skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I want to like D, but the documentation just isn't there. Good tutorials for it are hard to find, and the OS X installation instructions on the web site are just plain wrong.

If they could just get together some decent documentation, I would be using D in a snap.

(Correction: The instructions were wrong when I tried to install D about two months ago. It took a trip to the mailing list to sort out.)
Which is cool, but again when you decide to leave for vacation for a week and take your laptop with you to look up dinner options where you're going and don't leave it running all day in your hotel room - no one can read your blog! Am I missing something?
Yeah, as many have pointed out, I meant per year. Still a fantasy.
Opera boycott
Secrets of the [UK Football] Fixture Computer
Any peer review of this?
> Posted by: Steve Yegge at November 15, 2004 11:21 PM
I agree with your first sentence but the point is that application acceptance to AppStore policy does not constitute entire platform.
I am curious, why this part of the otherwise very nice platform is so screwed.
Are you perhaps seeing the effect of differential distribution of browsers across nations rather than differential distribution of user behavior across browsers? (Quick test: filter down to US traffic only, then look at the numbers again.)

If the US uses Firefox more than everybody else (plausible in my experience, but check your own numbers) then I'd expect Firefox would have markedly higher CPMs associated with it. Ditto Safari -- sure, somebody using Safari is probably "a Mac users ready to spend money, click on ads, etc.", but more importantly somebody using Safari is not Indian, Chinese, etc. (Picking big nations with low CPMs, not picking on anybody.)
This probably should begin with http://www.jcxp.net/news.php?newsid=2801 since the linked article doesn't provide enough context.
Ask HN: Thoughts on performance-enhancing drugs?
I'm 21 years old, an electrical engineering student, and feeling a little defeated--because I haven't been doing very well in my classes (and other things in general). I've isolated the problem to be with my will power - I never take initiatives, and I keep procrastinating on doing homework. I also have a hunch that I don't get as much out of the lectures as my peers do.

Yesterday my older brother approached me and proposed the idea of taking performance-enhancing drugs (I forget the names, but I assume he named the more prominent drugs for attention-deficit disorder, 'confidence-heightening' and all that that you've probably heard of). Naturally, for my convictions, I ran the other way. I myself used to be the one who would vociferously debate against these drugs (on the line that if I'm unhappy, then it's for a reason - something happened to me, a certain natural chain of events... getting at the problem with chemical changes to the body sounds like a terrifically frightening idea; likewise, in school, I always thought that ADHD was ... well, nothing, that the kids were simply spoiled and just not trying hard enough). Alas, things have changed quite a bit.

I would greatly appreciate if any of you could voice your thoughts on performance-enhancing drugs.

(Lastly, I'm sorry if my asking isn't appropriate/on-topic for this place, but I thought for my own good I best ask the question to the community I esteem most highly :))
10 Creative Portofolios x 10 Awesome Studios = 100% Inspiration
I was thinking the exact same thing. Somehow gaining small access to an internet connected computer and slowly being able to create a system to serve out distress messages. I was pretty disappointed when I clicked the link...haha
Blu-ray Mandatory Managed Copy is so borked it's ridiculous
Interesting.

However, I was just about to enable javascript but then I read the message:

Look. It's 2009. Each time you visit without javascript,
another frog dies (It's automatic - wires from webserver
to frog electricution chair. Took me 3 weeks to wire
that). YOU are responsible. How does that make you feel?
hmm? Save frogs. Enable javascript.

I won't enable javascript.

Enabling javascript is about TRUST, not technology. And the basic problems with trust are the same whether it is 2009 or not.

I do not trust you!
HTML 5: Could it kill Flash and Silverlight?
We are missing the point.

Turning a browser into a web server is not a big leap in technology. That is not a hard problem.

Why I am excited about Opera Unite and not about this firefox extension is that Opera themselves thinks that this will change the face of internet applications. They are excited about it and they will persue this to the end. That is the whole point.

It is not about technology. It is about how you push it and persue it. It is all about your vision.
I think I'll stick with dropbox for my filesharing.
Hmm could it be that higher cancer rates are more related to the higher intake of proteins (milk contains ~30% proteins and too much proteins can increase cancer risk) than to the hormones themselves? The article doesn't really mention any evidence for the latter...
Plus am I the only one who can find a gazillion more differences than drinking different amounts of milk between Algeria and Denmark?
"Apple users are good at generating revenue - they buy stuff"

Maybe Apple users are very prone to falling for advertising. That's why they are Apple user's after all :-)
I totally agree. In fact I'm playing in a band right now, the Signals (http://www.myspace.com/thesignalsuk -- only demos, no band recordings so far), and what I'm realizing is that, in effect, 100% of the effort needs to come from you until you have a watershed moment, and then a label will begin to court you.

And it's not that labels are inherently malicious either; another band I know, Lucky Elephant (http://www.myspace.com/luckyelephant -- check 'em out, really nice and melodic!), just got a GBP 15,000 promotional advance for their recently released album. The label told them straight-up that there was very little likelihood that they'd ever make their money back.

As for your point about the labels falling on their faces: I'm not so sanguine about the future here. In most declining industries, it's the market leaders that fare the best -- in the music business, the majors! The indies are the ones that are screwed, which is sad because historically they've signed the most innovative acts (e.g. Island pre-2000s). Universal music is the only major label to have increased its market share in the last five years. It is not in commercial danger to my knowledge, and is likely to survive the current recession. The same cannot be said for Domino (of Franz Ferdinand and Arctic Monkeys fame). My fear is that once all the indies are gone, we'll be left with p-p-p-poker face p-p-p-poker face ad nauseum.
It is as appropriate for us to drink cow's milk as it is to drink milk from a horse or rat.

T. Colin Campbell has shown very persuasively that one of
the biggest problems with milk consumption is a particular
protein it contains, casein. The research described in his
book, "The China Study", links casein to cancer.

Also, a convincing resource to many, though at times
inflammatory, is Dr. Robert Cohen's site, http://notmilk.com
He is the author of "Milk: The Deadly Poison".

It is food for thought. We need to remember that if we
don't consume milk, to replace the Vitamin D that it is
fortified with (naturally, milk does not contain much
Vitamin D, so it has been fortified to help prevent
rickets) by adequate sunlight and/or supplementation.

For calcium, eating a healthy diet of enough calories will
provide an adequate amount. Also, a low sodium diet has
been shown to reduce calcium requirements.
Then how do they explain Washington's higher 8.2% rate?

You should read the comment in the original post (http://www.tonywright.com/2009/should-you-move-your-startup-...) by user abscondment.

He contends that the data that Tony wrote is uncertain because there is less data available on Washington than California, so he propses using a confidence interval of at least 97.5%, which puts California in the lead. Lowering the confidence interval even more would give California an even greater lead.
The headline says as much.
I disagree. I didn't buy a macbook because it was advertised. I bought one because someone who I respect told and showed me how much less hassle it was than using linux on a laptop.

Maybe there is some truth though... for iPods and the app store anyway.
Some just posted this morning an "Ask HN"/review my site that someone said had a great demo. I don't have the link now but it might be worth it to look through the past 12-14 hours' worth of submissions for it. Good luck!
I've got an entry level unibody macbook, just the 13" one, and I consistently get between 4 and 5 hours battery life. This is browsing and development using netbeans (not the most lightweight ide ever designed). For lighter use I'll occasionally see 6+ hours, but that's often when I'm doing something else at the same time.
Blurtt: Send some Love for Father's Day (useful tools review)
This is a great place for these types of questions. It's been discussed before here quite a bit - http://searchyc.com/search/yc is down now or I could offer a few links.

I don't consider Adderall/Ritalin/Concerta "performance-enhancing drugs" if you have ADHD. The way my son's doctor explained was great: having ADHD is sort of like having 20/60 vision. If you have 20/60 vision, you need glasses to be able to focus. Kids with ADHD need help focusing in exactly the same way and that's where the drugs come in.

Now, there are several performance-enhancing drugs that I've seen people talk about here but I can't remember them. Sorry.
ArcticEvening (startup meeting) in Copenhagen, 24th of June
There's a slight mention of where the middleware fits on the third page. For a three page diagram, I thought it was pretty good.
I have four seperate CSS files for our site - one for everyone and one each for IE6, IE7, and IE8. The IE6 file is huge compared to IE7 and IE8 so that's the one I care about. I save my graphics as GIFs so that I can avoid the IE6 PNG transparency issue but IE7 and IE8 render those fine.

So for me I care about "When will IE6 die?" I figure that I'll be able to completely get rid of it in about two years. Will IE ever go away? No - that's just silly. They have a 3/4 market share so why would MSFT want that to go away?
> It is as appropriate for us to drink cow's milk as it is to drink milk from a horse or rat.

Nothing wrong with horse milk:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumis

(For that matter, horses themselves are pretty good eating).

In terms of rat's milk, I don't think it would be economically efficient to extract it, although, who knows, maybe you could breed the things to produce a lot of milk.
MidnightFox: Add-ons for Firefox
What does it mean to have 10K Twitter Followers?
Testing Rails with Rack::Test
Fancy trying Bryan Helmkamp's new framework agnostic testing framework with your Rails app?

It's really easy.
I am well aware that some cultures do drink milk from other animals, goats being most common, but my point is that to us, drinking cow's milk only appears normal because it has been done traditionally. However, objectively, to our physiology, drinking cow's milk makes as much sense as drinking milk from rats, cats, dogs, horses, etc... we are not baby calves.

Also, the fact that it may be economically efficient to extract sweeteners in the form of refined sugars from corn and sugar cane in no way contributes to an argument that they are not harmful to our health.
Ask HN: Two-factor authentication and other extended security measures
I'm looking to add two-factor security to our web app. This could be based on YubiCo's YubiKey -- a nice open system and cheap compared to RSA's token, or possibly text messages sent out with a one-time code. Does anyone have experience with either?

YubiKey is nice, but has an acquisition and processing cost (get hardware from Sweden, reprogram with a new private key, collect postal addresses, send out to customers, deal with customers losing keys). SMS messages can be almost universally sent, but require some third party provider or modem to send worldwide (is there a good third party service to send out a SMS message to any cell phone reliably?)

We don't store e.g. PCI (payment) data or other highly sensitive data where there are some laws requiring additional protection, but still have somewhat sensitive data. If you look at the questionnaire from http://www.sharedassessments.org/ (warning: annoying registration required) how does your security stack up? This may not be something you run into if you do B2C or B2B for small companies, but a large company may have a vendor assessment programme which will require you to go through this. That happened to me and just going through that questionnaire may leave you rather concerned.

Here are my security discussion topics -- while security occasionally comes up as a topic, I think a practical discussion might be useful:

1) What do you do for account security of your web app? There are the obvious issues: XSS, CRSF, sql injection, hashed (bcrypt or similar) passwords. Do you require SSL? Do you train users in understanding MITM attacks and not accepting invalid certificates? Require strong passwords, require password changes? Do you apply different standards to staff users (using SSH or some higher-powered web app login) vs client users?

2) Do you use two-factor authentication? Do you have an open SSH port or restrict SSH access to only certain hosts or even only terminated VPN connections? Do you allow users to restrict their logins only from certain IPs or perhaps use client-side certificates?

3) What do you do with potentially sensitive data of your web app? Disk encryption and other symmetric encryption seems to protect only against the unlikely case of hardware theft; if you're collecting some data you need to access later encryption does not seem useful.

4) How do you sell higher security to your users? Unless your audience is technically savvy or has a good IT department how do you convince them to e.g. buy a hardware token or start using SMS one-time passwords to login? They might ask "So you want me to buy this hardware token, are you saying my data is insecure now without it?"

5) Do you use any other security measures? E.g. mod_audit to try to stop some XSS attacks; tools like snort or tripwire to analyze traffic and server integrity?

6) How do you get to higher security? Following some good checklist? Hire tptacek or a similar well-reputed security company to go over your code and practices? In-house scans with Nessus?
Being omnivores, drinking cow's milk makes perfect sense, and is probably more politically acceptable than breeding and keeping women for milking.
Amongst Safari users, the split is 8% windows, 92% not windows, so the vast majority of Safari users are indeed using Macs, I haven't drilled down in more detail yet though.

The thing that really surprised me was the low revenue from Opera users. Whether that's because of the type of people who use Opera, or some technology built into the browser etc, I don't know fully yet.
I know both sides. I have a friend who is one of the greatest proponents of alternative medicine treatments of autism. Both my children have been vaccinated.

http://www.babble.com.au/2009/02/24/bad-science-how-the-auti...

I shouldn't have to explain how a legal ruling doesn't equal evidence. Scientific proof is demonstrated using repeatable studies, which have been done. Go look them up.

There is no validated mechanism by which vaccines cause autism. At the moment, my money would be on things like genes (highly likely) or environmental contaminants. But, it's just speculation. We just don't know at the moment. This may be hard to accept as a parent, but it's the reality.
Although I could not agree more, one caveat here - hosting a "server" of nearly any flavor is a violation of most current ISP's TOS. I know we do it and get away with it (and its one of the dumbest rules ever), but they will terminate your service from time to time until you agree to obey - it has happened to me twice over a simple HTML/Javascript web server.
> That is all they do. Why would you think otherwise?

Not true. Read a bit about "ibricks": http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/09/28/more-on-apples-late...
Flagged.

This is a complete NON article.

Yay. You have 10K followers and you feel special. TOMORROW you are going to tell us how and why this is important. Or, maybe you'll string this along for a whole series of insightful articles about why your 10K Twitter followers are so important and how that validates your existence.

You've got 79 submissions (all seemingly to your own blog posts), and not a SINGLE comment. In today's wonderfully shallow submission you are a self-described transferrer of knowledge. How about transferring some of that knowledge HERE instead of being a drop and run article submitter?
I've used Adderall for "performance enhancement"-usually writing essays and/or studying all night in college. Used occasionally, I'll admit it was helpful. Loved it. But if you don't have ADHD and you use it all the time, it can hurt you. These drugs are pretty powerful stimulants and can cause some pretty serious problems if you abuse them with any frequency. Also, Adderall won't give you willpower. If your problem is that you can't focus and get distracted, it might help you remain focused and be more productive. But if your problem is just that you'd rather play Halo, you're just going to become a more focused Halo player.

Before you try performance-enhancing drugs, I think you need to examine why you're having problems studying. Are you just not interested in the material? Maybe you need to be studying something that captures your imagination. Are you depressed? In that case, if you can't find an underlying cause, you may need antidepressants or therapy or both.
Harvard isn't "revealing the truth" so much as pointing out a few interesting correlations between variables.
The high protein itself is likely a problem, and as T. Colin Campbell's research team has shown, the casein protein found in milk is particularly linked to cancer.

But there are health issues linked to milk besides cancer.
For example, it is associated with osteoporosis, and the countries with the highest dairy intake (Finland, Sweden, US, and England) have the highest rate of osteoporosis.
So they are invisible huge spiders? No wonder I have never seen them.
The Nation’s C.I.O.: Government Needs a Dashboard
It seemed to double-click the checkboxes - selecting them and deselecting them.

Safari 4 final on Leopard, if it helps at all.
I think this is my first comment here, so please excuse me if it is too plain but

This seems like a typical flamebait. Nothing of value, nothing to think about, nothing but childish hate (or maybe simply attention/backlink whoring).
Perfect sense hardly appears to be an appropriate description here, when

1) No other animal drinks the milk of another animal.
2) No other animal drinks milk after being weaned.

In nature there is no model for the consumption of milk of another species, after weaning.

Women don't need to be bred for milking, as the only humans
that need milk are those that the women themselves have bred, and this is for the first years of life only.
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Strength Things
Here is blog published for to watch on Mozilla Firefox and share the strange things with you With Dextre the robot's power problem solved, astronauts ventured outside the International Space Station'son Saturday to put together the bulk of the gigantic walking and working machine.
Your question might have been rhetorical, but it was inane. Not everything is the same. To just throw out some nonsensical relative moralism and expect it to float in a room full of critical thinkers seems a little far-fetched.

You have no idea whether or not the Iranian government is legitimate

It's not for me to decide. It's up to the Iranians. It's only up to me to decide how to deal with their public policies that effect me. The Iranians are perfectly content going door-to-door, gathering up satellite dishes and televisions, imprisoning their opposition, shooting demonstrators -- all of those things that dictatorships do. And guess what? I am perfectly happy letting them. As are you, it seems.

But some folks have higher moral standards than you or I, and to them, injustice of this nature requires action. There's no higher moral ground that I'm taking, nor you, for that matter. I'm simply pointing out that there IS a higher moral ground than "everybody does it, and who are we to judge?" You might not like it, but it exists nonetheless.
> No other animal drinks the milk of another animal.

No other animal sits around getting involved in fruitless (and off topic) discussions on hacker news, either...

Edit: As for me, I don't like milk much, but I'm a big fan of gelato, and various tasty cheeses.
Ok - sorry about the confusion.

Still - those ideas are fair?
no, i can see your site! its awesome.
WiTricity Gearing up for Wireless Charging of Electric Cars
Opera's only chance in the market is to spread virally. To have an Opera user tell an IE/Firefox/Safari user about this cool new feature that they could both use if that IE/Firefox/Safari user would just switch to Opera.

Looking at the howtos provided, it seems to me you only need Opera to host the solution and the rest is perfectly cromulent web-standards, that is: Any user with a JS-enabled browser should be able to hook up and use your app.

This doesn't invalidate your point about spreading the word about being able to do cool stuff with Opera, but it does not require a full lockin either.
BOKU Launches, Makes Some Mobile Purchases For Mobile Payments
I like D as a language to learn more about lower-level domains. It tends to be (imho) easier to read than C code and there are lots of interesting projects going on over at dsource.org

Some people seem to dislike the fact that there are the two standard libraries, but I think that just adds to making the learning curve less steep (i.e. you can choose whether you want a closer-to-the-metal or a more high level flavour of the language). Reading code written in different standard libraries in itself can also be quite illuminating.