skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now the interesting question: How do you know that you are not the result of an experiment of some guy living in a sci-fi world where computation power and storage is extremely powerful? He would put your brain inside a virtual world, and make up all your interactions. The people you talk to, are just a picture, and a sound but they feel real people like you.

We have a brain like Zach have, but instead of being put inside Douglas tank, we are showed (and sensed) a virtual world. It's a trap, you can't prove that it's not the case.

Douglas also, in your memory, puts some strange definition/notion: infinity. The space and time are both infinite. But does that really make sense? If time wasn't infinite (and began somewhere) then we would know the Douglas trap. He is blocking your knowledge at some point.
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That's what I'm getting at though; a schema that is "beautiful" but performs terribly isn't all that beautiful in my eyes.
Our individuality comes from the fact that we have a body. I don't think there will be AI citizens but rather one AI that will quickly become knowledgeable about everything. It'll probably be able to manipulate any human being. How would you deal with this ?
this is exactly why they can compel you to testify against yourself. the additional testimony (decrypting your drive) is a "foregone conclusion". this is one of the few exceptions to the fifth amendment.
Guilty.

Interesting to see so many people working remotely.
The waiter writing on the screen still bought the software
Yep... Having never been a fan of their work myself, I do not check anymore their posts on HN. Still I enjoy reading some of the comments associated with the post, it can be enlightening.

To add to your point, being a (self proclaimed) nerd and not a geek: I don't care about new technologies, I do not own a smartphone, hell, I don't have anymore Facebook or Twitter, I found what's posted on 37signals very boring and devoid of interesting information. I am, however, surprised by the huge number of people that upvote these kind of posts.

To answer the article without really reading it, and again it's because of my nerdy side I don't care on what I am working as long as I have a desk, an OK mouse, an OK screen, and OK keyboard, that's it, I am happy.
Chaplin, an Application Architecture based on Backbone.js
Tho offtopic, non-own-body encapsulated by leukocytes never becomes a part of organization(organism)
13 people work in the Chicago office. ~20 people work out of their homes in other locations. Although, some Chicago people work from home a few days a week, too.
Interesting idea to hide features and activate it only for customers who request it. similar to gmail labs in my opinion.
In our case, it slowly became difficult for us to manage the interface with many permutations possible based on what features were active. For now, we put that hold. Did you get into any such issues?
I've been going through many, many programming languages over the years. Many of them I can't even remember anymore. Some of them I have stuck with for a long time, simply because they were most suitable for the kind of problems I was trying to solve at the time.

Originally I was very much in favour of finding the 'One language to rule them all'. Being able to do everything with a single language seemed like a no-brainer. But what all these years of try-outs have taught me is that such a language simply does not exist. And I will go one step further to state that they shouldn't exist.

The problem with every single language which tries to be good at everything, is that it inevitably ends up being mediocre at best and a major clusterf*ck at worst (I am looking at you, c++). Yes, it may be able to solve every problem out there, but not at significant cost to the programmer and development cycle. Inordinate amounts of complexity make the whole business of writing a useful application nothing short of a nightmare. A nightmare that you just do not have to put up with.

Lately I have come to realize that the quest for that one language has been a monumental waste of time. I have since settled on a DSL strategy. Pick a problem and then find a language/toolset that is uniquely suited to solve that problem in the most efficient way possible. Not only does this make the development cycle less painful, it teaches you a great deal about the problem domain your are facing, without having to deal with all the superfluous nonsense that a general-purpose language would impose upon you.

By adhering to this strategy, the obvious side effect is that there is no such thing as a favourite programming language. It all depends on what you are trying to accomplish. For the time being, my focus lies on Go. Not because I think it's the best thing that ever happened to the world, but because it solves /my problems/ elegantly and (almost) painlessly. This doesn't mean I will be using it for everything though. I would not even consider using it for something UX/UI related. For the simple reason that it is definitely not the ideal tool for this job. Just like I won't consider using Javascript to build servers and other distributed systems.

Use the right tool for the right job.

Edit: When it comes to DSLs, I would even add this: If you can't find a suitable toolset/language for your problem, consider creating your own.
Clicked expecting a poem that is also valid Ruby, like what people used to do with Perl. Was somewhat disappointed, but LOL'd at the Eurozone Bailout poem.
You can disable ads on Google Apps for business or education.

Google Docs may not be the end all, but I seriously doubt the future swinging back to documents living on a local client.
Not entirely, as SSL already includes a hash. That said, I don't agree with doing it.

However, I do believe that we should investigate ways of authenticating larger downloads automatically.
Robert Scoble launching an Investment Fund
Dalendar.com - Launched today and have no idea how 900+ have managed to sign up
As expensive as that steel may be to buy at first, destroying even one planet scatters many times that much metal in easily minable chunks from the planet's mantle and core. It'd have one heck of a ROI without resorting to taxes or outright extortion.
It's also a Kardashev problem, and a BDO, and kind of like Ringworld.

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

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringworld
Most of the sections are brief and the core focus is keywords, although I understand some more information would be beneficial. Since the guide is getting a bit of traffic at the moment I'll try to find some time to update it, add more technologies and provider better overviews.
The evidence is that sitting down for hours per day is extraordinarily destructive to various aspects of your body, including your metabolism, circulation, oxygen distribution, and that it increases the risk of diabetes (and cancer due to consequence of fat gain from a slower metabolism). I believe (per what I've read on the subject) that it also significantly increases the risk of heart attack and stroke due to a collapse in normal / healthy function of the cardiovascular system.

The data on it is rather common these days, a quick google will turn up several high profile write-ups from sources such as the NY Times.

And if we're just talking logical extrapolation - it makes sense that humans wouldn't benefit from sitting down all day, as it wasn't common to our evolution / how our bodies are designed to work. Caveman Joe didn't sit on his rock for 12 hours typing.
Having spent many hours of my youth on technology forums, I feel I am qualified to say: this is the most banal "show your setup" post, ever.

Save Noah, it's just an Apple Store. Sam's apartment/house looks great, though.
If a Death Star takes a couple of decades of build wouldn't be obsolete by the time its finished?

Also, I am not that into Star Wars but I understand that the Death Star is big? Like a small planet right?

Wouldn't it just be cheaper to take a shovel to one of Saturn's moon. Mount a giant cannon and nail on some fairly large booster engines?

I mean.. the whole idea of building a planet sized space craft from metal seems silly when there are plenty of large space objects ready to be commandeered and turned into very large space vessels. Should also be noted that a moon has a long track record of surviving very large impacts. A metal structure? Perhaps not so much.
> Also, if the legal system is so dumb about semantics such as this, there's now a powerful precedent anyway.

what do you mean? Prosecution should be asking specific questions, judge should address them. In this example they didnt ask for keys, they asked for the content of the hard drive.

Anyways, yes Prosecution asks stupid questions; even more: they will try to persecute you and put behind bars based on their frivolousness thinking process. This case is a great example: they dont know whats on the hartd drive, but there may be illegal files so yeah lets put the guy in jail.

> The prosecutor first has to prove that the defendant is actually guilty, otherwise that's just fishing for evidence and crimes committed which may or may not exist.

well they had to build a case somehow. something must have gotten them to this guy's door, right?

> That's just stupid. I download everything big from torrents

no, by "tons of torrent" data I did not necessary mean big in size. if his IP was found on plenty of illegal torrents then this was a good enough reason to assume he is downloading illegal stuff [but let alone not good enough to sentence him].
Haha, nice :). I'm not the only one.

Maybe not on the regular basis, but I found writing on LCDs with a whiteboard pen helpful on numerous occasions
Yep, SignalR is a self hosted solution and I've added it into that category. Microsoft backed so it'll probably become the core offering for self hosted IIS solutions. I'm interested to see some benchmarking done with it to see how it, and more importantly IIS, deals with concurrent connections.
Should we really worry about graceful degradation anymore? Personally, I don't waste much time on this like I did years back.
A random pen I used for exactly the same purpose didn't do any lasting damage to LCD, so I guess it's not that difficult to find them.
Apple looks to improve app search and discovery with Chomp acquisition
See also Haiku.rb: http://timelessrepo.com/haiku
I guess the first of many things I don't understand about this post is that Archaeopteryx is not built in Rails, has nothing to do with Rails, nor is it a web site nor has anything to do with http nor even requires active_support or similar.

I know some people think Rails is going in the wrong direction - I disagree, but it's a topic on which reasonable minds can differ. This post may have something valuable to say on that subject, or not. Regardless, it's got nothing to do with the author's music library and I suspect the only reason Rails was mentioned at all was to stir controversy and bring attention to an otherwise unrelated announcement.
The list is on my site (just found the HN thread). How would you like to see the list improved? My plan is better categorisation and improved (or actually add) descriptions.
The only one I still think was a missed opportunity is Zune. I have a Windows Phone and love it, but a lot of my friends consider the concept of a Windows Phone "icky". I don't think that Zune was such a failed brand that a Zune Phone couldn't have happened. Of course, I doubt business buyers would like that.
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As both your link and the broader scope of European history indicate, Roman society of 100 CE was in fact in the midst of a many-generations-long decline into irrelevance, so this is perhaps an unintentionally apt citation.
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Maybe it's because I don't work for a huge, publicly traded company, but I'll never understand how these kinds of things make it into production. This is the kind of thing that a single programmer should think of right away when building this sort of feature.
Tomorrow: "In other news, it appears that Facebook has lost every pictures hosted on their services."

More seriously though, there were an interesting article on Google DataCenter and how their customize their hard drive to accommodate their needs. There was another blank paper on how, because of the massive scale of the data, Cosmic ray influence quite often data stored. And also they said in that survey that every 3 minutes one hard drive is failing in one of their datacenter somewhere in the world.

Pretty neat stuff, but I can't find the source, sorry.
Really? Looks very similar to me. In particular, the layout, with the navigation stuff (same size, spacing, similar organization).

Maybe there's only really one way to make an app like this. I don't think so, though. Compared to zenoss, nagios, etc, and other more product-specific monitoring apps out in the world, the similarity seems strong to me. Granted, Riak Control doesn't have as many pretty/flashy features, but those will probably come.
I dig the vertical monitor. Using one of those as a second screen plus switching to xmonad has been the most positive change I've made to my own working environment in the last year. Code, websites, anything text oriented - shorter lines are easier to read and comprehend
Publicidade Digital vs Publicidade Tradicional
Google Chrome's Users Feature - Making Web Dev Easier
The dark side of digital distribution
Gled pioneers Latin America's Augmented Reality space
Correct, but the evidence does not indicate that standing for hours a day is any better for overall health than sitting. What I really want is a walk-around desk ... but I'll grant that I might be more likely to move around periodically if I'm already standing.
Talk about bad branding. 'Hypermedia' sounds like something from a Gibson novel.
Well, seeing that you're a Starcraft player, it's not as though a laptop really would be an option ^^

More seriously, I think that your setup would hurt my eyes. Having a dedicated monitor is far nicer than using a laptop, but you have screens dominating your peripheral vision. One decent-sized screen is much nicer in my opinion.
No.. no.. no.. replace REST with SOAP, and I can go along with it.
That'll be a problem when people really do forget their passphrases. Given that they've been through a lot of excietment, what with getting arrested and maybe jailed for a while, and they're often asked for the passphrase a significant amount of time after the computer is confiscated, that could well happen.
Rest assured, I've been in that sort of situation. However I've never found it viable long term to take on additional complexity rather than pushing back against a group which is obstructing progress - ultimately you're accepting more work and risk to help reduce the pressure on them to stop underperforming.
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Ask HN: How much to receive in "royalties" when deving iOS app for 3rd party?
My partner and I are developing an app for someone else. They will pay us lump sums for the phases of the development, but we also want "royalties" for the income generated by the app in the future.<p>We couldn't do the project without info and access provided by them, and they couldn't do it without our technical skills. Any idea of what would be a reasonable/normal percent?<p>Can't find much talk of it online, since most people seem to develop apps for themselves. Any tips would be welcome. Thanks.
I suspect cromwellian's underlying question is: why do so many people on HN upvote a post with nothing more than pictures of some people's desks?
I think the basic point being made is valid. It might seem like splitting hairs to look closely at those three words, but the assumptions that Youssef argues lie behind them are (i would agree) borne out by the FB UX as a whole. I think the YoZuck blog has shown that he has thought hard about the issues. This opinion is not a case of over-reading, but something arrived at.
The search in the app store has been terrible for far too long. This is hopefully a step in the right direction
In the abstract, it's possible to have knowledge without having proof.
There's no reason to take offense--You'd be part of the first group, through no fault of your own.

Although you could have obtained a gym membership and checked it out. Or just showed up and asked nicely to see the system in use. If you introduced your pelf as "someone who wants to make check-in systems easier," I bet you'd get some info.

I have had several experiences like this: I get asked to build software and hardware systems for trade shows, and I get to attend to implement the technology. What I learn during the first show rivals all the meetings and handed-down info from the stakeholders. I am actually very excited about my projects now that he second occurrence is coming up for some of them.
Doesn't the current model of the big bang theory state time and space started with the big bang?

Interesting point anyway, basically a spin on the brain in a vat problem.

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/brain-vat/
In the case of child porn, how about network logs from your ISP? Would this be enough? There's no way they can be sure that the images are stored on your disk. But digital traces are logged all over the place, so this is a very relevant point.
How does a vertical monitor work with sub pixel rendering? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpixel_rendering . Does linux do sub-pixel rendering? Does OS X turn it off when a monitor is rotated to vertical?
When I'm standing up I tend to move about more and wander off while I'm thinking about stuff. I definitely get more exercise than when I'm sitting down.
> there’s no need to outline the box and make it look misaligned with the “Search” button.

Agreed it should outline per browser functionality but you can fix this by placing the button inside the input and highlight the entire box.

> via overlay boxes

I don't think lightboxes are bad for login especially if the user is already in the middle of a task. Different case if the site requires a login to function correctly like Facebook.

> I enter my city and hit ‘Enter’. That triggers the search, without giving me a chance to enter my dates first.

I've been thinking through this on our hotel search engine as well. We've decided to place the search box below the date inputs because dates are integral to pricing which is a major component of the shopping decision making process. For AirBnB, it looks like prices for properties are relatively fixed so it's not as big of an issue since they know the pricing even w/o dates that are right most of the time. The issue I have is availability. If I don't enter dates, would much of what I'm seeing actually be irrelevant to my actual travel itinerary if they are actually not even available?
Only evil bugs would resort to primitive tactics like that. Humans are more... civilized.

http://starshiptroopers.wikia.com/wiki/Meteor_attack_on_Buen...
Only if the destroyed planet has a large metallic core. The Earth is the densest planet in the solar system due to it metal content. Many small planets and large satellites are primarily made of rock and water ice instead. That would just cause the Death Star to rust.
No beds? Am I alone?
My take was this: here's a company that is showcasing the fact that they are building products that people love, and most of them are not even in the same room. Look beyond the hardware religion bait and you will see different landscapes through the windows, different desk setups, and the personalities of individuals as opposed to gray cube walls.
Strictly email-based task-list for maximum productivity
Because people like looking at other people's desks/setups? It's not much deeper than that.
Wireless devices swim through your bloodstream and fix you up
> Buffering is the only sane default if you want safety.

A LOT of sites on the web survived for many years without it. And they felt more responsive because of it.

I think it's a fair trade-off to optimize for your user experience instead of the machines. Honestly, Google is not going to ding you for this, and as long as you've got an exception notifier going and are on top of it, there's no reason it should become a real problem for most sites. Being able to make a choice per-request/action would be nice of course.

> My assumption was merely that you should measure it before you start worrying about it.

I have. I wrote the original versions of DataMapper (which BTW, was a DataMapper despite popular belief. The methods hanging off the models were just helpers to the Session originally but it lost it's way at some point).

I can tell you for a fact that it's slow. Sure, go ahead and measure it. I'm not saying that's bad. Just apply some judgement to the situation. Are you grabbing a lot of rows? Are you performing lots of individual selects? (Or using AR+include options where each include is effectively the same as another query?)

You can feel free to write slow code until it becomes a problem, or you can develop some good practices up front, before ever needing to profile, to prevent much of that. Disregard for reasonable optimization and forming good habits based on generalized rules of thumb is just as evil as premature optimization. We're not talking about twiddling minutia here.

> it would be silly to create objects for all of them

Why?

Hibernate can do it. NHibernate can do it. LLBLGenPro could do it (probably the closest to Ruby's Sequel, but here it was a non-issue even with Models). Simpler AR style O/RM's like Wilson O/R Mapper could do it.

Given that AR doesn't really provide a decent DAL tool that I can recall, I'd say it's perfectly reasonable to expect that the "Full Stack" framework you're using covers the bases without nasty surprises. Especially if you've come from a background where millions of method-dispatch events imposes nanoseconds of overhead instead of milliseconds of overhead (Java and .NET at least).

I don't think it's at all "silly". I think it's a perfectly reasonable goal.
Is it just me, but despite all nice things 37signals are doing I find them arrogant and feel like they exaggerating more than they actually doing.
I wonder if "did not know where to obtain live rounds" might have been a convenient fiction to placate people, like how the launch codes on ICBMs were set to 00000000 for decades so there wouldn't be any chance of them getting in the way of nuking the Russkies. Something like, "The live rounds for your weapons are definitely NOT housed in room 404 of the local armory, wink wink nudge nudge."
That could be the case or it could also be the case that the head waiter never took the time to learn and has refused to change his ways. Hard to say from just one data point. The same system could be successfully used in thousands of other restaurants.
Perhaps, but there are only two possibilities (that I see).

1) Standing is radically more healthy than sitting, or
2) Being upright and walking / moving, is what is radically more healthy than sitting

I think that part of the problem with sitting is the blocking of the circulation system through slightly crimping the arteries in your legs. It strikes me that just standing up alone would relieve a lot of that stress and assist the free flow of blood and oxygen.

So if you want to play it safe, stand up, and move about regularly. If you're standing at your desk, I'd argue it's far more likely you'll move about regularly as you're working on problems throughout the day.

I've read previously that the average American used to walk three to five miles per day a hundred years ago, and that's down to a small fraction of that now.
Guess noone finds this useful? =(