skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was a practicing Buddhist for several years in the early 2000s and did this - it worked (mostly). The downside was, as you suggest, that I lost my inspiration and personality (and ended up almost broke).

but non-stop mental chatter is a sign of disease -- in that your mind is not at ease.

It once irritated me enough that I ended up in front of some sort of mental health practitioner. They came up with some things that involved taking poisonous metals as a "cure" but I privately went to a meta-cognitive therapist instead.

The result was that I can now "ignore" the errant part of my mind with the more usual, conscious "executive" part (I don't know all the terminology, sorry) but enjoy the fruits and spontaneity of what the uncontrollable side has to offer when I choose. It works, because I couldn't be much happier or productive now! :-)

I spoke with friends who had depression and were taking reasonably pedestrian drugs like Prozac, and while they were "happier" in the typical sense, ultimately they were less satisfied with life because the drugs dampened their vitality in a way they couldn't define.

(I know, a serious overshare, but that's part of the deal ;-) I suspect the majority of people have these sorts of issues at times, but society has entrained most people to keep it under wraps.)
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Oh this will be interesting on the 3G iPad. $30/mo 3G VOIP?
The shell doesn't need to be multithreaded to be scheduled; after the fork, there are multiple processes, not multiple threads. The shell that exec's cat is in a different process to the one that exec's $filter.
or 'River Crabbed'

http://meiguozi.blogspot.com/2009/03/harmonious-crab.html
I've been using DuckDuckGo for a week or so, and it seems pretty good. I like their privacy terms, and it makes a change from using Google. Search results seem quite satisfactory, and there a few nice features which Google doesn't have, although I expect in time they will probably imitate.
If done well, and in an equally engaging way, I could see this becoming popular again with the same people who read the CYOA series as kids.
Wow. I searched for my startup and it immediately came up with a breakout box for "<name> (Startup)" with additional links to our VC, a crunchbase profile, and more. That's actually better than Google in semantic relevance.
this isn't an example of pure functional gluing together a bunch of external data sources and sinks.
Those are some good reasons. I like the way disambiguation is done, however it's aesthetically annoying. It feels like I'm using a search engine made by Fisher Price. For me to switch from Google would require a cleaner interface.
We hear about failure that leads to eventual success, but not failure that only leads to more failure.
Good point. I'll push even further. I need to find a good interviewer who'll help me figure out how to get guests to remember the steps that led to big epiphanies.
I just started seeing traffic from DDG in the past few weeks or so, cool = )
Well done Gabriel. I'd love to read an article on how you created this, the problems you faced and your thoughts on the future of search.

I think it would be fascinating!
You just need to lay a few down the west side and wait for radioactive winds to take care of everyone else, but yeah, you have a point. I think most people vastly overestimate the blast radius of nuclear weapons.

A 1 megaton nuclear bomb detonated near the surface has a blast radius of about 1.7 miles. Pretty much nothing is left within this circle. Meaningful lethal damage only continues out to about 2.7 miles.

A 1.7 mile radius translates to roughly 9 mi^2. A 2.7 mile radius is roughly 23 mi^2. To carpet bomb New Hampshire, you'd need a lot of nukes. About 988 of them in fact.

Now 25 megatons is more interesting... you'd need about 68 of those to ensure <2% survival rate, or 25 of them if you are satisfied with <50% survival rate.

Of course, with good placement and strong winds, you could effectively kill 99% with only about 12-15 one megaton bombs. All that radioactive dust from the mushroom cloud comes down somewhere, and with a 15mph wind, that means a lethal dose within 90 miles of ground zero,

Source: http://www.nationalterroralert.com/nuclear/
I'm curious, did marrying her end up curbing your ambition or making you complacent?
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This is a recent one from Science that got a good amount of press when it came out: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/326/5951/404
For the most part, the CCP and their decisions have been largely credited for China's stellar growth.

That's the point I'm trying to make. The CCP and their decisions have been credited for China's stellar growth because the CCP say it is so. I get the impression more than anything else that the policies related to kaifang (funny how they use house in that word) is the primary cause for China's growth. Everything else the CCP does is secondary to just the plain economic power you unleash by opening up China to the global market.

It makes perfect sense, of course, for the CCP to lay claim to all the growth. But just because it's happening doesn't mean it's happening because of them. You don't take credit for your boat's speed; not when said boat is on a particularly fierce river. You may take credit for the control of said boat, though ... but I'm not sure if the CCP is efficient enough to do more than the minimum on that. Particularly so with the bureaucracy and the corruption that is endemic to the system at the moment.

If the river dries up (which it won't) the CCP will find out just how efficient their policies really are. And then - and only then - they can argue that they're responsible for economic growth. All I'm saying is that right now it just seems that they're protected from their mistakes by the sheer power of their growing economy; and therefore you can't argue that the CCP's policies are good simply because China's economy is good.
Or it implies that digg did a bad job.
He's making two separate points.

1) Video game developers should just go ahead and make games instead of going through a lengthy planning process.

I agree with this in the context of indie games, and I guess in the context of most games pre-1990 or so. I can't see this working with modern big-name games. (Some day it will, but at that point the modern big-name games will have moved on.)

2) Video games should have less text and go with other ways of conveying stuff.

This would be better written as "games which don't use much text can be lots of fun". I don't think a stronger thesis can easily be supported.

Zelda games since Link to the Past have used more text than the original, but they've also told stories that wouldn't have been possible without it.

Metroid Prime doesn't have much text unless you go around scanning things. But that's also where the plot comes from. The world is atmospheric by itself, but atmosphere doesn't tell us how the world came to be like it is.

I would love to see a story and characters as intricate as (say) Final Fantasy VI conveyed without much text, but I just don't see it happening.

There are games which can be communicated well without using text and there are those which can't. The author seems to be saying that the latter category either don't exist or are somehow less pure. I think a more reasonable argument would be that the former category deserves more exploration.
I call not having to live atop one of the mountains in the Presidential Range.
Thanks, I've been seeing references to DuckDuckGo for the past few months, but I'm going to try using exclusively this for the next week and see how it works out :P
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The other interesting thing is that Warren tried to work for Graham straight after graduation. Graham essentially said no until years later when Graham finally offered Buffett a job.
Traditionally people have fewer children when they move into cities.
That's exactly what I thought when I first heard the term: something like Safari's Private Browsing on steroids.

It would be nice when I'm demoing something on my home laptop at work and I type is bellingham.craigslist.org if /cas wouldn't immediately pop up as a suggestion.
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I use it on my iPhone, dropped my unlimited plan to 450 minutes, saves $30/month Toktumi is only $15/month so saves $180/year and now I can actually use my iPhone at home. Very cool app, going to test on my iPod one of these days too.
What about the unfounded rumours related to the Cupertino chaps building/buying a search engine? Duck Duck Go + a splash of brushed aluminium...

Might as well get the chatter started :P
Sounds like a great idea for a research project: Correlation Between Hotness of Girl and Magnitude of Avalanche.
This is great publicity for Line2, assuming Apple doesn't decide to remove their app from the App Store due to the attention this article will bring to them.
I'd like to trash the article for its poor layout and being overly talkative and inadequately rockative, but I think others are doing a fine job of that.

Instead, an observation: many of the best video games I've played became "best" because the creators' "talk" was usually in the context of lots of "rock". That is, they built the games and then played the games an awful lot. They didn't just play to find bugs or make sure the game was stable; they played for the joy of the game. Then they talked about how to tweak the game as well as how to monetize it, advertise it, etc. from the perspective of people who loved playing the game.

Some recent games have added detailed player stats to that mix. Developers love playing the games, and they track what their players are doing to see what the broader community seems to love about the game. When they end up talking about game tweaks, they have large amounts of data to help guide their understanding.
I've been impressed with the Smit and excited someone's selling them, rebranded or no. I'll probably give this guy a shot when my birthday rolls around and report back.
Doesn't this only exist because the Rails project's Google Summer of Code application was denied this year?: http://twitter.com/rails/status/10685448004
If we filled the entire area of the United States with that population density, we could fit 132.8 billion people!
So every time you strap on your beacon, you say to yourself "Remember rosser: be safe, no girls!"
Many Americans lack respect for cultures that are not considered European.

I am an exception to that generalization. I have devoted much of my life to the study of Chinese culture and language, and have lived overseas for years at a time. But what I know about the Chinese people I know is that they too like good governance and freedom, and I hope they get more of each in the coming generation.
Mine too. My initial (naive) thought on developing something like this would be to have advanced users perform the tasks that I wanted to automate, and recording the series of actions that they took to perform the task so I could analyze it and try to find the patterns.

How is something like this actually developed?
Just because there's overlap in the problem domains the two classes of tools can be used for does not make them fully interchangeable. If you use a NoSQL tool for transaction processing, you're probably doing it wrong; if you use an RDBMS to house vast amounts of schema-less data, you're probably also doing it wrong. Yes, exceptions exist for every rule, but in the grand Venn diagram of applicability of NoSQL and RDBMSen, there are huge areas that don't overlap. You ignore those areas at your own peril.
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Just curious: why is the search engine called Duck Duck Go? Any reasons to the name?

Update: found on Wikipedia - Some reporters have called the Duck Duck Go name silly or inappropriate for a search engine. When questioned about the name, founder Gabriel Weinberg has explained, "really it just popped in my head one day and I just liked it. It is certainly influenced/derived from Duck Duck Goose, but other than that there is no relation, e.g. a metaphor." The company's FAQ says something similar
That is kind of obvious. B*tches love it when I bring out my queen early.
rdiff-backup does (more or less) the same thing, but is simpler to use, as far as i can tell (i switched from rsync to rdiff-backup about a year ago, and haven't looked back).
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I was thinking more of 'we just bombed 50 civilians in Afghanistan and we are very sorry.' kind of information.

Or 'we have captured someone in Albania today, flew him to Latvia to get tortured, but it turns out it was the wrong guy. We have let him go and we are very sorry. Our government will pay him some restitution for the harm caused.'.

Then our citizens will start to ask questions. 'How come our government is doing that?', 'Why not bring them to trial?', 'What about world court? should they hold the trial instead?', 'What are our tax dollars used for?' and other such discussions.

I think a lot of this information will not compromise national security, but it is compromising our image internationally. And I think that is why it is hidden. It is shameful and wrong. Not because it can be used to launch rockets or crack our cyber-security.
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Even with the UK's very limited nuclear arsenal (compared to the US and Russia) it would be capable of wiping out the whole population of the US using its American-sold MIRV's.

One nuclear launch can easily land well over a dozen nukes with considerable tonnage.

The real question is what's more cost effective 1000 1-megaton nukes or 70 25-megatons? 1000 megaton total vs 1750 megaton total.
Note that this is not a jail-broken iPhone. This is a regular iPhone with latest OS with code signing.
(Not read the article, apologies if I miss something.)

>They take more risks because it works.

Agreed.

>I doubt it has anything to do with testosterone, and much more to do with perceived reward

This makes it seem like a conscious decision, which I don't buy. "Pretty woman will like me" is just one more factor in the risk/reward calculation, which is made subconsciously.

I would say it's more likely that testosterone is one variable in the risk/reward calculation, and is released in the presence of pretty women (among other things) because that turns out to be what works.
Klicknation Inc, for which I am a product manager, is hiring.

Our flagship product is Superhero City, a Facebook game. You may wonder if a Facebook game can support a whole (small) company, and my answer would be a resounding 'yes'.

So if you love games and you're willing to work in Sacramento, CA, you should send us a resume.

Our next game, another Facebook RPG, will feature some really cool stuff that nobody has ever done before on Facebook.

We don't officially have any openings right now, but if your resume is good I will personally bother our CEO until you at least get an interview.

http://apps.facebook.com/superherocity/

http://www.klicknation.com/site/jobs.html

Email resumes to me at aaron@klicknation.com and I will forward them to the appropriate people. Make sure to mention Hacker News so I know the resume is not completely unsolicited.

-Aaron
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I'd say yes, but so what? If people want to give students mentors and $5000 to work on summer projects that could ultimately help the Ruby ecosystem overall, that's pretty cool. Everyone benefits. The fact that it's sponsored by the community is even better.

I'm for anything that helps students learn. Google sponsorship means very little to me when it comes to that.
For those unfamiliar with what this is about, I found this page helpful: http://cuiltheory.wikidot.com/what-is-cuil-theory

(It is a joke aimed at the search engine Cuil, in reference to the irrelevant results that often appear for searches).
I see the comments in this thread (several of them) are going off on the issue of the author's description of the 被 construction as "passive voice." It really isn't. The author was writing for an English-speaking audience and tried to make an analogy to something familiar to English speakers. But the Chinese language actually doesn't have the category of voice in its verbal system at all, and the 被 construction is better described as an "adversative" construction. I learned this from the authoritative Chinese grammar textbook by the late Chinese linguist Y. R. Chao while an undergraduate student of Chinese.

In Chinese in the most recent century, mistranslation of Western writings with passive voice constructions by the 被 construction (whether or not the Western passive constructions have an adversative meaning) tempts a lot of casual observers to suppose that today's Chinese uses 被 simply as a marker of passive voice. But I have many times tried out, as part of personal linguistic fieldwork, newly composed sentences that use 被 as a straight-up translation of normally grammatical sentences in English, and the Chinese sentences are regarded as ungrammatical unless the 被 construction can plausibly be construed as adversative.

(I just Googled for a good Web reference about this, but didn't find one quite to my satisfaction.)
Thinking about it further, it's also horseshit even if you wanted to entertain the notion of "oneness". The App Store has been around only a fraction of the time that the iPhone has.
For comparison, if Canada had a similar population density to England, you would fit its entire population onto the island of Newfoundland (not the province of Newfoundland and Labrador). Interestingly, Newfoundland was intended to be an independent country. This would leave the whole mainland of Canada (the worlds 2nd largest country) devoid of habitation.
Duck Duck Go is a game we played in elementary school. It has to do with a bunch of kids sitting in a big circle, and one kid chasing another around it. I can delve more into the rules if you want ...

I don't know how this relates to the search engine though.
There's two absolutely vital question to ask here.

Was it the guys or the girl(s) who died most of the time?

Did they rule out the guys trying to protect the girl?

They are entirely logical assumptions to make, but if you're trying to show something you shouldn't assume.
It's quite clear that the Google Voice rejection had nothing to do with app itself.
Interesting indeed. In my book that smells like the 'unfair trade practices' type of interesting.
Nothing wrong with holding them responsible or voting them out if that's what the people decide. I just believe if you get elected to govern it's really irresponsible to spend your time running for re-election the whole time. If they don't stop focusing exclusively on making everything "his Waterloo!" the American people won't trust them to govern. I don't want to see a one party system but it seems like we're heading in that direction due to their political miscalculations. Even the hype now around November is pretty unrealistic. There just aren't really enough weak Democrats up for re-election in the Senate to "repeal it!" so they're setting themselves up for a big political failure 8 months before an election they might actually do well in otherwise.
Taking bets on how soon this app will be ejected from the AppStore. Especially considering:

The Line2 app is a carbon copy, a visual clone, of the iPhone’s own phone software.
http://soaw.org/

There are still yearly protests there despite the name change.
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But what next?

Same as always, people who have good reason to prefer the states over their country of birth will try to come here.
Some will succeed. Most of those will be run of the mill folks. Some will be great, some will be tragic.
I've never changed my default search engine...here goes nothing!
It does not seem that obvious to me. Yes men will try to impress women but why do they seem to do it with risky behavior? One may suggest that it may be better evolution wise to try to impress women with steady and dependable behavior. (It turns out you can only impress their mothers this way.)
Good post. I've never quite figured out how "users shouldn't have to mess with their devices to get them to work" became conflated with "users shouldn't be allowed to mess with their devices". Especially when the company most responsible for that idea produced Mac OS X, which is widely praised by both technical and nontechnical users.
This is an amazing feature. The tree was removed perfectly. Cannot wait to see CS5
Thank you for that reference. That led me by hyperlink to this

http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/awq019v1

and the link here draws a distinction that I think is important, the distinction between injury and pain. The paradox of pain, as this article says, is that patients with severe injury have little pain, while other patients with possibly no injury at all have severe pain. Granting that sham treatments (placebos) can reduce patient perception of pain, how do we establish that they produce more healing of injury, more consistently, than the passage of time as the body's evolutionarily selected healing mechanisms work?
If you're having trouble understanding passive voice, then think of it this way:

The passive voice means that you don't actually have to put in the person/thing doing the action, and the sentence will be gramatically correct and complete.

See these examples:

Active: The burgler robbed the bank.
Passive: The bank was robbed by the burgler.
Passive - doing person: The bank was robbed.
Note: You can't do this with the active voice, unless you say "someone robbed the bank".

Active: I ate the cake.
Passive: The cake was eaten by me.
Passive - doing person: The cake was eaten.

I hope this makes sense?
I can't recall where I heard the expression: "Marriage turns of genius like a tap."
http://www.dirvish.org/ and http://rsnapshot.org/ are both wrappers around rsync that do exactly this. Eventually, though, I switched to http://duplicity.nongnu.org/ for the network backends and the encryption.
Cuil :). Seriously though, please let me know how it goes.
Another contributing factor was the lack of modern medicine. Plenty of communicable diseases exist today, and residents of dense neighborhoods are doing fine. If a disease kills too fast for a treatment to be discovered in time to prevent many deaths, it will probably be killing too fast to spread effectively. Swine flu killed ~14,000 people worldwide, so I'd put dying from an outbreak of a deadly disease at the same level of probability as a man-made disaster like terrorism. In other words, not likely enough to be of much concern.
The text in your quotation marks reads to me like a religious pro-celibacy statement, while incidentally sounding like a pro-homosexuality statement. You may have just added another link to the long held belief of mine that the religious right are simply self-denying homosexuals.
The Terminator: [to John] What's the dog's name?

John Connor: Max.

The Terminator: [impersonating John's voice] Hey Janelle, what's wrong with Wolfie? I can hear him barking.

T-1000 impersonating Janelle: Wolfie's fine, honey, Wolfie's just fine. Where are you?

The Terminator: [hangs up the phone] Your foster parents are dead.

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