skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It may have been on them in some sense, but it certainly didn't have much of an impact there. People didn't write apps for those phones in any numbers.

The world wouldn't look very different today if those phones had run a completely different stack. Or even if it wasn't possible to write apps for them at all.
Node.Philly - http://www.youtube.com/nodephilly

dominode - https://github.com/maxogden/dominode

browser-stream - https://github.com/dominictarr/browser-stream

cdir - https://github.com/hij1nx/cdir

crypto-browserify - https://github.com/dominictarr/crypto-browserify

Stream vs. Callback vs. EventEmitter - http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs/browse_thread/thread/7...

node-disorder - https://github.com/substack/node-disorder

OAuth with Request vs Passport vs EveryAuth

Mikeal's TC39 Post - http://www.mikealrogers.com/posts/tc-thirty-what.html

npm-www - https://github.com/isaacs/npm-www

Node.js 0.8 Milestones

NodeConf - http://www.nodeconf.com/

TacoConf - http://tacoconf.com/

node-falafel - http://github.com/substack/node-falafel

LXJS - http://lxjs.org

Testling - http://testling.com
I guess the thought would that graduated to some level of critical mass. Sort of like a kickstart program for sites.
I don't think 15 days is enough to get over the initial novelty and "honeymoon period" to be really sure it's so great.

After all, you're here now, back on the internet, posting on HN.

It is a good indicator that all of us could probably stand to gain from unplugging for a while every now and then.
Working Backward...
http://mathema-tricks.blogspot.com/2012/05/working-backward.html
Cyanogenmod 9 Now Ported TO HTC One X
I would prefer if my previous search was populated in the search box after completing a search (since I might want to try the search with a different filter).

It appears you have an "off by one issue" in the sidebar. There's always a blank entry in the list of ignored sites.

Filtering does not seem to be working (or I don't understand it). Searching on "chicken" produced the same results with 1million or 100k removed.
You can reference it anywhere but you can't ship your product calling it Java. In this case Google references Java's classes, SDK etc but they call the version they ship as Android.
Why increase your burden even to that? Computers are there to do stupid repetitive stuff for us so we don't have to. Why design a logging format that requires even minimal manual intervention to keep automated parsing working?
Damnit, you're right.
Copyright is a government granted and government enforced monopoly. Its got little to do with capitalism.
Probably not, no. In the US, it's more likely to constitute the tort of contributory infringement. Someone should make a "10 Commandments of Nerd Legal Misunderstandings"; #2 or #3 would be "in the law, intent matters hugely".
Reducing WAN latency for voip, video and chatty interactive apps
"Above all, I try to hire people who I'd want to pair with tomorrow. People who are better than me, and people who I can learn from."

This is too bad from my perspective. As an interviewee, I want to pair with people who are better than me, people who I can learn from. You know, from someone who writes books about JavaScript Web Applications.
The light bulb is definitely a less-than-apt metaphor. I think the crux of what he's asking about is the line between a system's production of subjectivity and a subject's experience of it (which constitutes the subject as such). The separation between the two seems to be absolute, i.e. if "brains cause minds," as Searle puts it, no amount of introspection on the part of the mind allows it access to the brain. Consciousness is a one-way trip.

How to distinguish between the two might be an interesting question from, say, a Chinese Room[1] or p-zombie[2] standpoint, which might have some philosophical bearing on AI. But that's about all I can think of off the top of my head.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room

2. http://www.skepdic.com/zombies.html
Integrating Heroku addon SSO in Rails using Devise
Will add that feature. Thx
Socialcam Nabs Angel Funding From The A-List
The life of the lone programmer
A framework for Google Web Toolkit that follows its idioms, free for GPL
I was able to rank for some moderately competitive terms just by paying someone minimum wage to go leave nice comments on dofollow blogs. The whole "Content is king" meme is a joke, really.
This is freaking awesome. I have been waiting for this for so long. I look forward to using this all day to see how it holds up.
What most FP theorists fail to explain is that, in FP, the function itself is the variable. The variable value of functions are kept on the stack and are used as arguments for other functions. One function affects another. Insisting that there are no variables and thus no side effects in FP is wishful thinking at best and crackpottery at worst.

The author is misunderstanding FP entirely; possibly due to FP zealots misunderstanding FP entirely. The key to FP is not some abstract hand-wavy idea of "stuff never changing", which is the strawman on which he built this entire post. It is referential transparency ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referential_transparency_(compu... ).

Referential transparency is the notion that any given expression can be replaced with its value without changing the result of the program. This property does wonders for formal verification since it allows programs to be broken into pieces for ease of verification (this is a huge win).

FP, by making all state explicit, trivially exhibits referential transparency (since the dependencies of an expression are syntactically present within it). Imperative languages, by making state implicit, do not exhibit this property.

A study languages which exhibit referential transparency yet have state, such as Mercury or Flapjax, shows that state is not incompatible with referential transparency or functional programming in the manner the author believes. A solid understanding of reduction-semantics such as that used by the lambda calculus would also help him form a more coherent argument (particularly the points about "functions being variable" don't make logical sense).
Very cool, but I fired up an emacs session and hit Ctrl+N to start scrolling through a file.... doh!
Way to be honest! =)
18 people died in spacecraft, defined as in vehicles that could reach over 100km altitude. 517 have been to space. Jarvis, McAuliffe, and Michael J. Smith died in Challenger having never made it to space. However, another 11 died during space-related training, like Apollo 1. I'll use your 554 as the number of those trained as astronauts.

So I don't know where how that "34" I quoted earlier is justified, since I'm coming up with 29.

29 fatalities per 554 is 5% of the population, over 50 years of space flight. My hand-wavy calculation to get to "deaths per 100,000 per year is 29 fatalities / 554 people / 50 years * 100000 = 105/100K. (Previously I did it as 34 / 450 / 50 * 100000 =
151)

The numbers I'm computing are the effective deaths per 100,000 per year. That's different than the number you are calculating, which is the number of fatal launches per year, I think.
Personally I've moved away almost entirely from Google searches, and have gone over to DuckDuckGo.
I've taken and stayed at crap jobs precisely for the health insurance. When I was consulting, I was self-insured thru my state's insurance of last resort. Expensive, while it was available.

The cost of health insurance is an active deterrent to me risking my own startups.

Hypocrisy and contradictions from the free market zealots is nothing new.

And yet I remain stunned that the same freaks who say they want a flexible work force, ya know, that whole "free market" thang, actively oppose the single biggest enabler to a mobile work force, universal health insurance.
We're moving into a world in which people will increasingly be judged by their work product online (e.g., Github commits, Quora answers, etc.) versus what they say about themselves (e.g., their resume or LinkedIn profile). This change won't be overnight and won't be complete of course but over time could create a virtuous cycle where the importance of having a better "living resume" (your online work/portfolio) will drive increased activity for all of those sites which will in turn make those living resumes more robust.
Or rather, the patent lawsuit backfired, to the point that they had to pay $300M to settle, because it would have been more costly overall for them to let B&N show that the patents infringed by Linux (which MS constantly tells about, but never shows) are actually worthless.

(That seems to me like a better explanation of the data, as it reflects through the media I read -- which of course might be biased)
I disagree. Whether or not it is in the interest of the vendor is irrelevant; if APIs are copyrightable, the vendor's license extends to any work that uses that API. If they are not, the vendor has no say in who can reimplement or use that API, as they have no ownership rights.
How To Survive A Hackathon
The benefits of writing your own package is that you can post it on HN as a 'news' article and have thousands of potential employers look at it without applying to any specific jobs... :)
You Don’t Have to Suffer in Silence – Feel Better with These 4 Natural Products
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What was the quote I heard recently on NPR.. something like:

"Without internet it is back to 1970, without electricity, its back to 1890"

something like that anyway.
"might" or "will"? From this fluff piece, I am leaning towards "will"
Life before the internet was incredibly boring most of the time. You spent the majority of your free time figuring out ways to wring the most value from the 10% of time spent doing actual things with actual people.

A lot of it was filled with TV and moving around needlessly (to get things, to send things, to be somewhere at a certain time to pick up the phone...). It really sucked.
Really interesting, would be even better if it parsed my SSH config file. Interested to see how this progresses.
Is it that disadvantageous to prefer BitBucket? When people say they check GitHub is that short for checking for publically available source code, or is Git Hub the one-stop-shop for coding credability?
I don't think I would enjoy working for someone I was better than. I approach work as a learning experience. I usually pick to work for people I can learn from.
Doesn't make a dent in the travel site spam, unfortunately. though I might use this just to permanently remove About.com...
Gosling has had reservations about Harmony in the past. But in general with Sun's approach, they never maintained a consistent disdain with Kaffe, Harmony, Classpath, etc. This is why Google brought up Oracle's failure at building their own Java-based smart phone before the suit was filed.
I can't believe how great it looks and how responsive it is. I've been running an emacs client in it for a while and other than C-n opening a new window it's practically perfect. Huge props to the team who wrote this.
I believe this is the same terminal that replaces urxvt as the non-VT terminal in the newest version of ChromeOS (IE the one you access with Ctrl-Alt-T). I was worried when I switched to the dev channel on my Cr-48 and crosh opened in a new tab instead of a chromeless window.
This is consistent with the notion that many (most?) neolithic diseases are caused by inflammation, often expressed by people with paleo/primal/archevore/etc. diets.
While I do enjoy project computers like I do enjoy project cars, my main laptop needs to be a "daily commuter" vehicle: it can't be taxing to drive and it can't be taxing to maintain. I need to have it working in order to do work. What are your recommendations for that?
> It was called the principle of shareholder value maximization.

But that's not what happened. It was just rhetoric for covering executive team compensation maximization. Shareholders have been screwed along with the rest of us (he says while checking his 401k).

Wild-eyed socialist that I am, the single biggest, quickest improvement to corporate responsibility and governance would be to increase shareholder rights.
Hi, and welcome to our old friend with yet another new username.

Flagged. Again.
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/01/the_return_of_lou...

"I'd be surprised if any of you knew who Louis Savain is — he's a weird little crackpot that I stomped on hard all of 3½ years ago..."
I think this is the same shell as the one included with the latest release of Chrome OS (Aura UI).
This sounds like a good talk. The StyleOwner team will be joining you guys. Thanks for hosting this. As an aside, where is a good place to find out about these kind of events in the Bay Area? If there isn't one, I'd like to toss together a public Google Calendar for everyone to add to so we developers can be aware when/where talks will be held.
Cloud Computing (SaaS) Licenses – Is AGPL the solution?
A few of the suggestions included the ability to set include/exclude sites which I think we'll add.
They list a few caveats: http://git.chromium.org/gitweb/?p=chromiumos/platform/assets...

no ssh keys, no port forwarding, Chrome 19 + "Open as Window" for some shortcut keys, etc.
Who really believe Cadillac will release such car in 3 years? This news is missing the following statement:

This release contains "forward-looking-statements".
Forward-looking statements can generally be identified
by words such as "believe," "appears," "may," "could,"
"will," "estimate," "continue," "anticipate," "intend,"
"should," "plan," "expect," and other words and terms of
similar meaning in connection with any discussion of
projections, future performance or expectations, beliefs,
plans or objectives for future operations (including
statements of assumption underlying or relating to any of
the foregoing). Actual results may differ materially from
those reflected in these forward-looking statements
Of course they are more capable. But are you saying that these opinions aren't worth listening to as well? "Without understanding your opponent's argument, you can't fully understand your own." If nothing else this can be an educational experience thanks to you and tptacek.
Often, when I'm reading a resume I'm thinking: “This guy is great, look at all this experience. He clearly knows Ruby and JavaScript like the back of his hand, and this interview is just going to be a formality”

For what it's worth from the other side, I've been repeatedly amazed at how much interviewers have managed to read into or project onto my resume. And I'm not talking about recruiters, for whom a single keyword instance qualifies you as an "excellent match!" but actual working engineers and engineering managers.
I think you can run it in some kind of app window mode which avoids issues like c-n, c-w, etc. Not sure if it works in a tab though.
Teleoperated robots?
All this proves is how easy kids are to influence by a staged illusion. Pull the veil back to let them see the wizard (the person with the remote control/microphone) and we'd see far different results.

What a waste of time/money. Any parent (or someone who has been around kids for any length of time) could have given you this same information.
Works really well, nice and quick. Call me stupid, but I'm not actually sure how to launch it (clicking on "Launch App" from within the webstore works but that's surely not the only way).
bwahaha thanks for finding this. Reminds me a bit of the Time Cube guy (http://timecube.org/).
I'm going to suggest you stick to metric, educating the parts of the world that are still in the dark ages ;)

OK, fine, I probably won't get that wish. I'll retaliate by referring to all temperature values in Réaumur ;)

As for your site, excellent work - and I think sticking with the FitBit profile settings is the better choice. Duplicating a setting across sites is always a painful thing for users.
Has anyone code reviewed this to make sure it's not stealing credentials, etc. ?
If you're using separate passphrases for everything, surely that would be no more secure than writing the passphrase down?
Introducing Developer ID and Gatekeeper
Surprised to see Laurene Powell Jobs listed as an investor.
Tmux seems to work wonderfully. I bet Chrome Book users are stoked.
Brit Morin Engages $1.25M From Marissa Mayer, Aileen Lee And More..
For many things (In the UK at least) there is still a non Internet infrastructure for interfacing with things like Government departments and banks.

But many other times there simply is not, I remember a few years ago (maybe around 2007) job hunting and asking for an application form and being told that all applications had to be made online.

Also for some of the systems I have developed we have ended up using email address as a uniquely identifying piece of information for each customer which basically means that it is a mandatory field whenever a record in the DB is created and I would guess many others have done so too.
The point is that thepiratebay claims not to be a merchant
Hehe, I have that old Nokia he was looking at in the shop. Dumbphones rock!
We will never have Web 3.0, because the Web’s dead.

Yawn. The person writing this is clearly clueless. The web is not going die. Anyone who says things like this is clearly an iPhone junkie and not really paying attention to the larger picture, and the fact that web apps are quickly catching up to iPhone app experiences, and are quickly going to overtake them. Native mobile apps are a short term fad. They're toast in the long run, because they go against the natural order of things -- network-based software is the future regardless of how cool a silly game you just downloaded is. Data is moving to the cloud, therefore software will move the cloud (not your mobile device), and nothing can change this trend... not even Apple.
I love good'ole Austin, TX! But looking forward to relocating!
I just tuned in, and it looks like the clock is still holding at T-13.
Please do write up how your Air holds up to that kind of abuse! If the system doesn't cry (Airs don't have a lot of hardware in them) this sounds quite excellent.

To be honest though, I don't totally understand how this headless Linux runs graphical Linux in your mac without going into the X11/Lion rage area.
>We think of Google and Facebook as Web gorillas. They’ll be around forever.

Who thinks that? Especially about Facebook.
I've seen a lot of Forbes articles appear on HN lately. I don't think a single one of them has seemed the least bit insightful or interesting. They mostly seem to write poorly-based opinion pieces that show ignorance of large swaths of tech. They can usually be summed up as, "Web 2.0 ... Web 2.0 ... Web 2.0 ..."
Only speaking for myself, but I wouldn't touch java if it wasn't the language for android development.

As an Android developer and, I have to confess, advocate, I have always found Android's Java origins to have been a mistake. It is an unlikable language that did nothing to further the platform, but brought a lot of resource expense with it. I honestly wish Oracle wins this suit and Google gets a sunsetting period to actually bake out a credible NDK API (e.g. no JInvoke BS).
Is it safe to assume that this is how Google's search results would look if nobody did SEO?
Morphine becomes heroin (diacetylmorphine) upon replacing the naturally-occurring hydroxyl groups (-OH) with acetyl groups (-OCOCH3). This increases fat solubility, which allows it to cross the blood-brain barrier much more quickly than morphine.

The acetyl groups get removed in the brain, and the resulting morphine has the traditional effects. Since heroin includes the extra weight of acetyl groups, it's implied that heroin is less strong per gram than morphine, but is easier to deliver.
From their twitter: "May recycle and try again today, watch for update."

http://twitter.com/#!/spacex
4 To-Dos for the "Someday" Entrepreneur
> The ruling is mostly full of shit:

It's obvious that the ruling is full of shit just from the verdict.
Thanks for the plug. Nevertheless good question- Business Dev and Marketing is my playing field.
Slow Audio Listeners Hate This.
Have you ever been listening to an interview, or a video from a course you just bought, or an audiobook and wish you could go through it twice as fast?<p>Here's the app that will do it.
Agreed, the overall architecture may become simpler by choosing a more complex compound data exchange format.
More than just an idea, they've already done it.
The Copyrights, Designs & Patents Act 198 has "fair dealing" clauses which specifically permits back ups (Section 50(A)) and time-shifting (Section 70). I'm not aware of any case law that limits these permissions; the Copyright & Related Rights Regulations of 2003 does forbid you from circumventing a technical protection measure, which is in opposition to CDPA.
Why is this on HN? Flag, flag, flag.
Perhaps the key point here is that there are not 'white knights' or people without stain in this particular fight.

As someone who was there I can tell you the fact is that Sun was going to flush Java down the toilet at the end of Fiscal Year 1995 (June 30th), they had no idea how to monetize it. And when SGI and Microsoft paniced when it got out, well it became a bludgeoning club which they used to bludgeon people they didn't like. And all of the efforts to make it a language for lots of purposes like C or C++ (when is the last time someone got sued by AT&T for making a C compiler?) got tossed into the bucket in the name of bludgeoning.

Bill Joy asserted for a while that the JVM would execute byte code (with the assistance of HotSpot and some other bit of secret sauce that never actually happened) faster than compiled native code. Later when gcj was released (Java to native machine code compiler) that code ran faster than hot spotted code, and it loaded quicker too.)

Google on the other hand knew it was leveraging something it had the code to (and like a third of the original team) and yet it often takes a very literal interpretation on license requirements when that interpretation suits them. An example of that was the lack of any requirement to put any of their changes to Linux back into the repo because they didn't "ship" Linux, they just used it in house. Now a number of engineers were very annoyed at maintaining things that they didn't want to maintain and that forced things to be pushed upstream but that was commit by pain, not commit by intent.

So I really resonate with the comment James made that there isn't anyone with clean hands in this fight. But there are a lot of egos out there.