skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pulsed lasers make lightweight glasses out of polymers
Silly mikecaron, you know HN doesn't appreciate any kind of humor...
Always, always with the tabs, never spaces.

The main reason is that on my widescreen monitor, indents of 4 characters or less are hard to visually parse in dense areas of code.

If the original author of this code (the actual code I am setting fire to myself over right now) had used tabs instead, then I could set my editor to display indents as 8 or 12 spaces instead, and he can still use 2 spaces if he wants. This is strictly a display issue - he can use 2 and I can use 8, and the file is not different between our two computers.

With spaces, I'm stuck with whatever number of spaces he chose to use for indentation instead of being able to make the code easy to read on my machine.

We're not using 40-column terminals anymore folks. It's all right to uses tabs for indentation.
Yes, you can bring food and drinks onto planes. There may be limits to what you can bring before security, but anything after the security line is fair game.
Yes, it was originally in PHP, but not for very long.
In terms of JavaScript, using it on a website almost certainly counts as distribution. Imagine if jquery were GPL.
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My situation is a little different. I actually enjoy programming. What I miss is the satisfaction of building solutions to real problems and working with other developers who are as passionate and dedicated their work as I am. We put a lot of effort into becoming the best we can. It's nice to have the opportunity to put those skills to good use.
Couldn't agree more.

First, I do not follow Violet's leap that this is tangibly, even subtly, about gender. Just because the object of an ugly and vicious attack happens to be female does not make sexism the conscious or subconscious motivation behind the attack. It's highly likely that the same lynch mob would have gone after a man who aroused their fanboy ire, and with the same level of zeal and fanaticism. Playing the gender card here does no favors to Violet's otherwise interesting and provocative analysis.

Second, I don't understand what Apple is meant to do about this. If one is to accuse Apple, even indirectly, of inspiring this behavior among its fanbase, then one bears at least some burden for suggesting how Apple might address the issue. As it stands, I don't understand a) how this behavior is unique to Apple's fanboys versus, say, everyone else's fanboys, and b) what Apple should -- or even can -- do about it.

Finally, I agree with you that this is more a sad phenomenon of internet fanboyism in general, and less a phenomenon of Apple fanboyism in specific. That Apple fanboyism happens to stand out from the pack is probably a matter of sample size. There are more Apple fanboys out there, among the general population, than there are other types of fanboys. But anyone who's ever browsed an online message board, Reddit topic, etc., about any fanboy-generating topic (video games, movies, comic books, you name it) will see the same sort of craziness that was seen here. That doesn't excuse the craziness by any means; it's obnoxious, ugly, and counterproductive everywhere that it exists. But it does put the craziness of Apple fanboyism into its proper context and perspective.
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That would be because he mentions deleting it:

It looks like telling Google to not show my profile in search results was useless, the only option was to *totally delete it which I have now done*.
I'm very overweight, but not so much that I spill over on a plane seat - yeah, it annoys me when sat next to someone like that.

As to health care, as a smoker in the UK I already contribute much more to the NHS through tobacco taxes than an average smoker will cost in extra health care issues - and I would fully support unhealthy foods being taxed much more heavily.

That said, where do you draw the line? It's not OK to ride a motorbike because it's more dangerous than driving a car or using public transport? It's not OK to play football?
Why reddit sucks: The broken economics of karma
Can small rural publishers make enough money online to survive?
w00T! Loving it.
How to Become Your Company's Storyteller
MeetingBurner Debuts Sleek, Webinar Platform To Rival WebEx
The BSD license forces me to reiterate that license text (AND copyright notices)! How dare they?

PD all the way.</sarcasm-attempt>

(By the way: The end user can use GPL code in proprietary projects - once end users redistribute it, they stop being end users by definition, and only then the GPL requirements kick in)
As was I. But in the meantime, I've been reading the three books that Steve Blank has recommended in various interviews (citation needed):

- http://www.amazon.com/Lean-Startup-Entrepreneurs-Continuous-...

- http://www.amazon.com/Business-Model-Generation-Visionaries-...

- http://www.amazon.com/Four-Steps-Epiphany-Successful-Strateg...

I'd still love to know what was planned for the class, but these volumes have been valuable to me.
Raspbmc - a XBMC-oriented Linux distribution for the Raspberry PI
I have a policy never to open a zdnet.com link. I just feel like I'm polluting my browser by doing so.

But I read this one and I must say it was total bullshit (no offense to the submitter of course). She said an offending thing about that woman, was incorrectly corrected by some Apple-loving bloggers and then she attacks them for being intentionally misinforming. It's like 4 year olds fighting.

This is Shawn King's response to this nonsense of an article: http://4ma.me/509/violet-violet-violet.html

The author's name ('Violet Blue') is a rather strange name and I immediately remembered where I'd heard it before. Read this funny piece by The Macolope about another great article by Violet Blue (the 'Oh, great' section): http://www.macworld.com/article/164003/2011/12/macalope_deba...
The latest dropbox app (currently in beta) can be told to automatically upload all new photos and videos on a device to dropbox. Then a remote server anywhere can watch your dropbox for changes and do something with the files - encrypt them, make remote backups, mail them out, whatever.
Aaah, I suggest that the Khan Academy talk to educators, and I am immediately down-voted. Why am I not surprised?
There's no reason to have a bunch of different prices. You just have a total weight allocation for each customer, and instead of just weighing your bags, they weigh you and your bags. If the combination is overweight, you pay excess just like you do now. (Ideally on a somewhat proportionate scale as opposed to the "oh you are 1lb over, that'll be $100" approach many airlines seem to use now.)
Startup community gets it right once again.
Wonderful ideas, and I love the discussion. Taking a step back and managing the meta-process are very helpful skills if used at the right time.

I found the previous discussion interesting as well:

"The problem is we don't understand the problem" (April 2011)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2591367
Decentralized ID provider support now live on BrowserID
There will be RSS for the issues. That is the first item on the todo list after we get the first issue released.
New Twitter Tags Could Help Sort Through the Noise
Nodester seems to be temporarily down. This is now running on http://ec2-176-34-165-33.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com (and, as soon as the DNS propagates, http://depthcam.mackerron.com).

Edit: Knocking off now, so there won't be a lot to see again until about 10am GMT.
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This speaks more about the benefits for mixins, be they formal or informal. Or composable functions for that matter. C++-style "object oriented programming" is not the only game in town.

What was it Alan Kay said? It's not about the objects, it's about the messages. (That is, messages and redirecting messages).
Cool, support seems to be picking up. Here's a list of implementations: http://dev.chromium.org/spdy

Nginx seems to be the big missing one. I think Mongrel2 would be a good fit too.
Somehow this seems like saying that Paul Erdös, John von Neumann, and Andrew Wiles are different levels of mathematician. Not a productive endeavour.
Sometimes I think mailing lists are the future aswell as the past. Something very elegant about them, moreso than something like google reader. The suckless-tools mailing list (http://suckless.org/community) is a great example.
Lewisham just mentioned a way it is already done, by weighing both passenger and bags together.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3562617

Doesn't seem like it would take more staff, and I'm pretty sure there are technical solutions to automate that.

Also, there are fees for extra weight in the baggage already, so it's not a new feature.
They already weigh your bags when you check them. Just step up on the scale along with your bags. It doesn't really have to be more complicated.
Yup, it's straight up theft. This shows the corrupt side of hacktivists, i guess.
We just launched MB out of BETA this AM after signing up around 25,000 users over the past 6 months and load testing like crazy for a week.

Happy to field questions, comments or concerns!

Some other mentions this AM:

http://thenextweb.com/apps/2012/02/07/meetingburners-browser...

http://lifehacker.com/5882942/meetingburner-is-a-fast-free-v...

http://venturebeat.com/2012/02/07/meetingburner-webex-gotome...

We're thinking about doing a follow-up "How we got launch coverage in TC, LifeHacker, TNW, VentureBeat, etc when the dust settles - anybody interested?
i say no it does not matter how much you weigh i mean all they are doing is embarrassing them in front of everyone
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I really wish I'd had a teacher like him back when I was in high school. I had an algebra 2 teacher call me an idiot in front of the class ... and when I went for after school help, he simply made fun of me the whole time.

Ugh.

Now I write lots of code. Yay!
Stallman on the Check Engine Light in cars
I understand your immune system analogy but it isn't really accurate. Symantec is a billion dollar international corporation which markets itself as being security oriented. They should be doing rigorous security testing, including 3rd party code review. They should be paying the best of the best to crack their code. If their not they're doing it wrong.
To catch up with Fusion-IO in server Flash, EMC created an "internal startup"
Objects when not doing a simulation are merely syntactic sugar of keeping the data and the functions that act on them very close to each other in a very tightly coupled way, while keeping other functions more loosely coupled.

Trying to simulate things that don't require simulation (aka, modeling physical properties), is a bad idea. You're not really making a program then, but a very specific, complicated subset that requires way more work and doesn't get your job done.
Wow that is really just a shockingly poor article. Who are the people upvoting this?
There is a large market for antivirus software - obviously Symantec is one of the biggest - but there are trade secrets in how their heuristics engines work and other secrets that give them a possible competitive edge.
This is a big deal for sites that want to rival Google sites performance-wise. Especially now that it will be in Firefox 11 in addition to Chrome. It would be great if any of the popular proxy servers - like Nginx - also had support for it.
I did this years ago, its not great but may help as a starting point in thinking about it:

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/js/app/timeswire/app.js

Search for this method: updatePageTimestamp

It tries to find a managebale number of updates in a relevant and meaningful time frame "There have been 18 updates in the last 20 minutes" - it works on this page:

http://www.nytimes.com/timeswire/
The New Hustle: Artists in the Digital Age
I would not want to sign up without seeing a sample.
is anybody else disappointed with evernote's minimal todo features. I think that if they include an special todo note with some of the remember the milk features, evernote would serve as a superior todo note medium
This is more of another way of achieving polymorphism. Just because many college level OO classes go coo-coo for co co puffs over inheritance, it doesn't mean saying "inherit less" is a refutation of the whole idea.

Hell, "inherit less" is what you have to say to junior engineers CONSTANTLY upon coming out of school.
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lately they've just raised the airbrake prices to more than 600% WITHOUT ANY NOTICE! I see that exceptional cost 9 usd/month (per project or account? it's not clear)
I'll see what they'll do, and eventually migrate to an open alternative. 5 usd/month for 4 projects is great, 35 usd/month it isn't (speaking for a bootstrapping startup where every cent can make the difference)
He called himself 'The Arab King' and 'King of Kings'...

They were not the best allies - but allies nonetheless; by no means were they sworn enemies. As an example, currently France and UK are not in good political terms, but they are not considered enemies, rather allies with different interests.
>"In 2010... 'For some reason, there was no digital product to help meet new friends'"

There are tons of digital products to help meet new friends. Did he not even check Meetup? This just seems naive.
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If there's one thing worse than fanboyism, it's kneejerk contrarianism, where you reflexively agree with anyone and anything you perceive as outside some 'mainstream' that may only exist in your head, regardless of how accurate that person or thing actually is.

It's the contrarians upvoting this mess.
FTC warns background screening mobile apps may be unlawful
Good advice. Inheritance looks like simple code reuse, but it's extremely inflexible. Every CS 101 class goes through that Mammal.breathe(), Mammal::Animal.walk(), exercise, and every time, someone asks, "Well, what do I do with a dolphin?" Do you borrow swim() from Fish? Or breathe() from Mammal? Or reimplement them? Or what?

I'm convinced they're actually identifying a deep problem with inheritance as a paradigm.

I won't say it's useless; sometimes you really do have an ironclad relationship. But I think if you just want to communicate that your object fulfills a promise, an interface is better. And if the code reuse is circumstantial rather than essential, you're better off reaching for multiple inheritance from partial classes -- traits, mixins, whatever your modern language calls them.
Flawed article but it is a real problem.

The more you love something, the angrier you get when others refuse to love it the same as you. (see political parties, religion, etc...)

Being a PC guy myself, I would love to buy my parents Apple products. For years I hated Apple despite never having tried a single Apple product. I just HATED Apple, i didn't know why. Until one day I just ordered a mac off ebay and got it in my home. After trying it out I realized something shocking. I don't hate Apple at all, It's the fans that I can't stand.

Up until then I was avoiding Apple because I was afraid I'd fall in love with Apple products and turn into a cult member like others I had seen. The Fanboy's arguments were always subtly insulting, condescending, seperationist, and reeked of elitism. If I used a PC I wasn't "up" to their level in creativity or intelligence. (I grew up around a lot of Apple Fanboys, and Nintendo fanboys too)

Long story short I kept the mac for months and used it every day but it just wasn't my thing, for my specific usage it wasn't anything better or more stable than what I had with my PC, I resold it. But one day I think I'll buy my parents a mac. That way I can sleep at night knowing they won't accidentally download an email attachment and brick the thing. And its easier for them to manage. I'm well knowledged in my PC so those benefits don't do anything for me.
Facebook's 'man in the middle' attack on our data
Why Apple's A5 is so big--and iPhone 4 won't get Siri
Declan McCullagh suggests buying PGP rather than using GNUPG [MP3]
Fast-forward one third of the way through, and there is no mention of the open source option which simply seems odd to me.
Halliburton Drops BlackBerry for iPhone
> Based on the tax forms I've had to fill out whenever I've joined an app market or affiliate network

You mean the form W9 they have you fill out to provide your taxpayer identification number? That's so they can send you a 1099-MISC if needed. Any business that pays a non-employee individual over $600 in a year for any service (with a few exceptions) files a 1099-MISC, it has nothing to do with payment aggregation.
GPL2 and GPL3 are compatible. You just can't make GPL2 derivatives of GPL3 software.
Of course they aren't. One of the coolest things about desktop Linux is that you can easily use whatever DE suits your fancy without having to do a bunch of footwork.

Packaging these as different distributions sends your users red flags about compatibility and ease of use. It makes people think they have to change their computer completely if they want to try something new. It makes them think they can't have concurrent DE installs if one user prefers XFCE and another prefers KDE and another prefers Gnome. It makes them look for "Kubuntu packages" instead of "Ubuntu packages" even though the distributions are binary compatible.

There are a lot of implications of pretending like you're a whole different OS when you're just a different default DE.

And I "mess around under /etc" frequently, probably multiple times per week.
As lovely as symbolic mathematics is, it does have one major problem: it can not be parsed.

I do not mean the symbols cannot be drawn etc, but even a simple expression like "ab + c" can not be disambiguated. Is it "a*b + c"? or is there a variable "ab" added to c.

This requires the idea of "closures" .. i.e. history/state in which the expression appears. (Wolfram discussed it at a conference once, but I don't have the reference alas.)

So the solution is either to simply introduce new symbols to facilitate parsing (i.e. require multiplication symbols .. but there are more) or introduce heuristics that use history as the human does.

One promising technology is touch screens and sophisticated trackpads (Magic Pad for example) which lets us "draw" mathematics.
At a third of the price. Price-to-value ratio is much better.

And while the LG Optimus Slider has a smallish screen, it still runs android 2.3. And with a slide-out keyboard, SSH sessions are a lot easier. It's "good enough."
I don't think this is supposed to be viewed as a "fat people policy." If the airlines were to implement this they wouldn't do it to punish obese people. It's not like they're going to calculate your BMI. It would be purely on weight; whether you're 6'5" or 5'6".
Scrolling to the bottom works from anywhere and has for many years. There was a short period of time where it only worked from Google, until Google nailed them for that.
would "u r wrong" have been understood as easily 30 years ago as today? Language change, even 30 years is enough for some changes to happen. Now I'm not saying that 30 years from now we will be talking in im speak but you can't deny that english of today has changed in the last 30 years.

Mathematics has also changed over time. Trying to read mathematics documents from Fermat's period would be rather hard today. In the 20th mathematics saw some pretty drastic changes in the way it's expressed (someone can correct me if I'm wrong on this). Check out this group who had some pretty big influence on how math is expressed today. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Bourbaki
I love blogs. Violet links to Gruber, who links to a clarification about his article, who links back to this original article. I've read them all and I'm struggling to determine what motivates these people to write.
After seizure, online gamblers try to retrieve $150 million from Full Tilt Poker
"Careless Commits Sink Ships" Poster
Ask HN: Any startups using Dwolla for payment-processing?
If you're potentially processing large payments as a marketplace business, credit cards fees will add up quickly -- ACH is one solution, but I'm considering using Dwolla. Only downside is you have to register users in the process. Is anyone doing this/seen examples of it?
Yes, these are all age related. And they're all things we leave in. We also prevent tooth decay, which killed a large group of them. Etc.

I DO judge a book by the blurb the writer puts on the cover, yes. If they want to call out a controversial theory (by their own words), I'll wait until real scientists who are in that area look at the idea, not a pop-sci treatment of an idea that isn't actually being tested, especially a book advocating the death of billions.
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Escaping the Cycle of Technical Debt
Many of us who fly don't check luggage. In fact, I'd be willing to be that the majority of people on shorter domestic flights don't check luggage. All of the sudden an airline would need a lot more staff to weigh people because everyone would now be getting in line to be weighed.

Currently, I print my ticket at home, never go the ticket counter and don't check luggage and have nothing weigh for most of my flights. The idea of weighing me with my bags would require me to start checking luggage.

It is complicated when you think about it. Airlines are trying to get more and more passengers to skip the ticket counter, print their own boarding passes and to not check luggage. That all saves money and time by requiring less staff and even less ticket printers. This proposal to weigh every passenger does not save time or staff resources.
Google Makes Its Chrome Browser Mobile
This almost looks like a win-win situation. If they win people will be granted the right to freely share porn - which might have a downside[1].
If they lose that would certify porn to promote the progress of science and the useful arts which is both fun and liberating for consumers :)

[1]less porn productions?
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Congrats on 25k users in beta...i'd be interested in a follow up on how you got so much interest- also curious what you used to load test?
The problem here is that everybody is wrong and everybody is right. There's no magic method that will help everyone learn everything. The answer is that we need to figure out the right mix of things, and empower students and teachers.

My knowledge of Khan Academy-type methods mostly comes from some NPR features about experiments in New York City. In the featured experiment, there was a classroom of kids that were in a workshop setting. Some using computers, others working at desks with access to a remote tutor, others talking to the teacher.

The teacher was in a role more like a coach vs. a talking head at the front of the room. Different students need help at different points, and using the computerized system enabled the teacher to provide more individualized help.

Educational establishment types are afraid of change -- because their power is derived from the cash flow of union duespayers whose jobs may be at risk. Silicon Valley types see a way to tap into a ridiculously large stream of money.
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AnonymousFlorida's side of the story:

- in 2006, anon members steal Symantec source for the lulz

- Symantec contacts the FBI and sets up a pretty transparent attempt to sting those responsible

- Anonymous punishes Symantec for the sting attempt, after some internal debate, by releasing the source as a torrent

Has the ring of truth to it, IMHO.
Introducing Chrome for Android