skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another great music players for terminal hackers: mocp

Also, I resent the non-inclusion of emacs at least in the notepad, mIRC, and TeXnic center replacement sections.
Segregating muscle groups properly and using the bare minimum of supplements allows you to go at least every day.

I'm not convinced by that; if you are going heavy on major compound exercises (e.g. squat and deadlift) you will need CNS recovery at the very least. Right now my programme looks like weights day, light cardio day, heavy cardio day, repeat, rest day, back to beginning. That's only 2 weights days a week but believe me, that's plenty.
Hmmm, at least I don't have to hijack a Windows PC to update the firmware now. The question becomes, am I brave enough to try it?

Any success/horror stories from you guys yet?
My condolences. I too know how it feels to have lost my father. It will definitely be hard with ups and downs, but as you have already started to discover, he has done great things and have brought joy to many people. And for this, his life should be celebrated. I know that dark days have arrived, but after darkness, there is light. Stay strong and be with family and friends. Their support is priceless. I wish you the best.
Quoting economist John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006):

"The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable."

Remove the word "economic" from the quote, and it still applies perfectly. No expert has ever been able to predict where the human species will be in a few decades.
Interesting question: who was smarter, Einstien or Godel. Admittedly, Einstein is much better known but consider their insights: Einstein had the insight that acceleration and gravity were manifestations of the same phenomenae and could be modeled by curvature of space. Godel had the insight that all sufficiently complex mathematical systems are incomplete. As an (aspiring) mathematician, I find the latter to be much more profound.
I say this with all due respect, and fully expect that this is just a misunderstanding due to me misinterpreting the sentence.
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I have no salary whatsoever and would place my happiness between 8-10, depending on the day and whether or not I'm feeling that annoying human desire for companionship (which I can happily report has receded as of recent).

I spent a previous week fulfilling some military obligations for which I was paid. That week my happiness was a 0, except for when they stopped paying me and I got to come home and work on the site. Although, I realized quite a while ago that happiness and money have next to no correlation to me.
A less obnoxious design would help.
If I am understanding you correctly, I believe that it is possible in C, using macros. If you include the following in each file:

#ifndef MAIN_ALREADY_DEFINED__

#define MAIN_ALREADY_DEFINED__

int main(){

/* file specific stuff */

}

#endif

Disclaimer: I wouldn't actually do this in practice...
I guess I am easily surprised; each case of "omg our plaintext passwords were stolen" completely baffles me.
edit> the login and adding schools issues were fixed (or so appear to be).
The book "Making Things Talk" (O'Reilly) is a great way to start:

http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596510510/
Pay off all the debt that has accumulated over the last ten years.
I like Python and I like the way Django does controllers (not so much the template engine though). But I cannot use Django or any Python, Ruby or PHP setup in my current project because I'm keeping a lot of data in memory and that doesn't work with multi-process architectures.

So I'm using a very small dispatcher Servlet to pass JSON messages on to POJOS and do all the templating in the browser using jquery.

I'm bored to death (and rather annoyed) by Java so I'm always looking for alternatives that support my architecture.
A couple problems come to mind with this. The first is that the page failes to mention a couple cases where a Linux-native version of the named program exists (Acrobat Reader and Limewire. The second is that they're using a pretty loose definition of an alternative; I can't see a Dreamweaver user being happy with Bluefish, for example.
Perhaps newspaper reading is not so common and complacency is more widespread in the US, I don't know, but some forms of media are more suited for more in-depth analysis while others are not. I'd say that the newspapers format gives the publisher space enough to give needed details on subjects and the reader can peruse it in the speed one needs to comprehend and analyze it. Actually, this goes for most written media.

Of course, newspapers per se don't solve problems but I think that a literate people can make more informed decisions and thus have a greater chance on making good decisions.
i dunno why u got downvoted for just being different shrug
As a very offtopic question, is there a central registry of all the mainstream-ish companies that spam or do other unscrupulous things? Just so I can make a point of avoiding giving them money ...
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But did Gödel have an Annus Mirabilis? ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annus_Mirabilis_Papers )

In one year, Einstein wrote four papers that individually could have won Nobel Prizes. Perhaps Gödel's revelation was more profound. But was Gödel smarter? I doubt it, at least using impressiveness of accomplishments as a proxy for intelligence.
Newspaper claims suspect transformed into a goat
The API Wars
VAT is for each member state. There are common rules on how to handle things when products cross borders in different ways, but the taxes themselves are lifted by each member state and the actual percentage differs between product groups and member states.
> I have plenty of savings but I still don't want to lose my job

And when management asks that you work 10 extra hours a week for the same amount of pay? You're in a much better position if you have several months of living expenses to painlessly tap into.

> Monetary policy acts against this by pushing up interest rates when it believes there is too much credit and pushing them down when there is too little.

Well they're certainly avoiding the whole "pushing up" part. If they were smoothing the cycles out in a sustainable manner, we wouldn't be talking about negative interest rates. Instead, they lower interest rates and keep them there because economic reality is politically inconvenient.

> In fact, more people have been lifted out of poverty under inflation targeting than under any other period of stability in history

How much of this can be attributed to natural technological progress rather than economic planning? And what percentage of the excess wealth (compared to an undriven economy) has been actually used to raise people out of poverty? It's not sustainable progress to get the masses out of poverty if you've used up most of the natural resources in the process.

> Money is created through bank loans. The banks and the government do not receive the money first. The person who borrows is the first recipient.

The person who borrowed is the second recipient, the bank takes the first cut through fees and increased interest. The government gets to tap into the supply through perpetual deficit spending.

> If the quantity and demand for money and the number of products on the market were fixed, then the decrease in the nominal price of one good would necessarily cause an increase in the nominal price of others

But the average (index) remains constant only if you ignore the option to save money for the future, and assume that everything earned must be immediately spent (which is precisely what were debating). When prices go down, total amount of money spent on goods should go down. This money will be saved to give one security and mobility. The price of labor should then rise, and people should be working less. Instead, the savings are eroded through inflation, and workers are kept on a constant treadmill.

What I really have to ask, if these central banks are really doing the optimal benevolent thing, then why do they violently shut down competition? Surely the currency they "stabilized" should win out in the market over possible competitors.
If you do that I'll emigrate to North Korea
I've seen those stupid mathematics captcha, there's a thing called eval() in javascript.
"In order to help assure the security of your information, you may soon be required to change your password upon logging onto the site."

I wonder how Monster is going to verify that the person logging in and changing the password is actually the user who owned the account and not the thief.

I guess they could hope that the user's email hasn't been compromised and go through an email verification to change the password.
twitter is like the Internet's syslog to me. ^_^
Thanks, that's always good to hear.
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WebObjects for me too :-) And I also don't like Java or Eclipse. But at least with DirectToWeb one can keep the Java code to a minimum.
If you only have two lifting days per week, going heavy on compound exercises makes sense. Also, presumably, you're working a greater number of muscle groups per day which requires more recovery time, especially if you're doing low-weight, high-rep work. I avoided compound exercises (other than deadlifts on Back day) and was doing high-weight, low-rep, not to mention the fact that having 6 days over which to spread out muscle groups helps substantially.

Combined with a high-calorie (balanced) diet and supplements, I was able to make consistent gains week-over-week for the life of the program. In the beginning it was more difficult as my body wasn't used to the work, but as time went on it got to the point where I was fully recovered in the areas I needed to be to complete the day's routine with more weight than the previous week's iteration (each day was a separate routine).
Sure, but perhaps companies in the middle, with less than 50 employees, might be willing to spend some money, but not $50 a year per employee. Say, a 10 employee company - that's 500$ a year, which isn't huge, but not peanuts either. If Google could get 200$ out of them, and still make a profit, it seems like a win for everyone. No idea what their actual costs are, but they can't be that high if the advertising is anywhere close to covering them.
As a former Frenchman, let me tell you it's a hell of a lot.

You can read the Forbes Tax Misery Index (http://www.forbes.com/global/2008/0407/060_2.html) or the Heritage Foundation Index of Economic Freedom (http://www.heritage.org/index/Country/France) to learn more.

Despite those billions, most public services have been running huge deficits for decades. The trains are fast and the electricity is mostly nuclear, though. And you'll have the pleasure to live in a country where everyone has equal health care. And it's really, really... well, equal.
Is there an OS X equivalent?
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What in hell makes people think that reading a French newspaper is in any way "education"?

We're not talking about "The Economist" here...
Ruby on Rails is my primary framework. I've played a lot with Merb, but I'm happy that it will be merged with rails. In the future I want to explore web frameworks written in lisps (cl, scheme or closure)
I overcame /. addiction by subscribing to its Headlines which arrive every morning in my mailbox.
Offtopic ok but: Would be handy if anchor links downmodded would also appear grey. Now they really stand out.
Software Engineering != Software Science
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My weights day 1 is squat, leg press, calf extension, leg extension + whatever else I feel like - sets of 5x5 or 3x8. Weights day 2 is deadlift, pull-ups, t-bar/bent over rows + whatever else I feel like. Pressups on cardio days.

I plan to stick with this 'til the end of February then adapt it to prepare for a Marathon in May.
Operating systems are a means to an end other than building an application. Libraries are a means to the end of building an application. Operating systems are a means to a different end: running multiple applications together.

The way that operating systems do this has changed over the years. At first, it was just by letting one run while the other is waiting on the tape drive, or the user. Later, it was by letting one read the files of the other, or by permitting you to readily use hundreds of kilobytes of memory on a 16-bit machine by connecting processes through FIFOs, or by allowing objects in one process to call methods on objects in another.

There were a number of kinds of interactions between applications that seem like they should be more straightforward to build in Plan 9 than in Linux. I don't have any experience with Plan 9, so I could be wrong about these:

Untrusted processes in Plan 9 can do the equivalent of chroot, and because things like network access go through the filesystem, chrooting them can restrict those things too. Something like VNC, providing a shared window to run graphical applications in, should be nearly trivial to build in 8½, and wouldn't lose accelerated graphics --- it should even be easier than in the VT-100 world where screen runs. Virtual desktop software should be easier, and work better, in 8½ than in X (at least prior to Compiz). Spreading such a large virtual display across more than one physical display, as with x2x (but with the ability to move windows between them) is the same problem as the shared display. A networked chat application should be able to use 9P (within the SSI) and therefore the client should be a simple shell script, while the server merely has to provide a 9P service accessible over the network. And then there are the examples that are actually in the Plan9 papers: exporting your local process namespace to a compute server so that your compute-intensive process there can access all of your local resources transparently; 8½ itself. And of course anything that deals with text on Plan9 can assume it's in UTF-8, rather than guess. (To the extent that's not true, it's because it's trying to interact with programs beyond the boundaries of the Plan9 system. You can't expect Plan9 to make much of a difference for how applications not on Plan9 interact.)

There are any number of features that are implemented currently on Linux, but badly, that a cleaner architecture like Plan9's would support better. x2x is one example; the "virtual filesystems" in GNOME and KDE, which permit you to access network servers and digital cameras and CD audio (but only in some applications) are another. International text is a third; I don't know about you, but I'm constantly running into character-set incompatibilities. (What do you mean, Python doesn't know what encoding my source code is in? And why isn't naïve a valid variable name?) Attempts like Janus and Plash and CPUShare (and Chrome! and Native Client!) to run native code in an environment without full access to your account are, I think, a fourth.
I find that solving a problem people have is an excellent way to increase uptake of software.
Turing completeness may not be that important in everyday programming, but it's at the heart of CS just like (to pick a lame example) conservation of energy is at the heart of physics.

What still baffles me about Turing completeness is how ubiquitous it is. Everything from Conway's Game of Life to C++ template specialization to Ruby is Turing complete. Only the latter has been explicitly designed for general computation; for the others, it just "emerged". It's almost as if Turing completeness is an aspect of nature, and it takes work and artificial restraint to design an interesting, powerful mechanism that is not Turing complete. I find that fascinating.
I think states which pursue this strategy will find that with an aggressive enemy "just buy a competent military" is not something that you can accomplish in less than a generation.

How many European nations could "buy weapons" and then pull off a minor shooting war against a local tinpot dictator whose military budget would be lost in Toyota's R&D expenditures? (e.g. Save Kosovo... without calling the US.)

I think the answer to the rhetorical question is "exactly one", although I can name two others which would actually have the capability of showing up in time to drop a bomb or two, to no strategic effect. The others are universally incapable of even getting to the theatre.

And if Russia decided to get frisky and send in the tanks? Most nations in Europe would fold about as fast as Georgia did -- their sole means of defense is not being "acceptable, if regrettable, losses" in Washington.
Ask HN: Why does TechCrunch have to be the center of Blogging?
To me, this runs contrary to the revolution bloggers tried to start from mainstream media in the early 2000's: we don't need a single source, or a collective of sources trying to peddle media to us. We are going to empower ourselves, we are going to go forth and present the news.

Well, it seems like the contrary is happening. TechCrunch, cNet, et al have effectively become the center of attention when it comes to tech blogging.

Maybe it's just that I don't particularly like TC, so I'm probably just wrong altogether, but when Robert Scoble and Mike Arrington bring twitter to it's knees because people flutter around them, eat up, regurgitate and reiterate every.single.thing those two say, it kind of brings back the feeling that if the news didn't come from here, it's not worth being read.

What are your thoughts?
Maybe adding some more original content to a better designed page?

Not to be rude or anything, but there isn't anything really original. You've just taken two widgets, stuck them on a page with a repeating background, and slapped an ad in the middle.

It would have been cooler to use the API and create a more interesting interface. (Maybe tweets falling down in little footballs, although I would find that pretty obnoxious more than useful)
What do you recommend, in terms of widgets?
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Cleveland isn't even in the Super Bowl.
I don't know about everyone, but I have a limited number of hours that I can focus on any single task before I need to take a break. If I didn't have this, then I would find something else to distract me. It is a lot easier for me to pull away from HN than to stop playing chess games online.
I thought this had been known for a while?

I recall discussing in a class that Archimedes was known to have approximated integrals and may have even known enough about limits to have derived integral calculus.
That's pretty amazing. I hope his popularity there lasts. May I ask what's your tribe?
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Here's the deal: CSS was designed to have all the styling and layout power of presentational HTML, and more. Even universally hated features like "blink" were supported, so nobody would have to use presenational HTML ever again.

So what whent wrong with tables? The culprit is that the CSS equivalent of tables, the display:table CSS property (defined in CSS 2) has not been implemented in Internet Explorer yet, even though the standard is 12 years old (IE8 will reportedly support it, though).

So there is no direct CSS equivalent to the layout properties of tables which works in IE. You can emulate some of the properties using floats, absolute positioning and so on, but be aware that this approach is not the "correct" CSS way. Rather it is a workaround around limitations in IE's implementation of CSS. Using tables for layout is a alternative workaround for the same problem. The approaches have different tradeoffs.

The main tradeoff is that HTML-tables are bad for accessibility, while CSS alternatives are often convoluted and hard to maintain. So the choice is basically if you want to cause pain for yourself or for disabled people. Its not hard to understand how this debate turns into more of a moral than a technical discussion.

Note that it is not all uses of tables which require workarounds to implement in table-less CSS. Before CSS, tables were used for a wide array of layout tasks like spacing, margins, positioning and so on, which is generally better handled by CSS today. The limitations are specifically when tables are used as dynamically adjusting grids. I wrote a small article to point out the concrete issues: http://olav.dk/articles/tables.html

BTW - it's a myth that tables render the same across browsers. Table rendering has about the same amount of inconsistencies and browser differences as CSS. The difference is that there is no "right way" to render tables, since table rendering is not specified anywhere. It's all just a chain of reverse-engeneering leading back to the first haphazard table implemtation in Netscape 1.1. With CSS there is at least a spec, and the hope that browsers implentations move incrementally closer to the spec.
- why not read newspapers on the internet?

- newspapers are not in the business to inform, they are in the business of selling newspapers

- often newspapers are owned by entities with their own interests, who by use of the newspaper try to manipulate public opinion
I don't bike where cars drive either (except to cross other roads). Seperate bikeways.
+1 for wicket.

Used wicket for a while on xp-dev.com, but moved to a home grown one as wicket was a tad bit too bloated.

But I really like how wicket is component based, and have used it successfully for other project (all intranet based ones though - so don't really have many publicly accessible examples)