skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless she was making north of 100k yearly that is an excessive amount of debt to take on. If instead she would have bought a less expensive house she would be in a much better position today.
Am I the only one that doesn't like inline responses? Most of the time they feel awkward to me. I do use them when responding email from a couple of co-workers that are inlining fans; and when I need to add a point-by-point reply to some technical email.

The rest of the time, however, I top-post proudly. Feels like the closest thing to writing a reply letter.
I think that's a natural combination. Both p-words showed me that there's more than one way to do things.
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Some good references for learning OpenGL/computer graphics math from yesterday's Ask HN

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1497383
As a follow up. I went with HostVillage and I'm really happy with it so far.
I am working on an API for moviesnowapp.com. Figuring out the structure.
Getting over a week-long illness
The Iraq invasion was originally "Operation Iraqi Liberation" -- O.I.L.
strong, dynamically-typed languages probably didn't exist in any significant way

Need I do the Smug Lisp Weenie thing?

That said, a lot of people didn't make the distinction between dynamically-typed and untyped twelve years ago. It was common to refer to Scheme as untyped then, and I think a few people still do.
I agree. I used to fall asleep on the couch at loud parties in college.
I wish this explained better what exactly it does. Ie: hide information? Present a interstitial? etc. Screenshot w/ before/after would be nice.
I didn't find it annoying or awkward at all. I actually thought it was funny. If I was playing with one for the first time I'd probably do the same thing. What's the point of building this tech if you can't have some fun with it?

You could debate the usefulness of it. It seems like it'd have plenty of interesting applications in business and security..
building an oracle query that pivots data based on a selection of columns (user selected) in 10g (no pivot function)
Today's goal is to squash some bugs from a popular utility iPhone app I recently released.
If you are an American HNer, please tell your congressmen\women to reform the Electronic Communications Privacy Act if you have not already. Your private information should not be excluded from 4th ammendment protection just because it's on the Internet.

If you don't know how to contact your representative\senator, the ACLU makes it extremely easy and can locate them for you and send a letter on your behalf via this online form:

https://secure.aclu.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=U...

From the website:

"Today, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), which should safeguard electronic communications records (like your email or chat logs) and the information you share with companies, is in serious need of an update.

The government should have to go to a judge and get a warrant that says it has probable cause to believe you've committed a crime before it can read your email, browse through your social networking account, or track your location."
Today I am trying to crunch 3 years of failed maintenance on a lab of 24 machines into a single day.

None of which were even registered on the domain!

Updating group policy information, pointing the machines to the WSUS server, installing updated antivirus, installing new DeepFreeze client-- tedious work that should have been done by previous techs/admins-- so I'm cleaning up a mess.

This will be my summer. Get this school ironed out before the students come back.

Oh, and I'm learning Python in-between-- it's that structured procrastination thing. :)

What possessed me to try and tackle this on a per-machine basis? Why did I not just image one and roll it out? I wouldn't have time for HN and coding! :)
Who is to say that intelligence is a more worthy attribute than physical attractiveness?

Ugly people who think they're smarter than everybody else. :)
I don't really think occasional duplicates are harmful as such - it is the way many submissions are just never really noticed, like the original submission of this one, that I think tend to depress submitters.
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If she can afford payments on a $400k mortgage (around $3k/month or so?), then yes, she is (or was) wealthy by the standards of the vast majority of America.
> I believe I had a better education than the GED-to-college crowd.

Of course you believe that. Most people tend to any ascribe success to the efficacy of their earlier life choices and hardships -- to believe you didn't select the best path would make you uncomfortable.

Nobody wants to think that their suffering through a particular choice was unnecessary to achieve their current standing.

> You're the first actual GED success story I've heard of.

When you've got government-run schools railroading every student into college, and few real options outside of that path except for the unusually non-conformant, then you're just not going to hear about many GED success stories.

> All in all, there's nothing like a four-year university experience.

That's what a lot of people who just concluded a 4-year university experience say. They very right, but they're hardly unbiased about just how valuable that unique experience is.

To admit that it may not have been necessary would be uncomfortable, especially if they're sitting on student loan debt to pay for it.

> You're cheating yourself by rushing through college or being a junior transfer.

I could also just easily say you're cheating yourself by waiting until you're 21-24 to get your career and life started.
Trying to finish up some client work, so I can work on my mechanical turk api and watch more vimcasts.
Finishing my dating app. Planning to launch for testing early next week. I know dating is a saturated market, but I'm trying to approach it on a different angle. Wish me luck!
Smartest CEO: Steve Jobs

Smartest designer: Jonathan Ive

Smartest analyst: Mary Meeker

Smartest founder: Mark Zuckerberg

Smartest Engineer: Christophe Bisciglia

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Smartest Hybrid: James Cameron

Smartest investor: Jim Breyer

Smartest Scientist: Robert Morris

Smartest Executive: Todd Bradley
Proton Smaller Than Thought—May Rewrite Laws of Physics
implementing HTML5 offline web storage for an inventory management system. C# MVC
I recommend http://www.gooeytemplates.com/

They are simple and cheap. A good starting point. They even have a free one I think.
where are you backpacking to, if I may ask? :)
Users with (I think) at least 200 points can downvote.
It seems there are more and more of these like the naming of the 'Patriot Act'. 'Perfect Citizen' is almost doublespeak at this point. What is happening here?
I've come to a conclusion: good build tools simply don't exist. Most of the time, build tools are good when run under the intended use-case, but if you stray from that, everything comes crumbling down.
alt.fan.warlord would be very upset.

(Oh my, Usenet references. I surely date myself.)
Why face recognition isn't scary -- yet
Australia doesn't have a large supply of cheap labour next door, so it's hardly surprising that wages for farm workers are much higher.
"While most states allow deficiency judgments, many states hardest hit by the housing crisis, including Arizona and California, are non-recourse states"

Not coincidentally, I would add.
Or at least some specialized subcomponent.
Both points are valid. Programming languages should be designed for people to use, and only secondarily for machines to execute. However, they should be designed so as to encourage clear expression of ideas when practical.

I think whether a general-purpose language should discourage or prevent unclear thinking is an open question. I don't think I've seen an example of a language doing so without being somehow crippled, and that's a Bad Thing.
Great leaders forge the way to win-win solutions for all parties
Are you using any parsing tools? Like the stanford NLP?

Not yet. Right now it's just boring search-and-replace ("(one)" => "me", "you", "him", "her", ...) complicated by the fact that the site has a lot of moving parts. (I started it in 1996.)

I'll be looking into Stanford NLP, Python NLTK, etc. in the near future for the aforementioned "special projects".

I am currently developing an API for the stanford NLP so that other web apps can easily use that parsing and word tagging tool.

I'd be quite interested in that! Do you have a website / blog / some way we can keep up with your progress?

Cool website. I like the idea of the "where is this slang used" feature.

Thanks!
The idea that linear businesses are bad leaves out businesses like 37Signals, which seems to be doing well. Each customer is pretty much self-contained. They aren't really connected to other customers, so there's no network effect. But 37Signals seems to be doing pretty well. They aren't going to grow massively and be the next EBay, but they do have a nice profitable business.
"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for
authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place
of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their
households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They
contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties
at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers." - Socrates
You mean RealID...
Next up, find out if your ex still thinks about you! Or even better, auto emailed "Looks like your ex ___ still has you on their mind and has blocked you! Block them too here!"
Prolog and APL had also been around for a while, or so I hear.
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I love it because the sentence itself resembles an oyster.
Trying to make your search results not suck.
Blizzard Reverse Decision on Requiring Display of Full Names in Forums
I use a ThemeForest admin template for a web app I developed for non-technical small business owners. (http://themeforest.net/item/simpla-admin-flexible-user-frien...)

I don't claim to have the most amazing admin panel ever, but it saved me lots of time and money, and allowed me to deploy my app quickly and start making money. My clients are happy with it.
Thanks! Moving into contracting has been sort of a revelation for me. I'm working where I want to, when I want to, and—as long as I can respond to my clients in a reasonable timeframe—when I want to.

The only 'downside' is that I don't know if I could ever go back into a traditional corporate environment at this point.
It's to distract people from the actual citizen-monitoring program, which is code-named "Somebody Else's Problem."
There is a difference between "securing a border" and "building a 2,000 mile long fence". A fence by itself does pretty much nothing but slow people down slightly. I made no suggestions about the US military's capabilities - although the fact that this discussion exists seems to make some implications.
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I haven't used LISP in years, so my information may be out-of-date, but isn't it mostly untyped? I don't remember it having any mechanism for defining types -- the only types were conses and atoms (numbers, strings, etc). There was no way to say "this string is a Name and this is a City, and they are different types".
People adjust very quickly and easily. Much of the inefficiency the commenters on this thread observe are either the result of intent or indifference. We've had the technology for years to make for "better" traffic flow. Studies have been done which demonstrate local maxima which aren't adopted by municipalities. The main barriers are archaic ideas based on felt truths and the profit motive.

Many city planners believe that stopping traffic frequently makes the city safer. This isn't true, of course. But, it seems true and it's easy to believe. If a city timed major traffic ways properly, it's been shown that accidents are reduced. But, facts are so inconvenient. Rather, lights are timed poorly which causes greater pollution and tension. The drivers, seeking a more optimal path, start taking side roads and neighbors complain. So, the city, rather than improving the efficiency of their roads, make the neighborhood streets less attractive by adding stop signs and speed bumps.

The other factor is the profit motive. Frustrated drivers who have limited options for side streets become increasingly likely to slip through changing lights or speed between signals. The result is, of course, greater revenue for the city. You'll note, this is also a completely unsafe situation. Ideally, our municipalities are there to make things better, easier, safer. Here, they're not -- yet, no one seems to complain.

What you can do, rather than introducing yet another optimization agent (humans do this pretty well), is organize a social movement to make your streets safer through applying demonstratively better solutions with existing technology. For instance, why do demand lights initiate an immediate change rather than simply queuing the change durning the next light cycle? Negligence and miserliness.
Ask PG/HN: Why does the number of previous comments count in comment ranking?
I'm trying to figure out how I can be a better member of the community (thereby, presumably, gaining more karma), and looking through my old threads I noticed that often, even when my comments have the most points on a story, and even when my karma isn't any lower than the other people commenting, my comments are at the bottom of the page. The only thing I can find that could cause this is that I've posted 22 comments while others have consistently posted more. My "average karma" is nil, and I assume this means I haven't posted enough to begin its tabulation, and I remember recently PG said something about revamping comment ranking to include this statistic.

I can understand a sort of "probation period," in which new users are expected to spit out solely inane things, but I have a number as low as 22 because I generally only comment when I feel my comment seriously adds to the discussion, and (I feel) not because of a lack of familiarity with the community. On SearchYC, my average comment score is 4.86. I assume that I'm not being singled out, and that other people are in this situation as well. So, is there an explanation I'm missing here?
Pirate Bay founder aims to make a Flattr world
After reading this URL, I long for a Linus anti-REST email
It depends on how long the stairway is. It has a bumper around the head to protect it, but odds are you are going to need some repairs.

We are using the Hokuyo Lidar sensor: http://www.hokuyo-aut.jp/02sensor/07scanner/urg_04lx_ug01.ht... which sees an ankle height slice of the world so stairs down are invisible to us at the moment. :/
Many comments on this version of the story:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1499053
I believe Bing loads images asynchronously after the DOM content has loaded.
Presumably it would work so long as vowels appear more frequently than consonants and typically are seen next to consonants. If you want to try a made up language, just create one and feed it into the program.
Since when has it been acceptable to use anonymous and pseudonymous comments on another site as the primary basis of an article published by a major magazine?
What's your GSoC project?
This is very exciting for people who know about and contribute to OpenStreetMap. The UK version is very details and leaps ahead of the US version, but in time I can only hope it catchs up. I would be interested to see if MapQuest has any thoughts of using OSM in the US if the quality is improved...
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The Great Wall of China would be a better example. It's even twice as long as the fence that would be needed to cover the US-Mexico border. As effective as your idea is for trying to kill or maim people who break the law in an attempt to provide better lives for themselves would be, I think it would run afoul of human rights issues.
Note that you can also construct arbitrary-length buffalo sentences without using the proper noun.
Oh, I know. However, it's the article and headline that is at fault. Online dating sites are one thing. Meeting online is a completely different thing. =)
I can see that you have never been to Berlin.

They have an entire museum dedicated to show the different ways people would get over, under and frequently through the wall. It will absolutely blow your mind.
And in a few years, after Android destroyes Apple stock value, the same slides can be reused with few changes to explain what is wrong with Apple.
Codeigniter is great, I have built small micro cms setups and large, advanced apps with it, and it's been easy to use every step of the way. Forums are good, docs are great, lightweight.
I'm sorry, which country are you comparing Australia to which has a "permanent third-world underclass"?
No, kids dislike the establishment just because it's the establishment.
The MyTouch Slide has the same 600MHz MSM7227 as the Droid, and has 512MB RAM, which is as much as the Nexus One. It blows away the G1 and regular MyTouch.
DRMd video files from the iTunes store are the only thing I can think of that can't be easily used outside of Apple products

That is the lock-in. A lot of people are pretty heavily invested in DRM'd Apple content now. They're not going back to Windows and they're sure as hell not going to Linux.
Sure it does: it's called Indonesia, it has twice the population of Mexico and half the GDP (I know, I was surprised too!). What it doesn't have is a porous border between the two; of course the fact that it's a sea barrier (only ~50 miles though) instead of a land border makes it much easier to close, but if the US had the political will it could make the US/Mexico border a hundred times less porous than it currently is.
There are social and religious experts much more qualified than me to address your question.

However, I've heard stories from social experts that indicate it is ethical to conduct crime, organized or otherwise, because the consequences are defined. In your scenario, though, stealing's punishment is jail and repayment of the amount stolen. So, the trade off is a bit different.

That's not my position on the matter, but it's thought provoking.

Morality on the other hand...
I had a bit of inspiration a couple nights ago and decided to rework an old abandoned project and turn it into a service.

It's an automated crash logging thing that will collect info from your webapp every time it throws, ball it up and send it off to an API at our site. Then, on a schedule, we'll hit your site with the exact HTTP Request that broke it the first time.

So yeah, I'm hoping to get it "Show HN"-able inside of a week. The collection API is working, as is the regression piece. All it needs is some pretty reports and a bunch of documentation.
Many people make the argument that it's impossible to secure our border, I thought you were doing the same. My mistake, I misinterpreted your post.

If you were simply discussing the tactic of building a fence with no other guard measures, I agree with you; a fence is not sufficient.
it is not how principled the google stand was, but when it realized it stands alone and going to lose its pie in lucrative chinese mindshare, it backed down, there is no face saver for Google. this is badder than it was, but it cant be undone now at least for google.

Let us see how long can chinese arm twisting and technology driven restrictions can keep chinese people from free access of information, ideas, thoughts.
It is acting in bad faith to sign a mortgage on a house knowing full well...

Wait, that's not what happened.
The Suboptimal Large Series A
Lego: Patching up a wall near you
The store owner did not consent to the robbery, by definition. The bank consented to the contract and agreed that the home would be sufficient collateral for the loan.
I like Gary Vaderchuck's take on this: everything we do today will be recorded for the benefits of our grandkids. Soon enough, this will be essentially non-optional. Act accordingly.

This is a sea change in just the last few years, too -- I lost everything I wrote in college with the exception of one paper, but now with Dropbox I'm likely to never lose anything I create ever again.

In a few decades I'll probably need a personal archivist to sift through for the good bits and give my grandkids something with a narrative to it.
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Hunting, maybe? If you're a creature like, say, a human, who is pretty much outclassed by every critter out there in terms of physical prowess, then the people most likely to survive are the ones that are good at hunting.

The ones that hunt only up close don't need as much precision as ones who hunt at a distance (thrown spears, bow & arrow, that sort of thing), but having good depth perception will give a hunter a survival advantage over someone who does not. So, members with better binocular vision will tend to survive longer than ones who don't.

With today's agriculture-oriented societies, the hunting advantage isn't as critical to survival, of course.
You might be right. I considered that, but it doesn't have as much of an impact factor on the user, which is really important for getting the word out about performance (why the site exists in the first place).

I probably doesn't matter too much as long as you have a ~3Mbps connection or higher (see Mike Belshe's "Effective Bandwidth of HTTP" graph on http://www.belshe.com/2010/05/24/more-bandwidth-doesnt-matte...) because the TCP transmission rate can't ramp up high enough on each object to saturate the connection. It's possible, however that the objects will interact with each other by causing differing queueing latency and possibly loss in the bottleneck router and by changing the order of scheduler events on the client OS. Also, it may be better subject the two pages to the same network conditions (at least in the last mile) while they're loading, esp. on mobile.
When will be a good time to update from 1.26 to 2.0? It is always a good idea to have VM when I am planing to dump all logs to redis as well.
It probably would in Arizona, but anywhere else it would just be a sensationalized Fox News headline:

'Internet hackers organize illegals to take american jobs.'
Her mortgage payments + real estate tax were amounting to 38% of her gross income when she first took the mortgage. Experts and mortgage companies now agree that real estate payments greater than 31.1% should be avoided at all costs.

She's a social worker, not comfortable with finance. She had little desire for other life comforts other than a home. She sat down, realized that she could make the monthly payments, and thought it was safe since the market continuously kept going up.

If someone had been there to tell her that the home purchase was too high given her salary, she would have thought differently.
Writing an extension to do remote authentication between Zendesk and Joomla.
Normal people may want to things, but I don't want them nor do I want to see it in the emails I get.
Nearly all the smartest people in tech are from the US - 1/20th of the world's population, all the brains. Who'd have thunk it?
... and prepare themselves for things to be made cheap elsewhere?