skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article is more than "don't shoot in auto", but I have to wonder who buys an SLR without knowing how to use it. If you know nothing about photography, you should probably save your money and get a point-and-shoot instead.

(With that in mind, I spend most of my time in Auto or Program AE. Those both do a great job 99% of the time.)
Maybe people that know nothing want to learn. After all, how would you learn about photography without taking photos?
Let me help you figure this out:

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The Project Gutenberg "Top 5":

The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) by J. Arthur Thomson (531)

Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob (453)

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (324)

Illustrated History of Furniture by Frederick Litchfield (303)

Searchlights on Health by B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols (270)

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The Kindle "Top 5"

The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan

Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto by Mark R. Levin

First Family by David Baldacci

The 8th Confession by James Patterson

Dead and Gone (Sookie Stackhouse, Book 9) by Charlaine Harris
Summary:

What Lessig wants is mostly right, but by refusing to trust the market to get there, Lessig is willing to give power to DC politicians at the expense of property rights and individual choice. Historically that seems like a bad recipe for both freedom and innovation.

Lessig wants to believe that politicians could become "technocratic philosopher kings," while failing to appreciate the systemic factors that ensure that politicians will always be among the least noble and least qualified to make the required judgments.
Macintosh LC III. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_LC#.22Pizza_boxes.22 It was snappy enough with 36MB of RAM but the 80MB of HD was kind of killer. I was probably 7 years old when we got it and 10 when we maxed the RAM and bought a modem. I'm surprised that no one else had a Mac but my mother was a school teacher. I got a real computer at 13.
My uni offers access to quite a few engineering books through www.books24x7.com, which is somewhat similar to what you suggest. Teachers usually suggest paper books though, so people can bring them to lectures, etc. (about half the teachers forbid using laptops in class).
What do you mean by "computational AI" and why doesn't it include neural networks?
12, ZX Spectrum.
I have to wonder who buys an SLR without knowing how to use it

Really? It's almost everyone who buys an entry level SLR.
I don't find that amusing, just scary!
A lot of the Kindle's source is Open Source as well, under a GPL license. http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?ie=UTF8&...
About 5 or 6, ZX Spectrum 48K.
I didn't have my first personal computer until I was 30. It was a Sun 3 "dickless" workstation on my desk, POS. I gave it to my grad student and got a Mac II the next year.

I read a Fortran (66?) programming lesson book when I was 15, and wrote some programs on paper, but had no machine to try them on.

I wrote Basic on a dial-in (120 bps acoustic coupled) teletype (with paper tape for saving/restoring) at high school when I was 16 (1973).
I don't really believe anything I can't prove (in the philosophical sense; I believe reasonable things that I haven't personally verified, like for example that the moon is not made of cheese.).

But there are things I'd like to believe but don't know how to "prove"/justify:

-That we have free will (in the sense that requires that the universe is nondeterministic).

-That some things are absolutely morally wrong.
I remember finding this article on Digg in April '07. To me it was gospel - I contacted the author thinking for sure someone else had shared his vision and wanted to bring these ideas to all kinds of applications. At the time, not really - he had gotten a lot of attention for being innovative, but in terms of deeper interest it was mostly from those academically interested in the ideas. (although perhaps Apple hired him for their deep interest as well).

Why did this fantastic article take so long to make its way to hacker news? In fact, I ask myself why I did not submit it here having read it half a dozen times over the last couple years.

I'm not sure I can answer this question. But to me there is most definitely a delay between the output of innovative, unproven ideas, and the acceptance of even discussing these ideas in an engineering community. Maybe somewhere in this dynamic lies the answer to both our questions.
13 - a Dell I believe. I want to say it had a Pentium 1, 133 Mhz.
Another data point: I started indoor climbing at a local gym a few times per week(for ~ 20 minutes) and I rarely have any wrist pain nowadays.
No idea, but the article doesn't sound particularly convincing. Sounds like a bullshit artist...
Bcrypt is now obsolete
3D canvas concept
That nothing I believe can be proved.
Note that this is not from Wacom despite the name-dropping in the text. It is a very impressive concept nonetheless.
Moore's law broke a little while back.
I am from Campinas, but I bought a lot of pirate software from those stores, and others. Since I was really young, my father used to drive me to São Paulo, to a joint on the Nacional building I think, where there was a software house that used to sell MSX floppies with software.

I remember it was one of the happiest moments of my life when I entered that office, picked the softwares I wanted from a list copied using a "mimeograph". Soon after that, guy that was helping us came back carrying a paper box full of 5 1/4" disks on it. I couldn't wait to be home and test all that :-)

Yeah, good old days... Playing Magical Tree, Nemesis, Penguin Adventure between MS-BASIC hacking. And I was 6! :-)
My parents bought an Apple IIe when I was 8 or 9. When I was 11, I got a computer of my own - a Powerbook 140. A laptop with 4M RAM, 40M disk, a 16 MHz 68030 and a built-in trackball was quite impressive in 1992.
And your name is Felipe too? :-) Now that's coincidence...
Second this. Go to some fund raising events, shake the right hands, hand out some cards. Depending on how big your town is, you may be able to just contact a local lobbying group and ask who to talk to.

As tin foil hat as it may sound - bribery and corruption is rampant in governments especially the small local ones.
Good rules of thumb:
- Av or Aperture priority for landscape/portrait photos
- Tv or shutter speed priority for action/sport shots
- Unless you print on a billboard scale or are pro, you don't need high level SLRs with whatever grand amount of mega pixles.
- Don't sacrifice too much shutter speed. Better to pump up the ISO and use noise removal software.
14. It was a Vic-20. Cassete tape storage, 3.5k of memory. It did have a wicked fast centipede game, though in Ireland I wasn't able to find any decent books on writing machine code instead of BASIC. And Gridrunner. Oh yeah.
His Satiric License; although it may only be good for the Rhode Island, Delaware, Puerto Rico and Guam.
I wonder if it's from strengthening your wrists, exercising them in a way that releases tension, or both?
I was 9, it was a Commodore 128D. Windows 95? You must still be a child!
Aikido's all about moving "from your center", moving your body as a whole. It can sometimes go into mystic-sounding "chi"/"ki" talk, but precisely verbalizing things that often depend on really subtle timing and positioning is hard.
HTML utterly fails at typography. Books need typography. Therefore, HTML should not be used for books.
Don't do it; the last time someone tried that they wound up w/ Myspace.
Games are not in the same price range as textbooks are. With rare exceptions (I'm looking at you, Steel Battalion and Halo 3 Special Edition), games cost $50-$60 dollars.

In comparison, anecdotally, I have yet to have a semester at college where I wasn't "required" (I could have chosen to try and get by without the textbooks, but thats more hassle then I need) to buy 3-4 textbooks that were anywhere from $80-$150, used. Or that much in supplies for an Art class..
Um, Pierre-Jopesph Proundhourn also claim "property is freedom". I also derives my political heritage from indiviualist anarchists such as Lysander Spooner.

I know about the Spanish civil war and Proudhourn as well the socialist heritage of anarchism thank you very much!

The only thing anarchists of different stride have in common with each other is they accuse each other of being non-anarchists. Thus the attempt to define each other out of existence.

(I consider democracy evil because it is two wolf and one sheep deciding what to eat for dinner)
Latest Mozilla JavaScript has also Generators (yield keyword), Destructuring assignment (var [a,b,c] = [1,2,3]) and just-in-time compilation.
Although I'm a classical liberal (as in, I believe in markets rather than command economies), McCullagh would have us believe that private companies are uninterested in monopolies or locking in their customers - and while he provides examples of where lock-in has failed, it's alive and well in other spaces, such as cellphones. McCullagh cites Hollywood lobbyists' influence on copyright law, while skating over the question of how a libertarian approach would help - indeed, I suspect it would wind up as a land grab on the public commons, with the first to digitize getting ownership rights, much as a copyright photograph of an old painting gains rights for the photograph (even if it has no original content).

Though he's right about the weaknesses of slow-moving legislative supervision of fast-moving technology, his conviction that it'll just work itself out seems rather Pollyannaish. Michael Heller's tragedy of the anti-commons analyzes the problems of fragmented ownership from an economic rather than a philosophical perspective, and points up some flaws in libertarian theory; http://www.wdi.umich.edu/files/Publications/WorkingPapers/wp...
I agree. Noam Chomsky tries to hide his politics in the trappings of science while Ann Coulter doesn't hide anything.

I get enough politics else where. I see no reason to infect HN with it.
If the Chomsky posts were limited to his scientific ideas then I don't mind. I get enough politics every where else.
Harlow’s experiments into the social development of monkeys demonstrated that physical contact was of vital importance, especially for the young.

I suspect that severely limiting handshakes, hugs, back-pats, and other common contact would harm our health, not help it.
I was 6 and got my uncle's old 486DX2 when he bought a new computer.
As my friend Adam points out, at $6,400, they should just throw the Kindle in for free.
"Already his team has unveiled a major design overhaul. On the margin of users’ pages they added a search box and a list of “trending topics,” subjects that are most popular with tweeters at a given time."

seriously? the placement of that search box and trending list really set the world on fire. i'm not really hating on twitter, but common - a search box and a list of data on the right margin? they should have mentioned the saved searches. better yet, bowman should have landed with twitterrific, twhirl or tweetie.
The problem with your criticism of "private companies" is that they lack enforcement power. Monopolies are nearly impossible without government backing. The only non-statist monopoly I can see would be a secure trade secret - like the formula for Coke or the Shipstones of Heinlein's novel "Friday", and even they are vulnerable to substitutes.

As for the anti-commons, I can't see that it applies here, since the networks are already private as are all "creative works" (since automatic copyright has existed since the 1978 revision).
Slowing The Exodus Of Skilled Foreigners
7. Commodore Vic20.
The day I fell in love with CSS
Around 1991/2 so I was around 8. 386SX 33MHz beige box running DOS. Learned programming by altering the source of Gorillaz and Nibbles.
That proves that it conforms to the specified behavior. It doesn't prove that the specified behavior is correct or useful.
Now that we know for sure any stripe of pol will sell out for power; we know opensource is the only reasonable way to maintain the creative commons. Our government is broken (bought and paid for by the Goldman Sachs Mafia) and will stay that way for the foreseeable future. We should have no expectations for a system that empowers the stupid, ignorant and greedy; and given the failures of all other attempts to supplant this failed thing, there is hope and change only in individual action: like donating code to the pleroma.
ravelry.com is a fantastic social network that has a db of patterns. they don't keep most of them on the site itself - just the fact that the pattern exists and where to find it, what kind of yarns are recommended along with what kind of needles, projects of the same pattern done by other members with however much information they care to include - although some designers do sell their patterns on the site. See http://img.skitch.com/20090509-fuy92fx7e5rykfgu377tgyg3wt.jp... for an example.

unfortunately, a lot of the nicer patterns are from print magazines, but there are some exceptions to the rule - knitty.com for one is all online. It's unfortunate more magazines don't sell their patterns online as well, because sometimes it becomes impossible to find the pattern when it's not been printed and you can't find anyone to sell it to you.
I don't know this guy. Probably he is really famous (?), but I'd rather wait until his scrypt sees widespread adoption before I follow his lead.
Parsec rocked. Tunnels of Doom was also fantastic. The disk drive made the sound of a small jet engine.
There is a rather strong and noble tradition among great physicists of being a little bit off the beaten track. Read Feynman. The bets between Stephen Hawking and Kip Thorne at Caltech. There wasn't a lot that was conventional about Einstein.
Especially if it includes a torrent client!
If you could come up with a less bait-y title, I'd agree with you. :)

We'd use the term "adaptive hashing" or (less accurately) "key strengthening", but it wouldn't be actionable. Bcrypt is actually still current, since very few stable implementations exist for your algorithm, and you are surely not recommending people implement their own crypto.

It's good work though, and I look forward to recommending it, when it becomes reasonable to do so.
Organizing Your Argument
I'm in a far away country and culture, but still I can tell you, you just can't. I spent years fantasizing how various offices would work faster with some software. After a long time I realized it's not a software problem, it's all about management. If you have a proper manager, then for him to decide a software is needed is as simple as hello. If he/she doesn't exist, there's nothing you can do.

The little marketing you can do is find the (very few) cases where good management just arrived and try to pitch.
Valleywag’s departing editor reflects on his time at Gawker Media
Why you say html fails at typography?
This was probably very true a few years ago. Now you can get an entry-level Canon Rebel or Nikon for $500, and it seems everyone has one.

I agree with you that point and shoot is better for someone who just wants to take pictures though - a cheap point and shoot takes pretty decent pictures these days.
Although, not every book is a House of Leaves.
Men! take care with campinas water ;). Just kidding.

My first computer was a 386 already in the age of windows, and I was 6-8 years old :D
I don't know this guy.

You do now. :-)
Too late, I've already started, and so far it's working better than I imagined.
probably not but hey no one knows what http is and assumes everything starts with www. on the internet

it would be easily recognizable if it was bit.com/blueroom or something like that but as of now it is rather unnoticed unless thats a web magazine
A broader answer here.. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/327973/how-old-are-you-an...

I suppose the user profile on HN and SO is more or less comparable.
Do you believe you can assign nickb that value or that they are equivalent?
Yeah, I don't drink it :-) The problem is not the water, but the low water coolers :P
“It can be dangerous to just listen to what users say they need.”

Right but that's not what Google is doing, they listen to what users do. This is not the same.
1) 5th bullet point should read:
Notifications available via email and Twitter!

2) Re: Sucuri Network-based Integrity Monitoring.
This header should not end with a period. Also, do you mean to say the following? Sucuri: Network-based Integrity Monitoring

3) Your explanation below the site field needs polishing. I'd prefer to have it read:

Sucuri notifies bloggers, administrators and web designers when critical information about their systems change.

Don't want to see your site in a _defacement archive_ or in the _news_ because it was hacked? Try NBIM now to be alerted as soon as a suspicious change occurs.
An alternative business model for the textbook industry is to charge 99cts per book, sell a million and you're done, fuck the publisher, save the authors.

Games is another market already disrupted by iPhone games for 99cts. $50 for a pacman clone is overkill.

Convenience at the minimum price beats piracy all the time.
Taboo or just that the teachers haven't the slightest?
I have the same experience as the op and suggest that it's pretty multidimensional. Climbing puts a lot of stress on your hands and you simply have to both increase strength, flexibility, and overall hand health to climb effectively.

It's kind of the anti-RSI.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaizen - This is one of Toyota's main reasons for being as good as they are.
Link us, please.
I too have been pondering this and I think the field is lacking the concept of artificial _imagination_. Maybe intelligence = knowledge + imagination, and since we already have massive artificial knowledge (wikipedia for example), AI is just missing the imagination to comprehend all this data.
I left a link to this article in a comment a few hours ago, and it's a great feeling to then see it lead to the front page where hundreds of people can read about something I think is of great interest and importance.
http://StoryMash.com
I was 4 when my family got a computer. All I really remember was that the storage media was a cassette tape.

My Dad worked for weeks to get the Cheers theme to play on it (using some DOS midi program I assume) and I remember wondering why his crappy sounding version took a whole tape to store on the computer while a regular cassette tape could store a lot of regular sounding songs.
Curse of class of '09
Given how unfathomably large [1][2] our universe is, there is life out there.

We can't be so special, that in all of the universe, we're the only living organisms.

[1] http://content.ytmnd.com/content/c/1/4/c14120ab010cd708c758f...

[2] compare http://screenshots.markbao.com/660e999564918601acab7157bbac8... and http://screenshots.markbao.com/f0698e51086874626454f576b3f99...
this means that a five-character password using scrypt is stronger than a ten-character password using openssl.

Not a crypto expert, but don't most people crack passwords by just running common words or every possible combination of N characters through your encryption system, therefore as long as your encryption mechanism is good enough it doesn't matter what you use?
I remember my neighbour had an Apple II+ that he let me use all the time, so I would have been 4 then.

The guy that lived in the basement apartment had a zx-81 and later a Commodore 64 and I programmed a couple of skiing games on the zx-81 before getting my first computer, a Tandy TDP-100, which is the same as the TRS-80 color computer 1 but with a white case. I would have been 6 years old I think? I remember it had a cassette interface and I was obsessed with mazes at the time and programmed it to generate new random ones for me.

Later on I gutted the TDP-100 for parts a robot that could sketch stick figure drawings controlled from some program on an Amiga.

Now that I think about it, I was a hell of a lot more productive when I was in public school than now.
Not a crypto expert either, but I took this to mean that each attempt in a brute force attack is orders-of-magnitude more costly, so that trying all combinations of 5-character scrypt passwords takes as long as trying all 10-character combinations with bcrypt.
if scrypt is more than twice as slow as openssl, wouldn't that make it stronger?
On professionalism:
Giles and Martin are using different definitions of professionalism. Martin was explicit about his definition: adherence to quality standards, even under external pressure. Giles uses that to rant about suits, which is completely beside the point.

Of course programming doesn't need more "professionalism" in the sense of suits and firm handshakes. It does need more professionalism in the sense of "I'm sorry Mr Sales Guy, but your deadline is unrealistic. Let's discuss the features we can cut to make that deadline, or the schedule revisions that we need to complete the project."
I'm having trouble building this. I installed ocaml-3.11.0 and a bunch of ocaml packages (including libjson-wheel-ocaml-dev) on my Debian Squeeze system, but when I run the build command from the source file, I get: ocamlfind: Package `json-static' not found

Then I downloaded json-static from http://martin.jambon.free.fr/json-static.html
and, following the README, typed 'make' in that directory, which yielded: File "pa_json_static.ml", line 123, characters 14-22:
While expanding quotation "ctyp" in a position of "expr":
Parse error: [ctyp] expected after "(" (in [ctyp]) File "pa_json_static.ml", line 1, characters 0-1: Error: Preprocessor error

Not sure where to go from here. I'm quite used to following the maze of uninstalled dependenices when building software written in C or Perl, but I'm new to OCaml.
They're not alike in their tones or most famous aspects -- but their appeal to their ardent fans is similar. "Here's truth that the [corporate|liberal] media contrives to obscure." Each offers a mostly self-consistent (but in other ways bizarro) world to make their audiences feel among the enlightened minority.

I happen to think both sometimes make useful and thought-provoking points, though followup conversations about them are prone to derailment into all sorts of superficial reactions and over-rehearsed ideological set-pieces.
Thanks medianama, cottsak and Daniel_Newby.

You echo my thoughts. Good customer service trumps everything else. They can't execute better than us if all they do is copy our ideas. It's like an iPhone clone being better than the iPhone. Without the original vision, it'll always be second best.

We'll focus on providing great customer service. At least, that can't be copied. :)
The ironic thing in this whole internet censorship debacle here in Australia is that this bullshit is being led by the left wing side* of our political system which one would typically associate with progressive ideals and liberal thinking.

The same party also whole heartedly opposed any plans for Internet censorship in 2003 at the ISP level, which they are now trying to implement themselves.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/biztech/web-censorship... (last 2 paragraphs)

Go figure.

*(I can't say the liberal side, because the Liberal Party here in Australia are the conservatives/right wingers, whereas the Labor Party are the liberal/left wingers and I wouldn't want to confuse the two)
That's almost correct. Replace "takes as long as" with "costs as much as" and you'd be exactly right.

Basically what it comes down to is that with bcrypt (and all the other widely used KDFs) it's vastly cheaper to attack the KDF with a custom circuit than it is to buy general-purpose computers and run a software key cracker. With scrypt the advantage that TLAs with ASICs have is much smaller.
Human intelligence and free will is largely the result quantum interactions that are more complex than most anyone suspects. True artificial intelligence will never be possible on transistor-based computers regardless of Moore's law or software advances.