skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The greater the compression, the greater the density" is essentially tautological. Of course packing the same amount of stuff in a smaller space makes it more dense. It's true in the same way the statement "Enlarging things makes them bigger" is true.

But as for gravity, no. Gravity is a function of mass. Compressing a body into a smaller space will not increase the gravity you experience at a given distance from the mass's center of gravity (though it will allow you to get closer to the center of gravity). If you magically replaced the Sun with a black hole of equal mass, the planets would continue their orbits undisturbed — even though a black hole's singularity is infinitely dense and the Sun is less dense than the Earth on average.
Diamond anvil?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_anvil_cell
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Looks good, downloaded it to my iPhone. :)
Awesome and hilarious concept, brilliant to garner PR since it's such a fun story.

Great iphone PR resources:

List of the top sites to contact -

http://www.altiapp.com/2011/09/ultimate-list-of-free-iphone-...

Nice presentation on mobile-app specific PR:

http://www.slideshare.net/triplepoint/pr-101-for-iphone-game...

Your story has legs - worth maybe hitting TechCrunch and the other big boys as well - good luck!
Long Live Firefox: Google Renews its Search Deal
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Absolutely. Most often I catch myself do private browsing in Chrome and 'feel' safer with Firefox. May be my fears are unfounded and yet I do it often.
I'm seeing it currently (Win, Chrome, Adblock). I don't remember seeing it yesterday, but not sure if it's because they updated the page or that I'm not used to looking for service details on signup.

Either way, it's disingenuous, IMO. You can call it "user error" and ignore the issue, but I doubt I'm the only one.
For better or for worse, I'm a fan of minimalism, but it has to just work. That's not the case currently - I'm finding this very frustrating.

-I made a page, then registered, but there's no way to associate a previously made page to an account. (I guess I have to change the original name to a throwaway account and start again)

-No way to delete a page?

-I tried to make a simple list of links. It works once, but when you edit the page a second time, the :link tags are no longer properly parsed.

-Links move around or disappear in different views. In particular, the contacts link is gone when I log in.

The list goes on, but... am I the only one with all of these simple usage problems? Or have people upvoted this submission without actually trying the product?
I will just share my experience:

We opted for an LLC and did it with Company Corporation (.com). If I remember correctly it was about $350. We then had an attorney look over the documents ($75 for initial consult) who said they were fine for a 'beginning'. We were careful to require vesting so that one of the partners couldn't 'walk away'. My only suggestion would be to have someone with LLC or legal ease experience walk with you through the application process as it isn't in plain English (at least not in my mind). You can dictate in your LLC agreement how to add equity employees and distribute more shares as needed. At some point in time, if you need to change over to a C-corp it will probably as you earn money or get funded.
Maybe they could release some more stock as a 50% off Groupon deal :)
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> And sorry, I don't believe WebOS or WP7 would factor into the conversation even if Android died

So everyone would use iPhones or dumb phones? I doubt that. There is little reason to think that is exactly what would have ended up happening if Android never had existed.
True. I'm not saying that google's integration is necessarily a good thing, but many people like having everything easily accessible, and don't consider the downsides to putting all their private eggs in one basket. I keep wanting Opera to be faster and better on Mac OS X, and while I enjoy Firefox, I'm not a huge fan of the design of it on a Mac.
I think it is a bit silly to try to re-create OO with type classes or vice-versa. They are just two different modes of thinking and represent two different ways of architecting your program. Personally, I do find OOP a hoax, which leads to just horrendous code, but I'm sure either approach can be used to solve the problem at hand as long as you don't try to fit the round-peg in the square-hole.

For a case against OOP read : http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ObjectOrientationIsaHoax
How is that possible if this feature existed in skype/google before the iPhone was ever a product? Did anyone else use skype to call numbers directly from email or firefox?
Or you could approach poetry with critical thought and understand how and why it is made, perhaps even improving your own writing and reasoning skills at the same time, instead of treating it as "utterly useless".
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I would let the survey go over at least a full 24 hours. If you ask at night, you might only get responses from the nocturnal people, and same problem for asking during the day.
The Death of the Notebook - a better way to keep notes.
About to pull a few shots of Black Cat right now...
Is there any way to monetize legitimate software search traffic to a decent search engine without cutting a special deal like this?

I have an app-launcher-like project I'm working on that could benefit from this kind of arrangement, but browser toolbar scammers seem to have scorched the earth.

Anyway, great to see this deal continue. This is a great partnership that I presume both sides would like to keep going, but the details still have to work out right.

Sort of like Pixar and Disney in the 90's. Then again, Disney didn't figure out how to make Pixar-quality movies back then, yet Google has definitely figured out how to make a world-class browser.
> "A VBA macro could do this", I said. It took me about as long to write the program as it would to have just calculated the royalties - it saved no time. However, next quarter it saved weeks of time. And the quarter after. Even the external consultant didn't mind that she wasn't needed for this process; we used the same budget to hire her to do more interesting work instead. And the time it freed up for me? I began producing my own shows. It wasn't a huge station, but there I was, still 22 and producing national radio programs with tens of thousands of listeners - all because I saw an opportunity to write a VBA script.

Inspiring advice and anecdote. The problem is that few organizations have the capacity to pivot like that...that is, the people whose work you've made redundant or easier don't get moved to different duties...because of poor management or initiative on the individual's part. If only more organizations and bureaucracies were able to see created-efficiencies as a way to re-allocate resources, rather than cut costs.
SOPA specifically (without actually naming it) calls out addons.mozilla.org for the whole mafiaafire thing -- so under SOPA, this add-on wouldn't be allowed to stay up.

"[T]his version targets software developers and distributors as well. It allows the Attorney General (doing Hollywood or trademark holders' bidding) to go after more or less anyone who provides or offers a product or service that could be used to get around DNS blacklisting orders."

Second paragraph: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/11/hollywood-new-war-on-s...

(Disclosure: I'm a developer on addons.mozilla.org; EDIT: Changed the post to add a source)
Some additional data points to help parse this:

• the agreement appears to be with the Mozilla corporation, rather than the non-profit foundation... but the corporation is 100% owned by the foundation, so the distinction is mainly for tax/accounting/reporting advantages

• the prior agreement delivered over $80 million in yearly revenue to Mozilla (as of the last time I recall seeing credible numbers reported, a couple years ago)

• the prior agreement technically expired 3 weeks ago, so the multi-year renewal negotiations may have had some wrinkles

I hope Mozilla is now earning even more; with the rise of Chrome and iOS they may need it.
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Some of the stuff they do isn't that far from sorting. The screenshot where you can filter to "last 7 days", "last 30 days", etc. is a discretized alternative to sorting by age that then doesn't sort within the discrete buckets. May or may not be a better UI; depends on what people use it for and what people would've used sorting-by-age for.
It's a really good idea to question the fundamentals of presentation. People, however, are really good at looking at tables and detecting patterns (at least, according to Tufte), and, since we're unlikely to anticipate all the ways people will use data, it's a good idea to make sure that, in addition to the good ideas we come up with, we give users options to muck with data to their heart's content.
> I don't believe this for a second. Apple has a specific problem with Android because android has >50% market share.

Apple has been targeting them since before Android was popular. The Android project caused a huge rift between Apple and Google, this is well documented. Marketshare has nothing to do with it.

> You have to be joking if you believe that Apple wouldn't consider the same actions against Microsoft if they had similar market share.

I'm not joking. They would have little or no case as Microsoft actually paid attention to patents when developing WP7. Google didn't.

You also have no evidence of this, other than the fact that you don't like Apple. I have lots of evidence that marketshare was irrelevant to Steve Jobs Android hate, for instance it's documented in his bio.

> Microsoft has a lot more lawfare equipment.

I have no idea what this statement is supposed to mean.

> Microsoft has < 1% market share.

Really? That's the only difference?

How about the fact that WP7 is substantially different and original when compared to iOS and Android and they would have no case? No? That's not a difference? Ok...
It's definitely a tired meme that is really losing effectiveness in terms of getting my attention. I think the best titles tease you with a bit of insight.
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> There is absolutely no reason for me to have 16GB of RAM other than to brag about the fact that I have such a ridiculous amount of memory.

16GB in a desktop really isn't that ridiculous especially as a developer that might run VMs. In a non-mac with 4 ram slots, its <$100, which is very attainable. He is running an iMac with only 2 slots, making the RAM more like $250, but for a developer, this still isn't that much.
It would be quite ironic if the ultimate legacy of SOPA is to strengthen the web by evolving the nature of DNS.

I'm reminded of the past "victories" of the copyright lobby that ended up doing more harm (from their perspective) than good: shuttering Napster (which lead to the much better decentralized systems used for piracy today) and passing of the DMCA (which actually ended up giving legal coverage to businesses that profit from infringement).
I'm not seeing this game in the AppStore
Notable especially because GitHub had their own CI server: CI Joe https://github.com/defunkt/cijoe
Emacs. 'Nuff said.

Just kidding. Actually MacVim, too.

The current gen i7 MacBook Pro is an insanely great machine.

- I pretty much can not work without VMWare Fusion.

- Tower for git, Cornerstone for svn

- Sparrow, for I want a second mail client beside Mail.app that does not suck

- TextExpander is pretty useful

- Pixelmator. It's enough for what I need to do.

- Reeder, my favourite RSS client

- The Unarchiver, in case anyone did not know that one

- Spotify

- Outbank, for European bank accounts

- Transmit. Awesome FTP client.
Thanks for that reply!
The built one doesn't spurt anything: if the archive contains a directory or a single file it extracts that in place, if it contains a bunch of files it will create a directory with the archive name and put the files in there. This is what I want 99% of the time.
This may just be a case of giving credit where none was necessarily due. The absence of sort may just be a victim of 37signal's own design philosophy of only including features that users want and repeatedly request thus causing them to float to the top of the queue. In the grand scheme of things, High Rise and Base Camp users probably have other more pressing feature requests / complaints that they would rather get implemented pronto.
Can someone find a link to the source code (it is licensed under the GPLv2)? I tried to open the xpi in a text editor, but no dice.

I don't have much experience with FF addons, but I'd like to see exactly what's happening here.
Load the link in your safari on your iPod/iPad/iPhone and it will take you to it in the store.
New Anti-Sopa extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/desopa/
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That behavior for fsync() is permitted by POSIX (and incidentally matches a permitted, but not required, interpretation of sync()). It's also something that, given reasonable application design, should rarely be an issue.

Part of Firefox's problem was that practically everything a user would do resulted in fsync() being called -- that's unnecessary and unreasonable. It's one thing to fsync() when one adds a bookmark, or saves a password. Doing it every time a link is clicked is just insane, and would pose a performance problem regardless of ext3's eccentricities.
Are you at a conference in order to expand your professional network and to learn, or are you there to be a sleazebag?
Nope - (4 mod 5) is -1, so it passes and is not called composite.
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At the end of the day, it should be the user that grants individual permissions, not an all-or-nothing application request. (See Also: the Facebook permission add-ons that do just that.)

I agree with fookyong, that the request to post things on my behalf is an immediate yellow flag for any application except for a Twitter client.
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Thanks for setting this up, I probably can get 1-2 more to come
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Looks pretty cool, downloading now. Why is it free, though? Charge a buck for it at least.
I decided we need a definitive HN poll, so see:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3374755
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i'm pretty sure google's custom search provides income from ads clicked through it.

https://www.google.com/cse/
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This is an outrage. We need to pass a bill that forces ISPs to scan for this plugin and report users to the government for prosecution. The nerve of these criminals.
We've been very lucky to have a lot of ingenious JRuby users help port some of those extensions or produce API-compatible wrappers around equivalent Java libs. There's still C exts we don't have equivalent JRuby exts for, but things are much better than they used to be.
I have considered doing RDP in JS; however, it's a considerably more complex protocol and for that reason it wasn't really appropriate for a 24hr hackday..
I think a lot of this depends on what you mean by "backend". Personally, I need a designer who can write the frontend. That means HTML/CSS, but it also means JS (because what is a web app without JS these days). More importantly, it means being able to work directly on the app without hand-holding - for example, knowing where the CSS goes in a Rails project and being able to work on it directly.

I wouldn't expect my designer to write a sorting algorithm, or a web crawler, or anything that's more code-y, but HTML/CSS/JS and the frameworks which hold them are part of the toolset.
This is great. No more hosting twiml out of my public dropbox!
That Wikipedia article used to explain how democracy was not an example of "wisdom of the crowds"; I'm disappointed that I can't find an older revision with that segment intact.

But that said, it's important to distinguish "crowd" from "people". I've lately been trying to explain to people that the vote is the least important (while still being necessary) part of a democracy. The effort of explaining to the whole population why a certain law needs passage is the soul of democracy; votes are merely to maintain a formal record of dissent and to resolve deadlocks. They're decision making tools of last resort.
Why? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3373018
I don't disagree, and at least there was a checkbox, but blaming the user for what's at best a UX issue and at worst an abuse of trust doesn't bode well for a new service.
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Searching out some information about mail service providers, I found the resource section of mailchimp. This section houses short articles about the use of their system or best practices. What makes it incredibly engaging is the amount of time they spent in designing a dust jacket cover for each article. I think it is worth a mention and goes above and beyond a photo comp. Great job.
In many countries, you can not give up your right to sue. For example in Australia, when you go skating and there is a sign "Skate at your own risk" it means nothing.
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An xpi is simply a zip archive, FYI.
For an example of someone doing this all the way at the top of the corporate hierarchy, look to Ricardo Semler. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo_Semler
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Lamar Smith Says 'Just Joking...' About Tomorrow; SOPA Markup Postponed
Memory is cheap?

JRuby largely uses more memory because we have a "real" garbage collector. The JVM, unlike MRI, allocates much more memory than the app needs. That gives it freedom to delay GC runs and push old objects into rarely-GCed sections of memory. It does also mean JRuby uses more memory on startup.

JRuby also has the JVM's subsystems booted and considerably more complex caching and optimization logic. This does increase the base size of a JRuby runtime.

It's possible to get JRuby to start in under 30MB if you explicitly force the JVM to use less memory with -J-Xmx30M or lower. But is it that big a deal? Let the JVM breathe, and your code runs better as a result.
Most would call that a filter, not a sort.
The problem with data=ordered is that it imposes a global order, allowing one I/O stream to stall others. Imagine if waiting for data to be acknowleged on one TCP socket meant waiting for all data sent earlier on all sockets - even those to slower peers - to be acknowledged as well. That's completely FUBAR, but it's basically what fsync with data=ordered does to an entire filesystem. There are hundreds of performance reports showing this effect, and nobody cares if one user's I/O patterns are too lame for them to have noticed.

The problem is that, in ext3, not using data=ordered is also problematic - this time in terms of potential corruption and security issues. That's why even the people who brought you ext3 abandoned it years ago in favor of making ext4 do these things the right way. If you want reasonable fsync behavior, plus niceties like block-size awareness and trim/discard support, you need to use a modern filesystem.

A piece of software that embodies a broken approach to a solved problem is by definition obsolete, and that includes ext3. Please don't make claims about what's obsolete when you don't even understand the issues that would make it so.
I wonder if he's leaving it free to minimize the number of reasons for Rovio to go after him.
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xpi files are "normal" renamed zip files. Try extracting the contents using your favorite unzipping application. You should then get access to the source files.
This program is a proof of concept that SOPA will not help prevent piracy. The program, implemented as a Firefox extension, simply contacts offshore domain name resolution services to obtain the IP address for any desired website

I thought a major part of SOPA will be censoring sites, not just removing them from DNS. So even if you can resolve them offshore, they are going to be censored versions of the sites you know and love.
I too am very frustrated with this problem. I would love a library to implement temporal-difference learning, but I can't implement it from the papers describing it.

What could I or others do about this problem?
The thing for me isn't that you'll necessarily climb the ranks as a result of this - but that any job you can automate away is a bloody boring job to do. Even if you don't automatically take on new responsibilities as a result, your job now has less boring bits in, so it's still a win.
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Bingo. As soon as possible after building a product that starts getting traction I build teams of people who are far better than me in every relevant discipline who can sprinkle true awesomeness on their respective areas. From that point my "deep understanding of all areas" (as you put it) gives me the judgment to lead the team as we relentless prioritize efforts in the individual aspects of the whole product. That skill set was valuable at least through the IPO, twice.

Even before I started my own companies I was a product manager at a large company, and groking the hardware, software, UX, manufacturing, and marketing aspects of the product gave me uncommon influence with the real experts in each of those domains -- because I had and could communicate that end-to-end vision of what was possible.
Why can't you expand both your professional AND personal networks at a conference? Hitting on someone doesn't necessarily make you a sleazebag-- there are respectful ways to do it.
Moreover, they're asking users to make a decision about whether to promote their service without first using it. I think you'd get more engagement if you populated your timeline and there was a message that said, "Hey, isn't this cool? Let us know what you think, or tell your friends about it. Thanks for using <SERVICE>!"
SOPA: The End of the Internet as We Know it
It could be awesome if they licensed the technology to someone else, but because of the way the tech works, you're going to inherently have lower resolution and (more importantly to photojournalists) bad low light performance. It reminds me of the tradeoffs that the Foveon sensor made. Insanely good high ISO performance (like you get with the D3S now even up to 128,000 ISO, and that could easily hit 512,000 in a couple of years) can actually obviate the need for this kind of focus adjustment because you can shoot at f/8 and get a high depth of field even in low light scenarios.