skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"While $HISTORY is great, it only retails a certain amount of data."

Unless you have HISTSIZE=100000000; SAVEHIST=100000000 or some such nonsense (-hides-). Using Ctrl-R for history doesn't seem to be slowed down at all by my huge histfile. There are privacy implications if you're hacked/subpoenaed, but it's hella convenient.
The slower/faster thing is really more an issue about iteration and time to market for projects. Project costs are a function of overhead--in addition to piece-cost. Overhead is a function of speed and thus project cost is a function of speed. This cost is/can be an order of magnitude larger than the unit-piece-cost. In other words, if you relax the speed constraint you implicitly relax the cost constraint, at least in a normal context. But these tradeoffs (and choices) depend on understanding a project's scope/spec. You are high-light at least one edge case, though: the home DIY, where time is no value but unit cost is paramount. In this case 3D printing might be a good idea, provided your project is suited to such an ouput.
It's an ad. Turn off Adblock Plus. (worked for me)
Stable, Vetted Hackage: Call for Participation
I used to be all about portability, too. Worse, I was worried that other people needed to be able to work on my computer. So no Vim or Emacs, and always keep things simple.

You know what? I don't care any more. My computer is my computer. It does not need to work for other people and I don't need to work on other people's computers much. My Emacs loads many plugins, my Visual Studio is using ViEmu, I replaced my Finder and I remapped some keys on the keyboard.

This makes for a crazy confusing experience for anyone who sits down at my computer, but it works for me. And as far as compatibility is concerned, my Emacs init.el will automatically download and install all plugins it finds missing, so setting up a new computer is about as complex as copying one file.
Mine is set _somewhat_ ridiculously large. Just not that large. And it seems like it just gets to be obscene at some point.
Using tmux in an X terminal emulator really gets you the best of all worlds. Good mouse support, performant as you mention, and if X really starts to give you hassle for some reason you can always seamlessly continue working in a VT or with putty if you really want to.
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I fully share this view. There are already a few offers, but it still needs some more work regarding thickness and autonomy.

The benefit is that the phone can stay in the pocket while we check for new messages or new events or do some quick and simple actions. This would be much less intrusive than a phone.

Puhing this idea further we can imagine sensors attached to the body and connected to the phone. Same for cars and room we would frequently be in.

Bluetouth communication is underused.

What about using nfc and phones to control hiddden or smart locks ?
The test was run twice and the AI was released both times but the logs of the conversations weren't made public. Also all of the extra protocols weren't in place for either test meaning he could have bought the AI's release.

It's an interesting thought experiment but it's a bit ridiculous that the "tests" are mentioned on the page when they don't have any relevance to the rest of the idea.
Ubuntu has made remarkable strides, but overall usability is stuck somewhere between Windows 95 and Windows XP. On the whole that's not bad, but compared to systems with more refinement, which would include Windows 7 and OS X, it does look rather rickety.

There's nothing technically in the way of Ubuntu being a first class operating system that way except for someone to spend a lot of time designing it from a holistic standpoint. The inconsistencies and lack of attention to detail are what separate the approximations of good UX to great UX.

If you think `apt-get` is even remotely user friendly, you're not seeing the forest for the trees. Ubuntu has an incredible collection of software and with the right interface it would be even easier to use than MacPorts, Homebrew, or any app store out there, but this is going to take time to make happen.

Also be careful what you describe as "fiddling" because for most people that means "beat head against wall until bleeding, then throw computer out window".
The Neverending Story reference to Atreus seeing the Rock Eater after losing his friends to the Nothing was a huge flash back moment for me. Very well done.
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The solar outdoor lamp is multifunctional. It can be hung on the wall. You can also bring it to have a picnic. Just hang out with your friends with this solar lamp, drink beer, camping.
It can illuminate your home, yard, driveway, patio and anywhere in which getting solar energy.
Every few months I wipe out all of the `ls`, `clear`, `cd` and similar entries from my history file. Usually knocks the size down by a decent double-digit percentage.
And I'm not sure if self-interest and more importantly self-preservation can be seen as emotions. These two are baked in into every live organism even the most primitive ones. And it would be difficult to state that these organisms have emotions. Then again depends on how you define what emotion is.
Being lazy usually. Also a mixture of devices and machines long before dropbox. So I became used to the defaults before there was a good solution to sync.

You don't do much work in large corporations I guess. When issued equipment and not having to much control you find it easier to just adapt, which is what I did.
Fxcop is massively overused. The rules are designed for teams who are building libraries and frameworks (thus the name, Fx is short for framework). For ordinary app development many of the rules are inappropriate, which can lead to an impedance mismatch and frustration.
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If they're gonna go the Apple route, go the whole way: don't make me ask for permission to install software I've licensed on my computer (via software activation). Charge a reasonable amount ($20? 30?) and charge that same amount to SMB customers. Don't make massive UI/UX changes in each release.
I went from Vim and shell beginner a couple of years ago to a serious user, and built up a nice set of dotfiles along the way.

Janus and oh-my-zsh were big for me, but I never actually installed either one.

Instead, those were my Vim and Zsh department stores.

I'd get the itch to try something new, so I'd "go shopping" at those projects, find something new to pull into my config, and I'd learn to use that plugin or make sure I knew what that shell option was now doing for me.

Then, eventually, I'd get the itch and go shopping again.

Over time, I built up my dotfiles. As I learned, I naturally found myself ditching some of the plugins I pulled in along the way, and modifying or replacing some of the shell config with my own creation. But those projects we're great sources of some early "wins".
Actually that's the only config that usually comes with me. I too suffered emacs pinkie for a while before doing this.
Ask HN: Best way to find a non-technical cofounder?
Hi HN,

I'm a regular user but posting under a throwaway account for fear of employer scrutiny.

I have seen many posts here about non-technical people looking for technical cofounders, but my situation is the other way around.

I am a seasoned engineer with an itch to start a company. I have a few ideas, and the technical ability to build them. However, starting a company is so much more than just building the product. I know almost nothing about finances, law, "networking", sales, or any of those softer skills.

What's the best way to find non-technical people who might be interested in teaming up?
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Is it working properly now? Last time I've tried it I had to go back to oh-my-zsh because prezto screwed my terminal.

By the way, one of these days debugging the slow startup time of oh-my-zsh I found the culprit, virtualenvwrapper. Again I didn't have the time to good deep into that, so I just edited out that line from my .zshrc.
Its not so much about others as I don't want to spend 3 hours setting up e very machine I touch, ie servers, borrowed machine etc.... I'm just as productive now (after a month of adjustment) but without the setup time.
Home listings.
I always want to use Redfin's results, but no matter how many times I type in an address and select Redfin, Trulia and Zillow out rank Redfin over and over again. I'm forced to search the address + redfin to get my result. I figured Google would have fixed this for me.
anyone qualified to seriously comment on this is too baffled to say anything
We're DECADES away from this being relevant. As a PhD student in neuroscience, there is no one in our field who understands even basic neuroanatomy enough to be able to setup a model that implements cognition or awareness, or even knows what those concepts mean in any sort of operational way.

We can do some cool machine learning, but don't worry about the robopacalypse anytime soon.
Jeff Bezos has said in interviews that he doesn't believe in books, only reading. Reading changes you, and you don't need to have an artifact. That was his argument for the Kindle.
TCP/IP over optical links may be a good option if they are just triangulating radio.

HERE is a link to an article featuring full-duplex voice over cheap laser/LED optical link over 95 miles.

http://hackaday.com/2012/09/22/communicating-with-a-beam-of-...

If anyone can get that to the "right-side" then, by all means this may very well be an option for establishing high-speed TCP/IP as well.
So... Sounds like an interesting way of doing things. Put in a small number of useful features, then build in what people actually want! Not a bad approach.
Operating word being "believe", which is basically "guessing". Unless there's data and demonstrable things that work, this is hogwash.
Congrats on the relaunch. I also missed the 14-day free trial text, so you should probably emphasise it more, put it next to sign up buttons etc.
And cool t-shirts.

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A friend of mine has an extremely simple prompt. It just shows as $ or # (for root) and has a single field before that - the exit status of the previous command.
> Wow, you read a way more argumentative tone into my comment than I intended. It's all good, I'm trying to expand my understanding. :) Though I'm not sure I agree with your characterization of my points as "nonsense."

Indeed, that was much too harsh and I retracted it. I thought I might have retracted it before anyone noticed, but I guess not. My bad, sorry about that.

> Unless I'm missing something, I think you would be very hard-pressed to generate basic blocks of native code in only a few dozen lines of platform-dependent code.

Whoops, I thought we were still talking about token-threading. I believe people implement token threading by fiddling with the compiler output. John Aycock had a paper about doing this for Perl or Python as I recall (also, since you're into JITs, you might enjoy his "a brief history of Just-in-time").

> Also, once you are generating basic blocks of native code, I would consider it a JIT at that point,

Yes, people often consider this to be a JIT. However, its much much easier to write than a "real" JIT. The complexity of writing a method-jit or trace-jit is very very high. This could probably be done in an afternoon by a great hacker.

Don't underestimate the work of writing the assembly language interpreter like Mike Pall did. Most incredibly hardcore compiler guys with whom I have discussed it were simply blown away by it. It might be one of the most hardcore feats in VM implementation history. He manually register allocated across dynamic flow control boundaries for gods sake!!

> reasonable choice for interpreters written in C

But not a fast one.
Bend me, shape me - flexible phones 'out by 2013'
Shows. Nothing on a iPad.
I know very few expats in China who can really speak Chinese. I've been here for about 2 years (Shenzhen) and barely know a few words. You should at least make a Chinese friend who can help you out when you really need it.
Title of Science paper:

"A Large-Scale Model of the Functioning Brain"
>I'm even willing to work for free for a period of time.

I've done that. For a week, after that I pretty much could dictate terms. It's a lot harder to argue someone isn't worth what they're asking for as long as you haven't seen them work or worked with them. And one of my terms was that if they kept me on after the week they had to pay for the week as well.

Giving free samples works very well for drugs, it works just as well if you're good at what you do but are not so good in communicating that as you are in showing it.

There is nothing desperate about it, just limit your exposure by limiting the time you'll do that and if you're as good as you think you are you even get the risk paid off.
I worked on similar problems implementing a simulation of ~1M neurons using dedicated neuromorphic hardware. There are some neat things you can do from a machine learning perspective, but arguing that we can actually simulate a real brain (or even know which of the myriad complexities are important to include in your model) has the potential to convince the public that we're further along in our understanding of different brain areas than we actually are.
Deadly 'superbugs' invade U.S. health care facilities
Dubstep proper is a near direct descendant of dub techno, pioneered in Berlin in the early 90s, following in the footsteps of Detroit techno from the 80s and the 2-step and acid house coming out of the UK and Chicago.

I live down the street from Hardwax, for fuck's sake.
Seems to work fine, but I got this when I added one of my sites:

2012-11-30 03:10:25 OK: Site added: http://example.com (is up).
2012-11-30 03:10:25 Warning: Site http://example.com is down.

I.e., it thought it was down, and notified me accordingly, but then shortly afterward it recognized it as up (which it was the entire time).
The funny thing is that Chinese think exactly the opposite. For them, the fake touristy stuff are the old buildings and traditional Chinese architecture. It reminds me of people who visit Canada and want to see the real Canada: the remote farms, igloos and virgin forests. For us Canadians, it's a bit ridiculous.
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>I'm not sure it's right to say that psychopaths are without emotion.

Well, it's has been shown in several psychological tests, including parts of the brain that show emotion not firing when shown trafic videos, etc.
I think this version is basically SPDY 3. SPDY 4 (draft spec: https://github.com/grmocg/SPDY-Specification/blob/gh-pages/d...) uses a completely new header compression algorithm which is not susceptible to the attack used in CRIME.
Psychopaths have emotions, they just aren't mature enough to appreciate theM fully. [1] With that out of the way we can talk about emotions.

Most of them are simple cognitive responses. For instance, if you see a cute puppy you have at least to smile. At the other end of the spectrum we have the intricate web of woman's emotions. Hard to explan, and almost impossible to even grasp. As no one seems to understand this problem well we could leave it out of the specs for now.

[1] http://psychopathyawareness.wordpress.com/2011/02/04/the-psy...
Look Ma, I Made It Myself. Amazing Things 3-D Printers Can Do.
I dislike that this conversation became about me but:

They'll usually do that when he's the most experienced person in the company (like I was and am).

I've been working since I was 18, not 22. That makes for six years rather than the usual two, and the first 5-10 years of a career are pretty impactful for everyone.

Further, they were very dense years spent studying on my own time and working a lot of contracts.

I didn't sit in a junior position at a large corporation, I've had enough time to become a decent backend engineer in my own right but also develop a decent specialization. In addition to that, my contracting and consulting background has made me somewhat less provincial than when I started so I'm capable of relating to business needs as a C-level needs to.

I don't question your capacity to perform your job without knowing you, please afford others the same respect. I was trying to talk about the prejudice in the industry, not have it projected against me in the opposite direction. (Against younger people)
Interview about the raid (for running a TOR node)
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Superstorm Sandy and the Global Internet
There is a PPA containing a series of workarounds, fixes, and hacks maintained for this hardware in the partnership between Dell and Canonical:

https://launchpad.net/~canonical-hwe-team/+archive/sputnik-k...

Color me impressed, if it is kept up over a three year time scale minimum. Also, here's an example bug report resolved with a kernel fix: http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/os-applications/f/46...

Use of Launchpad is preferred, though, and one can see open and closed bugs here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/dell-sputnik
It is indeed a step in the right direction as far as law is concerned. As for most other things in India, effective implementation always remains a concern.

The girls named in the article Shaheen Dhada and Renu Srinivasan have been set free with all charges dropped. Shreya Singhal, a student from Delhi, has also filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) against Section 66A of the IT act [1]. The SC has accepted this PIL challenging this act [2]. In addition, the Supreme Court of India has asked for an explanation (within a four week time frame) from the Maharashtra government (the state in which the girls reside) regarding the arrests [3].

[1] http://www.livemint.com/Politics/PumX6XBqAeMAeNpspY1BLM/Who-...

[2] http://news.outlookindia.com/items.aspx?artid=782088

[3] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-20551955
Thanks for the feedback! Our data seems to back your suggestion - the signup button with the extra text is everybody's favorite.
Google's Drive + Gmail: A 10GB Dropbox killer
Event tracking for Ruby on Rails using Mixpanel or KISSMetrics
Can't believe Microsoft came up with this ad for Internet Explorer
Applications are open and we look forward to teams from anywhere in the world. Canada is a great place to live and to build a startup company! @sunil_extreme
Absolutely. There really is not a good reason to think that human level intelligence cannot be done algorithmicly. No reason to think, other than wishful thinking for some people for whatever reasons, that we are in a different computation class than Turing machines.
I clicked on the article what felt like 100 times and it still didn't get focus.
Check Lockitron out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQCJgx_kofo
4 in 10 chance that if you get infected with CRE bacteria you will die...
Help Finding Jonas Salk Interview
Jonas Salk, as you may know, was the man who discovered the cure for polio - which has saved 500,000 lives every year since it's discovery. What you may not know is the man had extremely deep views on people and their place in this unfolding universe. He discusses these views in detail in an Academy of Achievement interview he conducted in 1991. Quotes from this interview can be found on Wikiquote, https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jonas_Salk .

The entire interview, however, is out of grasp because the Academy of Achievement website seems broken. If someone could find a legal way to access this video, I'm sure it would benefit the entire hacker news community.
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DNA imaged for the first time
Grats on launching. Are the graphs rendered with d3.js or something else?
Eric Lippert (C# language designer) is leaving Microsoft.
I guess the question is what do you mean by advanced topics? What direction do you want to go in? The latter book you mentioned seems to cover a number of topics and is probably a good bet.

If you are interested in the web, both these books were good:
http://www.amazon.com/Python-Web-Programming-Steve-Holden/dp...
http://www.amazon.com/The-Definitive-Guide-Django-Developmen...

Here are a few books that cover some "advanced?" topics that I'd like to read when I have time (would also like to hear other peoples' recommendations on them):
http://www.amazon.com/Python-Data-Analysis-Wes-McKinney/dp/1...
http://www.amazon.com/Twisted-Network-Programming-Essentials...
http://www.amazon.com/Foundations-Python-Network-Programming...
http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Tornado-Michael-Dory/dp/1...
http://onlinebookplace.com/programming-computer-vision-with-...

I'm not sure on your background or the quality of these books, but an understanding of data structures, algorithms, and object oriented programming could be considered important:
http://www.amazon.com/Data-Structures-Algorithms-Using-Pytho...
http://www.amazon.com/Python-Algorithms-Mastering-Language-E...
http://www.amazon.com/Python-3-Object-Oriented-Programming/d...

Although these and other intermediate to advanced topics tend to be covered better in non-language-specific books such as this shotgun blast to the head. Don't worry, it's just an "introduction":
http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Algorithms-Thomas-H-Corme...
Or smelling dead/died flowers.
This is neat, but I don't think the HTML and CSS buttons are working. I'm on iPhone right now and the HTML/CSS buttons don't show the HTML or CSS. If I click one it just displays browser compatibility.... Would be cool to be able to see the source.
Not being able to get replies back would mean that setting up a new TCP connection would be impossible because you're not getting replies to the initial handshake. The TCP connections that were alive when the routes were dropped would time out pretty quickly if they weren't getting any replies. Whether UDP packets could get out is going to be down to how the connectivity was dropped. If it's just via BGP then there's a chance.
http://opalrb.org Opal is a ruby to javascript compiler. It is source-to-source, making it fast as a runtime. Opal includes a compiler (which can be run in any browser), a corelib and runtime implementation. The corelib/runtime is also very small (10.8kb gzipped).
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My question is that if it's so bad why aren't they still seeing new subscribers? I understand they have a lot of churn, but obviously the poor customer service and poor quality of service continues to be unimportant in the buying decisions of their customers.

So what is it that they are doing right that continues to allow them to sign up new customers?
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That's one nasty bacteria. According to the article, the worst part is that it contains a resistant strain that started migrated to other types of bacteria. So far, contained mostly at hospitals, might get outside and merge with more common bacterias. The plague is near?
that's actually very good and clever. It would have been neat for them to have a twitter @ie (or something similar) that would auto respond to @ie with clever comments like that.
Just to clarify, my reasoning was no emotions -> no empathy -> psychopathy. Although I believe psychopathy -> no empathy, I don't believe no empathy -> no emotions.