skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And yet Mark Pincus is a multi-millionaire and a massive Valley success story. Not to mention the last guy that had Zuckerbeg's "zeal" and lived in a humble house died recently, and was known for being an unbearable dick to his employees.

It's usually a big can of worms to judge an entrepreneur by anything other than his success. Besides -- what is so wrong about Pincus wanting to get rich?
Here's the larger excerpt:

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"Now take this one word: 'grok.' Its literal meaning, one which I suspect goes back to the origin of the Martian race as thinking, speaking creatures—and which throws light on their whole 'map'—is quite easy. 'Grok' means 'to drink.' "

"Huh?" said Jubal. "But Mike never says 'grok' when he's just talking about drinking. He—"

"Just a moment." Mahmoud spoke to Mike in Martian.

Mike looked faintly surprised and said, " 'Grok' is drink," and dropped the matter.

"But Mike would also have agreed," Mahmoud went on, "if I had named a hundred other English words, words which represent what we think of as different concepts, even pairs of antithetical concepts. And 'grok' means all of these, depending on how you use it. It means 'fear,' it means 'love,' it means 'hate'—proper hate, for by the Martian 'map' you cannot possibly hate anything unless you grok it completely, understand it so thoroughly that you merge with it and it merges with you—then and only then can you hate it. By hating yourself. But this also implies, by necessity, that you love it, too, and cherish it and would not have it otherwise. Then you can hate—and (I think) that Martian hate is an emotion so black that the nearest human equivalent could only be called a mild distaste."

Mahmoud screwed up his face. "It means 'identically equal' in the mathematical sense. The human cliché, 'This hurts me worse than it does you' has a Martian flavor to it, if only a trace. The Martians seem to know instinctively what we learned painfully from modern physics, that the observer interacts with the observed through the process of observation. 'Grok' means to understand so thoroughly that the observer becomes a part of the process being observed—to merge, to blend, to intermarry, to lose personal identity in group experience. It means almost everything that we mean by religion, philosophy, and science—and it means as little to us as color means to a blind man."
I was actually very touched by the quote left in the comments and it's worth mentioning it here:

A pro views her work as craft not art. Not because she believes art is devoid of mystical dimension. On the contrary. She understands that all creative endeavor is holy, but she doesn’t dwell on it. She knows if she thinks about that too much it will paralyze her. So she concentrates on technique. The professional masters how, and leaves what and why to the gods. Like Somerset Maugham she doesn’t wait for inspiration she acts in anticipation of its apparition. The professional is acutely aware of the intangibles that go into inspiration. Out of respect for them she lets them work. She grants them their sphere while she concentrates on hers.

The sign of the amateur is the overglorification of, and preoccupation with, the mystery.

The professional shuts up. She doesn’t talk about it. She does her work.
To be fair, though, the total air traffic in and out of Israel is relatively small. It's comparable to a decent regional US airport, such as Sacramento.

Generally, security in a big operation is harder than security in a small operation. It's not at all clear that El Al's methods would work when applied to a system the size of the US.
If the /robots.txt does not mention a Crawl-delay, one page per 3 seconds is often a safe value. Of course this rather heavily depends on the site. In any case, if you have any specific need, always contact the people responsible for the site. I occasionaly run custom queries against the database on request, for example.
Chill out, go outside, and watch the meteor shower. http://www.nasa.gov/connect/chat/perseids_2012.html
The built-in GPU on Xeons/Opterons/similar hardware is closer than you think. Not everybody needs Quattro/FirePro performance but a lot of people still want workstation/CAD graphics support in the drivers.
It's also a part of city planning, take for example Canberra Australia (the capital city), except for the more recent sections of the city (which seems to be suburban sprawls) almost the entire city is tree covered.

Certain areas with high rise and high density don't have room for trees.
I've been trying to get through K&R for the past week or so. I think this will make things a lot easier. Thanks a lot!
I want to be really tall like a giraffe. I guess I'll go eat the leaves from the tops of the trees.
I played amateur philosopher as a teenager and I actually spent a good 5 pages or so on a paper trying to describe this concept... and I think my result had less precision. This is before I had read Stranger.
On the other hand, I do wish it was more common.
Why would kids stop you from getting exercise?
Get a stroller and give your kids a ride while you are running.
Or give them bicycles and run with them.

Not sure why we all should follow "1 hour runs 5 times per week" suggestion. We are not professional runners.
> Not to mention the last guy that had Zuckerbeg's "zeal" and lived in a humble house died recently, and was known for being an unbearable dick to his employees.

The article cites several examples of CEOs with similar "zeal", none of whom are dead, and none of whom are known for being unbearable dicks.
Also you get same-origin protection, FWIW.
The typeface used in their logo...

I would love to read more about this method. Has it been thoroughly studied?
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I also thought C should be the first language anyone learns. Cause you learn the most (about the machine) and other languages are easy peasy compared (well except for assembler, of course).
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How often have you really encountered such buggy software that's cause you significant harm as a consumer? I've had annoyances and had to get refunds, though rarely and it's hardly ever caused any significant loss.

No way for customers to demand a working product? Which products don't work? How does consumer choice and refunds for completely broken software not take care of this?

The software referenced in this article was mostly built in house, perhaps some with enterprise licensing which you can be sure included negotiations covering reliability.

Regulation is not the answer. Software is just fine.
starting to think I should've done the same.
Regarding Marathons; As recently as this year the Mayo Clinic has looked at Potential Adverse Cardiovascular Effects From Excessive Endurance Exercise[1]. I also recall a study a couple years back that showed inflammatory damage to marathoners hearts for up to 3 months after running the event.

Regarding all the studies you have quoted, all of them are epidemiological in nature, and do not prove causal relationships. These studies have hundreds of confounding variables that cannot be understood, and are only as good as a person’s memory (can you remember how much protein you ate in 2011 on a weekly basis?). These studies are used to build hypothesis that THEN can be actually tested.

Now in regards to the scientific literature on the actual physiological processes involved; recent studies have shown [2] [3] that longer forms of exercise such as jogging and running etc. burn more calories DURING exercise, but have an overall negative impact on the hormones that influence weightloss (cortisol etc.). Whereas research [4] [5] [6] on weight lifting and short bursts of high intensity have shown that these forms of exercise light up all the fat loss hormones for even days later, and outperform cardio/aerobic exercises. Not only that, but looking at the aerobic exercises from a hormonal standpoint, these types of exercise negatively affect hunger and stress hormones. [7] [8]

Also I don’t see where there is “food for thought” by looking at Taubes and Atkins any more than looking at the hundreds and thousands of success stories (on places like reddit) who follow this protocol.

My 2c.

[1] http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(12)0...

[2] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&...

[3] http://jcem.endojournals.org/cgi/content/full/83/2/626

[4] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&...

[5] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&...

[6] http://www.nature.com/ijo/journal/v32/n4/abs/0803781a.html

[7] http://alturl.com/dnwr

[8] http://ajpregu.physiology.org/cgi/content/full/296/1/R29
If you already have a webserver, even just a ~/public_html folder (something very common for people at universities, for example, to have), anywhere on the Internet that you have SSH access to push content to (and honestly: I would find it highly unlikely that your average developer does not have at least one), you can push a local repository to it with a single shell command: you just push to a folder on the server as if it exists, it will be created, and the folder can then be used via the web server for anonymous git clones and pulls. As in: if GitHub requires even a single additional step of "type in the name of a repository into a website" it has already far lost; so no: it doesn't seem even remotely reasonable to insinuate that oinksoft's comment is "a joke". If you don't already have a working web server (again: seriously?) then setting up an account that has one in this day and age is really not going to be much harder than getting an account at github, and once you have one it will again be simpler per repository to push.
Another bonus point for RainyMood comes from the daily music suggestions. They even choose music from video games and anime. I've found out some great tunes from them. Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMnrl0tmd3k
How about hiring teenager next door to watch for your kids while they are sleeping and you exercise?
With all this talk about "End of Indie Game Development", I'm surprised there wasn't a mention of indie bundles. They certainly seem to have revived indie games on PC, and they're making inroads into mobile. Humble Bundle and Indie Gala have both had two mobile bundles each, and it looks like the market is ripe for the expansion of mobile bundles on Android.
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Maybe this help porting TextMate to Linux
I don't care for that word much either. But it's normalized in our culture so I'm used to it which makes it less abrasive. Another problem with "grok" is that I can't convince myself of how to pronounce it. This fact alone is probably causes half of the internal discord I feel when I try to verbalize it internally (does it rhyme with rock or broke?). Also its spelling doesn't have any precedent in English, so every time I see it my subconscious pattern matching system goes haywire.

You know when you read or hear something that is contradictory, or something that is just painfully wrong, and you can almost feel your psyche twinge as it recognizes the error? I get that feeling every time I see this word. Perhaps that's just me.
Would not using node single-handedly make this HN-worthy? What if it were say, python?
> Likewise there's nothing stopping you applying an emailed patch in your local copy and then pushing to github.

Right. Now let's say you are the one not using github (you use raw git), and you want to send a patch to somebody using github ("not git"). As TFA notes, either nothing gets done (you send-email and the other guy just doesn't see/want it) or something has to give, you have to create a github repository with the result of your patch or the other guy has to learn git-am.

That could be fixed if github had better mail integration (and more generally more hooks for standard git behaviors) and you could essentially create a pull request by git-send-mail-ing some sort of special address @github. And the pull request got its own mail thread (so the initial sender got replies & al without needing to go on github).

As far as I know, that's not the case.
Wow, the comments in the html source there really has quite the attitude.
Because iOS first makes sense from a financial standpoint. Android first just spites iOS at the overall expense of Google. The Maps API thing was just an example of how they pushed it too far.

My point being, it's fun to go Ha! at the "other side" and all but let's not lose sight of the bigger picture. iOS users have had plenty of reason to be smug because they made companies more money than Android, and that includes Google. It's easy to look at this and other Google apps and assume that it's the Android user's turn to be smug and the tables are turning, but I would very much argue that they are not.

I guess what I'm saying is, I wouldn't bother reading too much into this. The status quo in mobile is that way for a reason and that reason hasn't changed: money

I'm additionally arguing why this is a dumb decision, because I want to and not because its actually related to the parent comment.

As for your edit, I personally hold translate pretty close to search. If I'm bothering to translate something, it's usually something I want to search or just searched up. This feature won't by itself, my point is just that Google should be careful when choosing to widen the gap because it could eventually build up and bite them in the ass like it did with Maps.
David Bau's seedrandom.js is quite interesting:

[It] defines a method Math.seedrandom() that, when called, substitutes an explicitly seeded RC4-based algorithm for Math.random(). Also supports automatic seeding from local or network sources of entropy.

http://davidbau.com/encode/seedrandom.js
LINQ is a query/update language for data structures. The beauty of it is that it can be used to read/update/modify vectors, lists, maps, etc. So, you just have one API to learn. And this API is easy to learn because it is modeled on SQL.
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The second is an SI unit that you really can't change when doing science, so this approach means a minute isn't 60 seconds any more. I would've thought the "timeslip" approach from Kim Stanley Robinson's book (an extra ~40 minutes at midnight that aren't part of the hour before or after) would be more practical.
The Dock in Mountain Lion takes as much memory as VMware running Windows 7
How do you find time for HN?
Clearly we should all be eating Lemon Curd.
I buy very few games on Steam these days. I dislike DRM, so I vote with my wallet, and spend most of my gaming budget supporting DRM-free games on Gamersgate.
But that's not an extension. It could easily be. The fact that it isn't, and Defunkt's suggestion to alias hub to git nicely illustrates the original author's point.
This is tyical advertisers' bullshit. It assumes that all people are sheep.

The line of advice should've been "Nobody wants to read your shit if you're trying to sell them something". And even then it would've been half off imho, but I can't come up with anything better.

Some of the highest voted articles HN don't follow any of the detail advice in this article. But they're popular anyway, because they're interesting. Somebody made something cool, and people want to know how he/she did it. Sure, these only work in niches. When you go mainstream, the only articles that get read by many are "10 ways of getting your partner to gave sex with you more often".

But hey, this is an advertiser. What does he know about niches? More yet, what does he know about people who are actually, genuinely interested in a whole range of topics, and would happily spend 30+ minutes reading a single article?

Of course, any article an benefit from being fun and concise. But that's just bonus, no prerequisite.

Because if you've got something interesting to tell, people want to read your shit.
thanks. gonna leave this on tonight.
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Rainymood.com is great, and definitely better.

I especially like their notice at the top of the source html.

| Sorry if all that sounded snarky. But seriously, there are lots of great business ideas out there. Find something you love, and do it better than anyone ever dreamed. You can't lose with that formula!
> getting real autocomplete and refactoring in Emacs for M languages is a dream come true for me

Even just one. The Python RefactoringBrowser takes tends of seconds just to make a mess of the whole thing. It's a nice effort, but it fails on both reliability and speed.
@mb_72 I do exactly the same when sleeping mate, phone with 30min rain track on loop for masking noise ;)

I agree for now the target user is a quick fix audience, but in future who knows!
very clever, my brother played with this type of effect in flash a year or so back, but I think because I knew it was fake it just wasn't the same hahah.
I'll put it on the list :)
@pud perfect! I knew there were others like me!
Yes and political messages are not always overt. The phrase "income inequality" is politically loaded and implies that equality is better.
You are confusing bodybuilding, which has an aesthetic goal, with weightlifting/powerlifting, which has functional goals, hence the names. There is, of course, somewhat of a continuum. Just look at pictures of olympic weightlifters in the lightest weight groups and what they lift. This is pure explosive power and coordination, as those lifts are very complex. Then you have powerlifters, who still aren't very bulky and do complex full body motions under high load. A bodybuilder, however, does many isolated repetitions (with little weight) to cause muscular hypertrophy.
/r/fitness, by the way, advocates functional strength training.
Of course it's nothing to do with seeing the same thing posting over and over again, and it's nothing to do with seeing discussions split over multiple submissions, and hence the same points being made over and over again. It's nothing to do with trying to make HN better, and trying to cross-reference things to help people keep discussions in one place, and seeing other submissions from other sources that may make the point in different ways. It's nothing to do with trying to help people find information.

Course not.
It's a really great day in age to be a teenager then. :-)
I don't see the need to port TextMate to Linux. We already have Vim/Emac/Gedit.
Richard Feynman: The Value of Science
Link to SPARK programming language:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARK_%28programming_language%...
I don't think that the first language you learn matters (except vocationally, of course!). What matters more is the understanding that every language has it's own 'take' on approaching the problem of instructing computers.

This 'take' (more formally called the language semantics), determines the kind of runtimes, libraries and tools that can be implemented for the language.

With this mindset, it doesn't matter which language you start with. When comparing languages, you go beyond simple syntax differences and compare what are the implications of the semantics. This will allow you to make more informed language selections for your project.

tl;dr: learn multiple languages as well as compare them effectively to profit !
Why would anyone want to own DVDs? And CDs. That's how I felt for the last 5 years, looking at the boxes of various physical media collecting dust in my storage room. Thrown it away couple of months ago. Now looking at the books. It might take more time, maybe 10 years, before they are gone too.
Ask HN: How does Google uses the Go Programming Language? 
How does google use the go programming language? Is there any other organisation or startup using Go for any considerable software? Can I expect a large growth of the language, in terms of industry in 5 years?
Maybe if you're a B2B company targeting other startups and you're confident you can generate >$1995 in direct sales.

Otherwise it's probably not a great use of funds. There is always the off chance you'll meet the right person and it will help you in a big way, but $2k is a lot to gamble as a bootstrapped startup and there are free ways to meet people.
I really want to use something like this but I can't trick my brain to believe it's real and I become anxious.

Anyone else like this or have an explanation?
Yes those source comments are pretty full on hahah, especially for a relaxing site, but thunders not my thing nor "Gundam Seed Destiny - Theme of Rain".
I'm curious what you thought was lacking for Geddy (I'm a contributor). We'd definitely like some input.
cant beat the real thing ;)
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"Looking back through the last page or two, I see that I have made it appear as though my motives in writing were wholly public-spirited. I don't want to leave that as the final impression. All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery. Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. For all one knows that demon is simply the same instinct that makes a baby squall for attention. And yet it is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane. I cannot say with certainty which of my motives are the strongest, but I know which of them deserve to be followed. And looking back through my work, I see that it is invariably where I lacked a political purpose that I wrote lifeless books and was betrayed into purple passages, sentences without meaning, decorative adjectives and humbug generally."

-- George Orwell, "Why I Write" ( http://orwell.ru/library/essays/wiw/english/e_wiw/ )

Not everyone wants to change the world, and not everyone is Orwell, but I still think motivation matters. And if your sole motive is to "sell stuff, be famous, and/or popular", I give you this advice: don't write. Read instead.
It's a problem with a language if it requires heavyweight environments to make aspects of writing code in it acceptable.
That is an unusually long namespace. It says more about the coding style of the programmer that wrote it than it does about Java.
They didn't say the currency they're using. It's millions because it's all in Facebook dollars (effectively ~$5 USD total).
Great! When are you going to start working on it?

Without the individuals willing to put in the work then directions like this are pointless, however well intentioned. Since no-one attached to the development of Textmate has expressed any interest in porting over to Linux, or any other platform, I find it unlikely that the situation will change in the near future.
That's something that github could easily add, given their current level of resources. The million dollar question is "why haven't they added it?" There are at least two possible answers: not many people have asked for it, or to increase lock-in.

It's a feature that github SHOULD add. There are some people who want it, and these people are the type of people that can become quite vocal proponents or detractors.

More importantly it signals quite strongly that github intends to become a good citizen in the nation of git rather than trying to appropriate it.