skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right, I should have mentioned that, although I found it far, far less interesting than the author did. The overall impression I got from the article is that based on lost of fragments of literature, sleeping was not that different then from what it is today. Just earlier start time, less comfortable, and with an expected break for some in the middle. Will update my comment. I think a lot of people today wake up in the sleep for periods. It's just less formalized as a part of the sleep experience.

The TL;DR is really just shorthand for "brief summary of the important stuff." Nothing more.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_resilience
While reading, I was a bit concerned/confused by the section "Anti-Click Jacking Provisions", especially I don't really understand things like:
> the popups used to trigger form-filling on a webpage are C++ popups
Is this marketing? Does this apply as Dashlane is a desktop/mobile app, i.e. non-web-based?

(note: I'm genuinely interested in the discussion and the content of the whitepaper, the fact that it comes from Dashlane is irrelevant to me).
From Wikipedia:

The system chassis weighs ten tons, contains four tons of fluorinert coolant, and is approximately the shape and size of a very large chest freezer

And yet people complain about their mobile phone not being thin enough. It's amazing how far we've come in only 15 years.
> The Bay Area has a population density many times larger than a long list of places with vastly better public transit.

Well of course the distribution matters greatly too (indeed, maybe it's all that matters).

If the overall population density is the same, but the population is mainly clustered around specific nodes (towns, neighborhoods) and routes (streets), providing good transit will be vastly easier than if the population is evenly distributed as seems to be the goal of 1950s American suburbia.

The clustering of population, of course strongly follows the structure of the dominant transportation method, so such effects also tend to be self-perpetuating.
The submission title was originally a question, it's been changed since the comment you are replying to was posted.
I would love to know who is selling this. There are lots of old-looking racing cars in the background of the photo, suggesting someone with a serious hoarding instinct and the bankroll to support it!
lol no tablet matching the ipad 3? Ever heard of this device called Nexus 7? 200 bucks, great performance.

I am sure Apple will improve and polish their map app, as Google has polished Android in general over the years. I am just sad to see this hate for a fantastic platform as Android has become.
Was the answer no?
So far looks promising. Even if I can't imagine that you don't have any idea what you gonna start with. Good luck and thanks for the initiative. Popcorn's ready.
I think you're being your own worst enemy here. I also live in NYC and find the cycling situation to be fine. There's a lot of traffic in midtown but there's plenty of space for cyclists.
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Microsoft was Bill Gates's 4th venture. His first was consulting for CCC, finding bugs in their software in exchange for free computer time. His second was a payroll program in COBOL for Information Sciences. His third was Traf-O-Data, a startup with Paul Allen to make traffic counters. He'd already been programming for 6 years by the time he started Microsoft.

Similarly, Facebook was Mark Zuckerburg's 3rd startup, and Apple was Steve & Steve's 2nd.
Starvation is a form of population control.

You're either in favor of limiting human population by some means, or are engaging in some hugely wishful thinking.
340 volts at 100amps.

Wow, that's...uhh...impressive. I assume most people will just buy it to put in their lobby as an expensive couch.

edit

I was mistaken. The T94 doesn't have the same floor plan as the XMP.

Perhaps it'll make a good beer dispenser then.
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W1ntermute is decrying the fact that the Ubuntu team is in a position where they feel it is necessary to rely on selling access to their userbase.

It seems the most valued contribution skilled peoples can make to Ubuntu is in code and time. Even non-technical users can contribute valuable assets to the project. If your company has spare hardware, that is also useful to the SPI.

However, if you lack those resources, donations are openly accepted by both Ubuntu[1] and Debian[2].

[1]http://www.ubuntu.com/community/get-involved/donate
[2]http://www.spi-inc.org/donations/

Taking fifteen minutes, considering the value added by Ubuntu and choosing an appropriate amount to donate is not "a high mental cost". Nor is writing a check or completing the electronic ClickPledge checkout form.

Further, the argument that if Ubuntu had more money it would undermine their organization's mission and cause endless infighting is baseless. Would you make the same argument about the Wikimedia foundation or EFF?
>I was very naive and looking back at some of the things I did and the way I wrote emails or thought about building the startup leaves me feeling grateful for how much I’ve been able to learn in the last few years.

One of the things I just learned is how much better that sentence sounds than the kind that has 'cringe' in it.
Iron Man (was my first thought ;)
Roskilde is bananas!
Bruce Linsmeyer:

http://www.avonaero.com/

http://www.vdsracingengines.com/aboutus.asp
As a sub-saharan African(Zambia ).I think your views are terribly short sighted, whether or not the Zimbabwe economy was better during white rule gives you no right to refer to a whole race or group of people across multiple countries as less than.
My country just got a bond at the same interest rate as Spain, according to you, the Spaniards are just as "dumb" as the Africans for being in debt and having a bad economy at the moment .Should we throw in the Greeks?,speaking of economies,maybe most of the E.U
Let us continue with the illogical statements:Zimbabwe's economy is bad so all sub-saharans are "dull"....Hitler and the NAZI regime caused millions of deaths sooooo all Germans are murders? is that your line of thought?
Thinking of any human as being less than yourself and only fit to be treated as such has been the root of most evil.
It is people who think like you that have committed some of the worst atrocities.
*Craysis
Or mymail@[127.0.0.1]
Nice Lotus 56 in the background. This is a turbine-powered vehicle. Interestingly enough, the seller has some jet engines/turbines for sale as well.
"for example in Vancouver up until the 80s it was required that every container was unloaded and reloaded simply to ensure jobs rather than letting consumers enjoy the efficiencies created by gantry cranes and containerized shipping"

... Where one other option would have been to accept the new tech in exchange for paying for education of those who have a useless job due to new technology - ie. employer gives up some of the monetary efficiency benefits for a limited number of years to reduce/reorganize the workforce responsibly.

But I guess that would mean the end of the union and its personnel overhead, and the union would have to use its power for such an agreement instead of that unload/reload stunt.

I just can't imagine being satisfied with a job that I know is utterly useless and just kept around to keep me working.
Agreed with your update. A better treatment than this post re what the history of segmented sleep means for us today is presented in this article, which just appeared in the NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/opinion/sunday/rethinking-...
Hiring friends or family members
The other option is simply population control like China does it. One child per couple doesn't rock, but it's better than a lot of other options.
As with any self-sustaining system (politics, economy, ecology) you need a feedback loop to form among the parties with conflicting interests. If the feedback loop is broken, the system deteriorates and ultimately falls apart. If it's inefficient, the system tends to be inefficient as well. (Examples: soviet-style planned economy, rabbits in Australia etc.)

This kind of thing (teachers grade students, students grade teachers) could improve the efficiency of the feedback loop and thus efficiency of the education system as a whole.
35 days ago, you said that we need to focus on constructive comments.
Sounds entertaining, good luck.

How often will you be posting to your blog?
I started the article off with the good things about the 5 and clipped it because I don't need to rattle off about all the awesome things about it that folks here know about. I just wrote the article about the one thing I didn't like about the 5. I like both the 4 and the 5. In fact, I'll be buying the 5 (I didn't just because it was out of stock, and not because of the not flush glass) :).

Btw, I just now realized that when I said "I didn't like it", the "it" was referring to the glass sticking out, and not the iPhone 5. Bad wording on my part there.
This topic was on HN a few months ago with pretty long and interesting discussion. Anyone got the link?

(Probably not exactly the same article since this one was written yesterday)
You shouldn't be surprised by the confusion. I sometimes suspect it is intentional on the part of restaurants; "ahi" sounds a lot classier than "tuna", because it doesn't make you think of canned tuna.
IPv6 is going to solve that.

RetroShare is afaik completely decentralized private social network. Although it's security design isn't as good as I would wish it to be. Good network uses PKI and all data being transferred or at rest is secured. This also means that service providers can't be held responsible.

Many decentralized plans allow still operators to soop in network parts which they're operating. If there's separate client, why not to make sure that system is secure?
Hmmm.. Could i FOIA FDA on hundreds of clinical studies of well known drugs and publish them online?

Seriously asking.

And for some weird reason this feels like wikileaks for drugs...
Fish farms probably need improvement, but among our options for farmed protein sources, fish are one of the best. Generally very healthy, and they have a good conversion factor.

Also, good luck banning them globally. We don't have a world government just yet.

Lastly, refusing to eat any fish seems somewhat silly, unless you are willing to give up meat entirely. Our various other farmed meat sources really aren't that much better, and there are responsible fish options available. Just do some research.
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Ask HN: Script/service for online form with webcam recording?
I'm looking to put together an online application form for an upcoming incubator program and would like to include a webcam recording (i.e. the user answers one of the questions by recording a short video).

Any ideas on what's out there?

Google tends to suck for finding anything these days.
He means that the military engine that keeps us constantly able to fight these wars is expensive. If we did not fight foreign wars, we would have a much smaller military budget. The would mean that federal government spending would be lower, which would reduce the need to revenue. While it is true that the federal government finances part of its huge budget with debt so sudden increases are not immediately felt, they do translate into increased interest payments which must be financed by revenue, and again, there is also the need to pay for the general level of power and readiness to fight between wars.

Now that it's more clear what the poster meant, you should be able to think of something to say.
I understand your point. But when someone starts out their sentence with "I wish I knew what to tell you" you would like to think that they knew that Ahi, AKA yellowfin or bigeye tuna, was two species of tuna.

EDIT: subspecies -> two species
This was on HN a few days ago:
http://cbrandolino.github.com/camvas_photobooth/
I just started to (self)host my email servers two weeks ago. I'm very happy with it.
Like the other reply says, it's not money that I think is the most important WE can make - Shuttleworth has plenty of that, and as far as the Amazon ads go, he probably just wants to establish a long term strategy for profitability, and this is one thing to try out.

We should be contributing to Ubuntu with our skills. THAT is what will make a big difference. Donating some money for them to buy more hardware is not going to make nearly as big of a difference.

What's your area of expertise? Try going on the Ubuntu Launchpad page and finding some bugs to fix. Send in some patches to the core team. Now that's what can make a big difference. Sure, there are tens of thousands of bugs. But if we all spent a few hours a week fixing them, we could plow through them pretty quickly. If we spent time during the beta testing periods running new versions of Ubuntu on our hardware and providing feedback, we could see things improve in terms of hardware compatibility.
That .ly is a bit out of place
10 times the explosive power of all explosives used in WWII
Reporting death rates does give hospitals an opportunity to reduce them, yes, and one way they might that is to get rid of unsafe surgeons and fix unsafe practices. Unfortunately that can only reduce death rates so far - they're also affected by the number of high-risk cases the hospital takes on. So it turns out that reporting these statistics gives hospitals a financial incentive to turn down, drive away, or otherwise prevent and discourage high-risk patients from obtaining medical help.
I'm sorry, why veganism? You could make an argument for vegetarianism here. Shooting for veganism, on the other hand, just sounds like an agenda. I'm not really aware of non-food animal products we get from fish.
There are two problems with it. (1) Functional: if the glass sticks up a bit, it's more likely to shatter when you drop the phone face-down, than it would be if the glass face were flush or even inset. (2) visual: It destroys the symmetry when looking at the phone from the side.
And you didn't have to buy an iPhone.
Please speak carefully. You called an entire set of people revolting, but the person who you called revolting only said a specific practice was revolting. There is a big difference between disliking something a person does and disliking a person intrinsically, or worse, a large group of people. I hope you didn't mean it but of you did it is a bigoted thing to say.
http://www.avonaero.com/STP%20CAR.htm
You bought it on a CD, keep the CD.

Before downloading apps was the norm, no company would issue a second copy of something you bought.
It may read as tangential, but this feels like the beginning of end of "forget free software, let's get Macs."
Classic slippery slope fallacy. Until it's actually hard to turn off, this argument is meaningless.

Privacy concerns aside, in what ways does this actually worsen the user experience?
Check this by patio11 "Ramit Sethi and Patrick McKenzie On Why Your Customers Would Be Happier If You Charged More" http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/09/21/ramit-sethi-and-patrick-...
I hate myself for this, but- correction- Ahi is not a subspecies. It refers to yellowfin OR bigeye.
Is that really allowed in CA? I know that in both NYC and Boston/Cambridge, a hailed cab can't refuse a destination. In fact, after being stranded in uptown Manhattan for an hour, I now make a point of not declaring my destination till I'm in the cab.
Heavy metal toxicity in seafood from larger fish is a worry, even if the ocean was bursting with fish of all species all of a sudden. I haven't found farmed fish as yet up to my standards, just look at the colour of farmed salmon, and it doesn't make me feel too good after consuming. The best fish I have access to presently are sardines in glass from Spain.

World government worries me as it would threaten Israel (let alone everything else it deems bad) because it would become a scapegoat and distraction from its own evils. So I just ban certain fish in my own mind.
I thought HN people knew better than to verbally attack large groups of individuals on a whim.

While your world views may differ, referring to "those people" as revolting doesn't help further any type of discussion.
This is a fine example of why HN and everything associated with it sucks.
You joke (I think), but tort reform actually has the potential to enable/encourage some of what is mentioned in this article - when mistakes are something that we can't even talk about for fear of gazillion dollar repercussions, it's hard to do anything to fix the problem.
BlueStacks developer here: Glad it worked for you :)
So work towards improving farmed fish, either with your votes or with your dollars. Don't just jump ship and tell everyone they should bail with you.
Someone needs to start a similar project with Ubuntu. Things are clearly getting a bit desperate for them (or so it seems) . If a good number of quality developers finds a good arrangement whereby they can donate a few hours of their time every week to significantly improving it, some real changes could be created.

There are definitely a lot of people who are not happy with the way that Apple has been acting as of late. What if we were to select one (1) laptop model and work on making Ubuntu on it a seamless experience?
"As people know, the discussion of the summer vacation is a tradition as old as summer vacation itself is."

from an essay in The Onion
Your comment might be brash, and you may have a literally green name, but you are absolutely right.
Seriously. You can't be a thought leader with a generic blog template. It's almost like he's not even trying to promote himself and impress the digerati. Your thoughts mean nothing if you don't take the time to customize the trimmings around them.
Thank you for sharing. Apparently the white car(Howmet) is quite a gem and also turbine-powered. For those interested in learning more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howmet_TX
Law enforcement speech recognition system stores millions of voices
To expand on this: The basis of a libertarian argument in favour of right-to-work laws would be that the employer-employee relationship should have just those two parties and be free from outside interference from another party (the union).
I think even our transit-oriented development has messed up value systems. Look at the new Silver Line in DC. Totally pedestrian unfriendly and intimidating. You can't build highly accessible, integrated neighborhood transit around 50' high platforms surrounded by a 3-lane each direction highway.
I see from Wikipedia that the T94 is the 1-4 processor version. How does this compare to a current i5/i7 processor?

The 32 processor version cost $39 million.
I don't think there's any actual indication that Ubuntu is in trouble. Sure there is grumbling on the internet when they change UI, but that's pretty par for the course.
You can sell free software. It's free as in freedom not as in free beer.

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html

> You can charge nothing, a penny, a dollar, or a billion dollars.
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why do you see the private bus fleets as a problem? they move thousands of people quickly and efficiently from where they live to where they work, and are way more ecologically sound and cost-effective than everyone driving their own cars, and way more feasible than expecting to influence the shape of public transit.
Apple doesn't block what you can install. They control what you can download and sell using THEIR store. I have shared apps that I have written with other people without having to deal with THEIR appstore.

Yes, Apple sells their developer program. They are a for-profit corporation.

If you really are an iPhone user, I find it hard to believe that you weren't aware of these issues before you bought your iPhone.
Resque isn't so great after all. We used it with around 600-1000 jobs per minute and not without problems. The failure backends could be better. We need the retry backend and for that you have to install another gem. The retry feature was kind of not working so well and really hard to debug (thanks to EventMachine and Resque's a bit too complicated failure backend).

Our solution was to build yet another queueing and worker system. For queues Beanstalkd is way faster and way more reliable than Redis. Instead of EventMachine I built the workers with Ruby threads and making a retry system on top of it wasn't really a problem.

Our error percentage dropped from around 10% to 0.0001% on average. Maybe some day I might release this as a gem, if world really needs yet another queueing system.
I am jumping ship on this item. In total I am down 3 mod points (and counting!). Moving onto greener, more biodynamic pastures!
Cool. Here's another rarity. A Ma 128 prototype [1] going for almost US 100k.

[1] http://www.ebay.com/itm/RARE-PROTOTYPE-MACINTOSH-128k-COMPUT...
Sure, absolutely. But those things are no reason to be lax on security. All those people are going to care if rampant spoofing, account hijacking, etc. starts.

The security holes seem to fit that nasty sweet spot where they are easy enough for someone to do, if they target you, but hard to do on a massive scale (matching IMEI/MAC to ph. no.), so it seems unlikely to me that users will actually experience problems. Unless it gets a reputation with users as hackable, this wont actually effect their success.

aka: how dumb things become wildly successful.

That said, what will effect success, and what is "right" are not always the same thing.
and has one train an hour for much of its day.
Failed according to you, me, and the prevailing majority of the medical community isn't equivalent to failed in the minds of the overwhelming majority of the public. The segment which believes or doesn't strongly disbelieve things like homeopathy is manifestly non-negligible.

Anti-vax nuts wouldn't be the public health threat that they are if there were two of them in a pool of hundreds of millions. The segment acting on these beliefs is manifestly large enough to enable outbreaks of diseases we otherwise could suppress almost totally.
The best way to improve Ubuntu is to get involved with Debian. That's where the heavy lifting is.
I was referring to the addition of advertising to the OS, not the move to Unity.
Asking price is different from market price.
No - I stand by what I said.

Whenever I hear a libertarian speak a strong visceral reaction occurs, which I believe would be a akin to the one that I would've probably found with the Nazi party, the Communists or a racist Southerner (i.e. listening to an insane ideologue talk).

It's no different to the reaction he probably feels with those who don't share his "grand world view no one understands but it's coming you sheeple" shtick.

It is not bigotry to point out obvious flaws in ridiculous and damaging ideologies - it's merely interesting to note the amount of controversy I appear to have drummed up.

What I find even more interesting is how many libertarians are often atheists, understand science/engineering and try to follow rational paths (this part is their downfall).

Problem is most of their "rational" foundations are just way off - i.e. the world is fair, people will act like you want them too, free markets bring all the good to the world, markets are efficient, private industry doesn't corrupt etc.

This is called cognitive dissonance (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance).

The world is messier than people think it is - and sociopathic platonic ideals should be vehemently defended against.
And thus has the twitterization of Ubuntu begun. Rest in peace.
The URL doesn't work because this is just a concept pitch? I'm a developer in the city, if anybody would like to discuss implementing such a service, shoot me an e-mail. john@webaction.com
Well, wherever the help is needed. My point is that if we can get a large number of skilled developers involved in improving the code behind Ubuntu through a small weekly commitment, that could really solve a lot of the existing issues.