skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't help but think part of the problem in CA is the .03% of the budget being spent on labor and workforce development and the stagnant higher education budget for the last 25 years which is now being cut to pre-1980 levels when you factor in inflation. If you can't stop manufacturing jobs from leaving and don't want to invest in your workforce these things tend to happen.
And by the way, you should not aim to lose weight.

Give yourself a better target: Aim for a smaller waist line. Nobody sees weight, and but big belly makes doesn't look too nice.

And: Muscles are also heavy.
Great post. Keep it up Elad!
Adam Green is being hyperbolic to boost his 'bold progressive' activist organization's campaign. Assign his words no more weight than when you receive direct mail with alternating paragraphs in ALL CAPS and an RSVP about how important it is for you to DONATE NOW.
I don't have any need for this in particular, but for some reason this is the most exciting thing I've read all day.
I think that resource constraints and environmental damage are real, but I don't think they're the cause of collapse.

It seems to me that complexity itself is the cause of collapse. The problem with human societies is that there's no mechanism for reducing complexity. Each feature of a complex society has a stakeholder, someone who would lose out if that feature were reduced or abandoned. So societies grow in complexity without bound until the complexity collapses under its own weight.

A similar effect is very familiar to every engineer, especially in software. Systems grow in complexity until they are unmaintainable. Then you have to trash them and start over. Removing complexity is difficult, because there is a "reason" for every piece of complexity you have.

I don't think inventing Mr. Fusion would stop this cycle.
Sorry you feel that way. The real joke is that our species is devolving and on the verge of collapse within a relatively small time frame, instead of reaching the stars that light the universe.
When C# Dresses Up Like Ruby
Propane from carbon monoxide?
Humans are pretty flawed. Maybe it should be the dolphins that go out into the universe.
The point is to make it so that whoever strikes first still loses. If the first-striker advantage is big enough, then the country that strikes first could survive with their population, government, and military capabilities largely intact, while pretty much destroying the other side.
my feedback is that if you want to target a high-end market you need a high-end website of your own.

The design of the current site + cart solution doesn't reflect the elegance I assume your main clientele would be accustomed to.

I'm a huge fan of Shopify for simple, pretty online stores.. you might want to check it out.. many of their free themes would be an improvement over the current design.

GOOD LUCK!
nah, nothing like that. i just used it as a seed for content. there were very few, honestly. but it was a good start.
I won't lie, it's really weird to see an article on an AT&T sponsored website that starts with 'ZOMG'.
That's where wikipedia (without the deletionist), museums, libraries come in. Putting all that old knowledge some place for some one to find them when they have been forgotten.

If it paid the bills I'd become a Computer historian. But the tech isn't old enough yet to be worth stuying ;p
There already is a channel that offers only limited access to information, and people pay for it: TV. I guess if people are content with limited channels, why not let them. It also doesn't bother me much that I can not watch TV through my internet connection.

Overall I am not worried, because there should be enough people who would want a free connection. Competition should do the rest.
This sounds cool. It's open to everyone right? I hope so....
Loading device specific .xib files in a Universal app
The theoretical advantage of whole grain carbohydrates over refined carbohydrates is that the whole grains are less apt to cause a big dip in serum glucose that follows the huge insulin spike that follows consumption of refined carbs. That dip leads to insulin-induced hunger and possibly further caloric intake.

But mostly I agree with you.
I don't think he'd dispute it. He gave the money back eventually, but after he'd developed his product and obtained investor funding for it. Unfortunately our project lost a fair bit of traction and our investors lost confidence.
What's the difference between these and Pilot's FriXion pens and highlighters? They have been out for 1-2 years and I've been using them for over a year now. They are truly erasable by friction with the included rubber tip (not like previous "erasable" pens that leave the inks permanently if it's not erased immediately). You can get them at major stationary stores in US like Office* and Staples. But it's a shame since they are not promoted like they do in Japan (not to mention Japan sells the latest ones in different styles and colors and writes a little better than the older ones in US).
If facebook/zynga is any indication, it'll turn humanity into mouse-clicking zombies
Plancast - San Francisco, CA

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Try cardio outside. Pick a route of the length you want to run and run it. Running in a gym constantly requires willpower to go on, especially when you're getting tired. Running outside only requires to start, but when you're getting tired you are away from your house so you don't really have a choice. Also: fresh air, better temperatures, quiet and better scenery.

I run several times a week and it requires almost no willpower, whereas I would definitely not have the willpower to run for an hour on a treadmill even once.
The property tax situation sounds like a recipe for rent being more cost-effective than homeownership, which is indeed what we observe in California.
humans are incredibly gifted too. we can transcend our flaws, if we reach for the stars like da Vinci advised us too.* Our modern discontent is rooted in denial of our place in the universe...

"Fix your course to a star." - Leonardo da Vinci
ha, very few things can be considered "whitehat" seo, everything is a shade of gray
"that really such an illogical position to adopt?"

yes, because once giant corporations make a tiered wireless internet take hold there is absolutely no chance of untiering it.
Although i'm not american, and so it doesn't affect me, i think this sounds like a good move from google. I fail to see the horrible, evil plan when i read the original article http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2010/08/joint-policy-... .

Would someone care to point me to the evil in those 7 points? To me it sounds like "we want the internet more open and transparent for the customers". That's good for american customers, isn't it? Why evil?
You might want to check out Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch program for guidance. They have both small cards fold up guides you can keep with you or an iphone app that gives recommendations on the type of seafood that can be eaten sustainably and which ones you should avoid.
http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/cr/SeafoodWatch/web/sfw_i...
I know... I was in denial... ;-)

Perhaps the threshold for downvoting should be a function of karma rank instead of an absolute number. Perhaps it could be reserved to the top 90%.
In that case it's a bit odd you posted that on the adgrok blog.
Apple's Smart Bike
I disagree. These methods help exposure, and a fraction of those users will actually want what you have.

That's why spamming works.
Amazon link to book:

http://www.amazon.com/Modernist-Cuisine-Art-Science-Cooking/...
iPad/iPod on my handlebars? Yes please!
- putting up an order page when your site wasn't ready
- promising unrealistic delivery dates

Wait, these are unethical? I thought they were standard and common sales tactics. Seems like many companies are doing that.

(disclaimer: I don't sell anything).
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That sounds like they found an efficient deal for both sides.
I can understand objections, but what about this: currently, wireless data and voice is carried over the same medium and is subject to the same network overloads. Is it necessarily unreasonable for carriers to give priority to voice data made through telephony protocols (as opposed to data protocols)?

I understand a lot of people are approaching this from the perspective of "how would this be abused?", but I think there is also worth in thinking about it from the point of an honest businessman in "how do I make sure my customers are guaranteed good service?"
Me. We have a ticket tracking system for customer calls, but I find it's much easier to write out the notes I'm going to enter. Plus, I can do diagrams and charts for the descriptions the customer is giving me.
Whoops. I had put a contact email on the license page, but forgot to include one in "about". Thanks Andrew.
I get these in Australia...

It must work a reasonable amount of the time, otherwise the international postage wouldn't be worth it.
I can't answer all of the questions. So I'll contact people and make some research to give you full detailed answers.
Their motto is "Don't be evil":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dont_be_evil
May I ask what recreational drugs you use, and where I can acquire said drugs?
No, it's gotta be a bug; there are hundreds of elisp repos, and it shows zero.
That's just how I read this:

You push at the boundary for a few years
Until one day, the boundary gives way
And, that dent you've made is called a Ph.D.

It seems to me that calling the expansion of human knowledge a Ph.D. implies that those who don't have Ph.D.s have not dented the circle.
That's the exact same behavior my laptop, running windows 7, has when connected to an HDTV (multiple monitors work fine, and it's never messed up my desktop, as well). There's no adapter needed, either, which seems to be what that point was getting at - my highschool, which had standardized on mac laptops, was constantly plagued by difficulties finding adapters when using computers to run projectors. They were constantly lost or misplaced, and using multiple generations of macs often meant that the adapter we first found wasn't the right type.
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I appreciate your point, but typically you want to stay away from things that contain HFCS not simply because HFCS is "bad" for you, (jury is still out on that one), rather, because foods that contain it tend to be very calorie dense.

The problem with our diets as americans is that EVERYTHING contains sugar/HFCS.

For example, I get all my carbs from brown rice, and bran cereal. I have the occasional slice of 100% wheat bread. Why? Because almost all bread on the market contains HFCS and each slice is typically 110 calories. I'd rather get the same amount of calories from a much more satisfying bowl of brown rice and veggies then from a dense, unsatisfying piece of bread.
That's exactly how the multicast works. It's not broadcast, it's multicast. Your local set tells the next closest router the streams it's interested in. If it's already receiving them, the packets are forwarded to your on-site router. If it's not, it calls to it's next hop router and does the same registration. A multicast stream is a "limited broadcast" in that it only goes to the nodes that wish to participate and is managed by a tree structure in the network so that any given link only has as much travelling over it as the child nodes are requesting.
Paper Monday
Failure to recommend regulation != opposing regulation.
Agreed. The demand for gasoline and oil and cars themselves should go way down if there's a massive drop in the automobile commuting demographic. And air pollution drops. Wear and tear on roads drops, so less money spent on maintaining that, so less pressure on local government budgets. Less road accidents, so less costs spent on police and ambulance related to that, plus less health care costs and car damage and loss of life. Less traffic/gridlock during the rush hour periods of the day. Many benefits from an increase in telecommuting.
I'm still not quite sure why this is terrible.

Will this decrease bandwidth for all the smaller sites? I don't see any reason why it would, unless ISPs go over capacity. In which case if they do, then everyone would suffer... and paying some money to suffer less does not seem so unfair to me.

We already have tiered internet on the consumer side, ie, DSL vs Cable vs Dial-up vs FiOS. I don't see what difference it makes if there are also tiers on the content provider side.

The real problem seems to be one of capacity; any issues is caused by a bandwidth scarcity, and that would have to be increased. What these people are discussing is just a way to allocate the remaining bandwidth, in which case 'fairness' is completely impossible. There's absolutely no way to determine who deserve the bandwidth more arbitrarily... Putting it on the market seems pretty reasonable!

Anyway, I hope new service provider startups come into being that will make the investments to improve infrastructure, though from what I understand that seems to be a completely thankless job...

Please don't vote me down just because you disagree, I actually do not understand many of these positions and this is a plea to be educated.

Thanks.
The industry and consumers were much better off with Standard Oil controlling most of the industry. It stabilized markets and led to more efficient crude and refined oil production.
Seems to me like a lot of the furor over this announcement has to do with Verizon's involvement - there seems to be a de facto assumption that if Verizon has said it's good, it's bad for the consumer.

I have my own opinions on that statement, but if I were Verizon's PR dept, I'd be drinking.
Yeah but if it hadn't been for Prop 13, many people (quite possibly your parents) potentially could be driven out of their homes due to escalating property taxes had taxes scaled with the "market value" of their homes.

Actually the biggest expense for the state is K-12 education (over 43% of the budget).
I was just summarizing the reason for the original author's blind spots -- partisan bias.

patio11 and/or any other republican on the internet can speak for himself.
I could start with something else if that would make you feel more comfortable. Maybe "PEW PEW PEW!" or "O HAI" would be better? ;-)
Um. Well, yes. It's true that their submission did not conform to Apple's interface guidelines. I think it's a little over the top to say they "drastically violated" them as if the poor guidelines were left raped and bleeding on a lonely country road. Sheesh.
As much as I dislike government regulation, I dislike "corporate innovation" (in the bad sense) much more.
> So YMMV, but personally I'd rather do pair programming this way even if I was at the office.

After a year or so of remote pairing I strongly agree. Among other things, no more dvorak/qwerty conflict is great.
I think that this is another publication of the same article.
The biggest reason so many jobs have been lost to China is because China keeps their currency pegged artificially low to the dollar. This keeps their citizens poor but makes it very attractive for foreign companies to move their manufacturing operations to China.

To compensate the US could tariff everything imported from China to compensate for the artificially low exchange rate. The advantage to manufacture in China would be diminished. All of our material crap we buy would get more expensive too. Eventually China will let their currency float making them richer and us poorer, in terms of buying power, and stuff will be made in the US again. So the situation will correct itself. In the mean time its very hard for the people finding themselves without jobs.
Is there something wrong with being overcautious in this case?
I don't know about that, Google has a defined set of rules, if you build your site to take advantage of that defined set of rules then good for you. It is no different than apples UI guidelines. When you start to device the system to get ranking that you do not deserve then it becomes a grey area but just optimizing your site and taking advantage of available resources to promote your site is indeed squarely in the realm of white-hat.

Going back to the UI analogy, it is one thing to provide an optimized UI that has been A/B tested to sell anti-virus software. It is another thing entirely to provide a UI pop-up that says your computer is infected when it is not in the hopes of scarring someone into buying anti-virus software. Optimizing to sell is white-hat. Deceiving to sell is not.
Reminds me of Rearden metal. With metal that unique, maybe they'll come up with some radical designs/products. Kinetic charger for touchscreen devices? Fold-up iPad?
You might disagree with it, but it's not illogical. There's a big, big difference between saying "I don't agree with Google" and "there's no possible logical reason for their position, therefore it must be evil." What you're expressing above is one possible interpretation of how the future could unfold, but different, intelligent people can easily disagree about that.
I ask a lot of questions and read a lot of books. I stay high off life. Never tried anything else...

"If you don’t work on important problems, it’s unlikely that you’ll do important work" - Dr. Richard Hamming, a pioneer of communications theory.
Google-Verizon NN pact riddled with gaping loopholes
I'm somewhat surprised to see more Perl repos than Python repos represented. Dead language, indeed.
I can't think of anything, so either I haven't done anything unethical, or I did a damn good job of convinving myself it was ethical.
I have the feeling you're not a programmer. An algorithm that generates the optimal solution for a given configuration is trivial. Do a breadth-first search of the results of each move until you get to a solved cube. Ta da, you're done!

Now, if you want to do it fast, that's a different story.
Here's the origin thread, btw: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1564897
One of the good things about HN is that it can generally be assumed that people are not insane. Nobody in their right mind would NOT believe that "there was an optimum point between 0-100%"
I love this! I frequently annotate books I am reading, and often have to use eraser for correcting typos etc. With (non-erasable) pens, downside is that I cannot erase. With pencils, downside is that I can erase anytime. Almost never do I have a need to erase something two days after writing. Would be buying shortly.
Definitely open to all.
So, because Google and Verizon didn't come to an agreement on wireless internet, that's equivalent to Google supporting a tiered wireless internet? That seems like a pretty big jump to me.
I think Google definitely cares about wireline broadband...
Looks like envato already has this:
http://graphicriver.net/category/add-ons/photoshop/styles
I get through at least an index card a day doing pomodoros.
The author of Flow found that successful people tend to alternate between periods in 'open' and 'closed' mode.
I don't do any drawing actually, I just don't think there is anything as fluid for taking notes, diagrams, mindmaps, etc.
I second this, the people in #vim are awesome and usually very quick to answer your questions. It's also one of the friendliest channels I've been in, for what it's worth.
So because the competitor used Windows, konad's actions were justified?

If that is the case, that's a very weak justification.
Skype has become for VOIP as Google is to web search.

It may not be perfect but it's pretty darn good and it Just Works. It is almost ubiquitous and the company name has become a verb for a large segment of the popultion. "Let's Skype!"
I try to. I don't use the term "teabagger"
I don't think an intelligent person would believe that once a tiered internet were in place that there is a high probability of it changing.

When google says "don't be evil", I take that to mean they wouldn't promote an internet where the traffic from my site may be forced to take a backseat to the traffic from Giant Corporation because I can't give a big enough kickback to verizon.

Given google's "don't be evil" mantra it's illogical for them to promote a tiered internet since such a promotion is contrary to their mantra.
Maybe it was a purple monkey?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BonziBUDDY
If it's not too late, could you fix the title to match the article's title?
This is a sensationalist article and the author read into it poorly. Something is bound to happen, there will be some sort of compromise between complete network neutrality and telecom dominance; primarily because neither camp will get all of what they want. This deal is great news because at least something is being preserved!

If you truly care don't just support network neutrality, support projects like GNUnet (https://ng.gnunet.org/) or FreeNet that actually enable people to use the internet anonymously and securely.
it could also be the engine of a galactic civilization. we just desperately need a paradigm shift...
Agreed "Create more value than you capture" (Tim O'Reilly) is the thing to strive for
California cannot declare bankruptcy, but according to the article its because it doesn't need to - states have sovereign immunity. They don't need the protection bankruptcy normally provides.

So technically California cannot, but its more because it never needs to, not because it always has to pay any debt it takes on. They can just tell debtors to f off (of course, no-one would lend to California if it made a habit of doing so).
Done! Pew pew pew!
Similar to promising potential customers that your product is doing things it doesn't actually do and hoping you can add the extra features before anyone finds out.

I view those as distasteful, but I've yet to see any company/salesperson who doesn't do it. I'm sure this looks different once you are in sales and everyone is doing it, but from my seat over at operations it sure looks dishonest. I hate it when vendors use these tactics on me - so how can I do this to anyone else?
In US this is true, in UK it isn't.

A great case is the UK Post Code system (which is much more specific than the US zip code system here - no more than 15 letter-boxes share a unique post code in UK).

A number of people have created Post Code to lat/long conversion tables. They're all facts but because they have been worked out they are copyrightable. To stop copying the providers introduce slight variances in the data to track duplication and usually jump on top of it.

I don't believe that would fly here in the USA
But still the same thing basically, isn't it?
This is a very fair point. Take Google for example, people may not remember, but they actually were trying to sell a product when they started. They were trying to sell enterprise search. And generally people didn't want to buy it.

But they had technology so compelling that business model fell into their lap.

Maybe they were lucky, but I would say that if you have a technology that no one wants to buy, but everyone wants to use... stick with it. There's something to it.
PG: "A lot of startups have some kind of secret about the subterfuges they had to resort to in the early days..."

http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html
Nice.

As for adapters, I carry all my own adapters with me, when there is the slightest chance of needing them. (But I have a mac with a standard DVI port, makes things easier)