skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pride in how good you are is for many people a barrier to continuous improvement. See http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=270083 for some stuff on why.

The flip side of the dynamic discussed there is that there is no faster way to make yourself disliked than to make it clear to someone who thinks they know something that they have things left to learn. The defensive actions you can get are amazing and are best observed from a distance.

Personally I spend my life learning, and like sharing. I've found to my detriment that I sometimes rub people the wrong way because they think I am more arrogant than I mean to be. But I've found that once people get to know me they understand how I am and it tends to work out in the long run. I think that it helps that I go out of my way to make everyone in my environment aware that I've identified things that I know they know more than I do, and that I honestly respect them for having expertise that I don't have.
The Zombie Game Experiment - Power-Ups, Zombie Hands & Interviews
War Against Christmas 2009: A Jewish Perspective
Do you have any more info on this perhaps? I know when I'm working on a TV show or basically anything that will get screen time I have to work out through sheets of paperwork where I list every single sound item in the video, including main background track(s), background noise tracks (imagine a distant bg music from a radio down the street) etc. I have to list Name of the track, artist that played it (since it doesn't have to be an original author - I guess they somehow settle that on tier 2 then), basically any music that is longer than 8 beats - but common dogma is to include those also, just in case. It's very tedious process and I hate it, since when I shoot some scene where I don't have a total control over environment I basically have to know which song is playing by whom from a few seconds byte. Sometimes I just don't use great footage because I couldn't identify the song playing in the bg.

As I understand (I have to check it) those sheets are then handled by legal dpt. in production company that sends that sheet to the authors union of sorts in whichever country this show is played in and they send the bill either to the TV house or production house, or sometimes both based on total songs played in that month or something like that. It's hell. It gets even more complicated when the product is to be standalone (as in a movie or show that gets sold around).

I also vaguely remember legal dpt. used/uses some sort of online database with all possible songs/authors from various distributors where they can pay and clear rights via them. I'm not sure if this still exists, if not - there's a great startup idea nudgenudge* for someone here.
Related: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1013754
Mysql and psql command equivalents table
Domain Specific Languages in the Ruby Language
Personally I'm still unhappy about how this unfolded. I would have liked to see Obama borrow Canada's legislative model. Not their solution, just how Pierre Trudeau got legislation through. What he did is passed a bill saying, Any province that passes some form of universal health care meeting these standards gets per capita transfer payments of this size. That pushed the problem to the provinces with a large carrot. After provinces saw other provinces successfully pass health care, every last province had it within 5 years.

I am amazed that it's the year 2009 and serious, honest, intelligent folks think that some massive one-size-fits-all solution is workable for such a complex system. It's the ultimate in Big Design Up Front. After all, with all the difficulties they had for initial passage, do they really think that they are going to be able to iterate? Do they really think they've thought this through? Has anybody? If anything, to me this is a sign that the current legislation is more about hubris and power grabs than real solutions. At the end it's become more of a "we're going to pass something, no matter what it is, and then spin the hell out of it" than real, viable long-term solutions.

And yes, I think Canada's model is great. Push the problem out to 50 states, require them to fix it, let them iterate, and watch a distributed goal-seeking system evolve the best answer over a period of years. This is such a no-brainer I honestly don't even know why it's debatable. Something is seriously rotten somewhere.
Anecdotes != evidence. I hate when people make claims like this based only on their own biased perceptions of the situation.
Oh, I should have checked out wikipedia first. Thanks!
So much passion, focus and energy get's funneled into one life of the legends.

Humbling to watch epic artists at work. There's nothing in
my life that has ever held a candle to the master level creators. It doesn't stop me from trying though.
Madoff did that for 10 years, with fantastic results
That's barely even a puzzle. It's more of an optical illusion
Sorry, Rupert.
Probably hearing it, filtering it, and researching it. The mind is capable of amazing filtering.
Wow, I messed that up bad. I tried editing it but the link is read only. The only alternative is to resubmit.
Month-over-month traffic growth.
The cleverest people about the topics don't usually like talking to laymen, because their knowledge is at expert-level - laymen would not be able to contribute. If I speak C++ with a beginner programmer it gets boring for me quickly.

People who just have a surface knowledge or just learned some stuff by watching national geographic or some pop science thing seem the most willing to impart knowledge.
Transcription module integrates with any EMR on the horizon
Medical Transcription Service is offering doctors a transcription module that seamlessly <a href=http://www.medicaltranscriptionsservice.com/transcription-module-integrates-with-any-EMR-on-the-horizon.html>integrates with any EMR</a>. Call our toll free number 1-877-323-4707 for more details.
Bruce Schneier: Insurgents Intercepting Predator Video? No Problem
It's hopeless. I turned noprocrast on for a while, to actually force me away. Then I decided I would just use it as a reminder, so I set the minaway to 1 minute. Eventually I just turned it off.

Anyway, merry christmas everyone! Thanks for hanging out. I felt like the bumble bee kid from the Blind Melon video when I found this site.
Yes, there is a fine.

I don't know what it is in Reid's "manager's amendment" version that just passed, or obviously what will emerge in the end if some version gets passed, but the last time I heard a Senate figure it was $750/year.

That's way too low (see the comment about adverse selection). To make the system that's envisioned work, you need three things in balance: universal coverage, guaranteed issue and community rating.

Universal coverage, everyone must be in the system (a fine AKA tax about equal to what you'd pay, with criminal penalties for non-payment).

Guaranteed issue: no one can be turned down.

Community rating: the healthy (e.g. young) must pay for the higher costs of the not-so healthy (e.g. the elderly). Otherwise the latter won't be able to afford it.
$45k in bingo card sales. $30k in bingo profits. Paying customers for something other than bingo.
~100K$
I am looking forward with joy on the coming tablet explosion market. Be it crunch..joojoo, apple or whomever makes it "just work" and easy to carry around. I NEED that device! One thing about apple hardware though to be cautious is that history tells us to skip their 1st generation.

edit:

my ideal tablet would be the size of what joojoo showed, about A4 with wacom surface like cintiq so I can carry it around and draw/paint in corel painter + photoshop. I know this is a few generations of tablets away, but one can dream. Basically a portable cintiq.
We dont know the details yet. It could be that older people are subsidized by the government. The real issue is that many people cant get insurance at all, like my SO. I would be willing to buy her insurance at the going rate, but it cannot be had. If it costs you an extra $100 per month so she can get insurance so be it. I have no sympathy because I am probably paying way more in taxes than you to support things that do not benefit me directly. That's the way it goes in a democratic society.
if you would offer your service to canadians, you would already have 3 more customers ;)
IMHO, the most significant aspects of the bill—making it genuine reform—are:

* Insurers will no longer be able to exclude people on the individual market for pre-existing conditions, they won’t be able to take your insurance away when you get sick (on the pretense of “oh, you didn’t report this case of acne you had as a teenager, therefore you lied to us on your application form and we don’t have to pay for your cancer treatments”), and they are sharply limited in how much they can charge different premiums to different groups of people.

* Since the previous rule creates a big moral-hazard problem (if the insurance companies have to take you no matter what, why not put off buying insurance until you actually need it?), there is a mandate for just about everyone to buy health insurance.

* Since paying the full cost of health insurance would put a very very large dent in a lot of poor and lower-middle-class people’s budgets, there is a system of subsidies in place to keep the cost of insurance below (IIRC) 10% of a family’s income.

* The subsidies are paid for by things like taxes on the most expensive health-insurance plans, so (according to the Congressional Budget Office) the overall system does not add to the Federal debt, and even slightly decreases it.

A summary of the Senate’s bill is here (scroll down to “Summary of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act”):

http://democrats.senate.gov/newsroom/record.cfm?id=321145...;

I think this is the summary of the House version:

http://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/reports?id=0218

The final law will probably look more like the Senate than the House version.
Except that's not what I said. Too many people around here try to pretend that grades mean absolutely nothing. I doubt that nothing you did in school had any relation to the real world, and I pointed that out to you in the hope that you'd realize that the burden of proof in this argument rests on those who would try to argue that grades mean nothing. In the absence of actual data, which no one has provided, it doesn't make sense to give any merit to the anecdotal arguments of the minority rather than the equally anecdotal arguments of the majority.
probably irrelevant, but very pleasing design on that page :D
I am not an expert on evolution, but much of this article strikes me as incorrect. The fact that genes are capable of modifying other genes (turning them off/on, splicing in new genes, etc.) doesn't refute the concept of natural selection of random mutations unless you're ALSO positing a new mechanism by which this modification ability can be acquired. I skimmed through and didn't see one, even though he strangely implies that the fact that genes behave in a complex fashion means that organisms aren't coded by them. His (apparent) creationist sympathies and tacit endorsement of the gaia concept leads me to believe he thinks there is some sort of magic at work, which is not a very useful explanation.

I'm equally perplexed by his overall point of "genetics is complicated, therefore genetic engineering and capitalism is immoral."
I have an Ableton driven studio with oodles of softsynths. I'd say the difference is a factor of 10 at the least even with higher end software. What you do end up spending on is some of the hardware you can't avoid (quality audio interfaces, reverb units, controllers).
Lots of people take a long time to get this one. It's what I call an STF problem - Slap the Forehead." Unless you see it instantly, when you do see it you are so frustrated ...
When Rackspace goes down and takes TechCrunch with them, the whole INTERNET goes down. When Amazon goes down, Salesforce, Target, and others...
Without knowing that the + centers on the circle, is this actually possible?
I hope that the arm-twisting it took to get up to 60 votes in the Senate will put more people’s attention on how broken the filibuster is as an institution. The Democrats passed up a golden opportunity, back when the Republicans were pushing for an “up-or-down vote” on Bush’s Supreme Court nominees, to say “hey, let’s get rid of the filibuster for everything”.
Do you understand the details of the reconciliation process? If you do, could you shed some light on it? It was my understanding that the point of having two versions of the legislation that later go into reconciliation is to avoid filibusters for controversial parts that might increase federal budget (such as public option). This would mean that the democrats could easily include public option into the final bill with 50% + 1 votes, which would almost certainly happen. If this is the case, why do you say the final version will look more like the senate version of the bill?
Webeater. Tint you car windows at the cheapest price - Dark 5% Limo Tinting
Software Application Development | Web Portal Development USA
Software Application Development in usa. We expertise in php, asp, ecommerce based applications. Looking for profession web portal development in USA? Reach us.
I've wasted 2 months of distributed computing time on just bad assumptions made by mistakes I made, so as noted below, in the big picture, that's a relatively minor loss. Does it set back science. Of course, but is it catastrophic, no.

As someone pointed out above, in fields where you collection and analysis times are measured in years if not decades you could run into trouble, but for chemistry and biology where you are at significantly shorter collection timescales, it isn't that big of an issie
Think about it - you are prepared to get excited about complete guff about what might - but usually turns out to be certainly not) be.

Interesting world view. My Christmas present to you is to free you from such lunacy - boom - you are free and need no longer worry about what might be - you can just enjoy what is.
Dumbo -- Python module to easily write and run Hadoop programs
"Better" was the web before there was CSS. Black background, white text. Links. That was all anyone needed.

Now the web is the equivalent of a coffee-table book. Glossy and colorful, but expensive and lacking any substantial content.
And I can't believe it's been exactly 1000 days ago since I signed up on HN. Seems so long ago. Thanks to the great quality submissions and the smart community I've tagged along through the years :) Happy holidays everyone!
The video data is redistributed to a wide list of folks, people on the battlefield, people in command posts both locally and remote. The control link is not redistributed, it is a closed link between the pilot and the UAV, the data is not needed elsewhere nor is it sent elsewhere.

Do you see the difference?
I can't say I understand your point.

With svn, I commit often, as long as the code builds and my own unit tests pass. If I need to make a lot of breaking changes, I use 'svn cp' to create a branch and then I can still leverage svn's merge tracking in keeping that branch up-to-date.

This seems like the same way I use git/hg, but without worrying about excessively divergent local/remote branches across machines -- I can see your branches, you can see mine, they're all centrally accessible by definition.
I agree with this response. And I would add that the more I know about some topics the more I realize how little I know about others.

I'd like people to think I'm smart, but I'd also like them to think that I'm kind and honest. Optimizing those three is hard to do.
ETFs usually go down by $10 per month. So after 1 year, $350-$120=$230.
Faster iterations, better analytics, happier users.
Have you noticed that every post that is BORED - BORED BORED - with mindless speculation about new possible maybe crappy consumer goods from a once computer company get voted down?

Well all the intelligent folks have,
Notice that I've never said "git can't do this". I've been talking in terms of the conventions recommended by each tool's community. In the case of git, that's not separate clones for branches...
Sounds like you're insecure about something and you are using your intellectual prowess to make up for a perceived lack. Your insecurity is probably resting on something your father did not provide for you, I'm basing that statement on the fact that another male "stung" you; indicating you projected your Animus (shadow masculine self created by father figure) onto him.

Introspection/meditation is your tool to the inner self; there you will find confidence, security, and peace. Sophrosyne (moral sanity; moderation through true self-knowledge) is the state of mind you will attain when you honestly practice not caring about what other people think, go within rather than without (introspect/meditate), and discipline yourself.

From the looks of it, you've begun the alchemical path of transformation. Your propensity for intellectualism can help you here, C. G. Jung has created a comprehensive intellectual framework of the human psyche that uses symbolism, alchemy, and allegory to model the psyche and its processes in a way that makes sense. You would benefit from casually reading some his material and applying it when you can; more rigorous application will make a noticeable impact on your psyche.

So, yes, stop trying to be smart and just be smart. Realize that your parents cannot and never will provide everything you need for a whole Self, that certain aspects must be cultivated within you. This is one of those facets.

Kudos to recognizing it and even more kudos to your asking for help - psychologically speaking, asking "others" for help means you are asking the rest of yourself for help; just remember we can't give all the answers since we aren't you, the best answers are given by the members within you.
"Those super-sonic eagles are extremely elegant. And, why do we bother with 747s when ostriches are so much more efficient."

For starters, please do note that I wrote flying machines. As far as I know, ostriches do not fly. Besides, supersonic is not that impressive. Hell, a rocket can move at hypersonic speeds. When you design a fighter jet that is as maneuverable and energy-efficient as a hummingbird, please let me know.
Wow, this is a really nice little language.

The howto refreshing to read. While I love JS as a language, even written longhand, it feels like you've brought an uncommon elegance to it. The syntax is much simpler and maps more cleanly to how I think. It feels a lot like Ruby.

Granted, most of the JS I work on is in pretty complex applications, so I'd be hesitant to work in anything but the target language itself. But it's a very clean abstraction or concept to begin with. I'd love to see something complex written in CoffeeScript, especially with DOM manipulation or another JS framework involved.

It'd be fun to try writing a DSL or simple compiler sometime. This must have been very interesting to create. Cheers for such detailed examples in the unveiling as well.

Great job, and thanks again!

Edit: Hahaha, thanks for the examples from the Poignant Guide. Pouring out a few drops for _why right now.

Edit 2: Forgot that you wrote underscore.js - thanks for that as well. Crazy to see how simple it is when written in CS.
Argh. Yes, that's exactly how I felt when I finally got it. :p
I wish they had derivatives with your plans as the underlying asset. I'd leverage myself, go short and make a killing.

In other words OP, you'll fail and it'll happen because of your ridiculously ambitious goals. Let me break it down:

1 and 2: If by "learn a language" you mean gain some proficiency in it and not just run through the introductory tutorial, then you're gonna have to spend a fair amount of time writing a reasonably big project. I would say, spread out, about 1hr a day every single day for each language, so that makes it about 2-3hrs/day.

3. Unless you're already proficient in some instrument (preferably stringed), you're gonna need several hundred hours of solid practice to learn, so plan for about 2hrs a day,every single day.

4. That would mean a serious workout, 3-4 times a week, so average that out to 0.5hrs a day, every single day.

5. That's pretty vague, but I'll put you down for 0.5hrs a day averaged as well.

6. that's too vague

7. If you're speaking in the sense that Mathieu Ricard talks about, again you're looking at at least 1hr day.

So in order to achieve your goals, you're looking at a commitment of about 8hrs/day. And that's 8hrs of hard work where you are pushing yourself, so unless you have nothing going on in your life and have amazing power of will, you will fail.

You should instead pick 1 or 2 of those goals and follow up. Start working out and learn Clojure. You can manage that and a year from now you'll have 2 solid achievements behind your back, rather than 7 failures.
What is it running? You should consider nginx for the static stuff if you are not already using it. It really is fast and low memory usage on a small server such as that.

Edit:
Looking at your source here are two suggestions:

The load time is getting hurt by the 75 requests for small images in the success area. You should consider an ajax approach that lazy loads those images and doesn't request a ton of images. If that is too much just pick 5-10 randomly and serve just those on each page load. No one is going to wait through the 75 success stories without clicking on the link.

Also, you should minify the javascript and css to cut down on requests and request size.
I did. I was unimpressed. I was used to working in fields where theories could be trusted. Finance is a lawless territory. It's fun because problems lack structure and are so hard. It's frustrating because 30 years ago my skills would have allowed me to do something cool, while now the field is saturated and the odds are stacked against you. I moved to greener pastures and never looked back.
Watch TV Directly From Your Firefox Browser
Stealthy Passive Spliced Network Tap
Understanding money on the social network - Part 1
Not every pill is The Pill, not every man is The Man, and not every reconciliation between the houses of Congress is Reconciliation, so to speak. Hence your confusion.

A bill passed under the reconciliation rules cannot be filibustered, but only budget-related resolutions that meet certain very strict criteria can be passed through the reconciliation process. Some folks were making a lot of noise along the lines of “if this gets filibustered we’ll just pass something through reconciliation”, but that hasn’t happened and at this juncture I don’t think it will happen.

What’s happening now is a very different process: negotiators from the House and Senate are going to try to come up with a single bill text that can still get a majority of the house and sixty votes in the Senate. They still need sixty Senators because the bill that emerges from these negotiations is governed by the same cloture rules as a normal bill.
Leonardo da Vinci and his flying machines
The claim that it does not add to the Federal debt is an accounting trick. The CBO is legally obligated to stick to a certain set of accounting rules, but this bill was designed to game those rules.

For example, the CBO measures a 10 year time horizon. The plan is for the cost saving measures to begin immediately, while we will only start paying out subsidies in a few years. So the CBO is scoring this bill by comparing the first 6-7 years of benefits to 10 years worth of revenues.

Another game being played is "mandatory" spending cuts. The CBO is required to assume they will occur. Historically, "mandatory" spending cuts are nearly always repealed at the last minute.

Another fairly major aspect of the bill is that it bans no frills insurance (high deductible, excludes routine care). This is likely to induce people to consume more unnecessary medicine (see the RAND experiment).