skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And you misread my comments.

I am not implying (nor the linked FP article) that Twitter was insignificant in spreading the news around the world. It sure did one hell of a job and undoubtedly helped get the world’s attention to the Iranian’s ordeal. I am just downplaying the role of Twitter in facilitating the Iranians in physically organizing the protest (It contrast to the popular perception that Twitter played a critical role especially in this regard). Twitter was nearly non-existent in the streets of Tehran. That’s what the FP article is suggesting.
The engineering challenges of colonizing the ocean floor are probably as great or greater than those of colonizing space.

Weird but true. Some go so far as to call the ocean floor 'inner space'. http://isc.gso.uri.edu/
Http://www.codesounding.org/indexeng.html
The primary goal of CodeSounding is to make it possible hear the sound of execution of a software, assigning instruments and notes to Java programming statements (if, for, etc), so that the flowing of execution could be played as a flow of music.
Professional Experience has a vertical scrollbar, but scrolling causes the slides to change.

Safari 5.0.1
I tend to refer to myself as a "centrist libertarian", because I used to be hardcore right libertarian, but lately have developed relatively strong anarchist sympathies. (Oh, and capitalists can't be anarchists.)
Thunderbird would be a good choice. Mozilla has a few calendar solutions aswell: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/ (haven't used them, I'm happy with google calendar's web interface).
Clearly the solution is to use a boot floopy.
Decent list, though I'm surprised actually building the product isn't on there:

11. Buy a slice, learn Pythyon/Django, and build a MVP. Cost: $20/month and a bunch of all-nighters.
Frank Lloyd Wright Homes For Sale
The comma placement on the second page is horrible!

More personal and subjective:
Your choice of color (and a gradient) is inspired by powerpoint? Brrr.
Chomsky actually says that the fall of the USSR was actually a great victory for socialism/communism, because it wasn't actually communist.

I am not educated enough on the subject to know how correct he is, but it's interesting nonetheless.
> Besides which, capitalism is not a form of government.

But he also didn't say anything about government. He said it was capitalism.
You're correct in assuming that it's difficult to extract correct conclusions from a psychology experiment, just like with any other science. Moreso with psychology than other fields though because humans are complex beings.

But logically speaking, how do you make psychology beneficial to society without making a few assumptions? Math, for instance, is nothing but a set of rules built on top of assumptions. Yes, we can point out all the potential edge-cases all day. But that won't put our society any closer to understanding the human psyche than when we started.

Of course as an alternative, you could just accept the team's conclusions: "Acts of cleanliness have not only the potential to shift our moral pendulum to a more virtuous self, but also license harsher moral judgment of others." To me, that seems like a valid conclusion to draw based on the research. Would you not agree?
Oh, Ellsworth is amazing. As that article mentions in passing, she did enough research to successfully make transistors from scratch in a pottery kiln.

http://makerfaire.com/pub/e/2545
Chomsky refers to the 'real' communism, which has to date not been implemented by any society (and which possibly can not be implemented with people the way they happen to be).

It always has been a version of an oligarchy.

The same goes for those 'communist' countries out there today.
Homo homini lupus
I'm posting this to show contrarian viewpoint on the 'empathy' post a while back. It's an oldie but goodie. I don't necessarily agree but I'd like to hear HN chime in on this age-old debate: Is man fundamentally good or bad? Does technology change this basic disposition?
I'm building http://flockengine.com, a multiplayer framework in beta (currently with Android client). About 30% of players choose to sign in via Facebook, 70% prefer to create a custom account.
Arrington is completely wrong about women in technology
Thank you for your interesting comment.

I must say your argument resembles arguments in favor of the divine design. Specifically, I mean appealing to outstanding people as an argument. It is safe to state that effectively every outstanding creator before ~1870 had a deep faith in God and of course it affected her personality deeply. However I don't expect you to decide for yourself if God exists relying on this impressive statistics.

As for the link with mathematics, it is relevant to our discussion to mention here that I work in mathematical physics. To put it shortly, my work experience is that music has no special role in the research and definitely not in the understanding of it on the contrary to what you say. I can elaborate more if there were readers.

Let me repeat myself, I don't deny that music improves the quality of our life and can serve as an inspiration and improve the productivity as I experience it every day just like most of us. My point is different.

Hope to hear your feedback.
There is a lot of misinformation in replies to this post. The Tesla cards do NOT have 4x more DP performance (the whole Fermi generation, which includes Tesla and gaming cards, have 4x the DP perf of the previous GT200 generation). Tesla cards NOT have higher accuracy. The differences between buying a Tesla card and a gaming card are:
- Tesla cards have ECC memory, video cards do not.
- When you buy a Tesla card, Nvidia supposedly gives you very good tech support (I've heard you can call their engineers directly)
- Tesla cards have more GDDR memory: 3GB for the C2050, 6GB for the C2070, compared to 1.5GB for the highest end gaming card GTX480.

Some people are willing to pay a premium for the above 3 advantages, that's why Nvidia can sell Tesla cards at such a high price. IMO, the first advantage is overrated: Nvidia's ECC implementation (secdec) is unable to detect many multi-bit errors. Gaming cards offer at 10x better perf/price ratio, so it makes it hard to ignore them.
Funny, I posted that link a couple of hours ago :)
A lot of times in the States I'll order an appetizer and then a side salad or bowl of soup. Together it comes out to about what a meal should be.
For a really thorough discussion of all of this, check out "An anarchist FAQ": http://anarchism.pageabode.com/afaq/index.html
You're making the mistake of conflating "I wanna fuck that" with "I wanna be that." For the rest of the argument, I defer to thesethings.
Can you change the width of the tab sidebar?

Seems a glaring omission if you can't, especially for widescreen monitors.
Only to a limited extent. Assuming this is a regular-ish implementation of radix sort, you could start doing the first bucketing while data is being copied in. Likewise, you can copy out the sections which already have been fully sorted. But I would be surprised if you saw more than 10-15% percent speedup over naive copy execute copy.
... do you do anything for reasons other than money? Do you have hobbies? Code on the weekend?

If someone was proposing the idea of Open Source to you, would you ask why anyone would want to contribute to it?
I have yet to hear a cogent argument on why folks in their late 40s or early 50s are not adequately represented in programming positions start ups or otherwise. What is unique about programming as a practice that make it unsuitable for professional beyond a certain age?

Because programming is concerned with "details", it was considered clerical work from the beginning. Look at the indignities suffered by Jean Bartik and the female staff that were assigned to program ENIAC. Do you think they would have assigned women at the time if they had any idea of the intellectual challenge of programming?

Since programming is considered low level work, it's always been a smart move for programmers to find their way out of it into management or whatever. Relying on the good will of employers has always been a dubious proposition (except maybe during the American post-war boom—a unique period in world history), so it stands to reason that most programmers would be looking to move up and out.

In most professions that have similar age barriers to early exit (sports comes to mind immediately) one case expect to be compensated handsomely for the short while that one has is holding on to the position, this is not the case with programming.

In the case of sports you have 10,000 people that aspire to every single paid position. If programming were that way, where vast swaths of people practiced daily from age 6-21 in the hope of snagging one of the glorious few spots, then you could expect pay to scale accordingly. As it is, I think the economics of being a startup founder are a bit closer to professional athlete.
It's quite true, and sounds very close to the No True Scotsman fallacy. I don't believe that statist communism could ever work.
Is it uncommon for European restaurants to bring out another plate/silverware if asked, or just considered bad manners?

I'm genuinely curious, but perhaps I misunderstood what you were saying.

Also I'm curious if doggy bags imply the same connotations where you are from, as here they imply simply bringing leftovers home, although it has been a very long time since I've heard the term doggy bag and am more accustomed to people asking if anyone wants a box or their leftovers wrapped up.
There are bazillions of books on social skills, but the target audience (in this case) don't read them. The only assumption one can make is that they don't care to learn.
I have the last generation Kindle, and it handles most PDFs fine. It does poorly on the ones with very small font or if they're on a grey background or some such, but otherwise very good. If you can read the pdf a few feet back from a normal sized monitor after hitting control+l (fullscreen), you can probably read it on the Kindle.
no reason why he would...according to Jason Mahalo is a search engine
Last time I did this comparison about 6 months ago, Bebook emerged as the winner for me. It works in a very simple fashion, just like an MP3 player. Just put .pdf / .txt / .djvu files on a memory card, put card on the device and they appear there. For me the Kindle wasn't even an option though, as it isn't supported in my country.

I find it pretty comfortable to read, although contrast isn't as good as a real book, but less straining than a monitor. It weighs less than many books too. It isn't practical to read anything with illustrations or fancy layouts with this device, I wouldn't try to read something like "tcp/ip illustrated" on this. Also the page turning delays make it difficult to browse quickly, so mostly it is suitable for fiction, not as reference or study. Battery life is amazing.
This observation is hardly new, but computer/tech stuff tends to attract the kind of people who will spend hours delving into the minutiae of an abstract system but don't care to spend much time understanding other people. It's also a common attitude in many free software projects that a working patch is basically the only worthwhile contribution and everything else is noise. That attitude has many benefits but being "welcoming" is not one of them.

Yes, the world would be a nicer place if people were more understanding, kind, and polite. I have yet to hear any realistic plan for making that happen, and the issue of making CS more "accessible" has been a talking point for over a decade with no results.
I have yet to hear a cogent argument on why folks in their late 40s or early 50s are not adequately represented

This is a lot simpler than it seems. Highly experienced, working programmers are rare because there were far fewer programmers twenty years ago compared to today. So of course they are now far outnumbered by newcomers.

This happens in any booming field, in fact any booming demographic.
Oh. I feel kind of stupid now.
May I know why do you think outlook is unintuitive and also why is Gmail minimalistic? I love Gmail personally and would love to know if I there can be other features in other clients that you are looking for which will make managing emails easier.
In the case of the Fermi-class cards, you're paying for more memory (3 or 6GB vs 1 or 2), stability, tweaked drivers, and (possibly most importantly) error correction. It's really the same argument as for workstation graphics cards - consumer class cards are designed to sacrifice floating-point accuracy for maximum speed, and in some cases, this is unacceptable.

That said the 20- series is really freaking expensive. When I got my C1060's, they were ~$1500/per retail; I think the C2070's are nearly twice that.
Agreed, thus the wording of my first sentence. However the belief that you can talk to trees (delusion) combined with being fascinated with eyes (possible hallucination or sensory distortion) combined with no job or home all adds up to something highly consistent with schizophrenia. I've had a lot of direct personal experience with someone who has this condition, and have done a lot of reading and talking to doctors, so I have some basis for making this estimation.

Regarding religion. That's complicated. It may very well be the case that some people who make religious claims are in fact mentally ill. There are likely also other people who claim to follow a religion who are not mentally ill: they were either raised by their parents to believe that way, or, they chose it.
>Minimum wage was created specifically to stop abuse of large numbers of people.

Fifty years ago, the politicians who pushed for the increased minimum wage did not hide their motives. Nor, in an era of state-sanctioned segregation, did they feel the need to hide their knowledge of who the intended victims of minimum-wage increases would be. In a 1957 Senate hearing, minimum-wage advocate Senator (and future President) John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts said:

"Having on the market a rather large source of cheap labor [hundreds of thousands of black workers] depresses wages outside of that group, the wages of the white worker who has to compete.

When an employer can substitute a colored worker at a lower wage, it affects the whole wage structure of an area, doesn't it? There are, as you pointed out, hundreds of thousands of colored workers looking for decent work."

So, yes, the minimum wage was meant to stop the "abuse" of whites by blacks willing to work for a lower wage. It's sad when the racists have a better grasp of basic economics than the enlightened liberals.
> Is it uncommon for European restaurants to bring out another plate/silverware if asked, or just considered bad manners?

I'd hate to try :) I've never ever seen anybody do that, except for maybe asking for an extra spoon to share a desert.

> Also I'm curious if doggy bags imply the same connotations where you are from, as here they imply simply bringing leftovers home, although it has been a very long time since I've heard the term doggy bag and am more accustomed to people asking if anyone wants a box or their leftovers wrapped up.

I think that part of the stigma is that eating out is somewhat of a luxury in Europe whereas in America it is extremely normal. Prices are in general much higher here when eating out, the menus more varied (no thousand island dressing here, no burgers (at least, not in most places)) and people tend to dress up before going out.

A 'doggy bag' simply does not go well with the image of going out when you look at it like that. So I think that it's as much custom as it is setting and social stigma, if you asked for a doggy bag in a restaurant your peers would assume that you are either broke or very very stingy.

Or that you had a dog :)

Of course this is just my experience, maybe other Europeans can add / detract from that by giving their perspective, this is mine.
It's amazing what high production quality on audio and video does for credibility.
Using Chrome 7:

Pressing right on the last page restarts the animation (and a vertical scrollbar is visible for a very short time).

Using Firefox 3.6:

There's a horizontal scrollbar on multiple pages (some stay even after animation ends, some disappear).

Both:

The "Professional Experience" page has a vertical scrollbar, which triggers a page flip, making said page unusable.

Also, it might be just me, but I find it fairly annoying that I can see half of the next page at all times, but when I switch to that page, it clears it and starts to animate. This looks very weird to me.

The colors are also... brr.
She's a self-taught electrical engineer. That is...impressive.

I don't think I've ever met one who is self-taught.
Ah but you can make it sufficiently difficult that people will pay for the legal version rather than take the time to download it and find a legal crack.

If it takes 3 months for a hot game to be cracked, you loose very few sales.

And yes, pirates will purchase the games if you make them difficult enough to crack.
It's really interesting how disconcerting this is. I live in Pennsylvania, which has the same state store concept. I've lived here all my life. I don't travel much, and so the once a year or so that I leave the state, I have a roughly five second period when I walk into a 7-11 and they have beer in the cooler.
For those who prefer reading, or can't reach Youtube, etc.

"This is a message to YCombinator companies and hopefuls: if you tell Facebook about your startup before you reach critical mass and you get found by Facebook in any way you're an idiot. They will steal your company's ideas and try to get you to take a small price for your company and vision and take a job at Facebook. Which by the way is going to be a job that sucks. Don't do it. It's a scam. It's a trap. It's a trap. It's a trap. Insert Star Wars quip here. It's a trap. IT'S. A. TRAP. End of message."
Finance should be regulated into utility status all over the civilized
world, and if the community of hard-core financial engineers really
wants to go on being a collective pathogen, they’ll be forced to
acknowledge that what they do just isn’t civilized behavior, and do it
somewhere else. We’ll be way better off without them among us.

As George Soros describes in the historical section of The New Paradigm for Financial Markets, this was exactly the attitude which evolved from the wreckage of the Great Depression, but starting as early as the 60s the financial world steadily chipped away at the constraints which had been imposed. (Soros himself was one of the pioneers in the dilution of these constraints.)
Slideshare is ok but I love using Prezi(http://www.prezi.com) for my presentations now. It allows me to make presentations that are really interesting and that keep people engaged. Since my audience tends to be developers/testers this can be difficult but having things move around without be "Death-by-powerpoint" movement its a winner!
Indeed. There's a reason ballerina dancers eat tissue paper.
I think the 'fat cats' simply used the term communism to make the have-nots believe that they were living in a fair society without exploitation. A propaganda device rather than anything else.
Agreed. From the translation:

"It's so disrespectful to to die before ones parents, but in the last 10 plus years, I've been able to do what I want as an anime director, achieve my goals, and get some good reviews. I do feel regret that my films didn't make a lot of money"
I would say it's pretty common knowledge in the fitness world. I think this quote explains the concept nicely:

"The second rule of fat loss is that healthy fat does not make you fat. Excess calories, in particular excess from the wrong calories makes you fat. This is a very hard concept to get across. People still believe that fat makes you fat and will argue without you to the grave while they eat a gallon of low fat ice cream that has the power to make you fat over night.

...

Lets get back to fat. Low fat diets equal low testosterone and low progesterone production. Both are necessary for men and women for optimal fat loss and well-being.

Without adequate levels of fat in your diet (30% of calories), you will not have adequate levels of testosterone. Without adequate levels of testosterone you will not be able to build muscle. Building muscle is the most effective way to get rid of fat and keep it off. " - Mike Mahler
I didn't say your algebra skills suck - I say there are gaps. You don't put brackets where you should, and you don't seem to be able to manipulate equations quickly and easily. But you have some skills, and if you're only just starting out then you're probably doing well. I can't tell from this distance via this medium.

As a final hint, here's something interesting:

For a polynomial p(x), if p(a)=0 for some value a,
then (x-a) is a factor of p(x).

That means, for example, that (x+1) is a factor of
x^3+1 and (x-1) is a factor of x^3-1.

I have to go. Good luck!
Rails3 Take Two: A small budgeting app
What to do when your game is too easy and too hard?
"Einstein's own assertion that Mozart's music informed his mental heuristics for describing the cosmos"

Sounds like Star Wars :)

Could you please refer me to the origin of this citation? Google gave no immediate results. I am asking not for the sake of the argument, I am genuinely interested.
> The author is contriving a bullshit situation to make her point.

I have been in these situations. They aren't bullshit. When you get a ton of good hackers in one area and a newbie comes in, it's a crapshoot. Nobody wants to hold someone's hand while they stumble around, fucking everything up in the process. "I've got things to do."

It's NOT a bullshit situation.
Jason worked for Facebook

Did I miss something? Like they say, [citation needed].
Radix sort is my favorite sort algorithm. Here, I made a little Radix sort video with sound: http://rasterburn.org/~sgt/stuff3/radixsort.avi
10M for Hot Potatoe...I thought that acquisitions' numbers were unconfirmed?
Yep. And the idea that you could control production centrally with any sort of accuracy is pretty laughable.
Not sure if we watched the same video, but what I just saw was a yuppie in a pink shirt, struggling so hard to project an image of self-importance that it's bordering on slapstick.
Great guest indeed.

Jason is a true salesman. He knows how to get people's attention. Controversy is great in helping him just do that.
But see through that (obvious) persona; he has incredible insight to share based on his years of experience as entrepreneur.
He loves what he does, although he is not directly a hacker, he still is an entrepreneur. One that is willing to share everything he knows and is actively helping the community.
He can call me a nerd all day for that.
Indeed, links is awesome at showing real time charts, I agree. I'm also sure mozilla is ashamed of their new MDN site, and FB for its facebook chat.

I need clarify, i want to use it for features, not "bling".
I suppose there's just a lot to regret when one is dying, but I'm not projecting anything, simply responding to this: "Ever since we got married, I was so wrapped up in 'Work, work' that I was only able to spend some time at home after the cancer - such a shame."
Anytime a group that thinks they are a minority notices somebody else is making a lot of money doing something, they decide they naturally deserve a piece of that pie too.

Whether or not there are barriers is irrelevant to whether or not they will clamor for their 'fair share'.
I think the "Don't offer first" advice from before it was so easy to do research. Anecdotally, most of the people I know who are good at negotiating are comfortable offering first, and seem to do so more than half the time.
Realtime monitoring of Wikipedia edits via node.js
Writing the perfect question
I do those things because I enjoy them and they benefit me. Money isn't the only motivator.
It seems like Nvidia would have less of an image problem if the Teslas were the same performance and have more RAM and have ECC. (Also, the value of ECC is diminished if a Tesla is over 3x the price of a GeForce, because then you can run three times and vote.)