skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are there really 9 readers of HN (you and 8 positive mods) who think that neither C, nor Objective C, nor C++, nor JavaScript are as Turing equivalent as any programming language can be said to be whilst constrained in a finite amount of memory?

How else could one be said to have "killed" Turing equivalence unless it didn't remain after other source languages were excluded?

Melodrama trumps computer science today?
> But what I was proposing more moderate, that the governments only adopt "Open Standards" as they are known.

For the most part, govts don't "adopt" standards. Customers do.

Yes, standards are published and "imprinted" by standards bodies that occasionally have govt members, but the legitmacy of those organizations comes from customer acceptance.

Note that customers have fairly short memories and almost no loyalty. They care about their needs. They don't actually care whether something meets an IEEE standard - they care whether it does what they want for a price that they're willing to pay. Yes, standards may help them identify satisfactory goods and help with price, but that doesn't imply that customers care about standards.
Yes, the risk that you're transporting drugs alone might be enough to kill the service. A UPS driver has a plausible story if he's transporting drugs -- if you're pulled over with a package full of meth from this service your story is not much better than "it isn't mine, I'm just holding it for a friend"
I wish I had your problem, being in the US.
I really like the wallpaper on the left most vertical monitor, do you have a link to it?
The post said that time travel into the future was possible into the future by building a spaceship that traveled at relativistic speeds, proving Einstein wrong. It didnt prove any such thing. So I went to the source article, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1270531/Hawki..., which was just as confused. Who knows what Hawking actually said. Anyway this isnt traveling into the future. It's just the time dilation effect.
Depending on where you're located, the Craigslist "gigs" section is hit or miss, but can net well-paying stuff, since you're generally only competing against other local people.
Weren't there adapters/peripherals so people who had floppy disks and monitors with serial ports could still use them?
(e.g. this one for floppy disks: http://www.jr.com/lacie/pe/LAC_706018)

That is, if you had a floppy disk that you had to read, there was a workaround, even if Macs stopped supporting them natively.

There is no adapter/peripheral/workaround to view some website with Flash that you want to view. (Unless you consider it a workaround to carry, alongside your iPad, a laptop so that you can view websites that haven't yet transitioned to HTML5)
Background is nice, but it's kind of distracting :)
Why don't you at least try to educate yourselves about how Facebook actually works?

Why don't you tell us how we would go about doing that?
Up-votes?
But a social security number already works this way. It's tied to bank account, credit score, driving license (in California) and what-all else. The difference being proposed here is that a modern ID card would replace the frankly ancient SSN card which is just a piece of card with a name and number typed on it, and incredibly easy to fake/exploit. I mean, people are still churning out fraudulent documents with the aid of typewriters: http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/46911?t51hb

A modern ID card with basic authentication and anti-counterfeiting features isn't exactly the gateway to totalitarianism, unless you're one of those people that thinks the IRS isn't really legal or something.
Relocating from San Francisco to Seattle: cost comparison
Thanks Oo Nwoye for bringing this to our attention. I've created an internal bug ticket. A Facebook ads engineer should be investigating this within the next few days. Facebook takes extreme care to make sure advertisers are only paying for ads that are legitimately displayed so this will definitely get attention.

Feel free to email me in a day or two if you want an update.
That's a pretty good explanation; if it's accurate, I wonder why no one else explains it that way.

In Smalltalk, I thought arguments are always evaluated unless they're blocks. Is that wrong? Or is it that, at a lower level, everything's a block, and functions are implemented on top of that as something that always evaluates args?
There's no comparison between multiple desktops and multiple monitors, IMO. A 30" monitor is smaller than 2x 24" monitors (close to what I use, 24" and 22").
This is mine from a little while ago: http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4050/4238520705_399419d24e_b....

Windows XP on right two monitors and Debian Testing on left monitor.
Yes, here's my poor-man's standing workspace:

http://imgur.com/LGArE.jpg

I've found it works really well, it affords me lots more storage space, and (after the first week of working with it) has eliminated my lower back pain.

I recommend it to everyone, and you don't need any fancy ergonomic equipment to get started, just a bit of ingenuity. However if you do give it a go, keep in mind that the first week of standing can be pretty... tiring! And if you're adventurous (and have one to hand) you could even try using it with a treadmill.
It gives people an incentive to sit on their currency and hoard it away instead of investing it in productive ventures.

Think of it this way: the real interest rate is the nominal interest rate minus the inflation rate. That means that if the inflation rate is negative, people can effectively earn interest simply by sitting on their cash, since it'll be worth more in the future. If people earn interest by doing nothing, what incentive do they have to invest in a potentially risky venture that may make more in the long run, but may also cost them their principal?

Deflation biases people towards inaction, because they know that sitting and waiting means their money will be worth more in the future. Inflation biases people towards action - they know their money will be worth less in the future, so they may as well invest in something. The Austrian critiques of monetary inflation are basically right - it does result in bubbles, as people seek higher returns from progressively more risky investments because they know their cash will be worth less.

Technically, the mainstream economist view shoots for price stability (0% inflation) and not inflation. But they recognize that they'll never achieve that, so they err on the side of inflation. Mostly, this is because inflation is easier to cure than deflation is. If everybody is biased toward inaction, then when the Fed pumps money into the system to stimulate action, it tends to collect within firms who won't spend it because they expect it'll be worth more in the future. (This is currently a very real problem, as much of the money the Fed injected in 2009 is collecting in banks that are trying to shore up their balance sheets and consumers that are trying to pay down debt.) Each firm always has the option of choosing not to spend the money it's received. All it takes is one firm that wants to hoard, and the money will never circulate within the economy.

If you have continuous low-level inflation, however, it can be brought under control simply by reducing the money supply. You can't spend money that you don't have. (Well, you can on a micro-level by borrowing from another firm, but you can't on a macro-level because there's nobody else to borrow from.) So when the Fed restricts the money supply, that reduction filters all the way through the economy, people have less money to spend, and prices drop.
ask it what the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow is.
His first point (10) is flatly contradicted by Facebook's TOS, which was revised 4 days before his blog post. You do own your data, you just grant Facebook the mother of all licenses to it. The license is revoked when you delete your account, except in the case of data you've shared with your friends, which is probably almost everything.
I just recently installed some spotlights on my home office desk--much better lighting than using a lamp on the other side of the room...

http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/9687/deskqn.jpg
Not really a workspace, more like a work arrangement :-)

http://i42.tinypic.com/2nvqis.jpg
N900 runs it swimmingly. <3 my N900
Wolfram Alpha's failure to get much traffic tells you something about how useful advanced math is to the average person.
I could have sworn DuckDuckGo had it integrated, but I can't find it now.
Flash video could potentially come to the iPhone via skyfire (browser)
> You people (over 30) are not real users. Please understand this.

Baseless generalization. There's some age correlation there, no doubt, but I know people over 30 who use Facebook as enthusiastically as the most social of high-schoolers, and I know people under 30 who won't touch it. At least among the technically inclined, Facebook usage style is more a matter of personal disposition than age. It's stupid to say nobody over 30 has anything useful to say about the site.

And the over-30-year-olds I know who make minimal use of Facebook? They have plenty clue "about how Facebook actually works", thank you; due to their years of experience I find them often more clueful than the most voracious teenage user. They just choose to use the site differently, or not at all, regardless of their level of understanding.

I myself am well under 30, by the way, lest you accuse me of an age group bias.
Landlord is selling my house, so I'll take advantage of the unusual cleanliness: http://i.imgur.com/NQsei.jpg
Seems the human mind is wired to be sensitive to the concept of fairness. From what I understand it's been observed in chimps as well. At any rate, people see giving out things for free after they themselves paid for it as unfair, and most people react to that. It's not the logical reaction, as you're pointing out, but it is instinctual.

This isn't exactly the same case, but I believe it's close enough to be applicable: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inequity_aversion
One time, at Harvard, me and my buds thought up a website. It was gonna be like Myspace, but, uh, like better and stuff. You know, better features and just better. We were too tired from coming up with the idea to do anymore from there, so we went up to this guy and were like, "hey, we have this startup. It's like a Myspace, but better, and like for colleges maybe, I guess. You wanna like do the coding for it?" He agreed, but then he stole our idea, that we put so much thought into. We done the hard part. He just swooped in and made some code to glue our brilliant ideas together. Of course we sued him cause we got the monies, and we ended up with millions, just like patent trolls, but better.

Now I have a new idea. It's like a webapp, but better than webapps today. Anybody wanna come up with some code to help this idea come together? But if you read this, and you try to steal my idea, I'm gonna come after you.
Stephen Wolfram had an interesting TED talk that was just posted, about computing the theory of everything: http://www.ted.com/talks/stephen_wolfram_computing_a_theory_...

For the answer http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=the+answer+to+the+ultim...
Changes to ECMAScript, Part 2: Harmony Highlights - Proxies and Traits
Clearly we need a test of female cognition during and after pregnancy.
As much as your statement is true, its invaluable for checking homework, quickly pulling together figures and truly a great resource for students.
I'm envious of the mousepad (of all things). I'm still chained to using one (using the desk surface just doesn't feel right to me), so I'd love to get a cheap, but decent oversized one.
http://duckduckgo.com/?q=sin+x+cos+x&v=
Nice view. S 1st St?
Step 1: a comment on Facebook observed by a Wired intern leads to a probe of the guy's friends and recent groups.

Given the latest spritz of "I'm leaving Facebook" posts on HN, this is a coincidentially relevant tale of how it was used to track somebody down against his wishes. Even more interesting was that the timing of his profile deletion was an indicator to Wired that he was involved in something abnormal.

Some of you seem to regret ever opening a Facebook account; you can count Hogan solidly among your numbers. This story is a memorable counter to the claim that in the new era of social networking, people want everything to be public all the time. Perhaps you might not care too much about your privacy, but one day might come along where you really need to and it's too late.
Well, in fairness, picking out which pages he wanted to read was one of the scenarios in the article, so even though your point is valid, Instapaper would solve that particular part of the problem.
Paul Graham's was wrong in his book (see http://www.paulgraham.com/howbroken.html) but fixed in his later code listing (see http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/paulgraham/acl2.lisp). The Clojure code looks like the broken version to me.
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Indeed. Most people use "complex" when they really mean "complicated".
I think the parody helps people think a bit more about the issue.

The problem with the analogy is that all Apple has to do to allow the iCar to run on country roads, is allow people to steer onto it. To get flash onto the iPhone/iPad, they have to allow a completely different development team to run code on the root user of their device. They would have to change the OS, to allow unproven code to run, from a company who can't even get the desktop version to work well.
another application that can be used in this way is pyblosxom
If it wasn't for the scalper though you probably wouldn't have even had the option to go it you had wanted to.
Webkit was a substandard web rendering platform until Apple and Google invested a lot of man-hours in it.
I bought this at Fry's a few years ago--it's called a Razer "Mantis", and although it's supposed to be sold for gaming I find it great for daily usage.
Those look like Focal's Chorus series of speakers. Needless to say, I'm jealous.
The entire device doesn't have to use swap for Safari to save the state of a particular "tab" to disk.
The Perfect Server - Ubuntu Lucid Lynx (Ubuntu 10.04) [ISPConfig 2]
Ok, so you want someone else to decide what you can do with your car. Maybe you wouldn't mind if Apple stopped you from going to certain websites as well. Maybe if they blocked you from calling certain people, that would make life 'better' for you. Maybe you could get some isneakers, that only let you walk from your house to your car, or car to workplace?

I don't understand this point of view, you want less choice? Maybe you miss your mommy making decisions for you?
If you don't pick out the details, the predictions have no substance.

I could predict today that in 50 years, the earth will still exist. I am almost certain it will be true. But it's also meaningless, because everyone could predict that, and there's really not much you can do with that prediction.

The same with many of the predictions that you mention. It's a fairly good bet that in 10 years, people will use computers to communicate. But that's a useless prediction - so what? Maybe it's useful fodder for cocktail-party conversation, but maybe not even then - there's really not much meat to discuss in that.

In fact, Kurzweil was wrong about even one of his "safe" predictions. He predicted that the stock market would be higher in 2009 than in 2001, something that's been true of every decade since the 1930s. It wasn't.

The details matter. There's an amazing human trend toward confirmation bias - when people find that one of their predictions hasn't panned out, they try and broaden it out, ignore a few details, and fit the data to their predictions. But if you want your data to have any validity at all, you can't do this. Your predictions need to be specific enough in both details and timeframe that you can unequivocally state whether or not they're true, in their original form. And if they aren't, well, they're false.

(And I suspect your overall point, that VCs don't care about these predictions, is something I'd totally agree with. But we have a different idea of what a prediction is. I don't think pundit wankery that speaks in vague generalities about the future counts as a prediction at all. I do think VCs care about predictions, but they care about prediction in the more specific sense, something that is actionable and will be either right or wrong.)
Too bad it's not working for Canadian cities.
I have two 24" monitors at work and one at home. At work, I use XP. At home I use Linux/Xmonad. Xmonad on one monitor is vastly preferable to Windows on two monitors.

Even a 9" monitor is good enough with Xmonad.

Maybe you need two monitors if you are not an Xmonad/keyboard power user... but otherwise, two monitors just gets you extra neck strain.
The same thing is pretty much true on the iPhone as well. In theory, it keeps pages in memory, but in my experience it reloads the page way more often than I would prefer. It is definitely on my wish list for future Safari updates, once they have consolidated the iPhone OS to have the same version on both devices.
Should the Australian Govt pay for injured man’s Wii?
How is this anything more than a correlation? I saw nothing at all in support of a causal link.
http://120fps.org/l_high3.mp4

I copied this High@3.0 file out of my iTunes library and it successfully syncs to my 3GS.

I can't get it to play over Wifi, while I can get a Main@3.0 file to play, but I think this has something to do with not enforcing some bitrate limit rather than the profile.
Mine is similar to Chime, I have a 4 LCD setup. [Can't do 5 LCD setup because my table can't fit another LCD + my workstation can not take another display card!]

http://imgur.com/GzuzF.jpg

LCD 1: Browser

LCD 2 and 3: VMs for Development [VMWare supports multi monitor for the guest OS!]

LCD 4: 24" Widescreen LCD in landscape mode for movies and stuff. (I don't own a TV)

LCD 1, 2, 3 are Dell 2005FPW. They have an IPS Panel and you can rotate them in portrait or landscape mode. I hate the cheap LCDs available in market right now because they don't have an IPS Panel. [Tip: Search for 2005FPW on craigslist, sometimes you may find an awesome deal and trust me, they are way better than anything you can find in current market right now.] LCD 4 is Dell 2405FPW which is not IPS but because I only use it for multimedia, I don't mind it that much.

I run Windows 7 x64 and love it!
Necessary accessory: waste basket.
Other things I've heard that can cause serious problems are root canals. Once done, they can be a breeding ground for bacteria. I think it depends a lot on how it's done.

Also, mercury-amalgam fillings might problematic if somehow they seep into the body. Or, when a tooth is lost, what gets put in its place?
That seems to be very blog-specific, Bolt is intended to be a lot more generic. :-)
Oh, I didn't mean it as an insult actually - justin.tv was firmly in the trough of sorrow when I started working there, and we stayed in that phase for at least my first year at the company. It's quite depressing, but not (always) fatal.
Cuil has an almost identical graph, except they're coming up to 2 years.
How about where my investor is from:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=relocating+from+san+fra...
It can be an incredible research tool as well. For example, you can calculate cost-of-living differences between different cities, or compare crime rates, or see how your SAT score compares to the national average.

The examples pages are rich (there are visual examples too), but would really benefit from some deep mashup-like examples. Wolfram|Alpha is really cool but I don't personally have much of a use for it; I'd like to be able to browse through it like Wikipedia.
Dallas: http://m.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=relocating+from+san+franc...

Dallas, Houston and Austin are super cheap with fairly big tech cultures. Austin might even be worth living in too.
Has anyone successfully used this as a VPN between the US and China?
> Well, part of the git workflow is branches.

Internally we use a lot of branches and tagging and versioning, etc. The problem is if we published everything live, it would add a lot of overhead for us.

While we do eventually publish everything, we are still a for profit company, and occasionally have to keep things secret for business reasons (like new features). Keeping track of what code is for a new features vs a fix to an old one would add a lot of overhead that we just have the time for.

In the name of reduced overhead, we only publish to the public repository once we have released a feature and it is fully baked.
The Beginner's Guide to Outsourcing Effectively
Like Chime, it would seem I'm in the minority as well running Windows Vista 64 on my home setup. I don't follow any sort of pattern on what goes on what display, it just all depends on what I'm doing at the moment. Currently, however, I've got Chrome in the center, communications (TweetDeck, Digsby) on the left and Visual Studio on the right. Behind those are just a couple more windows such as Notepad++, another copy of VS running for an alternate project and I'll usually have SQL Management Studio up as well and maybe iTunes unless I'm listening to Pandora.

The laptop is rarely used, but I'm working on a Chrome Extension that requires syncing via a website across computers so I broke it out for testing.

The rig is a couple of years old now, nothing really note worthy aside from maybe my system drive and data drive's each being in a mirror raid. Screens are all Hanns-G. I had 2 - 19's and a 21, but one of the 19's fried and I managed to find a used 21 on eBay to match my existing one (it's an older model) so I picked that up.

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_COmDbqgGAv8/S94JeAQ-CkI/AAAAAAAAEoM/GJ... (picasa web)
Also doesn't seem to take into account income and capgains tax rates; for a single person making >120k that is a substantial cost savings on its own.
How would I know what it can do without spending enormous amounts of time going through the examples?
Using real-time collaboration to help solve real-time collaboration
> As for controlled feature revelation, I think that's counter to the spirit of open source community -- the community is not really on equal footing with the company. It like you're saying "aren't we nice to share our code with you" rather than "let's all work on this together".

We very much embrace open source -- we use only open source software and we contribute back as much as we can.

However, we are still a for profit company, and occasionally have to keep things secret (especially new features, for competitive reasons).

So yeah, unfortunately the community really isn't on the same footing as us. The idea is that the code is modular enough that if someone wants to work on a new feature, they should be able to do so without having to worry about what we are doing, and for the most part that is the case.
Well, you wouldn't. I agree that there is a barrier to acceptance because it's hard to realize the full potential.
This reminds me of how wired.com's writer Evan Ratliff tried to vanish. If you haven't read this, you're missing out http://www.wired.com/vanish/2009/11/ff_vanish2/

I don't quite know what to think of all this. I certainly don't intend to ever vanish and I don't want certain other people to be able to vanish. Then again, it feels odd and wrong that you can't do that.
Firefox is going mobile