skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great idea. I've started one here but if someone wants to take over that's fine too:

http://twitter.com/tlrobinson/hackernews

I'm doing some Google-fu to find Twitter names in profiles but you should also ping me via Twitter or email (in profile) if you'd like to be added.
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What's the point of having the source maintain anonymity for "normal" non-secret stuff? There's no point in not naming your source unless it's damaging secret stuff--in which case call your source "anonymous" instead of "a senior administration official" or "party staffers".

For anything else, if your sources remain unnamed, there's no way for the public to corroborate your assertions, and it's not "news" anymore, it's "opinion"...
I resent being downvoted for this, and expect more out of HN.

You cannot make a claim like "iPhone success is starting to wane in light of the Android" and back that claim up with your own anecdotes about how you hear about and see the Droid more often. This is simply not real evidence that the iPhone's success is declining on a wide scale as you suggest.

I'm not saying that the iPhone's success isn't waning in light of the Android. I'm just saying that I, and usually this community in general, require better evidence/citations than "because I see it a lot more now."
By february, want to reach $12000 a month, from about $8000 at the moment. Want to diversify and do something I can be more proud of and actually boast about, while increasing sales to bring in $30.000 a month = $1000 a day.

I don't yet know what I can do to reach my target, but will work on it. Also, want to improve my management skills so I am more diplomatic but still get things done in the right way.
I think it would be very difficult to pull this off on a state-by-state basis, because an effective insurance system depends on economies of scale. We have an individual insurance mandate in Massachusetts, but we also have all these teaching hospitals and we used to have a glut of hospital beds; the same kind of system would never have been able to work in, say, Alabama.
It's also exactly the technique Simon Singh uses in one of his books to explain public-key cryptography...
Why the Nook is a Nexus One Killer
I like Romanians. Always gotten along with em'. Never met one I didn't like (seriously). So I figured, why not ;)
I completely agree -- I'm not about to start using it for real projects, it's really just a thought experiment about how nice JavaScript could be with an alternative syntax.

That said, if you work with Ruby and want to play with compilers, check out CoffeeScript's source. It's got a clean Ruby lexer and Racc parser (examples of which are hard to find in the wild) -- the code generation is a little funky, but I'm hoping to clean that up. The whole shebang is under 1500 LOC, including comments, so it's not too much to wrap your head around.
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I'm not as pessimistic. I really hold to the belief that the proportion of unimaginative 'workmen' in a field is constant. Lowering the cost of hardware allows more people to enter the field.and increases the amount of mediocre stuff but also increases the amount of excellent work produced.

That's not to say I don't agree with a lot of what you've said.
Say that to da Vinci. His flying machines were inspired by birds. He studied Nature and tried to build machines based on the same principles as those that allowed birds to fly. Of course, that led his astray, because it's hard to design machines that fly by flapping their wings. However, the structural part remains. Take a look at how airplanes are designed these days, and you will see that their structure somewhat resembles the bone structure of actual birds.

Last but not least: never say never, and never predict more than 10 years into the future. In 20 years your predictions might be ridiculed.
Community rating: the healthy (e.g. young) must pay for the higher costs of the not-so healthy (e.g. the elderly).

That's rather anti-progressive, no? Force the young and poor to pay for the old and rich? It's great politics, however, since the young don't vote and the old do.
I disagree. Often it's easy for insiders to misjudge public reaction. Insiders have spent a lot of time with a system, they're perception of the system is colored by extensive debates by experts in the system and the consensus results of those debates. But outsiders lack the benefit of that debate and the context of all of the technical details and restrictions the insiders are aware of. To outsiders all of the technical options are equally trivial and outsiders don't have the time, context, or access to people with the expertise to have a serious technical conversation on the subject.

In short, outsiders jump to conclusions based on their, almost certainly wrong, hasty assumptions. Insiders may not appreciate that their extensive technically detailed justifications for their current procedures are utterly useless in the face of ignorant casual public armchair analysis.

Now, whether or not the experts are justified in their position is an entirely different topic, but it's quite easy to see why they may not have anticipated the PR fallout from this problem.
Very bad idea. For every person in the world who need not pay U.S. taxes -- which would be everyone in your system -- there is a simple way to avoid this "tax": not holding dollars. The value of the dollar would collapse instantly.

This strategy has, of course been tried before. A good example is Zimbabwe, which devalued its currency by a factor of about 10^25 (!!) in a few years.
Props for this link. These guys were true pioneers that pretty much started the whole 'rave scene' back in the 90's. I saw them live in Toronto once, fantastic show.
Cool. I've been dreaming of writing a similar python => javascript (which someone has probably done already).

My only worry about something like this is the extra step of compiling, though I run a script that compresses via YUI comp. anyway...

Thanks for sharing.
> mostly frequented by Europeans and Americans doesn't make too much sense.

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/news.ycombinator.com?p=tgraph&...

Alexa - About 9 % Traffic from India. 2nd to United States.
No.

Take any circle that passes through the loweset point (under the 3" mark) and the right angle vertex that is down and left of the blue line.

Keep anything else fixed. This way infinitely many such constructions were created, and the radii were different.
No. With these sorts of problems the convention is that if it's close then it's exact, and if it was intended not to be exact then it's made obviously "off."
I want to launch the first beta of my news aggregator focused on promoting discussion of controversial political topics by February
the response of climate to CO2 is logarithmic

Reference? I don't see how that can be the case at all. The basic physics of radiation balance have no logarithms, and the naive expectation would be that the amount of escaping radiation depend exponentially on the CO2 column density.
Indeed (NB: as a class the elderly are "rich").

However, if "the young" start having to pay, say, $1000/month or go to jail, they just might start voting....
I think that is an over-generalization.

There is no point in gaining a whole bunch of knowledge if you are not going to pass it on somehow. You are not going to use it as you decompose. I think that the cleverest people I have met were also really good at explaining things in terms that almost anyone could understand.

In fact, I think that not being able to explain something to a 'layman' is actually indicative of having a superficial understanding of a topic. Even if there is a large amount of superficial (memorized) knowledge, there isn't necessarily any insight.

The best way to learn and remember and understand anything, for me, is to try to explain it to someone else. It is the easiest way to really think about a topic.
All they have to do is scale up an iPhone to something that's comfortable to read, and they will own the entire market. At least they'll sell one to me. :-P
Seems to me they are comparing apples and oranges. I think there isn't that much intersection between both products and who would buy them. I have been thinking about getting a nook and I already own an droid.
What will the Apple tablet be competing against?

It'll utterly destroy the Kindle, for one thing, if they execute well.
> this option would probably beat most of the simple key-value stores in terms of performance, backup and replication.

I wonder why do you think so? Here's a sample test of plain and memcached mysql vs tokyo tyrant (http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2009/10/19/mysql_memcach...) It was done without the additional inserts for the index table... I don't see how it can be anywhere close to the TT's performance for example. While mysql's replication is very easy, TT's replication is trivial. Backup is probably comparable - just flush and snapshot...

Unless you're comparing it to mysql+MC. Then yes - mysql's performance at 99.8% hits to MC can be ignored. We're left comparing MC with something else. Things might change dramatically if you have a write-heavy application. Or when you have more data than ram. Author's benchmarks will always show great results - let's wait for some real-world data.
We create exact models to try to fully understand what is happening in nature, and then we mix the concepts into hybrid designs. This has been done for a number of MEMS insects, and has made them so much more efficient.
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Don't wait until next year.
I think the ETF should be the actual cost of the phone (i.e. different for each model). And then it goes down exactly prorated to the contact length.

Isn't that how it works in europe? I remember reading that they were not allowed to hide the cost of the phone?
Because you could use that time to do something way more awesome.

That's pretty much the summary of what I said below, but in a lot fewer words.

Anyway, ... Merry Christmas. And a very happy New Year.
Yeah... I think that's the joke.

"Voice Quality

The Nook isn't a phone. That said, the Nexus One will apparently be available on T-Mobile. Advantage: Nook"
Beautiful!

(I finally made it to the end of the article where you ask about block delimiting...)

I think there are two issues, one being that '........' at the end of a large nested expression is ugly, the other being that it's hard to find the start and end of a block as it stands.

Since you seem to borrow a lot from ruby, why not add {} and/or begin/end as options? I would definitely keep the period syntax around (for short, shallow blocks), rather than replacing it.

"aint"? Cute.
3 (finite number of descendants): "Impossible to know" perhaps--but the possibility of having few or no descendants will factor into the expected value of "number of descendants resident in the Maldives".

5 (his children may not be fond of the Maldives): You just argued that children are likely to have a fondness for wherever they are born. If true, this invalidates the argument for moving at all: whether his descendants love the Maldives or America will make for no gain at all.

6. (children may move away from Maldives): Actually, given the limited economic and educational opportunities of the Maldives, there's likely to be a fairly high probability of one's children moving. Once we use this probability to work out an EV for "number of descendants resident in the Maldives", or even apply the probability recursively to work out a proportion of descendants resident in the Maldives over an infinite number of generations, your infinity argument is pretty well refuted.
Wasn't this an episode from "Better Off Ted"?

http://www.tv.com/better-off-ted/racial-sensitivity/episode/...
I think this was mostly a sarcastic tongue-in-cheek poke at the way unreleased gadgets are summarily (over)reviewed in the blogosphere with very little knowledge of the actual devices, not so much a serious review of these two admittedly different devices.
I can't wait to start hacking around. My goal is to make a wiki editor based off Etherpad. If anyone else is interested, drop me a line.
I'm by no means an expert on rave but you're definitely wrong about them starting the whole scene.
Remember that there is a difference between trying to be smart and trying to appear smart.

I think it is always valuable to try to be as smart as you can, learn as much as you can, and always keep improving your mind. (Whether your should focus on one domain of expertise or try to be well rounded is a more personal choice with pros and cons).

Trying to appear smart is often not worth it, even if you are extremely smart. This can be off putting to other people in some cases and can hinder you from being receptive to learning more.

In short this:

In fact, I've spent my whole life trying to be the smartest guy in the room. In school I took the hardest classes and shot for the best grades.

was probably a good and commendable decision.

But this:

I also try to say smart things and speak as an expert on a wide range of things.

was probably less useful.
Forgive my psycho babble, but being the smartest guy in the room and/or having the right answers should not be the end per se, but the means to anyting else. It seems to me that back in the day you were trying to please people.

When I was in high scholl I tried hard to impress by having nice grades, being the smart one, etc. When I got to college I became just another college student, barely making it, and had colleagues that had straight As when I would study just to pass the course.

It turns out 1) It was a real eye opener, I realized I needed to work hard If I ever wanted to become good at something 2) I started to realize my own true interests, and acting accordingly.

Just ask yourself a simple question: what really makes you happy. When you know the answer (or answers) to this question, you'll be on the right track ;)
That sounds like a system in SERIOUS need of hacking to improve usability.
When you go out of your way to illustrate your superior intelligence to someone, you put up a wall. That person instantly sees you as being someone to whom they can not relate, and you've essentially neutered your relationship.

I might have an extreme opinion, but I believe that you should often downplay your intelligence and work hard to relate to the "lowest common denominator." Many intellectuals may find this idea extremely distasteful, but they generally also fail to see the huge amounts of value to be gained from such relationships. Namely, you're able to learn the "soft skills" that many people in our field find so hard to grasp. I've learned the majority of what I know about life and dealing with people from the B/C students I've encountered along the way. The best part about this strategy is that, if you're actually intelligent, it'll probably come across _all by itself_. It's win/win.
Yeah, the periods to end block scope are the part of the syntax I'm the least happy with. I couldn't think of anything nicer without resorting to significant whitespace (which I'd like to avoid).

I'd rather not add {/}, or begin/end, because it's easy to determine the beginning of the block, it's just closing it that we need a symbol for.

In terms of style, you can certainly indent the period on it's own line if you prefer:

elements.each(el =>
$(el).click(event =>
if el.hidden
el.highlight()
.
.)
.)

But I'd love to hear more suggestions for alternatives.
There's nothing wrong with trying to be smart. The problem is trying to show others how smart you are (as the guy so astutely wrote in your yearbook). It makes you look like a jerk. No one likes a jerk.

I have an extremely similar problem, where I feel like I always have to be right about...well, whatever I happen to be talking about. Because big personality changes are hard, instead I try to control some specific behaviors that get me into trouble, such as getting defensive and trying to sound like I know more than I do. That may be a better goal than a complete personality makeover.

[If you're interested, I wrote about getting defensive here: http://www.hegemonicon.com/blog/?p=184 and sounding like I know more than I do here: http://www.hegemonicon.com/blog/?p=683]
The problem is much worse than the single problem you've identified. For another approach and more discussion see here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1012215
The dumbest shit I've read today. If it is a joke, then LOLs all around. Otherwise, pretty worthless.
Here is my prediction for the tablet if it is shown on the 26th.

It will have three methods of input:

1. Multitouch screen of course.
2. Pen based as well for note taking but the primary interface is the multitouch.
3. Front facing camera with dedicated hardware for eye tracking.

You heard it here first: There will be eye tracking on the new tablet. (of course this is just speculation but so is the article. Hearsay rumors.)
If you didn't get that it was tongue-in-cheek by the "Build Quality" category, you have no sense of humor

That was pretty over the top sarcasm, but still fairly amusing. I like that the Nexus One won only the eBook category
I like the look of this. I'm excited about the possibilities of languages that target JavaScript. It's quite a shame that the "open" web has only one language.
1- Hundreds of happy customers.

2- 200K in sales.

3- Two full-time employees.

4- Fewer mood swings!
This comparison is garbage. They left out alot of important things, like which makes the better projectile weapon (I'm guessing Nook) and which can survive the initial throw for repeated use (guessing Nexus on that one). What if I threw them at each other? Who survives then? We have to take a stand on this bogus internet hack job journalism.
1) Discovering the value proposition that brings in users by word of mouth to our social/semantic search page.

2) setting up our own rock solid ad network + stats

3) generating revenue from ads/affiliate links

4) hiring our first consultants/freelancers (may shift to employees but we'll let it happen based on relationships with the folks that we work with)

5) making a ton of connections across industries and skyrocketing my businesses chances of massive disruption to the ad and search markets
ah! thanks - that's really interesting (the whole page).
That array comprehension feature is hot.
Defining the contours of freedom (video with Lawrence Lessig)
This article goes into a bit of detail on some of the gear and a few pictures of the setups used by Liam Howlett, post 'Fat of the Land' at least.

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/Oct04/articles/prodigy.htm
Great links, thanks!
Actually, I think this style would have been pretty effective if I was watching the guy give his talk.
Good hunting Ashishk.
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I am surprised at how good this post is, given the topic. Something corporate security consultants become painfully aware of very quickly: it is startlingly easy to compromise the physical network of a huge company, and, having done so, an attacker has essentially limitless access to the victim's business processes.

The notion that a network team would actually use a TDR to find passive spliced taps on their network --- or, for that matter, even take the time to spot unexpected 802.11 wireless activity --- is laughable. Pick any company in the Fortune 100. Put on a dress shirt and a tie. Follow someone with a proxcard in through the side door after their smoke break. You will have their mainframe batch apps for months or years afterwards.
Splendid! This is what JS really needs, a thin layer to clean up the syntax and patch the quirks, without breaking anything. I made the same kind of thing using the actual Ruby parser:

http://github.com/jedediah/prettyscript

It's only barely usable at this point and I've been too busy to work on it.
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I'm not getting the humor. Are they saying you shouldn't worry about the iPhone or Kindle squeezing the other out of the market? If that's the punchline, it fits entirely in the title. You don't need three screenfulls of random sarcasm to clarify for the slow kids that you're joking.
I noticed not a single mention of Kwanza. Obviously this person has an agenda.

Joyous Kwanza to all!
Looks great, I'll need time to dig in but Thank You in advance
Not completely naive, I hope: "Human Action" and "The Theory of Money and Credit" by Ludwig Von Mises are excellent, extremely detailed and informative reads. bokonist presents a good overview of the Austrian case against inflation / monetary dilution elsewhere in this thread, so I won't repeat it.

Good point that hard currency is not a guarantee against economic hardship - quite true. Nothing can provide that guarantee, but specie is often a better option than most: hard currencies like gold are impossible to counterfeit or produce out of thin air, and the supply is constrained by real-world production, which limits pricing fluctuations or sudden inflation/deflation. Prices have been relatively stable for centuries: an ounce of gold today and an ounce of gold 200 years ago could buy the same amount of physical goods, be it barrels of oil or a fine suit. Fiat currency devalues quickly: a few short decades ago, a nickel would buy a soda or a candy bar, at a similar margin to the manufacturer and retailer. No longer.

Debt is what banks sell. Deflation hurts the most when you're highly leveraged, and it's hard for borrowers to pay back debt if money becomes more valuable than when the debt was originated, which is bad for the bank. Under the guise of "fighting inflation," these banks are altering conditions that will help sell more debt and ensure (as much as possible) those debts will eventually be repaid. Control over interest rates is beneficial to the banks because it allows them to sell more debt, which tends to inflate asset bubbles, as bokonist mentioned.

There's a reason the founders of the US set gold/silver as the official currency and fought strongly against the establishment of a central bank - monetary debasement is a centuries-old issue. It's not a huge surprise it happened eventually, since there's a huge incentive for financial interests to establish this control if they can. It's telling, however, that it was done quickly and in secret, and the inner operations of the Fed are private to this day.

In the end, most countries sell out their currency in exchange for the promise of stability and certainty, which the central banks ultimately can't provide - their interventions create massive second/third/fourth order effects, many of which make the system less stable. The banks don't care, as long as more debt is sold - they benefit from the system until it collapses, at which point they move to a new one.

As to ideological slant, I have the same view of monetary dilution as I do of debasement / seignorage / coin clipping - it's theft, the taking of property without consent. The argument "it's for your own good," which seems to be the rationale behind allowing this to continue, doesn't hold much water when the parties that do it are the major beneficiaries.
> Actually, it's always true

There are such things as "gains from trade", you know. Not all assets are worth the same amount to all players! If you buy an asset that you think anticorrelates with your other assets to reduce variance, you don't need to think that asset is underpriced. And if you need to liquidate some of your assets to return to shareholders or, heck, buy a house, we call that "liquidity preference" and it means you don't necessarily think the asset is undervalued, just that cash in hand is worth more to you.