skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do contemporary US fitness oriented yoga quite often. It isn't my first choice for a sport, personally, but it works great as a compromise when I'm with my parents, their friends, or with girls. I'd rather do something other than my first choice if it can include more of the people I'm trying to socialize with at the time.

Anyway, for some reason, I look like I'm really struggling when I do it. My arms shake, etc.. This despite being able to run 14 miles throwing myself forward each step, do 30 pull-ups in a row, 100 sit-ups, etc.. Seeing me seemingly suffer, the yoga instructors are constantly telling me things: just do the poses that are within your practice, focus on your breathing and relaxing and not copying the poses, go into an easy child's pose or down dog pose whenever you feel things are too much, don't muscle yourself into a pose, do a few more sun salutations to warm and loosen your body before continuing, do you have any injuries I should be aware of, here is a modified pose that is easier, here is a pose to increase your upper body strength before doing inversions, etc..

Long story short, most people seem to try really hard to copy poses and force their body. That's apparently not the way to do it and teachers try hard to make that clear. I've never been injured, but I imagine it is much less likely doing it their way, which focuses on relaxation and breath.
I happened to have this on while opening the link and it fitted perfectly: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UXrCq384hE
Buildings are not owned in isolation. It affects the whole community, potentially the whole neighbourhood.
Even if it's abandoned, isn't she going to wind up in the Russian version of gitmo? (Siberia?)
No offense, but your comment is a perfect example of how listening to customer feedback is more of an art than science. You ask Joel to keep the product simple in the first paragraph and then ask for some non-trivial features in the third. I'm having trouble visualizing both the linked boards idea and what problem it really solves.

The problem with simple products is that everyone has a different idea of what simple means and think their core feature set is what everyone else would want as well.
There's really no sense of humor here, guys! Downvote me here too! :-)
I immediately thought of that story too! I still think it was an interesting read even after knowing it was part hoax!
Here's the link for those (few?) who haven't read it yet: http://www.kiddofspeed.com/chapter1.html
Enfocus: a dom manipulation library for ClojureScript
Specifically, STALKER. That's all I could think about when looking at those images. They look nearly identical.
> Copyright isn't even incentivizing distribution anymore, it's incentivizing pure marketing.

That's a very interesting point, I'd never seen that clearly before. Thanks.

> J. K. Rowlings' billions don't come out of nowhere, they come out of the pockets of other children's book authors whose works can't get shelf space because monster marketing behemoths like Harry Potter dominate the retail channels.

It seems to me that that can only be true if we could propose some other legislative system, under which readers would have spent the same billions, but now more evenly distributed among all the other authors. I can think of many systems with a weaker form of copyright, in which J.K. Rowling would have been less wealthy, but all the other authors would have earned less money as well.
I doubt it, it doesn't substantially add to any discussion except to indicate you feel the discussion is pointless (unlike everyone else contributing).

For people that see something they are not interested in they can always flag the submission as abusive (though that is a bit extreme) or simply, you know, not click on the article/discussion link.

I see lots of stories on the front page that don't interest me, I simply don't read them or upvote them. If the community at large disagrees with my assesment and chooses to upvote/comment on the stories, so be it.
Electronic games, esp console versions isn't where this knowledge was learned/pioneered.

Numerous PC and even "mainframe" electronic games predate LoZ. Pen & paper "adventure" games are 40 years old at least.
Merry Christmas (Orthodox)
At SXSW 2007, I attended a talk about Python code for Symbian phones. One idea that the speaker threw out was having the phone start to vibrate if you were approaching a high crime part of the city. I wonder if that counts toward prior art or public disclosure of the basic idea of routing around dangerous areas?
A neat list of books designers might like
From the presentation:
"128 memory modules, in eight different servers, running an aggregate of a billion IOPS, 64byte cache accesses."

So "only" 7.5GB/sec (125,000,000 * 64 / 1024^3), or about 60Gbit/s per server, with 16 modules per server. Still fairly respectable by storage standards, at about ten times the theoretical max for SATA III of 6Gbit/s.
Translation into english:
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&...

I was thinking the same thing (vis-a-vis the hoax) like the girl who rode through Chernobyl on her motorcycle which turned out to be a hoax.

Then I thought about places where thieves are stealing cable to the street lights to resell as scrap copper and it makes me wonder if this place would be picked apart like that.
Are you sure they didn't charge the seller that $30? That seems to be PayPal's standard practice.
What's Going On with 61A? Proposal for SICP as a self paced course
I'd love to see a translation of this. There's a few shots with her in them that seem like they'd be tough to do with a tripod & timer (though to be fair I am no photographer) so I'm curious who, if anyone, she went in there with and what brought them there in the first place.
Zelda took place in Hyrule, a land which I would years later learn is topologically a torus.
The Remote-Controlled House
To be fair, this is a lot harder to 'fake' - and even if it's not a missile factory specifically, it's clearly a dilapidated factory of some sort and she got some fantastic photos of it.
if http://is.gd/lUJ8Yi isn't a call to action; I dont want to be right. :D
How is this different than Mongrel2?

Wasn't Mongrel2 created solely because NGINX didn't support ZeroMQ.

@ZedShaw, thoughts - comments?
You have to pay income tax on the $10 sandwich.
Imagine if Dropbox were a non-US company. That section you just argued could be easily misused to block that site. After all, you can share your files on as many computers as you want. Clearly it will all be music and movies. People that want Dropbox taken down only need one or ten examples. In a popular enough website, it would be easy to find some example people that have broken the ToS and uploaded copyrighted conent onto it and shared it with their friends. They could even plant those people!

Oh, but they broke the ToS, that means they're not following what the web site's purpose is? Well, now maligned websites just need to have a ToS that says "don't do bad stuff", and they're fine!

See where I'm going with this?
I'm a student at North Carolina State University, and our CSC department has a large number of people building or at least working at startups. (Though it is still a running joke that everyone in CSC works for IBM at one point or another.)
I went into Circuit City during their sale and was not at all surprised at how expensive everything was. What I was surprised by, though, were the people who were paying those prices in a store that wouldn't be around to provide any service.
You couldn't be more right about what's going on between my cofounder and I. He loves New York. I love San Francisco. But still, I expect there are clear differences between the two tech scenes, for example meetup sizes, general candor, how willing a VC is to meet with you, etc.
Dead Hand - soviet automatic system for launching retaliatory nuclear strike
Open Source Visitor.js
It's where we live :). Maybe in the future we'll do it in SF/SV too, but building Hacker School takes time so it would be quite some time before that happened if at all.
I'm practising Total Immersion - however it's not a total walk in the park towards happy swimming as described by Tim Ferriss (http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2008/08/13/total-immers...) .

It's a great technique and I improved vastly, but I've spent maybe between 100 and 200 hours practising (rough estimate) and I still can only swim between 50 and 100 m before I run out of breath.

And I'm still sinking like a rock. There's an exercise we do, exhale and submerge, and sit on the bottom of the pool. Every instructor does it with some effort, so much is their buoyancy, but that's the one where I shine.

And I know my problem, every instructor tells me - I have to be more relaxed. Well, except that I can not tell myself to relax and just do it - somehow it's a long and slow process, and so far I don't see the way to learn 'relaxing' quickly and effortlessly.
That is possible. However southpark does not usually represent establishment thinking. I remember they did an episode years ago about Napster and they were quite critical of the RIAA position on it.

They would probably have some point like "these laws are bad , but if you don't want people trying to pass them then you should stop pirating stuff"
pwpwp's example is just the trivial case, the point is the change happens outside the usage callstack.

Structural typing can fit a lot of the issues your parent post raised as well. Simply type check on what the function using the value cares about, not that it belongs to same name.
Founder’s Co-op raises $8M angel fund, ‘catalyst’ for the NW startup community
Smartphones power Samsung to record quarterly profit
Thanks for the concept epikur! This is better, but it seems this design would not work on very busy roads. You would never get a chance to cross oncoming traffic due to the volume.

This does seem perfect for most Midwestern highways where space is not really a concern and traffic is relatively light.
100k raised for a film to raise awareness of his project, how much has been raised for the project exactly
Black Ops has pretty much that entire thing perfectly reproduced.
On the rational side, this is obvious, and I’m surprised it hadn’t been done already. On the geek side, this is bloody cool and made me squee. Just saying.
Congrats! So after Mayor Bloomberg graduates from CodeAcademy in Dec'12 (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3434509) he can be part of Hacker School batch #6! :P
Thanks, but neither fountain nor rateless codes appear on that page. :(
Buildings with sewage leaks, inadequate electrical systems, and vermin infestations are a public health hazard, e.g. fires from electrical malfunctions.

Thus, it may be argued that local governments have a legitimate interest in setting minimum property standards.

Typically, owners are given the opportunity to correct violations and fined if they do not.

As fines accumulate, governments will often work with prospective purchasers in order to make transfer of the building's ownership economically viable and provide relief to owners who are unable or unwilling to comply with minimum property standards established by law.

Keep in mind that these buildings are inhabited -- the tenants of these buildings are citizens.

The city government represents their interests - in the US property ceased being the basis for citizenship a number of years ago - and that other citizens are also paying for fire protection and other services which must be rendered by the jurisdiction.
Very cool, but please don't drop out of university. For the vast majority of students, this is a decision that will come back and bite you in the ass when whatever you quit Uni for comes to an end.
Editing timed out, but I wanted to add:

Swimming skill and the learning ability somehow does not correlate with things like fitness, strength, flexibility or even coordination - I practise a martial art and weight training, my body is much better developed compared to an average person ... ON LAND. But in the water - everyone, no matter how old or large or stiff - progresses faster and swims better ... that's frustrating and motivating at the same time.
We'd be happy to have him.
spotify - not available in most of the world.
rdio - not available in most of the world
mog - not available in most of the world
other online streaming services mentioned here - not available in most of the world

grooveshark - available everywhere

that says it all for me. fuck licensing. all it ever means is that the US wants to screw the rest of the world out of the deal.
The thing with this is I just can't imagine the App store getting shut down because of this, or even youtube.

There would be a serious uproar if that happened, people wouldn't stand for it.

More likely is that some pirate sites will die and others will just go deeper underground. The people who are likely to be scared into shutting up shop all together will be smaller distributors of independent or amateur content.

I would be saddened if the Internet became like the high street circa 1996 with a few large companies and producers setting the agenda for what we will watch and listen to.
Maybe it's not supply & demand, but a network effect:

For reading, I would argue the ability to read become more valuable as the literacy rate increases, as society starts to run on the written word.

Perhaps computer literacy is the same.
Why make the text at the bottom of the page a non-clickable image?
Yahoo Seeking New Board Members
Pro tip: Humor is better-appreciated when it's FUNNY. :)
Obviously they respect Mozilla's do-not-track?
Although you could argue that without some piracy control the creative person will just have their content ripped off anyway so can't make a full living.
A quick Googling didn't turn up anything, but I'd be shocked if Matt and Trey supported SOPA. Comedy Central, maybe, but not them.

Allegedly from the South Park Studios FAQ: (http://www.idealog.us/2006/10/matt_and_trey_w.html):

> Matt and Trey do not mind when fans download their episodes off the Internet; they feel that it’s good when people watch the show no matter how they do it.
So this is targeting the thin audience of web site owners that can successfully install and use custom .js but don't know about the $_SERVER variable in PHP (or choose your flavor)?
Spaghetti Against the Wall
Red Hat alone is a pretty poor open source leader in the area, to be honest. The headquarters is mostly support and business, with very little engineering work being done, so they tend not to have much presence. I'm a member of the NCSU LUG, and while they're on our campus (literally next door to the computer science building), we've had a fairly difficult time maintaining a relationship with them. As long as I've been a member, we've been unable to get speakers from them.

On the other hand, they do provide a meeting space for a couple of local groups (namely the TriLUG, though this is changing I believe), and hold a couple un-conferences which are a lot of fun.

As for Durham as a startup scene, I think it has a lot of potential, but I find that most of the capable developers I know are moving out west because staying in NC means you end up working for one of the big corporates for the most part (IBM, SAS, Cisco, etc). I've also been to a few of the startup events, and it feels like a lot of business people and very few "hackers", though perhaps this is just due to selection bias (it is a social event). Durham could use a new, really successful technical startup to give it a jump start.
Could you please expand a little bit on this answer from the FAQ:

"Hacker School is currently only for people who already know how to code."

How well must an applicant know how to code?
What if I wanted an exact precision. Could I use a custom data type to get better precision? If I used a custom data type, how could I make the code work for a distributed system to get parallel behavior?
The problem with these "everybody wins" situation is that not everyone can win all the time. Same thing with being objective. The problem with this type of recommendation is that this approach to negotiations works well for situations such as conflict resolution where objectivity and a "nobody loses" scenario has inherent value. This is untrue for other types of negotiations, especially those related to financial gains.

Just like programming, more often than not, the simplest solution is often the best solution (in terms of ROI). There really isn't a need to over-complicate negotiations when goals are clearly defined. In the case of salary negotiations, the goal is to get paid as much as possible. That's it.
SOPA represents a complete destruction of protections for free speech and due process on the internet. An allegation of wrong-doing is sufficient to trigger the government enforced complete shut-down of a website.

Why should anyone support that regardless of what sort of pretext is used to justify such an abuse of power? Should we round up all single adult males over the age of 40 out of a fear of pedophilia in order to "protect the children"?
Even simpler scalability with Akka through RegistryActor
Hints for writing secure code
Was that the best Frontline ever or what? Thanks.
The point is that without 40 more people on his side, they can just shut down Wyden's filibuster as soon as it starts.
wow - just a reminder of the vast machinery required to produce rockets with chemical based propellants
How do you do this (in your own code)?
Worked at a non-profit for a while, and we had quite a few free licenses that were bought at the MS company store and then donated to us. They were a little tricky in their conditions, but nothing beats free for expensive licences.
"* My school gives me the opportunity to postpone my studies for as long as I need to, so I actually don't need to drop out (my mom will sleep better)"

... plus the world might end this year
How long until we start seeing meta-meta startups?

Startups/hackers that help startups/hackers that help startups/hackers.
I ask this as an honest question so please forgive the directness: in what sense, aside from the parent comment's "trying to remain relevant" theory, is the community-building the "actual point of a library"?

I completely agree that libraries have evolved into this role in the US (though my experience in Europe is drastically different). I'm just wondering if there's any sort of organized policy behind the "Library as community center" phenomenon.
So we should start executing more people in order to make "murder enforcement" stronger? Maybe we should start grabbing people off the street and hanging them to cut down on crime.

Eliminating our civil liberties will not strengthen copyright enforcement. Nor is strengthening protections of intellectual property a sufficient excuse for such.
this is a testing ground for rocket engines. It's not abandoned, but simply the photos were made at night when nobody is around. They perform engine tests quite regularly there.

the girl is lucky that she didn't get poisoned.

the nasty thing is that it's in the middle of a populated area.

UPD: here's the illustration of an actual engine test
http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/2/33213654.df/0_71e83_5dfd0bf...
The administrative overhead of doing this would be immense, if it is even legal (at least in my country).
Is that true? Are Googlers getting 1099s for those awesome catered meals 3 times a day?
As someone who's dropped out of college (three months ago) to start a company in Silicon Valley, I would urge you to think a lot about this decision. I know I have. It's a very serious decision and one that a lot of people take hastily, not knowing what it will really entail until much later.

College is important. I plan on going back before I die. You can get involved with startups, work with them and learn from them, without leaving college. Our world is all about networking, and just like I had an amazing network in SV from my dorm room in Ohio, so can you in Eastern Europe.

I'm not trying to convince you of anything. I've made my decision and I feel convinced it was the right one. I just think some people make it too hastily. Feel free to ping me if you have any questions.
Community managers are nothing short of tribe leaders
> Gilad Bracha introduces Dart, Google’s new language for the web, explaining the reasons behind its conception, what it is and what it is not, some of the main features, and unveiling plans for the future.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Dart
Matt and Trey are actually pretty strong libertarians, so I doubt they'd support it on ideological grounds.

Source(s):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Park_Republican

http://www.libertarianism.com/pop_celebrity/trey-parker
That $100k would go a lot further in the boy's hands than the filmmakers'. Do the backers realise which they are donating to?
Additional Quick Tip (Salary Judo):

If they try to play hardball on salary negotiations. Turn their high standards around on them. Bring a copy of the job listing/requirements.

Boss: "So we'll start you at $<salary>, and welcome aboard."

You: "I look forward to it, but can we agree that I've demonstrated a value of $<salary+30%>?"

Boss: "$<salary> is what everyone gets to start out, we'll review you in 6months."

You: "Your job posting listed you were looking for an expert in a number of fields ABC...XYZ? Perhaps you're looking for more of a junior engineer?"

The key is that you have a polite helpful tone the whole time. It's not confrontational or sarcastic. The point isn't to antagonize. Merely point out that high hiring standards = high compensation standards.
Many states (and some cities) require companies to obtain "going out of business sale" permits for this very reason.

It's considered a deceptive and fraudulent practice to have a final liquidation sale when the firm is not really going out of business.

See, for example, the form required in TX (a state not known for heavy regulation compared to say, CA):

http://www.window.state.tx.us/taxinfo/taxforms/50-290.pdf [pdf]

§ 17.82. Prohibited Conduct
(a) A person may not conduct a sale advertised with the phrase "going out of business," "closing out," "shutting doors forever," or "bankruptcy sale"; the word "foreclosure" or "bankruptcy"; or a similar phrase or word indicating that an enterprise is ceasing business unless the business is closing all of its operations in a county and in all of the counties immediately adjacent to that county and follows the procedures required by this subchapter.
(b) A person may not fraudulently represent that the person is conducting a going out of business sale.
... that are also available outside the US/Canada (German here)
My understanding was that the prime original motivation for unchecked mode was indeed performance. As our Dart implementations are getting more mature, we're starting to get a better picture of how it does actually impact performance.

I think what we're starting to see is that the performance implications aren't that bad. Given that, I think we're focusing less and less on production mode. It's still a valid option and it may make sense for some users but it may not be commonly used, sort of like -Ofast in gcc.
Can Toronto Start-Up Tradyo Become the New (And Improved) Craigslist?
Tradyo proposes to make exchanges using the classifieds as a community-based experience.
1099 and W2 are part of US tax law, which is what I was referring to.
You can argue that but it's not really true. There are controls already in place. Giving them the ability to take down whole domains without any mediation is way too much power. The world needs checks and balances. The smaller artists will not benefit from this because they are not able to police things at that level.

The content producers need to make lawful content delivery a better experience than pirating things. I love steam because it makes things much easier to download, install and keep up to date. It's a better experience all around.

I am all for taking down websites that are gross offenders but this legislation is like cutting off your foot because you stubbed your toe.