skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's how a democracy should work, anyway.

That's how a representative democracy works, but that's only one form of democracy (and unfortunately ours).
The better solution is search, which is notably not an organizational tool at all as far as the user is concerned. Will there some day be a solution that's better still? Yes. But I guarantee it won't involve the user sorting into buckets or affixing labels.
Why don't you just stick a web server on the app and allow the download of the source files?
Fred Wilson: The AngelList
Spitzer Telescope Finds First-Ever Buckyballs in Space
> 12.5 kilotons TNT / (6 years + 9 months) -> horsepower

At first I thought that this is some peculiar quality of bizarre american unit system that energy released by kiloton of TNT divided by one month equals power of one horse. As opposed to usual joules, seconds and watts.

Amazing how fast you can do "back of the envelope" calculations with such tool empowered by default with unit conversions.
Huh. 45 LOC for templating, routing, and form processing and you don't need to configure a different webserver since jetty is production quality. Do you have links to something that takes less effort than what is being illustrated here that can be deployed immediately into production and perform well?
We're still living in a world with artificially inflated housing prices. While yes, people will be foreclosed on, this is a necessity to bring the market back to reasonable levels.

If hosting tourists becomes standard practice, this will be reflected in the price of housing, and even more people will be unable to afford homes in the long run as a result.

Especially when you look at vacant spots in hotels, which were zoned and set aside for that very purpose, this creates a significant inefficiency with a lot of unoccupied (and probably mis-priced by an illusory abundance of) space in the city.
he needs the C declare explainer:

http://www.cdecl.org/
I believe "start of the art" is a pun, since he's using lame tech.
Can you share what company you're working for or any more details about the business?

The reason I'm asking is that I am the single founder(and sole employee) of an affiliate marketing/internet marketing business that's somewhat successful($XXX,XXX revenues) and I'm wondering what it takes to take the company to the next level and expand like your company did.
I know a lot of affiliates in the same position- living comfortably from their affiliate earnings but no way to achieve a rapid "hockey stick" growth curve. Of course, most are playing it safe and not innovating.
Shoot me an email to ilya[at]unviral.com, I would love to talk about this more.
No, what I think you will find are people who believe that operating a commercial enterprise, which is what micro-leasing is, needing to be subject to regulation, licensing, insurance and liability - which they are currently aren't. I also believe you'll find people concerned about the possibility of renters being taken advantage of with no legal recourse.

It's pretty simple.
DIY Masters in Computer Science
I have been experimenting with Do-It-Yourself learning. This year I thought of actually doing a self-study masters in Computer Science and understand if it is possible for someone to be able to do a DIY masters, to gain knowledge and build credentials.

If successful I am also hoping that my experiment will demonstrate a process which can be used by self learners.

What do you think of this experiment, and the process? Can you suggest any changes in either?
DIY Masters in Computer Science
I have been experimenting with Do-It-Yourself learning. This year I thought of actually doing a self-study masters in Computer Science and understand if it is possible for someone to be able to do a DIY masters, to gain knowledge and build credentials.

If successful I am also hoping that my experiment will demonstrate a process which can be used by self learners.

What do you think of this experiment, and the process? Can you suggest any changes in either?

Here is the main page where I am consolidating everything.

http://opencs.wikidot.com
FreeBSD 8.1 released
I doubt why you need "HTML Tidy for Linux"

:)
Germany has about 800,000 USD millionaires (also numbers from 2006) and a population that’s about 16 times smaller than China’s. Do you really think that that difference has nothing to do with location and history?
The problem is, in NYC, you cannot sublet your apartment without notifying your landlord. They cannot, however, unreasonably deny the sublet. But you must notify them.
The video is about making calls. A dialpad seems reasonable.
Kind of clever. This looks to be based on the supposition that free will is indeterministic. The argument ties the indeterminacy of the choice to take some sort of measurement to the quantum indeterminacy of the results of the measurements.

But indeterminacy is not what most people have in mind when they think of free will. A random action is not a free action.

EDIT: Here's the paper: http://www.ams.org/notices/200902/rtx090200226p.pdf
Physical Symptoms of Depression
So true. I did some research on video retrieval a few years ago, where I wanted to make a user interface to see how we can benefit from all the cool segmenting and clustering techniques other people were researching. It turned out it was nearly impossible to get any data to build upon, I wasted hours and hours doing everything by hand. This severely impacts the ability to build upon the work of others.
I like how you implied malicious intent over a totally pedestrian point to support your obvious biases (as if somebody using the dial pad could be interested in signal strength!) Nice try.
Could an Indian Hospital Help the U.S. Cut Health Care Costs?
> Starting with the land, water, and air of this Earth, there are many resources that no one created, and no one has the right to give you.

If we divide all the land in the world equally, within 20 years some people will have more and some people will have less (due to differing productivity and non-coercive selling). This isn't unfair - it just means that some people are unproductive.

> In a city, you cannot say that you have sole right to a piece of property, to do with as you please. Everything's too packed in together. If you're blasting music at all hours of the night,

Yes you can. Blasting music is a different story - you are effecting your neighbour's quality of life (and destroying his property value).

But trust me, you can do anything on your property as long as the neighbour doesn't hear or see you.

> To put it simply: the wealth of New York City was mostly created by the city; the plumbing, the roads, the zoning laws, the building codes,

The wealth in New York city is created because highly skilled people are close to each other (a type of network effect). Just because the demand for property is higher (and therefore the asking price) doesn't mean that the wealth represented by the property is created by the state.
Yes, Dement is hilarious in his single-mindedness. And I didn't even have to take the class to figure it out: I just listened to one recorded lecture by the guy.

His idee fixe is understandable. It's a story as old as the Greeks, who wrote the myth of Cassandra for a reason: You set out to discover something important, and you do, and the answer is seemingly obvious, especially to a highly rational person... and yet society just can't seem to act on that obvious answer, and people's lives just continue being screwed up. It works on your nerves, over the years.

(I used to work in cancer research, and I get a small pang of this feeling every time I see a lit cigarette. So far I have been able to control my impulse to whip out the scale model of the diseased human lung and confront people with it, like that guy in the movie Clerks. But if I spent another twenty years in the field I'm not sure I'd be so restrained.

Similarly, I met a cardiologist and the guy was pretty animated when selling me on the advantages of exercise. There's something about watching people die on a daily basis that makes you a very forceful salesman.)

what's going on with all of these people who write such glowing reviews of the process?

I also think it's partly the Efficacy Fallacy: When you make a decision to do something, you have a powerful internal motivation to defend the efficacy of that action. After all, nobody likes to think of themselves as stupid, and it actually is a bad idea to second-guess yourself every ten seconds. So your decisions have a psychological momentum that takes time to wear off.

That would explain why people embark on these life-changing crazy ideas, then enthuse loudly about them for a certain number of months, and then quietly give them up. I've been there.

It's also worth remembering that, like drunkenness and drug addiction, chronic sleepiness has a "death spiral" pattern: It impedes your judgement, which causes you to do stupid things, which may impede your judgement further...

It is also likely that this weird sleep cycle does "work" for some people. A few people may have really odd biological clocks. Others may find that the ill effects of messed-up circadian rhythms are canceled out by some good effect, in their particular circumstance, or for their particular psychology. If you desperately need to escape a miserable home life, becoming a marine and being shipped off to war might be a net win, and if you desperately want to hack on the lab full of million-dollar equipment -- or you desperately need to get out of sync with the time-wasting meetings that dominate your daytime office life -- having a crazy sleep schedule might be a net win. Or at least feel like one.
You know, there are actual statistics that show that children from less wealthy families do worse. It's no BS, that’s just how it is.
Agreed. This strikes me as a more robust walk-through than traditional Hello World-esque tutorials; as such, there is a little more to do than you'd expect. I'd rather have the details provided here, and I suspect many other hackers would too.
"Programming ______" book will at least touch on that language's regexp implementation. How many such books currently cover implementing basic parsers for non-regular grammars?

(i think Expert F# might also, i can't remember)

http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/using-parsec.html

http://programming-scala.labs.oreilly.com/ch11.html#External...
And saying "It's called Emacs" is a valid argument then?
By your reasoning every new scalable/clustered database or filesystem or server etc. is pathetic because, you know, "VAX had this 30 years ago". "What?" indeed.
Clickable: http://opencs.wikidot.com
If the point of continuous deployment is to get rid of deployment pain, it fails miserably.

I've tried to do continuous deployment for a smaller, one man, project and it was effectively impossible. It was too much infrastructure to maintain for one person.

The real question is does it save time at the end of the day? The overhead to set it up and keep it going is astronomical.
Site seems to be down. Google cache here: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:UAKJTH0...

...

cheald: "That was one of the most poignant, beautiful, moving expressions of a person's heart and soul that I've ever read."

Yes.
Foreign Languages Fade in Class — Except Chinese
Has anyone tried to use this as a defense in court?
I've seen this a handful of times, but I don't know enough about physics to understand the specifics of the theorem to make meaningful statements about it.

Can anyone explain the free will theorem to laymen?
There's no "data" provided here. There is no context, explanation, or insight into what is going, or why. If accompanying the video there was audio or discussion explaining how the person's grip of a phone impacts RF signal, then it would be less open to (mis)interpretation.

Data would be excellent. This video provides none.
Depends on whether 2000 ml in the study was measured assuming STP. I guess it should have been.
The poster you responded to didn't, by my reading, say that Apple were poor sports. He said that this would be portrayed as them being poor sports. Whining is normally a form of poor-sportsmanship, and this comes across as whining (at least to some people).
I know it's an oldish article (from Jan 2010), but I still think it's both a little frightening (another sign of China's economic rise) and heartening (we're able to adopt).

One point of interest, the Chinese government now pays to send teachers to the US to teach Chinese in US schools.
How I Learned Myself a Haskell
A simple solution: Require individual activation through a student's .edu email address and only allow the school's license to work with their own school.edu emails.
Actually, it's an easy way to:
- add two numbers
- build the project with dependencies
- display stack traces
- deliver static files
- generate html from code
- validate user input
- host with a web server
- reload the web server during development
- handle url routing
- log requests
- create custom middleware
- deploy to EC2

You may have glossed over some of the details.
I think he's getting ready to release something similar in five years, say he invented it, and sue Frink's author.
Rosetta Code: A Programming Chrestomathy Site
Are you serious? 45 LOC is not a good metric btw, why are you omitting all that boilerplate configuration. Any reasonable tutorial on PHP/python/RoR would build something more sophisticated more concisely. Here is a python tutorial: http://www.turbogears.org/2.0/docs/main/ToscaWidgets/forms.h...
Not to mention: middlewares, logging, stack traces, exception handling, testing, production/dev environments, e.t.c. in a similarly succinct manner.
Why are you supposing to tell me what would have been better for me? You have no idea how it turned out, except that I obviously have zero regrets about my choice - I think that's pretty clear from the way I write about it.

Just because you are afraid doesn't mean I am/was.
Very cool idea. I do not have a formal degree in comp. science and most times I feel that there so many things that I don't know which I ought to know. Is there any place where I can do a DIY undergraduate comp science degree?
It's marketing designed to make the Droid X look bad. It's by definition malicious.
Re: causality.

Fin: There is a maximum speed for propagation of information (not necessarily the speed of light). This assumption rests upon causality.

There have been sci-fi space drives involving the separation of inertia and mass. I wonder about a space drive based on the separation of causality and time. Perhaps there is a "causal dimension" or axis which happens to be the same for everything in this universe, which is what we call time. What if we can rotate this causal axis in a small region, like something the size of a ship? We should be able to exceed the speed of light. Something like this is supposed to happen when one falls through an event horizon. Inside an event horizon, all of the timelike directions intersect the singularity. That would be an interesting conceit: The observations that would easily reveal the physics of FTL travel are only available to observers who have passed an event horizon.
Actually, I think I agree with you. They should change the org-chart and put the AF back under the Army.

I still don't understand your comparison to Obamacare. Are you asserting that the constitution would authorize Obamacare with some tweaks to heirerarchy? Please explain.
No, I didn't gloss over the details with the possible exception of deployment to EC2. Most of the stuff you listed are a prerequisite to web development. For most other languages/frameworks database connection would be included too.
I bet whoever tries it will have as much luck as Epimenides.
I think it's informative to know that all phones lose signal when held certain ways but their method just seems childish.

I'd rather see them report bandwidth loss when held or a video showing that some phones can't make calls when held due to dropping below a threshold (iPhone).
I really think the guidelines cover it quite well. The creator of this site is known to express himself clearly. The next sentence is "That includes more than hacking and startups."

Anyway, I still think most of us are guilty of posting content that is not clearly appropriate, but it's amazing how it sometimes strikes a nerve. Just flag it.
But a lot of data cannot be opened for various reasons (privacy being a huge one) - see netflix prize 2 cancellation in the ML field.

There is also the issue of preventing competitor (other researchers here) to get a free ride on your work - getting data, preparing them is a huge part of the researcher's work in some fields.
This reminds me of Dust from His Dark Materials.
Oh, OK that makes sense. Never heard of that before:)
DIY undergraduate Comp. Science degree
I have an undergraduate degree in pure and applied physics and I am a startup founder. I have always felt that there are huge gaps in what I know about comp science and dont really have a solid background in it. i would like to know where I can do a self paced DIY undergraduate Comp. Science degree?
This is the link I used:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000JQU7DA/ref=docs-os-doi_...
Am I the only one who found it funny that the post ended with a link to a PowerPoint document?
That's a theoretical possibility, not an indication that it's actually happening to many people.
Hacking WordPress is frustrating because it's so poorly engineered, and that won't change for the foreseeable future. It's a sprawling mess of Spaghetti code that's indecipherable without the WordPress Codex and Google Search. But despite all my rage, clients keep asking for it, and it keeps paying my bills.
Postmodern Culture
Postmodern Culture

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http://www.madonna-online.ch/m-online/galleries/1992/92-10-21_sex/pix/sb_032.jpg
Is not China's economic rise a comforting thing, rather than frightening?
There's no reason to license and regulate if you can fine people with noise pollution and other negative externalities that come out of their property.

If you disrupt the neighbors with loud musics, wild partying, etc, you will pay a fine. All the neighbors have to do is sue you in court and it should be easy to prove it so.

That will kill many birds with one stone and eliminate vectors that allows people to choose winner and losers for political reasons.
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Because having regulations, licenses, insurance and liability, is just absolutely necessary - as it has been for innkeepers during medieval times, the Victorian era, etc...

Your worship of government is misguided.
I was going to use a bit of napkin logic to explore what you've said, but on further inspection your logic is circular, so needs no further exploration.

If these things should be regulated because they are of a type of thing to be regulated? Then we haven't really advanced the discussion much, have we?

Maybe you want to have a "big government" argument, but forget all of that. I'll assume you are correct. This is a type of thing that of necessity needs regulation. There are other enterprises just like this one who were not regulated. So why now? Why this? Certainly you don't feel like the actions were just random -- somebody rolls a dice and picks these guys out. I mean, as good and as wonderful and as healthy as all these restrictions are, they have to come from somewhere, right?

Pick your favorite thing you wanted the government to do or not do over the last 20 years that never happened. Why did the government do some things and not others? Is there some secret logic or calculus that is used to determine which things to fix and which not to fix? Or is it just votes?

I mean, you understand the reason for political parties, right? The use of force to protect interests. The speeches are all about bunnies and apple pie and protecting orphans, but bunnies and apple pies and orphans don't vote or make campaign contributions, do they?

Sorry about the cynicism, but there's a very interesting economic lesson going on here that has to do with startups, so I thought it worthwhile to point out.

Not trying to get in an argument, although I have no doubt that I've gotten into one. So I'm done here.
Considering the fact that they are a political enemy, of course it's a frightening thing.
If you don't want to live someplace that allows short term rentals, make sure it's in the contract that you sign when you buy the place. No regulation required.
Hayek.
Mandarin is spoken by roughly 1 billion people. Most Americans only speak English. Learning a second language, especially one spoken by that many people can only be a good thing. That said, while I certainly feel that any efforts to get Americans to learn languages in addition to English are a good thing, I can't help but being suspicious of the agent and financial backer of the program that facilitates these teachers: the Chinese government.

Put it this way, can you imagine the Chinese government being receptive if the US State Department offered to send over several hundred English-language teachers and pay part of their salaries?
How well does this apply in practice? "You're going to receive some friends in your house while you're away."
'So. Why is data a "poor sport"?'
Because it's not data, it's just some hand holding a phone and the bars are dropping. No explanation whatsoever.
From what I can recall of the six years I spent in academic research in the 90s the only thing that counted was publications - any effort into anything that wouldn't end in a publication was strongly discouraged.
Trade will lessen the chance of wars.
Exactly. It's mostly just a glorified pyramid scheme.
First thanks to everybody for reading my posts.
Currently I'm using regularly common lisp, java, c#,c/c++ and SQL. I bought Programming Clojure & Practical Clojure and went through them. I would have bought both Clojure in action and Joy of Clojure (written by starter of this thread fogus) if Manning accepted credit card payment from Macedonia. I'm little tired of everything Java related, that includes Clojure, so I'm using my spare time to learn OpenCL.
Regarding Haskell. I haven't programmed in it since I wrote the post farewell haskell. The reason for that is my programming style for which Haskell is ill suited which described in the farewell haskell post in the paragraph starting with: It may interest you to know that most of my development .. http://tourdelisp.blogspot.com/2008/03/farewell-haskell.html
I don't hate Haskell but its not in list my favorite language either() though as one favoring functional style I cheer news like this http://bit.ly/djs4J5. Also I prefer to say what I'm thinking and be rude if necessary then hide my message between being politically correct watered down politician talk.
On the other hand I have high opinion about SPJ and enjoy his talks http://bit.ly/4BG5Dp and many of his papers.
In the end language wars are pointless, use the language that suits yourself and have a marry hacking.

() For those interested my favorite languages are lisp dialects (cl,scheme and clojure), array languages (j & q), Prolog, Erlang and concatenative languages (Factor, Cat & Joy)
Unlikely, that sounds like more work than just sending out the 1099.
Good point. My first thought was that "why would the keyboard be open by default?"
I haven't downvoted you, but would like to point out that there is a very large middle ground for disagreement without taking the absurd position of "you wouldn't mind a constant rotation of complete strangers..." Your argument is just as lazy.
The article uses, but does not describe pbcopy and pbpaste on os x.
Feed data to pbcopy, and it goes to the clipboard:

pwd | pbcopy # Copies the working directory to the clipboard

pbpaste outputs the clipboard contents:

cd `pbpaste` # cd to the directory in the clipboard

(I use this to go to the same dir in a second terminal)
(There's Linux equivalent called, xsel does the same.)