skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually there are two categories of debt you can still be imprisoned for: child support and taxes.
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Title's a lot misleading. It doesn't answer 'why' in the slightest, it just mentions that earworms exist, and that's about it.

Note that the article itself does not have a misleading title. To the submitter: please don't editorialize titles.
The bare truth is that productivity isn't defined, so it's not measured, so it's not rewarded algorithmically.
You may wish to move that comment to another article, such as http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1012381
The part that I didn't understand why why the Na'vi would always be the "masters" in the link with the other animals (it seemed more peer-to-peer in the link with the trees).

Perhaps because they're best able to hypothesize, in the same way that we train our animals rather than the other way around...although I'm less sure of that when it comes to cats.
Face detection algorithms are no longer just for digital cameras. Bones points for shooting someone in the face?
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We should change tack on climate after Copenhagen
Yes, Apple really are good at selling things. I don't know if anyone else gets this, but I'm sure there is an Unwrapping Apple Product smell.
I started responding to disagree with you, but now I'm not sure what you're saying so I'll just chime in with my views. :)

I actually think production based pay is refreshing. I've personally worked under this system (OK, so technically my wife did). It is really egalitarian. Unfortunately it is also very uneven, as production capabilities vary considerably and at times disappear complete (i.e, you're sick). Also, as you pointed out for software development it's pretty hard to find decent metrics that don't deteriorate when you optimize solely for them. In her field (medical transcription), it was more clear-cut with a payment per line and penalties for mistakes.

From the lazy, employee-based-safe perspective I can certainly agree that time-based compensation is attractive, but my sense of self worth would prefer being paid on performance. I'd certainly prefer to hire based on it.

Really the current system is probably roughly as good as you're going to get right now. There are all manner of intangible pluses and minuses to a particular person and a lot of places take this into account for compensation. It makes the process less transparent but it at least allows flexibility.

Just one example--I like to think that I'm helping out less experienced developers when I'm explaining some concept of business process or something. But I'm certainly not adding code then. And what of managers? Good managers are certainly valuable but their personal contribution is even less measurable than that of a developer.
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In a sense, but "earworm" is a literal translation of the German "Ohrwurm", which predates it.
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Having done work with a similar sort of recording (fMRI, which is actually quite a bit more spatially sensitive to brain activity) I, like the op, don't have a lot of faith in "training" unless someone has developed a fantastic model of the brain's functioning and never talked about it.

That being said, brain-computer interfaces are probably decently possible if they abuse brain plasticity to overload our already highly developed IO systems: our senses and physical actions.
In general, I agree. But "Only throw exceptions for the exceptional"?

The rationale for this guideline sounds like a performance-driven one ("since throwing exceptions will add unnecessary overhead"). This isn't always true, and contradicts a well-known Pythonic idiom (return victorious or not at all), which is a good idiom because it makes the client code easier to write and maintain (no testing return values; problems are handled out-of-band).
* The Economist - Editorialized news for adults

* The New Yorker - Amusing and often interesting

* Make - Fantastic projects; worth every penny

* History of Invention and Technology - Really entertaining maker stories, from the recent and distant past
Music Browser, Not "Music Service Client"
Thanks for posting the detailed write-up, but I don't believe that the facts warrant this conclusion.

The fact remains that PastryKit is open source, but close-licensed - by which I mean the frontend source code is transmitted when you access the website by necessity, but owned entirely by Apple.

Honestly, Apple is behaving much like Plurk just a few days ago. Their frontend source code was lifted, unpacked, analyzed, and repackaged for another product. Frustrated by having their intellectual property repurposed without permission or license, a takedown order was appropriate.

While I'm all for analyzing techniques like those found in PastryKit and am sort of a "rah! rah! open source!" guy in general, Apple was well within their rights to request a takedown. It sucks that they did, because I'd love to read up on this sometime and learn from it, but that's how these things tend to go.

That said, whether you agree with me or not, I don't think that this takedown notice is any reason to suggest that "Apple is terrified of iPhone web apps being as good as native apps."
I'm starting to become suspect as well. My own m1.large EC2 apachebench (-n 100000 -c 128) yields:

Requests per second: 5162.92 [#/sec] (mean)

Time per request: 24.792 [ms] (mean)

Time per request: 0.194 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)

100% 60 (longest request)
> They're living that now and can deal with it a lot easier than they could deal with the hundreds of millions who'd die if they did what the goo-goos in the West asked them to do.

I'm curious. How are hundreds of millions going to die if the Chinese agreed to the treaty?
My friends probably aren't very good shots and easy to hit.

Can they augment Godzilla in there with some kind of killbot AI?

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Why WordPress Should Not Have Won the Open Source CMS Award
YC was nominated for a Crunchie, but please vote for Ron Conway instead.
Saying "I didn't want to customize the environment" is disingenuous -- it means you're just benchmarking the default configurations, not the performance of the host itself. Any benchmark with that many "test failed" results isn't very valid, or helpful.
None. I get all I need from blogs.

At times, just read them while travelling - but after having the iPhone - that also has stopped.
Harvard Business Review - Worth every penny; Great articles and case studies from a large variety of business types. There are always a few take away nuggets from each issue.

Scientific American - Been subscribing for years; Although the content seems to have diluted a bit over time, I still enjoy it, especially the armchair astrophysicist in me ;-)

Game Developer Magazine - No longer in the field but its one of my favorite magazines ever - the project postmortems and technical articles are wonderful.

My subscription to the Economist recently expired - did not renew since I had a lot of back issues piling up.
> The steep decline in home prices suddenly makes California, with its many natural amenities, an attractive bargain.

I've been waiting for months for someone to say this. A big drop in housing prices is certainly bad for you if you want to sell, but it's very good for you if you want to buy. Put that together with the fact that housing prices have been ridiculously high in some areas of CA, and we see that now a lot of people might have the opportunity to live "the American Dream" again.

Why all this has been consistently presented as terrible news is something I've never understood.
Currently, I have been driving Selenium through Pyccuracy (pyccuracy.org). We have been conducting a couple of proof-of-concept projects and we are very happy with it, specially when non-experts can write the tests.

Writing the tests in English is great.
I always upvote people who say "go read Peopleware". See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=986024 for more discussion about the book.
Hmm. What evil could you wreak with a service for making the HN server connect to whatever website you want?
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The human mind is not capable of "absolute" knowledge. The human mind is not omniscient. But it doesn't have to be omniscient. We can still know many things, and we can have certainty that we're right about those things.

To do so, we need a philosophical foundation for knowledge. See "Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand", by Leonard Peikoff, chapters 1-5. You can get it in most bookstores and libraries.

P.S. Decartes was wrong. This book explains why in a straightforward and undeniable manner.
I've never really heard anyone define OOP past "I'd know it when I see it". At least this article explicitly picks polymorphism as a language feature that defines whether it is OO or not. But basically every modern language has polymorphism in some form - even C has function pointers.

OOP is just another in a long line of broad categories that doesn't really mean much. Pretty much all languages are procedural, functional, object-oriented, declarative languages.
Or perhaps they have already been where we are and have moved past it realizing there's a better way to live.

My trek knowlege is pretty poor, but I want to say this is the history of the Vulcan. They're extremely advanced technologically, but choose to live a simple life. Unlike the Na'vi, however, they don't shoot animals with neurotoxin-covered spears, growl at things that make them angry, or try to fight a war against people with guns using the aforementioned spears.

The Vulcan are one of the most technologically advanced civilizations in The Federation. If the Na'vi were an advanced race that chose to live simply, dealing with the Humans wouldn't have been a problem for them.
This probably does more harm than good. I just can't believe that the guy who actually replied with his real name and bank details is the "face" of people who actually do this?
OS X has a port of DTrace, so I doubt licensing is a big issue.
All other things being equal (natural resources and energy), technological progress is directly proportional to a population's size and density (for degree of progress) and its growth delta (for the rate of progress).

More specifically, it is the population's ability to transfer existing information and synthesize new information which lends itself to what we recognize technological progress (you have to have the desire to apply such knowledge too, of course).

I haven't seen the movie yet, but I'm guessing the Na'vi did not have very large or dense populations. As for their global Gaia network, does the movie explain if it actually transfer chunks of knowledge (memes) or experiential patterns, or is it 'lower level' and works more like sharing emotions?
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I read it as a different kind of technology; for example, with such abundant biomass, it would be more practical for Na'vi communities to grow the 'home trees' and build space for themselves by moving upward rather than outward, as we do with cities.

On a more metaphorical level, the film seems to explore the contrasts of networked vs hierarchical approaches to social organization mumbles about information ecologies and development strategies
In fact, the particularly horrible code might not be replaced for a long time precisely because it is hard to understand but it works and changing it could cause problems elsewhere.

There are plenty of enterprise systems like this.
HN wraps blocks that are prefixed with 2+ spaces in <pre><code> tags so, you'll probably want to word-wrap things yourself.
I found an earworm-killer. It's a more 'powerful' piece of music you really like that isn't an earworm. Just play it, it 'reverberates' for a minute or two, and voila.
> It doesn't matter if you have some cool new technology, users don't care about that.

That's precisely what they care about :)

BTW those examples you give built up content and traffic over a long period of time. They were innovative in their areas - but not with their technology, with their content and their focus.

(Im not commenting on you being a startup or not btw)
A chessboard in MySQL
Tackling the CO2 measurement challenge
The New Yorker
* Harpers and The Atlantic - great plane reading

* Defence Technology International - interesting to see what is new in defence technology, subscription is free

* Bloomberg Markets - semi-technical stuff on finance, as well as solid general-interest news (I pick it up for free now and then from the local Bloomberg office)
That's completely true.

Unfortunately, in the world of programming, most people get rewarded for putting in extra hours rather than for being good at their jobs.

My pointy-haired manager rejected a design that I developed for our current project because I think he didn't understand it... instead we went and cloned the existing bug-ridden, convoluted, user-hostile app, following its example at every opportunity, and leading to a HUGE increase in project scope... exactly what I had predicted and attempted to avoid.

In the end what should have been a six-week project for a good 4-person team turned into a 4-month crunch for a 10-person team saddled with several run-of-the-mill and a few genuinely incompetent members... and the worst of the incompetent ended up being the primary architect based on his ego and politics.
I don't realize his "fact" for the simple reason that he is wrong.

For example I often quote a 10x figure and cite Peopleware as a source. They draw their data from measurements taken of hundreds of different programmers working at different companies in different languages in the mid 1980s. Which is a lot more solid than the punchcard study he cites which I have honestly never heard of.
I don't a problem with Software Patents per se, but I definitely have a problem with what the USPTO considers to be novel/original/non-obvious
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I'm a gigantic fan of Forbes
I used an external hard disk drive caddy to mount the infected HDD on another machine. I then used Malware bytes to scan the HDD. It found Trojan.Agent on the hdd (in a dll inside windows/system), which it hadn't found when malwarebytes was run directly on the infected system.

The infected computer has ceased sending suspicious packets. I don't know how I am going to trust this machine again.
Wow, that's an incredibly classy gesture. Thanks to everyone on the YC team and in the YC family - it's a great culture you've built. Lots of great discussion on HN, communication, writing, and great companies. Cheers and happy holidays.
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Right. Which means that if you are a lower-income student with the academic chops to make it into Harvard or Stanford, it very much behooves you to go. You get a fully subsidized education, and it probably makes much more of a difference to your bottom-line earnings than if you were a child of upper-income parents that's always figured you were going to Harvard.
>I'm sure apple wouldn't like that.
What I don't understand is WHY we can't use it since they have this statement.
"Copyright (C) 2006, 2007, 2008 Apple Inc. All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: etc. etc.
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Good point, but crappy title. "Real" CMS packages could learn a thing or two from WordPress.
Didn't you mention being a physicist? I'm surprised you would assume that increasing the energy in a largely-closed complex system would tend towards greater equilibrium rather than exacerbating nonlinearities.
Cap and trade is "is an atrocious gift to investment bankers that will make billions in this new market." Indeed, and who will then share the wealth with those in the government who will continue to allow that. Much better than a carbon tax, the possibilities for graft are endless.

The biggest danger by far in "environmentalism" is when big business combines with the Greens, e.g. it's no accident that the CFC ban resulted in a change from long out of patent refrigerants to new proprietary ones (or so I've read).

BTW, are you sure the country has gone left? A bit over 30% self-identify as conservative, a bit over 20% as liberal, the last time I checked. Yeah, there was a general revulsion over 21st century Republican excesses and failures, but that's not the same time. Firing a Republican Congress is not necessarily the same thing as electing a Democratic one.

As for your program ... I can't honestly say I wish you luck, but you do have your work cut out for you. Clinton convinced the nation that trusting Democrats was not insane (we could take a vacation from history (foreign policy) and he did alright with economic policy, especially after 1994, and then there's "ending welfare as we know it", which has already been mostly reversed). Team Obama and the Congressional leadership are ruining that, and under an at least partly false Progressive banner.
I just sent him 'The Seasoned Schemer'. If anyone wants to send him 'The Reasoned Schemer', I'm sure he'd appreciate it, will be about $30 incl. int'l shipping. I know I really appreciate his posts. http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/QDKYO6OQUU4O?reve...
Looks like you can achieve near 100% accuracy with one caveat - the electrodes have to be inside your skull, not on top of it: http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/12/23/1511251/Typing-W...

>>...an experiment involving two patients with epilepsy. Both patients were already being monitored for seizure activity using electrocorticography (ECoG), in which a sheet of electrodes is laid directly on the surface of the brain. This procedure requires a craniotomy, a surgical incision into the skull. Dr. Shih and colleagues hypothesized that feedback from electrodes placed directly on the brain would be much more specific than data collected with EEG (electroencephalography) alone, in which electrodes are placed on the scalp. Most studies of mind-machine interaction have occurred with EEG. "There is a big difference in the quality of information you get from ECoG compared to EEG. The scalp and bony skull diffuses and distorts the signal, rather like how the Earth's atmosphere blurs the light from stars," says Dr. Shih. "That's why progress to date on developing these kinds of mind interfaces has been slow."<<
This is why it doesn't pay to be antisocial. Spend your school years making friends and filtering out a potential list of cofounders.
Yea, you're totally right, apple was well within their rights to tell me to take the code down, I know that.
But I would definitely say that the comparison with plurk is inaccurate because in their case Microsoft grabbed their code and re-used it in their own website not only for their own gain, but even to compete against plurk.

I would say that what I, and others, did was more like someone going to a website, hitting view-source, and saying "hmm this is interesting, there is something to be learned here" and then putting the interesting code snippets up on their blog. especially when the first line of my readme said "this is just for learning's sake, dont use this on your real website."

At any rate, I for sure agree that apple is not being a bully, unjust, or outside of their rights to tell me to take it down. But it does kind of suggest that apple is going out of their way to impede the quality of web-apps on the iphone rather than try to help it along.

Apple if your listening, why not just open source PastryKit?
However, Firefox 3.5 < (IE 7 || IE 8).
only one - csie (computing in science + engineering). it's a great, if obscure, little magazine that focuses exactly on the kind of work i do (random scientific consulting).

http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cise
- Technology Review for its coverage of the cutting edge in scientific and technological advancements.
- WIRED for the gadget lover in me, and they have really interesting articles about anything from vaccines to psychology.
- Mac|life for the Apple fanboy in me ;-)
Are these pages being served up as 404s ? If not, that sucks. If yes, why would Google diligently index a 404 and strongly rank it?
I was really impressed with the overall usability of the RadiantCMS software, but most of the features beyond having simple static pages were provided by 3rd-party plugins... many of which were out of date with the core software by the time I tried them, and failed to work in mysterious-to-newcomer ways.
I wrecked my car several years ago on CA Hwy 17 due to a blocked road. Although I wasn't speeding, when I came around a blind curve there was another car that had spun out and stopped completely blocking my lane. It was impossible to completely avoid.

When the Highway Patrol officer arrived I asked him if he was going to write a report. He told me that he would if I wanted him to, but if he did then he'd have to cite me for colliding with a stopped vehicle. Even though it wasn't really my fault, that's how the law is written. Fortunately the insurance investigation determined that I wasn't at fault.
It seems to use shirt color to identify a kill. That seems trivial to hack (both ways).
I think 10x is really not the right number.

First off there are the net negative producing programmers, you can't say the good programmers are 10x the productivity of those guys, because that would make them 10x worse, which is incorrect.

Second off, I think the variation between programmers can be much bigger than 10x, easily 50x or more. Of course the 1x programmers really don't like this idea, because their egos cannot handle the concept of someone else being that much better than they are.
The Economist - required reading for global economic news and opinion.

Prospect - Excellent array of current affairs articles, all of which are thought-provoking.

Private Eye - Long-standing satirical magazine aimed squarely at the UK establishment.

Wired - Seemed a good idea at the time, not sure how much value I get from it. Probably won't renew next year.

New Scientist - interesting read for an armchair science geek, but even I'm wondering if it is dumbing-down ever so slightly these days. 50/50 chance of renewing next year.

I also get regular access to Harvard Business Review as a business school alumnus, which is always worth a read, even if it is just a reminder as to why I took my MBA and said goodbye to corporate life :)
The NYTimes did something similar with EC2 and Hadoop to generate a PDF for each article from published between 1851 and 1980 from 4TB of TIFF files: http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/01/self-service-prorat...
What he meant to say is that it's not legal because of Linux's license.
The people at the margin, the ones who are barely making do, will be pushed over the edge by the total program of the goo-goos (I'm not talking about just this treaty, which was only going to be a good second step at best).

Look, there's no way to implement the "decarbonization" of industrial society without killing off billions of poor people. It's one thing for the wealthy nations to impoverish themselves, we've got reserves we can draw on. Those living on a dollar or two a day ... not so much.
Big brands have more links and more trustworthy websites referring to them

Here's something I don't get: where the hell are there links to target.com? I sure have never seen one...
Why vanity metrics are dangerous
Value Villages are predominately Canadian. It's possible that the records weren't the problem, but that the girl wasn't used to inches.