skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quite good but for those not used to Mercurial I hear the words of Linus "branching is easy, merging is hard" about svn so the article really need a second chapter of howto merge those Anonymously Branches.
Not as dumb as your loved ones explaining this to the hospital.
Personally, I intentionally hardcode my URLs.

This forces me to think about my URL design up front. Then, if I decided I want to change URLs later, I've got plenty of time to come to my senses and stop. Public URLs shouldn't change, so this can only ever be a problem during development where a quick `vcs diff` renders the problem practically moot.
Carl Sassenrath still one of the 30 Most Influential People In Programming
According the History of Computing Project, the Amiga 1000 created by Jay Miner and its OS designed by Carl Sassenrath, causes an enormous shock among the users. The computer is so advanced for its time that even the marketing department of Commodore does not know what they are up to.<p>3D animation, full-motion video, fancy TV processing, four-voice stereo sound chip, speech synthesis, all this allowed the birth of Multimedia softwares like Soundtracker, the first tracker-style music sequencing program. At that time, the IBM PCs didn’t even do color!
That's the thing that really depresses me about TextMate, I use it and like it a lot, but it's starting to feel old and could really use a fresh coat of paint and some new pictures on the wall.
The best you can probably do now is eat well and rest. I hurt my tendons quite a bit and I know for bones and connective tissue, you can't do much better than rest.

edit: and I hope you feel better. I'm sure we can expect more activity from you now.. or more frequent updates to mibbit :P
"Or at least would give me something to do"

I don't think it will heal so fast that you can actually watch it live ;-)
This just summed up exactly why I don't use IRC anymore.
All the blog posts about various internet phenomena making me dumber are making me dumber.
Patience is indeed key.

I've had several sports related injuries over the years; two things have always caused problems for me:

1. my impatience to get back into the swing of things too soon

2. not listening to the physiotherapist/doctor/rehab personnel

The above two points combined together caused me to start doing activities that I shouldn't be doing far too soon after the injury and not do enough of the (prescribed) activities that I should have been doing for long enough after the injury.

While I'm now mobile, I can't do many of my favorite sports/activities anymore - hindsight is 20/20, naturally.

I just wish I'd been more patient, receptive to advice and persistent. Live and learn.
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Tech's Most Dangerous Idea
A watched kettle never boils eh :( true.
While there are certainly similarities between real estate and tertiary education, the title claim is obvious and unmitigated rubbish. A bubble is only possible when prices are drive up by speculation. Where exactly is there a speculative market in college degrees?
I used to have a friend with whom I would talk about rock bands. On more than one occasion, he referred to a group as being "derivative" of another group, when chronologically, the group he was calling derivative came first.

His response was always that the "derivative" group jumped ahead in time to hear the newer band, and came back and played their derivative crap back in their time.

Moral of the story: the late '60s through the late '80s were an undocumented golden era of musician time travel.
Maybe signing up for a few years of service work helps replace this. A number of my peers made the decision to pursue a year or two of service after graduating from undergrad, where a wide range of jobs are available (working at an orphanage, teaching at an inner city school, etc). Not only does this give you some social awakening (albeit, not quite the same as party school xyz), but now you're benefiting society a bit more too.
You don't really have to learn how to use all the bells and whistles for it to be effective and ideal. Heck, I use it because it saves me having to transfers files or allows me to develop on a separate box through ssh if I don't feel like setting up expand drive or the likes.

Also, hjkl is the most beautiful thing I've ever experienced, I constantly wish TextMate and VisualStudio gave me the separation from edit/navigate mode like VIM does.
Template virtual world (or freemium) business model, spreadsheet included
Information foraging: why Google makes people leave your site faster
Quite true - but even in the midst of housing bubbles or any asset bubbles for that matter, you can always find underappreciated/undervalued assets (markets tend to be a lot more nuanced with the property markets being different in Austin, TX than say, Miami, FL). I suspect that's going to be the case for a lot of degrees where you don't need to an ivy league school and can get the same level of education elsewhere.

Of course, the question is at what point can kids and their parents be convinced that an ivy league degree just isn't worth it anymore (since like film industry investors, the returns tend to be more about glamour/sexiness than simple financial returns)
What Mark-to-Market? PE Firms Keep Portfolio Valuations Steady
How does this look on the Pre?
So are you the kind of person who says we shouldn't try to apply objective moral/ethical standards to other cultures in the present age? I submit that there's a much greater cultural distance from modern England to modern Pashtun Afghanistan than to England of fifty years ago. Would you say that we should withhold judgement when an Afghan woman is beaten or murdered for leaving her house alone?

You say that Jefferson was "doing his best". I think you chose Jefferson to make such a statement as easy as possible for yourself. I don't believe that the people most responsible for Turing's fate were "doing their best". I think they knew they were doing something wrong. I think that the Taliban know that blowing up girls' schools (and the girls) is wrong.

This is why I say you lack a common moral foundation with supporter of an official apology to Turing. I say that it's wrong, always and everywhere, for a man to be hounded to suicide for his sexual orientation. If we can't have any kind of objective foundation, what hope do we have of stopping this from happening in the future? (that's largely a rhetorical question; I'm well aware that there have been two millennia of debate over absolute ethics, but for me this issue is clear as day).

EDIT: Grammar-- damn this vanity.
You can be respectful without being subservient.

But assuming RiderOfGiraffes is right about this being nothing more than a code phrase... well, it is a funny one!
I have had 2 major neck operations due to 3 fractured vertebrae so...

Listen to your doctors and your physical therapists. I did lots of fiction reading and exercised like hell when I was allowed / needed to. Eat healthy, like you normally would even without a fractured hip (although your doctors probably recommended supplements). Do activities that bring a smile to your face.

Bottom line: let your body heal naturally, don't worry too much and as most of the comments here have said, be patient.
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Useful degrees are still useful, just as good real-estate during the bubble was still good real-estate.

But the bubble question is simply: are the costs inflated beyond their 'fair' value?
And for even good degrees, I think they are.
Ask HN: Why does a url use ://?
anyone know why a url is structured that way?
The best things I've learned from 37signals are

- You can build cool things that people need and will pay for.
- You can keep it simple and effective.
- You can do it in whatever style suits you best.

Copying's got nothing to do with it.
Apple just announced a press event on 9/9/9. Which is 6/6/6 upside down. This is an important number in UNIX filesystem design. I feel something ZFS will happen on that date.
"tailor your messaging to your target buyer" -- I think this is the key insight here!

Personally, I like the approach of avoiding allusions to size on your main site, using the expected language of your customer, and not trying to hide it in your personal communications. It's OK if the company blog unveils how tiny you are, anyone looking there is already interested beyond your size.
More Alleged Screenshots Of Google Chrome OS. My, What Big Icons You Have.
I've worked with Corrinne in the past, and I for one do actually think she is awesome. She's one of those engineers that lives and breathes her work. We'd be eating lunch and then out of nowhere she'd exclaim things like, "HEY GUYS check out the REFRACTIONS in this CUP OF ICE it's so BEAUTIFULLY RENDERED!!" and then she'd go back to her desk and try to hack it together.
Interesting, thank you for clearing that up for me.

Just to make sure I understand: you could view a PEG as having an ambiguity that is resolved by implementation.

It's a small and subtle difference that both LL(* ) and PEG grammars are by definition unambiguous and produce only one tree; they just accomplish it in different ways.
Right. Just like posting a website with zero information.

I don't know why anyone would do either.
There is an excel model included in the post, I'd love your feedback to make this model better. I'm hoping that we can help other entrepreneurs who are building freemium businesses understand the relationships between the metrics, and how to build them into a useful model.
The example given in this subpar submission is not unique to PDF. The problem would not be much easier if the resumes were in Word, RTF or even plain text. There are numerous tools to extract text from PDF documents. The hard part of this problem is finding discrete data in text that isn't in a standardized format.

It is difficult to determine whether the author is referring to PDF as an image format or if he actually means that the resume is an image in the PDF file (as opposed to text created through OCR). If it is the latter, it is again not a PDF problem. JPEG images would not make the problem less difficult.

I also don't like the attitude that non-technical people should know what is and isn't possible. That is our job. Many technical people claim things are "impossible" when they don't want to do them as well. If a technical person spends weeks on this before realizing that it is an extremely difficult problem then they are incompetent.
I commend you on this and wish I had known about it sooner. What a great way to allow people to practice so many skills and have so much fun as well.

To expand on the previous post and your post as well, some sort of "team finder" would be really cool.

Great, great job.
You can style thesis any way you want. Check http://blog.auinteractive.com and http://artofblog.com both run on thesis and don't look like the standard "Thesis" theme.

For the standard theme check out a site like http://www.photodropper.com
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The : separates the protocol and location, and // is the root level of a path.
You can learn a lot about your body while your recovering.
This will help you understand the objective of the physical therapy exercises that you'll be doing when your injury has healed to that point. Also you'll understand how better balance and just being in better shape can stop you from getting re-injured.

There are also strength coaches who can give you specific rehabilitative exercises that your therapist might not know about. If you read the work done by Mike Boyle and Mike Robertson, you'll get an idea.
You could even email them and ask what all you could do to fix your hip faster.

I bought a few anatomy books and listened to a lot of different lectures on the knee till I realised that glue+hamstring strength decreases the pressure on the patella tendon (which I had torn). And then I created my own exercises till I'm pretty much healed now.

Its a long process but I feel that the appreciation you get for fitness from this will help you for the rest of your life.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URI_scheme#Generic_syntax
Technically, not all of them do; "<schema>:" is the common prefix, and everything else depends on the URL type.

See: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt

In particular, section 3.1, 'The scheme specific data start with a double slash "//" to indicate that it complies with the common Internet scheme syntax.'. So it is used by URLs that require any of this information: "//<user>:<password>@<host>:<port>/<url-path>".
It seems pretty clear that you are going to find a way to make this debate personal no matter which direction it's going in. However I still feel compelled to note: I had no intention of insinuating even the slightest thing about you. I know absolutely nothing about you. I simply disagree with your contention that I am being childish and naive. If my opinions come off as an ad hominem attack, it is only because the subject we are discussing involves very personal choices.
Debunking the Times 'Facebook Exodus'
RFC 1738 section 2.1 specifies the colon between the scheme (e.g., "http") and the scheme-specific-part (e.g., //news.ycombinator.com). The // is specified in section 3.1 as part of the "common internet scheme syntax." Specifically, the // is intended to identify the scheme-specific-part as complying with the CISS.
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I was the same way honestly, but I switched back to HTML4 Strict. It's not that hard of a switch, and you can still keep your xhtml practices and write very clean layouts with it.

Here's some food for thought by Cameron Moll: http://cameronmoll.com/archives/2009/06/coding_like_its_1999...
The difference is that your education is not transferable. You only have one education level, and it is only useful for you.

The housing bubble was driven by speculation and people owning multiple properties, some as "investments" that they flipped for a profit.

There is no equivalent for that in education.

Education is more like health care, the cost is rising fast and we need to do something about it. It is not a "bubble".
Since physical health directly relates to our performance as well as well being, I don't see this topic as at all off-topic.

From another perspective, many people "hack" their health. It seems a worthy topic.
So are you the kind of person who says we shouldn't try to apply objective moral/ethical standards to other cultures in the present age?

I think you've reached exactly the opposite conclusion from what I am trying to say.

I'm saying that we have a obligation to apply our standards as a group to other cultures in the present age -- much more so than to people who aren't around to defend themselves.

If you believe that Jefferson knew he was wrong then I envy you -- you live in an age where you understand what is truly moral and those in ages past did not. It must feel good (and I'm only being a bit sarcastic here) to feel so free of ambiguity and nuance when it comes to reviewing other people's lives.

If we can't have any kind of objective foundation, what hope do we have of stopping this from happening in the future?

If you truly are interested in preventing immoral things from happening in the future, wouldn't your best course of action be to identify and confront those things you find immoral in the present day that nobody does anything about? Why go beating up folks who aren't around? There's so much actual bad stuff, does it make you feel better to lionize Turing and demonize his tormentors than to actually stand up against, say, the violence against Tibetians? Or slavery in the Arab world? Or genital mutilation in Africa?

When you start dealing with modern morals, you find that it gets tricky very quickly: to make a difference you have to navigate all of this stuff between you and effective action. Yet to deal with some historical injustice it's very easy: find the good guy, find the bad guy, and make some kind of symbolic statement.

Odd that you can't see that the very difficulties you face today in being moral were also faced by those in the past.

No matter how right or wrong you are about things, unless you're actually changing something it's all so much whining. Turing is a good example of somebody we can rally around and feel good about supporting -- he had a great mind and was treated terribly. But our reaction is all just so much fluff. It's modern morals: change your lightbulbs to CFI, write a check to a charity and leave the heavy-lifting to somebody else.

Just not my cup of tea.

I think if they want to Knight the guy that's a completely different thing, and it sounds like a great idea. Just not so much the navel-gazing and symbolic and empty self-flaggelation.
Don't give the analysts any ideas.
Maybe not directly, but Pixar's Andrew Stanton is starting filming on the PG-13 John Carter of Mars movie later this year with Disney:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carter_of_Mars_(film)

And this is even as Brad Bird is in development on filming 1906 in conjunction with WB. So maybe not Pixar per se, but...
The risk of legacy is fairly simple: when your brand new app crashes, you have most of the team there, ready to fix it. When your 10 year old legacy app has a catastrophic failure, you have a maintenance programmer, one of a long line of maintenance programmers who all added their own code to it.

Basically, the older an app is, the less any person knows about it and the more convoluted it has become.
>...this thought has been in the back of my mind since we started hearing about the spectacular gains from Ivy League endowments and why they aren’t doling them out to at-need students.

This is a very frustrating statement. First, unless I'm missing something, endowments aren't showing "spectacular gains" as of late. Additionally, Ivy League schools are doling out financial aid to at-need students. For example, Harvard has "no expected parent contribution" for students whose parents make less than $60k per year. (http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/financial_aid/hfai...). Cornell has replaced any offered loans with grants for students whose parents make less than $75k per year. (http://cornellsun.com/node/26757). As a hypothetical example, parents who make $50k per year are expected to contribute $5000 per year. The student is expected to contribute $2000 and have a work-study paying $1800 per year. The student takes on no loans, gets $39,000 in grants per year, and graduates debt-free. (http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Jan08/finAid.html)
The ':' is to separate the scheme from the bits that are specific to the scheme. The // is to indicate a hostname and not a directory. http:/test is a valid url indicating a relative path on the machine that the current resource came from, http://test is a url that specifies a resource on a machine mapped to the TLD test. The double slash removes the ambiguity. It really is two bits, a ':' and the '//'

Other possible sources of confusion:

http://test.com:80/

You could then get:

http:/test.com:/

Position would give it away, but, if you then complicate matters further by using default protocol (in your broweser http) it looks like:

:/test.com:/

In many browsers

://test.com:/ is perfectly legal.

Of course, you could strip that down further by dropping the default port colon to get:

://test.com/

See here for a much longer (and probably better :) ) explanation:

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1738

I hope that helps !
>Kate Courteau is the architect who designed Y Combinator's office. Recently we managed to recruit her to help us run YC when she's not busy with architectural projects.

I was scratching my head on this one - thinking why a person with architectural skills would be chosen to help run YC - and then it struck me that originality and creativity is perhaps the hallmarks of YC or am I missing something?
You'd have to be stupid to get your N20 out of a Pam can though.

Here's a secret: nitrous oxide is legal to recreationally consume in most of the 50 states and can be purchased at porn stores. Seriously, they keep it under the counter in whipping cream canister form and they will also sell the "cracker" needed to safely pierce the canisters as well as heavy duty balloons.

It's of course cheaper to get it online: http://www.creamright.com/WHIP-CH.html

Don't let the idiot who made this blog post turn your off. N20 is one of the safest medical drugs in existence. It's the anesthetic with the longest history of use and it is as safe as can be. The only danger is that you hold your breath too long, but that's not a big deal, just make sure you breathe some oxygen after a minute. Also, in high doses over a long period of time, N20 depletes your body's vitamin B which is very bad, but this is easily fixed by a multivitamin.
Who Dominates Online News In Italy? Not Google News.
I guess fair is fair. Some sysadmins assume by default that the users are dead stupid and will lock them down hard. And some users will think sysadmins are evil creatures from the inner circles of hell taking massive pleasure in this.

At least the users seems to think the sysadmins are competent in what they do :)
Newspapers: 30% print revenue decline; 16% online revenue drop
In the world of coders (where males far out-number females) I think it is a very interesting fact that the lead developer of the halo 3D engine is female.

It's not something you see every day. That's why I put it in the title. I thought the point of creating a title was to highlight the interesting aspects of a story?
Quoting the OP: "Remember that airplane-looking thing that Burt Rutan built, that went into space carrying some 50-year-old dude who thought he was hot shit but almost went out of control?"

The pilot of SpaceShipOne was Michael Melville, he was 63 at the time, and he definitely has the Right Stuff.

http://www.richard-seaman.com/Aircraft/AirShows/SpaceShipOne...
True, but unless you place some really strict filters on the crowd you're sourcing from, odds are the vast majority of it will be bad, and make you dumber.

'Tis the reason why I stopped using any sort of aggregator (Slashdot, reddit, Digg, etc.) for any news. The average intelligence and professionalism demonstrated on such sites is so low that I'd rather be staring at a wall than reading those sites.
And that, unfortunately, is the biggest problem with IT policy. It is deceptively easy to give permission for an application for one or two people, but once you start trying to take anything away you have a total shit-storm on your hands. This is the primary reason IT policy tends towards white-listing (you can only use the applications/sites wee say you can) rather than blacklisting (you can use any apps/sites, except...). IT already takes a lot of crap from the users, adding in the complaints from users who have been told "No, you can't use the app you've relied on for years" is generally a bad idea.
Well, the BSD port of ZFS has the reputation of being less reliable and difficult to administer due to lack of certain features and tool support, so possibly Apple ran into similar problems. The NetApp lawsuit can't help, either.
There may or may not be (monetary) value in that. That's why the business model is necessary. Popularity does not necessarily equal financial success.
The best salespeople have expensive hobbies
This article contains some interesting analysis of second quarter Newspaper industry financials. Among them:
- Adjusted for inflation, the newspaper industry is now half of what it was in 1986.
- Newspaper share of the ad market is less than 15%, compared to >25% in 1989, despite a steady ad market.
- When analyzed against personal consumption expenditure, newspapers appear to be in a free fall unrelated to the economic downturn.
And in case others missed the point, his site isn't that color in some kind of tribute...his site is that color because he's jwz, and he wrote vast swathes of Mozilla, and he can make his website any color he wants.