skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obviously there is a limit. Someone with 50 closest friends at high school probably won't get much work done and is unlikely to earn twice that of normal. Also someone with great grades and few friends cannot be compared with someone with many friends and bad grades.

But the doctor who had one friend at high school is probably going to be earning less than the doctor who had 5 friends. The larger number of friends demonstrates a greater comfort functioning in a group, as well as the ability to maintain several relationships at once.
Some of it is still closed source (mainly the libc, if I recall). You lose out on patching those parts if you don't play nice with Oracle.
As a paying customer, the last thing I should have to sit through is ads. Let's not encourage a continuation of that practice.
I don't agree. I've got more than 2 years of take-home pay in "savings" (non-tax advantaged accounts) plus a bunch in 401(k), and I still don't feel the luxury of telling my boss to go stick it. (I also have expensive hobbies and 2 kids under 2 years old.)

To me, I don't have FYM, despite meeting your threshold 8x over. It would not be easy for me to replace my current income at another job. (I'm 7+ years here, know our tech and business inside and out, and am paid pretty fairly for that, but that doesn't mean that I have nearly the same value to another company, something that headhunters who call have a hard time grasping when I tell them my comp range.)
"An attorney who represents four drivers who sued Toyota in state courts over sudden acceleration said the NHTSA finding doesn't mean much for his litigation."

Gotta love how a scientific study by an impartial 3rd party never gets in the way of the legal balance of probabilities and a jury of average Americans.
OK, you may be right. Didn't really think about that. Still, seems like a strange way to search for the RYB color model.
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if you feel like playing around with filesystems, try dragonflybsd (http://www.dragonflybsd.org/). it has some neat things like its unique hammer filesystem and virtual kernels.
If you need to scan/remove if appropriate? They're optimal for that.
I'm not saying that there are not good examples where performance matters. In fact I encountered one where I had to move something from stored procedures in a database into C++. Furthermore I can easily believe that memcached is one of them.

But that doesn't change the fact that most of the places that I have seen worry about it have not been among them, even if they thought they were. (I admittedly mostly work in the web world.)
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This is just a side-effect of bool being a subclass of int and True and False having the values 1 and 0, respectively. It might seem weird or surprising, but it's not a problem with Python's type system.

>>> issubclass(bool, int)
True
>>> isinstance(True, int)
True
>>> int(True)
1
>>> int(False)
0
>>> True == 1
True
>>> False == 0
True
NPR and PBS seem to have no problem with balanced and insightful journalism, despite being publically funded. Many people accuse public broadcasting of having a liberal bias, but in my years of listening I haven't heard that much if at all. They give fair time to all sides and they rarely favor any administration. I find it very hard to believe that public radio and television are a waste of taxpayer money.

For profit news may be in trouble, but journalism will be okay. Most people don't want informative journalism from foreign bureaus...they want confirmation of their biases from Fox News or MSNBC.
Hacked is a bit strong it is wikipedia we are talking about. For those who don't care to dig through the history to see it, it was a click here to get larger ad, and was reverted a few min after it was posted.
I don't search this way normally, but if I'm struggling to find what I want I will resort to this sometimes (in the hopes that a suitably titled blog post will appear somewhere).
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NPR is very good.
I am one of the (anonymous, though my phone number is unblocked) developers of http://www.dirtyphonebook.com and to me that's the closest thing to Juicy Campus. It's a better version, because it affects everybody.

The site wasn't my idea, but I came up with the toolbar and some of the cool existing features and some of the features we're working on implementing right now. We are working on implementing pictures and other cool location and search-based features very soon.

Even though the site is admittedly very sophomoric right now it's going to be one of the most useful resources for all types of personal information fairly soon. Think spokeo and wikipedia and facebook on steroids.

To those that suggest this concept is evil, DirtyPhoneBook site has exposed cheaters, abusive people that go after people with guns, child-support deadbeats, drug-dealers that sell to kids, and other scum too. There needs to be methods of punishing mean and evil people.

I was randomly punched in the face and beaten up in highschool. I've gotten fired from a job I loved before because somebody else screwed up and they had power to blame me. I think the DPB concept is incredibly underrated because it gives you a way to expose jerks with no way of tracing who said anything. The anonymity allows a lot to come out that otherwise wouldn't.

Free Speech should always triumph over censorship. For the good of society, http://www.dirtyphonebook.com is the first place that let's anybody tell the truth about anybody without any censorship.

We're working on some fabulous stuff that is going to entertain and amaze people. ;)
Yep, I have a HD antenna and watch network TV in 1080p. Sadly I think most people are conditioned to believe that you cant get these channels without cable.
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Mostly good. But there is one thing I doubted.

Mothers, for example, seem to slow down the growth of their babies in the womb. As a result, the average baby is not born at the optimal weight for avoiding an early death. It’s a little on the light side. Only an evolutionary tug of war can explain that gap.

I would say that the more obvious evolutionary tug of war is between viability after birth and odds of surviving childbirth. Remember, over recent evolutionary time, childbirth was a rather dangerous affair. Furthermore related species with smaller heads have larger babies.
Somehow your post reminded me of "The Heart" a poem by Stephen Crane:

In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.

I said, "Is it good, friend?"
"It is bitter - bitter," he answered;
"But I like it
Because it is bitter,
And because it is my heart."
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It is closed mainly because with 600+ answers, people weren't checking for duplicate quotes anymore. Keeping it open wouldn't really serve any purpose at this point.

(At least, that's what I would think. I've only been on the job for two days.)
I love netflix. I usually watch on a big ass TV via PS3 - bluray discs, regular DVD, and streaming.
Respectfully stating his opinion? What post were you reading? He got downvoted for an uninformative comment that had essentially no content besides insulting Jacques by saying he has an "attitude" and needs to "grow up" — just because Jacques was responding to a question that used a term that offends TGJ's personal sensibilities.
When? Because the + symbol is often used to represent boolean OR, so T + T == T.
Not completely accurate... at least not in the sense most Americans think of it. The Beeb is funded almost entirely by TV licenses. True, this is still technically a tax, but it's not like the BBC has a limitless slush fund of income tax to draw upon.

Wikipedia actually has a really great breakdown of the funding.

If the U.S. government wants to have a government-run newspaper corp, then fine. Have it wholly funded by newspaper sales, then I have no problem. But as soon as general tax revenue is used to fund it, then forget it.
Agreed. I find Netflix "Watch Instantly" to be fantastic. The iPad app is prone to problems, and the content isn't quite there, but it's still unbelievably amazing.

For $10/mo I have unlimited viewing of thousands of movies/shows. For anyone that grew up with VHS tapes that's just staggering.

I have only two requests: Even more content (I'd pay $20/mo for 5 times more content), and a more solid iPad app.
They insert ads into movies? That is a dealbreaker.
Thanks a ton for the feedback Jolan, I've deployed some of your suggestions.

We've marked the reason why we need the email address, if it let you see the report without an email address, it's a bug :).. we'll fix it.

I've merged the work on and full reports together.

We're looking into the too many meta keywords issue, I'll fix that soon it's not a off by one issue, but I'm calculating words, instead of phrases.

We're working on display issues :). I'm a former sysadmin who's now doing UI :)

I need to get the images to show up in the copy better.

We're running your CSS against Jigsaw and just outputting the result.

One of the things that's on the way is "importance", so that the list of things to fix
is displayed in order of importance. This would mean the css errors would be fairly low on the list.
When professors started thinking of education as a secondary role to research. I'm positive if someone mapped the likelihood of cheating with a given professor against that professor's workload, there would be a correlation too heavy to miss.

Think about it. In the business world, people are far more likely to zone out on presentations given by people who'd rather not be presenting - so why would the classroom be any different?
IPhone 4 catches fire
The funny thing here is that I'm Garry's cofounder, and I don't live in any of the neighborhoods he recommends. Maybe he's trying to tell me to move :)

When Garry and I moved to SF to start Posterous, we moved to SOMA since apartments are abundant and it's startup central. But I found little value in being near other companies. What I did find was a lack of food and culture.

Posterous first got offices in North Beach. I really LOVE North Beach. There's amazing food and it's a beautiful part of town. Plus Jam Legend is there.

+1 for the Mission. We love our new offices. Much cheaper than anywhere else in the city, most people can walk to bike to work, tons of great food, near Bart. We couldn't ask for much more.

However, one point of disagreement with Garry's map: you can't simply write off everything north of Market. Sometimes it seems like people south of market (SOMA and Mission) don't cross north as much as they should. There's a lot of city up there!

San Francisco is one of the greatest cities in the world. If you decide to base your company here, don't optimize to be close to Twitter. Optimize to be in a vibrant neighborhood with great food and great culture.

Believe me, even north of market, you will have no problem immersing yourself in startup culture and surrounding yourself with more tech entrepreneurs than you can handle.
I was about the ask the same question. My girlfriend and I watch TV shows via Netflix on our Roku almost every evening and the experience is very good. The only problem is everything is a bit dated (with a few exceptions), but it's still entertaining and the back log is big enough to last us for at least a year of casual use.

The DVD service I can't really complain about as it does exactly what they say it will do, delivers DVDs to my door within a day for much cheaper then renting at Blockbuster.
Why would Hulu kill Netflix? Hulu may be a bit better on TV content, but Netflix blows them out of the water on the rest. I'd put my money on Netflix.
You are absolutely correct. In copy/pasting your code I omitted the license. Having worked on lots of open source software all I can do is apologize profusely. It was an innocent oversight but it should not have happened. I have restored the copyright notice. Sorry.

So, mea culpa.

http://usethesource.com/uts.js
I didn't take it personally :). We're small and don't have a proper QA / userbase to test against. I really appreciate it :)
ABC has an iPad app, and they've been adding more and more tv shows (and they do all episodes). Would be cool if other networks did the same.

For movies, nothing beats netflix (I don't really watch TV, but I devour 3 to 4 films a week).
The busiest people at Apple right now...
Don't think this will work.

Simple example:

10 Jan 2010 //parser determines that "10" is ambiguous, reads Jan as "month" and "2010" as year. So "10" is day of the month.

Now consider the same date but written as "dd-MMM-yy" format:

10-Jan-10 //Good luck!
> You can always exit via (System/exit 0), 0 being the return code.

That's how I implement the exit function in the article.
Women are statistically more likely to exhibit that behavior only because they have orders of magnitude more chances to do it. I think if men could pull it off they'd do it even more frequently than women.
Ask HN: Bay Area Startup-Savvy CPAs?
Does anyone know a good CPA in the Bay Area who has worked successfully with startups in the past?
As always on hacker news, truth things get down-voted.
Then you're not exactly their target audience... and not everyone has free OTA access to the shows they want to watch, if it's even aired that way.

For instance: I haven't seen Bill Nye since PBS stopped airing his show.
I didn't say women want only money. They want success (and not only success) of which money is just the easiest and most direct indicator.
Add client-side Java and JavaFX to that list. Sun was already failing on the desktop, but Oracle seems to have even less interest. Thank goodness HTML5+js will soon reach enough penetration to replace Java as a portable application framework.
It's all about perspective - when comparing to actual television sure Hulu's single ad is a welcome breath of fresh air. When compared to Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, DVD, etc ads become distracting whether it's 1 ad or multiple ads - you are interrupted from the task at and either way.

BTW I certainly don't want to come across as sounding entitled. I realize advertisers help pay the bill so that I can enjoy great shows.
Seems to come up with an error if you accidentally put white space in front of the URL. Otherwise looks like a useful tool.
Many people accuse public broadcasting of having a liberal bias, but in my years of listening I haven't heard that much if at all.

The liberal bias of PBS is a matter of what topics they emphasize and which facts they select. One small example of many - Frontline has done several documentaries about atrocities committed by American soldiers. But it has never done a documentary about how ultra-strict (by any standard, of any war, ever) rules of engagement have caused the death of soldiers. I could come up with dozens of similar examples. The only way to realize the extent of PBS's left-wing bias, is to actually read intelligent right wing sources, like Powerline, View from the Right, or Unqualified Reservations. Otherwise you'll never know the stories and facts that you are missing.
I love how most of the opinions about how FU money changes your life start off with "technically I don't have FU money."
> We've marked the reason why we need the email address, if it let you see the report without an email address, it's a bug :).. we'll fix it.

I really wouldn't do that but it's not my choice to make :)

> I've merged the work on and full reports together.

I saw that. Makes it a ton better.

> We're running your CSS against Jigsaw and just outputting the result.

I figured as much. Not a big deal. It might be nice to include the link in the report.

One thing you might want to consider is building the report in real time rather than doing the status bar and then asking the user to click for the report.

You can do something like the following w/jQuery:

$.ajax({
url: '/api/v1/',
data: { cmd: "report_getdata", id: reportid },
timeout: 5000,
success: function(data) {
// remove everything but the table header
$("#reportinfo").find("tr:gt(0)").remove();
var obj = jQuery.parseJSON(data);
jQuery.each(obj, function(i, ddata) {
$("#reportinfo").last().append("<tr><td colspan=7>JSON report data row</td></tr>");
});
}
});
I think a lot of it has to do with a disagreement between what academia thinks is acceptable and what students think is acceptable.

I realize this isn't a very popular viewpoint. It's much more socially acceptable to say "kids today are under all this pressure" or "kids today are lazy," depending on how much you want to blame them. The question is framed in terms of how much the students are wrong, not whether they are wrong.

Academia has developed rules / guidelines for what is acceptable in their circles. Who is to say this arrangement is fair / equitable / maximally conducive to development of new ideas?

Throughout 90% of civilized history, we've operated under a much more culturally lax attribution system than the one practiced by today's professors. Why is the new system good and the old system bad?

And the workforce operates under a more lax set of attribution rules as well. You can ask for help on a mailing list or grab some BSD source code at your day job, but God help you if you do that in CS1 class.

To be clear, I think there are a lot of other causes to "cheating", which is really an umbrella term. There are individuals who steal others work to the point of actually not knowing how to do it. That does happen, but I'm not convinced that kind of cheating happens any more than it ever has.
You are right of course, I did not contribute much else besides critique. What I should have asked instead is, is this the best that people have to offer? FU money.

Emergency fund not good enough? Savings plan too serious? I'm going fishing too thoughtful? The best that an essay has to offer on setting aside money for situations unforeseen is to reference it by FU money? Newsflash, its called a savings plan, retirement fund, IRA, mutual funds, mattress money. It's been done before and the only difference is calling it something vulgar in order to connect with the new generation of people. Anyone seen Idiocracy? That's where it's heading.

And to think. "I'm" the one insulting Jacques. Unbelievable.
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Hi,
I don't know where else to ask these questions but could somebody help me answer them or point me to good literatures
on work interruption and carpal tunnel syndrome?

1. What is the correct way to interrupt somebody in the middle of the work?

2. How do I ensure that the user is not really busy and would not mind being interrupted?

3. What kind of signals (sounds and visuals) do I provide to slowly guide the user from their working environment to the rest environment?

4. What kind of carpel tunnel exercise do people really not mind doing? Is there an appropriate time for a certain exercise? Should I tailor the exercise for different users?

Thank you.
And for "trusted" fan pages they could automatically bypass that.
Hey Stoney,
Just fixed that bug :). Wasn't trimming properly :)
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I like of Netflix that the kids can play it on the Wii while I watch something else on the laptop. Some newer big-screen TVs also come Netflix-ready these days. Does Hulu play on anything non-computer?
If you are referring to the Sikes case near San Diego, that was likely a hoax perpetuated by a bankrupt insurance scammer, an expert driver who supposedly didn't want to put it in neutral and was observed speeding up and slowing down.

The car rental agencies stacking double floor mats is a real issue though, regardless of car model. I had a Saturn where a secondary mat slid under the pedal and got trapped. I never understood the purpose of floor mats anyway. I just take them out.
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That was quick!

Was it a deliberate design decision to make it easy to access other people's reports (by just changing the number in the URL)? Obviously anybody could run any website through the tool, so there's not really anything private about it, but it still feels kind of weird. I've just had a fun 5 minutes seeing what everyone else has been running through it, which I'm not sure they'd all be happy about.

Possibly you could use a long random string instead?
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You're reading my mind :).

On each report item I'm going to have a "re-check" button so you can make a change and just analyze that one part. Shouldn't be too hard to make the report in real time.
> I've just had a fun 5 minutes seeing what everyone else has been running through it

Ooh fun indeed :) Yeah use a random string or cookie auth.
MVP FTW! :)

But, seriously I did think about using some hash or form of uuid, but long term plan is to let people make accounts.. for trending, and alerts..

but first, we're working on accuracy, then speed, and then usability.
Well, you start from inventing the Universe
No, because the car is just one example of where I really do not want to have to look at a device in order to use it.
US appeals court strikes down media swearing ban
This. PBS & NPR's selection bias is much more subtle and well-crafted than FOX's bang-you-on-the-head agenda, but it's there for anyone with a wide range of sources to see.

Personally I've always felt publicly financed media is just a bad idea. The WSJ is just looking for a way to survive, and is willing to throw their supposed libertarian/free-market principles under a bus to do so. Can't blame them given that there's been public funding for liberally-slanted news for decades.
For those that want something to click, here is the revision. Lame wiki spam http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=United_States&...
Since insolvent businesses (banks, newspapers) keep figuring out ways to get my money using government, I think I need to figure out a way to stop paying taxes. Problem solved.
It's useful because it allows you to add together booleans to get a count of how many are true.

You can check if two out of three are true with

(bool1 + bool2 + bool3) >= 2

You can do

count_negatives = sum(number < 0 for number in numbers)
I recently created http://feedbark.com with pretty much the same idea as this. You use the service and submit anonymous feedback against someone's identity. That portion just never seemed to gain traction, at least amongst the small number of users I had try it out. There was a restriction that feedback had to be approved before it's shown, which I suppose slightly detracted from the "instant gratification" of submitting unsolicited feedback to someone.

Ultimately, I cut out that part of the service because in order to do it "right" (i.e. avoid slander and general hostility), the feature just doesn't have enough juice to get traction.

After searching for a bit, it looks like Unvarnished has a similar idea. It's a Yelp for people. Not sure how much traction it's getting.
I think one of the authors has an interesting point about the different expectations in different classes (etc.).

As a physics undergrad and grad student we were always permitted and encouraged to work on our problem sets together. Most of my memories of classes revolve around sitting in a room full of sleep deprived classmates trying to finish our problems at about 2am.

In contrast, a friend of mine teaches physics at a university in the UK and is prohibited by the university plagiarism code from letting his students collaborate on homework. He thinks it's insane, but he has no choice. Even if he explicitly allows his students to work together, they can still be found guilty of cheating...

Different academic cultures I guess.