skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They can't afford real furniture to sit in 12 hours per day, but they can afford bottled water?

Is that Hacker News on his left monitor? Get back to work!
The IE6 hysteria keeps coming around but it won't change. About now it appears to me that the only users of IE6 arelarge corporations that can't/won't upgrade (feasibility/old internal intranet apps) or those that wouldn't know how to.

In the latter case I think this is a poor way to go about this. I've seen these information-bar mimics before but this one actually suggests you need the update to view the page. Trying to appear as a message from MS itself (which, to those not in the know, this will do) is just trying to trick the user into upgrading. Yes, it's got good intentions but is it ethically correct to almost white-hat-phish someone into this? MS are advising iE6/7 users to upgrade regardless.
Increasingly these days academic AI is done in Matlab or similar systems.
This reminds me of the W3C's annotea project -- http://www.w3.org/2001/Annotea/
Did you read the article, or have you been paying attention? Communication between citizens has changed a little over the years.

Ignoring the market doesn't make costs & benefits disappear. In fact the author argues that's what got them into this fix.
i think that's a very vague theory...
Right. I think this should be made available for other languages as well.
Great post!

Except for Kant and Wittgenstein. I might have put Kant in with the .NET/CLR/JVM camp with his moral imperative. Wittgenstein? He has to be into AI with his perception of the slipperiness of language and meaning -- no doubt about it.
"is the market for MBA students really that bad?"

It's not the best job market, but I don't think that person is necessarily an indicator of what's being faced by recent or upcoming MBA grads. Among the big benefits of going to a top-tier school like Harvard are things like the recruitment programs and alumni networks, and I haven't heard anything about them being completely tapped out. What grads are facing are fewer options, less favorable positions to choose from and less pay than people graduating in other years.

I'd speculate that she is probably just more interested in working on an attractive and fun project like a gourmet dessert store than going through an intensive recruitment process and entering something like an executive rotation program during the economic downturn. Hell, I know I would be (but that's like all of us here on HN, right?)
Protecting against SMTP injection
why not install a local copy then?
This kinds of things overlook on critical detail:

50 million people access the internet from work on locked down computers. One would hope they are current, but we know many are not.

Either way, there's nothing your user can do about it, so you can code to him or abandon him. Bitching won't help.
This is very true. We should protect communication between citizens. I'd personally rather that we do this through protection of Internet communications. People don't send letters anymore, they send email (or tweets, or whatever).

I'd be happy if the money that is going to keep the postal service subsidized instead went into subsidizing universal internet access.
Do you truly have universal service?
I know that some of our (Australia) more remote locations get less than the 5 days per week we get in the cities. Even in some of the outer outer suburbs of Melbourne (I'm talking Cockatoo) -- I know there are some roads/areas that the postie wont deliver to - instead the residents have to pickup from the local general store/"post office".
(remembering that we have 21 mil people in an area almost the size of the lower 48 states - and one of the highest urbanization rates in the world - so it's big big cities with lots and lots of open space in the middle)
It's funny. That's where I stopped too.
What I do is start dragging the files, then open desktop and hover files over e.g. USB drive which then opens and allows me to do the same with folders until I reach my target. I am afraid I would drop the files somewhere in the middle though.

Personally I want something like Norton Commander (or the modern day FAR), but MC doesn't cut it for me.
This looks like treating the effect, not the cause.

What's the cause of allowing yourself to be distracted so much? Not focusing enough on your core work.

Once you focus on the most important thing, you'll be too busy to be distracted.

If you're not focusing on the most important thing, your problems are too big to be solved with a white board gimmick.
Better yet: "~"
I'm in complete agreement.

Up until today, I still write all of my code either at home or at my local coffee shop. It seems really pointless to have to fork out that kind of money when you're just as capable of collaboration in a cave.

The current company I work for is heavily funded, yet we still have our meetings in the CEO's mom's house.
Do you have any idea what a depression is like?

In a depression, the game is changed to such an extent that you'd be hard pressed to predict what people would need. Instead, go outside and ask them. They'll be easy to spot: lying in the gutters, begging for change, an in line at the soup kitchens.

So we'll need software to manage food usage at those soup kitchens, track incoming supplies to the homeless shelters, and good disease management tools.
In short, pretty similar to disaster management software!

Good enough answer? Yeah, I know I'm getting snarky in my old age :-)
If you want war, work for justice
Wasn't there a post on here a few months ago about someone who put an ad on Craigslist for this and ended up with a really good deal? A housewife who liked to cook responded and he gets a weeks worth of meals at a time that he freezes until he can eat them.
But that still takes number 4 into #1 territory (Placebo effect). It's good to know that homeopathy is pretty much bunk as expected though - thanks for those links! I was rather confused when I first saw this article.
Everybody I meet in industry and academia has a copy of Bishop's "Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning". It's pretty comprehensive.

The most recent version of Russell and Norvig does have a solid statistics section in it, but they don't start it until the middle of the book.
It seems that these days "Ponzi scheme" == "Anything I don't like that involves money"
Unborn kids can listen to music on 'baby iPod'
You can also enable "path view" in Finder.

http://www.tuaw.com/2008/12/05/terminal-tips-enable-path-vie...

I use Quicksilver for most my navigating needs. Also you can copy, move, delete a file using QS.

http://www.usingmac.com/2007/10/6/moving-files-with-quicksil...

Another tip is using command + 1-4, which will change your view.
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Despite the flame-bite title this is a worthy article about how changes in technology made Atompub far less pervasive than seemed inevitable at the time.
It should have said 'cried OUT' instead of cried.
I would rather recommend Machine Learning video course from Stanford by Andrew Ng.

Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning by Christopher M. Bishop is good too
I think that's kinda the point. It's not supposed to be a flattering article about Bill.
fwiw upgrading from IE6 to IE8 on my machine irreversibly broke devstudio's msdn viewer, just shows a blank page now for all topics. so, yeah, it's nice to have a local copy, but it ain't always working :)
And it can also get you sued for interference of trade.

Name & shame works only when the named party would hurt themselves more by suing you than not.

This guy has a breach of contract case (assuming his ad agreements were written properly): he needs a lawyer. Odds are he will be paid as soon as they get a letter from his attorney. None of this 2/3's stuff either: demand the full amount.
I know Elizier's name from Novamente, which is no small achievement.
Try these and see what you like.

PathFinder - http://cocoatech.com/

ForkLift - http://www.binarynights.com/

MacExplorer - http://www.ragesw.com/products/explorer.html (if you like Windows Explorer)
This is probably unreasonable, but three mentions of amoeba in terms of sexual reproduction really rankle.
PHP's creator offers his thoughts on the PHP phenomenon, what shaped and motivated the language, and where the PHP movement is heading
As a stop-gap measure, you might find that one of the extensions or plugins that let's you edit text boxes in a browser using vim or emacs would help in using gmail.
Perhaps you might like to use Fault Injection in your next project.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fault_injection
A meme = Information that gets copied (roughly)

Susan Blackmore talks of memes as bits of information that get copied from person to person similar to how a virus can get spread from person to person.

She has expanded the idea to a "technological meme", a piece of technology that gets copied, mutated, etc. like a virus or a meme. "Teme" is her word for technological meme.

For instance, a mating ritual can be a form of a meme. Language can be seen as being built up of memes.

Basically for Blackmore, there are three selfish replicators.

1) Genes (genes like in viruses get copied around between living organisms)
2) Memes (information getting copied between the brains of living organisms)
3) Temes (technological information that gets copied around, not necessarily needing living organisms, like for example an internet worm can just travel at will throughout the internet, not needing human help to get copied)

They are "selfish" replicators in that, "if they can get copied, they will." I posted a blog article to my blog on this last year -

http://blogkinnetic.blogspot.com/2008/08/susan-blackmore-tal...
Going from one of the smartest people in the neighborhood to the absolute stupidest person in the neighborhood would be rather traumatic.
Yes and there's a line in that TC article that goes "VC funding has fallen off a cliff."

This article is in response to that one. And a good one at that.
even if the number did come sliding out of his ass (not meaning any offense, I really don't know if you've sources or not), I think it's a good guess that there's a non-trivial demographic in that situation
I think it's time for VCs to become (lacking a better word) nicer: throw multiple liquidation preferences on history's scrap heap, start paying startup's legal fees instead of making the startup pay theirs, and allow founders to have more control of their company. VCs and entrepreneurs should meet on equal footing. The VC should not be the boss in the corporate sense; he's a client, and the entrepreneur is a wealth manager.

If VCs make the process unpleasant for startups, they're going to be smashed by selection bias: marginal startups will deal with them, but the great ones will hold out until they have so much traction that they don't need VC, and can dictate the terms to investors rather than the other way around.

An example of this would be the infamous multiple liquidation preference. If a company is in such a defeated state that it would accept a deal with a multiple liquidation preference, your likelihood of losing the principal is extremely high, and you probably shouldn't make the deal at all.
Ask HN: Where Can I Download Standford iPhone Development Course Materials?
I haven't been able to find a website with the materials.

Thanks
Just come up with expected exits if you were to start a startup then come up with percentages as to which you think those exits are reasonable.

The numbers I came up with were largely based on my personal feeling of how good I am at this whole being a business-man business, this is different for everyone.
There's no substitute for a good mathematical intuition, especially as you tackle the more difficult problems. But having a standard bag of tricks up your sleeve can be very helpful. Just use them as a tool, not as a crutch.

If you're interesting in this sort of thing, I highly recommend working your way through the Art of Problem Solving texts (www.artofproblemsolving.com).
They’re not sure how to do their jobs anymore when nothing can go public and acquisitions are few and far between.

Dividends.
Rasmus is a smart guy and worth listening to, but this article is ancient (Apache 1.3? PHP for 'nearly' 10 years?)
I could imagine a lot of people thinking their computers are hacked when IE suddenly changes because of a required update that looked like a usual activeX install.

I'm living in Korea right now, and you need activeX for any kind of school, internet banking, or government website. This would make a lot of them not understand what happened to their computer (not that they are particularly aware to begin with.)
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I saw this a little while ago, but was very disappointed that all outgoing links point to the hiband version. Effectively, I have to change all my links before browsing to them, or load the hiband version first then click the lowband link. Anybody have a secret I'm not getting?
While I really like the idea of getting rid of IE 6, this is simply unethical. While the link may not tell the user anything that's incorrect, it is obviously intended to look like an official message by Microsoft. If this isn't illegal, it should be.
Tsumobi was in private beta when I was in YC. So much for launch fast and iterate.
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Postal communication between citizens is a classical private good. It is both rivalrous (my letter takes up space in the mail carrier's bag which your letter can not occupy) and excludible (if you don't pay, they don't deliver).

A public good is not just a good you want the government to provide, the term actually has a meaning.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good
Yes I used to have one of this extensions, don't remember the name but was capable of editing with Vim all the textarea elements in every web page. To switch between firefox and xterm was not very comfortable at least with my window manager. What I could like more is an extension that can give vim features to the browser text area.

Btw there is something strange going on here: the textarea is the most popular text editor out there, the most used one where millions of people write short and long text every day, and still browser developers are not realizing that it should be improved.
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Don't get me wrong, I like Elizier's posts on Overcoming Bias, but I disapprove of name calling when doing one sentence book reviews
I think you misunderstand me. I use the terminal constantly anyway, so when I do want to view a directory in the Finder (which is relatively uncommon), I just use 'open' to do it.

Granted, I'm not much of a Quicksilver pro, I mostly just use it to launch apps, but I have my doubts that I'll ever use it for opening folders unless it's one of the few commonly named home folders (Downloads, Documents, Sites, etc).

edit:

Though if you know some special tips or tricks to open folders with QS with tab-complete to get the right path and all that, I wouldn't mind knowing about them.
Argh... now my inbox is "zero" too, and you gave me the illusion that I can keep it this way. But I know that in few weeks it will be a mess again ;)
> he drove the state’s partnership with Google to become sitemap compliant

It definitely doesn't sound too technical...
Ah! In that case...

"Denny Crane!"
With utilities, you pay based on how much you use, not on how difficult it is to get them to you. So, for example, if you live on a farm in the middle of nowhere, it is more expensive to give you power than if you live in the city (you need dedicated infrastructure to get the power to you, and chances are you are further away from the power plant which means more power gets lost in transmission). Yet you pay the same per kw/h as if you lived in the city. Where you start paying more is if you use more power. (at least, this is the case where I live. Sorry if it is different in the US)

Postage works exactly the same way. No matter how expensive it is to get a package to you, you pay a fixed rate for it. However, you also pay proportional to the cost you impose on the system is that you pay per package.
> Drag and hold Command+Option to create a symlink.

That's not a symlink, at least not in the unix sense (not the same thing as 'ln' or 'ln -s', which I think is what the author is looking for, and what I'd like as well).
I sold my copy on Amazon when I realised I'd get all my money back.
> Command+C and Command+V work just fine with files

and for moving files, just drag and hover to activate spring folders (or whatever they're called). Very handy.
I disagree.

1. A number of people in the US find sex to be degrading and harmful, at least on a subconscious level, while most reasonable people would only apply those epithets to a small subset of sexual activity.

2. People who harbor unhealthy beliefs (such as those described in 1) have a tendency to behave in suboptimal ways according to those beliefs, often with results that confirm them. An example of this is the misogynist/misandrist; people who believe that all members of the opposite sex tend to repel quality partners and have a very limited range of experience, and those negative experiences reinforce their beliefs.

3. Men who fit into the stereotypical "alpha" category strive to humiliate and damage women; thus, sex with them is, in fact, harmful and degrading.

4. Ergo, according to (2), women brought up with the attitude described in (1) are likely to be sexually attracted to the sorts of men described in (3).

I don't see anything vague here.
"take a bunch of M&M's scatter them on you're desk then push all the ones in the center out, you get a big high density belt and a steep drop off due to that high density."

Huh? The whole issue is that it looks like it's been pushed from both sides. We know what pushed it from the inner, what pushed it/limited it from the outer?

Here's a good visualisation of the edge:

http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/lists/OuterPlot.html

Density + mass v. orbital AU / period:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:TheTransneptunians_73AU.sv...

"Pluto got de-ranked for a whole suite of things beyond it's local orbit"

Well, I'm just going by what the IAU says, I can't speculate as to the rest of it. I don't have any particular emotional attachment to the notion of Pluto being classed as a planet or not, or whether we have hundreds of the things. I think Pluto is still regarded as a kind of "honourary planet" in practise.

Anyway there's plenty of other stuff in resonant orbits, especially at 2:3 and around 4:7, so again Pluto's influence seems likely to be minor. Pluto might be the local actor but it's Neptune providing the periodic "kick".

"possibly there and missed isn't anywhere close to necessary to explain physical phenomena"

You're the first person I've heard claim there isn't anything to explain. This is a recognised phenomenon and the consensus is we don't know the answer. Hence the need for these theories to explain it.
Too bad this is not available in Canada. I would love to pay for this service.
Interesting article. There's a type of psychotherapy called EMDR (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMDR) which claims that moving the eyes from side to side during the recall of traumatic experiences can help reprocess the trauma in a beneficial manner, but I've never known what to make of this theory. Maybe there is something to it after all.
A couple of my friends & I are building iPhone apps that tie in with the FriendFeed API & use OS 3.0 to do some cool stuff.

Our lead developer has been programming since he was 7 & has a lot of experience in C & C++ (which has translated really well into Objective C, of course).

We'd be open to talk to you about helping out with what you guys are looking to do. adam @ snappsoftware.com 801-687-1401
> > Ability to see and create symlinks Finder has this. Symlinks look like their originals but with a little arrow overlay. Drag and hold Command+Option to create a symlink.

To be fair, this creates an Alias, which is a Finder/GUI level construct, and not a file system level contstruct like a symlink. If you're just doing things graphically, there's not a significant difference, but at the command line an Alias won't do you any good. Symlinks work the same at the command line or in the GUI.

(I know aliases are a holdover from classic, but I don't see why they weren't replaced with symlinks during the OS X transition.)
Part of the problem is that the cost of college/university education has skyrocketed far faster than inflation [1]. With easy-to-get loans for students [2], universities have no incentive to cut price increases. With the vast rise in adjuncts, they've cut back on the main reason for attending uni in the first place: the teachers.

Notes:

1 - Tuition and fees have been rising about 2x that of CPI (consumer price index is the number reported in the media as "inflation").
http://www.finaid.org/savings/tuition-inflation.phtml

2 - Student loans are easy to get because legislation made them impossible to discharge in bankruptcy. Federal subsidies to the lenders make them far more profitable than just about any other loan.
Ok, in detail of figuring out the deductions it's complicated. But the gradiated tax scale that's used isn't hard to understand. And that's what the poster I responded to was complaining about.

The hard stuff is the tweaking how much of your income really gets taxed (deductions), and then adding or subtracting off the top after taxes are calculated (credits).
I resigned from my 8 year career at a large financial software firm to work on my start-up full time this past January. It is definitely a risk and most people who work in a large stable corporation won't make that move. They thought I was insane to leave a stable high paying job for a risky and unknown venture. I don't know if I'll succeed yet, but I'm sure it was the right move for me. But there is a company full of people I left who will never make that kind of leap.
It's not your money. How are you planning on taking care of your family when you're in jail for a few years on tax evasion?

Anyway, come on... you're saying "I'm going to skip paying taxes so I don't have to work for a year"..... how does that make any sense at all, and how is that a defensible position?

How about you take the $100k you made on your job (then put away $40k) and learn to live on it?

I know I sound like a dick, but you're advocating not paying taxes, just because you'd prefer not to. You're obviously a smart guy, posting on hacker news, talking about taxes, you'd have no problem finding a job that keeps your family eating and in a house.
How is this story different from the printer virus story that went around back in the early 90s?

http://vmyths.com/hoax.cfm_id=123&page=3
http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs193p/cgi-bin/index.php
Tried it, liked it, will use again.
Another great book is "How to Solve It" by Polya (http://www.amazon.com/How-Solve-Aspect-Mathematical-Method/d...) as it gives a heuristic approach to solving problems.
Ask HN: What do you think of the Kindle?
I like to read a lot of technical books, but those tend to be large (e.g. CTM probably weighs 3 pounds). I also live in New York, so I spend a lot of time on the subway. So I'm considering getting a Kindle.

What are your thoughts and experiences with regard to this product?
Thanks for the clarification - yep, I need to be able to create real symlinks on remote machines.
Well,
the wall is different. Can you write on someone's profile here? I don't think so.
Fair enough, sorry for sounding like I was jumping down your throat!

Ha, I can imagine how it went down now. "Yes boss, we'll bring the production servers online over the weekend, all ready for the launch on Monday" ..