skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does seem unnecessarily roundabout, at least. If we really do want to essentially impose a tax on business and use it to pay for malaria research, it'd be simpler to just vote in an actual tax, rather than doing it indirectly via litigation.
HAH, vim looks more and more like emacs :)
The original interview is actually an interesting read: http://www.geekwire.com/2012/feisty-nathan-myhrvold-defends-...

"If what you’re doing to help the world is you’re working for a Internet company that is a non-profit in the sense that it makes no profit but has a multi-billion-dollar market cap or is trying to, and you’re infringing lots of patents and so you have this attitude about patents, what on Earth are you doing that’s good for the world?"
Hah! Amazingly I am a row eater and everything fits (algebra as well).

I can't stop to think that everything we do can be analyzed and determine what kind of person you are. Makes me scared of what facebook and google can tell about a person if you can take this much out of simply eating corn.
I am insanely interested in knowing more about this guy and his database.

Is it very specific to a certain type of business contract?
Would anyone be interested in a writeup of my setup? Arch Linux + xmonad + tmux + urxvt + zsh + vim. No desktop environment, just a setup optimized for reliable web development. I've been building this setup from scratch at work and at home for the past year, so I've got most of the minor annoyances figured out.
One use of this which came to mind is tailing log files or watching the ongoing output of a process.

Are there any limits on how big a pad can get? Are there issues with scrolling when the content gets to the bottom? I haven't run EtherPad in a while, so don't remember.

There's a project called Log.io (http://logio.org:8998/) which does streaming and scrolling for events which ends up feeling a bit similar. Not sure if you can pipe stdout to it though.

Very interesting!
The app store is a perfect example of missing competition. It's 4 years old now and has not been improved once inch since its original inception.

Search, discoverability and speed are still as bad as on day one. Paired with Apple's kafka-esque bureaucracy and indifference for developers it's a really shitty state the app store is in - and I don't see any improvements anytime soon.
Mitt Romney introduces Paul Ryan as his VP running mate
Yeah, my point was simply that other advanced shells have as many files they may source as bash (if not more), with similar naming conventions. So holding that against bash and bash alone didn't make much sense.

The details and decision tree of zsh's initialization are rather well documented already (if complex) and beyond the scope of making that point.
For a simple site like HN you won't see much benefit in rewriting it. Complex, heavily-styled websites are where HTML4/5 shine.

The biggest benefit is simply separation of duties (context - html, format - css, function - js). It looks nasty as hell and is a pain to deal with when html, tag formatting attributes, css, and javascript functions are all combined in single tags, systemically throughout the entire site. Separating them all both reduces code reuse and makes the whole thing much more readable.

Also, implementing something like CSS Media Queries would be 'interesting' without separation of concerns.
Random question of a skeptic: There is no 3rd party authority ala kickstarter verifying how much money is actually raised, right?
This reminds me of violent criminals who 'find faith' while imprisoned, except in this case the criminal isn't even behind bars. He's out in public harming people while claiming to do good like some sort of modern Robin Hood except the people he's stealing from aren't villains and his Merry Men are all patent lawyers.

It's funny, too - I've heard from people who work for IV doing medical research and such, and they don't understand the hate IV gets in the tech press. They really don't realize that their company has a tech patent trolling wing.
Also, some sites have a LOT of generated pages for a tiny section. For instance, crawling my GitHub account with my homemade crawler was impossible. There is an amazing level of depth there.
Holy cow. I hope that shower statistic isn't really true!
I upvoted, but I also felt I should comment to say that the reason I agree and feel this comment needs to be seen is that I also agree with the OP, rather than lionhearted, precisely also because of personal experience after living in China for the past couple of years (and making truly local Chinese friends, the type who don't know many foreigners).
Probably worth mentioning that the icombinator home page is a 6KB download vs a 25KB one for ycombinator.
Taken to extremes by the colloquial English greeting of "alright?" where the answer is "alright" and the formal introduction of "how do you do?" which is responded to with "how do you do?" with no change of inflection.
Talking about ideology education for children in this country, it's just like in some far-far-away, every newly born has to be fucked by the king; growing up, they know they are fucked, some are addicted to get fucked, some manage to be fuckers, most just know and accept what has been done and move on with more/other important things in their life.
it's just life, no matter you born, just get fucked and move on.
Or even the infamous LOIC
Correct. It was scheduled for 2009 but due to problems with the new dry lubricated motors and software issues they decided to delay to the next launch window which of course was Aug 2012.

A very nice documentary is currently running on Discovery which goes into much detail on the construction of MSL.
Embrace the Remix
A second-system replacement for the <audio> tag is more important than being able to render graphics or store data locally? Questionable ranking.

Decent summary of important stuff in/related to HTML5, though.
I's been a while since I ate corn on the cob, but as I recall I used to eat in a zigzag rather than "typewriter" fashion.

When people say "spiral" they really mean a series of circles, right? I've never known anyone to eat corn that way.
Since http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2012-08-11/ter%C2%B7ror...
I'd be mildly interested; Debian + ratpoison + screen + urxvt + vim, here, so there's bound to be similarities but differences might also be enlightening.
Thanks for the feedback. The site is actually quite lenient with the follower type you mention.. but maybe it's not lenient enough! I'll look into it.
> What keeps from making a copy of Skyrim and selling it on my website for half the price of the original? The legal enforcement of IP protections.

More likely the fact that the odds are low that your pirated Skyrim does not contain at least one of malware, spyware, botnet trojans, viruses, or other crap no one wants on their computer.

The warez scene was cool when it was novelty, but now it's more likely to be an attack vector of some sort.

It's just an easier user experience just to buy the software and know it will install and run without any problems.
Other than the fact that the only way to test, run, and debug your applications involves using the closed source Flash Player...
As I recall, that was always the idea behind Vim. To bring the power and flexibility the author appreciated in EMACS to the style and interface of Vi.

There's value to be found in taking the best of multiple worlds into one product.

I for example, cut my teeth on Bill Joy VI, and the keystrokes are burned permanently and naturally into my brain. I love the extra stuff that Vim gives me, because it is a natural extension of that toolset that I started with.
If using a table based layout you have to type
many many more characters and keep a mental
log of what's in where.

Not when generating HTML via a program. It's trivial to generate complex recursive nested table layouts that reflect/mirror the structure of the underlying data.
I use precisely the same setup, and love it. Full control over every tool in the whole chain.

I'd add one more that I find essential: Pentadactyl. Without it, the context switch when using a browser really disrupts the flow.
Who's to say that we won't see them patent trolling against malaria-fighting companies in a couple years?
What It Feels Like To Be Acqhired
Yep. On my Fedora 17 VM:

Gnome Terminal -> Edit -> Profile Preferences -> Title and Command -> Run command as a login shell (off by default)

XFCE Terminal -> Edit -> Preferences -> General -> Run command as a login shell (off by default)

As far as I can find, KDE Konsole doesn't support this option. It never starts login shells. See http://docs.kde.org/development/en/kde-baseapps/konsole/comm...
That article is junk, assumptions with no actual facts. This is pretty much tech tabloid.
Start by reading http://www.htmldog.com

It will give you a good launching pad for HTML and CSS.
Easy? Not so... this is not a beginner's kit, there are surface mount components, and if this is your first time soldering, it's gonna be a rough day.

Sparkfun does a really good job of making their kits easy. If you look closely at them, the boards that require diodes and electrolytic capacitors have a picture printed on the pcb that make it really obvious what the polarity is. The gertboard pcb doesn't have any of these. If you solder a led backwards, you're SOL. So if you haven't seen a diode or led before, you probably shouldn't pick the gertboard as a first project.

You can buy the arduino as a kit, but most people who are just starting out with electronics will get one prebuilt so they don't accidentally stick their atmega chip in backwards.
I'm doing primarily web dev at the moment after a loooong err, "sabbatical", just started using vim, and waiting for my drive to come so I can finally have a stable Arch boot. So yes, I'd be very interested!
Unless things have changed very recently, the correct term is "Electrical Engineering." In the West, Electronics Engineering is not an often used term, although I've heard it's frequently used in India.

Electrical engineering encompasses everything from very low level digital and signal processing electronics to designing power plants.
Am I the only one thats afraid of a fuckup happening and the rover becoming bricked before it actually moved!?
>also - unless i missed it - this video doesn't really explain all of it. by itself a cat's tail isn't nearly large enough or rotating fast enough to spin a cat's body.

There's a whole section where they discuss how it's not the tail at all, and even bobtail cats can land on their feet. So you definitely missed it!
TwitterAudit: How many of your Twitter followers are real?
they are just digital (0,1). you need a A/D converter if you want to read analog signals.

Here's a tutorial on hooking the raspberry pi with one of those chips to give you analog input:
http://learn.adafruit.com/reading-a-analog-in-and-controllin...
Great quote:

“The real trick is staying known, staying relevant and staying excited about what you do. Our little ‘game industry that could’ has become the juggernaut that won’t be stopped. Ambition, hard work, perseverance, luck and shameless self-promotion – it’s all part of the deal.”
Web Components sounds great but doesn't seem to be supported anywhere. Once people can use them, they will start making lists like this.
I'm fairly sure that completely separating system boot functionality and software reprogramming functionality was one of the first requirements of the rover software update subsystem!

Sticking the bootloader in a ROM is a fairly secure way to accomplish this.
By that logic, isn't there already huge incentive for 'expansion' because anything not plowed in to expansion will be taxed, but anything rolled in to expansion won't be taxed?

EDIT: What we see now is the exact opposite of that - some companies sitting on huge hoards of cash, just waiting. Waiting for what, I'm not quite sure, but there's nothing stopping them from 'expansion' right now.
Wow you guys are going to spam affiliate links as well as all your articles?
I think most humans are kind by nature, since we're social beings. In a setting like a tribe or a small community, it's relatively easy since we depend and know everyone else. It's when we have to be like that to everyone, including strangers.. that's tough.
Mathematics when studied alone can get a bit difficult. In my opinion mathematical concepts are better understood through applications of it such as Physics, specially Mechanics.
The company is only reinvesting $1M profit this year in the hopes of making $2M profit next year. The ultimate goal of building a company is for it to generate profit which will accrue to the shareholders.

Your hypothetical process of continually reinvesting all the profit can't continue forever. Even if it could, the company would have no investors. Why throw your money away?
"They don't last hundreds of years"

...yet.
I'm sure the article is interesting, but the writing is awful.
I don't think you need a book to learn how to use a computer. You just plug it in and go.
Give HN: A few more domains
I did this before and some domains were taken so I decided to do again. I have 3 domains that are expiring in a few days (16/8). If anyone wants them, I'll happily transfer them:

paperplaneapps.com

paperplanesoftware.com

paperplanegames.com
He's a 21st century Al Capone. Through perverse incentives set by the government, he immorally amasses a whole bunch of money at great expense to society, then attempts to allocate some of it to win the favor of the general public.

With Capone it was soup kitchens and coal, with Myhrvold it's polio research and mosquito killers.

Thankfully Myhrvold uses the courts instead of thugs; though in one sense that's even worse, because at least the government was actively trying to thwart Capone. Who knows how long this patent mess will go on, and how much economic damage will result.
Last time I tried htmldog I found it an exercise in extreme frustration, but I assume it's changed, and based on your recommendation I'll give it another go.

Thanks.
ever since I saw his video on the hen head stabilization technique, I've been an ardent follower of his videos. They are very informative..
He says in the article that there's no authentication for buying followers and mentions the possibility of Mitt Romney's new "followers" being paid for by his opponents.
It is amazing how Myrhvold can fool so many people with this bullshit of "we created a mosquito killer laser gun that will fight malaria in poor countries".

Most of places with endemic malaria don't even have eletricity. Mosquito nets are efficient enough and much cheaper. Sanitation and draining of dirty water works even when people are not sleeping.

But, still, the guy keeps fooling people with his pretended good intentions. He is a master P.R.
Like working flawlessly on all operating systems.
Jonah Lehrer Resigns From New Yorker After Making Up Dylan Quotes
I use Chromium + Vimium, which makes my entire workflow possible from the keyboard when doing backend development. I somehow managed to go a full productive day at work without touching my mouse (except to move it out of the way at the start of the day) while working on a drag-and-drop feature. Since you're using the same setup, do you have a dotfiles repo so I can take a look? Mine is kind of messed up at the moment, but here's an old revision with everything: https://github.com/chris-ritsen/dotfiles/tree/113442a72ddacb...
Relative positioning. Floats. Fonts (dynamic of course; particularly targeting 9 and below - functional, but pretty buggy). Hardware accelerated transforms.

For games (and certainly banners)? I still think there's long way to go to catch up to Flash, even older Flash. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=680284
He should buy one of those Lemote laptops Stallman uses.
Have you seen some of the questions we are getting at http://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/?
This is terrible news. He was way too young! Back when I hung out on polycount he was a helpful member of the community and an inspiration to many there. Dammit....goodbye, Paul...:(
My dad is a math professor at a big state school with a strong engineering program. I was hanging out with him and some of his college classmates, many of whom are also math/science/engineering professors. One of them told me, "If everyone worked as hard as your dad, anyone could be a math professor."

That stuck with me, not as a statement of fact, but a testament to the power of hard work to shape outcomes, even in a field considered to be dominated by genius.
WIPO's treaty to end the public domain, fair use and Creative Commons
dotfiles (old): https://github.com/chris-ritsen/dotfiles/tree/113442a72ddacb...
photos: http://s00pcan.com/~chris/dev.png http://s00pcan.com/~chris/2012-07-12_23-01-53_856.jpg
I'd love to see that. I'm a fan of tiling windows and a custom Arch setup is my escape plan if OS X goes off the rails.
If you want to understand this more, read "Bash Startup Files" and "Interactive Shells" from the Bash Reference Manual.

http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#Bash-St...

http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#Interac...
Apple offered expensive licensing option to Samsung in October 2010
Is it safe to take a survey of 50 people seriously?
Reminds me of this anecdote from Richard Hamming's "You and Your Research":

Now for the matter of drive. You observe that most great scientists have tremendous drive. I worked for ten years with John Tukey at Bell Labs. He had tremendous drive. One day about three or four years after I joined, I discovered that John Tukey was slightly younger than I was. John was a genius and I clearly was not. Well I went storming into Bode's office and said, ``How can anybody my age know as much as John Tukey does?'' He leaned back in his chair, put his hands behind his head, grinned slightly, and said, ``You would be surprised Hamming, how much you would know if you worked as hard as he did that many years.'' I simply slunk out of the office!
Nope. But I do believe my family and friends living in Libya. I also believe family friends there.
My initial plan, before I started coding, was to use shingling (essentially a type of fingerprinting) to reduce the near-duplicate problem. My early test crawls were straight-up breadth-first crawls, and these also suggested that de-duplication and spam elimination were going to be significant problems. However, after I switched to a domain whitelist and intra-domain crawling my informal tests suggested that the de-duplication and spam elimination problems were significantly reduced. So I decided to leave shingling to a later iteration.

Something I didn't deal with at all was spider traps. My thinking there was that this was a relatively shallow crawl, so the dangers of getting badly stuck weren't too great. For deeper crawls this would be essential.
Well, I guess we can check by seeing how many active users there are, but I see your point.
And coupled with the fact that in 1984 the Mac WAS all those things, unlike today.
I'm replying to the answers to my post here.

Let me put it another way: don't try to outthink the users' intentions- leave it to me and my scripts to decide what to run and when. My script should make the decision whether it's appropriate to load certain things. Passing --interactive, --login, --remote, --wtfe to the shell should cause nothing more than a flag to be set for my script to query. Then my script can make the decision what to load and when.

I do understand the original intent. I believe it was the wrong was to go about it.
I bet they just extend the date.
It would be interesting to compare long tailed vs. short tailed cats on natural falls.

In the video, the cats started their falls with no angular momentum, and so they finish their falls with no angular momentum. The problem the cat has to solve is to get itself in an upright position.

In natural falls, they won't always start with no angular momentum. For example, consider a cat walking along a branch and a gust of wind shakes the branch and the cat tips off. There's a good chance the cat will get angular momentum in that kind of accident.

In that situation, merely getting upright is not sufficient as the initial angular momentum remains. There are several approaches that cat could take to deal with this.

1. Wait until near the ground to do the "get upright" operation, so that there isn't time between that and landing for the rotation to take the cat too far out of position.

2. Get upright, and then whenever the rotation takes the cat too far out of position, repeat the uprighting operation.

3. Get upright, and then use a constant counterrotation of the tail to maintain the upright position.

I would guess that the long tailed cats would do better on natural falls that are high enough to need angular momentum management.
There should be one (and preferably only one) obvious way to do it. *.encode(x) was pretty obvious. The new stuff is not.
> A second-system replacement for the <audio> tag

I don't believe it's intended as a replacement for the <audio> tag. The audio tag exists to embed (pre-existing) recordings and their metadata (e.g. transcripts). The purpose of the audio API is generated sounds (music sequencer & the like) and low-latency sounds (for video games).

While you could probably re-implement <audio> on top of the web audio API, that's not very useful.
Well, you've got to use your memory above the first 640K for something.
Please don't use shorteners, use the actual URL.
Edit: He has changed them.
Here's a few people that it reports that have high amounts of "fake" followers, which I know don't purchase followers:

http://twitteraudit.com/notch
http://twitteraudit.com/marc_irl
http://twitteraudit.com/redstonewire

Their followers are a lot of Twitter "lurkers".
I agree about the voting buttons and mobile use in general on this site (many links are small and hard to hit) but to be fair that has nothing to do with the use of table tags and center.
> But instead of a collections of inconsistent jQuery plugins with CSS dependencies

You get a collection of inconsistent web components?

> you get a single, self-contained module that can be interacted with as if it were a native DOM node.

Right, because the one thing I always think when I'm using third-party code is "I'd like this thing to be way more opaque, I'd like to have way less control over it, and I definitely don't want to be able to introspect it."
I've been content with the Janus[1] extensions for about a year now but I just added MiniBufExplorer and I'm really enjoying that.

I typically keep three panes open, one of which is NERDTree. Right now my biggest gripe is the strange highlighting of the Play! framework's template files. The files are name.scala.html which results in weird highlighting of the inline Scala. I have yet to find a good solution (admittedly I haven't looked in a while) to this but if someone knows of one I'd love to hear it.

[1] https://github.com/carlhuda/janus
Maybe this will open up an opportunity for a competing search engine. It's a tiny crack in the wall admittedly, but one that a lot of users are interested in.
> A little machiavellian, but not wrong.

Because if you do Machiavelli correctly, you get to tell the story of who was wrong.
TrapWire: Wikileaks reveals ex-CIA agents running face-recognition network
Interesting, but slightly outdated, Go has made huge progress in the last year.
Why is the term "open source" not applicable to any context in which the design of a product is distinct from its final form, and in which that design is conventionally covered by copyrights or patents?

If an architect released a set of standard building plans under an open license, would that not be legitimately "open source"?
> Oh, and more recently, use new versions on Linux outside of Chrome

Or OSX. and use it at all for starters, still pegs my CPU doing trivial shit under OSX, even in Chrome.
Is it wrong of me to see #2 and #3 to be the same?
The constant counterrotation is basically the same thing as constantly trying to get to the upright position?