skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you have a reading problem. Yes, the unemployment did hit 70% in some places this is correct according to the article. They even give the name of the place and a short interview with someone living there. Secondly, GDP dropping 1.5% in a quarter is horrible. Their purchasing power is like in 1984. In other words last 25 years of their economic development has just been erased in a year. Nothing shoddy about this statistical fact. And in the end Greece listened to Goldman Sachs when its employees advised Greek Government how to create all these shady statistics. On top of that GS recommended and performed very risky operations with Greek bonds that just went very bad and that's why Greek bond market blew-up taking with it the whole economy. The difference is that the Greece is actually suing GS in an International Court instead of bailing them out and the Greek people are rightfully angry not letting Government waste their money. Now compare this to some other people who will complain about Greek, but then borrow more money from China to bail-out GS and their friends who screwed you ignorant in the first place.

You're as socialist as EU, maybe even more. The only difference is that you donate money to failed corporations instead your families. That's why Greeks have a few thousand years of history and you look like you'll be done after another few peasants from a desert will decide to blew up a building or two.
Thanks! Will use both the distro default and RVM.
Is she wearing... a Snuggie?
I'm totally in if the person on the other end is a female and I have the option to date her depending on where our conversation goes...
There's now room in the sign up form to indicate these sorts of specifics. Thanks for the awesome feedback.
Here and there, sure. Be wary of confirmation bias.
Really interesting! Looking forward to see how it progresses, the applications, and if it become reasonable/affordable for small scale/home use.
Is that a practical option right now when support of legacy browsers is still a necessity?
Actually, it's not that simple. Greek Government hired Goldman Sachs to run their bond operations and GS ran amok with that. So, now IMF which is in bed with GS, advised Greek Gov what to do and they're screwed even more. What a surprise!
True.
FourSquare is also still in a position where they can pivot.

The facebook status updates didn't kill twitter, but I think twitter became more of marketing tool than a tool to communicate with friends. Maybe that's just me, but I think competing with FB forces a company to focus on where they can compete.
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you know, that's actually an interesting quirk in human psychology, and one that i'm going to have to figure out how to confront in my marketing messages. the truth of the matter is that you wouldn't get tired of it. it's just that in your mind, you imagine the succession of day1,day2,day3 consecutively, but in reality, a lot of your exposure burnout "resets" in a 24 hour period.

harvard psychologist daniel gilbert goes into detail about some studies that describe this in his book stumbling upon happiness, which i reviewed here. http://www.zacharyburt.com/2010/06/stumbling-on-happiness-pr...

if you end up getting the book, you may be particularly interested in the salty chip study.
As an artist, why would I sign up? What value do you bring? I would only sign up either if there was a big audience of listeners and potentials fans on your site or if you bring something else to the table.

If i'm a fan or listener looking to discover music, why would I sign up? Usually because you either have a wide variety of artist to browse, or you're bringing something else to the table.

The same could be said for A&Rs etc. Seems like the chicken vs. egg problem. What are you doing to attract your initial user base?
Even if we accept your premise - Bush probably did it too - wasn't Obama elected to move away from Bush policies?
The Postscript rendering has to be sandboxed, running in a secure, limited context.

At least, that's what NeXT had to do with their Display Postscript. Prior to that it was possible to email someone a postscript file which the WindowServer would try to render for display in the mail window. One such file that went around would, when you clicked on the email, grab all your windows, spin them around the screen, and throw them off.

That's harmless, but Display Postscript included file operations...
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> 2. ubiquitous laziness can lead to some really subtle bugs

After the recent compiler change to prevent accidental head retention of lazy sequences, I don't remember having faced any subtle issue with laziness. Can you give me an example of what bit you?
I think it's a tad disconcerting that there is an empty blog... This seems like an easy blog topic to have some posts already made and, if a feature doesn't "work", why link to it?
You could do something like David Wurtz - http://davidwurtz.com/ - with a blog on the side for more detailed information on the progress of your projects.
I recommend the Clojure wiki: http://www.assembla.com/wiki/show/clojure/Getting_Started_wi...

If there is something that's not covered or linked to by that post, please submit a bug report to Swank-Clojure: http://github.com/technomancy/swank-clojure/issues

There is a lot of bad out-of-date documentation out there, but I like to think the official docs are pretty serviceable; if they aren't please help point out how.
From the article: "But in July 2009, Homeland Security introduced a directive requiring a wide range of information to be vetted by political appointees for "awareness purposes," no matter who requested it."

So yes - the Obama administration "PUT IN PLACE" this policy. It's not a long article. Read it.
Ah, and all action links go to your Twitter profile. Well, I guess that makes it clear to be an HTML mock-up. God help you if your "idea" goes viral right away ;)
You could pay someone to remind someone you care about. Like, if you were going on a long journey or travelling, or lived in a different time zone from someone special to you.
Thanks Alain, yours is surely better than mine! I had some guy with a big head of hair sitting right in front of me ;)

Great event, BTW. Dave & Adeo were phenomenal. Adeo has this ability to tear people down but do it in a really constructive and funny way so nobody feels bad about it, and everyone learns a lot.

DROdio
It is also very easy in Python:

Use generator list comprehensions:

(x for x in xs)

instead of building the full list:

[x for x in xs]

Use generators instead of plain functions when you can.

Learn to use itertools module:
http://docs.python.org/library/itertools.html

I use these often:

* chain()
* imap()
* groupby()
* takewhile()
* tee()
* izip()
* izip_longest()
* permutations()

You can make you code quite "lazy" if you practice enough, and eventually it just becomes a habit. Whenever you do anything you start asking yourself : "can I do this in a lazy way?"
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Not bad. I like how a lot of the examples and descriptions are short. Sometimes it would be nice to see how the code functions as part of a larger program, so you could organize snippets by length and by what other snippets it connects to.

Large snippets can have labels on different parts of the code, the specific function might be two lines in the middle, and could be highlighted or labeled. Sometimes small functionality, like changing CSS with javascript is part of a larger function like onClick. A snippet could be for those two things at once and each thing could be highlighted differently.

You could build a rating system for snippets instead of curating them manually. Novice users could say this snippet helped me, and experienced coders could say this snippet is good practice, this not so good. You could also do that for descriptions, get people with good english to rate descriptions, have them suggest improvements to grammar, make them shorter, add versions for expert users or novice users etc.. Each description could be translated to multiple languages as well, seems like something that would help people in your shoes.

You could also organize snippets as a part of a larger program. A program could:

1. Access a database

2. Find all users in a table

3. Add something to each user.

Another program might:

1. Access a database

2. Find users who do Javascript

3. Add something to each user.

These are slightly different programs but very common tasks, you can link in more tasks into these "multi-snippets."

Good job so far, looks like your inexperienced team is perfect for building a teaching site for programming.
That's Mark's sister.
I think the Bush administration policy was simply to deny access early and often.
It's silly. Yes, you need a great product. But you also need great messaging and media relations work over a long period of time. You think dropbox talks about how they grew for fun? No, it's part of their marketing strategy.
That is the most awesome twitter account!
... and reduce interruptions and non-productive idle chit-chat.

That said, I think that in the future, at least in software development, more and more developers are going to be working from home or coffee shops, because it has so many advantages over the commute-office-cubicle-corporate-meeting culture. Company spends less on office space. Developers get interrupted less and so can stay in productivity zones longer. Employees spend less time and money on non-productive & never-ending activities (commuting) and experience less health risk (car accidents) and cause less air & noise pollution (driving). I also suspect (though not 100% positive) it will put downward pressure on the number of middle managers needed, and thus save companies even more. Employees still need to be "managed" but if all the worker bees are remote than there is less cover and opportunity for managers to create makework and timesinks solely to help justify their own jobs.
Why do you say they're incapable of that focus? Visual Studio is a great IDE.
It is common for people I talk to complain that it is a pain to email complete web pages from most browsers. This article lists are best options I found. My favorite is to first reformat the page using the Readability bookmarklet. Please comment if you have other solutions.
A much simpler explanation would be - people that are wealthy enough to choose where they would like to live are predominantly not African-American.
Why do we buy cards? To say all the things we can't say ourselves.
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Domain-specific chips is a cyclical trend. They come and go; at some times they have advantages, and at others they don't. (Remember Lisp machines? Good initially but vastly outperformed by the end of their lifespan.) See for example the classic 'wheel of reincarnation' paper on graphics: http://cva.stanford.edu/classes/cs99s/papers/myer-sutherland...

The fundamental problem as I see it is that any domain-specific chip will receive a tiny fraction of R&D and economies of scale and amortization that a general purpose one will, and so its advantage is only temporary. As long as Moore's law is operating, this will be true.
No I mean besides the anonymous comments on TC, has anyone confirmed that this really happened?
Microsoft still sells XP to Netbook OEMs, but places hard (they don't change over time) limits on the hardware they can use

[Edit: can find very little on the XP limitations, apart from a 1Gb memory limit, but found the following conditions on using Win 7 Starter

* Screens cannot exceed 10.2 inches

* Maximum 1 GB of RAM

* Maximum 250 GB HDD or 64 SSD

* CPU must not exceed 2 GHz, and have a CPU thermal design power that is less than or equal to 15 W, not including the graphics and chipset.]
>Is there any plan to make "Monday / Friday" plans or something less frequent?

We can call whenever you want - just indicate the days you want us to call (or not call) on the new form.
It's not showing up in the "Updates" section of the App Store yet, but if you go to the Facebook page in the App Store you can install the update. The Places feature seems to be "unavailable" for a lot of people right now though as they roll it out on the backend.
If I were responsible for hiring people for that position I would first of all notice that he has experience developing for iOS (but also that his experience doesn’t seem to be huge, he is not at the cutting edge and that he is not very creative) and second of all that because of the type of apps he is developing he might not – culturally speaking – be a good fit for Apple.

A great developer might be wasted at the position Apple were hiring him for but a little experience might be quite good, so the first point could even be positive for him. Whether that second point is true can more or less be sorted out in the interview.

Are you really confident in assessing this person if this is the only thing you know about him? I’m certainly not.
Within three years of college, I could probably buy a house on my own in Pittsburgh or many other areas in America's vast middle, even putting 20% down.

Heck, my friend bought a house in Seattle within six months of graduating. He's leveraged as hell, but has a job at Amazon and is renting rooms to friends.
Ask HN: Which is the best functional Programming language?
I'm starting with functional programming language. Which do you suggest? Haskell, Scala, F# or any other. Please list any books.
Not just Asus:
The original mini was small and cheap, the new mini is the size (and cost) of a low end BMW - ditto the VW Golf and Beatle
19th amendment
I would rather have someone tell me why I am awesome... search the internet, find famous relatives that I didn't know I had, ... but this might be borderline creepy, since someone is stalking you.
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Perhaps Madhu Yarlagadda would call this a "course correction"?

He wrote on the subject of course correction on his blog in a July 4th posting. His writing may give deeper insight into him than a list of accomplishments or complaints would.

http://madhuyarlagadda.blogspot.com/

About half an hour after the NYT story today, the position was added to his Crunchbase profile

http://www.crunchbase.com/person/madhu-yarlagadda-3
I've been noodling with an idea for a while, and maybe this is a good time to see people's responses:

We have Spam filters. Why not Content filters? (ok, a ham strainer)

I want unlimited, user-defined bayesian filters for my email. Flag everything political-sounding, and have it (reasonably accurately) filtered - no more FUD chain letters in your main inbox! Flag anything funny - get a humor folder. Flag everything that's a bug report - get a bug report folder. Ultimately, you have an auto-sorting tagging system defined by your needs.

I'm primarily thinking it'd work for people with high-to-very-high email volume, as then the filters would have enough to learn from. But even if it's somewhat inaccurate, pre-sorted mail would be extremely useful to me - you just have to correct it occasionally, instead of correcting it every time.

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More on-topic, the single-most-useful thing I've done to manage my inbox has been to make a "this week" query-based folder. Far fewer things fall out of my attention that way, because it's a reasonable amount to scroll over if I've got a bit of time - something I never did when I had 3k+ in the same view.
It would be interesting to listen to graph algorithms.
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You sure you don't have a userscript or plugin installed? I don't think this is something Google would ever do...
Thanks very much Detrus for your feedback.

Regarding the lengthy code, I will definitely add on my feature list. And will try to come up with some feature how I can show the related code snippets and also try to maintain the learning is simple philosophy so it should not be too heavy to understand. The label and highlighted of the code is definitely a very good suggestion.

Initially I thought of introducing voting at first like HN and Reditt. But as in the initial stage difficult to get the traction of site, it all vote will look zero. So chosen views instead which gives me little motivation :) but one downside I seen using the views, it get updated by each bot. So I updated program not to update view count by the different bots. But definitely I am thinking a lot how to come up with better rating or voting system to make the content little bit structured as well so that a new user can read in one sequence. Also review of description I too thought about this and trying out some mock. But now I am trying to get some beta user or some community around it. Based on their feedback, I will try to implement some review system for the description.

Translation I didn't thought yet. But really if someone write in our native language we will be more happy. So many people may also like that translation feature.

Sure I will brainstorm with my team how we can link different short snippets and try to solve a common tasks.

Thanks a lot for your kind word!!!
Imagine how bad it would be if someone's "Having coffee at work" tweet/facebook message was public!! Then people could look up their name in the phone book and rob them!

Oh wait.. even worse! Imagine if everyone worked basically the same hours - then people could predict when your house is likely to be empty and rob them!!

Oh wait.. we already have that. Better panic already I guess.
Or you could send an email. Wouldn't it be worth more if you reminded them rather than a hired stranger reminding them, even if you can't remind them every day or every month?
MS calls the shots.

Asus can ship a linux machine, but then they will have to go and buy the copies of Windows for all their other machines from BestBuy
This is a good article, with nice insight on what cache coherency implies for the future of concurrency, but the semantics seems misleading. The word 'thread' is so overloaded that I'm not sure it's helpful here.

Yes, operating systems frequently allow processes to share the same data space, and we call these 'threads'. Yes, CPU's allow multiple code paths to be in progress on the same core, and we also call these 'threads'. And as the the author knows (based on the replies to comments), neither of these really constrains the form 'threads' take at the level the programmer thinks about.

So I'm not sure what use there is in concluding that threads "not going anywhere". This is trivially true to the extent that 'threads' are synonymous with 'concurrency', but does it say more than "concurrency is here to stay"?
Google Latitude can do that. But that would mean you and your friend would have to use be using it, and the chances of that approach zero.

(There's a joke there about how the chances of you having an actual friend in NYC approach zero too, but I'm going to leave that one..)
I think it is highly practical, since one very skilled designer and CSS programmer with enough programming skill (or a team) can create a template that many other less skilled and less experienced designers can then take and use at will. The template, while being rather complex compared to the hand-coded and "beautiful" markup that Thomas was talking about, can also have enough dumb logic in itself to degrade gracefully on legacy browsers.
Then may I suggest the Readability bookmarklet from Arc90? It's available at http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/

Or you could use Safari 5, which has it built in.

Aesthetics are a terrible grounds upon which to dismiss textual information.
Ask HN: webmetrics/pingdom alternative for global response times?
I'm looking for a BETTER self-serve version of webmetrics.com -- kind of like a global pingdom for response times.

I'd like to know what my response times and transfer times are for my website throughout the world. Like a pingdom that runs end-to-end load testing every 5 minutes in 10 or 20 more locations all day.

Webmetrics does this, but I am pretty dissatisfied with the information design and interaction design.
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For most people the idea of entirely giving up meat is just entirely out of the question – meat is just too delicious to cast aside forever. But for those of you brave souls that are capable of giving up meat you are in luck. Consuming a vegetarian diet actually has TONS of health benefits.
Depends if you think Foursquare is more like Zynga or FriendFeed.

Facebook can help some apps, but crushes others. I don't think it's at all clear which this will be.
Umm... isn't the a large part of FOIA to enable scandal fishing? Scandals wouldn't need to be fished if DHS did their job and brought them to the public's attention.
Amazed at e no of replies received. Guess simplicity rules! Can't wait for the results. It would be great to see some number on signs/subscription/cancellation, etc.
Well, the original 7'' eeepc probably was too small for most people. I personally understood (and welcomed) their move to 9'' models. I personally find it interesting though that they haven't since released a model that offers noticeable improvements over the 901 that was introduced 2 years ago.
When do you accept? When do you reject? This is bogus, and can't even solve problems in P in polynomial time.
hmm something like that, but i think im gunna go for something a little more in depth, content wise
look at smashingmagazine.com
Be careful: one of the resident facebook employees might take it upon himself to claim that you're a hysterical fool and totally misrepresent your concern, then get you banned from HN if you point out that he's doing so.

Just saying... because that's why this post is auto-dead.
I'm reading through this now, and thus far it is a remarkably interesting (and amusing) read.
Strange to see this a week after Intel announces a PCI express co-processor that looks like a Tesla

I like the sound of quadcore ARM64
thanks, thats more like it
MySpace, Friendster, Orkut, Hi5, Bebo. I'm sure there are others that I'm missing.

They have played pretty hard in the virtual currency area too (although if anyone really thought they'd be able to build a business in that area on Facebook then I've got a bridge to sell you)
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It sucks.
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Well see, you can spend money on engineers to improve the product, or you can spend money on strippers and steaks to sell the product.

Technically, both are "money spent on the product" in some way, shape or form. Oracle are just more likely to throw money at the latter class rather than the former class.
By his own admittance, OP worked for one company for 6.5 years and had ONE good manager. I suspect his bad experience with managers, Indian or otherwise, had as much or more to do with his employer and the work culture.

Another indicator that this is true is that he says that being on a work visa required his colleagues to push ethical boundaries. Having worked for many years, multiple employers and many managers on a work visa myself, I can assure you that this is not true everywhere, or even most places.

Seriously, any one on a work visa who is being pressured to do something ethically repugnant should change their job. In many cases this is easier than you would imagine.
i propose we create a user story out of this and have daily meetings till one of us commits suicide.