skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems most of the things mentioned are an inevitable result of centralizing and expanding government power. Someone is being gamed alright.
There are at least 1 legally owned by a private person according to the wikipedia article.

Nice insurance. Everyone else that say they have that coin gets zonked by the USA.
Yes, "delete a" and "delete inner" is how Vim explains these text object operations. See ":help da", for example.
I have a lot of personal success stories with SSDs but here's my current favorite.

A few months ago I had to help one of our scientists (the company is called 5AM Solutions.. they the awesome) run a bioinformatic job written in Perl and R. As it turned out, for long stretches of the processing the job required around 20 GB of memory. The one server that had all the required dependencies installed had only 8 GB at the time.

When I let the job run the first time, it started to page out memory to hard disk. The job ran for about four days, was only about 25% complete and during that time frame the server was un-useable for any other functions. Pretty much everything came to grinding halt.

Between that first run and the time our new RAM would be installed, just for grins, I gave the system 30 GB of swap space on the locally attached SSD. With that configuration the job finished in 19 hours and during that time the server was still responsive of other tasks.

When we finally added the appropriate amount of physical RAM the job took only 15 hours to complete.

It is the first time I have ever seen virtual memory be useful.
That's why ludumdare isn't someone's full-time job.

40 hours could be 16 hours of work followed by 8 hours of sleep and then another 16 hours of work. (I don't know if that's what he actually did.) That's essentially what you do in the last few months of an engineering program, except it's 5-7 days a week, instead of for 2 days.
I'm in the minority camp that doesn't think arrow keys are a big deal, but I suppose I need to qualify that and say "not a big deal if you are on a Thinkpad" and you have an solid reach of curled fingers in your right hand. There's are efficiency gaps in between

1) keeping fingers on jkl;
2) manipulating the arrow keys with fingertips,
primarily using the pinky for quick movements
3) lifting the hand to use the arrow keys

and they do add up over time, but I'm not sure how detrimental they are.

Sometimes, the arrow keys provide a nice mental break, where you can step back from the doc and examine what's happened so far with the arrow keys or page up/down.
In some way notch really is a model for what a programmer should be. Still I am not sure, if I really want to be like him. I want that ability to focus on something for 2 days straight without any deviation. But living like that for many years (which is nessesary to develop so much skill I guess) is just not really a life I want to live.
From the article: "This works on a Mac easily, because Ruby is already installed on OS X out-of-the-box. If you are on Windows, you will first need the Ruby Installer."

Where is Linux?
Nokia's developer network hacked
1) To improve my writing/skills.
2) To reach out people of different countries/skill sets (which would have never possible/tough with out a blog)
3) To contribute back to the community.
4) To build a virtual identity of myself (when I meet some people for the first time, they usually start with "hey.. you write that blog, right!?)
Red Hat 5 STIG: Kernel Modules
Interesting. Somewhat akin to dithering, i.e. deliberately inserting noise in quantized signals to increase their perceived quality (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dither).
I was one of the maintainers of SWIG's Ruby module during that rewrite he mentions, and I remember how difficult it became for me to really understand how the code worked. I would just hack features into the Ruby module and be glad when they seemed to work, but it always felt like a house of cards. Fortunately some more talented developers took my place when I gave it up.
Personal finance that doesn't suck sure starts with a screenshot showing a $10.000 balance...

But that just as well implies that the guy who creates this app for his own use (according to other comments here) probably won't be able to help me get into shape, saving/planning wise..
Is there any qualitative difference (eg. a unique design beyond the "1933" year) between the 1933 Double Eagle coin and the coins from previous years? Obviously, an interesting story makes these worth so much more.
Gutsy. But you've already got a sign up page and a precise price tag on a product that only has one screen-shotable page so far?
So you want to be a video game programmer? - Reasons Why
"A last word about notation: instead of writing Ctrl-λ, I’ll write <C-λ>."

Does anybody else's keyboard have a λ key?
I think one of the constraints is that you can't use illustrations.
Scala also has the library bloat problem. The most common workaround for now is to run all apps through ProGuard --- not for the obfuscation, but just to get rid of unreferenced library classes. Which actually works well, but it does add a tedious minute or two to builds.
Agreed. The setup of this question struck me as a bit of an arbitrary "moving goalposts" problem.
Those numbers are completely random.

I'm building the app for myself, the way I want a checking account app to actually work. iBank, Quicken, Koku are all missing something. I'm going to fix the problems that I perceive as roadblocks, and offer it to people who might also agree with me.

And the people who agree with me on those features probably have ideas for other good, interesting and innovative features in the personal finance world.
Done occasionally, I don't think it's any problem at all. Kind of like eating 1/4 of the normal sustenance for one week out of a year is actually beneficial on many levels, despite the fact that doing it constantly will kill you.
Revenue - if their post is around $85 they need to get to $500mm+ to be a home run the VCs want. That will require a HUGE amount of revenue, most likely $100+.
Wireless alarm system
Pricing A Follow-On Venture Investment
it's all based on growth though. They think the chance for growth is slowing down
Ditch your dreams and follow the market instead
What's new in Lion for developers
Here are some screenshots of CM7 with the Tablet Tweaks. I'd say it makes for a very good tablet OS!
They care because the coins were never issued. They were stolen. Even when a 1933 Double Eagle coin was legally auctioned, an additional $20 was needed to “monetize” the face value of the coin so it would become legal currency.
It can also be used with y and c(y%, c% etc.)
We should at least be able to select who represents us. Think proportional representation.

I think its crazy that we can hire a lawyer or auto mechanic that must do what we ask, but we cannot be represented by someone that shares our perspective.

I don't think direct voting on every issue is the answer. Having the ability to pick our own delegate and change our selection any time is better. I really don't have the time to read every bill. But we can read people and share information with others that share our perspective.

Right now we must accept representation by whoever gets the most votes. And it doesn't even have to be a majority of the votes.

We also have a big cost shifting problem. People and states seek to shift costs to the larger country. That destroys any ability to weigh costs and benefits. Pushing such assessments down to as local a level as possible improves decision making.
Improvements in Windows Explorer - Building Windows 8
This isn't quite the point of the article but holy crap is this an awful patent:

“[a] communication element associated with each of the units of the commodity capable of carrying results of the two-way local interaction from each of the units of the commodity to a central location"

What on earth could that NOT mean?
Sadly, I can't see such a system working either.

But I can imagine it being put into place and then being abused.
Very interesting post!

However, I got hooked on thinking about the childhood game that he mentions briefly in the introduction. Asking more and more questions about an object and wanting all of them to be consistent is a good description of mathematics. According to Godel, both teams are bound to lose, because you cannot create a system of descriptions/properties about a system that are self-consistent (as their number increases), there will always be questions to a team whose answer will be inconsistent with the previous set of questions. The game is then to see which team can push the inevitable further.

IDEABOLT: It would be interesting to develop a program that plays this game. Each answer could be stored as an RDF statement in database.
We use the 600GB Intel 320's as second drives in Macbook Pros for running virtual machines. They're the highest capacity 2.5" SSDs available, and they aren't cheap. However, we can put multiple virtual machines with 100GB+ databases on them, travel to countries with poor internet connectivity, and teach workshops where the students run intensive queries. It's as if we've shrunk a $100,000 storage array and stuck it in our carry-on luggage.
Lasers + James Bond = cool, hip (ticka ticka ticka)
From what I can tell, Apple didn't get its license from Lodsys. It's possible that Lodsys doesn't even know what Apple's license consists of, and thus the requests for discovery. I think it looks like Webvention screwed Lodsys over, selling them a patent without informing them that all the good targets have been licensed already. When this hit everyone was wondering why Apple wouldn't get coverage for their developers locked down. It seems they did, but no one told Lodsys.
Not all of them. A 1933 Double Eagle coin was legally auctioned, and an additional $20 was needed to “monetize” the face value of the coin so it would become legal currency.
The link to Nokia's statement is broken. The correct link is http://www.developer.nokia.com/Community/Discussion/, which will probably get taken down soon. It reads:

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You may have seen reports or received an email from us regarding a recent security breach on this developer.nokia.com/community discussion forum.

During our ongoing investigation of the incident we have discovered that a database table containing developer forum members' email addresses has been accessed, by exploiting a vulnerability in the bulletin board software that allowed an SQL Injection attack. Initially we believed that only a small number of these forum member records had been accessed, but further investigation has identified that the number is significantly larger.

The database table records includes members’ email addresses and, for fewer than 7% who chose to include them in their public profile, either birth dates, homepage URL or usernames for AIM, ICQ, MSN, Skype or Yahoo. However, they do not contain sensitive information such as passwords or credit card details and so we do not believe the security of forum members’ accounts is at risk. Other Nokia accounts are not affected.

We are not aware of any misuse of the accessed data, but we are communicating with affected forum members, though we believe the only potential impact to them may be unsolicited email. Nokia apologizes for this incident.

Though the initial vulnerability was addressed immediately, we have now taken the developer community website offline as a precautionary measure, while we conduct further investigations and security assessments. We hope to get the site back online as soon as possible and will post developments here in the meantime.

If you have any questions on this, please contact Nokia.developer-discussions-support@nokia.com.

The Nokia Developer website team.

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5 Superb Mozilla Firefox Secrets
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One thing I would love to see—and which I can only assume exists—is a guide like this, tailored to writing prose rather than code. This article maintains certain assumptions that are held by nearly every other guide, like 'You are always in normal mode, and only enter insert mode for short bursts of typing text, after which you press <Esc> to go to normal mode.' Which is true and useful for coding, but slightly less so for prose—not entirely less so, and it's still a good idea to get in the habit of busting out of insert mode when you've finished whatever thought you're writing down, but the lines between thinking, composing and editing are blurrier than in prose.

Nevertheless vi controls can be pretty semantic, and lend themselves pretty effectively to working with words, clauses, sentences, and paragraphs. On the other hand, using search for mid-paragraph navigation is an order of magnitude less efficient in prose, when you're so much more likely to have symbols and words doing totally different things in many places in your text.
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Are you thinking beyond virtualization? #VMlimited isn’t. Enjoy:
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Xmonad/Guided tour of the xmonad source - HaskellWiki
Express your wrath digitally
I like gutsy! Good luck. Maybe we can talk about an iOS app to go along with it.
In other words, you're ignoring all problems about value transfer systems like gold and cash while assigning basic problems like that nobody trades food for gold when starving to BTC alone.

Gold for instance, seems to be a fool's buy, because there are few truly-useful non-technical things to do with it (you can't eat it) but actually works well as a basis for some value transfers. In a crash your bitcoins would depreciate wildly because nobody would part with anything of value for some bits - or a piece of paper - or some shiny metal.

This is just inherent in trading - there has to be a difference in value or the trade wouldn't happen, and if there's a difference in value the values may not relatively correspond at all points.

To some people, at some times, a token may be a useful marker in trade, as cash is now. With World of Warcraft healthy, there can be a good market in magic swords. With a healthy world economy, cash can be useful. When either fails, current holders will suffer. Gold will suffer differently, it won't be counterfeit or lost, but it won't be liquid. Ditto for BTC, they just become irrelevant relative to food.

Gold is anonymous, but can't practically be traded that way in large quantities. Cash is only pseudonymous like BTC as usually used - bills are scanned when dispensed and deposited. It's not globally visible, just to the most likely and well funded enemy - your own government.

It really seems like you should be harshing on representational value systems in general, or something.
I disagree. It's like McDonalds dropping hamburgers from the menu because they don't have the profit margins of soda. Except who would go to a McDonalds who only sells soda? Sometimes the unprofitable side of your business directly and/or indirectly fuels the other most profitable aspects of your biz. Dropping the most public facing division of HP will have unforeseen consequences over time.
Can we start referring to Lodsys as Lodsys/Intellectual Ventures? IV makes money off these suits as well...
I've gone towards minimalism -- or at least as far as I feel is reasonable -- for the purpose of eliminating parts of my life that were pure maintenance, such as cleaning and commuting.

In 2008 I got rid of what I thought were "most of my possessions". The big thing was every piece of furniture I owned except for a desk, a small lamp and am Eames molded chair. I did, however, have a walk-in closet full of clothes and boxes. I also kept the computer, and the TV.

By having no furniture -- not even a mattress -- for months, it really changed my perspective on what I valued about furniture. Sleeping and sitting on the floor tends to do that to you. It really made me think about what I wanted in a bed, or in a couch, or whether I even wanted certain things at all. It also forced me to focus on the space. By most measures I lived in a very large apartment, but I started to notice how awful the floor plan was, how much room was wasted by an excessively large kitchen, oversized bathroom and tons of useless hallway... it was "big", but not in ways that were useful considering how you actually live in the space.

So 8 months later I downsized. Over that period of time I got rid of more things. Useless baubles and kitsch. Clothes I never wore. Books I never needed again. I had purchased a nice bed, nightstands and two lamps, but hadn't acquired anything else, so I brought far fewer things into a considerably smaller space.

However, that smaller space was MUCH nicer than the larger one, for a bit less money, and in a ridiculously good location (subway across the street, in the city instead of 10 miles out). My commute went from an hour a day to being able to stumble out of bed at the last minute and walk across the street. Cleaning was just getting easier and easier. With no junk around, you can just power steam, vacuum, or wipe down every surface very quickly. I also seemed to have to clean less often, in addition to reducing it to maybe 30 minutes a week. Insects? What are those? I think I've seen only a fruit fly and a spider in nearly 3 years. Despite losing 250sqft, I think I only lost 20sqft of usable living space.

But I wasn't done. If I spent an hour going through everything, I'd still finish with a 15-gallon garbage bag full of things to throw out. The former walk-in closet of boxes? It's down to just one box (as of this weekend). Two of the (three) reach-in closets are now empty, so I'm turning one into my office (which reclaims a lot of floor space). I could probably downsize again and still have tons of room, as even with a few more pieces of furniture (partial living room) the place is feeling a bit gargantuan, and I'm worried I might just buy furniture to eliminate the seemingly empty space.
I like the name. I've tried Mint and find it lacking. It's automated but at the same time, it's not because i find myself having to fix account login issues from time to time. It's become so annoying that I don't check Mint often because it's so inconsistent. Plus the categorization just leaves a LOT to be desired.

A better interface would be one where I record the stuff I pay a fee monthly, such as web hosting, Github, online subscriptions, etc, and see at a glance all the monthly expenses I have, and the %. Sometimes I just wanna see how much I'm paying for that MailChimp subscription because i forgot, and Mint.com is too cumbersome for that.
I'd paint a contrasting viewpoint, that minimalists are more likely to be rich. My anecdotal evidence comes from the millionaires next door, who live well below their means, purchase quality over quantity and value experiences more than personal belongings and material wealth.
I would wager that if you could maintain that focus for three days, you could probably take a four day weekend every week and still stay ahead of people who might work 40 hours but are slaves to their distractions.
Yes, exactly. iBank works ok for the account register, but there's absolutely no good way for me to see my "safe to spend" balance which should deduct those monthly bills / expenses. I've got it rigged up in iBank as future transactions, but that's far from ideal. That's when I decided to create something to suit me better.
The case for a free market in IPv4 addresses
Sounds like HP is doing what IBM did not too long ago. Getting out of commodity markets and into markets where profits are higher and it's easier to differentiate yourself from the masses. IBM is still strong in what they do even though they got out of the PC business and pretty much everything else consumer focused. Now HP is doing the same thing and they're getting torn a new one.

Plus, figure that even if the consumer business made about $800 million last quarter (between PCs and printers), selling those businesses off for a couple billion, putting the cash in the bank, then laying off all the employees (or transferring them to the buyer) will fill the bank account, reduce head count (and expenses), and allow for more focus on less products that each have higher margins.

Putting it that way, it sounds like combining the Apple and IBM business models to me. Simplify and specialize, focused on the enterprise (where the money is these days).
I had no idea Disney did things like this. This is great!

I'm already curious about Reposado (Software Update Server) and Munki (manage OSX software installs). I may have a use for these. Nice to see tools in there for topics other than animation.
Steve Jobs and Napoleon: an exchange
Show HN: remindlyo - never forget another phone call
Posing your question differently, you get a completely different understanding of why the black box is much more alluring.

Which is better, something that can learn or something that does exactly what we told it to?
The right hand rule is simplistic (as the direction is arbitrary); however, using physical laws (assumed to be universal) is the way to, I think. Even if the aliens wouldn't understand our concept of left and right, if they are sufficiently advanced, their physical theories should contain the concept of symmetry (the mathematical concept, not the colloquial one), see this PSE questions and answers: http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/2690/what-is-the-....

Once that commonality is established we can start to explain to them the everyday concept of symmetry and how we give different names to different directions of symmetry.
Don’t Be Like Weather Reporters
The effect of a child on your life is partly due to things you can not change, partly due to your own and your spouse's decisions and partly due to what society/TV/advertisments/"common wisdom" tells you to do. If you limit the third factor to a sane minimum, you can go a long way.
He is trying to pitch SASS to the design community - and most designers use OS X or Windows.
So, this is an idea that I've had bubbling around for a few weeks now. What do you guys think?

FYI, I'm going to have a "try it right now" function on the marketing site Real Soon Now (probably even tonight). I'll update the thread when that's up and running.
>This is the top of the front page of HN, really??

My approach is to go to the "new" link at the top of HN, find an article that I consider HN-worthy, and upvote it.
I wrote a library that makes C++ callable from script languages, but instead of parsing headers it uses C++11 template metaprogramming and type inference, so it always parses exactly what the types are because it runs in the same compiler as your code. Unlike SWIG it is becoming simpler over time as I develop more powerful abstractions and I do understand 100% of how it works (although admittedly you have to have advanced C++ knowledge).

Definitely agree with the C++ corner cases thing being a challenge - at times I felt like I was writing another compiler on top of the C++ type system to handle the corner cases. But again, I used powerful abstractions to handle that. For instance, my library uses boost graph library and djikstra's algorithm to handle C++'s tangled web of automatic type conversions.

http://github.com/dennisferron/LikeMagic
> But I cannot possibly bring myself to throw away books

Don't throw them away! The trick is to give them to a library. Win-win situation.
Yes! That's definitely in the plans. Email me nick@nicksergeant.com
If you use your computer for extended periods of time every day then their performance payoffs outweigh the $. They have come down quite a bit in price lately as well. As the article talks about there are many options available today from at least getting your OS onto a smaller speedy boot drive to housing everything on a larger one.

I for one initially had picked up a 60 GB OCZ Vertex1 awhile ago and then about 10 months ago moved up to a 120 GB Vertex2. Will never look back.
I guess your sneezes are inspiring.
Very nice!

For those wondering how to do this, you can try it out with

:imap jk <esc>

(imap means "use this mapping when I'm in insert mode".)

If you like it, add everything but the : to your .vimrc
Software Frameworks and Entropy