skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, in a way, doesn't Apple's Spotlight provide a kind of tag/search based file system?

For what it's worth, my answer to your actual question is that for a large number of people and cases, the folder metaphor works well. You have individual items (files, pictures, songs, etc.) which belong in one bin. When you want that item, you open that bin. It's a real-life scenario that we all make use of every day (consider a refrigerator or a drawer with clothing, for example)

I'm not saying it's perfect, and certainly it would often be better or easier to be able to say "show me all the files that are (1) in Ruby and (2) have a certain method name" rather than "show me all the files in this bin." But folders are not too complex and cover a lot of essential cases.
They didn't have wagons. Only businesses that needed to haul things, or the very rich, could afford the space and money to keep animals in cities. Everyone else just lived in places that were compact enough that it was practical to walk everywhere.
I think any martial arts taken seriously is good for you. You realize that mastery comes w/ only years of practice and don't develop that short sightedness of thinking you will hit a homerun on your first time (competing). My martial arts training has tempered my own patience. If I get impatient as to why I am not getting something already, I go back to what I tell my own students: If you haven't done it a 1000 times yet, it's ok that it's not great yet, don't be frustrated. Practice practice practice.
I guess we both agree on the long term trend and at this point, that's all that really matters.

But the task of creating highly reliable industrial robots is really quite difficult and quite a bit more expensive than $50,000. We have 12 robots in our facility and the field testing and applications testing process for a similar facility elsewhere is taking approximately 2 years and counting. This doesn't include the entire development and specification process of developing the robots as well as the control systems. Each robotic system is upwards of $5,000,000.

A lot of this cost comes from the additional points of failure. Large systems are prone to failures due to small, cascading errors. This necessitates a larger testing and development period.

This is different I'm sure for other industries however. The cost of a failure is exponentially greater in pharmaceutical manufacturing as compared to other forms of manufacturing. Its possible that costs could be much lower in other industries where the cost of a failure is reduced.
So flag it.
Parking within buildings is still lousy because it is very hard to build buildings that have the necessary doors and ramps for car access and still have any space left over for an active-use ground floor. Without active uses at sidewalk level, the streets are dead and you might as well drive everywhere anyway.
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What Comes After the iPad?
I'm not sure how you saw this sentence: "Washington likes to take money away from the winners and give it to the incumbent losers that bribe lawmakers." and thought that Goldman was an example of the former rather than the latter.
"Apple could easily run the factory itself. If this meant a loss in profit then we must ask ourselves why it would mean a loss in profit. It would mean a loss in profit because Apple itself would never run a factory that was unsafe or exploited the workers. And this is the reason Apple and other Western companies share in the blame."

This is a fallacious and ignorant argument. To understand why, stop and consider why things like AWS and Google Apps exist, just for starters. Then think about why Apple doesn't own their own cargo ships for international distribution, and why Apple uses FedEx rather than driving their own delivery trucks. There's no essential reason that manufacturing is any different. Apple's a design, development, and marketing company, not a manufacturing company. They don't know shit about manufacturing and they wouldn't be able to accomplish much by hiring the people who do.

If you'd really rather buy a laptop from a company that runs their own manufacturing, buy a Lenovo. Of course, they're manufactured in China, and Lenovo doesn't do anything to audit the labor practices of their own factories, so we'll never know what goes on in there. But at least they're not evading responsibility for things they'll never tell us about.
Where are the corrections for population growth? I think the OP's claim might be true, but their case is not watertight.

A quote: "The real issue is manufacturing employment, which is dropping like a stone. And the reason for the drop is an increase in productivity." ...Really? Maybe it's only part of the reason? Macroeconomic phenomena are complex. 538 should be better than this! Give me nuanced analysis, with intellectually-honest qualifiers.
FYI, nowadays if you have more than one [I think 2 is the number] of priority mail items, you can request a USPS pickup!
The real problem isn't that the line ignores cognitive research, it's that the rest of the essay is built around a statement that is on fundamentally shaky logical ground. See fallacy of equivocation. The OP intentionally misinterpreted 'achievement' in the context of video games (simple trophies or indicators that you're playing a game in the intended way) and applied the abstract, idealized meaning of achievement instead.

While I more or less agree with the intent of his essay, writing that's based bad analogies and fallacious statements just end up sounding like fluff.
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"You need to research Eclipse Phase, the RPG.

Scratch that, your ignorance is startling."

How so? Because you don't agree with me and the only thing you can attempt to do to silence me is to call me ignorant?

DRM did not exist during the Napster days. This is a fact. Piracy was rampant during this time. The industry didn't make the right decision by trying to sue everyone that shared a song, but people have no right to complain when companies smarten up and start adding more and more protection.

you have given me one example of one game that may or may not even add anything to our discussion.

Think of it this way: Do you actually think game companies want to add more protection to their games? It adds more complications, costs more money, and many times increases development time.

I don't believe that piracy is stealing. It's counterfeiting, which is much worse than theft. If Toshiba starts getting televisions stolen, their product value isn't really effected by that one product that is stolen (they can always sell more at the original price and people won't expect it to pay less). However, if a company's product is shared on the Internet, It can eventually destroy the product line. Not only that, if it has a virus or the crack doesn't work properly it can and will make the original developers look bad. Also, people start to expect that the software will be free in the future.

Everything digital is only worth what people are willing to pay. If most people can do a simple Google search and find your product for $0, less people will be willing to actually pay for it, devaluing your product over time. It's funny how so many people say piracy has no direct relation to sales yet when I disable a crack that I found for any app I am selling, my sales increases by 15-20% (and sales decrease over time when more and more cracks are available). I have heard this from other software developers.
I wouldn't say that scientists are uncorrupted or incorruptible, but it happens in degrees!

Actually, I think that the climate science indicates more that we're likely to move out of a regime of the easily predictable, based on empirical data. I think that the science shows that there's a rather likely possibility of severe climate change, though I don't put much faith in the specific effects.

The trouble is that our models can't simulate the response of the biospheres or of the human beings living in them. These are possibly the most important feedback effects -- certainly they are the ones we should be most interested in, if we want to imagine how climate change might effect life, but they are also incredibly difficult to model, since the responses usually can't be figured out from first principles. (Apparently some of our best data on the topic comes from a project involving giant heat lamps blasting on a microclimate. People thought it was crazy but it's our only decent source of direct data.)

Climate denialists rarely get to this level. Some claim climate change isn't happening, some claim we're not responsible, and some deny either the predicted effects or how bad they'll be. However, as I argue in my essay on Climate Change Skeptics (http://daniellefong.com/2009/10/11/climate-change-skeptics/) we should have a much higher standard of proof for the absence of severe effects and the absence of harm before we make such drastic changes to the Earth's atmosphere, biosphere, and primary cooling mechanism.

Incidentally, CO2 based climate change is only one part of it. (for example, even take a look at N2O and CH4 (methane) concentrations over time http://www.grida.no/publications/other/ipcc_tar/?src=/climat... http://www.grida.no/publications/other/ipcc_tar/?src=/climat...) There are hardly any temperate rainforests left, the coral reefs are dying, one quarter of the Earth's photosynthesis is in our food chain, and 90% is in anthropogenic bioemes: ecologies that human forces have largely shaped, we are depleting mineral resources and aquifers much larger than they are replenished or found, we fix more nitrogen than all other life combined, and the mass extinctions of the past have largely been driven by life-based changes to the atmosphere (see this TED talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/peter_ward_on_mass_extinctions.html).

PS: It's "she", actually.
"Seriously, who the hell asks their suppliers if they have been audited by other clients?"

Who says anyone asked? If I was the only company auditing my suppliers, they would probably say "I don't understand why you're doing this; none of our other clients have ever audited us."
A good read.
Summary: Through failures, learn the ability to ship arts (work that matters) and ship them.
Were it possible, a laser sniper rifle would be an intermediary step. Of course, in both these cases, deniability is difficult when you're the only one with the technology.
Perhaps this is Microsoft, or someone who works there, thumbing their nose(s) at the EU - after all, what monopolistic corporation wouldn't be bitter at not having been able to buy out such an influential quasi-government organization [edit: and, worse, be forced to advertise on behalf of one's competitors]?

Don't get me wrong: I'm no fan of MS or IE. But I can see why they might deliberately fail to implement this correctly. [edit: ...]
Amen.

Also, although some of the quasi-planned economies (where "winners" were picked and subsidized) in Asia have been remarkably successful, it doesn't necessarily follow that the relationship is causative, or that they wouldn't have been successful anyway, had that selection process not happened.

A lot happened in the 20th century in Asia that keeps it from being a repeatable experiment, much less a model that can be followed elsewhere. The effects of WWII and the consequent rebuilding on Japan, and urbanization and the so-called "demographic dividend" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_dividend) on many other countries in the area, shouldn't be underestimated.
Open Wi-Fi 'outlawed' in Digital Economy Bill
All the major games publishers do it but they don't make the results public.
Turning compare into a coin flip is a fun way to illuminate the underlying algorithm.

IE is said to use a heap/tree related sort[1]. The first thing a heapsort does is swap the last entry with the the front (where the front may have been swapped in the heapify step[2]). Thereafter it leaves the last entry alone.

Since the first entry in the unshuffled array is "Internet Explorer" if it survives the initial comparison it will always occupy the last (5th) place.

The other algorithms don't have a case with only one compare which is why they have more complicated distributions.

[1] - http://www.smallapple.net/rnd/art/how_does_your_browser_sort...

[2] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heapsort
Jiu-Jitsu is one of the more practical martial arts, since it's much closer to its street-fighting origins. Krav Maga stretches the definition of 'martial art' for some people, because of its focus on practicality, lack of formal competitions, and complete disregard for the safety of the person you're attacking. Jiu-Jitsu has the sometimes-useful property of generally being less-than-lethal, although the majority of the techniques have a high chance of causing lasting, sometimes permanent, damage.

In terms of relations to programming: Krav Maga has a heavy focus on edge cases, and a "good enough" philosophy. Jiu-Jitsu focuses on perfecting a smaller number of core cases.
i use this one http://focused.googlecode.com/
I use DarkRoom ( http://they.misled.us/dark-room ) on Windows, which is going to be open source if enough people can harass the author. He simply hasn't gotten around to releasing it yet: http://github.com/jjafuller/DarkRoomW
As others have mentioned BJJ because...
1. A weaker opponent can take down a much stronger/bigger one using leverage and his mind
2. It's comparable to chess or a mental sport

For a striking example of #1 see this video where Royce Gracie (6'1" 180 lbs) defeats Legendary Sumo Grand Champion Akebono (6'8" 486 lbs) using BJJ. I can't imagine that being possible with any other style of martial arts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POJ2T023M4I
how would this work? maybe 'pay to access it early' or something? then the content comes out from behind the paywall as it ages?

I don't know, but it's an interesting idea.
> Do you actually think game companies want to add more protection to their games?

Depends. DRM allows companies to do things like region-coding (i.e. market segregation) and also to do things like make a product obsolete, forcing the user to buy an upgrade to continue to use the product (i.e. combat 'abandonware' or 'emulator' movements that try to keep old games around; b/c then you can sell back the same product to people multiple times).
What if Apple had called the iPod the 'Apple MP3 Player'? via Evan Williams http://evhead.com/2007/03/brandonomics.asp
Heh, that reminded me of this practical self defense oriented approach:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2REG3-Wb5gM

"First you're going to want to get wrist control. Then, you pull out your gun."
I also agree.

I've started training in judo a couple of years back. I love it and I recommend it to everyone.
If you're not concerned with practicality at all, Capoiera is worth a look. It's a much slower martial art (especially Angola), and tends to focus more on prediction and setting the other player up. How movements flow into each other is a significant consideration as well. I wouldn't ever use it in a fight. But it's more approachable as a casual interest.
Works. Thank you. Search plug-in in FF works fine too.
Agreed.

I find martial arts discussions funny. More often than not it's a bunch of people arguing over which one is the "best" in a "real-world fight", which usually degrades into arguments over what "real-world fights" are like, because none of them has ever actually been in one. But it's pretty silly: I know I'd have fun in any martial art right now. If I wanted to know how to fight someone for real, I'd study some form of military combat.
Wow. Thanks. :)
I really like this thread for its information content about different styles. I have a few general comments:

- The school/teacher is much more important than the style. Make sure you find a teacher than is not profit oriented or arrogant. Signs of a bad teacher: has his face on the wall, has his name on the school, won't talk to you when you visit, tolerates bad attitude amongst his students.

- Martial-arts is essentially applied classical mechanics. Leverage, angle, distance, bone structure, hip turning... make sure people explain this to you instead of talking about tigers, praying mantii or age old traditions.

- practice horse stance on your own: it's the shit !
http://images.google.ca/images?q=horse+stance

- I highly recommend wing chun kung fu. You learn a few basic moves and then you can combine them like lego pieces. Check out these doods controlling the space in front of them in a RELAXED manner: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFuqC6CTKV8
the age when writers wrote for money is over (if it was ever here) Sure, for some, the pittance they are paid makes the difference between needing a dayjob and not, but I think as distribution of writing approaches free, you will see more and more of the writers who are writing for fame rather than money (like myself) publishing directly for free.

Now, I went through a conventional publisher for my last book, and I think they earned their money; they helped a whole lot with editing, and they got the book into nearly every suitable store that I've sampled (I'm so tickled when I go to fry's and see my book on the shelf)

but I never expected (and the publisher never promised) that i'd make anything like reasonable money off it. I didn't take an advance, so my co-author and I split 15% of the wholesale price (1/2 of the cover price) the first run was 4000 books, and the information therein has a short shelf life (it's not obsolete yet, but it will be in a year)

For the second edition, I'm kinda toying with the idea of releasing a free 'e-copy' in text or PDF after we've passed X revenue (Sure, I'm not doing this for the money, but the publisher is, and having them onboard and engaged results in more credibility for me.)
Windows 7's Libraries address this exact problem.
Jim Brown in "One Down, Two To Go" (1982):

"I may not know kung fu, but I'm an expert in gun fu."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086051/quotes
Would you mind posting your config? I'm a bit of an emacs noob but I would love to be able to do this.
This is actually quite a good article, thank you. It does a very good job of separating out the varied concerns of climate skeptics from each other: from those with a specific issue within climate science from those who primarily have a political agenda.
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There's a comment like this for every article. Maybe someday al-Qaeda terrorists will genetically engineer a plague virus that turns everybody into "28 Days Later"-style zombies. Somebody will be here saying, "breaking news - Islamists don't like us."

This is actually a little more significant than finding some side effects. It means that the daily aspirin they've been telling us to take for decades may actually be worse than useless.
The author is ignoring a very fundamental concept: Ideas are as cheap as the transmission medium

20 years ago, the two cheapest ways to mass-transmit ideas were television and newspapers. With the Television, advertising dollars allowed the user to buy the connection and get content for free. The newspaper model required the consumer to buy both the content AND the supply chain, but the costs were low enough and advantages large enough that newspapers prospered.

Now we have the Internet, and content follows the Television cost model. Ideas have little markup now - server costs, bandwidth, and time. And time isn't even worth that much! If you demand the user to pay you for your time, you're up against thousands of people screaming on their own soap boxes for free. Are you really offering something so special that someone couldn't get it on a site sponsored by advertising?

The future WILL be free because sites have already figured out how to monetize free with advertising money. If the dead-tree papers can't figure it out soon, they're going to find themselves with a big paywall and no eyeballs. For instance, it's very telling that Murdoch sites still show their 'paywall' content if you're referred by Google News
Expansion in my head:

The Functional Programming Guide to Climate Skeptics :)
Personally, I'd like to see a system where the language of a character is colorized in the browser. This way, the mixed script spoofing [1] would highlight the first example's "o" in a different color, as it comes from greek text instead of ASCII. It should be an always-on system, so when an entire URL is in a different-but-similar-looking-to-your-language text, it'd be highlighted differently. The system / browser's "main" language wouldn't need to be highlighted, but all others should, to make other languages easily visible.

That, and always having a "punycode" translation available would be useful, and browsers should use the browsing history to point out similar-looking URLs that are different. I'd imagine such a similarity-mapping on UTF-16 exists, though at worst case it could just graphically compare the characters.

[1] http://unicode.org/reports/tr36/tr36-8.html#Mixed_Script_Spo...
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I take ibuprofen every day, because I get a headache every day. 2 GP's and a psychiatrist have told me this is no big deal, but stories like this always bother me.
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I thought the username and password was a good choice for this test. There really wasn't that much of a difference in phrasing between Patrick's form and the Huffduffer form. The most likely explanation for the drop off is the difference in the audience these sites are made for.

As far as design decisions like these go, the data doesn't say anything on an absolute scale about the merits of one form versus the other, but it does tell us which is more effective for a particular audience in a particular context.
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This is a bitset we're talking about, not a hash map of any kind.
Yes, there is a herd-mentality where VC's will fund start-ups to enter a newly found market, but I believe what ahk is referring to, is that a VC would not create a company to compete with a company they've been pitched.

There are many reasons that most responsible VC's would not do this.
#1 being that if they are pitched effectively, they have somebody right there with the knowledge, passion and initiative to get going on the company.
Additionally, it could be detrimental to the VC's reputation to be seen as taking ideas from pitches.

At the same time, I've heard from a few VC's that they are constantly hearing VERY similar pitches for the same ideas again and again. The chance that you are bringing something completely unique is small. This is often why VC's will talk about investing in the people, rather than the idea. Along with the fact that start-ups will often completely change their product before it sees the light of day.
I have no idea where this is coming from. I mean, I know my share of naysayers, but this is America. We're told from day one "You're in America! You can be or do anything you set your heart and mind to!"

The American Dream isn't exactly an obscure phrase...

So, "brainwashed into believing you're average" is complete nonsense.
Seconded. I've only been doing it for about a year, but I really love fencing. It's the only sport I've done where I tend to laugh when the opponent scores a point because they out-clevered me.
A simple (but highly controversial) solution to eliminating terrorism on planes.
Doesn't the article give the anecdotal evidence? Data domain and Zimbra are some big number acquisitions.
Also, consider the number of companies that VC's are pitched via non-EIR's vs pitched by EIR's, and I would say the numbers are favorable if not equal that an EIR is as good as a scrappy and resourceful founder.