skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was a kid I could not get to sleep unless the room was totally dark. Even with heavy curtains and so on it was still common for me to spend several hours lying awake in the dark. In fact I wrecked my eyes by opening the door a crack and reading covertly in the dim hall light that was on until my parents went to bed, just to fill up the tine.

The one befit of this insomnia is that I kind of learned where my triggers are sufficiently well to induce sleep if I absolutely must be up early for some reason. But frankly, it's easier for me to pull an all-nighter, especially if I'm going to be on a plane or something where I can reasonably go to sleep as soon as I'm strapped in.
Armed robots only make the US military more powerful.

As for everyone else, it is time to upgrade to cyborg technologies, or counteract with killer bots of their own.
Process Substitution in bash

comm <(sort file1) <(sort file2) (comm file1 and file2 without temp files)
QuickTime: Maliciously crafted movie may lead to arbitrary code execution
"Of course, if you like applications on Facebook, you won’t like this version, as they are nowhere to be found." SOLD! Can't wait to get this in Canada. I really hate all the apps, games, quizzes, virtual gifts, etc. I just want to keep in touch with my friends.
If they don't want things published, they shouldn't be publishing them on Facebook. Nobody should be using Facebook as their personal calendar.

Also, if a detail of how Facebook handles event queries is enough to "keep you up at night", how the hell do you handle nuclear proliferation in the CIS states?
Well so far I'd have to give them 10/10 for their handling of this issue. Palm's response (below) is incredibly refreshing.

http://forums.precentral.net/palm-pre/202285-palm-rejects-na...

NaNPlayer is using APIs that are currently private because they will change significantly in a future release. Although we aren't able to support the functionality that JC needs right now, we are listening to the community to help prioritize which APIs and features we put into webOS.

While we can’t accept NaNPlayer into the App Catalog right now, we are not rejecting it, and we are happy for it to continue life as a homebrew application until we get to the point where we can release public, supportable APIs for the functionality that it requires.

Chuq Von Rospach
Palm Developer Community Manager
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It's called the Air Blade and was designed by Dyson, the same guy who re-thought the vacuum cleaner so effectively:
http://www.dysonairblade.co.uk/
I agree that school starts excessively early. I have to wake up by 7am to get to school by 8:15am. School started this week, so I'm in a good position to observe this - during the summer I stayed alert until at least 2-3am. I woke up around 10am. Now that I'm getting up earlier, I feel tired around 9:30-10:00pm and have trouble staying awake. That's a loss of several hours for me. Although I can wake up in the morning fully rested, I'm not alert or focused until closer to lunch time, and definitely not until 9.
Quite so. If I sound cynical, it's just that I'm 'on the rebound' right now from a somewhat unwise business pairing. (Dammit! someone else already registered hermitcrab.com :) )
There'll never be a language that "the whole world should be using." What's optimal for one problem WILL be a poor choice for another problem.

Not to mention wide variations in the capabilities of programmers.
Why do you use open source CMS products?
Since you're new here...
@ is unnecessary and generally frowned upon since HN is displayed in a hierarchy.
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I'll brainstorm the idea. I have some ideas of how to turn this evented programming into a very natural flow using ruby 1.9.1's fibers.
I'm in Romania (Eastern Europe), and from here it looks pretty popular, a lot more then in US anyways. Both as percent of total energy production and of investments. Last I heard we had over 10% and going towards 20%. As for socialist bias... I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
> "I didn't expect it to share info when people had declined those events."

Just to clarify, does this mean events you replied "No" to, or events where you clicked "Remove from My Events"? If an API call surfaces the the latter, that would indeed be worrying.
I am somewhat similar in my sensitivity to light.

My solution is to drape an old shirt over my eyes. Works great. There are also miniature pillows that are sold for the same purpose, but they are not as comfortable as the shirt for me.
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Debunked here: http://sites.google.com/site/edwardcraighyatt/hairsolarpanel...
I don't know if it would be cheaper or not, but since they don't need to be written to they could just use read-only solid state memory instead. I think it could easily more durable and convenient and I'm surprised this hasn't happened yet.
The browser-webserver delay resulting from long polling is much larger the frontend-backend delay. I think there is at least an order of magnitude difference there, hence an order of magnitude reduction is the amount of idle state kept on the server.
Thanks! Yah, the reason we rolled our own is because all the rest were so restrictive to authors. We didn't want a template system telling us what we should and shouldn't do in templates, so ours was a very thin layer on top of what basically translates directly to Python. It is actually one of my favorite parts of the system.
I think reality is somewhere in between "V-shaped recovery" and his predictions of misery until the end of 2011.
On the contrary - GPL doesn't let you link with much that isn't GPL. BSD and CDDL - which ZFS is licensed under - are far more open.
This is dated May 21, 2009.

Is this here because it was prescient and we're seeing exactly what was described in the article? Or is it here to show how wrong this guy was?

These aren't smart-mouthed internet questions. I really don't know where we stand now compared to this guy's prognostications of doom.

Any ideas?
Not to mention that dumping on Twitter is a national sport on HN
From a programmer's point of view this may sound appealing, but this doesn't change the fact that economies of scale are HUGE with energy production. I don't even want to think what the efficiency of these toy generators is compared to a big power plant. Also, the power-up/down works only with centralized control. I doubt people will pay to have things installed in their homes which somebody else turns on and off.

Sorry, but I can only see this as somebody's wet dream, completely ignoring reality. 5000 euros? Good luck! Solar water heating is 500, and it actually gives hot water for free, 8 months per year.
"We don't nee 30 different invite or calendar apps"

Why not? We can have two gas stations across the street from one another going after a small amount of customers. On the web we have access to 1B potential customers.
I think it has more to do with the fact that integration has been instrumental to their success. If it's a hurdle, then it's a hurdle that customers have been very eager to cross. That they've become the largest music retailer in the world without a web-accessible interface is a good indication that it isn't very important.
How would you design a crowd to crowd chat (e.g., mac crowd debating pc crowd)?
Has this been done already? Do you get more "intelligent" debate in this way?
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I remember reading about SnapTalent when they got into YC. While it's (almost) never fun seeing a company go to the deadpool, I am glad to see the concept is still around. I've felt like HR could use a major overhaul for some time now. I hate having to go to places like Monster, CareerBuilder, and Craigslist to look for job opportunities.
If they switch fonts then the formatting won't look so much like TeX. This would disappoint many mathematicians.
A more sober article than the title might suggest, but let's not fall so in love with our problems that become apathetic about pursuing solutions. There's nothing actionable here, even for the cautious.
They should not be putting that stuff online anywhere. Even in 'private' services. If you put something online you might as well broadcast it on TV or radio, at least there the damage is limited to the moment of transmission.

Whatever you write or do on the internet will be there pretty much forever.

So, when in doubt, don't click 'submit', don't tweet, don't email and so on.
Right. I don't think we're disagreeing. Just pointing out that the stuff that individuals do is essentially the stuff that only record labels could do once upon a time. I was responding to the idea that record companies didn't do anything.
Microsoft: We haven't bought 'pornography'
Thank you for sharing that.

The way I look at it is that its a long journey where the biggest problem is basically the beliefs that you have. I think you have to really grow out of the beliefs that are holding you back. (By "you" I mean everyone ... not specifically you :) ...

Ie you have to have the mental courage to call yourself out and change to have success. For eg: I've always said that I can never play politics but I realise that when I start my own firm, I will probably have to at some point. So I study how the guys at work do that.

I've abhorred schmoozing to get anything but at some point I might have to do that to land a big client.

If you realise this is the kind of commitment its going to take, I think you'll have better success.

Essentially some particular thing is stopping you from making money. This could range from:
1. Your product is not useful
2. Your bliefs arent congruent to what is real in the world
3. Your relationship with your business partner isnt helping.
4. etc.

IF you think about it, it really could be anything. And running a business is a process of finding whats wrong and fixing it.

So you basically have to keep realising whats working and whats not. This becomes really hard when it comes down to your beliefs. And I think thats what holds back a fair number of entrepreneurs. They are unwilling to change their beliefs.

Eg: They see no one is using their product but they still believe it will work out. They see no revenue from their keywords and still they use the same ones.

Anyway I hope this process is what will make me sucessful. But even this could be wrong :) ...
This is pretty cool! I hope it gets the attention it deserves and that other towns/cities carry on the same work.
The official history is somewhere in between. But this doesn't make the apology less welcome. No matter why he died, the wrong thing is the way he was treated when alive. And, no doubt about that, he was treated badly.
Facebook Now Lets You Fax Your Photos.
Microsoft: "We haven't bought 'pornography'" (source article)
There's a difference. If you see the URL drupalindepth.com or commonusesofdrupal.com, you obviously should think "hey, this is about the Drupal software blah blah blah", while if you see davedoesdrupal.com, you should think "This is about what dave does with drupal", not "what drupal does in general". The first is allowed, the second isn't unless you have a license.

[Edit: IANAL]
Regarding your profile description - "We post content from the web that is worth reading, stuff that brings value." - that pretty much defines the purpose of this site as well.

As such, please don't submit a link to your site, which is itself only a link to another site.

If the story is worth reading, link to it directly as I have done in this case - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=816530
OSS CMS systems can have a great feature set, cost nothing to license and are adaptable, if necessary. What's not to like.

Recently we implemented Comatose (a small ruby CMS) into an existing rails site. It didn't need a large number of features but did need some customization to make it work with an already existing, data heavy, application. No problem. From go to whoa it took one person about 3 days, including integrating TinyMCE, existing style templates and changes to accommodate a custom user authentication system. This also included transferring all the existing static pages manually. Most of this would have not been possible had it been closed source.
You know, I just don't get it, Microsoft is reputed to hire pretty smart people, but somehow this slips through? This is on the border of professionally negligent. I can see if my foomatic open source project allows someone to run remote code (hell, even IIS or maybe apache for that matter), but the TCPIP stack itself? sheesh....
Reading the PM's statement, is anyone else from the US struck by the feeling that this kind of statement could never be made by the US govt in 2009?
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Your friend may go to S&M conferences.
Your friend may be a swinger.
etc.
What's to stop facebook...

Their users - they expect privacy. Facebook, like its predecessors, is a walled garden.
http://www.mixx.com/ is competing in this space as well.
If your friend goes to an S&M conference and posts that on Facebook under his own name, your friend is a public S&M conference attendee. If your friend swings, and posts that on Facebook under her own name, your friend is a public swinger. We are losing the forest for the trees here: Facebook is a publishing medium.
None of my twitter contacts are on my FB.
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Complete speculation but it's possible that, being Freudian for a moment, the childhood loss and trauma that led Turing to pick-up teenage boys for casual sex was the driving force that pushed him to pursue mathematics to such a degree.
It would be an annoying bug. It would not be a breach of the public trust. For every time quantum that passed between you publishing the event and you removing it, any of your friends could have scraped your attendance.
NOW I'll consider installing it.
One obvious thing to do is to have each crowd vote on its reply candidates to the other crowd. Has this been done?
In the last decade or so there's been a boom in pop-science self-help for yuppies, put out by a new crop of public intellectuals, like: Malcolm Gladwell, Jared Diamond, Chris Anderson, nearly all non-fiction in the New Yorker, the majority of TED speakers, etc.
Well at http://search.forbes.com/search/colArchiveSearch?author=nour... his output is basically still 'doom with occasional spots of mere awfulness'. Now that he has a reputation as a successful prognosticator, he seems reluctant to compromise it by expressing even the most guarded enthusiasm about anything: some weeks he just restates the financial headlines, and he doesn't deal in prescriptions about what we should do.

It's good that 'reform' is a current idea in politics, even if surrounded by much posturing, but articles like 'stop asking when the recession will end' smack of an unwillingness to commit to anything for fear of being wrong...which might explain why Roubini is so popular among the sort of people who anticipate some vague catastrophe in 2012.
Based on empirical evidence I find it hard to believe that labels really do nothing. Most big-selling major-label music is strictly inferior to what even Last.fm manages to find for me almost at random.

They are clearly doing something to hypnotize people into buying Feist.
It's a bit arbitrary, no.

If you look at the list of fixes in 10.6.1, do you see anything that would've kept you from making 10.6.0 work on your Mac?
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Ask HN: Audio books to listen to while working?
I tend to prefer reading books as opposed to listening to audio books because the level of engagement is far less with the latter. However after getting a big kick out of listening to "Brian Tracy - Maximum Achievement" on a friend's recommendation, I seem to have found the perfect use for motivational audio books.

This genre is great to listen to while working because you can just ignore the lamer parts of it but get a boost out of the better bits.

Are there any audio books you'd recommend for coders/entrepreneurs?
Bookmarked. Thank you very much!
I guess this would need to be more structured than person-to-person chat (eg, the top voted response at 1400 today will be submitted as our response, or possible responses must be submitted by 1345 so that all have a fair chance of being read and voted upon). Times could be more regular depending on the desired speed of chat.

I'm not clear on why people would participate in this sort of thing, but I think that's probably because of the Reddit - Digg example.

I imagine a crowd-to-crowd chat between, say, the Skeptics Society and the Answers in Genesis community, or supporters of various Health Care proposals might be interesting to follow.
Douglas Hofstadter (more directly) and Peter Norvig (less) have. They were invited speakers (not sure which year(s)) at the Singularity conference. Hofstadter's was almost embarrassing to watch, he ripped on everything (whether you find his argument credible or not), root and branch, IIRC.
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Funny, I just talked to Mike Hirshland thinking he was a fellow hacker. They're sharing office space with the company we rent our office space from!
I didn't sleep well that night.

Finding my friends' old events crossed a moral boundary I honestly didn't expect to encounter.

What makes this all rather chilling...

Over-dramatic much? None of this is secret, or underhanded, or arguably even a violation of privacy. If you don't want your friends to see stuff, don't post it on Facebook. And if you don't want a particular person to see it, including some guy messing around with the API, don't be friends with that person.

It sounds like this guy is trying to make a mountain out of a molehill for the sake of attention, to be honest.
Assumption of anonymity/privacy. That's the ballgame.

Here's a model:

Friend A is a swinger. She's private about it, her facebook profile is hidden from searches, public, etc. She posts as attending a swinging event.

Friend A is connected to Friend B, another swinger (but semi public about it), someone she's met, trusts, etc.

Friend B sees Friend A's swinger party in his events-feed, and signs up to go to it too. Friend A 'likes' this. But that's OK, because Friend A trusts Friend B to know this information.

Here's where it breaks down:

Friend B is connected to Friend C, an ad-hoc internet friendship without the same level of trust between A and B (to hammer home the point).

What the poster of the article is saying, is that now Friend C can inspect Friend B's feeds and see what activity is going on by B's friends. So it's possible to determine that Friend A is interested in this lifestyle and what her name is.

Friend A expected her activities would be private and, through the website, it appears they are. But the API is permitting inspection that is not obvious and exposes information that would seemingly be private.

Yes, don't post stuff you don't want public (it's a good rule of thumb) but this is going a bit further than that and breaking the barrier of expected/perceived privacy and reality. That's not good.
I think that Rule #10 is the foundation for creating a successful startup company because without the passion, which leads to enjoying oneself, the idea will never reach its full potential. Starting a company should be nothing but fun, with a few bumps along the way!
Once you put in in the public sector of the Internet it is always there. If people always operate under this assumption they will be fine (yes I realize in certain cases information may not be cached before it is removed.)

You shouldn't enter any information on a social networking site that you don't want everyone to see, no matter what the privacy settings tell you. Personally I am wary of sending sensitive information of any kind to a remote machine (of course I do it anyway ahem Gmail, ahem Amazon, ahem etc.) But to expect that you will be able to enter information on a social network and only have a subset of that site's users have access to it is much too high an expectation. No offense to Facebook but it is a difficult enough task to implement an efficient technical solution to this problem. But that is before you take into account the difficulty of explaining complex (or even simple) privacy controls to your users.

This is a really great demonstration of the privacy illusion but the illusion should not even exist. We should all lower our expectation of privacy on Facebook. Again, no offense to Facebook, but they can't meet the unreasonable standard set by some.

[Addendum]

* Facebook is not a private site. The term "privacy controls" is really misleading and should really be called something else that helps people understand how short they can fall of giving you true privacy.

* It is called a social network but our virtual societies have different rules than the real world. One notable issue is the Whiteboard Problem (yes I gave it a stupid name): The Facebook stream is like a whiteboard that you have given your friends access to but you can write comments on your whiteboard and they can write on yours. So whoever can see their whiteboard, whether they know you, can see what you wrote and learn of your existence.

* Another issue, the rules of information are completely different. Referencing the hypothetical swingers in other comments on this submission if I am a) invited to my "swinger conference", b) I accept the invitation, and c) we take lots of pictures only the diffusion of that information has strict constraints in the physical world. Once it is on Facebook a) non-swingers will likely have access to my swinger invite, b) non-swingers can see my response, maybe even in their stream and c) they may find my photos (last time I checked private Facebook photos are relatively easy to access.)

Once again, treat Facebook like a public whiteboard that represents you. For the most part only people you know wil see it but keep it blemish free just in case. So no "swinger conferences" on FB.
Oops, no sarcasm tag. :-)
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Yea, I couldn't think of a better way to describe this article. Surely I think it's an improvement over "Big Food vs. Big Insurance" which doesn't give you any idea of what the article is really about. Do you have a better suggestion?
" ... wrongfully branded criminals for simply following their nature."
The argument that an action is simply a persons "nature" is impotent. Do you hold forth that same argument when such pederasty, due to age restrictions, is classed as child abuse?

People probably levelled the same argument against Socrate's [reported by Plato and Xenophon] denouncement of the buggery of juveniles by older men.
Labour, the party in government, is a pretty bad lot, but the Tories, whose supporters traditionally read the Torygraph, are no better.

I have to live in this country, but I fear for its future. About the only party I can stomach voting for is the LibDems, but it's been a long time since they had a hand in government (assuming continuity with Liberal Party).
Because gas stations don't scale.

Even the "perfect" gas station -- one that had the cheapest, best tasting refreshments, the cheapest gas, the fanciest pumps, the friendliest attendants -- couldn't add new parking spaces and pumps every day in any kind of realistic manner.

But software can scale. It can scale, theoretically, infinitely, meeting the needs of every single potential user on the planet -- if the software is good enough.
This would be extremely interesting as this area is one major weakpoint for available Ruby frameworks.
Only makes sense that it's 1) a joke or 2) there's a deal with efax for...cash. Not sure what else efax could provide. Maybe free premium accounts for all facebook employees?

Anyways, what an eyesore :).
Surprised this isn't from The Onion. Why the hell do we even have faxes anymore?