skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To design for full screen means:

- resolution independent design means interfaces become a lot more work

- vector art or high resolution raster images with significantly bigger SWF files and memory usage

- performance ... at the moment only video uses hardware acceleration, full screen means you go from a 640x480 canvas to a massively larger one that's going to hurt

- demand ... Flash has had full screen capabilities since forever, from my position of having arguably the leading analytics platform for Flash games it doesn't look like users take advantage of it.
Is it fair to compare a rooted Nexus to a non-rooted iPhone 4?
I've used Disqus in the past but switched back to plain WordPress comments because proper theming was almost impossible. I used CSS overrides to hide elements and make them fit the layout, later they changed some code and I had to do it all over again. Changing the path of my blog also caused problems.
I feel this is a justifiable defense, if you use a pre-release version of anything you should recognize that you are taking a risk.
If they added coffee shops in libraries and made it a more social place I would be so there. I go to coffee shops or Barnes & Noble for the atmosphere. People humming around me, having their conversations, laughing with their friends, really helps me to concentrate on my work. Right now libraries are just plain depressing. They should probably stake out a section just for people to sit down to read their books along with their coffee and another section for those that want/need 100% quiet. Right now you would have to put a gun on my head for me to even come close to one. No offense to you or anybody who likes libraries but in my mind going to a library is equal to being old and decrepit and devoid of any passion.

It kind of makes me glad that libraries are dying.
Beat you to it! http://twitter.com/peterc/status/20667523417

I didn't post it here because I realized it's a joke most people won't get and those who do get it won't find it funny ;-) This joke could even be a Reddit vs HN shibboleth as I just saw it made there too and it's being voted up.
That means that 4-year universities wouldn't work even if they were functioning correctly, which they aren't.

The real benefit of a college degree is that it broadens your horizons and increases your capacity for knowledge. Sure you can do that on your own but most 18-21 year olds have trouble maintaining the focus required for self-learning.

Theory classes like accounting, finance, database, history provide the most benefit and really don't change a lot over time. The more hands-on classes like programming (anyone use Cobol after Y2k?) Internet marketing (did you know you can PAY to be on search engines?) were a waste of time as they did quickly become outdated.
I have an old friend who lived in SF his whole life. He moved his family out to Austin 5 years ago and now has a house, pool, and a dog (as opposed to the 2 bedroom apt he had in SF). He loves both cities, but Austin works best now.
Well, corrupt third-world countries do live like that and it rarely comes to full-blown riots, usually only when there is little to eat. There doesn't need to be an open confrontation.

But you're right in that the poor are still part of the workforce, hence they do wield power, even if poorly organized. This might be not for long.

There is an interesting case of Russia which is populated by 142 million people, while the ruling elites only have a need for maybe 10% of that number to maintain their natural gas and oil revenue (plus the nukes to defend the same). It might be worth paying attention to as a model of what's to come.
fwiw, the only error Damien made was failing to review some patches other people wrote. Also, this issues is much less serious than the Mongo problems as it's A) localized and B) fixed. Eg it's a bug not a design decision.
The three main reasons they gave were: 1) a functioning free market with rational agents voluntarily exchanging goods and services requires non-desperate individuals who can realistically say "no" to proposed economic exchanges; 2) a guaranteed minimum income would make people more autonomous market participants, as they would feel more free to be entrepreneurs, and to break from more cliquish kinds of safety nets like churches and ethnic groups; and 3) pragmatically, direct cash transfers are the least distorting kind of anti-poverty program, so a minimum income will greatly reduce political pressure for more distorting measures, like restrictions on when you can fire employees.

Here's one place Hayek discusses it, starting at the bottom of p. 54 and continuing through the middle of p. 56: http://books.google.com/books?id=0HzIUyFkwlYC&pg=PA54
Not really HN.
Not so. Pure existence proofs can be non-constructive.

The first historical example of an important proof which was non-constructive was Hilbert's Basis Theorem in 1888, which solved a famous problem posed by Paul Gordon. It is now viewed as in some sense being the first salvo in the debate over constructivism in the 20th century. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hilbert#The_finiteness_th... for more.
Put it on regular hard drives and write a note to your future self to come back for them once time machines are invented.
I don't think you can call them "previous" just yet. It's entirely possible for the world to erupt into a ww3, simply due to hundreds of millions of seriously unemployed people. Arguably that was the reason for ww1 as well as huge number of people were made redundant in agriculture.

It's frightening to think about that.
"I Never Lose Sight Of The Fact That Just Being Is Fun."
Most of my takeaway skills from college were not the specific content of my classes.

Rather they were:

- The ability to identify, understand and retain (for a determined period of time) the most important aspects of a huge number of different topics, whilst under deadlines.

- The ability to find a way to learn the necessary information, even when the teacher's methods weren't compatible with my means of learning.

- The realization that simply showing up and trying my best will often be enough to set myself apart from the crowd.

These skills have transferred exceptionally well to into my professional career.

I view college much as I view playing sports. They're head fakes, so that you learn one thing whilst you think you're learning something else.
The india example has nothing to do with machines but rather global wealth disparity. The india problem as in your anecdote will disappear whenever this wealth gap closes.

The article is discussing something entirely different.

IMO programmers will never go out of style until we have real AI. And when we have real AI all humans will be last season's sentience.
"The bottom line is the modern diet contains a lot of refined sugar including fructose and it's a hidden danger implicated in a lot of modern diseases, such as obesity, diabetes and fatty liver," said Heaney...

And then the author of this piece goes on to say

"And that, is how you go from cell culture work to sweeping policy recommendations"

I guess it was cell culture work that implicated fructose in obesity, diabetes, and fatty liver? Nice sleight of hand.
I use Disqus on my personal blog. (I've never run a big news site before, so I have no idea what their needs are.)

I use it because I like to pull in the retweets as 'social proof.' My users aren't very good about commenting (which is sad, because I have call-outs and everything), so any social chatter I can pull in makes a richer, more interesting site.
Most coffee drinks are at least a dollar of profit, many are two bucks or more. They'd have to crunch the numbers themselves but chances are 30-40 is no where near the lost revenue/profit from having some one take an entire table everyday.
Anecdote: I typed ~95 WPM on Qwerty, hunt-and-peck* , and switched to Dvorak three or four years ago. Touch-typing Dvorak just feels natural to me, too. I haven't measured my speed in a while (over 60 WPM, who cares?), but Qwerty feels like a chaotic jumble by comparison. It's mostly a comfort/ergonomic issue for me.

It's a tricky thing to get hard data about, though, and the whole Qwerty vs. Dvorak thing somehow got caught in some religious argument about the free market, so there's probably too much noise to ever sort it out.

* Hey, I taught myself to type on a Commodore 64 as a kid.
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[jokingly] Would be interesting to know, what Does Perelman think about the proof?
At least it is not from math community, so probably it is ok to take the million...
I do this when I'm forced to work at a desk. Though presently I'm sitting- well, reclining across two chairs, my keyboard in my lap. My mouse is sitting on a table to my right, so I actually raise my arm so it's at a 90 degree angle from my body to use the mouse. That works pretty well (incidentally, I'm reclining to spare my knees - keeping them bent for hours at a time is not a good thing, better to leave them straight. )
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Indeed, that is the definition of a static type system. And that's a useful thing to have. But it's not infinitely useful. In some cases, the burden of pleasing the type system can be bigger than the burden of checking types yourself where necessary. Static typing can actually get in the way of useful algorithms if (for example) your type system doesn't support generics.

Due to these tradeoffs, in some cases, people can be more productive in a language without the help of a typechecker than they can in certain languages' static type systems.
Wow, where do you live? I have spent a ton of time in Seattle's, San Francisco's, and New York's public libraries, and all are fantastic.

Seattle's is by far the best though. Free, fast WiFi, good coffee stand in the library, helpful librarians, outlets galore, amazing architecture and an enforced no-sleeping policy (this helps keep it a place of work and learning, and not a homeless shelter, of which Seattle has plenty for those in need).

You can get great DVDs and books for free, and reserve them online if they're unavailable. It's basically Netflix for free.

The Business Library on 34th in NYC and the main library in SF at Civic Center are also pretty good.

In general, I think you have an outdated view of modern libraries. However, it could just be that you live in a city where all of what you said is true, in which case, talk to your local government and get it fixed!
Errors:
- not reviewing
- poor testing procedures
- new code in 1.0.0????

Why your claim that its not as bad as mongo is crazy and self serving:
- poor code quality is MUCH worse than a design you don't agree with. how could anyone trust couch? at least mongo is upfront about their design decisions, whether you agree or not
- the couch team has gone on and on recently about how unreliable mongo is, and yet here is this...
- there were a number of unanswered questions on mikeal's blog - sadly he took them down - probably because he didn't like them. maybe his couch db lost the data and he couldn't figure out why...

Also - really nice job attacking mongo while you guys have a MAJOR bug... classy and proessional...

Another funny thing - how long has 1.0.0 been out? 3 week or so? and this was just found? so what, there are like 10 people using couch in production?

And i'm sure this will be down-voted by the couch fan boys - but this ridiculousness has to be addressed.
It was also the reason for WW2. Germany put all those unemployed people to work on many national projects. Projects which were aimed at world domination.
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I'm addicted to Swing Dancing.
In a cursory reading, I think I can address these criticisms. Although one would have liked the author to call out each in his introduction.

Naturalization: This proof is not combinatorial, it is based on a model of formal logic. This is addressed by the author directly.

Relativization: This is proof by contradiction and relies on understanding the solution space of k-SAT instances, not on diagonalization.

Algebrization: This proof looks beyond the size of small circuit into how the circuit inputs interact and how this interaction spreads throughout the circuit.
No kidding. I don't care that there is a significant portion of HN'ers that like him and agree with him. Maybe its more a problem with the HN community than with Gruber himself; a sign, perhaps, that the HN community has had its day.

I have recently tweeted about how boring and lame Gruber's posts are. I mean, kudos to the man for getting a huge following by typing out this constantly pro-AAPL drivel but it stinks when it pours over into communities I do tend to care about, or at least used to. And, when I point it out, as you have done, people here point fingers back at me defending the poor guy. Like he even needs to be defended, really?
It kind of makes me glad you don't like libraries. And wonder if it was people like you who burned down the library of Alexandria to make coffee.
Could this be the worst timed holiday ever?
A coffee shop I use gives you an hour of internet access with any purchase. They have a router with an attached thermal printer. The clerk hits a button, and prints a receipt with a password that lets you on for exactly one hour from then.

I see no problem at all with this. At the very worst, you're paying a couple bucks for internet access and getting a free cup of coffee or muffin out of it. If you're going to spend four hours there, I don't think it's asking too much for you to make a purchase every hour or so.
Geddy seems to be more of a full stack than most of the other options from what I can tell.
WRT the recent claim of a P!=NP proof.

I am hanging out for Scott's reaction.
And a rat poison.
http://xplsv.com/prods/demos/xplsv_orsotheysay/

Install that component and it will play, slightly better than the Chrome dev builds in my experience, but not much.
I'm just surprised they're all stampeding to vim. Emacs seems like a better fit for the rails world. I'm certainly not getting pried away from my /usr/bin/emacs.
I'm constantly surprised by how low the numbers are for lots of searches.
I think libraries are actually migrating towards the trend of being social study spots. At my old school, UT Austin, one library was actually converted to be an "academic center" which really meant a building with tables, couches, and desks for students to work at. Another library had certain floors where you were able to talk. I enjoyed these places.

I like coffee shops too, but I feel pretty bad about taking up tables and not buying coffee. So on days when I feel cheap, I'll just go to the library. On days when I feel like spending money I'll go to a coffee shop and buy a few cups (or one cup and put some money in the tip jar).

Funnily enough, I also enjoy the atmosphere/noise of a coffeeshop. I even once went looking to see if there were CDs or streams of coffee shop noise in order to try to emulate that effect without actually being in one. Unfortunately my search yielded no results!
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Would you care to pick out something he said that you believe is false, and explain why?
I've gotten to the point where I'd rather use vi than MS notepad, but I'm still better with vanilla Emacs.
This is an interesting video on Youtube about the subject:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
programmers will never go out of style until we have real AI.

And what will be our name for an AI that programs? Will it not be "programmer"?
Perhaps we might even need a new business model, a variation on Internet cafes which charge a more reasonable rate for Internet access. Coffee shops may not be ideal because they already profit from focusing on coffee -- and the atmosphere that goes with it -- but maybe a new business model which doesn't spend a lot on fancy decor or smiling employees might work. With the economic hit to real estate, including commercial, it should be possible to find a decent amount of space and just shove a load of desks, outlets, and wifi in there.
P = NP would touch almost every field known to man: maths (e.g. it would only be matter of search to take down the remaining Clay Problems), philosophy, engineering, biology, physics.

The tie to physics is particularly interesting: for example if Quantum mechanics was a nonlinear theory then we could physically solve NP complete problems [1]. Note the implication, this is not to say p = np => QM nonlinear. The utopian consequences of p = np are discussed very engagingly by Scott Aaronson here [2].

I suggest you also check out his blog as well - his writing style is clear and fun. Plus there was a recent discussion there that linked complexity theory to foundational physics.

[1] http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9801041

[2] http://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/npcomplete.pdf
No, the blogger is correct and you appear to have misunderstood him. He is stating that the study itself does not merit making policy changes. As you note, other studies do, but this is not one of those. The author of the study may be making good policy recommendations, but using his study as the basis for those recommendations would be unwise. Despite my agreement with his recommendations, I disagree with the basis that he chose for his recommendations, as does this blogger. Though I do not know if the blogger supports the policy of reducing fructose—who knows, maybe he doesn't—it doesn't materially impact my agreement with the narrow concern that he wrote this blog post about.
Interesting, you could very well be right. In Lincoln, rent prices fluctuated lowest during the summers and highest during fall and winter
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Submissions in .doc format can also be immediately judged with near 100% accuracy.
If you want/need a maximum tolerance of broken HTML, you can use Selenium to scrape, and as long as the markup doesn't break firefox, it won't break your script. (I've had some bad experiences with BeautifulSoup)
Why is that? Even if there was enough wealth around to make everyone a king by today's standards, if someone had no marketable skills or capital, why would anyone give anything to him? It would be up to the haves whether they wanted to play Mr Nice Guy or not, and I don't think the choice is obvious.
I think the future of work, then, has to be creation. It just can't get any more singular and essential than that. It's the work of ideation - a terrible biz-buzzword that means "creating ideas".

Not the type of namby-pamby aleatoric nonsense that people boozily tell you is a million-dollar idea that they thought of like "I thought of eBay before it was around" or the Hollywood pitch-type ideas like "it's a cross between Facebook and tumblr... wait for it... for book lovers."

I'm talking about, everyone basically becomes an entrepreneur, or at least is the equivalent of the starving artist, essentially singing for their meal. If necessity is the mother of invention, well then that's a relief because we're headed for some Needful Times.

Of course, _ALL_ of this is assuming that China or some developing country will always have an abundance of cheap labor, which is more quickly evaporating than we want to see. There is a reason why China's middle class just recently eclipsed the US in size, and it's not only because they have 5x the people. They are starting to take care of their own, and realizing their own labor's affordability. The rich here in America may not need us in the short-term, but Comparative Advantage doesn't work when the formerly disadvantaged country suddenly holds all the chips.
I just checked McGee's _On Food and Cooking_ (highly recommended, especially if you like Good Eats), and he's uncharacteristically vague about the effect lighter and darker roasts have on caffeine content. (The 2004 edition just mentions the weight loss during different roasts, pg. 443.)

I'm pretty sure you're right, though AB has been stubbornly wrong about enough things before that I prefer to fact-check him.

Also: If your love of kitchen science extends to mad science, you might also like _Wild Fermentation_ by Sandor Ellix Katz. Making sauerkraut, sourdough, mead, beer, tempeh, miso, etc. Best cookbook, ever!
Sure it wont make you a code whisperer, but once you find an editor that works with your way of thought, you find some crazy cool stuff does happen. For me, it has become as if my editor is directly connected to my brain. If i want to go to a function definition, it just happens. If I want to search, i find myself a the target without every thinking "now i need to do a search". When refactoring I can move chunks of code around, and refit everything to the new pattern without any thought of the text level changes. This is brought by knowing a good tool well combined with knowing the code base and language well. However, without the tool I couldn't be nearly as effective.
I hope you are right. If libraries make this transition then they will get more customers and maybe even make some money to pay for expenses. I've also tried to replicate the atmosphere. Unfortunately, it seems that key ingredient is people. Which means that it cannot be reproduced on a cd. I find that if I'm not around people for a long period of time it starts to become difficult for me to work. I don't need to talk to them. I just need to have their positive auras around me, and I think this is in abundance in places like a coffee shop, were people go to relax and have a good time. Also the type of people that go there is really important. I see many people reading or working on their computers, and that is motivating.
I wrote about this a year ago: http://messymatters.com/buyrent

(I'm so proud of that article! I think it's literally the most popular thing I've ever written. It was even translated into Spanish.)

Short version: Neither choice is a no-brainer. It comes down to all the auxiliary aspects of the decision like tax benefits and personal preferences.
That is great. Too bad there are none like that around where I live.
An analogy with 18th century France does not call attention to the fact that the tiny minority of French who were aristocrats had survived the 17th, 16th, 15th, 14th, 13th, 12th, etc centuries just fine, putting down rebellions as needed. Like this one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquerie

The rich would have a much bigger advantage now because they could afford high-tech weapons. More so in the future. It's just a matter of how far they're willing to go.
Some ways to save money:

* Avoid SoMa

* Ditch the car - use ZipCar

* China Town for cheap produce

* SafeWay delivers groceries

* Costco! It's downtown so you don't need to go far.

* Goodwill for simple things (just bought a replacement keyboard there for $3)

And some ways to save time:

* Wash and fold laundry service! Most of the US is missing out by not having this.

* You can get a good cleaning person on CL for not too much. I get it once a month to do a deep clean.
this has to be the world record for most dupes in a single day :)
Edit: I see I'm in the wrong thread. Everyone else is over here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1585850

Here's what Lance Fortnow just tweeted:
"Much ado about an unverified proof. The word 'must' is troubling. I'll let others check it carefully."

Fortnow wrote this popular article in the Communications of the ACM on the status of the P=NP problem:
http://www.cs.uchicago.edu/~fortnow/papers/pnp-cacm.pdf
I would never have burned down the library of Alexandrida. Not unless there were a backup for every book there. Then I would burn it down. :)