skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not opposed to laws preventing corporations from providing false/misleading information, witholding relevant information, etc. I'm just saying people should be free to make the final judgement of whether or not they want to invest after having been presented with all relevant facts.
I have the top of the line MBP 17" Quad Core i7, 256 GB SSD, top video card, and 8 GB RAM. It runs Windows 7 in VMware faster than I have seen on a PC, though I am sure there are PCs that can compete with the VM, I have been thrilled with it. I also run two 27" Apple displays (2560x1440), one the new Thunderbolt, that I daisy chain with my year-old mini-display port one. Then I also have a 28" Hanns-G display that is 1900x1200 which I run with a Viewmax USB video adapter (a little powered device). This last one has slow video performance, but it is fine for word processing or e-mail. Writing this on it now.

I have had very good luck with the SSD, my biggest complaint is size. If I put all of my pictures, work files, and music on it, the drive would be full. I like having everything on all my PCs for backup and convenience, but recently bought a 3 TB Seagate GigE drive ($179) that I put on my router. It performs pretty well, so I keep all my files there, and just the work stuff and a few pictures on my 17". I like the ideal of 500 MB minimum now that I am out of space, and those will seriously sting your pocketbook.

I am not a gamer, so for that, I would not take my advice, I can just tell you that for the engineering work that I do, it rocks.

I am a "fastest you can get" computer guy, who still believes "the PC you want will always cost you $4,000." So in my case, my $3,800 MBP was a bargain!

In all seriousness, you will be very happy with the top of the line 17". Would I wait? If you can, I probably would; however, you will not be disappointed with the current model.
>"You have no idea what you're talking about."

>"You seriously should stop resorting to trite talking points and buzzwords"

Who's corroding the conversation? Keep it civil buddy.
I really like reading other peoples code (even more when the topic/language/whatever is interesting to me) even if it is only some small proof-of-concept or idea / unfinished code, i.e. not really useable as-is.

For really small tests/examples, I have a playground directory: https://github.com/albertz/playground

Everything else which is slightly more than a single file or has some other justification to be an own project, I just created a repo for it. https://github.com/albertz http://www.az2000.de/projects/
Oops, forgot about the other character sets. But, I think properly designed fonts require a lot more than what you mentioned. According to this article, for Windows, it requires 11,172. (Second paragraph in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_language_and_computers#C...)
Demo of building for iPhone and Mobile Web from same HTML5 codebase
Yeah, it's more useful than you might expect.
Ghanaian Launches Anansi Browser- Africa’s First Web Browser
Clicky Keyboards
Its profit, its going to be volatile. Honestly some folks will want to say the sky is falling but a lot of folks will point out that any profit at all for a company growing like Facebook is a waste of perfectly good cash.
In Perl, this is called autovivification: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autovivification

I've wanted something like that in Python at different times... thanks!

edit: Ha! The Wiki article even has basically the same code:

def hash(): return defaultdict(hash)
Social media contacts. Who owns them.
We live in a world where, for whatever reason, it's not okay to be wrong. Closely tied to: it's not okay to fail.

And that sucks.
SkyDrive supports really awesome collaborative editing of Office file formats in the Office 2010 desktop apps.
That got me (and a few friends of mine) to use it instead of Google Docs for collaborative editing of documents.
Google is actually not diversified at all. Out of $38 billion of revenue earned in 2011, $36.5 billion came from advertising[1].

[1] http://investor.google.com/financial/tables.html -- compare "Revenues" to "Total Advertising Revenues".
Facebook also owns your social graph and that is what they exclaim proudly about the most as well. If any other service wants access to it they have to ask Facebook and they can't just take it. And if there is no Facebook integration, then theres an additional level of friction in getting new users. It's definitely a tough market to breakthrough in because of Facebook (Ask google).
Loanwords can be interesting, though. I remember asking the proper pronunciation of "poulet super grill" and getting two different answers concerning "grill."

(Two Ls make a Y sound in French. And Spanish, for that matter.)
From the cleveland.com source article: "I don't even know what I'm looking for," says Michael Bledsoe, who described months of fruitless job searches as he served customers at a Seattle coffeehouse. The 23-year-old graduated in 2010 with a creative writing degree.

How are so many unemployed? Creative writing degrees, that's how.
GM Tests a Self-Driving Cadillac
First time checking out this Hulu Series....big Tim Ferriss fan...will definitely be looking out for of 'A Day in the Life'
PG and OG-G(?) dropping knowledge
Behavioural modernity is generally accepted as 50–40kya, and anatomical modernity 200kya. That’s more than a few millennia of difference. I was mainly curious as to whether there were a religious reason for such a comment.
Don't feel too bad for Justin Beech. On his site he wrote that he may not have time to get the site back up because his 6 year old kid was having a birthday party. Wow! Talk about putting your preferences in order.
>But $5M certainly isn't a notable lobbying expense in Washington

Do you have a reference for that?

Ars seems to say the opposite:

>From January to March of this year, Google spent over $5 million on lobbying, nearly matching its entire 2010 lobbying budget of $5.2 million. If the company maintains this pace, it will likely earn itself a spot as one of the top ten spending entities for the year as logged by Open Secrets. Comparing this same rate with 2011 figures, Google would outspend the entire tobacco industry ($17.07 million), the combined spending of JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, and Citigroup ($18.67 million), but would be just barely behind the combined budgets of pharmaceutical giants Pfizer and Merck ($20.685 million). For comparison, Apple spent only $500,000 for the same 2012 quarter; Microsoft spent $1.79 million.
Iranian Oil Sites Go Offline Amid Cyberattack
In regards to Codea, I would love to see them adopting a simple browsing app, where you could expose data from a webservice. Basically they would just need to add the default design elements from Apple. Could see how apps would get even more mainstream like that,
I remember when movie trailers and posters had AOL keywords in them. Now it's "Like us on Facebook!"
This is why I love Hacker News. Even though this doesn't really have anything to do with startups or technology in general, it's still something that interests the types of people who read Hacker News. One of the big reasons I love HN is the community that contributes to it.
This works for me whenever I'm blocked: http://euri.ca/2011/03/get-around-new-york-times-20-article-...
You're not crazy -- path_helper used to be godawful slow. It used to be a shell script with exponential (IIRC) time complexity in the number of components in your path. It could very easily add a huge delay to your launch time.
Exciting! Hope you guys expand quickly. I like the fact that there is better search and customization to Renthop vs. some of the others. I also like that there is barrier to entry and brokers have to pay to list. It adds to the quality of the postings.
Tag, You're It
For any NYT article, you can remove the part of the URL after the "?" and that should show the story to you.
Reminds me of a theme that many historical icons embodied....a sense of self-education. But on a daily basis.

Ben Franklin was a self taught printer, scientist, etc...who went on to become world-renowned for each profession. He had no formal education or schooling either.
I will second this. A friend was trying to teach me the four different tones of the sh syllable, I had no clue what the hell was going on, they all sounded exactly the same.

I'm not even a native English speaker, I'm Greek, which also isn't tonal.
has anyone actually tried the task? it's trivial. i can understand how people get estimates wrong for complex problems, but did this guy + kent beck, pair programming, really need more than 30 minutes? do average software engineers need 30-45 minutes?

the message is fine - i don't have a problem with that at all - but the numbers / facts / anecdotes seem way off base to me.
The logic is for things like daemons or infrequently used processes that wake up maybe once a day. They don't need to be in ram all the time needlessly. So swapping out their memory that hasn't been used for N hours isn't a bad thing.

And yes, the logic is sound, its better to use a bit of swap for an infrequent daemon and let 4-5 megs of memory be at the ready if needed than leave it in place all the time. The "speedup" is not a speedup for your use, its to allow for better memory management. Which is what the VM subsystem is there for. Second guessing it all the time just makes its job harder.

Swap use when there is free memory isn't a bad thing. This fetish people have with their OS using swap at times seems to border on the ridiculous side. My iMac at home has 16g of memory and 400g of swap used right now (8g active, lots of file cache that'll get purged). Most of the swapped files belong to things like my ruby+pry repl, a clojure repl I haven't touched for 2 days, and other random things I don't use often enough to warrant they stay in active ram. Why SHOULDN'T that memory be reclaimed and at the ready for a new program or some other request? Its just going to page it out then and likely take longer to do. The only time its "wrong" is when I start using those processes again, which takes all of 1-2 seconds.

Its a hard problem, and both OSX/Windows choose the best possible solution you can heuristically.
Etsy announces a $50,000 scholarship program for women in technology
Hindi is also a pretty straightforward language; by which I mean that the written alphabet corresponds exactly to the sounds made when speaking it. When I was in Korea, I used to write korean words in hindi (I did not know the korean alphabet then) because transliterating to english would screw up the pronunciation and unless you get the pronunciation exactly right, the locals just don't understand what you are saying.
First, Kay didn't write the article.

Second, sorry, but I'm not buying this response at all. These guys have done something that all conventional thinking about software complexity would say was impossible. They've refuted something fundamental about universal practice. Seems to me the only open-minded response is to be flabbergasted and ask what else we need to question.

To say (I'm exaggerating how it sounds) "Oh, well, sure, they did that impossible, but this other impossible over here, that's the one that really matters" just seems like rationalization to me.

Oh and also, it's at least three orders of magnitude, not two.
How? Because parents, teachers and mass media said to 'do what you love and the money will follow' or some variant, so kids picked majors with no demand in the labor market.

Because affluent, well-connected kids got humanities degrees at Ivy league schools and then used their connections and the prestige of the school to secure high paying jobs, and kids from blue-collar backgrounds didn't realize they can't do the same thing with a humanities degree from the local college.

Because kids who should have gone to trade schools or entered the workforce after high school were convinced they had to go to some college, so they wasted a few years studying something they're not good at and don't care about, so they didn't learn anything to make themselves more employable than they were before they started.
I would be interest to see this using the __getattr__ rather than __getitem__, so that this is also possible:

users = tree()
users.harold.username = 'hrldcpr'
users.handler.username = 'matthandlersux'
I've had similar problems with people who think everything and anything is possible in just 4 weeks. People with positive attitudes who over-commit a whole team is bad enough, but when I try to say 'what you're talking about isn't possible, let's scale back the requirements' I'm told I'm a pessimistic person. The most frustrating part of the experience in when you prove time and time again, that the goals they are so optimistic about are more complex than they think, they do not alter their outlook on future goals! It's as if their only comfort is in predicting success and then passively ensuring failure and burnout.
In practice for this particular instance, I agree with you on the correct policy position: the amounts of real-world money that would be being put at risk are small compared to the real estate bubble, and the financial nervous centers of our economy are more insulated from this bubble than the one in 2008.

I do think your general principle for appropriate government action is too strong and leads to some questionable results, but that ends up getting too involved in abstract political principles for this particular thread.
There was a similar discussion a while ago: [Shutting down a project? Open Source it.](http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3712411)

Do you also count partly finished projects? I listed some projects [here](http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3713240). Most of them were extended/improved a lot, e.g. by porting them to other platforms, etc.
I thought I would add some support for the argument of choosing the tech sector as a career. If you look at the statistics it seems that 5 out of the top 10 jobs of 2012 according to this survey is in the tech sector with software development being number 2. And the estimations for the coming years are pretty staggering. Tech is probably not a bad field to be in, lucky me, I think.
http://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/rankings/the-25-be...
That seems like an awesome thing. For the younger members here (and me) can you speak to the danger of this substance? The MSDS for it didn't make it seem too overly scary. Not too far beyond sand's danger (possible skin irritant).

Because it's already in my cart...
I am also a Mac user. I really like the old IBM keyboards, which can be found online, but they lack the extra keys needed for comfortable use on a Mac. I have found the das keyboard to be a good compromise. They have almost the same feel as the IBM, but have the extra keys, and it plugs in to a USB port without an adapter.
Notably the Ars Technica article[1] dug up a CNN article[2] from January saying that $4 million of that $5 million was just on SOPA/PIPA.

In any case, the Public Knowledge guy is right. You can't set the expectation that good guys (which might not include google for you) don't participate in the broken system and also expect good things to happen. Just like with software patents.

(actually, lobbying may be a really good use of the reported increased revenue Mozilla is now receiving, though it may be difficult for their more distributed decision making process to advocate on more controversial topics. On many open web important issues, though, I would trust them to have a clear voice and do honest lobbying, and a few million should be easily covered by that increase).

[1] http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2012/04/google-on-track-...

[2] http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/25/technology/sopa_pipa_lobby/i...
There are some exceptions. 입니다 is [imnida]. Complex vowels can be produced in various ways. There are dialectal things too, so I've heard.

Still it is very straightforward.
I wonder both how much business this is going to take from other outlets as well as how much will be new business. People like me who never knew they needed or could easily get random alloys to play with. The big banners for Amazon Prime suggest there may be some of that.
^ "misleading" comment.

PS. Upvote if you got it :)
Google boosts hacking bounty to $20,000
This is actually quite elegant and useful. I've done similar things time and time again with code like so:

defaultdict(lambda: defaultdict(int))

That allows me to organically build dictionaries (mainly for stat building) using operands like +=.
Video Animation Introduction for Startups (Offering Service)
Hello all!

I am an experienced video animator who uses graphics, music, and narration to give a little 2 minute or so intro to a company. I have made three videos for the University of Toronto, listed below. I have also made one for the University of Toronto Television which was my first video, created a few years ago. Breakaway Tours, a travel company, also asked me to make a small advertisement. I am currently making a video for the Interior Designers of Canada, which I will send you once I complete it.

I will be in San Francisco over the summer, starting May 2nd, and I am very interested in working with startups in the Bay Area. We can always discuss price later, but first I just want to make sure this is a right fit for me and you (the company). Please let me know if you need an animator.

Sample Videos

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Innis Student Life (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SyrHUVu8sA)

Innis Registrar's Office (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhN45g1I1NQ)

Breakaway Tours Short Ad (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCkIkcpL_T0)

Top 5 Tips for Exams (UofT) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xAZH9U5iEkw)

University of Toronto Television (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXGCpdBaFtg)

---

If you would like to know my average, it varies per project but it's around $1700 per one minute of video. This includes me doing all of the scripting, story-boarding, music, animations, and voice. The companies above just gave me all of the content that they would like in the video, in the form of just PDF documents and website URLs. I then transformed that into a script, and it was a back-and-fourth process from there. Sending them script revisions periodically, as well as animation snippets. The timeline also varies, but it's on average about one month per one minute of video. I would be more than welcome to meet you for coffee and discuss a project further if you like. Please feel free to contact me with any questions.

--

Curt Jaimungal

President, Program Director

University of Toronto Television
I've been refreshing and stopping the page load before the paywall loads. It works well, for now :)
Agreed. I memorised Hiragana and Katakana fairly quickly when learning Japanese, and even then, the language itself felt like it had some sort of logic to it (with good justifications for why some things are as they are), which made it easier to follow after learning the alphabets.

People think that it must be rock-solid because it's full of weird symbols. By the same token, the foreign person attempting to learn English might have a lot more trouble, for all its complexities and idiosyncrasies.
Weren't you just responding to me in another thread earlier today warning about the dangers of extrapolating single data points? They didn't do this last year, why would you expect them to next year? Lobbying expenses (presumably directed primarily at SOPA in this case) are bursty. If there's no legilation on the docket that you care about, you don't pay your lobbyists to do anything.
Intel's third generation Core "Ivy Bridge" processors hit the market
Careful with gairaigo. Most of the time it doesn't mean what you think it means. Ever seen an ad for a mansion? In Japanese that refers to a type of apartment. I challenge anyone who has no prior knowledge to guess what 'Delivery Health' means.
before Korean was invented, Chinese letters are used in Korea. Korean was invented based on the form of mouth that need to speak that sound. For example to say 'ㄱ', your mouth should be form like that.

Not all Korean letter was made based on this concept but King Sejong who is known as inventor of Korean tried to make the public learn letter and write letter quickly, that requires easily understandable form.
Wow. Way to extrapolate my argument into a preconceived idea of who I am and what I'm advocating. Where did I suggest we punish people who make money?

>Your "how quickly they forget" tells me that you view the world thru the lens of propaganda, not reality.

Take a step back and consider that judgement. Is that a sound judgement based on my comment? Is it possible that maybe I'm well read, educated, centrist who doesn't see the world in black and white? Is it possible you're actually viewing me through a distorted lens and seeing a stereotype created by another form of 'propoganda'?

>support for evil is simply jealousy

I don't even know what to say to that. Hilarious.
Re-imagining the file system
Similar articles have surfaced a lot recently with the publication of the BLS's new labor statistics, so I'll repeat what I've said before.

I recently turned 20 years old and I'm not in college nor do I plan to finish a degree (and if it wasn't for individuals Peter Thiel, I might still be making a $100,000 mistake). I'm a fairly normal guy, I've been out of high school for 3 years now and I'm making slightly less than Bureau of Labor Statistic's 2010 Median Income for 'Software Developers', which I believe is more than enough to not be considered underemployed.

I see a lot of psychic pain in my peers about how hard work is or the labor market is so difficult, but to be frank the failures I see are directly attributable to plain laziness in a generation addicted to easy and inane pleasure.

I'm afraid young people of today are losing the real virtues of life like living with passion and taking responsibility for who you are. The ability to make something out of yourself and feeling joy in life is more alive today than in any other point in human history.

I see a lot of active rejection of the ideals of hacker culture, perhaps epitomized by my generation's obsession with video games and fake work. This is really a shame, as one thing that comes out of hacker culture is not a feeling of defeatism, but rather a feeling of a real kind of exuberance about your work and life. Your work is yours to create. I've read the college labor statistics with some interest, even fear. But when I read them, I can't help but think that something essential about our generation and present technological zeitgeist is being left out. As if somehow our work is simply just a confluence of forces far beyond our control, framing college graduates as fragmented or marginalized which opens up a world of excuses.

From Chaitin to Stallman, when hackers talk about the meaning of work, they're not talking about abstract decisions, they're talking about you reading this post, doing something that has concrete consequences, making decisions and accepting the consequences. It may be true that there are seven billion people on the planet, never the less, your work matters in material terms, as well as to others.

In short, I'd encourage any young person my age to not write themselves off as a victim of societal forces. It's always our decision who we are and what we do with our lives.
Changelog: http://nginx.org/en/CHANGES-1.2

Differences between v1.1.19 and v1.2:

Changes with nginx 1.2.0 23 Apr 2012

*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the
"try_files" directive was used; the bug had appeared in 1.1.19.

*) Bugfix: response might be truncated if there were more than IOV_MAX
buffers used.

*) Bugfix: in the "crop" parameter of the "image_filter" directive.
Thanks to Maxim Bublis.
Power to the creators!
The Billion Dollar Mind Trick: An Intro To Triggers