skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With all respect due him, I regard pg's essays as I do Malcolm Gladwell's books: they are often entertaining, occasionally insightful, and never something that I would cite in an argument. (And for all the same reasons.)

So, I predicted this response. In fact, I even said,

> There is a counter-argument that this also leads to better living conditions for the poor, and it's true, but that doesn't resolve the much greater economic divide between the various socio-economic classes.

I've been waiting almost all day for someone to come along and say, "but the poor are so much better off!" So, I apologize in advance ...

What do you think of slavery? I have a somewhat unconventional view of it. I think it was a necessary component of human progress for a long time, until technology could gradually supplant it. I don't think it was inherently evil (except of course in abusive conditions, which it usually was).

What was truly awful about slavery was that there was usually no way for a slave to have any chance at all of improving their class. There were exceptions, sure, but as a rule, once a slave, always a slave. That is where slavery is really bad, IMO.

Similarly, as the class divide becomes progressively wider in modern society, there are more and more people who will find it impossible to markedly improve their socio-economic status. As a rule of thumb, if you're homeless in the U.S. today, you're not likely to be sending your kids to college 20 years from now.

Part of the reason that I'm so passionate about the problem of poverty is because I've lived a small bit of it. I've made the transition from being quite poor to being -- at the moment -- less poor, and with a chance of being in pretty good shape in a few years. It takes a long time, and it takes vast amounts of energy. And, I had good luck on my side: I got to play with computers when I was very young, so I have useful skills.

While I gratefully concede that a poor person today has much better chances of being able to eat cooked food and enjoy the basic comforts of cheap entertainment and toys, I do not agree that having really really poor people and really really rich people is an indicator of a healthy society. Rockefeller, Carnegie, Gates, and others have chosen to do good things with their amassed fortunes, but I'd still rather see larger numbers of people attending secondary schools and learning trades -- things which are much harder to do when they're extremely poor.
Intel Said to Be Near Purchase of Infineon Division
No More Excuses Using RVM to Play with Rails 3
The math of bowling scores
why pay in eyeballs when you can pay in clock cycles? this could be a way cooler way to monetize a site than ads
The Importance of Business Surveys
Cliff notes?
Discount gucci handbags
discount gucci handbags on sale,gucci handbags outlet,gucci handbags outlet
Exactly! this was one of the thoughts we had. Can you imagine someone like farmville implementing it? Lots of potential revenue.

Would also be great to donate cycles to educational or non-profit teams.
Thanks! We're pretty happy with what we've got, but there's still a lot more planned.

You're right about the potential to reach more; this is actually where this idea spawned from. Always thought that *@home had too many barriers (having to download/install/etc). This is fairly automatic, and takes almost no integration effort on anyone's part other than one line of HTML. ;D
> However it is supply and demand that sets wages...

This has been shown to be false throughout history, at least as many times as supply-side economics.
Ask HN: from zero to development
I friend of mine would like to learn iPhone development, but she is starting from zero since she does not know how to program at all (she studied communication and multimedia design).

I was thinking about teaching her, because I've thought for a long time to enter into the teaching business and this is an occasion to gather some information on how to do it having a student that did not pay for the course and can forgive me some mistake.

She wants to learn iPhone development, but I think this applies to learning any platform from ground level. What do you think it's the best path to teach development to a complete starter? Should I go the path I followed long time ago (learn how to program in a basic imperative language, learn OO paradigm, learn proper development on the target platform) or there is some better path, maybe mixing the steps? I understand that although the path I followed lead to good result, I started learning programming 15 years ago when the landscape was a lot different and I had a different commitment.

I would like to keep the level of interest and fun high from the start, because if I follow a more academic path I fear her enthusiasm could wear off (and this will be helpful in the future to have satisfied customers). Any advice/experience on this subject?
35 Examples of Login Forms
As you’re in the process of designing a login form/area you must yourself faces with a few Important questions:
For example, should it be login, log in or sign in? How should the forgot password link be written? What about including a cancel button? Should it be keep me signed in or remember me on this computer? Should the layout be horizontal or vertical? And so on..
So we Find 35 Different websites login forms for your Inspiration.Enjoy the post and don’t forget to share it.
Django Dash 2010 Results
"What year did you move-in" is a good question to add to this page.
Yeah, we're still musing on this, it's certainly a known point. Besides the obvious method of offering an "opt out" extension (like Google does with their ad/tracking stuff), there's the more ethical pieces to consider - e.g, loading on Mobile, where people may be paying for data consumption... we shouldn't be taking their data rates high (or potentially using up their battery in the background) for arbitrary reasons.

As of right now it doesn't even fire on mobile devices for this reason.

tl;dr Good point, we're aware, and there'll be ways to deal with it. Must sleep now.
Sure they can find them, but at what cost? Having a full-length book (200 pages in 9 by 6) edited is going to cost $5000. Plus $500 for a jacket design, $5000 for marketing, a 1000 in expenses left and right - before you know it you're out 10k before you even sold your first copy, and not counting the hours you put in.

Compare that to a published author: if you're an OK writer (no superstar but still sellable) you get a 10k advance (so that you can actually, you know, buy food and pay rent while you write), don't have to spend the 100's of extra hours in coordinating all the other tasks (during which you can work on your next book...) and generally live a much more secure life, with (much?) less risk.

Most authors are just regular people who want to put their kids through school and live a good life, not ball-to-the-wall entrepreneurs who are 'going to make it big of crash' or whatever business bravado strong talk is in style this week. I don't understand where this hate against publishers comes from - don't people see that they're being used by people like Godin who, once they themselves have become successful the traditional way, are going to tell people that that's not the way to do it, and oh buy my book on how you should do it nowadays?

PS no offense but if your frame of reference is 'I was publishing a website', let's say you weren't quite in the same spot most authors are (depending on the website, but when I assume your was 'average'...)
I lived in Italy at that time and yes, nowadays italians (with the proper exceptions) are not the most honest people you can find.

(I am italian myself and I say this with a little of bitter sadness, but it is how it goes, unfortunately).
Best textutil you probably haven't heard of (or have forgotten about): comm(1)
Augmented Reality for the Enterprise
I like it pretty well so far, as it nicely recognizes authors and gives you all their latest work. Bookmarked for use later.. hopefully it does a nice job at getting me the articles I need by title, which sometimes google scholar doesn't do as well as I'd like.
That's great and everything, but Tim Feriss is a certified BS artist.
Agreed and since cable was supposed to be ad free (that is why you paid for it right?) that is super annoying.

I hope one day we can kill cable so that each show will be forced to compete on its own merit, without ads, and not just be at the mercy of some agency that misunderstand the value of its viewers (Star Trek TOS) or executives at fox that don't understand their own audience (see Firefly and another ton of scify show that have all been canceled in their first season).

Heres is to the death of cable middle men.
Thanks for your feedback guys. This was our first shot. Next we need to figure out

- What kind of problems lend themselves well to our framework? Most MapReduce algorithms crunch huge loads of data. Our framework is more useful for long-running computations on freely available data

- How does the technical side look? I'm thinking node as stateless master servers, hypertable for storage, and RabbitMQ for flexible persistent job queues. The client runner has some bigger problems, like circumventing the same-origin policy (for pulling data e.g. from graph.facebook.com or twitter) and streaming in large data.

- What to do about confidentiality. All computations will by virtue of the framework be visible to the workers. That may not be ideal in some cases.

- How to handle worker failure and incorrect results. In our system, workers are unreliable, not trustworthy and slow. That is very different from other implementations ;)

That said, if anyone here runs a lot of MapReduce tasks or is generally interested in the subject, drop us a line at team@maprejuice.com or leave us your email address at http://maprejuice.com. Next we would like to take a number of real-world tasks and try to calculate the correct results on our "cluster" :)
Getting 2 double word score tiles doesn't seem to work.
There's not much else that I knew come from Japan in software.

If you routinely play video games, use consumer electronics, or travel via automobiles, odds are quite good you have used Japanese software recently. Don't worry: you are hardly the only person who forgets to count those.

The other category of software Japan is big in is Big Freaking Enterprise backoffice ware, which is overwhelmingly sold to Big Freaking Japanese Enterprises and a few foreign customers who have to interoperate closely with them. (Totally hypothetically speaking, imagine you had a large automobile manufacturer whose supply chain could practically apply for membership to the United Nations. Their backend software might have significant uptake among companies who enjoy pleasing their #1 customer.)

We're really, really behind the US curve in the consumer web space, though. (Working on it!)
Plura Processing does something like that -- offering their distributed computing client for integration into Flash games, and kicking $2.60 back to the developer per month of compute time: http://www.pluraprocessing.com/games/index.html

I don't know them personally, so I'm curious how that model is working out for them.
First mover advantage. Youtube was synonymous with online 'canned' video, google with 'search'.

By parking it under the google brand they may have made a mistake. Another - possibly small - effect of that is that you have two steps before getting to a site, video.google.com, is less convenient than youtube.com, and much less easy to promote as a brand separate from the search portion of the site. Many people read 'video.google.com' the same way they promoted 'images.google.com', as a search engine for online videos (which it now has become, for the most part) instead of an easy way to share your videos with your buddies and the rest of the world.

I don't think it will be possible to quantify this effect, but I notice that microsoft named their search engine 'bing.com' after several tries of doing it as a subsidiary, and that google has not attempted to bring youtube.com under the google domain as the replacement for video.google.com (which still exists), it is now the 'search' arm of google for video, returning youtube.com mixed with other video results, just like what you'd expect.
I find "diff -y" more intuitive, but I didn't know comm and will explore potential uses.
What exactly do you mean with "stealing your CPU cycles"?

We've been discussing whether or not to make the computations transparent to the visitor of the sites. The workers could expose an API to site-owners to start/pause/stop/disable the computations. Would that help?
"...absolutely meaningless in measuring anything."

This is not true, not for calories nor for lines of code. Both are not sufficient measures when used on their own, and both need context to be interpreted in, but outright dismissing any measurement of them is just as wrong as blindly relying on them.

Apart from this, this study was done by professional nutritional researchers - the article may have dumbed down their word a bit but I'd be hard-pressed to believe that they didn't account for things like that.
There are some very cool submissions, and they're all open source.

First place was a site meant to be run only locally; it's for developers to manage all their other projects. After dreaming of something similar for a while, it's great to see it happen (with code!). Now if only it worked with pip instead of buildout...
Army Games - Play Army Games onlineFlash games|Play online games
Free Internet Games. Play tons of Online Army Games at our site from War Games, Fighting Games to Army Shooting, Army Tactics. Don&#039;t hesitate to get into our site to become a real soldier and take chance to practice army strategy.
eh, honestly, I think the publisher-hate is as much from non-authors than authors.

Now, of course, if you are an author, and you don't need what a publisher provides, by all means, go at it without a publisher. Modern technology now means that many of the things that were the exclusive domain of the publishers are now available to even us little guys.

But, speaking as an author, I /do/ need what the publisher provides, therefore I went with a publisher rather than going it alone. And this is common and valid as well.

Now, in my field, Technical books, very few authors expect to more than pay for the pizza consumed while writing. Anyone remotely qualified to write a technical book can likely make a lot more money in less time consulting.

You write a technical book to educate people, and to give yourself credibility. Really, trading away the bulk of the money in exchange for that credibility would be a good deal by itself; the fact that the publisher also takes care of all the minutia of actually manufacturing the books and getting them out to the stores is just gravy. Hell, in my case, the publisher talked me in to writing the book in the first place, and rode me until I actually finished it; something I almost certainly would not have done on my own.

I mean, to give you some idea, "The book of Xen" took me and a guy who is better than I am three years to write. We've sold something like two thousand copies. Even if we kept $30 a pop (about what amazon sells the thing for) that's only $60,000; maybe half a year's pay for one of the two people doing it (counting benefits, etc...) Now, we wern't working three years full time, but it was more than 6 months full time, and this ate some of our best and most productive hours.

Now, of course, in reality, my friend and I split 15 percent of the wholesale price, which is something like half the cover price, so we earned considerably less than we would have if we could have moved that many books on our own and paid zero for printing.

Yeah, if you are Knuth, you move a lot more books than I can. But, if you are Knuth, you can also make a lot more money doing other things. Would you give Knuth a cut of equity to sit on your board? I would.

So yeah; money (at least money directly from book sales) is not the reason why anyone writes a technical book, so it doesn't really matter that the publisher takes a cut.

The number one thing a publisher brings is:

Credibility.

Next time you are at a cocktail party, mention you are working on a book. I guarantee, the first thing someone sizing you up will ask is "do you have a publisher?"

I mean, there are many other useful things my publisher did for me, but the credibility is at the top of the list. Even assuming near superhuman levels of perseverance, enough to hire and supervise a good editor, etc... I still couldn't gain that credibility by myself.

Figure out how to replace the credibility function of publishers, and you will have a reason for technical authors to publish indie.
EL Wire Made at Home - The Currency of Burning Man
Intel eats Infineon's mobile unit for $1.4B, looks to 'accelerate 4G LTE'
I'm embarrassed by how proud this made me: http://i.imgur.com/QtIfy.png
Rails 3.0 API docs on Rubydoc.info
The X Most Awesome Tombs
There really is nothing quite like a massive tomb to say ''Look at me! I was really, really important!'' Like, for example:
materials:

http://sites.google.com/site/elen4193/kits/el
> If I'm not wrong, when you use FB Connect, you can capture only the user id.

The information you can currently 'cache' from facebook, is called basic information and currently consists of:

> user ID, name, email, gender, birthday, current city, profile picture URL, and the user IDs of the user’s friends who have also connected with your application.

You can also easily request other information, such as email address, without any additional dialogue box. I'm not sure whether most users would realize that this additional information is being shared, or not.
Became clear that the problem is not in the need of money, but in finding a purpose, fulfilling an immediate need. If they had used the money in the most efficient way, they wouldn't be there in the first place (obviously)
This project sounds somewhat relevant, though it doesn't really correlate the content of edits (it just groups the edits by organization): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiScanner
Find Higher Education Tools for Success with MBA degree
New York Knicks Tickets
The perfect place to get your New York Knicks Tickets is no other than Excite.com. Apart from the massive inventory of tickets available, we also get you absolute bargains on your New York Knicks Tickets
I've down-voted this, but feel I owe you an explanation. In short - I have no idea what you're saying.

There are two cases - either I know about ActiveRecord and Django's ORM, and therefore I am in a position to assess what you say, or I don't.

In the first case you've told me nothing except your opinion, and you've added no information. That would be worth a down-vote.

In the second case, not knowing about these things I have no idea what your opinion is. I'm assuming there's an air of sarcasm, but I can't tell. Without expressing youself clearly and positively it can be hard to tell. Again, you've added no information. That would be worth a down-vote.

And that's why.
Marketing & Design Agency Tampa
Developers, There are Better Ways to Maintain your Notes
Internet may phase out printed Oxford Dictionary
Http://www.anyimeasuring.com/products/check-masters.html
Before starting with iPhone development I would have her to get a CS degree or at least some of the standard courses.
Yeah

Mitsubishi, Mitsui and of course the huge Fujitsu... there's plenty of software gorillas in Japan.

Maybe the parent poster has just never needed a Nuclear Silo/Underground Railsystem/Maglev Train.
I think paste (merge lines of files) also deserves mention. Besides that, I have found tail and column to be extremely useful.
Image Processing at the Speed of Light (on GPUs)
Buy Air Jordan Flight 9 White Metallic Silver Neutral Grey
I'm sorry, it was not my intention to be condescending; merely to be critical. Searching for 'philosophy of science' should provide plenty of resources; which ones suit you is impossible for me to guess, because it strongly depends on background/prior knowledge, which is why I refrained from advising anything specific.

As a starting point, http://www.teach12.com/ttcx/CourseDescLong2.aspx?cid=4100 may be a pretty decent introduction. There are torrents floating around if you want a taste.
and their revenue is below expectations!! http://www.intc.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=503033&R...
I've tried this with mixed results. It all depends on the willingness of the 'subject' to bite through the boring bits before getting to the good parts and your ability to make the boring bits interesting. Hint: computing factorials is not interesting :)

Programming is best taught when aiming for a goal. So if her goal is an iphone app then that's the 'hook' you could use to make the boring bits more interesting. Keep that functional iphone app at the end of the tunnel as the way to motivate and you stand a chance of doing a good job here.

Finding out what motivates people is the key to teaching, if someone is hard to motivate or you're not good at figuring out what motivates them it will be an uphill battle. But once you have the motivation on your side you will progress quickly.
There is a good full course from Stanford here:

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewiTunes...
>Cable & telcos video providers have a big time weapon in the form of transfer caps.

And the people will scream bloody murder... in the computer infrastructure industry, you raise your prices by not lowering them quite as quickly as you could. raising prices? your customers will mutiny. I know I would.

This expectation that computers, bandwidth, etc... will get cheaper and cheaper over time is strongly ingrained into the minds of consumers. push them back, and they will scream but loud.

Isn't this the root of this whole net-neutrality thing? we are afraid that telcos will raise prices (by raise prices, I mean either raise prices, or provide degraded service at current prices) so we want the government to come in and regulate that sort of thing? I mean, regardless of what you think of net neutrality laws, you have to agree that it's a sign that consumers get /very angry/ if you even suggest that bandwidth prices might go up.
Penalize pixels which touch a correct position but are not part of it
"any content"? So piracy is legal now in Chile?
Good. With their upcoming fusion product line, ATI name on AMD CPUs would have only confused.
Mike Rowe celebrates dirty jobs
We’re Not Paid To Write Code
Cheap seo packages
Generally a question arrises from our client side how is it worthful for us by looking our cheap seo packages, but we take only a small profit and we need is results.
Seconded. Its as minimal as web.py to get started but has all the templating, realtime events, and more waiting when you need them. Docs are great and sample code is shipped with it so you know it works.
After doing a bit of contracting for Skype and eBay quite a few years ago, the problem was that eBay's management are a bunch of clueless goons. That they would get taken for a ride like this is no surprise to me at all.
The X-MP will be a tougher nut to crack, but I think the software may be easier to find.
What possible benefit would this be to Cisco or Skype or even to Skype's current users?
S P E E D
The Tragic Death of Practically Everything
Chatroulette Gets It Up: V.2 Is Now Live
WebEx is the most horrible user-hostile piece of software out there, so hopefully they'll kill it in favour of Skype.
What's also very impressive is not just the raw clock speed but the architecture is also deeply pipelined, something that comes in very handy in a vector processor.
Monster Beats by Dr Dre headphones with Extremely stylish and elegant
Monster Beats by dre studio high definition headphones are precision-engineered to reveal the full sound of today’s digital music including the most sonically demanding rock, hip hop and R&B. With advanced speaker design, powered amplification, and active noise canceling, Beats delivers all the power, clarity, and deep bass today’s top artists and producers want you to hear