skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My sentiments too. I don't have a blog, or twitter, or facebook. I do want to write stuff down sometimes (have been toying with idea of posterous). This could fit the bill for me. But, yeah - what happens if the site vanishes?
legalization itself would make drugs safer. half the problem with illegal drug safety is the inconsistency in potency.

But when products are legal, brands develop that have an interest in delivering quality. And they have bank accounts. That guy in the alley really doesn't.

If I remember correctly, I think there's even a chemical you can add to cocaine that prevents overdose. No real incentive to do that when its an illegal product.
In order to launch fire at a distance of 150m the old bow & arrow looks more practical too. Even if this steam cannon seems more plausible than the mirror hypothesis it looks more like an engineer's gadget than the future (at this time) of warfare.
The search chapter in PAIP has an excellent description of A* search, beam search and best first search that shows the relationship between the algorithms. The code is available on-line (http://norvig.com/paip/search.lisp).
Ask HN: Is there any value in constraints as DHH etc profess?
I come from the developing part of the world. I have been reading/ contributing(in whatever way I can) on HN for a couple of months now.

I read a lot on HN about low investment companies. Living in the third world - I know financial constraints lead to innovation of a certain kind. For instance, how to make a car in 2500$ ?

But I find it counter intuitive to believe that more money won't help. Are we facing an ambition problem here? I mean if living on noodle soup fosters innovation, shouldn't India be very high on the innovation front? It's not!

What say?
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Best European country for starting an IT company? Are you talking about taxes? If your question is not related to taxes I don't know why a country would be better than another, specially if your company is all about developing a product and then selling it either as a product or online as a service.
Why would the entire workplace suddenly decide to start using drugs? Its not like employers can't detect stoned employees.
but then it works out that it becomes the most
prosperous place in Asia. Funny world.

But didn't it already start the war as the most prosperous place in Asia (not counting tiny Europeans colonies such as Hong Kong)?
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An interesting study I wish I could read is: who exactly is the AP, and what motivates them? They aren't a for-profit company with the normal ownership and corporate structure, but a cooperative of newspapers. But surely it's not something as nebulous as "all newspapers in the U.S., acting collectively" that makes the decisions; I'd imagine most newspapers in the US see the AP roughly like we do, as this entity that someone else runs, who they just get content from and don't have any real control over. But then who makes the decisions, what influences them, and why?
Fiddling While Economy Burns by Eugene Robinson
Key grafs:

The good news is that unemployment has fallen to "only" 9.5 percent. The bad news is that the jobless rate is down only because so many people have given up hope of finding work. Perversely, the jobless who aren't actively looking for jobs are not counted as "unemployed."

Perhaps there should be a new category titled "mired in existential despair."

Let me put it in terms that Washington understands: The party that begins to treat the unemployment crisis with the hair-on-fire urgency that it deserves is the party that will do well in November.
This is what works for me:

3 screens: 1 with two windows for editing code, 1 to run Chrome and 1 for Chrome Dev Tools. Overkill? Nope, good to see it all in context.

I modularize code (bottom up dev style) and test each class / function before integrating with code body. Chrome Dev Tools is fantastic for tracking down CSS cascade probs, etc.

Other tools: Vim, Rhino book and www.w3schools.com for references. I develop only for Chrome / Safari (some FireFox) so can't suggest as for IE, Opera, etc.
Care to elaborate? Whether or not you have a professionally designed logo would make an interesting A/B test. Have you done or are you aware of any research about this?
It said I speak like a Canadian and since I am Canadian I am alright with that. Neat.
I'd add some crypto algorithms to that list: cryto hashing (as someone noted below, not every hash is a crypto hash), symmetric and asymmetric encryption, digital signing.

Diffie-Hellman key exchange as well as it is so simple and so wonderfully counter-intuitive.
Out of curiosity, I checked the front page of that site. From the top blog post:

"I remember once when I was a teenager, I was walking through the woods and I came across an old pair of leather boots. The incredible thing is, when I looked inside of them I found 4 pieces of gold!

The not incredible thing is, I was a fat, lonely nerd playing Dungeons & Dragons.

Interestingly, playing Dungeons & Dragons is how I met my first girlfriend. (That's actually not true. Sometimes I just like typing sentences that no one has ever seen.)"

Lol. Funny guy.
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Oh yes, the "long shift" issue :)
I don't know where you read that but it makes no sense. The Russians could not have taken Japan if they wanted to, they had to go through the US navy to do that. The Soviet Navy at the time was not much to speak of and it also happened to be on the other side of the earth.

A big chunk of the Japanese army surrendered to the Russians (as they were stuck in China), and also, if I remember correctly, the Japanese tried to use the Russians as mediators in their negotiations with the Americans, but there was no chance of the Soviet Union taking over Japan. First, they could not get there even if they wanted, and secondly Stalin was not about to openly defy the US at that point.
The engineer who implemented it has been in hiding since the late 90s.
What about this:

1) get a high-paying job in a European country
2) after 6 months, start doing a lousy job & get yourself fired.
3) Leach on generous social security until your startup takes off.
4) ...
5) Profit!
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The same thing could be said of you. The type that moves from the suburbs and expects to have the benefits of both. Being able to be as loud as they want because no one can hear them in their single family home.

When you're in the city you have neighbors. Some are there decades and the walls seperating you can be paper thing as far as sound travels. Cities can be loud during the day, but at night the businesses are closed and the residents are still there.

Whether you are subletter, leasee, or owner keep in mind your neighbors can shut you down so be mindful of them as well.

Anyway I don't like bills that restrict people's free will like this. But from the comments on NYT I see some people support it because they don't want their building treated like a hotel. If airbnb what this bill taken down they better do something fast because, although the hotel industry wrote it, it is gaining support amongst residents.
Yea, Reddit and Twitter are great examples of places that failed because they were afraid to learn new technology? Wait. That failed because they tried to learn and implement things in unfamiliar technologies? Oh, wait, what?
Does Switzerland count? Pro: stable economy, access to capital, beautiful. Con: expensive
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I highly recommend his autobiography (linked in the article)-- No Surrender: My Thirty-Year War. I picked it up on a whim once, having never heard of the story, and was blown away by it.
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I've heard in France, you don't even need to do a lousy job. You just need to ask to be "voluntarily fired", and you can receive benefits. If you have a startup, you can receive those benefits indefinitely.
I hope not - I like computers to give me answers that have been calculated to be correct, rather than just what it has managed to convince itself is true.
I am talking about less taxes, less beaurocracy, less stupid artificial hindrances.
Another important factor is density of population.

Over 500 years ago, the people in Sweden and Denmark spoke East Scandinavian, which was one language, but that had a "dialect continuum" from south to north. But in the 1500s, Sweden gained independence, and both countries adopted protestantism, which meant both countries translated the bible. And with that action the languages actually split with Danish gravitating towards how it was spoken and spelled in Copenhagen, and Swedish gravitating towards how it was spoken and spelled in Stockholm.

So Swedish and Danish are almost the same language, they've only been split for 500 years. But since Denmark is a more densely populated country, it means that Danish has changed faster. Swedish has been going through similar transformations as Danish, except slower.

For example, Danish has gone further in vowelshifting y to ö, compare the word for key: "nyckel" in Swedish, "nøgel" in Danish. In some Swedish dialects people say "nöckel", but it hasn't made it to standard Swedish.

Both languages have done consonant softening of g to j and k to g or ch, but Danish has also softened t to d, v to u, and p to b.

And the sole reason for this is that Denmark has a six times higher population density than Sweden, with roughly the same population.

Although the other theory on Danish language, namely that they've all stuffed their mouths full of potatoes before speaking, is still somewhat plausible. :-)
You don't do it at work, you do it after. Your life purpose becomes "being able to pay for enough Khat".

The story there is that the man that managed Djibouti's port forbid the usage of Khat for his workers and couldn't walk around without his body guards.
> Deconstruction is not a method, and does not follow a formula, and pointing out the (numerous, outrageous) errors in this piece would take more time than I have.

If it doesn't have a method or a formula, could you instead tell us what deconstruction is? How can I tell it from a best-seller or the output of a Markov text generator?

Could you simply point out the most outrageous error in the text? Or just an outrageous error?

> I sympathize with the author's desire to make fun of that which he doesn't understand, but ultimately, it's a shallow game.

I reject your attempt to belittle the author by suggesting they are shallow. Your response is fallacious (telling us there are errors without pointing out what they are, ad hominem against the author) and, in claiming to "sympathise" with the author's supposed "desire to make fun", snobbish.

I try to be as civil on the internet as I am in real life. IRL, I'd say "Stop sneering and tell us something useful, or go away."
I think that a lot of the comments arre missing an important point. What Newton gave the world wasn't important because it was a neat bit of maths. It was important because it suddenly put a whole range of physical phenomena and engineering problems within analytical reach. That's what we need now. The chances are that we've already got the answer, we just haven't got the notation sorted out yet.
There are at least two pretty different kinds of rentals that go on on AirBnB, though: 1) people who live in the apartment sometimes taking in visitors for a few days; and 2) people who don't live in the apartment, renting out an apartment on a regular basis.

Sometimes those in #2 get consolidated so many such units are operated by one person, making more or less a quasi-hotel. And having hotel units next door to you is somewhat different than having an apartment with a long-term tenant next door to you, which is presumably what you signed up expecting.
Here's a subset of the vertical alignment points in the first, and the ones they're replaced with in the second:

http://img.skitch.com/20100706-dcay3gni71sbq8da6meas97898.pn...

http://img.skitch.com/20100706-q3hw63fswsfapwx71pdkm4x4sc.pn...

It's still far from ideal, but is working in the general direction of laying things out in a grid. The other in-the-direction-of-gridiness shift is in making the margins between elements more consistent.

I don't know enough about the psychology of design to know why grid-like layouts are more appealing to some people. To me, when looking at a design, the use or mishandling of implied geometry in a design jumps out at me immediately, but I'm also the sort of guy that measures distance on walls before hanging pictures to make sure that they're at symetrical places on the wall. ;-)
I don't know in another countries, but where I live, social security pays you for unemployment 4 months per worked year. That means that with only 6 months worked you would only receive 2 months of unemployment pay, and if you don't have any children it is only 1000 euro/month (better than nothing...). On the other hand, if you have worked several years (6 or more), you can accumulate up to 2 years of unemployment pay, and if you then decide to become an enterpreneur, you can capitalize all of this and you can have up to 100% of this in cash for your business.
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I thought that all energy is conserved. That is, if the sun dies, the materials that made the sun are not destroyed as such, thus, the sun can never die nor the universe.
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Sorry, but that does not make sense to me.

A discipline either establishes common criteria to distinguish good stuff from bad stuff or it doesn't. And these should not be arbitrary otherwise the judgment remains subjective and therefore worthless.

Since you admit that "there's alot of hacks", it seems literary criticism has no criteria or they are mostly subjective. Otherwise, you wouldn't have such a lot of hacks, but just a few.

It obviously produces hardly anything worth knowing, no?
I'd be more in favor of activism on this point if AirBnB made any effort to limit their rentals to owner-occupied apartments. Someone renting out a spare bedroom in their apartment, or a spare couch, is one thing, but someone renting out a dozen apartments that they have never lived in, as basically an unlicensed hotel, is quite different.

A good first step would be imposing a limit of one rental property per person on the site, and making at least basic efforts to enforce it.

To be fair, this is basically an NYC problem. I haven't seen nearly the same level of shadiness on AirBnB in other cities, where people renting out spare rooms and couches seems to be the norm. But in NYC, a lot of the AirBnB listings are unlicensed hotels and unlicensed hostels, not people renting out spare rooms. I wouldn't be surprised if a good number were affiliated with organized-crime groups, either, since those are the main operators of unlicensed hotels.
The atomic bombs were devastating and impressive, but they didn't do much more actual damage than the B-29 fire bomb raids on Tokyo in terms of loss of life and property. When you can drop bombs at all, it doesn't really matter what kind of bombs they are. The atomic bombs were an excellent PR move of sorts, as a tool to convince the japanese to give up more than as a weapon of war.
The "richer interaction" fallacy
This is a relatively new JS toolkit I just found on flowingdata. It is similar to Protovis, but seems to have more advanced graphs built in and better compatibility with IE. The code's on github - http://github.com/philogb/jit.
Yes. They're designed to eat your life for meaningless gratification.

Also, they have addiction properties built in, ala Skinner boxes.
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How can an ugly building in Edinburgh cost £414 million?

A combination of incompetence, greed and a general air of "it doesn't matter as it's only taxpayers money".

Have a read of this:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Plundering-Public-Sector-David-Craig...
Nice start to your app. I had a similar idea a few years ago which I never acted on. One thing you might want to do is categorize things by price. When I thought about this idea it was because whilst if I am going to buy an espresso machine I go out and research all the details and then make a decision based on many factors, most of my friends ask me "what is the best espresso machine under $500" etc. Whilst that doesn't apply to some things you have like banks, it does for most things people will buy.

Good luck, hope it works.
Ah yeah, forgot to point that out, but in any case it's a pretty sucky experience. There isn't a big button saying "re-download EVERYTHING" and boom everything you ever bought on iTunes gets requeued.
Embedable Python WSGI web server based on pion-net.
It really doesn't matter.

What matters is having great coders, great ideas for your app and executing them effectively and efficiently which is possible with both PHP and Python.

You can write horrible code with both languages, it might be horrible in a different way but it'd still be horrible. :D

That said, if you're the only one having doubts about Python but the rest of your team wants to write the app in Python and they do have experience working in Python - why don't you trust your team's judgement?

As it doesn't matter, it would be the sensible decision to pick the language your team would like to code in, imho. :)
It was installed by default on one of my old debian boxes. The first time I stumbled upon it I felt like I was in the twilight zone. It took some time to realize what it was.
I don't believe that for a second. Most people I know can get any drugs they want, and yet they're not a bunch of drugged up crazies, just like most adults can buy alcohol whenever they want, and most are not alcoholics.

Let people make their own decisions.
Submitted in relation to my comment?

Indeed, sir. I was intrigued by the design decision to include it.
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Could not agree more.

My default stack is Werkzeug+SQLAlchemy+Jinja2. Deployed on Apache/mod_wsgi. If a customer wants Windows/IIS, I deploy using isapi-wsgi.
To be fair, ASP.Net was a better technology than JSP, which were the main competitors back then. On top of ASP.Net, Microsoft built Web Forms, which is really bad when it comes to building large, scalable web applications. Unfortunately, Microsoft kinda stopped there, whereas the Java community continued and made Struts and Spring and whatever else they do now.

And that highlights the other problem with using the Microsoft stack: There's no community around popular frameworks, the absolute majority use only what comes out of Redmond, and if nothing comes, then they're just stuck.

In the Java community, there were loads of MVC frameworks, people built it, and the popular ones flourished, and people could move on. In the .Net community, nothing really happened until Microsoft themselves made an MVC framework.

So being on the Microsoft stack is more like a roller-coaster than a smooth progression, and that is a problem, because it's not very startup-friendly.
Just staying where you are now seems like the best default option, unless you have a particular reason to believe you'll be better off elsewhere. What kind of business? My impression is that regulation varies quite a bit by type of business. For example, if you want to sell a new piece of hardware, some countries are nearly impossible, while others are somewhat easier. But if you just want to put up some webpages and make income from AdSense, most countries don't care much at all.
Doing a quick search shows the website is more than just a custom cms as the article suggests. Several other .gov.uk refer to the website with "[...]is now available at www.businesslink.gov.uk" so there must have been a huge conversion leading up to the launch. Also this quote:

It has three main types of information:

* text content explaining regulations and other areas of business [...]

* directory content

* interactive tools

See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Link

£35m is still a lot for a portal but I wouldn't call it "a website".
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Agreed. I haven't used Steam much because newer games tend to be much more expensive on there than if you buy it on disc. And it's not just you Aussies that get screwed over, we have the same problem in central Europe.

Examples:

- Bioshock 2 (PC): €29.99 on Steam, €19.97 on amazon.de. If I didn't already have it, I'd import it from amazon.co.uk, as it's much cheaper at £9.95 even with extra postage to Austria. (plus I don't risk getting badly translated German voiceovers)

- Anno 1404 a.k.a. Dawn of Discovery: Steam: €49.99, Venice expansion: €29.99; amazon.de: €34.90/€25.59; amazon.co.uk: £11.99/£8.97. Note that this is even a game developed in Germany.

I can't work out who decides that this is a sensible pricing scheme. I paid less than the current steam price for these games when they were still new releases.

Bizarrely, even Valve's own games are cheaper at amazon than on their own distribution channel. (Orange Box: €29.99 vs €19.99/£14.99) As far as I know, the retail versions of Valve games run on Steam anyway, so you're literally paying for the questionable privilege of downloading a couple of gigabytes of data overnight. And Amazon is still cheaper if you opt for next day delivery.
I bet he is not the only one!
They got past Facebook's security, ergo Facebook has a security problem. The fact they used the clever technique of breaking into the security manager's home network is neither here nor there. This could have been fixed by, for example, requiring the engineer access any admin systems via a VPN or other secure tunnel (or only on-site)† and ensuring he doesn't use the same password for admin functions as anything else. Both of these are simple, straightforward, best practice security measures, so it's fair to say Facebook's security is bad.

† It isn't clear whether he accessed work-related stuff from home or not; it may just have been he reused a password between his internet accounts and his facebook roles.
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>That's the problem with wars - they lead to arms races....

You were high when you wrote that, right?
Python for more modular code.

Python for maintainable code.

Python for better libraries.

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Python because of a cleaner grammar and better syntax.

Python for you.
For VS 2003 I had to use ReSharper to make it bearable. For VS 2005 it made it better. For VS 2008 ReSharper didn't really add anything anymore, and VS 2010 has all the features of ReSharper and more.

VS has evolved quite a lot, and I don't acutely miss Eclipse anymore whenever I'm in VS.
I am talking about SaaS web application.
Where I am now (Bulgaria) is not necessarily the best option.
We have lots of leftover laws (from the communist regime) which make life hard, especially for a "modern" company. For example I have to pay to an accountant (the government requires it), so that he can sign up my tax declarations.
Of course, Bulgaria is not too bad. I'm just trying to find some better place.
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