skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eternal battle between pirates and ninjas... It will be interesting :)
I don't think Reason is saying that this example proves that gov't intervention is flawed. I think they take it as a premise that gov't intervention is generally flawed, and the conclusion here is that we have an example of champions of gov't intervention disingenuously promoting this phenomenon as an example of why gov't intervention is needed.
If I'd want to edit in place I use ed

If I want to edit a stream I use sed
"The acquiring company is backed by Jimi Heselden, a prominent U.K. businessman and the Chairman of Hesco Bastion."

I think the phrase is "A fool and his money are soon parted"...

Although that also seems to have been the concept Segway was banking on re: customers and it didn't pan out that way...
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Nice data collection. Conclusions make sense.
"Since an interventionist technology policy is no more likely to benefit consumers than are the myriad other government interventions in the market[...]"

This seems to imply that they're taking "government intervention is flawed" as a given for the argument, rather than a conclusion. This isn't surprising, since _Reason_ is pretty libertarian.
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CrunchBase has (what seems to be) a pretty complete list: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/aol
A game-theoretic analysis of the scenario you have described would be quite interesting. Do you have any links on that?
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The App Store has actually improved markedly in the past six months, in terms of approval time and communication from Apple. This from someone who had an app in review for 8 months. When we emailed them to get a critical patch pushed live, they expedited and put it out within a day. That's damned solid. Their Finance team also responds within a couple of hours on weekdays whenever you have a question with payments or bank account info. On the whole, I think things are going great with the App Store and getting better with astonishing regularity.

The install base has also gone up significantly, so revenue for everything in visible categories has gone up due to a larger userbase alone.

Apple is quickly running away with the whole ballgame.
> International isolation worked fairly well for South Africa.

Not really. South Africa's main exports were mainly commodities and anything it imported it imported through proxies (such as Taiwan or Israel). Disinvestment was a major boon to South Africans since it allowed them to buy foreign assets at cents to the rand.

Sanctions also increased the Laager mentality which probability increased the length of Apartheid.

The reasons why South Africa turned to CODESA had probably more to do with the happenings in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe (since South Africa’s biggest problem was that the ANC&SACP movements were funded by the USSR).

Btw, I don’t know why you say that it worked, when by all objective measures black people are worse off now than under Apartheid (e.g. a 13 year drop in life expectancy). South Africa is on track to become a failed state in 10-15 years.

See this link for a comparison: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/aja38/nonamerican...
More like Starrlabs' Ztar rip-off, really.

http://www.starrlabs.com/
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Pretty neat. You need Snow Leopard for 0.5 beta 2 download to work, but apparently you can get it working on leopard if you build from source. Ruby on the llvm with native access to cocoa.. it is pretty neat! One of the gotcha's that I've noticed is that .alloc is not automagically mapped to .new on the framework classes.
Where's the contradiction? He doesn't say 'Tumblr is the best choice for my needs.'
I find it ironic that his blog is called "drawn to simplicity."
The Google Voice number I chose with was bombarded with calls from collections agencies. A freed number is more likely to come from someone who has abandoned their service due to non-payment. Google should have checked for this before offering these numbers. Based on what they've already built screening for collections calls would've been well within what they could do.

When I attempted to disable the number the process was extremely frustrating. I couldn't simply turn it off. I had to reassign it to another valid phone number. (No thanks.) I eventually got around this by following their suggestion to disable several AT&T forwarding and messaging services. This left me unhappy. What if I want to use these services for something else?
Automattic have bbPress.

http://bbpress.org/
If you're in linux you can just type that into a shell and it will work. What it does (and you can emulate in other OSs) is concatenate the bytes of the jpeg file with the bytes of the zip file and save them as one huge blob, which will be readable as either of those.
Actually I think this is inaccurate. It really depends on the person. You're assuming that he can be charming in person. Some people definitely can, others cannot - they might get overly shy or stumble over their words. Some people are very good with written words and can win a person over in poem or prose. For others it may be thoughtful actions or deeds. Yes, there needs to be some attraction to begin with but some people can turn it to much higher levels through indirect interaction.

So even though he was somewhat limited in options by distance, even in general, I don't agree with your statement that "You can create far more attraction in person". It is dependant on the individuals involved.

When you start approaching romance with an ROI you've already missed the point.

"Your life will be happier if you don't follow this fellow's courting model." That's sad. I say be a hopeless romantic. Follow your heart.
Yes, it could lead to disaster.

Encouraging children to aim beyond their means is a very bad idea.

They will have very ambitious goals and will not settle for what they consider beneath them.

This is a recipe for unemployment in the vast majority of cases.
>don't say "Avatar should be allowed to make as much profit as it wants, but I don't care about the system"

I won't. And IIRC, I haven't..

I understand your point on China's nature, I was wondering about the "nobody loses" conclusion.
to further the point, when you EDIT styles in the browser, you are always working on the generated file. Editing styles in the browser is WAY more common than editing HTML in the browser, and because the tools with which you edit the CSS in the browser generate CSS, it becomes much more tedious, ironically, to do a lot of CSS work, then convert to Sass.
The implied message, that one should advocate the malleability of IQ not because it's true but because it's motivational, is a little troubling.

I'm not troubled by this at all. Here's why. First of all, malleability of IQ is true. And the research finding that advocating the malleability of IQ is motivational and thus leads to better performance is a replicated research finding.

In the fall semester of 2009 I participated in the University of Minnesota Department of Psychology Psychology 8935: Readings in Behavioral Genetics and Individual Differences Psychology journal club with leading researchers on human behavioral genetics such as Tom Bouchard, Matt McGue (the chairman of the journal club), Irving Gottesman, Wendy Johnson, and other colleagues and graduate students of theirs. At the end of the semester, Matt McGue asked each participant what their conclusion was about what could be done to boost IQ and academic achievement, and he noted that as a parent he will be speaking more often to his children about their ability to raise their own level. This is from a researcher who has spent years calculating figures for heritability of various behavioral traits from studies of twins and other studies with genetically sensitive designs. After reading the research and discussing it with his colleagues, he is convinced that even though monozygotic twins resemble each other more closely than other siblings as to IQ (this is what heritablity means, and it is ALL that heritability means), it is still possible for a mindset intervention to improve IQ.

Here's another article about Carol Dweck's research, which I think has been submitted to HN before:

http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2007/marapr/feat...
One good reason to hesitate is that Project Euler is supposed to be a set of problems that people solve for themselves. Therefore the admins request that people not post solutions, and occasionally will tweak parameters if certain problems are too easy to find with a Google search.

It is a losing battle to be sure, but they put a lot of work into it and I prefer it when people respect their request to not facilitate cheating.
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After edit: I would be very glad to see citations to research sources that back up any of the statements made in your comment. I would want to look especially at methodological issues

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

if a study claims that something can't be done (rather than claiming that something hasn't been done).

After further edit: There is recent research showing that learning can actually change brain neural connections,

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09344/1019898-115.stm

so I think this year the burden of proof is on the people who claim lack of malleability, since malleability of human brain function is a replicated research result.
This goes along with the fact that Apple has released a their own draft standard for a http-based streaming format:

HTTP Live Streaming:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-pantos-http-live-streaming-...

HTTPLS is currently built into Mobile Safari and Sniw Leopard's Quicktime X.
Atlas Venture ups sticks to Boston
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I wonder if the author realizes he's parroting Verizon marketing. Since Verizon realized the iPhone was more aesthetically polished, they decided to make the Droid's rough edges part of the brand.

They portrayed the Droid as androgynous and the iPhone feminine, and by extension, effeminate. Therefor, if you buy an iPhone, you're a sissy.

It was genius marketing, but let's not think its reflective of reality. 99% of the time chunky hard plastic with sharp corners is a sign of poor design rather than virulent masculinity.
Indeed, generated code is seen in the browser. The issue is that the generated code is not the source code when you use Haml, Sass, etc.
50 Ways To Use Twitter as a Job Search Tool
A couple of things: if you own sit4us.com you may want to redirect to your site (judging from what you've said, I'm not sure that you do).

I was working on a project awhile back, and we used the name "bets4.us". People would try to go to our site in about this order:

bets4.us
betsforus.com
bets4us.com
betsfor.us

Also, it would be nice to have a demo up so that I don't have to give up my email address just to see if I want to register.
> "voting with your feet" is a powerful tool for helping the poor and disadvantaged improve their lives

Trouble is what happens to the poor and disadvantaged already in the destination countries. Wages are suppressed and other resources are spread thinner. Call me crazy but I think a country should be run for the benefit of the people already in it.
How exactly do you know a child's means are, especially in the face of science that the brain's ability is malleable?

There's a huge difference between saying "You don't seem to be very good at math, why don't you stop trying and do something easy instead" and "This seems to be hard for you, keep working hard at it and it will get easier over time. A brain is like a muscle, it gets stronger when you use it"
I switched in 1999, and I agree with mbrubeck. My experience was similar to his, except that I have to look at the keyboard when I type Qwerty and still don't type nearly as fast on Qwerty as I did before switching to Dvorak.

Key bindings are the biggest pain point for me. I recently spent some time using the Awesome window manager, and I had to remap a bunch of its key bindings, because they didn't make any sense with a Dvorak layout. I'm sure the default emacs key bindings make less sense to me than they do to a Qwerty typist. I also agree with mbrubeck that using key bindings on a Qwerty keyboard is much harder than just typing.

Overall, switching just isn't worth the hassle. In fact, every time the topic comes up, I consider switching back to Qwerty, but I'm too busy to e.an ,cyd yd. ecoypajycrbv
I'm not sure what enjoyment has to do with it.

In my opinion Web design requires a very similar skill set. Debugging CSS/HTML takes a programmer's mindset. It is not that difficult for most designers to make that jump. Many of them have picked up Javascript just fine.
Which?
Unfortunately I don't own sit4us.com, but sitfor.us is available, so I might grab that one too.

Do you think a video demo (similar to the short clip Thymer.com uses) would be helpful?

Thanks!
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http://pyglet.org/ is a nice OpenGL-and-stuff-wrapper for Python. In my opinion it is a very easy API to work with.
What is the extent of this malleability? It's probably quite small compared to innate intelligence.
I couldn't disagree with you more. People solving the problems have a choice. If they don't want to look it up, more power to them. Otherwise, leave the decision to the learner.

I always hated it when teachers would hold on to the solutions to the exercises in the textbook.
I used Tumblr's Private Tumblelog feature as a group board for my personal friends for about 9 months and then switched to Posterous and haven't looked back.

Tumblr is perfect as a "deeper Twitter," but its ability to make a gated community feels tacked on, and it's more cumbersome than Twitter's protected tweets.

Posterous has the right idea for this use case. You set a single password, just as you would for a game of Starcraft, and then you use the system as normal, which is much less awkward than Tumblr's restriction of gated blogs to viewing only from the posting UI.
Web designers? Again, to be good at web design you have to develop many of the same skills as programmers. Debugging CSS/HTML is about the same as debugging code.
I remember being in 8th grade in 2004 and writing an essay arguing that the FISA courts were antithetical to our notions of liberty, even if they didn't actually break the law. Little did I know that FISA warrants were the least of my worries.
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Anonymity system for Google called GoogleSharing
They could allow up to 5 accounts per number, but I guess that would just make too much sense.
Check out the background CSS trick on this blog's posts
I read about it here:
http://www.unmatchedstyle.com/gallery/jarred-bishop.php
So you're saying that it's not right for us to let people move from, say, 1 on a "quality of life" scale, to 80, because some people in the rich country might be lowered from 81 down to 80 for their sake?

I just made up the scale, but that seems to be the jist of the argument, and if that's what you're saying, then I think you're wrong. I think we can help those people more than we'd hurt anyone at home.
Type carefully is all I say.
Out Of their Minds:
http://www.amazon.com/Out-their-Minds-Discoveries-Scientists...
Intentionally provocative question: So you think domain squatting is ethical if it's done occasionally and unsystematically, but not if it's done in an efficient and industrious manner?
"For starters, the iPhone is flat-out sexier than the Android. Let’s face it, everything about the iPhone is polished, sleek, and ultra modern."

And eventually you get sick of the ultra-sleekness. Also, you look around you and you notice that everybody has the same ultra-sleek phone, and you feel like a drone.
We learn by failure, coddling a child within it's abilities is anethema to creating independent, curious, creative people, that can challenge themselves and know thier limits.

.... ugh, I feel a blog post or some poetic vitriol coming on.
That's the whole point of the clause - the threat of counteroffer is there to prevent low-baling.

On a related note, A should should have kicked B out - or B will eventually find another way to take advantage of A.
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You can share the solutions in the Project Euler forums --- after you have solved the problems on your own.
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I guess Dropbox ended up taking legal action against dropbox.com when they started placing ads for Dropbox's competitors. As a result, the domain holder ended up handing the domain over (no mention of purchase in the article).

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/13/dropbox-acquires-the-do...
It's not about fun, it's about establishing fair value when there is no open market.
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The posts that are filtered out are the ones that show up as related posts. Here is an example - http://blog.anomalyinnovations.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/1....
Google vs. China
This makes all the geeky little butterflies in my stomach flutter. I'll have to start ordering that polymer in bulk. Custom cell phone holder, chess pieces, and desk figurines, here I come!
A video demo, or even screenshots would be nice. Just... something so I have an idea if the service you're offering meets my needs. (The theoretical "my", that is - I don't have kids so I'm not your target market.)
I think you'll find that there are groups of people who very strongly believe that their "80" should not be reduced for someone in another country to join the USA.

In fact, you'll find that there are groups of people who wish to expel certain groups already within the USA in an effort to try to raise the average "80" up to "85", thinking that removing some people will benefit everybody else.

Furthermore, the groups of people who think this way are organized, vehement, and militant. So this type of "just let them all come over here" attitude can become quite hotly contested very quickly.
How else are you supposed to use a touchscreen PC?
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qwerty and dvorak are open standards. beta and vhs are licensable. windows and mac os are retail products. although all three pairs are "competitors" in a sense, i don't think it's reasonable at all to compare their adoption by the market.
OK, my comment was a bit impolite. Apologies :)
These posts seem to come up periodically. Search hacker news for 'dvorak'.

I've used Dvorak for three years or so. I like it, and it hasn't caused me problems. (FWIW, I use Emacs.) I type 95ish WPM on Qwerty, and haven't cared to time my typing on Dvorak - I type fast enough, either way. I switched as a precaution for RSI (and just to shake up old habits), and the layout feels less awkward than Qwerty. Seriously, ; on the home row?

Some people seem to believe that the failure of the Dvorak keyboard proves their economic ideology. Whatever.
Don’t invert that matrix
Encouraging a child to aim significantly higher is sort of like encouraging someone to pursue startups.

Failure is the result in most cases.

It's worse with children though because it is hard for them to "undo" their excessive ambition as adults.
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Volunteer programmers building relief apps for Haiti
There is definitely truth to this. For example; programming languages that have huge PR campaigns, sites dedicated to success stories and so on.
old news ... march '09
More info can be found here:

http://haiti.casefoundation.org/
If HP's 3d printer is anything like their 2d printers it'll probably be cheaper to order 3d printers in bulk and throw them away when they run out of plastic.
To be fair, while it's a cool present she's probably only going to see him because she posted it on Reddit and she felt pressure from all the people she'd told to make the flight.

If she hadn't posted it on Reddit she probably wouldn't be going.
In either case since you don't know what it is how much should you assume the child is not capable of?
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I think you have the concept right, the real dispute comes down to your numbers.

I think that the united states could absorb the entire population of Haiti without much impact (ie., from 81 to 80), and eventually we'd probably benefit. But how about all the desperately poor people everywhere else in the world? At some point, I think we're going a lot further down than just one point on the scale.

Right now, this reality is reflected in our (remarkably badly run) immigration system, where the United States takes about 1.2 million immigrants legally into the country every year, by far the most in absolutes and high up there in percentage of population, but still faces a surprising amount of criticism for being anti-immigrant because we don't take in even more. Much of this criticism comes from people who live in countries that are remarkably stingy with their immigration systems.
Looks like Scroogle, which we discussed earlier: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=990874
They are clearly in the same genre of "MIDI controller in a guitar body". But I wouldn't call it a rip off. The MISA is touch-screen based while the Ztars include many different kinds of controllers.

From the looks of it, I think the MISA would make quite an interesting addition to a stage show.
Why can’t you just figure out how many ways to sum 10 12-sided dice to 70, and then for each solution, multiply that by the number of ways the other dice could all be ≤ the smallest one (times changes in ordering). Seems like it'd take no more than 20 or 30 minutes to code up.
I've read from numerous sources that the banks are holding foreclosed home off the market until the spring to keep prices high during the 'first time homebuyers credit'.

Once it expires there should be a large influx of new homes for sale which will drive prices down. It's a game of buying now for the tax credit and 'saving' $8,000 or waiting a few months and possibly saving $20,000 because home prices have dropped.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungle_Jim's_International_Market

http://www.flickr.com/photos/junglejims/
People who are going through Project Euler to practice will never search for those and would likely forget the fine details quickly, so having the answers out there somewhere won't matter to them. People who want to cheat at Project Euler already have plenty of ways (and besides, what would they gain? At least from my minimal participication, it does not really look like a contest and there are no prizes).

On the other hand, people who want to learn Arc might be very greatful to have a good set of code out there.
Who watches the watch mice?

What are their uptime numbers?
Surely the answer is to think short-term, and keep aiming a little higher than your previous best. I'm not sure children are very good at thinking long-term, anyway.
The extension for vi keybindings in Emacs is called "viper", though I think there's another. The problem is that, while you can switch to using vi keybindings for primary editing, every other single package will use conventional Emacs keybindings.

Thing is, I don't want to add yet another layer on top of either Emacs (!!!) or vim. Both have waaaaay too much cruft as-is. (nvi isn't as bad.) I think the buffers-and-modes extension model in Emacs and vi's modal, primarily single-key interface are good ideas, though, and I don't see any reason why they couldn't be combined. I've also looked at uemacs, vile, and the like, but haven't found one that suits me. In the mean time, Emacs is good enough for me.