skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm disappointed. I was all ready to make at bulletproof shirt. These instructions are not easy to follow at all. Anyone have a good recipe for "black solution of boron"? Also, my oven apparently does not go to 1000. Disappointing indeed.
The most helpful hint for this came to me from Tyler Cowen at marginalrevolution -- he puts down books he's not interested in. If you're reading something and it's a chore and you don't like it, switch what you're reading. You can't possibly read everything "worthwhile" in your lifetime, so you might as well concentrate on things you like. You'll fit more in that way.
Wait, you're saying the WSJ app does not cost $17.99 per month as reported? You're saying it's free with the $1.99 per week website subscription? Did people just make up the $17.99?
The iPad and gaming consoles share the same closed ecosystem, tight control of hardware, etc.
No solution suites all problems. Does it even need to be mentioned?

SQL is not a particularly well thought-out language Uhm, that not a very substantiative argument - care to clarify? Bear in mind that the structure of the language is 100% dictated by the Relational Algebra - form follows function to the letter. And the very constraints that algebra puts on what you can do are the same constraints that allow the system to function based on your intent, so that you don't need to define or in most cases even chose the algorithms. The only wiggle room you have in designing a language based on relational algebra is the choice of tokens and ordering of language constructs (e.g. FROM before SELECT of after). So?
ASP.NET: Using conditionals in data binding expressions
Reminds me of the only large quake I was in: about a 7.1 in Southern Cali. For weeks beforehand, the floating mirror in our bedroom set periodically rattled strangely. I was like "WTF? Is that our neighbor's toddler jumping on the master bed or something???" It was bizarre and baffling. After the quake, when the rattly mirror finally made sense, I joked I was going to go visit relatives on the East Coast for the duration if the mirror ever did that again.
It is surprising, because the 3.2 Seed only ran in the simulator, which is completely different than a real device.
No one who says the quoted above will be treated seriously around here. Yet the other one seems to be entirely acceptable.
I don't get it, it isn't like they're trying to relicense the software or something, the point of OSS is that you are free to examine/enhance/use the software as you see fit. "Unsupported" software is really the norm as far as I'm concerned. As an Ubuntu user I've never used songbird as rhythmbox has always been "good enough" and amarok has been an interesting "upgrade".
This is ironic timing for me. For more than five years I haven't read a single fiction book. Recently, I saw more than a few articles on being well-read and they all offered convincing arguments. I also enjoy how this linked article points to the positive social factors related to fiction. This was an area I found myself lacking and after being further convinced that reading fiction: the art of being deeply immersed in a book's story, often relating to or putting one's self in the situation, can reduce stress - I decided to make a change.

Recently, driving by the local library, my wife asks "what are you getting?", to which I replied, "I think it's time I start getting back in touch with the classics." I quickly picked up and read Of Mice and Men and The Pearl. I never knew how good these books were, books that I once read in high school and at the time never understood and ultimately despised having to read. My next read from the late Steinbeck will be Grapes of Wrath.

Lately though, I've been addicted to Vince Flynn's political thriller novels, and having never read Clancy, some critics say he's a Clancy protege. Flynn's books are incredibly difficult to put down, in my opinion.

Today, I'm about 60/40 for non-fiction/fiction reading and I find myself happier in general. Sometimes at least for me, always reading non-fiction can get kind of bland. Reading fiction a waste of time? Unless it's someone's only form of reading, I wholeheartedly disagree and I'm glad I got back into them.
Why We Need More than more of same
Today it was reported that Apple may build its own search iPhone-centric search engine to keep valuable iPhone-user search data out of the hands of Google: http://bit.ly/bqrk9z

Why would Apple produce another search engine? Google is the default search engine on the iPhone and data about what iPhone users are searching for can help Google tailor software and services for its own mobile smartphone.

But is just another search engine valuable to consumers?

I say that as consumers we need something more:

Think: what is the next step from search engines? What if you could have a “Transaction Engine” that would allow you to type in your search and that then takes the search results and places the information sourced from multiple places into a coherent answer – like a self-forming Wikipedia.

Imagine - you have a legal question and you can place your question into a Transaction Engine so that it could ask you questions, and form say an agreement, essay, advice, ... from multiple sources of information.

Consequently, the Transaction Engine also acts as a learning– teaching device. Our website at http://1place.com.au/ has a question/answer expert system. Expert systems are known. However, a Transaction Engine would allow users to draw from the masses of information on the net - quite a different tool, which would be valuable in many contexts.

Would this provide us with something more than another search engine – I believe that it would.
And there's the 5.1 Aftershock. I didn't really feel it.
How can 15% = 25.4 million while 8% = 7.7 million?
Wait, wait, what? This thread ... huh?

It's weird to see someone you think of as writing in a genre that kind of combines Dostoevsky, Kafka, and Nabokov with an almost fanatic pleading for empathy and communion -- described as someone who writes puzzles and brain teasers!

He wrote great stuff about addiction, entertainment, alienation, human communication, depression; stuff that to at least one withdrawn academic prone to sadness and anxiety was enormously powerful and redemptive and transformative.

He was a cerebral guy, he studied formal logic and math; that doesn't make him nonhuman! Is language not a valid, "people" thing to write about? People do have "trouble communicating," people are affected by the culture of television, even "postmodernism" and "irony" and "solipsism" are relevant in a deep, basic human sense for lots of (confused, lost) people.

(Granted, his nonfiction pieces are what I like best -- every essay in A Supposedly Fun Thing is gold -- still, Oblivion, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Infinite Jest are powerful books, though sometimes tragic on many levels.)
For ordinary investors, the housing bubble was a tricky thing to play.

There were two public companies that had CDS portfolios where they stood to make a lot of money. A direct equity investment or LEAPS would have worked well there. I took this approach.

Alternatively, it seems like out the money puts on financial institutions would have done really well. Michael Lewis chronicles a few guys from Cornwall Capital that made something like 100:1 payouts on out the money puts for Bear Stearns. These guys crushed it when Bear went BK. This cheap insurance approach is used by a few really well known investors and it is the one I'm gravitating towards for the future.
Diet to Lose Weight Quickly
* it's fairly established that women tend to have bigger vocabularies than men; they do better on the verbal portions of the SATs and GREs, for instance.*

The only true generalization is that there are no true generalizations.

Example: I'm a male. My SAT score breakdown (taken in the 1980s): math 610, language 680. My four-year-old son recently took an IQ test and his language score was 145. Maybe we're not typical, but I'm not even sure the idea that most women have larger vocabularies than most men works. Why are so many of the world's greatest writers and speakers men?
The Quicktime-based GUI has become a lot more responsive, even as they've added more features. That was my main complaint -- the idea that a 2D UI should bring a 3 GHz processor to its knees.
I don't know, having seen the quality of some models programmers (including myself) have made... the barrier of entry for non-sucky 3d models seems larger... If you aren't lucky to work in an "A" grade game, odds are high that you'll never be able to do anything other than diddle.
This is just idle speculation, but I think people get turned off to fiction because they were forced to read classics in high school. Classics in high school are mostly useless unless you are particularly mature; I was not.

Rereading those books now is a bizarre experience. I remember reading Death of a Salesman a year back in a state of disbelief. It was something I remember absolutely hating in high school but six years later, I thought it was brilliant.
@sachinag: :( you are wrong. We should appreciate Michael Shynar for discovering this, else Shareaholic never mention this on their Firefox page.
I felt it in Encintas pretty well, ground was rolling.
Bikes aren't always a viable replacement - my parents travel with large (up to 100 pounds) instruments. Also, bikes are frequently a poor idea in inclement weather, making them non-ideal for things like transit to work if you've got a reasonable distance to travel. If I ride my bike to work, it's 15 miles - I won't bother in the rain. It'd be slower than any of my public transit options, and considerably less safe.
Take It to the Limit
News to me.
The sort of filtering this script employs is the same sort of filtering you apply by not reading the titles of every news article on every news site each day.

There are countless articles on countless news sites that you would love to read, and by not attempting to filter out the articles which you don't want to read, you're missing out on them. You should stop sticking your head in the sand and start trying to read the news more efficiently.
I agree, and I'm going to check out Clementine now. I forced myself to upgrade Amarok after they took 1.4 out of Portage. I've found it really doesn't play well with pulseaudio (forcing me to get rid of that), and there are some very weird quirks, but it's getting better. Just wish they'd put back the sorted-playlist-but-random-playing-order again (it was there in one of the older 2.x's...), instead of just randomizing the playlist.

Edit: And after checking out Clementine, I have to agree with the commenter below that it's not quite there yet.
Yeah okay.. sure, maybe they didn't HAVE to and so decided to increase their exposure becz AIG was AAA, but that doesn't mean that line is going to go on forever.

I think after $13B (I presume its around that figure as they got that money back from the government) of exposure GS decided to call them on it.

Maybe AIG should have not sold $13B of CDS that they couldn't collateralize. I don't see how that's GS problem.
TED: The wireless future of medicine
I wish there were more android apps for health monitoring. Fortunately, it looks like it's just a matter of time.
Maybe we're doing something different, but I cannot get my Nexus One to stay alive for longer than 5 hours with an active net connection. It if it's a low-traffic connection (calm IRC channels, occasional email polling) it will last a day (same with my G1) but streaming radio, etc will leave it dead in a long afternoon.
I took "hanging" metaphorically. Surely jail time or a heavy fine would serve a similar purpose?
No side-effect. No side-effect. SQL has no side-effect.

Now love it just like you love functional language.
For Gnome, I really like Decibel (http://decibel.silent-blade.org/). It does nothing but play music, which is exactly what I want in a music player.
"I want to become "well read," but I don't know where to start."

If you want to read and have both time and access to a library, becoming "well read" in some subject area is a given; just read. If you want to become well read in a subject area that does not interest you, think twice. So, what are your interests?
I have mult-tasking because I jailbroke.

Just as he says, Skype keeps getting killed when it's in the background so I can't depend on it for getting calls.
I have only 2nd, 3rd-hand information but, I thought it was every Chinese person's ultimate dream to own & run their own business.
I was just thinking this.

The example that got me was "iPhones need to be locked down to prevent viruses". Linux, Mac OS X and Android don't have virus problems. Apparently Windows 7 is better in this regard too.
Top heavy startups
Nursing books
I never really thought the barrier to entry for blender was that high. I tinkered in the blender codebase for a while and the code isn't that hard to understand. They've since made huge strides in code organization so it's even easier. Blender was my first real introduction to hacking on C code and I found the dev community very helpful and accommodating.
I completely agree with you on this, though I'm still a big fan of Microsoft over Apple.

Any company that treats their customers as criminals (or assumes they are stealing) doesn't deserve and clearly appreciate their customers.
Not true. Peter Schiff did predict collapse in Housing as well as in nasdaq. Now he predicts USD collapsing due to the US gov. defaulting on its debt or hyperinflating the currency to get rid of the debt.

You see Housing Bubble was just a single dot. You don't understand anything, if you understand just housing bubble. US is totally indebted and lived from a bubble to another bubble. The last bubble (current) is US debt.

Marc Faber, Jim Rogers, Peter Schiff predicted this crisis, nasdaq crisis and other. if you understand economics and sound money (i.e. GOLD), then these weren't surprises for you. The whole Austrian School of Economics has been predicting this mess for years. Any decent economist understands that USD is finished. US accumulated the biggest amount of debt in the history of the world. With no production... you don't need to be a genius to see that the only thing left for them is to print money. If printed money goes to stock, you got nasdaq bubble. If printed money goes to real estate you got housing bubble. If printed money goes to Treasuries - you get Government Debt bubble. Once this one bursts, no one will lend any more money to the US and this will mean hyperinflation. Turn off TV, turn on brain, buy gold.
As a Blender user myself I can say that it is very challenging to get started, but once you learn all the keyboard shortcuts things become very fast and easy to use. I feel that Blender gives me more control, even though learning it was rather hard.
I honestly don't think the WRT54G's success is in any way related to its hackability.

Hell, want to compare sales between the WRT54G and the WRT54GL - which is the marketed "hackable" version?

The WRT54G was successful because it was the cheapest brand-name wireless router money could buy - it was the Toyota Corolla of routers.
I disagree about the concept being broken: CPAN and Gems work on similar principles, except that the download step is reserved for a human running an explicit installer program. Add a filesystem cache and some digital signatures, i.e. an offline mode and some way of declaring "I expect this module to be signed with this trusted RSA key", and I think it would be workable.
There is no doubt that doing an MBA at somewhere like Harvard is a great networking tool. The question is how much of the benefit someone doing the course gains has anything to do with the MBA training, and how much is just a combination of confirmation bias (as you say, many people entering the course are already successful and somewhat experienced) and the networking effect (people tend to like other people like themselves, including bosses at big companies). How do we know the good people from any given year's MBA intake wouldn't have been just as successful without the MBA, had they found other means to network?
I don't think the children were ever in any danger. If anything, having to jailbreak the iPad is more of a challenge and promotes the hacking spirit. Further on down the thread someone mentions the fact that in Turkey, most of the iPhone users, even non-power users, have jailbroken iPhones. I think that in this respect Apple's attempt at security may even promote hacking and jailbreaking. It may be a healthy experience to start with a locked device and have to jailbreak it.
The Real iPad Review
So awesome. Adobe Air is really making strides.
Awesome observation. Going through the jailbreak process is almost like a rite of passage to hackerdom -- kind of neat if you think about it.

I could see this becoming a formality 5-10 years from now that people go through for old-times sake, similar to how we always write "Hello World" whenever we start in a new language.
Uh...your whole argument was that GS was doing daily collateralized transactions and were going about their business as usual.

I just proved this was wrong. If GS withdraws all the money in one go, this was not a day to day transaction.

And the whole point of my original comment was to point out that it IS Goldman's problem. It should NOT be the US taxpayer's problem. But it is thanks to Goldman Sach's influence on the government.
I think what they are saying is that it can go from having properties of Newtonian fluid (like water) to something as stiff as a board under magnetic influence.
SSD drives have substantially longer life than embedded flash drives since they are SLC, meaning each bit is represented by one cell. Embedded flash devices are MLC, meaning each cell represents multiple bits. Your drive's life expectancy goes down dramatically with each bit you try stuff into a single cell.
The same is true for many other tools like Mutt, Slrn, Emacs and Vim. It takes some time to get a feeling for them, but it's always worth the initial learning effort!
How the heck does this guy come to the conclusion he does? E-reader is somewhere between 40 and 100 (N) books so that means books are more environmentally friendly? The conclusion I draw is that you only have to read N books and it becomes a net positive. If you are the type that buys an e-reader my guess is you'll buy more than N books over its lifetime.
You should stop sticking your head in the sand and start trying to read the news more efficiently.

That's always my goal, but throwing the baby out with the bathwater is a cavalier sort of "efficiency." As I previously discussed, context is crucial in filtering news and a regex on headlines is a poor way to infer it.

Our discussion, though, has missed that HN is a filter already - a contextual, human-powered one. I like what HN users vote up and find it an efficient way to get tech news. If HN users frequently voted up items I was not interested in, I should not frequent it.
s/Ghandi/Gandhi/g
Yes. And it's userland, meaning you can visit a website in MobileSafari and jailbreak the device, similar to jailbreakme.com back in the day.
Saying someone was just a "supremely lucky flipper of coins" always seems like a cop out to me. It's not so much the fact that he was right but the reasons he gives for being right. He gives very good explanations for his reasoning and it was sound. Explain how his reasoning was not sound and then you can make statements about how he was just "super lucky." Otherwise you're just guessing about how lucky he is and that doesn't really help anyone.
I don't think people watching the news are fully grasping the seismic event this set off. If you look at Mexicali (a city on the border) as a way to judge the location of all the quakes here's the list of Earthquakes triggered by the original quake (now upgraded to 7.2)

7.2 (3:40pm) - Guadalupe Victoria, BC, Mexico(31.6 miles from MexiCali)

4.5 (4:09pm) - Jacumba Hot Springs, CA (49 miles from MexiCali)

5.1 (4:15pm) - Imperial, CA (17.2 miles from MexiCali)

3.8 (4:19pm) - Jacumba Hot Springs, CA (49 miles from MexiCali)

3.6 (4:22pm) - Julian, CA (98 miles from MexiCali)

5.4 (4:25pm)- Guadalupe Victoria, BC, Mexico(31.6 miles from MexiCali)

4.3 (4:34pm) - Calexico (10 miles from MexiCali)

4.7 (4:37pm) - MexiCali (0 miles from MexiCali)

3.5 (4:46pm) - Seeley, CA (21 miles from MexiCali)

3.4 (4:48pm) - Holtville, CA (18 miles from MexiCali)

3.6 (4:53pm) - Seeley, CA (21 miles from MexiCali)

3.1 (4:54pm) - Lake Henshaw, CA (112 miles from MexiCali)

3.9 (4:57pm) - Seeley, CA (21 miles from MexiCali)

3.0 (5:01pm) - Borrego Springs, CA (81 miles from MexiCali)

3.1 (5:02pm) - Salton City, CA (72.5 miles from MexiCali)

3.4 (5:04pm) - Ocotillo, CA (38 miles from MexiCali)

5.1 (5:07pm) - Guadalupe Victoria, BC, Mexico(31.6 miles from MexiCali)

4.3 (5:12pm) - Seeley, CA (21 miles from MexiCali)

3.3 (5:29pm) - Bombay Beach, CA (60 miles from MexiCali)

3.5 (5:30pm) - Seeley, CA (21 miles from MexiCali)

3.5 (5:31pm) - Guadalupe Victoria, BC, Mexico(31.6 miles from MexiCali)

* I have to meet friends for dinner so I can't keep updating this comment but I think you get the point.
Hey thanks for that. Good response. I'm travelling so a full response is on its way soon..ish.
"So, how many volumes do you need to read on your e-reader to break even?

With respect to fossil fuels, water use and mineral consumption, the impact of one e-reader payback equals roughly 40 to 50 books. When it comes to global warming, though, it’s 100 books; with human health consequences, it’s somewhere in between."
Hey, Figlet is an awesome library. I'm glad to see your work getting used!
Many of the people predicting this collapse were "new players" to the market, not people always predicting collapses. Take the guy who runs seattlebubble.com. He's an ordinary guy who wanted to buy a house, realized prices were really high compared to his expectations, and started digging deeper. He hadn't predicted any past collapses of anything, he just realized that housing costs were unsustainably high and called it. Many of the other bubble-predictors were in the same boat.

The guys always predicting collapses are crackpots. The normal people who called this bubble because they realized house prices had jumped without corresponding changes in income or demographics, but only changes in bank lending standards, were not crackpots.
recruiters are a filter, if you are a company hiring, you'll get hundreds of resumes most of which don't even apply to the position being listed. By using a recruiter, you only have to deal with the cream of the crop.

Sure some people can bypass a recruiter with bullshit, but you'd still have to deal with those if you were doing the recruiting yourself.

There are also some benefits as an employee. If you have a good recruiter, you can tell them exactly what you are looking for, and they'll be on the lookout for those types of jobs for you.

But as it is with all things, for every good recruiter, there are thousands of shitty ones, who'll send to companies anyone who is stupid enough to give them a resume, and who'll tell you to apply to jobs that aren't even on the same level as what you can actually do.

Every good recruiter experience that people have told me about...involved them finding the recruiter through word of mouth...I don't remember a single positive recruiter story that involved being cold called out of the blue.
Considering iron (melting point 1538C) can be melted using only coal and something to hold it in, I think a truly dedicated superhero-to-be could manage the requisite 1000C
It has its quirks, that's for damn sure. It's got some really cracked out UI choices, but it works for my ipod, I can rate songs and then get a random list out of them so I'll cope for the time being. I'm just impressed it works for the 10s of GB of music I have. Rhythmbox failed miserably.
I think you may have misinterpreted the conclusion. 3rd para from the bottom, he says:

"How many volumes do you need to read on your e-reader to break even?"