skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice idea, but legalize is really a programming language that predates even COBOL. If you deviate seriously, you may get exceptions and loose your case. I think a better legal language would be even less understandable.

For those of you who question my assertion, try reading the original PL/I standard which was an executable (by humans) programming language specification. There were only a few people in the world who could read it. It was precise though.
You are a wicked fast runner! I never got below 5:45 for the mile but I enjoy the social aspects of running.

Have you read "Once a Runnner" by John L. Parker? It just got reprinted in paperback.
Double the number of vistors to http://hockeybias.com each year and rely on it for some retirement income!
I think it's being a bit pedantic to say that flattr is not doing micropayments because the author is not defining a flat fee that people must pay.

I think any system that allows small amounts of money to flow to content creators can both be considered a win and be referred to as a micropayment as well.
I actually do think that the Hacker and Hustler mentality are innate. Its like musicians, I can learn how to play the violin, but I will never be a real musician. I will never understand that the adjustment of my finger on the string by 1/32" will make all the difference in the world.

Real Hackers are just that. Problem solvers, tinkers, their brains are always focused on solutions to problems via code. I would imagine they see the world differently.

I consider myself a Hustler, mostly because I see the world as a set of connections, and to help out my startup all I need to do is connect the right things together.
Is there a shorter URL variant than "duckduckgo.com"?
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If you're looking for an actual bank, BankSimple is going for this. The founders are smart ex-finance dudes, and Alex Payne is the guy in charge of the web app.
I agree with you, the tone of the article made it sound like the founders (and the VCs that funded them) cured cancer, solved world hunger, and eradicated all disease and unhappiness.

When in reality, they just found a way to take a cut of transactions. Just like every other financial institution. Innovation indeed.
I agree.

If you want to do a quick sanity-check, you should play this out in your head using opposite scenarios.

Scenario 1: scientists discover a grave, real, immediate, and imminent threat to mankind. Some persuasion of the population is necessary in order to take needed action.

Scenario 2: scientists without malice exaggerate a threat in order to make their work more relevant. Some facile models are cooked up. Reproducible testing is deemed impossible. Other scientists glom on, hanging their conclusions off shakier and shakier science. Some data is made up. Some data is destroyed. Some data is selectively mangled, Some data is ignored. People who disagree are ostracized. Everybody "knows" that the threat is real, but details, predictions, and assumptions vary widely. Scientists are just another political action group, using propaganda and spinning stories to advance their cause. New research continues to agree with the paradigm -- outliers are shunned.

In scenario 1 the threat is real and scientists need to convince folks to take action. It's something like an asteroid on a collision course with Earth. In scenario 2 the threat may or may not be real, but that's not the point any more. Scientists need to convince the public to take action because they've already emotionally committed to a course of action, no matter what the facts say. People who disagree are either paid shills, idiots, or malcontents.

But here's the kicker: The practice of science and the interface between science and politicians should not be different in either of these two scenarios After all, Joe Public doesn't grok all this shit. One day one talking head is on TV telling him one thing. The other day another talking head is saying something else. It all just looks the same.

The least we can do is get this mess straightened out. The GW folks should be first in line and should be raising all sorts of hell. If there were an asteroid on a collision course with Earth do you think I would keep my algorithms secret, play politics with publishing, name-call, and join some political group? Fuck no. I'd have every scrap of data online, every little thing I did would be public and wide-open. I'd be giving tours of telescopes to look at the asteroid and dropping hammers and pennies from towers to talk about gravity. I'd be squeaky clean, open, humble, direct, and accessible. I sure as shit wouldn't act like these assholes.

(Obviously the truth in this case is somewhere between the two scenarios, but this is about a fucking lot more than just GW) Apologies for the profanity. I really love science, and this story just gets under my skin in a bad way.
I thought about this a bit and I think there is a valid "hover" motion for the brave new world of touch, but it's not available on the iPad yet.

Once the iPad has a front facing camera, in theory eye tracking can serve as a hover. It would be modal, so that you'd have to be holding down a button (perhaps on the edge of the iPad's bezel) to enable "hoverability", but it would probably work well. If you want to see more detail on a certain DVD in Netflix, look at it, and hit the button on the side of the iPad. This will require less physical motion on behalf of the user than even a hover, and much less than a click.
If you've ever met them, the actual awesomeness is just how bad-ass Rich and Bill are.
Why not? Aesthetics improve readability and maintainability, (probably) trading out for less raw speed. If I'm less concerned about performance than maintainability, why shouldn't aesthetics play a large role in my decision?
The technology to enable a hover-state in a touch input device is certainly there. Hopefully in the near future OEM's will create a UI that allow you to see a hover state as your finger approaches a target element. Ideally, you'd get three states: hover distance, touch, and touch-pressure.

This would then allow the hover state to live long and prosper.
Yes, I think a summary sentence is essential.

Perhaps also provide sample query links to side-by-side comparisons with Google.
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Not being a coder, I would guess that my definition would be all over the place. :)

I guess the best way to describe a Hacker (as I define it) is a builder. Someone who finds unique ways to solve problems and then builds the solution. For example, I know someone who takes the output of the Wikipedia log file each night and parses it for data. Might not be overly complicated, but its an interesting solution to a problem.

In many ways, a Hacker is like porn. You know it when you see it.
Johnson (Smalltalk) and Armstrong (Erlang) on the state of OOP
awesome. i did this for 2y (www.digitalnomad.com) and am building a webapp to enable me to do this again. the easiest way to do it is to find a nice freelance gig that pays the bills.

building a webapp will probably take you longer - getting the word out can be tough, and growth can be slow. but ultimately it's more scalable - you'll be earning money (in theory) while you're out exploring your new surroundings.

some quick tips from my experience:
* rent an apt with good broadband. it's worth it to be able to plug in from your home to work instead of tracking down a close, open cafe with reliable broadband. hostels are noisy.

* buy icebreaker clothing - expensive but totally worth it. they don't smell. i've had the same 5 t-shirts for the past 2.5 years. merino wool is the best fabric known to the digital nomad.

* pay off your debt before you leave. it gives you flexibility and cuts down on stress.

* don't take more than a carry-on. you can always buy stuff at your destination.

* make time to see the region of the world you're staying in. i found it hard to balance this with enjoying the city where i'm living.

* enjoy the solitude and be selfish with your time. you'll probably have no obligations to anyone when you move somewhere. relish this - ultimate control over your time is a true luxury. use it wisely (see next bullet)

* before moving somewhere, figure out what you want to do there (learn the language? meet locals? go heads-down on a webapp? see the country? etc). then focus on the things you want to do knowing you're not trying to do it all. you can always come back.

* don't forget to improvise, deviate from your schedule / goals, jump on opportunities that come up, and go with the flow.

so excited for you - you're going to have a phenomenal time! drop me a line if you have any questions - blog at reemer dot com.
Squatting 250 at 138 while running that fast is a huge feat! good luck.

look into crossfit[crossfit.com] workouts if you haven't already.
"It will shame those who seek to inject political bias into scientific discussions "

Who are the 'those' you speak of?
McIntyre and McKitrick, two of the more prominent people that data was hidden from, are both Canadians. What makes you believe they are politically right leaning Christians?
Yes. Not directly, but it does offer a very big clue that something is wrong.

You are a really smart guy and I have read your blog posts on the subject (As far as I recall you found a small mistake in their data).

I am not that smart, much of the mathematical stuff behind this goes way over my head but even so I get very supessios when some of the leaders who really, really understand this stuff find it necessary to backstab others who work in the same field. It just stink to high heaven that something is wrong.

The best way I can see is that the professor isn't up to the task, so he only did this improve his own situation. But honestly? I doubt that.
population responds to available food. if there was a 50 year food boom, population also boomed. setting food levels back to prior values creates a lot of economic pressure to find cheap food. If 1/5 of the calories humans consume need to be obtained from some other source, the economics get weird.
Air horn? get with the times buddy, you need a vuvuzela.
Learn to sail and buy a boat. Ultimately I want to do solo expeditions. Inspiration -> http://www.bigoceans.com/

My biggest roadblock is that I'm broke. I haven't really started on this goal in earnest yet. My intention is to finish my PhD by the end of the year and then freelance for a while to earn enough money for lessons and boat.
Thank you. I suppose it might be of help to many people, but, I would not fancy the pressure.

I am not being stopped by an internal critic. I have written a bit and I quite like what I have write, I was very much pleasantly surprised in fact. I do think though that if it will give me full satisfaction I should perhaps learn of ways of speaking by different people and also I plan to take some acting classes which might be of help.

But yeh I do think I will need some time, I think it will be a life project and probably never be published. I don't want to be a writer. I enjoy writing though, a lot, especially when you at some point you are not really the writer but witnessing and thinking wow where on earth did that come from, its coool!

How did your novels go though?
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NSA setting up secret 'Perfect Citizen' spy system
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The relevant numbers are the ones indexed to Yahoo's demographics, for which the differently-sized ranges don't matter. Those show that the 35-44 group is huge.
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This is so much better. Why not use this in your article instead? It's better writing, and it does your argument justice.
That's madness! I was happy when my eCPM would get around $3 back with AdMob in my old iPhone apps.
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“I don’t think I fully understood the severity of the situation I had graduated into,” he said, speaking in effect for an age group — the so-called millennials, 18 to 29 — whose unemployment rate of nearly 14 percent approaches the levels of that group in the Great Depression. And then he veered into the optimism that, polls show, is persistently, perhaps perversely, characteristic of millennials today. “I am absolutely certain that my job hunt will eventually pay off,” he said.

This writer should be doing over-dramatic stories for The Onion.
Sorry, I just realized this was a duplicate of the original HN post. I believe it does add to the discussion, however, because I was unable to access the Dropbox hosted image from work, yet it is compiled clearly in this article with additional information.
duplicate of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1496742
The Biggest Mistake Everyone Makes With Closures
I am Indian (student) as well!
I did my undergrad in chemical engineering and had 8 K.T.s
yet I could mange to get wait listed at MIT Media Lab (my group didn't take anyone that year due to lack of funds). Currently I am at Cornell.
I'm anxiously awaiting for them to come out of private beta. I've been following them for a little while now. It's exactly the kind of thing I hope to see more of..
"No longer is climate change accepted as a fact."

I would argue that this statement is misleading in more than one way. Starting with "climate change": do you mean human-induced climate change or the natural cycling? If you mean natural cycling, there's so much evidence that only fringe-dwellers would dispute it. And if you mean human-induced change, you say "no longer" as if it were ever accepted as fact.

Perhaps there is human-induced global warming right now, but I think at this point the track record of scientists attempting to predict future temperatures isn't good enough to structure entire long-term policies on.
There are two problems with this that I can see right off the bat.

1) There is already a large problem with excess nitrogen runoff due to fertilizers, which is causing massive algae blooms in oceans, destroying aquatic life. This would have a similar effect from my understanding

2) Titanium Dioxide is kinda nasty to manufacture, in that it uses large quantities of chlorine. Also, it has been classified as a potential carcinogen.

With those being said, as long as the net effect is a reduction in harmful pollutants or carcinogens, rather than an increase, it's a win-win. It's just a bit difficult to understand that without probably rolling it out widespread.
Thx--those are new, and I'll probably go with something else as the default as well as let you choose which provider you want in the settings. Any ideas for the best default?
This convinced me to give DuckDuckGo a try.

I can't say I love the design though. I'd prefer a more professional look.
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> I don't want to try anything new because of the fear/knowledge that it won't stick

My point was ... so what if it doesn't stick? Just don't worry about it. So you're a person who starts things but doesn't finish them. Big deal. Just enjoy whatever you're doing while you do it and when you're sick of it and feel like something else, do that. Just go with it.

You can't fight this kind of thing .. just roll with it, accept and enjoy the fact that this is your personality. At least you're not boring!

That mindset is how I deal with this, and it's worked fine for me. You don't have to be or do anything. You're OK already.
Is being single-threaded part of the JavaScript spec?
Phusion Passenger 3 is going to have a feature similar to that: http://blog.phusion.nl/2010/07/01/the-road-to-passenger-3-te...

>Imagine having a directory full of Ruby web apps, e.g. ~/Sites. To deploy an app, just drop your application’s directory into ~/Sites. To undeploy it, remove the application’s directory. The application directory’s name is used as the domain name. No manually signaling the web server for a restart.
If the app is using the background GPS process, there's already an indicator in the title bar (the little purple arrow) showing that the GPS is being used.
Not really. If you cut the sigmoid in half they do look similar, but that doesn't mean that they're the same function. They behave differently (the Sigmoid has an inflection point, which is a Big Deal), but more importantly, they represent different types of relationships. The final graph shows population growth or network effects, both of which have the potential to be unbounded[1]. The sigmoid has a definite carrying capacity. In fact, knowing if your chart is really the last one or the first half of a sigmoid is very useful, because that tells you whether you need to plan for an inflection point.

[1] This depends on what the x-axis represents. If you're plotting against time, you'll always be bounded due to finite resources. If you're plotting against resources or network size, value and even marginal value can be unbounded.
Move to San Francisco with my girlfriend, legally (we're Canadian). I can start a company w/ US friends that will sponsor me for a visa / work permit.

Her situation is the biggest roadblock - she didn't graduate from college (a big strike in the DHS's eyes) and has been self-employed as an esthetician for most of her career.

While she'd be open to working for someone else in the US, getting a visa for her will be tough without the college degree. And her preference is not to work for someone else so she can continue to run her practice while starting a skincare product line biz.
I wonder how they are ensuring that the searches I do are completely anonymized.

I understand that that they do not store IP address/cookie/etc, but often by just looking at as little as a few searches you can zero down on the person in question. For example I have often searched for:

Citrix
Blogvault

I am possibly the only person who will be searching for both those things.
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As the oldest of 5, allow me to echo this sentiment ;)
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You hadn't looked at that page yet? This is your startup, no?
Twisted 10.1.0 Released
Is this bug restricted to ubuntu or does it affect debian/rhel etc?
Of course if that's what you're looking for, twisted[1] is the only way to go.

[1] http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/
Google trends issues hot media: Hell on wheels
I think it's called "bigotry."
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Indeed, it's not without problems. The question is, are those problems smaller than the problems we have now? Or is there another solution that has fewer downsides.

I'm curious to know if NOx end up breaking down to nitrates after a while anyway? It might not actually add to the problem.
And wouldn't the same set of traits applied to the business side of a start make someone a great "hustler"?
Yes, I understand your point. I am not saying that the politicasition of scientists does not matter let alone that it is desirable or should be allowed. I was focusing on that very narrow statement you made. Whether the scientists are politicised or otherwise, the most important story is about the actual science as people now do not trust it.

They do not perhaps because some scientists have been dogmatic, and perhaps intentionally or otherwise have or have come very close to lying. That of course should not be tolerated at all. However, there are very powerful forces out there which are fighting for the public opinion which is why you may get contradictory views on television. That is fine, we live in a democracy. The scientists have the right to free speech just as much as anyone else and the right to expression through communicating to the world what they believe.

The problem and the reason why this story is so very big, is not because scientists expressed their beliefs, but because they have not been doing science proper. The reason why they have not might be because of some dogmatic belief. But they can hold any belief they wish however dogmatic as long as they do proper science, transparently, openly, peer reviewed and are engaging with facts as they are rather than manipulating them.
I lived in Taiwan for a year, I think I witnessed three or four moped accidents. Helmets are good.

Also, this reminds me of a quip one of the SportsCenter anchors made back in the day: 'The NHL has made helmets optional. Injuries are also optional.'
Heh. I searched google news for things that are currently not panaceas:

World Cup no panacea for SAFrica's economic woes

Yuan Revalue Is No Panacea for US

Return to Pebble Beach no panacea for Woods

And a few others I'm too lazy to copy-paste.

On the other hand, "Your search - "is panacea" - did not match any documents."
> If you find yourself in [a bifurcated distribution] scenario, you’re likely heading towards a problem.

I know several companies that offer small business and enterprise solutions, with entirely different pricing, sales teams and compensation, and they do so very successfully. The author doesn't say why this is a problem, just that it is. I think this broad statement needs more support.
Coming from a semi business background, I can say I've learned a lot more in business than purely relates to those 3 charts.

He barely touched on accounting, financials, and economics.

He didn't talk about organizational behavior, effective management, and team structure.

Sometimes, I feel like everyone dismisses business because a lot of it isn't that quantifiable... but really, the difficulty of business is IN the fact that most of the skills involved can't be quantified.
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Um, it's right there in the quote. Anyone who seeks to inject political bias into scientific discussions. Not sure what else you're looking for there.
8,810 is far, far more than 503. Many folks are saying that it is still far too low a number for the difference to matter. Bollocks! As long as we're trading rumours, an anonymous Microsoftie complained that the entire cost for Kin (including the Danger acquisition, R&D, marketing, and so forth) was a billion dollars.

$1,000,000,000 divided by 503 units is $1,988,071.57 per unit. Call it two million dollars.

$1,000,000,000 divided by 8,810 units is a mere $113,507.38. Call it a hundred grand.

From where I'm standing, losing two million dollars per unit is a lot more than losing a hundred grand per unit. Let's give Microsoft some credit for keeping losses at such a manageable level. Who knows, when the final numbers come out they might have managed to lose even less, maybe as little as fifty grand per unit!
iPhone developer brags: $1400 in iAd revenue in one day
I wonder how many MS employees/friends/family the 8800 registrations account for?
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Isn't this George Costanza's idea?
Antibody Kills 91% of HIV Strains