skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they really shouldn't collide for something as trivial as ...

Why not? Hashes produce collisions. If you don't want collisions don't use hashes. Or if you want a hash function that doesn't produce collisions for your specific data type, write one. It's not hard.

Relying on a generic hash function to never create a collision is just poor engineering on your part.
Europe's next bankruptcy candidates?
Sorry to hear about your mom. :(
Are there any crock pots out there with suitable temperature range and digital temperature control? Seems too simple to not exist..
Siri is based on natural language processing technology developed by the DARPA CALO AI Project http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/semantic_stealth_startu..., http://caloproject.sri.com/about/. There is more to it than speech recognition. I have used it and it has acceptable performance in recognizing simple tasks verbally.
What does everyone use for their todo list? What can be improved?
I was referring to the tips from the other post linked within the blog.
Auber has great customer service too - the sensor on my PID went bad and when I emailed Auber about it, they FedExed a new sensor to me within minutes.
FWIW, see RVM, which lets you painlessly manage multiple Ruby versions on a system, even on a per-project basis:

http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/rvm/basics/
I disagree... There are people with blue collar jobs in mines (my step dad for instance) who has a very comfortable life. Two kids, gets to vacation regularly, works hard, skis every weekend.

There are many people in the world who do not aspire to have EVERYTHING, and really just want as I said, a good life, a wife, maybe a cold beer when they get home from work.
Japan considering mining ocean floor for rare metals to feed hi-tech industry
Google's page loading times seem kind of flaky. One of our sites' loading times has jumped between 1.5 and 10 seconds and back four times since they started graphing it.

But I have a cron job that tracks the loading times of random pages on our sites (from offsite, every 10 minutes). I get very consistent loading times (nowhere near that variance).

(Edit: they also suggest GZIP resources that are in fact already gzipped, at least they are according to the HTTP headers)
From Michael Blum's letter to Bernanke: "CDOs are like love. When they're good, they're great, but when they're bad, watch out."

The linked paper itself is quite easy to read, though at 115 pages I didn't make it through the whole thing and resorted to skipping around. I'd love to see the tables of results put in perspective with a better visualization.
She could kick ass as a quant, but I don't see her moving up the ranks in IBD or M&A. She's (1) very intelligent, which works against you in that sort of conformist environment, (2) a woman, and (3) not from the "right kind of family" (I know nothing about her background, but she actually worked in college). In other words, she's just too good to be an investment banker.
As an 18 year old who grew up/is growing up in the suburbs, this sounds ridiculously idealized to me. I'm not saying that it is, just that it's so far from my experience I have trouble comprehending it. Anyone with experiences similar to mine?
Let's not forget that Krugman was one of the chief advocates of the housing bubble (before it popped) and that his "berating of the raters" should begin with an apology.

http://blog.mises.org/10153/krugman-did-cause-the-housing-bu...
Well to start with, there are patent problems. IANAL, but I presume Apple's thought long and hard about this.

Then you have the licensing issues. To get the documentation, you need to clickwrap through the license that says you can't clone it. So it's not even like cleanroom engineering, where it's possible to legally document some assembly code you bought in a box.

Then there's the real problem--Apple's SDKs are really quite good, all things considered. Cloning them would be very hard. There is some serious, complicated stuff going on under the hood, especially to make it performant. To say that a couple of clever Lisp hackers can clone it is to say that Apple could have built the API with a couple of clever hackers to begin with. It's to say that Jobs is stupid for having hundreds of people work on it.
I don't want to burst your bubble or anything, but you should call omaha steaks and ask them what the USDA grade of their steaks would be if they paid for them to be graded. Combine that with the fact that they are usually frozen and you're not getting a good deal on their meat.
That's pretty sad because there are still some great mac apps being produced. Pixelmator for instance is a world-class product that deserves recognition.
I need to give my Arduino some love.

Too much time in software land, stuff like this makes me remember how much fun hardware can be.
SoundJam MP: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoundJam_MP
> Ad-hominem is where you use qualities of the arguer as disproof of the argument.

Right, which is what he didn't do. "I don't like Rails because DHH has an ugly hairdo" would have been an ad hominem. In this case, he is disagreeing with the idea itself.
Exponential Growth is a magical thing. The doubling time of something growing at a constant rate is approximately 70 divided by that rate. For example, something growing at a 10% annual rate will roughly double in size every 7 years. I don't doubt the potential of human ideas, but unless the rate of growth in natural resource consumption goes to zero (or becomes negative), we will at best defer depletion. While the author points out some novel ideas, he doesn't show the math to prove these ideas will reverse the growth in consumption. Until that’s shown, we are at best just buying time.
Perhaps they'd like to avoid awarding something to an OS X app that isn't written using Objective C / Cocoa.
What is unique about your website?
TuneCloud.fm inches in the game with Landing page
Let's see, highlights as I go:

The "secret sauce" is the "golden puzzle": you build up things your competitors can't possibly copy, one piece of awesomeness at the time. Everything is a puzzle piece, from the EULA to each email to customers to the feeling of joy in using the product.

Balsamiq gives out free licenses "like candy": 60+ a day, always to dogooders -- OSS, bloggers, etc. Also gives two away to anyone who wants to do a demo/presentation: one for them, one to give away to someone in the audience. (That is brilliant. Stealing it.)

"There is one way to run a sustainable business based on advertising. Be Google. Or, get bought by them."

Balsamiq on analytics: "I'm a product guy. I don't think I've ever said funnel or conversion before this interview."

"I never intend for it to go beyond 2.0. It should never become bloatware."

"Adding an option to the software is a failure to me as a designer: I'm asking the user to understand why there are two modes and [paraphrase: do the work that I refused to do in identifying the 80% case]."
Perhaps they are thinking of dumping their line of computers and going completely portable electronics?
There are obvious drawbacks though. You put a foot wrong, i.e. you do something that your community disapproves of, and within hours everybody knows about it.

I am originally from the Netherlands (very densely populated), and now live in a rural area in the US. I wouldn't want to go back anymore to that kind of life. (Then again, I'm agoraphobic, that probably has something to do with it... :-)
The argument that Apple could have paid a fraction to write the app is fundamentally false.

If you look at all the acquisitions happened between Google recently, how many of them Google can build with a fraction of the money they have paid for?

And, that's why a good programmer produces 10x more value that a normal programmer. But, how to hire a good programmer? Acquisition is definitely one of the methods to hire a good programmer.
Future of mobile computing : Rolltop
I find the juxtaposition of your lament and the lack of your provided identity quite amusing.
Very true. I believe the reason I could integrate so well with this community is due to one specific situation and a couple attributes of the community that I've not seen elsewhere:

- I moved to the neighborhood when the community was just beginning

- It is not based around typical cultural or ethnic norms (there are Haitian, Asian, European, Hispanic immigrants involved: this is not an affluent-white-urban group, though caucasian transplants to the city tend to be the majority)

- It is not based around our job description or industry, though creative-types are definitely in the majority

- It's not whether you're deemed cool by the American Apparel masses

We're just neighbors. Awesome neighbors.

(before this, I lived in northern Astoria - whose community was rather insular and comprised of primarily Greek individuals; there were yuppies there, but they weren't a part of nor 'invited' in to the community)
Maybe you shouldn't try to do every city at once. Instead, focus on one city and make it great. Expand from there.

Other than that, you need content. You could always try aggregating other services and newspapers, to the extent their TOSs allow.
Wow! That's a great suggestion - I'm going to look into it!
Hey dont kill the messanger, I bet in 10 years she will laugh at her vision of people on business, if her vision were right the world would be a fairy tale.

I hope she or anyone can change it, but the more I understand of people the more corruption I see, at least were big money its involved. Sad but true.
I am really not liking the whole emphasize-iphoneOS-over everything-else direction of apple recently. I like OSX a lot. I really hope they return to giving it the attention it deserves soon.
Only developed countries have the idea that you're an adult at 18 instead of 13 (or puberty). An irresponsible 16 year old might still be called a kid, but a responsible 16 year old deserves to be treated as an adult.
Somehow, I don't think an Adobe AIR app is going to beat something using fancy Core Animation stuff.
I deleted Siri off my phone a couple of days ago (had it since launch). I used it a few times with fairly poor results and ended up finding Google a whole lot more useful. Maybe I was using it wrong or had unrealistic expectations.
And have people develop applications on windows computers? I don't think so.
I don't think it is about the technology (improving voice control) because as you can see in the video the speech recognition is from Nuance.

My guess is that it is about the integration of all these webservices and APIs and the agent behind it. There is some research going on at Stanford about this, here is a presentation http://logic.stanford.edu/talks/Wizard/
Maybe, but the underlying problems were the bad ratings assignments, shady conflicts of interest, and companies figuring out they could drive demand while betting against that demand.
I found out about Minecraft sometime late last year and I'd highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys these types of games. Right now Notch (the sole developer) is working on adding multi-player support to the latest version of the "survival" game. Essentially, there are two versions of the game, one is a sandbox mode where you can build anything you want with unlimited resources and the other is a survival mode where you start out with nothing and have to collect wood to create tools to collect stone and so on. Even without any external interaction right now it's amazingly fun to create huge fortresses in the mountains and cliffs that are generated with a new level.

He's also very open with the community and readily takes suggestions and implements them. At one point he'd released the map format (based on his custom NBT format) so community developers could create tools of their own. I'm sure the format has changed drastically by now, though, since he changed the levels from a fixed size (64x64x32 blocks or variations of that) to an unlimited world size. I can imagine multi-player servers for this springing up and having huge cities being built by players.
T-Mobile will slow down your connection after 5GB
According to Phone Scoop, T-Mobile has announced that instead of charging a per megabyte fee to users that go over the 5GB limit of its webConnect data plan, the company will slow down the user’s data connections.
Since there's no app store for OSX, why award people who are striving to further the platform?
Such broken logic.
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At least in the US, Law is really defined by court precedents, not by some stupid wording.

This is a good thing. Imagine a "Don't murder anyone" law. Without a court to decide what that actually means, I could argue that if I put a timer on a bomb, I didn't murder anyone - the bomb did the killing, and I didn't even trigger it directly. How is a bullet any different except that the delay is shorter? Dumbass didn't get out of the way, I say. No different than someone standing in the middle of a highway. The english language isn't like a programming language - its remarkably open to interpretation as to meaning, hence the need for courts to define what the law means through actual examples.

IANAL
The real reason why Americans are lonely is simply because they stay at home. Rather than living and working out of cafes and pubs. Doesn't matter whether its the suburb or city. Compare this to somewhere like Spain where they even take their children to bars with them.
Not really, to either interpretation of that question:

(a) There's no crock pot I can think of that controls the temperature of what's in the pot; in other words, fill the pot with water, and there's no crock pot that keeps the water at 130f.

(b) Crock pots are (allegedly) hard to control with PID controllers (that's why everyone uses rice cookers); the "low" setting on the crock pot is apparently still too hot.

It's also getting harder and harder to find crock pots that don't have digital controls, which is a dealbreaker if you want to use a cheap PID controller.
It must be a Zen thing. I don't understand how this differs from a "to do" list.
I'm curious, what did you order?
Just remember that there's a huge difference between boiling and SV'ing eggs. Boiled eggs sound gross. Boiled steak is gross. You don't want to let the eggs get over 150. Eggs cook fast. Water boils at 212f.
Any consideration for toxicity? I can't imagine plastic baggies are designed to keep food safe for human consumption when you heat them enough to cook meat.
"It must be true.. I read it on the internet."

I can only laugh when people say things like this, much less think it.. the only other option would be to cry.

The writers of this pathetic slander are cleary trying too hard.. The whole fiasco strangely reminds me of Stewie's cmments [ http://tinyurl.com/39tljey ]..

Stewie Griffin: [infuriated] HOW DARE you reduce my finely-hewn thespian style into mere Mother Gooseries?
I'm sure the head chef on the Titanic wasn't too happy when it started sinking either.

Big powerful organizations attract skilled employees by offering status, pay and economic security. And at the individual level, diligent and honest performance should indeed be rewarded. But the whole reason most of us obey the law and pay our taxes is founded on the idea of mutuality: our interdependence is essential to freedom economic success.

Commercial losses are ultimately a shareholders' problem. But when the public become shareholders or creditors by necessity, it's facile to say that individually successful employees are economic free agents who should earn the full reward of their productivity. Nothing prevents them from leaving to join a more stable competitor, or establishing their own funds: if they choose to stay with an organization that benefits from public expenditure, they've made a choice of financial security over financial liberty.

Besides, limiting the bonus payments of the productive employees when other staff rack up huge losses is a fabulous economic incentive to improve risk management and governance within the organization. Those who consider such matters above their pay grade or outside their job description are obviously not ready to leave the kiddie pool.
It would be primarily helpful on the interior pages (e.g. http://chicago.abtain.com).
And inspecting containers arriving to US ports will help exactly how?
I meant within the cotext of a todo list :-)
Cheap bags start breaking down around 190f. You wouldn't want to eat anything that came out of a 190f bag anyways. It's a valid concern though.
It's a rule - you have to typo when criticizing someone's grammar.
You're far from your stated goals but I like what you have there. You need more templates tough.

And explicitly say somewhere how do I order custom designs. If I didn't like the 8 or so that you have there what options do I have?

Otherwise what you have there is an e-commerce site sellings a few pre-defined image sets. It's like you said the minimum viable product, which is cool.

And yes, you can make more than US$ 500 per month, if you execute properly :)
Yes. This could be an example of steganography, the art of concealing that you are sending a message: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography
The problem is obtaining enough energy per cubic metre-second, so to speak--over the next 5 billion years, the sun will provide the earth with enough power to do just about anything we'd like to do today. But the reason we don't recycle rare earth metals is because it takes a lot of concentrated energy that we'd rather use for other things.

This problem will only become worse as concentrated energy sources are used up, and we move on to more diffuse sources with lower EROEIs, but expect to have the same surplusses we had in the 1990s.
That is awesome. How hard was it to make? When you switched to the 1500 watt heater, did you have to tinker much with the PID controller?
I'm pretty certain from the larger context that he's saying that most adult/child contact is inappropriate (excluded from being okay) whereas little child/child contact is inappropriate.

Maybe it's a grammar problem with those sentences. In all his writings his stance is consistent and well-defined.
research.facebook.com redirects to Decipher Inc.
You know, I've done a bit of thinking about this and I'm not sure what one would change about Mac OS X to "merge" it with iPhone OS.

The kernel level stuff is already quite shared between the platforms. That'll continue to evolve.

The apparent user interface doesn't seem to me too likely to be merged: "computer" (I'm not including "iDevices" in this usage) tasks are much more suited to having multiple overlapping windows - I don't see multiple overlapping windows being removed from Mac OS nor added to iPhone OS. Likewise, computer apps are designed around a keyboard/pointing device paradigm, which doesn't seem likely to change... I wouldn't be at all shocked to see some more touch capabilities come to Macs, but I don't see them becoming primarily touch-based... anybody that has used iPad's Numbers app or done a lot of text cutting/pasting on an iDevice knows that heavy usage of these types of functions are more suited to a mouse/keyboard than touch. And it's just less comfortable when sitting at a desk to have to reach out and touch a several-feet-away screen.

And, while many do, I don't see the unrestricted Macs vs restricted-to-the-App Store iDevices split going away... I just can't imagine how to make a successful computer that has such restrictions on it. Could be wrong here of course.

So what does that leave? Lots of the APIs are already quite similar, but there's of course room for more unification there: AppKit isn't as nice as UIKit in a lot of ways. But that doesn't seem too exciting.

Full disclosure: I'm one who shunned the idea of touch as a primary means of interface, but these days I use my iPhone and iPad far more than my Mac. So take everything I say with a grain of salt. :)
Very interesting idea, I think OLEDs are still very expensive but they have started to show up in consumer electronics in small sizes. This combined with 10GUI.com interface enhancements and it would be awesome.

I still wish there was a way to do more tactile keyboard. My wish is a gel keyboard win with you partly immerse your fingers and keys are configurable in software.
Nah, attacks happen. It is the internet after all. Post a highly subjective post in favour of anything, and you'll find someone to disagree loudly with you.
Don't stifle that yawn -- it will help rev up your brain
Behind the scenes at Willow Garage (video)
glassdoor.com?
Except for poached eggs. Cooked in nearly boiling water. Quite excellent.
A little extreme but they do seem to be pushing their consumer electronics at the expense of their computers.
One: Since you're responding to his comment, it seems likely that you did, in fact, read it. True, it could have been read to you, or you could perhaps have used a Braille reader, or maybe you were bitten by a radioactive spider and developed the ability to psychically know what people's HN comments say without reading them, but statistically speaking it's probably safe to assume none of those are true.

Two: Assuming you did downmod his comment without reading it, you're exhibiting arbitrary behavior in a community of mostly reasonable and logical people. Perhaps this isn't the best place for you.
I would be at least a little worried about food poisoning. Cooking salmon at 115 deg F, or beef at 125 deg F or even chicken at 140 deg F is not a high enough temperature to kill off many harmful bacteria and parasites. In normal cooking, the external surfaces of the meat, where most contamination occurs, reach much higher temperatures.
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The main one: Packages don't end up 6 (or more) months out of date between updates.

The maybe a advantage (if you agree with the OP)/maybe a disadvantage(if you like me, don't): Much more manual configuration.
But market forces will do it.

For example, it's not like oil is going to disappear overnight. When gas prices get up to 5, 10, 15, 20, 30 dollars a gallon... at some point, people are definitely going to start buying electric cars. Same goes for trucks, ships, everything else that uses oil. But innovation to make alternatives available isn't going to happen until market forces make it profitable.
Ah yes, I forgot to mention: watch your eggs very closely, or they turn slimy (which is as gross as it sounds, yes). If you get them out in time though, they taste basically like an omelet cooked in a pan. Then again, I was a teenager last time I did that, so maybe I'd have a different opinion if I tasted them now :)
They simply want Apple Design awards to be given to apps that they have also approved.

I tell you, if Jobs could get away with running OSX as an App Store orientated platform that can only run pre-approved apps, he would. :(
I guess it depends on your definition of "several".
It's not that Microsoft has crappy coders: their programmers are good and motivated. It's not that Microsoft doesn't care about security: they got burnt badly enough that they learned their lesson. It's just that there is so much code.

A good OpenBSD install, even one with lots of functionality, just has much less trusted code (i.e. code which absolutely has to be correct). And while I do like OpenBSD, it's not unique: the other BSDs are also solid, and Solaris - despite a somewhat bad reputation in some circles - is also pretty good.

I'm sure that there are some very smart people working on Windows security; it's just that engineering everything for security beats "features first".

[EDIT: thank you for your reply! I'm happy to learn, even if we're unlikely to convince each other...]
If you have a great idea and think you can build a business around it, do it. Don't let macroeconomic issues that are out of your control influence your decision to go for it.