skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The process he went through is so obvious that someone must have done this already [1], right? Right?

If this really is a new discovery, what would astound me is how easily everyone else must have given up.

[1] Not that it would take anything away from this guy, who did it at 16 with limited resources and probably without regard to existing research.
everyone Google iJango and click all the PPC ads. They are all ads by the reps.
My Name is E releases iPhone app to kill the business card
I'm absolutely effing baffled at your statement so forgive me if I seem incoherent. Here's what I assume from your sentence:

You think that, instead of ridding the world of billions of rather large and bulky objects that won't decompose for thousands of years, we should leave those alone and instead focus our thinking on how not to produce any more.
I imagine a cartoon of a man standing on the earth with a megaphone screaming,

"Everyone - listen up! This - this thing right here - it's incredibly important and I want everyone (and i mean everyone) to focus exclusively on it!

World - are you listening to me?

Stop trying to do other things! I don't care if thousands of you end up reproducing each others work - it's all in the name of solving this problem!

I said stop trying to multitask - we've got to exclusively solve this one thing!

World?

Hello?"
M&A Activity Heats Up In July To $9.6 Billion
SuSE Studio: Linux appliances made easy
IPhone: 'Lots of People Making Small Money'
I bought a 1G 5GB iPod in 2002 that worked better than my current 5G 80GB iPod purchased five years later, in 2007. The interface is about the same, but everything is slower. I thought that something was severely wrong with the iPod when I purchased it because the menu interface is slow, verging on unresponsive, whenever music is playing.

Apple has had so many chances to make the iPod a better device and has chosen not to, so I'd be surprised if they improved the iPhone significantly.
We could all still Stand on Zanzibar(1), but I'm also reminded of a Harlan Ellison short story I can't locate that had a very large number of humans living in cramped, vertical dwellings with the rest of the Earth given over to intensive farming. It might be possible to support many more people, but that doesn't mean it's a pleasant or admirable objective. There's also the deletorious effects of the "green revolution"--when the natural gas for making nitrogen-based fertilizer runs out, the shock to the minimal remaining topsoil will be famine-ifying.

(1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand_on_Zanzibar
Glad to see I'm not the only one that thinks like this. I sometimes feel like a fraud because I haven't read the latest-greatest book on X. Sure, I use X every day, but I don't understand every last teeny aspect about it.
Perhaps WE are the evidence that a probe visited the solar system.
As we still don't know exactly how life begun, we can't ignore that posibility
Thanks for all the tips, everyone :D
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Design HN: How many designers read HN?
I'm a web and graphic designer, whose learning to become a developer. I was wondering how many like minded individuals are out there reading HN w/ me every day?
Kevin Mitnick & Dan Kaminsky rm -rf
How about Australia? It's more than 10x the size of Texas.
To compile your own Emacs 23 (Cocoa) for OS X:

./configure --with-ns && make install

"Emacs.app" will be in the "nextstep" folder

As for switching from the Carbon version to this version, I'm not sure what kind of changes your configuration will be need. I know that Option is Meta in this version whereas in Carbon Cmd is Meta.
Sooner same will be true for other languages as well
Reliability trumps innovation if people want to use the same stuff for a long time. In the consumer market it seems it's all about new stuff. People chuck out perfectly serviceable items because there's a new model they want. Which companies would bother to make a reliable mobile phone or computer for the mass market.

The facade of innovation works for larger items too. Why create a vehicle that lasts long after the 5 year bodywork warranty when you're just reducing your market. Entice people with the new model, make sure your goods don't last too long - that appears to be the capitalist way.
There are city tours that use Segways (see http://citysegwaytours.com for instance). The dork factor isn't that big of a deal if you're already easily flagged as being a tourist (fanny pack, camera hanging off your neck, etc.).

It also makes a lot of sense in that it allows you to cover significantly more territory than you'd otherwise be able to on foot and you're not trapped in the same kind of bubble as you would be on a tour bus.
Resveratrol: The Hard Sell on Anti-Aging
Here's yet another permutation in the perennial struggle to reconcile the overlapping but not identical principals of open and free software with a practical need to deliver an OS that does what users want and expect.

This is the double-edged sword of Linux: the necessary side-effect that comes from the freedom to create a diverse set of distros that support different communities' values and needs is the very fragmentation that keeps potential adopters too paralyzed by the lack of a clear choice to move forward.

Every new distro that doesn't unify the community (and what distro could possibly do this?) simply fragments it further. Yet clearly the search for a distro that everyone can settle on is still ongoing, which means the Linux community will continue releasing new distros.

In the meantime, most desktop consumers will continue to respond by falling back on the familiar.
Their games don't seem to be your kind of games. They've been in business for 4 years so somebody likes their games.
No design survives contact with the user.
successfully and very slowly

I think the author's point is that very slowly may not be successfully in current conditions.
If you've got MacPorts installed (if you don't, you should), grab a copy of my ports repo from github and use the emacs-app Portfile there.

http://github.com/jmhodges/ports/tree/master
Its funny, i'd have said its exactly the opposite. Its morally and ideallogically convenient to believe that no hard decisions need to be made and it will all end for the best.

Biological reality is an inconvenience to humanist and libertarian ideologies.
Their calculations all seem to depend on (much) slower than light speed travel.

Is it beyond the realm of imagination that if a civilization reached a sufficient level of sophistication to being "colonizing the galaxy" they would know how to travel at least faster than 1/10th the speed of light (the number mentioned in the article)?
Their games does not appeal to hardcore gamers.

But these are a tiny fraction of all players anyway.
I would send out von neuman probes that build more of themselves.
thank you, I have taken note of that and will change the configuration accordingly.
What came first, Jumpstart or Kickstart? Again, Linux is playing catch-up.

And the userland/package manager problem is neatly addressed by Blastwave.org.
I'm a graphic designer, and plan to get started in web design next year.
we can already build a ship that would go 3-5% the speed of light (Orion). Assuming that a civilization with a million year head start could only double/triple this performance is laughable.
I wonder if it would even be possible for a Valve or Bungie level studio to emerge out of a distributed workplace.
Windows 95 and Windows NT are not the same thing.
I don't really understand what this means. What is the symptom here, and what is it a symptom of?
it depends entirely on the distribution. One of my pet peeves about statistics is that everyone thinks every statistical distribution is either uniform or a bell curve. a statistical distribution ca take on many shapes.
The Chinese economy has been based on saving and investment not inflation and malinvestment

The article says, and gives examples, that China has been malinvesting for quite a while, a fact confirmed by other observers,

http://www.rgemonitor.com/asia-monitor/257180/chinas_present...

and that current international conditions basically force China to "invest" thoughtlessly for domestic political reasons, in disregard of economic reality.
That's good I might use that on my blog - don't like this horrible, barely readable colour scheme; subscribe to my mailing list or feed and get the content in a readable format!
There is more information at http://planet.centos.org Apparently he's been AWOL for some months now.
Also ssh-copy-id will not work if you don't have password authentication enabled. The only way to get ssh keys on top a ssh box without password auth, is to download them with some other method.
Outlier, if you accept the Rare Earth argument.

http://www.wikinfo.org/index.php/Rare_Earth_hypothesis_accor...

Interesting book...
Last week’s discussion of the same thing:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=721189
It's saying that even with probes that last 50 millions years, and visible from Earth for 1 million years, there could still be 1000 civilizations out there, and we wouldn't have heard from any of them. IOW:

Space is big.
Xanadu was ahead of its time in many ways, but the reason why the web took off the way it did I think has to do with the free and open nature of it.

The basic idea behind xanadu was that information could be re-cited as often as you wanted but the originator would get a slice of the cake.

The web is the opposite, it's a total free-for-all with the spammers and the parasites being on the same level as the originators of the content. Nelson saw it differently.

Early attempts at something like the web in Europe (minitel in France and videotext in the netherlands and germany) tried to charge 'by the page' for the content, but this seriously limited the amount of information available. Information providers could set a price on their information and the 'links' would display the price prior to activation. Billing was done through the telco.

If every web link came with a price attached I think it would have never gotten off the ground the way it did. Still, there are some good elements in that philosophy and I'm sure that in the long run 'for pay' links and some kind of citation mechanism will find their way back in to the web, simply because they are useful and because there is much demand for it (from the content providers side).

One potential way to realize this today is by setting up a gateway that deals with pay-per-view content where information providers could host their data and a plug-in based viewer (flash or something like it) that unlocks the content if the client has enough credits and confirms they want to see it.

I hope all of this makes sense :)
Followup: I dumped it into my svd code. Running over the netflix dataset took ~6 hours. Running over the github data takes ~2 minutes :)
China has a long history of revolution when the rulers "lose the mandate of Heaven." It has happened many times.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius#Politics
I thought Ubuntu was Fedora for the rest of us?

But seriously, what are the advantages of Red Hat/Fedora over ubuntu?
Uncovered: The Truth Behind the AT&T 4chan-Block
"put simply, mean reversion is a bitch"

Sometimes someone says something so asinine that it saves you the trouble of having to consider their other arguments. Assuming a Gaussian where none exists is a pretty amusing mistake to make considering the events of the past couple of years.
Better article about this here: http://news.therecord.com/article/354044
For our http://www.snapact.com/ startup, we currently use http://www.constantcontact.com/ for monthly newsletters. I'd also be interested in learning what other people use.

User signup verification and the like we use an internal mail server (Postfix on Linux) - keep in mind that going your own route requires knowledge of how spam flagging works, or you'll wind up getting caught in filters all the time. SPF, DomainKeys, Reverse DNS settings and more.

Good fun all around.
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The site looks good, the preview screencasts are good quality and the voice and inflection of the preview I looked at did not grate on my ears (like some other screencasters, not naming any names). Overall, I'd use this, as I have used others in the past.

Coupon not working for me either. "no longer valid"
had anyone else posted the story, it would have been dismissed as a rant

And that would have been a mistake, because this isn't really a rant. Its formal structure is that of a complaint, but in fact it is a short essay, in complaint form, about the nature of branding and company culture.

Why doesn't this count as a rant? There's no hard and fast rule. But one sign is that the company is unnamed and unidentifiable. There is a very good chance that it is fictional, or that it is a composite archetype that doesn't correspond to any specific company. None of which would change the meaning of the essay in the least.
It's nuts how many people and businesses just never consider this. I'd have thought that they'd be especially more careful since there's no binding contract or whatever between the developers.

As a separate sidenote (don't know if this is the case with centos), this might be one issue with the benevolent dictator for life method of running things, as efficient as it may be.
Please do not kill CentOS through your fear of shared management of the project.

This.
Hello, thanks for the feedback. We've decide to go with the credit system because it means that we can charge less for shorter, more concise screencasts and it's less confusing for users. Consumers are aware of and understand credits because many services implement them - the Xbox Live system is a great example of this.

You can also head over to the about page ( http://binarycake.com/about ) and see a list of credit bundles you can buy and the costs.

Thanks for the feedback! Jamie
Like a Segway, but cool and cheap
Run at 25 MPH (check)
Jump over cars. (check)
Cheap @ USD$269 (check)
Looks like you are doing something hard (check)

Just add a motor for the lazy and assisted balancing system and I think we have a winner.
What is the benefit of a region-specific version of Hacker News, especially one that is also in English? Most of what's discussed on this site is relevant to tech and the business of tech in general.
Transactors: Actors + STM
This will end in nothing good, I can assure you.
But their business model isn't news - it is to be the PR and government relations arm of whichever billionaire owns them.
The Times is a cheap way for Murdoch to make sure that the government gets the public opinion that is best for his other businesses.
IPhone Application Design Patterns
This is why I feel that Godin is a niche marketer. When he posts these 'gems', he's speaking to a narrow demographic. Those people who have some sort of vision and are 'still' trying to change the world. Most people are content with their jobs, the security it gives, and the money they take home. Seth is speaking to the ones who want to work for something they believe in and actually do choose what company they send resumes to because it matters to them who and why they will lend their talents to.

This is where I'll sound like a Sethapologist:
Some say anybody could have written this and that anybody could have ranted and been voted down here, but since it's Seth then the we pay attention. But has anybody really 'ranted' with the kind of consistency and proven results like he has? That's why people listen, and tho it's easy to dismiss what he says as 'just common sense', there will always be those who look to him and his words as inspiration and would have a seed of good management planted in them by it. In that case, he's already done his job and achieved the goal of his post. Something few of us can say we've done.

It's been more than a decade since I was in my 20's working a job because I needed the money yet still trying to hang on my ideals for dear life. Sometimes that's what it takes, someone to remind you that it still matters.
Maybe it's just me, but I couldn't figure out precisely what you guys did within five seconds of looking at the page, and that is for me a turnoff. I think it's part the color scheme, part the in-your-face layout, and part the overwhelming feed on the left side. If I just took a quick glance, I would think this is a blog, not a startup.

So you do screencasts? What type of screencasts? If that isn't inherently obvious at the start then a potential customer may feel left in the dark. The only place I can be for sure that these are developer screencasts is the tiny "kickass developer screencasts" text under the logo.

Be obvious with what you do! Peepcode (http://peepcode.com/) is an excellent model for a screencast site. By having "Rails" and "rSpec" in big letters to the right of their logo, I know instantly what they sell.

I'm no designer, but that's what strikes me at first glance. What an excellent achievement for a fellow teenager though!

(One final tip, make your <title></title> have the words "developer screencasts" in it. It will help make sure people know what you are giving them.)
It's hard to like Android.
I'm a ui designer. Hi. :)
Damn, what if he's lying dead in a ditch somewhere and all anyone cares about is his AdSense account!
I wonder how much of our technological growth is based on rare genious and special insight and luck? If it's a lot then that's a good argument for getting as big of a population as possible.

Actually is technological advancement is instead just based on hard work by normal people, then I guess that might also be an argument for a larger population. Not sure what my point is ...
Although I don't have any hard evidence, I think this is less true with Ruby on Rails, probably Python/Django as well. I just can't imagine that legacy Rails applications are going to be getting outsourced anytime soon. It will probably take another 15 years before Ruby even comes close to the widespread usage of PHP.
The strategy of only doing it because you have to is one which probably allows for more sustained imbalance and lack of perspective (since the business is everything and must be done, etc.), but I think it is short sighted to believe it's the only reason to start one. Or the only reason one could avoid disappointment when doing so.

At the end of the day, maybe this wasn't something I had to do, but it was something I wanted to do. And it has certainly been an incredibly rewarding experience. Overall, I am anything but disappointed. I've made many great friends, grown exponentially as a programmer and designer, even gotten a taste of the investment world.

Sure, sometimes it sucks, but never once have I said to myself, "I would've been better off getting a job." There's not once I'd have believed it.
I own a macbook and just to be fair I tested it with chrome and FF3.5

FF35:19.503 sec

Chrome:2.881 sec
On the other hand, if you are used to Mac OS X applications and want to try Emacs, Aquamacs is a good place to start. Mapping the Command key to traditional Mac shortcuts (Cmd-C copy, Cmd-V paste, etc.) while leaving the Control key for Emacs commands and Option as Meta, works really well for me. I have used Emacs off and on over a couple decades now, but have also been using Macs for about as long, so changing Command to do something other than the Mac shortcuts when I am on a Mac would mess with my muscle memory something terrible. I find myself sometimes using Cmd-V to paste and sometimes C-y as the mood strikes, and somehow it all works.

So, executive summary: if you just want Emacs like its always been stay away from Aquamacs. If you want Emacs that makes a little more sense according to Mac OS interface guidelines, give Aquamacs a shot.
Expect your PHP related projects to be outsourced in a big scale very soon.
Unfortunately I'm not that familiar with PHP based ones, so I can't point you to specific resources.

I usually Google: "PHP <whateverthehelliwant>"
Works reasonably well.

If there are PHP user groups near you, that'd probably be another great resource to leverage.
Indeed. It is called anaerobic digestion. For more information:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaerobic_digestion
"[C]ontent providers have the right to decide what happens to their content and on what terms".

-- Gavin O'Reilly, Chairman, Automated Content Access Protocol

If you don't want people using the content you created, you shouldn't be in the content creation business.
15 years is such a long time to predict anything.
I find this video terribly short on rebuttal, other than statements such as 'the entire population of the world could live on a land mass the size of Texas', and 'do the math'. He also says the population will peak in 30 years and then go back down. Why? Is it going down because we'll run out the ability to feed people ;)

What math? He hasn't given us any Math to do!

I'm all for open dialog on the issue, but I need more than a youTube video with a bunch of statements that don't make much sense to me.

I'm not sure why I bothered going to the website, but it looks like this was produced by a group who is against 'abortion, abortifacient contraception, and chemical and surgical sterilization'. So, now we know their angle. It doesn't look like it's really about overpopulation as much as these other issues.
I meant paid bike sharing, like Velib. Despite JCDecaux's complaints, I think they're still making money off of it. From what I've read, their losses on the program are paid by the city after a certain point.
There's one fundamental difference between China and Japan: Japan doesn't have more land upon which to build, which is what drove much of their housing craze (even our hottest markets were never even close to the Japan bubble)

China is much closer to the US when it comes to infrastructure: they need a lot for such a big country. Whether they spend it wisely will be the issue.
Loosening Security Controls to Boost Innovation
Are you in Singapore? Would love to meet up.
That's correct. And on OS X (at least on 10.5) you can put the key into your keychain and unlock it with your system password. Just make sure you lock your keychain when you don't need it.
This article is full of naive propaganda bits (state-owned roads destroying state-owned schools), but it has one important observation.

China has been keeping its currency pegged to the dollar and lived off US consumption. Now US will not be consuming much for a long time, so China has nowhere to sell their goods to. Unemployment and riots are at hand, it seems.

Of course, that's wrong. China can and will continue growing, but this time the engine of growth will be their own consumer market. Which is huge. There are already more internet users in China than people in the US.

When renminbi will start appreciating vs. other currencies, the population will start feeling richer and will consumer more, import more and borrow more. Today they already have shortages of consumer goods on the mainland, such as cars, even though dozen of producers are struggling to keep up with demand.

China, in other words, is where Japan was in the 60s and early 70s (maker of transistor radios and cheap scooters, export-oriented mostly). And it will go on to become what Japan was in the 80s, only with 1 billion population.
Go read Alastair Reynolds and see if you feel the same. Yikes.
Project Xanadu, Ted Nelsons' WWW precursor
The problem with overpopulation is that we generally need more kids from the sort of people that worry about overpopulation, and fewer kids from the sort of people who don't. Instead, we get the opposite.

Graduate education is the world's most effective contraceptive.
That seems pretty expensive compared to this($3-5 bucks a month for unlimited emails): http://www.yourmailinglistprovider.com/

Saw that in the "Successful officeless game studio tells its secrets" link.