skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having read and quoted that essay, I'd like to think the stress and pain is somewhat counteracted by the pride and pleasure of choosing your own destiny.

It also seems that being a founder or running a business is the only way to get paid your true worth by the marketplace.
Why is there a persistent assumption that a politician accountable to voters is under less pressure than a corporate director accountable to shareholders? Both are elected periodically, and both must use their terms in office to do, or attempt to do, things desired of them by the people who elected them.

And, to be perfectly honest, I think you'll find that self-serving behavior, corruption and malfeasance are just as common in corporations as in politics.
It's not about offense, it's about a culture that apparently believes that name-calling and language-bashing are traits of a "nice" and "personable" community.
Well you forced me into a google search. Here's a good read on dc vs ac type motors used in EVs.

http://www.teslamotors.com/blog4/?p=45
I wonder if China managed to steal Google's ssl certificates?
Let's ban this, let's outlaw that.

I like it how govs have no basic clue about this Internet thing.
I like to talk directly to the client and see the finished product being used. It's great to see a delighted client and know that "I made that!"
Are you sure it's that they "are" persons or just they are considered to have rights similar to the rights a person has? Seems like a pretty important distinction.
Doesn't this say more about the Facebook software layer than the physical layer? Locality of reference == good.
Riak-0.8 Released with support for Map/Reduce functions in JavaScript over HTTP
Maybe there just isn't anything particularly interesting about this framework. I looked at it and it doesn't seem to offer anything that other frameworks don't except possibly ease of deployment on embedded systems, but on an embedded system it might be better to just not use a framework at all.
You're right. I am not trying to argue that McCain-Feingold is constitutional. Rather, I'm trying to point out that a literal interpretation of the constitution in this case is invalid. It's a simplistic argument that sounds good at first but doesn't hold up under critical analysis. I just did some recent edits to better express my point of view.
Fair enough. I deliberately avoided commenting on how it would look for Microsoft, since I'm not at all knowledgeable on Microsoft's open source policy.
> A Rubyist would argue that that Python 2 syntax is anything but clear.

Why does that matter? The syntax should be clear to a capable Python developer, not someone who has never used Python.

I'm not suggesting that that particular syntax is or is not clear to said Python programmer, merely that the consideration for a Ruby programmer is useless.
I kind of wonder if Google might get fed up and ditch their Italian office. Recently I also read this attack piece in the Corriere della Sera, which is usually a reasonable paper:

http://www.corriere.it/economia/10_gennaio_28/mucchetti_4de4...

Italian only, but basically the guy has it in for Google and the fact that they get paid in Ireland, in Europe, and thus avoid some of the fun and exciting Italian taxes and regulations, and thinks they should be subject to a number of inane rules that the local companies cooked up to split up the publishing market amongst themselves.
How Apple manages Product Cannibalization
It's worth grabbing the latest version of screen from git and installing it. That way you get vertical splits with ctrl-a ctrl-|. If you're running a new version of Ubuntu, you already have this.

Building screen isn't too hard. Run the autogen.sh script to generate the configure script.
Well, the idea preceded Redis and applies more widely. The advantage of having it the way I mentioned is that any database could be plugged in at the back, just as memcached as no requirements for what method of persistence is used. That makes it attractive for other reasons.
wow you comment your code a lot
Is reducing attendance really a problem for Universities though? Universities get paid by enrolment, not attendance. I don't know if there is any drawback for individual lecturers if attendance to their lectures drop, but if there is then online material is the perfect incentive they need to up their game.
Unfortunately, ionice is not avail on FreeBSD.
> Similarly, your computer does not have any rights, but you do have the right to post hacker news comments using your computer (provided pg lets you).

But you're assuming a company is purely a vessel to voice a group's opinions, when that's not the case. Furthermore the government is supposed to serve individual people and to make sure that every person gets an equal voice in government.

Is it morally okay to let a company, which is designed to increase profit and power, to be used to also push certain agendas? For example, if Apple, who sells computers, decides to push an agenda to segregate schools using the money and influence it acquired from selling iPods and iPads, do you think this is okay? What the hell do iPods and iPads have to do with racial segregation? See the problem here? Apple has a vested interest in profit and sales.

!!!If you let people use power accrued through unrelated methods push certain agendas, then special interests that stand weakly on their own merits' will have undeserved representation in our government!!!

Contrast it with an organization designed to emphasize a certain agenda by collecting the people who support it together. The power and influence of that interest is directly correlated to its demand.
Maybe, but it's probably easier to lead a shareholder revolt against a corporate board of directors and/or CEO than to oust an entrenched Congressperson/Senator. Re-election is 98% guaranteed once you're in office (I pulled the number out of my ass, but I know that the number is high; i.e. somewhere between 90%-100%).
I've worked with a few non-profits and political orgs regarding new technology. Regarding small NPOs implementing new tech initiatives, one of the problems is that the people running them might not know how to implement or execute some of this.

I would recommend that they tap their volunteer and donor network for the skills they need. Some old school NPOs tend to still only use their volunteers for menial office tasks. There is a good chance that they have volunteers that have the skills they need for various projects, they just don't ask. Make your talented volunteers a CEO of something and they will work their butts off for you.
For sure he does not want people to buy into the noSQL movement, because it would mean less work for FathomDB.

Good service, but disingenuous remark about the nascent noSQL movement.
We have a single IDE already - it's called IntelliJ IDEA, and it supports all the other languages via plugins. However, we find that developers who use a specific language are far more willing to try an IDE tailored for that language, rather than a Java IDE that happens to have a plugin for the language they're using.
It reminded me of the (excellent) Charles Stross book Accelerando. Let's face it, it's the next step. We're just marking time till someone builds a Matrioshka brain around the Sun anyway.
This is disappointing, but not too surprising for anyone that has watched the automotive space for a few years. A thousand vehicles a year is considered the minimum viable volume for a car company to break even in series production, and the jump from prototype to serial number 1000 is huge.

Aptera even sidestepped a lot of the red tape by building a three-wheel vehicle (legally considered a motorcycle) and an electric vehicle (no subject to emissions regulations). Their only misstep may have been deciding to give it a body: building a world-class chassis is within the grasp of a skilled garage fabricator, while mass producing doors that close right and don't let the rain in is something multi-billion-dollar companies still struggle with. A three-wheeled electric Ariel Atom (similar to the Wrightspeed) could probably get to 1000 units/year much more smoothly, but with an even more constrained market.
Asshole behavior is markedly different than idiot behavior ;) I fully acquiesce that my comment was, itself, asshole behavior - I wrote it in an emotional state, as a usability/UI design blog that breaks a basic tenant of web usability (don't override basic browser behavior; if you have to, make sure it works everywhere because people expect it to be there - they get upset when things happen that they consider breakage) was a fairly intense mind-breaking experience.

Calling someone an asshole is asshole behavior. Knowingly forcing your users into a broken usability situation is asshole behavior.

I wouldn't think that calling someone out on it would be considered idiot behavior.
Mark Pincus: "Are you a CEO of something"

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/business/31corner.html
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> ports does have the separation, you fetch/build as the local user and run install escalated.

I see from the Macports 1.8 release notes that privilege dropping is supported. That's good news, but is it the default? The release notes indicate that you need to pass command-line options to get this behavior. I assume that most people just "sudo port install foopkg".

> blindly changing the permission structure of /usr/local should scare everybody.

On Mac OS X (as of Snow Leopard, anyway), there are no permissions to change, since /usr/local doesn't even exist until you create it. Nothing in the OS itself depends on it or anything that lives there. There's nothing special or privileged, neither by design nor by convention, about /usr/local on Mac OS X. Making it user-writable and using it with a package manager is no different than creating a 2nd home directory for that purpose. If you're running that rare bird that is a multi-user Mac and co-managing packages with other trusted users, then you can simply make it group-writable by those users. It's safer than giving them any sudo privileges.
Maybe e-Textbooks will finally take off!
Flash used to penetrate IE's ASLR and DEP protections.
By a co-author of the work-in-progress The Joy of Clojure, three useful tips to deal with runaway printing of infinite sequences and deeply recursive data structures and how to kill your REPL thread without necessarily killing your entire JVM.
Stanza is, several apps which have had the same thing happen to them are not however.
Not only that, but if I make money selling porn, do you want me to use my power accrued from people's lust to be used to promote some agenda completely unrelated like say... teaching creationism? People need porn, but most people don't want creationism. So should porno buyers be forced to indirectly support creationism?

If something is beneficial to the people, the people will vote for it. It's the fundamental of democracy.
Not E-Ink, as I misread.
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> which clearly seperates what is called from when it is called

You're passing some code as an argument to a function. Many other languages do this. Do you hate Lisp and Haskell, too? Do you not use continuations in Python? Or callback functions?
But the point that sparked this thread was about corporate personhood (i.e. the law says that a corporate is a person). So arguing that a corporation isn't a person under these restrictions is kind of circular.
Because "he's a Rubyist" is the reason he would say something like "you can't have Sinatra's clear syntax."
"For your claim to be true money must in some way be related to the ability to exercise free speech."

In a world where you have to pay for things, the ability to freely use your money is necessary for most rights. Unless everyone can will themselves TV and radio time and wish pamphlets and websites into existence, restriction of spending for political speech is a questionable proposition at best.

"Consequently, an absolute interpretation of the 1st ammendment means taxation is a violation of free speech."

Yes, it would, though the neutrality of most taxation can be used to argue it as a benign one. However, you're merely raising that as a strawman, as almost nobody cares about absolutist interpretations.

"Perhaps democracy is more important as well?"

Political speech has long been the type of speech jurists have been least willing to restrict because it is essential to democracy. You might as well say, "Perhaps the right to live is more important than the right to oxygen."
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> Everybody seems to argue about this issue without ever referring to the text of the first amendment, which is what the majority of the Supreme Court based its decision on.

No it isn't. If the correct decision were obvious from the text then it would have never been heard by the Supreme Court.
While it is also imprecise, the fact that the film is only an input surface means it's also inaccurate. To make a touchscreen, you must have a screen.

</since you went there :Op>

I was commenting on both the inaccurate nature of the title as well as the fact it does not point out the newsworthy, new tech part that HN readers likely give a crap about.
Monster originally tried to buy HotJobs for $350 million, was outbid by Yahoo who wound up paying $436 million in 2002.
AC motors are really great if you're building a drivetrain from scratch. You get a cheaper gearbox (single speed, no reverse) and a cheaper motor (theoretically) by paying for roughly six times the electronics (although you can divide the current capability of everything by the square root of three). And it drives just like an automatic transmission, only better.

But with a conversion vehicle the gearbox comes for free with the donor car, and it's typically more work to integrate a single-speed drive than to just adapt the motor housing and shaft to the transmission bellhousing and flywheel. And you're not paying the early adopter tax that's still present on AC drivetrains.
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Ah, well, then you're fucked. My point is not that you should consider it a good idea to make your own proprietary language, just that that situation can sometimes be a really good, productive one.

(I'm dealing with this in my work -- we use a proprietary internal scripting language, and the guy who wrote it is not around. I'm slowly becoming the local expert on the language -- very slowly, though, because opportunities to work on it don't come up too often.)
Here is what I'm worrying about... will there be a purpose formed corporation whose sole goal is the election of an individual? They could accept money from investors to finance their operation. Then in the last 2 weeks of an election buy all available airtime nationwide (or just in swing states) and say just spout total lies about an opponent. Something like "XXX will force us into a fascist government". 24x7 before an election. Given enough money, they could buy all the airtime available, leaving no time for any opposition ads.

They have the right to lie, and if they are sued for liable / defamation, etc... they are a corporation that can be disbanded. And because they are a corporation, there is limited liability to the owners.
Personally, I dislike naming things that I won't use again. It feels like a waste. And then, since I have to name things, I have to come up with a _good_ name.

Just a matter of taste, mind you, but it's my reasoning for preferring anonymous functions.
Thanks for this, I'm enjoying it!

You probably want to add something like

set :url, "http://example.com" # site root URL

to your config.ru documentation.
Logging in from a G1 is broken, I've seen the same thing.
Exactly. However how is that any different than Blue-Ray? Same crap, everyone is moving to BR and sony wants every disk burned to have a license unless its personal use, not to mention a whole lot of restrictions like by 2012 all non-hi-def input won't be supported, and diminished quality for non-hi-def inputs today intentionally even though it is unnecessary.
As a "battle" I think it is stupid. Otherwise, I disagree with you. They're very different languages. Python is great for people who are accidental programmers or non-programmer programmers, especially ones who think mathematically and analytically. It's popular among scientists and engineers who need to understand a language pretty completely in a top-down way, but who want to waste as few brain cells as possible on a programming language because their brainpower is primarily applied to other things.

Personally, I've always programmed primarily in other languages (C++ being mein liebster Feind) but I've relied a lot on Python (and occasionally Jython) for day-to-day scripting and for delivering code to customers that reorchestrates existing code to do new things. Python has never lit a single creative spark in me, but it has always delivered for me without demanding much in return. Now, that is a statement you will never hear applied to Ruby.

I don't know much about Ruby, but the things I hear about it remind me of Perl in some ways. Back in the day, I spent a lot of time learning Perl, promptly forgetting it, and going back to Perlmonks to learn it yet again. Perl comes naturally for impressionists who love to program by instinct, pattern-matching, and trial-and-error. They love it when something new pops into their head and they type it in and it just works, and they aren't immediately sure how or why. Perl is also for dedicated professionals who want a tool that rewards more study and practice with more and more power -- mastery of Perl is a never-ending road with a seemingly never-ending escalation of power and awesomeness.

Ruby seems to be a much more easily understood language than Perl, but (from the outside) it seems to share Perl's magical flavor and open-ended approach to mastery. Python is better for people like me who want working, understandable code for the smallest lifetime intellectual investment.
The Future of Journalism Education
You could just copy into the global system buffer instead of vim's buffer. Highlight, then "+y (or d, p, etc.) (Yes you type the quotation mark and plus.) (And vim needs to be built with xterm, I think.)
I would try to increase security when you get around to it. Or at least prevent debug output for production servers.

http://startupwiki.co.uk/search?q=+a%27%3BDROP+TABLE+*
And you could use {} instead of do/end, but a Pythonista wouldn't consider that any more terse.
Screen has a very large chunk of the potential market share for this sort of utility app. Tmux is going to have to be 10 times better to get people to switch. ("Screen" also has a name that's easy to remember, and to spell.)

Is tmux 10 times better than screen? Cause that's what it's going to take to get people to switch at this point.
Lithium ion still has a pretty steep early adopter tax, and they're not as forgiving as lead-acid (Overcharging lead-acid batteries ruins your $2k pack. Overcharging lithium ion batteries will ruin your $20k pack and can easily burn up your car and your house).

But they're very much coming down in price. In RC-plane sized packs, lithium polymer packs (with a 5C discharge rating) are down to about $500/kWh retail. A minimum viable pack for a very light car might be five kilowatt-hours (and might only weigh 70 pounds, a little over a tenth the weight of lead-acid).
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I've found that one can't go wrong with thorough commenting and clear and verbose variable names. We've all been there trying to decipher code from years prior.
i <3 competition :)
Any example blogs out there? Obviously it's configurable, but just having an example or demo blog out there might be nice.
Corporate "citizenship" is a complete red herring in this issue.

This is not some crazy new doctrine the USSC shat out this year, this is a legal premise that has existed for over a century. Otherwise, you couldn't sue a company for damages.

The issue is about political speech for actual human beings in organizations, including corporations and labor unions (and yet oddly, you don't hear much bewailing of "union citizenship").

Crying out "ZOMG giving corporations rights!" is nothing more than trying to short-circuit others' thinking.
Not being familiar with tmux at all I tried to simply drop in your config (changing only the default path) but all I get is syntax errors at every turn (unknown option status-justify at line 4).

tmux 0.8 (20090604-0818)

Which is in the Ubuntu 9.10 repos. I'll take any suggestions, but I'm happy with screen :)
Thanks for the link.

Though, I still tend to gravitate toward the simplest solutions, and in this case, a series-wound brushed motor is about as simple as it gets.

Regular DC motors have heavy and strong magnets (more expensive), but the series-wound motors are just wires (and, FWICT, a bit less efficient).

Regarding brushless, I'm sure they're quieter and require less maintenance, but they still are more complex than the series-wound DC.

I suppose the AC induction motors have their place, but for the DIY crowd, I think many will stick with the basics.
OpenSUSE 11.3 Milestone 1 has been released - Linux Critic
Deploy your site without downtime using a web proxy written in node.js
I have a new article entitled, "Why electricity is bad for the candle business."
Well, the way it plays out in practice is that I have a certain finite number of job offers to choose between. Each of them will teach me something. Each of them will give me a chance to accomplish something. Each of them may be more or less enjoyable. And each of them will pay me something.

And I'm saying that since I'm relatively early in my career, it makes sense to optimize for the ones that teach me a lot and let me accomplish a lot, even if they don't pay as much. That doesn't mean ignore money. If I have an offer that will teach me more, pay me more, and let me accomplish more, it's a no-brainer to take it. But if I have one that'll teach me more and have me working on highly-visible projects, vs. another that pays more but has me writing CRUDscreens that nobody but a few Intranet departments will use, I'd rather take the one that teaches me more.
explains why he probably has tons of free time to always post it here.
APT, the app store for geeks (why the iPad is not our only salvation)
I'm not in any position to speak for your child, but you might want to take another look. After all, my parents said much the same thing about me when I was 7.

I had a very rough childhood when it came to my social abilities. I was well spoken and verbalized well. It wasn't until I was an adult that I became acutely aware of the issues I faced with regards to non-verbal and verbal social cues.

In many cases I'm quite literally blind, even today, to those social cues. I've learned to compensate for that by essentially training myself by observing other people and becoming quite active in trying to decipher other peoples unspoken cues. It's clear to me that there is something in my makeup that I'm having to compensate for. It doesn't make me a terrible human being...it just is what it is.

It's likely that your son is a lot like me. He sounds smart, but struggles socially. I wish my parents had taken a more active role in helping me to practice and manage social situations. The scars from middle and high-school still stick with me.

That said, at 30 years old I've managed to 'grow into' myself socially. I find my social interactions to be less daunting. My confidence is 100% better than it was 15 years ago. I'm happily married and am quite happy with every aspect of my life. So it does get better eventually:)

So I can really relate to this study. It really confirms what I already knew, that my social troubles where (at least in part) my fault. I hope your son has better success than I did.
Yes. That would be preferable. Then there is a real change that necessitates this change.
Shouldn't FDA/FTC regulations on things like product labeling and false advertising be ruled unconstitutional? Isn't a corporation's free speech being violated when they aren't allowed to lie about their product?
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