skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not.

Pride is a sin.

I found it curious that in the unofficial ranking of the seven deadly sins, pride was considered the worst. How could this be? Pride worse than greed? Than wrath? It didn't add up.

Then I looked at the rationale behind it. Pride puts ones self before god. It says that my accomplishments, my work, my existence, is greater than all of creation. And that line of thinking can actually fuel the remaining six sins. Pride can lead to greed. Pride can cause you to rest slothfully upon your laurels.

I'm not a religious man, but that rationale has always resonated with me.
You've got a little schmutz on your logo
The linked article claims that the affects on the rodents were measured even when they ran at a faster pace when not forced
If you're running a company in an industry that's being encroached on by Google, throwing some money at a serious competitor like DDG might be a good investment.
I doubt auto-complete should be your #1 focus...

There is a huge opportunity now more than ever to take over search.

The real goal of a search engine is to provide relevant results. Google has 100% lost site of this and this is where you and the rest of the players have an opportunity.

Make your results 100% unbiased. Google's results are littered with their own biased content coming from Places, Youtube, Google Books, etc.

No one wants to see that. Google has lost site of the user experience as they need to grow revenues. It will ultimately come as a cost to them.
This is the problem. WP recommends getting all plugins from the official site to avoid malware and spam filled code, but offers no way for authors to get paid for downloads there.
look again. that's not openoffice, it's just an image of an openoffice (er.. libreoffice) window. if you click on it you get a message that this is just a demo.
Occupy Wall Street in China: Representation and Social Networks
Alchemy can be done. Gold has been synthesized on the nuclear level by way of neutron bombardment of other elements. It's just not economically practical since the process costs more in equipment and energy than the value of the gold.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthesis_of_noble_metals#Gold
Ubuntu inception: Ubuntu inside Ubuntu, 3 layers deep
Nokia 101 Dual Sim Mobile Phone  $30 only
Beware of Icebergs in Software
Movable Ink: Breathe life into your emails
I was always impressed with the speed of response by the ddg team. I'd report an issue, and within minutes (sometimes seconds) I'd have a reply from the ddg team. Broken queries were fixed in days, sometimes hours.
Should Occupy Wall Street Occupy Silicon Valley Instead?
Finger pointing op-ed piece trying to deflect from the occupy wall st. movement.
Previous HN submission (no discussion, few upvotes):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3105357
From what I understand, high-intensity workouts do raise cortisol but only temporarily. Long-term, exercise-induced adaptations counteract those raised cortisol levels, and actually lower them.
I use PLCrashutil and I do not ship debug symblos. Can you explain what improvement you added here?
Assembler. In particular, TASM.
The same thing can be said for pretty much every invention/innovation ever made even if it was a huge leap from the prior art - but then he was the one who did it and I guess that is what matters at the end
Ethically borderline IMHO if you used the marketplace to find the theme first. If you found the author first, and saw they offered themes in a certain market after, it would be more acceptable to contact the author directly. You're essentially cutting out the marketplace from the transaction which damages their business model.
Dear Mozilla: Fix Your Damn Browser
> Is it wrong I am upset that people happily pay for their visual themes

i disagree. there are so many more people who go with free theme options over paid themes. same for plugins. you can make a lot of money with both if you make something people want to pay for.
(1) No I wouldn't be interested in the answers to those questions for a regular person, and that's the point. Seeing extraordinary people in ordinary situations is interesting. For example, I would like to see Barack Obama walk into a Starbucks and order something. I would like to see how Bill Gates shops for groceries, if he does at all. In the press, you only get one view of a person, and it is often repetitive - unusual situations can be a lot more telling about the real human underneath.

But even if it wasn't interesting in itself, there is more to this story, because there is so much subtext. The story doesn't work for a regular person because a regular person wouldn't have helped create that camera. A regular person wouldn't have a company that tourists would want to get their picture taken with.

(2) It is not unsurprising that he acted like this. After reading all of the other stories about him, one might think that he wouldn't stop to help. Another type of celebrity or CEO would have been offended that the person didn't know who he was.

(3) Judging and trying to guess about his character is part of the fascination of all this. Since he was so reclusive, we really don't know what he was really like. And maybe little moments like this give a little insight into who he was.
Upgrade woes dampen iOS 5 excitement; how has it been for you?
less in total or less per theme?
The effect is not lost at all. It's Fitts's Law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts%27s_law -- the Mile High Menu Bar is still a mile high on a 1920x1080 display. http://joelonsoftware.com/uibook/chapters/fog0000000063.html
There's a huge difference between healthy pride and unhealthy vanity.

For starters, pride can come from things you didn't even do -- and people who are not you. You can be proud of your kid. You can be proud of your student. You can be proud of your husband, wife, boyfriend/girlfriend, parents, friends, etc.

It's good to be proud when people you care about accomplish something they struggled with, something difficult, something important.

And, you are a person you care about. (Or at least, you should be.)

Pride means giving yourself credit where credit is due. In enjoying the things you worked hard to achieve.

Nowhere in the dictionary definition of "pride" will you find "holding yourself above other people, thinking you're better than them and better than Creation, blah blah blah."

Vanity, on the other hand, is defined as excessive pride. We've all known vainglorious jerks who had excessive pride.

And we've also all known people who were good people, who did good work, who worked hard, who did hard things -- who had insufficient pride, who didn't give themselves enough credit, who wrote off all their accomplishments and generally made themselves (and the people who loved them & wanted the best for them) miserable.

I'm honestly shocked that (at writing) the 2 top-level comments on this article are "Pride is a sin" and "I try not to be 'proud' of things I've done".

Where's the evidence that pride is bad, guys? Do you have something other than the Bible to back you up?
IOS 5 for Designers
Style your iOS apps in realtime using CSS with Chameleon for Nimbus
while I can definitely follow the writers logic, it presupposes there is only one way to get to the singularity. If you assume that computers always need human input until we get to the singularity the writer's argument makes sense. But suppose that is not the case. When computers themselves become the majority/sole contributors to their next design cycle, the course of computer development will start to vary wildly from what humans have been attempting to do. When or if this becomes the case, you can see computers growing at a exponential rate. Where this would take us I'm not sure but I don't think would be long before computers with start exhibit intelligence beyond us.
There was a comment on the host page from a person who believed it was a mistake to think that the singularity would have to come in the form of mimicking human intelligence.

"You Don't need Human Intelligence for the Singularity

Allen and Greaves are resting their argument against the singularity on two fundamental premises:

1) The human brain and human cognition are too complex to simulate without major breakthroughs in neuroscience.

2) If you can't achieve the singularity using brain simulation, algorithmic AI breakthroughs are needed, and AI progress historically has been far less than exponential.

But hidden in both of these arguments is the premise that singularity can only occur when human intelligence can be engineered. It's far more likely that the inevitable accumulation of thousands of smart objects that don't even attempt to mimic human cognition will lead to systems that have inhuman intelligence, with the ability to outperform humans on so many different tasks that the intellectual contributions of all but the most creative humans will simply be unnecessary.

I'd like to offer a different definition of the singularity: It's the point at which the productivity growth rate permanently surpasses the economic output growth rate. Once that occurs, the economy must continuously shed (human) jobs.

Today, we're shedding jobs in the developed world, and especially in the US, because our unskilled and semi-skilled labor is priced too high, sending work to the developing world, where labor is considerably cheaper. That trend won't continue forever; at some point prices come up in the developing world while they decline here, until prices meet somewhere in the middle, then slowly inflate.

But meanwhile, productivity improvements from automation are accelerating. These improvements don't require human cognition, and many of them barely require AI. (As Charles Stross recently wrote, "It's not AI if you can understand what it's doing.") These automation improvements are causing productivity to accelerate. The point where the productivity rate crosses the output rate is only years away. After that, the world is a very, very different place. Sounds like a pretty good definition for the singularity to me."
Why tiptoe through life only to arrive at death?

I was in the same position as you a few months ago, working like a slave at a startup.

You made the right choice, in quitting. Clearly you were unhappy with what you were doing.

Stay positive.

Find a mentor, read books like "War of Art" or "One minute millionaire".

Be thankful for what you do have. Your health, make sure to workout and maintain it, sleep at a regular schedule. I struggle with this as well, but if you aren't healthy you will be depressed and it will show in your work and prospective in life.

Pick up a skill, and get really dam good at it. If you are good at something you will get paid for it eventually.
Ubuntu 11.10 has removed simple configurable items like font size and screensaver into a non-default tool, making them much less accessible to non-hackers.

Combine this with all the usability changes in Unity (alt-tab affects all workspaces, etc.) and you have an environment I'm not too excited to work in.
"Appropriart": Infographic about copyright
A tour of Ubuntu 11.10, Oneiric Ocelot
Top Gun: new 360-degree flight simulator for fighter jet pilots
I really prefer a single menu location, actually. IT makes much more intuitive sense to me. Also, screen real estate is always premium for me. I need to see all my code. :)
The first edition has opening brackets for functions on a new line. It also used a space before parenthesis for while loops and conditionals. Return types, when required, were on the same line as a function name.
"They said it couldn’t be done, and he did it." RIP, Dennis.
So, technology aside, how do you plan to sell this thing? Larger developers have this problem nailed down already, so that leaves medium and small developers for you. Do you have plans to reach the masses? That would be a very interesting innovation.
In a way I owe my job @ IBM which I got right out of college to that book.Of the many many C books at that time , K&R was obviously the one that was head and shoulders above the rest in terms of explaining C and how to write C programs in a very lucid/concise/Beautiful way and the guys interviewing me were particularly impressed that I almost had memorized K&R and gave me the job which I have to this day
Sounds like puppet or chef with central community-maintained repository for formulas.
I don't think you or anybody else has an insight into what pride means to me. I don't think you can walk around saying that when I say I'm prod of writing, or my work, or my children, or anything else that I'm putting myself before your God or anything else in creation. I don't agree that pride fuels greed, and I don't think you've made any kind of rational case that pride causes anyone to become slothful.

I'm ok with you believing that pride is harmful for you personally, but the sweeping generalizations you draw are woefully devoid of evidence of rational thinking on the subject.
Sorry, I missed the up arrow and voted you down by mistake. I'd love to see such a review as well.
He is specifically referring to the Mile High Menu Bar: http://joelonsoftware.com/uibook/chapters/fog0000000063.html -- and explicitly contrasting that with Windows which does not have a menu bar at the top of the screen, but instead puts menus at the top of windows, which can be anywhere on the screen, as opposed to always at the top. The Windows equivalent is the Mile Deep Task Bar, which is always at the bottom of the screen. Read up on Fitts's Law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts%27s_law
Couple of years ago the same 'being impressed' stuff happened to me. We were able to afford the rate. Unfortunately, the presented design was a total rip-off of our competitor`s website (which we never mentioned), so we agreed to get half of what was paid back. It was really a shame, since this designer proved to be good with his work.
Good time for startups?
You are absolutely right, almost all of the tech communities are, pardon the expression, but a technical dick waving contest. What makes HN totally different and the reason I gave up hope on the rest of them is the positive vibe among it's members. You see it almost instantly when a new member comes on and thinks it is just another tech forum. Not in a rude way but in a way that brings about a profound realization in those new members, some stick others don't and that is what makes HN great.

As for the author, he should take comfort in the fact that he has experienced something that 99% of people never will, he has insight that is very valuable, it sucks while you are going through it but it will help form a better you, guaranteed. Failure builds character, that is one of life's few constants. He seems to be hung up on the fact that he has no formal training and is young, but neither of those are a serious disadvantage in this field.

If it where me personally I would be using the opportunity wisely, there is no better time in life to rebuild it the way you want it to be, than right after you have burnt you old life to the ground. I wish my family would have been more entrepreneurial oriented. I was never given the wisdom that the best path to Independence is to create your own future and that there is no better time to do that than when you are at home with you parents and do not have a life to maintain. Wisdom in his current situation could lead to a profound change in his life. There is not better time for opportunity than in his current situation.
3D Web hits the big time: Google Maps on WebGL
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Alternatively, don't jump the gun with your submissions.

And I'm loving the downvotes from future-land, where 11.10 has now been officially released, and we shit on people who posted outside of future-land, before the official release did come to pass.
I was curious about this as well, and the abstract from the study said:

"voluntary wheel running is characterized by rapid pace and short duration, whereas forced exercise involves a slower, more consistent pace for longer periods of time. This basic difference between the two forms of exercise is likely responsible for their differential effects on brain and behavior."

It also did say that both groups ran the same distance, but the non-forced rats did it in more sessions and a faster pace.
I've gotten around to using the instead of cursing them.

But it's still strange, that marking text does a different copy than Ctrl-C in Chrome, which gives a different thing than M-W in Emacs.
The title is a bit misleading: there's a quote from Stroustrup in the post, but the author of the article is Herb Sutter.
I would also recommend reading http://lesswrong.com/lw/7e5/the_cognitive_science_of_rationa... and perhaps trying out this experiment* http://lesswrong.com/lw/7z1/antiakrasia_tool_like_stickkcom_...

* - Am just starting out with this one. so no clear data yet
In my last year of university I had a class on ethics and I learned the case of Kitty Genovese, a woman who was stabbed to death in New York. Many people watched but nobody helped.

This "phenomenon" is called "dilution of responsibility", that is, people don't do anything, because nobody else is doing it. I guess what you observed was exactly this.

Found a link describing the case here: http://www.talsico.com/newsletters/newsletter6.htm
I remember Gabriel talking about trying to buy ddg.com a long time ago, but the company was unwilling to sell the domain at all...
Did A Reporter Just Solve A Bitcoin Mystery?
Note to self: Do Fred a favor and don't submit his posts too early in the morning. This is not the first good and relevant post of his I've inadvertently buried.
You're thinking too much. It's an anecdote about kindness and greatness and their inherent compatibility. You can't understand it with your head. You have to feel it with your heart.
IIRC, there's an option to compile optimus support into newer linux kernels. I'm just using a intel HD3000 card so i've not tried it myself. unfortunately, Ubuntu doesn't have the friendliest policy towards custom kernel compilation, so you might have to "break the rules" or look elsewhere.
The problem is that technical books suck on most e-readers. Try converting a technical PDF to, say, ePub and you'll see what I mean.
Did it mess any other programmers up, thinking "NOT youtube"? Don't search youtube, search the rest of the web...
Fitts's law (often cited as Fitts' law) is a model of human movement primarily used in human–computer interaction and ergonomics that predicts that the time required to rapidly move to a target area is a function of the distance to the target and the size of the target

How does that do anything but confirm the GP's point, that it's dumb to place a menu bar potentially thousands of pixels away from the window it applies to?
ha, when I read that article all I had in my head was images of me doing death-by burpees and thinking "... I hope there are health benefits to that, because it really hurts..."
What kind of sales numbers does that site pull?

You seem to imply there are multiple designers selling more than ~800 items a month. The spotify market is really that large?
I think it's really important to feel proud of what you do. For me, I always like to feel I'm the center of the world, while knowing that it's not true.

When people ask me what I'm proud of I always list the stuff that gave me most satisfaction. I often start with the stuff that they would understand or heard of, but if you'd ask me again I'd probably list some obscure stuff.

For example, I am really proud that I started the online version of the Romanian Computer Science olympiad for high school students. I convinced people to let me build a parallel online system where we'd post the problems at the same time with the real contest, and people would submit solutions by the end of the allocated time, and then we'd grade those too. Totally unofficial, just for kicks and training.

It's a stupid thing that nobody ever heard of here, but I'm still terribly proud of it, it made a huge difference in the life of some kids and it would not have happened if it wasn't for me, so I'm quite proud of that.
Your friend has institutional knowledge, education and potential drive to get out of his career slump. A CS degree in a helpdesk job is a misalignment of resources and a risk to the overall motivation of the team. Help him realize his goals and give him a chance. Go grab coffee. Have a heart to heart discussion with him. Ask him what he wants. Tell him what you have. Be very clear on your expectations of him and that you are laying your career on the line by choosing to hire him. Make it clear that there needs to be a period of 60 days to make sure this is the right fit for everyone. Ask him for an updated resume. Use these points to justify your decision to hire and make a decision. Utilize your new hire to the max to offload some of your work and give him a trial by fire to catch up. If anyone second guesses your decision, back it up with the points here.
I agree.

Wonder if YC, when seeking founders/team, look for these qualities as well:

>Communicate and demonstrate a clear sense of purpose

>Provide great coaching, mentoring, and tutoring

>Recognize, praise, and reward achievement

>Ensure credit is given where credit is due

>Consistently dependable and knowledgeable

>Always accessible

>Treat people fairly

>Listen well

>Have patience and humility

>Helpful and quick to expedite important matters

>Demonstrates loyalty by standing up for his team, defending them to other executives, and when necessary, to customers

Are these qualities not applicable in the early stages of a 2-4-man startup? Perhaps, it is left for the later stages of the startup? Personally, such qualities in founders would be a great asset for the company as a whole for when the startup grows and acquires more employees. Thoughts and comments?
Ask HN: Transitioning to using a Version Control System
Hi,

I've been developing for Android for almost a year now, and a couple of days ago, I read some posts by Zach Holman & HN comments on those articles, and am contemplating if using a VCS while being the sole developer is really productive.

What I've been doing till now is, use eclipse to export the project to a folder on every release, and place a txt file with changes in the folder (an ancient technique). I just copy-paste the project if I ever need to revert back (done only once), but I wonder if I should get used to using proper revision system. I was in an IT (services) company (quit in 2010) where we used Visual SourceSafe (doubt if anyone uses this) during the initial training.

I've finally zeroed in on Mercurial (mostly coz I use AndEngine, and its on Mercurial, if it works for Nicolas, it should work for me :]), and would like to know if anyone has some dos and donts to use it efficiently, while keeping my focus on development instead of getting overwhelmed by the vcs.

Thanks. :)
Alviva was wondering why the people on the back were not slacking. MediaBehavior says they were only pedaling faster, not necessarily harder. I'm pointing out that the article clearly says they were pedaling harder.
For any other OS I'd agree with you. But for Linux desktop, which has come so far in the past 5-10 years, this is exactly what they need to show people "Hey, our desktop doesn't suck anymore! You should try us out again."
+1 for changing the URL color. I'd prefer it directly under the title as well. And maybe find a way to emphasize the important parts of the URL, cut out the random numbers.
I'm still not sure what I'm suppose to do with it.
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Post-Mortem on Austin-based Startup "Hurricane Party"
Trying to put 2 and 2 together here... this "serial entrepreneur" was a cult leader? Or was that unrelated?
Yay, that helps reinforce my misguided American belief that the BBC is still a quality news organization!
AAAARGH. Rick Roll warning.
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