skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mortgage interest rates are at historic lows....

Even that being the case, that means markets in which risk is low, will have lower interest rates than in markets in which risk is high. So people buying in overheated markets will have another dampening effect on them (ie, interest rates go up when the market get's risky).

>If you invest in something, even if you borrow money to do so, you typically agree to suffer the losses and to profit from the gains.

Yes, like the people investing in mortgages. Remember, the people lending the money are making an investment.

The people buying a house may just be buying a place to live.

I actually see what will happen to interest rates with this change being a nice dampening effect on house price speculation, flipping and overheated property markets.
I thought this would be an 'ask hn' type thing, but it appears to just go to a marketing page.

I'm not sure there's much of a compelling reason for using Silverlight or Flash or JavaFX for front-ends in most cases. If you have a particular design or interactive needs and there's already a library or component that works in the particuar front-end tech you're looking at (a silverlight charting lib, for example), then it'd probably make sense to use silverlight. However, that's mostly from a pragmatic cost-only view, nothing to do with the technology qualities itself.

From what I recall, Silverlight does make it somewhat easier (compare to Flash) to interact with javascript on a page where the SL app is hosted. However, javascript interacts with javascript even better.

The bigger question to ask, imo, is are there things you can't do in JS that you need to? If so, use SL/Flex/whatever. Realize that you're likely limiting the audience somewhat, especially if you're going the Silverlight route. However, doing cutting edge JS is also going to limit the audience somewhat too, as not everyone is running (or can run) the latest browser versions.

FWIW, 3birds, if you're reading this, come on our to our PHP/MySQL meet up next week - we're in Carrboro, and you're in Chapel Hill :)
The suggestion to use Maxon motor is a pointer in the right direction. I think a brushless DC motor will give you the best power in a small package. Most of these motors have a rating in Watts.
one good place to start is with the microchip motor control demo board. They will also sell you a Hurst brushless DC motor.
http://www.microchip.com/stellent/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_P...

Mind you, this is just the system I used, Several chip makers offer similar demo boards.
Here is another:
http://www.silabs.com/products/mcu/Pages/SensorlessBLDCMotor...
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Large amounts of inflation is bad as well. Small-moderate tends to be good, as it causes investment, and stops us from accidental deflation.

I'm arguing to keep the current "small amounts of intentional inflation" doctrine that's currently the goal.
read a lot of dilbert comics ;)
wake up at 7.30AM, check email/twitter.

shower, exfoliate, moisturise, floss, brush teeth, mouth wash, hair product, get dressed by 7.45

drive to work (its important to listen to music at this time), arrive at 8.00

breakfast (fruit + croissants + green tea) ~ 9.00

work, lunch for ~45 mins at 12

finish work at 19.00

home by 19.15, snack at 21.30, work/read/music/video games till 1.30, exercise & stretch, sleep by 01.30.

repeat.

I've recently given up caffine and most sugars, and try to sleep only 6 hours a night and have been a factor of ten more productive. Also, only checking twitter on iPhone, heh.
>Mathematically. Incontrovertibly.

Incorrect. In a game with no house, this may be true, but in a a game raking, it depends a lot on what sort of players sit down against you.

So if you want to put 'table selection' under skill, yes, I'll grant your point, but without judicious picking and choosing in that, poker can very much be a losing game just like most other casino games.

Look at the O8 games in Tunica for instance. Dead dead and deader because no one except people on oxygen tanks ever plays them.

It takes a lot of confluence of factors to beat the house drain on games (I'm talking in person games, not online games; online games are "merely" illegal, but otherwise you'll likely be fine in the longterm).
If you want to make the "pick which setting is better" optimization a wee bit better, it is about two hours of work to rig up "Which do you like: image A, image B, or 'They're the same'?" and then simulated annealing your way to victory. Randomize which side you place the "better" setting on, obviously.

I'd almost be tempted to spend a few more hours and hook it up to mechanical turk rather than actually doing the classification myself. (Partially because I get bored easily and partially because I have all the artistic appreciation of a mole rat.)
I don't really understand how this works. The article mentioned something about inertia... So gravity moves the object in a downward direction... and then, when the plane is flipped, it keeps moving in that direction -- which is now up? I guess that the effect would "wear off" after awhile? So if you kept flying upside down the tea would eventually fall, right?
Bob was doing this before the designers of the f-16 were a sparkle in their parents eyes. Bob knew Orville Wright and Charles Lindbergh as friends.

youtube up the video of him flying the f-86 sabre if you want to be stunned.
yeah, whats up with the 17.00 - 19.00 crazy productivity?
Absolutely! I frequently have dreams in which random objects are represented by equations and I have to solve them. I never actually can, though.

I also have the same exact experience with coding. For example, I'll have to write a for loop in order to perform actions, such as eating cereal.
Google co-created video of an entire ride of the Trans-Siberian Railway
Another one:

The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction.

http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/
Top linked domains from Facebook pages
This, of course, is a form of digital watermarking in for textual data. Due to unique problems, natural language watermarking and steganography is not advanced or is covered as much as image, video, and audio watermarking. For one thing, it is impossible to make changes to text that are udetectable by consumers, as in images; all changes introduce meaning shifts.

If you want to dig deeper, here's one of the rare introductory papers on the subject: https://www.cerias.purdue.edu/tools_and_resources/bibtex_arc....
Move to AppEngine. Seriously. I know the pain these guys are going thro sys-admin-ing the system.

The memcache clears out, The cassandra's fail, the fault reporting system breaks. The new twitter fail whale. Let the pros do the sys admin thing.

Like Ted Zuiba says it, it not that they are not intelligent, the kind of problems that occur at large scales, they just don't have enough experience to know, anticipate and have preventive measures in place.

They should really talk to Google, to move their data on to the Bigtable and work on adding features.
"Garret Thomson, a self-described 'code monkey,' or programmer, for Pseudodictionary.com, a site that calls itself 'the dictionary for words that wouldn’t make it into the dictionaries,' picked 'electrofish,' calling it 'clunky-sounding.'"

Were they not allowed to use Google?
This bothers me, as well. I can't speak to any proven efficacy, but when I find myself in such a loud venue (also some bars, obligatory parties such as before/at weddings, etc.), I take a "flesh colored" plain cylinder foam ear plug, cut in half, and place one half into each ear canal. My ears don't "crackle" -- the halves still seem to work pretty well -- and the smaller size is unobtrusive so I don't feel self-conscious.
DC stepper motors + gecko driver should be a cost effective solution. Define natural movements though.

FYI. For example a head turn does not follow a single axis turn (around Y for example). Imagine a line drawn by eyes as head turns, eyes follow an arc. In fact, every single animal motion (human and other animals) follow an arc. First thing you learn when doing an animation.
Isn't this common? I feel like I see this everyday and it doesn't seem like an issue. Dell (or whoever) could do the same and probably should.
I was totally agreeing with your description of the end of the video, and then I actually got to the end of the video. Absolutely mind-boggling.
so on the second list - marijuana is more harmful than paint thinner and LSD?
Intelligent Passwords
Yeah, they are. They way that happens shows that the core of this community is head and shoulders above the rest of the internet in maturity. I should stop complaining, I'm probably just not in a good mood.
Usually at some point I start yelling at myself "ok, you REALLY need to work now" and once I get into it I'm extremely focused and productive, especially if a deadline is looming.
Yeah, we're human, right? I think some people rationalize venture capital around magnitude of impact. But the last venture backed company I worked for just shut down. And the one before didn't go anywhere either. So, even though the investors ended up with some positives, I'm left wondering why I was working so hard. That's how I came to realize that for me, daily meaning needed to be part of it.
I've been working on a rework on a branch that should be merged in this weekend. It takes a lot of the feedback I've gotten and existing forks into consideration, as well as lessons learned from Rack.

It was originally an experiment, and I didn't notice the activity around it until recently. Stay tuned :-D
Great tips. You're right, they do need someone besides engineers thinking about this.
What surprises me is are some of the results like this:

IE 7.0.5730.11 / WinXP SP2
Native Array (length=1000, looped 100 times)

While loop in reverse, simplifying the test condition.

var i = arr.length; while (i--) {}

Took 0ms to execute... very unexpected
That is why I include the symbol next to the #id and .class. Based on your feedback, I just bumped up the font size on both.
Ha ha. Everything I say on this site is down voted recently. As if I fucking care.

Twitter :

- can't find my @ replies. Shows zero. Not correct.

- has been showing 2-5 copies of each message in my own history for the past week

- gave me 30 error screens in a row, then an hour later on their status blog "we've noticed elevated rates of errors". Like a constant stream of errors is normal for them, but elevated rates - time to do something!

- can't get their widgets/external code straight, redirects people to twitter.com/undefined and twitter.com/null

Etc, etc. Give me a break. Twitter is hopeless, and has always been hopeless in the tech department.
It wasn't the best thing I ever had, especially because it was new and unfamiliar, but it was quite enjoyable and very very noticeably different.
I do love how he mentions that the difficult part of the tea-pouring-during-a-roll was pouring the tea back-handed... I guess it all comes down to a matter of perception, as with so many things in life.
This is my perfect schedule that I do when everything goes right. Sometimes I deviate from it. Also, I'm a single man living in NYC, so YMMV.

9 AM: Wake up, go to the gym

10 AM: Shower/shave/etc, get dressed

11 AM: Arrive at the office

- As soon as get to the office: check my goals for today, do the most important thing (before checking emails)

- Lunch at some point

9 PM: Finish work, get home, dinner, relax

11 PM: Go out/socialize

1 AM: Get home, answer some emails, write down goals for
tomorrow

2 AM: sleep
No, I'm serious. I have 190 points. Please go ahead and downvote all of my posts until it reaches zero.
The near-negligible Coriolis force can be felt (barely) at velocities which planes reach. This could tip of the inner-ear to a bank, if ever so slightly. However, this force is many orders smaller than the centrifugal force that the authors is talking about.

However, I don't think it's technically correct to say the passengers "have no way of guessing the airplane's degree of bank."
Or the plane could be on a zero g simulating parabolic arc and at the same time doing a 1G barrel roll. A passenger with their eyes closed would think they are flying strait and level.

We have a bubble level in our heads for sensor. Not a gyro.
Bing And Google Search Engines Bend To Entertainment And Music
Interesting. Are you saying that sleeping 8 hours would make you less productive ? How did you find out ?
So, anyone have results for browsers that were released within the past 2 years?
As a married guy in a small, sleepy town I must say I envy your schedule a bit.
citation injection attack...
You can figure out how to properly size a motor from the load you'll be carrying, how fast you want it to accelerate, what sort of power supply you have available, etc.

Here's a link to a good, easy-to-parse reference:

http://www.amazon.ca/Build-Your-Own-Combat-Robot/dp/00721946...
When I worked in an office I was the same way. If I hit a good stride by like 4-5pm, I would usually end up staying until 7-9pm. It's good to have bosses that recognize that 40 hours a week don't have to be at the same time every day to maximize productivity.
4 Russian spies exchanged for 10 Russian spies
Tetris using html 5 canvas element
Lean startups: Find the business’ core, then build the periphery
I've started to have dreams about refactoring code... where to encapsulate imperative parts into functions, what functions to make into objects....
Wake up between 7 and 8 (naturally, no alarm clock), answer emails, go get breakfast, eat while watching the daily show. Check what's new online. Start actually working at 10. Go out for a walk around 13, and get some lunch, 14:30 back, and work till 10pm. Sometimes will go out around 8pm to meet people.
There's also much more awareness about flavors on the continent than in the US.

Somebody needs to write a book on how food is now essentially a method of values signaling which has some ancillary nutritional effects.
I can certainly understand writing this for learning's sake and probably your NIH.

What I fail to understand is why you cite lack of transaction support in my redis client as a reason to reinvent the wheel.

Transaction support (really, macros) is on my to-do list. Why not fork the project on GitHub, patch it to support MULTI/EXEC/DISCARD, and send me a pull request instead of being passive aggressive?

I have been quite responsive to issues raised on GitHub, but maybe a bit less lately as I have a new baby daughter distracting me from coding (happily!).
I'm not sure if this is controversial at all, or if more govts are sticking with MS out of plain old inertia.

MS has a place. Look at the requirements, and if MS is the 'best', use them. But... the 'best' definition needs to be clear at all levels, and understood by everyone involved.

My argument for migrating towards more Linux/opensourceness would be one of 'keep the money local'. Especially in the early stages of a migration, there may in fact be a short term increase in spending, to find local talent to train and reprogram systems. After the initial transition, the need for fewer license renewals can be substantial.

Assuming there wasn't 100% reduction in licensing costs. Let's say there was a 60% reduction in licensing costs, but in reality that became only 70% because of increased training, customization and programming costs. You've saved 30% but also kept more money flowing in the UK economy.

At some point, stuff need to be paid for. You can choose to hire local consultants and companies who use MS tools, meaning you're paying for local talent and paying license fees over to an US-based company. Or you can pay local talent to use free technology.

Bottom line: You have to pay talent/labor, but you may have more money in the budget to pay more local people to get more done after migrating to free technologies.
The data likely doesn't exist. The Earth is big, there are only a few Earth imagery satellites, they have a narrow field of view for the highest resolution imagery, so they must pick and choose their targets. And, of course, satellite imagery is constrained by local cloud cover.
Is answering or seeing this thread right now in your planned schedule?
Quantity over quality.

Reddit expanded rapidly and exchanged its audience of programmers, writers and creators for the 4chan crowd, who are working entry-level jobs and specialize in buying nothing.

It's great for SEO, but useless for advertising revenue.
I loved MD Throwback too. It tasted a lot "cleaner" to me, not as syrupy.
My schedule is different every semester and summer but here is my current summer schedule.

7:30 wake up
7:30 - 8:00 shower/shave etc
8:00 - 8:30 eat breakfast
8:30 - 9:00 watch morning news
9:00 - 9:45 ride the train to work
9:45 - 10:00 pick up some fruit and a health drink from a bodega to save for lunch later
10:00 - 1:00 work then eat lunch
2:00-6:00 work
6:00 - 7:00 go home
7:00 - 12:00 w/e
I have it. Had to shell out 800$ for the 500$ version. But its totally worth it. A great device and a great SDK.

When I grow rich, I would like to have these instead of the photo frames in my house. And then it will be like Hogwarts. It's really magical.
I wish Coke would bring the European formulation of Orange Fanta to the US. Much lighter, cleaner, tastes great, and isn't this dense syrupy mess that we get with Fanta or Sunkist here.

I think euroFanta also has juice in it like Orangina. Probably explains why it's just cheaper to use HFCS here.
Ha! I do now. Awesome.
Some very interesting results -- I didn't expect the while loop in reverse to be so fast, and this is consistent across browsers.

The presentation needs work, though. Would some charts be so difficult to make? Much easier to compare results that way.

edit: note this post is from 2008.
I wish I had that kind of flexible work schedule.
Related course: http://cs276.stanford.edu and syllabus: http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs276/cs276-2009-syllabus.html
The World Turned Upside Down
Some of the subreddits are excellent, but you miss out on what made the community viable: people encountering things they didn't otherwise know to look for.

I'm a mod at:

http://www.reddit.com/r/new_right

There's no way for people to come from the /r/conservative or /r/politics unless we constantly hit them with spam for our subreddit.

Subreddits are like taking your toys and going home.
I've shown the video to a few people, and they sometimes completely miss what's going on at the end. When I tell them, I usually have to pick their jaws up off the ground.
pg, the early Google employee has not made any statements to contrary.

He has not asserted anything but the existence of unspecified inaccuracies. Paul was neither on the board of directors and was not involved with this decisions. He is not best source.
Which flashlight app is yours?
Who are you Mr. President?
One thing you should consider is that the successful people you want to imitate are probably partially successful because they did not imitate others, but did what worked for them.

Everybody is different and will work best under different conditions. Try to find out what schedule works best for you.

I get the most work done later in the day, but I still find myself most productive if I get up reasonably early. So I allocate easy / non-thinking work in the morning, and do stuff that really requires creativity and brainpower in the afternoon / evening.
Pour a glass of water and hold it loosely between your thumb and index finger (tightly enough that it won't fall, but loose enough that it can swing freely). Then take it outside and swing it in a big vertical circle. You'll be surprised how slowly you can swing it while still keeping the water in the glass.

Just like the glass of water though, if the plane were to stop rolling, the tea would immediately spill. It has nothing to do with "bending gravity", simply the reactive centrifugal force imparted by the turn itself.
All these schedules make me feel quite lazy, but it is what it is (these times are very approximate and subject to change):

11am: Wakeup, check e-mail/stats/missed IMs, water/hydration

12pm: ~30min of running, shower/cleanup, protein shake or small meal

1pm: Review ToDo list, usually 40/60 mix between reading/research and coding/implementation

~4-6pm: Get food, eat, watch some TV (but mostly read RSS/HN/Reddit/etc on my iPad), possibly gym/workout

7:30-8pm: Continue working through ToDo list

2-5am: When I'm ready to fall over at the keyboard I head to sleep. If I hit a really good stride I might keep going through to the morning, which wrecks my schedule for the next day.

On weekends or other nights that I go out (~3 nights a week), I usually stop working around 8-10pm.

P.S. if you couldn't tell, I work from home.
Large-Scale Static Analysis at Mozilla - Galois Tech Talk: Video
I never knew there was a name for this. I experience this both with writing code, and for running a company in general. Sometimes I see myself making strategic business decisions as I drift asleep or in the morning just before waking up.
This is true. Look at Google S-1 filing. It validates everything you said.

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1288776/0001193125040...

There are many people here who want to argue back and forth about their opinions and are not concerned about having data.

I cannot believe you are being personally attacked over this when the facts of matter are so easy to research.
Yes, I meant that the JavaScript "module pattern" is implemented by default, and the language prevents you from declaring globals by mistake. So, you get most of the benefits of the proposed JS module syntax.
You can already get little LCD picture frames which do a slideshow of JPEG images. My grandma has one. They go quite cheap.
God bless you.

This is the most reasonable thing I have seen said here.
Could you filter for interns with more experience? i.e. ones that have done a couple of internships before at Microsoft, Google, etc. Or since reddit is mostly open source, hire interns that are already familiar with the code base? Or hire interns that can work for 6-9 months rather than 12 weeks?

Just some thoughts...
Using animals in scientific experiments
Neat demo, bad Tetris. As far as I can tell, you can only rotate one direction (use the up arrow), and fast-dropping instantly drops and locks the piece, so you have to wait ten seconds for it to slooowly drop if you want to slide it underneath another piece.

(Yeah, I know, I'm missing the point here. I'm kind of a Tetris snob.)
Sorry, I should've been clearer: I meant that CoffeeScript gives you the safety benefits of modules, just by breaking your code into separate .coffee files (unless you use '--no-wrap'), since variables aren't shared unless explicitly exported.
As far as I can tell, being a big company manager is mostly defined by dealing with internal politics and attending a lot of meetings.
I'd also like to see the same results after the code had been compiled with something like Google Closure.
> To anyone who has tasted real cheese, it's just bizarre.

And even in Europe, "real" cheese isn't real anymore. Back in the day, cheese usually had those big holes in it, - they were caused by pro biotic bacteria, while the cheese was aging. However, due to these holes, the transportation of cheese became less efficient, the sizes became unpredictable and therefore the cheeses became harder to stack. So, nowadays, most big producers of cheese perform a heating process to kill all bacteria, getting rid of one of the few things that were actually healthy of cheese.

http://www.food-info.net/uk/dairy/cheese-production.htm
Proggitquiz: Let's all solve facility location!
Clean Teeth, No Toothpaste Required
People who stay up late are smarter
Open Source in Government is just another political buzzphrase along with Open Data. However, Open Data is relatively easy to do and it has various emotional or financial attachments to some: e.g. "It's our data" or "We paid for it" and so it won various brownie points when data was released. Open Source is a different kettle of fish and vast swathes of Government IT are set-up around Microsoft and other proprietary systems.