skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how much overhead the SoundManager2 stuff adds? I have Webkit (Safari 5) and Chrome Beta installed, but neither one of them seems to support the audio APIs like the new Firefox does. Guess I'll have to install! ;)
I entered college three years ago thinking almost the exact same way as you did. I even had to memorize a soliloquy from Shakespeare in my HS English class; How all occasions do inform against me.... Yet I'm about to enter my senior year to graduate with a Political Science degree, only having a minor in Art and in CS.

If you're like me (it sounds like you may be), you're smart. Just wait until you figure out that there are other ways to gratify your intellect than coding. Take a class that has nothing to do with any sciences. One that you want to, not one that you're forced to. You just may enjoy it :)

Personal experience: I was very far ahead of what I needed to do in order to graduate very early on (credits that came in from HS combined with taking 17-18 credits a semester, every semester). As a result, I would either wind up graduating a year early, or I could take random classes in whatever I thought would be interesting (without falling behind!). I chose the latter. Due to that, I'm in what I think is a pretty unique situation; I can graduate in the next year with an undergrad degree in three completely unrelated fields, if I wanted to.
Computer glitch costs Georgia taxpayers
Definitely Ratatat, especially the leaked album which is more repetitive and less in your face than songs like wildcat.
If you are poor and old in Canada, you will not get the quality of life you want from the public system alone.

You will get the medical care you need, and won't go without food, shelter and basic care.
Probably obvious from the clip, but for those who don't watch the show, he's fairly recently "lost" his family due to being a jerk (with respect to being a father/husband).
Mad Men has great lessons in the art of the high-concept pitch: giving the listener a compelling vision rather than being constrained to a conversation about sales numbers or product features. Funding a startup (or buying an ad campaign) should make the person writing the check want to tell everyone they know that the smart investment they just made is going to make the world a better place, not that they're going to beat the competition by x.y%.

aside: bought the Mad Men three-season box set to catch up before the upcoming season 4, but didn't realize I got a Chinese bootleg; producer's listed as Linsgate (sic), not Lionsgate. :)
I would also add...cool none the less.
The sex of an author who's article I'm reading has never crossed my mind. Who gives a crap if they're male/female? They're an author, they should be treated as such.
Ask HN: Login under emacs/w3m; Post request without content-length
Is there a patch for emacs/w3m that'll let me login to HN? I currently get the "Post request without content-length" error when I try.

I would love to abandon Chrome for everything except videos, but the inability to login here is one thing that keeps me using it.

TIA.
Big cities in developing countries are expensive too. A better idea would be to find some beach property in South America; the continent is developing and getting older as well, so lots of people are retiring to the sea-side (as I said, big cities are expensive).

In the south of Brazil you won't find many bargains left, but I've read that lots os europeans are buying houses in the northeast (the infrastructure is a lot worse there, but it's 3.000km closer to Europe).
http://jobs.plasis.co.uk aggregates freelance jobs from 9 different job boards. programmermeetdesigner.com is also good.
That's an incredible scene, and you can clearly see that the FaceTime ads for the iPhone 4 are in the same 'genre'.

FaceTime allows people who are separated, perhaps on different continents, or across generations to re-connect, and share important moments, like the birth of a child, or the slings and arrows of adolescence.

Just like Draper says in the scene, the technology just has to work and get out of the way. The human experience is the important part.
I put this question to my advisor two weeks ago, and his point was that right now, if you're talking about something that you reasonably fear will be short-term (which is the entire point of emergency funds), there's nothing better enough than a saving account right now to make it worthwhile. Getting even 2% vs. .5% for two or three years just isn't that significant on a couple tens of thousands of dollars, the difference is swamped by future uncertainties either way. Either way you're pretty much going to be able to take out what you put in.
Put your Ruby tests in comments.
Raytheon, the maker of this system, is already pursuing agricultural applications, though apparently they are focussed on preventing frost-damage (via Slashdot): http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2010/06/25/raytheon-turns...
UI example from NewtonScript http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.96.... (pdf)
Take a look at the registration process. You need to place a link to your profile at hackernewsers in your HN-profile to be able to sign up. I like it :).
Reading Shakespeare is useful, memorizing it pointless and just a test of whether you have the mental ability to memorize strings of words.
The book sales numbers in the "Pirate Paulo Coelho" link are really impressive. Thanks for sharing that link!
The totem reminded me of passing a reference down a series of recursive calls. Hehe.
Erdős went off drugs for a month or so, and complained that he could not work as well as with the drugs. (Of course, you could still argue that the real alternative isn't one month off drugs, but no drugs at all. But that's a slightly weaker argument.)

Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erd%C5%91s) says:

> After 1971 he also took amphetamines, despite the concern of his friends, one of whom (Ron Graham) bet him $500 that he could not stop taking the drug for a month. Erdős won the bet, but complained during his abstinence that mathematics had been set back by a month: "Before, when I looked at a piece of blank paper my mind was filled with ideas. Now all I see is a blank piece of paper." After he won the bet, he promptly resumed his amphetamine habit.
This reminded me a lot of the iPhone 4 ad, just fifty years old. It's not about the 1ghz processor or the 512mb of ram, it's about the value of the experiences you have using it.
No, but if somebody gets hired there is going to be a ramp-up period anyway.
I find that I don't mind spending time writing tests when I can also use them as sample code. Usually tests have a lot of visual junk that gets in the way. I've been playing around with different solutions for about a year and I just released the latest incarnation:

## A very simple test
1 + 1
#=> 2
Did you even watch the video?
Hexxeh Shows off Touch on a Chrome OS Tablet
I found the movie didn't make a whole lot of sense at times. It felt like the writer cut a lot of corners when it came to the whole logical coherency of the plot. Maybe if we blow something up they won't notice!

The plot was entertaining and a good idea, but it left a lot to be desired. It's not destined to become a classic like: Fight Club, 12 Monkeys, Requiem for a Dream, Primer. If you enjoyed Inception, do yourself a favor and check those out if you haven't seen them.
We also have government run nursing homes and plenty of destitute old people live in them. But, even for a selfish person SS is not exactly a terrible idea. Consider, pensions and SS have a huge benefit over traditional forms of investing.

Imagine setting one up a pension for a group of savvy investors. As you near retirement you pool your money with 10,000 other people and all split the dividend each month (based on what % you put in). As people start to die off there is a smaller pool of receptions who keep getting a larger monthly check. Granted you lose the ability to give money to your spouse/children when you die, but you don't need to worry about outliving your savings. (Assuming the fund is not mismanaged etc.)

PS: There are many problems with SS, but when you consider it's inflation adjusted it represents a vary large and vary safe investment. (Run a Monte Carlo Analysis assuming you are only willing to accept a 1% risk of running out of money at 100 and a safe retirement takes a huge nest egg.)
Yes, you want some guarantees. But it's the job of either you or your debtor to get those guarantees. Not the job of the general public.

The biggest problem is moral hazard. With outside guarantees you don't care about default risk. And debtor will compete solely on return, not on risk-adjusted return.

Without an external backer, you will watch your bank much more closely. And banks can't be watched closely enough.

The Reserve Bank of New Zealand has a page (http://www.rbnz.govt.nz/finstab/banking/regulation/3256868.h...) explaining why they don't have deposit insurance in New Zealand.
Furthermore, ... I thought it was interesting the movie only went down 4 levels. I have a rule of thumb when working on hierarchical structures (like a directory tree holding lots of data) that three levels of hierarchy is all a person can hold in their head at a time. This is sort of the like the 7 items +/- 2, except I think that the seven items rule only applies "across" a structure. To understand more than three levels deep requires supplementary structures like indexing, sorting, or nesting ...

(of nesting (of nesting (...)))
Why New Zealand doesn't have deposit insurance
PCWorld listens to Friday Apple iPhone 4 event, then un-recommends the phone.
+1. I find that their psychedelics (Lynton Samuel Dawson, Voyage 34, Staircase Infinities, No Reason To Live No Reason To Die, Moonloop) mix quite well with Pink Floyd's (A Saucerful of Secrets, Atom Heart Mother, Set the controls...). Most of the later works are too vocal and distracting.
MonoTouch is alive and well
This is more about how to make a good TV show. He's not really pitching a new piece of technology at all. He's pitching an ad campaign, which in turn is about introducing consumers to a new piece of technology. The scene is so good that you fall for the campaign too.

It's a great way to learn something about pitching if you look like Don Draper, have a product that good (the carousel campaign) and you're an actor in a well-written, hit TV show.
Drum and bass FTW.

Some free sources of D&B are BassDrive.com (live djs), Pandora and Last.fm. After you know what you like there's plenty available (used & cheap) on Amazon.com

Also a lot of techno, Vivaldi and Bach
some follow-up from FastCompany:
http://www.fastcompany.com/1671022/apple-anechoic-chamber-sc...
Anyone have experience with e-Junkie (http://www.e-junkie.com)? I'm in a similar situation and was thinking about going that route.

EDIT: This May 2010 comparison is interesting (don't miss the comments): http://www.ivanwalsh.com/clickbank/e-junkie-v-clickbank-whic...
or the other way around, the iPhone (FaceTime) ads are built around the same structure and the idea of playing hearts like a fiddle. Except where the carousel brings backs the past, FaceTime gives you the present.
Look at facts. The vast majority of the elderly die of their health and not suicide.

Annecdotally, my grandfather, 102 years old, is a bit senile at this point yet still chases women, sings whenever he likes, and is generally an upbeat fellow. My wife has late stage Huntington's Disease and yet still enjoys simple pleasures. I share a dread future with my wife yet I am still here as well.

Happiness can be found in the most desperate of conditions.

Despite DNRs and such, there are many and simple ways to end our own lives. And, yet, the vast majority live them to the end.

Take this conversation, set it aside for 20 years, then tell me how you feel. I suspect the combination of marriage and children will change your outlook.
This reminds me of a short film called "Descendants"
http://vimeo.com/8642276
I read and understood the Queen Mab speech more thoroughly than any other passage in Shakespeare when memorizing it. I didn't find it pointless.

Even so, as merely a mental exercise it was perfectly valid. When is the last time you exercised your mind by trying to commit that amount of data to recallable memory?
The first time this clip went round, it was to build a parallel with the FaceTime ads. Because they have the same mechanics, and the same core idea that technology itself is not relevant, at least not to the public at large. What is important is what technology allows/gives/creates.
second Ratatat 'LP4' and 'Classics' are pretty good.
New items appear in an annoyingly jerky fashion as I scroll down the page (Opera 10.6). Can you add a smooth animation for the same?
There are a lot of inconsistencies and you just noticed another one but it's still a really good movie because the inconsistencies are all subtle enough that you are willing to overlook them when you are watching the movie.
Yes, that's the norm when everyone gets an entree that is roughly the same price (give or take a few dollars, where the amount depends on the group, e.g. students vs professionals). However, when some people in the group order something extra that is signifigant (e.g. a $60 bottle of wine), it is customary for the other people not to have to pay for that extra order (of course, the price of the extra item at which the group will bother with taking it into account depends on the type of group)
Yeah I agree. Additionally, I think that the points in the article are generalities that are applicable to basically anything.
+1 for Primer.
What do I need to do?
Hi everybody, I am from Northern California. I am a guy working full time in health care field for 8 years trying to switch to a web development career. I have no experience working on a company as a developer. I learned web development through self study and hard work. I used ASP.Net framework ,VB.Net and C#. I have no Computer Science degree or computer related courses. I just read books and constantly learning new ideas through internet surfing and building/tweaking my side projects. For my web dev experiences, I built a social networking site where users can share/create their music playlist, users can upload photos and share them with their friends, a chatroom using ajax long polling technique, private messaging, users can create their friends list, etc. My latest project is a site where users can post stories, comment on other stories, and rate on other stories. If you're interested to see them, email me so that I can give you the links for those sites.

Everytime I see a job opportunity in ASP.NET such as in Craigslist, I applied for it but always have no response. I also included the links to my created sites. It's been already a year that I'm sending emails and resumes but nobody even showed interest. I'm guessing it's because I don't have web development experience in a company. What do you think I need to do?

If you're the employer, are you gonna hire me? Do I need to go to school and get some related courses in web development? I'm not asking for a full time job right away, part-time will be fine for me. All I need is a break in my caregiving job for 8 years and to learn more about web development.
Public safety.
I wouldn't call their salaries obscene when you consider the cost of living around NYC. But they are great if you are single and don't mind living in a tiny apartment.
I wonder, where are people of African descent least poor? That is, if one made a list of countries sorted by wealth of their African-descent populations, what would be the first few items?
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
spoiler alert
Agreed. But what is the point of declaring the item variable? Wouldn't "for (var i = 0; a[i]; i++)" mean the same thing, but more concise?
It can also work the other way around though. A dictator could keep some royalty around in order to grant legitimacy to his regime. Spain is an interesting case in point. They had both, a king as a stooge of Franco and then another king saving the young democracy.

I think the idea of some people being more equal than others is terrible. This idea has kept the world in a state of constant exploitation and imperialist war for thousands of years. I don't want to see it continue in any shape or form, even if it may have benefits in some situations.

The Saudi example is a particularly nasty one by the way, but I don't think you intended to defend an absolute monarchy.
Great suggestions, thanks everyone! Ill give those a shot (esp. the area specific ones such as djangogigs.com) and report what worked and didn't work for me.
Dangerous Things: How making a book is now like starting a startup [video]
Agreed. I've also found that going without sleep for >24 hours has some similar effects.

It's worth doing every once in a while just to experience the altered state.
We used that sound cannon truck on our own people in Pittsburgh during the G-20 protests. Nobody seemed to care much either, even though it can easily cause permanent hearing loss.

If the cops had the pain ray, they would have used it just the same.
When they added the 4th level, I explicitly thought to myself "Oh, this is an effort by the filmmaker to pull us out of logical thought by making it too much to organize in our heads in real time."
After 15 years of engineering/engineering management at various corporations I started this January a LED lighting company. It is a big step, but I am hopeful that in the long run it will be the better choice. See my profile for the company link.
There is a tremendous amount of self control required to adopt a moral system, and then cease to question it. A constant curiosity seeps into the crevasses of every dam of moral certainty I erect, eroding the peaks of the fitness landscape and filling the valleys with its silt.

I think what I call 'intelligence' is responsible for this. By imagining and evaluating so many potential futures that so single one can stand out as magnificent or horrible among the innumerable uncertain outcomes. When you trace your decisions out deeper into the branches of consequences, you rarely end at a big obvious pot-o-gold, or a very bad disaster that you certainly should avoid. You just end up with a neutral bag of inert leaves.
What we have is a vocabulary of mental qualities (intelligence, creativity, stubbornness, etc..) and a collection of mind-altering drugs. And there is no one-to-one mapping between these sets.
> "you might learn something interesting of short or long-term value"

This is a common attitude among HN readers: we want to learn things of value. That's why we keep coming back here. This community makes a habit of saying things of value, and of recognizing things of value and (through voting algorithms) giving them a place of prominence.
I think the death ray in general is a kind of neat concept, in an evil way; so that makes sense. But yeah, it's disturbing.
I think you mean 1080p, seeing as the iPhone 4's "retina display" is only 326 dpi.

Although I'd imagine a 1080dpi screen would look quite life-like.
Did you Google for the DOJ stats I mentioned? Regardless, here's what we know:

1) Blacks commit on the order of 10x the violent crime of non-Hispanic whites and Asians in the US. This is well documented.

2) Africa has tremendous murder rates compared to almost everywhere else in the world. Again, well documented.

3) In this hemisphere, the majority black countries all have very high murder rates (Jamaica, Haiti) and the one major country with similar demographics to America has a similar problem with their black murder rate. Again, very well documented.

If you need Googling help on any of this, you can ask. But, really? Come on.

As far as this "racism" bugaboo you bring up...I know you didn't directly call me a racist, but that's just so tired. The Hap-map alone destroys any contention that we're all the same. We're different in countless ways. To me, that makes for a much more interesting world than one where everybody is a WASP under the skin. In fact, it's the race-deniers, not the realists, that I find to be the ones with the really dangerous and bigoted ideas.

Different peoples have different criminal tendencies? Well yeah. Let's admit it and do what we can to alleviate it rather than pretending it isn't there and building huge "great society" projects (The Projects) that make lives worse for the very people we're trying to help. Hurting black people with your verified non-racist good intentions is a really lousy way of helping black people.
Skip to the second presenter; unfortunately the videos were not split apart. Background on the author here (scroll down to ~ third para): http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotsf/archive/201004-2/
Spend time on an open source project.
Razor is not a released technology and the article is describing a hack, as extracting Razor dlls from WebMatrix CTP and manually registering them in your project.
Gosh yes. Infected Mushroom - increasing my productivity since 2003. Their music is interesting enough that I still haven't tired of it yet.
Depending on the context not challenging yourself or being too shy might be a mistake in itself.

I do think many of us do not like mistakes, do not purposely aim for them, do try not to make mistakes, etcetera, but we still do make mistakes. Just because we dislike something does not mean that something does not occur.

I agree with you, we grow by making mistakes, where I disagree is that children should be free to do whatever they wish, yeah shoot that man, yeh boy go in front of the car, yes child do not do your homework, yes give the wrong answer to 2+2.

So I think my point is that mistakes are not a great thing, are not something to be romanticised, idolised, whatever. They have a use of course, but the consequences of mistakes can be painful.

Also, we have been taught all our life to be conformist, yet many of us do not always conform, we have been taught all our life to not make mistakes, yet many of us do not live in absolute fear of making mistakes, are not completely stagnant and do nothing but lay in our bed all day for otherwise we might make a mistake.
Does your service work with Non-American (Canadian in my case) financial institutions?
Sure, it's a good scene in a TV show about a good ad. And if you're advertising some new technology to consumers, whether it's on your website's front page or on TV, looking at other good ads and what makes them work is informative.

The title suggests this is usefully related to pitching, as in, standing in front of a roomful of people trying to convince them to take your business, write you a big cheque, etc. In that sense, it's about informative as watching Gordon Gekko's famous scene for tips on how to address shareholders or Dwight Shrute for insight into motivating employees.
I believe the first rule for pitching a piece of "technology" is to repeatedly refer to it as "new" "technology", despite it being neither new nor technology. It's the new buzz.

In other news, blacksmith creates horseshoe with hammer and anvil "technology".
Apollo 16 site snapped from orbit
Put the trainer directly on the homepage (rather than 2 clicks away).
.NET is statically typed though, so it's possible to make a static determination at each GC point which registers and stack locations contain pointers.
ThinkCook.com is apparently the "pandora or recipe sites". It's not bad, but their database of recipes is quite small.

Along the similar lines, I was thinking of making a site that would take uploads of your grocery receipts (via iPhone app, or SMS or something) and use OCR to scan and determine which ingredients you've purchased. Then it could make a database of items you have in stock and recommend recipes based on the ingredients you have (and recipe ratings).

Also, it'd be able to determine which ingredients were likely to spoil soon, and thus suggest meals which make use of those ingredients.

My conclusion after a long while surfing recipe websites is that there is really no shortage of good recipes online. Also, receipts can be long and require more than one photo which would be a pain in the ass.

I do think the receipt concept has something to it, though. It'd be amazing to keep tabs on everything I own.