skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wave looks interesting, but because it provides distributed/federated group chat / document editing / collaboration more than it competes with e-mail.

But isn't this precisely where computer use is trending? The whole Web 2.0 thing in retrospect was as mass of more mainstream users discovering that interacting with and getting to know others resulted in many cool things. It's been trending that way since we had 300 baud modems dialing in to BBS. Add to that, the discovery that interaction is a lot more fun when it's about something, like pictures, journal writing, software, news...

But we are still at the infancy stages when it comes to collaboration. Things like the "Minority Report" style multi-touch interfaces, Microsoft Table, and Reactable are the direction we should go. We need interfaces that aren't designed for one person to focus all of their input on one machine. We need interfaces that let us focus our attention on communally manipulated digital media and each other with equal ease.
And I in Zagreb! ;)

Speaking of museums, the Technical Museum in Zagreb, Croatia, has a daily demonstrations of Tesla's most important inventions.
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Edit: NM, reply is now working.

I just wanted to say that personaly I have tryed learn to ignore indention and other clues becasue it's far more costly to misunderstand what the code is doing than try and use hint's that may have become old over time. To paraphrase: in that way lay bugs that look like dragons.

I also tend to do the same thing with comments on the first pass though. It's only when I don't understand the code or or it looks "odd" that I start to notice the extras like that.
Whitehouse - Cyberspace Policy Review [pdf]
The ratio is even worse on the internet in general. I'm thinking about canceling that, too.
Rosenhan experiment into the validity of psychiatric diagnosis
Indeed. And the age shows. In the section "Perl Wins the Comparison", they explain Perl's advantages:

Good database connectivity gave Perl the nod over C++,
and since Sandell and Johnson received project text files
in various formats, Perl's ability to parse text with
regular expressions was much better than COBOL or
Oracle's PL/SQL.

These aren't the comparisons that would be made today, though I am very proud of Perl, having beaten COBOL and PL/SQL in a regex contest!

I also enjoyed the time-travel qualities of the conclusion of that section:

They wrote the Web applications in Jscript, and other
parts of the system in Visual Basic. Some functions were
written in PL/SQL so they could be accessible from other
languages using the system. "If we did the project again,
we would probably strive to make more of it in Perl,"
Sandell concedes. But with so little time, they couldn't
ask team members to learn a new language.

JScript no longer exists, unless it's a misnomer for JavaScript. Is it considered best practice to use code rather than stored procedures? (The question is genuine -- I'm not a software developer.)
Or because of firearms proliferation. It was the 18th century, after all.
People here want to be helpful and responsible and so they are recommending seeing a doctor or psychiatrist immediately.

I certainly wouldn't advise against that. However, it is also helpful to put up a few countervailing arguments:

(1) Whether the psychiatric profession knows anything much is a legitimate question. See for example,

http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/rosenhan-experiment/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/romasita/1801370299/
http://www.szasz.com/freeman15.html

(2) The diagnostic criteria for schizophrenia seem incoherent and lacking in empirical content. Prostate cancer, OTOH, is an uncontroversially real condition with clear cut symptoms and diagnosis.

(3) Being labelled with a mental disorder can be a huge stigma that you have to deal with for the rest of your life. It might affect, for example, your job prospects and your parenting propects. (People are learning in the UK that new mothers are unwise to admit feeling depressed to medical staff.)

(3) Everybody has voices or at least one voice in their heads. It is just that only a few people such as the poster and Richard Feynman have the necessary self-awareness and intellectual integrity to talk about them openly.

As Eckhart Tolle might say, the real question is whether one identifies with the chattering voice. People who are completely identified don't perceive it as an external entity, but it is still there: they are the voice.

(4) Such voices are thoughts, and many of our thoughts are random and contradictory. When we daydream (or dream at night) they are connected only by loose associations. Nobody really has control of their thoughts. Try drinking 6 cups of coffee after a 24 hour fast and watch the cascade begin!

(5) By listening to our thoughts and becoming more aware of them we remain in control of our actions. Just because we have a particular thought, it doesn't follow we must enact it. The psychiatric profession is all about regulating people's behaviour for social reasons.
Neal Stephenson has a fun depiction of wootz manufacture in The Baroque Cycle. I can't evaluate its accuracy, but it's certainly a fun scene!
It is available, to those of us who were at google io ;)
... and leave an easy task to pick up when you resume.
In at least two places where I worked, either the consensus or outright explicit policy was that you cannot expect reply to an email earlier than 24 hours after sending (that is, you are not expected to whine or escalate or send another email about the same issue.) On the other hand, there was an expectation that if you receive an email and cannot do what is requested in the timeframe specified in the email or within 24 hours if not specified, you're expected to send SOME reply - decline the request, ask for more time, recommend another path etc.) Overall, SLA for stuff requested by email was "next business day" :) anything more urgent should be done by instant messenger, phone, walk-in and such.
The "brings your ancestors back from the grave" claim is unsubstantiated, and is about Pepsi anyway.

http://www.snopes.com/business/misxlate/ancestor.asp
Interesting Web 2.0 Jobs with those Pickup Artists from "The Game"
My wife gets free soy(instead of milk) in her Chai latte. Normally this is an extra 50 cents each time.
Daring Fireball is one of those sweet little gems on the internet. Six months of pain was turned into tears of laughter, hilarious post.

I stopped whining about the review process a few months ago once it was very clear how broken things are. I was loosing hair on stuff we just couldn't control, now we just accept it and set an expectation for our clients. Speaking of, there's certainly an opportunity to be found where issues like this cause problems. Big companies looking for a quick in to leverage the store will pay a premium for expertise and publishing knowledge. :)
where scientology is really seen as a bad sectarian propaganda organisation, it surely seems like a good move

"Bad sectarian propaganda organization?" Why not just say "bad church?" And since there's little point in distinguishing between Scientology the religion and the Church of Scientology, you should really say "bad religion."

I'm somewhat being intentionally inflammatory, but it's interesting to examine the difference between what I said and what Raphael said. The line I crossed was saying that Scientology could be bad and still be a religion. Funny that people start shying away from such statements when they stop believing in a particular religion. If atheism is "just one god/mythos further," then what do we call our modern attitude of attempting to feel positively inclined toward all religions while believing in none of them? What do we call the idea that critical appreciation of religion, religion separated from belief and disbelief, is not essentially different from religion as practiced by most people since the dawn of history?
At first, some of these items seem to conflict (like "something every day" and "let life intrude"), but these are great rules of thumb. From what I've seen, too many developers just set out on a path without really mapping it out first.

In my own experience I have often used the excuse that my project is so small that I don't need to write anything down for it, but that always comes back to bite me when I have to "let life intrude" for a week or so - I come back and I'm totally lost as to where to go next. Having lots of little milestones makes things go much more smoothly.
What is the base acceptance rate for persons who take the university entrance examination?
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> It will aggregate all your "store" purchases across iTunes desktop, iTunes on devices, and the App Store on a weekly basis.

I don't know how they do it exactly but for what its worth I made a purchase on Monday and then again on Tuesday and I recieved seperate charges for each. Though each charge came 2 days after the purchase( Wednesday and Thursday).

For what it's worth I use the Canadian iTunes store.
Nice post. Great reminder for those of us who tend to put big, imaginary barriers between ourselves and finishing anything!
Who are the actual App Store reviewers, and why haven't they leaked anything? They must be reading all these complaints!
A netbook-type replacement for the kindle isn't going to improve this at all.

What is your point?
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Care to share what those several vastly different concepts or ideas are?
Since building something is only 10% of the battle (if that) you're going to want to apply the same general techniques to the other things -- web design, marketing, support, etc.

My favorite three words are "Automate, outsource, and eliminate". If neither you nor your customers require your personal attention to X, you should ideally not be X-ing, because you and your customers require your personal attention on enough things as it is.

[Incidentally: Telling your parents and friends about your internal deadlines as a motivational tool is pretty useful. Telling your customers is a great way to get unproductively stressed when life gets in the way. Your parents and friends will still be there later if your schedule slips a week because your girlfriend needed more face time. Your customers, on the other hand, tend to be a little more insistent that when you tell them 2.0 is coming out on July 1st that it is actually out on July 1st.]
I don't work for them, but I did attend the free Boston lecture last week, and was prety impressed with how the business is run.

I was talking with Nick, the ceo who did the talk (Papa, if you've read neil Strauss' book), and got on the subject of IT. He said the IT dept had a lot of job openings. This is a pretty cool company and I doubt these are the typical fortune 500 type jobs that hackers hate. Nice Website too.
For the record, Amazon FPS has supported recurring payments for a while now. We've been using them on Obsidian Portal for over a year.

What's new is that they've made it slightly easier to integrate with an existing site. This is good news, as the full power of FPS is an awesome and frightening thing to behold.
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Simple demonstration of consuming JSONP via the Twitter API in JavaScript and jQuery.
"Part of that debate hinges on the question of how much control should be given to American spy agencies, since they are prohibited from acting on American soil."

Clear, they have no strategy, it's another attack on the budget. They want to use intelligence to detect people inside and outside US who plan and run attacks.

They are not defending the network but offending citizens. They are not going to secure their servers but analyzing your digital presence.

This week was an article on HN Turkish hackers entered US Army sites with a simple SQL injection. Might your simple startup be more secure than US Army servers?
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> Unfortunately, [basic project management principles] often seem to go straight out the window when programmers sit down to work on their own time.

Well stated. When you are working on your side project and not being paid/accountable to others, its easy to mismanage your resource (yourself).

Does anyone use the free 1-project version of Basecamp for hobby project management?
JScript is Microsoft's name for ECMAScript.
The article states SATA 3.0 should have a maximum throughput of 6 Gbits/second. But isn't that the same expected throughput of USB 3.0? What advantage would I have in using SATA 3.0 (Revised?) over USB 3.0?
Building a mathematical model is also a process of trial and error. Which definitions are necessary? What are the invariants of the structures you build, and how must those structures interact?

Particularly when modeling CS structures, mathematics feels like programming (to me). This makes particular sense when you reason about CS structures using constructive logic -- then it is programming.
Seems to parallel how some of the Pascal/C/C++ era programmers feel about Python/Ruby/PHP web developers of today.
There is no such thing as bad pizza.
I think you may be doing it backwards then. Trial-and-Error, or mental modelling were working out fine for me when I was just starting to learn how it all worked. But now it's down to critical and logical thinking processes.

I don't build models until I know which actors in the system they represent. And I only do that because OOP is built to deal with this kind of system-building.

I try not to fulfill the requirements but to require fulfillment; build, define the problem in the terms of a solution. That works for me.

Sometimes you need to break down the problem into smaller problems to do that.
I think people should be rewarded if they do a good job. The "authors reward is to be read" is to me stupid thought. To do a good book you need to spend a lot of time, if you don't get paid you have to find another job and you can't write.

He should say: I don't wanna pay for anything, anything should be free.

I copy things without paying, but I'm not proud of it. If I can and the author is good, I buy things, it takes my hard earned money.
http://twitter.com/RailsJobs is specialized on UK Ruby and Rails jobs, pretty actibve every day.
Yes there is. You can find it in the freezer section of your grocery. That is, if you can even call some of those things pizza.
Geary Cube puzzle, another Bram and Oskar collaboration
Their previous collaboration: http://bramcohen.livejournal.com/57084.html
I thought the part about the iPhone image in the app was hilarious, but the scary thing is that apple actually has a patent on a rectangle with a rectangle and two circles inside it...

"[T]he design of a portable and handheld digital electronic media device comprised of a rectangular casing displaying circular and rectangular shapes therein arranged in an aesthetically pleasing manner."

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2008/05/apple-trademark/
You are making my mouth water here. I been way too long since I had this.
Quick and dirty linux GUI programming
Honestly, I sat down to read this with the preconceived notion that it would be part of an ancient language war, but instead discovered one of the most cleverly written pieces of satire I can remember.

I especially like how the things he derides as belonging to "quiche eaters" (notably Unix, Emacs, and Vi), are what we consider 'hardcore tools for real programmers' today.
* SATA is point-to-point, so each drive gets this bandwidth. USB is a tree, bandwidth is arbitrated between devices.

* SATA 2 came into commercial use relatively shortly after introduction. I haven't seen any USB 3.0 devices yet (host adapters/motherboards or nodes) and driver support during the USB 1.1->2.0 transition was pretty bad. Apparently, Windows users will need to wait for Microsoft to release host controller drivers. I suspect they'll only be available for Windows 7. No idea when OSX will support it, presumably Linux will be first, assuming the spec is made available to the developers.
Single page, plain text, no images or ads. Still translated by Google.

http://translate.google.ca/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=h...
You can probably find bad pizza there, but most of that is adequate, especially considering the price, which is often as low as 10/$10 at my local stores.

I still ordered Domino's last night, though.
I'm not quite sure what you mean by "base acceptance rate". But the universities usually accept around 50% based on high school grades, 25% based on the entrance exam and a further 25% on mixed backgrounds (professional experience, prior university credits etc). The numbers themselves differ between universities.

If you meant something else, I'm happy to explain that too :)
I usually interpret such overt egotism as sarcasm. I hope I'm right at least most of the time.
Can Apple manage without Steve Jobs?
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200906/steve-jobs
The reviewers are probably outsourced in India: they just follow a flowchart procedure using Apple's automatic testing tools, and have absolutely no idea that someone on the Internet cares so much about the results that they report back to Cupertino.
There had been a Pascal era, but C and especially C++ are still alive and very much current.

Even then, those two sets of languages aren't really comparable. Where it does hold true is how lot of the C and C++ programmers feel about Java and C#.
Does that museum offer information in English?
when someone says 'ass' do you think of the donkey? or when someone says 'bitch' do you think female dog?
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It wouldn't surprise me to learn that a professor related something apocryphal for the sake of illustration.
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Where did I say that? Out of what dime novel did you learn about logic? Great scientists usually do talk of standing on the shoulders of giant and exhibit humility. Simply because I used a phrase that has been attributed to Newton does not mean that I am referring to or only to Newton or that I am naive about him.

If you want to debate me that all great scientists really do go around saying "Look at me I'm so great; I'm the most important working scientist of the age" then I would love to have that discussion. However, I doubt that is the case as you are simply presumptuous and want to make snide little comments because you some little factoid about Newton that, by the way, most readers of HN probably know this too. "Hah, you aren't special."
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I really don't agree with you. An improved interface would still give you no physical memories, relative locational memory, "what size was the book" memories, or the kind of 1000ft view skimming can give you.

When I've been working on my book, that I'm writing, I can tell you that there's no UI which could replace printing the sucker out and spreading it over the living room floor.
Sadly, no. I saw some tweets from the Bootcamp, but that's all I got. Lawyers I've talked to have gone both ways - some say equity's enough, some say that doesn't count. Hence, the "apparently."
It's an encyclopedia. Would you use Britannica for an argument? No. You would use whatever materials it cites. Wikipedia is the starting point for an argument, not the evidence to support one.
I think my biggest gripe was that Google searches are largely a fixed cost that scales roughly with the size of the Internets. From what I understand, the actual lookups don't add much to the energy cost. And yet, the greens would try to make people feel sinful every time they perform a Google search.

Don't get me wrong, I support being green. But if you don't have some economic sense while going about it, you're just going screw everything up for the people and then the people won't listen to you anymore.
I saw an episode of "Dirty Jobs" (Discovery Channel) and they humourously demonstrated and explained how the dirty job of "baby chicken sexing" is done. The episode first aired on Aug 16, 2003.

Yet, there article claims ...

"Chicken Sexer the chicks after a few days differ, although the sexual characteristics until after four weeks to train. If you ask these people how they do that, they can not explain it."

It makes me wonder if the rest of the article on stock-picking is similarly inaccurate.
It's interesting. I have a couple of spare machines lying dormant. But I'm kind of thrown off by the commercial intentions. It was only a brief mention but I need to read more about it before jumping in.
Firearms can't be overwhelming combat weapons until U.S. civil war. That's why the expansion of United States to Indian nations were faster than expansions of all previous civilizations before U.S. Civil war. Rifles after mid 19th century reduced the chances of closes combat between gunners and sword swingers and archers.
I commend you for your honesty.

It will be a TAX on every energy consumer in the world (since energy is used to produce all items including those that are exported).

It won't actually DO anything to fix the environment, just fill government coffers; the money will be use to fly VIPs around to environmental confabs on private jets.
Why not? It's simple enough, and there exist small, fast XML parsers with low memory footprints.
I don't know Wolfram either, but I have read reviews of A New Kind of Science by experts who are competent to judge, and they all say that the book is full of old ideas that Wolfram claims sole credit for. The only really impressive bit in it was a proof that was done by one of his research assistants. Wolfram sued the guy to keep him from publishing until the book came out. He's also sued other academics who have so much as dared to sniff around what he considers his territory. So, yeah, he's clumsily arrogant in ways that are especially odious to his academic peers, and he doesn't have the sort of ground breaking accomplishments that might incline people to overlook such things.

Is that a reason to hate the guy? No, I agree with you, don't be hatin'. It's unbecoming, and a waste of time. (Hecker's website is down, so I can't say if that's what he was doing.) If you really are defining yourself by who you hate, you are a pathetic individual who should be mocked yourself (but not hated). Wolfram is a brilliant, brilliant guy, and his company has written some pretty cool and impressive software, after all. What hast thou accomplished, O mocker?

But I don't believe in giving arrogant people the benefit of the doubt just because we don't have a couple hundred years of perspective on their ideas either. The number of people who warrant that kind of treatment can be counted on the fingers of one hand, and they were almost always overlooked because they were out of the mainstream and were not able to get anyone to pay attention to their ideas. Wolfram has had no problem getting people to pay attention to his ideas, and while they are not exactly mainstream, they are in some well known tributaries. They aren't misunderstood or ignored, just unsubstantiated, or not new, or wrong, for the most part. There's not necessarily any shame in that. Science is hard. But when you add a massive ego....

A certain amount of arrogance can be a useful thing and a lot of really smart people are also arrogant, but I would be very careful about using it as a sign of people who are likely to have good ideas, or who deserve any sort of deference. There are much better things to go by, and much worse things to mock.

A decent summary of Wolfram's scientific ideas can be found here:
http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/reviews/wolfram/
The good news is they are still relying (mostly) on Perl

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Sounds kind of clunky, though.