loose the code/project.
One syntax to rule them all
Is there a reason connecting needs so much boilerplate to connect compared to Redis's Booksleeve client?

Here's Redis: http://code.google.com/p/booksleeve/

using (var conn = new RedisConnection("localhost"))
{
conn.Open();
conn.Set(12, "foo", "bar");
}

You guys seem to suggest:

<configSections>
<section name="riakConfig" type="CorrugatedIron.Config.RiakClusterConfiguration, CorrugatedIron"/>
</configSections>
<riakConfig>
<nodes>
<node name="dev1" hostAddress="riak-test" pbcPort="8081" restPort="8091" poolSize="20" />
<node name="dev2" hostAddress="riak-test" pbcPort="8082" restPort="8092" poolSize="20" />
<node name="dev3" hostAddress="riak-test" pbcPort="8083" restPort="8093" poolSize="20" />
</nodes>
</riakConfig>

And then,

var clusterConfig = RiakClusterConfiguration.LoadFromConfig("riakConfig");
var cluster = new RiakCluster(clusterConfig, new RiakConnectionFactory());
var client = cluster.CreateClient();
var value = Client.Get("my_bucket", "my_key");
zsh can be a shoein replacement for bash, and its globbing facilities makes 'find' almost obsolete for me. For example:

find . -name "*.css"

is:

ls -d **/*.css

in zsh. Other examples, all derived from the article:

find . -type f -name "*.css" ==> ls **/*.css(.)

find . -name "*.css" -exec grep -l "#content" {} \;
==> grep -l "#content" **/*.css

find . -ctime -1 -type f ==> ls **/*(.c-1)

find . \! -path "*CVS*" -type f -name "*.css"
==> ls **/*.css(.e{'echo $REPLY | grep -v "CVS"'})

More can be found in the "Glob Qualifiers" section of the zshexpn(1) man page.
...versus perfectly reasonable behavior.
Interesting project but what's the advantage of using this over YQL?
When I scroll down, the bar at the bottom of the screen stays in place in the middle of the image. So that's a bit irritating; it ends up covering up the middle of the image with a bunch of social media junk.
In most dictatorships the intellectuals are all killed because they undermine the status quo.
Why don't you just suggest we start pumping the water full of happy-pills while you're at it?
Don't forget steroids, BGH, HGH and other hormones.
That is sure going off-topic, but - seeing that I never used checks in 30 years of my life, they are very 'popular' and common over here in Israel now.

Can you share your bad experiences? For me that stuff was never relevant and something I heard 'old people' talk about. I feel like someone invites me to a party and wants to play the gramophone for us..
I think you're on to something here.

There are good communities and bad communities.

Norms play a huge role. Expectation plays a role, Participants' culture plays a huge role. Some communities work well based on in-real-life associations. Some work based on technical means (strong moderation tools). Some have weak moderation tools but an aggressive enforcement community and back-channel discussions for dealing with egregious abuse, though from my experience those back channels are used far more rarely than might generally be expected, and may even take on an inside-joke status.

In the same sense, real-world communities may or may not be well-behaved, and often have similar foundations. The better-behaved ones tend to be well-established (but often hard for outsiders to break into), highly policed, based on cultural norms (common religion, ethnicity, purpose, social class, interests). It's where multiple structures break down that problems become most severe.

Even short-lived communities can be very well behaved. There are few communities more transitory than college campuses, yet they have very few management issues.

The biggest hazard in either online or physical cultures is creation of a mob (root word: mobility), in which an antisocial mindset spreads through a population. What are needed aren't strong authentications ("papers, please"), but circuit breakers and dampers to dissipate these energies.

If it is in fact civility and community which are valued.
You should be so lucky.

My entire planet is forbidden.
Google+ is bullshit. We want something better than Facebook, but with Buzz and Google+, Google has shown they have even less respect for user privacy. I'm deleting my account and (pessimistically) crossing my fingers for Diaspora.
People love to bring up 4chan as an example to this discussion every time, and yet there is no one on 4chan who has not freely chosen to be there.

All this "know who you are talking to in order to have a friendly community" stuff is nonsense. We know why Google and Facebook and the Obama administration want this. Control and tracking. End of story.
Tried CFLAGS=-O0 ./configure --enable-darwin-64bit like the posts suggested, but it didn't work for me.

ld: warning: ignoring file ../otp_src_R14B03/erts/emulator/zlib/obj/i386-apple-darwin11.0.0/opt/libz.a, file was built for archive which is not the architecture being linked (x86_64)
ld: warning: ignoring file ../otp_src_R14B03/erts/emulator/pcre/obj/i386-apple-darwin11.0.0/opt/libepcre.a, file was built for archive which is not the architecture being linked (x86_64)
Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:...
I'm going to disagree that 'how to think' should be an alternate title. 'Accidental Genius' is exactly what it is... You just pour out your thoughts like monkeys at typewriters, hoping to get something good. Now, since we're a little better at typing than monkeys, chances are that you'll happen across some nuggets. But this should never be confused with actual logic which can be used on command to get results consistently, rather than randomly.

For a fiction writer, the difference may be negligible. For a rocket scientist, it's a matter of life and death. Literally.
"... due to an unfixable security flaw in the way funds are now transferred electronically, worldwide, it is no longer safe to write personal checks" - Donald Knuth, on reasons for no longer writing his famous reward checks. Google for more info.
"People are entitled to their anonymity and privacy."

I wish more people would respect this- Google, Mark Zuckerberg, users.

It's ironic how back in the early days of the internet, there was a sense of anonymity where people were afraid to share info online but now anyone willingly posts their most personal details for all to see because those "dumb fucks"[1] trust Mark Zuckerberg.

Now, we've opened ourselves up to this: http://blogs.forbes.com/kashmirhill/2011/06/20/now-your-emba... and it could come back to bite us all in the ass.

1. http://gizmodo.com/5538489/19+year+old-facebook-ceo-didnt-ta...
>To accuse the author of lying because of that is despicable and rude.

Either the OP edited their comment, or you are yourself somewhat off base -- I see no such accusation. And I see no evidence they realized this was a two part article.
Hmm I am not sure what to think about this.

It is my experience that "The art of thinking" comes in many shapes.

Some people are very clear in their thinking others are very messy. Some people need to speak rather than think, some people need to think rather than speak. Some people need to Doodle, some do 100 ideas in 10 minutes other do 10 ideas in 100 minutes.

I appreciate the purpose and the methods of the book. I am sure it's a fantastic way... for some people.

It's not necessarily for everyone.
It's a learning issue. G+ is new and people don't know how it works. "I drove 1000 miles then ran out of gas stranded on the highway!!!!! Fix it!!!!!"

We could argue all day about whether it's on Google to make an out of the box friendly UX (but remember, you can't please everyone) or on the user to figure it out and make the most of it. The old Apple vs Microsoft
"PSD is not my favorite file format"
Vimeo's search is broken.  Tags are literally useless.
The REAL Wall-E Robot (demo of EZ-B technologies)
Yeah, Shiloh pulls her weight.
I think the best case for this vaccine is a therapy with vaccine and a supporting group or counsel, and this is made more for people trying to give up the habit (dependency) or for people not to start.
I think you are underestimating how much accidental thinking goes into the work of things like science. And providing a little bit of a strawman. I don't think the author of the book nor the reviewer intends this to replace "logical thinking" rather to support it for some people.

Sure there is a lot of logical thinking involved but some of the real insights where not based on the logical progression of thought in fact they where based on breaking them. Exactly to deliver insights outside the realm of the logical axioms.
follow the support ticket here---> http://vimeo.com/forums/topic:40667
At first, I thought someone was making a novelty blog that would have all posts written in C. Somewhat disappointed that it isn't that, actually... :p
who would use this crap? Hackers write their own, thats what they do...
It's not a black and white thing, but good parenting certainly decreases the chances your child will go down the drugs path.
In the immortal words, I am not even able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke a question like that.

Slower parsing, really? Is that what you are worrying about?
There's more to pseudonyms than legal reasons. What I write on the internet stays there, and I expect people to google my real name, but I do not wish to have all of my lives linked together.

For example, if I'd have to use my real name, I would never speculate. With a pseudonym, I feel comfortable making mistakes and tiny contributions. Similarly, if I were in a horde guild, I would not want alliance players to dismiss my civil politics opinions.
One could argue that if you take a photo of someone, they ought to know that you took it of them. In fact that's an argument in support of auto-tagging. You can always untasg.
Cool. Anything similar for *nix and Windows? I'm fairly certain you can embed WebKit in GTK - in fact, I think that's functionality exposed by the API.
I'm not sure to what extent it's supported with other language bindings, though.
The real reason it's for hackers is that it uses Git and the command line to manage it. It may not be "hack-ery" enough for you, but it's certainly not software non-hackers are going to use.
The comment was edited. I now edited my own comment, too :-)

Can I ask you to delete your own comment? It wouldn’t be nice to have that sentence stick around, now that is no longer accurate.
Truth hurts, huh guys?
Why doesn't OS X have an "expert mode" in its GUI?
I agree, I was pretty disappointed when i bought my iPad and found out there was not a specific iPad version of Skype. For a while I was sure that someone was going to come out with a data only phone that used Skype for voice, but i guess that was just wishful thinking...
Similar techniques have worked in the past for me, but I always wind up with a bunch of paper or computer text that I have no idea where to put. How do you organize all the data without interfering in its creation? Ideally, I'd like a solution that also incorporates all the little inspiration bits I get at various times, and other thoughts I'd like to keep.
Indeed, love the design (especially the payoffs for each article, remind me of the Search Results Page). However, the titles of the articles are sufficiently vague to make it hard selecting what to read and what to skip.

Looks good though, so I subscribed!
Allowing someone that was tagged in a photo to see the photo is fine with me. Letting them see the entire album doesn't make a bit of sense

How many people realize that Facebook has been doing this for a long long time?
If you're truly passionate I think you could devote say 2-3 weeks completely to learning as much as you can about the technology that you'd potentially use.

You do not have to be technical in the sense of writing code. But knowing what those programmers are doing is invaluable.

Tons of great start up founders completely suck at coding, but they know what their people are doing, they can tell them what to do, what to fix, how to fix it.
Think an army general. He might not be a good soldier, but he knows what soldiers need to do.

The only other route is to have a technical co-founder that you ABSOLUTELY trust. Otherwise you're in for a risky ride.
Not very different from any industry to be honest.
Loose typing plus strong OO for basic types is a pretty horrifying cmbination, IMO. What happens if you call $aString->pos() when PHP decides that $aString can be an int because it happens to be holding a string that's composed of numbers?
This seems 100% reasonable to me. If somebody tags me I want to see that photo - and the entire album (since context is also important). I don't want that somebody starts taging me on some photos and then sharing these photos with others without me having chance to untag myself.
Check the part "Build an Inventory of Thoughts". It talks exactly about that.
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Why is buying unhedged CDS an amoral act? Is shorting a stock amoral? You shouldn't have to own a security to buy the default insurance on it, any more than you should have to buy a stock to own puts on it. It's a contract between two educated and willing counterparties.

A bank might be short Greek debt because of other trading positions, and want to sell Greek CDS to balance that position. Restricting who can buy that security hinders it being priced right.
Ask HN:Help for server side options. I know only .net
Hi all,<p>Myself and my friend have been discussing an idea for some time now. It involves location based social networking not very different from Foursquare. My friend is a mobile developer and I am a .Net developer at work. These are exciting times with Node.js out. I am also pretty proficient with all client side technologies like html5, css and javascript.<p>Though I only know asp.net as server side technology but we both can really take up any technology.<p>We'd like to get suggestions on what to use on server side - Php, .net, java\scala, ROR, node.<p>What do you think we should be using on server side? Please suggest. We'd like to start soon.<p>Thanking in anticipation.
So - recently we had a thread where someone was mocked because he wrote about future steps he (might?) want to take.

This is what I did, just now:

- Renamed my profile. It had my real name before, but I gave it voluntarily. Forcing people to use it is below my moral standards. I won't shed a single tear if they throw me out, I can find enough animated gif images elsewhere.

- Thunderbird is downloading my mail archive as I write this. I set up GApps on my private domain in the past and I'm in the process of migrating to my own domain right now (already changing credentials online).

- I blacklisted google.com/www.google.com on my laptop (hosts file). I didn't use it as a primary search engine for a while now (Hey DDG! You are awesome!), but every now and then I fell into the habit of typing google.com/google.de (usually cursing about the idiots that think that redirecting based on source ip is a nice idea. No, I cannot read hebrew. Yes, I really wanted to go to google.com and my browser is very specific about the type of content/language I want: en).

So except for being stuck in the Android world I'm in the process of leaving the harbor. Maybe someone with more sense (Hi, Mozilla?) can solve the social network issue in a better way..
I suggest Evernote. Create a notebook called thoughts and a note for every topic you want to write. Afterwards it's more or less organized (in the cloud) + searchable.
It'll support whatever the browser you're using supports.
This reminds me of when Google gained registrar status in 2005:

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/it-strategy/2005/02/02/google-ga...

The more information they have access to, well ...
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You mean, PHP decides that $aString has to be coerced to an int, not 'can' be, because it's being used in a function that requires an in to make sense? It doesn't matter if it's a string composed of numbers, either - if needed, any string will be coerced regardless of contents, to 0.

What do ECMAScript interpreters do in such a situation?

In the example you gave, this is dependent upon operator precedence. Presumably any method calls are resolved prior to type coercion. This is how PHP and most languages work anyhow, correct? If you do `$this->do_something() + 20`, the method's return value is used. It doesn't try to turn $this into an integer and then call a method upon it. Same for `bcadd($anObj->meth(),34)`. So... I think that isn't a problem.
Actually, the album is very important too. The album as a whole makes a story and by tagging photos you can make up actors of that story. For example, what about if album is "actors of porn movie X" or something like (the title of album could be more innocent) and one of photos in that album has you tagged?

Regarding sharing, why would you want to tag somebody with his/her public profile without even telling him/her that?
Why? Should "good parenting" also decrease the chances of a child drinking alcohol? Pot? Shrooms?

The apparent assumption here among many people that these substances are intrinsically bad is baffling to me. Where do you draw the line? Surely it can't be "legality", because several of the "schedule 1" drugs are completely harmless, and possibly even naturally occurring (in your own body!). If potential for bodily harm is the deciding factor, then we should be discussing alchohol "cures" looong before anything else. It is absurdly common and absurdly addictive.
http://750words.com/ is a cute tool for the writing exercises. I'm not a writer, just checked it out for a few days and didn't read the Accidental Genius book.

I got bored the second day. I didn't write down anything interesting, my free writing was so boring I didn't bother to read it after. Maybe I need more guidance like this book provides. Typically I write things down when I get an idea during thinking, not to do a writing exercise.
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He is saying that there might be a market for it among parents who want to remove from their children the ability to experience drugs.
Some random thoughts that come to mind.

1. Philosophy is worth studying for many different reasons.

2. It is known that Philosophy majors have higher IQs and SAT/ACT scores than students in any other specialty.

3. Philosophy graduates make fantastic software engineers. It's a better screening degree than computer science (which is actually a pretty bad screening degree).

4. Pragmatism is an illusion.
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I would really hope the pharma company couldn't be held liable. It's not like increased cocaine usage is a side-effect. It's a voluntary response to the drug's stated purpose. Of course you never know if common sense will actually be applied in such a case.
Going to fix that up right away :)
Yes!

I have nothing to add to this, but I believe this is an important right, too important to up-vote this comment in silence.
Agreed - in fact, in the UK the Data Protection Act makes this a legal requirement (not that Google have to abide by UK law).
You could change it such that users can only see the individual pics they're tagged in, and not all pics in the parent album. That may be preferable, but makes the situation more complex and means you can't see the picture you were tagged in in context.
As you say, communicating how the security works is likely a better approach than changing the security model.
I dont want to sound too hard, but I have an intuition that this is just a load of hogwash. The author racks his brain and comes up with a few examples of addicts who run big companies.

What about all the big companies run by non-addicts (the majority)?

What about all the addicts who don't run big companies (the majority)?

These things need to be addressed before I'll start to buy the argument. And this comment coming from a habitual risk-taking leader himself.
Is Google+ Worth Your Time? Why Not Facebook? [video]
It seems pretty likely that AWS on its own would be worth >$1b right now. Probably $5-10b in the current market, just based on adoption.

It's pretty weak for enterprise/internal/corp use, vs. web startup, but I could see them expanding over time.
The superficial answer is that Riak, unlike Redis, is a cluster, where you may wish to talk to multiple servers, and therefore having a single-string constructor makes no sense. I believe they're modeling it after the way you configure the Enyim Memcached library (https://github.com/enyim/EnyimMemcached), which has a similar configuration section, for similar reasons (https://github.com/enyim/EnyimMemcached/wiki/MemcachedClient...).

That does not answer why the code to create the client is so ridiculous. Enyim's MemcacheClient gets instantiated like this:

MemcachedClient client = new MemcachedClient(configuration);

Why this Riak library feels the need to go so above and beyond the call of duty, I have no idea.
Cocaine users tend to already buy as much as they can afford, or can use without dying. Hard to increase sales from that level.
"Radio Shack: You've got questions, we've got batteries."
facebook is the sameway...no one is questioning that
I have a great deal of admiration for the coders and designers I have already worked with and many of the people on this site, simply because I don't get exposure to that level of intelligence and passion on an everyday basis where I live currently.

I would like to take your advice, and devote the next month to learning as much as possible. Can you point me in a direction to get started? I have done a good bit of sponge learning by reading HN daily, but I want to get into the details. What resources do you recommend?
This is awesome tip for smart web entrepreneurs looking for new startup ideas.
> Why? Should "good parenting" also decrease the chances of a child drinking alcohol? Pot? Shrooms?

Yes.

Good parenting decreases the chances a child will break the law in general, or be in a self destructive place.

Parenting has a lot of influence on children contrary to some peoples beliefs...
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Eh--I had my first ascension (Val) about four months after I started. I've done so another three times since. (Wiz, Arc, Rgr).

I think that there's a possibility that it's not as difficult, in relative terms, for people around my age who grew up with similar games, and fairly hard ones at that.
I suspect this is something you and I will never agree on. You see, I think it reflects poorly on someone to see bullshit and not call the bullshitter out. That doesn't give someone unlimited license to say what they want. It's just that if someone is spewing bullshit, they deserve to be told they're spewing bullshit. And more importantly, people on the receiving end of said bullshit deserve to be told it's bullshit as well.
It would be interesting to try this strategy with Workflowy. They talk about it being a way to keep your brain online or whatever, and it certainly allows for fast dumping of ideas. The question is whether its structure will cause you to want to edit while you're writing. You could just produce a ton of discreet notes as new lines, and then rearrange them later.