skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A quick search shows up the Nickle Resolution:

http://www.canadianencyclopedia.ca/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Pa...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_titles_debate

Canadians are (like Americans, although for different reasons) prohibited from accepting foreign titles. That's pretty much "against the law" to me.
Can you explain how the Mongols fit with this statement?
These conversations invariably turn into, "Women: Does society screw them up or is there just something weird with their brains

The common speculation is that there's something "weird" with men's brains, in that men go to extremes (both positive and negative) more often than women. (And you have to be something of an outlier to be on HN). That may or may not be more palatable, but there actually is some decent evidence to support it.
So the Soviets under Stalin murdered 10's of millions before 1950 but maintained moral equivalence with the United States until JFK was elected? I guess I have a different sense of morality.
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They offered 1200 BRL/month (about 10K USD/year). A junior engineer is supposed to make at least twice as much over here[1].

They work for foreign clients, and I do have experience with the job (through oDesk/Elance/RAC). I've also published a couple of papers and won several programming contests (I got to the ACM ICPC world finals once). I believe I deserve more.

[1] http://info.abril.com.br/carreira/salarios.shl
If you sign up for the Preview and never once tweet, Like, link to us, or whatever - if you're just like the 90% of normal users who come our way - you still get early access to Blueleaf. The vast, vast majority of our sign ups look like this, and that's totally OK. But we can't expect random people to come to our site if they don't read about it somewhere. This is what we're doing to try to make it easier for people to find us.
It seems that there is a bug on the page:

https://app.usablehealth.com/best_choice

On rollover the plus signs, the tooltip box quickly disapear and we dont have the time to read it.

I'm on Firefox 3.6.8.
Napoleon? :-)
much respect. thanks for sharing.
Amazing. The moral of the story is that having an exceptionally independent, driving job like a startup actually makes you better at weathering crises.

Pretty counter-intuitive. One would think that having more stability and security in the background would free up one's mind to be able to help and cope and the like. But it makes a lot of sense that the opposite is true. Even in the midst of crises, you don't want your life to be entirely about crisis management. A large dose of of independence and drive helps a lot with that. Being able to travel and still work helps. Feeling like you're still doing something that matters to you helps even more.
Would you use this service (myfi rental)?
Of course, this might be the case with Latin America, I have no knowledge of the situation down there. But for us, Easter-Europeans, USA was really the better alternative to USSR
Yeah, and that's on the client side, as is indicated by the first sentence of that section:

Creating a million tcp connections from one host is non-trivial.

The key words being "from one host". With a single client machine connecting to a single server endpoint, the (src ip, src port, dest ip, dest port) is reduced to being unique only on src port (from the client's perspective), so that's where the 65k limit, and the need for more IPs to do that, comes from. Using multiple source IPs on the same machine is like using multiple client hosts.

...using IPV4 there is a hard limit of the short integer used to indicate the port number which automatically limits you to 65536 connections (actually a few less, usually you'll lose 3 for stdin,stdout and stderr (which you can close to reuse them) and one for the listen socket).

The file descriptor limit is independent of the 65k total possible source ports. The source port limit is part of TCP/UDP. The file descriptor limit is set by ulimit (nofile in limits.conf) on a per-process basis and in /proc for system-wide. If you need more file descriptors, you can reuse 0, 1 and 2, but that's going to free up some ports so a single process can make more connections to the same server endpoint.
You think it is a good idea to brag about belittling users?

Oh please, please, let me in, let me use your awesome product!

It doesn't seem like the guy on twitter was pleading. You might have some good ideas about marketing, so please, go ahead with them, but get over your self. You are not that great and you're product is not that great.

Have some respect for the potential consumers who can make or break you.
Do you have a link to back this claim up? I don't believe it.

If you look at PayScale.com, for example, you'll see a ranking of undergrad majors, with starting and mid-career salaries, where mid-career is defined as "full-time employees with at least 10 years of experience in their career or field who hold a bachelor's degree and no higher degrees."

ref: http://www.payscale.com/best-colleges/degrees.asp

English Majors start at $37,800 and get to $67,500 after 10 years.
Electrical Engineering Majors start at $60,800 and get to $104,000 after 10 years.

AACRO has an incentive to overstate the benefits of non-technical college degrees, as these are the most common types of degrees, and these are the degrees that are leading more people to question the value of a college education.
Alexis you bastard, making me cry at work!

That was a beautiful post and really hit home in a weird day. Both my parents are getting old enough for me to worry about their health and I feel like I still haven't accomplished anything worthwhile. Sure I have a house/car/career etc. but just for once, I want to make them proud by doing something big. I've had about 3 hours of my 15-minutes of fame but nothing solid to rely on, like a stable startup or research career. The weird part is I feel a large part of my motivation comes from my desire to prove to them that they raised a good kid. I can't even imagine pushing myself to accomplish something if they aren't there to witness it. I just lost my grandpa last month and my dad expressed a very similar sentiment about him always trying to be the best son to his dad.

Thanks Alexis for sharing this. You're a good man.
I was a little surprised to find a McDonalds chicken sandwich with over 50% of recommended daily salt intake (default 'hacker' settings) given a four out of five star recommendation. There's a fine line between not being too harsh about people's diet and being overly generous in ratings!

I like the basic concept and I'm sure there are plenty of ways of extending and expanding upon it.
So, like I do with NetBSD then? well, I guess I actually have the netbsd installer in there.

freeBSD 8 requires at least xen 3.3 to run in paravirt mode; this is why it won't work on ec2, so I don't know if that counts as a 'normal xen setup' -

The thing is, last I read FreeBSD8 was not stable under paravirt xen, and I was hoping to hear this had changed. Also, last I remember, it didn't work at all with more than one vcpu.
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In our collective male defense: Even the best males have been struggling with the "How do women work?" question since the dawn of time, so you can imagine it is magnified when you introduce that topic to a group of males that disproportionately answer that question incorrectly.

I'd suggest not reading too much of it as "sexism" (even though it is) and more of "the other view". For every female physics grad there is a male nurse sharing the feeling, I guarantee that.

Regardless, I think it takes a unique individual to be on the minority side of the gender/field of study equation and applaud you for continuing to have the courage to satisfy your own desires.
I like OpenBSD the best of them all. The project has principles and they stick to them. It is simple and understandable and people like Stuart Henderson are very helpful with ports and new developers. It's a much smaller and friendly project than you may believe.

Theo and Ted and Marco and OGA and all the other devs are great and they are all very open about everything they do. I only have one majpr concern with OpenBSD:

* Multiple CPUs/Cores

With the lateral move by Intel and AMD to more and more cores rather than more hertz the future of CPU processing seems very clear. The problem is that OpenBSD has primitive SMP support, and is nowhere near FreeBSD or Linux. It's hard to find single core servers these days and in a few years, 12 or 16 cores will probably be entry level and 48 to 64 will be common... maybe more.

In short, I hope OpenBSD can keep up with multiple CPUs/cores. Otherwise it will seem just wrong to load it on new servers.

If they do not keep up, I would still buy the CDs to support the project and its many side projects (OpenSSH, OpenBGP, OpenNTP, the new smtp system, etc.). Even if you, as a Unix user absolutely hate OpenBSD for whatever reason, you should still buy the CDs to support OpenSSH.
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I see stories on Reddit all the time that people say made them cry. I've never been affected by them, but this one choked me up real hard.
You know, things like nuking whole cities do count when measuring moral. Not that USSR was highly moral, just the opposite. USA was not too moral that days.
It didn't - it's an artifact created by munging together different data sets.

Look at a single data set - http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/which-programming-lang...

Better, look at a direct comparison - http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/compare.php?lang=racke...
Not a terribly useful question, but for curiosity's sake, you can do it with $58.16 (as an upper bound).
"The first generation of Itanium was hugely expensive, didn't run x86 code well, and couldn't easily masquerade as a plain Jane x86 machine."

THAT was its biggest blunder -- the x86 part. It was pointless, and a waste of silicon, and it also throttled the chip back with a lot of extra overhead.

On top of everything else, it added NO value whatsoever, but it did make introducing the chip a lot harder, and designing it cost a lot more than it should have.

Had they stuck to their original plan of pushing the architecture as far as they could and using a binary translator to provide x86 emulation, they would probably have had a barnstormer that made even IBM quake in its boots. Instead, they hobbled it with the biggest brick they could find.

"Meanwhile, AMD looked at the same problem and came to a different conclusion."

In addition to the list you provided, AMD started abandoning backward compatibility in Long mode.

"Eventually they succeeded with a very substantial redesign of their hardware architecture (the core series) which paid huge dividends in the 2nd iteration as it proved to be far superior even to AMD's offerings."

It took Intel less than 2 years to launch Core after AMD hit the market over the head with... er, Sledgehammer. (Pun not intended, but that WAS AMD's code name.) Core was a 5-year project -- obviously, they were already working on it, and turning the cranks almost to the point of melting motherboards was clearly just to extend the life of the Netburst architecture beyond where Intel thought they'd need to.

I suspect that their original hope was that they be able to scale up the performance of Itanium far enough to exceed x86 performance even in emulation, and since Itanium was a simpler architecture (without hardware x86 compatibility, it's a FAR simpler architecture with a LOT more floating point throughput per clock cycle even now), it would be cheaper to manufacture.

Intel blundered with the hardware x86 silliness and AMD caught Intel with its pants down.

I would, however, argue that AMD's ccNUMA architecture was at least as big a deal as the fact that they introduced 64-bit computing to the mainstream -- which was huge.
For a really simple way to illustrate how bad the USSR central planning was, look no further than some big companies IT shops. Managers not trained in the specific area and very mistrustful / contemptuous of the actual workers giving orders; defining process and schedule; and telling the workers what "best practices" is. Now, imagine this crud applied to farms and factories.
Thanks we appreciate it. Here is an insight on our design goals:

Usable Health is to food what Orbitz is to flight tickets.
Usable Health is to food what Match is to finding your soulmate.
Usable Health is to food what Amazon is to book recommendations.

Usable Health is not a calorie counter.
Usable Health is not a health information aggregator.
Usable Health is not a fad diet.
A lot can be discerned in a glance.
Odd, I'd never noticed any such discussions. Maybe the stories I read don't get those kinds of comments, but I'll be on the lookout - I don't like that kind of thing either. (I'm male)
As opposed to fire bombing a whole country or doing death marches?
@chegra: Heh, it was surely sarcasm.

The email is not rude, but its not the traditional "we are so thankful you've signed up, here's what you asked for" either.

I figured out what bugs me about this approach. I took the time to punch my email in and instead of getting my reward, I am told of a bunch of other things I can do to get involved with BlueLeaf. Why would I? I don't know how good your reward is and I have no prospect of sampling it.

I'm as simple as a lab mouse hitting the button for a pellet. I received no pellet and am now uninterested as a result.

I am however interested in how other people react. I acknowledge that I'm a crotchety old man at 28. :)
http://www.restbackup.com/ - Backup Web Service for Mobile & Native Apps

I'm working hard to get the website and api ready for Private Beta. Tomorrow I'm coding the final api feature and more functional test cases to iron out problems with unicode filenames.
> Seems quite different compared to what I remember previously.

The simple explanation is that you don't remember very well what you saw when you looked previously.
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It isn't so much Excel as it is spreadsheets in general. The cycle I've seen is that when a group starts out, they use Excel because it is a rapid tool that they understand. But then they keep building on that until they have a very complicated mess on which they are dependent. Spreadsheets don't tend to have good tools for testing and can be very brittle, so they end up slowing things down and causing problems.

There are some interesting case studies here:
http://www.eusprig.org
i've been thinking about doing something like this, would def be interested in testing - contact info in profile.
Unfortunately I must say that this method is flawed. The are two key implicit assumptions that break the whole thing. The lesser one first -

You are assuming that the sample you have taken is a good estimate of the true probabilities. You have assumed that the probabilities will remain the same. This latter assumption is the next problem.

you heard of the black swan concept? The future is predictable except for the unpredictable parts.

I say this because I too have been thinking about this and wondering what kind of model would be the least worst indicator since all predictors are poor the longer the timespan as a ratio of stability of system in study. I am thinking something inspired by the N body problem and swarm based optimization would be cool to look at. Alas, I have not the time to pursue this.
Indeed. DIY Drones is a great community of amateur UAV builders that was founded by Wired's editor-in-chief (Chris Anderson). The company is a canonical example of an open hardware outfit. According to a recent report their 2010 revenues are approaching $1M.

http://www.hizook.com/blog/2010/05/03/two-open-hardware-robo...
Some years ago, I saw a 60 minutes episode on issues in higher education. The reporter picked a biology journal off a shelf, read its arcane title, and exclaimed "who actually reads this stuff?" to back up her claim about how useless journals are... as if she were somehow qualified to judge the importance of a paper by its title.

I couldn't help but imagining what she would have said if she picked up a paper titled "A Mathematical Theory of Communication" or "On formally undecidable propositions of. Principia Mathematica and related systems".
Men: Does society screw them up, or is there just something weird with their brains? Discus!

EDIT: Annoying to be on the receiving end, no?
You're using your non-fake account, borkbork. What gives, why bother?
A revelation: What I think matters
Thanks for pointing that out. The ranking system is a multi-dimensional algorithm that optimizes for a variety of micro and macro nutrients. Individuals with different dietary needs have different star representations / health scores for the same meal. For example for someone with hypertension that chicken sandwich will have a very poor health score.
TFA doesn't even mention death by caries, only the savings. If avoiding those deaths was the reason, I guess lithium would have been used before fluoride. I don't know the stats, but I know of several people that committed suicide in my area and never heard of a single death by caries.
How about share some of the more convincing of those arguments?
I have been working on it by myself for a few months (so have a working proof of concept).

The idea is a data aggregation service that helps small to medium online businesses analyze common sources of ecommerce data.

Most small businesses do not have the time or manpower to implement complex business intelligence solutions such as SAP, Cognos, or Actuate (the big players in this space).

My product serves to bridge this gap by providing an easy way to gather both traditional and non-traditional metrics. By traditional I mean gross sales, volume, margins, site traffic etc. Non traditional would be a lot of the "Web 2.0" metrics (tweets, buzz, etc).

I'm at a point right now where a proof of concept is built but I need a lot of help in the marketing/business development department.
I am not trying to measure who is (was) worse.
The thing is that the USSR had their arguments to carry their propaganda on for several decades. And their people believed them more or less.
Here's where you can download the Python measurement scripts so you can make those LLVM measurements and publish them - http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/help.php#languagex
I guess it doesn't need to be said that a lot of us are carrying baggage from adolescence. Even when I'm dating somebody, I easily fall into thinking that no woman will ever want me and that deep down all women are fascists who despise weakness, want to see the strong humiliate the weak, and yearn to be instruments of this brutal hierarchy of male power.

My therapist likes to remind me (and I'm paraphrasing heavily here,) "Dkarl, you've grown up, and the girls have grown up, too. You're not a dumb teenage boy trying to date dumb teenage girls anymore."

I encourage the women on HN to say their piece on gender issues when they come up, even when your comments don't fit into the prevailing conversation. Don't worry about where your comments fit, how they influence the conversation, or how people misunderstand them or hijack your points. Just put them out there, because I think the majority of men here are well-intentioned and pretty self-aware when it comes to our own thinking about women; we just don't know how women experience working with us and what we can do to improve that experience.
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He's confused when he compares the Soviet Union with Al Quaeda, and proposes that Al Quaeda is popular due to the loss of moral superiority of the US.

A more sensible comparison would be Soviet Union versus some hypothetical repressive theocratic 'caliphate' that Al Quaeda would like to set up. No doubt the unfortunate subjects of such a system would end up feeling the same way as the unfortunate subjects of the Soviet Union.

I agree with him that the US should export their values. Unfortunately if they do more than talk then they are going to come up against people who will violently oppose such a project, and then he'll be denouncing the US as the evil empire again, regardless of the conduct of the opposers.

PS: I feel like there's a lot of spittle flying around in this thread!
But what's insecure about the marketing pages being sent in the clear?

It's common practice to setup a subdomain for your secure communications so that you aren't having to send images, javascript and public pages through HTTPS. Load times are part of the reason, but the other is that it takes more resources on the server end too.

I'd love to hear your actual reasoning on this though.
In a communist society, the state owns everything. They own all natural resources, the industries that processes them, the supply chains, the labor and the economy. Profits and margins are not the objectives and there is no competition. So overall, the expenses to the state are far lesser than in a capitalistic society. Imagine if the US government owned IBM, Boeing, Lockheed, all the mines, had the cheapest yet most skilled labor then the cost of an ICBM would have been significantly lesser.
I've been using the chrome incognito pages for just this purpose glad to see the feature
I've found similar frustrations with the iPad - it works great for basic email and quick replies, but some of the advanced features like message flagging (I use "flag for follow up" all the time to mark messages I need to work on later) are lacking.
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An (open source) music library manager and automatic tag corrector.
http://beets.radbox.org/

It's Python and all command-line. I'm trying to make something that's both better than iTunes for managing music (not that hard) and smarter than MusicBrainz Picard for correcting tags (a little harder).
Doesn't show up for me.
I don't know if its because im from canada.
What is customer development? Eric Ries
Is it still a fallacy if the baker never had the money or intention to buy a suit and borrowed or withdrew from savings the money to fix the window?

Cute animation aside, the fallacy only holds up as long as we assume all income immediately becomes debit. A cursory glance at society and business demonstrates that is not the case.
Does anyone know of any studies that take into consideration labour-force dropout as well? It's a bit less enlightening if you compare the 95% of science grads who are employed doing science with the 60% of soft studies grads (both numbers purely hypothetical), to compare the most career-driven X-students with all the Y-students is unfair to Y-studies.

Tenored professorships are nicely paying, hard to get but exist in every discipline (let's pick on Gender Studies) so if 2/100 GS grads become 100K/year tenured profs and 98/100 opt out of the labour force, you're really measuring the wrong thing.
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At work...a sinatra api for an existing app that is currently a horrible mess of java and xml configuration files (more "code" is in xml than java, ugh!)

After hours...working on features toward the launch of http://www.wanderphiles.com (teaser site...sign up!). So much to do and only a couple hours a day to work on it.
He's pretty unclear on economics, yes.

Capitalism more efficiently allocates the labor of people than a command/communist economy. Thus, for the same population, a capitalist economy has more wealth -- it can spend this on better consumer goods AND better military hardware. The tokens themselves don't matter.

As well, the "western world" was much bigger and better resourced than the soviet bloc, and started from a much higher level of development.

It's amazing that the soviets were able to maintain some level of parity as long as they did (maybe to 1960-1965 in most military forces); for some things, playing catch-up was easier than initial development (nuclear tech, lots of other weapons, many consumer products), so it was easier to remain in a close second place than to potentially be the leader.