skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Archos tablet is the same as the Rockchip aPad that is known under many names: iWeb, iRobot, etc. I am doing a sort-of custom rom for the device and it's really hard to do without the sources. I don't really understand the chinese companies, though. Why would they not want people working for them, for free?
Too bad federal law prevents them from accepting homesteaders from places where people would jump at the chance.
The problem with debt is that unrepayed debt represents economic destruction. To take the most extreme example, when a startup raises money, fails to produce a product that anyone wants, and can't repay its investors, the economic effect of that company has been to destroy wealth. Not all the wealth was destroyed, of course. Some was simply passed along: employees and vendors got paid. But some was destroyed; the same money invested in a different company would have produced economic output in the form of goods and services.

Seeing debt as a natural side effect of risk-taking is correct, but it isn't just a side effect. It's a gamble. If a large part of your economy is wrapped up in good gambles, then great. If it's mostly wrapped up in bad gambles, then it isn't so great. We assume that the gambles are sensible, but that depends on whether lenders are making sensible decisions. Somebody in the economy needs to be evaluating the risks companies are making. That's supposed to be what stock analysts, bond analysts, and other investment analysts do.

The vast majority of investors never check to see whether a given gamble is good or not, though. They trust some secondary signs, which are presumed to be driven by people who know what they're doing. What worries me is that the professionals who have the knowledge, time, and resources to investigate the risks that companies actually take may not be interested in doing so, because they can make more money by just being aggressive and staying ahead of the curve. Then it becomes a game of hot potato.
I much prefer the clojure to the mathematical notation and secretly wish academics would use code instead of traditional notation (when possible).
It should work fine as long as you carrier unlock the iPhone. I'm not sure if this is available for the iPhone 4 yet though (due to baseband changes), I know it's possible for older generations. Don't waste your money getting it unlocked at a store though, do some research and use one of the many available free (and now legal) programs like blackra1n and quickpwn.
> The teachers unions and prisons unions in Cali will support republicans as well as long as they're on board with cuts.

Since neither the teachers' nor prison guards' unions are on board with cuts....

If you really think that either one will change, please supply supporting evidence beyond "they need to do it" and "It must be true because I need it to support my conclusion".

I don't expect either union to support cuts in their budgets.
Japan is an amazing place. I just spent three weeks there at the beginning of the Summer. I tried to write about everything I did, hopefully some of it will be of help to you.

http://kylelibra.com/category/japan-trip/

If you have any more specific questions, let me know. Tokyo is cool, but I wouldn't spend the entire trip there if you can avoid it.
Did the guy really have rights to the name? In the U.S., for instance, you have to actually use the mark in trade in order to establish a right to it - simply having thought of a use isn't enough. Is there no similar requirement in the UK?
But will the radio work? I guess that is what I'm really asking... if the radio in the phone will work with networks in the USA, Japan and Australia. I'm going to add that to my original post.
This more than a little vacuous.
With regard to your point on exposition on and the question "says who?"

Well David Mamet for one:

Any time two characters are talking about a third, the scene is a crock of shit.

Any time any character is saying to another "as you know", that is, telling another character what you, the writer, need the audience to know, the scene is a crock of shit.

http://ezinearticles.com/?David-Mamets-Rules-For-Writers---W...

Not having seen inception, I can't judge if the exposition somehow avoids this problem, but in general I feel like Mamet is as good an authority as any to appeal to :)
Introduction To Taguchi Method
That seems a little deceptive though, since you will only be able to get EDGE data.
I walked it through (without registering) and thought it was interesting, but was surprised to not see any summary of my input at the end, or analysis provided, or anything other than to be dumped back to the start page.

I mean, a certain amount of the point is self-evident by its asking you to re-evaluate your original statements and feelings, but I feel like it's an exercise I would do once, learn or discard, and then never need the website again after that. What further functionality is planned?
Let's do a connotation reduction. Programmer, Developer, and Engineer all end in -er but have a significant root word in the meaning, thus evoking similarly specific large activities with 'attached' occupations.

Programmer evokes programs. I.e., that our job basically comes down to code. In some ways this is the most humble of wordings because although true to a certain extent, it's rather like saying a writer is a word smith, or a doctor is a good health-er, etc. It leaves unexplained how such programs are written, but it somewhat correctly indicates how foresight and planning is key to creating these end products. Also, read the Alan Perlis foreword to SICP.*

Developer evokes, in my mind, real estate developers and business development developers and all that. Bridge developers. People who oversee the completion of medium to large-scale work. This evokes a certain level of experience and responsibility on their part. Granted the term is applied to anyone who has created a website, etc. But it does sort of evoke that they have completed something. They've 'developed' it. It's closely linked to 'architect' too. And probably has objectivist leanings. It also, and in my opinion even more importantly, reminds the developer that a lot of what he or she does is re-development, and even more importantly, self-development. Whereas programmer doesn't evoke how the programs are made, developer evokes that the business of writing programs is largely about how to oversee requirements, code reviews, test cases, etc, and whatever makes 'development' more efficient. That it's mostly about what you bring to the table with experience. The programming itself is just part of the implementation.

Engineer, contrary to Fred Brooks, evokes the idea that you can put 20 people on a project. Because of how this works in other fields where engineers are used. It also evokes the long history of engineering which is a very privileged association, and one we should be lucky to have. It evokes that figuring out how the programs work, in addition to doing the actual programming itself (programmer), or supervising the completion of the task (developer), is very often at the heart of what we do. It is the closest probably to the term 'hacker' (although this is debatable and most hackers would consider themselves programmers, I think, because of the generality of the term and the understated quality to it), in that it's about hacking on thought problems and ingenuity. On the other hand, it evokes the 'disciplines' in other engineering fields. But originally it gets its connotation from the fact, through hundreds of other fields' use of the term, that the engine is the heart of the train, car, system, etc.

Overlayed on top these connotations are what businesses decide for job titles. And that, quite like with postmodernism and its relativistic approach to connotations, affects things also; however it is there to serve the purposes of the business first, and other long-term qualities second.

* http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-5.html#...
I work for a company who calls the guy managing the exchange server a Software Engineer(Which I think is odd). These terms are thrown around alot today without knowing what or who they are. I think people say 'oh they are in technology they must be a Programmers, Developers, Engineers but they really don't know what they are talking about.

My degree is in Computer Engineering and I work as a Software Engineer(Which is what I call myself). I used to work for Raytheon a large defense contractor, which called everyone an Engineer, didn't matter if they had a Computer Science degree, Computer Engineering Degree, or used to be a school teacher who taught them self how to code. I would like a clear definition but like someone else said that this is such a new area that the boundaries can be very low for what it takes to enter the field.

I don't feel like you should limit calling someone an Engineer or Programmer or Developer based on degrees(Because I think the whole education system is flawed) but I would like to see some consolidation.
Next time you're talking with a Canadian software developer, look to see if they're wearing pinky rings. That should tell you whether they're actually an engineer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring)
"They're right. What's scary is that China knows it." -head of a small investment brokerage
A great lawyer must be agnostic. His job is to find a settlement in favor of his clients. He must manipulate the context to create a situation where his client wins by a landslide, using whatever means possible.

There is no such thing as "exploiting the legal system". There is only winning for your clients. Otherwise you're making excuses why you can't win for your clients.
Yes, but that was my entire point of citing native NYer. From the 1970s on, the Voice was a go-to place for apartments for young people, which also included tons of Short-Term Rental ads. And the Times had such ads too for the monied set.
This is in Hong Kong?
Ask HN: What if auto industry used agile instead of waterfall for car models?
After watching Ford talking about how great they are on the Today show this morning (http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/38404690/ns/business-autos/), I couldn't stop thinking about how the consumers do/don't benefit from new versions of cars coming out each year, just because it is a new year.<p>Applying the kool-aid we're drinking in software development to the car manufacturers, I keep wondering if yearly releases only stand to benefit the car-sellers and if we'd be better off with incremental releases.
Why the cloud is almost always cheaper - Joe Stump [video]
> the initiative system

Hasn't produced much in the way of spending as a fraction of CA govt expenditures. (High speed rail may.) Seriously - total up all the initiative driven spending and compare it to what CA spends. (And no, you don't get to count initiatives that the legislature put on the ballot.) Yes, there are billions of dollars of initiative-driven spending, but it's a cup or two in the bucket.

The shift to bonds isn't the voters' idea either.
OSCON Emerging Languages Summary by technomancy
I tried the demo but after 2-3 steps it said I was still at step 1 of 7. When I tried to refresh to see if that was accurate I was told I had already checked out the demo and to register.
"Defeating a lawfully obtained DVD’s encryption for the sole purpose of short, fair use in an educational setting OR FOR CRITICISM." Sure, I'm going to blog about this movie. Lemme in.

Seriously, "lawfully obtained" should be the only qualifier needed.
I started doing integrals on my own when I was 14 (grade 9), but my classmates didn't learn about integrals until grade 13. This was in Italy however, and I'm not sure about when they're introduced to students in the States. I can tell you though, that a first year undergraduate student at a scientific faculty shouldn't be overly worried about approaching a book like this.
Pot can have a positive effect, but you can get a step or three closer to the root of the problem by supplementing amino acids.

A relative who's an engineer has had a great experience with it via the book The Mood Cure, which is a self-help approach that helps you figure out which of four types of amino acids you're short of. He gave us a copy and I needed all four (other members of my family needed between one and four). This is my first workday on amino acid supplements and it's going way, way better than has been the case recently (I'm on HN voluntarily instead of automatically).

The book details ways that marijuana and other drugs (both uppers and downers) work on the mental balance, and explains why and how amino acids are an improvement. Lots of specifics on that topic -- the author certainly agrees that drugs are helping people.

Diet and liver health are another level down and VERY important to get in line, but amino supplements can get you where you want to be in minutes while you work on fixing the root cause gradually.

On another front, RescueTime has a "Get Focused" mode that works great.
Neat ideas.

He mentions "true to browser type rendering" multiple times, which basically means "shitty type rendering." Browsers, at worst IE and followed closely by Firefox, are horribly bad at performing proper antialiasing for some reason. (The only exception to this rule is Safari, which does a decent job.)

I don't think we should bring the ridiculous shortcomings of browsers backwards into our design/mockup apps. I think we should continue designing stuff in a way that doesn't force us to conform to the lowest common denominator. Sure the depictions we might see in design apps are not strictly "accurate", but I don't have problems watching the graceful degradation of my designs through the various browsers.

It's the browsers that need improved type/graphics rendering, the not mockup/design applications that need to bow down to them.

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Finally, I don't know if it's actually a good idea to create a web-focused design app yet. We're still in the very early days of the web, and I don't think the long term conventions and standards are in place yet. We're in the flux. The blank, non-assuming canvases in Photoshop and Illustrator are good for fostering new ideas and pushing forward the state of art on the web.

That those apps weren't designed strictly for the web might end up being a net positive, especially as we go into the future and define what the web will look like in the long term.
In the vein of GnarfGnarf's comment I want to add, the term 'egineer' omits a certain aspect of programming, namely that it is, IMHO at least, also a craft.

'Developer' and 'Egineer' work better if you use it to name a sub-field instead of a person. 'Software Egineering' points clearly to the software architecture part of building software. 'Software Development' gives a hint of the fact that building a piece of software is a process.

In the end it really doesn't matter, partly because nobody just 'develops software'. We all work in certain industries on specific problems and what we have in common is mainly the fact that we punch in the code - programming the processor.
OK, good feedback. I disabled demo mode. Try going through the process with registering? This way, you can get anonymous feedback from other users on possible thought distortions you neglected in your interpretation of the negative event.
Does anyone know what caused clause 4? It seems pretty specific to something. A means to legally allow play of DRM'd games without having to pierce the work firewall? Is there a history behind this?

>>>

(4) Video games accessible on personal computers and protected by technological protection measures that control access to lawfully obtained works, when circumvention is accomplished solely for the purpose of good faith testing for, investigating, or correcting security flaws or vulnerabilities, if:

(i) The information derived from the security testing is used primarily to promote the security of the owner or operator of a computer, computer system, or computer network; and

(ii) The information derived from the security testing is used or maintained in a manner that does not facilitate copyright infringement or a violation of applicable law.
I like these lending sites, but as a newly minted lawyer, I keep hearing "What If" sirens in the back of my head. I understand you only lend to trusted people, but what if trusted person returns the good in not-so-good-but-not-terrible shape. The lender keeps the security deposit, the borrower thinks he shouldn't have, do we then go to litigation? Do we trust the good will of people or some kind of community-based reputation? I think this could certainly get a little dicey if it ended up being popular, especially in edge cases like the one above.
Ask HN: I know this isn't reddit, but please review my cannabis-related startup
Our site is an easy way to keep track of various marijuana strains and the different effects that they have on you. I was a newly-minted medical marijuana patient in California when this idea struck me. Visiting different dispensaries the volume of choices can sometime be overwhelming and they are as nuanced as a fine wine. I started keeping track of how I felt while smoking the various strains in a spreadsheet. Got together with a couple of friends and built the site in a few weeks (slow on the HN scale, I know).

The basic idea is to aggregate all the ratings and allow you to search and filter by the effect or medical relief that you are looking for. A secondary goal with the site was to make it very work friendly. There is no pot porn or pictures of giant leaves. Definitely not geared towards the stereotypical pot heads, focusing on all the other pot heads in the world that you don't know about.

http://www.leaf.ly
I had the chance to use a reference WP7 device last week, and walked away almost entirely unimpressed. I had my doubts about its chances of success already; this news doesn't bode well at all for Microsoft.
Writing an A Level Paper - A mission
A-level papers should show the student’s vocabulary, knowledge of grammar, and knowledge of the topic. But the essay should not contain too difficult words, and the coverage of the topic should match the A-level knowledge. Read this to learn more on A-level paper.
I'd guess this really isn't proven law until it survives a lawsuit escalated to the supreme court.

(and given their decisions lately, I'd rather not see this particular court address these issues)
Thanks for the feedback. The demo mode is a two part process:

A) 1-2-3

and then ...

B) 1-2-3-4-5-6-7

I have temporarily disabled demo mode for now, (to encourage people to simply register accounts to check out the community features), but thank you - I can totally understand why this would be frustrating
Appindicator does seem to be the critical bit; I'm still on OpenSUSE 11.2 which definitely has zero support, planning to upgrade to 11.3, which might, at the weekend. I'll keep you updated. My Python isn't so great unfortunately, so it'd probably take me too long to port it to something more widely supported.
Definitely. One of my fellow passengers said it best: it's like a hostel on wheels. I would do it again in a second.

I agree about sleeping being difficult, especially as a tall guy. At some point though, rolling through the prairie provinces in the middle of the night and looking up at the stars from the observation car while playing cards or talking with new friends, sleep seems overrated anyway.
If pure journalism is declared a terrorist activity in your country, you've got bigger problems than appearing on a list of Wikileaks donors.
Yes, in Australia, not in Japan. The latter don't accept GSM SIMs. But it will work of course if you use a SIM card that let you roam in Japan, with normal (read: ridiculous) charges.
I think the book is interesting, but I'm slightly disappointed it really wasn't about street-fighting.

I think a lot about mathematics education is a domain issue. Problems are too easily wrapped up in tedious domains that don't engage the imagination. For one of my nationally-assessed Maths projects at school, the teacher had us analyzing football (soccer) scores, looking at standard deviations and the like. The class was far more engaged with the math than I'd ever seen them.

All boys dream of being a bad-ass, so I'm sure mathematics in the domain of street-fighting would also work! ("A perp is able to accelerate his fist at 10 m/s, and his fist has a weight of about 0.5kg. A broken jaw requires 4N of force. How much force will he put in your face? Will he break your jaw?")
Check out http://feedrinse.com/
UB Tournament
UB Tournaments : The thing that is most obvious for you to realize when it comes to UB.com is that this is a website that has rebranded itself and at the moment is really riding high on the weight of the new image that it has created for itself.
Next thing I want: to make it ILLEGAL to manufacture any DVD or player that FORCES consumers to watch previews.

I'm serious. I just sat through 10 minutes of previews the other night for movies like "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakuel." If I don't have a legal right to skip that, music execs shouldn't have the legal right to stop me from playing high-decibel polka music on their front lawns.
Recap & Slides from OSCON presentation on upgrading to Rails 3
Maybe marijuana is good for relaxation and taking off stress, but it's damn bad for concentration, so I wouldn't recommend it on regular basis ;). Exercise however will definitely help.
"Proven law"? The DMCA explicitly calls for these rulings to be made every 3 years. If the rest of the DMCA is "proven law," then so is this ruling.
Using Ruby's IRB, Python's Shell or FireBug as a testing sandbox. 
A quick tutorial on how I use these different environment as testing sandboxes. This is all done using a functional programming example.
I guess that would depend on why you were sending your phone to Apple to get fixed. If it is completely dead then you are not going to be able to reset it but they may well know it has been jailbroken once they fix it.
The most surprising hack I've heard about it from Seth Roberts, the self experimenting UC Berkeley professor.

He says that drinking a glass of water with three spoonfuls of refined sugar or refined oil midway between meals suppresses appetite. People say it works.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/11/magazine/11FREAK.html
(Single) integrals are freshman calculus, which is nominally taught in the first year of university. In reality, my experience is that many students (and, I would guess most science/engineering/math majors) take AP calculus during their last year of high school (17-18 years old), and proceed to differential equations, multivariable calculus, or whatever is next in their major's sequence during the first year of university.
> Sweden is doing much better than America by every account and it's Socialist.

Sweden isn't as socialist as you think and Sweden is dominated by Swedes. Moreover, Sweden is small.

Note that the most successful "Sweden" isn't Sweden, it's Minnesota and other Scandanavian dominated US states.
At first sight, this looks like a major improvement over C++ and even more powerful than D with less ad-hoc features.

Interesting language features, as far as I can tell:

* Type inference

* First-class functions/closures (interesting compared to C++)

* Overloading is based on compile-time evaluation, with the possibility to have arbitrary values as type parameters, and is similar to predicate dispatch (you can dispatch using arbitrary conditions), with also the possibility to do runtime dispatch.

* Most of the functionality of the language is implemented in libraries, with a small kernel of built-ins.

Library functionality:

* the standard standard library: arrays, vectors, maps, algorithms, sequence abstractions etc.

* tuples, unions, variants

* lazy sequences (streams)

* reference-counting shared pointers (boost::shared_ptr)

* SIMD intrinsics and vectors using SIMD operations

* bindings to the C standard library of Unix and Win32 API

* Green threads, channels

Other:

* C binding generator based on CLang
Strong Feelings
You can rent rooms, as long as you are present.

You can let someone crash at your house if you're away, but you cannot charge.