skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had looked at global mark (pop-global-mark), local mark, and Bookmark but i didn't like their behaviors.

Global mark (or local mark) doesn't work on buffers that have been killed. When I jump back to a quick bookmark, I want its file loaded back into memory if its buffer has been killed.

Global mark doesn't work consistently. It seems to only remember the last mark set in a buffer, so it has an one mark per buffer behavior. The flow seems to use global mark to jump back to a buffer, then use local marks to jump to different points in the buffer. I want just one quick bookmark system, no global or local distinction, to remember multiple points in a buffer and multiple buffers.

Mark is kind of overloaded for different purposes. Its primary use is for marking regions (for copy/cut/etc). I turn on transient-mark-mode to better highlight regions. Whenever I made a mark for quick bookmarking, the region is highlighted and have to be canceled; it's very annoying.

The Bookmark package requires assigning a name for each bookmark, entering its name to jump back to the bookmark, and deleting the name when it's not needed. It is good for permanent bookmarks but very cumbersome for quick bookmarking. I just want to set anonymous quick bookmarks and jump back to them quickly. I don't want to manage the names.

The good thing about Emacs is that if you don't like the way things are working, you can roll your own. So I did.
Hoover, a one-time business whiz and a would-be all-purpose social problem-solver in the Lee Iacocca mold, was a bowling ball looking for pins to scatter. He was a government activist fixated on the idea of running the country as an energetic CEO might run a giant corporation. It was Hoover, not Roosevelt, who initiated the practice of piling up big deficits to support huge public-works projects. After declining or holding steady through most of the 1920s, federal spending soared between 1929 and 1932 -- increasing by more than 50%, the biggest increase in federal spending ever recorded during peacetime.

--Totally biased source, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122576077569495545.html
"But if a few did, they might all start doing it?"

But if a few don't do it, they slaughter the rest.

Note that toys are a particularly bad example after http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Product_Safety_Improve...

WRT to 1978, that was while Deng Xiaoping was still engineering his rehabilitation and before "socialism with Chinese characteristics" got going (I think; the timing on the latter was not clear after a few minutes with Wikipedia).

One of the reasons it hadn't happened before is well described in this essential book, "The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger" http://www.amazon.com/Box-Shipping-Container-Smaller-Economy...

Now the bottom line is that it would take major government intervention, e.g. tariffs and probably industrial policy, which is a "cure" that's almost certainly worse than the disease (e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_choice_theory). It is argued by many that this and not slavery was the primary cause of the US Civil War.

It would probably be better to work at chipping away at many of the things that made manufacturing labor so expensive in the US (in terms of real value or products US manufacturing is doing OK and still exceeds the PRC although the latter might change soon). Some things are stark raving mad like the previously mentioned law that's trashing toys. Some things would appear to be luxuries we can ill afford, either now or in the long run.

E.g. just how strongly do you believe in the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_no-threshold_model for all toxins? It's been the law of the land since 1958: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaney_clause and this is why today's root beer in the US sucks. If this book doesn't gain any traction upon reading it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Skeptical_Environmentalist you'd perhaps better find another cause.

Don't expect change any time soon, e.g. see the above link to public choice theory and note that "a recession is when your neighbor loses his job, a depression is when you lose yours". The country at large didn't care that much when manufacturing labor was squeezed into construction and now it's only so concerned that those men are not out of work due to the real estate bubble popping (especially notice the unemployment rates broken down by gender).
I'm the guy from foldl. Thanks for your kind words. I do still want something like foldl, but I don't have time to create it - I got started because I wanted to read less, not more!

I don't think that you can produce a good newsletter/digest just relying on total up/downvotes. I hoped to find time to apply machine learning to the problem, but never have.
Interesting point, but that would apply to function notation in general, not just relational algebra.

a(b(c(x))) is "backwards" because the functions are evaluated in the opposite order than they are written. This is a flaw in math and in most programming languages! I suppose stack-based languages have it right, and the OO method chaining syntax in Linq and in e.g. JQuery has it right, since evaluation order is left-to-right.
All the talk about the big bonuses in Wall Street during the US crisis sent the wrong signals, I suspect.

I daydream about working at a Wall Street bank from what I read here on HN occasionally about the paychecks (currently can't because I'm not an US or EU citizen)
I still get several-second load times pretty regularly, a few very minimalist sites like HN excepted (though HN can take a few seconds to respond sometimes for what appear to be backend reasons). Admittedly, I have 320 kbps SDSL, so maybe things are better if you've got a multi-Mbit pipe.

I think ten years ago, a typical mainstream media site would take somewhere around 5 to 10 seconds to load on a modem, which is basically what they take to load for me today. Fox News's website takes about 30 seconds to fully load!

Things are a bit better with AdBlock, since it often seems to be third-party ad and analytics servers both holding up the parade with high latency, and pushing big .swfs. But the number of sites that load in 500 ms for me is pretty vanishingly small. It happens, but esp. without Adblock (which I don't always use) by the end of 500ms usually my browser still hasn't even finishing pinging all the servers the page is loading content from, much less actually pulled the content.

Using Polipo (http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/polipo/) as a local caching proxy does seem to help in my case. Not sure why it would do a better job than either Firefox or Chrome, but it seems to cache and pipeline more aggressively.
Gruber only very seldomly comments about data points like these unless they are a larger point. He takes most things from the perspective of a user and tends to ignore nerd whistles like this one.

Right now this information is cool (and an engineering triumph, yet another data point for my love of VMs and how they are the future of all modern computing), but put this in perspective: it only affects a very small number of users with an expensive and difficult-to-obtain handset. From the perspective of the average customer, it's pretty meaningless. Gruber probably won't respond until many phones have 2.2 and suddenly it's a public issue that "iPhone is slow."
What they left dangling were the serene Namibian parents. It just seems less painful there and within our own past as well. Maybe the "slavishly respect your childrens' thoughts and wants" was a big mistake. You know, phrases like, "Children should be seen and not heard" and "Children should speak when spoken to" used to be commonplace.

Maybe there's hope for modern rich societies. I've read that in the French culture decisions that are made as much or more for the benefit of the parents. The family goes on vacations that the parents are interested in, enjoying art museums, sophisticated cities, etc, instead of what the kids want: a theme park in the suburbs. Maybe this derives from an attitude that children are born barbarians, that their natural tastes and desires are stupid, and they need to have civilization pounded into them in order. Whereas we in the Anglo-Saxon derived culture put more value on the natural impulses of children.

I think the situation can be improved.
I can't help but think of imgur, so the ability to create galleries would be nice.

Uploading more than one image at a time.

An API would be an excellent thing to have as well.
But on the other hand:

"[The well-managed business'] workmen have the leisure to enjoy life and the wherewithal with which to finance that enjoyment."

Ford theorizes that greater amounts of leisure time and better pay for workers are good for both the workers, for their enjoyment, and the employers, for having larger markets; I don't see this as evil.
The author's "agenda" * doesn't * "[have] a touch of dislike of women in it", though. It has a touch of dislike of a particular type of academic feminist, but 99.99% of women are not members of this group. If I said that I disagreed with the tactics of the Black Panthers, would that make me a racist? Of course not.

Your African American Studies analogy is totally disingenuous anyway. You are trying to map the author's insinuation that certain types of academic feminists are jealous of beautiful girls to the insinuation that people in African American studies are jealous of * whites . A much more honest analogy would be that what the author said is like a black person saying that members of a particular extreme fringe of the NAACP are jealous of, say, blacks who have had success in business. Would that be racist? No, not at all! * It might be divisive, cynical, unfair, or any number of other things, but it would patently * not * be racist. The statement says nothing about black people as a group; it accuses a particular * political faction * of having ulterior motives.

And that 1932 study used perfectly valid methodology and studied a huge population. Asserting that it * can't * be relevant simply because it's * old * is just more sophistry.
Have only been a HN reader for a short time (though I've been linked from here quite a few times), so please pardon my pollution of this story to ask a question: Does this belong on Hacker News?

Is Hacker News turning into Reddit (minus the convenience of subreddits)? I visit both because HN was always just solid tech links and news, but several completely non-hacker stories (outside of the fact that we are humans, might have families, may see someone possibly drown, and might be a white ninja) have made the top in the past couple of days.

The HN mission is diluting.
During most talks, that means I'm actively sitting there trying to work out what question I'm going to ask.

I am utterly fascinated by this self-editing process involved in question asking. It has its roots early in child development and we learn that through better questions, we'll often get better answers. The self-editing forces us to reconsider our basic assumptions and in regards to the speaker's. What we don't know becomes preeminent.
Startups: Don’t Hire Frontend or Backend Webdevs
Let's calculate quickly: a typical small room might require 5000 Btu/h to cool. One Btu is equal to a 1F temperature rise for 1 pound of water. Assume that "Black Beauty" can get 20 degrees of thermal differential out of the water running through it (incoming: 50F, outgoing: 70F). That means we must pass 250 pounds, or just over 31 gallons, of water through the system each hour.

That wouldn't be so bad if the water could be put to another use, like bathing, watering a vegetable garden or flushing toilets. But, 750 gallons of water a day is A LOT to use just for cooling -- consider that this is equivalent to four times the typical American household usage for a day.

As with a lot of DIY geek hobbies, it's not so awful when one person does it, but it would be an environmental disaster if this was adopted by the general public.

EDIT: Corrected my units.
Hopefully no one will bring up circumcision. Oh shit.
Selling It All to Roam the Country in a Lamborghini
Because, respectfully, the entire thought process displayed by your post seems to consist of "government = bad, therefore new deal = bad". It shows very little effort to understand what was actually happening, it boxes a huuuuuge range of possibilities into a simple black/white viewpoint, and it's a silly oversimplification that has high correlation with modern republicans.

As far as what the majority of historians said, if it's them or you, and you're not saying something very very persuasive, I'll tend to believe them. No offense intended.
He doesn't do anything to handle condensation that will form on the cooling coil.

It is called air-conditioning because getting humidity right is just as important as temperature.
Wiki is wrong, then. The official 2.2 update for the Nexus One only went out about a week ago, and Froyo code was added to AOSP about a week before that.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/200041/google_android_22_froy...
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/06/froyo-code-dr...

"Today is one of those days that has my heart racing; we’ve just released the source code for Android 2.2."

...

"Posted by Tim Bray on 23 June 2010"
Yes, records, but not paper records. Your latest link again reinforces the idea that you can keep scanned copies. Earlier it seemed like your point was you shouldn't scan/destroy tax records because you need paper copies in an audit. I don't see anything that agrees with that.

I keep paper copies of my tax filings because it's easy enough to do. I'm just not seeing where, if my digitals never disappear, I need those paper copies to comply with the law.
One of the reasons to have a notepad out during a presentation is to write down questions as they occur.

Generally, I find interesting questions hit me in the middle of a talk. That's usually where the presenter is rushing through a little, or sketching out main points that may not all get followed up later.
since it is a very marked contrast from the rest of Valley culture

I think you're onto something there. The typical valley firm has almost as much of a uniform as a bank.

The subversive suit. Interesting.
Hoover increased spending by 50%, from $3.1B to $4.6B. FDR called him a Socialist.

http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/publications/erp/page/3796/1208...

As one of FDR's brain trust stated, "practically the whole New Deal was extrapolated from programs that Hoover started."

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/goldengate/sfeature/sf_30s.html
That's so true. That is actually why you want to size your AC unit to how large your house is otherwise you will either have the unit running too long and remove all the moisture in the house or have the unit on for only a minute at a time and it won't have the chance to remove any of the moisture. When the latter happens you are cool but it feels like a swamp.
I'm a relatively frugal recent college grad living in Houston.

My baseline costs per month run about $1600, though for one reason or another I only hit this about half the time (christmas gifts, expensive doctor visit for contact prescription, splurge on a laptop, etc). The rest of my salary goes straight into savings.

It breaks down like:

* ~$800 for rent + internet + electric. I have a one bedroom apartment, but fully half of it is empty an unfurnished. I keep telling myself I'll get a roommate, but it's been over a year and I still haven't. As your biggest expense, this is where you will make or break yourself.

* ~$400 for food, alcohol included. I like good food and beer :P You could do a lot better.

* $250 on student loans

* <$10 on transport. I take the light rail occasionally and occasionally get flats on my bike.

* The last $150 goes to smaller things that seem pop up once in a while.

Around here at least, you could probably live on $800/month the way you're talking about, and still be fairly comfortable. I don't know how well other sections of the country would fair.

Damn... I could be doing a lot better.
It's also an easy way to make existing members of a community feel more comfortable, I assume: http://news.usethesource.com/news
With all due respect that's because you haven't read more on the subject. Lord Keynes himself is quoted in Rothbard's book as approving of the United States government's response to the crisis. The notion that depressions are caused by a fall in aggregate demand is looking totally at the symptoms of the crisis and not the causes. Rothbard might be one person but he's not a minor figure in 20th century economics by any means. He's not really on the level of Hayek, Friedman, Keynes, or Mises in terms of influence but he's no joke either.

Hoover was the main force in the Harding administration to respond to the crisis of 1920-21 which Harding wisely ignored. The contraction in the economy was very severe but we recovered quickly and no one remembers it--except Austrian economists like Rothbard.

And considering the lengths Roosevelt was willing to go to I'm not surprised Hoover didn't like all of The New Deal. I'm not sure Hoover or anyone else saw the seizing of all gold coming. I'm not sure why history forgives him for that act of theft.
Yes, the area51 process seems very broken. I'm not sure why they ask for so much focus and bureaucracy for the new projects, given that stackoverflow is so broad, open-ended and easy to use.

Until they fix it I guess the solution is to use external alternatives. I'm not sure I like the stackoverflow copying done by OSQA, but it's open source and easy to set up. I'm not the creator of this site, btw, just a user who thought it would be interesting to the HN community.
It should be pointed out, though, that chasing above market yields veers perilously close to fitting the maxim that "You can't cheat an honest man".
It is if you're dumb enough to have this as your definition of "happiness":

'When I mention this to Daniel Gilbert, he hardly disputes that meaning is important. But he does wonder how prominently it should figure into people’s decisions to have kids. “When you pause to think what children mean to you, of course they make you feel good,” he says. “The problem is, 95 percent of the time, you’re not thinking about what they mean to you. You’re thinking that you have to take them to piano lessons. So you have to think about which kind of happiness you’ll be consuming most often. Do you want to maximize the one you experience almost all the time”—moment-to-moment happiness—“or the one you experience rarely?”'

I mean, why let a little thing like "meaning" affect the decisions you make in life, right?

We all know how well focusing on immediate pleasure works in areas such as dieting, exercise, finance, career, etc. Why not apply the same logic to having kids, right?
I am the person who launched the site.

I recently launched an OSQA (the Django+Python software running my site) for ML+NLP: http://metaoptimize.com/qa/

That last site was incredibly successful. I have a few hundred signups, there is activity on the site every ten minutes or so, and everyone on the site is very grateful. I'll post some quotes at the end of my comment.

I decided to try this again with another niche topic that I find very important: scalability. There is a lot of undocumented folk wisdom, as well as little known tips and tricks, that I believe should be discussed in a Q+A format with voting.

I am sorry you consider my site distateful. I took the default OSQA skin and made some small customizations.

I hope in reading the following comments about the ML+NLP site, you'll see that people genuinely value what I put up. I am hoping similarly to create value on another topic that a lot of people wrestle with daily.

Things people are saying about MetaOptimize Q+A:

Alexandre Passos (Unicamp): "Really thank you for that. As a machine
learning phd student from somewhere far from most good research
centers (I'm in brazil, and how many brazillian ML papers have you
seen in NIPS/ICML recently?), I struggle a lot with this folk wisdom.
Most professors around here haven't really interacted enough with the
international ML community to be up to date"
(http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1476247)

Philip Resnick (UMD): "Looking at the questions being asked, the
people responding, and the quality of the discussion, I can already
see this becoming the go-to place for those 'under the hood' details
you rarely see in the textbooks or conference papers. This site is
going to save a lot of people an awful lot of time and frustration."

Aria Haghighi (Berkeley): "Both NLP and ML have a lot of folk wisdom
about what works and what doesn't. A site like this is crucial for
facilitating the sharing and validation of this collective knowledge."

Ryan McDonald (Google): "A tool like this will help disseminate and
archive the tricks and best practices that are common in NLP/ML, but
are rarely written about at length in papers."

esoom on Reddit: "This is awesome. I'm really impressed by the quality
of some of the answers, too. Within five minutes of skimming the site,
I learned a neat trick that isn't widely discussed in the literature."
(http://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/ckw5k/stack...)
We've been wondering: what's the business model there? How are you dealing with development and hosting costs?
On Lisp's Readability and Parenthesis Stacking
Heck, try to persuade yourself to get up from a video you are engrossed in and do something else. I don't think it's only 8 year olds.
There are many books that discusses "all of this" it doesn't really matter.

What matters is evidence. And there is no evidence what so ever so far that quantum mechanics affect our brains whether you call it the quantum mind or whatever clever word you might find.

You can't solve this by creating a field called quantum psychology and then work your way backwards. It's not that kind of intellectual challenge.

The problems are much more fundamental. Had the author been an actual physicist he would have known that.

So no I am not engaging in any fallacious rhetoric.

I don't even have to disagree with some of what you say in that post to still be dismissive about the term Quantum Psychology and Wilson's attempt to claim certainty where none exist at all, pseudoscience at it's worst.
By default Froyo manages moving apps between internal storage and the SD card automatically. Normal users never have to see those (admittedly ugly) detail screens. Your complaint is like looking at the man page for vi in Terminal.app and concluding that Mac OS X is only usable by geeks.
>> " the thought of doing it, trumps the actual doing it."

I thought having kids would be cool. Turned out to be awesomely cool beyond compare. They are, and always will be the things I am most proud of. Pretty much every day my kids do stuff that brings me happiness. Yeah I guess sometimes it's hard work, but so is everything :/ If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain...

I'd be totally and utterly lost without my kids (literally sometimes).
The site is running off of OSQA (http://www.osqa.net/). Your comment is a bit like complaining that someone running the default theme of a Wordpress blog is "cloning" other blogs.
yes i'm thinking on an API. As for galleries, there's Flickr, Picasa and so on, i don't know if it makes sense
I would say that the (a priori) odds of this happening depend strongly upon how many tickets the lady bought.
Not knowing much about OS design, is there any inherent reason why operating systems built on microkernels seem to be so unsuccessful? They always seem really elegant, but are never widely adopted (with the possible exception of Mach -> OS X).
Oh ok, I see your point. I have never been inside a Women's Studies classroom, are they across-the-board a "black panthers" kind of thing?
Yep, I'm experiencing the same issue. I guess the first post of the Q&A site is something like "Has anyone tips on how to scale scale.metaoptimize?"