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As someone who owes a lot to Paul Graham's influence in the very space (Lisp hacking) that Erik Naggum inhabited, I object to your implied equivalence between the two.

I'm certain Naggum inspired as many people as he scared off.

I realize you mean well, but this is glib. Erik Naggum, in his online capacity, was a consummate intellectual bully. (It's hard to imagine anything less true of PG than that.) You know how everyone talks about how dysfunctional the Lisp community is? Naggum did more than anyone else to poison it. Go read the archives of CLL and see for yourself how it starts out as a wellspring of intelligent and civil discourse and then decays under the influence of some smart, funny, nasty characters. The whole thing is a case study in the fragility of online communities.

As one longtime Lisper explained to me, Naggum was so smart and willing to put so much time into it that he became a torque on the whole thing. Most people who found his style obnoxious simply left, and for many (not all) who remained he became the local standard. People began to imitate him and it ultimately affected not only that group but the Lisp world as a whole. Many nice people have tried to repair the damage, but it may never happen: the niceness required to do so is orders of magnitude greater than the poison. It's like trying to clean up an oil spill.

Erik Naggum was obviously really smart and could be quite funny (I enjoyed that aspect of his writing), and for all I know he was a smashing great guy in person - but as far as the above-mentioned harm goes, those things made it worse, not better.

Edit: given that HN's defining quality is to foster intelligent and civil discourse in a way that doesn't get poisoned, your equivalence (and the place you posted it) are kind of ironic. But I know you weren't trying to make a huge point out of it.
I don't think it's a cultural thing - I just don't think modern scientists are as personally interesting (for the most part).

Most people know of, say, Hawking or Perelman because of their personal stories. But even their lives aren't as near as compelling as the greats of the last generation.

Not to mention the face that 50 years ago, the work being done was much more significant. I hate to say it, but no truly 'ground breaking' work has really been done in the last half century. There are still a lot of open questions - but we just haven't found the answer. We've just been refining our knowledge of the important work done before that.

(Note: I don't mean to say no new work has been done, just nothing major. Name something done in the last 50 years that could compare to the fundamental work done in Quantum Mechanics, Relativity, Genetics, Computation Theory, etc. before that.)
Oh, come on! Hawking's supposed to go mountain climbing or something? Guy's got a legitimate excuse.
That's an interesting list on distributed computing, thanks.

As regards how often I do this: I go through periods where I do it a lot (sometimes several times in a week), and then months where I don't do it at all. I do it thematically (i.e., with closely related papers), so I've never tried doing something like what you suggest with the arXiv's recent papers. They're usually not all that closely connected.
Windows firefox users can enable colour management in about:config by setting gfx.color_management.enabled to true. It's my understanding that safari is one of the few browsers on windows that gets it right out of the box.
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Poor.

No real mention of modality or ranges, only a selection of commands. To call VI commands "keyboard shortcuts" is a bit of a misnomer - they're not shortcuts, they are its interface.
I prefer the PDF format "Reference Cards" you can print and pin up next to your desk.

* http://www.digilife.be/quickreferences/QRC/Vi%20Reference%20...

* http://www.digilife.be/quickreferences/QRC/vi%20Quick%20Refe...

* http://www.digilife.be/quickreferences/QRC/VIM%20Quick%20Ref...

I am of course from the Emacs camp, so here are some emacs ref cards to complement.

* http://dept-info.labri.fr/~idurand/enseignement/Rebondir/ema...
Yeah, I have a wide variety of very interesting books collecting dust on my shelves. I don't know why really, I think maybe I spent my time in graduate school immersed in theory and these last few years I have been completely focused on understanding how that theory relates to practice. Maybe the pendulum will swing the other way again once I have more free time.
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Tolerance? That's what makes a "successful" long-term relationship? That's the best we can do in this lifetime, finding someone we can tolerate?! That's not living a full life!

Here's a hint: how often do you look deeply into your partner's eyes? Yes, the way you did when you were dating. In most long-term relationships, it normally stops happening. It's one of the defining characteristics of a relationship that has a lack of commitment to growing in intimacy. Figure out how to grow in intimacy and you don't have to worry about simply tolerating another human.

I follow a more esoteric spiritual path, but there is a mainstream book that is well-regarded, "Passionate Marriage", that touches on some of the techniques folks have used to build successful enduring relationships.
Thanks HN, Many times a rhetorical question is answered in ways more than i can ask for. I have few attributes that I suspect are behind my depression. This being one of them. I have been doing the same- but unlike the OP and others, I get depressed that I bought a book and by not reading it completely, I didn't give its due. I take it very personally that I have Cormen's Algorithms and not gone past chapter1. It's like insulting the writers- i don't know if you get it. It's like you want to be the most passionate religious man on earth and the holy bible you really wanted to read and you know that is what you want is lying on the shelf, while you are trying to sort floating divs on a web page...and whenever i pick up a book, i will hit a block where it gets difficult to understand and because i am used to reading other books in a more casual way, i come to tell myself how dumb i am. i convince myself this to be true when i read about everyone i follow and all the books they have read...it's a vicious cycle that's been eating me inside out - in almost a literal sense.

...But many a times, I will just grab a book (anything - even non technical) and read it while sitting on the throne - read a few lines and ponder over it. my favorite is sicp - which i have not completed after having it well over a year. The few minutes of pondering is much more valuable compared to the regular day, when I am less patient and I want to do some "quick fix" things. I am so glad to find that I am not alone to read parts in between.

so @zkz, thank you for posting this question. The answers posted removed one more attribute which added to my depression. many more to overcome. what a day! I feel so relieved! - i would say this if I met you, so posted it here.
He's been unable to feed himself since 1974, yet he's still managed to assert himself as a world-renowned physicist and pop culture icon. It takes a special kind of jackass to think that's somehow less interesting than working in a strip club (sorry, a "Strip Club").
I'm surprised that nobody has made online math books where you can click on a succinct line of clever math and expand it, in place, to the two-page explanation.
I've never considered myself crazy, but I do have a very, very dark view of life. Feeling happy happens very rarely, never last more then a few hours at best, and just plain feels weird, wrong almost.

A recent medical problem however pushed me over the edge. I want crazy for a few weeks.

It was a terrifying experience. While I never heard other voices, I did hear a constant chorus of ideas very clear and very specific and boy did they ever make my usual dark view of life look positively joyous.

Added to that was a constant feeling of crippling fear, basically a continuous panic attack and insomnia.

That constant chorus of dark ideas was about every negative thing you can think of. It was in a way awe inspiring to see the sheer power of intellect, recollection and imagination my brain had to stitch together these incredibly creative and specific and deeply disturbing thoughts, at the rate of ~ 100 per second.

Functioning became almost impossible, and had it gone on for much longer I truly would have lost it. I was afraid to cross the street and come right back, that was a cripplingly terrifying task.

I was somehow able to keep showing up at work and could for very brief periods of time almost, just almost drown out the chorus by concentrating on programming.

Well I recovered from the medical problems and the craziness passed and I could sleep again and boy was I relieved, but happiness is still not something for me.

Except that now I make a conscious effort to be a more positive person.

It's not like a hippie sunshine and rainbows thing, I know there is a very powerful and very stubborn and very dark part of my subconscious. But I am not going to let that part of me run things. I make real everyday efforts to be less dark and cynical. And I expect to keep up that fight for as long as I live.

There was an article here about how positive affirmations can actually have negative effects for people with low self esteem. That rings very true for me. But I will not be dissuaded from trying to change. My superego is just as stubborn as my id, damn it.

The human brain is very flexible and how you view yourself and what you do can and will strongly influence who you are.

Just like long hours of sitting will mess up your lower back, if you just let your negative tendencies flow unchecked in the long term that will fuck up your personality.

Don't do that, make a conscious effort to better yourself. Even if you're a darkly cynical bastard like and me.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Microsoftie

How many times must it be said that you should never assume malice where ignorance explains it?

Microsoft is full of smart people with good intentions. Do you really think that there are 100,000 evil, evil people who are on a crazy power quest to dominate the world by destroying computing for everyone else? No. These are people who love technology and honestly believe they are doing right by the world.

OK, so assuming that is true. How do I explain why IE is so broken?

Microsoft is an ENTERPRISE software company. Consumers are small potatoes, who, until recently, were completely ignored by the brass of the company. When enterprise customers have an itch, Microsoft will accept their damn good money to scratch it. If there's no itch, there's no scratching.

Many years ago, Internet Explorer rendered the web just as well as any other browser out there. Microsoft added proprietary extensions in order to be able to build things customers wanted. They didn't fix bugs that customers weren't complaining about. Maybe the individual engineers comprehended the importance of web standards, but leadership hadn't even heard of them. Besides, Microsoft wasn't even sure this web thing was going to take off. So when enterprise customers stop complaining - when their _intranets_ were good enough - Microsoft stopped investing in browsers. Simple as that: move on to the next thing that will make us money.

Lest we forget: Microsoft "embraced" the web by writing IE. Then they "extended" the web by inventing Ajax <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_(programming)#History>. Why did they do this? Because they simple would have been unable to build Outlook Web Access without it. Gmail would not exist as it is today without Outlook on the web.

I talk about OpenGL and Direct3D here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=593801

Apple and Google are "extending" the web as well: <http://webkit.org/blog/138/css-animation/>; Apple noticed an itch for their Mobile Me product, so they scratched it. This is how technology evolves. Web standards aren't created in a vacuum.
What worked for me was proper diet and exercise. I used to suffer from pretty bad panic attacks that would occur randomly, and it was really debilitating. The thing that really helped me was taking up jogging. Some form of daily exercise is essential. Also, cutting out caffeine completely helped a lot.

Good luck - it might take awhile to get back to 'normal', but keep at it!
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Mark Pilgrim wrote an excellent rebuttal in 2004, showing why you are completely, entirely, 100% wrong on this: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/01/14/thought_experime...
Simpler than <video src"myvideo.ogv"/> impossible

The rest is just for backwards compatibility.
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Automattic isn't unique, we just follow the same Open Source business models everyone else does. We do hosting, and provide extra services.

There are at least 1,000 plugins in the directory that do the same thing. There are plugins for Youtube, Adsense, Lijit, Flickr, Sharethis, Twitter, Paypal, translation systems, backup services, Statcounter, Facebook...

I'm not sure what that has to do with being GPL or not, or who exactly he claims I've mislead.
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. It's fine to apologize for using inappropriate tone, but at least acknowledge or apologize for not understanding the law or your mandate.
Well, you seem to be dissagreeing, then agreeing with me, which is fine. I don't know where your 30 year deadline came from. Betting against the accuracy, efficiency, scalability and lower cost of our tools hasn't historically been a smart move, and I don't see why that would change. It's easy to envision a scenario where you could pay n times as much for an artisan plumber (or ... Bicycle Repairman!). But I bet most would opt for the cheap, standardized service of a tele-op'd Mario9000.
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Academia does tend to have a different value system, but it's a mistake to suggest that the one used by industry is better. It's just different.

Yes, in academics, professors X,Y and Z will usually try to get you to introduce their pet subjects in review. You also later find out that getting a paper approved has a lot to do with who you know (as opposed to what you know), and that getting the choice talks, collaborations and grants has a lot more to do with schmoozing and networking than anyone likes to admit. It's a social problem.

But you know what? That's life. Humans are fundamentally just a bunch of howler monkeys, flinging poo at the cage walls and trying to steal the shiny rock (or the girl) from the alpha. Put more than a few people together in any activity, and you'll get competition, preening, back-biting and politics.

In academics, powerful professors demand that you brown-nose and compete for favor; in industry, powerful rich people do the same. In academics, you find that most days are spent managing mundane chaos, with real research advancements happening only a few times a year; in industry, most of your time is spent appeasing people, reacting to short-term crises, and coordinating with your co-workers. When you really think about how chaotic humans are in groups, it's amazing that forward momentum happens at all.

Point is, I don't think it's fair to imply that "interesting" scientists migrate to industry because of some fundamental difference in values. Personally, I made the migration because the monetary up-side is much better in industry. Otherwise, I think the bullshit-to-accomplishment ratio is roughly the same.
We considered doing a marketplace on WordPress.COM, not .org, which is a big distinction.

I don't think a market on .org makes much sense, unless you decide to ignore the GPL.
Hawking's story is extraordinary - but you can fill books with entertaining anecdotes Feynman's exploits (in fact, they have). Hawkings probably 'wins' in terms of sheer impressiveness of what he has accomplished and what he has overcome.

But I still stand by saying that Feynman was more entertaining.
Ask HN: how do you decide which idea to use?
I've got a lot of ideas to try to solve problems and create value for the user. Some are smaller that a two person team can complete, and others that require at least a business person and a finance person and a bigger investment. Right now I'm trying to decide which of these to start, so I'm curious how to decide which to do. The ones with smaller investment / small payoff? large investment / large payoff? the fun projects?

btw, I would love comments on some of my ideas @ lchou1.blogspot.com
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There are dozens of successful businesses selling GPL-complaint themes, sometimes in their own directories. There are hundreds of businesses who get some or all of their distribution through WordPress plugins. There are millions of websites using WP as a tool to publish and make money other ways, like TechCrunch or GigaOM.
The alternative to Postel's Law is usually data loss.

When your mail server receives one of these malformed emails from Facebook, what should it do? Delete it? Bounce it? (Facebook will just delete the bounce.) Print it out and mail it to Zuckerberg COD?
I agree with your point, but am modding you down as the tone of your message is somewhat aggressive. Perhaps you should read the HN posting guidelines?
This is really interesting advice. I have spent a lot of time lately considering how I could become more effective at teaching myself math. The community aspect is fundamental to my success as a programmer, but that is something that I have not come across for math. Where would you suggest someone find peers and or mentors?
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I hear ya, loud and clear. Was it a medication that led to the bad patch? I've never had the street problem but definitely had a fear of being seen in public that led to lots of alone time.

Your point about trying to be positive strikes a chord also. Folks who know me just a bit or only professionally consider me a relentlessly cheerful, encouraging person. I've always got something great and positive to say about a situation, no matter how bleak it is. In part, this is because just about anything is better than what I feel inside, so I'm able to spot the positive pretty easily. Also, it's partly an effort to will a certain view of reality into being. Nothing's great until someone labels it such.

The folks who really, really get to know me tend to get worn out once I let down the shell and let them see a bit of what's going on inside. In dating relationships I try to ease the other person into understanding how I get by, but even so, there comes a point where they "get it" and you see how disappointed they are. I've found the best approach is to just tell her that I have dark periods when nothing I say will be useful or productive, so I'm not going to say much.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Model
Probably alert the user that it can't be parsed (like browsers currently do for XHTML). Maybe do something like firefox does when it encounters a self signed SSL cert - allow the user to accept it - but make that choice explicit and painful. If most parsers actually did this, I doubt people would carelessly violate standards anymore.

Of course, it's a bit of a prisoners dilemma to get everyone to actually do this. The one guy who doesn't will likely become immensely more popular than his competitors ...

Oh well, it's nice to dream.
Your "opinion" is wrong. Apple's stock price is extremely correlated to Jobs' public profile.

e.g. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10057521-37.html
e.g. http://www.businessinsider.com/2009/1/so-apple-lied-about-st...
When he says "tolerance", maybe he means what most people mean when they say "compromise". Any two people are bound to annoy each other in ways that can't be completely eliminated, so they need to work out what to change, and what to tolerate -- i.e., they need to compromise.
Er... do these lawyers still exist? Fortunately I never met one, and if I did, I could never afford their inefficiency. Every lawyer I ever worked with used Microsoft Word for all their documents.
Maybe the converse is more true? It's easier to do a web-startup than other kinds of tech startups?
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"But how do you serve craftsmanship without serving the market? How can an independent artisan insure that he doesn’t become an entrepreneur and, in time, a corporate executive?"

What's so bad about "serving the market"?

Many of us absolutely love writing great software. Almost as much as we love watching people use our software.

We are craftsmen, in every sense of the word. We have tools we love, some of which we built ourselves. We may not wash them with soap, but we do collect the garbage from time to time.

Ours is a labor of love, often done alone, and sometimes done only for ourselves. We call that "dogfood" and it's not the only way to be a craftsman. We get double joy when someone uses our products, and no, we don't have to sell out to the man in order to do that.

If Crawford better understood what some of us do with technology, he'd probably realize that many of us are already living his utopia and his outlook would improve. Who knows, maybe his next book will be about programmers quietly building the new order in a million garages around the world.
"Primary" is not a cultural designation. Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow are the subtractive primaries which correspond exactly to the Red, Green, and Blue additive primaries. This isn't culture. It's science.

And CIE colorimetry works, but I can tell you from experience, it does not work "very well". Rather it is adequate given the DeltaE tolerance of any given project. That is why the world is moving to spectrographic models, and there are already alternatives in the works which stand to replace CIE/LAB/XYZ, for precisely the reason that they have proved inadequate to the task of modern color management.
Scribd reminds me quite a bit of my interactions with experts-exchange:

* Locked behind a content wall: You must use their web reader, or jump through hoops to download the original document.

* Pollutes my google search results: Usually appears before a more direct link to the original document.
Makes sense... lots of people use humor as a way to cope with things Someone's stupid little jokes and annoying personal habits are something they cannot easily change since it's so fundamental to how they live their lives. It's better not to dwell on it. It's also worth examining yourself and realizing you're probably not nearly as funny and likable as you think you are. It's easier to give people some slack when you realize YOU ARE ANNOYING sometimes too.
Fine, you got me - that was 40 years ago, not 50 like I said ;-)
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