skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Moldova, not Moldavia. You've actually got it backwards - the Twitter angle was hyped pretty hard by the media during the Moldovan protests, even though only a small handful of protesters used the service. These kind of bromides about [information technology of the day] enabling a new kind of revolution are as old as the hills - I remember hearing similar stuff about fax machines/email during the Bosnian war - and typically have little to do with the actual messy reality, and a lot to do with wishful thinking. In the case of Moldova, press coverage died down fast because a) the election was contested in court and demonstrations stopped and b) some of the original demonstrations appear to have been a provocation by the government, which wanted an excuse to crack down. The situation got murky real fast, and with no more easy angle on the story, the Western press lost interest.
Xcode is doing decently well too... And TextMate or CSSEdit or Coda or Espresso or BBEdit...

The "Open source killed closed source" argument doesn't really apply to Mac OS X. Sure, there's Smultron or MacVim or Aquamacs, but they're not really the most popular of text editors (looking at GUI-based ones).
yeah, but can you name many others?

Coda is doing well, and Espresso had a pretty big release recently.
More like they recompiled springboard and some other core iPhone apps to run under OSX. This is why you can use real Foundation types in the simulator that don't exist on the phone (NSCalendarDate), why you can use OpenGL extensions on the simulator that don't exist in hardware, and why certain UIKit transitions (i.e. Curl) don't work in the simulator. All the simulator is doing is running UIKit, Springboard, etc. compiled for OS X and running in an iPhone-shaped window.
I use both. In fact, I can think of at least 12 people off the top of my head who use both. They're not mutually exclusive, after all.
Sure, if you need to move a bunch of files whose names don't match any particular pattern, then using a GUI tends to be more efficient. Suppose you have a directory with a hundred documents in it, and you want to categorize them into subdirectories. With a shell, you'll probably actually need to have two terminals open, one to keep the full list of files available, and one to type commands. You'll mv file1, file3, file4, file7, etc using tab-autocomplete, but it's still going to take a bit of typing and a bit of time. With a GUI, you look at the full directory contents in the file manager, control-select each file you want to move, and then drag them into place. If there are a lot of files, and they don't have filenames that match shell patterns, then a GUI can be faster.
It always is nice when a professor takes the time to put together a course packet, but sometimes it can be frustrating when you don't understand something in class, and go to the course packet to find it explained the same way.
Firefox and iTunes are the broken ones. Most other apps handle the zoom button correctly -- they resize the window to be just big enough to fit the contents.
OS X wasn't a complete rewrite. It was a "Our rewrite is going to hell, lets buy a new OS to use." Go look up the history of Copland from Apple, its mildly interesting.
How do you know you're happy with that?
Windows Vista and Winamp 3.0 come to mind.

There's a big difference between these two examples. Vista was still developed by Microsoft but Winamp 3.0 was started after Nullsoft was acquired by AOL.
It is my understanding (which may be incorrect) that -moz and -webkit is the way that it's supposed to be done, in compliance with standards. See vendor specific keywords here:

http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#vendor-keywords

The idea is that by identifying them with a specific browser, new features can be tested by vendors first before moving into the main standard. This is much, much better than some sort of 'silent extension' where one browser treats some type of tag as different without being explicit about it being for one particular browser.
You can copy and paste, but not cut and paste. Moving with the mouse isn't so bad though -- you can select the files and start dragging them on top of folders. If you hover over a folder for a few seconds, it will open, and then you can hover over another folder to open it, etc., until you get to the place you want to be.
Security warnings all over the place.
What is the importance of loving your work?
Not to keep pushing this software, but SizeUp allows for a keyboard shortcut to do full size windows (for any window) and then snap back to previous size, plus a whole mess of other great features. Its literally the app that kept me using OS X after switching from Linux. And its name your own price licensing.

http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/
Great themes for Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty jackalope
It's rather simple to modify the environment of the bacteria, normally plastic in landfills is surrounded by refuse of all different kinds, like paper, metal and the rest of the crap of modern civilization.

The key here would be to select out the plastics that these bacteria thrive on and seed the entire mound with these bacteria. I'm assuming the reaction will naturally be exothermic, which a sufficiently large bacterial density mixed with the naturally insulation properties of plastic should help the pile get near optimal temperature on its own.

However, there are obviously other factors. Do the bacteria release chemicals that are poisonous to themselves? Does the pile need good ventilation? Does it need sunlight or water? Petri dishes and shreds of plastic bags are a good start, but a lot of other factors need to be worked out before we're going to start breaking down enough plastic to matter.
“Los muertos que vos matasteis gozan de buena salud”. -- Don Juan Tenorio
You don't have a set of packages that is as broad, well integrated and easy to use as Ubuntu's or Debian's packages. MacPorts is a lot better than nothing though.
Ha, I'm posting it again, but only because I love this software so much. Check out SizeUp http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/ It has replaced Mercury Mover for me.
"That Alien Message"

Thanks for the link. I read it, and it's very well written. What a great metaphor for conceptualising the speed of thought of a super-AI.

That said, the essay still absolutely reeks of unfounded near-paranoia. The hypothetical alien civilisation with the power to manipulate the output of stars - or even to build a simulation of such astonishing power - must surely know the very basics of risk management. And the superintelligent "earth" seemed completely friendly, all they wanted to do was talk. They must have reasoned that "hacking" the other civilisation with self-replicating nano-machines would destroy them. Why on earth would they do that? You'd expect that the one thing an AI would not want to do is destroy unique information.

Start with a great setup and an engaging story, then right at the end take a totally unjustified turn into pure worst-possible-case disaster fantasy. It really just proves nothing, except that Mr. EY does not believe risks can be managed. And really, if you're going to write the "precautionary principle" this large, we really just couldn't do anything, ever. It reminds me of those nuts arguing against the LHC.

"I'm glad Eliezer is out there thinking the thoughts that he is thinking."

The idea of hostile AI probably predates the notion of friendly AI! It's not a new thing and I'd argue it's always been on the table. It just has to be kept in perspective, like any risk scenario from new technology. EY takes it to the most ridiculous all-or-nothing paranoid extreme when we're not even close to the time when we need to seriously weigh up these things.

There would be fantastic, concrete benefits to having even slightly better AI. Trying to retard research because of some ill-justified nightmare "what if" scenario set in the far-off speculative future is ludicrous and, arguably, morally wrong.
Yes we should. Vermeulen says the idea of Darwinian economic competition is wrong. Even Darwin wouldnt buy it. He gives examples of why the flu doesnt kill everyone and why ISO9000 in the long run saps the vitality out of a company. Hey, look at Motorola.

I think the whole idea of market efficiency came about because economics wanted to be a science, and everyone simplified their models to the the point that they were understandable, except that they were all wrong. First perfect efficiency requires perfect information. With the internet we are getting the first hints of perfect information, and we are being overwhelmed. Adam Smith certainly didnt have it. Second all decisions are to some degree irrational, based on taste, beliefs, friendships, bribes, etc. Kahneman got a Nobel prize in 2002 for that insight. (This is the same group the gave Merton and Scholes a prize for the derivatives pricing model that brought down the universe.) If all decisions were completely rational, we would all be programming Python. ;-)
I've come across a handful of textbooks good enough to keep. It's rare, though. First year university, made the mistake of buying all my texts- first years, don't do this! Now, I ask around one year up, see if the books are worth anything at all. If they are it's easy enough to borrow one from someone else how bought it. At the end of the year, if it was actually exceptional, I'll return the borrowed and buy my own copy.
The ideas in On Intelligence are very interesting, but the writing style is sometimes repetitive and slightly condescending (I'll explain in more detail if requested). It seems to be aimed at smart teenagers, to inspire them to pursue work in neuroscience and AI.
Reading the American media, I haven't seen any connection between this trend and vegetarianism except the name, similar stereotypes of "herbivores" and vegetarians (that they're weak, effete, and unmasculine,) and a comment on that page that says there's currently a fad for vegetarianism in Japan. I read a different and more likely-sounding explanation for the name, which is that in Japanese a sexual relationship can be called a "friendship of the flesh."
well, the reason a rewrite is bad is that it gives competitors time to produce a better product. in terms of text editors on Mac, nothing else is really that close, so it seems like Allan hasn't really lost out.
"A textbook author in Toronto made enough money from his calculus textbook to afford a $20 million house."

I know that calculus textbook.

http://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Early-Transcendentals-James-S...

It's workmanlike, but certainly not inspiring like Spivak's textbook.

http://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Michael-Spivak/dp/0914098918/
By the name given to these men I was expecting something entirely different. I was expecting it to be bush munchers, not effeminate vegetarians.
For those who want to buy an editor for MS Windows (besides the reliable warhorse UltraEdit), this may be interesting:
http://www.sublimetext.com/

I liked what I saw 18 months ago, in particular the overview pane, but the author seemed to let it ... rest. The website main pages still give that impression, but I just looked and the author is active in the forum and pushing out betas.
I wrote this back in early 2007, and it still applies:

Four things OS X can learn from Windows 95
http://www.tinyapps.org/weblog/mac/200703210700_four_things_...

You would think that after all these years, Apple would have copied these simple yet essential abilities from Windows 95:

1. In Spotlight's search result window, files should be able to be deleted, copied, moved, renamed, etc.

2. Spotlight should offer an "In Folder" or "Location" column rather than forcing the user to press the tiny "i" symbol for each result.

3. The Trash should have two more columns: "Date Deleted" and "Original Location".

4. The context menu in the Trash should offer a "Restore" option to return files to their original location. This is especially useful in putting back the 20 or 30 files from 10 different locations that Adobe asked you to remove and then realized they shouldn't have.
I wish I could upvote you more. I am learning Farsi right now, so naturally I am trying to follow all of the happenings in Iran as best I can. There is an interesting exchange on CNN, for instance, that is really disturbing me.

Christiane Amanpour asked M. Ahmedinejad if he would guarantee the safety of his rival. He said everyone is equal under the law, Mousavi would get a fine just like anyone else. Which is a strange answer to that question, almost like he was answering a different question. At any rate, CNN reported it as "Ahmedinejad declines to guarantee rival's safety".

Well, I speak a lot of languages, one of them is French. A while later I was bouncing around lemonde.fr and got to another version of the same exchange. Only this time the translations were audible. The translation for safety was strange, it was not safety, it was a phrase akin to 'safety from law'. Now my Farsi is terrible, so maybe 'safety' is always translated this way. I would need more info to know, just like you said.

It does leave me with troubling questions though. Why does CNN not air the translations? It's probably perfectly innocent because Christiane Amanpour looked confused as well. So I wonder, was the translator making translations that confused more than just me? Given the confusion evident in this whole exchange, why did CNN report it as it did?

I think this is a textbook case of what you are talking about. Because, for me, the '... cultural and language barriers...' are dulling my sense of deception. That said, I can tell that something is out of place with a lot of the reporting around this issue.
The other one-third must be very busy running the country. What are the odds that this indifference to career, sex, and marriage, if real, will result in women become more independent, demanding better pay and more opportunities, and raising a generation of Japanese men with a totally different perception of women and totally different sexual tastes?
Publishing a full textbook would probably take too much time away from focusing on research, which is the real currency you need to make your tenure case on. Online publication of a cleaned-up course notes and the like would probably make sense, though.
Tired of Youtube? Try the hacked version
Do you have a citation or two for your Fusion point? I'd be very interested to read more.
I agree. But in the rare case that I need to move a bunch of weirdly named files - I have no problem hitting Command+N to open another Finder window, get it to where I want to be, and drag the files to there.

I just can't imagine a hacker workflow that involves doing that even once per week, much less day.

I'm not saying I don't miss Cut/Paste on those occasions, but it comes up so rarely and I feel like I gain so much more by using OS X that I just don't care.
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I'm sure someone downloading the new Lady Gaga album off Pirate Bay is going to figure out that if they click the link for 'Fallout 3' they'll download the game.

The reason games are relatively safe from piracy is that a large amount of people play games on consoles, and I don't know many people who are willing to risk chipping a $400 console just for some copied games. Thus video games are still bought.

I'm sure if you could only play pirated music on a $400 iPod, not many people would risk breaking the iPod just to listen to a few free songs.
The glossy screen!
I don't think they removed anything other than iexplore.exe, which is a very simple shell application any programmer can quickly knock together in Visual Studio in one day. This shell uses COM objects integrated with the OS so tightly that nobody can every remove them. But who cares, it's the fact that users will have a choice of browsers that matters.
The reason you prefer paper over PDF is because PDF merely imitates paper.
There was nothing wrong with using Black-Scholes to price stock options. The problems started when people started using it to price their own Grandmothers.
Iranians do not live on $2 a day; Iran is a middle-income country roughly comparable to Mexico or Turkey. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Iran.
There are actually a few nagging bugs in Textmate which require fundamental changes to address. Allan also seems to be somewhat of a purist, given this rewrite and the fact that he can't get a simple blog post "good enough" to put out there. He likely considers it a good thing because he wants to do it.

Code very much does get stale, at least to the developer looking at it every single day, and sooner or later almost everybody wants to throw everything out and start over. We generally don't do that because we can't justify it in terms of the business, but when you're a solo developer I suppose you can do whatever the hell you want ;)
I think Bruce Sterling with those silly jokes just proves he hasn't written anything good since 1988.
You can make the keyboard commands consistent in the Keyboard pane of System Preferences. I find it best to do it per-application as the menu item title isn't always the same, e.g. "Paste and Match Style" in Apple applications, "Paste With Current Style" in some others.
http://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2008/02/fusion-geek-spe.h...

This blog entry contains a video of the talk along with some other relevant links.

The talk is quite entertaining, reasonably deep, and highly recommended if you're interested in such things.
Opera will be the new Kazaa. It's going to be P2P glory all over again.
Seth Godin is a 2nd class thinker. His shallowness and vagueness impress only the gullible. When will people stop listening to him as if he were a god??
Looking for partners for my new startup
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Note: I'm looking for someone that's my age(15 - 18 years old)

Now, I will not post the complete idea here but it's basically a social network for teen entreprenuers.
What if? Well then we'd pull out its power plug. Or build another AI and program it to be sympathetic to our needs. Or any of an infinite number of possible solutions, assuming we were the utter idiots necessary to not implement appropriate safeguards in the first place.

Look, anyone can come up with an infinite number of movie-plot scenarios where naive humans bumbled into technology that then destroyed them. You can say that about almost anything. In understanding DNA, we might accidentally create an unstoppable virus! In conducting space exploration, we may alert a hostile alien civilisation to our presence! In researching chemistry we may create ice-9! Etc etc etc until the end of time.

All of these, including EY's thesis, have one thing in common - the unjustified, massive expansion of a speculative and highly unlikely risk into a reason for retarding progress which would otherwise yield non-speculative, highly likely, extraordinarily beneficial gains.
SL could be a pretty good playground. I would have liked to create games for it. I guess stuff like the alife island (forgot the name) were pretty cool, too. A lot of creativity took place.

A couple of days I logged into SL again, and the only places with people in them seemed to be the escort services :-( (I looked at the map and just zoomed into places with many people present, and they always were escort agencies, I think).
OK -- I might be alone on this, but I have a 30" Dell monitor, and the single top menu bar concept simply does not scale to large monitor sizes.
This is true, particularly for direct marketing agencies, but many traditional agencies are focused more on brand-building than CPA/CPL.

Selling to direct marketers is much easier than traditional agencies for this reason. There's a million people banging on the traditional agencies' doors with some pitch or another, and so long as selection is not based on concrete performance data, the media buys are based more on perceived brand credibility and agency connections. I know from experience that this approach has a frustratingly long sales cycle (i.e. >12 months) and involves a lot of politics between brand managers, agency people, sub-agency people, outside consultants, product managers, ad nauseam, any single one of whom can tank a deal if they want.

Direct marketers however are much more willing to try something out and see if it works.
Can you name anything that Krugman said that was both a) novel and b) true? Can anyone? Did he really say anything about trade that wasn't known to Alexander Hamiliton? Did he say it in a way that wasn't already said more eloquently by Jane Jacobs? Sure he added a lot of mathematics, but the Wikipedia article is pretty damning on that front: "The econometric evidence for NTT was mixed, and again, highly technical. Due to the time-scales required and the particular nature of production in each 'monopolizable' sector, statistical judgements have been hard to make. In many ways, there is too limited a dataset to produce a reliable test of the hypothesis which doesn't require arbitrary judgements from the researchers." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Trade_Theory

In other words, Krugman's contribution is a lot of math that has never been shown to work. When you add math to a theory in a way that does not improve people's understandings of the issue, you have not added to the world's store of knowledge.
There is a textbook maffia that will put some resistance. Specially those who make a fortune every year with the same scam of changing a word or two in a book and selling it (forcing it on students) as a new updated edition.

Resistance is futile.
NYU Researchers Simulate a Public Health Disaster
Funny, I've got both 24" and 30" Apple monitors, and decided that the 30" was just too large for my field of view (plus the newer 24" LED displays are just too beautiful not to use).

But your point is well-taken.

Fitt's law helps here, though--you can ram your pointer up top and generally hit the menu bar.
Do a search on searchyc.com, there have been quite a few posts like this in the past. You did not really give a description of your idea, I think it would be more helpful if you were to detail your idea a bit more.
The Shrinking of Detroit
If you're an Emacs user with (3!) decades old-finger habits like me, Mac OS X is a dream come true--you can customize the Cocoa text environment to be a quite decent subset of Emacs, available in most system apps now (most importantly, Safari).

Oops, this is an anti-annoyance. ;-)
What's the point of running older OSes?
Rod is a 2nd class thinker. His shallow and vague comments impress only the gullible. Why would anyone listen to him?

To refrain from committing the same sin, let me explain that Rod's comment does not show why this blogposting by Godin is 'shallow' or 'vague' and uses the fallacy of 'poisoning the well', by connotating 'listenening to him' with 'acting as if he is a God', leaving no room for someone to say: well, this article is pretty decent, but on the whole I think Godin adds little worth reading.
Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6) offers feature 4.
I recommend VirtualBox as well. I haven't used Fusion but have used Parallels, and VirtualBox has become my default VM. Being free and GPL doesn't hurt at all.
No - it crashes less than once a month on my system and I'm using the excellent Ack in Project mentioned by others instead of the built-in search. The Project Plus bundle also gives a nice for large projects but in general Ack is the only one I consider necessary.
I've been using the Mac for some time and didn't know about this feature. Thanks for the tip. I'd been missing a way to do this behavior as well.
Perhaps it's an outlier in that the language is more closed than most (and that this gives MS a pretty huge advantage over other IDE makers), but VS really is the best environment for developing .NET. That's why people pay for it, not because management forced it on them.
It didn't work so well at Long-Term Capital Management where they were among the resident geniuses.
Never, ever trust M$. They have no interest whatsoever in doing things right, on purpose or by ignorance. That's imprinted in their dna.
Data is not the plural of anecdote.