skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't read my posts, but you're getting upvotes, and this story still has traction on HN. I apologize for continuing this discussion, but you are spreading FUD, and some people might getting the wrong impression.

It assumes the lib is in a maven rep

Gems assumes that the gem is available in a Gem repository. I see no practical difference.

it assumes use of lien [sic]

"rubygems" is a separate package from MRI in Ubuntu. Standard or not, you have to install it. You also have to install Leiningen. With time, Leiningen or a tool like it will become a de-facto standard. Your original post strongly implied that no good tools exist for Clojure package management. This is false, and I refuted this claim.

maven is a beast

Yes. I wrote that in my original post; I'm glad you at least read that part. Leiningen uses Maven repositories and dependency resolution under the hood, yes. My example, however, does not use Maven at all. Most projects which use Leiningen to manage dependencies do not need to worry about Maven's intricacies at all.

You said that clojure is as easy as ruby for a noob.

Nowhere in any post did I say that Clojure the language is as easy as Ruby. That would have been a meaningless statement.

I actually said that the Java classpath is no worse that PYTHONPATH or GEM_PATH. I meant exactly that. Dependency path management sucks in every environment I've ever seen. I said nothing at all about the Gem toolchain, or how well it helps mitigate the problem. It certainly has had several years to mature. That said, six month-old Leiningen is decently close to the simplicity that Gems provides.
I take issue with your use of the term "struggle". "Struggle" implies the poor are actively trying to improve their situation.

In reality, 80% of the poor are sitting around on the couch hoping for someone else to solve their problems. I wouldn't describe that as "struggling" so much as "loafing".

http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpswp2007.pdf
Investing Cash will create new jobs, spending will preserve existing jobs and saving Cash will destroy jobs & the economy.
The topic was "downsizing" :)

My somewhat educated guess is that recent and current construction have been a bit smaller than Belgium. The law says new apartment buildings, for example, have to have an average apartment size of 75m2 but I would say that in the city here 100-120m2 is pretty standard for a family of four.

Mind, even 120m2 (~1300 sq.ft.) is quite small by U.S. "middle class" standards.
You have not specified clearly what result you want.

If you want to apply existing tools to solve particular known problems, you might want to look at Tony Segaran's Programming Collective Intelligence (2007) for a survey of the sort of things people have done. Or ask his list for what kinds of things you want to learn from this data.

If you are wanting to discover new relationships between the various, there are tools for that as well. See. for example, http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~hearst/papers/acl99/acl9.... Systems that create knowledge from data by some independent process are still rare and sketchy.
I'm surprised Evernote doesn't handle this - or does it? Maybe they'd like to buy the technology.
I have friends in the second quintile and they're anything but destitute. $35k is only impoverished if you live in a city or urban area. Living expenses are much lower in most of America.
I think Erlang does MultiMethods properly, it will call a function based on it's arity...
Agreed. Nypost does it as well. I can't even comprehend how stupid their IT dept could be to allow this to go on for so long.
Can someone explain how to get a list of all tabs that are open?

I have for a while wanted to make my own version of sessionsaver, but one that automatically categorizes and organizes your open URLs.
Diamond Go
Got to wondering today if it would be possible to have a three-dimensional variant of the board game Go. After a quick perusal I ended up at this web-page by creative English chappie Henry Segerman.

Some background and info from the page:
"[Diamond Go] was originally created in 1999 in response to a request by Walt McKibben (now deceased) to explore possible ways of playing the oriental game Go in three dimensions. [Diamond Go] serves this function very well, with points on the interior having four neighbours, corner points having two, and edge/side points having three. This is the same on the two-dimensional board and the wire diamond."
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The petition itself can be viewed at http://www.panix.com/~pspinrad/SELC-SEC-Rulemaking-Petition.... .
I say he doesn't understand econ, simply because he says "traditional economics doesn't apply" and then describes a theory which is traditional econ with a simple mathematical modification.

Also, the theory of diminishing marginal utility has been tested empirically many times. While quite a lot of econ is the theory spinning you describe, DMU is pretty solid and accepted by economists of all political stripes (it's the primary argument for progressive taxation, among other things).
I think you have a point. Most of the people in poverty in America right now are materially better off than almost everyone 500 years ago, and most of the poor in America remain better off than most of the people in say Afghanistan.

With that said, the close tie in to material wealth is your place in society. A good hunter-gatherer might have none of the luxuries we take for granted now, but he probably has the respect of those around him and looks around and sees he is well off compared to his comrades. He is likely to be happy, and to feel that his work is paying off.

A poor person in a ghetto may look around and see many others that are much better off than he is. He may see that many people outside the ghetto give him no respect, and that even many of the well meaning ones look at him with pity. He may react to this with determination to improve and leave the ghetto. But he may react with anger or resignation, and he may feel (whether accurate or not) that no amount of work will help him change his lot in life. He is vastly better off in a material sense than the hunter gatherer, but worse off in terms of his place in society and his (perceived) ability to improve that place.

It is this emotional response to the social issue, much more than their material situation, that is cogent to the situation.
that's me! forwarded an old whiteboard pic just to try it out, and didn't notice the reply-to was an old work address that apparently no longer exists. thanks for the heads up!
Sure; there are a couple out there. Lifehacker's was the most straightforward and detailed. The process is much the same as jailbreaking. http://lifehacker.com/5572003/how-to-downgrade-your-iphone-3...

I had some shenanigans with it being an older backup and so had to re-transfer my email accounts from my compy to the phone, but that was just a couple checkboxes in iTunes and setting up MobileMe.
This entire blogpost is a regurgitation of what is in those quora links. Is there even anything original here?
EDIT: As pointed out by replies, I apparently lack reading comprehension skills. Thanks to reply:

tl;dr: The SEC no longer requires good cause to remove oversight board members any more, and the President's power is essentially unchanged.
Funny analogy. And you've got a point.

But it doesn't really matter what the method is that makes soccer so unpredictable. Part of it is that there are few goals, so tiny mistakes are often decisive. Part of it is that referees often make mistakes. Should it be this way? I don't know. I'm sure that part of the appeal of Soccer is the randomness. I'm also pretty sure that part of the appeal is the frustration people feel towards referees. It makes everyone upset, but it keeps people talking, keeps people caring.

At the end of the day, what matters (to Fifa, at least) is to keep Soccer as popular as it is now. And since no one really knows if "fixing" the refereeing will help or hurt Soccer, I don't think anyone is willing to risk the change (and rightfully so).
I've had a number of projects in which the management complained that the developers weren't writing any code, but they refused to take the time to answer our questions about requirements. One actually said that if he was to write down the project's requirements, he might as well just write the software. (That project failed pretty impressively after I left it... I refused to bail it out a 2nd time.)
And lets not forget smallish, elemental animals and zillas which, despite their name, do not have a bowl-cut.
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I thought his main policy suggestion was just solving poor people's problems without strings attached (has the same effect and is cheaper to run with no bureaucracy).
It is sort of like spam and/or snail mail solicitations. It's so "inexpensive" for people (victims) to ignore that it becomes a simple exercise in basic profit equations for the sender.
To an extent, you're right. The Harrod-Domar model of development suggests that the amount of growth of an economy depends on the savings ratio over the capital output ratio.

The reason for that is a bit mathematical, so bear with me:

When Savings = Investment (assuming for simplicity, no foreign trade)

S=I (1)
now S=sY (2),

where little s is the savings ratio, and big Y is GDP (output), and

I=ΔK,

which is to say investment is the difference in capital stock (which is the definition of investment).

ΔK=k.ΔY

where little k is the capital output ratio (amount of output produced per change in capital),

so I=k.ΔY (3).

Substituting (2) & (3) into (1) gives you:

sY=k.ΔY

rearranging gives you

ΔY/Y = s/k

or in other words, the rate of growth of GDP depends on the propensity of an economy to save, and then how much of that saving goes into output.

So in a sense, you're right, but there's more to it than that.

The problems occur when there's too much hoarding going on. Think of these two theoretical extremes:

1) Everyone saves, no-one spends. (Leaving aside starvation and human needs for the moment)

- Obviously, since no-one spends anything, no-one ever gets paid. No transactions happen at all, and interest rates drop (no-one's borrowing anything!) so people suffer, and experience poorer standards of living as a result. There's a lot of money, but no-one's doing anything with it.

2) No-one saves at all, and everyone spends what they earn relatively quickly

- In comparison to 1), this would mean that you're likely to be being paid a lot, and quicker. You immediately spend this money on goods, so your quality of life (in theory) increases immediately. It doesn't matter that you don't have the money any more, as the next person along that you spent your money on also immediately spends their money. Money travels around fast (the speed of which it does this is known as the velocity of money), and so you're soon being paid more money again, which again improves your quality of life. No saving takes place - but no-one minds as there's so much money going around that bootstrapping a business suddenly becomes a lot easier.

Obviously, 2) is unfortunately rather impossible to achieve - due to various factors such as confidence and the difficulty in getting everyone to spend lots. One noted problem is that rich people spend more money than poor people - but they spend a smaller proportion of their income. Imagine someone with £100,000 pa (after tax). They spend say, 20% of their income at £20,000 a year. Now imagine someone earning a paltry £10,000 pa (after tax). They're likely to spend a higher proportion of their income, say 80% at £8000 a year. 10 of these poorer people will spend £80,000 a year. So the theory goes, it's better to have more people all spending and increasing the velocity of money, than a few very rich people all hoarding.

In the real world, savings matter, because you can't get everyone to spend lots of money all the time. However, these savings accounts can't be high enough to jeopardise spending. It's a bit of a tightrope.
Let me put in perspective to you: the median wage (after taxes) is around 10k usd/year here in eastern europe. Currently I make around 15k and am pretty well off. The 25k number mentioned earlier is actually where the salary of average gray 9-5 office rat caps out - to go over that, you either have to run your own business (and be quite sucessful, of at least cut some serious corners) or be truly brilliant at what you do. And even then we are miles ahead of, say, China here. So yeah, US doesnt have that many poor folk.
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I'd made a thread the other week about me finally getting bored with my "cash cow" side jobbing, and want to join up and do something fun.

I've got several years of both front-end/CMS/JS work and PHP/MySQL back-end experience. I'm a 9-5 developer for a corporation, but want to get involved with something less mundane and more exciting in the off-hours (I'm East Coast, so this could work easily for West-Coasters).

Anyone?
Ha! I'm aware of that. However, I think the format of the graph output is not the most important/unsolved/annoying problem in making graphs from my users' perspective. The key difference here between our product and the other libraries and apps mentioned in this thread is that we are primarily building an end-user application, not just a library for developers to use (although our API will also allow that).

I may be proven wrong and have to move to SVG/VML, but only time will tell. For now our focus is to build the best tool to put any kind of data in and get pretty graphs out.
Thanks. I don't speak the same English that is found within those legal documents.
This is a great idea!

It would be interesting to see this combined with a project management system. I imagine being able to snap your whiteboard, have the image cleaned, and placed right onto a project wiki, in one move (similar to Posterous, perhaps).
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If you went to the University of Utah, he probably taught it (http://matt.might.net/#teaching).
He's right - sometimes you need to stop working on your product, etc. and just ask someone to buy from you. I've had decent success signing up advertisers directly. Way better CPM than Webmaster Welfare (AdSense).
His advice was not followed in the past.

The Keynesian prescription, basically, is for the government to run deficits during recessions and to pay back those loans when the economy recovered. During the 2000 Presidential campaign and the first three-quarters of Bush 44’s Administration, Krugman excoriated Bush’s economic policies, because those policies were running up the national debt to unprecedented levels while the economy was going well and the country could have afforded to pay down the debt.
Chrome tabs!?
I wonder if this vulnerability has been removed in CyanogenMod. If not, I wonder if it will take hours or days before it is. =)
Can you do business logic stuff? (I'm not sure what the term is for that.)
Without a global presence it's questionable how long the USD would continue to be the world's reserve currency. If OPEC decides it'd rather trade in EUR then the USD goes into freefall and the US is pretty much screwed.
Well...I did it to prove to him that I actually have the money and it's his for the taking, and I'm not just talking idly. I don't really think he is aware that I have a lot more money than he does, since we hang out the same way we've hung out for a long time.
That's because it's not really meant to be "English"; think of it as a DSL for the law.
Depends upon how involved/scope/specifically what you mean. Shoot me an email and we can talk more, ryandavies@gmail.com
Ask HN: Vertical integration examples?
Reading about NodeJs, Ryan Dahl, the creator, had in effect kept drilling down to the metal. First he contributed to existing Ruby web servers, then wrote Ebb in C, then wrote his own HTTP parser, etc.

A hundred years back in time, Henry Ford in his autobiography "My Life And Work" (http://www.amazon.com/My-Life-Work-Autobiography-Henry/dp/1442144327/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1277742505&sr=8-1) discussed how he achieved tremendous gains from vertical integration, eventually running his own transport ships, railroads, coal mines, lumber mills, waste plants, school, steel plants, power plants (the examples and numbers are incredible).

A few quick ones: Apple with their tight integration of industrial design and expert knowledge of materials. Google with GFS and Chrome OS. SpaceX with in-house production of just about everything to achieve cost reductions across a broad spectrum of components. It's positive NIH.

Where else can examples of vertical integration be seen?
Thanks! That's an interesting idea - I know some wikis (like Confluence) can receive emails...I'll put that onto the list.
A lisp with T, NIL, if, and lambda, like "tiny-lisp" here:

http://tfeb.org/lisp/hax.html#CONDUITS

Literally, a package hack with zero implementation :-)

Import defmacro and friends and you have it.
its really more of a programming language than English these days
Thank you for the idea, I know dropbox has an api. Added to the list, thanks!
Wait, isn't this almost the opposite of what the article states? I read it as saying that the ruling removed the restriction that SOX Public Company Accounting Oversight Board members could only be removed for good cause.

In other words, it's now easier for those board members to be removed, as the SEC can just remove them at will.

I haven't read the actual text of the ruling; is the article inconsistent with it?
Your OS doesn't do that. Would you really like very icon, every button in OS to have hand cursor? Why webpage should be different?

Buttons already have quite good affordance.
About the twine. A few months ago I got a 200 foot reel of twist-tie for use in the garden, but it has very quickly taken over every job that would have otherwise gone to one of my several twine or string spools. As is, it is too bulky for my bug out bags, but something smaller could be easily devised or found (and it would spool onto other tools too, though not as well as twine and paracord). At this point I'm wondering, assuming the bag has paracord and lots of twist-tie, why still include twine?
This is exactly what happened in the UK under New Labour. However now it seems the voters have come to their senses.
Thanks for the suggestion. That is definitely doable, and added to the backlog. Thanks for checking it out!
I worked at a place that used:
1) Hart Software http://www.hartsoftware.com/view/
2) A service directly from Experian

Neither of these are Web 2.0 type solutions, but they certainly worked...
There are a few things in Jalopnik's analysis that I think are flawed.

One, the Volt is crap. It only gets around 50mpg and has a 40 mile battery. It's only suitable for daily commuting.

Two, the Japanese auto manufacturers used the model that Jalopnik pooh-poohed quite successfully -- they took a sizable loss leader, and took a large part of the market from the US auto industry. The difference was execution -- the American companies relied on patriotism to sell cars, the Japanese just built better (or more market-appropriate) cars.
TeX is an almost absurd case of it, though closer to the NodeJS example than to vertical integration in business. Knuth wanted a computer-typesetting system for a book he was writing, so he wrote one. That typesetting system needed a way of encoding scalable fonts, so he wrote one (Metafont). That font system needed fonts, so he designed one (Computer Modern). Then he needed an auto-hyphenation algorithm, so he invented one. Etc. Eventually he got around to writing a book using it.

There are of course a lot of bad cases as well. Google pulls off something like GFS, but there are dozens of companies with half-assed, bug-ridden internal reimplementations of custom components where they might have been better off using something more standard. Even where the in-house stuff is decent, it often adds maintenance/upgrade costs (want to upgrade your Linux server? oops, gotta port the in-house kernel modules first).
I didn't like the bee metaphor at first, but I think it's actually fairly accurate. In real life, I keep bees in my backyard, and periodically am stung while tending them, usually when I do something wrong (not enough smoke, working into evening).

While being stung hundreds of times might be life threatening, what's probably not apparent is that being stung once and being stung 6 times causes approximately equal physical discomfort. It's really the worst sting (the one on your hand or face) that bothers you. It overshadows all the others.

If you were to ask: how much would I pay to have gotten one sting less, that number is very different for the first sting versus the last. This is his metaphor: how hard would you work if you were still going to have lots of pain outstanding when you get your paycheck?

The other part of the metaphor, which I don't think he intended, has to do with the acceptance involved. I realize that when I get stung by a bee on the back of my hand, it will swell up and leave my hand mostly unusable for a couple of days. Despite this, I keep bees. I think there is some deep rich vs poor metaphor here.
I do remember reading that the Bayesian approach leads to previous empirical formulas falling out. Is that the case here, or was that formula derived using Bayes? I'm a PhD student in something else, and I'm trying to do some machine learning. So, what should I read to make what you said make sense :)?
they strike down a provision that allows the executive branch to remove a member from the board

As with another sibling comment, you've got it exactly backwards. The Court struck down a clause that limited the ability of the President/SEC to remove members. The President now has greater discretion, not less.
From what I've seen the video quality is very good and I like the introduction video. Do you plan on focusing only on these four kinds of instruments? Keep the good work!
Taking money from (or loaning money to) a friend is fundamentally a bad idea, and it's quite possible - given that your friend is poor - that he's already taken money from a friend who promised that were "no strings attached," and later lost his friendship when it turned out that wasn't exactly the case. The fact is that people are generally more emotionally tied to their money than they realize, and they end up being more upset about losing it than they thought. I'm not saying you are like this, but most people are, so how would he be capable of knowing that you're different, especially if he (or someone he knew) had a negative experience with this before?

It was kind of you to offer the money, but I wouldn't make negative assumptions about your friend for not accepting it. Consider the possibility that he has good reasons for not accepting it, and that those might be the correct reasons - that he may actually be better off without it in the end.
Pay-per-view articles in scientific publications present a significant drag on progress and pose an ethical dilemma of the first order. Science (information and data ought to be free) and a market economy (I have something you want and will sell it to your for the highest price I can negotiate) are antithetical. See Robert Laughlin's The Crime of Reason and the Closing of the Scientific Mind.
Thought experiment: If software patents were to have become invalid, and someone has a patented widget, could I legally recreate it in Second Life?
How many of you would be interested in having an API to build try and build an AI for the game? I know I would!