skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sounds like a result of the usual deal making and compromise in Congress. Sarbanes Oxley was passed during the Bush admin when republicans were pretty strong in Congress (don't remember whether there was complete republican majority at that time). In any event, the republican line was that regulation is always bad government is always bad (except for wars), and everybody can self regulate. Also, for some reason, some conservative politicians really hated the SEC and would never give it more responsibilities or funding. So this seems like an attempt to have it both ways -- have a law and have self regulation at the same time, by allowing a board of accountants to set up some rules.
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Save yourself a click - it is yet another HTML editor using Javascript that (as the article says) is not 100% working.
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Here's the video to go along with it: http://www.vimeo.com/8057986
Bell's theorem demands that you give up locality or realism. Either is fine; historically speaking it's just been easier to give up realism. Of course physicists found a way to keep both (by splitting the observer up), & MWI's increasing popularity reflects this. In my view it's useless to argue about interpretations. Last I checked they had the same predictions.
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I agree with this sentiment completely. 12 months ago, I can safely say that my experience with PHP had been a simple modification of an ExtJS application and me screwing around with my Delicious bookmarks and the Yahoo BOSS API (both of these took more than a day to complete and I was very upset with life).

I decided that I should learn how to actually create working websites and over the Winter Intercession, I looked at the various frameworks. Being on a Mac, I looked long and hard at Ruby on Rails, but something about it's syntax irked me. In hindsight, it shouldn't have as my only experience had been with Java and other related OOP languages, but oh well.

I next looked at Zend, as many of the apps I developed for (Joomla, WordPress etc) were PHP apps, and therefore it made sense to go with what the Zend Engine people created. It took all of 2 minutes to realize that it would take me HOURS to figure out how to setup a basic MVC package. Not to mention a friend had used Zend in a previous project of ours - I developed the frontend in ExtJS, he the backend API - and was thoroughly upset with it.

I moved on to CodeIgniter and Kohana and thought it was great... except that it required that I specify a lot. I hate specifying things. Love automagic.

From there, it was Symfony, but it's application tutorial was too big and confusing for a PHP-noob like me (http://www.symfony-project.org/jobeet/1_4/Doctrine/en/). I think I just didn't give it enough of a chance.

Then I read about the recently released 1.2 release of CakePHP. Loved the name, thought the documentation and community names were funny - The Cookbook and The Bakery, respectively - and I was able to do the blog tutorial in less than 30 minutes (to their credit, I'm an idiot). I was happy enough then to start thinking about more complex applications and start to do something about them. I'm here almost 12 months later with around 30 or so active, open source projects on Github, 4 or 5 deployed websites, a few web applications puttering around on my machine, and quite a few in planning.

I'm of the opinion that you shouldn't limit yourself two a choice of two, but try several frameworks and languages. Try languages you don't know at all (Chicago Boss looked nice, but development has slowed. You could try using NodeJS! Django is cool too.) and try frameworks in languages you are familiar with (Someone mentioned Play Framework, which I think is the best RAD framework in Java, and PHP has CakePHP/CodeIgniter/Zend/Symfony/Lithium).

Choosing a language and a framework isn't about what excites other people, but what excites you. Find a combination that excites you and do it.
In your essay, you implied that people were painting alla prima during the Renaissance, that Renaissance painters would start from a rough sketch directly from the canvas, and that they could repeatedly rework parts of the picture.

You can link every Dutch master you want without making your argument any less bogus.

Here's what I actually wrote:

"The allusion a sketchy, iterative style of painting that used to be called "alla prima", where you block shapes in in oil paint and then swoosh them around the composition as the painting progresses, perhaps repainting entire sections of the picture. This is the way Graham and I were taught to paint, but it has nothing whatsoever to do with painting in the fifteenth century."

If you want to refute me, show me the Renaissance master who painted directly onto a blank canvas, starting with a "blurry sketch" and iteratively refining it into a finished work, like Hals, or Manet, or Rubens, or Bob Ross, rather than working with underdrawings and thin glazes of color.

You can't, because no one painted like that then. But talking about painstaking preliminary design and a sequential, pretty rigid method would have been inconvenient for the purposes of your essay.
I've been looking for something like this, here are some suggestions:

- system-wide keyboard shortcuts (I believe there is a Carbon API for this that you could use). It'd be great if you could hook the default Pause/Play buttons on the Macbook keyboard, not sure if this is possible

- possibly some kind of current track menu item (I wrote one for iTunes here: http://silentmac.com/?p=470 ), requires Cocoa. Just to display the current song (some of my music has long, quiet intros, and I'm not sure what song is playing in the beginning), this might go against your idea of minimalist though

- shuffle functionality

But it looks great so far!
Both the risk and potential payoff are far greater for male then female. A woman can hope to have around 5-6 surviving children, with little risk to have none. A male has a real risk of dieing without children, but on the other hand the best case scenario is in the hundreds of offspring.

But the real consequence of a bigger male-to-female ratio will probably be plain old fashioned competition. Some men, especially young, will go the "flashy" way, but for most it will simply mean that having outstanding performance in whatever they do is much more important. Wouldn't want to be one of them, but for the society as a whole is probably good.
What is wrong with you HN? "Getting out of hand" relates to the rate of change. Not a single data point.
Very dangerous. The kind of "I might lose my job for spending too long on your site" dangerous.

I'm curious, how did you market to artists? You seem to have a lot of variety on your site so I'd like to know how you got so many artists to agree.

Edit: I like the Art 101 section as well. Especially this:
http://www.zatista.com/art101/getting_started/good_art

Edit 2: On this http://www.zatista.com/art101/getting_started/hanging_art

Some pictures might be helpful.
It seems to me that 16 MHz is plenty for waypoint following and attitude control but if you really need more processing power you could try http://www.gumstix.com/
did he really say renewable??? fail.
Sounds like they intentionally ignored that PHP has connection pooling and FastCGI to reduce the overhead of spawning new connections and new processes. Looks more like a marketing pdf than a technical paper.
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If you're concerned about account enumeration on a desktop OS (server edition doesn't use X), then you can disable it in GDM.

This seems like an angry rant by someone who doesn't bother investigating anything.
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Maybe he is not referring to nuclear power but energy in general, though I don't know if renewable is still the right word to use.
The lwn thread this responds to is hilarious: http://lwn.net/Articles/364528/

The mainstream Linux distributions are the forkiest projects to ever exist, as a point of immense pride: "we have 20k+ forked packages in our repository!". Their whole sense of purpose is built around taking software from upstream and then mutilating it arbitrarily:

* License wank
* Freezing it at an arbitrary version number for 6 months to 3 years
* Patching it so that it works with your frozen dependencies
* Independently backporting a random set of 'security' patches
* Disabling features, often for ideological reasons
* Dismembering it into separate packages
* Rearranging its files to fit into a reverse hierarchy
(which completely breaks any worthwhile language-specific module system)
* Patching it to use a non-standard default configuration
(often the personal preferences of the packager)

This is the heat death of the universe calling the kettle black. It's a lumber warehouse proprietor picking the mote out of a customer's eye. I hope their heads fall off.
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Interesting question. I'll add one more to it if you don't mind. Even if getting into the pentagon might be harder, do you think there is more data that is a) easy to get via hacking and b) useful? If so, this is an important way in which hacking is easier than it was before.

I might think there is more data like this since more people put more data on computers with less knowledge about how to protect it.
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There have been a number of reports about Chernobyl. This one was rather sparse on details and seemed to have as its take-home point "The USSRians were morons, this could never happen in the US because we are better and people who do tests on reactors go to jail." Now, this is not very useful. What happened in Chernobyl was a combination of technical failure, failure to follow regulations, bad design and an error cascade. This combination was significantly more likely in the conditions in the USSR at the time, but accidents on a smaller scale have happened, even in the US. http://www.csirc.net/library/la_13638.shtml is an interesting read, especially the first document linked. It contains data and detailed accident reports for a number of radiation criticalities in various situations. Failsafes are good, but they are not enough, and someone stupid, uninformed, or willful enough can always find ways of circumventing them.
Well, that's because it basically is. But you can download it for free and it works on other app servers besides Resin: http://quercus.caucho.com/
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Does anyone know when the extensions will find their way into the stable branch? Or is it so that it comes when its ready?
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Google Analytics tells me the average visitor from HN takes 8 seconds to run away in terror. I guess a change away from the default Moveable Type theme was long overdue.

It really is a struggle to develop and market your start-up while holding down a full-time job. I reckon having a blog at all is an achievement for a part-time entrepreneur :)
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It says 'This Chart Designates Operations And Not Authorities' at the bottom, so I'd think it's not really their org chart but more of a 'movie process' chart.
Not really, there's a very particular type of fallacy that is people sticking small seeming percentages on markets and then suggesting that that percentage is achievable profit.

Unless you go completely viral it's going to be one sale at a time with no percentages in sight.

Percentages would occasionally be an acceptable form of measurement when there is significant market research regarding a highly targetted group.

A good way to work out if the members of that group would buy stickers is to ask 100 of them at random and see how the answers went. Then assume that a good portion of those were just saying yes and will not follow through.

There's a significant benefit to saying yes in that you are more likely to gain the option of buying a sticker without necessarily having to buy one.
we actually had it for a little while. they disabled it b/c of some security issue, but it'll be back soon.

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=29086#c5
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It's so good nothing useful has ever been written in it.

Care to elaborate a little bit?
my immediate thought was 'welcome to digg'
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Deltas (ie. patches you apply on top of upstream release when making a package) are not forks. Sane distros do that instead of forking for most packages if they have to change anything. Also, most package maintainers know the smaller the delta the less work they have to do, so it's in their own interest to minimise the changes (or try to push changes upstream). (Note: I'm not a Fedora user so can't say whether Fedora, referred to in the article, belongs in that group)

OTOH, code dumps of forked projects containing a mix of upstream and modified code without clear indication which code was pulled and which added/modified are a nightmare to work with.

[EDIT: not to say Google doesn't, as in the submitted article it's clear that they're trying.]
Scheme people often use Quack. It has excellent support for looking up documentation, as well as the usual stuff like interacting with the Scheme interpreter.

http://www.neilvandyke.org/quack/
HTML, and hence searchable: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD11xx/EW...
The author is missing a crucial point. Any decline in working population has to be offset against productivity growth. Otherwise it means very little for overall wealth and for the ability of a society to replace traditional family based social security with a formal rights based social security system.

In my view, the potential for productivity growth in a country like China is enormous. Knowledge and skills and capital, it's all there, but it is still advantageous in many cases to use manual labour instead. With rising wages and a shortage of labour this equation will change dramatically and productivity will skyrocket.
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>The second you give women the opportunity to work instead of raise a pack of squalling children, they seem to prefer work.

Debatable. Women in the West were forced into work due to declining wages. A single income was no longer enough to support a family, and as more women went to work the other families would bid up the price of goods.

Are women choosing to work or doing it out of necessity and social pressure?
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It's impressive what you have built, however I wonder about the market you are in.

My perception was that the art market has two main categories:

a) Original art (no prints or reproductions), which is sometimes bought as an investment or by people who think they are art experts and can buy something unique from and up and coming young artist. It's not just a market, it's a community with its own reputation mechanisms and fashions. Nothing coming from that direction is ever being sold for $75 online.

b) Mass prints of stuff to decorate rooms.

It seems to me that you are trying to invent a new market. But it may be that I'm just not sufficiently familiar with the art scene.

In any event, I wish you luck and congrats to your high quality website.
The way to open PDF in word
This article is talk about some basic knowledge of PDF, and you can learn the way to open uneditable PDF files in editable Microsoft Word documents.
I'm not sure if HN lets you do this, but if so, can you please correct the title?
Thanks, although I'm glad the OP linked the PDF since EWD has a really nice hand-writing and I would have missed that otherwise.

That said, a pretty timeless piece if somewhat black-and-white.
I want to be excited about this, but there are big gaps in this spec.

For example, "blah"[0] should return an Object instance which represents "b". Could be a Fixnum. Could be a String. Could be a JPEG of some ASCII art representing the essence of "B." Any of those responses would be valid according to RubySpec.

What happens when you shadow a local variable with a block variable is unspecified, too. In 1.8.x, it overwrites the variable. In 1.9, it doesn't.

Even with a "RubySpec-compatible" implementation, you have no way of knowing if your application will run or not, which kind of defeats the purpose.
The most efficient use of excess males is war.

The most efficient solution to an excess of geriatrics is euthanasia. (Baby boomers should be worried about this.)

These are bitter pills to swallow.

Chinese social planners are not fools. They know very well that it is better for their excess males to die in battle (and win boons for the country) than for those males to be cooped up in the interior where they will inevitably cause strife.

Even with the most massive pacification campaign in history, that glut of childless-males is guaranteed to cause massive social unrest.

If anything could conquer Asia and India, it would be a gigantic excess of childless males in an authoritarian society. Alexander the Great would have never dreamed of such a perfect country to conquer with.
Terrible, disgusting stock photos.

I swear I've seen a version of this somewhere with a numbered list instead of the gnarly images.

[EDIT] Indeed:
http://www.skmurphy.com/blog/2009/10/19/8-tips-for-evaluatin...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=984711
Although this article [1] is 9 years old, it's still relevant as it shows the impact of the one child policy.

Women become valuable commodities. I've heard stories about rural Chinese girls being scammed and promised offers of marriage from rich men in the city. In reality they're sold into a life of slavery.

At the other end of the scale though more educated women in China can take their pick of males.

[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/927309.stm
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It's important to note that String#Fixnum (the target anchor in the article) does return the character at that index in the current version of Ruby.

The behavior was changed at the start of the 1.9.x series.
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I would not describe Japan and Italy as particularly feministic cultures, actually.

Also, selectively aborting your future female population is a great way to reduce r.
And it's already fixed. Interesting to see the bug.

https://review.source.android.com/#patch,sidebyside,12807,1,...
I would like to thank everyone for the kind replies and helpful advice -- they're much appreciated and perhaps unsurprisingly, very accurate. Most of it is exactly what I needed to hear. Escaping from other issues in my life is definitely something that has been going on: it's easy to fill a certain emptiness in your life with work. It's harder to actually realize that and do something about it.

Right now it all comes down to changing perspective: take distance from work and realize it's far from everything. I might even enjoy it again if I do. And the Christmas season is probably a good time to call a few lost friends.

Once again, thanks for all the kind replies. This hacker is just going through a rough time, but will definitely come out stronger. It just sucks when you're in the middle of it. :-)
The pair programming idea got me thinking - what about hiring someone for half days doing your typing for you? This seems economical, esp. in this economy. Maybe a local CS student who would see this as an internship, or at least know the syntax well enough to make your dictation efficient. Since you have your own business you'd just treat it as an expense.

I think the speech to text suggestion is also worth investigating.

Since you've tried a bunch of things, I assume you've read up on ergonomics. A previous employer forced me to take an ergonomics evaluation when I wanted a new chair. I thought it was going to be a waste, but it was really useful and helped me improve my home office setup as well.
The USSRians made some decisions which, in retrospect, seem pretty evil. For example, I hear they were cloud seeding to force the fallout to be rained. This hit Belarus very badly. BUT if they hadn't done this, then the clouds would have continued towards Moscow and many many many more people could have been affected. The one thing I do criticize them on, though, is not evacuating people earlier. I also hear they never told anyone the extent of the accident until many days later, when they were already poisoned by radiation.

As for the actual accident - there were many factors at play here, including miscommunication between the day and night shift people, untrained staff, bad reactor design etc etc.

I just hope people learned from the accident and we can prevent this from happening again.
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I've seen another game like this one, called "notpron":
http://www.deathball.net/notpron/

The goal is to use clues to get to the next page of the puzzle; most levels require the user to guess the correct URL to move on, using clues on the page, in the source code, or embedded in files like images and sound files.
You're right, that's pretty lame.

EDIT: typo and mistake.
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Looks like they ran out of cash to get Scott McCloud like they did for the first, awesome, Chrome comic: http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/
This is great news! You could ask ”What’s taken so long?” but that would be sour grapes. Guess we no longer need http://freethepostcode.org/ now though.
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Another key finding is that your subjective impression of productivity will be wrong if you exceed 35 hours per week. You'll think you're more achieving more even as you dip below the average productivity.

For the more Machiavellian among us, he also claims you'll be rewarded by management more on appearance of productivity (i.e. long hourse) than on actual results.
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