skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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If anyone visits Berlin I highly recommend the Checkpoint Charlie Museum. http://www.mauermuseum.de/english/frame-index-mauer.html They have exhibits of those hot-air balloons, boats, modified vehicles, etc. It's really a testament to human ingenuity and courage.
since reading "buddhism without beliefs", i've kind of lost interest in these things. which is, indeed, a recommendation.
Physics Classics
"The Bible", "Notes From Underground" (Dostoevsky)
I beg to differ.

First, it is simply not true that Google "included ALL the words you typed in". Google ignored "common" words like conjunctions and certain pronouns for a very long time.

Second, I think it's fair to say that Google's speed and quality of results were significant contributors as well.

Third, Larry's decision to make AdWords ads live immediately was, I think, one of the key factors in drawing users to AdWords.

Fourth, ad syndication through AdSense was a significant contributor to Google's revenues.

I could go on. I think it's nowhere near as simple as you say.
Why not create a sub-community for subscribers only? I mean, normal users see subscriber and normal users posts but subscribers optionally only see other subscribers. Maybe this would create a tighter knit, higher quality group. As beaten as this dead horse is, we all know Reddit is infected with memes and nonsense galore, that's why many of use have graduated to HN.
It really depends on the area of Canada you're in. My folks live in Southern Alberta and there's still a bit of xenophobic climate there. That being said, I didn't notice it when I went to school out east, or now that I live on the west coast.

Edit: Actually, I should mention that since I went to school in Quebec, there was usually some sort of xenophobic/racial issue in the news. I went to an english school though, so most of the kids were from Ontario or Montreal where it's way less of an issue.
I couldn't agree more about the frivolity of these debates, but judging from what he listed I figured govt/value debates might be somewhat frequent (especially since he is reading Common Sense for school).

On the other hand, not taking part in the debates can be bad for you also. The debating process allows you to expose your ideas to the light of free discussion and allows you to exchange error for truth (JSM). Even if you aren't debating people with a clue on the topic, the debate and your subsequent internal dialog will be beneficial.
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There is at least one such office in Silicon Valley. http://www.dayworkercentermv.org/
There's no reason a company can't use different tools for different jobs. When I worked at Amazon.com we used many storage and query systems: Oracle, MySQL, S3, BDB (and various simple distributed systems built on BDB), Dynamo, SimpleDB, memcached, etc. etc.
Adwords came MUCH MUCH later, when Google dominated the landscape. Of course, by all words, I don't mean useless words like conjunctions.

When people think back, they blur factors (like you are blurring adwords with googles initial success). I was there when Google took over, and it WAS as simple as I said.

They first had a popular search engine, and they built a good business on top of that. The business building part was complex, probably, but getting the search engine to be popular was just a front-end thing.

Googles speed was not relevant, Altavista and many other search engines prominently displayed how fast they were. There was a sort of speed competition at the time, so Google was not significantly faster than the others. Those other engines (like altavista) did not even have websites with lots of images or so, so it loaded just as fast as google.

Picking the right user-interface has been the reason for success for many companies. People will come and overcomplicate it later, but in the end, it was just the user-interface that made them win.
Check out Charles S. Peirce, American father of pragmaticism (not pragmatism). Two essays, 'The Fixation of Belief' and 'How to Make Our Ideas Clear' are particularly inspiring. Google 'peirce how to make our ideas clear', it's number one.
If the Bay area isn't working out for you, it isn't working out for you, and god speed if you want to try something else out.

Media companies don't make money unless people come to visit their site. Few things attract repeat readers and viewers like shock, awe and titillation--things that incite strong emotions like fear, anger or arousal.

Shock, awe and titillation have been Rupert Murdock's m.o since he started putting porn/glamour girls in his tabloid newspapers in the 70's (ref http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_Three ). He uses the same formula with many of his Fox franchises, including Fox News. As much as I love the site, shock, awe and titillation are also Reddit's staples. So, take both Reddit and Fox news with a huge grain of salt.

Hang in there. Please, don't give up on this country yet, we need people like you to turn our economy around.
being and time - Martin Heidegger
I would not recommend any compilations of philosophy. The great thing about philosophy is reading the rationales and the results, not only the results.

"Ricard+Revel - The Monk and the Philosopher" http://www.amazon.com/Monk-Philosopher-Father-Discuss-Meanin...

"Socrates(/Plato) - The Allegory of the Cave" http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/allegory.html

"Plato(/Socrates/others) - Symposium" http://www.amazon.com/Symposium-Plato/dp/0872200760

"Bertrand Russell - The Conquest of Happiness" http://www.amazon.com/Conquest-Happiness-Bertrand-Russell/dp...
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1496152
Wow, I was fiddling with the idea of posting exactly that question (with Philosophy in the title) but was hesitant as to is this the right community (btw where can I find one?)

I haven't read many books about philosophy but my main interest is Philosophy of mind and I just love the lectures here[1].

[1]http://webcast.berkeley.edu/course_details_new.php?seriesid=...
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4 Jun 2010: Sprint OTA update removing skyagent binary.

I didn't trust any of the carriers to begin with. At least Sprint removed it.
I really enjoyed Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig. It's not quite a philosophy book but I found his take on the concept of 'quality' very useful. To me it's a story of how a westerner discovers eastern philosophy, which is great to read coming from a western perspective.
"History of Sexuality: Volume I" -Michel Foucault

"Discipline and Punish" -Michel Foucault

"Philosophy in the Flesh" -George Lakoff

"Metaphors We Live By" -George Lakoff

"Civilization and its Discontents" -Sigmund Freud

These books allowed me to look at reality in a completely different manner.
Agreed re voting systems.

I believe that a good Q&A site should use "voting" to recursively find smart people who are similar to you and can provide you with good answers....as opposed to showing the most popular/well-written/pithiest answer. "PeopleRank", maybe.
Ask HN: How many people here use iPad?
Initial hype has ended. Time to check how many people actually bought an iPad? If you are a user - what do you think about it? Would you buy it again today?
make expenses completely transparent (+hosting +salaries -advertising). prominently display this per-month quota as some kind of health-bar, and next to that a payment button. if the health-bar drops below x%, the rest of the site disappears. there is no profit in this model. let the users finance their own addiction.
If you don't want to click through all 28 images paste this in your URL bar so you can see them all at once:

EDIT: Ugh, markup broke it so I converted it to charcodes (It's not bad I swear):

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Reminds me of Dr Popsicle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH29uzBvR1s
Is the error in the 3rd parties' code, or in Twitter's @Anywhere API that the 3rd parties are calling? The article isn't clear, though it sounds like the 3rd parties are calling the API with bad data, and the API isn't checking its inputs. If so, then both the 3rd parties and the Twitter API are at fault.
Ask HN: Is it worth it to join a great company in a "lowly" position?
Say I get an offer to join an awesome company. Problem is, I'm overqualified for the position, but the reason I applied was to see if I could get in, and then grow within the company. I'm hoping if this will open doors long-term (having, say, McKinsey on your resume is essentially a rubber stamp to success in your future career path), but I'm also worried about the short-term implications.Have any of you been in this position?
"We do not believe that skyagent could ever be invoked remotely."

Whats the risk here? Possibly a debugging helper app left inadvertently?
insert is fold, just underspecified (what happens on 1- or 0-element lists? in what direction does the operator associate?). The only difference in comprehensibility is in the language being used to describe the operation - which is certainly a good thing to take note of if you're trying to teach FP, but it's not as if the operation itself is somehow less-comprehensible.
The problem is that we aren't just selling ad space. We are running what might be considered an "auction" in some jurisdictions (it isn't in the United States), and that is what the lawyers fear. They want to make sure we won't get dinged for running an illegal auction.
Look, if your backdoor binary sits in /usr/bin or similar in a file system, you really have no business writing backdoors.

Sprint could have the same functionality built into the kernel and no one would have noticed it. It's actually a good thing it's not running by default. I would snoop around further and see how it's launched; the command list only has the shutdown commands, not the launcher. Without the trigger you really don't have the whole answer.
Unfortunately, this makes CPython fairly useless for high-performance games and tools.

Obviously, that's not its primary market, but this GIL thing is a non-obvious land-mine that people need to be aware of when considering Python for a project.

The problem with the "just re-write the slow parts in C or C++" argument is that in my experience, this isn't actually faster than just carefully designing C++ from the start, using modern libraries. It's really only faster for people who are really awful at memory management.
How often is list revised?
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The whole point of the article was that with CouchDB you get concurrency without paying for durability loss. You're just arguing for my point here.
_The Tao is Silent_, by Raymond Smullyan, comes to mind.
No. There's a difference: I believe very strongly in paying for goods or services received. I don't believe, however, in corporate charity, which is kind of what this is right now. They don't even turn off the advertisements, which is (ought to be?) about the easiest thing in the world to do for someone paying for "premium service".

If they offered a real premium service, I wouldn't make that argument. For instance, no one, least of all myself, complains about lwn.net being a for-pay service, despite their primary market being a bunch of open source guys.

Also, I don't have an iPhone, and do ride my bike a lot, thanks: no need for the hostility.
YES. I just recently graduated from AHS. Albany is great.
Or an OTA update adding it to the init process (though apparently skyagent has not been removed)
I've never bought this explanation of why deflation is bad for a few reasons:

1. as someone else pointed out, computers gets cheaper per unit each year but if you want a computer now you still buy one (as many people do). In fact, you may just end up buying one now AND in a year as they keep getting cheaper.

2. In the same way, taking a vacation right now might be worth an extra $50 bucks. Delaying a vacation for a year might not sound fun.

3. If people stop investing their money they might save it instead. Why assume that saving money is bad? Americans have record levels of credit card debt, mortgage debt, car debt, etc. Why is saving more money such a bad thing?

I've never seen any convincing proof that this is a positive feedback loop where people saving money causes more people to save money, in some sort of run away saving binge.

It looks a lot more like a natural ebb and flow of saving vs. spending, returning to a market equilibrium.

What am I missing?
-Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and Philosophical Investigations by Ludvig Wittgenstein

-The Open Society and its Enemies by Karl Popper

-On Liberty John Stuart Mill

-Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and their Computation by Machine by John McCarthy
Shrugs vs. hugs - what could Fabio Capello learn from Diego Maradona?
Take the job and attempt to grow within the company. Best case: you reach the position you want at a great company. Worst case: you leave in ~ 1 year and you have a great company on your resume.
Sophie's World is a fun novel and a map of the historical development of philosophy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophies_World

The first book on philosophy that both blew my hair back and made me realize philosophy is alot more than just academic was You Can Trust the Communists (to be Communists).

http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/schwarz-cover.htm...

My best friend in college was a Russian Jew whose family immigrated to US during the Cold War, and he kept that book on his coffee table.

It's the Yin to Howard Zinn's Yang - A People's History of the United States - which even though it's not philosophy is worth reading too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Peoples_History_of_the_United...
Asking for "Best Philosophical Books" is pretty much like asking for an opinion, everyone will have a very different view. That being said, here's my view!

John Stuart Mill - "Utilitarianism" (Kant be damned.)

Thomas Nagel - "Moral Luck"

David Lewis - "On the Plurality of Worlds"

Plato - "The Republic"

Aristotle - "The Metaphysics"
It was removed in the OTA update on the EVO and Hero (not just chmodded, but unlinked).
Disgusting. Could you at least make an effort to convince the developer that they personally would benefit from the massive amount of work you are demanding of them, instead of just trying to bully them into it?

Come on, it's 2010. Multi-core is here to stay. It's disgusting that a general-purpose language like Python has such a horrible default properties on multi-core.
Is it possible that spending less and saving more is, at times, exactly what people should be doing more of?
Claims without numbers. Don't make me laugh. Hard numbers, http://github.com/swannodette/second-post/blob/master/result...
Hirshman, Exit, Voice, and Loyalty

Camus, the myth of Sisyphus

Borges, the Aleph

Chomsky, on Language

Cicero, On Invention

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Wiener, Cybernetics

James, Pragmatism

Tzara, Dada manifesto
These are my real initials, I haven't added my email yet... though I suppose I should!
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64% of Machines Report Multiple Cores -- Unity Web Player Q2 2010
The ones I've read and find good:

- Existentialism is a Humanism - Jean Paul Sartre : Very easy to read and is a very good introduction to existentialism.

- Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Nietzsche

- Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
If is recognized by unrevoked that that is true, then why does it state, "At this time, we believe that skyagent was a debugging binary left over from manufacture. We have been consistently impressed with the actions taken by Google, Sprint, and HTC to expeditiously resolve this issue."
>but was hesitant as to is this the right community (btw where can I find one?)

Try reddit.com/r/books

Some HN-ers don't like reddit probably because their impression starts and ends with the reddit default front page. But the gems are the smaller sub-reddits with some very high quality communities. My personal favorite /r/askscience
It makes me sad that CPython is so broken for multi-core.
nkurz isn't arguing about multi-core (and various benefits thereof). He's arguing about convincing the developer that there are benefits of adding such support, instead of 'just complaining'.

On a personal note, I must say here that I've never considered the differences between the two, and I'm taking this to heart.
Atleast one person in your startup should be design savvy. Desining thinking makes great companies. If you outsource the design work it will part you from a important aspect of your user experience.
This should have been a protocol, like Wave, so that Wuze and TomTom and whatnot can implement it in their GPS apps. Then it would start becoming marginally useful.
What about topography?
Lots of entrepreneurial navel gazing going on both in the linked site and in these comments. Everybody has their own theory about the reasons x y z why company a b c is successful, be it Google, Twitter, Facebook, etc. The problem is every opinion is partially correct, no one can disprove anything, and there is no right answer.

The stories of successful companies are inspirational to some degree, but as a way to vicariously learn how to be successful they fall woefully short of the mark.

The best thing for entrepreneurs to do, is simply to make something happen. Build something people want, and if you fail, learn what you can and try again.

You never know and can't know which decisions are the ones that matter, so forge ahead.
_Faith of a Heretic_ - Walter Kaufmann
> Just curious -- why don't you start a new company?

Stay tuned. :)

> It's obvious that your work isn't being respected by your current employers.

Hmmm, I've never really thought about it that way before.

> Does reddit mean a lot to you personally?

It does. I've worked for reddit officially for over 3.5 years, and I've been friends with Steve and Alexis for almost 5 years.

I've watched reddit grow from a tiny site to the huge site it is now.

And when Steve and Alexis left, the put it in our hands to take good care of it.

It's like watching your friend's kid grow up, and then one day becoming their guardian.

reddit's been a big part of my life.
I'm part of the team that found this backdoor. A few points:

1. "Never Trust Sprint Again" is editorializing on the part of the submitter, not our stance. It's a very, very crappy thing to put on a phone, but there's no evidence it was placed there maliciously.

2. It was released in the wild on the HTC Hero for some time. We believe it would have been in the wild on the EVO if we hadn't reported it.

3. Sprint was very responsive when we reported this to them. They turned around a patch within a few days that sealed this particular hole.

4. We have no idea where this came from or who was ultimately responsible. That information never made it back to us.
Definitely, they are sucking it up big time.
I never leave a book unfinished, if I start a book I feel like have to finish the book (I finished Dan Brown's book with disgust, imagine that), but I just couldn't finish this book. I have absolutely no idea why people like this book and I have got recommendations from quite a few people.
Actually, it isn't so much the traffic. It's when something like Cassandra suddenly stops working correctly and we need to take emergency action to keep the site up by, for example, doubling our memcached pool temporarily.

None of the VPS's can give us that many nodes that quickly.

Also, bandwidth is by far our lowest cost. It is less than 5% of our total bill.
My favorites from college are: early dialogues of Plato (the most Socratic / least Platonic -- The Apology is a good start), Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (on how deeply the very ideas about how we perceive things affect our understanding), and Aristotle's Nico. Ethics (the importance of habits, moderation, and the idea of the good).
> Is it that the overhead of running on two different providers not worth the money you'd save? Or is this something you've considered doing but haven't had the time to implement yet?

Pretty much yes to both of these. With so few of us, the overhead of running it and moving to it just doesn't make sense at this time.
Cool to see BrainTree participating here. Thanks!
That's a tenuous link you're making there, about Python being batteries included, and so therefore attracting people who suck.

A perhaps more credible generalization would be - as a language becomes more popular, more and more people that 'you' cannot stand would appear. Attributing such phenomena to the language's innate features ... well you'd probably need to spend more time justifying that claim before we may accept it as true.
Each time we've had a new programmer come on board, it takes about 6 months for them to become familiar enough with the code to make a solid contribution. In the mean time, it actually slows us down a bit.

That was the main reason we didn't seek programming interns this summer -- it's a great thought, but would probably take too long to ramp them up.
Beyond Good and Evil - Nietzsche

Ashtavakra Gita - Ashtavakra

The Prophet - Gibran
Well, I wish you the best of luck. Reddit is awesome.

I wish it could just be taken non-profit and run it like like wikipedia with a fundraiser every year to keep it going.
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Is there any actual synergy at all with the rest of Conde Nast? Would it make sense for Reddit to work with some P.E. people to buy themselves out, and make a venture investment in improving the site?
I'd like to here how you got in and at what post.
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Cicero, On Invention http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On_invention
The problem is often that the directional indicators are not in a readable place. Often you have to have a light shining on them, but they are in a cavity in the device that you can't look into and easily shine light into at the same time. This is what I meant by "at an angle that it's hard to shine light on them and look into the device at the same time", in case it was ambiguous.

But I really think having them keyed is the way to go. You can put cylindrical batteries in either way, and that's the problem. You can't even reliably attach a 9-volt the wrong way, and often times the 9-volt battery compartment won't close unless the contacts are fully attached.