skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's definitely a problem All Vi/Vim users know well; and, it's precisely why I don't install these "vim mode" plugins / extensions / whatever for other software. Simply put: no matter what they do, it's still not actually Vim. And honestly, I'd rather be forced to do a complete mental shift into a "plain editor" mode rather than have to wrestle with "will this particular combination of Vim commands work in this pseudo-Vim world?"

I've found that if I completely break the expectation that I'll get anything even remotely "Vim-like" outside of Vim, I'm better able to deal.

...though I still wish I could make every editor I have to interact with a Vim window. :)
I hate Rand but that was an ad hominem attack and not much else.

But more importantly;

"Entrepreneurs(with a big E) get subsidized security, roads, mail, water, food, electricity, education, health care, etc."

I'm pretty sure it's the other way around. The taxes levied on businesses and individuals pay for the (often shoddy and wasteful) infrastructure and services.
And who do you think built the infrastructure you're describing? I'll give you a hint: it wasn't the leeches.

And what exactly do you think will happen to entrepreneurs who continue to build more infrastructure for future generations as the cost of working within our system begins to outweigh its benefits?
I thought that was great. Their excitement turned out to be well-deserved.

Frankly, it's not half as self-congratulatory as the typical Apple new product videos today[1], with Jony Ive and Bob Mansfield tossing around the "genuinely new", "whole new world of design", "very best", "extraordinary" superlatives.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Neff9scaCCI
I think this is fundamentally flawed. Take HAML, for instance. It tends to be polarizing, but not along the axis he has laid out. People who don't like it usually point to the unfamiliar and non-standard syntax (conservative), but the thing that I like about it is that it is more structured, and less error-prone than string splicing (also conservative).

In general, when I fall on the liberal side of an argument, I think it is for the reasons he gives (no fear, resist ossification). But when I fall on the conservative side (which happens just as often) it is not because of fear, but because I think that mathematically rigorous abstractions (pure functions, persistent data structures, etc) offer a more powerful way to approach the problem.

I think my attitude toward bugs (which he suggests is the defining issue) is more nuanced than this spectrum allows. Bugs are inevitable, and it's not the end of the world when you have a bug. We need debuggers. But I think that over time, if we are doing anything right, we should be growing a stable core of our codebase that is increasingly flexible and bug-free. I guess maybe this could be considered a centrist view. It is certainly neither liberal nor conservative.

Someone in the thread mentioned pragmatism vs. idealism. I think this is a much more useful distinction. I would definitely consider myself an idealist. But the pragmatic-ideal axis doesn't map to the conservative-liberal axis at all.
This is the most important video you'll see for a while. Please, watch.
Follow through would be an amazing feature. It would start giving us real data about the success rate of crowdfunding.
Not at all, the hardening is for electronic components, the Hasselblad camera is all mechanical. The astronauts would have had to store the film in lead lined containers, but they had the advantage of bring the films back with them. Curiosity has to rely in electronics to get the images back to earth because it's staying there.
PasswordSafe is good http://pwsafe.org/ and helps me keep a different password for every site. You can also save some ancillary information as well - useful for developers with data keys for api access.

Simple and quick to use which helps maintain the discipline.
The Case for Earning a Humanities Degree
The greatest depth shown in that graphic is 800 feet. At 10-12 feet per floor, that's equal to the height of a 67-80 story skyscraper. This means Manhattan has a 'mirror-image' city under the ground -- its 'citizens' are electric power, water, gas, and trash.

I can't help but be in awe.
Here's a direct link: https://code.google.com/p/leak-finder-for-javascript/
Most (all?) of the pictures so far are from the hazard-cameras, which are used by Curiosity to make sure it doesn't fall off a cliff. (Or, less dramatically, to make sure it doesn't get stuck in some gravel.) The fact that the images are beautiful to us is just gravy.
For macro-level research, it would be useful if every category and filtered view featured accumulated stats (e.g., # of projects/successes/failures).
very useful, but i really wish Chrome allowed you to replay a HTTP request from the network tab. I just want to right click on e.g a POST request, and send it off to the server again. Whenever i need to do this at the moment i have to switch to LiveHttpHeaders in firefox, which is a pain.
You know, I'm glad I got rid of all my encyclopaedias, the information had been in there for ages!
Microsoft Calling on Windows 8 App Developers for Massive Online App-a-Thon
>Hopefully, your projection was based on a pilot, beta, information, or research of some kind, which led you to reasonably believe your new product can support:

It's interesting that the most important point of the piece is almost an aside or footnote. An "oh by the way" statement led with the use of "hopefully", like it's an option.
Pretty long essay, but worth a read.
Also have a look at: http://code.shutterstock.com/rickshaw/
... which works, but the condition number of AtA is the square of the condition number of A, so convergence may be very slow, or the results may be numerically unusable.

You can often work around that with a carefully chosen pre-conditioner, but you're rapidly going down a rabbit hole that takes you away from the extreme simplicity of conjugate-gradient.
A similar wrapper library for d3 is Rickshaw: http://code.shutterstock.com/rickshaw/
How does this relate to Hipmunk's Agony rating? Is that on an absolute or relative scale?
I see Dad's advice as going for something that can have more meaning to you and for which you need balls then for the safe/low risk model.

It's not about stress, it's about the need of the individual to make a difference. Doing something that has been done before it's not that exciting for a 20-ish year old. But someone older will take comfort in it.
I found this http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2003/05/22/

IIRC, Malin is the guy in charge of the cameras on this mission, too, so that's pretty much from the biggest expert on this topic.

EDIT Make sure you click on the full image -- that is amazingly beautiful!
Why is the UN trying to take over the Internet?
"A speculative bubble burst and the result was a serious, systemic credit crunch and a deep recession. That's not a crime."

I'll give you an example. Take a look at LIBOR (somebody should, 'cause the mean-stream media has hardly mentioned it):

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

From CNN:
"Libor is the world's most important benchmark for interest rates. Roughly $10 trillion in loans -- including credit card rates, car loans, student loans and adjustable-rate mortgages -- as well as some $350 trillion in derivatives are tied to Libor."
Gen S Will Never Know a World Without Screens
"You're a real person in real society where Entrepreneurs(with a big E) get subsidized security, roads, mail, water, food, electricity, education, health care, etc."

Just because they get those things, doesn't mean it's the best way to get them, or that they wouldn't prefer to get them in some other way.
another example of Builder pattern http://goo.gl/NkAhE
Just be careful those of you using sync too much, I've definitely seen people sync across deletes and other errors.

I personally backup about 1tb of home movies, photos, music etc. I keep 1 local HD + crashplan + crashplan remote in a friends house + Google Drive for docs I use daily. I also keep an offline drive just in case an error is replicated across my live drives.

I also used to use BackBlaze but dropped them, they play tricks to get out of storing a lot of content for too long
Demonoid Raid Credited To IFPI, Multiple Arrests In Mexico Reported
Urgh, Hacker News gets worse and worse every day. When did crazy Libertarian rants become part of the popular discourse here?
The .ram file points to a real media rtsp-precursor streaming server that no longer exists (pnm://real.nationalgeographic.com)
Sure, but the practical truth is that the Dane is here to stay anyway because all your neighbors already paid him off.

Secure boot isn't going away. It has some value to consumers (albeit not nearly as much as some people want to think). So we have to live with it as best as we can. The Fedora/SUSE compromise (load a shim which then checks a signature for the real bootloader) seems straightforward. The Ubuntu one (sign a shim that will load anything) is preferable to me personally, but IMHO isn't likely to survive as it's basically a security hole by definition.
I dont get the "authorize" option in Run. It just says "running my function." Am I missing something?
As another (still living here) Brit, I was reasonably cynical too. I had tickets for two events, and was expecting the type of fiasco you get when attending Glastonbury or other large events - massive queues, disorganisation, bad facilities etc.

I have to say I was wrong on every count. Every detail was thought of, the facilities were excellent and, as the article says, the "Games Makers" really were outstanding. Helpful, friendly, and enthusiastic. The soldiers filling in as security were equally so.

The project management of these games has been excellent. The only real let-down was the whole ticket buying experience.
Nice optimisation, but who thought it would be a good idea to use MD5 in a Bloom filter?!

MD5 is a cryptographic hash (even though it's not secure anymore for most purposes) and while it's pretty fast, you don't need any of its crypto properties, just the properties of a good quality regular hash function. Such as Murmur, or even simply FNV.
Neat. From a very cursory glance at the HyperDex paper, it looks like a distributed kd-tree with the addition of a single-dimensional key subspace (to use their terminology). The real clever part, I believe, is the value-dependent chaining for the deterministic propagation of changes/deletion of objects.

Very cool.
Switching to vim made me switch to Firefox from Chrome so I could install Vimperator.
This isn't accurate for the entire city. At Astor Place, you can look through the sidewalk grates directly onto the tracks.
I gave it a cursory glance but haven't had much cause to really use it yet (though I did get some good use out of the console keeping a history of log files). What kind of issues have you been having?
>Isn't escape from this kind of tyranny the reason the first colonists left England?

The power of the banks is harder for people to understand, so banks have been very powerful, yet even less accountable than monarchs.

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a moneyed aristocracy that has set the government at defiance. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs." -Thomas Jefferson
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. "
Can Judge Alsup properly order parties to "out their shills"? (legal analysis)
This is incorrect, for the USA at least, and I suspect other countries as well, because you are ignoring the facts of history.

Those roads exist because people had to get somewhere. In the beginning, those somewheres were private Trading Posts that were often setup at the crossroads of Indian trails or the confluences of rivers. The successful Trading Posts gradually attracted more settlers and those settlers subsidized the construction and maintenance of the roads to and from the Trading Posts.

You have the cause and effect reversed. The successful entrepreneurs don't exist because of subsidized infrastructure. Subsidized infrastructure exists because of successful entrepreneurs.
Wait a second, the man was complaining about society disconnecting from their overall objective. The only people today that understand anything that is going on are the ones trying to contribute. The rest are turning off, tuning away and dropping out through THEIR subsidized living. How do we continue to maintain that? You are basically saying the status quo is a perfectly fine environment for a society when its not. Not at all.

Yes, we are "privileged to live in a sophisticated, organized, interdependent community". Does the rest of the community know this? No, and they're not demonstrating that at all. Just look over the past 100 years and tell me which generations knew they had it good and strived to continue that effort.

Only dead societies can tell the tales we're starting to.
How did the LIBOR scandal cause millions or billions to suffer? As I understand it, a big part of the scandal is the rate being set lower than it should have been, because the participating banks were afraid to expose their precarious state.

Regardless, LIBOR, muni bond fixing and all these Taibbi-bait scandals (which of course should be pursued if there's evidence of fraud) are not what caused the credit crunch and subsequent recession and suffering, just as WorldCom's accounting shenanigans didn't cause the dot com crash.
Apart from not being prejudiced against the 'bridge and tunnnel' crowd and cheaper rates, what differentiates AlleyNYC from other coworking spaces? General Assembly and New Work City also offer classes and host events.

I know there is an increasing demand for coworking spaces, and that's great. But I would like to know what makes them so different from each other.
I am a 20-ish year old and despite "what I do" has been done before, the "way I do it" never has -- and that is plenty "exciting." There is nothing safe or low-risk about starting a hedge fund.

I get your point about "having more meaning" -- but I'd argue that is true for any business endeavor, not just tech startups. If what I was doing didn't have truly personal meaning for me, there is no way I could stomach the stress.

Maybe I'm overly sensitive because the article seemed to compare the easy hedge fund life to the tough tech start-up life, which I think is a gross over exaggeration in the divergent profile: I believe that they are tremendously similar.
Building breaktheicefor.me - side projects have never been so easy
The only vim plugin that I've used that's an acceptable vim substitute is viemu (http://www.viemu.com/).
Users gonna use: Retention as the SaaS success factor
I also came from vimperator, and now I use pentadactyl. You should give it a try if you don't already know it.
A Peek Inside a CBL Data Recovery Lab
Well, of course. The subway system varies in depths from above-ground to hundreds of feet in the ground (I think Roosevelt Island, on the F line, is the deepest subway station).
No worries. I know that all the banks that I have visited in Manhatten are unlikely to be on anything better than IE8, and if you want cash-rich and time-poor people, they're not a bad place to start. Good luck!
Take a look at LIBOR (somebody should, 'cause the mean-stream media has hardly mentioned it)

There has been extensive coverage of this scandal - and widespread vilification of Barclays and their leadership - in the British mainstream media. It eventually led to the resignation of various senior people within the bank, including the media bête noire Bob Diamond.
Maybe you just had a bad approach? Linear algebra is loads of fun, methinks. And you need a good teacher or appreciation of the material for that.

And it's something you slowly forget if you don't put it to use.
great point!

I guess I take it for granted that people actually get out of the building before starting on their journey.
Hmm, now see I find this interesting (at your company?)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4366547

(I just posted this.)
I wish I could upvote this 100 times. I run a website in the tabletop RPG space, and there is an average of 1 new kickstarter per day for someone trying to fund their new game, new module, new idea, new iphone dice roller, new virtual tabletop, etc.

They all point to the massive successes, but very few seem to understand that failure is a definite possibility.

Thanks for putting this together and I'll definitely be talking about it on my podcast: http://hastepodcast.com We're always covering new kickstarter projects, and this is an invaluable tool for people who get all starry-eyed at crowdfunding.
Browserver: a node.js HTTP server, in your browser
An earlier discussion, fwiw (from 2009): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=926604
Jim Balsillie, Mike Lazaridis, and the giant with no legs
From where do you think subsidies come from? They don't appear from thin air do they?

They are there as some one is paying taxes.

People are worried about a middle class segment of crowd being taxed to teeth and every body else really leeching on their contributions. Look at it, corporations play every trick valid by the rule book to avoid paying taxes. Rich have their money parked in tax havens. Poor need social security.

The middle class is heavily burdened by taxes.

On top of this government wants to be in endless wars. Most of which makes zero sense. The rich at wall street- most of who are practically adding zero value. They earn the most, and demand the most financial security in case of economic collapses. They take zero responsibilities for their actions. If all this had happened with some ordinary citizens they would go to jail. When you look at all this, it looks like a cartel.

No wonder people are pissed.

Note: I am Indian, staying in Bangalore. I am not a US citizen.
"Your employees are the result of subsidized education, etc, etc, etc"

That's all find and dandy, but the fact is that there are millions out there sitting on their collective assess while the few of us are doing the work.

There are roads, bridges, education, internet, all accessible to them as well, yet they do nothing.
That rock came here from god knows where, probably it was floating around in space for many many years

Don't sell yourself short, you yourself were floating around in space for about ten billion years. Or at least, your constituent atoms were. :)

"We, who embody the local eyes and ears and thoughts & feelings of the cosmos, we’ve begun - at last - to wonder about our origins. Star stuff, contemplating the stars, organized collections of ten billion, billion, billion atoms, contemplating the evolution of matter, tracing that long path by which it arrived at consciousness here on the planet Earth and perhaps - throughout the cosmos." ~ Carl Sagan
The media is so incredibly negative just before every Olympics that I can remember, with almost exactly the same stories. Transport will not be able to handle it, airports will collapse, the facilities will not be ready in time, not enough people. For Sydney, Athens, Beijing and London, the media in the UK and Australia all did the same repeated boring stories.

It is no wonder that you and most people felt bad about it.
"And who do you think built the infrastructure you're describing? I'll give you a hint: it wasn't the leeches."

Exactly. The roads didn't get built using magic money - it was from taxes extracted from those that were getting things done!
Thanks for answering! I'm sure it's just my lack of elementary statistics, but I still don't understand re #2. I get that the weights aren't important, but the curve shape seems to invalidate the notion of a p-value, because each font had more "strongly X"s than "weakly X"s. When your sample results are clustered at the extremes, what do you do to apply these statistical techniques?

Here is something I tried: arbitrarily choose a font as the "control," in my case Georgia. Then to measure each other font, say Baskerville, randomly pair a Georgia data point with a Baskerville data point, and measure how much Baskerville improved agreement. (Comparing different shuffles, each font's mean improvement is pretty stable.) That gives what looks like a normal curve, at or least it is big in the middle and small on the edges. So now I can find a p-value, and my null hypothesis is that changing the font has no effect. I ran a t-test with R, and I got a p-value of 0.2069. So much less impressive than the article claims. But I assume my approach is wildly invalid, so what is the right approach?
This post title omits "!" which is also necessary.
It's the people that work there that is the differentiation. The article mentions they are trying to build a community of designers and hackers. Also building an authentic vibe where people care "about who you are, not your investors"
History disagrees with you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_Highway_System
Who Rules America
http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/investment_manage...
I have a hard time seeing how a space with no developer pedigree will be able to create educational resources for developers.
The Law of Information Ochlocracy or Why TV is crap and everything else will be
Nice image, but if you want to really have fun with a kid dig up the book "Underground" by David Macaulay. It peels back the layers beneath our feet and was a real eye-opener for me when I was younger. Actually grab anything by the same author and have fun...
And at least in the case of roads, it's not really "subsidized" at all. At the Federal level they're funded largely through gas taxes and user fees. Localities usually use property taxes, but that's basically a user fee as well, since vanishingly few residents don't use their own local roads.
After shitting the proverbial brick last week re the Apple ID/iCloud debacle, I downloaded 1Password and methodically changed the password to everything I cared about with a randomly generated string that included non-alphanumeric chars. Sometimes I find this inconvenient as the integration on the iOS app is not great (unless I'm missing something), and will never improve unless Apple exposes APIs allowing deeper integration; but my current thinking is the extra security is worth it. Previously all my passwords were the same thing modulo a changing non-alphanumeric char, which I understand is dumb, but I was too lazy to change them. The aforementioned Apple incident provided the final impetus for change. Obviously, it later transpired that the breach was down to social engineering and weaknesses in human security rather than compromised passwords, so all this is moot as the best security precautions are only as strong as the weakest link in the chain.

Something else I found interesting is Apple allows a max of 32 chars in their passwords. I discovered this as the password I was trying to set was significantly longer than this. Does this not suggest that the passwords are not hashed? If they were the length of password would not matter as the hash outputs are identical lengths and Apple could set the db column size accordingly.
A bad title for two great videos
When reddit learned to ignore them.
Charles (www.charlesproxy.com) makes this kind of thing pretty easy. Well worth the money, in my book.
The real difference is that AlleyNYC HELPS spartups, and has offered free space. Other co-working places have never done this EVER. GA is all classes and they are SUPER expensive. Its all about vibe and community. Come to ALleyNYC and you will understand!