skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with this is that Apple is more like a newsstand than a newspaper. Would you be comfortable with your local newsstand only selling papers that printed news it agreed with? What if that newsstand became so popular that other newsstands went out of business?
Stress First. Relax Later.
That has nothing to do with whether GS themselves needed a bailout. In fact it speaks to the fact that they probably didn't see this crisis coming. If they had, then as the biggest trading partner of AIG they would have known their counterparty exposure and tried to reduce it ahead of time.
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"Legal" and "not wrong" are only partially intersecting.
I like Walmart, and I've noticed this phenomenon.... though much of my experience may just be noting geographic differences in obesity, as the Walmarts I visit tend to be in the less-urban areas of California, Nevada, or central Texas.

I'd love to see guerrilla-installation of some sort of weight-strain gauge under the entrances/exits of major eatery chains, so as to collect and publish data on the average weight of their customers.
imho better way to solve this 'problem' would be to write error messages in such way that you don't need stdout as context to interpret them.
I think the point was that people tune in in massive numbers for say Biggest Loser just to play look at the fat guy. Ditto with anything about the enormously obese on random Discovery channel shows. The money comes from advertisements instead of ticket sales but people are still making money by showing us fat people.

At least one implication is that just because people were willing to pay money to see a show that included fat people in 1910 doesn't mean it was actually considered freakish any more than it is today.
I appreciate why you're touchy, but think about it:

GOVT DEATH PANELS!

That's all you need to know, to realize that the assessment of "semi-facts, lies, and emotion blended into an easily palatable gruel" is, in fact, the majority of Tea Party-er thinking.

Not all of the people who are against socialized healthcare believe the "death panel" idiocy. Not all of them pretend they're doing some revolutionary act by joining the Tea Party.

But they're all hopelessly ignorant of how socialized medicine really works. And what the word "socialism" means.
The first episode could be about defending your fortress from elephants by flooding the outside world with lava.
Overall I was happy with the license conditions...
would anyone know what would be the fall out from these charges?
I was just forced to start using it for one project, and once I got over the learning curve (which is a lot shorter than it first appears) I love it. Now I'm using it for projects where it is not necessary but is a superior solution to word. The only thing I still really struggle with is the placement of figures exactly where you want them.
That's patently false:
"The chairman is subject to Senate confirmation to a four-year term. In practice the chairman is often re-appointed, but cannot serve longer than one 14-year term as governor"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chairman_of_the_Federal_Reserve
This is exactly what I was getting at in paragraph 5 of "The Cure" section ("If you find the idea...").

The problem with stress as the root cause is that after I resolved my RSI pain, I have been through tremendously stressful situations during which I was typing a lot, but these have not triggered any RSI pain. So I think there's something more going on unconsciously, and yes I agree with you it sounds pretty far out.

As for exercise, I should have mentioned in the article that I have always exercised regularly and exercise is a big part of my life, even while I was typing a lot, so in my experience exercise (while having may other benefits) did not help my RSI pain.
I like the Mixergy interviews, but being hour-long videos they do require quite a big time investment.

I would pay for access to professionally edited versions that cut each interview down to, say, half an hour with the fluff cut out.
From the LA times

* Colusa: 27.4%
* Imperial: 27.3%
* Merced: 21.7%
* Plumas: 22.3%
* San Benito: 21.1%
* Sutter: 21%
* Trinity: 25.8%
* Yuba: 20.4%

These are all small rural counties. Bad for them, but the large metropolitan areas are better off.
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That's true, choice is a good thing until you are blind and then you have no choice. In the US, the whole point of Section 508 is to protect the minority. If you left it up to the market, the majority of people who have no disabilities would be the ones who are catered too and a secondary market attempting to address the needs of people with disabilities would have to spring up. Most likely, things in that market would be inferior on the whole to their counterparts in the mainstream market simply by virtue of there being a lot less invested in them. That is not what we want, someone who is disabled should have the same choices as someone who does not.
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Their rate of improvement over a 5-6 week period increased, but the article omits their baseline rate of improvement (presumably they're still-developing athletes). I didn't check if the actual study addresses this, and in any case, the improvements sound larger than usual.

Of course, it's also nearly impossible to create a placebo 10-hours-sleep intervention :)
This reads more like a novel than a manifesto, but the gist is good. I think the name is misleading too, which doesn't help when you're trumpeting a manifesto.

When I read 'Code for Flexibility' I hear the antithesis of 'YAGNI', and think of large Java projects where every class implements interface and every interface has one and only one implementation. Yech.

The article makes some good points though, that could benefit from a restating. "This too, shall change" might be a good mantra for those writing software in almost all environments. "Don't get too attached" speaks more to me than "Code for Flexibility".

Change happens, we're evolving as a community to embrace that. Coding (up front) to anticipate change later, is a bad move, which while not the point of the article, is how I read the title and many of the headlines therein.
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I'm 'soft' interested, although between Mixergy and everything else, I'm already having a hard time finding time to consume it all. The question I'd have is, given all the free high quality stuff stuff for people like us, all the audio/video/text on this topic, do I really need yet another place vying for my time? I'm not being negative, just saying that I'd like to know the differentiation.
He silently removed that line from his post.
http://www.apple.com/accessibility/iphone/vision.html
"could sell for a couple hundred thousand dollars"

Start-ups are high risk, high reward and ton of WORK endeavors. The PM is treating it like a high risk, low reward, no work endeavor.

Has he put in a ton of work into this?
Did he pass up opportunities to do something else because of this?

No? Then he doesn't fit.
It won't be a legal pad until you can write on it, and the software is there to support that. http://www.sekouterry.com/blog/a-great-tablet-will-need-a-pe...
I believe this was the reason for the telecom immunity sell-out: http://articles.sfgate.com/2009-02-27/bay-area/17190307_1_ob...
That is true in many aspects of the crisis, sadly. However, in this case, there is no public loss to speak of from the transaction itself. Rather, it served to further inflate the bubble that ultimately triggered the crisis.
His comments make it sound as if Microsoft was somehow preventing him from working on it.
> Life imitating art and vice versa.

Am I the only one that finds it tremendously amusing when life imitates comedy?
A wirehead future is possible (and scary to me).

We can do better, though. Check out Yudkowsky's Fun Theory sequence for more on this:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/xy/the_fun_theory_sequence/
If you can't recompile the program, an expect script will come very handy:

$ ./unbuffer ./tst >/tmp/logit 2>&1; cat /tmp/logit
line 1
stderr line 1
line 2
stderr line 2

http://expect.nist.gov/example/unbuffer
Talk about great investment opportunity, drop me a note when you need some seed money for the third go around. Flickr is the only Yahoo acquisition that comes to mind that they haven't run into the ground and then abandoned.
It's easy to phrase it that way, hard to prove (to a legally sufficient degree) that that phrasing is correct.
Lyle McDonald, an expert on fitness research, mentions impaired sleep as a common cause of overtraining - http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/training/overtraining-overr...

He's long-winded but his views are definitely founded on scientific research.
Totally agree - this feel like "security theatre" at the airport - except it's SEC theatre.

The SEC has largely failed in it's mission to prevent things like this happening in the first place - going back and arguing over whether it was technically fraud or not with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight isn't going to prevent stuff like this from happening again.

People get sold bad investments all the time - the onus is on you as the buyer to make good decisions and do your research. If you feel it's fraud, the courts are available to you as a private party. The SEC doesn't add any benefit to this equation that I can see. It does perhaps add one negative to the equation by encouraging people to take these investments "on faith" because they believe (incorrectly) that the SEC is effective at watching out for them.
I don't think this an accurate analogy. Most newsstands won't sell porn for example. And it isn't like those newsstands carry every magazine that might have valid news. They have to pick, and I'm betting they pick them based on what is good business for them. So actually, maybe I'm wrong. Apple is acting like the newsstand in some regard. Just not in the way you outline.

If developers would take their stand and forgo the potential of cash in favor of principle, then Apple might be forced to change policies. Until then, nothing is likely to happen.
OK, yes there was clear misrepresentation of who put together the CDO, that seems to be obvious from the available information. What I just don't see is why it that is material. By nature of buying a Synthetic CDO the buyers had to know someone was short, why should it matter who it was?

They should have been buying based off the assets in the investment not based off of the counterparty.
awesome. I have been using varnish for a while now and it's just awesome. The VCL configuration works like a charm and is very simple.

ESI is really cool and can be easily integrated as a normal include with the common frameworks. For example, cached file including when developing and ESI tags when production and stagging.
Having ESI is very good to cache and distribute in parallel different parts of the page, that can have different CPU usage. Also it's really good to cache stuff even when the user is logged in.
If you publish a description of something, it immediately becomes unpatentable, by anyone (including you). This is because you cannot patent something that is in the public domain, and if you publish it, that's where it is. So that's patents. You may not have the money now, but later on when you do have the money, it won't matter, because you'll have put your invention into the public domain, and no amount of money will get it patented for you. (The other side of this, though, is that you can stop other people patenting it too, which is a tactic some inventors go for).

As for other kinds of intellectual property right, I'm afraid I can't really help you. It really depends on where you live. I would suggest you read the information on the USPTO website (US Patent and Trademark Office) if you are in the US, or the equivalent for where you live. There may be some information there on your rights regarding your designs.
I looked up the man page for C's fflush(). One of the error messages is EPIPE, "An attempt is made to write to a pipe or FIFO that is not open for reading by any process. A SIGPIPE signal shall also be sent to the thread."

So, at least in C, I think flushing is intelligent enough not to block if no one's receiving the output.
And when they overlap it's usually more by happy accident than by design.
I would much rather hand a "welfare" check to an aerospace engineer than an average Joe.

Also, if the free market space industry does pan out in our lifetimes, I think they would love to have these aerospace guys working for them even if they have such "little of value."
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My county (Stanislaus) is mostly rural but includes Modesto and Turlock (home of CSU Stanislaus). With a population of 1/2 a million we have unemployment rate of 18.9%. Directly north is San Joaquin County with Stockton as its largest city. Population of 700K and unemployment rate of 18.4%.

We aren't exactly giant urban centers but we're still a long way from tiny (sub 75k population) counties like Yuba, Colusa, San Benito, etc. I'm not sure we're a great deal better off...
This is exactly like an arsonist burning down a building to collect insurance. It's plain old fraud.
Such as prepare and set goals?
Point is that users will more often ignore opt-outs than not, regardless whether it is beneficial to them or not. As a UI practice, it's up to the form's creator how to manipulate this behavior.
actual tactile feedback. A major feature of real buttons. This is what they refer to as affordance. A button, by its nature, is meant to be pushed, and obviously so, even when you aren't looking at it.

The more interesting trend to me, which seems to be true for both touchscreen and accessible design is... no mouse. There's a shake up from which ever way you look at it.
The presence of a nude photo shouldn't matter. America has lost sight of intent as a critical component in crime. The administrators of this system intentionally photographed minors in their bedrooms without their knowledge and without any consent. What the photos show is irrelevant. The obsession about the act over the intent is why we have highschool kids getting booked on child pornography charges for receiving naked pictures of their classmates while something like this hangs in the balance. This is a clear case of criminal privacy violation and misconduct towards minors, regardless what the pictures show.
Many of the people you believe are stupid tea partiers are actually posers attempting to make the tea party look bad.

http://crashtheteaparty.org/

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/04/tea-party-crasher...

http://michellemalkin.com/2010/04/15/crashers-they-came-they...
Is that true? what about 302 redirects?

As far as the guessing for blog name if your 404 pages are good enough it won't matter, for me if you go to http://whyspam.me/blog they'll still see the link to the blog, even though you're viewing a 404 page.
Silverlight 4 released
With caution.
IMO these go beyond tweaks and are more like SSD ricing.
Sorry, my comment was unclear. I meant that vimperator changed in order to make use of the type to narrow system, which was not available with the previous one.
Sadly, no performance data is provided.
I think the obvious problem is that encrypted email is hard. key signing parties and stuff do not appeal to someone who wants to jot off a quick note. What we really need is encrypted webmail (to the point that the plain text never lands on the google server) and that's hard.
Also, less than 1% of all people who successfully commit suicide regret doing it.
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Because learning Latin trains the mind in logical thought.

Because studying Latin helps people learn about the grammatical structures which they use in their native tongue without understanding.

Because understanding Latin makes it much easier to learn any of the many Latin-influenced languages, or even to guess at what text means without knowing the language.

Because knowing Latin is a prerequisite for learning much of European history from primary sources.
Incorrect. Goldman didn't just broker this product, they helped construct it. During this process, they allowed Paulson and Co. to add RMBS's to the product that they knew Paulson was short on. It is not their job to take one side or the other, but it is absolutely their job to represent the true nature of the product they are selling. And the fact that the product was constructed specifically so that its creators would profit hugely from its demise is incredibly important material information.

> Goldman may have even thought Paulson & Co were the fools

Wrong. The entire point of this case is that GS knew two facts: Paulson & Co. helped construct the fund, and they also held a short position. GS is smart enough to know that someone who shorts their own product is not a fool, they're a con man. Or as Goldman probably saw it, a shrewd businessman.
You'd think banks paid no tax.

When banks profit, society gets its share of those profits. Taxes, spending by the organization, spending by employees, their taxes. The government bailed out Detroit, why's this any different?
Yes indeed, Apple should treat every submitter with fairness and equality. But they don't. So if this is what it takes to get their attention, huzzah!
Protip: In Vimperator, when using hints to follow an "x comments" link, hit backslash prior to typing the number of comments. Escaped, Vimperator will interpret the numbers as text to be searched rather than link identifiers.
If you actually read the complaint, you will find that Goldman Sachs was intent on using ACA's brand as a critical means through which to sell the CDOs to their clients, and kept ACA in the game by misrepresenting Paulson's position. Had ACA known, they would have been far less likely to be willing to enter into the deal.

Goldman: “One thing that we need to make sure ACA understands is that we want their name on this transaction. This is a transaction for which they are acting as portfolio selection agent, this will be important that we can use ACA’s branding to help distribute the bonds.”

ACA: “I certainly hope I didn’t come across too antagonistic on the call with Fabrice [Tourre] last week but the structure looks difficult from a debt investor perspective. I can understand Paulson’s equity perspective but for us to put our name on something, we have to be sure it enhances our reputation.”
That is a useful replacement for tactile feedback in the same way that this

http://www.theonion.com/video/apple-introduces-revolutionary...

is a useful replacement for a keyboard.
You are Hungarian, right? ;)
"During March, i was featured in killerstartups.com, i saw a big spike in traffic, and resulted in a lot of ‘me too’ articles from other websites in other languages."

If you ever want a few dozen free visitors and some links, submit to KillerStartups - their ridiculous posting schedule means that they write about pretty much anything you submit, in my experience.
Ask HN:  Need advice on an idea I started (craft beer related)
After reading pg's recent posting about Organic business ideas I was inspired to ask this community for advice on a project that I started awhile back.

Here's the url http://www.hopchart.com

I got into craft beer a few years ago, but didn't have an efficient way of figuring out what to try. So I just decided to make a system that let me track what I drank, give it a rating, and then follow others. Not rocket science.

There are plenty of beer rating sites on the internet (Beer Advocate, RateBeer, etc) but they can often be intimidating to newbies and they really only encourage one rating of a given beer (and require a relatively substantial review). My concept was to keep it simple so that users will keep rating their beer. If a Beer Advocate rating is like a blog, then a HopChart rating is like a tweet. And so that has become my concept. Keep it simple.

I started this site because I had a lull in work and because it was something that I wanted to use. I've ended up spending a bit more time and effort on it then I had intended and now I'm trying to figure out if I should keep it where it is or take it a bit further. The problem is I'm in a state of paralysis by analysis. I honestly don't know what direction to go. I have a number of things (including iphone app, foursquare integration) in the pipeline but I'm afraid of investing more time/money/effort if I don't know what the ultimate goal is. One of my shortcomings is not spending enough time marketing it, I've given myself the excuse that I don't know exactly what I'm building yet...lame I know. Another shortcoming is not making use of the data I have for building a good recommendation engine.

So now the advice part. What would you do if you were in my shoes? I have the makings of gathering craft beer consumption information in real time with geolocations. Craft beer industry is growing by volume and by dollars (I think 6 and 8% respectively) and gaining exposure. But I can't seem to figure out a good way to capitalize on what I have.

I'm open to any and all ideas, suggestions, criticism, and comments.

Thanks in advance.
This. I've undergone FSA mandated financial crime training while working for several financial institutions and lying about positions held in order to make a sale is the only thing that's clearly illegal here.

There's a very thin line between what's legal and what's illegal, and the reason banks have compliance departments is to check over things which are borderline. In a lot of cases not only can the bank be fined but the individuals involved can also face jail time. But with borderline issues typically if they're done in good faith (full honestly, going through compliance departments) the regulatory bodies don't get too involved because they don't want to scare people away from the large number of legitimate activities which are beneficial to the system but are borderline.

However in the case where someone lied outright (presumably without the knowledge of their compliance department) that's a much clearer cut-case for prosecution. It's deception for the purpose of making money, and saying "I didn't know it was illegal" doesn't wash, because it obviously is.
It's in the cloud, silly. See, the way it works is, clouds are flimsy things, so it's easy to just run tubes right through them and it doesn't even hurt. All the poor Justice Department wants is to run its own tube through the cloud before the terrorists do!
Unlike him, I find the Mac program AntiRSI to be really helpful - not only for resting my hands, but also my mind: http://tech.inhelsinki.nl/antirsi/