skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now this post is one that will definitely warrant down-votes.

Modern science, understandably, does not know that the human constitution is comprised of more than the physical body.

They don't know this because they don't have the instruments to detect the other bodies (such as the astral or etheric).

So, all of their efforts in research are pointed to determine the effects in the physical body. Actually, when taking psychedelics it is the astral and etheric body that is being stimulated (the cause) with effects seen in the physical body.

If you truly care to learn more about this I suggest Astral Dynamics by Robert Bruce. You can learn conscious separation of the astral body from the physical body. There's even an exercise that will allow you to determine if the whole experience is objective or subjective - you go into one room to project and in another room someone writes a number on a paper and tapes it against the wall. You quickly project into the room, read the number, come back to your body and go see if you were right.
Indeed, although it isn't enough anymore:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3100239
Sony Finally Beat the Hackers in Latest Breach (Sort Of)
Logical fallacies and red herrings....you've put them everywhere....my head hurts.
Exactly, most vitamins are dietary supplements and not meant as wonder drugs. What the article fails to mention is the hazards of being deficient in any of these things and how easy with a modern diet it is to be deficient.
> ... management didn't quite see what was wrong with
> that. Instead, they told the client to NEVER copy
> paste content from other pages.

I'm reminded of the story about Feynman exposing the security problems with the combination locks used on safes at Los Alamos and Oak Ridge. Instead of fixing the problem, management just told people not to let Feynman near their safes.

> He tells the story of being in Oak Ridge, and delivering
> a report to a colonel there. He reports that the colonel
> felt himself far too important to have an ordinary safe
> -- he ordered a special multi-ton safe. Feynman was
> delighted to discover that this big, important safe used
> the exact same type of lock as their little safes did,
> and just to be sure, he took the last two numbers off it
> while standing in the colonel's office. After the colonel
> closed the safe, Feynman told him the safes weren't
> secure, and proved it by opening the safe, then
> explaining how he did it. He told the colonel that the
> vulnerability was in leaving the safe open while he
> worked. "I see, very interesting," replied the colonel.

> Several months later, Feynman was again at Oak Ridge, and
> was surprised at all the secretaries telling him, "Don't
> come in the office! Don't come in here!"

> It developed that the colonel had immediately sent around
> a memo asking everyone, "During his last visit here, was
> Professor Feynman in your office?" Those that answered
> yes received another memo: "Change your safe combination."

> That was his solution - Feynman himself was the danger.
> Meanwhile, of course, people still continued to work with
> their safes open ...
For all those who are criticizing this public posting, first note that it is publicly available in several dozen other locations, including some tech rags. More importantly, STEVE HIMSELF SAID IT'S OK TO REPOST -
https://plus.google.com/112678702228711889851/posts/eVeouesv...

Part of me feels that this is actually written to the general public, and the whole public/private thing is a cover up.
NASA video game lets you build, run complex space network
Because Steve is very visible. Random googler 'x' giving his opinion is one thing, a guy with the stature of Steve Yegge doing the same is quite another.

Especially one where he pretty much writes that Google's #1 is not 'Steve Jobs'.

Really, I think that no matter what that this would have found its way to the general public somehow. That said, I think it's great that he speaks his mind like this, even if it is intended for an internal audience only.
Siri: A Voice App That Lets You Speak to OpenTable (february 2010 post)
Incorrect; routing closures is free, automated by the web framework, something no web framework does for direct linking. Look at Rails, every Rails programmer spends a large amount of time figuring out and managing routing. Look at Seaside which uses callbacks just like this site, you can build the entire app without spending a second on routing URL's because callbacks do it for free as part of the framework, completely automated.
Page Speed Online graduated out of Labs. There don't appear to be significant differences from the previous version aside from a restyling. Previous commentary:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2816166

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2393424
I'm sure a vanilla linux-distribution is as easy an target as a windows box, if not even easier.

But why don't they use some hardened (grsecurity,selinux) kernel + http://linux-ima.sourceforge.net/ + a default forbid MAC policy + remote logging.

I can't see how this attack vector could be used against such a system.

These are deadly drones. It is probably a lot more work than using a plain windows box. But these machines can kill people. I thought the Military would use state of the art software security system.
Windows Phone, a year on
what prevents A players from hiring B and C players
They know it will not end up good for anybody. Also they understand hiring another A player or if possible an A++ player is good for overall health of the company.

prevents B players from hiring A players
Ego and in a big corporation, the fear of the hire going ahead of you.

Also another deadly combination is the B player who hires another A player thinking they themselves are A+ player and spoils the fun for everybody.
One of the biggest mistakes we make when we are young (meaning, me, I made this mistake) is we think that if we don't become millionaires by 25 we are failures. That's bullshit fed to us by the media who claims only young people win in startups.

I also second the 'get a job, any job'. Adversity is a part of life. Getting rich is hard, really, really fucking hard. Trust me, I went through suicidal depressions when I was 20 too, and I wasn't living with my parents - I was living on the street. I'm not about to tell someone to just 'suck it up', but I will tell you that you are nowhere near as alone as the world is trying to make you feel.
i got my full time job when i was 26... i failed a lot as "self-employed" before. but when i got job (i had specific reasons, not financial ones), i really understood what it is to be free in doing your own choose and be entrepreneur (life style, not building huge corp for selling it later). now i am doing everything to get back to it...

do not afraid to fail early. i did it a lot - it is fine (although i never had situation where i was not able to pay taxes or rent, but this might be luck :)). With each fail you learn and it is better to learn it at twenties and become successful businessman in thirties, than start learning in thirties. :)

there are few exceptions from the rule, who become successful "overnight" (think facebook-type businesses), but most "overnight" success takes years of work, dedication and... failures.
Ha! It's easy to forget that HN comments aren't in time order.

Here's the post with the link:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3102084
"People don't have higher associated medical costs because of marijuana, LSD, mushrooms, etc. It's a completely unfounded"

proof?

You can't honestly tell me that that nobody has higher associated medical costs as a result of MJ, LSD, and shrooms. Now who's being naive..

I actually might support MJ. However, my problem is that not only do you want it legalized, but you want to spread the false notion that it's actually ok (and actually has health benefits) to do these drugs.
undefined and null are quite different. It's impossible to test for undefined. You cannot expect (x == undefined) to return true. It would result in exception, in fact. You can only safely make a value undefined if you guarantee it won't be used.
For if you really want a "secure" password sent over HTTP, I presume...
>Isn't this the second highly public data point (that I know of) of him slashing and burning G+ and Google and then backtracking and saying how Google is the best place to work for

No its not, because thats not what happened this time. He is pretty clear that he likes google and but sees some flaws. Did you even read the post? Hes not backtracking, he was just being critical about something to an audience he thought would be able to understand him. I could trash aspects of the product I work on to my coworkers too, that doesn't mean I don't think that it isn't overall good.
Run your favorite Android apps fast on your PC or tablet
"* Getting rid of the nagging feeling there is something I'm missing about differential equations (this despite acing the respective uni math courses on solving them)."

Bret talks about this here (scroll down to 'A Possibly Embarassing Personal Anecdote'):

http://worrydream.com/#!/KillMath
No one has mentioned this so I will. Get a girlfriend! someone who understands you and talks you through your depression, someone who is on your side as you fight with your dad, someone who makes a hot dish for you when you are hungry, someone who will massage your shoulders and feet after a long day of job hunting. It is amazing how many successful men have that someone behind their backs because they too have failed many times and its her who picks her husband up and cheers him up as he goes out and conquers the world
"Secure"? Isn't "strong" a better adjective? If I tell you my password, it's no longer secure, despite still being strong.
HTML5 for Windows XP - Upgrade from Internet Explorer
does anyone know what he used to generate those graphs/graphics? Page looks great, too bad almost nothing is clickable (i.e. few links to about/contact/blog/etc.)
Being too smart for your own good can lead to depression in the first place. To get out of that trap you often do need someone to talk to that offers a different perspective. Intelligence is not the issue here. Experience is.
Why Education Without Creativity Isn't Enough
At least they are embedded in images.
Ref: Terence Tao: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2009/07/03/benfords-law-zipfs...
I understand your concerns, but in this case I think extent of usage and progressive enhancement are the real considerations.
"So, if your friends are giving you a hard time, tell 'em to knock it the hell off. Or find new friends."

Yes to this 100%. Most people go through life trying to pull others down to their level. Fuck them. There are also plenty of people who support each others' dreams.
What I got from the story is a confirmation of what I already suspected. Steve Jobs basically created Sony 2. He hinted numerous times on how he modeled everything he did with apple was based on sony. He made Sony, but did it right.
Show HN: Who's Hiring? (postings mined from Twitter)
At Oracle UK I used to get up to 42 days, of which 10 could roll over to the following year. We were periodically overworked and under-compensated anyway (which is why I left). Our US colleagues hated were really envious.
Mobile Devs you can now have a single backend for your Android and iOS apps
Their estimate of 100,000 passwords a second is a VAST underestimate of the capabilities of modern hardware and software.

For example: http://www.win.tue.nl/cccc/sha-1-challenge.html -- the winner is cracking SHA1'ed passwords at seven thousand times the speed WA uses in their estimates.
>You can set the default font size and zoom size in Chrome (chrome://settings/advanced then "Web Content").

Increasing the default font size makes some text a lot bigger while other text stays small. On Mailman archives, for example, the body of an email ends up smaller than all the other text on the page (maybe because the body is in a fixed-width font).

Specifically, if you set the default font size to "Very large", the text in the body ends up less than half the size of the other text.

On hacker news, the "reply" links, which are (rightfully IMHO) smaller than normal text, become much larger than normal text.

The other way to increase text size in Chrome, the Zoom In command in the View menu, is not useful to me either: when I use the Zoom In command to get the text size to where I want it, the text usually runs past the right end of the window, with the result that I have to scroll horizontally back and forth for every line of text I want to read.

On some pages, this problem occurs when I use the Zoom In command only twice (repeated uses continue to increase the text size) and the text is still pretty small after two uses of the Zoom In command.

I have not been able to find any usable way to have the text as big as I want it in Chrome.
Does this mean the GoogleBot can flag, edit, and rollback Wikipedia pages?
HR is not there for you. HR is there for the company.

Never forget that.
Actually expected a story about id software's spider of doom...
> That would stop half the web working.

What do you mean?
Shit, sorry! Wasn't my intent at all. Kids learn different things at different times and we've played to Auden's strengths in these areas. We push hard when there's obvious interest in anything specific.

Don't want to give the impression that he's spelling well or writing quickly :)

Our 2-y-o is an entirely different person with much much different development patterns.
With regard to maps, Apple acquired Placebase in 2009. (http://techcrunch.com/2009/09/30/apple-gets-a-mapmaker-where...)
I had visions of people screaming demands into their phones in public, too. But it turns out you can use Siri by bringing it up to your head, ala a regular phone call, too.
Response: https://plus.google.com/110981030061712822816/posts/bwJ7kAEL...
Exactly - this makes about as much sense as the javascript based "busy" indicator (instead of gif).

Stylesheets are cached and a one-time hit for new visitors - this method has to reiterate on every single page load.
a story, my story

i quit my job, a good job, i was (web) business developer, had to oversee a few coders, code a little bit myself, tell other companies what they should code for us, talked in big meetings, had a great time with my boss and co-workers and the prospect of becoming a COO in time.

i quit, it was 2004, i was 26 and the web was in a shitty state (this was before web 2.0 and IE had 90 market share). i wanted to do something else. start my own company. i had a lot of ideas and a high quality half baked plan.

the first day of my self-employment i jumped over a wall, broke my knee, badly. i was in hospital for 2 months. i could not walk for 4 months. my mother is dead, i do not talk to my father much. i had a 6 year old child.

after this i was broke, i was more than broke.

i decided to get a job again. it was the worst job possible. i hated every second. 4 months later i quit again.

this was the worst of times - i thought my life was over.

- and -

i was wrong. i was unbelievable wrong.

it was the most important time of my adult life (so far). you can only recognize the good parts of life if you have experiences some bad parts.
Damn, good story. Thanks for posting it. That's a hard landing you did at age 16. I can pretty much guarantee that would have ruined me.
"Siri, generate me a strong password."
Well if it makes you feel any better when I was 20 I was a high-school drop out working in fast food and STILL living with my parents. Things got better and then they got worse, but then they got much better again. Every time life took dips I got better at dealing with them and chances are you will too.

You are young, you can take chances now and you should. Someday taking chances may not be choice you can easily make anymore.
Not logical fallacies..logic (you should use it sometime). Just because I don't support your point doesn't mean i'm wrong.

Take a look here:

http://www.npr.org/2011/01/20/133086356/Mixed-Results-For-Po...

Drug use, addiction, and drug-related deaths have actually increased since they legalized drugs. This is exactly what I'm saying.
Hm. What Vim emulation mode are you using on Emacs? Last time I tried to switch, I found that all of the available vi-modes were clunky and missing a lot of Vim motions I use all the time.
For my (and other's) education, can someone explain to me why you would want to hash a pointer? Google let me down.
Reminds me of zip, zip3, zip4, etc. in Haskell.
They also don't have huge drug cartels running the place.
Kim Jong-il and the Kindle Fire
I'd like to see a version of this based on Vinge's "A Deepness in the Sky" novel, where light-speed delay is a serious issue.
"he's worked hard on it over a period of many years, his standards of quality are extremely high, and he's spent even more years developing the skills" - completely agree with that too. However, just view this as pre-requisites to building work that is so good that no other building block will suffice. Tangle would not have evolved if not building off Magic Ink and other work. This article would not have been nearly as meaningful without Tangle and the other visualization patterns he created in past.
Seems to work for me. Where's it broken?
FOUC? It's only some CSS3 that won't display until DOM load, not the whole styling. As for the performance, I'm pretty sure you're just guessing, and haven't done any testing.
Is the alcohol message all wrong?
Trying to use the requests module yields:

File "/usr/lib/python2.6/cookielib.py", line 38, in <module>
from calendar import timegm

ImportError: cannot import name timegm

for me.

On two different machines, one OSX SL with Python 2.6 from MacPorts and the other Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS with Python 2.6 via aptitude.

Can not find any solution for this via Google and its siblings.

I'm stuck :(

-jsl
I agree but don't you think that from an algorithmic point of view Google would be better looking at what the user wants and what monetization models they prefer to see versus the averages in terms of monetization models on spam sites.

That way their focussing less on removing spammers and more on user quality and thus removing spam.
Only in the parallel universe of corporate press releases do statements like these make sense:

-"As the printer evolves into a content hub in homes and offices, HP Instant Ink allows additional content pages to flow – with savings and convenience for the user"

-"“This project is one of the many ways Condé Nast is using emerging technology to engage consumers,” said Julie Michalowski, senior vice president, Consumer Business Development, Condé Nast. “With this new HP pilot program, consumers will be able to have their favorite Condé Nast content at their fingertips.”"
This is why love HN.... it is such a wonderful community.

Hang in there Bro...there are many like you and who have been like you out there!!
Here's my favorite trivia story about how old Python is:

You know JWZ's rant about how Java could have made integers first class objects by using the first bit as a flag for whether that machine word contained a primitive type or a pointer to an object, at the cost of only having a range of 2^31 instead of 2^32 (or whatever the word size was)? Python apparently had the same discussion in the early days, and made the same decision as Java (i.e. non-primitive integers, you have to box them to treat them as objects) and the reason was ... that the requisite bit twiddling was slow on DEC Alphas. (In fairness, at the time Guido was working for a government lab full of DEC Alphas.)
Kind of strange title, to me. I don't know why anyone would ever create separate server-side backends for different mobile platforms. I guess this just means that this company is providing libraries for both Android and iOS? Are the other "easy mobile app backend" services focused strictly on one platform or the other?
Microsoft "impartial" browser test fails the grade
Unfair to whom? It'd say it's more like PTSD.
To be fair to Alpha, SHA1 is a really shitty password hash. (Use bcrypt, scrypt if you're feeling adventurous, or salted SHA1 with a configurable number of iterations if you really can't do better.)
I am 30, I quit my job in USA a few months ago, moved back to India, wife is still living in USA, have been living with parents since then and have been driven to madness at home with their constant advice and criticism. All of this for a slim chance to succeed in what I want to do putting all my tiny life savings into this one basket.

But you know what, I am hopeful. I am hopeful that I can do something meaningful in the next one year that I have been given. I am hopeful that I can push myself to the next level (much more maybe). I am hopeful that I can rediscover myself. I am hopeful that I can maybe make a small dent in my own universe. I am hopeful that I can feel proud about myself. The way I see it is even failure is a success for me, because I have all these hopes.

I am happy I got this chance at 30, I know I will not get this anytime later with many more commitments I might make. I often wonder at times, if I had the maturity of my 30 when I was 20, I would be so much more willing to do this again and again.

While I can certainly understand your pain of what you consider failure, I feel you are rushing to make this call giving on hope. You have another 10 glorious years before you feel you din't do enough of what you have been able to do now.
Step out of home, take a couple of days break (if financially feasible), write on a piece of paper what you want and how you can get there next. Taking these chances should make you proud, cos look around you, your friends are clinging on to that so called steady income, slipping away in their comfort zone.
Hi HN. I'd really like to get anyones feedback on this. It's still a little rough around the edges but my main question would be

Is this useful? Or could it be with a tweak or two?

Thanks,
Robin
Empirically speaking though, those numbers do follow Benford's Law, unlike measurements of people's heights.
Moving On (thoughts on moving to a startup hub)
This isn't rocket science, but I am glad the research is being done. It seems obvious that eating whole foods is the best way to get your vitamins and minerals. First of all we have millions of years of consumption of whole foods, so our microbiotic gut systems are well tuned to them. Supplements are fairly new evolutionarily. The specific form of compounds is extremely important as noted here:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111011112501.ht...

Maybe I am hypersensitive, but I can literally feel that there is a man-made substance in my body when I take vitamins. Just my two-cents.
Dart: Improving the DOM
ECMAScript.next: the “TXJS” update by Eich
The Developer’s Guide To Conflict-Free JavaScript And CSS In WordPress
I quite like: http://www.couchcms.com/ as well. Not used it in anger yet, but planning to.
Nintendo's ventures, between making playing cards in 1889 to video games today
The IndyArmy link is just the "skeleton" that gets loaded when a site is created but has no other content. No redirect involved, and it's meant to let my clients know their site is working and to get something on it quickly :)

Thanks for the input - I'll look into your idea for iwriters.net and see if I have the time to create/maintain such a community.
A Facebook/Amazon Phone?
if there is anything you can take from steve jobs dealth, is that life is way to short to care about small things. follow your heart and keep your head up. they're a lot of people who don't have roofs over their head or food to eat, or water to drink. you will bounce back smile man :)
Cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%...

tl;dr Clojure is awesome. And use

(defn add-vectors [& vs]
(vec (apply map + vs)))

instead of

(defn add-vectors [va vb]
[(+ (first va) (first vb)) (+ (second va) (second vb))])

since in Clojure code that operates on 1 or N things is usually better than some other fixed value. (Like 2.)