jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Sure, the system generally may loosely correlated with the long-term preference of the populace depending on the government, such that people don't revolt. But the system is designed to keep itself in power or maximize its own goals. It doesn't decide any more than water decides to take the path of least resistance downhill.

Did the populace decide they like bread and milk in the back corner of the grocery store, or does the capital-maximizing system decide its best if you walk through the aisles to get there? Are impulse purchases of gum at the checkout aisle because people really wanted gum when they walked into the store? On and on it goes.
Also the division of roles is far more specialized than say basketball. Only the QB might have a near/full picture.
~$50K that he put up of his own money. There is a longer discussion (and link to another article) at Reddit.

http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/eqj5b/redditor_b...
God, this is classic Gladwell. Skip critical details to come out as a "holier than thou" contrarian.

Kitchin's qualification for running EnronOnline, it should be pointed out, was not that she was good at it. It was that she wanted to do it, and Enron was a place where stars did whatever they wanted.

EnronOnline was one of the most successful units of Enron. In fact, UBS picked up the platform and now many of the techniques developed at EnronOnline was picked up by the electronic energy trading platforms.

Kitchin is still considered one of the foremost authorities in the world of energy trading and finance. I believe she is a MD at Deutsche Bank in the field of energy structuring and got her development of the business turned into a Harvard Business School case study.

Clearly not only was she good at organizing the business, she succeeded at it. This is exactly what I really dislike about reading Gladwell's stuff. His job is to find a previously successful story-line that has hit snags, in order to act as an armchair quarterback. He is just like most other journalist and historian - seemingly wise because of post-hoc analysis but incapable of actual prediction.
"Christmas miracle as Bay Area Google engineer pays $50,000 to spring student from jail"
http://www.laweekly.com/2010-12-16/news/jeremy-marks-bailed-...
Japanese pages are similarly very different from English.

I suspect many languages have different "internets" though; there's a rather strong language barrier that prevents a lot of their users from experiencing other language's styles.
> I don't think you want an event loop per core, that's back into the realm of concurrent madness, and I don't think that's how Erlang works (Erlang folk: correct me if I'm wrong on that).

If you don't care about performance, sure (there's nothing wrong with not caring about performance e.g.,: low volume web applications, where server side Javascript can shine, IMO). However, I can give you a command line you can run which will plot a very nice graph of throughput vs. number of selector threads in a specific system that I've been working on.

Yes, it will bring you back to "concurrent madness". What you _want_ is having primitives that make it possible to deal with this madness, not handwave it away. In Erlang they're actors themselves, optimized for efficient delivery of message within a single node and remotely, supervision of processes that fail, ETS, mnesia; in Java they're Doug Lea's beautiful concurrent collections (java.util.concurrent). You're assuming multi threading pthreads or synchronized/notify/wait (Java before java.util.concurrent).

Note that there are two models for this: one is Erlang's as well as traditional UNIX IPC -- message passing; the other is shared memory multi-threading with concurrent and lock free collections (Java), which also goes nicely with the idea of minimizing mutable state (Haskell, Clojure, Scala). One is good for one kinds of applications which optimize for worst case latency (Erlang shines there), the other is good for another, which optimize for average throughput (JVM shines there).
Other link: http://www.kurzweilai.net/predictions/download.php
Anyone knows what was the bail out amount?
Sure. It just doesn't test work ethic.
http://www.amazon.com/Secret-World-OG/dp/B000MX7UEY

>_>
You're right I haven't been looking at india's numbers. I'll keep a closer eye on it from now on.
There's an interesting story about how Google invited a bunch of brokers and wealth managers to present to their employees, along WITH Nobel laureate Bill Sharpe (and others) who basically torpedoed the active wealth manangers' hopes of scoring clients.

Posted here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1949158

I like the idea of having evidence that i couldn't be doing better by trying harder. I prefer to focus my energy on building value thanks very much.
> IMHO these are reasons to regulate it carefully, not to eliminate it.

You don't get to assume regulation that does "the right thing". Instead, you have to accept regulation as it works in practice.

When buying and selling are regulated, regulators are bought and sold.
It's not only to calculate the position of the cameras (x,y,z) but also the additional DoF of the lens orientation (roll,pitch,yaw). Any set of eight points would work, but a checkerboard provides a nice surface with a known geometry. The checkerboard is also handy for correcting lens aberration.

Here is the standard algorithm: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-point_algorithm
You're completely right. This is the difference between releasing framework code, and releasing code that works for your application. Just because your internal code is extendable and clean doesn't make it worth using by other people. That just makes it good code.

I'm not trying to rain on anyone's parade -- I think it's great that the author has released this, and he admits that it's scratching an itch for himself. This just shouldn't be considered a python ORM solution, but rather an python ORM for SQLite that works for the cases the author designed.
I'm curious- how does one actually carry $52mm on your person? In $100 bills I calculated that as roughly 170 feet deep of bills (at .1mm per $100).
Did anyone else find that typeface completely unreadable? Without iReader, I wouldn't have bothered with the article.
> That they should have been more restrictive with the OOo community?

That they should learn to engage and nurture their OSS projects/communities (or, alternatively, drop them outright/give them out early to their communities).

Right now, they're fucking up on all front: they're creating enmity by locking down projects and behaving as if the project communities were their enemies, and they're still losing the projects to forks.
I think the suggestion was that if you're going to be restrictive with the OOo community, you better be ready to pick up the slack when they fork. By waving the white flag, Oracle demonstrated that their demands of the open source community are likely bluffs. Oracle needs the community more than the community needs them.
From the revisions list:
PROCESSING 1.5 (REV 0196) - 17 April 2011

A lot has changed in the nine months since 1.2.1 was released, the biggest being the introduction of "modes" for the editor, allowing you to switch between Android development or the classic desktop/web mode. More modes are
coming in future releases.

Another significant change is a fix for applets that were stuttering or appearing to run very, very slowly in Firefox 4 and Chrome. That's the major reason that we're releasing this version in advance on 2.0 later this summer.
...
For people who have been using OPENGL2 in the pre-releases, the library has been removed from 1.5, and will return in future pre-releases before eventually replacing the built-in OpenGL library for 2.0.
I know it will probably end up being the first $1 billion+ exit for YC but I'm really hoping it's the first IPO. It'd really put an end to the myth that YC startups are "dipshit companies" once and for all (not that Heroku didn't do a decent job of that).
Wow, the most impressive thing here is the exponential growth: 2 million users in late 2009, 4 million mid 2010, 25 million now.
Unless a language's sole purpose to be easy to learn and understand. Then by definition it's a great language.

Use the right tools for the right job. A jewelers file is pretty worthless if you are building a house. Likewise a hammer isn't very useful in the finishing touches of a diamond ring.
The canonical repo appears to be here:

https://github.com/ajb/statuspanic
A paraplegic can't learn to walk, and usually presents as such.

A non-programmer can usually shed this condition with effort, or at the very least exchange laziness for money.
I think it would be interesting though, for browsers to implement a Javascript VM which would allow compilations to byte code from any supported language, rather than source to source translations. Similar to the many languages that compile to run on a JVM (JRuby, Jython, Scala, etc.)
Can you make it more hilarious?
I agree, we've never closed 100% of yeses. However, dragging it out with one of those investors, assuming they refuse to say no is worse for them imo as it creates a clear paper trail of bad behavior which hurts their reputation.
Have you tried giving the toddler something to do? A lot of the problem with young children "requiring constant attention" tends to just be a lack of things for them to pay attention to.

One way to try and mitigate it is by giving them a GBA or DS (preferably the former, because they're harder to break, and certainly not a 3DS for a variety of reasons). This also has the really neat benefit of helping them bootstrap reading skills.

Movies usually don't work, because anything that doesn't require you to move (even just your hands, like with a handheld console) will cause restlessness.

You can probably take a few hours at first to teach her how to pronounce letters and put them together if you haven't already, after they figure out how to read, they require significantly less immediate attention.
I keep wondering why Jobs keeps pushing HTML5. He too must realize the unsustainability of it all. A collapse has to happen -- and then how many "real" apps will remain for sale? And how many devs will migrate to the web where they don't have to have the approval of Apple or Google or any other hardware maker in order to create and publicize/sell something?
Yeah, that's what I kinda figured.
You go, girl.
Non sequitur.

1- Guy proves 4 Colour Theorem with software, and mathematically proves
the software with another program (or something like that, it isn't
completely clear.)
2- Most BSODs caused by 3rd party drivers.
3- Make software to test those drivers before shipping.
4- BSODs mostly gone!

The article's title promised an explanation but instead they gave a flawed story. It seems on one hand they dumbed down the article, but on the other hand they kept some of the fancy sounding concepts. It would be forgivable if it weren't a tech-oriented publication. "Deep into technology."
Awesome work, def. think there is a big market for this.

I also have to mention someone else who has done something similar (maybe get some ideas from) http://www.memms.io They create a nice friendly website for viewing the images too and convert videos to animated gifs.
What evidence did these 2 agents provide?
Are Rubyists significantly less likely to have database skills than those who have made a profession out of Python programming?

The secondary skills chart seems to indicate this (at least for Workshape sample set). If so, is this the result of 10 years of working with an abstraction layer in Rails? Is it simply because Rails developers have a different focus?

The Average Workshops vis seems to indicate this slightly, but not nearly as much as the premise would indicate.
Haha love it !!!
Looks like we have indeed found a third way to make money off Bitcoin.

The first two, both widely used so far, are

(a) operating a Bitcoin exchange and running away with customers' Bitcoins and

(b) hacking a Bitcoin exchange and running away with customers' Bitcoins.
Basically the same MO as in drug cases - part of the briefcase-o'-cash (or drugs, or what have you) goes into evidence, part goes into the agents' pockets.
Please be a motorcycle...
>You can refuse to compromise on your rates, provided that you can afford to walk away if necessary.

This is very important advice, and I've applied it to car purchases, condo lease agreements, cable and phone contracts, you name it.

It's about leverage. If you have alternatives, and what the person on the other side of the table offers doesn't fit your needs, take your business elsewhere. You have to be prepared to leave or say no.

On the other hand, if you can't say no, then you don't have any leverage.
"Why not just attach a bell to the cat?" said the mice.
Certainly. However, if you are here https://www.google.com/maps/place/Mariana+Trench+National+Wi... how would you communicate that to the rest of the world? That is the harder part.
A better bet would be to divide by the number of people and days and say "the weight of a large suitcase every hour" or something along those lines.
> What if I touch thousands of surfaces?

According to the article, that's probably risky if all of those thousands of surfaces are infected.

But you make a good point: I have no idea how many infected surfaces I touched last week/month/year.
No, because I don't lie about peeing in a bottle at my job and make trouble.

But if there was a union there'd be a never ending parade of shit I'd have to watch out for. Like having to pretend that we have to piss in bottles rather than using the washroom or else having my stuff vandalized and maybe being beaten in the parking lot. Unions use lies and violence to get their way, been there, had enough of that.

What was reasonable in the early 1900s against literal Pinkertons with guns, because of acid leaching into the mine in a company town a hundred miles from anywhere, is now ridiculous and you should try turning down work you don't like instead of making up these stories.
You could swap “taxes” for “regulations” in your last sentence and it’d be equally true - scrapping corporate taxed wouldn’t eliminate corporate lobbying.
There isn't much in print. https://daringfireball.net/2019/09/richard_stallmans_disgrac... is a reasonable summary in English. If you can read Danish, http://www.dkuug.dk/wp-content/themes/dkuug/arkiv/dkuug-nyt-... contains a first-person story about how Stallman is as a houseguest.

I'm a bit disappointed that noone on HN seems to be saying: "Someone who speaks for the free software community should be a person who's good at speaking to many different people, smiling honestly, and putting the community and its concerns in language that makes sense for the people he's talking to at the time". IMO that's the core of the matter.

I'm not sure whether it really makes sense to talk about a free software community but I do think that Stallman leering, being rude, trying to pick up women at conferences, straying into random controversies such as about Minsky, berating people for their choice of wording, I do think that all that makes him a really bad candidate for that kind of job.
Would you mind expanding on that? What are the "fewer features" that make it more useful than SBCL?

I find SBCL to be highly stable. I haven't used Clisp for many years and I don't think there's been a new release for many years.
Some of RMS’s behaviour seems excusable, but I think a majority of the population would support the social norm by which anybody who publicly states that possession of child pornography should not be illegal [1] is disqualified from leadership positions. As far as I know, RMS has not resiled from this position, although he has conceded that the actual sexual abuse of children should be per se illegal.

[1] https://rms-open-letter.github.io/appendix
that's illegal by European standards i think... i wonder if somebody has the money and the time to bring this to court. It would be necessary.
Russia as a market does not matter, so likely it won’t affect Apple at all.

GDP less than Italy / Canada, consumers poorer than Chinese.
I guess the question is: would these people be significantly better at any of these fields, if they specialised more? That seems like an open question to me.

My personal experience as a jack-of-all-trades is that if I try to specialise, I dry up creatively and get less effective.
I like the idea of offering alternatives, but have you considered crowdsourcing those apps? Could add an extra level of transparency if people could select/vote on which alternatives really are better (because that can be awfully subjective).

It would be interesting to link to privacy policies and other relevant information as well!
I agree - whenever hard numbers aren't shared you never really know (there are a couple of very rare instances where this rule is justified, but it's usually just to hide less-than-stellar sales numbers). But even so, it strongly indicates that Google has a winning formula with cheap hardware, vanilla Android, and good cameras - if they could just unfuck their messaging app ecosystem they might start to make a bigger dent against Apple.

And while Pixel vs. iPhone is not the same discussion as iOS vs Android, it's worth mentioning Android has grown over the past several years whereas iOS has largely stalled.

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/worldwide/...
As I've understood it, AWS keeps things alive as long as someone is using it. Once they want to get rid of it, they take it off the catalog of items you can provision, and start encouraging users to move to it's successor, and once it's abandoned fully they get rid of it. That's how they've always done old ec2 instance types, for example.
If you’re looking for a private-by-design ad network/Adsense alternative that doesn’t do any tracking, check out ContextCue.com. We recently launched and would love to get your feedback/thoughts to make it better.
I fixed this after the first time ;)
For me, it's mainly the wealth of plugins (Firebug, Ghostery, SSL everywhere, and so on) that makes me prefer Firefox.

Also, I agree on the collecting personal information thing. With Chrome, I kind of feel watched by Google. I trust Firefox more with regard to privacy.

I'm satisfied with Firefox, and have been using it for a long time. And after all that time, they still manage to improve continuously. I don't see any compelling reasons to switch to another browser.
I'm suprised that the guest additions are not open-source, shouldn't be not that difficult to make them, as you have the api documented in the main VirtualBox software.

The one good thing Oracle did was put VirtualBox back into one version and make the extensions a separate package. Also adding usb 1.0 support into the main package.
This is really nicely done. Can you tell us how you built it?
The system suggested by shin_lao does not require that the password be passed back to Dropbox to retrieve the key.
So what stops the carrier to tie your billing information (which I presume has your name and address on it) to the SIM purchase ?

Every time you switch that phone on that phone ID is tied to the SIM on the network.
That is, until it starts taking over the target computers and clicking the links itself. Any naive utility function will produce undesired side effects:

http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer
Isn't this more like Last.fm for Beer? In what way does location have anything to do with beer? It makes more sense to "scrobble" them.
It doesn't necessarily need to be all on one disk. Of course, 75 independent SDDs is pretty unreasonable to expect.
ArsDigita University has a good set of lecture videos by Shai Siminson. He's a great lecturer, and his Algorithms and Discrete Maths courses are also available there.

http://aduni.org/courses/theory/index.php?view=cw

It's in crappy .rm format, but you can probably find the same content on Google Video and Youtube.
Right. And as time passes, they'll evolve closer and closer to sending interesting, entertaining, well-written, informative spam that points people to products they actually want to buy.

Mission Fucking Accomplished. http://xkcd.com/810/
I advice you to stay away from the psychedelics. Trust me, this is an advice you can't afford not to believe until it is too late.
ah, yeah good point, someone could have done that! I did not even think of that. Notifo is back up front again!
There are rumors that Honeycomb won't need any physical buttons at all...

(the prototype tablet Andy Rubin demoed the other day had on-screen buttons that would rotated with the screen)
I came up with a similar idea a few years ago -- Who Wants First? -- which featured a giant, billboard-type text ad space at the top, in the first position. You could place your ad text there for $1, bumping down all the previous ads into smaller-sized ad spots. Fun idea, but never really took off. Hope yours has better luck!
This is bookmarking app that I built and run for several months now. And I'd like to know if it can be useful for HNers.

It's a point and click bookmarking tool without the busy work of tagging, etc. And yes, it does have migration tool from delicious.

Some of the nice features it have:

* There is no plugin to install. Just bookmarklet.

* The app does not ask for password.

* Bookmarked images are shown as thumbnails.

* Bookmarked videos are shown as mini-clip.

* You can come back to your bookmarks by spawning the widget, when you want to.

* full-text search on your bookmarks.
Perhaps you shouldn't just implement ideas, you should implement technologies. And carefully map out your user flows. And then you should make sure that each conversion step actually converts in the real world.
Nope but it is some form of metric that you can use to judge the doctor's capability.

With a self-taught doctor, you just have the questions that you ask to help you judge. With a doctor who's been through school, you have both your questions and the fact that he/she has been through what has been set out by the school issuing the degree.
Well said, though I would add that there are groups who are working to spread alternate viewpoints in the industry, the public, and on a policy level. It's well worth your time to check out the excellent policy work being done by the Future Of Music Coalition (futureofmusic.org) and I'd also suggest checking out the A2IM which has not-insignificant pull in some of the same circles as the RIAA.

It should also be pointed out that the RIAA works directly from policies set at very high levels of the majors. There are a lot of people who internally see things in a very different light. So turning complaint into education can be a very effective agent of change.
This was an XKCD in 2007: http://xkcd.com/350/
The article's phrase "liberal education" is unlikely to be properly understood in a lot of the USA. The political meaning has so eclipsed the ordinary meaning that the latter seems all but unknown.
You must be very different than I am. I used to have Wordpress hosted blog which I would not update as much as I would like to. Reason? Whenever I was in the Wordpress 'New Post' window, I would worry about post formatting, title of the post, my potential readers etc. than about writing what's in my head at the moment.

With Posterous, if there is any idea/thought in my head, I simply write down an email and send it to post@posterous.com. If I have images to post, instead of uploading them one by one, I simply forward them to Posterous and hey, I get a nice image gallery on my blog. Even better, with Posterous' iPhone app, I could send any interesting picture straight from my camera to my blog. What I realized that I had created lot of artificial barrier to updating my blog and Posterous took it all away. I use Posterous exclusively through email (unless I need to delete/fix post) and I think it rocks!
> It took me about 1 week to get a first functioning version up

That plus the list of shipped apps in the sidebar is incredibly impressive. Zed should write a book on GTD.