skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can also get at the arguments of the previous command line with !!:n, where n is the position of the argument.

i.e.

host:test user$ touch one two three four five
host:test user$ ls
five	four	one	three	two
host:test user$ cat four
host:test user$ echo !!:1
echo four
four

Also, "Esc, dot" is an awesome bash shortcut. (Press them consecutively, not concurrently). It inserts the last argument of the previous command in place. So if you're doing something to the same file, Esc, . will usually bring up the file name.

i.e.

host:test user$ cat five
host:test user$ touch [Esc, .]
Ask.com Search Is Effectively Nothing More Than An Ad Engine
Bee's have a ~million neurons and they have a simple language etc. Now you might assume they think like we do and then say "there brains are to tiny to do that" and then go off on a tangent. However, building a neural net with 50k neurons would let them do complex calculations without understanding them. They don't need to "think", flap wing, flap wing, flap wing, flap wing to fly just have a few cells which pulse every few fractions of a second and it works.

So, the calculation of a six fold manifold might be going on in their tiny brains but it's not thought just raw math. Evolving systems don't need to produce maintainable code they just need to work. The idea that our brains can get our eyes to work and walking works etc but bee's can't do calculations is silly. They don't need to understand what's going on just simulate something that works.
Can anyone explain the reason for these attitudes? Is it just because expected fraud rates for that particular industry are higher?
The JRuby guys have definitely been doing lots of good work, it's just impressive to see it pay off like that.
I consider techchrunch as tabloid trash. HN is meant for nice informative articles and threads. But sadly now, the quality has gone down.
Is This the Cloud OS You Wanted?
I would suggest also offering an alternative screen tour as well. Since not everyone will have sound enabled or speakers on -- especially in offices.
Does seem a tad bit condescending.
Sony Ericsson F305 Black Unlocked
Sony Ericsson F305 Black include 2 megapixel camera, Mp3 player, motion based games. The 2.0 inches TFT display is outdo for Motion-based games. Mp3 player let you listen your favorite collection from your phone memory while FM Radio.
It's missing the minor explosion due to a faulty soldering joint, other than that it looks pretty accurate.
Two questions: how is it different/better than Mozilla platform? And why is their demo app looks butt-ugly and doesn't resemble native desktop software at all?

We've gone this route on a couple of projects: and running offline web pages inside of an embedded browser window is not a "rich desktop application" - it's a web site running off your hard drive, there is a big difference.
JamLegend Launches Free Guitar Hero for the Web Browser
Sounds like an opportunity for a bunch of startups.
exactly, AI hasn't lived up to the promises which was my original point. Remember I was responding to this quote,

"they give the anecdotal hint that limitations will ALWAYS be beaten."

Limitations will not always be beaten.
1.) It's possible, though if that happens, I probably wouldn't write about it because I don't want to bad-mouth my employer. I also got the impression that there's a lot of cool, meaningful stuff going on in the Googleplex, but we just don't see most of it because products typically take a few years to mature. Think of all the stealth-mode startups that are out there building things you've never heard of, then imagine that going on inside one organization.

2.) Similarly, one of my reasons for choosing Google was indeed to meet potential new cofounders, but I wouldn't recruit them directly away from work (I don't think I legally can - I'm guessing that Google will have a no-solicit agreement like every other tech place I've worked at). It's more to get to know them as friends, so that if 5-10 years down the line, we're both getting really bored with everything going on at the Googleplex, there's a big pool of people that I'd like to work with.
they can make money the same way adobe makes money

flex is currently free, soon to be open source I believe, they make money by selling you the IDE and tools to make development easier
good post. q: so why can't said new system 'work universally' (at least online) by users generating their own "pseudonymous" online identities (name/email/pass/etc) and managing these per site/relying party? the 'generating application' or party has oversight and responsibility for fraud but no others and the user controls key aspects relating to government subpeona type issues. thoughts?
Why not have a permanent mail id that you use only on sites that you don't trust.
OpenCL V1.0 Spec Released; Distributed, Heterogeneous Computing
I found this interesting because it shows how hard it is to keep a secret when many people need to know it, and those on the outside are willing to do anything to find out.
I'm actually really glad I did try it in my mid-20s. Got the first failure out of the way; now if I want to come back to it, I've got that much more experience.

I just don't want to spend all my 20s tilting at windmills.

I'm also heartened by some of the stories in Founders at Work about founders that tried entrepreneurship when they were young, failed at it, then came back to it when they had some more work experience and a better idea and succeeded. TripAdvisor comes to mind.
I'm tempted to read the court transcripts. Did her lawyer not hire an expert to explain computers to the jury?
Fair enough. Is there a larger group of hackers out there as well? I find it hard enough to find a good community here in Vancouver, that's why I'm asking. :-)
New Web attack exploits unpatched IE flaw
If anyone is interested in more of these tricks, this document was on HN a while back: http://www.scribd.com/full/2933314?access_key=key-2lwqsfr2e5...
The way your first paragraph is worded reminds me of this Obama-using-a-blackberry stuff that is making the rounds. There are other risks than the receiving end in the president's case. When it's easier to communicate, via any available channel, the ability to access the communication channel ceases to be a decent (reliable?) authentication mechanism.

Movies always seem to get this wrong, in both directions. I mean, did Trinity REALLY have to physically break in to the power plant to use an ssh exploit? If she could break in, why was an ssh exploit necessary. And if she could use an ssh exploit, why did physical access help? It all seems unlikely (but makes for good explosions).
I'm told that the tunnels between the handsets and the corporate BES servers are encrypted and that RIM doesn't have the ability to do key escrow or any other kind of on-demand analysis of the traffic. Even supposing that to not be true, the chances of espionage via blackberry surveillance are astronomically small compared even to people attaching data to an email and typing in "John C<tab>" to the To: list, getting John Competitor instead of John Coworker. This again is overshadowed by having a disgruntled or compromised employee on email threads leaking data.

Device loss can be mitigated by security policies (remote wipe and wipe on N bad passwords) and basic executive training on what to do in the event of a loss or theft.

Just about any other attack vector could be worse or at least as bad, and substantially easier to implement. Not really worried about it.
Agreed. I mean liberal use of the term hacker to mean using computers for things they don't understand, so they _must_ be illegal or causing someone harm. Liberal use of the term in inappropriate contexts rather than liberal definition of the term.
yet-another "rich app platform" no one will ever use and no will ever care about
Who said anybody was working on an SVG rendering engine? Also, SVG is now available in the latest release of every major browser, so it doesn't matter what else is around, the point is that SVG is now one option for building web apps.

What does burning money have to do with anything? Cappuccino is an open source project. 280 North is a 3 person company.
Gmail's New Task List Manager: A Remember The Milk Killer?
Global advertising spend to tumble $21bn
Easier than [Esc, .] is !$. Does the same thing.
This is such a crappy link covering the details of this case. Here's better information: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081124-teacher-in-por...

To summarize:
She was a substitute teacher.
She lost her teaching credentials instead of 40 years in prison.
It was a windows 98 computer.
She didn't have the sense to turn off the monitor, she tried to fight the battle of endless spyware pop ups.
The "expert" they had to explain the computers knew nothing.
Microsoft's BizSpark, In First 30 Days, Reaches Thousands of Startups
We were not meant to review code by email after the fact
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Start-Up Founders: Take Your Spouse on a Date
Trivium, SSE2, CorePy, and the “cube attack”
There are other faster options on Linux than gcc, you know. Doesn't icc benchmark faster than vc++?

I'm not sure why you don't hear more about gcc vs icc & borland in the open source world. They are free for non-commercial use after all.
Either work, it all amounts to habit. My fingers are just used to hitting esc, . and it's nice to see the argument get inserted inline as I'm editing.
Firefox 3.1 beta 2 adds private browsing, kills one cool feature
I think so, i already started using google tasks, i'm pretty sure they're gonna improve it more in the future.
Sounds like some kid discovering a bash feature, nothing more. May I post a link to a page with a whole lotta nifty bash tricks instead? http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2003/papers/bash_tips/
It's saying that a security hole was fixed in IE, and those that have not applied the patch are being attacked. That's hardly news.

On top of that, it's practically common knowledge that IE has a lot of security holes. That makes this story even less news-worthy.
To me this sounds very much like the waterfall model: read requirements, think, write, done.

This has a long, long beard.
Challenges in hydrogen storage
What's scary is that 'Hot or Not' is on the list. That is the digg-type stuff we need to keep out.

But to be honest, I haven't seen a whole lot of 'fluff' in the short period I've been here.
Because icc's performance isn't great on non-intel cpus? And it isn't particularly portable (only available for Windows, Linux, OS X).

Plus, the open source world got burned pretty badly by BitKeeper. Now they want to use free (as in speech) tools.
forex dwarfs global equity markets.
Given that his site focuses almost exclusively on news for the early-adopter Apple enthusiast, I would guess that he would naturally have a much lower proportion of IE users in his audience than other sites, even if his site worked flawlessly in IE.

Note, for example, that he tests his site against both Safari and Firefox, so we can assume he is not turning away those users. If his site attracted the "average" web surfer, one would expect roughly three times as many Firefox users as Safari users. But he actually attracting twice as many Safari users as Firefox. Since his non-IE traffic is so heavily skewed to Safari, it's not unimaginable that his IE traffic would be similarly skewed, regardless of any IE rendering problems.
> Because icc's performance isn't great on non-intel cpus?

I'm not sure that's true. I think it still out-performs gcc on AMD chips.
Not sure how useful this is with the 140 character limit, and I'd rather not get spammed by Twitter notifying me that someone responded to a chat.

I'll stick to IRC for now.
A no-fly zone to protect Linux from patent trolls
Why didn't you let it run on auto-pilot?

(It was a games aggregator, right?)
"It generates 128 simultaneous output streams using SSE2 intrinsics, and achieves under 1 cycle/byte, over four times faster than standard implementations. The entire program is in Python; SSE2 machine instructions are generated and called using the tool CorePy"
Microsoft will discard search data sooner if rivals do same
You're basically describing the status quo; which obviously, does work for the most part. But, there are a couple of elements driving stronger authentication forward; the current lack of a safe and effective cash equivalent for online transactions (anything that is charging a 1-2% transaction fee is not cash equivalent), the desire for executing binding legal documents over the internet (you can in the US have people click [agree] on a web form and be good, but it's hokey and nobody takes it seriously), and the widespread perception that digital crime is endemic.

My guess, based on the nature of the industry is that whatever solution we get will be built on a stack that's already widely deployed (x509 certificates) and that it will be tied to the post office since showing your ID documents to a public official will be part of proving who you are.
No Linux client yet.
Google: Down Economy? Sell Booze Ads
Full of pithy and sensationalist blog posts? Most certainly.
Stop reminding me that I'm on Windows
http://searchyc.com/submissions/hotornot.com

It is not 'digg-type stuff'. It's a founder, talking about a successful startup.
Why commenting is not enough
I couldn't agree more. I've really wanted to jump on the "air" bandwagon but for the reasons you mentioned it's just too much of a risk. Why can't Adobe offer the developer the option to wrap an air application into a standalone piece of software? There was some work done by someone to do this and they created the "Shu Player" but Adobe cried foul. (http://shu-player.com/air-runtime-notice) Can anyone explain why Adobe is so resistant to improving the distribution process for air applications?
What's funny about this headline is that almost everything interacts with quantum fields. Indeed, that's what matter is. If you look at in the right way, a honeybee is what you get when you apply just the right sequence of field creation operators to the vacuum.
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You are not your job. You are not your online profiles. You are not your YC karma. But hey, that shouldn't stop you from displaying it...

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Greenspun's tag line is "A posting every day; an interesting idea every three months." This isn't one of the interesting ones. It's about as useful as your typical /. comment.
It is also worth noting the burdens on the children of startup founders and early stage employees. Founders should also consider time they may lose with their kids. Feel free to bring the blackberry to the baseball game, but at least pay attention when your kids at bat.
America's Next Top (Computer) Model
It's definitely possible. I haven't seen any benchmarks myself. I just remembered hearing that ICC purposefully produced crippled code on amd cpus. (http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/DownloadableAss...).

The relevant section:
Intel has designed its compiler purposely to degrade performance when a program is run on an AMD platform. To achieve this, Intel designed the compiler to compile code
along several alternate code paths. Some paths are executed when the program runs on an Intel platform and others are executed when the program is operated on a computer with an AMD microprocessor. (The choice of code path is determined when the program is started, using a feature known as "CPUID" which identifies the computer’s microprocessor.) By design, the code paths were not created equally. If the program detects a "Genuine Intel" microprocessor, it executes a fully optimized code path and operates with the maximum efficiency. However, if the program detects an "Authentic AMD" microprocessor, it executes a different code path that will degrade the program’s performance or cause it to crash.

I think the main reasons are ideological (icc isn't free as in beer) and practical (ICC doesn't work on a huge number of architectures or os's that gcc does).
When you grow older you'll realise that the prime of your life isn't necessarily your twenties. I'm in my thirties and have so much more wisdom, better friends, and am more at peace with who I am. I have friends that are in their 60's and they have even more wisdom, friends and peace than I do. Your prime isn't your 20's but it's hard to see before you grow older.

At least that's my experience.
The beauty of this is that end-users have no extra install path. They download an app, and use it. For the developer, it's a matter of taking the same skills that make rich web apps, and make them run client side.
You clearly misunderstand your own theory, because this specific paper written by an evolutionist (on TalkOrigins, the shrine of evidence for Evolution) reinforces the view on why biological evolution has no goal:
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/evolphil/teleology.html

When Dawkins talks about genes maximising their representation in the gene pool, this is a metaphor not an explanation. Genes just replicate. It happens that those that out-replicate others end up out-surviving them. There is no 'goal' to genetic behaviour.

Evolutionists are always screaming about the evidence, and it's rarely been debated that biological evolution is completely devoid of a designer, purpose, intelligence, or end goal anywhere in the process. That's one of the basic truths you get out of the naturalistic assumptions that base biological Evolution.
While the number of nytimes stories has gone up.

To me this is just as bad. Occasionally their is a good story, but nothing that can't be found at any number of other news sites or blogs.
Experts tend to think though problems until they know they can solve them with the given constraints. This does not mean a 100% upfront solution to all problems but rather an understand where the problems are going to be and how to avoid them. I think the idea of a lazy programmer is someone who avoids early optimization and does whatever will make his job faster at each stage of the process.
Lots of bash tips, organized like bash.org: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=142045
A possible alternate title would be: "How the DA office's culture of malicious prosecution and willful ignorance almost cost a woman her life".

Where are the real prosecutions here? Why is the dishonest IT witness not being charged? Why are the prosecutors allowed to fervently harass people who are clearly innocent?
more kindling for the "startup-culture-as-cliche" bonfire
It was a game creation engine, and we didn't complete it to a degree where I would've felt comfortable launching it.

We also did a Flash games hosting site, as sort of a warmup, that was live and had some traffic. I left the decision on whether to keep that running up to my cofounder, since he was paying the server bills, and he chose to shut it down. I think it was moderately unprofitable (as in, it costs $80/month to operate and generated about $60/month in revenue) - it probably could have been profitable had we downgraded to a shared webhost or VPS, but he didn't want the hassle.
Probably they just want to trick Google into discarding its valuable data... Clearly MS has little to lose, since it doesn't have all that much data (compared to Google).
They don't take Discover? I'm surprised. Sam's now takes that and Mastercard. I would think Costco's superior volume could get them an awesome deal.
I really don't see how Appcelerator can provide a better IDE (and charge for it), seeing as how it is all written in Javascript.

I can't think of any tools, short of some kind of WYSIWYG tool, which I don't think they have the resources to create.

They already tried consulting, using their product with all of their clients. That has failed.

I think they're banking on support, but haven't all successful support-backed open source companies started out as projects first, and THEN were turned into companies? Is it feasible to put the cart before the horse when trying to make money from an open source framework? (Adobe, Microsoft, et al can do this because they have massive amounts of money- far more than 4.1M)

I'm not trying to bash them or be antagonistic- I honestly want to know how something like this can make money.
IPhone developer profiles/endorsements wiki (Working With Rails for iPhone devs)
Story/motivation behind the site at:

http://www.mobileorchard.com/iphone-developer-profiles/
Added it to my new site hosted on GAE http://www.danworth.com
People leaving at the same time to start a company isn't solicitation
There are already a bunch of startups. Facebook and FriendFeed are basically both information filters. So are Tipjoy, Reddit, Digg, SU and HN.
Ask HN: Review my Web Design
Just finished this for a client. Hulu-esque theme / mimic. Slideshow powered by some custom jQuery + scrollTo plugin. Backend is Drupal. Best viewed in IE7. What do you think?
Zune phone coming at CES keynote?
Not really. ;-)

Our goal is to make lots of things very, very easy for new users, and make lots of other things readily available for well-informed users. Right now, we aren't aiming to make in-depth analytics very, very easy, because we don't currently believe it's critical for our new users (after all, if you don't have enough of an understanding of the world wide web to make some minor code edits, you probably aren't going to be deriving much value from sophisticated analytics anyway).

With that said, our theming/templating architecture plays well with google analytics, so it's readily available for well-informed users, and we'll be releasing some basic integrated stats soonish.
Why Ruby is not my favorite language
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iPhone Developer Profiles
Silicon Valley Conference Aims to Raise Planetary IQ
Nobody here uses IE anymore, move along
Considering Microsoft's marketshare and income from search, they don't have much to loose by actually leading the pack and, shudder, innovating in the user privacy arena. Give me a reason to use your search services Microsoft.
I was just working on simple widget that showed my last few comments with links back to HN. Although I'm having mixed feelings about using it on my homepage.
agree... After watching their screencast I was asking myself those same questions. I don't see them making a dime, but maybe they have some trick cards to play.
Why mixed feelings?
Big corporations are like children.
Again, mostly yes. Another way I look at a "lazy programmer" is in the way of how a developer works. If a "lazy" developer has to do the same thing 3 times, then they will figure out a way to automate it.

A "lazy" developer also tries to find the best tools for every job, and figures out how to best leverage those tools for maximum productivity and least effort. Whether it be the right language for a task at hand, to using macros and powerful editors (to perform "surgery" on text [I quote Yegge here]) to learning keyboard shortcuts for their IDE of choice so to minimize hand movements etc.

This also applies itself to not violating DRY, to thinking about higher level of abstractions so as to reuse code better, writing modular functions that are easily accessible and do not violate the Principle of Least Surprise.

I know I am missing a lot here, but in conclusion, I agree with you about the article.
So why don't you show how he's wrong?

It might be sarcasm, and he does already post a fair amount about both subjects, but he has a point. You just have a smear.

(I'd still take a slashdot comment over many other websites)
Those all let you be selective of what you take in. Filtering what you send out is also useful, but I don't know what sites besides OurDoings help with that.