skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always been able to smell this before a storm as well. I remember when I was a kid and I would tell my parents, friends, whoever, this fact and they would just think I was crazy because no one else could smell it.

I have very poor eyesight, so my hearing and sense of smell are extremely acute.
Very cool, this reminds me of the TED talk by ZipCar founder who wants cars to become wi-fi spots, creating an ad-hoc national network.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/robin_chase_on_zipcar_and...
Yeah, this is just part of the long trend of IE7 users upgrading to IE8. The real test will be how much market share Chrome will gain, and how it will impact Firefox vs. IE.
Same deal at my university, only it's been like this for the last few years.
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I don't think it's a straw man. Just maybe the closest to what you're thinking is a slippery slope, but it didn't seem like the parent was trying to refute the author's argument.

The author does deal with the concern:

"I recognize that NASA cannot push a system to launch more frequently than it is capable of, because this could mean overrunning the budget or, worse, cutting corners on safety. Instead, future systems should be designed so that they can be rapidly prepared for launching by small teams.

This would not only increase NASA’s ability to send up innovative payloads but also make launching systems more reliable. After all, the more a rocket is flown, the better it can be understood and the safer it becomes. Frequent launchings would also reduce costs per flight in the long run."
On the one hand, the linked essay is addressing a restrictive situation: sometimes you are asked to write on a particular subject for a particular audience, and you don't have a choice. This can happen in the classroom, on the job, or at a family reunion. It's a useful skill to be able to write well in that situation.

On the other hand, the linked essay gives the same advice you do. If you're given a topic you find boring, find something about it that's interesting. If you're writing for an informed reader, write something even the informed reader hasn't seen before.
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Yeah I think the taking away is worse than not providing them in the first place. Humans tend to weigh loss more any other emotion.
Glad you liked it! :-)

The idea isn't to tell you what to do, but rather to make sure you're doing things on purpose rather than by accident. And sometimes we're so close to daily activities that we don't stop to ask the bigger, important questions.
You can actually control the buffering/playback with JavaScript. There are various ways to do this; one is with the TimeRanges object http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#normalize... which will give you a representation of available time regions in the video resource. You can use this to determine when you want the client to begin playback. Your code can receive this after registering for an event and seeking the video.

Another way is with the readyState of the media element. In particular you want to look for numeric value 4, HAVE_ENOUGH_DATA. From the WHATWG:

All the conditions described for the HAVE_FUTURE_DATA state are met, and, in addition, the user agent estimates that data is being fetched at a rate where the current playback position, if it were to advance at the rate given by the defaultPlaybackRate attribute, would not overtake the available data before playback reaches the end of the media resource.
No Bluff? MIT license, and the only dependencies are JS.Class and ExCanvas (both are bundled with it).

http://bluff.jcoglan.com/
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Did Tolkein ever write any stories about what happened after the Elves left Middle Earth? They didn't seem to be doing a helluva lot of good.
"when the top 20% are taking over 80% of the money" Who exactly are the rich "taking" money from in general? Creating wealth is not a zero-sum game. If you insert the word "earning" in the above phrase, the argument you present loses some luster.
Make all the top level execs liable. That way, one will watch the other and the odds of all of them entering deliberate fraud (or tricking themselves into it) is reduced.

It was also suggested on this thread that a carrot-and-stick (fines for the less compliant, tax reduction for the more compliant) would be pretty clever.
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Those sound like great reasons to me, as long as you have another job waiting. What was the rest of the story?
In the presentation (45:00) he walks through the metabolism of 120 calories of glucose (from white bread), alcohol (a shot), and fructose (orange juice). Not pretty.

Doing a quick lookup in the dietary app on my phone says that 8oz of orange juice (from concentrate, with pulp) has 28g of sugar and 0g of fiber. Meanwhile a cup of raw orange (peeled) has 17g of sugar and 4g of fiber.

Based on the presenter's description of the ratio of fiber to fructose in raw fruit, I'm starting to wonder if ANY commercial juice could provide enough fiber to counter-act the fructose. I guess you could add a fiber mix or something to the juice to match the fiber/sugar ratio of the raw fruit. I personally hate the taste/flavor/texture of mixin fiber and would rather just eat the fruit.

PS. Just saw kingkongreveng_'s comment about modern fruit being bred to contain more fructose than in the past (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1008261). In that case the juice is even worse than my comparison makes it look because the sugar content of modern fruit would skew the baseline upwards.
That is awesome! I had never heard of it before either, which is an incredible shame. I personally think that spaceplanes like this are a great idea and are likely to be the way we finally get into space for real...
Most exchanges have their own API for direct access. Although there is some standardization around the FIX protocol, the fastest access is still usually through the direct API, so while you may have a single backend system that processes incoming data and generates orders, you still usually need to code a separate interface for each exchange that you connect to, and the systems provided by the exchanges to help you test your interface tend to be less than robust.
This is why, when any new idea is proposed, it is important to look into the downsides. Every idea, no matter how great you think it is, has a negative side. People making important decisions at companies should always try to come up with the unforeseen consequences and compare it to the benefits.
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I listened to that song countless times when I first heard that line. Absolutely wonderful.
I think what's worse than expressing grief over a celebrity's death via social networking is damning it from your blog and in so many more words.
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You can actually control the buffering/playback with JavaScript. There are various ways to do this; one is with the TimeRanges object http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#normalize.... which will give you a representation of available time regions in the video resource.

I could understand this in mp4, which has a global index giving locations of all frames in the file, but how would this be possible in ogg, which has no global index? Without a global index, you can't know anything about time regions that you haven't yet downloaded.
I have not seen that TED talk, though I plan to. LL Cool J, Missy Elliot, and Kanye never rap about selling drugs either. In fact, the latter two were producers first.

I should edit my OP because the truth is that there are many sub-genres of hip hop, some of which are prevelant with the drug-dealing folklore and others which are not. It was wrong of me to make a blanket statement.
There's always been an opportunity for the stay-at-home worker in the writing market, however it's typically been a lot harder to access than simply logging-on.

However on-demand online work has the pay advantages not only to stay-at-home mothers, but anyone looking for extra money who has the ability to write well. IMO earning $8 an hour is certainly a better choice than taking a second job at a convenience store or somewhere when you're strapped for cash, especially if you have young children as day care and professional baby sitters can easily take $10 an hour, which sucks-out-loud when you're making that or less.
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Couldn't agree more. Everyone see's the risk of advancement, but no one considers the risk of doing nothing. The medical advance that kills the first 10 patients could save the next million. Organ transplants anyone?

SOX could have been penalty free and still effective at it's intended purpose. Just have a new classification of public companies. Either you are SOX compliant or you're not, and let the investors decide the risk based on that knowledge.
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Thoroughly mesmerizing.

If you do a bunch of short clicks in one place to gather all the particles, then hold down the mouse button you can get some amazing pulsating effects.

Additionally if you hold down the left button while slowly moving the cursor around the screen all of the particles will 'slingshot' around the well and quickly gather speed. It reminds me of a psychedelic version of the Star Wars warp/starfield effect.
Then it probably doesn't work with ogg :)

I personally think it's a huge mistake for Firefox to support only ogg. It's a bad time for fragmentation in the push for open video on the web.

It should still be possible to get a rough estimate for when to start playback. Good enough for buffered autoplay.
If I knew my chief competitor just made a bunch of major bungles, and that their morale is at an all-time low... I'd get my recruiters in there fast.
You make it sound as though google bought stackoverflow, that is not the case, they are merely buying branding for a set of tags on stackoverflow (something that adobe and red-gate have already done).
Love a quote from this 'study': "While the results have not been quantified with a statistical test, it is CLEAR ON OBSERVATION that there is a significant performance difference between the human and non human agents."

Human-level AI is an extremely complex problem and I wouldn't claim know everything that might be involved in creating it. But by token, refuting any possibility of AI is an equally complex problem. Neither "Clear on observation" conclusions nor the other haphazard observations of this paper cut it for such an analysis.
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There is a graphing library for Raphael. Last I checked it didn't seem very mature, but it might make a good starting point:

http://g.raphaeljs.com/
So would the occasional glass of orange juice actually be worse than the occasional can of soda? If the orange juice is mostly fructose, wouldn't the soda with 50/50 glucose-fructose be better (seeing as it at least has glucose in it)?

Also, I would think that the pulp contributes fiber, no? That's why I added 'with pulp' (in addition to the fact that I like my orange juice heavy on the pulp).
If I "earn" a dollar, where did that dollar come from?

If my company paid me, they are poorer by $1.

If the government paid me, the aggregate citizenry is poorer by $1.

If the government printed it, the total value of US dollars in circulation has decreased by $1.

Technically, activities like mining precious metals or gems could count as creating wealth, but obviously basing an economy on an arbitrarily-priced material as silver or gold is a bad idea. Anybody who believes gold isn't a fiat currency is mad.

The most successful way that governments seem to have found to tax the wealthy is inflation, which is a "tax" on liquid currency. But there's ways for the wealthy to avoid inflation which aren't available to the working class, such as buying various foreign currencies. A direct tax, rather than "stealth" taxes, is a healthier and more sustainable choice.
How would you know about the morale within the company? HR dept. spies?
Twitter's investors may need them to be wildly profitable. Twitter itself probably doesn't vanish if they aren't. And in the current VC climate, Twitter probably had a lot of leverage negotiating terms.
The author demonstrated why Firefox, et al, made the correct choice on his example page. I visited his page using Firefox and the video would not play. My guess is that you need javascript turned on to play the videos on his site. I almost never enable javascript, and certainly would not do so just to watch a little video. It sounds like Firefox and others are trying to make the web pages more universally work.
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I am sorry but that is insane. Today's web relies heavily on JavaScript. I recommend you get yourself a clean browser (maybe on a virtual machine), if you are paranoid about security (SecurityMatters huh?), and try using Google Maps, Google Calendar, et al.
You wouldn’t post an R.I.P. status update if someone you knew personally passed away, would you?

And exactly how are people supposed to express their sorrow at the death of someone they know or respect? Telepathy?

Obituaries are a very old art form. If you're uncomfortable with the fact that they have switched media, that's your problem.

And I just love the class of person who goes out into the world, hunting high and low for something to be offended by. Nobody spammed this guy: He followed people on social networks and Google, and then got pissed off at what they said. If you don't like what your friends send to you, perhaps you need different friends.
> If you think that people that have Socialist/Communist political leanings are in favor mass murder

They may not say that they favor mass murder, but they do it whenever they get the chance.

> Whether or not their beliefs are reasonable or even possible is irrelevant. You don't throw someone in prison or ruin their life just because they have impossible dreams.

Nice sentiment, but you're defending folks who kill political opponents and attacking someone who didn't even jail folks.

And, you still haven't addressed the "conservative blacklist" that Hollywood has today. You're rather selective in your outrage over "ruined lives".

> [McCartyism] was a modern-day witch-hunt that

No it wasn't. There aren't witches, but there were communists and, according to the USSR's records from the time, McCarthy was basically correct.

> Let's not also forget that Communism in the forms that we have seen in implemented in real life is far from "Marxist ideology."

That simply doesn't matter at this point. Millions of dead folks is too much risk to take, again.

Of course, if you actually pay attention to communists and Marxists, they always let "break a few eggs" slip. They try to hide it, but they're fundamentally authoritarians with a nasty thought-control streak.

Animal Farm was the nice face.
Well there's two potentials I see, one is that they actually give writer credit and the other is that they do revenue-share. These are two things other companies like this don't do.

If you're a good self-promoter you might be able to bump your revenue share considerably. However, if you're that good at self-promotion, you're better off putting what you're writing into your own blog and self-promote the hell out of that.

Again, if you want writer credit and aren't interested in non-fiction as a career then you're better off submitting short stories and hoping for a bite. There's plenty of markets out there and anyone with time to write endless articles are better off targeting these, as it will at least get your foot in the door (I know 3 short story sales to a SFWA approved market can get you into the guild, which then gives you more direct access to publishers and agents, allowing you to side-step the slush-pile).

Personally I don't hold much weight in these companies. If you want to make money from your living room, then good for you, however this isn't likely to move you or progress you. It's just a lot more honest than the other companies out there that don't revenue share and don't share credit. The whole idea is that ghost writers get paid more for being known less, but in these kinds of markets the opposite holds true.
Yeah, she clearly has such a shallow understanding of mathematics that there is no way she can begin to appreciate what Perelman achieved or write anything intelligible about his process.

"Perelman has a mind that is capable of taking in more information than any mathematical mind that has come before" is the type of nonsense that will drive away many of the people interested in this topic.
I'm sorry but this is terribly thoughtless. When you are given something the giver may be impoverished (ignoring any pleasure they get from giving) but when you provide a service or sell something both sides are happy. One receives the money they want more than the good/service and the other receives the good/service they want more than the money. Both are enriched. Without understanding this miracle you cannot understand many things about the world. This is why we don't still live in caves and spend all our time gathering food.

Gold is not wealth. It is only because it can be exchanged for a good or service that can be consumed that it has any value.
I'm sure no one thinks that Google bought the company.

Google had a choice of multiple solutions. They chose the one that was built on .NET.
Clearly, the primary reason they picked StackOverflow is because they like the solution provided by StackOverflow (and this doesn't say that Google would prefer .NET themselves, in fact, it is safe to assume that they wouldn't)

My point is that this decision is just another example of how anti-msft people are wrong when they say that .NET/Windows is not a good or viable platform
I found it odd that there was no conclusion or summary- it just ended. It was a great read with a lot of great advice, however I felt it ended in an anticlimactic way.
I understand you completely, but you're trying to abuse game theory combined with a bunch of conjecture of what would happen to justify your pre-existing opinion where it's simply not applicable. This has nothing to do with Nash's Equilibrium at all.

Let's say a legislator writes a tax law, Google use a loophole to pay very little tax and enter the market, so the legislators amend the law to close the loophole, and Google leave the market.

Now, the way you tell the story, it's the legislators' fault for the secondary effect of amending the law causing Google to leave.

But equally, you could take the view that Google should have never entered the market relying on a tax loophole which was never supposed to be there in the first place that lawmakers were unaware of. This is especially so if legislators have external pressures since they are losing tax income from other businesses through this loophole, and that it's unfair on those businesses who aren't using it. It was Google who changed any equilibrium by using the loophole.

You can espouse the benefits of low taxation and the evils of legislators and bureaucracies and the laws of unintended consequences therein, but I don't see how game theory works in your favour in that argument.

For what it's worth, personally. I think taxation is a careful balance between maximising revenue and encouraging business and work, but this is increasingly difficult to balance with the existence of free trade agreements and the existence a global market. But whatever you think about tax policy, we should be able to agree that tax loopholes have no place in that equation, and that tax policy shouldn't be implemented via the backdoor with the benefits only available to large corporations with sufficiently clever accountants.

N.B. England doesn't have a government - it's the UK Government.
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After all, when the top 20% are taking over 80% of the money

The current numbers for the US are actually something like:

10% of the population controls 85% of the wealth.
1% of the population controls 40% of the wealth.

Which, if anything, strengthens your point.
> Dealing with systematic risk is precisely where the regulators should be coming in because it's outside the capability of any individual institution to deal with it.

Actually, regulators are quite good at creating systemic risk.

The widespread ownership of Fannie and Freddie stock by banks, which killed their balance sheets when Fannie and Freddie went down, came from regulation. So did the popularity of securitized mortgages and "insurance". (Regulators required insurance, AIG's fit the bill, and everything was great, until it wasn.t)

And, let's not forget that Wells Fargo got hammered because it didn't go along with the regulators' "requests" to do dumb home loans.
Why a court? It won't get that far.

People sometimes look for ways out of their contract, and this provides one.

"I bought the phone, and it could do this, but now it can't."
It's all relative. If MegaCorp is making $1 billion revenue and spending $3.5 mil on sodas, that is just 0.35%. To break it down, if you are making $100k a year, then that would be equivalent to you spending $350 on soda...or about 1 per day.

It's almost nothing and it's definitely not something to try to spend time cutting.
Just post a normal ass link to a regular video file. Let the user's file type preferences and video player take over. Do the same for PDFs and audio.

Why are people going through conniptions trying to get a markup reader to be a video player?
Well, (off the top of my head) guarana berries are caffeinated. There may be more. Plants have caffeine because it helps defend them from insects.
A browser for music, isn't that what Songbird was supposed to do? The idea was that it was a web browser / RSS reader optimized for acquiring linked media files. A similar attempt to break out of the iTunes walled garden.

Although Zed seems to be talking about making some internet-friendly format for describing the band and their albums and other works. That's an interesting idea, although such formats don't seem to take off in practice.
Plus, many of the new rules were targeted at kinds of fraud that have actually been perpetrated. If you don't patch a security hole, people won't get tired of exploiting it. They'll just keep on exploiting it until you do something to make it harder or more dangerous.
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Given your extreme naivety about the nature of the money supply, I highly recommend that you take an introductory course on macro-economics.

And where is it written that the "working class" aren't allowed to buy foreign currencies? Given that I'll be flying out of the US tomorrow on holiday I was hoping I'd be able to buy some foreign currencies at the airport...
"If they're not, the system is unfairly biased to keeping the rich rich."

Is your solution to move the rich from being rich to being poor? The rich should stay rich. You don't punish the rich to bring the rest of society up.