skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe that "clarity of purpose" is just age old stubbornness. Going at something so long, so hard, so staunch, and then learning over time perhaps you need to adapt and change. However, you have dug yourself into a deep hole, due to the rigidness over time, you would never be able to adapt, as people would see it as weak, and your own self/ego would not allow it.

The guy is in a tough spot.

I wish someone would have asked him about the eating of his toe jam. :) It was touched on, and I understand it is not important, but his appearance distracts from his goal. And who in the hell eats the crap between your toes? ( I mean, in public that is, I do so in the privacy of my safe room, duh! )

How in the heck could he have forgotten the belittling of a small kid. Either the OP was in fact making it up/embellishing, or there is no way he forgot, and was covering.

The hypothetical about the software based medical solution; that was a surprising answer to me. In a way, he has invented a religious dogma. He seems to have an answer to everything that comes up, in the same way religions also have an answer for dinosaurs and aliens.

Just pick a damn movie and pick a damn book for Christ's sake! :)

This one just killed me:

When a company says, "We want to merge with competitor XYZ,
since we are too small to compete in this market, and by the way
the merged company will become the biggest in the field," we
need to respond, "We won't let you merge. However, we just split
your biggest competitor into 5 pieces; maybe now you will find
it easier to compete."

That is insanity. The guy is not working towards freedom in any sense of the word when I read statements such as that. Government enforced split companies to help out the little guy; sorry, I can't get behind that one at all, no matter how skewed our system is in favor of the big guy.

His inability to adapt his position hurts him in the long run. When making comments about textbooks, it was clear to me, that the preferable solution would be to use a free textbook over a non free textbook. I can get behind that. However, when the quality of the non free textbook is abysmal, you must go with the non free version. We are talking about one's eduction, or health, or life saving scenario, their future in general.

Giving up a little in the beginning to position yourself to be able to make sure that what you gave up in the beginning never happens again, is the adaptation he lacks, which hurts his end game.

Compromise does not seem to be in his vocabulary, yet I suspect he would be so much further along had he learned about it. He may walk into a meeting with major leaders of other countries to get them to look into free software deployment on a scale of millions. That sets the tone to be able to one day implement his idealistic end game. That meeting would have no negotiation to it, it would be his way, or no way, in which case, Microsoft just made all the money, and he took a step backwards for the sake of being stubborn.
Ask HN: Stuff for dads and sons to build together?
I have a 2.5 year old son, and one of my dreams has been to build things with him. Preferably things that he would like to be able to use after we build it.

Any suggestions?

A variety of complexity, cost and time commitment would be appreciated.

Every day, around-the-house material, would be best. However, I am not opposed to having to buy a few stuff.

Thanks.
Not directly related to the article but it reminded me that I discovered today the most amazing Google Mail feature ever: the "Forgotten Attachment Reminder." Basically it looks at the body of your email and if it detects that you mentionned an attachment but you didn't actually attach anything to the e-mail, it reminds you before sending. This is very useful for disorganized people like me who forget to actually attach the file two times out of three.
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Stop worrying about what you don’t know.
Fun article; I always love reading about the latest goodies from Anybots. On a different note, this was a pretty awesome PR hit - CNN seems like a good score. Who is the PR firm for Anybots, or do they do their own?
Shit rolls downhill.
In the meantime, you could use keyboard shortcuts:
gtxl(label name)[ENTER]gi
There are also a ton of >21yo who are not responsible. That's not a good reason. Let's just ban alcohol because there will always be people that can't handle it.

Instead, why don't we look at the problem. The largest problem is that it's forbidden, so the majority of kids growing up have to sneak around and drink with other kids that are irresponsible. Telling a kid he can't do something just makes him want to do it even more.

If we introduce kids to responsible drinking at an earlier age, it wouldn't be so intriguing and they could learn a little bit about responsibility. You'd still have problems but I bet they'd be fewer and we could get back a little more freedom.
They seem to have changed their site. It's a pretty crappy new site too btw
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I think you're being naive, not that they can extract money from you, but that you value your time so little. Imagine the pain in the ass a lawsuit would be.

I know this is part of the strategy of "Big Media", but the real solution is for the content producers to self publish (since the middle man takes too much of a cut and isn't providing the value they used to (i.e. trucking your CD to the store))

However, this doesn't justify that the content producer doesn't get paid if you pirate shit. In the long run I expect prices to drip and content producers to increase profits, but that's still a few years away.
I think this is a great idea, but yeah.. I'd be more tempted to accept it from my bank, or mint (who already has my account info).. than allow yet another third party to have access.
It carries over to their other interactions - I generally found Koreans to be more extroverted, social, less meek, more firm, making decisions faster, and less bureaucratic than average.

There could be other factors contributing to this, though - there's mandatory military service, so a lot of the men there carry themselves like soldiers. Overall though, I was quite impressed with Koreans and Korea in general. I was lost at one point near Seoul Station, asked a police officer, and he walked me 10 minutes to where I was going while having a chat about the USA, South Korea, politics, and other things - very strong, but also very social and a good guy. I felt some hostility at certain times at Seoul, but I also haven't felt so welcome in a place since I was in Italy. Funny how that all works out.
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At least it responds with the address they wrote to you with, whenever it finds a matching potential from address that matches the recipient address. That saves most cases.
Go Cart!!! Sorry. Lost opportunity from my childhood. Still pretty enthusiastic about turning a lawn mower into a race car, apparently.
Breville is an Australian company.
On pine they're called roles. Yes, I second the request.
Ask HN:Is rule.fm a Sproutcore app?
Its like like a Sproutcore app from the pics, does anyone know if it is?
What has buttons and what has links in Gmail is totally inconsistent.

Also, has anyone ever figured out a way to edit the Quick Links that are created from the Google Labs "quick links" plugin? It seems like you can create them, but not delete or edit them.
Why is it that the Navy never replaced the F-14 with a fighter with similar characteristics - speed, range, weapon range etc ?
This could be as simple as just remembering what email addresses you sent from the previous five times (or so) and defaulting to whichever is most common. That way you wouldn't have to configure it; gmail would just do the Right Thing 99% of the time, automatically.
Well, sort of.

What I really mean is that I work on apps that are simple on the front end and require lots of heavy lifting (example: Sentiment Extraction from Unstructured Text using Tabu Search-Enhanced Markov Blanket.) on the backend.

I am not a programmer or engineer. I am a hacker; but I am also a brilliant problem solver so I can teach myself what i need to know to solve the problem at hand. Even so I am not naive enough to think that I come up w/ anything close to the "optimal" solutions (mathematically). IMO thats where people like you come in.
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I'm a bit leery of teleoperated machinery, rather than physical people. Not saying it can't be done, but adds in a few more things that can go wrong. And while outsourcing coding can incur extra delays if something went wrong with the link/power supply, I don't want a robot with a drill in my mouth.

So what would I need to go to a teleoperated dentist.

-Reliable direct satellite link?

-Own power supply in the clinic in case of black outs.

-Similarly reliable supplies in the operators place, or sufficient numbers of people that could take over the operation if the something went wrong with them.

Also any surgeons/dentists in the house? How important is reaction time. Would latency be an issue?
I agree. Until you can reliably sue a doctor in Sudan or Hong Kong for messing up your liposuction, it won't take off. Also (US), your insurance company will have to buy off on procedures from doctors they can't appropriately vet, which will probably put a premium on developed countries with higher licensing standards. And so on.
I am curious about something. Telepresence is a big Cisco brand. Is there any risk of trademark infringement? It is in a related domain, communication over video that is a component of anybots.

I am somewhat ignorant about trademark, but thought I would mention it.

Really cool robot. It looked great on video.
The KC-135 is also an old plane that is still in active service (started ops in 1957 and was based on the prototype aircraft that eventually became the Boeing 707..)
I couldn't agree with you any more.

If someone has done a similar project, or have a 'cheap' way to do that...PLEASE let me know :)

Also...instructions, etc. would be cool :)
I assume because we're preparing for different threats. The F-14 was designed for creating air superiority in direct confrontations with the Soviet Union. Now our likely opponents will concede that territory to us and respond with suicide bombs.
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Also... have you seen this https://squadedit.com/?
You should talk to Hal Varian.
#kernel-panic on freenode for good Linux and tons of other good discussion. Been there for years. Active right now with 34 people. But pretty much every major FOSS project has an IRC channel, usually on freenode. Every programming language, framework, etc. is represented there. I get tons of good help there and help others as well. IRC is definitely very much alive. I rue the advent of modern one-on-one IM as it really ruins teamwork. A few months ago we threw up our own openfire jabber server and required everyone in the company to be present and it has really boosted awareness of what is going on and replaced the "hallway conversations" we were missing from our distributed development environment.
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which is likely to go unheeded.: I suspect you are right there, and it would not be the first thoughtful thing he has said that goes unheeded ("If you are concerned about dependence on foreign energy, support electric energy. That is stuck to the continent.).

So I wonder if his book "High Output Management" is on any of the top school's MBA reading lists?
No, they absolutely are full closures. He just didn't demonstrate that fact to your satisfaction. Here is a code example that may be more convincing to you.

def make_counter(name):
position = [0]
def counter():
position[0] += 1
return (name, "incr", position[0])
def show_counter():
return (name, "show", position[0])
return counter, show_counter

foo, see_foo = make_counter("foo")
bar, see_bar = make_counter("bar")

for i in range(5):
print foo()
print see_foo()

for i in range(5):
print bar()
print see_bar()

for i in range(5):
print foo()
print foo()
print see_foo()
print bar()
print see_bar()

If you run that you'll see that the returned closures retain lexical bindings to the scope they were defined in. Closures generated at different times do not interfere with each other. And closures generated in the same scope are pointing at the same variables.

What more do you want?
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Starting from scratch. No connections, no contacts, no hope?!?
I looked into the algorithms section and, unfortunately, even the great schools (Northwestern included) are still teaching intro courses using sequential models. I think we need to address parallel algorithms (parallel quicksort, parallel prefix, etc.) from the very beginning if we want to institute parallel thinking. Tacking it on as an afterthought two semesters later isn't the same. And yes, I'm very aware that this sounds like "Teaching of Sequential Algorithms Considered Harmful." ;)
Can you trademark a word from the dictionary? I don't think you can.
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Cool, sounds like an interesting project and the perfect use case for Clojure.

How do you intend to differentiate yourself from Direct Edge (my take is you're specifically looking to target CTRs rather than build a recommendation engine?) as well as a start-up in San Mateo the name of which escapes me which does something like this (but is well funded and more enterprise focused)?

Best of luck!
I started using irc in january of 2008, about the time I started using linux.

I'm on foonetic and subluminal (a new network, about 6 or 7 months old).
foonetic is host to the various #xkcd-<whatever> channels, as well as the main #xkcd channel.
subluminal is just something some friends of mine put together. the average user count is in the twenties.
I like to keep pretty much everything about everything in one file and rely on search to find it.
> large, impassable clumps of vehicles are less likely to form

I'm starting to think that there are a large number of people that feel some sense of comfort in these groups. Something that I've noticed is that a passing car will often slow up as they are passing another car so as to pace them. It drives me crazy.
Nobody seems to care that you have to be logged in to Blekko in order to benefit from all the personalization features. I would think that would be a dealbreaker for a lot of people.
Does anyone have advice for a would-be blogger who has no real expertise or industry experience or sources? Is a blogger without those things a contradiction in terms? I'm a decent writer when it comes to formulating essays, and occasionally I say insightful things, but when it comes to broadcasting an opinion piece to the world it doesn't seem viable. Should I just stick to posting on HN? Anyone else start from this situation? (ie. blogs seem like a good IT career enhancing asset but see no reason why you personally should blog)
Interesting thread, thanks.

As a Direct Market Access developer myself, I wonder what is your environment (target exchange(s), api/transport/codec stack, market data provider) and how time-costly it is for you to 'just connect' to the market (aka, having a platform ready to trade, without the algo stuff).

Could you elaborate a little please?
Yes, you can find me on #gllug (Greater London Linux User Group), #amahi (Home Server), #greyhole (folder duplication a la WHS but using Samba) all on irc.freenode.net

And of course irc.quakenet.org #|HSO| and #fidelitas :)
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Nothing. I never said that Python doesn't provide closures. I just pointed out that Mr. Prescod did not give an example for those, even though he writes about closures. He really was talking about lexical scope. He did not demonstrate closures for my satisfaction, he didn't demonstrate them at all.

This makes me guess that Mr. Prescod never understood what a closure is, since he failed to give any example. That one can set closed over variables in Lisp is a useful feature. He demonstrates that Python 2 can't set a variable of an enclosing scope and claims that he does not need that. Maybe if he were really using closures, he would have found it useful.
The term being used in this way predates Cisco, so I think they'd have trouble enforcing it, especially outside a very narrow use of it.

Here's the 1980 paper where Marvin Minsky coins and explains the term (four years before Cisco was founded, and long before their Telepresence brand): http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/Telepresence.html
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QB should have made it.
Very light on content, and apparently on editing as well: 16. Spreading oneself too think or too thick..

Not recommended.
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That's not their goal - USCG is in it for the money.
Sure they are smart. Question is: do they want to invest time to master the internals, needed to achieve high performance? Takes years to get there.
No, he gave examples of things that really are closures, but failed to test them in ways that would have demonstrated that they in fact are closures.
McClure is smart and all, but the tone and formatting remind me of the timecube guy.
All fine now on all my 'nodes. Thanks (to all)!
Where is the bandwidth going between the robot and the end user? Does anybots host proxy servers in between?
certain algorithms, hence protocols, data structures, standards are not suited for parallel processing that well.

Sure, but for problems that can be parallelized you want a language to be able to express that parallelism. That may sound obvious, but many popular languages cannot do it. Let's not just give up on parallelism because it can't be used everywhere.
Yes. I bought some food from a place recently that had all of their prices listed on the board as whole numbers. It took me a couple seconds to register as a price because it's so unusual. I loved it though.
I found myself quite in Obama's situation a few months ago when I found myself asking "What in the hell is a Kardashian?"

Good on the President for not being arsed with this nonsense. I wish my brain's GC algo would remove all trace of memory of these creatures from my awareness.
A great example of the Blub paradox in action ;)

Actually not. There is no code you can write using closures modifying external state that cannot be trivially rewritten in Python using a one-element array in the outer scope which you modify in the inner (without assigning). Therefore Python has that feature in effect. It just doesn't have a piece of dedicated syntax for it.
grep -R what ~/notes
You seem to be assuming that this matters?

Of course your design can alway be improved. But the real question is whether those improvements are making you that much more successful.

And that I don't believe is the case.
Three years ago, I sold my startup because I was an idiot
if you are going to complain about the things you do I would say yes it is a pre-requisite.
Absolutely this. Freenode is a tremendous resource. I adore the fact that for just about any project I can tab over to IRC, /join #projectname, and have a channel full of people who can answer the big blocking question that I can't find an answer for on Google.
St. John's Wort helps some people. Look for a quality brand that is standardized for hyperforin and not just hypericin.

Exercise can also help. If you can, try vigorous cycling or something similar for 1 hour or more each day (work up to it).

This doesn't help the immediate term and should not be considered / waited upon as a remedy, but age also seems to decrease the anxiety. Some people say "you know yourself better" and/or "just don't care as much what others think", but I speculate that it has as much to do with lower levels of hormones, including stress hormones, as anything else.
The key to malkia's strawman is that pigz does not give the same results as the sequential "c" version of gzip. AFAIK gzip is not parallelizable as-is because every symbol depends on the previous symbol; pigz breaks this dependency to get parallelism but gives up a little compression efficiency. In practice this does not matter, which is why LZ is not a good example.
I used to think like this also. Then I was in a car accident. The lawsuit lasted 1.5 years. 99.999% of that time was just spent waiting. The actual work that I had to do during that time was like 2 hours. Mainly one for the deposition. If you go to the judge you expose your case to the judge, it takes about an hour. Of course, this is from the point of view that says you have nothing to loose. Although, I know what you mean. I rather avoid it if I can.
If reality is broken, fix that first.
Honestly, at this point, I take any time tables from these guys with a truckload of salt.
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So, basically, you want participation and guidance from your client because vague guidance is not enough (#1), except that you want them to not tell you how to do your job and to trust that your judgement will automatically result in acceptable work (#2, #6, #7, #10). Moreover, you want to work with an open-ended budget (#5) and timescales (#8) and communicating on your terms (#9).

Here's another theory: If I'm outsourcing part of a project, I will provide a specification for the work including any constraints I require, you will submit a proposal including estimates of how much it will cost and how long it will take, and I will consider your proposal and decide whether to accept it. You will be available at reasonable times for me to communicate with you, you will provide regular updates as the project progresses, and you will inform me immediately if your estimates are going to be incorrect, or I will not pay you. This is what is known in the business world as "how things actually work if you're the one providing the service and the other guy is the one paying the bills". Final hint: if you don't like being asked for a ballpark figure because it's hard for you to give one, then you were right about one of us being a beginner, but you have misjudged which of us it is.

(Edit: I would agree that co-operative discussions and effective communication are the best way forward in most business relationships. I just think the ideas in this particular article are so obviously one-sided in favour of the designer that no serious client is likely to employ the designer's services on that basis, so they aren't really very useful at all.)
They recently patented this 3D Modeling using an iphone too:
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/07/29/apple_investig...
All private, I think. This one flies right over our office several times a week: http://archives.californiaaviation.org/ganews/msg09194.html .
Yeah, I'd be fine with a teleoperated robot surgeon, if the human surgeon was in the next room with scrubs and gloves, ready to rush in at a moment's notice. Because, while the robot may be more precise and steady-handed than a meatbag, the meatbag I suspect would have better error recovery.