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{ "score": 0, "text": "Oxygenation is only part of the problem, so I'm a little wary of the title "Injectable oxygen keeps people alive without breathing" [emphasis added].EDIT: The actual paper's [2] title and abstract reads "Boosting Oxygenation During Acute Respiratory Failure - A new microparticle-based oxygen-delivery technology has been developed for short-term resuscitation of pulmonary function" [emphasis added].The real problem is ultimately ventilation, or gas exchange at the alveoli. When it's impaired, both oxygenation and removal of carbon dioxide are affected. One result is respiratory acidosis. There is some literature[1] indicating the body can tolerate such acidosis better in the absence of hypoxemia so the cited idea may have merit as a stopgap measure, but I'm not sure how effective this scheme would be in near or complete absence of ventilation - like the example cited where the little girl's lungs are full of blood.[1] - Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: Adjuncts to Lung-Protective Ventilation; http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/410886_2[2] - http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/4/140/140fs21.abstract?sid..." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "A research article about work by the same researcher:http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/4/140/140ra88There have been several submissions of articles to Hacker News based on press releases from that researcher's lab that go far beyond the firm research findings here. This is preliminary research. Peter Norvig, director of research at Google, reminds readers of press releases about scientific research what to look for in his online essay, "Warning Signs in Experimental Design and Interpretation."http://norvig.com/experiment-design.htmlThe preliminary experimental findings here are a LONG way from showing that human beings can breathe underwater to do work underwater without scuba apparatus, or that patients with severely damaged lung tissue can recover from that life-threatening condition." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "A research article about work by the same researcher:http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/4/140/140ra88There have been several submissions of articles to Hacker News based on press releases from that researcher's lab that go far beyond the firm research findings here. This is preliminary research. Peter Norvig, director of research at Google, reminds readers of press releases about scientific research what to look for in his online essay, "Warning Signs in Experimental Design and Interpretation."http://norvig.com/experiment-design.htmlThe preliminary experimental findings here are a LONG way from showing that human beings can breathe underwater to do work underwater without scuba apparatus, or that patients with severely damaged lung tissue can recover from that life-threatening condition." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "> “Some of the most convincing experiments were the early ones,” Dr. Kheir said. “We drew each other’s blood, mixed it in a test tube with the microparticles, and watched blue blood turn immediately red, right before our eyes.”That sounds very unconvincing to me, considering that actual human blood is never blue, not even when deoxygenated." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "> “Some of the most convincing experiments were the early ones,” Dr. Kheir said. “We drew each other’s blood, mixed it in a test tube with the microparticles, and watched blue blood turn immediately red, right before our eyes.”That sounds very unconvincing to me, considering that actual human blood is never blue, not even when deoxygenated." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "This technology will never allow you to "breathe". Breathing does two things, it adds oxygen and removes CO2. The human body requires about a liter of oxygen every 3 minutes. I don't know how big their syringe is, but I doubt they can inject this much. Also, they provide no mechanism for carbon dioxide removal. After a while, the carbon dioxide buildup in the body would become toxic. At most, they could keep a sedated patient fully oxygenated for about 10 minutes. Potentially useful in a medical emergency, but that's about it." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "This technology will never allow you to "breathe". Breathing does two things, it adds oxygen and removes CO2. The human body requires about a liter of oxygen every 3 minutes. I don't know how big their syringe is, but I doubt they can inject this much. Also, they provide no mechanism for carbon dioxide removal. After a while, the carbon dioxide buildup in the body would become toxic. At most, they could keep a sedated patient fully oxygenated for about 10 minutes. Potentially useful in a medical emergency, but that's about it." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "If you haven't heard it before, the Rule of 3 Survival usually applies.3 minutes without air3 hours without shelter (extreme conditions, hot or cold)3 days without water3 weeks without foodHowever, there have been documented cases of extraordinary human survival."Swedish Man Survives Two Months Inside Snow-Covered Car"http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/02/21/swedish-man-survives-two..." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "I think what is amazing about their story is that it goes counter to everything you read in the press about how to do a Silicon Valley startup.1. They didn't try to raise venture capital. Yet venture capitalists ended up courting them and they raised money without even putting together a deck. The attention from the VC's came because they were executing.2. There was little or no buzz around them, they didn't seek press attention even going so far as to not even have a sign on their door. Yet attention arrived because they were executing.3. No vanity metrics, they only counted active users. Once users became dependent on the product they charged them. They didn't even need to spend their VC money because they were cash flow positive. This was because they executed.Makes me wonder why Zuckerberg even courted SnapChat." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I found it interesting that he is an older founder (37, from the article)and so a bit of a counterweight to "you have to be in your teens/early twenties to get funded/build a winning product" myth." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I found it interesting that he is an older founder (37, from the article)and so a bit of a counterweight to "you have to be in your teens/early twenties to get funded/build a winning product" myth." }

{ "score": 2, "text": ""He and Koum worked out of the Red Rock Cafe, a watering hole for startup founders on the corner of California and Bryant in Mountain View."Prediction: The huge movement of startups (or more properly the hype about movement of startups) from the South Bay to San Francisco is now going to be reversed.And the reporter is kind of geo-challenged. Red Rock is at the corner of Villa & Castro." }

{ "score": 2, "text": ""He and Koum worked out of the Red Rock Cafe, a watering hole for startup founders on the corner of California and Bryant in Mountain View."Prediction: The huge movement of startups (or more properly the hype about movement of startups) from the South Bay to San Francisco is now going to be reversed.And the reporter is kind of geo-challenged. Red Rock is at the corner of Villa & Castro." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Is it just a pure coincidence that the article was released yesterday or the newspapers have well prepared bios on founders of hot start-ups in case they get really famous, in similar fashion of having prepared obituaries on still alive politicians?" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Is it just a pure coincidence that the article was released yesterday or the newspapers have well prepared bios on founders of hot start-ups in case they get really famous, in similar fashion of having prepared obituaries on still alive politicians?" }

{ "score": 4, "text": "Why does this article say the deal was for $19 billion where it is $16 billion everywhere else?" }

{ "score": 0, "text": "I've been using a standing desk for almost a year now. I'm a software engineer. It's great; I will recommend it to anyone.It takes a while to build up the stamina to stand. When you first switch you need frequent breaks during the day. Having a high chair is crucial during this time. As your stamina improves, you begin to be able to handle standing an entire day, but you're still sore after a few days or a week. You're a bit more tired on the weekend. After a few months, you can stand all day long for days on end with no fatigue. That's the point where you get the benefit.After switching to a standing desk months ago, I found that I had vastly more energy during my vacation to Europe. I would walk and explore a city and be active all day long with virtually no fatigue at all. My stamina beat out my companions' significantly, even people who are otherwise much more active than I am. Standing for 8 - 10 hours per day provides a huge stamina boost when you adjust to it.It's important to ergonomically adjust your desk so that it's in the correct position, of course. Stand normally with your arms limp at your sides. Now, without moving your elbows, bring your hands up such that your forearms are horizontal, hands straight in front of you. Your hands now indicate where your keyboard should be -- roughly an inch or two below your elbow height. Your mouse should also be reachable from that position without moving your elbow.Standing burns twice as many calories as sitting, and is overall much healthier as a daily habit. There was a study I circulated around my work (I'll see if I can find a link; it may be the same one as at author included) which compared two groups of people who were active, healthy, and fit, and did the same sort of work. One group of people sat at their job, and the other group of people stood. The study showed that people who stood had a lower incidence of heart disease, diabetes, and other ailments. Conclusion: standing is healthier, and regular exercise outside work doesn't make up for it.Lastly, I've found standing more ergonomic. With a chair, you're likely to find yourself slumping somehow, on the armrest, or on the desk. With a standing desk, it's easy to follow correct posture. With a Kinesis keyboard and 3M Ergonomic Mouse (the one which looks like a joystick) I haven't experienced any ergonomics issues in a long time.Regarding the article:> There’s no question, standing takes more energy and tends to make you sore compared to sitting.No, it does not. That's just the author building up sufficient stamina to stand. You will build the stamina, and will not be sore whatsoever, even after a week of standing all day long.> For the past three weeks I’ve been standing while I work, instead of my usual sitting.Not nearly long enough to adjust! I'd say it took me 3 months to become completely comfortable." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I \"made\" a very crude treadmill desk a few months ago and I love it. I can comfortably go 2.0-2.5mph while programming and I try to use it for 2-3 hours on most days. Here's a photo:http://leopolovets.com/img/treadmill_desk.jpgBasically it's four five-dollar plastic bins on each side of a treadmill, and then a ~2'x4' plank on top. It looks awful but works very well." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I \"made\" a very crude treadmill desk a few months ago and I love it. I can comfortably go 2.0-2.5mph while programming and I try to use it for 2-3 hours on most days. Here's a photo:http://leopolovets.com/img/treadmill_desk.jpgBasically it's four five-dollar plastic bins on each side of a treadmill, and then a ~2'x4' plank on top. It looks awful but works very well." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I, too, was concerned that going from an all-sitting to all-standing arrangement was simply trading one set of bad effects for another, so I split my desk into two heights and put a monitor on each (mirrored). With a wireless keyboard and mouse I can move between sitting and standing whenever I feel the need. Interestingly, I find myself wanting to stand when I'm writing new code from scratch, whereas to debug or merge I want to sit. I don't track my weight so I can't speak quantitatively about that aspect of it, but overall it feels much better. When I'm stuck working at an office away from home I actually miss it." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I, too, was concerned that going from an all-sitting to all-standing arrangement was simply trading one set of bad effects for another, so I split my desk into two heights and put a monitor on each (mirrored). With a wireless keyboard and mouse I can move between sitting and standing whenever I feel the need. Interestingly, I find myself wanting to stand when I'm writing new code from scratch, whereas to debug or merge I want to sit. I don't track my weight so I can't speak quantitatively about that aspect of it, but overall it feels much better. When I'm stuck working at an office away from home I actually miss it." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Six months into it and I can't go back. Seriously, I can't.After a few months I tried sitting again a couple of times but that was totally destructive for my neck and shoulders now that they've actually relaxed while I've been using the standing desk. Few hours later I had to revert back to standing which exhibits virtually no pain points. The only painful thing were my feet in the beginning but now I simply stand on a carpet, and further I've also folded the carpet these days. That helps me vary the position of my feet: I can use the folded carpet to tilt my feet forward, backward, or level and the same for both feet. I unconsciously keep changing my posture a few times a minute so I won't stick into bad positions.Built the desk from an ordinary kitchen table by replacing the legs with longer ones, costing roughly 30€ or so at the hardware store. Here's a picture: http://yason.kapsi.fi/tmp/codingdesk.jpg" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Six months into it and I can't go back. Seriously, I can't.After a few months I tried sitting again a couple of times but that was totally destructive for my neck and shoulders now that they've actually relaxed while I've been using the standing desk. Few hours later I had to revert back to standing which exhibits virtually no pain points. The only painful thing were my feet in the beginning but now I simply stand on a carpet, and further I've also folded the carpet these days. That helps me vary the position of my feet: I can use the folded carpet to tilt my feet forward, backward, or level and the same for both feet. I unconsciously keep changing my posture a few times a minute so I won't stick into bad positions.Built the desk from an ordinary kitchen table by replacing the legs with longer ones, costing roughly 30€ or so at the hardware store. Here's a picture: http://yason.kapsi.fi/tmp/codingdesk.jpg" }

{ "score": 4, "text": "A good dose of common sense regarding standing desks is in order. Basically you're trading one set of hazards for another.\"Individuals spending most of the day on their feet every working day are at greater risk of health problems including varicose veins, poor circulation and swelling in the feet and legs, foot problems, joint damage, heart and circulatory problems and pregnancy difficulties.\"\"Chronic heart and circulatory disorders are linked to prolonged standing at work. Prolonged time in an upright posture at work may cause hypertension comparable to 20 years of aging.\"http://www.hazards.org/standing/index.htm" }

{ "score": 0, "text": "A scammy cut-n-paste altcoin that tries to cash in on an implied but non-existent relationship with Kim Dotcom.Stop ruining HN with crap posts like this." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "> Yes! Of course! August 28, 2013!\nThat was the day I invented time-dilated difficulty gravitational wells. The black holes of difficulty formulas! I remember it vividly.\nI was standing on the edge of my toilet about to upload a standard fork, the porcelain was wet, I slipped, hit my head on the sink, and when I came to I had a revelation!\nA vision! A picture in my head! A picture of this! [1]\nThis is what makes time-dilated difficulty formulas possible: the Kimoto Gravity Well! It's taken me nearly sixty six years and my entire family fortune to realize the vision of that day.\nKGW = 1 + (0.7084 * pow((double(PastBlocksMass)/double(144)), -1.228));\nMarty, we don't have much time, we must release it upon the universe today.\nThe future of Megacoin depends on it.After a few minutes of browsing their Github and about page it looks like it is based on this forum post [2]. edit: After further investigation it looks like it uses MurmurHash3 and scrypt... but it's definitely less interesting than Dogecoin.1. http://i1367.photobucket.com/albums/r783/megacoin/KimotoGrav...2. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=240861.msg3040291#ms..." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "> Yes! Of course! August 28, 2013!\nThat was the day I invented time-dilated difficulty gravitational wells. The black holes of difficulty formulas! I remember it vividly.\nI was standing on the edge of my toilet about to upload a standard fork, the porcelain was wet, I slipped, hit my head on the sink, and when I came to I had a revelation!\nA vision! A picture in my head! A picture of this! [1]\nThis is what makes time-dilated difficulty formulas possible: the Kimoto Gravity Well! It's taken me nearly sixty six years and my entire family fortune to realize the vision of that day.\nKGW = 1 + (0.7084 * pow((double(PastBlocksMass)/double(144)), -1.228));\nMarty, we don't have much time, we must release it upon the universe today.\nThe future of Megacoin depends on it.After a few minutes of browsing their Github and about page it looks like it is based on this forum post [2]. edit: After further investigation it looks like it uses MurmurHash3 and scrypt... but it's definitely less interesting than Dogecoin.1. http://i1367.photobucket.com/albums/r783/megacoin/KimotoGrav...2. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=240861.msg3040291#ms..." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "How is this different from any other scammy altcoin? I don't get it." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "How is this different from any other scammy altcoin? I don't get it." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Looks like an alternative Litecoin blockchain:http://cryptolife.net/in-depth-altcoin-analysis-megacoin/Nothing particularly interesting." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Looks like an alternative Litecoin blockchain:http://cryptolife.net/in-depth-altcoin-analysis-megacoin/Nothing particularly interesting." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "I'm guessing it's intentionally using the "mega" prefix and a New Zealand domain to conflate itself with Kim dotcom's ventures? How is this not a scam?" }

{ "score": 0, "text": "\"...unlocked the NASA Explorer Badge...\"And so our space program takes yet another small step towards being replaced by wishful thinking. NASA is scrapping one real exploration program after another, while using precious orbital payloads to study rose fragrances and ant colonies in 0G. If the 470th person in orbit is a \"NASA Explorer\", then I guess we should just make Neil Armstrong a Deep Space Admiral. Then we can all pretend like we've colonized the galaxy while we play EVE Online." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Fascinating example of PR done right (by Foursquare, NASA and and JESS3). Quite sure this is going to be picked up by pretty much every blog and newspaper.Yup, not everyone has quite the same leverage, but you have to hand it to these guys for pulling this off!" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Fascinating example of PR done right (by Foursquare, NASA and and JESS3). Quite sure this is going to be picked up by pretty much every blog and newspaper.Yup, not everyone has quite the same leverage, but you have to hand it to these guys for pulling this off!" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "JESS3 advising NASA, I am guessing there was a Foursquare partnership over Facebook Places probably due to timing. If I can speculate for a moment, Places probably didn't exist yet at the planning stages of the partnership as this was probably in the works for a while.If Places was rolled out just a bit earlier, and the right connections were in place, they maybe could have been a bigger consideration by JESS3. I'd say this is a big miss for Facebook." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "JESS3 advising NASA, I am guessing there was a Foursquare partnership over Facebook Places probably due to timing. If I can speculate for a moment, Places probably didn't exist yet at the planning stages of the partnership as this was probably in the works for a while.If Places was rolled out just a bit earlier, and the right connections were in place, they maybe could have been a bigger consideration by JESS3. I'd say this is a big miss for Facebook." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Check out the extra data they served in the source that went to space: http://yfrog.com/86ul8p" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Check out the extra data they served in the source that went to space: http://yfrog.com/86ul8p" }

{ "score": 4, "text": "JESS3 also did NASA's Buzz Room (http://jess3.com/nasa-buzzroom)http://buzzroom.nasa.gov" }

{ "score": 0, "text": "I am disgusted by the \"twitterati\" in this case. What happened off the coast of Gaza is likely to very significant, and \"we\" get all puffed up yelling bloody censorship over what is very likely to be a technical fluke.The story is highly publicized in mainstream media. It's wide open. Whoever allegedly decided that censoring a topic from trending on Twitter would matter even the slightest is too stupid to have a job at Twitter with access to do that." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Okay, so that particular word is not in the trending topics. News flash: \"Justin Bieber\" isn't either, and I'll bet my life that his fans are still tweeting about him. Twitter just released a new trending topic algorithm, and they specifically said that it wouldn't catch every trend." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Okay, so that particular word is not in the trending topics. News flash: \"Justin Bieber\" isn't either, and I'll bet my life that his fans are still tweeting about him. Twitter just released a new trending topic algorithm, and they specifically said that it wouldn't catch every trend." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Seems to be working for me. Here are some tweets:> jonathanfryer: If Iran not Israel had carried out an attack on aid flotilla, we'd now be at war. Western double standards make me sick.> Sarabughazal: \"your blood reached the shores of Gaza before your aid\" #flotilla #freedomflotilla> aslanmedia: Shocking footage from Al-Jazeera before communication to ships was cut off. http://bit.ly/cZyYYw (expand) #israel #flotilla #gaza" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Seems to be working for me. Here are some tweets:> jonathanfryer: If Iran not Israel had carried out an attack on aid flotilla, we'd now be at war. Western double standards make me sick.> Sarabughazal: \"your blood reached the shores of Gaza before your aid\" #flotilla #freedomflotilla> aslanmedia: Shocking footage from Al-Jazeera before communication to ships was cut off. http://bit.ly/cZyYYw (expand) #israel #flotilla #gaza" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Erhm. Am I not getting something?It IS in the trending topics: http://imgur.com/QxuqVIs the story here that they are censoring something or that they are not? Because if it were the latter, I'd be sad. Do we assume that for social networks to censor communications on recent politically grave events is the default now?" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Erhm. Am I not getting something?It IS in the trending topics: http://imgur.com/QxuqVIs the story here that they are censoring something or that they are not? Because if it were the latter, I'd be sad. Do we assume that for social networks to censor communications on recent politically grave events is the default now?" }

{ "score": 4, "text": "I thought the point isn't that twitter is censoring tweets with the word 'flotilla', but that it's not appearing as a trending topic.However, both #freedomflotilla and 'Gaza flotilla' are trending right now." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "I honestly believe Facebook is on the way out.Facebook was an elite product, it required an Ivy League address just to get through the door and established a set of middle-upper class brand credentials. Facebook is now the default, it's full of crappy games & dodgy ads. Every shitty website has a like button. It's has an irremovable reputation for a lacadasical approach to user privacy. Everyone and their grandmother are on there, FWD:FWDing Glen Beck nonsense and Farmville requests.Every market has stratification, we define ourselves by our brand associations. There is a hole where there should be the Mercedes, the Apple of social networks to Facebook's Dell. All that's needed now is something new to come along that woos the elite and Facebook's long term fate it sealed. There's a chance it'll be Disapora but there's a very good chance it won't.That's not to say it won't be around for years to come but it has, to used a hackneyed phrase, jumped the shark and the difference is that Facebook's value comes from it's userbase, not its services or technology. Once the top end start bailing the rot will set in fast, momentum shifts with dizzying speed on the web. I've been thinking about this for a while, I figure if I'm right, I'll be able to point to this in a year or two and smile. Not quite as profitable as shorting FB but hey, it's just speculation for fun." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "This data is biased. Facebook.com is used all over the world while Google.com is mainly used in the US.There is a google.ca, google.fr, google.co.jp, google.de, but there is only one facebook.comSo yes, the whole of Facebook will be used more than Google by just the Americans. Is it such a big deal ?" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "This data is biased. Facebook.com is used all over the world while Google.com is mainly used in the US.There is a google.ca, google.fr, google.co.jp, google.de, but there is only one facebook.comSo yes, the whole of Facebook will be used more than Google by just the Americans. Is it such a big deal ?" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "\"Overtake\" is an ambiguous word. If these extrapolations are correct then Facebook will get more unique visitors than Google some time in the next year or two, but why use this metric rather than (e.g.) total number of visits, total amount of traffic, amount of time spent at the site, revenue, or profit? On some of these I would guess that Facebook's been ahead for a while; on some, Google is probably well ahead for the foreseeable future.In any case, comparing any metric of this sort between two sites that are so different, and that do such different things with their visitors, seems rather pointless to me. Like comparing unit sales volumes between a company that makes mobile phones and one that makes cuddly toys, or comparing one hospital's survival rates for heart transplants with another's for cancer surgery." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "\"Overtake\" is an ambiguous word. If these extrapolations are correct then Facebook will get more unique visitors than Google some time in the next year or two, but why use this metric rather than (e.g.) total number of visits, total amount of traffic, amount of time spent at the site, revenue, or profit? On some of these I would guess that Facebook's been ahead for a while; on some, Google is probably well ahead for the foreseeable future.In any case, comparing any metric of this sort between two sites that are so different, and that do such different things with their visitors, seems rather pointless to me. Like comparing unit sales volumes between a company that makes mobile phones and one that makes cuddly toys, or comparing one hospital's survival rates for heart transplants with another's for cancer surgery." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "> Google has been around for a little over a decade now, and facebook a little over 6.Ah yes, my grandfather told me about when he first created his Facebook account back in 1950.Might want to fix that typo :)" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "> Google has been around for a little over a decade now, and facebook a little over 6.Ah yes, my grandfather told me about when he first created his Facebook account back in 1950.Might want to fix that typo :)" }

{ "score": 4, "text": "This as may be. But Google have 7 of the top 20 sites :) Five of which are Google search.http://www.alexa.com/topsitesI think they are pretty solidly established as the \"biggest\" :)" }

{ "score": 0, "text": "What annoys me about a lot of tech blog posts like this one is that they're essentially voodoo. People like the author write instructions about what you should do without even understanding the instructions themselves. \"I’m not entirely sure what the filetype lines do. I’ve read that they’re necessary and so far I haven’t had problems.\"\n\nHis example .vimrc has filetype listed twice, which is redundant. This in itself isn't a big deal, but the problem these lines illustrate is.Sentences like these are the reason for billions of blog posts about setting up an OpenSSL certificate authority all repeating the same example which the documentation explicitly mentions is the wrong way of doing things.In fact I find that these voodoo instructions often crowd out any actual proper tech guides in the search results, all for the sake of drawing traffic to some blog...Don't write tech guides if you can't be bothered to do the research and explain to your readers why they should do what you do and what exactly they're doing!" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "One of the things I love about Vim is that every time I read though a post like this or look at someone's .vimrc I learn something new about what it can do or get another insight about how its features can make my life easier.My (semi-commented) .vimrc is on GitHub if anyone wants another example: http://github.com/samdk/vimconf/blob/master/dotvimrcI've also found StackOverflow's list of most-voted questions tagged vim to be a very useful source of little tidbits: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/vim?sort=votes&#38...And there've been several HN .vimrc posts that I also found very useful. This is one of the best: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=856051This is another excellently commented and extensive .vimrc that (I think) is mentioned in one of the above links, but deserves its own specific mention here: http://www.vi-improved.org/vimrc.phpAnd this is another I found completely by accident a while ago that includes some excellent examples of vimscript macros: http://fingelrest.silent-blade.org/uploads/Main/vimrc.html" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "One of the things I love about Vim is that every time I read though a post like this or look at someone's .vimrc I learn something new about what it can do or get another insight about how its features can make my life easier.My (semi-commented) .vimrc is on GitHub if anyone wants another example: http://github.com/samdk/vimconf/blob/master/dotvimrcI've also found StackOverflow's list of most-voted questions tagged vim to be a very useful source of little tidbits: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/vim?sort=votes&#38...And there've been several HN .vimrc posts that I also found very useful. This is one of the best: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=856051This is another excellently commented and extensive .vimrc that (I think) is mentioned in one of the above links, but deserves its own specific mention here: http://www.vi-improved.org/vimrc.phpAnd this is another I found completely by accident a while ago that includes some excellent examples of vimscript macros: http://fingelrest.silent-blade.org/uploads/Main/vimrc.html" }

{ "score": 2, "text": ">Some people use a mapping that turns search highlighting off and on, but I don’t like that solution. It means I have to remember to turn it back on later once I’ve probably already forgotten about the original search.:nohlsearch removes highlighting, doesn't modify search history, and also doesn't disable highlighted search. It will still highlight matches for the next search. > nnoremap <leader>S ?{<CR>jV/^\\s*\\}?$<CR>k:sort<CR>:let @/=''<CR> \n\nI'm curious why not just use `ViB:sort`?> When I press return, create a new line at the same indentation level as the current one. Don’t try to be clever and adjust the indent of new line in any fashion. set autoindent nosmartindent nocindent\n\nWrap it in a filetype line if you like." }

{ "score": 2, "text": ">Some people use a mapping that turns search highlighting off and on, but I don’t like that solution. It means I have to remember to turn it back on later once I’ve probably already forgotten about the original search.:nohlsearch removes highlighting, doesn't modify search history, and also doesn't disable highlighted search. It will still highlight matches for the next search. > nnoremap <leader>S ?{<CR>jV/^\\s*\\}?$<CR>k:sort<CR>:let @/=''<CR> \n\nI'm curious why not just use `ViB:sort`?> When I press return, create a new line at the same indentation level as the current one. Don’t try to be clever and adjust the indent of new line in any fashion. set autoindent nosmartindent nocindent\n\nWrap it in a filetype line if you like." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "For a free, cross-platform (and excellent) alternative to PeepOpen, try Command-TI used to use FuzzyFinder_TextMate, but that's stopped development, and the creator recommends you use Command-T instead.https://wincent.com/products/command-t" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "For a free, cross-platform (and excellent) alternative to PeepOpen, try Command-TI used to use FuzzyFinder_TextMate, but that's stopped development, and the creator recommends you use Command-T instead.https://wincent.com/products/command-t" }

{ "score": 4, "text": "I dont see the appeal of nerdtree and the like. For me they are clumsy and too much information.I'm very adept at unix cmd line, find, ack, locate, CDPATH, cmd history, and friends. I spend 10-20% of my editing time at the bash prompt. So much so i aliased :e to vimHaving never got the \"gui\" file managemnet tools i cant say for certain but i wonder if power and productivity gains one sees from truly learning vim can be reproduced by truly learning cmd line." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "I think I have command of a language when I can write something from scratch without spending much (if any) time in the docs looking up things.How many languages have you learned before Python? The first is always hard, and the second is always the worst, because it's the first time you have to think above the level of syntax, but after that it's much easier. By the time you get around to learning number nine, all you have to conceptualize are the diffs with what you already know, which is a much smaller learning curve. So, to summarize, it gets easier with each one you add to your repertoire.As for problems, I just start with the current one. I usually learn new languages because it seems well suited to a problem I have for some reason. Right now I'm really interested in parallelism, so I'm learning Erlang. I'm working on writing some kind of REST ROA stuff with it (and Yaws), for fun." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "When you can start thinking the problem through in the syntax of the language before you sit at the computer, odds are you've got a pretty good grasp of it.You usually can't think the language if you're still referring to manuals/internet over 50% of the time for syntax/understanding." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "When you can start thinking the problem through in the syntax of the language before you sit at the computer, odds are you've got a pretty good grasp of it.You usually can't think the language if you're still referring to manuals/internet over 50% of the time for syntax/understanding." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I find that you really just need to find a problem that I myself am interested in solving.As part of the process of completing the project all kinds of problems will come up simply due to the fact that you don't know the language; and you know what? You just solve them and carry on and before you know it, suddenly you're just writing in the language without thinking.The idea of solving standard problems to me does not appeal, but only because they sound like textbook exercises, but really whatever does it for you." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I find that you really just need to find a problem that I myself am interested in solving.As part of the process of completing the project all kinds of problems will come up simply due to the fact that you don't know the language; and you know what? You just solve them and carry on and before you know it, suddenly you're just writing in the language without thinking.The idea of solving standard problems to me does not appeal, but only because they sound like textbook exercises, but really whatever does it for you." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "If you can handle multi-threaded server code as well as client UI code, you are very much good in that language. but the important measure is not a particular language, rather your knowledge of algorithm, oo concepts, design pattern, etc. And some languages are a must. i.e sql" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "If you can handle multi-threaded server code as well as client UI code, you are very much good in that language. but the important measure is not a particular language, rather your knowledge of algorithm, oo concepts, design pattern, etc. And some languages are a must. i.e sql" }

{ "score": 4, "text": "I'm practicing Python while solving problems from Project Euler. I think it is a really efficient way to strengthen your LANGUAGE skills. Try very hard to re-write your solutions in an elegant and clean way." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "Seattle. San Francisco. Mountain View. New York. Chicago.Full-time. careers at matasano.com.Matasano. iSEC Partners. Matasisec Partners?Job title: Bearer of Bad Tidings.Downside first: not getting to build something that people want. In fact, having to build things that people explicitly don't want.Now the upside: Runtimes. Linkers. Crypto. Kernel code. Whole operating systems. WinAPI, POSIX, Mach. Bluetooth. Messaging systems. Payments. iPhone apps. Android apps. Chipsets. Ajax. Javascript parsers. C. FFIs to C in your favorite language. Ruby. Scala. Lisp. Electronic trading markets. Firmware. Reverse engineering. Lattice basis reduction and Fourier-transform search algorithms. Middleware. Crawling around in the ventilation ducts of the world's most popular and important applications.We have strong teams (larger than most YC companies) at each of our offices. They're some of the smartest, funnest people you could ever want to work with, and you'll get to work with all of them; we mix and match teams from across the country. Interested in hardware? In cryptography? In exploit development? In large-scale web crawling? We offer opportunities to work with some of the best in the industry.We have the best clients; our client base is a pretty good cross section of this whole hiring thread.Are you an HN regular? You can't possibly waste my time with questions. We love smart people who can code who want to learn software security.Everything you could want to know about our hiring process: http://www.matasano.com/careers.Want a taste of our work? http://microcorruption.com." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "New York CityTired of the startup goose chase?Change the world for real in 2014.Work on projects involving solar power, hardware controller software, data science, and mobile apps which really are life-changing[1] at the Sustainable Engineering Lab[2] at Columbia University in NYC.You'll be joining a like-minded peer group of hackers working in python, R, go, mongodb, nodejs, and other interesting technologies, focused on making the world suck less.There are no sales/MBA types, no scrum masters, and we strongly disapprove of code written in Enterprise FizzBuzz style[3].More information[4] here: http://sel.columbia.edu/jobs/[1] Data-driven planning projects in Nigeria, Myanmar, Indonesia; Android apps for rural nurses in India[2] http://sel.columbia.edu/[3] https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris....[4] As the jobs page says, "The right person for the team matters more than the description for any particular position", so if you don't see anything specifically for you, but are interested in general, please contact us!" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "New York CityTired of the startup goose chase?Change the world for real in 2014.Work on projects involving solar power, hardware controller software, data science, and mobile apps which really are life-changing[1] at the Sustainable Engineering Lab[2] at Columbia University in NYC.You'll be joining a like-minded peer group of hackers working in python, R, go, mongodb, nodejs, and other interesting technologies, focused on making the world suck less.There are no sales/MBA types, no scrum masters, and we strongly disapprove of code written in Enterprise FizzBuzz style[3].More information[4] here: http://sel.columbia.edu/jobs/[1] Data-driven planning projects in Nigeria, Myanmar, Indonesia; Android apps for rural nurses in India[2] http://sel.columbia.edu/[3] https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris....[4] As the jobs page says, "The right person for the team matters more than the description for any particular position", so if you don't see anything specifically for you, but are interested in general, please contact us!" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "DuckDuckGo (remote or local in Paoli, PA)If you're an avid DuckDuckGo user who is excited about what we're trying to accomplish, then check out our hiring page at https://dukgo.com/help/en_US/company/hiring" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "DuckDuckGo (remote or local in Paoli, PA)If you're an avid DuckDuckGo user who is excited about what we're trying to accomplish, then check out our hiring page at https://dukgo.com/help/en_US/company/hiring" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Clever (YC S12) is hiring full-stack engineers in San Francisco to hack educationSteve Jobs described education as one of the final frontiers still untouched by modern technology. Clever (https://getclever.com) is building the data platform needed for great software to make its way into the classroom. Just like Stripe has made it simple for developers to build payment processing into their apps, Clever has made it easy for developers to build applications for schools using student data.We're a small team of highly technical hackers with deep experience in education. Since releasing the Clever APIs in 2012, we've signed up the most innovative education companies as partners and deployed our platform to 1 in every 7 schools in America. Clever is making it easier for 4M students to use technology in the classroom, and that number is growing rapidly.We have all the usual SF startup perks: a beautiful loft office in SoMa, free lunch, and great benefits. More importantly, you’ll be working around a team of 24 smart, talented people (9 engineers) who are all equally committed to solving this particular problem.We’re always pushing each other to learn new things, both technical and nontechnical - in the past few weeks we’ve done collaborative tech talks on things like:-exoplanets-kitesurfing-Magic: the Gathering-Regular Expressions for Regular People(We also play a lot of bughouse chess.)We’re looking for full-stack engineers who can hack in Node, Go, and Python (or are willing to learn), but more importantly, we’re looking for people who share our passion for improving education. Come help us change the classroom: https://clever.com/about/jobs" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Clever (YC S12) is hiring full-stack engineers in San Francisco to hack educationSteve Jobs described education as one of the final frontiers still untouched by modern technology. Clever (https://getclever.com) is building the data platform needed for great software to make its way into the classroom. Just like Stripe has made it simple for developers to build payment processing into their apps, Clever has made it easy for developers to build applications for schools using student data.We're a small team of highly technical hackers with deep experience in education. Since releasing the Clever APIs in 2012, we've signed up the most innovative education companies as partners and deployed our platform to 1 in every 7 schools in America. Clever is making it easier for 4M students to use technology in the classroom, and that number is growing rapidly.We have all the usual SF startup perks: a beautiful loft office in SoMa, free lunch, and great benefits. More importantly, you’ll be working around a team of 24 smart, talented people (9 engineers) who are all equally committed to solving this particular problem.We’re always pushing each other to learn new things, both technical and nontechnical - in the past few weeks we’ve done collaborative tech talks on things like:-exoplanets-kitesurfing-Magic: the Gathering-Regular Expressions for Regular People(We also play a lot of bughouse chess.)We’re looking for full-stack engineers who can hack in Node, Go, and Python (or are willing to learn), but more importantly, we’re looking for people who share our passion for improving education. Come help us change the classroom: https://clever.com/about/jobs" }

{ "score": 4, "text": "Khan Academy — Mountain View, CA (we also love interns, and remote is a possibility)We're a small, non-profit tech startup trying to give a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere.Here's a testimonial we received last month:==================================Two year ago, I would never have imagined that any 13-year-old could be in Calculus BC. Today, I am 13 and wrapping up my second semester of it, and with an A+, too, thanks largely in part to this site. Sal, I would say you are the best teacher I ever had. Teachers in school just don't seem to have the time or, in some cases, even the knowledge to pay as much attention as you do to the actual intuition of the material being taught. How am I supposed to understand a theorem if I don't know where it came from, why it works, or even what it really means? Khan Academy also seems to explain everything in a very easy to understand, and even fun, manor. You make calculus almost as easy as simple arithmetic. Anyway, thank you very much.==================================Every month we get hundreds of letters like this from people in all walks of life who're thankful for our free, high-quality educational content.\nMost of you reading this are familiar with Sal's videos, but we also have hundreds of videos by other teachers, partnerships with organizations like MoMA and the California Academy of Sciences, and a huge library of interactive exercises. Over 20 million math problems are done every week on our site.You'll be part of a small team working alongside both "celebrity" devs (like jQuery creator John Resig and Google's first employee Craig Silverstein) and many more who you haven't heard of but who are also really awesome.Apply at https://www.khanacademy.org/careers and be sure to mention that you're coming from HN. Feel free to email me at [email protected] if you have questions about applying or about KA in general. Unfortunately we can't sponsor visas right now unless you're from Canada, Australia, or Mexico." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "Yay #1: a nice wrapper around NLTK. NLTK is great but its API is not very Pythonic or comfortable. Pleasant facades over it are a great help for Python NLP.Yay #2: an actually interesting programming-related article on HN. These get rarer every day, losing their place to gossips about what Snowden remarked following some or another NSA official's remarks about Snowden's even earlier remarks." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Just a quick word on Pattern[1].TextBlob is probably just using the en module, I would suggest everyone take a look at the other modules in particular the web module should you be doing any light data scraping. It has nice wrappers around BeautifulSoup and Scrapy among others, jumping into BeautifulSoup and Scrapy can be daunting for beginners.[1] http://www.clips.ua.ac.be/pages/pattern" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Just a quick word on Pattern[1].TextBlob is probably just using the en module, I would suggest everyone take a look at the other modules in particular the web module should you be doing any light data scraping. It has nice wrappers around BeautifulSoup and Scrapy among others, jumping into BeautifulSoup and Scrapy can be daunting for beginners.[1] http://www.clips.ua.ac.be/pages/pattern" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I've had good fun playing around with this, it's certainly made NLP more approachable.One issue though is that it seems to choke with certain characters.For instance the character £ it seems to complain with this error message:>>> TextBlob("£")\nTraceback (most recent call last):\n File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>\n File "/home/eterm/nlp/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/text/blob.py", line 340, in __repr__\n return unicode("{cls}('{text}')".format(cls=class_name, text=self.raw))\nUnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 10: ordinal not in range(128)" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I've had good fun playing around with this, it's certainly made NLP more approachable.One issue though is that it seems to choke with certain characters.For instance the character £ it seems to complain with this error message:>>> TextBlob("£")\nTraceback (most recent call last):\n File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>\n File "/home/eterm/nlp/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/text/blob.py", line 340, in __repr__\n return unicode("{cls}('{text}')".format(cls=class_name, text=self.raw))\nUnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 10: ordinal not in range(128)" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "The NodeBox linguistics module is another nice wrapper around NLTK (and other natural language processing libraries). I used it for extracting actions and details from sentences, but it's also great for spelling correction, pluralization, part-of-speech tagging and other common NLP tasks.http://nodebox.net/code/index.php/Linguistics" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "The NodeBox linguistics module is another nice wrapper around NLTK (and other natural language processing libraries). I used it for extracting actions and details from sentences, but it's also great for spelling correction, pluralization, part-of-speech tagging and other common NLP tasks.http://nodebox.net/code/index.php/Linguistics" }

{ "score": 4, "text": "Both for my study and side job I work on NLP with python.Sorry, but I think this thing is very much overrated by the HN crowd. There are many such libraries and this one adds exactly nothing. I also don't see how this is easier to use than, lets say, Pattern.Try and add new functionality. One new functionality could be to use an ontology to calculate the distance between two words. Then you can do other cool things with that and place it in your module." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "I can abandon Flash sockets if this becomes mainstream." }

{ "score": 1, "text": " ws.onclose = function() { // websocket is closed. };\n\nsomeone reformatted the code without checking..." }

{ "score": 1, "text": " ws.onclose = function() { // websocket is closed. };\n\nsomeone reformatted the code without checking..." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Great, with Apple, Mozilla and now Google innovating in the browser sphere, it looks like browser will be evolving at a much more rapid pace.Gah, let's hope Microsoft gets some vision for IE too. (or ditch it like Bing ditched Live)" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Great, with Apple, Mozilla and now Google innovating in the browser sphere, it looks like browser will be evolving at a much more rapid pace.Gah, let's hope Microsoft gets some vision for IE too. (or ditch it like Bing ditched Live)" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Are there any examples of web sockets live right now? I'd like to see it in action..." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Are there any examples of web sockets live right now? I'd like to see it in action..." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "As the saying goes: \"that's awesome, if only it worked on IE6...\"" }

{ "score": 0, "text": "...ok, I'll go to this thing if this scrolls up and tells me welcome...you know...the regular system card. So put it in, I go \"It's gonna work!\" and I hear the disk work and everything and this thing scrolls and goes right past the screen ... \"where!?\" So I pulled one of the ROMs out and I saw I had bent one of the pins under...after hours of getting this thing where I'd watch it scroll......at which point Jobs looks visibly bothered that the story just won't end. Was that Woz off-screen?Edit: For some reason this reminds me of a scene in Raising Arizona: \"...and all Pancho wanted was a hot roll and butter. So... why do you use the word 'trapped'?\"" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Whenever someone tells me that Jobs was a natural public speaker I tell them that he too had to overcome stage fright and worked hard to be what he is." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Whenever someone tells me that Jobs was a natural public speaker I tell them that he too had to overcome stage fright and worked hard to be what he is." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Such an unremarkable piece of footage, yet I found my 24-year-old self studying every little detail and facial gesture.What was inside of him then that led to where Apple is today?" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Such an unremarkable piece of footage, yet I found my 24-year-old self studying every little detail and facial gesture.What was inside of him then that led to where Apple is today?" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "The part where they put a giant white earbud in his ear is priceless, especially when he looks somewhat suspiciously at it.EDIT: direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzDBiUemCSY&t=0m35s" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "The part where they put a giant white earbud in his ear is priceless, especially when he looks somewhat suspiciously at it.EDIT: direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzDBiUemCSY&t=0m35s" }

{ "score": 4, "text": "Anyone know if the actual broadcast is available? It'd be cool to watch it, especially after seeing this." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "Rim is doomed because they've fogotten who their core customers were: businesspeople.Compare what I think is the greatest phone every made: http://r.phonedog.com/shared/images/items/1464-main-medium-b...To what it was replaced by: http://www.dplwholesale.com/buy2buygg/2010101415181049514.jp...The old one was tough as freaking nails. It didn't do much, but it did those things really, really well. It had a scroll wheel on the side, and you clicked and right clicked on things just by either pressing with the tip or the knuckle of your thumb.It never, ever broke. I still have my original 7520 sittin gin a drawer in my house (unused because I don't have a nextel account anymore). The thing had fallen out of my jeep while it was moving, had been left sitting in a puddle for an hour and it just never, ever stopped ticking. (For reference, here is what happened to my iphone when it fell off the top of my dresser and landed on my wood floor: http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs980.snc4/75359...)People were absolutely addicted to their blackberries. The interface was flawless, it synced your mail every 30 seconds, never complained, the battery never died. It was exactly the type of thing that every person working on every product being worked on should strive to replicate. It was a business staple.Was a business staple. Somewhere along the line, RIM decided to turn their back on the people who had given them so much success and, instead, try to duplicate the success of the razr (remember when that was the hottest phone around?). They ditched the bulletproof plastic cases and battery doors that never came off for shiny, cheap plastic because it was prettier. They ditched the functional, I would say perfect interface of the scroll wheel and thumb-knuckle button for some horrible, horrible trackball that has to be replaced every few months when it either gets too smooth to work, or gets some get stuck inside of it because it was cool.They made the phone smaller, and lighter. It didn't go in a dorky hip-clip anymore, it went in a pocket or a purse.RIM, at least in my opinion, stopped making hammers and started making accessories. Unfortunately for them, their accessories aren't even in the same realm as apple's. As much as I don't really like the iphone, I like it a lot better than any or RIM's current offerings." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Badly written article making a single point that has been debated to death many times.As far as I'm concerned, I won't be leaving RIM for as long as they keep making phones like the Bold 9700, and I know many colleagues and friends who feel the same. I also know a handful who moved from Blackberry to iPhone and regret it, they are all either planning to move back, or they already have. (Don't think I know a single person who moved away from Blackberry and doesn't regret it.)I love what Google are doing with Android and I love Apple products (I currently own two generations of iPod Touch and two generators if iPod Nano - side note, the newest Nano is perfection.) But RIM's products aren't an older version of what Apple and other companies are creating, it's just a different product, and for people like me, it's still the best product." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Badly written article making a single point that has been debated to death many times.As far as I'm concerned, I won't be leaving RIM for as long as they keep making phones like the Bold 9700, and I know many colleagues and friends who feel the same. I also know a handful who moved from Blackberry to iPhone and regret it, they are all either planning to move back, or they already have. (Don't think I know a single person who moved away from Blackberry and doesn't regret it.)I love what Google are doing with Android and I love Apple products (I currently own two generations of iPod Touch and two generators if iPod Nano - side note, the newest Nano is perfection.) But RIM's products aren't an older version of what Apple and other companies are creating, it's just a different product, and for people like me, it's still the best product." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Why does the author think that RIM can't innovate like other companies have?In the past ten years, people have said that Apple was over, Nintendo had lost their market to Sony and Microsoft,\nGM and Ford were finished.All because these companies didn't innovate to maintain market share.Now if RIM was just kicking back with blinders on like the auto industry did, maybe I would agree.But RIM, understanding that it doesn't have much of the capabilities it needs to compete in today market, has been making acquisitions to beef up the areas they are weak.Let's not forget that the reason BlackBerry was able to get such huge market traction was because they were so innovative early on with their messaging systems.I wouldn't be so sure that RIM is a one trick pony." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Why does the author think that RIM can't innovate like other companies have?In the past ten years, people have said that Apple was over, Nintendo had lost their market to Sony and Microsoft,\nGM and Ford were finished.All because these companies didn't innovate to maintain market share.Now if RIM was just kicking back with blinders on like the auto industry did, maybe I would agree.But RIM, understanding that it doesn't have much of the capabilities it needs to compete in today market, has been making acquisitions to beef up the areas they are weak.Let's not forget that the reason BlackBerry was able to get such huge market traction was because they were so innovative early on with their messaging systems.I wouldn't be so sure that RIM is a one trick pony." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "A tiresome, poorly written thrashed to death blog post. iPhone's haven't displayed iPods and Blackberry may have introduced some new models that appeal to a different user than the businessperson, but the Bold is as solid, reliable and indestructible as any previous model. I've owned many blackberries over the years and am more than happy with it. My friends are pretty evenly divided between blackberry and iPhone. Those I know that tried Android sold them and went with the iPhone.I'm not parting with mine anytime soon. I don't need any of the apps. That said, I have an iPad, so maybe I get my app fix with that." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "A tiresome, poorly written thrashed to death blog post. iPhone's haven't displayed iPods and Blackberry may have introduced some new models that appeal to a different user than the businessperson, but the Bold is as solid, reliable and indestructible as any previous model. I've owned many blackberries over the years and am more than happy with it. My friends are pretty evenly divided between blackberry and iPhone. Those I know that tried Android sold them and went with the iPhone.I'm not parting with mine anytime soon. I don't need any of the apps. That said, I have an iPad, so maybe I get my app fix with that." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "I just wonder why his blog would change my mouse cursor" }

{ "score": 0, "text": "I was the cofounder at CEO of SiteAdvisor before it was acquired by McAfee in 2006. I haven't had control over it since then and left McAfee 4 years ago but my sense is that they are trying to rate sites correctly but just understaffed/underfunded. I read the reddit article but couldn't find the URL in question. When I was running SiteAdvisor we made mistakes but were also accused of being a scam by the biggest spyware distributors etc who hated the fact that we were calling them out. So I think it's important to take it case by case." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Then one day it suddenly hit me.. You see the thing is McAfee siteadvisor.com also sells these hacker-safe certificates to websites for $360 / year. With that in picture, this whole fucking thing just makes sense. This is just a ploy to sell those certificates.That is some serious ass jumping to conclusions. I feel for the guy, his situation sucks. BUT:He just up and one day decided that they're doing it to sell him some snake oil. - Nobody from McAfee suggested he buy the snake oil.\n - Nobody else told him, \"oh that is a scam to get you to buy snake oil\".\n - He didn't ask around to see if it's happening to a lot of other people.\n - He didn't try to buy said snake oil to confirm it would make a difference\n\nClearly McAfee siteadvisor sounds broken/underfunded/lazy/all of the above. It sucks he can't get them to deal with it. But if it was some kind of cyber protection racket it'd be happening to a lot of people with similar results. And they'd have to give you some hints as to how to \"get protected\". I've hosted a number of websites with executables throughout the years including one that has a bunch and is active right now. I've never been on a McAfee blacklist. I've never even heard of anyone I know being on a McAfee blacklist. If it was some kind of protection racket wouldn't they just be mass flagging things?Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity - Hanlon's razor" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Then one day it suddenly hit me.. You see the thing is McAfee siteadvisor.com also sells these hacker-safe certificates to websites for $360 / year. With that in picture, this whole fucking thing just makes sense. This is just a ploy to sell those certificates.That is some serious ass jumping to conclusions. I feel for the guy, his situation sucks. BUT:He just up and one day decided that they're doing it to sell him some snake oil. - Nobody from McAfee suggested he buy the snake oil.\n - Nobody else told him, \"oh that is a scam to get you to buy snake oil\".\n - He didn't ask around to see if it's happening to a lot of other people.\n - He didn't try to buy said snake oil to confirm it would make a difference\n\nClearly McAfee siteadvisor sounds broken/underfunded/lazy/all of the above. It sucks he can't get them to deal with it. But if it was some kind of cyber protection racket it'd be happening to a lot of people with similar results. And they'd have to give you some hints as to how to \"get protected\". I've hosted a number of websites with executables throughout the years including one that has a bunch and is active right now. I've never been on a McAfee blacklist. I've never even heard of anyone I know being on a McAfee blacklist. If it was some kind of protection racket wouldn't they just be mass flagging things?Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity - Hanlon's razor" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "McAfee screwed our site over the same way with siteadvisor. It took 2 months and us harassing their support team almost daily to get it resolved. Also hurt revenue. I'd love to participate in a class action lawsuit." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "McAfee screwed our site over the same way with siteadvisor. It took 2 months and us harassing their support team almost daily to get it resolved. Also hurt revenue. I'd love to participate in a class action lawsuit." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "It sounds like the digital version of a protection racket: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_racket" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "It sounds like the digital version of a protection racket: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_racket" }

{ "score": 4, "text": "This parallels GetSatisfaction and how they display support pages for companies that don't pay for their service as \"uncommitted to customer support\" or something to that extent. I don't think there are malicious intentions, but they do collect positive and negative feedback, and display it on a public webpage stating that the company isn't responding to it.Sorry for the slight change of topic." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "Hey guysSorry for the radio silence. I was intending on keeping the blog updated with anecdotes from the experiment, but ended up not doing so. I've received a few emails from people mentioning that I'm throwing away the opportunity of turning the initial spike of interest into a long-standing readership/audience but the truth is that was never what I was after; I was genuinely keen on finding some cool new projects to work on.The experiment is going so-so. If you remember I green-lighted 5 projects.- 1 was aborted before start through mutual agreement after further market research- 2 were aborted because the devs did not manage to complete the MVP. Lack of motivation mainly. If I've learnt anything so far it's that lack of follow-through is still a major issue, and the promise of a little money and a partner to work with does not squash the problem as much as I thought it would. I suspect not being physically in the same space has a lot to do with it.That leaves 2, one of which is live and the other is about a month away still (slow progress)So it's unclear whether this structure works. Going to depend on the last 2. Even then, the sample size has been quite small so the results will not be conclusive. Guess will need to try a second round at some point!hmexx" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I was one of the developers that participated in this project.The web app launched about a month ago and is currently running with some beta users testing it out.I got paid for my development work and we are currently working on advertising the app with the advertising budget we set aside.I'm sure if things go well we will do a write up about the experience and post it at some point." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I was one of the developers that participated in this project.The web app launched about a month ago and is currently running with some beta users testing it out.I got paid for my development work and we are currently working on advertising the app with the advertising budget we set aside.I'm sure if things go well we will do a write up about the experience and post it at some point." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I began a project with this after the pitch/initial selection phase - but due to personal circumstances had to withdraw about 40% of the way in and concentrate on other things.Due to the specific arrangement we had, I (understandably) didn't get paid anything, although the idea is still on hold to be resurrected when I'm more able - although this may be as a solo project then.The concept and semi-anonymous funder are certainly legit and I'm interested to see how the other projects from this develop." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I began a project with this after the pitch/initial selection phase - but due to personal circumstances had to withdraw about 40% of the way in and concentrate on other things.Due to the specific arrangement we had, I (understandably) didn't get paid anything, although the idea is still on hold to be resurrected when I'm more able - although this may be as a solo project then.The concept and semi-anonymous funder are certainly legit and I'm interested to see how the other projects from this develop." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "I threw my idea list at the guy (I think it was only 80-something deep at the time) and were tossed some ideas back and forth. Ultimately, I decided I didn't really think he was the type of partner I was looking for. Absolutely nothing personal against him and I assure you, his offers were legitimate and he very easily had the means to accomplish what he put forth in his original post. It simply can't down to him being a business/sales guy, when I wanted another technical person; and him looking to fund full time development of an idea, whereas I wasn't all too concerned with those financials." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "I threw my idea list at the guy (I think it was only 80-something deep at the time) and were tossed some ideas back and forth. Ultimately, I decided I didn't really think he was the type of partner I was looking for. Absolutely nothing personal against him and I assure you, his offers were legitimate and he very easily had the means to accomplish what he put forth in his original post. It simply can't down to him being a business/sales guy, when I wanted another technical person; and him looking to fund full time development of an idea, whereas I wasn't all too concerned with those financials." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "Bounced a few emails around. I was turned down. A few months later I went and put it together myself anyway. The beta test has been well recieved and I am looking for clients." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "I've asked THE JS MAN himself, Doug Crockford of Yahoo!, what the best book on JS is and he says its: JavaScript: The Definitive Guide (5th Edition) by David Flanagan (edition is important... 4th one is not that good). Doug says a bit more about the lack of any good JS books:\"Bad BooksNearly all of the books about JavaScript are quite awful. They contain errors, poor examples, and promote bad practices. Important features of the language are often explained poorly, or left out entirely. I have reviewed dozens of JavaScript books, and I can only recommend one: JavaScript: The Definitive Guide (5th Edition) by David Flanagan.\"http://javascript.crockford.com/javascript.html Also, make sure you watch his tutorial videos. They're awesome! There is a series of four intro videos and three advanced videos:http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=111593\nhttp://101out.com/js_advanced.php\n" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "There's a lot of good stuff to read on Douglas Crockford's site (http://javascript.crockford.com/) including a good survey (http://javascript.crockford.com/survey.html).I would also recommend his series of videos on js (I think they are from internal yahoo presentations). There are 3:\"The JavaScript Programming Language\" http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=111593&fr= \"Advanced JavaScript\" http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=111585\"Theory of the DOM\" http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=111582" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "There's a lot of good stuff to read on Douglas Crockford's site (http://javascript.crockford.com/) including a good survey (http://javascript.crockford.com/survey.html).I would also recommend his series of videos on js (I think they are from internal yahoo presentations). There are 3:\"The JavaScript Programming Language\" http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=111593&fr= \"Advanced JavaScript\" http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=111585\"Theory of the DOM\" http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=111582" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "\"I know a friend\" who googled for inurl:javascript.the.definitive.guide filetype:pdf" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "\"I know a friend\" who googled for inurl:javascript.the.definitive.guide filetype:pdf" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "I always found Mozilla's JavaScript site very helpful: http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/JavaScript+1 on Flanagan" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "I always found Mozilla's JavaScript site very helpful: http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/JavaScript+1 on Flanagan" }

{ "score": 4, "text": "I recommend \"JavaScript: The Definitive Guide\". I read a couple of pages in B&N to see if it was any good, and it paid for itself right there. edit: Get the 5th Edition. See nickb's comment." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "The original article on Gawker on this was horrible. They completely spinned it to sound like Apple was at fault. Only in one little phrase did they happen to mention that AT&T was at fault. They really screwed themselves over by stealing the iPhone, and now they're fighting back by writing mean blog posts. Cute." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "The hacking group, Goatse SecurityAmazing that kids have come of age in the Goatse era and named themselves for it." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "The hacking group, Goatse SecurityAmazing that kids have come of age in the Goatse era and named themselves for it." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "The title of this story is a bit misleading.. \nUS AT&T iPad 3G owners account information compromised." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "The title of this story is a bit misleading.. \nUS AT&T iPad 3G owners account information compromised." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "This is why apple exhorts devs not use UUIDs in public-facing services. Too bad they didn't let AT&T in on the secret..." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "This is why apple exhorts devs not use UUIDs in public-facing services. Too bad they didn't let AT&T in on the secret..." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "At what point does Apple need to sue AT&T so they can break their exclusivity contract on iOS devices?" }

{ "score": 0, "text": "Just get Splunk.I'm a pretty experienced Solr developer, and I've played with Elastic Search etc, and I've been using Splunk for about a year.The thing people miss about Splunk unless they know it is how good the search interface is. For example, the search language roughly comparable to Lucene/Solr/Elastic Search, but also includes the ability to parse input files, and present results graphically. No open source solution integrates all that.If you want to compete with Splunk (something I've thought about a few times) then you need to match that. I'd estimate 2 developer for a year to build out those features on top of Solr or ES." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "This reminds me of something I've been wondering about since the Bitcoinica heist: how do people usually set up secure offline backups which can't be erased using the credentials on the backed-up server? I would probably do something with ssh authorized_keys if I had to make it from scratch, but are there obscure security/reliability risks, and tools which have already mitigated these risks for you?" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "This reminds me of something I've been wondering about since the Bitcoinica heist: how do people usually set up secure offline backups which can't be erased using the credentials on the backed-up server? I would probably do something with ssh authorized_keys if I had to make it from scratch, but are there obscure security/reliability risks, and tools which have already mitigated these risks for you?" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Just a note - using TCP logging is dangerous. If the syslog server hangs, clients may block writing to the socket and your whole infrastructure will lock up.See: http://blog.bitbucket.org/2012/01/12/follow-up-on-our-downti..." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Just a note - using TCP logging is dangerous. If the syslog server hangs, clients may block writing to the socket and your whole infrastructure will lock up.See: http://blog.bitbucket.org/2012/01/12/follow-up-on-our-downti..." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Shameless self promotion but I wrote a blog post about using Logstash, ElasticSearch, and Kibana in production for not only capturing syslog-ng messages but multi-lined Java stack trace errors via log4j.http://blog.tagged.com/2012/05/grabbing-full-java-stack-trac..." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Shameless self promotion but I wrote a blog post about using Logstash, ElasticSearch, and Kibana in production for not only capturing syslog-ng messages but multi-lined Java stack trace errors via log4j.http://blog.tagged.com/2012/05/grabbing-full-java-stack-trac..." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "This is a great blog entry on exactly the kind of system I am trying to build.\nWhen we went thru the evaluation for this stack - Elasticsearch came out as the choice for the datastore and querying part. Where we are still not decided is using Flume vs logstash. Have you compared the two? We will be building our own UI ..." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "One would assume the mystery could be solved through city permit records, but according to Todd, there are no permits, even though there should be. \"For that kind of work and the dollar amount that would come with it, yes, permits would be required,\" says Todd.Wow, you need a permit in Detroit to put glass into a window?" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Simplest explanation: The owners had them installed to test different contractors, designs, and/or materials. Wouldn't you have someone put a few in before you signed a contract to put them all up?" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Simplest explanation: The owners had them installed to test different contractors, designs, and/or materials. Wouldn't you have someone put a few in before you signed a contract to put them all up?" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "If you're going to renovate the building into something like apartments or offices, wouldn't you want to create a model unit to photograph (from the inside) and use for later?" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "If you're going to renovate the building into something like apartments or offices, wouldn't you want to create a model unit to photograph (from the inside) and use for later?" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Ah, the owners are the 'bridge to Canada' family: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4695608" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Ah, the owners are the 'bridge to Canada' family: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4695608" }

{ "score": 4, "text": "My guess is that someone was doing a video or photo shoot inside, and needed a window for their scene." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "Believe me, the worst thing a company can do is focus too much on what its competitors are doing. You lose sight of the bigger picture and will always be following behind somebody who is a leader.Keep doing what you are doing. Obviously, you are on the right path. If they are copying you, it's a good thing. It means that they don't know the industry as well as you and they don't know how to solve the pain-points without copying you. This means that you are always one step ahead of them.Keep building and marketing your product. It's the best thing to do. Don't be complacent always be innovating. If they are copying you, it means they can't surpass you." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I really hope your first instinct isn't to post fake negative reviews, it won't work out well.You have a few options:1) Just keep doing what you are doing the best you can do and stop using a measuring stick against copy-cats. Don't get into a feature-creep war.2) Focus on your existing users and work hard to retain them and use them to generate more growth. Get them to talk about your product positively.3) Find out how those people are getting users instead of you and try to replicate that.Competition is a good thing, it means there is a need. Your feature set is only a small part of what users want, so make sure you are nailing other areas like support and satisfaction." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I really hope your first instinct isn't to post fake negative reviews, it won't work out well.You have a few options:1) Just keep doing what you are doing the best you can do and stop using a measuring stick against copy-cats. Don't get into a feature-creep war.2) Focus on your existing users and work hard to retain them and use them to generate more growth. Get them to talk about your product positively.3) Find out how those people are getting users instead of you and try to replicate that.Competition is a good thing, it means there is a need. Your feature set is only a small part of what users want, so make sure you are nailing other areas like support and satisfaction." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "It's time for some strategy.If you haven't done so already you need to write a vision and mission for your company (or if you haven't revised these in the past ~3 months).I am not talking about just something to post on a website but what you truly believe and want to achieve.While I would caution you not to read too deep into quantifying (ie: don't write we will have X customers or do X revenue) this article is a good start to understand a "true mission".http://www.fastcompany.com/1400930/how-write-mission-stateme...A quick article on vision: http://gettingreal.37signals.com/ch04_Whats_the_Big_Idea.phpOnce you write these two statements, assess your current business against them. Are you fulfilling what you have set out to do? Even if you answer yes and especially if you answer no; what needs to change to align the business with the mission, what aspects can you improve?Is the business in a position to steadily grow towards achieving your vision? What would you like the business to ultimately become? Define milestones that you can use to guide the business forward.As you are thinking through these statements it is also good to craft a list or statement of your ideal customer(s). Especially when facing competitors you need to know the customers you want.This article by Jason Fried gives good insight on why knowing the customer you want is very valuable.http://www.inc.com/magazine/201206/jason-fried/huge-accounts...Now that you have the backbone of your strategy it is time to define goals. Goals should be two parts: hazy and clear. Why do you want a hazy goal? Because things change and you should not allow yourself to be so set on achieving a clear goal of "500 new customers in 2014" that you compromise the what makes you great. Rather, you should set your goal as "Increase the number of customers in 2014 (by 500 -target, not focus-) while maintaining and exceeding the level of service we provide." I'll admit that sounds like the BS mission statements in the FastCo article, but your well defined mission and vision will guide you in creating these actionable goals.This may be better articulated by qualitative with a quantitative measure, but I'm sticking with hazy because it gives your mind more freedom to explore possible goals.The vision, mission and customer statements and your list of goals provide what would be comparable to a requirements specification. It is now your job to use these requirements to identify the steps you need to take to achieve them (similar to system design and writing pseudocode), develop possible solutions for these steps, implement, test and refine." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "It's time for some strategy.If you haven't done so already you need to write a vision and mission for your company (or if you haven't revised these in the past ~3 months).I am not talking about just something to post on a website but what you truly believe and want to achieve.While I would caution you not to read too deep into quantifying (ie: don't write we will have X customers or do X revenue) this article is a good start to understand a "true mission".http://www.fastcompany.com/1400930/how-write-mission-stateme...A quick article on vision: http://gettingreal.37signals.com/ch04_Whats_the_Big_Idea.phpOnce you write these two statements, assess your current business against them. Are you fulfilling what you have set out to do? Even if you answer yes and especially if you answer no; what needs to change to align the business with the mission, what aspects can you improve?Is the business in a position to steadily grow towards achieving your vision? What would you like the business to ultimately become? Define milestones that you can use to guide the business forward.As you are thinking through these statements it is also good to craft a list or statement of your ideal customer(s). Especially when facing competitors you need to know the customers you want.This article by Jason Fried gives good insight on why knowing the customer you want is very valuable.http://www.inc.com/magazine/201206/jason-fried/huge-accounts...Now that you have the backbone of your strategy it is time to define goals. Goals should be two parts: hazy and clear. Why do you want a hazy goal? Because things change and you should not allow yourself to be so set on achieving a clear goal of "500 new customers in 2014" that you compromise the what makes you great. Rather, you should set your goal as "Increase the number of customers in 2014 (by 500 -target, not focus-) while maintaining and exceeding the level of service we provide." I'll admit that sounds like the BS mission statements in the FastCo article, but your well defined mission and vision will guide you in creating these actionable goals.This may be better articulated by qualitative with a quantitative measure, but I'm sticking with hazy because it gives your mind more freedom to explore possible goals.The vision, mission and customer statements and your list of goals provide what would be comparable to a requirements specification. It is now your job to use these requirements to identify the steps you need to take to achieve them (similar to system design and writing pseudocode), develop possible solutions for these steps, implement, test and refine." }

{ "score": 3, "text": ""I could be extremely aggressive about this and pose as a user of theirs and write negative reviews online."That isn't "aggressive", that is morally bankrupt." }

{ "score": 3, "text": ""I could be extremely aggressive about this and pose as a user of theirs and write negative reviews online."That isn't "aggressive", that is morally bankrupt." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "While it looks like you recognize the irrationality of posting bogus reviews for your competitor's product, buying some Adwords for "[their product name] reviews" and "[their product name] alternative" is worth looking into. Of course check out the search trends and the PPC numbers to see if it makes sense, but it just might. If they're on Twitter, get a few tweets sponsored targeting their followers. A bit underhanded, but totally legit, and not an uncommon practice (and will help satisfy your thirst for revenge). Anywhere else you can find their customers, make sure you're there, highlighting what makes you the clearly better alternative. If your product truly is more valuable then you're not stealing their customers, you're rescuing them." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "Single page: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/another-runaway-ge..." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "As a former PSYOPer, I am disappointed that Rolling Stone Magazine did not use the correct term which is PSYOP and not PSY-Ops or PSYOPS." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "As a former PSYOPer, I am disappointed that Rolling Stone Magazine did not use the correct term which is PSYOP and not PSY-Ops or PSYOPS." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Fascinating. I read the whole thing. Then I flagged it." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Fascinating. I read the whole thing. Then I flagged it." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "This is most emphatically not hacker news." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "This is most emphatically not hacker news." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "> ...and a photo of a warning inside a Port-o-John mocking Afghans – \"In case any of you forgot that you are supposed to sit on the toilet and not stand on it and squat. It’s a safety issue. We don’t want you to fall in or miss your target.\"That sounds crass to Americans, but it's actually a big problem with Western-style toilets in countries that primary have squat toilets. Oftentimes people accustomed to squat toilets will stand on the toilet seat and it turns into a huge mess.Even in nice places you'll sometimes see muddy shoeprints and mess on the toilet seats in Vietnam, for instance and it's a headache for people who want to sit on the toilet." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "First time since I'm on the web (and that's since around IE4) I almost missed the content below the fold.I thought it was a myth that people might not know that they should scroll a bit.But this page? Flashy animation, logo, social icons. First thought "Maybe that's all? Seems sufficient for 2013", but the title on HN suggested that this page contains some content. Second though "I guess it's broken. I'm on linux. Sometimes server don't respond fully. Possible.""Maybe I hover over some things? But the animation has no distinct features. Maybe I click around. Maybe touch mouse wheel. Wow! Whoever approved this design was an idiot."" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Page size: 22MBRequests: 148It choked my Mac mini. Tens of thousands of CPU's around the world are roaring to this web page, causing enough global warming to melt buckets of ice. BUCKETS, I TELL YOU!!" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Page size: 22MBRequests: 148It choked my Mac mini. Tens of thousands of CPU's around the world are roaring to this web page, causing enough global warming to melt buckets of ice. BUCKETS, I TELL YOU!!" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Whenever I see an article with a headline like this, I always wonder... was it actually faster than anyone ever predicted? Was there really not at least one crazy guy in the 70's who said "Man, Greenland's ice sheets are going to be completely gone by the year 2000".Or at least a more aggressive model from somebody. Seems a bit unbelievable not a single scientist got the current melting within the range of one of their models." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Whenever I see an article with a headline like this, I always wonder... was it actually faster than anyone ever predicted? Was there really not at least one crazy guy in the 70's who said "Man, Greenland's ice sheets are going to be completely gone by the year 2000".Or at least a more aggressive model from somebody. Seems a bit unbelievable not a single scientist got the current melting within the range of one of their models." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Why would I even read a science article from 'The Rolling Stone' and presume there is any validity to it?That isn't to say it isn't true, it may well be, but seriously, find a better source." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Why would I even read a science article from 'The Rolling Stone' and presume there is any validity to it?That isn't to say it isn't true, it may well be, but seriously, find a better source." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "So Arctic albedo causes the new scary feedback in the climate system? What happens when the old scary feedback mechanism (water vapor) condenses into opaque white clouds?Neat design though." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "I remember reading this years ago. It eventually gets into why the Linux kernel isn't written in C++, but the beginning of the discussion starts with an innocent question about how to port a legacy kernel module that was written in C++ for 2.4 and no longer works with 2.6.The OP is roundly criticized for even considering writing a kernel module in C++. The authors of the module had to patch the Linux kernel heavily to make the headers compile as C++, and of course the patches for 2.4 don't all work for 2.6.I can agree that if you patch the crap out of an open source project, be it the kernel or just a library, to make it work with your own code, then you get what you deserve when it gets out of sync with the upstream version and no longer is compatible. How could it be otherwise?But as an experienced C++ hacker I disagree with the argument the C hackers made in the discussion that \"you just can't use C++ there, you must use C\" (to paraphrase).The problem isn't that they chose the \"wrong\" language, it's just that they interfaced the C++ code with the C (kernel) code incorrectly. The Right Way would be to simply write a compatibility layer in C that calls functions in the C++ code. And the C++ code could in turn call back to C functions in the compatibility layer when they need to interface with some kernel data structure. Although performance is listed as an issue, they specifically say that their module gets its performance benefit by not having to copy packet data to user space. They would still get this benefit, even if they had the minuscule extra time it takes to make a call through a C/C++ compatibility layer." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Though I agree with Linus' assessment both of the suitability of languages for kernel dev and for his take on C++, I want to point out that it's perfectly possible to write Linux kernel C++ code. The MIT PDOS Click Modular Router team did exactly that; they wrote their own IP forwarding system, down to the ethernet drivers, all kernel-resident, principally in C++. As an LKM.The Linux people will look at you funny for doing it, but you can in fact write a kernel in C++." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Though I agree with Linus' assessment both of the suitability of languages for kernel dev and for his take on C++, I want to point out that it's perfectly possible to write Linux kernel C++ code. The MIT PDOS Click Modular Router team did exactly that; they wrote their own IP forwarding system, down to the ethernet drivers, all kernel-resident, principally in C++. As an LKM.The Linux people will look at you funny for doing it, but you can in fact write a kernel in C++." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "The key point, IMO is the fact that C++ compilers are essentially a black box, and you cannot guarantee the code that will be output. When you write C code, you pretty much know exactly what the assembly, and thus machine, code will look like (obviously this will vary based upon the compiler optimizations used). This is not true of C++, which is why it is not the most suitable language to write kernel code in. Kernel software is so critical that it is not wise to cede control to a baroque compiler. Especially when C can do everything C++ can (trivia fact: the original C++ compiler was simply a preprocessor that converted the code into C)." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "The key point, IMO is the fact that C++ compilers are essentially a black box, and you cannot guarantee the code that will be output. When you write C code, you pretty much know exactly what the assembly, and thus machine, code will look like (obviously this will vary based upon the compiler optimizations used). This is not true of C++, which is why it is not the most suitable language to write kernel code in. Kernel software is so critical that it is not wise to cede control to a baroque compiler. Especially when C can do everything C++ can (trivia fact: the original C++ compiler was simply a preprocessor that converted the code into C)." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "\"you can write object-oriented code (useful for filesystems etc) in C, _without_ the crap that is C++.\"\"Exactly. A million times, exactly." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "\"you can write object-oriented code (useful for filesystems etc) in C, _without_ the crap that is C++.\"\"Exactly. A million times, exactly." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "This couldn't be the 7 year old post about how Linus tried C++ 19 years ago and it sucked, could it?Personally I think it doesn't even matter. The kernel is stuck with C, they couldn't port it even if they wanted to." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "Unfortunately last year Google Ireland barely broke even. A tiny €24mil profit on a turnover of €12.5 BILLION [1]Perhaps some charitable Irish taxpayer could sort their domain name out for them?1: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2012/1006/122432..." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "# dig +short @8.8.8.8 google.ie (Google DNS #1)74.125.132.94# dig +short @8.8.4.4 google.ie (Google DNS #2)74.125.132.94# dig +short @208.67.222.222 google.ie (Open DNS #1)119.235.27.219# dig +short @208.67.220.220 google.ie (Open DNS #2)119.235.27.219# dig +short @ns1.farahatz.net google.ie;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached# dig +short @ns2.farahatz.net google.ie;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached# whois 74.125.132.94...NetName: GOOGLE...# whois 119.235.27.219...netname: LINTASLINK-ID..." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "# dig +short @8.8.8.8 google.ie (Google DNS #1)74.125.132.94# dig +short @8.8.4.4 google.ie (Google DNS #2)74.125.132.94# dig +short @208.67.222.222 google.ie (Open DNS #1)119.235.27.219# dig +short @208.67.220.220 google.ie (Open DNS #2)119.235.27.219# dig +short @ns1.farahatz.net google.ie;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached# dig +short @ns2.farahatz.net google.ie;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached# whois 74.125.132.94...NetName: GOOGLE...# whois 119.235.27.219...netname: LINTASLINK-ID..." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "$ dig +trace www.google.ie\n...\ngoogle.ie.\t\t172800\tIN\tNS\tns1.farahatz.net.google.ie.\t\t172800\tIN\tNS\tns2.farahatz.net.;; Received 79 bytes from 193.1.142.2#53(193.1.142.2) in 4 mswww.google.ie.\t\t14400\tIN\tCNAME\tgoogle.ie.google.ie.\t\t14400\tIN\tA\t119.235.27.219google.ie.\t\t86400\tIN\tNS\tns2.farahatz.net.google.ie.\t\t86400\tIN\tNS\tns1.farahatz.net.$ whois 119.235.27.219...route: 119.235.16.0/20descr: Route object of PT Inet Global Indodescr: ISPdescr: Jakarta Baratcountry: IDorigin: AS18351mnt-by: MAINT-ID-INETchanged: [email protected] 20090211source: APNICperson: Santoso Halimaddress: Pluit Permai 8 No.3Aaddress: Jakarta-Utaraaddress: Indonesiacountry: IDphone: +62-21-30047799fax-no: +62-21-30047798e-mail: [email protected]: SH1061-APmnt-by: MAINT-ID-INETchanged: [email protected] 20061020source: APNIC" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "$ dig +trace www.google.ie\n...\ngoogle.ie.\t\t172800\tIN\tNS\tns1.farahatz.net.google.ie.\t\t172800\tIN\tNS\tns2.farahatz.net.;; Received 79 bytes from 193.1.142.2#53(193.1.142.2) in 4 mswww.google.ie.\t\t14400\tIN\tCNAME\tgoogle.ie.google.ie.\t\t14400\tIN\tA\t119.235.27.219google.ie.\t\t86400\tIN\tNS\tns2.farahatz.net.google.ie.\t\t86400\tIN\tNS\tns1.farahatz.net.$ whois 119.235.27.219...route: 119.235.16.0/20descr: Route object of PT Inet Global Indodescr: ISPdescr: Jakarta Baratcountry: IDorigin: AS18351mnt-by: MAINT-ID-INETchanged: [email protected] 20090211source: APNICperson: Santoso Halimaddress: Pluit Permai 8 No.3Aaddress: Jakarta-Utaraaddress: Indonesiacountry: IDphone: +62-21-30047799fax-no: +62-21-30047798e-mail: [email protected]: SH1061-APmnt-by: MAINT-ID-INETchanged: [email protected] 20061020source: APNIC" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "[IPv6 Ready]\nWhois Search Results \tPDF\t\tPrint\t\tE-mail[Querying whois.domainregistry.ie]\n[whois.domainregistry.ie]% You have issued 1000 queries today. You have 0 queries per rolling 1 hours.% You have reached your 1 hour limit.Looks like they're blocking lookups for google.ieEdit - actually looks like they're not doing any lookups. Searching anything gives the same error. I haven't done any lookups today for anything, but it thinks I did 1000." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "[IPv6 Ready]\nWhois Search Results \tPDF\t\tPrint\t\tE-mail[Querying whois.domainregistry.ie]\n[whois.domainregistry.ie]% You have issued 1000 queries today. You have 0 queries per rolling 1 hours.% You have reached your 1 hour limit.Looks like they're blocking lookups for google.ieEdit - actually looks like they're not doing any lookups. Searching anything gives the same error. I haven't done any lookups today for anything, but it thinks I did 1000." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "If the likes of Google (tech-savvy, security-savvy, loads of cash) can't stay safe, the problem is huge." }