skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) Join a gym. Workout a lot until you have big muscles. This won't take you more than half a year.

How do you achieve results that fast? I've been working out seriously for about a year, and while I've improved, I hardly have "big muscles". Could you give me a pointer to detailed information on how to do this?

As for "never, ever deceive", I'd qualify that. Never ever deceive a woman who isn't trying to deceive you. Many women are habitually dishonest and I see nothing unethical about playing the same game they are. All you'll get out of this is mutual masturbation combined with the thrill of "winning the game", but it can be fun for the short term.
They have 18+ staff, and are still hiring. Great people are expensive.
Engineering -- specifically, computer programming with the intent of working for a body shop -- is a reliable path to comparative material prosperity and financial security in India in a fashion that it is not in the United States. That is really all there is to it.

(Engineers are not poorly paid in the US by any stretch of the imagination, but the career choice doesn't strictly dominate e.g. teaching, law, working for an arm of the local government, or generic white collar labor. By comparison, Indian engineering salaries were quite recently increasing by 50% every six months.)
I hope their server isn't running on this OS because the performance is pathetic
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I completely block the AWS address space on my servers because it's a major source of malicious probes and constantly siphons bandwidth at no apparent benefit to me. It looks like I'll have to consider less draconian measures now, if this is a source of useful messages and not merely a giant spam machine.
The article is correct, in that the US bankruptcy code doesn't cover states. There is literally no legal way for a state to go bankrupt, and thus no way to force renegotiation of the pension contracts through bankruptcy court.

Of course the day may come when the state pension funds simply have no cash left and stop paying benefits, and the pensioners will then sue to enforce their contracts. It's hard to predict what might happen then. Unions might be strong-armed into accepting a cram down. Courts could order the legislative and executive branches to increase taxes or reallocate funds. Who knows?
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Germany, ayee!
Brazil here.
I'm not an expert, but I'll give it a try.

A hypervisor runs multiple Operating Systems, having each one think that it has access to the whole of the hardware.

A microkernel is one way of writing the kernel of the Operating System, so that each part of it is a separate process, routing messages to each other in a safe manner to get things done, rather than doing direct calls to each others code.

With a hypervisor you wouldn't expect each of the OSes to have any communication with each other at all, whereas with a microkernel you'd expect the different processes to talk to each other a lot.

You can, apparently, repurpose a microkernel as a hypervisor, but I don't know anything about that at all. Presumably the infrastructure is quite similar.
Russia.
>Or can we just stipulate that it was in fact wrong to kick the dog and that almost certainly intervention is called for?

There are many situations in which your shallow observation is going to produce a wrong inference - suppose that dog just bit the man out of your view. Right, maybe not, justifiable certainly.

>"And not all of these people know that their actions are morally wrong. On the contrary, many believe that their actions are morally justified."
>None of which contradicts anything Hitchens' said.

Is a direct contradiction of his paraphrase of Hitchins (from "God is not great") saying that we all have an innate conscience; which you claim is a "fine paraphrase". If we all have an innate conscience with a high degree of equivalence in it's value propositions then it would be near impossible for people to perform malevolent actions that they themselves find internally justified.

In your last para your arguing semantics without providing us with Hitchens view, do you know it? How is an "infallible moral faculty" different from an "innate conscience [that we all share and that produces identical results in each of us; but is somehow disabled under psychosis]". They seem largely coterminous.
Seeing as how EC2 IP addresses are being blocked by many spam blocking services*, I don't know that I'd want to depend on Amazon to ensure my emails are delivered. Sure I realize it's probably a different block of IPs, but I wonder how long before those get blocked too.

Source: https://community.engineyard.com/faqs/questions/ssmtp
Have you tried this...

http://mmcgrana.github.com/2010/03/clojure-web-development-r...

All you need is leiningen and your favorite text editor.
I just got an Acer Windows Home Server machine. It does complete machine level backups of all the home/office PCs.
I found it very easy to set up and has given me piece of mind at last!
Actually if taking attendance takes 5 minutes of class time (which it easily can with a class size of 30), then all students are blocked from being taught while the teacher is busy so it does make sense to count that as (n+1) * 5 minutes where n is the number of students.

Fingerprint scanners for attendance would both speed up and parallelize this operation.
A 7.5% long term return on pension investments is a complete fantasy. Look at current T-bond rates. The smart money is betting on low interest rates to last a long time.
Gemvara Raises $5.2 Million For Custom Jewelry Shopping Online
Read all the way to the bottom. A big caveat for now:

The following limitations are currently in place during the Amazon SNS beta: One hundred (100) topics per AWS account
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Waterloo here.

I would think that we would have more of a presence on HN.
I think it would be more interesting to find a country that has no HN user. If there is any (I guess it isn't). North Korea, maybe…
Mitigates? The fact that iTunes is going to load up ever time I plug in my ipod to charge it makes the software's bloatedness way worse.
Carbon Fiber Signup Form With PHP, jQuery and CSS3
tl;dr? Yes. The article indicates even enameled cast iron works well.
I hope I'm wrong but it sounds suspiciously like all your backups are in one physical location. You may well be protected against an individual drive failing but what about a more calamitous event such as a fire or flooding?
The ability to subscribe to notifications using SQS is a very cool feature. Adding the ability to listen for things is really the linchpin of asynchronous architecture (in my mind). This sure beats polling a queue.
Even with that, look at the books on C programming in stores (there still are a few). All of them are at least double the size of the K&R book.

Of all the C++ books, there was a C++ in 10 minutes from SAMS that was small, dense packed, and informative. It was really weird coming from them.
The name seems unnecessarily passive aggressive. Why insult potential users? (I would also hate to suggest it to someone: I use this great system called 'Git', but you're a better fit for 'Gitiot'.)
I mulled over this last night and today; here's my current thinking.

If this is true it is more than a step beyond what we have seen here. In the video we see a tragically mistaken engagement (which I understand) and then a terrible, idiotic, but I feel not malicious, attack on unarmed civilians. Even the restriction of information released by the army, whilst something I don't agree with, is understandable.

However; finding a mistake on the ground then covering it up by planting weapons? That's fraud and a war crime. It's morally and legally reprehensible.

This is why I feel it is probably not true (or a one off you have heard about); if it is a prevalent thing then it surely would have been reported by now (I cannot believe there is not one person in the US army that would be morally outraged by this).

If it is true; it needs to be outed, stopped and prosecuted.

Of everything posted on this subject this idea is the one that sickens me the most :(
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I am not sure.. is it ok to post arabic content here?
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A good point - they are. However, I have Mozy taking care of critical files for me as well :)
It should be much simpler than that. Leiningen has a "lein self-install" command that downloads all the basic dependencies. See here: http://www.assembla.com/wiki/show/clojure/Getting_Started_wi...

Once Leiningen is installed, dependencies are handled automatically. You can use "lein new my-project" to create a new project skeleton, and then customize the project.clj file to add in new dependencies. Most Clojure projects are now up on clojars.org, which is one of the repositories included by default in Leiningen.
PayPal and Two-Factor Authentication: A "Weakest Link" Case in Point
So have a couple club sodas and lime. As long as you're tolerant of how the people with a little bit of a buzz going are acting, you shouldn't feel particularly excluded. If people do make a big fuss about it, you should probably find drinking buddies with more interesting things to talk about. :-)
Thanks for the feedback. I meant the title in fun - kind of like the "For Dummies" and "Idiot's Guide" books.
Snap :) from Lincolnshire
I have a strong dislike for Drobo's.

They might be good consumer devices, but I inherited a company using them in the place of a proper RAID (which we are now yanking out and replacing with Promises).

Biggest problem is how slow they are. The next big problem is that once at a certain capacity, terabytes of space mysteriously disappear.
Ideas for your next web app?
1. Most people have figured out that large companies (esp. banks) reward those who are able to finagle a way to the top over those who are simply good at doing their jobs, which means that it's economically optimal to spend one's college years making connections and learning how to socialize with rich people. It's hard to do this if you're in a demanding major.

2. Most people with the talent to pursue science degrees would actually rather be star professors making $150k in complete autonomy than Wall Street star traders making $20 million; at that level, money's fairly irrelevant. However, if look at the median outcome, finance wins. The mediocre Wall Street person still reaches $1 million/year by age 40 or so, while the mediocre engineer is lucky to crack $100k, and the mediocre professor is lucky if he has a job at all.

3. A lot of Indians and Chinese want the option of coming to the US, at least temporarily. We need engineers, so it's easier for them to get into the country.

4. Grade inflation, especially in elite colleges. As notorious as the Ivy League is for grade inflation, this is mainly in the humanities (and economics, because they need to have watered-down economics courses for the wannabe banker-douches) and far less prevalent in the sciences. Math courses give a B- or C for mediocre work. Humanities courses give a B+ or A- for mediocre work. The result is that a lot of people walk away thinking they're "just bad at math" because of the B in linear algebra, because a B in their humanities departments is a bad grade, whereas a B in the math course is average or even above average.
risk free 'Exit' path to the big world. How many Phds in history are needed vs CS people? What would Indian history major do to pay the bills after she graduates?

In US a history or philosophy major can survive, and even run big companies (like LinkedIn) or go for a law school
heh. china cracking down? on a positive note, millions of people with smaller budgets (and I mean way smaller than people are used to in this country) have access to a computer thanks to the price wars by non-apple manufacturers.
Then how can you be sure your "originals" work?

It seems like you could just swap them daily, I guess.
Did anyone else find it amusing that whilst systematically dismantling the evolutionary cues of the target candidates and exploiting those cues in order to provide false positives, the entire premise of the action falls victim to the exact kind of tactics it lays out in order to achieve victory?

That being, these men are going out looking around for women with all the evolutionary cues for feminine fitness which are hardwired into our brains whilst seemingly blissfully unaware that having those evolutionary buttons pressed in themselves they're not making any kind of conscious or rational decision about the kind of women they actually want, they're just falling victim to their own evolutionary cues.
I'm not thrilled with HP either. If Dell made a consumer tablet, I'd have no need of HP.

I bought a tx2000z for my daughter - convertible tablet with touchscreen and pen. Works alright, but wow does that thing get hot! The fans are constantly on, and its painful to touch.

In talking to HP people, I've found out some of their international support (say, Latam) is nearly non-existent. Dell, OTOH, has done next day replacement on disks and screens even when I'm travelling.

Any suggestions on non-HP tablets?
I read that and initially thought the same. But in one of his emails the guy asks for a trade of "cards"; I think he's meaning card details.

I would hesitate to give him active credit card details.... almost certainly they would go on file ready to sell to someone.

(though for the period of time it would take to sort this out your probably ok - I would cancel it straight after though)
Imagine the Internet Outrage they'd get over iTunes "installing all these new apps and who knows what spyware all over my computer". I agree with you, it sucks (though, it's not the end of the world) that it all goes through iTunes... and if they still only supported Macs, I bet they'd have broken some of this stuff out by now. But it's tricky in a Windows/Mac world.
You're right, I have to take most of that back, that was mostly my frustration trying to install it on Arch linux, which has no Java packages. Additionally, I was following an apparently out of date tutorial that said I needed all that other stuff. On Ubuntu, I just gave it a shot, and it's much easier.

apt-get install clojure maven2

Followed by downloading the leiningen self installer works just fine.

Thanks for the link btw!
The CD icon is the new floppy disc icon.
Looks like it's sometimes fair to judge people based on their spelling.
You're right, I was acting on some mistaken premises, I'm up and running now, thanks for the tip.
Czech Republic (US citizen)
Considering that installing iTunes on Windows automatically installs the Apple Software Update tool, which then try's to sneak Safari in (by automatically selecting it to "update" the next time Apple Software Update runs), I don't think Apple is too concerned about frustrating the user with the "Install new software" step. They seem to relish it actually. ;-)
Unless you're just operating a personal network, that's a pretty blunt measure that you ought to revisit.

EC2 is certainly hosting legitimate business customers.
Ahem. "D.C. politicians" in the strictest sense are a mayor, a city council, a non-voting delegate in the House of Representatives, and if you wish to be picky a few dozen Advisory Neighborhood Commissioners.

The states are the ones who are sending what Mr. Lessig calls "D.C. politicians" to D.C. Or is Washington's mighty electoral vote (not votes, vote) skewing the process? Is there a fetor from the Potomac River that corrupts virtuous state politicians? The news out of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, etc. etc. suggests not.
Future enhancements to Amazon SNS – such as notification delivery over SMS – will provide more protocol options and additional flexibility to mobile application developers.

Does anyone have an educated guess as to when the SMS transport option will be available? How long does it usually take Amazon to add a promised feature?
Almost every AWS service has limitations. EC2 gives you a limited amount of snapshots/ip addresses/instances per account, for instance.

The general policy for Amazon has been that as long as you email them telling them what you're doing with so much stuff they will give you the extra capacity you want.
Got a Time Capsule last fall, started backing up my macbook and didn't think about it after that. Working in the background, automatically, over wifi with a setup of minutes. Used it for the first time last week to recover a file. Paid for itself right there and then.
Android development doesn't require Eclipse.
engineering became an easy ticket to getting a decent paying job

Easy in the sense of "action X leads to outcome Y". Not easy in the sense of "IIT is a party school"!
That's just incredible. I wonder what Google's doing with AdSense on top of that.
By the way, a more diplomatic fork of the tool changes the name to "libbackup":

http://github.com/jbfink/Gitiot
You don't even need to install Clojure and Maven, I don't think. Leiningen downloads the relevant Clojure and Maven jar files as part of its install process.
I am guessing this is the case as well. I think people in general choose to enter into "safe" professions.
is a reliable path to comparative material prosperity and financial security in India in a fashion that it is not in the United States.

And if you've ever visited any city in India and driven around, you'll see that these tech schools are heavily advertised on every lamp post, wall, and posting board. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy (tell everyone to be an engineer and they just might do that) and a path of least resistance for those who can run the gauntlet.
Currently, American Crew medium hold/shine. Occasionally, Bubble & Bubble #5.

But of course the real secret is in how you apply just the right swirl.
> I'm really wondering if someone can get by with just having some soda or juice instead.

Generally yes. There might be groups that would give you a hard time, but in pretty much every job or social circle I've been a part of, there's been at least one non-drinker; some for religious reasons, some recovering alcoholics, some just for personal preference. I've never seen someone excluded because of that.
I agree with everything you said, except for list buying. That's pretty much spam. List renting may be OK, but I would still avoid the practice. It's easy to damage one's brand with accusations of being a spammer.
Yup; my experience has been pretty simply, "the money". Which leads to some of the broad issues seen with outsourcing engineering and comp sci jobs; many do it not because they enjoy it or are particularly skilled at it, but rather it pays well. That occurs in the US too as well of course.
This is the approach I use, from what I believe is a reputable source : http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/weight-training/HQ01627
Here's my opinion on fitness in a nutshell: 3200 calories=1lb of fat. 3200 more than you burn, gain a pound and vice versa. Muscles are made out of protein. Muscles grow by being broken down through exercise and then rebuilt. Train until failure so the muscle is broken down and then make sure you get a whole lot of protein into your body. Training is all about routine. Train every other day no more. Get into the habit. Analyze your diet and exercise profile using tools like nutritiondata.com

I do see something unethical about playing the same game they do. For me, I don't lie because of a commitment to myself. If someone tries to deceive me, I will feel sorry for her and almost certainly stop interacting with her. I get no thrill out of "winning the game" and if it is mutual masturbation I need, I can set it up without deception.
Check here: http://www.youtube.com/user/hpcomputers#p/a/u/1/-p-RZAwQq0E

At 1:40, you can see him use a website. It looks like a standard Windows 7 touchscreen (notice a tooltip comes up over the play button after he's clicked -- the "cursor" stayed there I guess).

For me, Windows 7 touchscreens mean the number one issue is targeting UI elements and entering input. Closing a browser tab with a 16x16 pixel target isn't too hard with a mouse. But on Windows 7 touchscreen it can be frustrating.

Because of this, I like having a convertible tablet, so I can quickly use the mouse and keyboard when needed.
"In particular, I am interested in understanding why the best and the brightest high school students in the United States usually choose not to become engineers or scientists..."

Really? I guess my experience was different wherein I saw most of those who couldn't cut the math/science classes going different routes. I wouldn't consider those the "best and brightest" by any stretch of the imagination.
I thought Canada was the 51st state :-p
Except the problem of too many levels of indirection.
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Yes, the Mach microkernel can host multiple OSs. In practice this is rarely done.
Agreed! Strange though that Amazon doesn't heavily advertise how much of their developer-oriented services are actually free for people to 'kick the tires'.
Anyone able to compare Backblaze and CrashPlan (I'm was about to start using it this weekend) from personal experience? Looks like several computers can be done with cheaper with CrashPlan, but maybe that misses something I should consider.
What is an east coast term sheet?
The idea of approach fear is so foreign to me that I didn't even consider it... of course you have to approach women?

Anyway, I see nothing wrong with cultivating sexual relationships. I see the PUA as a man who approaches women who are interested in monogamy and paints himself as also interested in a monogamous relationship or otherwise uses deception to "score" rather than cultivate a new, healthy sexual relationship.
Lots of places do "one shot" credit cards now. Numbers which can be used once, or with a small prepay balance and then discarded. This would seem like an ideal use of that.
Foursquare Is No Fad, Argues Founder Dennis Crowley
This tutorial has good install instructions for clojure+compojure+enlive using only Leiningen (and git):

http://github.com/swannodette/enlive-tutorial
No, they just POST you the message (+ optional subject) as JSON.
From another perspective, RMS's setup is also so much of a hair shirt that he'd be one of the hardest tech celebrities
for hackers to target. Especially considering he only infrequently connects to the Internet like a nuclear submarine surfacing to communicate with a satellite.
"Seeing poverty up-close will annihilate any Westerner's malaise. It's suddenly very, very hard to get into a funk about your career when you're watching a family live on $2/day."

I wish I could upvote this comment more. Throughout my teenage years and early 20's, I had serious problems with depression and existential angst. Then I lived in China and witnessed firsthand the relative poverty that most of humanity lives in.

I realized how absolutely silly and trivial most of the problems we well-to-do Westerners think we have are. It changed my life - I am a much happier, calmer, and more stable person for it.
I have to reluctantly agree. I love my Droid, and prefer it to iphone, but the Cut&Paste is a mess.
Live? That seems difficult enough to me.
Unless Microsoft has some secret tricks, the software execution is going to be the as any Windows software. So unless they really get ISVs onboard and making touch-optimized apps, you're back to pecking away trying to use a UI not designed for touchscreens.
There's a major problem with completely ignoring and not tracking ignored bugs:

They can come back and bite you. What may seem innocuous in one system now may end up being a huge roadblock later on down the line when you want to extend/modify/update said system with new features. While I understand that some bugs are simply too minor and the edge cases simply too rare to bother fixing, it's still a good idea to track them.

This also makes certain that they aren't brought up again as a new bug six months down the line - you can point to the tracking software and say, "Yes. We know about it, and it's not worth fixing."