skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"When two people disagree about business, and one of them is a millionaire, but the other is a billionaire, the mere millionaire should shut the fuck up and listen."

I agree with the author's position, but I refuse to grant an argument to someone simply based on how much they have in the bank. Yes, even when talking about business.
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...and that trade would be canceled.
Hmm, perhaps I'll try something like that. Thanks, random internet person! My beard is pretty severe though.
The homepage can be found here: http://ldeniau.web.cern.ch/ldeniau/oopc.html

It's all C99 compatible, and yet it appears to have support for closures, message passing, multimethods, generics, autorelease pools, exceptions, KVO/KVC, pre and post conditions for methods, and is apparently faster than Objective-C (see benchmarks in the paper).
A blog post on what Ubuntu needs from an average end-user's point of view.
That's not very useful. It takes less time to just go to Google and type it there.

- searchyc usually returns better results

- a search box is much more useful than a link

- it should be in the header, or at least not in a place that nobody ever looks at

But by now it's obvious that that's not going to happen.
I don't own 3 pairs of shoes.

I really, really don't get how people can fill up their house with shoes, or have a problem buying too many.

But then, I buy too few seeing as those I wear have a hole in the sole.
The best trick is to constrain the size of your pack/suitcase. If you set a small limit, you don't have room to take things you don't need.
The iPad is very similar to the iPod touch... calling it a new product is a stretch.
Where I live (India) most of the MBAs are Engineering or Science Graduates. This year only 9 people from business and 1 from arts got into IIM-A. Its a common choice among Engineers to take up MBA after there Graduation (BE/BS/B Tech).

It kind of annoys me though. Its fine if you are doing an specialization in something like Project Management, Computer Management, E-Commerce or something like that. But it just bugs me if you take up finance or banking. WTF? If you wanted to do finance or banking why the hell did you waste the one seat of Eng/Sci student. In a country where there is already a shortage of Quality Engineering studies, these people take there education from IIT and then join IIMs taking up banking or finance. This is a total waste of the Rs 900,000/- the government is spending on each IIT student. I just hate to meet someone working in a bank and them mentioning "I did an B Tech in Electrical from IIT then went to IIM".

Either I am missing the node joining finance and banking with engineering or this is really just the product of the herd mentality students here have. Its a trend now to go for MBA and they would take any branch if they get into an IIM, "Why bother, its IIM!!!".
Yeah, wheeled luggage is a pet hate of mine. It's compounded by the people who own it usually being inexperienced travelers so they're flailing about at check-in or security on top of that.

I recently did a week dive trip, with all my gear, in a 70L kitbag. The average person coming to that resort just for the beach and the casino seemed to have at least double that!
Pfft...10 days is amateur hour. I just came back from a trip to France where I did nearly a month out of a single carry-on. Part of the strategy is to depend on the amenities of the country you're visiting: most places have laundromats, and so you can get away with carrying a week's worth of socks, underwear and shirts, knowing that you'll be doing laundry every week. Same with stuff like soap, towels, shampoo, etc. You can (usually) find it there.

The heaviest things to pack are shoes, pants, sweaters and coats. Buy the right shoes, and you'll get by with one pair. Likewise for pants: you only really need two pairs, and if you're really intent on traveling light, you can find exceptionally lightweight nylon pants that look dressy enough for most situations, and that don't wrinkle. Sweaters and coats are a little tougher, but if you count your body as a piece of baggage, you can minimize the burden: for this trip, I carried two sweaters and a hoodie, and was pretty much always wearing one of the three items. The other two were in the bag.

The other important thing to do is to make sure that everything coordinates in all possible combinations. The easiest way to do this is to buy everything in shades of black or gray, but you can be more creative, just so long as your pants, shoes, shirts and sweaters are interchangeable. Master this, and you can go for a surprisingly long time off of five days worth of clothing.

For this trip, I had two pairs of pants, five shirts, five changes of underwear and socks, two sweaters, a hoodie, a tiny laptop computer (EeePC's are awesome for travel), my iPod, two books, an extra pair of shoes (I have bad feet), a travel towel, and the usual cohort of tiny shampoo, soap, deodorant, etc. Everything fit into an REI travel backpack that will fit into the smallest overhead bin.

The only other really critical tip that isn't totally obvious is that you must carry a zippable bag for your used clothing, or you'll smell like feet after a few days. You can pick up hand-compressable space-bags at REI for $10. They're awesome -- unzip, stuff your laundry in the bag, rezip, compress, and you're ready to go. Thanks to the compression, I actually had more space in my bag at the end of each week.
In the Startup World, it's not the MBA that matters, it's you!
Clearly HTC has once again completely screwed up the UX that the OS designers have worked hard to create. I'm glad they didn't decide to do it with the G1 that's been in my pocket for the last 18 months. I just wish the physical keyboard version of the Nexus One would come out so I could replace this very slow G1.
Mine is too - I can grow a beard as long as my hand is wide* in about 6 months. The oil is great if you have a good razor (again I recommend King of Shaves - all their stuff is so much better than Gillette rubbish) and shave every day.

Male grooming discussion on HN, who'da thunk it :-)

*This is the minimum length to join the Taliban, apparently!
I actually think very few go from undergrad to their mba without work experience. Look at the average years experience for top grad schools. It is normally 3+ years on average. I am about to go to Notre Dame for an MBA and I have just under 3.

It is all great to pick on people who have a business undergrad and mba, but sometimes in life people don't know what they want to do at the undergrad level. I did not start my business undergrad thinking I would get an MBA, but it becomes the logical career move later on. I am way excited for where I am going now with it, but double business isn't inherently a bad thing in some industries.

For me I want to get more into tech, so I am teaching myself rails. People always talk about learning business on their own, why can't someone also learn programming on their own?
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In my experience with high school level debating (in Australia), teams were randomly assigned only one side of the argument, and each speaker spoke only once.

I never liked it at all, because I couldn't deal with the idea that I might be forced to argue something which I didn't honestly believe to be true.

Those with fewer qualms joined the debating team and mostly wound up in law. I wound up in science.
You could just write a mixed-mode assembly to bridge V8 to the .NET thread pool and libraries...
What was the point of this on HN? Conspiracy theories are down the hall, third on the left. We saw a seriously wobbly, low quality video, something inaudible spoken in a foreign language and that's about it.
same article, with picture: http://www.aissg.org/articles/MARIA.HTM
So, Emacs can be any or all of 4 things depending on your point of view.

1) lisp interpreter

2) text editor library written in lisp

3) a very flexible text editor

4) whatever you want to make it

Because it's a general purpose programming language you can write anything you want in Emacs lisp. That's why you find tetris, web browsers, and e-mail clients written for Emacs. There's a great culture of sharing your work too[1], so Emacs can be a powerful toolkit that supersedes traditional shells in some ways.

You have unlimited access to customize your editing experience. Everything the editor does can be changed because you have the same access to the interpreter & libs as the editor itself. Every key can be bound to a function, and the normal alphanum chars and such are bound to insert themselves by default, but you can change that. So if you want { to insert the closing } automatically, you can do that without much trouble. You can write it, evaluate the code, and then use it instantly without restarting your editor.

Personally I just use it for coding, but for me coding includes running zsh and a host of other REPLs. (ruby, python, javascript, ...) Some of the packages I have used approach or exceed IDE levels of integration with the project being worked on[2][3].

You can compile a C program or run grep and then step through errors/warnings or search results visiting each line and doing what you need to do. This is one way that Emacs one-ups the shell which prints static text as output. Emacs wraps that in an interactive interface, which is great in a lot of situations.

[1] http://www.emacswiki.org/

[2] http://rubyforge.org/projects/emacs-rails/

[3] http://github.com/samsonjs/mojo.el

edit: One really cool thing I forgot to mention: js2-mode. Steve Yegge wrote a JavaScript parser in Emacs lisp which means that when editing JavaScript - which I do a lot of these days - the syntax highlighter has an immense amount of information to work with. Global vars are coloured differently from local vars (very important in JS as undeclared vars are implicitly global, ugh). Syntax errors get underlined in red instantly. If you've experienced this in other IDEs you appreciate how awesome this is. You never run your code only to find that you made a stupid syntax error that needs fixing. Someone could use js2-mode to write advanced IDE-like functionality for JS, such as renaming & refactoring.

Anyone could implement something similar for any other language, if they have the time & will.
Isn't CrunchBase a wiki?
I actually own more than 3 pairs of shoes, but that has more to do with me failing to throw away the old worn-out ones.
I travel a fair amount for business (although for no longer than five or six days at a time), and this is exactly how I pack - except my bag has a fold-out section that I can put my suit jackets in so that they're only folded once.

Aside from clothing, all that I carry is a book, a laptop and charger, and a few cables (all my other electronics - BlackBerry, iPod, etc. - can either be charged off the USB port of my laptop, or I know that I won't need to recharge them).

Now, if only I could get a nice new bag that fit in the overhead compartment of a CRJ-705...
I don't think this debate will really be settled until we have actual data to deal with, which isn't likely to happen any time soon, because you'd have to observe the same people with, and without MBA's.
I think you kinda explained the problem Greece is having because there are in the Euro zone as well as the hint towards the possibility of an exchange rate between virtual currencies. This should make forex much more interesting...
Because the correct feature would be a line tool that tells you the distance between two points. You can actually use gmaps-pedometer to do this (set it to straight line mode): http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/ , it'll also show you an elevation graph.

For most road trips, the proper tool is to plan a route, which takes into account the curves of actual roads.
The author assumes that the complexity of Facebook's privacy settings are due to a lack of attention to good design. However, the rest of Facebook doesn't really suffer from this problem nearly as much. Which is more likely: Facebook happened to design this one thing poorly, or they explicitly opted for a poor design in this one particular case? To answer that, follow the money. Why would they want to over-complicate the UI which gives the users the keys to lock down the data Facebook is able to share with 3rd parties?
1 carry-on + 1 camera bag was OK at LHR, last month at least.
Couldn't agree more.

Personally, I would love to have something like a Yammer/Facebook that is invite-only and absolutely, completely private. In fact, it should not be searchable. You should not be searchable. And there's no getting around that. No one except the people I personally tell should know that I'm part of this network. The word 'clique' comes to mind when I think of what could beat Facebook at it's own game. In school, college, or in your job, you can only get into a certain clique or group if they personally invite you and deem you trustworthy and close enough to be part of the gang. On a network such as this, you could have different cliques - one for your family and relatives, one for very close friends, and one for your immediate family let's say. That's about it.

I often share things with a handful of my close friends via email. I don't put it on Facebook because I have a lot of just "acquaintances" that I don't want to share this stuff with.

I think a network where the concept of "adding a friend" doesn't exist, nor does the concept of "public" is probably what will take some fraction of people away from Facebook. If you mimic what happens in real life, you invite a whole bunch of friends and acquaintances to a Friday night house party, not to your family Thanksgiving dinner.
Wow... this is something I would be very interested in. Too bad the site has very little content.
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I'm too tired to think of just the right witty comment, but no one ever truly masters emacs; there's simply too much to learn. Which is what makes it so fun - it's a continuous learning process, where there's always something new and cool to be dug up.
Whenever possible, I try to debate on the side that I /don't/ believe to be true. I find that debating 'my side' of the argument is harder since I take my points as self evident and don't back them up as well.

Debating the other side means that you have to consider the argument on an intellectual level, not an emotional one. I think keeping yourself intellectually honest by forcing yourself to carefully examine the arguments that you don't personally believe is great for scientists.

It's also handy, because the other team tends to bring up points you're very familiar with as their arguments.
I switched to the Nexus One (the Incredible's brother) and it's been great. Like multitasking (which iPhone users now agree is a good thing), openness and flexibility aren't just throw-around buzzwords, they actually add a lot to the user-experience. Sharing pics from the camera, having your contacts automatically kept in-sync, having widgets on the homescreen, using Locale to automatically manage your settings etc etc.

Interestingly, there now seem to be almost as many android users at the office as there are iphone users, which is notable as almost everyone has has an iphone.
Hmm, I'm still not quite sure I 'get it.' For instance, your comment, 'no fumbling with the mouse' confuses me. I've always viewed the mouse as something that saves time, a shortcut to where you want to go or what you want to do. Especially on a Mac with non-maximized windows and Exposé mapped to a mouse button, I've never felt like I was 'fumbling.' I guess I'll ask an Emacs user to demonstrate next time I meet one.
Google apps or a local server like Postfix relaying outgoing email through a service such as AuthSMTP. Deliverability is a PITA otherwise. You have to jump through a bunch of hoops to get email providers to accept your email if using a dedicated solution (including VPS) and if it's a shared server then you are at the mercy of other users who could be spamming people from the same IP and get it blacklisted.
So... is she allowed to compete?
My naive guess is automatic stops. If you enter a position electronically, you set stop losses for the low barrier. If it falls below that, the stops will trigger, selling off the stock, lowering the price, and causing other stocks to do the same creating a domino effect.
FYI, Google Maps on Android actually has this feature built in (I believe you have to activate it under the app's 'Labs' section). Works as you'd expect — you tap point A, tap point B, and it tells you the distance between them.
Quickly checking that you have the latest release in the absence of a good network connection.

Also, you can use mirrors without worrying about the mirrors being tampered with. Obviously if someone does a MITM on you against gmane you're in trouble.
Doesn't this kind of person put lie to the easy "marriage is between a man and a woman" viewpoint by blurring the distinction between "man" and "woman"? According to the article, this condition isn't even all that rare.

Let's not even get started thinking about the warlike Xambia in the New Guinea highlands, or the guevedoces of Dominican Republic (http://www.usrf.org/news/010308-guevedoces.html).

The boundaries between genders, even at a physical level, seem pretty porous.
Their popularity comes from a few places:

1) Both vim and Emacs are really really good at basic text manipulation. This means for navigating files and entering/changing text, they're really quick (and don't require a mouse). Most other editors and IDEs are really bad at this.

2) They're amazingly customizable, which means whatever you want your editor to do, they can do.

3) People love messing around with them. I've been there, and I can tell you it's really fun. Finding all the amazing little things Emacs/vim know how to do, finding that extra few lines of code to make that make them do some neat trick, it's all very fun for people who love tinkering with their tools.

Disclaimer: I am not an active Emacs/vim user. But I have used both for long periods, and I respect the amazing things they can do and teach.
Huh? I can edit multiple files in Windows Notepad by pressing Alt+Tab. There are some nice features in Emacs but any editor allows working on multiple files without a mouse.
http://homepages.cwi.nl/~jve/HR/

Jan van Eijck's »The Haskell Road to Logic, Maths and Programming« does exactly that: it introduces you to mathematical proofs, basic logic issues (including relations) and programming using Haskell. I'd wholeheartedly recommend it to someone who's not yet had much contact to maths.
Thank you for your insight. Do you know of anything that implements this already (child monitoring and rolling restarts/upgrades)?
How is Apple like AOL?
Wow. I was using CarbonEmacs 22.3 till now, so I'm not sure if it's the switch from CarbonEmacs or just v23, but startup is about 1-2 seconds now instead of 5-10 (2ghz Core Duo "Yonah"). Either way, I'm sold!
What about how heroku is designed would require re-engineering if you move it elsewhere?

Rails + SQL + Memcached = the most standard stack you can build, aside from the fact that they use Postgres. Most of the addons aren't too hard to setup oneself either.
Nanotech is the future, the distant future, but a very bright and interesting time to live in.

Besides all the new nano-materials, I am interested in nano-food production. Remember the food pills? something like that. World hunger would be over.

And before someone jumps in to say it would taste like plastic food, I say, what would stop us from adding the best flavors in the world to the nano-pills?
I'm really on the fence here. On the one hand, its a business and they need to make money to remain viable. On the other, the way the bury the option to turn it off makes me think this could be a lot more transparent. If they feel like they need it to survive, i think they should look at a model where turning it on (opt in) gives you some advantage.
No, I mean that apples are far superior to potatoes.
Ah, but the other networks risk a fate much worse than commodity if they don't band together. Notice the widespread adoption of OpenSocial, including MySpace, Hi5, and Ning.
They are using digital signatures(Chong Yidong's). The following files are both available from the same places as the tarballs:

emacs-23.2.tar.gz.sig
emacs-23.2.tar.bz2.sig
It sounds like you're saying that their decision was a mistake, simply because one of them died as a result. The story sounds sort of like "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber." But you're guaranteed to die no matter what you do, so by that measure, any possible decision is a mistake. The relevant measure is what else you manage to do under that constraint. Getting kidnapped by "pirates" and then getting shot isn't my ideal set of experiences for the next year, but it still might have been better than whatever they would have experienced otherwise.
That is technically true, but no one would actually be productive in that environment. Switching to the file you want is an O(n) operation with that workflow. That would drive anyone insane. In proper editors you can switch to the file you want by hitting a command and then typing a few chars of the file you want, then return.
FCC gives Hollywood power to remotely disable analog outputs on your set-top box
After thought: If we can produce food in a factory from its basics atoms, like we process gasoline today in refineries, I guess all farms in the world would be useless so we could recover all that land for human living.
Great summary of clipboard and mouse related features here: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/c1gsi/emacs_232...
Wow! I came to the article expecting a lot of mindless bashing from the flash camp, but this turned out a thoughtful article.

I don't care that much about text selection, but resolving hyphenation on copy sounds like a must-have feature for me.
There are operations where the mouse is more efficient than the keyboard and vice versa. Anyone who says otherwise is selling something.

That said, I often trade the time + context switch of moving to the mouse for a slightly less-efficient keyboard command. Overall it's probably a toss-up, I just like to stay near the home row.

My friend at work uses the mouse a lot and he's very good at using it to edit text.
But it's what users asked for. How could that be wrong?

(See how complicated such matters actually are? Nothing that goes on the front page of the site is ever a trivial matter.)
There's a gadget to measure the distance between two points in the Google Maps Directory. Works as advertised, and is also more precise than the bar scale.

http://maps.google.com/gadgets/directory?synd=mpl&url=ht...
I sometimes wish the up/down arrows would instead be a square a la:

↑ Insightful/Agree ------ Insightful/Disagree ↑
| |
| |
↓ Uninsightful/Agree -- Uninsightful/Disagree ↓

Seeing how the intent with the points are insightfulness (afaik) but often they are used to express agreement.

P.S. I found the video hilarious :)
LHR is one of the few hubs where they installed extra securiy screening. I live in Edinburgh; EDI is still enforcing the one-bag-only rule, as are the other airports I've flown through in the past year (I avoid the British hubs wherever possible).
Did they say what forced them into emergency read-only mode this week?
The approach he recommends - no scheme, extreme denormalization, lots of redundancy - is a strong case for nosql.
Brown fat that burns calories
if movement was larger than 60%, which in most cases it wasn't.
I'm not particularly interested in practicing piracy, but I am interested in retaining control including access guaranteed under current fair use statutes.

So... are the any recommendations for the best current tuner cards and devices (e.g. housed with a USB connection) that don't have the restrictive control built in or enabled?

I'm not too familiar with the field and so don't know, in light of current content distribution channels, what exactly I'm asking for. But I have the sense I should go out and buy something, before I can't.