skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
However it is important to note that our overall interlinked and financiarized economy needs a lot more progress to transform itself into a more decentralized and resilient system: that's where local culture, organic food, mixed cultures, and others enter into the picture!

Yes. I agree. Moving away from old mistakes (e.g. suburbia and car culture) is not a departure from modernity. No one is going to ban cars, but it turns out that spending 80 minutes per day in one really sucks, and if we can build a society where people live closer together and can ride a train to work, that's progress.

In any case, the old regime is going to die. It's unsustainable, and it's already showing its cracks. This is why I don't invest in the stock market. It was a great idea between 1930 and 2000, as American corporations managed to become increasingly dominant in modern life, but as that trend reverses, I expect the share of our economy held by the top 500 corporations (that's essentially what the S&P is) to contract.
Who am I going to be stigmatized by? The people I find to date on the Internet? Nope. My friends? I don't discuss it with them.
No shit. The "cloud" buzzword has gotten way out of control.
He also doesn't mention the effects of the Bush tax cuts coupled with increased spending. Medicare part D is such an expensive clusterfuck -- seniors don't understand it, the federal government is barred from negotiating drug discounts with pharmaceutical companies, and it will cost us approximately $727.3 billion by the end of 2018. And, of course, the pharmaceutical companies won again with the latest health care bill.
So in 2007 we switched from the Republic of Email to the Kingdom of Social Networking. Where is the Rebel Alliance of open distributed social networking protocols?
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This mostly agrees with my own experience growing up and doing various types of weight training for various sports.

However, I'd say the very biggest thing that determines whether your weight-training leads to a big bulky physique or a lean and cut one isn't the number of reps you do. It's diet. If you eat large meals, you'll be big; if you don't, you'll be lean.

It may not be possible to get "huge" without using relatively heavy weights or your body weight, but a lot of people I've known have a ridiculous fear that they'll somehow accidentally develop the kind of physique that professional bodybuilders get after spending thousands of hours in the gym and taking anabolic steroids. It's also worth pointing out that some very lean people are shockingly strong. One guy at my school weighed about 160lbs, looked nothing like a bodybuilder and could bench 350lbs with ease.
To clarify: There are two writing speeds of an SSD, one when the block is empty and one when the block already has data, the latter is slower and TRIM support from the OS will allow the SSD to know about “dead data” so that it can reorganize data to optimize free blocks.

I am using the first generation Intel SSD which doesn’t actually support such reorganization and isn’t noticeable affected by “being full” (as opposed to writing to the factory default empty state).

I am also using Crucial SSD (with OS X) and that as well is magnitudes faster than my previous mechanical disk.

So all in all, this degraded performance is blown a bit out of proportion and you are doing yourself a great disservice by holding out for TRIM support — to echo others: SSD was the best upgrade I added to my system.

Edit: I am btw using SSDs with a desktop system. So I compare them with my previous 7200 RPM drives. For a laptop there is absolutely no doubt that you should go with an SSD (if you can afford it), TRIM support or not. For a desktop, I would still highly recommend it.
Ask HN: Who's hiring success stories?
After starting the last "Who's hiring?" thread (I know, but we have openings!) I was wondering - has anyone here actually landed a job due to one of these postings?

If you have, please tell us about it. I need a couple of feel-good stories this morning.
Yeah, as soon as it started with the "dumped into the laps of our children" hyperbole I checked the source. No bueno.
I'm interested in this (the .pdf, anyway) simply to make sure I didn't miss anything really good ^-^.
I'm not one to defend Bush, but "everything is Bush's fault" is not any more reasonable than "everything is Obama's fault."

I do agree that a similar report should have been made during Bush's administration, and if this think tank didn't make it, it's hypocritical.
Are the numbers opinionated?
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Research paper titles are considered to be the major elements of your research paper. They are written in such way that a reader would understand the main point of what he/she will be reading about.
Is there another way you would describe this sort of government spending?
Ad hominem. Do you have any valid arguments?
A simple example of an utility application is log. To use it in your application you can write:

use('log', '0.1');

...

log.debug('Your log message');

The first line includes the file http://www.akshell.com/apps/log/code/0.1/__init__.js which is an interface of log. Then you can view your logs at http://log.akshell.com/

The admin of log maintains consistency of the interface; so other developers can use it.

Anybody can use your app if he trusts you. If you don't maintain consistency of your utility interface, nobody will use it.

It is not like friending. The friending itself can be implemented as an application.
I would think you'd benefit heavily from Opera Mini for a desktop. I wonder why they don't have such a thing with "maximum" requirements. (I see the disadvantage to having anyone be able to use Opera Mini for their service reliability.)
If you believe in Keynesian economics (many people still do), that's exactly what they should be doing. To quote wikipedia:

"Keynes′ theory suggested that active government policy could be effective in managing the economy. Rather than seeing unbalanced government budgets as wrong, Keynes advocated what has been called countercyclical fiscal policies, that is policies which acted against the tide of the business cycle: deficit spending when a nation's economy suffers from recession or when recovery is long-delayed and unemployment is persistently high—and the suppression of inflation in boom times by either increasing taxes or cutting back on government outlays."

You can make an argument about whether that's a valid theory or not, but saying spending more than you're taking is just plain bad, isn't really much of an argument.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_economics#Active_fisc...
Which netbook do you have?
Mel seems to come up every few months :-)

http://searchyc.com/story+of+mel
I don't really see any opinion here. It's really just a statement of facts. Facts can be twisted to support an opinion but if that's the case you'd be better off pointing out where that happened not attacking the beliefs of the organization that created it.

As for disclosure the end of the article states...

"Brian Riedl is the Grover M. Hermann fellow in federal budgetary affairs at the Heritage Foundation."

Followed by a copyright notice which again attributes the piece to the Heritage Foundation
If not for the iPad launch, these laptops would probably have been released in February, so saying "Updates soon" for three months is about as much as could be expected.
How should I feel about the possible reaction in Afghanistan given that we still have US citizens in the country? My father is due to make a two week tour of Afghanistan next week and this makes me worry for him.

I realize that exposing the realities of war is the best way to end a war but I can't help but worry for the people on the ground.
Yeah, I bought the previous 15" model 2 weeks ago, just before the announcement. Ugh.
http://carlos.bueno.org/2010/04/dismal-guide-to-concurrency....

The original link is viewable without needing to be logged-in to FB, as far as I can tell.
> Download an audio file of Ben Long doing a dramatic reading of this article (MP4, 10 MB).

Nice touch. I'd also like to hear it in Shatner.
This is the way most businesses operate. In reality, businesses often have to spend their way out of losses with innovative R&D and marketing. The fact that credit exists smooths out the ups and downs in revenues is a good thing. Imagine the long-term cost of winding down government services, just to have to wind them up again? There are huge ramping costs to take into consideration, not to mention the impact on the economy. While I agree that government spending is a little ridiculous at times, breaking it down into simplistic terms ignores the vast tasks that even a stripped down federal government must undertake.

Also, because of the way most people spend money in reality, the government would go broke if they tried to collect taxes without witholding. Sad but true.
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Yahoo suffers a lot of stigma. Maybe because most of us passed a fase where all serious programers had switched to google. I know ppl thar dislikes yui only based on preconcepts about yahoo.

how comfortable are you on depending on yahoo services and why?
The drive does not know when data stored on the drive is “deleted”. This is what TRIM is for, i.e. when you delete a file you just unlink the inode. You need to tell the drive that the blocks that the file occupied are no longer needed, so the disk can ignore that data when reorganizing or later rewriting part of the block.
At this time, we ask all our coworkers to be located in our lovely offices so we can drink beer with them and challenge them to foosball. (And also everyone here does customer support, which is only possible on premise.)

But, I ask you, have you ever wanted to move to Toronto? The hockey is worse, but the basketball is still happening, and our soccer team is good.
Given how evasive the salesman at my local Apple store was when I asked that question recently I imagine it's not much of a difference.
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Unfortunately while there are strategies to mitigate the problem in hardware, proper TRIM support is still best. You might be getting confused by the TRIM enabled firmware that was released in December '09 for that SSD? It just means that the Intel drive will obey TRIM commands from the OS. But if the OS doesn't send any commands, which OS X won't, then you're not taking advantage of TRIM. For what it's worth, if you were going to choose a drive that would degrade the least in performance without the use of TRIM, you probably chose best with the Intel X-25M. But it would still perform better over time in Linux or Windows 7.
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OK, but there's little or no evidence that that is what welfare recipients are doing. Whereas you and I are having this conversation using a spin-off of defence spending.
The US spends 600b a year on defense. The rest of the world combined spends less than 400b (http://risingpowers.foreignpolicyblogs.com/files/2009/03/mil...).

I'd say we could cut a few billion here and there, wouldn't you?
An entertaining read, and for once a strong opinion is combined with some thoughtful explanation as to why the author's circumstances may differ from the reader's.
You do realize that those Walmarts not only create thousands of new jobs for their communities, but also several more from anchoring other multi-national stores that come because of Walmart?
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Good decision. I use either Lucene or Solr on two or three projects a year. Solr adds a lot of functionality to Lucene so now hopefully a lot of that extra functionality will be easy to use in embedded Lucene applications.
Without rhetoric and hyperbole.
Maybe. But this deals with federal taxes and 47% of the country doesn't pay federal taxes (http://bit.ly/dBESEf). Plus these are averages meaning of the 53% of those who pay federal taxes a good portion of them pay less than that while a smaller portion pay quite a bit more.

So a very large portion of the country is forcing much of the burden of the state on a very small (and admittedly much more well off) part and I'm not sure if people would choose to do that or not if shown the numbers outright
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Sorry for using slang. What I mean is have you tried using your knowledge from one field (say web-dev) and try to see if you can use it for your other field (photos)? For example, you could maybe use the information from your photo sales, take the numbers and put them into some tracking software and use the information to help you decide the next pictures you should take. (Just like you probably look at your web analytics to see what type of site to build and how best to promote and sell it)
How is that statement rhetoric or hyperbole (which are both defined by their use of exaggeration)? Is there anyone (Republican or Democrat) who believes we'll be able to pay off the nation's debt in this generation?
To pull this off, the implementation exploits templates, operator overloading and function pointers (but, remarkably, not a single macro) to construct a type-safe domain-specific embedded language.

Yes, "exploiting" is exactly the word I was looking for. Cool hack, though.
I don't think identifying the source is exactly an ad hominem. I'm pretty sure you have to attack the source as unreliable or somehow bad. Understanding that the source is conservative can be helpful in understanding biases within the article itself.

Note that it contains no sources or methods for evaluating the true or falseness of its claims, nor can we be sure about the broad categories the author presents. Without that information, taking such a list at face value seems like a bad idea.
Are the numbers cited and substantiated?
"that's about 80 percent of the average person's total earnings. How many people would really say "I'm willing to give 80 percent of my income to the federal government, and some more to the state government?"

That's extremely misleading, because a person of average income does of course not pay anything near 80% of their total earnings.
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I think that the article was largely factual except the amount of defense spending quoted in the article seems really low. Some (or a lot) of defense spending is non-essential (depending on your view of which is the greater threat: war/terrorism or a collapsing economy with an ensuing "Road Warrior" life style). I think that it would be more honest to add interest costs to all spending that is not absolutely required to "keep the lights on."
I do something kinda like that. Just looking what kind of photos really sales and make more in this niche :)
(I think that was a part of a joke)
One reason I like my nVidia chip is that the Adobe creative suite (Photoshop CS4, and I'd assume CS5) takes advantage of the GPU to take load off the CPU. I'm not a gamer though, so I don't have anything to share in that department.

Link: http://techreport.com/discussions.x/15571
Apples, Androids and Apps – Taking Over the World One News Story at a Time
It’s inevitable that wherever you look, if you’re checking out news about mobile applications, you’re seeing that the industry is growing. It’s not just growing by a little bit either, it’s growing by leaps and bounds. Last week ABI Research released some numbers suggesting that mobile app downloads will exceed 6 billion, in 2010, that’s well over 50% growth over the number of downloads seen in 2010.
What's wrong with using non-lethal weapons when one side has an overwhelming advantage?
I would imagine it's done using some kind of estimate of the known current rate of expansion and assuming some kind of model for the rate of acceleration.
Yes and No. I don't disagree with the definition but inherent in Keynesian economics is the idea that you shouldn't spend dramatically more than you can compensate for through taxation once the economy recovers. So while Keynesian theories might justify spending the question here is whether too much is being spent and that's not one that is really addressed in the theories themselves
You said "Did he mis-state any facts, or leave out something important?" The post was simply a statement of fact. It can't be ad hominem when you don't even make any arguments.
Another possible source of passive income is selling website templates on ThemeForest.net. Similar to iStockPhoto, you can build something once, like an HTML or Wordpress template and sell it forever.
Facebook surpasses Google in US traffic. Does that mean Facebook is/will be more important than Google? I think not.

SMS traffic grew rapidly as well, but it did not take away the voice business.
Do you really need to do both? Seems to me you should lose fat first, for the health benefits if nothing else.

Try two things: rowing and push-ups. Rowing is spectacularly good cardiovascular exercise, and once you work your way up to 45+ minutes a day, you'll lose weight fairly rapidly. Rowing does not build muscle, but it does tone what you have. Once you've lost fat and toned up, you might actually like the results. If you don't, then start weight training. Starting Strength, etc.

As for push-ups, they're just plain good for you. Start something like the "hundred push-ups" program.

For your diet, just eat healthy meals and don't obsess with counting calories for now.
Somewhat tangential: where did you get the idea of using '+' in your URL's? I haven't seen that before :-)
I like the idea of a constellation of small applications but I cannot envisage how it work. If you have written an app (library) that I want to use, I use it directly, or I can clone it.

The former requires that I trust you completely and permanently and is therefore not likely to happen in serious contexts. The latter requires a round-trip through my VCS anyway, so what benefit does this feature bring over e.g. Github?
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Best management decision (from The Design of Design)
The use of the word "massacre" implies something like My Lai or the Katyn Forest, a deliberate killing of large numbers of noncombatants, especially by infantry.

Attacks by aircraft, like those in this video (as indicated in the article) and the previous one, should be described as something else -- although it remains the case that Apaches, F/A-18s, and B-1s (the US counterpart to the Backfire) do not have the large role in COIN that the Pentagon has assigned them, and their employment in Iraq and Afghanistan reveals a poisonously cavalier attitude towards non-American lives.

The right way to fight COIN campaigns is known (see David Galula, _Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice_ (1967)); it is not the same as the Pentagon's -- although in fairness, the US military has been trending in the right direction since the happy day when Rumsfeld was given the boot.
Which is as it should be. :)
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The source is the U.S. budget itself and that's not hard to verify (harder than it should be but still). The categories again could be verified simply by looking at the budget yourself.

Any information could be untrustworthy and every author has a bias no matter how hard they try not to. The problem with your statement is that you're assuming an inherent falseness based on the authors' political stance and that's an ad hominem.
While there are many tales of retro-computing, ROMs to download to play old favorite games, articles about "the good old days", and links to computer history museums, this is by far and away my favorite. And the things mentioned in it predate my career by a good bit. All hail Mel!
Java's Generics are awful because they are useless, while being the most complex feature added to Java.

Templates in C++ or the generic types from Haskel enable parametric polymorphism which is a lot more elegant for certain problems than subtype-polymorphism (i.e. OOP).

Java's generics is only a hack to make it look as though some piece of code that's using subtype-polymorphism is parametric ... but it only saves you explicit type-casts, which are also useless.

dotNet's generics are different ... while sharing the same limitations (i.e. no late binding and not implicit interfaces), because the types are available at runtime the runtime dispatches being made aren't just hacks and you can use the reflection mechanism to workaround many of the problems associated.
Not give him your money. MBPs are not that special.
Gah. I find this really irritating. You have never stepped foot in a gym, clearly have no idea what happens there, but are perfectly willing to pass judgement on it.
I find weightlifting itself immensly enjoyable, what I like to do with my muscles is to lift heavy things. I enjoy the fact that this strength is useful throughout the other aspects of my life. (Think yardwork, sex, sports, etc.) I have solved more difficult problems both personal and intellectual while weight training that anything else that I do.
I also enjoy the long term challenge of planning my training. Once the easy gains are completed, advancing in strength becomes a rather difficult exercise in planning, discipline, execution, creativity, etc.
Less than 500 lines of code. More than 500 lines of compiler errors if you get a character wrong somewhere. ;)
I totally agree if it's a choice between somewhat decent SSD (e.g., I'd probably avoid the Samsungs that Apple actually offers) or hard disk, go for SSD. I'm just disappointed that Apple hasn't yet enabled TRIM support. They apparently laid the groundwork for it in the kernel but haven't actually finished off the work. Every time they roll out new models, I check to see if they've actually enabled TRIM support in a point update of OS X but they haven't. They'll eventually have to as it's being rolled into the ATA specification.
"I can't imagine they made it harder to replace the HDD."

Start imagining. You need a mini-torx screwdriver to get the hdd out, once you get the cover off (8 phillips screws).

Not the end of the world, but not too many people have a T8 sitting around. I didn't.
I don't think the non-pro model can drive a 30" monitor.
The Chilling Effect of the GPL
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Pretty intense, I'd say.
speed of light?
before today's release there was no difference, now the only difference is GPU
Except you'll void the warranty, am I right?
I wonder if the level of Google isolation could be damaging to the company in the long-term. They seem to provide everything their employees need which allows the employees to spend more time on campus and interact with their co-workers.

However, I find that some of my best ideas and inspiration come from talking to people outside the technology field. I would be concerned that there's an echo chamber effect that could slant their ideas toward people like themselves instead of people outside Google.

Based on the last couple of sentences, I guess my reaction might just be based on Tim's hyperbole, though.
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both had Nvidia GeForce 9400M
I'm aware of the expansion of reserves. My objection is twofold:

1) Don't say "printing money". It's not printing money. The Fed does something called printing money, and this ain't it. Don't even say "printing money" in an obtuse metaphorical fashion, since everyone who isn't aware of the current state of the Fed's balance sheet, including many people on HN, will misunderstand.

2) I doubt most of the newly created Federal reserve liabilities will ever see circulation. Remember, the Fed is controlled by people who do not want inflation to happen. Many top economists--notably Volcker, chairman of the Economic Recovery Advisory Board--would rather see a prolonged recession than inflation (cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Volcker#Chairman_of_the_Fe...). Printing money to erase debts would inspire an economic revolt by just about everyone that isn't Congress.