skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rather than seek to coerce your fellows, just give money yourself to the causes you like and encourage others to do the same. If you and a just a hundred others give one hundred dollars per month, Rick would be making a nice salary. And no one would have to be coerced. This way, besides supporting useful software, you're also supporting something even more important: a free society.
Let's Stop Talking About "Backups"
I don't know - I think it is interesting. I would have thought that it would be easier for a woman to be successful writing on the internet. I guess I based that on 'sex sells'. It does seem that profiles on social sites with photos of pretty girls get more attention...
How can you give lessons on "the right way" of achieving product-market fit if you haven't yourself achieved it? If you have indeed achieved it with Dawdle, but a lack of technical ability is holding you back, isn't it a no-brainer to go into debt and hire a programmer?

Calling you out is a pyrhhic victory. With respect to strategy and tactics, I think that we need to listen only to people who have actually succeeded. I want you to succeed, so you can write about it, so I can succeed.
Traits tend to go away when not needed. Pigment is essentially an appendix.

EDIT: Okay, wisdom teeth then. Or teeth in general, which are gradually disappearing.
Ming, a clear way to interact with MongoDB
This is not a new phenomenon:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Tiptree,_Jr.
> Nothing but a huge, gorgeous screen and just a few small buttons on the bottom.

I may be missing something, but isn't that exactly what the Nexus is?
Neither the word "evolution" nor the word "gene" appears in an article that is clearly about a change in gene frequencies over time caused by natural selection. Hmm.

(Perhaps the author is trying to avoid the suggestion that white people are "more highly evolved", which is of course nonsense; it's just different adaptations suited for different environments.)

[Edit: Yes, this comment is probably stupid.]
Link to the full page version:

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/11/ff_avatar_cameron/all/...

(I always hate clicking through pages 1-4 when you can just view all four pages at once.)
Worst, it isn't even his post. It's a direct copy and paste of someone else's without even the decency to google to credit the original source.
...in that the appendix was recently discovered to have a useful function as a backup store for intestinal bacteria in case something killed off all the good stuff in your gut?
Does anyone know how processes are implemented in termite?

I remember looking at candygram a while ago (erlang style message passing for python) and reading that a 'process' uses the OS's underlying thread so you can't scale the number of processes like you could on erlang.

Not that it's been a bottleneck for me but I'm just curious.
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The assumption that cave art conventions reflect actual pigmentation is pretty shaky. The egyptian statue reference is just wrong - there's a long tradition of females being depicted as yellow or white versus red or brown for males. This probably has some basis in men engaging in more outdoors activity, but this art is definitely not a photo-realistic rendering. If you want a modern analogy, think the Simpsons! Here's some academic work that mentions the gender conventions:

http://www.mywire.com/a/Oxford-Encyclopedia-Ancient-Egypt/Ge...

I don't know anything about the other points in the article, but these errors make me doubt their accuracy.
I doubt it; isn't it providing protection from UV-caused skin cancer and such?

[Edit: I took you to mean that pigment was generally not beneficial, but probably you meant only in certain environments, which would be fair enough.]
(Slightly off topic, but isn't the benefit of the appendix outweighed by how often if becomes infected, etc?)
But sometimes you want the right kind of attention. People who look at your content, not the wrapping around it.
That kind of idealism falls short because of the free-rider problem. See the above link.
You can still try hard and cover many cases where it would go into an infinite loop. And then try even harder and cover even more cases.
It's never too late to pull the plug on a movie that's expected to be a failure. He pulled out so the company was more likely to break even or profit and therefore more likely to actually distribute the movie.
I've been a programmer for over 30 years and only one of my jobs was found via a recruiter. All others were via connections..
The article as posted references a more scholarly presentation of the same material: http://backintyme.com/essays/?p=4

(Note that I have not read this version, nor have I looked at any of the references he's provided - I just noticed the link and briefly scanned through the page)
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The publishing industry is controlled by women.
I won't claim to understand the mechanics of such, but I know that there's a notable tax difference between charitable donations and expenses (or perhaps donations can't technically be considered expenses?). It's not such a big deal for e.g. startups, but IBM, HP, et al are much more likely to write a big check (say, $10k) if it's to a 501 (c) 3.

I've seen other open source projects jump through these hoops specifically for those reasons. Getting a few of those folks lined up for "The Clojure Foundation" is probably a faster route to being sustainable than $100 at a time.
hey guys, just wanted to let you know that we are holding a holiday giveaway to help promote the site.

I was hoping you guys could participate(do the whole twitter/facebook/blog thing), since the more people find out about the contest on Day 1, the more people we'll end up with on Day 12.

Here is a list of the prizes:

* 12/14/2009 - MAC Cosmetics Starter Kit
* 12/15/2009 - Sony Cybershot W220 Digital Camera
* 12/16/2009 - Ugg Classic Short Boots
* 12/17/2009 - iPod Touch
* 12/18/2009 - Coach Zip Around Wallet
* 12/19/2009 - Amazon Kindle
* 12/20/2009 - Seiko Watch
* 12/21/2009 - Sony PS3
* 12/22/2009 - Hermes Neck Scarf
* 12/23/2009 - Asus Netbook
* 12/24/2009 - Fendi Tote Bag
* 12/25/2009 - Apple MacBook Air

Thanks, really appreciate all the help. Oh and I'll do a write up on the contest with all the details afterwards.
Probably because the basis for the article is anthropology not genetics.
Probably good to note that Monty has added a response to his post:

"UPDATE: Oracle has made some public promises that only fixes this one issue marked with ( * ).

NOTE: Their promise to storage engines vendors is not future safe as it's a time-limited non-assertion (they promise to not sue for 5 years), but they could still sue one for using a storage engine with old code after the 5 years. They limited the promise to the storage engine API but not to other plugin API:s that almost every pluggable storage engine uses. They clarify this, Oracle should change this to be a license exception for all plugins and it should be valid perpetual with the released code. It's also unclear if this non-assertion is valid if the vendor makes extension to the interfaces (which most storage engines do)."

The item marked with ( * ) is "To release new MySQL versions in a regular and timely manner."
Right. I don't think the defense presented a very good case, but they have three rounds of appeals to change their tactics.
Some points in this article could use elaboration:

- If you have already contacted a company (even just blind-sent your resume to their HR department and gotten no response), the recruiter generally will not be able to get a commission on your behalf, and will not use their contacts to get you in there

- Recruiters' pay is usually contingent on you staying at the job for 3-6 months. This encourages recruiters to get you jobs doing work you have already proven yourself able to do. Whereas many tech job searchers are looking for a new stretch job with greater responsibilities. This is a fundamental incompatibility in goals you'll have to deal with.
No pressure, Flightcaster!
http://androidcommunity.com/forums/f7/unlockers-t-mobile-3g-...

the article said tmobile and the networks are not compatible.
good news for me, I'm 26, and when I shave I look 18.
Re-reading the article: you are actually correct. He really is just working on thin-film conductors. From my first reading of the article I was under the impression that he was producing and entire capacitive device simply using a printing process.
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A lot of that is the fault of the distributors and/or the default "put everything in and comment it out" style that apache ships it in. If you actually sit down and figure out what options are required to serve content, it's not so bad at all.
Microsoft rips off Plurk
I wonder if it's a well known phenomenon.

Reddit seems to have focused itself on the erosion (Or apparent) erosion of freedoms.

Hacker news seems to have focused itself on sexism (Or apparent) in technology.

Does every community gravitate to some specific cause?
Err, Uh. Chrome is 7% of the market, Safari is 3%, and Opera is 2%.

http://www.axiis.org/examples/BrowserMarketShare.html

I know Chrome is only little over a year old, but was surprised as I've never seen it or Safari (WebKit browsers) ever have trouble with a page before.
And you still won't have written a program that determines whether any arbitrary program goes into an infinite loop.
A marker of how far we are through the uncanny valley is how close to human the creatures are that we are asked to believe in.

Gollum in LOTR looked abhuman because well, he was supposed to.

Humanoid blue aliens are easier to "get right" than actual humans because nobody really knows how they are supposed to look and act.
On a similar line, since we don't know her real name then it could just very well be there's some other bias against her name besides the gender issue.

It's not unheard of for names that are associated with a specific ethnicity having an effect. I have a name that's almost impossible to pronounce for English speakers, and I've always noted the difference between when I use my real name or when I use the anglicized version.

Potential clients are going to go with the option that's easier, and yes that might even include things such as: the name that's easier to pronounce, the gender the client can identify with the easiest or the name that clicks subconsciously with them.

These aren't just interesting bits, they're part of the image we portray. Actors have known this for quite some time and it's common to pick stage names.
it's arguably a hack. Of the social engineering kind.
Slightly related:

When I first visited the US, I was really surprised at the adverts in newspapers for realtors (estate agents). They all had photos of the realtors faces?! Do people choose realtors based on their photo? How would that make any sense at all. Perhaps it's just some custom that's been passed down, but it really freaked me out.

Could you use some other picture of a warm fuzzy respectable person and say "Oh yeah James Hilby-Smithe is currently unavailable, I'm his associate I can help you"? Would that be legal. I wonder if any of them do this already.
Instead of outright termination, they should give the instance creator a choice when the spot instance is first started:

1. Terminate outright when the time comes.

2. Give the instance a 5 minute warning (for a fee).

3. Keep the instance running but switch it to a non-spot pricing model per hour as a typical EC2 instance.

Much more friendly and option 3 will give them greater revenue.
Pointless write-up about linguistics. He says "restore" is the important thing, not the "backup". Well, duh.
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That site abuses CSS&HTML so badly that it takes all cpu to render.
Incredible, I guess in their culture this is ok (or has become so commonplace as to be ok), but shouldn't Microsoft have some sort of measures against it in their own workplaces?
I'm completely unqualified to tell whether this guy has valid points. But Resig has led the charge on a Javascript library that makes my job dramatically easier and more fun. To gain the respect I have for Resig, Mr. Mark would have to do likewise, or contribute significantly to jQuery.

Or, to put it in more childish terms, "if you're so smart, let's see you do it."
Well, I'm out of steam on this rant. Why the vituperative venom if Go is so uninspired and boring? It's the noise around it, really. It's yet another celebration of technical mediocrity that has caused computing to never really live up to its potential. This offends me at a profound level.

Complaints only add to the noise. Building things is the best way to add to the signal instead.
Ask HN: Service for sending emails from your app?
To this point, we've been using Gmail. But we're reaching our limits now and getting errors and need something that will scale. Any suggestions? Thanks.
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Same here (except I'm 27).
Well, he spends quite enough time talking about genealogical adaptation to environmental pressures. Are you concerned that he's not being sufficiently clearly anti-creationist?
does this use html 5 offline storage or cookies and its stored online?
How many bugs do you find before writing the code, compared to the number you find after?
You could then counter argue that the project that you wish to support through force becomes a free-rider it self as the project beneficiaries don't have to compete in the economic market the same way as those forced to pay for them are.

Voluntary doesn't always work but is always preferable over forced.
You're right. I wouldn't have.
It does mention adaptation, traits, and survival. He doesn't really need to put too fine a point on it.

What do you mean by "more highly"?
If Resig is incompetent, then 99.99% of Javascript coders should quit immediately. Maybe 100%.
The chart you cited also has IE 6+7+8 market share at only 38%, that's highly inaccurate.

IE is more like 60%-65%+ and Chrome is more like 2-3% (http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-ww-daily-20090801-2009082...).
Clojure is exactly the kind of language I want on the JVM. Donated $100 USD. Will also donate for each commercial project I do using Clojure.
It's not us you need to tell Joel, it's your business partner. And if this is your way of telling him, isn't it a little passive-aggressive to do it in a blog post?
The very act of running a business implies some sort of prediction that it will work. By his logic you should never run a business.
I posted this to reddit a month ago

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/a52in/

And previously there was a TTS engine on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/preview_comment?q=hello%20Mr.%20Ander...

where t is defined in the page HTML

var previewCommentToken = '-XoSYL20xbD-e4ZeoecPL6h56hh8MTIzMjYzMTg4OQ%3D%3D';
Only with the "western" diet. You'll see much fewer cases of appendicitis amongst those who don't eat the overly-rich western diet. So in my opinion, this is cultural, not genetic.
This is a problem with open source and an argument against it. Does it really make sense to give something away and then complain that people just don't pay enough for it and should be forced to do so?
Are we really at liberty to disagree with the replicators on that one? If it really outweighed it, it would have been the end of the line.
The technology associated with film-making has evolved incrementally ever since its inception: from the 1890's Edison Kinetoscope shorts that could be watched by only one person at a time to the 2-reeler comedy shorts circa 1915 to D.W. Griffith's breakthrough with silent feature-length films in Birth of a Nation to the first talkies with 1927's The Jazz Singer to the introduction of color in select 1920's movies such as The Black Pirate (eventually evolving into beautiful technicolor productions) to Disney's feature animations in the 1930's to the first experimentation with 3-D in the 1950's with The Blue Lagoon and other gimmick films featuring knives and other assorted objects being hurled gratuitously at the audience to the widescreen film techniques of the 1950's featuring elongated landscapes that made one dizzy watching them to the modern digital special effects movies featuring CGI in a leading role.

Throughout this history, film-makers have continually experimented with different camera techniques and different types of cameras.

This item relating to Mr. Cameron appears to be another incremental step in this long process. It looks to be interesting and possibly intriguing.

What is being lost in the modern film innovations, however, is what I would call the essence of film-making, which is a play-acted script featuring real people but presented as human drama/comedy/satire/etc. using the recognized camera techniques that distinguish cinema from a live play - rapid cutting, point-of-view camera angles, etc. As things go increasingly digital, and become more and more subject to manipulation of images bearing less and less connection with our real world experiences, we get more and more a sense of watching a cartoon as opposed to real people. It is no coincidence that, in this context, many of the modern plots are drawn from cartoon sources (Batman, Spider Man, many others). As this emphasis on special effects has increased, what has become increasingly lost is the quality scripts (with their corresponding wit, drama, fantasy) that once could be taken for granted in quality film-making. The result is an increasingly artificial experience to which it becomes harder and harder to relate.

Over the centuries, it is the great stories that have moved us, from epic poems to the great novels and, yes, even to the cinema of old warhorses such as Gone with the Wind. Today, technology has become as much a substitute for story-telling as anything else. Yes, it constitutes progress in a real sense (incremental though it may be) but, insofar as it has detracted from inspiring story-telling by serving as a tin-hat means of attracting audiences without the need to develop a great story, it has brought a net loss. Just watch a silent movie like Sunrise (1927) and tell me that CGI and other gimmicks have brought a net improvement to what truly can be inspiring about film.

It is, of course, possible to combine great new technology with great stories but not when the technology itself is being featured as the primary attraction.
Monty was perfectly happy to take a billion dollars of Sun's shareholder's money for his company. At that point, he gave up any say in the matter. Monty, you could always buy MySQL back if you care that much.
Who defines what is a public good? Very few things truly come under this concept if you look at it objectively. However it is alway easy to find things that you like and you think everyone else really should like that you might consider a public good.

There are lots of examples of OSS being funded through a variety of ways without well meaning folks robbing other peoples money.
It was in scare quotes to indicate that it doesn't really have a clear scientific meaning.
This (long) New Yorker profile of Cameron might be more interesting to some Hacker News readers. It focuses less on the tech, and more on Cameron's personality and career: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/10/26/091026fa_fact_...

It paints him as a sort of Steve Jobs figure, with a really incredible drive to create and succeed, often at the expense of all else.

> She wanted to get married, but Cameron, she says, was not interested in a conventional domestic life: “He used to say to me, ‘Anybody can be a father or a husband. There are only five people in the world who can do what I do, and I’m going for that.’ ”

> [...]

> Before beginning production on “The Abyss” (1989), the most ambitious underwater movie ever attempted, he went to see Leonard Goldberg, then the president of Fox, which was financing the film. “He said, ‘I want you to know one thing—once we embark on this adventure and I start to make this movie, the only way you’ll be able to stop me is to kill me,’ ” Goldberg told me. “You looked into those eyes and you knew he meant it.”
Gosh, the general point was quite interesting, but I have such a hard time reading the "Emotional Headline -> Witty hook -> Two more paragraphs -> emotional headline -> witty hook -> two more paragraphs" style of writing. Yeah, I know it makes people read your copy, but I like to the point writing more than the wandering around building a narrative that sucks you in, leaving you breathless with anticipation and excited for more of whatever they're selling...

Sales copy just adds so much noise to the points. I get why they do it, but it's really a fight to get through it for me even if I think there's going to be valuable points in there.
What kind of app is this? Web/desktop? Are you saying you basically need an smtp server to send emails through? How many emails are you trying to send in, say, a day or an hour?
I feel for Monty in that his "baby" is now under the control of some other entity.

A couple of observations:

a) All of MySQL is currently available under the GPL, so any pure open source business model can take that and fork it and have the big fun.

b) It seems like all of the concern is Monty wanting to wrestle back control so he's assured of a non-"pure" open source business model (which MySQL used to generate revenue in the past. Specifically, licensing MySQL under a comercial, non-GPLed, license).

So what does this say about pure open source business models? Are they impossible? Do you always have to have some part that is not open source or a way to license it that way?
sources don't show that people in what is now called China or what is now called India thought about these issues any earlier than people in what is now called Greece.

If you can provide historical sources for exercise from Greece that predates yoga, I would be much obliged. Considering that:

"Traditionally, the Ancient Greek period was taken to begin with the date of the first Olympic Games in 776 BC, but most historians now extend the term back to about 1000 BC."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Greece

and that the earliest known text addressing yoga (the Rig Veda) can be traced back to at least 1700–1100 BC (with some sources putting it closer to 3000 BC), you will have your work cut out for you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigveda
http://www.archaeologyonline.net/artifacts/aryan-harappan-my...
http://mindbodyfitness.suite101.com/article.cfm/how_old_is_y...
It's really easy to setup exim for outbound mail. I blogged about this:

http://www.xinsight.ca/blog/how-to-setup-a-trivial-forwardin...
I don't understand the difference, either, which is why I like the fact that our contribution looks and works just like an expense. For small orgs, certainly, there's only two numbers that matter: revenue and expenses. Figuring out how to set up a third bucket is overhead I'm not interested in now. :-)
I'm not really sure Flightcaster is in a position to start donating money - they aren't profitable yet AFAIK. However, they have been open-sourcing a lot of their Clojure projects, which is a great way to increase the visibility of the language.
Sometimes, you're connecting across the country via dialup and you just really don't feel like waiting on vi.

Alternately, you've screwed up the settings on your Plan 9 box and must use ed to change them in console mode :)
This made me think of the "Libertarian Girl" hoax, in which an unsuccessful male libertarian blogger got a lot of traffic by claiming to be a pretty girl.

I guess the people who hired the writer of the article aren't libertarians.
Why wouldn't I just do:

$.fn.misbehave = function () { alert('Oh behave!');}
$('.bad-behavior').misbehave();

?

What is gain by adding an extra "object-oriented" wrapper around standard jquery functionality?