skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you think bones and nerves don't have a basis in reality? What about "lumbago" - I mean, even "normal doctors" admit that nerves can get caught up in bones and cause problems?

I am surprised about the strong rejection of this suggestion. It is not homeopathy - I just checked Wikipedia and it seems to suggest there are at least some positive studies for Ostheopathy. Also giving Ostheopathy a try seems to be far less intrusive and less expensive than some other stuff "normal doctors" throw at you.

Sorry for going on about it, but I am just really surprised. I have another friend who has endured years of experimenting on her knee from normal doctors (usually not helpful). I don't know why she doesn't try Ostheopathy at least once - it would be neither more painful, time expensive nor money expensive than all the other stuff she went through.

I can imagine that maybe people are afraid of learning they wasted their time on the wrong thing or whatever. If that fear is worse than their plight, fine.

One problem is finding a good Ostheopath, though. I am not sure how one would go about it, without personal recommendations. It probably is not a label protected by the state, so finding a trustworthy practitioner would require some research.

(Yoga is even less expensive, at 10€ a pop - again a problem of finding a good class, though).
They look impressive:

http://store.psystar.com/ads-rebel/rebel-22-osx.html
That sounds like a cool app. How would you make money with something like that?

Where does the hiring come in? Are you saying someone should build this as a sort of interview question/project?
They certainly do not. The traffic jams that result from people slamming on their brakes in front of the cameras (I forgot the technical name for them. I just call them latency-jams...) have lengthened my commute considerably.
As somebody who drives without a steel cage around them, you should support initiatives to have red light cameras removed.

They increase the frequency of traffic accidents at intersections (both because people are concentrating more on "making the light" than they are "not hitting something" and because people slam on their brakes to prevent running a yellow) and do nothing to make them safer.
I've been a Dvorak user for a while, and it often feels like swimming upstream. Good to see the issue getting a little attention.
Anyone care to speculate as to why they would require developers of free apps to have a verified PayPal account? Is it just incompetence / lack of attention to detail ?
... and, no offense intended to pg (who has done a great job building this community!), but if HN became the kind of place with a monopoly on job postings... it will lose its spot as my favorite / most useful website. Seriously, that kind of control would be a sign of the beginning of the end...
With software keyboards it would make sense to offer alternative keyboard layouts. For physical keyboards the cost of producing different keypads is probably just too high for the small number of people using English non-QWERTY layouts. If someone wants to pay the premium though more power to them. The last time I took a typing test about a year ago I was doing 160WPM on QWERTY so I cannot accept there's any inherent limitation in the design that prevents fast input.
I use Google Apps for my domains: http://www.google.com/a/cpanel/domain/new It's actually cheaper than GoDaddy. With GoDaddy, it's $10/year plus $10 to keep the WHOIS anonymous. Otherwise, you'll have your name and contact info publicly available to anyone who requests a WHOIS on your domain (which means you get spammed). With Google, you get both the domain and the anonymity for $10/year.

For hosting, I've been using Linode, which is a virtual private server. I had to install everything on the Linux server myself (Apache, Rails, web security, etc.). It sets me back $20/month, but I can put hundreds of websites there. Right now I have probably about a dozen there.

For 2rgb.com, I'm trying out heroku.com. The hosting starts out completely free (and no ads). You pay only when you get more traffic. And you don't have to set up the server at all (like I did for Linode). You just send it your code. It might be a Ruby-only host, though.
haha I did something like this for a friend of mine a few years back. Primed it with about 50 pics of him, 50 randoms. Allowed people to upload their own images which were then included. Passed the URL on to all friends. Hilarity ensued.
Let me summarize that from a different point of view:

1. Google released all of the Android Operating System as open source. Everyone is welcome to modify and redistribute it.

2. There are some Google-developed applications that are closely tied to Google services. While these applications are freely available from the Android Market, they are proprietary, non-opensource, Google branded applications. Some of these applications come bundled with some Android-enabled phones (most notably, the G1) but they are not part of the Android system.

3. Some guy who made an (otherwise very good quality) modified Android distribution also distributed these proprietary apps with his distribution without having a permission to do that from Google.

4. I believe that companies have the right to protect their brands. Clearly Google wouldn't want its brand associated with anything not under its control.
Whoa, these are possibly cooler than my Klein Bottle hat: http://www.kleinbottle.com/klein_bottle_hats.htm

Any idea how these are done? It's very secretive on the site.
Wow, that article makes Dvorak users seem like raving lunatics. I switched because I'm diagnosed with repetitive stress injuries and Dvorak helped a great deal. (I'm actually a bit slower with Dvorak than I was with QWERTY.)

But if you're doing most of your typing on a smartphone, you'll quickly have more pressing RSI issues...
> (C-a ESC PgUp is a longer and more tedious key sequence than Shift+PgUp)

Try entering Copy Mode ('C-a ['). Once in Copy Mode you can page up and down without any modifiers. Just hit ']' to exit Copy Mode. You can also use the up and down arrows in Copy Mode. It's mostly meant for selecting regions of text to yank, but I find it's the easiest way to access the scrollback buffer.
On remote servers, yes.
It would make money from offer networks, I have good experiences from those before. Would likely start paying the cost of a developer at around 10k daily visits.

Perhaps I shouldn't have said "hiring" so I changed the wording to "delegation". I'm looking for someone to do this as a short project, but there would be other projects from me if it goes well.

I'm still trying to figure out what the best way to structure something like this is.
Never heard of Workday before–what's their story?

ERP isn't exactly a new industry. Are they doing something special?
I use Colemak, and I find that I can type on smartphones relatively easily.

I think when you switch to Colemak or Dvorak you probably want some base competence with QWERTY still just so you don't look like an idiot when you use other people's computers or whatever.
Also, if you build this into your contract it gives you an out. I've known too many people who were perfectly willing to sign up for a fixed payment job, thinking they were overestimating, only to find out that the specs were too vague or there was too much rewriting such that it took more than twice as long as expected.

This sounds like a nice compromise.
The Salmon of Doubt pretty much changed my life when I read it at ~15. This speech was included in it. I find myself frequently referring to it in forum topics on the internet.
a vulnerability that this FreeBSD jail setup would stop would be page 1 "the Internet is broken" news

Not true. There have been potential code execution bugs in OpenSSL which have received very little attention in the past. One which comes to mind is a 'free an arbitrary pointer' bug -- in an application like Apache, if you can free the right pointer, it's not hard to get code execution. (I didn't produce an exploit for this OpenSSL bug, so it's possible that it was unexploitable for some reason -- I just saw 'bogus pointer being freed' and said 'wow, this really needs to be fixed'.)

That doesn't make Colin crazy

Thanks, I think.

it just makes this not general-purpose advice.

This is an easy step to take, and prevents a class of attacks. Why not err on the side of caution?
Okay, you make a good case and I agree with your point. Thanks for the discussion. :)
I would guess it's because the same account could be used to distribute paid apps. So incompetence in the fact that they don't have two users types, or just an unwillingness to deal with any of those complexities?

Or they want people spending money on apps so they are making it a bit harder to make just free ones?

All speculation though. I imagine it's just simpler for them to have one type of account, and giving them your info is the only way to have it, regardless of what you do with it.
I've heard about getting an egg into a bottle using a lit match inside the bottle (to mess with the pressure), but this is ridiculous... I wonder if that's how he does it.
From the original title I might have thought of it more as, "To be a consultant or not to be a consultant?" which is a question I've struggled with.
Clearly, one of the higher-ups at Palm told the company they needed to find ways to surpass the iPhone's user experience, and forgot to specify "but only the good parts".
I just saw an absolutely fantastic talk at C4 about MacRuby. It'll be tons faster than RubyCocoa, because there's no bridging, and it compiles to native code. You can even do AOT compilation and distribute a native binary!
I would agree. And (anecdotally) there's a large number of people who refuse to use Office 2007 because of it. I'm not saying that's a reason Adobe shouldn't do it; I think they should. But I don't think they're likely to.
Same reason I switched. Comparable typing speeds now though.
MALLOC_PRODUCTION was set and INVARIANTS and WITNESS were disabled on the 10th, a full week before RC1 was built. Wouldn't be much of a release candidate if it wasn't built using release flags, would it?

Most of the benchmarks look to be more about compiler version and flags than OS, though. Lots of CPU-bound tasks which barely even touch the kernel, woopee. The Stream numbers were quite interesting, perhaps indicating that particularly microbenchmark loves NUMA awareness, which is hardly surprising but perhaps not entirely representative of many real world workloads.

The benchmarks might have been more exciting if they measured scaling to multiple CPUs, given that's where most of the advances in modern OS's are going. Some Apache/MySQL/PgSQL/Varnish/Squid numbers might have been nice too, given that server tasks are a major focus of both OS's.
As far as I'm concerned, as of Fireworks CS4, it's dead to me. FW CS4 is so horribly broken that it's unusable. This is one of the great travesties in software as far as I'm concerned. I love Fireworks 8 but it would be nice if it were modernized.
Yes, but you can contribute to GPL-licensed projects. It's just specific things that you are limited in. We're talking orders of magnitude. 'closed-source and GPL' and 'MIT/BSD and GPL' aren't even in the same ballpark.
I would assume that one trick is to dismantle an object and slowly assemble it inside the bottle. However that won't work with things like baseball where I guess the lit match trick might work.
How does any of this work when through putty or when connecting to X-less unices from the myriad of non-Unix boxes out there?
I used Dvorak for two years but got tired of the mental context switching when working on other people's computers. That being said, after a while it definitely was faster. From that I learned something important: programmers rarely need to type fast.
I was visiting folks in Washington by car for a holiday and I happened to be thinking about buying a comp at the same time. As a micro-optimization, I had Newegg ship the parts to WA and transported them back myself to CA. :)

Btw, I was surprised to find that even with premium parts, assembling a desktop yourself is cheaper unless you want the exact configs Dell etc sell.

I'm rooting for Newegg to succeed. I guess it's the Zappos for nerds. :)
One obvious method would be to make the bottle in two halves and join them together with the contents in place. Either split it down the middle or -- this might be easier to do without it being noticeable and without damaging the contents when joining the pieces - make everything apart from the bottom of the bottle in one piece and attach that at the end.

Whether that's actually what they do, I don't know.
Even after applying the update on Windows, it was still unusable for me (still had ridiculous amounts of bugs related to text).
Looks like the grass isn't always greener. I do wonder why they decided to close their app distribution, I enjoyed the little bit of PalmOS development I've done.
Seeing Pre's early troubles and Rim's App world ( see review at GigaOm [1]), not sure there is anyone getting app stores right (besides APPL).

Between phone companies having to negotiate with platform and phone developers the market is too complicated. Makes Android look like the only long term, viable competing platform. Even though Balmer said MS got Windows Mobile wrong [2], even if the next one is better not sure the next version will be open enough, and cool enough to gain wide adoption.

[1] - http://gigaom.com/2009/09/28/app-world-will-be-crucial-for-r...
[2] - http://wmpoweruser.com/?p=8170

Edit - just saw this via @timbray
http://openandroidalliance.com/
Google's misstep is not in wanting to protect their brand; I don't think anyone would fault them for that.

The faux pas is that they apparently took a heavy-handed, lawyer-oriented approach to it, sending a cease-and-desist letter to a popular, well-regarded open-source hacker doing work on a platform that Google has promoted for its openness, who may not have even realized previously that what he was doing wouldn't be acceptable to Google.

Being in the right (both legally and ethically) doesn't make you immune to PR screwups.
It seems clear that writing application for ANY mobile device will require jumping through some obscure corporation rules. Symbian is no exception to that, nor it is RIM. Maybe it is time to relax and accept it as one of the facts of life...
My case wasn't that this would have protected me from past vulnerabilities in OpenSSL; my case was that OpenSSL is demonstrably crappy code. If code has a history of security vulnerabilities, odds are that it will have more in the future.
Office Rules: Microsoft's competitors don't make a dent because they are free
They're going to become profitable by buying somebody who is already a little profitable, and who will become massively more profitable given exclusive and favored access to Twitter's attention and network. Is, I think, the simplest explanation of why they're taking in so much money.
Did you mean to post what appears to be a referral link?
That's a decent summary. One minor correction: Not all of the proprietary Google apps are available from the Android market. And some of the ones that are (e.g. Google Maps) depend on libraries that are not part of the open source Android code and are not downloadable through the market.
It seems the one advantage over the iPhone would have been an open app platform. They're copying the wrong features from apple.
The Mifare Classic hackers cut slices off the chip, scanned the slices and used a buggy Matlab script to recreate the circuitry inside. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=825150
JWZ: that "duct tape" silliness
This isn't the case for platforms that don't have a compulsory 'app store' model. I can write an app for Android or Windows Mobile (and probably many other platforms) and distribute it any way I see fit.
All the jobs listed here are at startups that were at some point funded by Y Combinator. Some are now established companies. Others may be only a few weeks old.

That's at the top of the jobs page. You should really email pg prior to doing this.
How Much of Twitter's $100 Million is for Servers?
In this respect, the iPhone development experience is somewhat better. You sign up for a dev account (which costs 99 bucks a year), then you can submit free apps to the store. There is a lot more paperwork and hoops to jump through if you want to submit paid apps, but it's all optional.
My lesson: Price even the jobs you love.

I have lost time and money not to mention potential references, after I have accepted to do some very cool hacking projects for nothing. One was a university Open Source project; the project lead could have easily got me a budget, not to mention an office, but the prospect of working with a top-tier university and "potentially" breaking into a very sexy part of computing (bio hacking) made me volunteer to do it for free. I became lead, they hired juniors and the employees got flown out to the research center and conferences while I had to scrape by staying late at night at a local university, Xeroxing research papers and catching up with a fast moving industry with no one by my side, and on my own dime.

You could be curing AIDS in your basement, and unless you're affiliated with an institution, no academic jerkwad will answer your questions, I found out. Even bio grad students would ask me who I was with and what I was doing, but quickly became annoyed when I said I was an amateur volunteer .. regardless of how much knowledge I have displayed.

I blew that one up, big time.

If you love something and want to became better at it, don't hesitate to get paid for it as well. Sometimes a pay check stub makes all the difference between whether someone takes your experience in this seriously or not.
C-a ESC is copy mode, as far as I am aware. At least that's what it says down the bottom of the screen when I do it.

To be clear, C-a ESC puts me in a mode where I can then freely page through the scrollback buffer with PgUp and PgDn, but the problem is that's 4 key presses required for something that only needs 2 in a normal terminal, and Ctrl (with A), Esc, and PgUp are about as far apart as you can get on a keyboard, which doesn't make for efficiency.
The best part is at the end:

"But the fourth, the many-to-many, we didn't have at all before the coming of the Internet, which, of course, runs on fibre-optics. It's communication between us that forms the fourth age of sand. Take what I said earlier about the world not reacting to us when we react to it; I remember the first moment, a few years ago, at which I began to take the Internet seriously. It was a very, very silly thing. There was a guy, a computer research student at Carnegie Mellon, who liked to drink Dr Pepper Light. There was a drinks machine a couple of storeys away from him, where he used to regularly go and get his Dr Pepper, but the machine was often out of stock, so he had quite a few wasted journeys. Eventually he figured out, 'Hang on, there's a chip in there and I'm on a computer and there's a network running around the building, so why don't I just put the drinks machine on the network, then I can poll it from my terminal whenever I want and tell if I'm going to have a wasted journey or not?' So he connected the machine to the local network, but the local net was part of the Internet - so suddenly anyone in the world could see what was happening with this drinks machine. Now that may not be vital information but it turned out to be curiously fascinating; everyone started to know what was happening with the drinks machine. It began to develop, because in the chip in the machine didn't just say, 'The slot which has Dr Pepper Light is empty' but had all sorts of information; it said, 'There are 7 Cokes and 3 Diet Cokes, the temperature they are stored at is this and the last time they were loaded was that'. There was a lot of information in there, and there was one really fabulous piece of information: it turned out that if someone had put their 50 cents in and not pressed the button, i.e. if the machine was pregnant, then you could, from your computer terminal wherever you were in the world, log on to the drinks machine and drop that can! Somebody could be walking down the corridor when suddenly, 'bang!' - there was a Coca-Cola can! What caused that? - well obviously somebody 5,000 miles away! Now that was a very, very silly, but fascinating, story and what it said to me was that this was the first time that we could reach back into the world. It may not be terribly important that from 5,000 miles away you can reach into a University corridor and drop a Coca-Cola can but it's the first shot in the war of bringing to us a whole new way of communicating. So that, I think, is the fourth age of sand. "
Larry Ellison Rants About Cloud Computing
So can I claim I did acid now?
"people freaked over changes to a bunch of key commands and menu nav"

Very much so. And then there's another set of people who freak because of some default key shortcuts (which can, of course, all be changed from the defaults to whatever the hell makes you shiny) which have been in Photoshop since version 2 or so do something that's not the OS X standard. But it would cause more freakouts to change them so...

I've never used/been a fireworks guy, but I don't believe many of the pros are using DW anymore much at all.

"making the sorts of things that OS X power users love shelling out dough for."

See, the thing about that, and in more general terms... I love "native"-feeling OS X apps as much as the next person, or probably more, for most values of "next person". And I'd certainly love for Photoshop to be more native. A couple problems with that, though... the obvious one of the vastly greater effort to do multiple platform stuff with entirely different native guis on each; then there's also the fact that native controls are just inadequate for what power users want out of photoshop. Just as a minor example, the ubiquitous scrubbing on the labels of textboxes to change values; certainly not something you can do with native controls.

In short, I'm not really sure what Adobe could be doing better. (Well, other then making their shit not crash horribly all over the room, though Photoshop is still extremely stable in my experience. I have nothing good to say about Flash or Acrobat in any way, and in fact most of the macromedia imports are generally shit.) Inevitably somebody will challenge their market dominance, and if they don't smarten up and fix PS beforehand, well, changing everything then in a desperate effort to retain their market will only make matters worse for them. Better for users everywhere, one hopes.
Would anyone be interested in developing an Android application to switch the keyboard layout?
Cisco also does a good job of handling acquisitions well.
No, it failed to cure the depression - World War II cured the depression. It was not practiced from the 40's to the 70's. The average family paid 4% in federal taxes in 1950. JFK cut taxes in the early 60's which caused a spurt of economic growth. Reagan cut tax rates (revenues actually INCREASED) in the 80's which again caused a period of growth. We have still not paid the price for FDR (Social Security) and Lyndon Johnson's (Medicare) programs because we have been borrowing money for 30 years. I guess you must think that trillions of dollars of debt is a sign of a good economy.
Klein Bottle mugs are pretty cool too:

http://www.kleinbottle.com/drinking_mug_klein_bottle.htm
You make a fine case for not running OpenSSL at all, and a poor case for jailing OpenSSL. That would be nitpicking, except that you implicitly offer your strategy as advice for others.

It's funny that you're arguing this though, since, given your marketing message, I can understand making ineffective cost/security tradeoffs. I'm at some pains to say you're not crazy for doing it.
Techcrunch50 Winner Redbeacon Tells Their Story
Video post by Robert Scoble. Guys from Redbeacon talk about their long term forecasts and marketing efforts (after the TC bump).
http://www.wikihow.com/Make-an-Impossible-Bottle