skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm also thinking that the actual production of interactive material is, when done relevantly, extremely time consuming. Can the cost of programming and interaction design stay on budget? Will $5 per issue be able to sustain this type of setup?

Also, I'm trying to remember the last time when an interactive infographic was enlightening... [remembering] nope, I can't remember!

For magazine and paper news journalism, I think they can improve their market by going further into the video medium, not the interactive medium.
You seem to be under the impression that they give a shit about the results. I think it's just a publicity stunt. (They do, of course, care about getting votes but there are more effective methods for finding out what voters want them to say.)
Sounds like a subclass of the phenomenon "solving puzzles makes us smarter" which should have been well known a long time ago.
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Or that "width" ends with a "th" and "height" ends with just the "t".

Just use "sizex" and "sizey" like a Microsoft programmer from the '90s.
>But it's also naive to compare the mass-produced Concord or Niagra grapes you're getting at a grocery store to the bottle of wine you're getting at a restaurant.

As naive as some here assuming that all marijuana would be grown, harvested, processed, packaged, and marketed like bulk oregano?

The process of cultivating, harvesting, trimming, drying and curing medicinal-grade Marijuana is as involved and labor-intensive as any other artisanal process like winemaking or gourmet food preparation. It can't be that everyone still thinks it's essentially Cheech and Chong growing bagseed in their high school dorm room closet.

Take a look at the lengths people will go to find and cultivate world-beating cannabis:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsKOzrymxZE

I can definitely tell you this much: California has had essentially legal cannabis for over a decade now, Amsterdam even longer. Growers and dispensaries/shops operate in clear view of the law and only a few ever see serious legal repercussions.

I can also tell you that properly dried and cured cannabis of an exotic or perceivably powerful or flavorful strain is about $400 per ounce. Regular, serviceable "bulk" weed grown outdoors for commercial trade runs about 75-100 an ounce. THAT market I can see becoming commoditized. The high-end market, maybe a bit, but not nearly to such an extent.
What about integrating Adobe PDF?
Does Adobe Reader still requires dances around to show something besides a gray screen?
I can't find the reference. But some time ago there was a post in HN about how different subjects require different strategies. It was written by a big shot AI or Math professor. Probably someone from MIT. I can't quite remember.
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It's great to work at the intersection of technology and energy efficiency. You get the short-term warm fuzzies one gets when working for a non-profit org. but with the possibility of a significantly better upside long term. All kinds of wins in the clean tech space.
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Scourges weakling humans, lets me write code like a stack of paperclips.
It will be interesting to see if startups born in a global credit crunch will do better than the dotcoms born in an easy credit bubble.
Ruby and Rails both have their flaws, of course, but that's just silly.

Stated plainly, vs any static language, rapid development and easy metaprogramming. Vs PHP, a cleaner, saner language and a more rigorous, consistent and powerful object model and stack architecture.
Perhaps he doesn't own the stock. Surely you can't be forced to disclose if you have no financial interest, right? If so, HN is a treasure trove of SEC violations :)
I had no choice but to upvote this, possibly the most categorical, flat-out statement that diaspora deserves more scrutiny than they're getting.

It's certainly possible they'll build a solid product, but for something of this magnitude, and with the amount of audacity they have within their ranks to accomplish something this monumental (especially coming close on $200,00), they haven't particularly sold their case to the technical crowd that what they're going to build wont turn into vaporware.

More pointedly, they haven't sold their case that diaspora will even be worth checking out.
I'd have expected that median (200K/year for 20 years) to be higher.
I think Cassandra always writes to the Commit Log before returning success, it just doesn't update the SStables yet:

> Commit logs receive every write made to a Cassandra node and have the potential to block client operations [1]

I'm no expert so it may be possible to turn this off but I couldn't find reference to it.

[1] http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/CassandraHardware
Wikipedia is not a coherent entity, it's a bunch of tinpot dictators ruling over their own little fiefdoms. Wikipedia's success doesn't disprove the above statement, it just shows that the quality of one article is orthogonal to all the others.
I can see a lot of folks just blocking Safari outright if Apple tried to pull this stunt...
They're using SMS for call setup, which is unlikely to be MITMed. Also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZRTP#Authentication
His fundamental assumption that change will continue to follow an exponential curve because that's what it's doing now seems highly suspect to me. The problems you have to solve become exponentially more difficult as your tools become exponentially more powerful.

The human mind is the product of billions of years of parallel computation and experimentation. Raw horsepower is probably the easy part.
This market was very controversial, and eventually got shut down:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Policy_Analysis_Market

So unfortunately it might be a little complex as a government project. But surely there's at least one wealth stoner who might want such a market to exist. Maybe James Cayne wants something new to trade.
The number is low because it does not include stock.
Anyone can post any tripe they want on americaspeakingout.com. That's the point - any community generated political site will be full of crazy nonsense, regardless of the party behind it.
This isn't a valid comparison. A high quality encyclopedia article is not analogous to a great political idea. Particularly, an encyclopedia article is grounded in fact, while a great political idea may be considered an untested theory.
I'm not pretending the content I cited was generated by the DNC. I'm pointing out that a site similar to the one currently under discussion, but with the opposite political affiliation, also has nutjobs posting on it.

That's not a very surprising fact, but considering the number of people here acting like it's a republican only problem, it's worth pointing out explicitly.
Bach may have been fired precisely because HP bought Palm rather than continuing as a Windows Mobile customer: http://blog.asymco.com/2010/05/25/the-reason-robbie-bach-was...

J Allard has apparently ruled out working for Google or Apple, and wants to focus on extreme sports instead: http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2010/05/bach_allard_leaving...
Ah, debugging code. Thanks for finding that so quickly! (it's fixed)
Two great new terms:

- Do-What-It-Takes-edness

- Beer hiring test
Thanks, I'll pass that on.
I thought this part was interesting:

I also needed to be able to listen and speak. To develop speaking and listening, I watched at least 3 hours of television every day. God bless the closed caption, and the endless reruns of The Simpsons, Home Improvement and Full House – I had the caption on, and mouthed the word exactly as they sounded like. I said the difficult words over and over again until I got them right. (It took years to get “girl” and “rhythm” right.) I got into the habit of talking aloud to myself to make sure what my speech sounded right. (I still do this often, which initially creeped out my fiancée.)
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You are missing the point, GS is a horrible example to compare to anything but other financials right now. We have upheaval in the financial market around the world along with new regulations coming down a year after they were basically bankrupt and had to be bailed out by the government. What about that is established, limited growth prospects etc.

There are plenty of other large cap companies to compare MS to that are far more applicable, look at Proctor and Gamble's P/E is 16.06. Colgate Palmolive's is 19, IBM's is 12. Those are more comparable/normal.
Well, Iowa isn't known for having a good business climate in general and for taxes it has one of the worst in the nation. This gimmick only applies to the state capital gains tax for 10 year old assets (the details get complicated there) and isn't likely to make it significantly more attractive for startups.

Maybe it's for farms and the like.... In general Iowa strikes me as a state for farming and big companies, but I live at the other end of Missouri from it so my opinion on it isn't very informed.
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The reality is we are going there because Google (along with Apple) are both developing 'connected tv's (aka, wifi enabled, OS running tv's). Not exactly an attempt to go right at Sony, Nintendo, etc, but Apple has shown how disruptive a sideways entry into a new market can be (or was that more of a happy accident stumble sideways?). Plus, I think the 'game companies' fail to recognize what a huge market casual games are and for most people, that's plenty enough to keep them happy.
You can permanently include and exclude sites with Google Custom Search (http://www.google.com/cse/). I added mine to my iGoogle page so I do all my searches from there instead of google.com.

Currently, I blacklist:

answers.yahoo.com

slideshare.net

scribd.com

bigresource.com

experts-exchange.com
As soon as you have to start reminding people that X really isn't dead it's as good as dead.

Perl isn't there yet, but the level of fanaticism with which the proponents claim that it isn't dead yet has definitely been on the rise.

A language that isn't dead attracts new users without such noises. If you say 'x isn't dead' you automatically sow doubt about 'x'. Best to show great examples in 'x' than saying 'x' isn't dead.
That's true...if only new computers shipped without an operating system, and operating systems didn't come with a browser installed, and you had to turn on every feature in every application or website that you signed up for. If only the world was "off" by default and I had to spend lots of time and energy trying to get things into a usable state, instead of having the settings set to usable levels by default.

You might disagree with the defaults they've chosen, but having everything "off" by default isn't a great world.
But investors are putting their money in to sell high since APPL doesn't pay dividends. The price is high atm, and there are many who are waiting exit, so any kind of trigger could set off a landslide.
No they should not.

Acquisition is on pace to be the thing of the year, and while I'm not saying getting bought out by a large company like Apple is a bad thing, I think continuing to strike out on you own while you've got a good thing running does you more favors.
Now it's time to see if money corrupts absolutely..
English is not my native language, but my elementary school taught French since 1st grade and English since 6th. I immigrated to the US at age 12, and now speak both English and my native language fluently without an accent -- as do my friends with a similar background as mine (the ones that immigrated before 13).

I think it helps for kids to be exposed to many different languages early on. For example, I never learned to speak French fluently, but because I have some background in a latin-based language, I found it easier to learn Spanish.

It's much easier to relate existing words in your vocabulary with new foreign words, than it is to memorize them outright. For example, it's probably easier to learn Russian if you speak Czech already (and to speak it with less of an accent) than it is to learn Korean if you're a Spanish speaker.
Maybe I should have added that ';)' after all...
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> we need to start real studies into the affects of pot before any decision can be made

It seems that a decision has already been made: prohibition.

That your friend didn't fully realize his potential whilst becoming a pot smoker doesn't imply causation, it is just a correlation. There probably are all kinds of factors at play in your friend's case.
I love that you accept mail, twitter and phone for launch notification.
Interesting in the similarities? Compare it with Microsoft (MSFT), the ups and downs appear to be more due to economic shifts than any connection between the two. AAPL/GOOG is definitely closer than AAPL/MSFT, but part of that could simply be due to that both are growing and changing quickly, and are less immune to economic forces than entrenched-MSFT.
Do you know of any corruption free economic system? If corruption is ever present (to varying degrees) is it still a fundamental flaw?
Man, what's really scary is that I thought this article was going to be about how MS lost out to HP in the Palm deal, and that's why they fired him. But it sounds like they never even considered this, and it was more about 'losing a key client'.

Wow, I really thought they had a better grasp of the market trends and were at least aware of the major problems they face.
I deliberately abandoned computer gaming 9 years after I first touched a computer to delay the day RSI would become an issue. That gave me another 8 years before I started having problems.

As for productivity, most people need downtime and if self-disciplined enough gaming shouldn't become an issue. Of course, that assumes that their official work isn't so deadening that games or many other things are a welcome escape....
http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Durability

"Cassandra's example configuration shows CommitLogSync set to periodic, meaning that we sync the commitlog every CommitLogSyncPeriodInMS ms, so you can potentially lose up to that much data in a crash ... You can also select "batch" mode, where Cassandra will guarantee that it syncs before acknowledging writes, i.e., fully durable mode"

Cassandra has very fine grained control over just about everything to do with consistency and durability. I believe you can pick your desired level of consistency at access time.
wow.. 25$ a share for MS vs. 250$ for Apple?
As much as i like that Apple innovates and does produce good products, you'll have to be blind to not see the share crash in the future.. it strongly reminds me of the old startup days..

I mean (not offending) MS products are deployed in what.. 95% of all computers? office in every companies PC? Windows?

Ok, Apple does have music selling through itunes, hardware (very low market share here!) and the mobile app sales.

I don't know, i'd rather want to see the income of both companies per division, that'd be more meaningful to me, at least. A lot of shareholders betting insane amounts of money into a company seems to be too familiar.

(Also i'm usualy not interested in shares and such, so i've probably missed something)
You should edit your post if you think people are looking over your shoulder. There are very few companies that are that large.
> I always thought that two near-monolinguals dating or getting married would be the quickest way to learn a new language, although I never had a chance to test this hypothesis

They have an expression for this in French:

"La meilleure façon d'apprendre une langue est sur l'oreiller"

"The best way to learn a language is on the pillow"

I saw lots of other exchange students improve their French immensely when they started dating a native. My experience was that having that sort of language partner is nice because they're sympathetic to your mistakes and there's lots of built-in incentive to have more interesting conversations.
you can't compare stock prices directly, they have no relative meaning
I think Cassandra always writes to the Commit Log before returning success

Sure, but the write is not the significant part (it is likely to be cached in memory); the question is how often the commit log is sync'ed to disk. I'm no Cassandra expert, but I believe the default is to fsync() the commit log periodically, but to allow operations to return successfully before an fsync() has occurred. There's also a mode to require fsync() before returning success for an operation.

http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Durability
My experience is pretty much the opposite.

I've learnt Spanish during the last 3 years pretty much only by listening and watching TV (mostly listening to podcasts). I haven't really tried to memorize anything, and have above all tried to avoid being bored.

I also avoided reading and writing for quite a long time, trying to focus on spoken language.

I wouldn't say that I "master" Spanish yet, but by now I can enjoy all sorts of films, TV, radio and discussions in Spanish. I still miss the occasional idiom (especially the kind of slang that teenagers use), though, but it seldom bothers me.

Also it turned out that learning to read when you already know how to speak (and can read other languages, I suppose) is actually quite easy. By now I can read novels etc. in Spanish without too much effort.

Maybe I would have been able to learn Spanish even faster by using a more boring method. But then the cost would have been much, much higher for me - being bored for endless hours on end is a very high price to pay.

And I'm pretty sure that I would have given Spanish up a long time ago if I had followed that route.
code and configurations or it didn't happen
railstutorial.org is a great place to learn the Rails/Rspec/github/heroku way of development and deployment.
but nobody can put it there

Except for Facebook. And, err, they did - quite a while ago :)
"[H]eavy chemical innoculation" as in the use of chlorine, "the disinfectant that keeps on killing" to the tap and beyond (try doing a search on chlorine ozone cholera peru).

At the levels used, I think chlorine is both safe and a perfectly fine trade off all things considered.
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If marijuana isn't legalized in fall I'm seriously going to start lossing faith in humanity. I can't believe it's already 2010 and a herb that does nothing but good to everybody is ilegal for all the wrong reasons.
> Even so, you haven't accounted for the winemaking process, which I imagine is significantly more complicated and time consuming than the marijuana-making process (does it involving anything more than drying the leaves?)

Well, if we're to set aside the actual strain-crossing, hybridization of sativa and indica (not to mention with ruderalis for a different flowering and flavor profile), cloning, pulling of males and hermaphrodites, creating plants simply for harvesting feminized seeds guaranteed to yield _foo_ amount of grams per plant or per square foot of space depending on lighting, and on and on... then yes, cannabis is not like wine.

Making high-quality hashish, butane hash oils, tinctures, or other "decoctions" such as icewater extraction, are supplemental processes that require significant labor for the amount produced.

I hear you, though. Winemaking is fancy and there have been shows like "Falcon Crest" that chronicle it with an heir of refinement and love's labor that you don't see from, for example, "Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle". Cannabis will, until fully legalized, always be demonized and caricatured as a rebellious college kids' vice.

It is an extremely significant cash crop in the US, though; and I think it will be even when legalization does come around; much moreso than, say, oregano or sage.
I think it would be bad for Dropbox and for users if Apple bought them. Poor fit. One of Dropbox's strengths is that it's good at synching across multiple OS's and devices, from different vendors. Dropbox when independent has incentive to support Windows and Linux well. If Apple bought them they would be incented to cause/allow the Windows and Linux clients to become inferior, and would not necessarily have any incentive to add support for new platforms when they came along. Apple wants to be your single vendor solution, with vertical control. Dropbox is inherently a "horizontal" service.
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>You are missing the point

So you're going to provide another poster's "point"? Their point was that they were two different industries, which is entirely fair. Your point is something entirely different altogether, yet you're speaking on their behalf.

P/E is often a farcical metric, yet you know I'm not the one who brought P/E into the discussion, yet here we are.
Good, but took me a little while to work out the result interface. What are the bars all about?
Mark mentioned that they're going to put links to this in messaging on the home page, which is about as in-your-face as possible. Nonsavvy users aren't reading blog posts either.
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Just because a substance is legalized doesn't mean its users are resolved of all responsibility when using said substance.

As with alcohol, there should be consequences for being under the influence and restrictions on how to obtain it.

The point of making pot legal is so that casual users aren't fined or criminally punished for having a joint after work.
Great political ideas come, not from committees or from random samplings of the uninformed or semi-informed masses, but from intelligent and forceful leaders who can think them through thoughtfully, who can articulate them in a way that resonates with people, and who can set out an agenda to carry them into effective action.

Great leaders? Resonating with the masses? That sounds more like a primer on how completely awful (in the gas chamber/gulag/killing fields sense) political ideas come about.

Most of the tolerable governments of the world have come about from a process of centuries of gradual refinement and consensus-building. Great leaders tend to screw things up more often than not. Great Britain made its way from monarchy to liberal democracy on its own and without the help (and occasionally with the hindrance -- I'm looking at you Mr Cromwell) of any "great leaders". The US constitution was just a somewhat refined offshoot of the British system.
Which part of "Facebook doesn't require you to make your data public to target ads to you." are you disagreeing with?
I have tried searching Reddit several times for an article I read last week - to no avail. It was result #4 in your search results. Thanks!
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Bit surprised about the downvotes (some pot fanatic around? ;-) ).

FWIW, I've been smokin' quite a bit myself for a few years, I'm in no way against it.

I think your reasoning is not correct. I think the quick-tests go for the metabolic waste simply because there is no other reliable test short of taking your blood.

I've not been in the situation but I guess that blood test will take place before you actually lose the license, just like with alcohol.

Anyways, like I said, I know what I was like when I was smokin' frequently and anyone who does will probably agree that your overall performance is slightly reduced even a few days after. For that reason I'm okay with not allowing people to drive during a reasonable timespan.
Other than the outliers, things like like Yahoo or Amazon that were created during .com days, I can't see how you wouldn't do better today then back then. In my opinion, having something like heroku exist as a resource to your startup is like someone handing you a million dollars in funding 10 years ago. Its almost absurd what we can do with small teams these days.
I think the major problem to overcome is that current computers are based on a von-neumann architecture while I would argue that the brain is not as structured (at least not structured like in a von-neumann architecture).

tl;dr - I agree with Jeff Hawkins about the future of AI