skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They forego revenue in exchange for the loss control. It's economically equivalent. This is like those discussions of whether taxes that are charged directly to businesses are paid by the business or by their customers.

As for the other, I admit health care insurance has its own peculiarities that make it a distinct field of insurance. And, no, your last assertion is incorrect. I have the advantage of having actually worked in the group pricing department of a major health insurer, so I'm not just speculating here. In lieu of further banging my head against the wall, I'll point out that the syllabi for the SOA's actuarial exams are available to the general public - just look in the "education" section of their site.
The ability to take away other people's freedom is not freedom.
You need a paper licence to link to the Royal Mail website
spent three weeks getting the CSS exactly right

two days tops.
This forgets the different CPUs in the iPhone and AppleTV.
Please read the article. Its title is very misleading. Basically it only says "With this great new mocking framework, you don't anymore have to create interfaces for everything just to be able to write proper unit tests".
USB Specs are available here:
http://www.usb.org/developers/docs/

USB 2.0 in particular (10.9 MB zip file):
http://www.usb.org/developers/docs/usb_20_122909-2.zip
Holy crap. Am I just so old that I don't realize that the younger generation has never been exposed to basic unix commands, or is this article as ridiculous as it seems?
I often just use Google dictionary which spells the word phonetically or just plays the word to me.

However, I like your idea that you can embed the sound key into something else, and have sounds which are more like audio semiotics. (audiootics?)

They layout could be more compact, specifically on the browse-sounds page. Why not just put the player to the right of the word on the same row. OR hide the player all together and just have a speaker button.

A future idea might be to create a clever algorithm to highlight the syllables as they heard, or the sound being played like a progress bar over the word.

Good luck.
Yeah, a serious centrifuge demands respect.

Back when I was in high school I did a bit of biology research one summer. My lab's ultracentrifuge had a lid which was solid 3/8 to 1/2 inch steel plate. Working the lever to slide it to the side was a good reminder to ask the question "Are you sure you've properly balanced these (nitrocellulose) test tubes?"
why is it even called SEO anymore? Shouldn't it just be GO? Google Optimization?
For something this simple nowadays we have Google and such.

Just search on e.g.: obama stimulus blue states
this is more or less re-highlighting linus' reliance and his own talent and abilities, and his derision for others' reliance on planning
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You do make an important point. I was simply attempting to counter one anecdote with another. But I think the argument of "the pedals are too close so people are probably just hitting the wrong one", while an interesting thought exercise, digresses from the actual problems:

1) The cars made by Toyota, on occasion, even when under the control of an experienced driver, with years of experience with not only that make/model of vehicle, but even with that exact vehicle, operate in a way which is out of expected operating parameters. This happens with cars from other makers, but #2 and #3 clarify this. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gc_pIFqke7...

2) Toyota has known, very clearly about this problem for quite a while and has refused to address it. As far as the public knows, Toyota has done no engineering exercise to discover the nature of the flaw and has so far engaged in finger pointing. When Steve Wozniak found another, similar flaw in the brake system after doing a fairly extensive engineering review of his car, he was initially ignored, then met with surprise at such a wild discovery.

3) Similar problems have been found in other cars, even ones with a strong reputation for quality and reliability. Those makers responded almost immediately and took it seriously. The cat is out of the bag that Toyota was not taking it seriously, or rather that Toyota was calculating public safety vs. the cost of lawsuits. This speaks to a particularly broken internal corporate climate. Which is surprising to anyone who has studied Toyota's corporate management philosophy.

While two data point (mine and my father's) are rightly taken as anecdotal data, there are not, in any real sense that many more reported cases of car crashes -- yet we're all taking it very seriously. When does a collection of events become "statistical data"? My stats prof in uni said that statistics are simply a large collection of anecdotes. The number of people with reported unexpected acceleration problems is actually very small. What's the line that separates anecdotes from "vanishingly small percentage"?

I'd argue that the definition of this line is precisely the mental exercise that Toyota found itself caught up in when it was trying to decide to recall or wait for the law suits. In the end, the company erred on the side of ignoring statistically insignificant anecdotes to their peril.
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clickable: http://soundkey.com

I like the idea, you should provide an API so that websites that teach languages can hook up with that.

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That miserable workplace probably makes the naive assumption that since no client gave the company money, the return on investment must be zero. Working in such a simplistic manner would be enough to make things miserable - even if they didn't put a dollar value on it.
There is a very easy solution for that: make the ISP block the outbound SMTP port. This will force spammers to use web-mail, where the mail provider is better armed to detect spammy accounts. Unfortunately, this would (and does) tend to centralize the internet further, which is not acceptable.
WRT to #1, before you get to the "or" items, government borrowing crowds out private, since a national government (or at least ours) is viewed as a much safer creditor in the earlier periods of economic trouble.

In the longer term, sovereign debt defaults, explicit or implicit (your "or" items, including the inflation tax), inevitably follow this type of counter-cyclical spending (statistically, since this tends to be a regional or world-wide thing).
Asinine.
Do they have any legal right to declare that you need their permission to link to their site?

I sure hope not.
The ability to grant freedom is freedom? Freedom is "typeless?" Or is that a "meta-freedom?"
Yes, adding an API is on my To-Do list
Honestly, I don't mind the extra fees as long as I can restore successfully. I just want a solution that works for backup and restore with out issue.
Isn't that an example of the "multiplier effect" ... which has never really been seen in the wild (or so I understand)?

E.g. because on the other side of the ledger the government crowds out private borrowing (see my comment in this thread to byrneseyeview) and/or taxes others to get this money, plus this almost always is accompanied by attacks on businesses of all sorts, on Main Street as well as Wall Street. Extreme examples include 1937, when capital in the US went on strike and we had the Recession of 1937–1938 and didn't really recover until WWII changed the game.

In serious times of trouble, can you point out examples where this has worked in more than the short term? It didn't for the US in the Great Depression, and Japan is now nearing the end of it's second lost decade (we through they were pulling out of it, but that turned out to be a side effect of the world wide bubble that popped a little later this decade).
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So the two other lectures that this student interrupted (one of them twice) do not count?
thanks for sharing the code!
Boring. Someone, somewhere, is doing something stupid. Next...
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Why not use unique URIs, like: http://soundkey.com/165pgx or http://165pgx.soundkey.com/

Seems to be easier than having users copy-paste keys around.
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=955329
Odd, I'm fairly sure everything facing customers had to be Python, Java or C.
That video was more extreme than 42 libraries of congress.
Yeah, but without a DSP chip for audio decoding, the battery is going to last about 20 minutes.
Wait, are you saying I can't create a law by making a web page? Damn...
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No I don't http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/content1?catId=84200739&#...
While reading this I was wondering about Godel's constitutional loophole to allow a dictatorship and Google'd upon a hacker news discussion of the same topic: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=447852
... but in a new and amusing way?

This is another nice example of what happens when people who don't understand technology make rules about how you use technology.
What kind of specification though? In most cases, a requirements specification can be pretty useful although I'm not such a fan of up front technical design specifications, in fact I tend towards the "code is the design" viewpoint:

http://www.developerdotstar.com/mag/articles/reeves_design_m...

I do agree with the sentiment that processes that focus too much on design artifacts and less on practical issues of how to make working systems often lead to truly awful designs.
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"Innovation requires a lot of random walk - mostly spontaneous and open ended"

thanks for sharing.
In other words, as with free software, you will likely soon be able to download hardware from the web in the form of free packages of coded instructions to make… well, just about anything — from a Lego block to the jet engine of an F-16.

This is fairly meaningless without a cost-effective way to actually produce the items. Which is 'likely soon' if you take a very optimistic view, for Lego blocks. It's not anytime soon for jet engines.
It came out after (Singularity Hub's design came out August 17, 2009; TC was Aug 27, 2008). TechCrunch is one of the biggest blogs on the planet; they're not using a generic template. While the design isn't copy and pasted, it is clearly really heavily influenced- imagine if a site did that with, say, TC articles. That would be plagiarism. Why is copying a design any different?

None of these alone are definitive, but together, they make a pretty good case:

- Search on top left, with a button titled "Search"
- #CCC box around the header
- Header: Logo/Ad on the top, links and icons on the bottom; partitioned the same way
- Spacing and style of the navigation is really similar
- Three article images across the top: images are both 203x155, and the box has a blue padding and darker blue border. Both are named #header_features, inside a #col1 (admittedly, naming conventions might be a WP thing).
- Boxed in articles with the title and author/date on left; comments + social media on right (this is admittedly generic.. but it does have a TC feel to it)
- Article meta data and the article itself are split by a dotted gray line

It was designed by "YourCustomBlog," and their portfolio (http://yourcustomblog.com/wordpress-design-portfolio/) indicates it wasn't just a "customization" (meaning, it was a made-from-scratch design, not a modification of an existing template.
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Thanks for posting that, those numbers were really interesting.
The economics of virtualization certainly point to this being a hit. A 2U chassis with 64GB of RAM or so could easily replace half a rack of slower systems (add some flash drives to speed up IO if needed).
Maybe you shouldn't think so much about your freedom as about maximizing the total freedom. If that means you can't do everything you want, too bad.

When people in the US talk about freedom, they seem to only focus on the freedom of them to do what they want and disregard the possibility that their actions might have side effects.
Sure, and the NFL says I need a special contract in order to describe the game I just watched. Organizations assert all kinds of crazy, bogus rights.
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Upvoted and if you're worried about url length try getting a Cayman Islands (.ky) domain. I could see using sound.ky/165pgx or may even snd.ky/165pgx although the latter gives me bad vibes.
Yea, this really isn't very complex markup or style -- especially considering they only coded it for webkit. It just looks like it would have been a lot of work because it's so slick and polished (typical of Panic).
Universities often to require students to take lots of filler courses, unrelated to their chosen field, taught simply to raise funds for the department providing the filler.

So that english course could easily be nothing but an obstacle in the way of an engineering or business major graduating. And it might be an obstacle which exists solely to get some of the student's money.
"I agree when he says that trying to model your problem in a specification then write the software is doomed for failure."

Is that a reasonable generalization?

Here is a case where divergence between the model and "reality" would be catastrophic: http://www.fastcompany.com/node/28121/print

I'm also interested in exactly how one would apply an iterative cycle of implement->test->formalize to this category of software? (Ooops. There goes the rocket! Back to the keyboard!)
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I think the point is "hey people let's stop releasing software without decent user documentation because that's lazy and lame".

And I agree wholeheartedly.

EDIT: For example:

% gem list | wc -l
89
% gem man --all | tail -n +3 | awk '{ print $1 }' | sort | uniq | wc -l
2

...one of those two is gem-man itself. The other is unicorn.
you know of HN Toolkit a grease monkey script for FF right?
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> My claim is still that if comparable amounts of money were put in my own pocket, I could make sure that my family members who are of employment age would be going about producing more externalities beneficial to all society than many of the workers whose jobs have supposedly been saved by the current stimulus package.

You might be able to. But I can probably find 4 families on my own block that would just spend the money on tiger print shag carpeting for their bedrooms.
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We have it set up so only the three founders can see that tab.
If the world ends don't eat a carnivore that eats carnivores that occasionally eat animals. Generally a good idea anyway since most carnivores taste goddamned awful.
Oddly, that's been litigated more than you'd think, including in the context of links ("deep linking"): http://www.wilmerhale.com/publications/whPubsDetail.aspx?pub...
Actually most days I try to come to work 1 hour earlier than everyone else and spend this hour on some "self-development" tasks.
I use to think that it is my lack of motivation/discipline, but in this 1 hour I can get more learning, studying etc. done, compared to the whole evening at home.
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Without meaning to be controversial, this is just for anyone else like me, who was a little uncertain what Christian Science (not that there's anything wrong with that) is :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Science
I think the problem is "solved" for non-GMail users, too.

Nowadays, setting up a good spam-protected mail server isn't very sophisticated anymore.

In our company, I'm running a plain Exim mail server with a SpamAssassin in almost default configuration and some standard RBLs. Although I have a quite burned email address, I'm getting just around 5 spam emails per day and false positives are rare (less than 1 per month, I guess).
Cool idea.

For this to be really useful, it needs to be able to define a snippit (e.g. a function), and then let the user type his own code (e.g. an application of that function) to see the results. Otherwise, if everything is static on the page, you could just pre-calculate the results when building the page.
Clever idea. Pretty impressive language support and I like the way the output is presented with some useful meta information. I would love to see the team at Github integrate this into the http://gist.github.com platform.

I assume the results here are cached, right? This would obviously get very resource-intensive on even a marginally popular blog.
The homepage layout looks very similar to Etherpad's.
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Assuming he was reasonably quiet, the student did not interrupt two other lectures. I often have a late student or two. No one notices or cares because I don't waste time on it.

"So this means that this set of functions is an orthogonal basis for the space of polynomials. Timmy, close the door behind you. This means that we can translate our problem with signals into a matrix problem, and then just gaussian eliminate it like every other problem this semester."

Would you similarly criticize the student if he showed up on time, but used the bathroom after an hour?
Ha! This article contains five links to the Royal Mail web site.
The thing I appreciate most about the site is the "SoundKeys in Action" slide show. My imagination didn't get me there, but your slide show convinced me this was a necessary service (for somebody) almost immediately.

I think this is a great "outside the box" idea, yet still grounded in that it solves a problem.

I hope it is very successful.
If anything I would suggest this article is assuming too much knowledge in its intended audience.
Any designer can create something like that in a few hours...

Dashboard design is not about the style, it's about the usefulness of the data and the usability, bearing in mind the type of data and the usages its users do with it.

I've seen those a few times in the past and it always strikes me: No one is going to use a dashboard, however good looking, if it's not useful. These designs seem to be created to allow for any type of information in any amount to be regurgitated on a single page. (which will probably be unused)
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I think it's time to weigh in with the question I have asked you in just about every thread

When are we going to see the noindexing you promised?

From the latest round of commentary looks like some were implemented for a bit - then removed. Which now looks somewhat worse for you... (IMO anyway).

Still not hopeful of an answer though...
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Do you think someone should tell the Royal Mail about how to use a robots.txt file?

Because I can do a search for:

"You may not create a link to any page of this website without Royal Mail's prior written consent."

And get back lots of links... ;-)

I wonder if Google have one of these licenses to link?
That's some nice web design. Lots of attention to detail. Cool product idea, too. Reminds me of Barcode Battler:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcode_Battler
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This is a great idea. Simple to understand and well executed.
An API would be hugely beneficial. I think that's where it could really take off.
When I tried running it everything timed out. Did it work for anyone else?
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yeah, gorgeous design, really awesome name, and the product seems cool, though not sure how useful at this point? The number of things you would want to put big vinyl stickers on seems kind of small, but if this is the first step it is very exciting. Being able to track the provenance of an object unobtrusively (via RFID?) would be really neat.
How about integrating this into a collaborative programming quiz site?

Imagine if TopCoder used this.

The idea: people sign onto teams, then collaboratively hack at a problem in real-time, in public. You could pop some popcorn and watch their editing sessions, cheer them on xor scream at them for bugs...
The Christian Science Monitor is a reasonably reputable newspaper; in particular it is not generally a propaganda outlet for Christian Science or for political views particularly congenial to Christian Scientists. Some description here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Christian_Science_Monitor .
I am a work-from-home dude and that is the one thing that still 'sucks'. I try to do different stuff like biking or whatever, but I still miss the first hour at the office ('hello', 'what's up?' and 'coffee').
It should be possible to add a pdb.set_trace() or ipdb.set_trace() to the part of Django that traverses the URL tree. Then it should be possible to watch every URL be evaluated until one matches your request.

Don't ask me where it is, but, if you find it, it's worthy of a blog post ;-)
In the "Teach English in Korea" support crowd, they talk about culture shock settling in around the 90-day mark, and letting up 6-12 months in.
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Does anyone have any insights into how Google handles this? What approach they take?
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Why?
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The real security nightmare here is the requirement to install extra software just to use a plain battery charger.

I'm still wondering how many commodity devices come with a "driver CD". In the last 5-10 years I never needed any of them, as the devices were already fully supported on my Debian system. And I'm sure that is the case for MacOS and Windows, too.

The only interesting part of such a CD is the online manual, which is hopefully available as PDF and doesn't require any special software to read it.
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If it sends the code back to the server to get executed, I could see a slew of interesting security opportunities here. I wouldn't exactly allow someone with Firebug and working knowledge of C run executable code on my server.

Cool idea! Hopefully I'm misinformed about the security thing.
Funny I was reading this while on a trip to Korea. Different country, but some of what he describes applies here as well.

But my final thought was "really, he's a vegetarian and he picked Japan as his place to go?" I was talking this article over tonight with some friends over a bowl of Sujabi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sujebi, which could be vegetarian-ish, but like most things in Asia, never really are. It had clams in it, and the broth was boiled out of cow bones or sardines or something. I've yet to encounter some food in East Asia that didn't have some kind of animal product in it.
http://ideone.com/pevus2IP#

Seems like they have some measure of security.

edit:

http://ideone.com/fAKNPIh2 pwd returns my dir as /home/APiDcF.

http://ideone.com/ZY3tZ93M echo $SHELL returns /bin/false

an ls command indicates this dir only contains a prog.sh.

http://ideone.com/lJpkGwHV catting it doesn't work.
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