skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That depends entirely on whether you were educated before the Canadian Press Manual of Style declared "ize" to be their preference. They weren't nearly as successful with the or/our thing, but folks of my vintage or older almost always use "ise" while kids (from my perspective, thirty-somethings are "kids") only slightly favour "ize" -- and that's probably just to get rid of the damned squiggles from the spell-checker. (The rule of thumb is derived from exercice/exercise -- the noun form ends in "ice", a noun, the verb in "ise", which contains "is". I believe we Canadians are the only bunch who actually used the "ice" spelling to any degree, and it was primarily in the context of exercices at the ends of textbook chapters, which one duly carried out in an "exercice book" -- call it a notebook if you aren't a fifty-ish -year-old Canadian.) There has yet to be created an app that ships with a proper Canadian English spelling dictionary -- I have a text file that contains nothing but words that get flagged by either US or UK English dictionaries but are, and have been, standard Canadian spellings. Open it in the current nightmare app with the best-fit dictionary (US, UK, Canadian or generic English) and blindly click "add" till the prompt finally goes away.
I don't think the author is from India. I have to admit I never heard of him before but "Max Klein" doesn't sound like an Indian name to me and his domain is maxkle.in which is clearly using the .in TLD so that his name can be the full domain name of his blog and not because it is a blog from India.
So the more we know, the fewer thing remain to be labeled 'god'...
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It reminded me mostly of the gibberish from the Cylon hybrids in Battlestar Galatica.
You feel like you need to accomplish something important. You don't. Just have fun!
In my experience it doesn't request DNS again if request fails. Waits till TTL expires. Multiple A records are useful if you have all servers exactly synchronized (as request can go to any server) plus on the moment of server failing it will still doesn't help as IE will keep reconnecting to same IP.

Though I haven't tested multiple A records.
Strangely, I find myself in favour of marking exams (i.e. pointing out flaws and good points, maybe giving a score). Feedback is nice. But I am not in favour of grades for a class.

Although taking some kind of weighted average of the scores of individual tests is more or less trivial, I resent it. Perhaps having one final test is a better option? I don't know.
In parts of Ireland, you'll still hear "reason" pronounced much like "raisin" is in much of the UK.
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This is exactly what I have been looking for. This is a HUGE missing feature in Mint.

This is the way that I want to plan my budget, my expenses, and to see what buying an iMac today will look like to my grocery budget over the next 30 days :)

I've been wanting to mock this up myself, but I haven't, only because I didn't want to mess with the recurring profiles on the dates, and it's worthless without that.

I would say that the only thing that would make this more valuable would be if I can plug in a budget for variable expenses (Gas, Electric, Petrol) and then change that when I get/pay the bill.
I too have great difficulty estimating how long something will take. Whatever you do, don't work for a fixed price unless you've pretty much already written the software and know you have a big safety/profit margin.
I found the video on this page very helpful in articulating the reasons not to agree to a fixed price contract.
http://unspace.ca/innovation/speak

-Chris
And may I know why copyright infringement is bad? Don't say "because it's illegal", that would be begging the question.

What I mean is, copyrighted work is an abundant good. I just can't steal it from you. I can just make a copy. Is that bad? Why?
This could also be resolved by ignoring (removing) the $ symbol altogether. It's not as if any actual currency calculations are happening, just decimal arithmetic.
You're probably aware of this. In 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra' Nietzsche's speaks of Übermensch as being the goal to strive for (Übermensch has been roughly translated as Beyond Man or overcoming the shackles of being human).
> There is really no logical connection between the two, and indeed most professors dislike 'teaching'.

My math professors liked teaching. But that was in Germany. And they are also burdened with a bureaucracy, that makes teaching feel nice in contrast.
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Part of the problem is demonstrated by the comments by "Craig" to this item. He knows quite a bit, and writes well, but he seems to be wrong in a fundamental way. Further, he can't see why, and so keeps pressing his point.

If P=NP then it's plausible that a gifted, enthusiastic and persistent amateur can prove it, although they will most likely then have a difficult time convincing the establishment.

If P!=NP then it seems very unlikely to me that an amateur will prove it, and be able to demonstrate to the establishment that they have done so. Even though it's the result most mathematician's expect, a proof is going to be difficult. Not knowing the standard language for talking about these things (which will almost certainly be the case of an amateur who proves it) will be an insuperable barrier.

There are a lot of results floating around already showing that certain "obvious" approaches won't work. It may be that not knowing those results is a prerequisite for solving the problem, because then your mind isn't predisposed to think in a certain way. On the other hand, not knowing those results makes it likely those approaches will be used.

I don't think an amateur will solve P?=NP.

EDIT: changed some clumsy wording.
It's a spring. You put in mechanical energy, you get back mechanical energy and heat. The engineering challenge, I think, is making something that can compress a useful quantity of the stuff.
Creating such pressures requires very tricky engineering in order to do it on a scale that you can actually use so I would wager that it would not be very efficient.

Diamond anvils are not exactly high volume devices. There may be a way around that but we don't currently have one that I'm aware of.
I have a copy of GTD with me, if you need it I can mail it to you. Email is in the profile.
The comments make for fun reading :)

My favourite:

for calculations with big numbers, try F#
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While this is an important and useful viewpoint, there's some basic journalism failure here:

"But Microsoft stumbled as it took longer than expected to create a new product with the [Danger] technology."

Given that as far as we can tell Danger was bought for i's IP portfolio first and warm bodies a distant second, and Pink/Kin used no Danger technology (unless the author's use of technology is so loose as to include technique/architecture), to the point one of the "official" causes of failure is a claimed 18 month schedule slip due to abandoning Danger's NetBSD based OS for Windows CE, the author would have done a lot better by either not opining on something they knew nothing about or spending the half-hour on the net required to get a basic background and learn the conventional wisdom.
I've been making a living out of advertising income for 10 years. I think if anything it's easier now to make money out of advertising. Back in the day you didn't even have adsense/adwords etc.

It would be fun to do such an experiment, but I'm way too busy and way too lazy to be the one to do it :)
When would be a good time to quit an Internet startup, and how do you know?
When would be a good time to quit an internet startup, and how do you know?
> The engineering challenge, I think, is making something that can compress a useful quantity of the stuff.

That's spot on.

To me the whole concept sounds like a mechanical ratchet and a spring, the pressure pushes the chemicals in to a configuration they would not normally achieve because of repulsive forces, the pressure helps to overcome those forces and then the new dominant force locks in the configuration so the pressure can be removed.

After that if you weaken the force that holds everything together the molecule expands to its original size and will release a bunch of energy as heat in the process.
re redundancy i assume this is correct. A disk failure should be transparent. However this can easily be accomplished with raid, which may double the disk cost but not much more. As for backups, this price does not include backing up.
Yes, I read angusgr's post and didn't spot that the original had an extra s :)

My comment relates to angusgr's statement (which I now assume was a suggestion?)
You are right, I just extrapolated from the TLD.
Indeed, for as this email demonstrates you only need one line from a dishonest man.
See also

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1487982

which already has some discussion.
He's more likely referring to every possible human, which for instance would include every possible other sperm that could have fertilized your egg, in addition to all the opportunities to be pregnant that weren't taken. The numbers get so absurdly large so fast that it's inconceivable.
Seems to be paying off. I wouldn't be at all surprised if at Google HR they have a graph of man-hours worked vs perks budget. Or velocity, in Agile terms vs perks.
Same here but with Olanzapine + Valproic Acid + lithium + Paroxetine - 2 years in age + a suicide attempt.
Single page: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/05/science/05robot.html?_r=1&...
My main experience and success has been with advertising, so that's what I know, and what I recommend as being easiest to start, easiest to scale.

I disagree with your argument.

>> "it'll take a large audience before you can make any money from ads"

It'll take a targeted audience before you can make money from ads. It's not about raw numbers, but about how well you match your users up to what they want.

You can make a living out of a website that gets 100 visitors a month, if those 100 visitors are extremely targeted visitors.
I think he made a mistake posting this on his site. He was technically in the right but he came off as a total asshole. The girl was offering to basically advertise his work. Plus she stopped trading his music when he asked. She could have put it all on torrent to spite him (and something like that is very likely to happen if certain groups like 4chan see this).

Hell, if his site wasn't so miserable I would just pay the $4 or whatever for her (i.e. I would but it doesn't look like there is a way for me to pay it for her). Sheesh.
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"Strangely, I find myself in favour of marking exams (i.e. pointing out flaws and good points, maybe giving a score), but not so much in favour of grades."

How does one fail a class if there are no grades? We can't let everyone pass (especially in something like medical school)
Yes. You're right :-) That number would be astronomical
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I don't think the pressure _can_ be removed. Nothing in the article says this "material" is stable at ordinary pressures. They're just saying that the chemical structure changes as it is squeezed into a smaller and smaller space. If you let go, it presumably expands immediately.

To be clear, I also think the energies they are storing in their experiment are a small fraction of a joule. The "energy density" is high because the sample is very small.
I suggest working with a good business or life coach. Look for ones that focus on getting things done. They will help you stay accountable, motivate you and chew you out when you need to be.
Also BMI is getting phased out in favour of ratio between circumferences of hips and belly. It has much better correlation with lots of diseases than BMI.
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Even if they don't give you the backups, the array should be backed up. They couldn't afford to lose your data.

And redundancy does not only increase the cost of the physical, it also increases maintenance, since the devices fail and have to be replaced. Also, we are not talking hard disks here. If a server, memory, processor or anything else fails, it will be replaced and your virtual machine (and all others that happen to run on the failed hardware) will be migrated to another chassis so it can continue running. If they have supernaturally high availability, it could even be running in sync on two different boxes with smooth handover in case one fails and you won't even notice there was a glitch.

But I guess that's too much to ask yet. I am not aware this kind of technology has been developed.
I'd love to be angel investor. I'd love to spend $120K doing 12 deals at $10K each. Guess what? I'm not accredited. Also guess what? I can't get loans to go become an angel investor. So I'm going to business school instead. (OK, not really, but this is really fatuous.)

Also, if you're going to B school to learn, you're kinda doing it wrong. Everyone here who's smart/disciplined enough to be an autodidact to learn new languages and frameworks is smart enough to learn B school skills from books as well. You go to B school for the social proof, the networking, the recruiting (if you're a top-tier full-time program), and, yes, the fun.
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1pm on Friday. It's always better to quit on a Friday.
Cracked it

http://github.com/mavxg/chaocipher/blob/master/chaocipher.hs
> Why is it so difficult to get a credit card in the U.S., the land of credit cards itself and, for what I've read, where credit card applications seem to virtually pour in all the time among junk mail?

It's not hard for most people - it's only a problem if you don't have a credit history at all, aren't in college, and can't prove a stable salary. But for those people, it's really the suck - and that's a lot of our demographic. Freelancers, business owners, and self employed people often have a very hard time getting their credit started.

> I can easily understand if you had bad credit record but not having one at all being a showstopper really puzzles me. Most people pay their credit card bills anyway so any random newcomer to the business is probably a safe bet.

I thought about that too. The credit card companies have very sophisticated metrics and algorithms though, and they seem to think lending to someone with no credit is a very bad idea because they're incredibly hesitant to do it. My best guess is it's a defense against fraud.
Max is British, I believe.
If that's the case then any speculation as to applying this material is completely premature.
There are several aspects of the web's transport security ecosystem which need to be improved, and the addition of DHE is one of them.

The latency implications of DHE are a problem: it pretty much requires an extra round trip. As you mention, we could amortise that over several connections using resumption, and we might well do that. We can also do SSL connection pre-warming to get rid of the latency issues. We have lots of ideas, but not an army of people working on them I'm afraid :)

To answer your other question: our use of different SSL libraries on the client and server side are largely historical. Having said that, OpenSSL is easier to hack away on. Personally, I find that, at the small scale, NSS code is cleaner. However, on the larger scale OpenSSL wins. Once I get past the insane OpenSSL code style, I prefer hacking on OpenSSL.
What you ask is whether the question remains meaningless when confronted by strong evidence towards the existence of a godlike supernatural being that answers to prayers of a given group.

I guess the question will remain meaningless until such evidence is uncovered.
Could you please take the time to go over your title before you post, or read it after you posted it, and make sure it's grammatically correct?

Thanks.
Can it be answered in any uncontroversial way?
I've been earning money from advertising for a decade as well (actually, 12 years to be more precise) and the landscape has changed quite a bit.

Making money once you have your community set up is only part of the problem, getting a working community off the ground is the hard part.

When adsense/adwords did not exist CPMs were much higher than they are today and such a venture would have been easier to get to profitability then it is because of that. Some costs (notably bandwidth) have declined, but simply slapping a forum on a server and calling it a day is not going to cut it. It will take a good bit of time to get people to re-visit your niche community on a daily basis.

And there are already to many fish-tank forums that you'd be competing for a fairly small slice of the cake.
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There are actually two separate questions here:

1) How long will this project take? The answer to this question is called an estimate, and there is a huge body of work about it.

2) Should I offer to do this project for a fixed-bid / quoted / whatever price?

I think you've already assumed the answers to the second is "yes"; and perhaps you were right for the situation in front of you. Beware the "winner's curse", though: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winners_curse which will quite commonly occur in a fixed-bid situation where some of the bidders are inexperienced with fixed bidding.

My nitpick, though, it that is unhelpful to call this fixed-bid price an "estimate". I wrote (and recorded a short video) about that a couple months ago:

http://kylecordes.com/2010/estimates-and-promises
For those interested (Dutch speakers)
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That's what I'm wondering, too.

If it was XML, one might get in trouble with "<[CDATA[" sections, but regarding HTML, I don't see a real issue here.

... especially not from the pragmatic point of view. Depending on the use case and the quality of the HTML source, a "dirty" regex hack might be a far better solution and using a DOM parser.
I always get this incling that the last bit (somewhere around the 10-20% mark) of a project by size (i.e. tickets), takes about 50% of the time. Or the same amount of time as a project has took so far.

Complete unscientific incling, but seems to hold out a lot of the time - if you HAVE to finish things.
Pressurizing energy into more dense forms of enegy? Goodness, they've gone and invented energon cubes!
With a little homework you could have easily figured out the poster is not a native English speaker and thus spared making yourself look like a bit of an ass.
I was basically doing the drop out thing while I was in college. I would take 4 courses a semester, focus on whichever one piqued my interest, and then fail or drop out of the other 3. Wasted a lot of money.
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> So, for the last 30 days, my mission has been to finish stuff. It's amazing how much change this one small item has made, every day, both 'in real life' as well as in all the online stuff it looks like there is a way to reach that 100% complete state after all.

Strange - I set a very similar goal a month ago. Actually, two goals. One is to finish stuff.

The other is I want to become "prolific" in general - I want to do a hell of a lot of stuff at 60% good, and make a sequel if the 60% good version is a hit.

I just saw this today:

> The main theory proposed by Simonton is that creative genius is simply a product of random and possibly unrelated ideas being combined in an interesting way through the combinatorial process. Simonton then makes a series of assumptions. From his theory and the assumptions, he concludes the existence of the equal-odds rule, which has been supported by empirical data. The equal-odds rule says that the average publication of any particular scientist does not have any statistically different chance of having more of an impact than any other scientist's average publication. In other words, those scientists who create publications with the most impact, also create publications with the least impact, and when great publications that make a huge impact are created, it is just a result of "trying" enough times. This is an indication that chance plays a larger role in scientific creativity than previously theorized.

Submitted it here but it didn't take:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1487777

I'd like to finish more, but I'd also like to ship more stuff when it's 60%. I'm using 60% in the sense of, "When you're 90% done, you're half finished." I'd like to put a fast coat of paint on 90% done/half-finished stuff and get it out the door, then be on to the next thing.

Edit: I think wanting to finish things and being comfortable calling something finished at 60-90% done are basically two sides of the same coin, they're both ways to eliminate this feeling:

> That way I can stop worrying about still having to do all that stuff too.

So you can either take immediate, decisive action to fix something, or you can be comfortable ignoring it knowing that you're doing a hell of a lot of valuable stuff good enough, and giving yourself a blessing for shipping the good enough version and moving on without letting it bother you.
I really dislike all this arm chair moderation of hacker news, I like the occasional commentary in submission titles, and I also like the fact the community decides what is or isn't interesting. Like the ~60 people who found this article interesting.
I've read on Dave Ramsey's site (he's a finance guru that advises people to never use credit, though for reasons very different to my own -- I'm no follower, it's just the only place I've been able to find which discusses living without a credit rating) that it's generally possible to get a mortgage without a credit rating as long as you can prove you're a good risk in other ways (steady salary, large downpayment). I don't plan on ever having a mortgage in the US, but if I do I'll figure it out at the time.
>On other phones you have to be a geek to figure out which software to install and how to set it up.

What? No you don't.

>They only introduced the SDK once the API was in a usable state and they got the necessary documentation and infrastructure in place to support 3rd party developers.

I have an acquaintance who has this bizarre tic that when he can't afford or obtain something, and strangely feels defensive about it, he rationalizes his self-perceived inadequacy by claiming that he was intentionally putting off getting whatever he didn't have (girlfriend, BMW, leather couch...the list was endless) until he could have perfection. It is doubly effective, in his mind, because it also subtly denigrate people who did have what he didn't, insinuating that they settle for second best.

Everyone, but apparently him, saw right through it, but it kept him feeling good I guess.

I see this same rationalization with Apple. It essentially opines that if Apple isn't doing something, it isn't because Apple is behind the ball/lacking, it's somehow because everyone else is lacking.
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What makes this request even more unbelievable is that they want full access to the data in 15 days.
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Hmm, well I would separate moral guidance and a knowledge for how things around us works. On a moral level some of religion's teachings are great,

I personally though don't take more than that from religion and think that it promotes being content with knowing less about our world and universe in order to make it's stories and non moral teachings more relevant.
The trouble is "Got to see this" is purely the judgement of the submitter and not of the community. The 60 upvotes are the community judgement.
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