skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would appear that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drifting_(motorsport) and http://www.driftingstreet.com/oversteer-understeer-slip-angl... have relevant information for the analogy that this piece is based on, though I'm not a race car driver.

Amusingly as relates the author's point, the latter link seems to indicate that optimal slip angle isn't fixed at 7 degrees but varies based on type of tire - as it says, "For race and high performance tires this optimum slip angle is around 6 to 10 degrees while this number is a little lower for street tires."
This idea is almost identical to the ideas in Life Artificial: http://lifeartificial.com/
I don't think they are trying to diminish the value of statistics at all, but rather point out that it is easy to misunderstand or even deliberately abuse them.

This is more a warning to people without an understanding of statistics, because most people out there do not have a deep grasp of the fact that correlation does not imply causation.
If anyone is interested, Puredoxyk has been doing it for nearly seven years and even wrote a book about it:

http://www.puredoxyk.com/index.php/polyphasic-sleep-portal/
Well, blogging is generally not the most cognitively demanding of tasks. The fact that you are still able do tasks like this does not mean that you are not significantly sleep deprived. It may be worth experimenting with for bloggers just for the sake of doing something interesting. For everyone else, its not. And, there is no scientific evidence supporting the supposed benefits.
No Joke: A Robot That Controls Your Limbs, Instead Of Vice Versa [video]
Neither does TM.

And it's not like "feels like a Mac app" should be a top requirement for a programmer's editor --else we wouldn't use Emacs, Vim and the like.
Some funny cute cats
I collected some funny cat pictures, that will make you smile.
rmate is pretty cool. I'm using this script locally to forward connections from a server with rmate installed. Save this to /bin/matehost and adapt the list of hosts to

#!/bin/sh

###########################################

mhosts=(

host1

host2

)

###########################################

mpids=()

for i in "${mhosts[@]}"

do

ssh -nNT -R 52698:localhost:52698 ${i} &

mpids[$[${#mpids[@]}+1]]=$!

done

read -p "Press any key to close tunnels ..." -n 1

for i in "${mpids[@]}"

do

if [[ `ps $PIDns` == ssh ]]

then

kill ${i}

fi

done
These are all excellent points. I'm sure we'll get there, but there's going to be major differences in browser compatibility for a long time (3+ years, I think).

I've been using PhoneGap for a while now. It'd be really cool if similar API's were available without the native wrapper.

BTW, the browser caching link is helpful, but I experienced some limitations with what's currently available...
http://zikkir.net/tech/102558
What's the key to add a third column and have the others automatically resized?

Do other windows start inheriting the project drawer if older windows are closed?

Each window has multiple tabs - how do you tear off and replant them using the keyboard?

Doh, now the temporary horizontal split panes like find-in-project, the python console, etc, must be attached to a specific narrow window.

And so on. I like a multi window desktop and am certainly not a maximise-everything guy. But relying on the OS for everything is not optimal.
Start-up biz: IIT-B graduates get 'cover' if venture fails
I read this post, then reread it and wondered if my alter ego wrote this one while I was asleep. I'm in the similar job with more or less similar experience level and age (of course minus the wife). Thanks for posting this question, I would never have posted it myself. And thanks to the ever awesome community for such motivating and thoughtful responses.

PS: I've started off with Python today. :)
Creativity is risk backed by confidence
It really opens some doors doesn't it :)

This looks like a great implementation of the sfxr tool that's been around for a long time. I've seen it in Flash and there's an EXE version too. This one has some nice new add-ons I haven't seen yet, and a GREAT interface.

If you REALLY want to go nuts, here is a massive list of indie game development tools that can keep you busy for a while:

http://www.mangatutorials.com/forum/showthread.php?742-The-U...
Depending on how well you can map your code to the built-in Cocoa text-editing classes, this could be as easy as adding two NSLayoutManagers (each directing one NSTextContainer and NSTextView) beneath a single NSTextStorage instance. Apple even uses this configuration for one of their examples:
http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/cocoa/...

The built-in notifications and delegate-relationships handle everything else (updates & synchronization) automatically. This is actually NeXTSTEP-level stuff that's been around for decades.
This is a post on a blog where the sidebar poll asks, "Do aliens exist?"

(In case you were wondering, 63% said "Yes.")
Peter Thiel answers your questions on BBC News
I also would really like to read more about successful use of Scala in various companies. Twitter uses it, but is it happy with Scala?
When someone at Sony, Universal and Fox use bittorrent, why is that not legal distribution? Especially when they hire someone to spy on bittorrent users, because in that case their distribution is clearly authorized. Maybe the blocklists used by torrent clients should be inverted?
I think the parent's point was that we can't see or image anything until those photons enter our sensor.

> you can watch as the photons strike your hand first, and it lights up. The photons that don't strike your hand continue on towards the wall next to

This analogy doesn't work. In order to watch, some photons have to enter our eyes, but they haven't got there yet, as they're just now interacting with our hand, etc. I.e until sufficient photons enter our eyes (sensors), there's nothing to watch.

This points to the fact that the technique is not imaging the whole scene at once, but doing some kind of reconstruction on an assumed static scene.
Skunkwork it. After all you are not forbidden to communicate with other team members using tools of your choice? If you are, then I have no advice for you.
That's what I was thinking reading these replies. Amazon must be checking if you log in from the same IP as another seller, but how is that reliable in determining if it's a dupe? Why even allow users to log in from different computers if the only way they check for duplicate seller accounts is if someone else logs in from the same machine?

It seems like the author logged in to his seller account from a public wireless network (coffee shop, office) where another, previously-banned seller account had logged in from at one time, and Amazon assumed both accounts were from the same guy. Maybe they sold the same type of products.

I'm sure they get a lot of sellers who get their account closed and just try to make a new one, but I'd rather have Amazon not catch the sellers who are dumb enough to create an account from the same IP than catch them and get legitimate sellers banned in the process.
I've seen this and yes there are false positives. It is unfortunate they have no reasonable appeal process. Amazon will ban you with no recourse if two selling accounts appear to login from the same network/same computer. It does not need to be a banned account. At least that's what appeared to happen in one case I've seen. Maybe it is cookies too, who knows.

Two internet merchants in the same family. Both have separate businesses, separate tax IDs, separate locations, etc. One family member is older and needs a lot of help with IT stuff. The younger family member comes over on the weekend to help with network/computer problems and happens to login and check their orders. Amazon sends an email to both of them demanding that one of the accounts be immediately closed or they will both be terminated. Again, they tried everything to get a human being to listen. No help from Amazon. The older family member closed his account and lost 50% of his revenues because he felt responsible for the entire situation. The younger seller 's account remained open. It was extremely heavy handed.

I have close relationships with both of these people and I am 100% sure neither of them are involved in any fraud.
I actually prefer a chat room over email. It's logged, with group discussion and it's asynchronous. I don't have to begin a reply and then wait for a response. I just get it out in the room and keep going.

Another thing I like about using a room is the chance to use Hubot (http://hubot.github.com/). It makes for some fun and can also be extended to actually do useful stuff.

If your team as an aversion to IM try to entice them with a room is better because it's not one to one and everyone can see and answer questions and it facilitates group discussion easily and it's asynchronous so it gets out of your way.
I'd vote that memorizing a hundred 2 letter words (many of which you likely already know) is easier than memorizing 26 mnenomics.
or, you can just know a bunch and guess every once in awhile, gambling that your opponents also don't know all 101 for certain and don't want to risk challenging the one you put down;)
So we've seen the ship loophole for things like gambling before, and that's basically institutionalized. I think the truth is that immigration is too politically charged to go through legislature change - instead it's conceivable that, like Marijuana in decriminalized areas, that politicians are fine with it as long as it doesn't cause too much of a fuss. Just my two cents.
I can navigate the TM drawer much faster than I can navigate NERDTree. And I've probably spent more time in Vim so it's probably not just habit, but usability. Yes, command-t works, I mean, Vim is not a bad editor at all, I just find that TM is easier to use which leads to quicker workflows.
Grit: The Top Predictor Of Success
It's even possible (although of course difficult) to make a film camera that operates at 1 million frames per second. They were mainly used to analyze explosions I think.

This new camera has limitations of course, but it has a time resolution literally 1,000,000 times the one in your video.
Does this not strike anyone as being vaguely reminiscent of the origin of L. Ron Hubbard's Sea Org? I mean it's not the first time somebody has thought of using a ship (or a fleet of ships) to get around visa problems. I don't mean to suggest anything cultish about the plan, but it might be worth somebody's while to look at the port exclusion history of the Scientology venture and so forth before embarking on a venture like this. The combination of hostile governments, adamant corporate leadership and a staff bound not by billion-year contracts but by high wages (and slowly learning to accept new inconveniences as they arise) -- I can see this going badly.
Gun.io Debuts Free Group Funding for Open Source Projects
Did same thing and got this: http://bit.ly/vjDZDG This is so awesome. Woah!
You're definitely not alone. It's cross platform, so it's not quite at home on OS X, it just feels wrong somehow. Pity really.
TextMate 2.0 Download link
What do you find insufficient about Cache Manifest?
Possible Higgs boson signals, but we won't know for sure until next year
> installing apps, updating and uninstalling is a ghost long dead.

So, when not installing native apps (which takes time) we add - in the case of e.g. the iphone - webapps (links) to our home screens. Which is faster than installing a native app. After that we 'endure' a longer loading time every time we start the app. And we still have to remove the icon from our home screen when we're done with it.

Mind you, I see the advantages of web apps; but this does not seem like any different from the native app use case; it seems a bit worse to me actually.

> who would choose to program native
Performance junkies? graphically intensive app-developers (games?). Sure, we may have an 'opengl'-component to use in our webapps; but why the extra overhead?
The SQL Federation feature is pretty awesome. Is there anyone else offering a managed RDBMS with built in sharding capabilities?
The difference is absolutely relevant to the field to the extent that men and women have different experiences in the field. E.g.: http://people.mills.edu/spertus/Gender/why.html Pretending otherwise won't get us anywhere.

You're certainly entitled to your opinion that somebody else's solution to a problem you don't have is wrong. But unless you're planning on doing something better, I'm not sure why you think your opinion is relevant. As with any open-source project, "patches welcome" is the order of the day.
I guess the moral of the story is that with Amazon, never manage your account from a shared anything.
I've had a TM1 license for a while now and I'll definitely be giving TM2 a shot. Last time I tried Sublime Text 2 there was a complete lack of a subversion plug-in (that I could find). Has that changed? If not then it's a no go.
People have varying definitions of aliens. What you see in the movies vs. single/multi cell organisms?
Hot technologies: Looking ahead to 2012
Engineers - the creators of technology - never rest. Here, the editors at EDN pay homage to those creators with a look at some of the hot trends and technologies in 2011 - and a look ahead to 2012 - that engineers have helped create and advance.
Domain seizure oversight lax and broken, targets out of luck
From the announcement:

"""Performance: Overall performance is fine, but there are still edge-cases that we haven’t looked into, for example the long lines issue which also exists in 1.x or opening files that exhaust TextMate’s memory space."""

So, the same performance re: long lines and long files as 1.x.

And here I thought that the lack of new features meant that at least the core engine was re-worked. Now, it seems like there just wasn't much done at all, backend or front-end wise.

The list here couldn't be more basic or boring: http://macromates.com/changes

Here's what I'd like to see, minimum:

1) SCM integration
2) Split panes
3) Better fuzzy search
4) Robust long line handling
5) Robust long file handling
6) Improved extensibility esp. with re: build systems\
7) Robust auto-completion
8) Better project handling features
Top 11 Programming Resources For Php Web Developers
A list of great programming resources for web developers of all levels.
In Vim there are many benefits from having multiple buffers open within the same Vim instance. Buffers share session data of the Vim instance they're in. This has a lot of different benefits, including automatically sharing whatever options or settings have been set (many dynamically or temporarily set), sharing of Vim registers, macros, and command history, all of which are heavily used when editing (if OS handled they would generally share a single clipboard register), Vim-controlled navigation between buffers and windows, Vim-controlled scripting between multiple buffers, Vim-controlled searches of multiple buffers, and more.

Because there are so many benefits of having multiple buffers/files open within the same Vim instance it makes sense to have multiple buffers viewable at once, not to have only one viewable at a time. You lose a lot of editing power if buffers are not open in same Vim instance; it doesn't make sense to open a new file separately in different Vim instance. Moreover, many times split windows are useful to show two different views of the _same_ buffer at once.
Got Startup Experience? Help Enhance the Pathways for Immigrant Entrepreneurs
Gambling and marijuana have constituencies, foreign engineers who can't get a work visa don't.
Or in other words if you think the Standard Model is neat and tidy, got another thing coming.
Sync Google Chrome Settings Across Multiple Devices with Latest Stable Release
InfoQ: D1 is Being Discontinued in 2012
From nomadic African tribe to Korean Gaming World Championship
So, he's likely lying based on the fact that you "have to believe" that Amazon uses some undisclosed super-elite ninja tech, rather than yet another hokey algo based on IP address and other hopelessly unreliable data?

That is not an argument. It's a pointless assertion that you believe in Amazon being correct, in the absence of any actual evidence.
Is this an argument for or against functional programming?
Louis C.K. "I've never seen a check from a [TV] comedy special"
How to talk to someone with cancer
The vast majority of investigations are 'secret' in that they don't give out any details in the middle of an investigation.

Just think about it for a second. If you have done something really bad and you know they are looking into you why not leave the country or destroy evidence etc? Granted, there are a lot of downsides to both of those but people are probably not thinking rationally in such situations.
Because then I've gotta deal with two windows. Cmd+~ : One's now in the background, the other isn't. Switch apps, one comes back, the other doesn't. Switch monitors, the sizing's off. Try to do anything other than 50/50 split, have to adjust manually. Try to use TM's project browser (seriously), doesn't work. Try to swap that second file for a different one, have to close the window, open a new window & reposition. It's generally a much clunkier workflow.

Granted, I only know that from using VIM (and occasionally SublimeText), but it's been one of my "Dear GOD Give Me This in TM" requests for a while. I've got SizeUp and love it - truly one of my must-have apps - but to me it's a hack, not a solution.
It is the case in France. You could see it the same way as a car insurance, you're responsible for any damage it does, except your car can be safely locked in your garage when someone else wrecks it into a porcelain store, and you can't possibly prevent it from happening nor prove that it wasn't yours.
It's not necessarily about having two files open at once. More often than not I want the same file open in two windows so I can reference one part while I work on another. This can be done in TextMate but not easily. TextMate also doesn't quite make it easy to open different files in the same project in different windows: It's something like Go to File (command-t), Reveal in Project (command-control-r), right-click on the file and select Open in New Window (no keyboard shortcut). You should be able to do this entirely from the keyboard but you can't within the confines of TextMate.

I also happen to work on a project with 24k+ files, which even with an SSD TextMate does not do well with. I have a script to generate a tmproj file[1] that contains the files I want to make it manageable.

[1] https://gist.github.com/1473107
> have very low rates of counterfeiting due to the number of security features built in

Is it the security measures, or does the (relatively) small number of places where one can pass Australian currency result in fewer attempts?

US currency is somewhat familiar in a large number of countries, so there are lots of opportunities to get someone to take counterfeits.
Linking is nice but the real killer feature is that installing, updating, and opening a website happen at the same time. Apple, Google, and Microsoft can build their own linking mechanism, but I have to preinstall the app before the link will work.
I don't buy it. I'm not aware of any similar investigation of a corporate entity like that, are you? What would be the point when you could just subpoena the relavant documents? Why must they have secrecy? I'm no law enforcement expert, but the kind of scenario you posit just doesn't seem to happen in the real world.

On the other hand, the FBI has been repeatedly caught with its hand in the surveilance cookie jar.

Seriously, given the available evidence you can't honestly say you find it more likely that the FBI is secretly investigating an existing company than that it's using that company's data for law enforcement surveilance. Can you?
Adoption.
How does it "clutter up" your project folders?

With ONE project file, that you don't even have to put inside the project folder?
"""I can navigate the TM drawer much faster than I can navigate NERDTree. """

Then you're doing it wrong.
"The only idea that came up was to plead your case to jeff@amazon.com (Jeff Bezos’s email address), with plenty of detail including the reason my account might have been banned."

I would write to PR at amazon amazon-pr@amazon.com.

If that gets no response I would fax to that department.

If still no response fedex copies of the above two attempts to Bezos or some high up VP. At some point someone will take notice.

If not it will make a good story during the holiday season. I've had good luck with holiday and event specific interest by the media. Timing is everything.

If it were me, after trying the above, I would package the story and send it all over actually.

Edit: When you send to the media make sure to package with choice HN comments to, um, make their job easier.
I really like amazon, but if they pull another dick move I will stop buying from them. They already have a bad rep for the treatment of their warehouse workers: http://www.mcall.com/news/local/amazon/

All indications are that this company is doing great in the short and long term. There is no need for them to get greedy and mean.
mod_perl was there, it performed better but little bit extra memory footprint.

I don't know why mod_perl was known to very few and PHP become popular.
I would have to agree. I tried Sublime Text for two weeks, but I continued to dislike it. It's not a bad editor or anything, it's just not for me.

Personally I'm getting a bit tired of reading about how people think that TextMate is done and how we should move on. TextMate 1.5 is still my text editor of choice, it simply fit how I work. Honestly I would be happy if TextMate 1.5 is just maintained as is.

There's a lot of complaining about TextMate which I simply don't understand. Split screen editing, really, you care about that? I just open two windows. More frequent update? Why? Do you really need a new feature in your text editor every week? "The new icon is ugly"... No, it's cute, but also not important.

The main thing that Allan did wrong was starting to talk about TextMate 2 to early. It would have been much better to have said nothing and just release an alpha or beta when he was ready. People a fascinated by new versions for some reason, they apparently want version two, just because two is higher than one. Perhaps if Allan hadn't said anything people wouldn't feel to entitled to a new version (wrongly entitled in my opinion).

Also, let's try to remember that it is actually a pretty complex piece of software that a lot of us will be getting for free.

As for Sublime Text, as a replacement for TextMate, yeah, I pick Vim a head of Sublime any day. Then again I would pick Idle a head of Sublime Text.
that is the point, we should also think on how much of their software stack is built on Scala.
personally i would uses some sort of tree structure. Maybe a quadtree would be convenient.
Comunitee Wants To Simplify How You Read Your Socially Curated News
"many of which you already know" is the key. Humans can memorize tens of thousand of words - it is called language. Meaning is your friend. If you are struggling to master the Scrabble two-word list, just look them up in a dictionary. Learning that 'Jo' is Scottish for "sweetheart" is a lot easier to me than treating the words as a pattern of consonants and vowels.

And while I am on the subject of word games, iOS users might want to give Quarrel a try. It uses the Scrabble dictionary, so it is a good training tool, but you can always make the anagram, so it is a lot less frustrating to play than looking at a rack full of consonants :-)
This would be a lot more useful if my Google-branded Android phone ran a Google Chrome browser.

Is there a mobile version of Chrome? As best I can tell there isn't.
We're seeing the way a pulse of photons move through space. So you can see how long it takes for a photon to diffuse through a plastic bottle. You can't see that with other cameras.