skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
High school and college literature classes dealt a serious setback to my readership too. Most (not all) of the books I had to read were worth reading, but like a fine beverage, many should be sipped and savored, not gulped and dismissed. What teachers seem to forget is that a student has a great many things on his plate, and can find it difficult indeed to set aside enough time to give a really good book its due.

Then they give you an assignment like, identify ten symbols in the work, and explain what you think they symbolize. Remember, there's no single right answer--symbolism and abstract meaning is a result of the interaction between the reader and the text. When I hear someone say "there's no single right answer," I hear, "...but there are an awful lot of wrong answers, and chances are, yours is one of 'em."

What I can say, though, is that once you get out of academia, give your mind a little time to refresh itself, and no longer feel the threat to your GPA if you interpret a book incorrectly, the enjoyment returns to reading. In some cases, you'll even go back to those books you had forced down your throat, re-read them, and enjoy them this time round!

But not "The Things They Carried." I don't mind being surprised in a story, but I get annoyed when the style clearly suggests one thing, and then in a pique of self-referentiality, the author tugs the rug out from under you and tells you that... well, I don't want to spoil it for anyone who hasn't had the misfortune yet. (No, it's really a pretty good book, and I have to admit the author got me good.)
A real eco solution would be to make cheap and simple 'supermarket bikes'

At the moment the $75 bikes in Walmart are terrible - but mostly because they try and copy $750 bikes with 24gears and full suspension.
If you wanted a green solution make very simple, single gear, hub brakes, steel frame bikes in the same factory for $50 and make millions of them.

There is a city bike rental scheme here, but like all the other rental/free bike schemes around the world - it uses some 'novel' bike design which somehow end up costing $1000 each! And so either require credit cards and security or they only distribute 10 of them around the city.
This is just the first step; I've got more planned to make this better.

But I also believe that by publicizing this it will encourage accelerators to have their startups monitor/clean up their data on Crunchbase. (And I personally think that's good for the startup ecosystem.)
Way to go, HN! There's nothing quite like quibbling about semantics and praising the latest OSX while the planet burns. If we saw the same kind of Chomskyan linguistics applied to OSX Mountain Lion as we apply to climate science, we wouldn't know whether HiDPI was actually included or falsely advertised.

They didn't say melting over the Summit was unprecedented. They said the 97% melt was unprecedented in the thirty years we've been able to measure ice melts.

The last 328 consecutive months of above average global temperatures have also been unprecedented. The odds of that occurring by random chance is less than one in 3.7 x 10^99.
To be clear, in this context, I'm only talking about delete bots who kill new content seconds after it's created. A phenomenon so frustrating and common that there are probably tens of thousands of examples on open forums of this (including HN) and no doubt is a huge part of the massive reduction in new editors and new user engagement at WP (as tracked in several Foundation reports over the years -- but somehow always ignore this issue).
It appears to be in the App Store now...

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/xcode/id497799835?mt=12
HN, why so serious?
Why don't we just all agree that John Siracusa should have a frequently updated blogging outlet so we could just read his stuff instead :)
UX Design position at Submittable (YC S12)
It's a question about engineering vs science. Before Kepler, people actually could predict the motion of the stars and planets through the sky; perhaps not as elegantly or accurately as after Kepler, but to a certain degree, so what?

The AI case is clearly a point where the theories from linguistics are insufficient for engineering purposes. Watson could not have been built today based off of Chomskian linguistics. Maybe the statistical models will advance the theory of linguistics, maybe not. Either way they will give us useful tools now which is better than elegant tools later.
"Pinker explains that a universal grammar represents specific structures in the human brain that recognize the general rules of other humans' speech, such as whether the local language places adjectives before or after nouns, and begin a specialized and very rapid learning process not explainable as reasoning from first principles or pure logic. This learning machinery exists only during a specific critical period of childhood and is then disassembled for thrift, freeing resources in an energy-hungry brain."

Having read the book, his arguments are far more convincing than your assertions.
What's wrong with PIL on Ubuntu? If you're running into needing to repoint JPEG_ROOT/ZLIB_ROOT - I've started avoiding that by symlinking where PIL expects things to be to where they actually are). Works a charm, and avoids using --system-site-packages.
The review doesn't say how long it takes to install once downloaded. Is this a lunch break install or a "wait-till-evening" installation?
> It dissapoints me to think about how much legitimate human knowledge has been wiped from WP

Wikipedia has never been about collecting sum of human knowledge, as it claims. It's about collecting sum of human knowledge that it can verify.

Wikipedia is designed from the beginning to be a tertiary source, and it's not an accident. This is why if you try to put any original content in it, it will usually get reverted, not because the content is wrong or even unhelpful, but the fact that nobody can verify it. (I'm not saying whether this is a good or a bad thing, it's just the way Wikipedia works) If you want to contribute original knowledge, don't use Wikipedia as a vehicle for doing so, you are better off writing to a blog/magazine/academic journal.
to sibling poster: He has written about the New York Times reporting on Apple’s taxes. You can say that he’s just being an Apple apologist here, but it’s not as if he has ignored the topic:

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/05/09/apple-taxes-98
> His point about long scrolling web pages isn't actually valid.

His point is perfectly valid, it's about mnemonics.

> The way to do it is to have a table of contents, and fragment identifiers for each section.

Considering his reviews have both table of contents and fragment identifiers, I'm going to go ahead and assert he knows about those.

That does not help remember where you are in the article.
NASA - Satellites see unprecedented Greenland Ice Sheet surface Melt
I don't see why this is surprising? All big events have outrageous prices. Compared to some gigs I've been to they even seem somewhat reasonable. There are much worse things brought about by the Olympics being here than the prices charged to those in the event itself.
I agree - they look fine. Everyone needs to stop over-analyzing.
38 Studios' spending topped $133M, documents reveal
I can't wait for a world free of bigots like you, but hey, what you going to do.
But they're almost all licensed under FRAND terms which in theory should prevent them being used the way Motorola & Samsung have decided to use them.

There are many other discussions about that concept on HN.
Wow, everyone except YC and Techstars Boulder has a terrible success rate: http://www.seed-db.com/accelerators

Is this data complete?
Fiddling with spelling shibboleths while the economy burns
Which of your programs will work with Mountain Lion
Ask HN: How do you find clients that wish to outsource
We have a team in southeast Asia (presently expanding) with team member skills ranging from front end and backend technologies like .NET, Java, Websphere Portal Admins, GIS Software Engineer etc.

How do we go about promoting our company (which will be formed in the US since I am located here) and acquire clients that are willing to outsource their development.

If anyone here has taken this path kindly advice.
You mean the thing he used in his table of contents and in every fucking section title of his review?

You should avoid blaming him for your own misreadings.
Your security should always be behind the API not in front of it and you should never rely on obscurity as a security measure.
Lua+Mongrel2?

http://tir.mongrel2.org/
Aren't a "Puma" and a "Mountain Lion" the same animal?
Does anyone have links to the mentioned internal documents from Apple / Samsung?
I was about to say "you can't do it", but I think you can -- the trick is to use a bounded generic implementation. Once "Mul" becomes a trait, you'll be able to say this:

trait MatrixMultiplyRHS<Result> {
fn mul(matrix: Matrix) -> Result;
}

impl<RHS:MatrixMultiplyRHS<Result>,Result> Matrix : Mul<RHS, Result> {
fn mul(rhs: RHS) -> Result {
rhs.mul(self)
}
}

impl float : MatrixMultiplyRHS<Matrix> {
fn mul(matrix: Matrix) -> Matrix {
// ...implementation of matrix scalar multiply...
}
}

impl Vector : MatrixMultiplyRHS<Vector> {
fn mul(matrix: Matrix) -> Vector {
// ... implementation of matrix multiply for vectors ...
}
}

impl Matrix : MatrixMultiplyRHS<Matrix> {
fn mul(matrix: Matrix) -> Matrix {
// ... implementation of matrix multiply for matrices ...
}
}

It's admittedly a bit awkward, but maybe that's OK to discourage overloading unless you actually need it. Still, your point was very interesting -- I didn't realize this was possible! -- and I'll spread it around the team.
For your reading pleasure:

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/computerkonzern-verkla... [süddeutsche.de -> in german]

http://www.thelocal.de/society/20111026-38449.html [thelocal.de]

http://www.geek.com/articles/apple/apple-wants-a-german-cafe... [geek.com]

Everything except the first link are the product of looking for English reports on the same issue, so I do not vouche for their quality.
I'm so bored of all this. It's like watching my parents going through their divorce - pretty much everything ended up with petty point scoring, and at the end of the day, the kids are the ones that got hurt.

edit: And their legal representatives made a rather nice chunk of change.
Very confusing, at first I thought this was about https://github.com/kvz/phpjs
> This is not a quick read, so it’s a good opportunity
> to try a read-later method such as Safari’s Reading
> List, which Apple invented completely on their own.

This bit of sarcasm is definitely not towing the Apple Groupthink line.
Despite Android Nearly Doubling Activations, iOS Still Leads The Enterprise
I've been considering a fulltime move to Linux for a long time, but have yet to take the plunge- I tried a few years ago, but the driver support for my Macbook was less than great.

Now, Lion seems to have slowed down my 2010 Macbook Air- at times it absolutely crawls when I'm positive it never used to. Is there anyone out there running Ubuntu full time who can say how good driver support is? In particular the trackpad- I've never had a perfect trackpad experience outside of OS X, Windows hasn't been able to do it either.
It might be helpful to put this in perspective.

See Burt Rutan's critique of global warming "science":

http://rps3.com/Files/AGW/EngrCritique.AGW-Science.v4.3.pdf

Page 5 in particular shows the insignificance of the current warming period, using publicly available ice core data.

His whole presentation on CAGW is worth reading, as it adds a huge amount of context and data that you'll never get from the alarmists. When you see the data in this light, you can't help but question the current CAGW orthodoxy.
The testimonials were a bit weird, esp. since they came from people who presumably weren't using the framework. Once we all realized this was a YC thing, what happened was quite clear. YC and YC partners was throwing their valley knowhow and marketing heft into "selling" a framework in a very early stage -- and very successfully, given the wide interest it has sparked and the $11M they've just raised.

I think this is a bit of a wait and see game, since this is experimental on a number of levels. On one hand, YC has started selling certain companies before they are ready on the basis of super-smarts and presumed future output. VC is willing to put in cash and see what happens. Everyone wants a piece of the next "Rails" and to create an ecosystem there, although probably no one is exactly certain what it will take to gel.

In short, I'd say that the red flags are justified, but also it is cool to see the potential ecosystem for an open source project go from zero to sixty in a few seconds because of YC and co. From the moment I'd like to give them the benefit of the doubt and hope that the hype is for real. The world could use something better than rails and a slick Javascript MVCish framework would be very nice.
Weedware License - my answer to yet another stupid conversation about licensing
To Recruit Techies, Companies Offer Unlimited Vacation
Agreed. You should ping Techcrunch they're normally happy to cover third-party tools built on-top of Crunchbase.

It's a shame that Crunchbase has become so neglected under AOL though.

Incidentally if you want to grab a drink/coffee sometime feel free to drop me an email (address on my profile).
I can think of nothing less significant than this.
Did you downvote my comment because you don't agree with it or because you think it's non-constructive?
Greek Olympian banned from the Games for posting a racist tweet
The last event I watched was in '96. Then I became aware of the IOC behaving like the RIAA/MPAA asshats by restricting the 'net (blogging, photos, domain names, etc.).

I've been living in SLC since that time, and my family totally boycotted the 2002 winter games.

Screw the Olympics, the IOC, the sponsors, and even the athletes who make such a juggernaut possible to begin with.
Great, just what we need. Nothing like recreating the worst idea of cellphone text messages, but for Facebook.
Yeah, I expected it to be slightly more in-depth and to maybe mention several particular bots and profile them, perhaps.
Love these guys. Super awesome idea and a great team.
I love the fact that his review included code, just something small and trivial like that. Made my day more than slightly better. Can go to bed with a giant smile on my face.
I did it during my lunch break ;) "Preparing to install" took 10 minutes (you can still use the system during this time) and the install itself took ~30 minutes on a 2011 MBA. Rebooted right to the desktop with no fuss.
The obvious question which comes to mind is? How is Matrix Partners going to get a solid return on this investment?

Is (the company behind) Meteor going to follow the Red Hat route? Or are they going to license the platform to developers for a fee (i.e. the Sencha model)?

Although I'm impressed by anyone who lands a major VC deal, I simply don't understand why $11.2 million is needed to build out a development framework.

Red Hat started selling consulting services (among other services and products) well after Linux was well entrenched in the market.

The same goes for Sencha (a combination of Ext JS, jQTouch and Raphaël). I.e. the products were proven, the time was right to start offering paid-for services around these products.

It's a sincere question, not being cynical, it's a great deal for the folks behind Meteor. It just doesn't make business sense to me from an investor point of view.
> I have to say that I am happy to see a major company saying what everyone is thinking.

Many of us are not thinking that. Many of us are thinking Apple didn't claim to have invented 3G radio, but purchased Qualcomm chips, and as the UK courts found, in licensing the technology to Qualcomm and its customers, Samsung had already "exhausted" its patent rights.

It's on the record that Samsung changed its tune on these patents in April 2011, looking for something to use to counter Apple's concerns about the wholesale appropriation of iPad trade dress (device, packaging presentation, box cover art) by Samsung's me-too tablet.

As Samsung's own quote notes, "Apple relied heavily on Samsung‘s technology to enter the telecommunications space, and it continues to use Samsung‘s technology to this day in its iPhone and iPad products. For example, Samsung supplies the flash memory, main memory, and application processor for the iPhone." Apple was happy to pay for those, just as they paid for radio chips.

Samsung now claims they want an astonishing percentage of Apple's revenue from phones for these patent rights that courts have found they'd already exhausted, even though Apple sells versions of the devices w/o 3G radios, indicating the majority of value of the device has nothing to do with Samsung's 3G even if the patent rights were not exhausted. Even aside from how much of the device value is thanks to Samsung's chip (Samsung says all of it, while even you say the UI/UX must be part of it), Samsung's percentage demand is not FRAND.

At least, this is what some people think.

> they are nothing but another company selling cellphones and tablets

Apple is not a hardware company. As someone recently put it on HN, "ALL Apples success is derived from the UI/UX side". And I'm also not sure that's true, considering the success of Macbook Air containing the same UI/UX as the rest of the Macbook line. The truth is they are a platform company, as noted in other threads here.
I wonder how much of the strength comes from cardboard and how much comes from the glue. Wood glue is stronger than wood, so is the cardboard just a lattice for a PVA shell?

I guess it could use a similar principal in carbon fiber reinforced polymer, with cardboard taking the place of the carbon fiber and glue taking place of the polymers.

It also reminds me of wood turners who "fill voids" with cyanoacrylate glue so much that the main material they're turning is the CA glue itself.
"The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest." -- Kilgore Trout
RAID is dead. Is it?
Sure, but why not keep it? Why not have them for normal bikes? Probably because they don't last. So how don't they last? By getting mushy and hard to pedal? That's fine. By collapsing underneath you? That's not.

And if they do exhibit catastrophic failure and just average a weeks lifespan, that's a non-starter, because maybe you collapse into the curb the second day you're riding one.
Researchers take over Android, Nokia phones by waving another device near them
I understand what's not to like about it, but I actually like that screenshot. Mostly because of the visual differentiation.

There's a limit, of course. I saw a screenshot of Mountain Lion where Reminders was a yellow legal pad with scratchy red coloring-pencil markouts on finished reminders. That was harsh.

But I find even the ugly examples are almost always superior to the days of uniform chrome like the Win2000 era: http://cdn.ttgtmedia.com/digitalguide/images/Misc/da_screen.... -- where you could squint your eyes and become unable to tell apart the programs on screen.
Cosmologist do usually take a flat universe to indicate an infinite universe. They also take "negative curvature" to indicate an infinite universe. Only a universe with "positive curvature" is taken to indicate a finite universe.
This site is wonderful, thank you. Here's a quick list I pulled of common apps with Mountain Lion problems.

The Sims
TiVo Desktop
Hulu Desktop
Virtualbox 4
VMWare Fusion 3
Perian
LogMeIn
MacPorts
MailTags
MacFuse for NTFS
DynDNS Updater
Epson Printer Utility 4
Filemaker
Autocad
Candybar
Chax
Minor CS5.x Apps
Dragondictate
Dymo Label
How Amazon Users Steal Books
Renting Out A Room In Your Home
When possible, take jobs that require you to do the work that you want to do. Consider turning down perfectly good or even great jobs that do not directly require that "want to do" work if you can.
Was it instantly huge after the big bang or did it expand much faster than the speed of light?
7 Essential Apps for Entrepreneurs
That plan worked out amazingly well for Diaspora!
Ask HN: How is office music handled at your startup/company?
Does everyone just put headphones on? Are there ways of bringing music into the workplace without upsetting someones sensibilities or taste? How does it work at your office?
I plan on buying a new monitor soon. I think when I can read comfortably off a screen for long periods of time it will make it that little bit easier. Is there any equivalent to http://www.sacred-texts.com/ but for literature?

add: perhaps when I find something I like, I can then borrow it at a library for the full the effect. Is there a netflix for books worth using?
However, unlike his arguments I limited myself to using actual facts.

If you just want a compelling argument: Biology is a vary important component in the creation and evolution of language, because the fine motor control required to say "linguistic" vs "mommy" or "stop" has a lot to do with how languages are learned and evolve. As baby's practice how to say thing babble converts to simple words but in doing so there are pattern as to which sounds are easier to produce and therefore enable them to probe their environment by reproducing. This paralls the evolution of language where the most important and simplist ideas where the first to be communicated and therefore take up the 'root' address space in the language with more complex words and ideas like 'chemist' being tacked on over time.

PS: Sure, it sounds great. But how many assumptions am I stringing together in just those few sentences.
It has its rough moments, no doubt about it. The way I've described it though is it really lives up to the hype.
I would argue that programmers, for the most part, care very deeply about visual design. Every time you choose where to place line breaks, text alignment, even the use of variable names and other language constructs involves you making a choice about how your code is visually laid out in the editor.

The problem is, I propose, one of deeper social conditioning. I have worked professionally as both a designer and programmer, but I have never found a workplace that take both abilities completely seriously. Designers do design work and programmers do programming work and that is just the way it is. I think this leaves a lot of developers feeling like design is a completely different career that is out of their reach.
Perfect! Did you have any services like postgresql or redis or anything that needed to be reinstalled?

/EDIT I just rebooted and my services were still present with no change. They had been installed with homebrew.
I think a Jaguarundi is also of the same class (or genus or whatever) as a Puma Concolor (i.e., cougar, puma, mountain lion, and that the name of that taxonomical grouping is also Puma. So maybe they referred to that with 10.1, or to a German shoe company.
Exec: pay someone else to volunteer for charity
:) Fair, but think of this scenario: you are supporting a cause but you don't want to spam your friends by reminding it all the time. A signature is a good use case in this situation, you can post something of value to your friends and add a small notice about the cause you're supporting.
Is a robot capable of running? Let's say you had one, then take his legs and give them to an amputee. The amputee can operate the legs by pressing a button. However, pressing a button is not running. Similarly, the robot would not really be running either.
YC and YC partners was throwing their valley knowhow and marketing heft into "selling" a framework in a very early stage -- and very successfully, given the wide interest it has sparked and the $11M they've just raised.

Gah. No. Raising $11M is not success. Raising $11M is putting yourself $11M in debt to investors. They will be successful when enough people are using, and paying for, Meteor that they turn a healthy profit. They are far from success right now. Arguably, further than before they took the money.
Open Source WAF ModSecurity Adds IIS, Ngix Support