skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
India is pretty young. I remember your movies being incredibly prude in the mid 90s. I just watched a recent clip of a top boxoffice film in '08 and let's just say it was insanely racy compared to just ten years ago. I bet India will be having the same insane feminist driven society in 50 years.
I'd say anti-discrimination laws being around has a ton more to do with governmental power over society than all the points you are attemping to make.
desktop only right?

1) firefox

2) music player (itunes, rhythmbox, songbird, etc)

3) geany (or some other great code editor)

4) terminal (linux shell equivalent - does that even count?)

5) ssh/sftp client (ubuntu built-in works fine)

6) torrent client (ktorrent is great, miro for rss)
i believe you mean desktop apps?
does browser count as app? if so, then all I need is chrome. I have several desktop apps created from chrome for various web apps.
other than that,

skype,

intellij/netbeans/eclipse(one of them running)

notepad++ (anything and everything -editor)

sumatrapdf

dropbox

tiddlywiki

flashnote (for windows) else evernote
Wow. Fluid is awesome. I lost a huge basecamp message I was about to submit yesterday and threw a fit that resulted in a broken monitor. Never again!

Thanks :)
That's quite a heavy burden for one person. What if the store is closed?
- Putty/OpenSSH

- RealVNC

- VMWare Server

I love being able to sit at one [desktop] computer and control 6 others. Some run embedded software, some are servers, some are virtual.
Back in January when I was on my honeymoon, we stayed at a wonderful eco-friendly place on the island of Bohol in the Philippines. They use goats to keep the place they have carved out of the jungle tidy and free of weeds. After seeing how little impact this involves, I was duly impressed; it looks like a tropical garden:

http://bit.ly/HzqRF
http://bit.ly/glO6K

Nuts Huts, Loboc, Bohol Philippines:
http://www.nutshuts.com/

N.B. I'm in no way affiliated with them, but it's a great place to visit and relax.
This is one of those articles that could be labelled "worldview changing." I mean this in the sense that to gain knowledge of certain facts and arguments has immense corollaries for how one understands and interprets the world. Here are two other recent examples I can think of:

- Moore's Law and the resulting implications regarding the "singularity"

- "Happiness" turns out to not be a Platonic ideal or otherwise specially-valued conception, but simply an ever-present state with slight fluctuations (and then perhaps "getting" happiness refers to obtaining the highest positive fluctuation--which will however stabilize over some time). See the recent TED talk on synthesizing happiness.

The key fact in this article, from which all other conclusions naturally seem to follow, is that males as a statistic exhibit much higher traits of extremity (in all aspects) due to the historically much higher probability of a woman being able to obtain a partner and reproduce.
I think this is especially interesting in light of the fact that I and most people frequenting this website are interested in startups. This seems to be the essential male proclivity for seeking greatness at work. I wonder if that is why there seem to be fewer female founders (AFAIK).

However, the worst thing to take away from this article would be that you can predict how an individual will react given their gender. That is definitely not true. Although, if you look at a group of people, you can probably predict some of the distribution.
Frivolous abuse of the DMCA in order to suppress reverse engineering for interoperability purposes?
1. FAR manager (this one tops them all, can do also SSH/FTP stuff, text editing, archiving etc)

2. Notepad++

3. Firefox

4. skype

5. eclipse

6. the bat

7. adobe photoshop
The night I met Einstein
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My main problem with HAML is that it is another markup language to learn. And, it's just not worth it time-wise to switch everything over (or even new templates) over to HAML. This is especially true for cross-functional teams that include not only coders, but designers and other people who already know HTML very well. Adding HAML will just cause confusion.

IMO, the benefits of HAML are fringe.
So it is, but isn't it a little more MetaFilter than HackerNews? At the same time I can't help a mild feeling of 'Say it ain't so, captain Obvious!' You only have to sit down with a good nature or anthropology documentary to see our social structures aren't all that complex or different from 'primitive' ones.
Yup, Superheroes Really Exist
If I want psychoactive chemicals in my beverage, I'll get them from coffee, not tap water, thanks very much.
If the universe is entirely defined within its own context (which I believe it is) then it is its own purpose.
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True story. I was a manager at Sun for 7+ years. I was on the original J2EE team and by any criteria you like, I was pretty successful as a manager (I have no problem lining up an initial interview based on my resume).

In 2006, I decided to leave Sun. Layoffs every 3 months was no fun and it was pretty stressful working so hard to protect my team (I am very proud to say that no one who worked for me got layed off).

I hadn't programmed since 1999 and the coding world had changed dramatically. I discovered that my management record was too good for someone who couldn't answer the basic programming questions. I couldn't get the Director position at Google, Amazon, or pretty much anywhere. For that matter, I couldn't get the engineering position or the Senior Management position either. The interview usually ended very quickly.

Today, I am very happy as a PHP engineer at a start up. Best decision I've ever made. I might go back into management if the start up gets big enough.

My lesson from this experience is that to have credibility as an engineering manager in this internet world, you need to keep your edge. Otherwise, you better be good at networking.
Adblock also blocks the behaviour of no-script... by blocking the ads.

Both are doing wrong in a way... but not in others. It's a contradiction, but neither can claim to be the white knights... both are at best grey.
Quicksilver

The quick application launching and various file and text manipulation actions are great, but it's the multiple clipboards that I find invaluable. Being able to save and search through 500 clipboards makes Quicksilver the one greatest productivity tool I have.

iTerm

Multiple profiles, full screen mode, sending commands to all open tabs, etc. make it a better terminal than Terminal.

Adium

It doesn't have video chat yet but I don't mind. It does everything else I could want an IM client to do and the OTR encryption works right out of the box. Plus, the next version reportedly supports both Twitter and IRC.

Navicat

It's the best tool I've seen for accessing remote databases (I use the MySQL version for Windows running in CrossOver). Sequel Pro and Querious both win on looks but Navicat has the features I need.

Drupal

Drupal is known for being a good content management system but for me it's an absolutely great web application framework. It does nearly everything I need my websites to do, from running wikis and OpenID providers to large social networks, project management platforms, ecommerce sites and virtual worlds. The Drupal community is so large and diverse that the conferences, camps and user groups are the best I've seen around any industry or software project.

Virtualmin and Webmin

These are web control panels like cPanel and WHM that are available as a free, GPL version or as a commercially supported "Pro" version. I think Virtualmin is a YC startup, too. Virtualmin and Webmin are occasionally a little rough around the edges but they have completely taken away the pain of administering my sites.

GrandCentral

It used to be that using voicemail was a necessary time expenditure that nobody really questioned. GrandCentral saves me a lot of time I'd otherwise be wasting.

Here's a tip: don't upgrade your GrandCentral account to Google Voice unless you want the stuff that only Google Voice has (like voicemail transcription). All the GrandCentral-compatible tools like GrandCentral Dialer for the Nokia N8x0 tablets don't work with Google Voice yet.
Ask HN: Switching my site's SMS capabilities over to Twitter. Good or bad idea?
Hi HN, I'd like your input on something. My site allows people to add information to their account via email and SMS, and it also sends out notifications to email/SMS. I had an idea to completely replace my homemade SMS functionality with twitter.

Notifications (outgoing): Using email gateways for SMS is unreliable and only available to a few carriers. With twitter, my users would just have to provide their twitter username. My app would then send out a DM and they would get a text message from twitter.

Incoming: A simple "d soshiku [query]" sent to 40404 and that's it. My app doesn't actually offer "true texting" since they have to send their text to an email address.

The problem is, there's a couple thousand people with their phone credentials hooked up to their accounts. I would essentially have to force them to sign up with twitter if they'd like to continue using the SMS services.

Do you think this a good idea, or a foolish one? Thanks.

Edit: My site is free, though I am working on paid plans.
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You should consider using irssi, (http://irssi.org/) a console irc client which is _way_ better than chatzilla.
You have no idea what you are talking about. For one thing, from what I understand Jessica was the main force in starting up YC. No Jessica Livingston, no Y Combinator.

Tell Henry Ford and Ray Kroc that there's nothing exceptional about being the first to figure out how to organize something. And YC's impact might just end up being more than either of those.
OTOH It's trivial for any site to get past adblock if they choose to, or degrade the users experience if they're running adblock (If they have js).

I've never understood the reason for installing NoScript. It seems utterly pointless. Why not install NoHTML while you're at it, or use lynx.

Also never understood the philosophy behind adblock. If a website starts doing garish irritating ads, just don't go there again.
Why is everything written by a Ruby programmer so damn long-winded?
>> "Interfering with other extensions' internal state is simply unacceptable"

Interfering with other websites revenue models is also simply unacceptable by using adblock.
> It is like IRC where you can get msgs by SMS/IM/email/etc

So in other words it's not like IRC at all.
this is quite an easy problem. it takes a short time to integrate twitter as an option, and then you can promote the idea on your site, and see if people switch, and how many people use them in conjunction. then if time doesn't tell you on it's own, if considerable number of people are using both, figure out some polite way to have them do a survey to scope out which one they use more.

in this way, assessing the risk of a complete migration will be possible, and you can make a more intelligent decision than you can today. something that disruptive could easily alienate your user base, and winning people back is perhaps even harder than winning them over the first time.

don't forget that twitter is unproven, there is ongoing speculation about if it is still a fad, and whether it can keep the average person's attention for longer than a few months. to bank on it against an established technology like SMS is too risky without more information. if twitter changes the landscape, the testing model will allow you to ride the wave, and if it doesn't, then you're still around when twitter fades.
You're right. I have a 13" white MacBook.
If you are not concerned about the geographical restrictions of twitters sms notifications then i guess little to worry about. You will be saving cost.
Do your users pay to use your service? If they do, then there may be an assumption that that's your main feature and that's why people pay for it.

But if it's a free service I'd say go for it. In fact, I'd probably say go for it either way.
FWIW, the Amherst internal blogging/social-network site is called "planWorld", and it quite literally grew out of .plan files. Around 1999, someone decided it would be a good idea to have them be readable over the web, and so they hacked up a PHP app to expose people's .plans on a web interface. Eventually it grew the ability to post, to check who's been viewing your plan, to style things, to send private messages, and to have group conversations, but the terminology is still "finger" and "plan" and "whois".

Until recently, it was also possible to go the other way: you could finger jdtang05@note.amherst.edu and it would show you what I'd most recently posted through the web interface. But planWorld recently moved to a newer server which isn't running fingerd, so that functionality has disappeared.
It is very trendy in the bay area right now. My old company Agilent did this last year.
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Setting aside the glittering rhetoric of the press release for a moment...

Apple's specific claims are that posting disassemblies from their binaries (specifically, the memcpy() from the FairPlay DRM library) constitutes both circumvention of their DRM and infringement of their copyright on that code.

It is hard to argue that the former is not covered by the DMCA. The EFF has chosen the strange route of hammering on about the unencrypted iTunesDB file, as if Apple were claiming that it was the content that FairPlay is meant to protect. It's arguing intent vs. content. The intent might have been to reverse engineer the iTunesDB file, but the content that Apple is complaining about is relevant FairPlay.

The latter part is important as the DMCA's exception for reverse engineering, 1201(f), is only applicable if you don't infringe on copyright in the process. Here, the EFF is arguing fair use and de minimis. Without knowing how much code was posted (the letter from Apple's lawyer says "nearly nine pages", while the EFF's says "snippets"), it's hard to say what luck they'll have with that.
Believe it or not? After attempting interface development on all three platforms, as much as I hate it and all of its idiosyncrasies, I fall back to windows on the operating system standpoint. Everything I need is there, and in some cases nowhere else (without running a VM).

- Visual Studio 2008 Express. has some of the best Javascript support out there. Sorry, but TextMate doesn't have anything to check for stupid syntax errors on the fly - and NetBeans is bulkier, imho. The only thing you're missing is third party add-ins, and I haven't found much use for them yet. If I need to step into some ruby, I'm fine with TextMate. It's not the best tool for JavaScript though.

-IE6 and

- IE7. Developing for them is an interesting challenge. And a necessary evil. Because you're developing on the same machine you're debugging IEx on, it's a lot easier to use Visual Studio to place breakpoints, watches, and so forth than to use the mostly useless default script debugger.

- Safari or Chrome.

-Firefox, with Firebug. And YSlow!. And the Web Developer toolbar.

- Pandora. (I find I only listen to my music collection when I'm commuting)

- Photoshop.

- Google Docs

- Skype

- Pidgin (ugh; it's horrible on all platforms...)

So as it happens, Windows unfortunately is the only platform I can run all my tools on. Sucks but there it is (I'd rather be on Ubuntu. I can do stuff like pin a stationary translucent terminal with no decorations to my desktop. And the terminal app for AWN is fairly spiffy for quick one-offs).
No it isn't! I'm allowed to ffwd past comercials using my VHS and to cut out ads on my newspaper. Ads are a soft form of brainwashing, making watching them compulsive sounds too much like "brave new world" to me.
Yes, but are the goats required to sort a list in place in O(n log n) before they can graze?
I feel the same to an extent; I wonder why that is.

At the same time, I don't claim I could walk off the street and build a better house than a construction worker, or fix broken pipes better than a plumber. I couldn't even be a better politician; they are better at social hacking such as faking sincerity. I have a low threshold for that stuff. Still, I consider sciences harder in general than those, even if that isn't actually true.
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Luckily the universe has a meta-object-protocol and an ability to modify it's own abstract snytax, so to speak.. thus it's purpose can be dynamically redefined at run time. While creating much confusion it's also really freaking cool. I personally don't believe in an afterlife beyond garbage collection but who's to say what that freed memory will make room for??
It's a strength as far as it keeps me from making a fool of myself (most of the time) ;)

The only thing I truly claim to know is that I know nothing. I have a feeling I'll die without truly knowing anything, but that's fine by me.
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Physicists, astronomers, and astrophysicists - 3 Yes or most likely yes(the link to Paul Davies' essay lists his answer as "Perhaps", but in the essay, he consistently argues in favor of the universe having purpose), 2 No or most likely no.

Chemists - 2 No, although de Duve's essay does not seem to disagree with finding a greater meaning in the universe, but merely with the terminology of the question.

Humanities and social sciences - 2 Yes.

Theologians - 2 Yes.

Computer scientist - 1 Yes.

It seems to me to be inaccurate to claim that the physical scientists tend towards uncertainty. None of them express uncertainty in their essays answering the question. They are fairly evenly split between belief in purpose for the universe and lack of such belief, however.

Your judgment about the theologians, social scientists, etc. leaning towards yes is much more supported by their answers, since they all did say something which is equivalent to yes.
I'm guessing you mean apps that allow me to be productive. Not considering Twitter and IM clients, here's my list:

* Terminal.app

* The Python interpreter (I use Python for things like automating tasks, renaming and reorganizing files and even as a simple calculator)

* TextMate

* A nice little todo app called Anxiety (http://anxietyapp.com)

* iCal

* A web browser. I prefer Opera, but I really don't care as long as it's not IE6.

* xPad (sweet and simple note taking program)

And, of course, XCode and Interface Builder for writing Cocoa apps.

There's only one app from Linux that I miss on OS X: AmaroK (or something equally powerful). I know I can get AmaroK on OS X, but there are way too many dependencies. I'm also not willing to sacrifice 400MB of disk space for a media player.
There's iTerm for OS X (http://iterm.sourceforge.net/), although I find Terminal.app more than adequate.
Study short report here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/14828519/

While I also have reservations about dosing the water supply, I don't think flouride is such a bad thing; and the study suggests that micro-doses as described seem to reduce the rate of suicide by up to a third, which is nothing to sneeze at.

Some illness and suffering is caused by modern life an technology (on a personal level, I think our emphasis on getting up early and minimizing the amount of sleep we need is a very bad thing). While it needs a lot of further study, I wonder if rather than looking at something like this as a prophylactic, we should ask if it isn't rectifying an induced deficiency.
It also depends somewhat on what you do with the grass from the lawnmower. If you just throw it on a landfill, as it decomposes, it too will release methane. This is why many (although not nearly enough) landfills have small methane-burning power plants next to them.
Very clever combination of two of my favorite utilities.
Great story. Great writing.

I felt like I was in the room observing this encounter take place.

This was very nice to read, or rather, to experience :)

The joy of wonder!

Thanks for the post
NoScript's behavior isn't the display of ads though, so AdBlock is _not_ directly messing with NoScript.

It could be that the users installed AdBlock to block the NoScript ads. In this case, NoScript is giving the finger to the users opinion.

At some point when the default behavior of two programs with similar feature-sets overlaps you just have to leave resolving them as an exercise for the user.

But targeting the other program in such a way is no different than someone installing two A/V softwares. Sure they may conflict in some areas, but if one of them silently disables or cripples the other on purpose... who is in the wrong?
Name: Green Scorpion
Organization: The Justice Society Of Justice

Irrelevant...but awesome XD

Mrs Browl questions the credibility of any superhero without an archenemy, though.
Students Make Atari Games Look Like Atari Again
'Invisibility Cloak' Successfully Hides Objects Placed Under It
Virtual button
"Interfering with other websites revenue models is also simply unacceptable by using adblock."

Why? I am simply requesting their content, and they are willingly sending it to me. I then process it on client side to my satisfaction, which happens to involve filtering out any ads.

If they don't like that, tough luck, stop sending it to me then.
Cool story, but what Einstein does here--escorting a stranger out of a concert for a private music listening training session--is downright strange and socially odd, by most standards. Did he feel he had a license to do this because he was one of the most famous people in the world? Or was he so wrapped up in his own brilliance that he didn't even notice what was a bit socially deviant?
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Well, at least he has guts to give credit where credit is due... (although a bit late)
Google images get content, color filters - strangely useful
being able to better appreciate how monumental manhattan is?

seriously. look at it. humans built that.
You think he seems arrogant here? Maybe he didn't care that he was being a bit socially deviant! :-)

My impression is he was just too excited about "opening up yet another fragment of the frontier of beauty" to worry about adhering to the social standard!

Anyway, thanks dfield for posting, this was a fun read!
Quicksilver, Firefox, TextMate, Terminal & Adium.
I would say you could easily draw a paralell between this and companies including GPL software (and their ilk) and such into products, who are then forced to comply with the licencing terms and make entire source codes available.
I don't believe a chat room is what's next.
And proceeded to pick at various quotes involving evolution, tears and a few other topics to push religion onto people.

In comparison, Astley discussed how ridiculous fashion was back then.
I think he saw an opportunity to teach which stimulated his understanding of beauty.

I think he wanted to open up the man's mind to continued exploration, and in this case, discovery as well.
That's an excellent point! I really hope it doesn't work out that way but let's just wait and see.
actually, this one's better:

http://ejohn.org/apps/jsonvxml/jsonvxml.png