skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting stuff. It does seem to turn out that Hoover pushed less for balanced budgets than I thought, although there are lots of statements attributed to him around 1932 trying to balance the budget, the tax hikes, etc.

But I thought the difference was more clear-cut than that as far as their actions.

Still, I find it hard to justify the statement that "they had the same view in regards to counter-cyclical spending and balanced budgets" -- FDR championed crazy deficits to stimulate the economy for a decade, Hoover seems to have been trying to move towards a balanced budget after a brief round of stimulus.
Right click on the file in iTunes and go to get info. Then go to options remember playback position. This will work for any audio file that you have in iTunes.

Edit:

Also, just add the file to your library the normal way(No RSS) and do the above.
I thought this Aspartame meme had been thoroughly and conclusively debunked ... http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/aspartame.asp Here's what QuackWatch says about the author http://www.quackwatch.org/11Ind/mercola.html
I find it fascinating that the actor model seems to be the model for creating reliable software. You can see it in Scala or Erlang at the user level, get it in MINIX3 at the kernel level. I think if you combined the two you could potentially create systems which stay up for years.
brilliant

goes to show that progress depends on seemingly unreasonable men.
In my undergraduate operating systems class we hacked away at an early version of Minix. The level of detailed code documentation always just blew me away.
can't you just upload them to amazon s3?
We've got a lot of numbers in our minds, that's for sure. We do believe that 1000 clients is a possibility in a landscape of potentially millions worldwide, but a lot of that depends on how much traction we can acquire in the restaurant community.
It wouldn't be that hard to make an auto-tagging userscript using Delicious.
So, if each climate scientist had to field 5000 FOI requests per year, that would be no problem, right? Are you saying it would serve the public interests to spend money paying scientists to research while also requiring them to spend 99% of their time responding to FOI requests?

It seems to me that we all agree that the number and tone of requests is relevant. I think that everyone here will accept that once the number of requests prevents scientists from doing any research, than we have a serious problem. So the question is not "is the number or tone relevant?" but "what fraction of scientist time should we expect researchers to spend responding to FOI requests before we consider them unduly burdensome?"; given this question, tone seems very relevant. If researchers are responding to questions from professionals who have a good understanding of the fundamentals and are scientifically literate, then we should expect them to be more willing to respond to inquiries. But if they're responding to scientifically illiterate people who don't understand the basics of climate modelling, then I don't think we should expect them spend any time at all.

I mean, the FOI process can be abused. I think it is important that we differentiate between using the FOI process as a way of harassing researchers and serious questions from people who understand enough to actually deal with the data. In that sense, requiring people to write their own code (which is better for finding errors anyway) serves as a way to tax the harassers without unduly burdening real scientists. Real scientists will probably have planned on writing their own code anyway, but people abusing the FOI process for harassment probably don't have the capability to do so.

In my own neighborhood, I've watched crazy citizens groups use demands for data as a way to harass experts. They go to town meetings and yell and scream about data. When experts give them the answers they need (which costs time and money), they start poring through the data looking for inconsistencies. Inevitably they find something that looks suspicious if you're completely ignorant of math and science and then they pounce on it at the next town meeting. "Gotcha!" they say. But they're ignorant people who don't understand basic math and they inevitably turn out to be completely wrong. Most of the time, the truth is exactly opposite what they've claimed. Meanwhile, an expert has to explain in great detail why exactly they're wrong. The whole thing is just a huge waste of time and taxpayer money. It doesn't cost them anything to demand data and when any expert fails to give them everything (including the kitchen sink) because they're worried that these ignorant people will misunderstand things, they only scream all the louder.

Public policy is hard. Even very simple questions like "will this development make traffic on this side street worse" is actually fairly tough to answer. The vast majority of people don't have anything close to the skillset needed to intelligently review an analysis of these questions. But many think they do.
I think for young professionals trying to figure out a balance between work, entrepreneurship, career, children and relationships, this article is extremely valuable. There's a lot of big decisions being made in a hacker's life.
Synthesis: hire hackers, not specialized coders.

I think this advice goes beyond just programmers. Instead of a hard-core programmer, try to find someone that does CSS and Design too and isn't afraid to load up Photoshop. Take that a step further and try to find someone that can also talk to users, and you've got the holy grail of a startup employee.
It's time for it to be so in practice. The technology is way ahead of our cultural expectations.
i could use the BlobStore but i have almost zero budget for this atm and these kinds of services take a lot of bw.
If you plowed each lottery's winnings into more lottery tickets, you'd eventually lose everything, but probably win a few more lotteries on the way down. So it's not that unlikely to see this pattern, if a large number of lottery tickets are purchased.
I usually find the ads on sites like this to be so intolerable, do them well or not at all!
I like the idea of prototyping the language syntax in a high-level language, it reflects nicely what I'm currently doing with the VM. I'll definitely look into that.

Clearly I still have a lot more reading/learning to do! Should be fun :-p
He got me with the little script "i" in a circle in the upcoming simple icons. Just the thing for iPhone web apps.
Same here, and I'm sorry that some of the commenters immediately play the "child abuse" card. Teaching your kid that there are boundaries is a good thing, or you will end up with, well, the current generation of teenagers and college-aged kids in the US, who have a whole arsenal of excuses why there aren't doing what they should be doing, a sense of entitlement the size of Montana, and zero sense of responsibility.

Beating their ass when they deserve it should be a last resort -- a clear signal that they have gone too far this time. And the fewer of those you have to hand out, the better. If your kid actually listens to reason all the time, great! But for most of them, sometimes this is necessary, and assuming your kid has a normal response to stimuli, it should work a hell of a lot better than a "timeout" (how is that a punishment anyway?).
I'm with Wistia (http://wistia.com). We specialize in video for businesses. Lemme know if I can help out. You can email me directly at ben -at- wistia -dot- com if you have any questions.
I think the main reason is poor marketing. Teams built microkernels, but of course a microkernel is not useful on its own so they had to build a complete OS. But being already tired (or near graduation) from building the kernel itself, they simply ported Unix to run on top of their microkernels, which led to a slower OS with no new features. There are benefits to microkernels, but all these benefits were hidden or wasted by Unix. By this time, patience (and thus funding) for microkernels had run out and researchers had to find something else to work on.
Why Steve Jobs Doesn’t (And Shouldn’t) Give A Tweet
[update: Service is now back to normal. There was an unusual load spike that lasted about ten minutes and is now over.]

I'm the person that launched the site.

I'm running it on a shared host. I apologize for any attendant problems with quality of service. (and yes, I do see the irony :)

There is a pretty obvious fix. I'd need it switch it to a virtualized host or its own machine. Sorry I haven't done this yet. I launched the site as a hobby project.

My previous site: http://metaoptimize.com/qa/
got a large amount of visitors last week and no one complained about the load. Load randomly spiked to 60 on my shared host because of another user's job.

OSQA devs tell me that running OSQA on its own machine gives very good performance. Even the largest OSQA site, like LockerGnome (http://lockergnome.net/) supposedly only has a single digit CPU percent usage when run on its own machine.
What I'd like to know is how these guys avoid suffering from repetitive strain injuries (RSI)? Or do they just play through the pain? Or maybe they drop like flies from the competitive gaming world after a few years because their bodies can't take it anymore?

My hands hurt just looking at that video...
If you were to shut off HN during a set time period everyday, don't do it during lunch time. Eating lunch and reading HN is something I do that is _actually_ productive, or at least more productive than eating lunch and not reading.
it shows very little effort to understand what was actually happening, it boxes a huuuuuge range of possibilities into a simple black/white viewpoint

I do not work on whether a viewpoint is black and white or gray but if it represent the true map of the reality. Such explanations is nonsense to me.

and it's a silly oversimplification that has high correlation with modern republicans.

You'll need to expand your perimeter on political spectrum.

You'll also need to explain why my views is a silly oversimplification.(Err, I mean wrong.)
Yes. And if you just have a pump in your garden, and let the water sink in again, after you use it, nothing's being wasted at all.
Exactly. Just like pixels per inch, where it didn't matter that the Droid and N1 were massively superior to the iPhone for months. Then the iPhone 4 comes out with slightly higher PPI than the Droid and now it's all about the magical retina display.
This company specializes in same (including people who win the 'lottery' of a large legal settlement):

http://www.peachtreefinancial.com/

They seem to advertise during trashy TV shows in hours when the gainfully-employed are usually at work or asleep.
You may notice that the player repeatedly strikes the same key in quick succession. Usually this is what some call "Spam" and count as actual actions for this metric but are not discrete actions that affect gameplay.
Will there be cc dumps like SO? http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/stack-overflow-creativ...
The main advantage of parenthesis stacking is that it signals that the form you're using might be too nested. Granted, a lot of leading white space does this too. YMMV.
"... avoiding pleasure is no longer enough to protect you"

I think that can not reasonably be interpreted but to suggest that avoiding pleasure is a way of protection. That is, that we need protection from pleasure.

However, I would be interested to know how do you think that Paul was saying exactly that which you quoted?

P.S. I must say that the behaviour of individuals in this community is very interesting and perhaps predictable. I have seen time and again before a comment being upvoted until someone makes a contrary comment, at which point, the original comment begins being downvoted. It is strange and perhaps makes me naively think that people's opinion can be so very easily entirely changed let alone influenced, even "intelligent" individual's opinion.
Mobspot Turns To Your Facebook Friends For Mobile App Recommendations
...meaning that sometimes, we're better off keeping the data properly normalized.

Take that, NoSQL guys! :)
You're talking about things like selecting groups of units, or what?
Ask HN: Mail-server reputation monitoring service?
At the startup I'm at, we are putting together a newsletter and want to keep an eye on our mail-server's reputation to make sure our e-mails get through.

I found the following:
http://www.mxtoolbox.com/services_servermonitoring.aspx
https://www.dnsstuff.com/products/mstc

Anybody have recommendations for these or other solutions?
"Uploading more than one image at a time." would be nice along with HTML5 support (drag a bunch of pics)
It might at least make sense to group several images; if I'm trying to show someone a series of screenshots (e.g., "I click login, and then I see this, but then I click on the dancing banana, and suddenly this!") it would be easier to send a single url.
It's there in 2010 (CTRL-,).
I wish there were some "quick deploy" mode for when you are developing a staging version of your app and not needing the scalability yet. I have staging and production versions of my app, both need to be online so that outside services can reach them, but it's annoying to wait for the staging deploys every time I make a small change. Of course this is solvable by just renting a dev box from linode and running dev_appserver there, which is what I'm planning to try soon, but would be a time saver if this were included.
This 6k vs 6M LoC comparison is pretty dubious. If your disk driver has a bug and overwrites some data you're just as screwed up, be it running in userspace or kernel space. The argument these bugs are less powerful because they are now in userspace "can't do very much" is at best limited. Drivers can screw up hardware just as easily, filesystems can screw up your data just as easily, etc. The memory grant stuff seems interesting though and I see how that can protect you from some forms of memory corruption.

Running all these processes in userspace seems to gain you some capabilities to more easily respawn/reset drivers. Live upgrade seems exciting. I wonder if you are paying for that in added complexity that is hard to debug. The tests they did are simulating basically hardware errors, and it does seems to be quite resilient to those. In practice I fear the software bugs more. The bugs I actually see in Linux tend to be oopses generated by bad code that simply disable the driver. The bad ones screw up the hardware they are controlling and require a reboot. It is unclear in these situations that the driver can be correctly reset without resetting the hardware too.

I wonder how much of this respawn/update functionality you can apply easily to a Linux kernel right now. Most drivers and filesystems can already be built as modules and loaded/unloaded in a live kernel. I wonder how much that can be extended.
Once in a long while? Yes, absolutely. I greatly enjoy and appreciate seeing parenting insight from other like-minded people on this site, and find the discussion very interesting. I didn't read the article itself, but I often don't, as the discussions here are often more interesting than the articles linked to.

I wouldn't want to see this every day / week / month, but I'm happy to have seen it this time.
But they also have the lighting in the heraldry, which is a symbol for power. Dunno what the swords might be, military?
>I think for young professionals

HN has always only intended to fulfill one aspect of a Hacker's life. It never purported to offer cooking advice, car buying information, or lifestyle tips. It was about NoSQL versus SQL, language trends, Lisp, functional programming, and on and on. If it generalizes it becomes reddit, and soon a "Real Hacker News" will take over on the tech side while this place features pictures of cats and fictitious Facebook exchanges.

But yes, maybe "Young Working White Collar Adult" would be a good site.
would be interesting to see something like this combined with a solar hot water heater.
Wakemate has done very poorly in setting my expectations. Therefore, I will set my own.

I'll get charged the remaining $45 in 4Q 2010, and receive the product in 2Q 2011. It will break in 3Q 2011.
the metric came originally from a program called BWChart (http://bwchart.teamliquid.net/), and calculated APM based on all keystrokes and mouse clicks. So for the first 30 seconds of a game, it's trivial for anyone to have an APM of above 300. The pros, though, are able to maintain an insane 300+ APM over long games while maintaining meticulous control over their units.
See I think that statement is a fallacy. Restaurant owners began to believe in the power of websites when other restaurants began having them and HN-type people began using them, and they saw what a great tool the internet is to draw more business and promote themselves. HN-type people (love this hyphen) create the groundswell by which businesses recognize what direction to go in, and restaurant owners are no different, just a little later to the party because they've been cooking the meals.
We had a cooking advice thread a year or two ago; I enjoyed that one as well. Don't want to see it here every day.
That, also right clicking to move a unit, or setting a rally point, or mashing S or H to make a unit stop. There are a lot of actions that you can do that count in the metric and are spammed a lot.
In case you didn't know, Readability (http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/) does pretty much the same job as the Safari reader thing, but for all browsers.

There are readability add-ons for both FF (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/46442/) and Chrome/ium (https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/jggheggpdocamnea...)

There are also other, similar things, like iReader for Chrome/ium: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/ppelffpjgkifjfgn...
It's probably more likely that a pilot would be able to land the plane in case of a failure more so than an autopilot could. That plane probably isn't cheap, they don't want it to come down in someone's swimming pool.
the OSX version of Mach has subsumed so much back into the kernel that it can barely be considered a microkernel any more.

The thing is that for most systems, microkernels are a performance liability, (it's possible to make them perform well, but it's very hard to do while keeping memory protection) and with lots of hardware they tend not to be a big safety win - if you can wedge the hardware through bad commands, it doesn't matter if the commands originated in userspace or kernelspace.
Note: That's "creative commons" and not "credit cards".
this is the dumbest argument ever.

you lose credibility by interjecting small jabs and opinions (ie, "unqualified") and irrelevant commentary (ie, the relevance of the surprise-factor is...?)

i personally think the whole issue is silly because laymen are not familiar with the typical processes in academia.

but my opinion aside, regardless of its convenience for the scientists involved and regardless of its irrelevance to the validity of the scientific argument, the intention is clear from the above linked emails to hide data from the "contrarians".

case closed.
But things like paternity leave, maternity leave, requiring employers to consider flexible working -- these kind of things Europe is doing are far more family friendly than the republican party.

Everything has consequences elsewhere. Make paid maternity/paternity leave compulsory and you make it riskier for employers to hire. So you increase the probability that your father gets three months off after you're born, but you also increase the probability that your father is a long-term unemployed bozo living in a housing project on the outskirts of Paris.

The family values line of "mothers should stay at home" espoused by Pat Robertson et al. probably is better than both parents working, however much childcare you can afford.

I agree.

No reason it has to be the mother though.

It doesn't have to be, but this seems to be the natural way things go if left to their own devices. Most human societies have the other taking on the vast majority of childcare duties -- it seems to be part of the way our minds are put together that mothers want to do a lot more childcare than fathers do.
MenuetOS - An OS written entirely in assembly
Well, you are trying to add unearned emphasis with

No, it's fully earned. I am a parent. I have witnessed first hand the moralizing, judgement and mutually contradictory universal expectations that random people have about how childrearing should be done.

You don't know how much though I have put into the subject and calling it political correctness is incorrect...

Fair enough, you may have put substantial thought into how parenting should work from a theoretical perspective.

...unless careing about whether or not people use pain and fear to shape children is just political correctness

Reframing the debate in terms so negative that anyone would appear insane to disagree with them is classic political correctness.

I don't know if "irretrievably", but I think almost everyone is psychologically damaged in some way or another.

Which raises the question, is your duty as a parent to prevent any and all psychological damage to your child?

If the goal is to minimize suffering, then is it better to indulge your child and raise an entitled spoiled individual that will never be satisfied for the rest of their life. Or is it better to "use fear" (the fear of consequences, whatever they may be) to raise a child that has some notion of negative cause and effect?
Personally, I found the code relatively painful to follow through. I'm not even talking about how the parts communicated - the code was difficult for me to trace through in the small. Even when compared to Linux or the BSDs, let alone Plan 9.

K&R prototypes, overly decorative comments that just echo the name of the function, defining macros like 'PUBLIC' and FUNCTION_PROTOTYPE(name, args) which are effectively no-ops, and a host of other little annoyances that make the code - at least in my opinion - rather unidiomatic and painful to read C.
Great suggestions, thank you. Would love to target the Chinese takeout market, that's spectacular, although the restaurants we've spoken to so far in that corner are somewhat frugal/take more convincing :)
Wow... I remember having read that in 88 or 89... It's a bit sad MINIX 1 would still be considered pretty modern.
Interesting but I have yet to think of a way that I could use this.
Right now at least 10% of the front page are Reddit/Digg-style stories. As interesting as Caucasian ninjas and 4-time lottery winners are, I don't think it helps the cause.

HN hurtles towards becoming Reddit.
The fact that all these "stackoverflow-like" sites copy the simple SO design is a testimony to the designer that designed it.

For years before stackoverflow, everyone copied the PHP-BB UI. Stackoverflow changed it.

New sites can come up with a better and different design. The ones that do, stand a better chance of making it big than ending up as many of those stackexchange1.0 sites (that died).
The Threat of Cyberwar Has Been Grossly Exaggerated
humm i see, will think about that
We've found gigs through Craigslist (both through the gigs section and through posting a service offering). However, the sales cycle is also very long for anything dealing with businesses, so I'm not sure what your odds would be with starting and finishing a project in 6 weeks.

Still, that's probably your best bet. Some are fakes, that's true, but some are real and if you're not getting a single response, your pitch might be off. You certainly don't want to say "I'm a student and have 6 weeks off and I'm bored". Maybe post what you are saying and we could critique.

Longer term, you may want to pick up small projects through grad school. I know I did even in undergrad. That requires networking as the OP said. Once you've done a few gigs (and done them well) you tend to get repeat clients that can sustain you and referrals.