skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't realise Freud went down the route of injecting with it, I did know he was a big fan of cocaine though. Wrote a reasonably long essay about why it was such a pillar of the modern industrial world.
Hey - I've been meditating daily for the last 6 months and had the same issue as you, where getting started was really the hardest part.

Here is what I've done. The first book that really got me thinking was "Happiness: Developing Life's Most Important Skill" from Matthieu Ricards.

I then went on to use an iPhone app developed by a buddhist monk called Headspace http://getsomeheadspace.com - this is guided meditation, where he walks you through 10 minutes every day for 10 days. Absolutely awesome to get started.

I hope this helps you as much as it has myself to get started! :)
So think of it like this...

You have a day job. But you're on the look out for something to spend a bit of time on in your spare time.

You have a chance to spend a few hours putting together a prototype of something and winning $50,000 for your efforts. Even runners up could get $10,000. It doesn't require a full-time commitment to do. So the risk/reward ratio (a few hours vs $50K) is there for you to do this.

Let's say you have a clever idea and spend 10 hours during your spare time putting a prototype together.

Is 10 hours of your time worth a decent shot at $10K or $50K? That's $5,000 an hour or $1,000 an hour. And assume you are up against 10-15 other clever people, so rank your odds of that accordingly.

That's the question. Only you can answer.
That is awfully rough. May you and your daughter find a way through.
> When I say it that way, people understand what it's about and want to read the book.

Exactly. All pedants do is push people to hedge, equivocate, and employ dense jargon to throw them off the scent, and where's the help to the rest of us in that?
References to each of your claims.
I'm simply contesting the "no means of code verification whatsoever" statement.
That's what I thought. However, would it change things that the service I am developing is aimed at consumers (i.e. the students) but beneficial to real estate agents? The free subsidised version would have to be offered from the start.
I'm on Comcast and have my own modem (the one linked above, it's great) and have no such fee.
The meditation that got me hooked is Quantum Light Breath, voiced by Jeru Kabbal. One version is available for free download online and a couple of others can be purchased from the usual places.

Jeru explains the breathing very clearly. I found this to be an easy introduction.
> I assume this in no way provides protection from them.

No it does not appear so.

But recently we've seen a huge uptick of brute force password attacks against our WP installs. These are trying common username and password combinations. To combat these attacks we've started deploying a brute force detection and blocking plugin across our entire platform. But we've also looked at adding two factor authentication as well.
Those three facts constitute a security vulnerability, and did so before we had working exploit code.

Over the past few years people have developed technology to make it easier to exploit null pointer dereference bugs for instance. That doesn't mean they weren't security bugs before we were good at reliably exploiting them.

Exploitation techniques increase the impact of vulnerabilities certainly, but the 3 facts you stated above would indicate a security issue even before we knew the right class to instantiate.
Ironically, the fact that there haven't been any big successful airline-related terrorist attacks in the US for a long time is evidence that the TSA is useless, because of what you point out, despite the tendency for certain groups of clueless people to claim the opposite.
I'm curious to see how facebook's external advertising network plays out. It would have, for example, been silly to judge google's potential profitability before adwords was established. Facebook's data isn't as valuable (from an advertising perspective) as google's, but it still has untapped potential.
Also, assuming that you're not spending 40 hours a week at this for all 3 weeks (120 hours). A working prototype can be made in 10-15 hours. Also the amount of time you spend on it is up to you.

So 1:30 shot at $50K, for a 15 hour investment? Up to you to decide.
A graph that shows a company "only" makes $5 annually for every user aren't exactly laughable when you have over 1 Billion users, yet the article, in an awfully hand-wavy fashion, brushes over this on its way to concluding that "Facebook hasn't changed much since its founding" (it's "hard to argue," see).

Anybody who dismisses Facebook as a website where you can stalk your college friends would obviously be bearish on Facebook. If you think Graph Search is "just another way to sort your news feeds," then of course you wouldn't expect Facebook to grow. If you don't even mention the fact that Facebook is a platform that is interwoven with every part of the Internet, I wouldn't expect you to understand how Facebook will make money.
Something similar has been in IDEs. Quanta+ had a good popup PHP reference... Aptana/Eclipse has PHPdocumentor in it, which lets you annotate your functions and such so information pops in when you type in a function.

If I wanted to get more detailed I go to php.net on-line manual, there's not really anything comparable to that site, description, examples and relevant discussion of all the commands/functions.
Simple notepad like webapp/bookmarklet with markdown support.
The backbone object itself now extends Events, so you can use

Backbone.on('got_weather', function...)
Backbone.trigger('got_weather', {})
My point is simply that without signatures, there is no means of verification. Having the code isn't enough.
MS Paint under Windows (since Vista) saves all images by default as PNG.
Indeed. The first AJAX development I did in the early/mid-2000s was IE-only because the other browsers didn't have the correct support.
Agreed. I didn't see a single answer to this question in that article.
Speaking from both experience and anthropological theory, I would hypothesize that wealthier countries have more depression because they are more mobile.

To start with the anthropological theory, let's take David Graeber's notion from Debt about the trauma of slavery. It's not merely being made to work by force that makes a slave. On a personal level, what traumatizes and dehumanizes a slave is that they have been ripped from their context. Everything that tied the free person to their family, their friends, their tribe/nation, their home, their religion, their culture, even their enemies, it has all been taken away.

I think whenever you take someone entirely out of their context and put them in an entirely new context, there is a chance for depression, because I think that on a deep level, depression is a phenomenon of a person being out-of-context, or at least, out of any context that can physically and mentally nourish them in the right way.
I disagree with the 2nd part - I use the surface on my lap all the time - rather 90% of my usage is in bed or on the couch/recliner, each time with the kickstand out and using the type keyboard. I don't see why it didn't work for you, the only problem I can even think of is that sometimes i'm laying down and because i'm looking under my glasses I have trouble reading the screen.
I never realised racism was behind it, I thought it was just regulated out. Although, based off the time frame it doesn't come as too much of a surprise.

I've actually heard some interesting arguments about bringing cocaine back in sodas as a legal way to do it, but whilst the physiological addiction of cocaine is low, the mental addiction is high. You see enough coders twitching for a Red Bull fix, so who knows what we'd be like with the good stuff.
2006 is 7 seven years ago. 7 is 5 + 2 ;P

More seriously, I'd contend that 7 years is still far too long ago for research like this considering the tech we have available now.
Microsoft sued over search patents
No offence taken; it was instructive to see the whole analysis. I may take that to a meeting and read it to the Troop if you don't mind?
While I don't think Facebook is all that great of a business model, its financial performance is FAR better than say Amazon.

Over the last 12 months, FB has done $6B in revenues and $500mil in earnings (aka profits). That's a net of 9% or so and is decent but not stellar.

Amazon in contrast has done $61B in revenue but lost $40mil. In it's best quarter, it only showed a net income of 1%.

Honestly, to say that "Facebook will never make a significant profit" is just silly since it's been doing that for a few years now.
Perhaps it cuts both ways as the amount of stuff you can buy with bitcoin increases.
Why don't they ever post stats on how many of these projects are ever completed?
Great if you're cash rich but time poor.

But when you're cash poor and time rich, guess you're just gonna be the serf for awhile.
It probably isn't relevant to most people anymore, but misaligned memory access on certain architectures (e.g. Sparc) incurs a penalty.
It was interesting a few years ago that Twitter went from server rendered HTML to client rendered HTML back to server rendered HTML (current).
I shower +1 day to having my immediate social circle bear witness to my wardrobe selection per cycle.
It's just another example of the "magical natives, so in tune with the natural world" bullshit myth.
Racism is behind gun bans too -- "take careful note of the racist California legislature aimed at keeping the black people disarmed and powerless. Black people have begged, prayed, petitioned, demonstrated, and everything else to get the racist power structure of America to right the wrongs which have historically been perpetuated against black people. The time has come for black people to arm themselves against this terror before it is too late."

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/09/the-secr...
Is it? During my work life, I've noticed the virtual elimination of secretaries/exec assistants as a job position.
20 years ago, most bigcorps had a secretary for every Boss-type, and a secretary or two as 'greeters'/office managers in every large office site.

When I left a local bank (~500 employees) a year ago, they had only 1 'secretary' at all - a single executive assistant that covered the 7 board executives there. Everything else was covered by automation, DIY electronic calendars, outsourcing of things like plane reservations, etc.
Interesting and well done. As a tax lawyer I would refer people to this service.

The problem you face is pricing, I think.

I would not use it myself because of pricing. 1099 paperwork is an annual problem not a monthly problem. It is a discrete event problem rather than a flow problem. That's how I would buy.

Also, I have a dedicated internal controller doing this work now. I would have to see what's cheaper -- paying her to do things manually or paying for this service.

Advantage to you: simple and fast. Reduced opportunity for error.

Oh. Search for the word "gimick" on your site and add another m to it. :-) Tax is anal-retentive obsessive-compulsive work and you need to send the message that you never make mistakes.

Congrats. I needed this two days ago for my own firm and for my wife's business. :-( I will bookmark this for next year.
> I have seen iPods, but can you ssh in an iPod?

If you jailbreak it you can. Here's[1] a one page how-to long guide.

> I have seen media centers, but can you bulk rename files or script it?

Of course, providing you're using something like XBMC. For renaming you don't even need to script, there's friendly programs[2] out there if you want.

> Now with my raspberry I finally got my dream for real, and I can even ssh to it from my phone when I'm away.

I'm glad you're enjoying your Pi, but the argument about it being possible to do with other setups is just as valid. You can SSH to almost anything that'll run SSH from your phone.

[1] - http://guides.macrumors.com/SSH_into_your_iPod_touch_(Window...

[2] - http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Category:Rename_tools
Exactly. The kernel community has lots of wisdom built up around rebase vs. merge, and the way I think about it is, imagine a tree of developers with Linus at the top, maintainers in the middle, and leaf nodes at the bottom.

- leaf nodes can and should rebase to ensure whatever they submit is "bisect clean"

- everyone else should never rebase because you'll destroy history

As a leaf node, you should always be committing and submitting the cleanest patches possible. The prime directive is "do not break bisect". There's much more wisdom in:

http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/SubmittingPatches

stgit is a nice tool to manage your patches as a leaf node. It lets you go back and clean up individual patches in your history so that everything you submit is clean.

Maintainers don't rebase, period.

And recently (past 18 months or so), Linus has been yelling at them to not merge from mainline back into their proposed branch before pull request. The rationale is that when you do so, your pull request is now based on untested code.

Most dev communities will never scale as large as lkml, so not all the lkml conventions make perfect sense to adopt. However, like I said, there is still a lot to be learned from the community that's been using git the longest and pushing it the hardest.
This is systemic engineering incompetence that apparently pervades an entire language community

This is master level, "Captain Obvious"-style trolling, beyond me how this is the top comment in a place like HN.
I can understand your frustration with the community. I share this frustration at many times, because I feel that Rails / Ruby tends to value style over substance.

I'll also raise an eyebrow at that particular sentence, though without spending much time looking into what's backing it I can only add that I too find that slightly incredulous.

I definitely question your stated intent. Were you to "counter the spin and marketing messaging", would that reduce the number of vulnerable machines? Overall, reduce the number of people that use Ruby/Rails, if that is your intent? Given the number of comments you've made to that effect versus the number of folks using Ruby/Rails, I'd suggest you have a very long battle in front of you.

Put another way, I perceive your tone as an exasperated, reactionary tone to a group that you happen not to like. If you are indeed trying to achieve some greater good here, I believe there's more effective ways you could achieve it.

Otherwise, just tone it down in the future. You had good points, there's no need to insult people from an effectively unassailable position.
Racism and The Secret History of Guns
Genuine question:

Did you get the iPad before or after the Surface?

For the life of me I can't understand why someone would want both products. (And, between the two of them, I'd personally choose the iPad.)
Worse than that, the TSA nonsense encourages a non-trivial population to drive when they would have flown. Driving being far less safe, it's probable that Security Theatre has a body count.
The Meditation Diet: How I Lost 60+ lbs. by Savoring
Haven't read Guns, Germs and Steel myself, but "why and how European civilizations were able to conquer technology and the world, and specifically why many of the developments critical to the rise of European supremacy are not found in other societies" sounds like a description of "Civilisation" by Niall Ferguson.

http://amzn.com/0143122061

(Niall Ferguson is pretty outspoken politically too, e.g. http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/08/a-full-f...

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timstanley/100177487/has-n...)
Draft. Version control for writing
Yes it is.

I tried quite hard in my post to say that I thought there were valid reasons for doing remote work. Just that the balance of evidence that I can find is saying that co-located teams are more productive.

I'd appreciate it if you could let me know if I've expressed myself badly - and any suggestions on expressing myself better are would genuinely be appreciated.

As I said in my post - I telecommute a great deal myself. For pretty much exactly that reason you outline. I am really not trying to say that telecommuting is bad ;-)
Venmo Touch Is Facebook Connect for Mobile Payment Info
Would it be considered anal to note that the Dutch aren't a race, therefore "Dutch courage" can't be a racist term? Nationalist maybe, but not racist.
Dropbox Launches Document Previews, Makes It Easier to Share Photos
Thanks! This looks great :)
Free Wi-Fi: the Movement To Give Away Your Internet For the Good of Humanity
Unusual 5th grade math problem
I've been doing remote work since college, and I travel all the time while working. That may be the best part of remote work. I even worked for a few weeks on a cruise ship. As long as there's an Internet connection, I can do my job.

As for the isolation thing, my family is usually at home, and I also go out a lot during the day.

I can imagine, if I were simply home alone for most of the day, that it'd get lonely and being able to go to the "office" to be around people would seem like a good trade.
Symantec Pushes Back Against New York Times Hacking Report
The real reason falls are so fatal for the elderly is because the victims become immobalized, causing them to become less active. After a fall, many elderly people are bed-ridden which causes a whole host of greater health problems which are the actual killers.

But then good health and daily activity are the best ways of preventing falls, (along with balance training and physiotherapy, especially after a surgery or stroke) so yes it is a cycle as you say.

I don't agree with it being primarily a cultural thing though. Daily exercise is an individual choice. There's a guy in my new building who I see all the time, he just walks to the end of the hall and back many times each day. Each lap probably takes him 10 minutes. But he chooses to stay active, even in very old age.
This quote caught my attention:

There are many developers who are not presently active on a Ruby on Rails
project who nonetheless have a vulnerable Rails application running on
localhost:3000. If they do, eventually, their local machine will be
compromised. (Any page on the Internet which serves Javascript can, currently,
root your Macbook if it is running an out-of-date Rails on it. No, it
does not matter that the Internet can’t connect to your
localhost:3000, because your browser can, and your browser will follow
the attacker’s instructions to do so. It will probably be possible to
eventually do this with an IMG tag, which means any webpage that can
contain a user-supplied cat photo could ALSO contain a user-supplied
remote code execution.)

That reminded me of an incredible presentation WhiteHat did back in 2007 on cracking intranets. Slides[1] are still around, though I couldn't readily find the video.

[1]: https://www.whitehatsec.com/assets/presentations/blackhatusa...
Kim Dotcom's Mega Gets Third-Party Search Engine
The fact that there are studies ranging from the 1970s to the 2000s is actually one of the reasons I find this so interesting.

Communications technology keeps getting better - yet co-location still seems to carry a major advantage. That is interesting to me.
Compared to Germany, US banking consumer services are in the stone age. Investor level services on the the other hand... We lead the world in inventing ever new investment types.
Thanks! I'll check this out...unfortunately I'm nowhere near Berkely :(
I've experienced this under Firefox, and on hardware that has no excuse for breaking a sweat on any webpage. It's usually pages where there are a large number of animated GIFs (e.g. [1]) Once all the GIFs are loaded and complete one animation cycle, everything's fine.

[1]: http://www.totalprosports.com/2012/12/14/the-50-best-sports-...
Ask HN: How do you get your code reviewed?
I'd like to do more code review, both as the coder being reviewed and the reviewer looking at code, with the goal being to improve my programming.

How do you get your code reviewed? How do you review other people's code? Do you use specific tools/sites/mailing lists/IRC channels/friends?
The tagging scheme mentioned above accounts for that. Objects are stored at aligned addresses, which leaves a couple or three bits available for signifying integers and other data types. On architectures that trap on unaligned accesses, you can actually use the trap to avoid an explicit type check if you're expecting a pointer and someone passes an integer.
Where do we go from here? Has classic skepticism run its course? (.PDF)
The chart is wrong. I got 18 years to do whatever i want.
Mars Colony Project Lands First Investors
You can't compare amazon with facebook. Amazon is fundamentally low margin business. FB can at achieve/ maintain profitability levels of high margin google like ad business. Both companies are investing heavily for the future, and that reflects on their bottom line. The more important metric is revenue growth, and unless bottom line is not too red, generally speaking market is only paying attention to the top line growth.
There is an interesting docu-drama-reality thing called 1900 house about a family who gets to live and work in a recreated victorian house, exactly like they would have lived in 1900.

When one of them gets a cold, they have to give up -- all the home-remidies would have been super-effective, but they are all based on heroin/cocain/opiom.
Relevant to Aaron Swartz: the "Head Shot" federal charge
It's my experience that most people are simply terrible at communicating remotely. So this is what gets reflected in studies done on co-location.

After all, traditional interviews bias for those who are good at face-to-face communication. There is basically no filter for those who suck at remote communication.

It's exacerbated by the fact that it takes more than one to communicate. If you work remotely, it's not sufficient that you are capable of writing an intelligible email. Everyone you interact with also needs this ability, which tends to be rare in companies that are not purely remote workers.
Great guest post by Walter Chen, the founder of iDoneThis.

I really like the shout out technique. Seems like a great way to spread the happiness and make others know that you care :)
Agreed completely. I'm sorry - I thought I had expressed this in the original post when i said

"Pretty much all the evidence (rather than anecdote) I can find shows that co-located teams in a single team room environment are the most productive - all other things being equal."

If you can think of a way I can express that opinion better I'd appreciate it (This isn't sarcasm - it's a genuine request. Judging by many of the replies here I'm expressing myself badly ;-)
I wonder if various companies pooled money for a comprehensive audit of rails by ptacek etc., one would think that's a win-win for all.
PVS-Studio 5.0 brings static code analysis to new platforms
Another example is ATL: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/advisory/973882
Interesting idea. I think many will want to use this in an RSS reader. Because of that, I would suggest you place a link to your feed (http://poststat.us/feed/) somewhere on the page so others can find it easily.
Will it be available on wordpress.com or wpengine? Are you in talks with any of them?