skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the most utterly fascinating nugget I've read in a long time. The questions without answers really do boggle the mind.
Fuck Yes! quixotic relational databases (usually SQLite) EAV graph query metalanguage depressing W3C salted the earth RDF twin loadstones XML tree serialization SemWeb wankery SPARQL EAV graph databases NoSQL hype-wave AppEngine's BigTable-backed datastore exemplar APIs.

If I could send one message back 100 years in time, this would be it.
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I wonder if there's an equivalent see-saw for inline/roller/ice skates. The only training wheels I had were knee/elbow pads.
My plan is as follows:

1. Get two dishwashers

2. Put all the "clean" dishes in one dishwasher

3. As the dishes are used, put them in the other dishwasher

4. Once they're all dirty, run the dishwasher

5. Repeat from step 3.

This system has the following advantages:

* Even rotation of dishes (and dishwashers!)

* Cupboards available for other storage--all dishes in a dishwasher

* No time spent putting away and getting out dishes

Surprisingly, my girlfriend approves.

I am currently practicing this algorithm with dirty+clean hampers for my clothes (I travel a lot). I've saved myself the aggregate time of moving my clothes from closets to boxes and back once a month.
This is abusing Google's monopoly bargaining power to steal from content creators. For shame.

(Here's the bargain: "You will implement First Click Free or you will vanish from our search results, to be replaced by the people who copy/paste your articles and put AdSense on them.")
Write a web browser in python
I have the more generic version of this neuroticism. I see things in real life that use one data structure, and should be using another. This is clearly an example of using a stack, when he should be using a queue!
Film reviews - The way to find the best movie
One of the main reasons to reviewing the movie is that if any audience wants to go to a movie, they must know the details of the movie and some various factors that increase the expectations and some camera behind works. And some of the important news related to starring cast, the back ground music and inspirations to the film and visual effects and various other reasons are very important to review the movies.
Wives of Rockstar's San Diego office are up in arms over engineer treatment
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That's brilliant! Just the other day I tried taking my almost-three-year-old's training wheels off and tried to help her go straight without falling, but quickly decided she "wasn't quite ready". Maybe she still isn't, who knows, but this method sounds like a great idea -- I'm gonna try it tomorrow. :-)
More like "assemble a web browser in python", IKEA-style. Still, this looks like a nice and easy way to build your application's help browser, among other things.
Unreasonable wait to see a doctor? Why would the wait be longer just because you've seen one already? I'm just asking because here in Australia it doesn't happen like that at all. You can see five doctors a day if you want. Specialists may have a waiting time (a week or two on average I guess) but they don't make you wait any longer if you've already seen someone, and you can always find another specialist with a shorter waiting list.
Seems like they are winning on that account as well.
Cigarette – different types (Smoking is injurious to health)
Since 2006, the electronic cigarette has attracted millions of people around the world who have switched from traditional cigarettes to the e-cigarette, also referred to as the "safe cigarette, the e-cigarette, and the smokeless cigarette.
Thanks. New Scientist is giving me that "You've read your 3 free articles today" crap. Now I don't feel I'm missing anything.
Japan, Refutation of Neoliberalism
A model professor
The Google Electricity play
I employ my drying rack as a cache of frequently-used dishes and utensils. Items are usually retrieved using a LIFO scheme (easier to get items near top). Only occassionally is there a cache-miss requiring a cabinet lookup and retrieval. Every once in a while I have to empty the cache completely for guests but the cache is refilled after the exception condition.

At the bottom of the article, there is a link to a well-written essay by Roger Ebert on losing his ability to eat and drink.

http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2010/01/nil_by_mouth.html
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The Consequences of No Regard for Privacy
I have Google Alerts set up for various things, including my business partners, board, etc.

Today, I got an alert telling me one of these folks is friends with various people, courtesy of Facebook.

So, what this tells me is even if I set my privacy settings to maximum, my friends end up splaying my data all over the internet.

It may be time for an FB challenger again.
One would think that the time it would take to implement that would be far more than could ever be conceivably saved by bandwidth reductions, except for perhaps the very largest sites.
New Standards in Lighting Solutions
Those who are looking for quality outdoor lighting solutions would have certainly heard about Princeton Tec .They have set new standards that are not so easy for others to reach. Their unswerving dedication to bring the best to their customers has put them on the right track and for over thirty years, they have been offering unmatched outdoor lighting solutions.
I learned on my own, but on the grass.
"Other bad things are happening" has never been a convincing argument in any arena, regardless of the statistics. The source of the terror is not that there are deaths, but that the murderous intent is emotionally directed at them.

The rally cry needs to be "We refuse to be intimidated."
Fanspeak
Better than the way I was taught, My older brother gave my bike a shove and told me to pedal. It only took one fall to figure it all out :)
"What is arguably the most important invention of the 20th century remarkably occurred twice--and independently."

This is actually quite normal, as any patent attorney will tell you. The telephone is another well known exammple of this occurring. (Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray) It seems that nothing can stop an idea whose time has come, it's just a matter of who will get the rewards.
Now all of you are liable for infringement since what you did was clearly a convoluted yet deliberate scheme to distribute the song.
Off topic, but the title derives from a favorite line by T.S. Eliot. I'd always heard it quoted as "Good poets borrow, great poets steal." After a bit of Googling, though, it turns out that the actual line is "Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal." That's less punchy; I prefer the bastardized version. It's an interesting example of how evolution can strengthen and polish an original phrase. Who knows how many versions (and minds) it passed through before ending up with that perfect rhythm.

Still, the full quote more than makes up for it with the context, which is magnificent. Check this out:

One of the surest of tests is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest. Chapman borrowed from Seneca; Shakespeare and Webster from Montaigne. The two great followers of Shakespeare, Webster and Tourneur, in their mature work do not borrow from him; he is too close to them to be of use to them in this way.
Second grade I received my first bike, a pedal bike, which puts me at 8 years old. I recall, precisely and clearly the experience of being pushed on the bike, being told to pedal, and once it got going, pedaling to the very end of the road.

http://bit.ly/gmaps-firstRide

Actually turning around was a bit of an adventure, but I managed that (and precisely recall the experience as well) - and so, 5 minutes after being introduced to my bike, I had pretty much mastered the basic skill.

I wonder if there is an age at which training wheels really don't make sense, and how many children after around five years old or so actually bypass the training wheels stage - I'm guessing it's a majority.
You'd think after the EA wives scandal, that some action more meaningful than a strongly worded letter would be taken.
Neanderthal 'make-up' discovered
For those looking for examples:

http://wiki.github.com/tinkerpop/gremlin
Google Nexus One Userguide
There's a dishwasher from Fisher/Paykel that has two dishwasher drawers in a normal-sized dishwasher container.

http://www.fisherpaykel.com/product/dishwashing/dishwashing/...

I've heard they leak a bit, though.
assuming you are in the US...

Wamu used to have free business checking(now that they are chase they probably still do, but not positive), good small amounts <$100k

citi is great for >$100k, super easy set up and have great simplified online system. Good if you have a large wad that you are going to just spend down (a vc round). citi is a real business bank, and they don't bat an eye at 6 or 7 figure wires.

bofa has a really complex online system, that is a gigantic pain in the ass, but can do full treasury, automatic check deposit, more... given this, its really odd that bofa _feels_ like a consumer bank. For example, shut down the credit cards on our business account because of unusually high spending, meaning they were just shocked by $100's k going through a cc to begin with! and when we called to reactivate them, they did that thing with consumers where they are like "did you spend $7.77 and on online retailer recently?" ha!
Apparently a much simpler way is to just take the pedals off the bike:

http://www.sandcanyoncyclery.com/index.php?option=com_conten...
You should know the score when you go into games programming. There is a lot of demand for those jobs, so the employers can push harder than they would otherwise. This is kind of like moving next to an airport then complaining about the noise.
This guy is a crackpot who doesn't have a clue what he's talking about.

Serious? I don't know the person - and the article was so and so - but the credentials of the author are stated as:

'Ray Tallis trained as a doctor, ultimately becoming professor of geriatric medicine at the University of Manchester, UK, where he oversaw a major neuroscience project. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and a writer on areas ranging from consciousness to medical ethics'

This doesn't strike me as a crackpot!
The husband of the EA wife founded http://gamewatch.org (a forum for open discussion of the gaming industry)

The 2004 EA Spouse LiveJournal:

http://ea-spouse.livejournal.com/274.html
It should be a requirement for entrepreneurs to read one story of persistence every week. It's hard to remember how ridiculously important it is...especially during the times you need it most.
They could always make only a portion of their article available - say, the first paragraph or two. Some sites do this for non-paying users. Admittedly, the content-free nature of such a choice might adversely effect their standing.

Or implement a server-side thing to check if the requester is a googlebot, and if so give them the entire page, or if not ask them to register/pay. Might raise some issues with Google's cache, but that could probably be worked around (does Google allow sites to opt-out of that? Does that influence their positioning?)

EDIT: Having noticed that Google refers to this as cloaking, and dislikes it rather extremely, I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out what would work better. So, it does seem like a bit of an issue ...
What age?
It's depressing how true and yet pointless these sorts of essays are. Very smart people have been pointing out for years that our current security apparatus makes no sense, but it's still political suicide for any politician to admit this obvious fact. Instead we get non-sensical additions to an already silly system every time someone like the underwear bomber gets through.

What's the answer? Perhaps it's just the conventional wisdom that Americans can't be treated as adults and told the truth about the true costs of absolute security (an impossibility). I would like to see a politician brave enough to say that, though I fear that the conventional wisdom is correct and such talk is impossible for a candidate wishing election.
Hamster: Immutable data structures in Ruby
Forget the Nexus One, We Want the Coke-Powered Phone
It makes my day whenever an intellectual lightweight gets together with a thesaurus.
My business has a Website, but no one can seem to find it.
There are billions of searches every day. If you own a business, and you want current and potential clients and customers to be able to find your website, it’s very important for your business to be on the first few pages of the SERP (Search Engine Results Page). Although this is very important and necessary, it’s getting harder and harder to accomplish.
Google is Going Down the Toilet :)
I wonder, is there any possibility at all that the iThing will have one of these displays? It would seem to be a perfect match.
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My algorithm:

1. 4-6 dishes are kept on the shelf (household size: 2)

2. When we eat, I pull the top 2 dishes from the shelf

3. Dishes get washed and put in drying rack

4. Next time we eat, we pull from the shelf.

5. In order to wash the dishes, we have to remove the dishes from the rack (our drying rack is pretty small). Sometimes we can fit two or three cycles on the rack, it doesn't make that much difference. When pulling the dishes off the drying rack back to the shelf, a random picking order is used.

6. Sometimes the dishes get left in the sink for a few cycles until they get washed

7. We have parties once every few months where all the plates come out, and go to the rack, then get randomly picked and split to the shelf and cabinet.

After a few cycles the wear should be evenly distributed.

---

* shelf => L1 cache

* table => cpu

* sink => L2 cache

* rack => write buffer

* cabinet => non-volatile storage

(or something like that.)
The Japanese Unit 731 "scientists" also got off lightly[1], in exchange for their data.

If you want to commit atrocities and avoid the war crimes tribunal, do them within the context of science.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731

As an aside, it's also worth observing that many people fleeing Europe before the war -- such as Enrico Fermi and Albert Einstein -- made massive contributions to American science efforts both during and after the war.
I wonder how important it is to have people who can apply a technology into something that is useful to people. Many technologies were adopted, such as fire, axe-making, house-building, pottery, perhaps because they were so obviously and immediately useful.

But more sophisticated technological development often has several intermediate steps that aren't useful; so I agree that it needs to be valued in itself for progress to occur.

The precision machinery of this ancient device was probably used in very few practical products; therefore the skillbase was very fragile and easily lost. Even this ancient device itself would probably only have been used by administrators, who needed to announce the Games.

Of course, it also would have been horrendously expensive, in terms of man-hours for creating it, and also in terms of the years of practice required to attain that level of skill. Only kings could afford it; a niche market.
That is the most hurtful, and the most truthful thing I have heard all day.
I think both the cause and solution to the problem lies in education. The general American public is alarmingly undereducated, and a well educated population is the foundation of a functioning democracy. This is btw. also why democracy in Iraq and Afghanistan is such a mirage.
Yes -- if you do that, Google will adjust your position to "out of the index". (It is classic cloaking.)
For physical items, that's true, but to receive data, you make copies of it. Does your file upload process buffer an upload in RAM before writing it to disk? Two copies. That's why EULAs can even exist, because to install your software, you have to make a copy of it from the original medium to your hard disk, and to run it, you have to make a copy of it from your hard disk to RAM. scribd is almost definitely violating copyright by holding on to documents. Especially if they have backups, caches, and multiple servers, which are even more copies.
Seems like something very self-serving for a modern to say, to claim that the ancient civilizations crumbled because they didn't follow our values.

I wonder if we have seen the last collapse of civilization? Will our descendants marvel at the wonders left in our remains and chalk our decline up to our own moral failing? Will they condemn us for not following their doctrines?

"Such wonders these people made! But they were never willing to question their gods of democracy. Even as their technology grew more awe-inspiring, their governments grew more insane and profligate, until the whole structure collapsed. What mighty and foolish people!"
Was taught at the age of 4. From my experience (younger siblings also) 4-5 yrs of age is about average right?
How did they manage to replicate the time selection dial on my half-built time machine? Speaking of which, I'm starting a fundraising campaign soon if anyone wants to contribute.
Why only wives and no husbands?

Are we still in the '50s? (I mean the 1950s)
The Coming (Cleaning) Robot War
I'm wondering whether some of the Rock Star Games management got their start at EA.
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You might be surprised by how much leverage games programmers with experience can have. Video games are like the movie industry - hard to break into, but once you're established (shipped titles) you can write your own ticket - particularly if you're willing to locate in areas with a shortage of experienced games programmers.
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This is standard fare for jobs in the video game industry. The only company that I've heard of that doesn't do this sorta of crap is valve where it is limited to about two months before release (The valve information is 2nd hand).

I know when I worked in the video game industry about 60% of the year we worked 12+ hour days. We were just testers not even the programmers who were often there longer.
So, anigbrowl, I appreciate your passion, but you made a fairly broad claim, ""When Netflix or any other rental business buys DVDs, they don't just buy the same copy you and I do, but a rental version with different licensing terms which costs considerably more""

After spending 45 minutes or so googling "Blockbuster", "Netflix" "Retail Chain" "channel" - I can't find any reference whatsoever to "costs considerably more".

Indeed, it appears that blockbuster doesn't even buy the DVDs that it rents, but instead just gives a cut of their revenue to the movie industry:

http://nwitimes.com/business/technology/article_feee2db5-425...

Which probably explains how they can guarantee availability of recent releases - they get a basically infinite supply of the DVDs and only have to pay for what they rent out.

With regards to Netflix, they too will be getting a significant discount now that they've signed their "30 day blackout" window.

Indeed, the only people I could find paying retail for DVDs were Redbox - and that's because the movie industry is forcing them too.

Retail prices appear to be a _ceiling_ - it's what you pay if you can negotiate a discount.

Any citation indicating otherwise would be appreciated. I really have enjoyed reading your review of the case law, I'm just wondering if you've got the pricing on DVD rentals correctly leveled.
This was AVG antivirus link checker
I've got another anecdote to support this: I taught my girlfriend's little brother (age 10) to ride his bike in about 30 minutes one afternoon. He'd never ridden, not even with training wheels, and is not particularly athletic.

All it took was running along beside him and letting go, then following and catching if he started to tip.
My iPhone has a PDF viewer, but not a flash player.
The "Friendster Effect", perhaps?
The advantage to this is that it works as an ad-hoc query language for existing graph databases. I could use Gremlin to generate views of the data, and have other programs operating on database independently.

Prolog doesn't really play well with others -- it's effectively its own operating system like Smalltalk or Pick.
The guy who wrote this must have forgotten what it's like to be single...

As a "convicted bachelor," I can tell you that I don't just use one dish at the top of the stack. I go through the stack over the course of a week, and put a week's worth (or more) of dishes in the wash bin or dishwasher (depending on current apartment amenities) all at once. In other words, I treat the existence of a stack of dishes in the cupboard as an excuse to put off doing dishes in the first place...

Or to put it back on HN terms, I don't perform garbage collection until memory's full...
"Other bad things are happening" has never been a convincing argument in any arena, regardless of the statistics.

I agree with you that there is a very serious qualitative difference between traffic accidents, spousal murders of passion, and gang-related murders on the one hand, and acts of terror based on ideals and intended to intimidate us on the other. However, any time you have a limited set of resources and a practically infinite number of possibilities on how to allocate them (which is pretty much always the case), rigorous statistical risk/reward analysis is the only sensible way we know of to make good decisions. I agree that qualitative differences must be taken into account, but I think current policy is far too reactionary and sensationalist (furthermore, it doesn't fill me with too much confidence). 9/11 was not what some blogger referred to as a "sucker punch" - it was a big deal worthy of reorienting the foreign policy precisely because of the qualitative difference you mentioned. Some incompetent schmuck with some flammable (not even explosive) material in his underwear - I really don't need to hear about that on TV.
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Ah, that it was, that's what I was thinking of. Thanks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVG_(software)#Concerns
A queue is more expensive because you either need more shelf resources or you need to do more work.