skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this pg giving more hints at a possible implementation of RFS 1? (http://ycombinator.com/rfs1.html)

That would imply that no one has approached him with a satisfactory solution. This article seems to indicate that the solution is to simply give content away and figure out a better way to make money off advertising. That's a little more boring than I was hoping for, but sometimes boring ideas work.

I'm going to keep my mind churning on something more creative... just in case.
I like Cal Ave partly because it's about as close as you can get in this area to my favorite neighborhood in Seattle (15th Ave).

A photo I took yesterday while they were taking the last one down:

http://openbs.org/photo/wehavenotrees.jpg

Quote from the notice they sent out:

"The City of Palo Alto Public Works Department ... shall be replacing most of the street trees on Cal Ave ... most of the existing trees are Holly Oaks and many of them are diseased and in poor condition. Their branches cover street lights and grow over building storefronts and roofs requiring frequent tree trimming. They bear and drop large acorn fruits that are tripping hazards for pedestrians.

"The Holly Oaks will be replaced with Red Maples ... smaller seed fruits that are safer for pedestrians ... metal grates will be installed ... which will bring a uniform look to the business district. The existing tree wells in sidewalks are open wells which may be tripping hazards."

Funny thing is there are maples on 15th Ave so I've seen how they are through the year. When the maples start dropping sap on people's cars and all of the restaurants' outdoor furniture is too sticky to sit on I don't know what they'll do. I'll just laugh.
Sounds dangerous. When I was a kid, I was already enough of a contrarian that if I'd gone there I probably would have done no work just to prove their silly theory wrong.
For the sake of argument, I'm going to ask why? I mean why do we work hard and push ourselves? We're all going to end up as worm food eventually anyway. So why push yourself? Why not just enjoy life?

Now, of course, I push myself for various reasons: I want income, I want to make the world a better place, I want to learn, etc... but in the end are those reasons for working hard any better than the person who says they want to have a happy life and thus don't work hard or push themselves?
Sounds awesome to me... I wonder what would we all IDE autocompletion slaves do. I actually had to once write an entire grails project in EditPlus. No auto completion or fancy refactoring of IntelliJ just because the company would not spend the money. Is Joel listening?
Their new designers are adding a lot more visual touches to the interface, too. The original 37signals style consists mainly of HTML elements styled with CSS, and with all the controls unstyled, e.g. form controls. When you're not creating new images for buttons, backgrounds and boxes, then there really is little point to use Photoshop -- you just need to mock up the layout, and that can be done on paper.

When you're adding a lot of visuals, you'll end up using them in the final product, which is where designing that stuff and laying it out in Photoshop becomes more practical. It really depends on the style of the UI and how heavily it relies on custom images.
strange, because in my country, it was during communism, that a lot of trees were planted, both parks/forest, and agricultural one.

If dear leader wanted a artificial lake, with lots of trees, next to his villa, he would get it. If he thought lots of lemon trees, and olive trees were awesome, bared hills will be transformed to accommodate all these trees.

And it was during the transition to democracy, (and even today), that a whole of these things started getting destroyed.

We are talking about commmon areas. As for private property, I can safely say that most europeans love trees.

As another anectode, there are some streets in SF where trees are completely missing. And it usually corresponds with the density of asian population. It seems that there is something about a tree, in front of the house/door that hinders the chi flow, or something.

But go to Clement st. and there are trees where the more euro shops are, and just a few blocks down, there is little trees where the asian stores are.

Some things can be cultural also.
Yes, sir - thanks to my hero, http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Xichekolas

Check out http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25039
One random idea for getting up in the morning I've wanted to try is an elevated bed which goes into freefall (and presumably repeats until stopped) - the idea being that freefall evokes a panic response which completely bypasses any conscious rationalizations or impulses.
Interestingly, neither does yours. You make a claim, I express that I don't believe that claim. I'm pretty sure that makes it your move...

ps. sorry for the lateness of the reply, I don't know how to receive any kind of notification that I've been replied to.
There's something decidedly cannibalistic about the business of music rights management. At what point is it simply easier to hire an in-house musician and be done with the mountains of paperwork, days of haggling and thousands of dollars coughed up?
Ask HN: If you have Photoshop, which version do you have?
For those using Adobe Photoshop, which version do you use? CS2, CS3, CS4? What's your favorite feature of each or reason for sticking to one or the other?

I'm trying to figure out which to use, I currently use CS3 but not sure if CS4 is worthwhile as I do photo editing and mockups from time to time.
That's disingenuous.

While this act was clearly one of government bureaucracy run amok, to suggest that the same thing doesn't happen on private land is patently absurd.
They may have suffered from Sudden Oak Death. My limited understanding is that because the disease spreads erratically they prefer to remove infected trees in order to prevent others from becoming infected, and to prevent damage being caused from the dead, weakened tree.

Edit: It appears there is no known cure, only preemptive measures.

http://www.suddenoakdeath.org/
(O'Reilly) The Productive Programmer
So I need to apologize to CloudKick for dropping this on them without notice. It was not my intention and it was not my intention to surprise them with this. I have a laundry list of vulns that I'm trying to get organized and communication with vendors is probably the hardest part. Many of them don't respond. Ever. Again this was my mistake.

To try and combat this I will be including vendor communication logs in the future posts / advisories.

-EvilPacket.
Right, golf courses only cut most of the trees because they are in the way of their fairways. And then they poison the water for the entire area by using all kinds of chemicals in order to keep their grass in a ridiculous unnaturally green color and the course free of animals that may disturb the neatness of the grass.

Sorry you cannot make such blanket statements, some times governments do terrible things for the environment and sometimes businesses do the same. People that care about the environment should be vigilant and hold both governments and businesses accountable.
A TA in the one and only Comp Sci class I took at the U of Mn was pretty much a walking Scheme interpreter. So I imagine there are individuals who could write reasonably error-free code on paper before running it. I couldn't (quickly) find any references to people who have tried this on any larger scale, though.
Something I don't understand: cities and counties in California are said to be broke, so how is it that the Palo Alto public works department is able to send out a work crew to cut down these oak trees? Is Palo Alto running a surplus that they need to spend before its fiscal year is over?
Is there a published collection of letters you're quoting from? I'd love to read it - what book is this from?
"I never watch movies in theaters anymore. The tipping point for me was the ads they show first"

But some of the DVDs have this annoyance as well.
> Private owners respect and conserve their resources

Except when they don't. Blanket statements like that aren't very helpful.

> politicians [...] use up resources in a rush
> to accomplish short term, idiotic goals.

Except when they don't. Or when the goals are decided by the private owners who bought them lunch.
Which CPAP machine do you have? I haven't been officially diagnosed, but I'm pretty sure I have sleep apnea. I'd be willing to try out a decent CPAP machine to see if it helps.
That picture looks ... AWFUL.

It looks like the bad parts of the meat-packing-plant town in rural Minnesota where I grew up. No, strike that -- it looks much, much worse.
The Grand Rapids Yacht Club (on Reeds Lake in East Grand Rapids) has some classes but I don't know if it's really comparable to Boston's program.

Community Sailing sounds great - I wish I'd found out about it before I spent the summer of 2008 in the Boston area rather than once it turned cold in the fall.
Knots! One of the few things about the Boy Scout program that I still remember and find useful. Much gratitude for posting this link.
It's possible they're being intentionally misleading about it.

Top left of the image says "Upgrade":

http://drh.img.digitalriver.com/DRHM/Storefront/Site/mswpus/...

I'm still not 100% sure though. It's very confusing.
It might be sacrilegious to ask, but what does this have to do with hacking (other than say, hacking down of oak trees).

The fact that it's ranked so highly just goes to show the amount of ass kissing going on here.
Ah, but this is the Home Premium edition. If I could navigate their maze of feature matrices maybe I'd know if that does what I need.
In fact, all those comparisons compare two totally different frameworks. One is for the internet (which really includes far more then http) and one is for the web (which mostsly includes http).
> "Have your product ready for launch at the end of your presentation. If you’re product is still in powerpoints or “closed beta” or “invitation only”, don’t bother coming to these conferences."

Having sat in the TC50 pits, I noticed one major mistake was not giving out free invites to the people in the room (and streaming live)! There were amazing demos that had everyone drooling to try only to get turned off (and away) when they found out there was no free demo.

Big examples were CitySourced, http://www.Cocodot.com and http://www.perpetually.com. If CitySourced had given out a free version for the day they launched, they could have had enough downloads at the end of that day to give them the top position in the App Store. Everyone around me took out their iphones, checked out the app store only to see that it costed 2.99 and put away their phone. Cocodot looked absolutely stunning and especially with a lite photoshop app built in for customization. It had us all wanting to try it only to get turned away when there was no free demo.

As Jason Calacanis pointed out, probably about 200 people in the room had over 1000 followers on twitter. If they launched a great product, they could have had 200,000 people hear about them via twitter alone. (Maybe a bit of a stretch, but not if you consider the 3000 streaming viewers and some people had 5000 or 10000 followers).

In short, if you do a demo day, don't forget to capitalize on the publicity by letting people try it!
This is obviously some strange usage of the word improve, of which I was previously unaware.
Back to school with RIAA-funded copyright curriculum
I've found the exact same thing. 20 hours of real, actual, focused work seems about right. I average about that:
http://files.dangrover.com/timechart081909.jpg

A 25 real-hours-of-work week ends up being a pretty productive and intense one for me. I feel lazy with such a low number, but I bet most office workers do far less.
Thanks, I did that search too, and yes, the guy's published a paper or two.

What I meant was, show me something that's been peer reviewed and relevant to this topic... an EEG study of people following polyphasic schedules, for example.
The best OOP advice I ever read was "model the solution, not the problem". It sounds obvious in retrospect, but only in retrospect.
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Well, the blog only has two posts to it -- one announcing the debut, the other discussing a change to their template that didn't work out.

That said, I took a closer look at their template compared to yourfonts.com, and although they're similar (by necessity), they're different enough that it's likely that fontcapture created their own.

I'm really glad fontcapture came along; I just hope they can stick around.
This is how the Facebook puzzles work except that you only get a pass/fail response. To help people ensure that they aren't failing due to some sort of packaging problem, they have simple puzzles (one step up from hello world), and it's not frowned upon to help someone with those.

What Facebook puzzlers end up doing is creating their own testcases and validating that those testcases encompass all the interesting corner cases and are complex enough to prove the efficiency of the algorithm in use.

Perhaps the hidden bit of learning from "The System" is that it forces students to think through the entire scope of possible inputs for their program and ensure they test against a representative set of cases.
That's a terrible before-and-after picture (comparing your link to the picture in pg's article). The before picture was beautiful--the after picture quite frankly looks as stark and depressing as an average eastern Washington farm town. Longer, though.
They've been doing road work up and down College Ave all year, too, so presumably they have money for something.
Automatically sorting graph curves
If your startup participates in Microsoft Bizspark, you can use every Microsoft software for free for 3 years.
Yeah this is really bad. First of all too many people have the silly idea that you can move trees around as if they are pieces of furniture or large heavy pieces of sculpture. "Oh lets get rid of these trees and put in different ones. Won't this be grand!" Moving trees is always tricky and not assured of success. When they get those new maple trees in california ave, I am sure that at least a couple of them will die and then they won't have equal height trees.

As far as the trees being diseased, all city trees are unhealthy in one way or another. That is because their leaves absorb all kinds of exhaust byproducts, most of their roots are below concrete where they cannot get water or nutrients, and a hundred other reasons. Cities are just not healthy places for trees.

But that does not mean that we should not have trees in cities. Trees make us feel better, clear up the air for us and make us happier in general. What if a tree is not healthy -- it is not actually suffering and cannot pass the disease to humans. As long as it looks good and it is green, it is serving its purpose. I guarantee you that the new maples they put in will become diseased pretty soon.

So, good idea to call attention to this Paul, but someone should have thought of it earlier.
I would assume that it would spell it out in the first section of the eula by appending an upgrade:

Program Description: Eligible students are allowed to purchase one license of the product below:

1. Microsoft® Windows 7 Home Premium

OR

2. Microsoft® Windows 7 Professional
And there is your comment now, right on their site :-)
It's a herd phenomenon. Even if PG writes something utterly pointless, he gets upvoted to the stratosphere. It would be nice if this changed. Intelligent and successful people like PG don't need this kind of adulation.
A lot of HN users are in Silicon Valley, and most people in SV know California Ave. This is the neighborhood Facebook just moved to, among other things.
I think it was posted to reddit - that's how I remember hearing about it first.

I hate being a grouch about it, but I preferred the focus of Startup News to be honest.
I can't recall the details any more, but I'm reminded that there's a historic cemetery in Boston, where several of America's founders are buried, where the tombstones have all been moved from their original locations. Someone during the Victorian period decided they'd look nicer if they were all arranged in nice straight rows. Nobody recorded their original positions, so the locations of the remains are now unknown.

So, cutting the trees isn't necessarily a case of corruption. It's at least as likely that CAADA is run by people whose taste really is that poor.
Sounds an awful lot like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analysis_paralysis#Personal_ana... . I've certainly been there (well, I am there), and I don't know of a solution, if there is such a thing. The conclusion I've come to for myself is to use my doubt and let it inform me, but refuse to let it paralyze me. If that sounds vague, well, it is :).
Does Apple actually contact every developer that they feature on the front page in the same manner, or was it just because of that "Free MP3" promotion part?
Nick Bostrom on The Future of Human Enhancement
New Google partnership to turn digital books into paperbacks
I'm guessing pg isn't that into movies. For me, there's no comparison to the theater experience.

Also, on "content" as undistinguished: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1743
The singularity and the Methuselarity: similarities and differences
The before/after comparison is shocking.
"... my name is impossible to get in its base form, even when I'm around from the very beginning. ..."

the best you can get is http://web.archive.org/web/20071011015055/news.ycombinator.c...
This will have adverse effects on the speed and traffic on that street, too. I've attended a couple of local community seminars on city planning, and studies cited there have found that tree-lined streets tend to cause drivers to drive slower and more cautiously. [1]

[1]: For example: http://www.naturewithin.info/Roadside/Tree&Driver_ITE.pd...
Thomas, I believe in responsible disclosure, but mistakes happen and I have apologized to CloudKick with a personal email and here in the comments. The intention of evilpacket.net is to educate on the true impact of low hanging fruit.

I don't believe that demonstrating to a client or audience using an alert('a') dialog box shows the true potential impact of these vulns. Sure you and I get it, but those outside the industry may not. Many businesses are flocking to the cloud for utility computing and cheap storage and need to be aware that these complex systems are vulnerable too.

As for the other video's on the site and the advisories I have published the vendors were notified first. This again was a mistake on my part. There is not an intention to be purposefully unethical.
Can you quantify why it is better?

Bowline -- outrageously strong, simple to tie, easy to undo, can tie it around things.

What can be better?
At first I thought it might be some kind of serious disease. Why else would they do such a crazy thing? But all the other arguments the city listed, e.g.

"Their branches cover street lights and grow over building storefronts and roofs requiring frequent tree trimming. They bear and drop large acorn fruits that are tripping hazards for pedestrians."

make it clear this wasn't the case. If they were infected by some tree plague, it would have been enough to say just that.
Content still matters for the very simple reason that the lack of decent content means you don't have an audience to sell to advertisers - imagine if the Economist's only rival was a website written by middle school geeks.

It is, effectively, the central overhead to the media industry - as high a quality as cheap as possible to get as many eyes and ears (and fingers, for braille readers) as you can. Online media's winning out because the "cheap as possible" part of that equation is Very Cheap Indeed, without having to sacrifice the slightest bit of quality.

But, yes. It's the quantity of audience that determines profitability, not quality of content. So now we're stuck with the dilemma as to how to make advertising presentation a high-quality content unto itself - a nontrivial balancing act between advertiser and reader expectations.
Defense in depth. Nothing wrong with multiple solutions. You are absolutely correct that what they implemented as a great defense tactic. However, sometimes asking for credentials again to perform a privileged action is not acceptable for an application. I will admit that tokens are bad if XSS is possible as tokens can possibly be obtained by the attacker.
I usually simple butterfly coil w/ wrap finish around my index + ring ringers. There's a bunch of different approaches people use; the general ideas of not introducing twists (not a big deal for short cables) and finishing with a wrap are more important than any One True Way.

Specific to headphones and other cords: avoid introducing sharp bends as well -- cheap cords will eventually short out. (For me, I try to have a fairly fat "bundle" before I do the wrap, and don't pull it too tight.)
No, I just meant to point out that a lot of modern games make up for the first player advantage (in cases where there is one) in various ways.
Resolving DNS Asynchronously - from 200 to 20000 resolutions per minute.
I've been waiting for it from day one. It literally changes my plans for my blog. My wife loved the backend but hated the front-end looks. It's a big deal to some of us.
CS4 is buggy but faster than CS3, particularly if you use Illustrator, Bridge or InDesign in conjunction with Photoshop. Overall I use none of the new features but the speed improvements makes it worth it.
What's really hilarious is that the RIAA spent gods knows how much money developing a program that kids will outright ignore anyhow.
This is the 3rd time you've asked this, right? Well, when I originally asked you the question, "What is cost effective to you in terms of dollars?" and you answered back, "the minimum amount to get this functional." I didn't reply because I asked a specific question and you gave a general answer.

If you are interested in an answer, provide a specific response.
There seems to be a high incidence of Sudden Oak Death in areas populated by aesthetically-impaired bureaucrats. I recommend a study to determine whether they constitute a potential vector for the spread of the disease, and if so, preemptively eradicating them.
I went on a 2-year sailing trip with a friend. I'd never been aboard a boat up until the month we left, but before I left I spent a long time cramming myself with information. One was the knots, of course, and I learnt dozens of combinations and knew the pro's and con's of each knot, their breaking points, what to use with wet ropes, etc.

Over the 2 year sailing trip, of the dozens I learnt, I used 5 in total:

- The bowline
- One hitch (round turn and two halfs)
- Two bends (fishermans, figure of eight)
- One stopper (figure of eight)

Now back on land, I still use these 5 frequently, and the bowline daily. In a jam, you can use the bowline to do anything (even two of them to bend 2 ropes). It doesn't jam, is fine when wet, is ~60% as strong as the rope itself, and you can trust it with your life.
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Relevant: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/james_howard_kunstler_dis...
Kalmyk loop is exploding - pull to untie. Bowline is not.

Bowline requires stopper knots when used on on modern ropes, otherwise it can slip. I've never seen kalmyk loop slip.

Both are simple and can be tied around things.
Review: Microsoft's Zune HD is a nifty media player
I originally read a reference to it in Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood. Actually, looking it up again made me interested to know if a collection of Franklin's letters has been released in a mainstream volume, too. His Autobiography was awesome.
Both ACM and IEEE student memberships come with MSDNAA access. The selection they have is larger than I've seen with three different universities' MSDNAA for CS students, although maybe not always that useful.