skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That kind of thing also happens to me when typing. Might be related to muscle memory.
Speaking UNIX: Peering into pipes
I think this is sort of correct but not entirely correct. Natural language, for instance, affords us a great many mechanisms which are very much like a functional programming language. For instance, rather than something like so:

for (x in men):
if john saw x:
the_man = x
break

mary knows the_man

we can do something like

mary knows men.select { |x| john saw x }

namely, relative clauses: "mary knows the man that john saw".

But relative clauses are difficult to process when they're not tail recursive (think of The House that Jack Built in English vs. Japanese, let's say).

So what it might suggest is that the brain is a functional tail-call optimized system, rather than generically imperative or generically functional. This might explain the apparent preference for imperative programming.
He was much more insightful than that. He acknowledged that Linux itself makes it hard for those vendors to make polished apps by changing and reinventing every damned thing every few years.
>> "Or would you argue that, say, x86 machine-language is just as expressive as say, Java? According to your turing-completeness argument that would seem like a yes."

Yes. I absolutely would, and I've written about the same amount of x86 code as I have Java. They are each suited better to different tasks, but they're both just as expressive for me.
Summary: customer discovers double billing for the last six months, and inquires with company. Company investigates, finds it's been happening for 8 months, and refunds the user in a timely manner.
People who troll for fun don't adjust their behavior, usually.

Good post. I agree, but the danger is confusing misguided people who want to contribute from those who are intentionally damaging the conversation. Once it can be determined that the trolling is intentional, I'm all for the heavy guns: ban the account and do what you can do to make it difficult to obtain another one.
I wonder why they don't offer 256MB instances.
This is a lot like graffiti in a city, and should probably be dealt with in the same way. Cities have been known to paint murals, react quickly to cover up graffiti, and patrol so that they can catch offenders in the act.

The HN equivalent of a mural is to submit something really interesting, that will be voted to the top quickly.

The HN equivalent of covering up graffiti is to flag a post or a comment, or to post better stories and comments that push the garbage out. Though a way to mark duplicates would be nice.

What we really lack is a way to catch offenders. I have seen several "karma: 1, created 15 minutes ago" accounts, that are always attached to useless contributions. Sure, I can flag a comment, but it's very obvious that the entire account should just be banned (and perhaps the IP it came from), and there's no flag that applies to an entire user. Perhaps there should be, at least for accounts that have only existed for a short time.
Best part of this article:

"I don’t work that many hours a day." "I always went home at night, and didn’t work in the evening," she said. "I always found that downtime to be really useful."
No, they wouldn't, because you didn't say that. They would instead infer merely that you were suggesting Apple wouldn't remain in their position long, because that's all you said.
How Chipotle, Pinkberry, and others win big by doing just a few things well
Okay, good answer. I believe I concede the point with just one question (maybe more to come in the morning when my brain is in better condition)...

How long will this take? My guess is that most guys wouldn't feel comfortable dressing in a skirt (or whatever). I don't see this becoming the norm anytime soon. So the administration can encourage this as much as it wants, but until the bully actually feels like he/she is in the minority, nothing will change. In the meantime, bullies will continue to beat up kids.

But, I agree, things should change. (By the way, this is what I believed the whole time. I was just pointing out the safety issues. Also, your previous post was unnecessarily offensive in somehow suggesting that I somehow blame the victims, and I'd ask that in the future you try to get a complete understanding of someone's views before attacking them Thanks in advance!)
I personally haven't had a problem with the new Ubuntu release. I moved back to Ubuntu after having a lot of problems with Fedora 11. I originally moved to Fedora 10 after having a lot of problems with Ubuntu.

But I guess this is the problem, right? New problems always arise in different distros and different versions. I can't say I've found one distro to commonly recommend because it seems like all of them have had problems at some point, even in newer releases.

For me, I don't care as much about switching distros. I have my .emacs setup and my files, it's easy to move. But for a lot of people, I think they want something that is almost always stable so they don't have to switch distros or put up with bugs.
I enlisted a year before 9/11 so I am just speculating here but I chose to enlist because I was done with HS and had very few prospects for a job and I knew I would just flunk out of college. So I chose the military as something to do to see the world and learn some skills that would help me in the future. The patriotism/ protecting my family/ country was a distant second.

So my theory is that kids that enlist are in the same boat as I was. They have just completed 12 years of statist indoctrination, watched all the movies celebrating war, are praised by friends and family for the idea of enlisting, and have few job prospects (especially with today's economy).

Just my .02
Fuck y'all, all of y'all. If you don't like me, blow me.
I had thought it had been picked up in other places, but fair enough if it wasn't (see op reply below). Like i said I'm just being cynical...

I know that it was about international banking as i read the the story when it posted; but how many of those take 3 months to sort out? None that i know of.

It always sounded to me like apple were trying fob the op off as long as they could till they fixed their code ... again, im a cynical bugger, but i'm glad they got it sorted for the op.
A few days ago, somebody had a made some silly comment like this:

"OMG She is t3h winrar of t3h intarnets!". Their point was that somebody had done something very noteworthy. It added nothing to the conversation and was exactly the type of thing I think we're talking about here.

I did what I think this thread is asking me not to and responded with something like this:

"Just so you know, you're being downmodded for using the word 'internets', people around here don't like that" (or something to that effect).

My question is if this was the "wrong" thing to do? I was wrong, and the user I was responding to had been here for a long time, but I felt like it might have been helpful to inform new people that the sorts of things that are welcomed and encouraged on reddit, are not here.

Is this thread encouraging us NOT to do stuff like that?
A couple of usability sites, which are a big part of design:

- http://www.useit.com/ (Jakob Nielsen)
- http://asktog.com/ (Bruce Tognazzini)

Bruce publishes rarely and seems to be more interesting. Jakob has some great posts, but also a lot that feel more like "please buy my book" than "this is helpful".
Yes, there are CUDA implementations such as flam4, but I'm always interested in new possible approaches to the problem, since I'm writing a flame editor and CUDA doesn't play all that nicely with it.
The reason for the indemnification (happened here in Germany as well) is obvious: Without "enough" (a topic for endless discussions) research and trials, the pharma firms don't want to face potentially bankrupting class action law suits in case there is a minor defect with their vaccine - which they could have found if they have had more time to test it. As a business, I would do one of two things: (1) demand indemnification, or (2) raise the price high enough to cover potential damage awards; as the government doesn't want to pay (2), they go for (1).
Aside from the research articles, there is also a text book:

http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/lets-go/641689

http://books.google.com/books?isbn=0975444913
How about if a comment is losing a significant amount of points then the author is required to view a simple guidelines page on the next visit to HN and sign off on it.
Duck Duck Go is now my primary search engine. Google has become such a bloated crap with their local searches, blog searches, video searches, adwords ads and suggestions.
don't use the web album uploader; use picasa to manage your photos. it's as easy as clicking a button if you are using picasa 3.0.
English isn't broken. It simply comes with a built-in IQ test.
Yes, war is one of the evils which we have reduced. But I don't think we would have gotten to this state by being pacifists.

The world is a complex place, full of little contradictions.
I've used OSX since 10.0 up to 10.5 and classic MacOS before that. I've never upgraded to 10.6 and do not plan to do so (I got Thinkpad and Windows last summer). I remember times when dlopen/dlsym didn't work (later it did); never managed to build some command line utilities and other required porting effort; macports was never functioning properly; Aquamacs ignored my customizations; was there X11.app release that did work at all?; no jdk6 for ppc; etc.

From proprietary side: you could have either Office 2004 for PPC running in emulation and working macros and custom language dictionaries; or intel Office 2008 without these two things. Since switching to OSX, the Adobe suite got worse and has distinct second-class feel compared to windows version.

I had some favourite software, that was originaly developed for classic MacOS (both m68k and ppc) and it does not work on modern Macs. Even software that was updated for OSX does not work, because the installer is for classic and then the updater updates the program to carbon (or whatever) version. With every switch in OSX focus there is software that is getting lost (with switch to intel, we lost some. With switch to 64b, we will lose more due to no Carbon).

In short, in all those years I was using OSX I got fed up and made a full circle (dos/windows -> linux -> mac -> windows).
A standard for trademarks is risk of confusion; as the "!" is not pronounced (or typically indexed), the collision between 'Go!' and 'Go' is much stronger than the others you list.

If the 'Go!' creators had any hope for using that name on a series of offerings (tools, books, etc.), they have to object to Google's use, to retain the presumptive rights they'd established so far via use.
I can tell you something - absolutely do not quit your job till you are making $3000 in sales. The Apple iTunes store is a very very fickle baby. It's like a wild horse that is always bucking and trying to throw you off, and to stay on you keep having to think faster and anticipate its moves.

No matter how great your idea is, the Apple store will be unforgiving as hell. There is a LOT to be learned, and while you are learning it, you will need to have a job, because something needs to pay for the mistakes.
Awesome! I knew something like this had to exist, but never acquired the math skills or the time to dig seriously for it, though I did have a lot of fun render quaternions along the way. I wonder if the techniques used for this could help us in reverse-engineering of DNA (stay with me here...).

Some years ago I came across the Romanesco Broccoli, sometimes referred to as a broccoflower - the first time I saw I got badly startled, thinking I was experiencing some sort of LSD flashback. But it's real, quite edible (and tasty), and Mrs Browl has since grown several of them in the garden. Check it out here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanesco_broccoli and http://www.fourmilab.ch/images/Romanesco/

There are many other instances of logarithmic spirals in nature, but few so striking as this one, given its compound structure. Irritatingly, I've had little luck finding any serious analysis of this structure - it turns up on quite a few pages, but mostly with a comment of 'yup, that's fractal all right' or mention of it as a teaching aid for introducing mathematical concepts. The only papers mentioning its genome seem concerned with agricultural considerations like yield and disease resistance. I can't understand why it's not the subject of feverish interdisciplinary study, since it practically screams 'analyze me'. Any thoughts from mathematically-inclined HNers?
It does support Macs. It's got an API so hopefully someone will build other clients, like for Linux.
Jason Fried from 37s comments regularly on stories that involve 37s. He wouldn't be an HN commenter at all if he had to jump through hoops to get here.

But forget about the "black swan" event of Rob Pike posting here on a Go story. Think about the Zappos redesign story. It's not black-swan-crazy to think the UX guy from Zappos might comment here. And lo, he did! There are lots of "normal" people who are close to the stories we post that have a moment to comment on them.
If we make three reasonable assumptions about HN:

- The community of readers will keep growing.

- New readers will continue to find it easy to comment and participate.

- New readers will mostly enjoy and prefer the kind of content PG and many older users want to discourage (not a big reach, since there are tech-oriented sites with millions of readers and participants having pretty shallow discussions.)

Then we have a different problem; we're trying to suppress the majority of users and rule with the minority. Incremental rights with a simple "karma" model won't help us in any way I can see, because the majority will vote up people who contribute the kind of content we don't prefer, and those people will have the karma to perpetuate that content.

(As I understood, that was your original point here, but I don't see how incremental rights is a good way of tackling that issue, at least not the way SO does it.)
You can disagree with the bad decisions of those superiors, but the service men and women will be there fighting regardless of whether it was right or wrong

Apologies for invoking Godwin's Law, but this is quite precisely where the analogy is applicable.

From The Twilight Zone episode "Death's Head Revisited":
"They just heard you offer the apology for all the monsters of our time . We did as we were told, we functioned as ordered, we merely carried out directives from our superiors. Familiar, is it, Captain? It was the Nazi theme music at Nuremburg. The new lyrics to the Gotterdammerung. The plaintive litany of the master race as it laid dying.
We did not do, others did, or someone else did it.
We never even knew it was being done or
We did it, but others told us to."

I now cringingly await the downvotes.
Actually, I also had the feeling that they were fixing something internally and that's why faxes would get "missing" and week long no replies. Whatever it is - it seems to be fixed now.
I'm a new user to this website, but I've notice the level of integrity and consistency on the comments. It's actually the reason that made me select this "community" and not others like Digg/Slashdot/whatever.

The users are the strong point of HN, and losing that would not be good at all.

I say +1 for invitation based system. Also, users could have a more active role on moderation. Just not sure how, exactly.
Completely agree with the premise David. I'm running CheapToday.com virtually. We have 7 people working remotely w/ Board Members in London but with LOTS of interpersonal collaboration & communication. Video conferencing has helped quite a bit. Essentially, money goes to essential needs - people & customers/marketing. Very liberating & cost efficient. Highly recommended approach.
No, the point of the article (or at least the problem to be solved) is driving a high resolution display from a device or cable or network that doesn't have the bandwith to do it the old fashioned, constantly updating frame way. DVI is really just a digital hacking up of analog VGA which is not far above old style video, and this makes no sense in a world where all displays sold have frame buffers of their own and memory and graphics hardware are super cheap.

We should move everything to fully digital protocols, and share cables, and get power on the cables (in both ways) too.
Might the flag button then get abused as much as downmodding is now?
It's not 'Google' that's renamed anything. It's 'self-congratulatory commenters with no clear relationship to the project'. Different thing entirely!
Actually, quite a few of the things on that list are still pretty damn popular. It's easy to pick out one category from the list and say "see, that category died, so social networking will too!"

We still have IM, search, browsers, email, content networks, etc, etc, etc. Some things are here to stay...deal with it.
yeah, i agree with this.

pg, you've done a hell of a job thus far. i've never seen an internet hangout get this big and this old, yet remain this polite and civil. but as external forces conspire to drag the site down toward the mean, fighting them off will require increasingly severe countermeasures.
As long as you remember that it's a mentality of sacrifice that led to 183,000 Americans dying in Europe, but it's facist totalitarianism that led to 10.7M Russians doing the same.

4 out of the 5million German military casualties were on the Eastern Front, The Russian army had a not insignificant role in Germany's defeat.
Despite all the net stuff, people still need to move lotsa atoms from place to place cheap and the trains are good at that.
I dont think Google officially changed the name yet !! Just the Community wants it to be Issue 9
PHP port of PHPXref. Alpha is done already :)
Repeated mistakes involving simple homophones are usually evidence that the author of the text has never been in the habit of reading for pleasure, and learned English mainly as a spoken language. If the offender is a native English speaker, you can be nearly certain that you are dealing with an intellectual lightweight.
I've used a 2nd generation Macbook Pro that costs my employer close to $3000 (4GB RAM, 2.4GHz, 160GB HD) for 2 years, during which time the graphic card (Nvidia 9600M GT) died twice (screen suddenly went blank); battery died once (could not hold charge for an hour and would shut everything down without warning); Apple Mail corrupted its IMAP data countless times; much software annoyance: maximize/unmaximize/resize surprise etc.

Before the MBP, I've been using a $1000 amd64 notebook with 1.5GB RAM for 3 years without any issues, running Gentoo (! did need to google to fix multi-monitor support and ndiswrapper/wpa-supplicant for wifi) and it felt snappier than the mac with much faster processor running Leopard (up to 10.5.8).

Now I'm using a $600 laptop (with 4GB RAM and 320GB HD with higher display resolution than the MBP: 1680x945 vs 1440x900) and a 2.5lb $200 netbook running Ubuntu Jaunty. Everything worked out of the box including wifi, webcam and desktop effects. Feels much snappier than the Mac as well. All it took is a little googling _before_ buying the machines :)

It's much easier for Apple to QA limited configurations. Frankly, I'm quite pleased with the progress of Linux desktop.

Just another experience and perspective...
Yes. That's what this thread is encouraging you not to do.

That goes triple for comments in the middle of bona fide comment threads, because the [troll, rebuke] comment pair is going to be stuck right in the middle of the comments page, not at the bottom.
i like to think it was because of something i said:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Picasa/thread?tid=3081...
Some research (probably see Cialdini) shows significantly improved compliance when a question is asked that requires confirmation from the subject. So it would better as: "Will you add a thoughtful comment?". How that can be best realised in a web context is something for further consideration . . .
I have a hard time imagining how a Server 2k3 or 2k8 instance would be useful with only 256MB of RAM.
A VC on what it takes to be a phenomenal entrepreneur
If it is shown that often, it will lose its impact. Showing it only once, especially if the cause is listed, evokes a much stronger sense of shame.
You commented a troll comment from a user literally named 'shitcock' (that actually happened!). Please don't do that. The most likely outcome from that response is that the troll has yet another hook to comment on.
I showed my two-year old daughter the Mandelbrot set, then this pic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mandelbrot_zoom.gif

She said, "Is that all Mandelbrot's friends?"
Yes, you need a serious name, like "Google" or "Yahoo".

I suggest "Splooploo".
Alan Kay is right again: "People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware".

That explains Mac and iPhone's success I guess
A Dr Horrible joke falls on deaf ears in a geek forum?

/sigh
Indeed not; the pacifists would simply have been exploited and killed or enslaved by others.
I have a suspicion that were you to create a HN poll on the name you'd find one category significantly larger than the other.
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Tptacek seems to be worried more about drawing attention to particular trolls than to trolling in general. If you comment on a troll comment, you draw attention to it and lift it up the page giving it more visibility at the expense of more useful posts. In contrast, this thread/submission doesn't give any more visibility to any particular troll, but does provide a place for meta-discussion on dealing with them.
Yes, this simple change could really work much better than all the fancy solutions. This is a social solution to a social problem.

I would suggest one additional thing, which is a little bit more invasive. After a user submits a comment, show a confirmation question like "Are you sure you are making a positive contribution to the conversation? [Yes] [No]"
I suspect that what really worked for Metafilter was maintaining full-time moderators who eliminate bad posts and talk one-on-one with users who are not contributing well. I think the barriers to registration just prevented the community from growing faster than the moderator team.
We talked about a lot of the tough conversations you need to be willing to have as an entrepreneur. Here's how he suggested one entrepreneur whose company should renegotiate with her clients:

I said, “Go back to your customers and tell them: ‘Times have changed. I need you to either pay me a little more money for the contract so I can support it, or I’m going to have to cut on my development costs and my support costs because I can’t build a profitable company. Now what you need as a customer is you want a really strong supplier. I think you still really believe in this vision of what we built, but I need to be strong. And to be strong I need to make profits. And by the way, when you’re a billion dollar company it’s really no sweat to you. And by the way, if you change this agreement, I’m committing to you I will bust my a-- to make you successful. But I need a little give.’”
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=936109
In the HN community, yes. Outside the HN community, it is completely the other way around.
And affect is also a noun (psychology term).

-r
BooHoo ... skype doesnt work so it must be Linux's fault. Macbook pros are intentionally designed to be difficult to dual boot so it must be Linux's fault.

Hey I have an idea. Why don't you buy a desktop and laptop with linux preinstalled (they are available online) and then try to install OSX on top of it and dual boot. Then you are really in for a nightmare. You will have to do a lot of hacking and in the end you are still pretty much guaranteed to fail. And then you can write a blog post about how you really love OSX but you are so tired of it.
That doesn't work in the case of interactivity (ie: games) since you can't buffer.
If it is open source, can't the community rename the project?