skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The jerkiness and stuttering has always been a PC/DOS/Windows issue. Not a computeriness issue, unless you only have computer experience

It was in the 80's that PCs couldn't even scroll a line of text without making odd stops at times, it was in the 90's when I was surprised to still keep seeing the phenomenon, and it's these days that I can still see a modern Windows screensaver stutter for no reason. Or just some mouse click taking a few seconds "to deliver".

The reason I (and so many other people) so adored the Amiga still late in the 90's is that anything like that was completely unheard of. The computer was just so snappy. Everything happened pretty much immediately. I remember that around 1995 or so there was a web page that had 256 GIF animations playing on it simultaneously. My bare Amiga could run them all smoothly despite me even doing something else in another window. My friend's Pentium pretty much choked on the very same page.

Linux desktop is nothing compared to Amiga. BeOS was close but died as well. I want a completely 100% responsive, stutter-free multitasking desktop/ipad/phone because I know it's possible. I don't want to settle for too slow latency or live with the false claim that to be snappy you can only run one application at a time.
Google's DeWitt Clinton has similar thoughts too:

http://www.google.com/buzz/117377434815709898403/brmY1L9Xh69...
And unlike T-shirts and boron, phone books show up on my porch unbidden.
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Yes, if you refer to the original concept by Google (the element corresponding to your page from the eigenvector on the link matrix of the web). The understanding of page rank as it has been dumbed down by bad SEOs is mostly irrelevant.

A slightly less dumbed down version:

google rank score = page rank * how well a query matches your content

tells you that it doesn't matter how good page rank you have if you don't have content to match the query against.
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my most useful css technique: sort properties alphabeticaly within a selector.
If the US is going to become export-oriented, who will we be exporting to?

The world economy has been polarized between export-oriented developing countries and the import-oriented United Stated. If No country is import oriented, what then? Japan and non-China Asia are suffering as much as US through the recession and they are ultra-export oriented.

The US became THE importer over the last twenty year. Even the other export oriented nations will have a hard-time without the US.

What's the answer here?
Wow. Never actually counted before. 34. Somehow, I think most are in use somehow or another.
Gaming consoles are made for a single purpose: buy a game, play the game, done.

smartphones, tablets and PCs have much more use cases and the manufacturer wants to make me believe i can do "everything" with it. Oh wait, no, i can't.
Remember, this is not a directed graph reflecting language fluency or anything like that. It only shows what the most common figure of speech in that language is.

So English -> "It's Greek to me."
Chinese -> 《跟天书一样》

Others here. http://www.omniglot.com/language/idioms/incomprehensible.php
Through a recent HN discussion, I discovered the finance course from Robert Shiller at Yale, and this is really only joy to look at this lecture. You get the whole semester in video: http://academicearth.org/lectures/finance-and-insurance
Ha ha Kottke channeling the channel 9

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctaszjeaDK0
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Yes, ancient hardware. Some people don't have a choice as to their hardware.
Anyone else find it interesting that that these days it is Apple vs Google and not Apple vs Microsoft. I almost feel sad for Microsoft :P
I like the way author addresses "non governmental organization" (NGO) as "good-government organization"
Scrabble should be part of the elementary school curriculum. There are so many opportunities not just with the iPad but with tablets in general.
Tried to see what the warning looked like but I can't get it to be produced by google. Maybe google knows (through my search history) that I'm just messing with the engine.
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Probably wget's major reason for being is mirroring websites. It does this well. Curl is a more general HTTP library with a command line front end.

And of course there are GUI frontends for wget, but it's not really intended to be used as a library. I don't see a problem here.
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Chinese is the perl of natural languages. (Pun intended)
the iPad is nothing like windows or Linux for that matter. How would you get virus into the iPad when everything has to be approved.

It's a very different animal.
kinda banal if you ask me. it's two simple tools that do approximately the same thing. even grep vs ack would be more interesting.

no offense to the authors of course, they did a great job in both cases.
This seems to be emotion talking not logic.

You are confusing whether the system with the users.

The reason why virus is a menace on the windows platform is because of all the non experts using it.

If you had the same kind of types as my partents there would be absolutely no challenge plastering the os with viruses.
What I think you are implying is that if you invest in companies part of some market index¹ and end up above the average performance of this index then someone else, who also invested only in companies in this index, will end up below the average.

This however is not zero sum game or has anything to do with markets or investments, it is just how averages work. You could apply the same logic to grades in a school class.

¹ There are lots of market indexes and they only cover a fraction of the investment possibilities and are often trade specific.
"You can't deny, it's pretty metaphysically silly to be playing a board game your parents bought at a yard sale for $2 on a $500+ iPad, in conjunction with two or more $200+ iPhones. Mix in service plans, accessories, the price of the app ($10), and the bribes you'll have to pay your friends to join in on something so embarrassing, and you're really pushing the limits of common sense with Scrabble for the iPad. "

The title of this is really just linkbait, its misleading. Scrabble is some marginal cost over the price of the device, not the reason why someone buys it.
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An 8x8 pixel chessboard would require players to memorize which color corresponds to which piece type (for both sides).

You could also have certain flickering colors represent certain pieces, but overall it would require good color vision from all players.

Alternatively, you could have an 8x8 character grid; monochrome if you represent things like:

rnbqkbnr
pppppppp
. . . .
. . . .
. . . .
. . . .
PPPPPPPP
RNBQKBNR

or

♜♞♝♛♚♝♞♜
♟♟♟♟♟♟♟♟
＿█＿█＿█＿█
█＿█＿█＿█＿
＿█＿█＿█＿█
█＿█＿█＿█＿
♙♙♙♙♙♙♙♙
♖♘♗♕♔♗♘♖

(The second board may not be properly fixed-width in your local "fixed-width" font, but you get the picture).
This educating the client business is starting to really bug me. If the client wants an iPhone app, it's not your place to start preaching your own personal ideals.

This part especially reminds me why I don't read quirksmode anymore:

"Of course it’ll also be less advanced in eye candy, but that’s something we should conveniently neglect to mention if it’s in our client’s interest."
The answer is to create some kind of a balance. Currently the US has a large trade deficit. If the US imports goods and resources, but doesn't have goods/services/whatever to export in the same range, then the US will have the trade deficit for many years to come and the numbers add up. If it isn't possible to export more, than the US might want to reduce imports and generally build a more sustainable economy.
As someone who have always used curl and wondered why I often see wget quoted in READMEs (as how to obtain some remote file), I quite enjoyed reading the write-up.

My take-away was that a) I am not missing out by staying with curl and b) the use of wget is likely due to being part of GNU.
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Yes they need to buy an office nearby to NYSE, to get fastest feeds(~ us).
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These smashing magazine articles really annoy me. I have learnt not to click them as I know they frustrate me but I thought I would try this one to see if they have got any better recently. But no, clicking through the 'techniques' I just kept hitting the same sites on different articles. So I thought I would do a little checking, from the article:

10 from http://css-tricks.com
5 from http://cssglobe.com
3 from http://zurb.com
3 from http://www.sohtanaka.com
3 from http://buildinternet.com

Half of the 'techniques' from only 5 different sites!
Also is the case for the spanish spoken in Spain, I'm used to ear: "está en chino" or "suena a chino" ("sounds like chinese").
Got this when logged in: http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/2343/screenshotev.png

Are you in the USA?
I wonder if Google has correlated these queries (and what they know of the user) against the obituaries.
That would lead to much simpler answers, mine would be "you can't". Of all the picks you'll make, most won't be the most efficient, and many will go down. So if you can't accept losses - at least for a given amount of time -, just buy fix interests - no stocks.
Damn they could start by not listing uncyclopedia as the #2 result for 'how to kill yourself without pain', which auto completes as soon as you hit k.

http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/HowTo:Commit_Suicide
I use wget for one shot downloads because it is less to type. I use libcURL when developing.

This is the difference between "wget http://www.google.ca/ and "curl -O http://www.google.ca/

Just a simple small but significant difference.
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Not leaving sensitive equipment around for others to steal. Not cluttering up Near Earth Orbit with junk. Not sending back results over interceptable radio-waves (encryption can be broken, given enough time - if you broadcast it, you can pretty much assume that the bad guys will be able to read it in 10 years time) And then, I wouldn't be surprised if the military see this as a way to get a surreptitious military manned space program up and running - it's just not that much more work, once you have a lander available.

That's just a few ideas that pop up at first glance - there are no doubt others...
You must be new to teh internetz. The most profitable article a professional blogger or online publication can produce is one that doesn't involve them producing anything at all. Just ask Engadget.
What I do

* curl for any bash scripts
* wget for downloading via command line

The error codes that curl output make it very powerful when creating a script. Something that gets run on cron & you want to know why it failed if it did.

Wget is simple, and for a shell it's what I always turn to. The only time I would use wget in a script is if I was making some sort of simple web crawler script.
They're been pretty clear that they wouldn't actually change the results for any query based on those kinds of concerns, I think. Adding a thing at the top based on some do-goody motives is a bit different than actually rearranging results in an attempt to protect people from the information they're looking for.
This is my observation too, at least for some women (and some men too, I am sure). However, I find it difficult to keep listening if I don't feel there is a point. How do you manage not to zone out?
In the context of a ~1.5 V AA battery (the grandparent comment's lament), current over time is energy.

Regarding internal resistance, the resistance of all materials drops when they get sufficiently hot, and even a volt or two is enough to get an arc going. Once that happens it will spread until the entire battery is converted to plasma. Given the energy densities the other commenter hoped for, the propagation rate is likely to be at the speed of sound, in other words a high-order explosion. Which is not surprising given that such a battery would amount to a stick of dynamite with electrode layers spaced every few molecules.
I stopped day trading when I discovered that the time I spent tracking my investments and researching stocks was not worth the profits I earned.

I would rather buy an index fund or go long on certain stocks with excellent fundamentals.
I'm not sure about your comment however ethical it might be there is just a really fine line between providing "moral" results and really tampering with the truth. If retrofitting search results for "i want to kill myself" to results that would dissuade someone from killing themselves is OK; what about changing results for other unethical questions? How to kill an unborn baby? How to kill my dog? How to kill my hamster?
I think what you are saying is that if everyone invested very intelligently, then everyone would be better off, as more money would pour into the more viable ventures (is this what you mean?) I can agree with that, FWIW, but from the short-term algorithmic/high-frequency trader 's perspective (edit), this does not appear relevant (some nth order effect).

P.S. Traders often say how their work is useful to everyone, because it makes the markets more efficient. I wonder if it's true. The analogy I'm thinking about is frequent lane swervers on the freeway ("lane arbitrage"). Are they making the freeway more efficient for everyone? I don't think so.
Well, plus the recursive download facilities. This is the reason why I mostly use wget on the command line, although I'd use curl in scripts.
(posted to blog comments as well)

If you decide to trap INT or TERM, it would be wise to properly kill your process with INT or TERM:

# if you're using bash, you can use $BASHPID in place of $$
for sig in INT TERM EXIT; do
trap "rm -f \"\$TMPFILE\"; [[ $sig == EXIT ]] || kill -$sig $$" $sig
done

Not propagating signals in this manner is being a bad Unix citizen. Bash would have re-raised the SIGNAL, so you should too.

For more information: http://www.cons.org/cracauer/sigint.html
same here. I use wget to do stuff, and I use curl to do complicated/fancy stuff. One is simple, one is powerful. I'll use simple whenever I can get away with it.
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Are there no hosting / cloud services for this sort of thing?
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As you have guessed right, I have absolutely NO idea about Software development. I was lead to believe that it is easy to write software for the iPhone by numerous articles and deduced it must be because the hardware is so similar. Thanks for correcting me.

Still I do believe a closed system is favorable for the user as long as the one who controls the system does a great job. I am thinking of a windows were one can only install software which does not mess up the system resources, or causes other harm. It would reduce the PC troubles for inexperienced users dramatically.
What a useless article.

tl;dr - it will be out, when it's ready
Try this:

http://www.google.com/search?q=suicidal+thoughts&gl=us

"&gl=" overrides google's location detection to the country code of your choice. Useful for checking what results look like from different countries.
The first thing to do is decide whether you really want to invest the time and effort into learning. Realise that the people you are playing against are professionals who do it all day every day. That's not to say you can't develop an edge and beat them, but don't assume you can walk in with no experience and set the world alight. Nobody here would expect a novice programmer to sit down and write the most awesome web app in a weekend - the same principle applies.

In this thread I've seen 'day trade', 'don't day trade', 'index funds' , 'don't do index funds'. Realise that all this advice is contrary, and only applicable to the specific people providing it. What matters is finding something compatible with your belief system, not twisting your mind to try and accept somebody else's belief system. Because when the pain and stress arrive, if you're not fully aligned with your strategy, then you're going to make the wrong choice.

Once you've decided you're going to put some effort in, then you need to work out a strategy that aligns with your personality. This needs to evaluate things like:

- your risk tolerance

- your expectations of returns

- your starting capital

- your analytical skills

Everyone is different, and the only people who succeed are ones who find an approach that works for their personality, and then take the time to get rid of their mistakes.

As for books, here's what I recommend:

- Intelligent Investor by Ben Graham - the take away in this book is the 'margin of safety' concept

- Trade your way to Financial Freedom by Dr Van Tharp - the take away in this book is that active management by position sizing and risk setting dictates more of your return than your actual strategy.

- Market Wizards, The New Market Wizards and the Stock Market Wizards, all by Jack Schwager. These books are all a series of interviews with top traders in commodities, currencies, funds, stocks and probably something I've forgotten. By understanding how an incredibly diverse set of traders have made astounding returns in the same markets should make you realise that there is no one approach that works, there are only approaches that work for specific people.

Good luck, and pray your first trade is a failure, not a success. Because you need to learn the pain of loss and how to minimise it before you taste the sweetness of profit.
Division by zero is simple, isn’t it ?
Huh? Isn't the use-case here that you all sit around the iPad, which acts as the common game board, using your personal iPhone to hold your bricks? I didn't watch the video, but that's how I understood it.
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Trading seems like more of a zero-sum game to me than startups.
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There's no 'truth' or 'impartiality' or 'morality'. Google frames the internet based on how their algorithm decide what's relevant, dismissing and even completely excluding anything they decide is not relevant or spam or malicious.

We all put intensely personal stuff in that box. Google's in a position where they are quite possibly the only place suicidal people may reveal their problems. I hope they do everything they can to help people who are exploring their options, because amongst those options IS support and help even if their SEO isn't as good as uncyclopedia.

That it should come down to SEO at all is reprehensible in some cases and shows how poor search engine technology really is - the uncyclopedia article isn't about killing yourself without pain, it's satire and standard uncyclopedia stuff, none of their suggested methods except perhaps the atomic car bomb would be painless. So not only is it irrelevant but it's machine-judged to be more relevant than something that could help but isn't as funny/popular and doesn't have the search engine juice.
Think of the iPad as a 'console' computer, and everything will fall into place...
Why? Garbage collection is nothing more than implicit, runtime-managed refcounting.
I like the idea, it's a rather elegant solution.

Currently the standard and ugly ways seems to be to either invent your own variation of USB connectors (with extra pins, e.g. USB +19V DC for the external DVD on the Dell Notebook I'm typing this comment on) or to push a unholy amount of juice (2A? 3A?) through those tiny (e.g. Micro-USB) connector pins. Or even bridge two USB ports.

Will there be some kind of standard API to switch ports to high-voltage operation? Will we see this getting widespread use? Or have mobile devices settled on such low power consumption that all the effort isn't even worth thinking about?
It is a zero sum game. For everyone who gains, there is someone who loses money. The prices aren't going to rise higher and higher forever.
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I'm going to controversial and ask : if successful entrepreneurs are relentleslly resourceful, shouldn't they be able to find a way around the immigration laws? Everyone I ever met who wanted to live in a country found a way to make it happen.
Having a trade deficit to a developing country is like giving them a loan. (My economics teacher)

The Relation the US had with China in the last years, reminds me a lot of the Japanese-Korean situation in the 1980s. Japan outsourced labor intensive work to South-Korea because it was cheaper there. Over time South-Korea became very wealthy and the labor costs were to high to continue to outsource. But this was great news, because the South-Korean now had demand for Japanese products.

The same story happens to US/China, once Chinese reach a certain wealth, they will be able to afford US products.

The other reason why I do believe this will happen rather quickly is this chart:http://www.businessinsider.com/scariest-jobs-chart-ever-febr...
If this chart is true, all the laid off consumers will drive the domestic demand down. So clearly the only possible growth is in other countries.
All I was saying is that it is not a zero sum game.

As for invested very intelligently I don’t think you can define that, nor what it means for everyone [to] be better off and more trading of a stock does not mean more money go into the company the stock represent (assuming the stock is not sold directly by the company).

This is all very long-winded to get into here, but as a quick example of how this “intelligently” and “better off” is ambiguous I think we would be better off with more alternative energy, so people should invest in that. But a lot of these investments will likely turn out to be non-profitable (even cause a loss) but on the bright side, a lot of R&D in alternative energy will be done, which is good, and those companies with good projects may end out making a difference in the world, etc.
The network latency will kill you. You want to be in the same rack, not just the same colo, as the exchange's endpoints.
I know uncyclopedia is awful, and I don't support suicide, but they can be quite humorous sometimes...

Methods To Die Slowly Without Any Possible Notice:

* Attempting to read a program written in Perl or APL.

In other news, I think it's commendable that Google is doing this.
The balance is going to be at a different point than it has been for most of the last forty or fifty years, though. Americans will likely not be as rich relative to the rest of the world as they have been.
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