skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
what sort of woman should i marry is another good question, but i was looking for something like this: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/06/22/nyregion/22bi...

i mean a speed bike for daily 1hr routine circling the park on a paved road, within a budget of ~2k.

one caveat - i have to return home on crappy UES roads
it is focused on personal attacks and smears

That's not a fair characterization at all. Arguments which hurt your feelings aren't necessarily ad hominem.
I had seen those. They look pretty inspired. I'll be curious how they work for you. We're lucky to be on an old dairy farm so the soil is great and we get full sun. I found that cheap metal wire fencing provides just enough support for two rows of 20 plants each. Cost-wise it came out to less than $1 a plant. The plants were doing great too - about 4ft each - until the blight hit.
Not for two years; and please provide your data showing they were losing money because of banning modders, and not because they were keeping the price below what it costs to develop, market and produce the system in order to gain market penetration.
Cydia's a package manager, aiding in software installation. First the software has to be available, though.

I haven't heard of serious attempts to support another OS on the iPhone or iPod Touch, even. Linux on the iPod fizzled out years ago.
I was just wondering the other day what ever happened to Songbird. It seemed to have a strong teem behind it and a lot of potential, but they don't seem to make much noise anymore.
It's not that hard to feel challenged when it comes to Blender. If you can afford it, check out Silo3D - probably the most intuitive 3D tool I've ever used; it doesn't support animation yet, though.
I got that from the last one I hired. (The last one I'm ever going to. I've reformed for my SO.)
huh? How does Google get access to 100,000 phones? Are they borrowing customer's phones or something? Or is this map/reduce stuff happening when people are running the navigate app?
They also do Java and other OO langs.
This article has been discussed before. The last submission is only 20 days old.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1191534

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=757204
Ask HN: Designer co-founder?
I have no problem contracting jobs to designers. However, it will be nice to iterate through a few projects with a crafty designer in a partner-partner setting as suppose to a client-vender setting.

Ideally this should be someone who not only understands the problems of user interface on a psychological level, but also is proficient in HTML/CSS/Illustrator etc.

Unfortunately, I just never had any friend like that.

I have been thinking about hanging out at art schools or meetups. Can someone who has some experience with this give me some tips?
I tried to install the nytimes app, but only found the old iPhone app!
Yeah I noticed the spelling mistakes that were interspersed throughout the post. Not very professional. Perhaps English isn't the author's first language.
Good uses for the Ipad
1Gbps optical wireless
Basically green threads. I guess this helps amortize the per-VM Ruby memory overhead.
see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1240914
Interesting idea, but the barrier of entry to contribute code to a complex project like Blender is waaaaaaaaay higher than the artists there seem to imagine.
> Yet somehow most developer got over "what do you mean you have to learn about algorithms and data structures before you can actually program?"

I respectfully disagree.
I think the phenomenon you describe does exist and explains a lot of correct predictions. I don't think it is what we have seen in this case though.

If you look at long term indicators of indebtedness it is utterly clear that the US (and some other countries) were at extreme levels in 2007. There was never a dispute about that and it's easy to check. The dispute was about the interpretation of these numbers.

Greenspan and many others argued that the more sophisticated financial system should be able to sustain these levels. He thought that the new securitisation market led to more flexibility and risk tolerance. He turned out to be wrong. This time was not different (see Rogoff on that one).

People who predicted that this time was not different and high levels of debt would lead to a crash were not predicting some freak event. They just followed the conservative assumption that history is going to repeat itself. And it has.
Yea, not as bad as it sounds at first.

The linux support was always kind of bad and now the route is free for a community build/fork. I understand it is already on its way, see http://talksongbird.com/node/19.
I think you're putting up something of a straw man. There may be some people who dislike SQL because it is too complex, but there are plenty of valid reasons to dislike it as well. SQL is not a particularly well thought-out language, and the relational model does not suit all problems.
For python, the SQLAlchemy library provides excellent ways of programmatically building SQL queries rather than splicing strings together. It also offers an ORM, but that is an additional layer on top of the SQL stuff that you don't have to use.
The Fed DID see what was happening. They saw M3 soaring.

So they did the logical thing. They discontinued publishing the M3 statistic in 2006.

Yep, they decided we just need to bury our heads in the sand and the developing crisis would just go away.

But did it?

http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/money-supply-chart...
This is precisely what needs addressing. CDS are over the counter trades without a central clearinghouse. Therefore little data is available and the counter parties create terms blindly.

This is what they mean when talking about transparency.
Clementine looks promising but isn't quite there yet. I'm pretty happy with Quodlibet for now but will keep Clementine and the Songbird Fork on my radar.
Do you believe that the media's focus on Bill Clinton's sex life during the 1990s was anything but a smear? The Republicans wanted to win arguments on national policy not on the basis of the soundness of his policies, but on something that was not (and still is not) any of our business.
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The Economics of a "Check-In"
The article also applies to picking business opportunities. Suppose you are going to see N opportunities. According to the article you should pick the best opportunity so far after N/e have passed.

Some questions this raises:

(a) How do you really know if an opportunity (or a wife) is any good? The evaluation function seems to be a key ingredient for success.

(b) What if N is infinite.

(c) More realistically, suppose N is very large. Suppose I am going to see an opportunity a day. If I live for another 40 years, that 14,610 days. So N = 14,610. Doing the math the article is saying that you do nothing for about 15 years. And then pick the best opportunity you have seen so far.
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I'm currently working on a few projects and finishing my last semester of college, but I might be able to help if I like your idea. :)
But that still means that Greenspan was wrong. He said that no-one predicted this crash and this is clearly wrong.

Even if the people that did predict it were the kind of people that always predict recessions, they still should have caused a little bit of head scratching in the Fed and in the top banks and the rating agencies. Somebody could have actually done some simple arithmetic to determine whether the average person can afford the average house. I mean this is not difficult stuff.
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You are absolutely right. If you look at most housing forums on the internet, for example most people looking to buy housing were absolutely certain there was a bubble going on. They just knew that (i) ordinary people in their neighbourhood could not afford the houses in their neighbourhood and (ii) there were no rich people coming in buying those houses either so something had to give.
It's ironic that I just installed Songbird to try it out. Oh well, it's no big loss.
I'm not sure why this is being downvoted. The flash that the article links to explaining the integer knapsack problem sounds horrible.
Not really. From the article:

"single Thread, multiple Fiber"

Fibers are not threads. Rather than preemptive multithreading, it's cooperative. This means the VM isn't wasting time on requests blocked on IO.
I understand Apple's motivation for control although I'm not sure I like it. However, Linksys/Cisco is just selling commodity hardware for low margins. It's not razors & razorblades, and there's no ecosystem to manage. Why should they care if their hardware is used with 3rd party software? I wouldn't have bought my WRT54GL's if I couldn't run DD-WRT on them.
if you were some mythical combination of Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi, and Jesus Christ, perhaps you could redeem a fairly self-centered wife.

The irony of this list is that (as I understand it) King was unfaithful to his wife and Gandhi refused to have sex with his wife while frequently sleeping in the arms of beautiful younger women to prove to himself he could resist temptation and Jesus never married at all.

Men who are deemed to be heroes/men of great character in the eyes of society don't necessarily make wonderful spouses.

(Not at all meant to disagree with your basic point.)
It's much worse when you let one person (even the president) do the picking.
Amarok 1.4 was amazing. Unfortunately, they haven't reached parity with the KDE 4 remake. That said, Clementine is basically a rewrite of Amarok 1.4 to QT 4, meaning it doesn't affect KDE users, and it actually looks native for Gnome users.
But they have released several totally new routers that are advertised as being hackable. See the marketing copy here: http://www.amazon.com/Cisco-Linksys-WRT160NL-Wireless-N-Broa...

Specifically, "The Linux-based open source Wireless-N Broadband Router with Storage Link (WRT160NL) was created specially for hobbyists and wireless aficionados."
We will never see another depression driving down living standards to the level of the 1930s due to technology.

But a relatively similar percentage reduction? Quite likely. I would say that this depression looks quite similar to the beginning of the great depression when you consider unemployment percentages and debt as a percent of GDP.
It's not SQL that's complex, it's mastering the details of an RDBMS to get the desired performance and scale. This heads towards dba/sysadmin territory which IS complex if that's not your speciality.
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Ever wished your eyes were cameras?
7.2 Earthquake in Baja California, Mexico
Well Oracle has "connect by": http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/oracle9i/daily/oct...
A lot of the necessary stuff already exists for aquariums. If you search for "aquarium controller", you'll find things like this:

http://www.draquarium.com/

Edit: Even better (phone control, twitter notification, etc):

http://www.tankedcam.com/
Really? No Dune? The rest of Herbert's work is meh, but that book is genius.
>"Give me all the blog posts with 8 replies written by users with a karma more than 42."

SELECT P.*
FROM blog.Posts P
INNER JOIN ( --postid and count of replies
SELECT P.PostId, COUNT(UserReplies.PostId) NumReplies
FROM blog.Posts P
INNER JOIN ( --Replies with users karma more than 42
SELECT R.PostId
FROM blog.Replies R
INNER JOIN blog.Users U ON R.UserId = U.UserId
WHERE U.Karma > 42
) UserReplies ON P.PostId = UserReplies.PostId
GROUP BY P.PostId
) PostReplies ON P.PostId = PostReplies.PostId
WHERE PostReplies.NumReplies > 8

After writing the query (3 min, while eating pizza), there's obviously much room for optimization in table design and query design. I doubt the ORM'ed developer would be able to see the optimizations not understanding how to write the SQL (so they can reason about indices, aggregations, etc...).

My take is, most people fall into the trap of programming language X is THE language of this application. If an application has a relational database component to it, it'd be best if there was someone who understood SQL and the connection points to the application.
By definition, the people involved in the bubble believes the situation is sustainable. They HAVE to.

Its a herd phenomena, with a real price rise enforcing the belief in the trajectory of those price increases.

But at some point, despite all efforts to recruit more people into the bubbly market, price increases slow then stall and beliefs change and the down trend inevitably begins.

The naysayers, the non-believers, those darn negative people who don't buy in and reinforce the bubble but actively try to save their friends, will always be swimming against the tide.

The difficult part is distinguishing between social proof and actual facts.

The fact is that most of us are followers and that will always be the case. That's how we're wired. If it weren't, societies wouldn't even be possible.

The best we can hope for is to keep the use of force out of the equation. We were all forced to take on the risks of all that lending, something we would not have done voluntarily.

Now we are on the hook for it and some day we will realize how truly costly it has been.

Til then, feel free to think of me as a crackpot.
No, more like "fatty mouth feel", which sounds much worse than "unctuous".
Bold action over junk money
Gool-Bama-Cash financial recipe
Maybe the shirt won't tear, but it will sure bend a lot, bend in towards the body. That will leave one hell of a bruise.
Why even link to the digitizor article? It contains no more information that that in the Songbird blog; it's just a poorly-paraphrased rip with scant commentary even, other than a "this blows" attitude.
What does the Spectral Theorem say?
For a business example, look at the payments people / businesses are willing to pay for real-time market data.

WSJ has enough non-generic reporting to be viable (look at their website subscriptions), but I would be unwilling to pay for content from CNN,MSNBC, Fox, or their ilk. They just don't put in the effort to dig deeper, properly investigate, do the fact checking, keep it non-partisan, and stay away from the trivial (1). I am with you on the niche services, I do and will pay for those.

1) The ballon boy's escapade did not in any way affect my like in a material way, but I would bet more facts were given during that little fiasco then reported during the whole of the health care debate.
Most people could have predicted it and many people did. This includes not only people like Mike Burry, George Soros and others that made money out of the whole mess, but also those bastards in Goldman Sachs who after touting and selling housing debt derivatives for the entire bubble ended up being short on housing just when the bubble burst.

Multiple people in academia predicted the crash. Nouriel Roubini (spelling is wrong) Peter Schif, every economist that ever posted on Counterpunch, etc.

And also of course most ordinary people predicted it. If you look at the housing forums on the Internet from about 3 to 4 years ago you will see that most people were sure there would be a crash and only people that were already deeply invested in real estate were trying to think of ever more creative ways to deny it.

So Greenspan's statements speak more about him than the actual reality. He and the Bush government just surrounded themselves with economists from one very narrow school of thought and did not listen to anyone else. It is not that people did not predict the recession, it is that Greenspan would not listen to anyone who predicted it, therefore nobody that he bothered to listen to predicted it.
But Safari being multitasking only solves the "browsing -> other -> back to browsing" case, right? "Something else -> Safari -> back to the first something else" needs the something else to be multitasking enabled or good at storing its state.

Trying to predict what the users will and won't ever need to switch to and from and back to again is a crap shoot in general. Sure one can get it right much of the time, but why not just suck it up and make the overall solution better so there aren't those cases where one guesses wrong.

From the outside, this feels like a bizarre, "accept no criticisms of an Apple product as valid" kind of thing. Stuff like Browser Duo and mini apps make it clear that the longer Apple doesn't solve this in general, the more other developers will put together "do x and y at the same time" applications. Does it really seem better to have these kludges than a general solution?
It scares me to think that I now days open, without blinking, some JPG that would eat up all the memory available in that poor Amiga.

But, ah...

lea bbye,a0
move.l (a0),$80
trap #0
rts

(to take it back on-topic)
I'm down in San Diego and felt this pretty well, went on for about 30 seconds or so. My friend said he felt it all the way up in Los Angeles, so this was a good little quake
So it's like a Newtonian fluid? Didn't the mythbusters shoot a corn starch solution to find out if it can stop bullets?
It could not, but maybe this thing can?
And guess which is cheaper and available from more places.
And Ikea sells furniture.

Where does that tablet vs gaming console comparison come from?
I completely disagree. This is just another selection bias. The loudest, most obnoxious MBAs are the ones you are most likely to hear about.

Saying that MBA programs nurture extreme arrogance, bad ethics and short sightedness is like saying that CS programs nurture introversion, poor social skills and an inability to communicate effectively.

There are tens of thousands of highly successful MBAs running or working in small businesses you've never heard of, not generating any noise, and contributing a great deal to society. To lump them all together as a bunch of frat boy lunatics is ignorant.

Any hacker that has a terrible experience with an MBA is going to write a blog post about how awful it was and how MBAs need to be cut out of the process. The truth is, there are plenty that provide a lot of value and insight, but no one writes about them because no one wants to read it.
Bad code and poor design can happen in any language. Basing an argument on how 'good' or 'bad' a language is around anecdotes that contain either of those is the equivalent of setting up a strawman.

Yes. Just because Perl's object model from the late 90's was written in C, doesn't damn C to the unspeakable depths. It just seems that way in the moment.
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(My first industry job was writing Perl.)
Stickytape
This is where I fault Apple for not having a format in addition to epub available in their bookstore. I really thought it was going to be the iTune LP stuff (and that would have served well), but they really needed something. I really think the "download a new app every week" is too much of a hassle.
"There are quite a few languages that let you earn a fee from these sorts of things."

Fixed that for you!
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I am in LA and I felt it.
Yes, Peter Schiff was probably the most prolific person on warning about the impending crisis. However, despite how smart he is, when the crisis finally came, his portfolios (precious metals,short US$) got hit very hard, for a short period of time.
Windows 7 Phone is Apple's Burger King. Android is more like Jack in the Box or KFC.
Many think that the Space Shuttle's dangerous reentry profile was brought about because the US military wanted a vehicle with considerable cross-range flexibility. The thought is that a vehicle without this burden could be designed with a flight profile that exposes it to much less heating in a hypersonic airstream, resulting in a lighter and safer vehicle.

This X37 seems to be an embodiment of those capabilities.
http://www.espace.com.eg/neverblock is another implementation of the same idea.
http://twitter.com/CAquake
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Everything you say is accurate except the insinuation that Democrats are mostly at fault. George W. Bush was in office for the worst of it, and he spent his political capital trying to convince people that a war was necessary.

He spent 99% of his political capital on war and at best 1% on everything else. He was far from powerless, having control of both houses of congress. The fact is he was perfectly fine with the GSEs being someone else's problem so nobody would get distracted away from the "war".

Incidentally the GSEs were taken off government books in order to make the budget look better so we could "afford" the Vietnam war.
s/Baja, California/Baja California, Mexico/.
Do you honestly think that there MBA education made them like that, or maybe in fact it was their general attitude and disposition?

Do you honestly think that MBA graduates attract high salaries for no reason? We live in a free market economy. Surely this must indicate to you that they generally provide more value than non-MBA graduates.

Do you realize that most MBA graduates have 5-7 years work experience before they even go to school? Then, after enhancing their own experiences with a framework provided by a business school and with the experiences of the other students, don't you think they are more developed for senior positions than someone without that extra educaton? It's so obvious to me why they would have an advantage to applying for senior management positions in large businesses. They are more qualified, in general!

For some reason, I feel like all the people here think that the only smart people in business are hackers that started a tech startup in their garage. This is not the only way to gain valuable experience and practical skills in business.
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The banks paid TARP back, with interest. That means the taxpayers made money.
Figuring out the "when" is definitely the most difficult part. I had been watching the markets and the housing bubble very carefully for years before the crisis finally arrived. It is so amazing how long these things take to play out, and how distorted the markets can get before they finally snap.

Despite the attention I paid to it, I still failed to make a profit. When things finally started unravelling, I took several put option positions (assuming the price would decrease) in the obviously doomed companies, for really cheap prices. But my mistake was not goibg out further time wise. I was up substantially (500% was my best) in almost all my positions within a week or two, but when the fed and other players weighed in with changes to the rules of the stock market, and CEO's taking actions that are blatently fraudulent but not enforced by the SEC, things turned against me and I ended up selling for a 40% loss. Of course if I had simply taken a boring short position I could have made a guaranteed 40-60 percent, but how exciting is that?? :)

Making money in the market, even when you KNOW what is going to happen, is amazingly hard. Especially when the FED and SEC are literally changing the rules on a daily basis, as they were back then, and when CEO's can lie, cheat, and steal with impunity.
In San Diego. Felt it. Our Garage shook and we thought it was out Garage Door for a second.
Ah, the Invasion of the Amateurs continues.

Yeah, SQL is bad because it's aesthetically "ugly". SQL is bad because of how some people use it (not using prepared statements, and simply concatenating strings yup is very amateurish).

And somehow this leads to LISP as the savior? Note that the savior is to make SQL be LISP! That clue lends meaning to: "trying to make code look like English text is a Bad Thing". The LISP crowd loves obfuscation and esoteric syntax....it makes the programmer seem smart.

Keep studying, you have lots of good things to learn yet.
But it is your money in a way. If you went to a company that typically uses recruiters, and you came to them without a recruiter, you'd be saving them a bunch of money - money that you might be able to negotiate into a sign-on bonus or a higher salary.
For some reason it's called "Editor's Choice"
I'm in LA and did not feel it (west hollywood)