skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it easy to find counter-examples to these anecdotes. There are a lot of people very aware of how rich other people are without it affecting them one bit.

I think it boils down to this: very rarely will you receive just plain vanilla information, if such a thing exists. Almost always the information will be wrapped in some kind of value system. As you absorb the information, you end up taking in the value system as well.

Let's use TV as an example. So yep, if you spend your time on one of those cable channels where you watch rich people all the time, pretty soon it's not that you'll understand how rich people live, it's that pretty soon you'll start believing that it is better to live like they do. Same goes for the other channels - military, cooking, whatever. These channels are purveyors of information, sure, but what they're really selling is indoctrination.

That's fine if you understand it. You should be able to compensate (without having fits about "the man" or "the system") After all, why would they spend time sharing information with you that they felt wasn't trendy and something you'd want to emulate? There might be a boring stuff nobody cares about channel, but I've never seen it.

Truly happy people can filter out the value system from the information. They can watch MSNBC, Fox, or CNN. They just compare sources and make their own value decisions.

It's like this guy got halfway to the actual state of things, then just gave up. Yes, if you have no information you have no external values being pimped out to you, but you also are missing a huge amount of learning about your fellow man and other ways of thinking about things. No information means no choices. You don't want that.
I definitely agree, and I probably didn't qualify my statements enough. I just wanted to highlight some caution because a lot of times hackers want to really push hardware and technology to its limits. This is great, but to a newcomer, I think some of these projects can be so challenging that they end up driving users away.

It's a valid point that having example uses/projects that cover the widest possible array of options is ideal for inspiring the most use.
Windows 8 Consumer Preview
Edit:
Mea Culpa.
I see this is for desktop links.

I clicked the help last night when this popped up and must have read it incorrectly.

However, this can still cause problems if you have 2 email clients, say Outlook for my corporate mail and gmail for my personal mail.

IT departments are going to love this.
You could build small supercomputers with clusters of Raspberry Pis.

Design a chassis for several dozen Raspberry Pis, and package them with software for doing numerical analysis, statistical analysis, graphics rendering, OLAP cubes.

There's a huge enterprise market for small supercomputers that run SAS for data crunching. You could tap into this market, packaging your units with comparable open source software.

Example here: http://www.falcon-nw.com/desktops
Wall St. Bonus Drop Means Trading Aspen for Discount Cereal
Well, integers are immutable (and conceptually a singleton per value) unless you override stuff in FixNum and add instance variables. Here's an evil example that works at least in MRI 1.8.6:

class Fixnum

alias :realplus :+

def + b
@a ||= 0
@a = @a.realplus(b)
self.realplus(@a)
end
end

The integer value itself is immutable, though.

Of course all hell will break loose and adding instance variables in certain classes like Fixnum will be extra slow (as if there aren't enough other reasons not to), since MRI uses type-tagging for Fixnum, Symbol and a few others, and so since they're not "real" objects, if you do anything that requires one, it creates one that's stored in a hash table.
Ah, I wasn't aware of that requirement for foreign citizens leaving the US.

I suppose my comment should be revised to say "The US does not have exit immigration for its own citizens."
If people don't like BioWare, they should simply play other games. There are different games that appeal to people with different tastes, and that's a good thing.

Their attitude seems to be like someone who complains that a particular novel or TV program doesn't appeal to them, as if the writers had some sort of moral obligation to appeal to that particular person.
also, because they were marketing the shit-brown colored zune...
The "collective management organisations" set up to manage this will be paying royalties to authors, something they wouldn't get if their books were made public domain.

Similarly, an author can assert their rights and ask for a republished book to be removed from sale, something which would not be possible if works were made public domains.

I'm not saying this a good idea, just that this is why they're not just removing the copyright from the works.
You cannot access any arbitary website from Javascript.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same_origin_policy
Nice; it's lovely how position Verlet lets you simulate geometric constraints so naturally. If you're interested in learning more, I recommend Thomas Jakobsen's "Advanced Character Physics" (I could only find a PDF link):

http://www.pagines.ma1.upc.edu/~susin/files/AdvancedCharacte...

The first demo reminded me of a collision-detection D3 demo I made last year. This one uses a quadtree to accelerate collision-detection, as well as another quadtree for the Barnes–Hut approximation of charge forces:

http://mbostock.github.com/d3/talk/20110921/collision.html

More here: http://vimeo.com/29458354
There's no need to benchmark. Everything written in Node.js is insanely fast by default, because nonblocking is the secret to the roflscale sauce.
You can ignore Linus's post. Just as you would ignore a troll in a forum.
I have a modified Seagate Dockstar[1][2] and I'm using it with an external HDD, but I think it would be cheaper using a modified NetGear Stora[3] that has 2 SAS ports than using more than one USB external HDDs (with a dockstar or a Raspberry Pi).

I think more interesting applications are in those field in which you can take advantage of the video HDMI port and the IO ports..

[1] http://ahsoftware.de/dockstar/

[2] http://jeff.doozan.com/debian/

[3] http://www.openstora.com/
> Those who do produce the wealth unproductive others live on will decide to not bother (look up "go Galt").

Has this ever happened? Has anyone at any wealth level ever simply stopped making money because he was upset about taxes? I hear a lot of small-time sole proprieters talk about it, but I've never heard reliable reports of it actually happening.
Relatively hack-proof internet interface for wifi security cameras. If someone breaks into the house and steals all my gear (including the cameras), at least I wouldn't be losing another $2-400 PC.
Tutoring is huge. I'm guessing that a college-orientation will help with adoption and retention (which could probably be counteracted by a college-oriented marketing campaign by Zaarly); the only problem that might arise is the general poverty of college students :P
True, and thanks for pointing it out. I'd just note that they seem to have their hands full at the moment, and I think documentation and teaching utilities will be lacking.

The motivated and inspired will still be able to thrive, but the under-funded school may only be able to use what is easily available - and it seems like a good hacker-crowd-sourced batch of instructions could easily dwarf whatever they are planning to provide.
I'm getting a black screen after successful install - I assume its a similar issue to the problem with Parallels Tools in the developer preview.
A Precious Hour
> the renderer hierarchy he created is yet another good example
> of why I believe coffeescript needs interfaces...

What exactly are you thinking of here? Because JS is as flexible as you can be in terms of duck-typing and calling any function with any number of arguments -- I don't see what having an explicit "interface" construct would gain you.
It was important to us that we be hyper-permissive in the way people can use this thing. We want our data to be free (as in both "free beer" and "free speech"). And EC2 instances are damn cheap, so we'll bring up as many as we need to support demand.
Learning from Rails' failures
I've seen a lot of Windows Phone 7 promotion, but it's not all that compelling. Their entry into the smart phone wars was so late that they needed something extraordinary to convince people to consider them seriously. Instead they made something marginally better than iOS and Android in some ways and marginally worse in others.
wut? This is for mailto links on webpages, not links within an email to webpages.
If you use gmail, why wouldn't you choose to do this? I'm so sick of mailto: links opening up whatever useless mail client came preinstalled on whatever computer I'm using.
A complete aside, but the pushState/client side rendering implementation on the blog surprised and confused me massively. It seems like the wrong tool for a blog.
http://www.w3.org/TR/cors/
HP's WebOS Purge Continues
XP is over ten years old. To develop for ancient platforms, one can keep using the ancient tools.

Apple is actually worse in this regard, because a copy of Xcode from 2005 produces binaries that don't work at all on new Macs anymore. Windows 8 can at least run anything developed using Visual Studio 6 on Windows XP.
I think it can spawn off a series of "sensor" based applications:
1. Remote electricity monitor
2. In bed constant monitor for patients under constant supervision
3. In home continuous surveillance unit
etc.
I think the point is that while the article link is to the scripting category, the site does in fact cover a lot more languages.
WTF QR Codes - Celebrating the ridiculousness that is QR codes
The attraction and collision demos are both doing collision detection, which means N! calculations (for each particle check the location of all the other particles that have not been checked relative to this one). Whereas the chain, cloth and I can't recall the name of the third one, are on the order of N calculations (constant interaction with only a fixed number of other particles).
I spent last year living next door to the mall. I went there for food, clothing, and some candles and that's about it. I live 1 block from a Best Buy and still buy all my electronics online, and I am happy to replace the local bookstore which died with my kindle. Thanksgiving was the last time I went into a grocery store (Peapod). Gas is just about the only thing I can't buy online and buying an electric car is becoming tempting.

edit: I did get my replacement iPhone 4gs at the Apple store, but I got my first iPhone 4gs line despite walking past the place several times a week.

PS: I expect something like a 30% reduction in retail store sales in the next 20 years, that may or may not be huge, but it is significant.
Microsoft released Windows 8 customer preview. Ways to download it
"free food" doesn't necessarily mean a communist society where everything is free - it means providing an income level that allows for the necessities of life. It probably makes more sense to give those away than it does to force people to work meaningless jobs just so we feel they aren't getting something for "free" - if the jobs don't produce value, then the workers are getting something for free, they're just also wasting their time in the process.

People would still have every incentive to work to improve their lot in life; most people on HN probably have the capability to quit their jobs and live off of welfare checks, but it's not exactly a great lifestyle, even if it doesn't require any work. In fact, people might have more incentive than they do now to try out new, interesting work; knowing that if everything blows up they won't screw up their lives and the lives of their families is a great asset.

Overall, I imagine society would progress tremendously if everyone were able to get an education and do creative work while being guaranteed the basics of life, even if that results in some freeloaders surviving on the dole.
Interesting post. To develop a product in total secrecy for someone the size of apple, is really a remarkable feat. Also like their focus on design first. Thats what separate their products from others.
Ask HN: Have you ever had to create dozens of landing pages?
I'm wondering what products or programs did you use? I've been using unbounce thus far and its working well, but we need to create more customized landing pages. Not to mention create on the order of a few dozen initially. Moving forward we'd probably need to create a couple a week.

This is for an adwords campaign.

Here are the things that I'm wondering:

- Did you use a software tool for this?

- What did you use to A/B test the landing pages?

- Did you hire someone to continuously make landing pages for you? If you did, could you share their name with me (in private if necessary)?
Just because he prefers to buy online doesn't mean other people do. Google tried to sell phones online and it just didn't work, for example...
Torvalds blasts openSUSE, security policies
This seems to be a very clear example of the contrasting effects of entitlement versus gratitude.

Experience and research show that looking at examples of people with "more" (for some definition of "more") and comparing your own lifestyle to that of those people, is a recipe for resentment, envy, and frustration. These emotions tend to work against a person experiencing happiness and inner peace.

On the other hand, looking at what's good in your own life situation - regardless of how it compares to anyone else - and deliberately seeking out opportunities to feel gratitude for those things, this tends to increase subjective well-being.

This habit is simple, but not easy. The challenge is greater with so much media attention on those people who have more than others (Hollywood red carpet, MTV Cribs, Forbes 400, etc). The key to happiness and inner peace is to tune out the noise and focus on specific opportunities to feel grateful within your own life situation.
This somewhat assumes that the purpose of universities is to gain knowledge useful to employers. While that might be a purpose of it, universities are also screening mechanisms.

This is something by people in educational economics. While I think the author has a great point that we're looking to get workers who can get the job done, that isn't necessarily how businesses hire. The benefits from education don't just come in the form of increased human capital. Basically, you get bonus points for having the degree regardless of what it means to your human capital (there's a term for it that I can't come up with right now).

For a long time, we've heard of jobs that don't need a college degree, but that you won't get hired for without it. In fact, that's the reasoning behind getting a college degree in many majors where one doesn't have the intention of working in that area.

College is also a place where people get sorted into social groups according to smartness - social groupings that can continue well past college. After college, you meet friends of friends you had in college who also went to schools similar to your own and you get to build a network of people like you somewhat regardless of your success in life.

Finally, the appeal of letters is great. If you're "John Smith, BS", you will always be that. You will get the respect of being a college grad for the rest of your life. In a world where things seem in flux, items that we place undue weight on are comforting. Heck, the same can be said of going to a good school. If you went to Harvard, you will always have gone to Harvard - something very few people can say. No matter how much you fail at life in the future, you have proven that you're the top by having gone there.

Getting a certificate of completion from MITx isn't the same for many of these things. The fact that there aren't entrance requirements or limitations means that it isn't a certification that you're the top rung of society - just that you've learned some knowledge. Because it's so broadly available, it isn't sorting you into a social grouping. If universities are for knowledge transmission, the author is right - that these new offerings are wonderful. While maybe they should be for that purpose, I think that universities play a broader role in our society (I'm not saying it's a good or desirable role, just a role). They prove to others that I was accepted as not just someone they could transmit knowledge to, but a really smart person well above what would be needed to pass the courses. They connect me to other smart people who will become my social group as well as professional networking group. They make sure that no matter what I do in the future, I've proven that I'm one of the smart ones - one of the elite. My neighbor with a high-school diploma may make millions as a real-estate agent, but I'm a college grad! I can still feel proud (and maybe a little smug) because someone has certified that I'm part of the top of society - and no one has done that for him!
How to Model Data Relationships in a NoSQL Backend
While there is the same origin policy, there is mechanism to share some resources as Matthew pointed out.
Even if you host a site on domain ex1, you can still access resource at google maps through API.
I haven't downloaded it yet, but I assume you're referring to the same limitation VS2010 (w/ the latest SPs) had with exes not running on Windows XP.

Assuming it's the same, then adding this ASM file to your project should solve the problem:

https://github.com/NeoSmart/UtfRedirect/blob/master/UtfRedir...
The Case for Recess
Why wait? Six ways that Congress could fix copyright, now
You are mixing up something. It's not about old VS code not running on "new PCs" it's about the newly compiled executables not running on 50% of PCs right now!

See also:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-SG/vcgeneral/thre...

"Windows XP Embedded or Windows Embedded Standard 2009, both based on Windows XP Pro binaries will get security updates until Jan 8, 2019"

If 50% of all PCs run Windows XP as we speak, do you really consider it "ancient?" Do you think they will really stop delivering updates, even if they wish?
As someone who's had a lot of experience implementing these things for JS, I wonder what you think of @soulwire's strategy and general structure for applying (say, Verlet trajectories):

https://github.com/soulwire/Coffee-Physics/blob/master/sourc...

... compared to your own approach:

https://github.com/mbostock/d3/blob/master/src/layout/force....
Level and content may be more closely correlated than we think. There comes a certain tipping point wherein the outrageous (read: hilarious to the 4Chan crowd) content of a smear campaign inspires a bandwagon, and so the campaign both intensifies and scales up. Call it a not-so-virtuous cycle.
Twitter's “Similar to” feature reveals followers, despite protected account
I suspect they're waiting for Windows 8 before making a big push. A unified desktop/tablet/phone platform is probably a lot more interesting, promotion-wise, than yet another smartphone.
I wonder if this explains why i have been having problems with Siri? I know that sounds far fetched but isnt Apple relying on Azure now?
No, executables made with Visual Studio 2010 run on Windows XP SP3. They don't run on Windows 2000. See:

http://tedwvc.wordpress.com/2010/11/07/how-to-get-visual-c-2...

There is an in-depth overview of all the things MSFT have removed to prevent the compiled executables from running on Windows 2000. These things still existed in VS 2008, it's not that they had to develop them.
This is one disadvantage, yes. However all registers are now 64 bit, and in general, there are more of them.

Furthermore, the 4GB limit does not just concern physical RAM, it also applies elsewhere, like memory mapped files.

In general, it is unlikely that you will see poorer performance from 64-bit code compared to its 32-bit counterpart.
You mean N^2, not N!
Aren't they "officially" renouncing nuclear weapons every 2 or 3 years? The international community or the US then shell out a few billion dollars and they are good to go for a short while after that
Most employees think they have an awesome skill that could contribute to an exciting new project but fewer actually do. The last thing a new project needs is for staffing to be based on maneuvering and people calling in favors.

If X has skills that could be of use that will already be recognized he'll be brought inside the gates when necessary. If he has some amazing insight that only happens when he learns about the project, well there's always version 2.
Nope. The Visual Studio 11 CRT does not run on anything below Windows Vista because it relies on API's that were only introduced then. You cannot write applications that run on Windows XP with Visual Studio 11.

This is such a bone-headed move I can't believe where that came from. They can't be out of touch that much. I guess people with existing code bases don't have any options anyway, so they though this would be a nice 'incentive' for vendors to pester users into upgrading to new Windows versions.

Very disappointing.
It's not about the amount of information you take in, but about how much you identify with it.

You can hear all day long about how much money other people make, but if you take it merely as a fact and do not construct a personal identity/story from it ("I am upset because others earn more than me", "Life is unfair" etc.), the information will not affect your happiness at all.

I believe the article is flawed as it seems to require of us to artificially restrict the amount of information we are exposed to, when the key is to manage one's perception of the information.

Seems that many Chinese have developed a strong "Keeping up with the Joneses" mentality lately; I would suspect that is the source of the unhappiness, rather than the wiring in their new homes.
Why wait? How Congress could fix copyright now
> you run the very real risk of having zero conversions
> from all that homepage traffic.

Dear God. Don't use web-y start-up lingo in situations where none of the platitudes apply. R-PI faces demand severely outstripping demand, which is the polar opposite of what conversion rate-optimizing Bla-ly companies experience.
I never said anything about embarrassment; I was just defending the virtue of using existing names to recognise pre-explored patterns, even if they frighten people.
Having dealt with both cperciva and (to my dismay) patio11 in situations where we were willing to pay them each in the mid 5 figures for their expertise:

cperciva is unable to recognize such real opportunities.

patio11 is all too willing to take our money for no value.
Real cash isn't peer to peer, is the point. Anyone can create bitcoin, without going to a bank.
You can prefer a different term to p2p if you like, but parent's point was about the complete decentralization, not the word "p2p".
Ah, nice.
I'm a Windows and Mac developer, and I'll tell you why Apple isn't worse: their users don't hold on to old versions.

With free or 30 dollar major OS upgrades, upgrades that are consistently better than their predecessors (or at the very least (Lion?) not noticeably worse!), great and constant innovation to make the upgrades compelling and appealing, smooth/streamlined and automated "SP" deployments over the net, and many other things that I won't bother listing, they ensure that their users are, by and large, using the latest version of their OS.

They can break compatibility every time, for all I care. But when Windows 7 (or for all we know, Windows 8 too) provides no real enhancements over XP (at the very least, in the eyes of a consumer) except bloat and a confused interface, then and only then do I complain about how "evil" they are for (possibly purposely, if you look into the details of the hack I posted in another comment, you'll see why) breaking support for older operating systems.