skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The act of observing the electrons which causes them to revert back to particles is the most intriguing thing to me. Remember though that "observe" is tough at the electron level. You really can't observe without interfering. I think for a greater understanding of whats in play, this "observational interference" is what more research should be focussed on.
Undocumented workers pay more in taxes (automatically withheld from their paychecks just like everyone else’s) than they take out in services.
Not certain in the least, but I do doubt it. Unless someone can verify one way or the other? Do your (subscribed-to) Page's updates appear to your friends who are not also subscribed to that Page?
Concise, cogent, illuminating and thought provoking. Bravo.
FYI, as far as I know, they are hosted with the good folks at ServerCentral, at the DuPont Fabros CH1 site out in Elk Grove Village.
It’s because stirring up racist nativist voters with anti-immigrant rhetoric is (seen as) a more useful political strategy in CA than TX.

Unfortunately it’s both sides of the aisle: one of Senator Feinstein’s more shameful episodes was her support of stupid immigration policy (with back-up from the Clinton white house) in the 1990s, which she thought would help her politically.
Ofcourse, Apple's smartphone OS market share was already higher than Microsoft smartphone OS market share, far before AAPL was valued higher than MSFT.
Village Voice? That is so las decade.
I have so far used JIRA and Trac. I don't like the UI and User Experience.
JIRA seems very cluttered.
Plus the provide integration of Subversion and other version control systems in it which I myself have never really used.

I wanna make something simple and easy to use.
Plus, this is a sort of learning project and I would like to experiment newer technologies like HTML5, MongoDB, etc.. in it.
thanks :) Yeah that was a fun mini-ITX project. Since then there are lots of mini-ITX dual-core options.. would be interesting to re-do the same series but with 2010 hardware.
Ask HN:  Where did the anti-VC vibe go?
a couple of years ago, there was a big NoVC vibe around here that came to a head when DHH spoke at Startup School 2007. I was reading a link on AVC from here today, and it occurred to me that the NoVC vibe seems to have disappeared.

Any thoughts?
> As somebody who has used both Rails and Django commercially ... In Django you have to migrate manually, or lose data

If you've been using Django "commercially", then how come you haven't heard of South? ... http://south.aeracode.org/

Everybody in the community that wants migrations is using it.

> Why not go all the way to a usable and powerful template language?!

In Django components are more decoupled than in Rails.
You can replace that templating engine.

Also, Django's templating system is really not that inflexible or hard to use ... quite the contrary, it comes with many things out-of-the-box that aren't standardly provided by other web frameworks ... like the ability to cache page fragments.
Aaron here (post's author) --

I definitely didn't intend it to be an advertorial; certainly it may come off that way as there's a lot of "this is how we do it, and this is what we're seeing," but any suggestions on how you see this going differently? Would love any suggestions... aaron@box.net.

-Aaron
This helps a lot. For lot of things (a walk, nature, relax, vacations) it was really long time ago. My diet is quite good, I think, but the sleep schedule needs a little fix.

I lacked inspirational media in the recent period and I just talk with friends, but no one is really an authority in this field.

For the environment I'm looking at the library, and the last time I visited it I managed to do something (but then I needed to look for something on the internet and I did not have a connection, so my mind switched to another mode: find an excuse to procrastinate it).
Since you appear to have missed it, let me qoute part of the post you are responding to:

not that they are wrong, unions are part of the problem

Caveat emptor. When a traditional foe of unions pens an article blaming all of California's problems on unions and nobody else, yes, I think it's wise to take their words with several grains of salt, don't you?
You are right, internet is a huge time sink. On the opposite site sometimes I need to look for something and if in that moment I do not have a connection, I use it as an excuse to stop working and procrastinate.
I work at a big company, and no it is not negotiable

I have worked for big companies as well (Gateway, Washinton Post), and while it is true that officially getting bumped to a higher vacation allotment is nearly impossible (e.g. managers get 2 weeks, and I'm asking for 3), it is possible to negotiate "off the books" vacation time with your direct supervisor. Usually your vacation requests go to him/her to sign send to HR/Payroll, who then deducts the days from your allowance. If you have an arrangement with your supervisor, the occasional Friday off or 1 week vacation when you only had 3 days banked can go unnoticed. 2 weeks of vacation can easily become 4 if you get one off-the-books day off per month.
I actually spent some time using NILFS2 as a root filesystem on an SSD, but I could never get it to work properly, mostly due to lack of documentation and the added complexity of using a daemon to manage your filesystem.

It'd be nice to see a write up on the current state of BtrFS from someone involved in the project.
The War Logs: An archive of classified military documents
>he also directly made the code faster by being smaller.

Only if you assume that there are no jumps (loops) in that code.
I was already thinking about meditation, since it help with focus that is what I'm lacking now.

I will check also other things.
I think he said that in 1997, not 2007. But if he had not done this deal, Steve Jobs would have been able to send his "well look at that, we're bigger than Dell" mail sooner.
I was already thinking about meditation, since it helps with focus that is what I'm lacking now.

I will check also other things.
I'm expanding a startup in Texas or Washington State due to not just the high costs of California, but the uncertainty -- the state is basically bankrupt, as are many local municipalities, and it's really unclear what changes will happen as a result.

WA's government is better, but not vastly; TX seems like the most solvent state with a viable startup nexus (I don't see Alaska becoming a startup center unless global warming vastly improves things :).
I wasn't picking on his language prowess at all. Quite the opposite: I delighted in reading his post. The contrast that I find amusing is that, so often, those who decry the syntactic complexity of non-lisp programming languages never seem to have any problem at all with the syntactic complexity of English. If complex English syntax doesn't get in the way of expression, why insist that it is such a cognitive burden to have to have to worry about something other than s-expressions?
Has Dell Dropped Ubuntu Linux?
The Guardian release 300 "key incidents" from WikiLeaks' Afghanistan War Logs
I'm getting interested in meditation too and I'm starting with this:

http://www.mro.org/zmm/teachings/meditation.php
"Both are equally valid", except that the former (a data type) is more equally valid than the latter (pseudo-version), since the SQL Standard defines it that way.
I think that is not accurate.

While undocumented workers pay more into FICA-funded programs than they take out in services, those are generally federal.

Illegals probably consume higher per-capita services than legal immigrants or citizens, if for no other reason than being lower income. Lower income people consume roughly comparable amounts of some services, and consume higher per capita police, locally-funded health clinic, etc. resources. As well, they're unlikely to pay as much per capita property tax (via rentals). If they have children, their education would cost more (due to ESL programs), although I'm not sure what the rate of having children is among this class.
Work in a large multinational enterprise for a while!
As the pipe organs replaced orchestras, the digital music system replaces the pipe organ. There will still be organ players, just as there are still orchestras. With modern electronic 'organs' allows a person to recreate even more complicated scores from a single console. In dragon pajamas, if that's your thing. e.g. http://youtu.be/f_5lYvdwgwg

We have a number of phenomenal pipe organs in Philadelphia, and I've been lucky enough to wander around behind the scenes of a couple of them. The various voices are represented by what are essentially one-note versions of the instruments they represent. Trumpets, flutes, oboes, and so forth, it was fascinating. It's very likely that the best of the best organs will remain for decades, if not centuries to come, but lesser examples of the art form will inevitably fall away as interest moves on to newer instruments and performance styles. As common as it is to lament the loss of music appreciation, music of all eras is seeing more authentic performance and attention now than perhaps ever, you just have to know where to look. I saw a 14 minute long Renaissance choir piece performed by an amazing group of chamber singers in Lawrence, Kansas earlier this year, it's probably been centuries since anyone has heard that piece, and likely never performed by singers as good as these.

If you want to see pipe organs stick around, don't just post about it online, be sure to go to where they play music on a large organ and look into who's helping keep it up.

Anyhow, the chipophone performances made me feel nostalgic, and now I'm listening to the Minibosses Megaman 2 Medley, louder than I should be. Good post
Alaska and Hawaii are closer, but don't share a border with any other states. California does: thus, it's considered landlocked.
Having trouble finding examples online right now, but composers loved to do this kind of thing during and before Bach's time. I remember seeing one piece that was written in such a way that two musicians could sit opposite each other and play off of the same page, so one player is essentially playing the piece backwards but reading different notes because the page is upsidedown.
I mostly use them to communicate to clients what parts of a (non-programming) project are their responsibility, what parts are my responsibility, and what the dependencies between these parts are, so everyone gets everything done at the right time to reduce blocking.
I'm not involved with the fs, I just used it for a few weeks, after that, It started to hit some bugs in the code (kernel BUG macro, looked quite serious). And fsck was segfaulting. It was just my laptop, nothing fancy, I was using just compression, no subvolumes or anything more complicated. I'm not convinced it's stable enough for any serious use, unfortunately. (mostly 2.6.34 version)
Durian never smells as good as it tastes.
Because anyone whose response to the challenges of doing business in Korea is "He's a Japan guy, that's close enough" is so comprehensively out of their depth it is difficult to imagine.
Asus is doing the same thing. It seems no major HW vendor had any success with Linux. I wonder why?
Mobile computing isn't that far behind regular computing. We've already got 1ghz 3D accelerated phones with hd screens. Retro may be coming back, but the motivation isn't lowspec hardware, it's low budgets and nostalgia.
True, but most people do not really remember that part. They remember the part where it places huge restrictions on property taxes and effectively moved public school and local infrastructure out of the control of the locality in which it was based and up to the state level (because the local government no longer had a way to fund it) along with all of the inefficiency, graft, and waste that such a move creates.
Smoke weed. Or, if you've been smoking weed, don't smoke weed.
It surely lowers you IQ, although it still may still be a net positive. Many brilliant people are also anxious, and can't get things done because of it. If marijuana helps you relax enough to focus, this is a win. I don't smoke, and I've hardly done any sorts of drugs at all ever actually, but I kind of get the appeal when I take Benadryl (I know it's weird), because the tiredness relaxes me and I stop worrying about a lot of peripheral problems.
Kind of odd I got minus points; because some of us speak more than 3 languages. Oh well, lesson learned =)
>Nonetheless, senior lawmakers say they have no doubt that Pakistan is aiding insurgent groups. “The burden of proof is on the government of Pakistan and the ISI to show they don’t have ongoing contacts,” said Senator Jack Reed, a Rhode Island Democrat on the Armed Services Committee who visited Pakistan this month and said he and Senator Carl Levin of Michigan, the committee chairman, confronted Pakistan’s prime minister, Yousaf Raza Gilani, yet again over the allegations.

Wait... what? Granted, it looks pretty bad, but what does this imply about our good Democrat's view of "innocent until proven guilty"? If they have evidence, bring it out and be done with it; if not, that's a rather backwards claim.
That's not what landlocked means, landlocked means not having a sea coast. Arizona would be landlocked for example.
I think the anti-vc crowd became the pro-lean startup and pro-angel/super angel crowd. It makes sense... get something done (aka traction), then ask for a bit of cash, if you need more cash (or are in a land grab situation) then think about VCs, otherwise just grow organically.
Comparing the scope, history, and benefits of Flash to a fractal compressor is childish. It's posts like this than make HN look like a bunch of techno-babbling trolls.

"Supporting plug-ins" is clearly a well-tested and marketed phrase to divert attention from the real issue: a business blockade. Only the weakest (or most biased) of programmers fall for it.
I was in a Bilingual kindergarten class in Texas, which has been a lifelong boon, as a native English speaker. Children pick up language pretty easily. If we're putting the adults through ESL courses, that could be a serious drain.

Even more for children born in the states - many won't ever properly learn Spanish, even when their parents mostly speak it in the home.

On the rest of your points, undocumented workers primarily rely on charity, not on the government. They don't want to run the risk more often that they need to. They're not going to go to any free clinics that accept tax dollars, and they're not going to want to attract the attention of the police.
Ohh I am sorry I thought you were emphasising the data the charts were measuring rather than the actual types of chart themselves!

If you only mean that we should use only line, bar or pie charts, then I would say that scatter graphs at time have a good use of showing outliers, such as some guy who spends say ten minutes on the site, or visually able to show for example how many people spend ten minutes and how many 3. Communicate in other words much more information than a line, bar or pie chart can at times. I mean, people did not invent these other charts for no reason :)
Of course those are valid points but we are comparing default feature sets here. Otherwise Rails has a crippled template language, database generated from model and automatic admin too.

Have you actually used Rails? Rails has fragment caching built in and you can use a different template engine very easily (just install the engine xyz you want to use and write templates with extension .xyz instead of .erb)
The SQLite numbers are borked, and I'm tempted to say their "Threaded I/O" is too.

Even so, it's a year-old benchmark.
VC's got better at helping, not just giving money.
Are there any tools that can help design such animations.
The big expenses - the stuff that you actually need and where most of most people's money goes - are housing, health care, and food. I doubt that's gotten cheaper. Probably the other way around.

Nobody really needs a coffee maker, but last time I checked a crappy house in many areas is still several times the average annual income.
Good enough is never good enough. It leaves lots of room for mistakes and at that point "good enough" becomes "oops." Not worth the rapid iteration if there is room for it to come crashing down...
your assertion that our illegal immigrant population plays a significant factor in CA's budget problems deserves a huge <citation needed>.
In ruby of course you have raganwald's andand which is sort of the same as the maybe monad. It should really be built into the language like in haskell I think (and be allowed a shorter name, like .&& or maybe something else that doesn't upset the parsing).

http://github.com/raganwald/andand
Timing Attacks Explained
Saoret.One explored Markov chains and Bach

http://www.caerwyn.com/ipn/2007/04/lab-77-unexpected-markov....

as part of his Inferno Programmer's Notebook

http://code.google.com/p/inferno-lab/wiki/Index
> never had a girlfriend or even kissed a girl,

that's sad... because 95% of this liberal-arts hatred is jealousy, because the perception is that the liberal arts types have much more fulfilling social and romantic lives.

you know the joke, 'getting a degree in art and complaining you can't find a job is like getting a degree in computer science and complaining you can't get laid'
I think there are two main problems for Enterprise Software:

- Building the product: Can you build a product for, say a big university, without getting into the uni. and trying things out there? Can you do it from home, from your small laptop and your Internet connection. The same for hospitals. You need access to some resources, but who (the boss/manager) is going to give you permission and for whatever reason?

- Selling: As a bootstrapping startup can you afford the expensive meetings and dinners that managers and PDGs are accustomed to when buying something new for their corporation. Do you think they'll consider a 2x year old guys from somewhere in the world to implement something in their base.

Enterprise Software is not Sexy, but startups that succeed to walk through those two difficulties may have a chance to stand out.
Wikileaks link: http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/Afghan_War_Diary,_2004-2010

The notion that the ISI works with the Taliban is an open secret; it's alluded to more or less directly in a Frontline episode from last year, for (one) instance.

Pakistani politics are not simple. It is probably a mistake to view Pakistan as a single, coherent state. The ISI in particular does not appear to be accountable to "civilian leadership", which who knows if that even exists.
"however, they do get 3 months vacation every year, on top of holidays, so what an experienced teacher gets is a pretty nice hourly wage."

which is unavoidable, simply because we want them to be available again the following year. The alternative is to underpay them, and thereby force them to find other work during those 3 months and thus ensuring that:
(a) they dont get a holiday - which will have a negative impact on their performance and

(b) that any other job that does pay them a living wage for the whole year looks attractive to them - which will ensure that we have a high turnover, and have a negative impact on the education system as a whole.

Also, my understand is that there frequently is work or various kinds that needs to be done during the summer months, so its not exactly a holiday for them.

"If you want better people, yes, you need to pay more, but you must also be more selective. If you just pay more without being selective you will get more applicants, sure, but you will get a lot of mediocre and no-so-good applicants, as well."

yes...? Im not sure how this is different from any other job? employers do need to be selective, that is true.

"the problem is that teaching, right now, is 'employment of last resort' for many people. So you got yourself a liberal arts degree and have no marketable skills? go back to school for another year and you can become a teacher."

right. assuming that this is true, the reason that it is 'employment of last resort' is because in many places the pay is barely adequate, and the working conditions are crap.

if we offered a slightly more reasonable salary, and better working conditions we might find people are more enthusiastic about becoming teachers and see it more of a career than a stopgap.

I would claim that an average salary of 55k/year is just barely enough to support a family on, the fact that in many other states the average teacher's salary is markedly lower is a bug, not a feature.
I wouldn't trust anyone who wasn't fluent in the language, regardless of their degrees. If I wanted someone who knew how to deal with (say) Vietnamese, I'd hire a Vietnamese-American. They're not hard to find.
You need a certain ad-to-content ratio to qualify for bulk mail postage rates.
This is also known as t-shaped competence and is common in firms like IDEO.
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This brings something from Philip Greenspun's site to mind: http://philip.greenspun.com/materialism/early-retirement/
"The standard tools that rich families use to preserve their wealth down through the centuries include the following:
...
* charitable foundations and organizations that are supposed to work for the public benefit, but in fact provide jobs and luxurious vacations ("board meetings") for members of your family for decades to come..."

Although, I do think this guy is doing this for good, his family will still at least have employment from it. It says his sons are on the organisation's board, for example.
How do you know what is important enough to make excellent without trying lots of good enoughs?
Live It Up TV Online: Live It Up TV Online Laptop PC
OpenFlow and Software Defined Networking
The parent asked for a link to something that takes less effort, I obliged. I don't think the amount of code is a particularly useful metric in most cases, but I would argue that the PHP+HTML solution is much clearer and easier to deploy, and taking into account everything you wish about such a simple web page (readability, maintainability, cross-server, security, etc.), takes less effort in the end. (I don't have any big issues with jetty or tomcat, since I use one or the other almost daily.) I'm sure there are larger use cases where clojure is simpler than raw PHP, but that's why PHP has frameworks.
Thanks, thats pretty useful feedback. I'm going to introduce different templates so that people can specify things like size.

Will def change the title tag though. Thanks.
In Kandahar fields the poppies grow

Between the crosses, row on row,

That mark our place; and in the sky

The larks, still bravely singing, fly

Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,

Loved, and were loved, and now we lie

In Kandahar fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:

To you from failing hands we throw

The torch; be yours to hold it high.

If ye break faith with us who die

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow

In Kandahar fields.
A demo for Apple fans
Looks like they are going to take some consideration of operational security in the relase of these documents:

"We have delayed the release of some 15,000 reports from the total archive as part of a harm minimization process demanded by our source. After further review, these reports will be released, with occasional redactions, and eventually, in full, as the security situation in Afghanistan permits."