skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like it's closer to the one I've been using which (at least as I have it configured) is more of a native emacs and less of a native mac app.
Immigrants. What a nefarious source of evil to be scorned.
While coroutines may help in writing more maintainable/readable code, they make for a very inefficient structure since they have to keep a separate stack. Having many concurrent coroutines is probably a bad idea.

This is the classic trade-off between event based processing (state machines) and process based models.
Agreed. It took way too long for economists to integrate cognitive bias and social effects on rational decision making. Further, they have traditionally not integrated tools from analyzing networks, common in complex systems analysis.

Economics should basically rebrand itself as a subfield of complex systems analysis.

I studied Econ for a long time and came away rather frustrated with the limited toolset. Statistics, Computer Science, Math and Physics have better tools available.
At the moment, Wikipedia relies on the press to verify the truth. How do you suggest Wikipedia verifies the truth without relying on the press and other scholarly sources?
If you have lego bricks to donate don't give them to James May, give them to a kid in your neighbourhood that can't afford them for a pretty much timeless pleasure instead of for a five day stunt.

The lego in my family has been passed down 3 generations now, close to 43 years and plenty of the original bricks are still there, they're a little faded (some, not all) and some of them are a little loose but they're doing fine.

To throw them away on some rich flunkie's 5 day project is a total waste.
Scrubbing is the process which checks the card and other data against various databases and algorithms in order to detect if the charge is a fraudulent one.
To compile from Vim, use vcbuild (for C++) or msbuild (.NET) as your makeprg (you will need to add them to your path first. For vcbuild you can do it by using "%VS90COMNTOOLS%\vsvars32.bat"). Then set errorformat and your ready to go :)
Terminal.app is very good in many ways, but Apple really needs to work on the configuration mechanism before I can use it regularly.

I frequently want to make tweaks to one window, and I just can't stand having to make a new set of Preferences every time a window disagrees with the established settings. Since the sets contain everything (colors, terminal attributes, long lists of key mappings, etc.) there are potentially a lot of things to redo.

Also, what's bizarre is that opening a saved file has the side effect of automatically creating a new, permanent set of Preferences. There isn't much point in having files if Terminal insists on re-storing everything as Preferences anyway.
I wish I'd done that earlier, but I only thought of it after the editing window (2 hours?) was gone. I can't fix it now...
The builds on emacsformacosx.com are literally taken from CVS (or the ftp.gnu.org release directory) and compiled up with no extra patches, packages or anything. I did take the resulting binary and make a fancy looking .dmg for it to live in but the actual application itself is completely stock.

I specifically made these builds because Aquamacs annoyed me. Think of them as sort of the anti-Aquamacs. Aquamacs tries to force Emacs into being a well behaved Mac application where, for instance, every buffer is a separate window (which is really annoying when you have multiple hundreds of buffers open). I'm sure there are Mac people out there that will love this and think that it is cool and maybe even The Right Thing. I wanted an Emacs for Emacs people that happened live on OS X and not an Emacs for Mac people.

The Carbon Emacs Package you linked to is more of a batteries included type of distro that aims to add a bunch of extra packages to the stock emacs. I haven't used it lately but it's worth noting that the recently released Emacs 23.1 doesn't have a Carbon port in the main source repo any more. It got replaced with the Cocoa/GnuStep port.
Incidentally, Google tends to break CPAN's documentation a lot. If I visit the "canonical URL" for a module, something like http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Foo::Bar, it always works. If I google for Foo::Bar, though, sometimes I get linked to http://search.cpan.org/dist/Foo-Bar-0.17, which is 404 because the author deleted version 0.17 and uploaded 0.18.

Amusing that other people have the opposite problem.
Space Shuttle Computers and Avionics
Probably the first site I've seen that uses SVG as the entire page, and it's really neat. The whole thing scales beautifully no matter what size the browser is.
I did not notice that before, thanks for pointing that out!
Indeed. And, even if Wikipedia can't sustain infinite exponential growth, that hardly means that it's failed.
Chris Sacca: You have a pitch for me? Great
Stopping people from disturbing radioactive waste for 10,000 years
I thought this was actually going to be, you know, speed dating for hackers.
Please Review my app - Css-Sprit.es
Hello HN,

I'd really love to have your feedback on this little tool I made. It can help you producing your CSS sprites for all your web developements needs.
The long lost formula for start-up success.
At some point, the main job of Wikipedia editors will be to update the encyclopedia in response to new information.
Is that to say Mark Zuckerberg shouldn't have done a social networking site or Steve Jobs, Pixar..? In fact maybe anybody who has their bachelor degree in liberal arts shouldn't even dream of going to med school or being a lawyer.
This line of reasoning is flawed. Some of the most successful people I've met in life have ended up doing things they never would have imagined.
This kind of fraud has been around for more than a decade in one form or another.

See 'windtree' and so on ( http://www.otherpower.com/windtree.html )

There are a lot of entities active in the small scale wind turbine segment that promise the moon but deliver absolutely nothing. A vertical, low power wind turbine seems like such a great idea that many people fall for it, but the output figures do not justify the expense.

Go here http://www.fieldlines.com/ and ask the people there what they think of it.

Disclaimer: I have designed and built a 5 meter (16') turbine and even though I'm not an expert I could talk to you about windmills for days :)
Hm, certainly bordering on politics, but also certainly intellectually interesting. Personally, I am undecided about this argument, here's how I see it:

Most people acquire wealth by creating value. Yet there are some institutions which control the money supply itself - and can hence create enormous amounts of wealth without creating value. Without extraordinary stretches of logic or definitions, it can be deduced that "most people" are slaves to those controlling the institutions with such powers. On the other hand, a constant money supply isn't a viable economic solution, either.

IMO, this just shows that macro-economics is still a mostly unsolved problem, and we are nowhere near the optimal solution.
CME.EXE is about backwards compatibility. New work should be done in PowerShell' which is quite clever (think Unix pipes with COM objects instead of plain text).
Exactly. A fund is in a very real sense a democracy. You 'vote' for a fund manager's decisions by investing and vote against by withdrawing.
Just curious, zapnap, but I didn't see any useful information on the site about finding partners. I saw a list of project suggestions and interested people, but none of finding partners local to your area, or how the existing teams found or knew each other..
Steve blank's blog is a virtual treasure trove of these insights. www.steveblank.com

Eric Reis takes Blank's CD model and extends it into actual product development...where the discussion is much less "Why?" and more "How?" www.startuplessonslearned.blogspot.com

You can also get Steve's book on Cafe Press and Amazon. (can't get it at B&N or Borders) http://www.cafepress.com/kandsranch
http://bit.ly/1m4R1S
For those that don't run gnome you can run vte directly, just download the source and compile the demo app.
The Federal Reserve was created by the wealthy class to keep money in the hands of the few. Read 'The Creature from Jekyll Island'. The Fed is a sham. It is neither federal (the shareholders are the banks themselves) nor has it any reserves.
Ideally, this shouldn't happen anymore; or, at least they've designed the current system to stop it from happening:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163845.aspx
I second rxvt-unicode. Very configurable, and works fine with a tiling window manager.
I suppose I'm now the moral equivalent of a freemium service. There is a free trial available. I never disparage the goal of, ultimately, making my customers happy and in return accepting their money. There is a price staring you in the face from the moment you arrive at the front page.

I think a lot of people sort of fall into freemium because they are hesitant about charging people money. Don't be. Don't chase after customers who don't pay money for stuff -- if you don't pay money for stuff, don't chase after yourself, find a niche which does pay money for stuff. Solve their problems. Get paid for it, like everyone else who solves their problems.

Incidentally, I sort of like OSS for being a friend catcher in the support of a paid-for project. (Note that this is very different from the usual "We'll OSS it and then create a premium version of the same thing, then viciously compete against ourselves for customers and mindshare" strategy.)

[Edited to add: Incidentally, to get to ~2,000 paying customers I had to attract substantially in excess of 100k free trials, although the web version now converts much better (2.07% or so). Since they cost me essentially no marginal effort no marginal cost beyond advertising, I'm totally OK with that. If they were paying monthly I'd be sitting pretty!]
He isn't driven to do anything, and is (somewhat) envious of someone who has a choice of things they are driven to do.

( I interpret his statement in light of my current state - in bed browsing the web aimlessly at 10am despite being on holiday in a hotel in a foreign city )

( Incidentally, I saw Jodrell Bank from the plane on the way here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodrell_Bank_Observatory )
I use http://www.xfce.org/projects/terminal/ because it's simple and it works.
WP's a lot more daunting than it used to be for a newcomer. Every now and then I see an article where someone came along, dumped in a bunch of text (unique if not original), and ran away from merging it.

They could really use a hand-holding (offline?) editing environment. Stylistic expectations now are daunting for a noob - and their online help is, well, badly organized might be kind.
The Power of Continuous Improvement
I'm a few paragraphs in and I'm already crushed under the weight of the author's histrionics. This article is crap and belongs on a site like Digg, not HN.
Too much of desktop linux has strayed from his #5, and it bothers me to no end (yes this means you, hal and dbus and gconf).
On putty: I'm surprised to hear all the bad vibes for putty - what's wrong with its terminal emulation? I adore putty - you can configure it so that it toggles full-screen with alt+enter and can load sessions with windows+r, 'putty -load {session name}'. It's easy to configure different colours for different profiles so it's easy to always have my production consoles in red. I haven't found such a straightforward way of getting that going in a linux desktop setting (other than using putty for linux which is unrefined). The default font isn't all that nice but I think I use terminal size 10 and that looks nice. Putty supports all the stuff you criticise - 'text selection, copy-paste, window resizing, fonts' - what's the downside? I tend to use it in gnu-screen and don't have problems with this.

On cmd: Funnily enough that cmd environment has become less powerful over the evolution of Windows. For instance, it used to be possible in win2k era to bundle a complete application as a batch file by having code stored as text and written out when it ran - through a couple of mechanisms using minor features. Those features which were subsequently removed, presumably to stop just this sort of hack. The latest versions of Windows don't have telnet as standard - I'm at a complete loss to know how I'm meant to do connectivity testing with clients who don't have it and don't have permission to install it - the telnet mechanism in Windows was bad enough as it was but now they've made things worse. I've found Windows scripting host to be very poor for doing networking. It's also very crippled.

(When I'm in OSX I use iTerm because it's the only way I've found to get a nice full-screen console under the current release of OSX)
That is basically what we're doing with Stormpulse.com.
“Not everything in life has been good – but things have mostly come in a fortunate order. It’s got nothing to do with skill, it’s simply luck. Like the idea to drop by the Department of Industry … it was just because I am the kind of person who hates waiting.”

Most successful people contribute their success to luck - maybe that's why they are so lucky.
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The Story of a Simple and Dangerous Kernel Bug
Mutual fund investors no more affect the decision of the fund managers - and certainly not the indices' management - than does a random voter in even a swing state.
Here's a free idea, if you want to do it on the cheap: write your stuff to a USB stick, partner with someone who makes (appropriate) art, embed the stick in the art, sell as a package. Instant one-of-a-kind item that corporations can't emulate.
Are you talking about the backspace issue? There are some old patches from ubuntu that show how to fix it (though they they don't seem to use them themselves anymore):

https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+source/vte/+bug/29787/com...

rxvt and friends gave me problems using truetype fonts. They have their own code for calculating widths which gives the wrong answer even when it's monospaced.

I wish there were more terminals. It may seem like there's a lot but they are derived from a fairly small number of roots and they inherit all of the bizarre behaviour.
I think the reasons for the decay were already widely discussed everywhere:
1. there is a great amount of rules and guidelines which worsen the learning curve
2. quite often, articles are owned by "shepherds", who tend to rollback outsider contributions (because they have their own perfect vision in their heads); this contributes to despair of occasional contributors
3. because the topmost reasons to be a winner in a editor dispute are (a) persistence and (b) bone-headness
There are tons of vte based terminals. Terminal of xfce, for example, which is quite "lightweight".
A more important question for me:

How is this different from building Emacs out of MacPorts? I interact with Emacs solely through a terminal window, and so don't need or want a GUI version.
Olsen gives al-Kasim much of the credit: he pushed the government to increase extraction rates; insisted that companies try new technologies, such as water injection in chalk reservoirs or horizontal drilling; and threatened to withdraw operating licences from companies that balked. “It is this culture, a culture of ‘squeezing the last drop out’, which he cultivated,” says Olsen.

As it stands, this makes no sense. If a cost-benefit analysis showed that investing in technology to increase extraction efficiencies would pay off (given the volatitlty of future prices, etc.), then it should have been done regardless of his urgings. If it didn't, he should never have pushed the idea. In the first case, StatOil would need new managers. In the second, the subject of the story would be wrong.

You'd think that the editors of The Financial Times would have pursued that issue in a bit more depth.
5 Myths About Health Care Around the World
The significance is that it was launched last year (OCT) for a two year mission and got kaput before even reaching one year. What history are you looking for?

They are not philosophizing anything, only stating the fact that space program like this, which costs millions of dollars to run and maintain, have come under scrutiny within certain sector of India since millions of people on India still lack basic services; like power, water and proper sanitation.

I don't see anything wrong with the reporting.
From the article: "It’s got nothing to do with skill, it’s simply luck. Like the idea to drop by the Department of Industry … it was just because I am the kind of person who hates waiting.”

IMHO people often attribute to luck what is in fact created by themselves.

On another note, Norway's oil production is now in sharp decline:

http://www.norway.org/NR/rdonlyres/3AE52C92-D215-419D-8131-9...

http://aleklett.wordpress.com/2008/07/30/a-decline-rate-stud...
Lies, damned lies, and statistics.

There are more growth metrics behind the most visible one - number of articles, which is displayed on the main page.

http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/ChartsWikipediaEN.htm

Compare charts "New articles per day" vs. "Edits per article".
Former has declined during last two years, but latter has increased significantly.

New articles per day average was 171 in 2007, 149 in 2009. Edits per article was 51 in 2007, 65 in 2009. Bytes per article (=quality) is also growing (http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesArticlesBytesPerArticle....).

These tell a different story. Wikipedia's growth isn't just in the number of new articles anymore.
Vibrations...
They needed a geologist, he needed healthcare for his kids, it's a win/win situation. However Norway has a very low immigration rate.
Ummm, can you say dropbox?
My attempted title was "Message to 12,000 A.D.: This place is not a place of honor."

Alternatively, see this breezier (but pretty good) summary: http://www.damninteresting.com/this-place-is-not-a-place-of-...
Things go to shit when criteria are rigidly enforced. You can't define 'hacking' or 'entrepeneurship' and any set of criteria attempting to do so will require liberal interpretation to allow everything of interest. The result is necessarily that some stuff is not of interest. The only way to be sure everything is of interest, is by not allowing anything.
I don't have xfce installed either. The sample app is perfectly complete, you don't need a GUI for a terminal.
I'm married to an immigrant (from China) and I and America are lucky to have her. Plenty of her fellow Chinese immigrant friends as well.

On the other hand, since we're on the subject of Middle Eastern immigrants to Norway, here's something from Bruce Bawer, a gay American who moved to Norway to marry his partner:

"Here in Oslo, a gay couple who were holding hands in the largely Muslim neighborhood of Grønland were physically assaulted by a man who told them: "This is a Muslim neighborhood." In a follow-up story, Dagbladet interviewed a local man, born in Pakistan but resident in Norway for ten years, who argues that "Grønland is a multicultural environment where there are many people who don't like homosexuals, so they shouldn't hold hands." He says such things are OK in west Oslo, where there are few Muslims, "but here in Grønland they shouldn't do it. Ideally, it should be forbidden to practice homosexuality in this area."

http://memo.brucebawer.com/

What matters is the value system of those immigrants, and it keeps mattering regardless of how desperate the politically correct are for an external source of self-worth. (I'm not saying that's you. I am saying that it is a great many such people.)
My Mac OS X comes with emacs and vim already if you're using the terminal. I thought they all did.
I dug up a hack that someone has done to add an ANSI colors editor to Terminal

Right. That doesn't work in Snow Leopard. That's what OP meant.
Yielding from within called functions is the basic generator syntax, but I think I know what you're talking about.

> Maybe Python 3 fixed this

Can you verify that this is what is being talked about at page 26 of this link? http://www.dabeaz.com/coroutines/Coroutines.pdf

If so - Python 2.5.
> To throw them away on some rich flunkie's 5 day project is a total waste.

I'm not going to disagree totally with this, but James May has been doing quite a lot lately to raise the profile of science and engineering, and simply blowing off a project like this with disdain seems a bit shallow. It's part of a larger push by the BBC to get more kids into engineering, and while it's too early to say for definite, there are signs that it's working.

Yes, giving surplus lego to a kid down the street is a good thing, but every now and again it's worth supporting larger projects with greater reach.

I don't know if you've read Good Omens, but there's a bit in that where each demon is reporting on what they've done recently. Several talk about the individuals they've tempted, and the near certainty of a soul each. Then Crowley says he managed to tie up the mobile phone network in all London for about 30 minutes around lunchtime. The others can't see what that has to do with anything, and Crowley is at a loss to explain how the frustration and anger will cause tens of thousands of souls to be one step closer to Hell.

Sometimes the big picture is hard to see. Maybe this isn't an example, maybe this is a worthless stunt, maybe this has no long term effect.

But then again, maybe it has.
Money quote from the paper:

"The survey measure of family income is much higher for the non-adoptees than for the adoptees: $61,000 per year versus $42,000 per year. But this huge difference narrows to $1,600 when I control for age, education, and gender. "
I use 'terminator' a very nice terminal based on Gnome Terminal. If you like GT definitely you should try terminator as well.
Sometimes when I'm stoned I get these "visions" too. Usually they get scrambled down in notepad, just to be discarded and laughed at the next day. Never would advise to blog them immediately!
According to http://www.bhsi.org/guide.htm :

"Most bike helmets are made of EPS foam with a thin plastic shell. The shell helps the helmet skid easily on rough pavement to avoid jerking your neck....

Beware of gimmicks. You want a smoothly rounded outer shell, with no sharp ribs or snag points."

I don't think a hat over a helmet is going to skid as easily as slick plastic. Also, "Dark helmets are hard for motorists to see," and this helmet looks like it only comes in black.
I visited this article twice this evening, and it appears to have been edited to address your point about separate domains vs. subdomains.

The author failed to indicate an edit occurred, which I consider a bad Reader Confidence Optimization.

edit: edited to indicate I had visited the site twice.
Upgrading broke my apache/mod_wsgi setup (says Premature end of script headers: django.wsgi), still debugging, although I'm not the best at fixing these things :-/
They seem much easier to reach with bad publicity.
"Finally, friends don’t count as respondents. By some quirk in the human psyche we would rather see our friends waste their time and money, rather than to tell them the truth!"

I love my useless friends =)
What is good for Norway is not necessarily good for the oil companies, which have opportunities elsewhere.
xterm bundled with Leopard.

It supports 256 colors and is very fast. Terminal.app only for quick sessions. If only X11 fullscreen feature worked properly... (should probably try the latest build of XQuartz)
That's a shell, not a terminal emulator.
All I get from that link is a page not found error. Has the article been pulled, or have ft.com tried and failed to provide a mobile version of their site?

Or are they just filtering access to that page from norway where the servers serving opera mini seem to be located, judging from the mislocalized adsense stuff google tends to show me?
What's next then?

What OS do you use? What Linux dist? What web browser?!
And a club that feels empty come 10 or 11 PM will remain empty all night because nobody wants to be where nothing is going on.