skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yet the world switched to paper cups because styrofoam caused unsightly litter.

I thought the real issue here was biodegradability. Since most disposable cups are not recycled, the ease with which they could be recycled matters a lot less than the fact that styrofoam is forever. Then again, in the absence of oxygen and light, I'm not sure that paper cups will ever degrade much in a modern landfill....

The upshot was that a woman was criticizing a man for driving a gas guzzling pickup truck.

I'm a pretty environmental fellow. But I cannot understand the psychology of someone who would harass a stranger about their choices. I mean, what business of it is mine how some random person decides to carry out their life. Even if I'm right (which this woman clearly was not), it is not going to make a difference -- it will just make people miserable.

When I hear someone start a lecture on what is good for the environment I first try to verify how much that person knows.

My personal favorite is that we must prevent any new construction in the city because we should be building parks and green space there because green space is more green and trees are vital for dealing with climate change. That's why we should ensure that there is no high density housing near public transportation infrastructure.
That last paragraph is one of the most incisive comments I've read on HN.

I'll just add that there's a feedback loop. The more parents infantile their children, the longer the children tend to take to grow up, and the more the parents will feel like the children are infants.
From the article:

> Advertising works in traditional magazines because they are extending the content. It is part of the content itself. It provides editorial value.

The magazines shown are pretty much advertisements themselves -- the editorial value of the content is very low. Look to magazines that aren't about shilling product and I suspect the difference is minimal.

> Traditional advertising extends the content, and enhances the value. Online advertising disrupts the content, clutters up the page, and lowers the value.

On a site I used to work on, we handled our own advertising and only allowed ads that matched the subject area of the site. We had an unprecedented click-through rate on our ads. In many cases, users considered the ads as valuable as the content.

So I agree with the author in that ads related to the content do better than ads which don't. However, his conclusion is completely wrong -- there isn't anything specifically online or offline about it.
Yes. Specifically, a normal 6 year old boy.
Now everyone can actually move to Ruby 1.9!

This is really exciting.
> I remember 20 years ago learning that styrofoam is one of the most recyclable materials

Citation? I don't think I've ever lived somewhere that accepted styrofoam in curbside recycling, so I'm a bit skeptical.
That may be true, but I believe the point is not that the Truck-driver couldn't do more (Sure, he could.. Switching to a car would be better), but to show that the car owner was not considering things logically and considering that the ramifications of her own choices.
Does he really expect support at 4am for a free service?

Quote from the post: "If I'm paying I would hope to have an SLA with some way to reach the ops team."
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You left out some qualifiers, though:

- "Persisting for at least 6 months to a degree that is maladaptive and immature..."

- "The disorder impairs school, social or occupational functioning."

While all kids are going to exhibit many/most of the items on the list, most don't do so in a maladaptive way that's immature relative to their peers and that impairs their function. So while I'm certain there are inappropriate diagnoses of ADHD (perhaps disproportionately many, I don't know), I don't find the list you posted to be an indictment of the DSM-IV criteria.
How would a used (as opposed to new) car help? Used cars tend to be old, so would have a lowe fuel consumption than newer cars. Surely the most fuel effecient are the newest cars?
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These conditions appear after seriously traumatic incident, generally. The fact that we cannot double-blind test them doesn't mean it doesn't exist. There /is/ a correlation with some physical brain alterations.
This file is actually /usr/share/misc/units.dat from units.
exactly. The way I see it, as the average life span of a human increases the pace of life will slow to a more leisurely elven type speed. Things are a lot more complex and there is a great deal more to know than say a century or even half a century ago, it takes a bit longer now to come up to speed.
Thanks, I'll reduce the number of effects going on. :)
This ought to give the JooJoo tablet a run for the money.
Thanks, but I'll keep the state decided minimum of what an adult (18) is rather than some have some professor define what my goals should be. Since the adult "adults" are useless with any helpful advice. This is the vibe I get from the adult adults (US-specific):

* A house and senate that behave like toddlers (complete with screaming matches, name calling, and taking their ball home)

* An aging population more concerned with their pensions than the debt they are assigning to their children.

* Complete and utter disregard for the environmental devastation they are leaving behind.

I've learned more from the previous previous generation than I ever did from this last one (this doesn't include mom, my mom is the best). Mottos like, "Do your job, do it well, get a better one". Look out for your parents (ie. don't stick them in a home and wait for them to die).
Enterprise to soon rent out electrical vehicles
Total evidence offered for YAGTR (Yet another Google tablet rumour): 0. Plus given that Google just got out of the phone handset to consumer business (because, frankly, they suck at any product that might require end user support), how likely are try to jump into another end user hardware sale/support setup?
Matsumoto's paper is not on the Web. You can get a copy by asking. :(
The path contains the folder foi (freedom of information) so someone will have made a request for the document and they are obliged to release it to them if it meets the criteria.
I assume the site is pulling this data from Amazon, and therefore the list of ebook releases is limited to those released for Kindle.
Heard an episode of CBC Radio's Ideas show on Hydrogen that had this fascinating aside (I'm paraphrasing):

During the 1970's oil shock buildings in Toronto turned out their lights to save energy, however many buildings had electricity from Hydro-electric resources and were heated via oil-fired generators. The net result was that turning off the lights made the buildings colder and it took more oil energy to heat them up again than if the lights were left on.
SkyNet may be sentient, but it sure is dumb (HFT and "everyone else")
Making Facebook's Graph API 10 times faster
Not sure how popular this book would be here but if you are a dog lover then you will relate to Rescuing Sprite. It's a good read.

http://www.amazon.com/Rescuing-Sprite-Lovers-Story-Anguish/d...
That was a low blow, I'm off to do something useful now...
It's not very difficult: the Tallboy Bomb was free-falling and exceeded Mach 3 at impact.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tallboy_bomb
Note the author of the article states in the comments:

> Hardware is pure speculation -- my source didn't have any details for me. Launch date and carrier he did have

So don't get too excited about the specs, they are plucked from the ether.
If Quickbooks really is the best thing going then somebody should invent a better Quickbooks. It really is a terrible piece of software with terrible support.
Mint may be considered the standard to beat from the UI perspective, but I would question them as the standard for financial success (budgeting, envelopes, cash flow), "who pays?" http://abrandoned.com, and how to handle acquisition
http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/internet/why-mint...

These are a few of the questions that led to http://myjibe.com
I think this is fantastic because it means people can try them and assure that they actually work without having to take the big leap of buying one. Something you might only otherwise be able to do if you're Jay Leno rich.

Way to go Enterprise!

Also, with Enterprise buy 7% of all new cars in America; them showing this kind of initiative is very welcomed from a environmental point of view.
Good point. What I can do is add an question mark icon next to each category, which will bring a description or a screenshot of one email for that category up.
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So an OS that was originally intended for netbooks, before it's even released, has switched targets to the newly formed iPad-like tablet market? Suspect, but not unbelievable.

On another note, It still impresses me just how quickly the market was anticipating, repulsed, and then rapidly copying the iPad. I genuinely wonder if Google had targeted the iPad form factor first (with Android or Chrome OS) if they would have a fraction of the same success in bringing tablets to the masses.
Honestly that probably makes for more opportunity rather than less...
Not until distros start shipping it. I don't know about Ubuntu because I don't really use it, but Fedora's still shipping with 1.8 and Fedora 14 will only be released in November.
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I can tell you a bit about how I implemented the same system in my editor.

It's quite simple if you think of every operation as a function that modifies the document. As you do something, a function that reverses those changes is pushed onto an undo stack. This incudes when you hit the "undo" button.

So if my document state looks like this:

start->A->B->C

where an arrow is a state change, my Undo stack will look like:

U0<-U1<-U2

Where function U2 will get me from C to B, U1 from B to A, and U0 from A to the original document.

If I hit undo, that's a modification, so the state history looks like:

start->A->B->C->B

And my undo stack gets the "un-undo" pushed on the top, and looks like:

U0<-U1<-U2<-U3

So U3, when executed, brings me from the second state B back to state C. I'll never lose anything because every state I've ever seen in the document is implicitly stored in the undo stack.

If you're wondering how pushing an un-undo function on top of the undo stack doesn't prevent you from going beyond one level of undo, it's a simple trick; there is an undo stack pointer that decrements every time you hit "undo" and resets on any non-undo action. This is why in emacs you used to have to "do something else" like type a character to break the undo chain and re-visit more recent states.
JIT for some sweet Rails 3 love!
Speaking as a 23-year-old who graduated a year ago...

-Because we came out into a terrible economy our professional lives are naturally chaotic.

-Because we have little regard for the 'status quo,' the 'way things are done.' We've been told all our lives that nothing is 'normal'--we grew up thinking that attitude was normal to the extent of never questioning it. See: http://xkcd.com/150/

-Disregard similarly for vaguely Western assumptions. From the article: "Sociologists traditionally define the transition to adulthood as marked by five milestones." As someone else noted, leaving home isn't a global thing.

To put a bit of Angry Young Man spin on it, why should we be concerned with "growing up?" Why should we follow your (this is directed more at the NYT than at anyone here) roadmap? It's not like you did such a great job as far as we can see. (And I know that sentence has been said in some form throughout all of history.)
The article talks about a potential HTC-built device sold by Verizon. Where does it talk about an end-user sale?
Just need a good corporation and domain name. Been spinning my wheels for weeks on this.
I think it is likely we will see more of these. But this probability chip sounds more like an analog computer than what D. E. Shaw has done.

The Lyric web site says that they "model relationships between probabilities natively in the device physics", where D. E. Shaw's Anton chip sounds like it uses traditional logic gates the same way a GPU does.

P.S. Sorry, I downvoted you by accident -- I meant to upvote you.
Ironically, no
Perhaps the rationale is that a used car requires no energy to manufacture.
Especially when combined with the key fact that all incomes except those of the top quintile have been declining in real terms for over a generation.

Although I hear this claim made often, I believe it to be untrue. People at all income quintiles have more and better stuff now than people at the same quintile at all periods in the past [1]. That would be impossible if real incomes really went down.

[1] I'm assuming comparisons over at least 10 years, to avoid "during recession" vs "peak of bubble" comparisons.
Only one founder was ex-Google, Anna.
> PayPal, that's it.

Doesn't Moneybookers work too?
In the comments, from the author...

> Lee Mathews said 10:50AM on 8-18-2010

> No, my source tells me it's Google hardware -- like the N1.

I'm assuming handset support in the US is the same as the EU, where for smart phones, you normally deal with the manufacturer, not the carrier ( i.e. If my iPhone or iPad breaks, I call Apple - not O2).
As I have read before here, it's a bad idea to base your startup on a specific platform. This has happened with twitter too.
"In Sun's early history, we didn't think much of patents."
If it was any software but Ruby, I'd agree with you, but Rubyists tend to be into the cutting edge, as well as not using package managers to install Ruby. The conventional wisdom (at least for Ubuntu) has been "don't use apt, compile your own" for a while now. Or even better, use rvm.
I claim: ADHD is not a real disorder and that treatment for it is comparable to homeopathy.
It's already on rvm, http://rvm.beginrescueend.com
>I'm not sure that housing/medical/car are more expensive. I don't know about comparing 2010 to 1990, but I do know that if you compare roughly 2000 to 1970, all of those expenses went down.

... I'm fairly certain she showed that medical expenses + housing + need for a second vehicle accounted for the majority of the change in expenditures for the average nuclear family.

I haven't read the book yet, but I've watched her talk. This is where she talks about changes in expenses: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akVL7QY0S8A#t=15m0s

Edit: Skip to here if you can't spare four minutes extra for some exposition: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akVL7QY0S8A#t=19m30s
The Wired article (especially the charts!) is essentially equating bandwidth with usage: according to it, video is > 50x more "alive" than email. I typically spend much more time per day on email than video, but my guess is the episode of Mad Men that iTunes downloaded for me yesterday counts more than my last month of email...
I have never seen any API documentation as simple as Linode's. For some reason people like to really complicate this stuff.

http://www.linode.com/api/
I want my number system to be in base 11 or some other prime number. You see: The vast majority of numbers are never going to evenly divide our base, no matter what base we choose. So we might as well go for a solution that minimizes the special cases.
I would speculate that anyone doing any real work in Ruby doesn't wait on the distro to provide it. I don't do that with Perl, I compile my own. I would imagine Rubyists are the same way too. Anyway, kudos to the Ruby folks.
To be fair, that's easier to do when there's nothing else like whatever it is you're working on. People (me included) are waiting for Android tablets right now. There was nobody working for a tablet before the iPad, so Apple didn't have to say "we're working on this, don't buy the competitor's thing yet".
I think orphans have existed about as long as children have, and adoption has always been there too.

Surrogacy in the sense of "my sperm and your eggs in her body" is new, but men having multiple wives with the younger ones for child bearing is not. So I'd say the concept is old, and only the technology is new.
Thank you. The problem with subcategories is that we are talking about new books, rather than just general recommendations. In a given week that are only so many books that are released for a given category which are not obvious duds. The idea is that if you are interested in programming, you subscribe to the category. Then every week you take a look at the email and see if some titles catch your eye. There are some categories that may need to be split though, like Fiction for example.
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Your post is a great example of framing.
It's debatable as to whether or not I'll be able to honestly, there are some good (and a LOT of bad) products in the space. Effectively, it's issue tracking, and while I have some ideas that scratch my own itch which HOPEFULLY will appeal to others, my goal is to make something that services the small-to-medium sized business moreso than the enterprise apps currently do, and with more refinement than the open source apps do.

That said, I don't honestly know how much better mine will be than something like osTicket, except to say that the workflow will be dramatically different.

Thanks for the well-wishing. I'm sure I'll make an equally tentative post when I release.
If I only hired people who agreed with my political views I'd have a hard time hiring anybody. It's important to realize and accept that two equally intelligent people can come to very different political viewpoints, and that these political viewpoints generally don't impact a person's ability to do their job.

That said, I strongly believe that political conversations don't belong in the office. I've been in both workplaces and graduate programs where one's political views were simply assumed. Sitting around in the middle of a one-sided political 'conversation' isn't fun - you have to decide whether you want to just politely keep quiet or speak up and potentially ruin your relationship with your co-workers. (While most people can handle differing political views, some hold grudges or assume you're stupid, and it's not easy to tell who's going to do this at first.) Neither option is particularly enjoyable when you just want to get your job done and get along with everybody.
Local storage just doesn't work.

Can you explain why?
So I'm reading and thinking, "this information is useless, I can't get a likelihood ratio out of this"... and then someone actually provides the Bayesian posterior probability! Woohoo! Rationality prevails! Could this be the dawn of a new era?
A quick doze of inspiration (Flickr's most interesting images)
Age is a wrong explanation.
With 1.9.2 coming out, and Rails 3 too, the last pieces are in place for the Ruby community to move to Ruby1.9 for good.

The last year we had a lot of "choice" due to the transitional period we were in. Hopefully by the end of the year that will be history.

Hurray! :)
for those in Canada:
http://watch.thecomedynetwork.ca/the-daily-show-with-jon-ste...
This is also an important consideration when trying to evaluate (and iterate on) user feedback.

The type and quality of feedback that you get from paying customers is often completely different than what you get from non-paying users. Paying customers bring higher, and more importantly, more precise expectations of how your product should work for them. If you listen carefully, they'll tell you what your product needs to be. You'll have fewer users, but you'll actually have a product, rather than a service that tries to be everything to everyone.
I'm adding other sources to the backend, however yes, Amazon ECS is the main source at the moment. The titles are hand-picked, but I use Amazon's data and a custom algorithm to present me with a decent pool of books to start with.
Having over-focussed on so many details in the past, let me offer some simple advice -- move past it.

Start working on the product. The product that I'm building right now was named "something maybe" for weeks until the right name struck (that had an available domain name).

Historically, I've moved forward in leaps and bounds until either a problem presented itself or I'd get bogged down in something so trivial as a product name. Really, it doesn't matter.

In retrospect (and I have no idea whether or not this applies to you), I was stalling because I didn't know what to do after that. If you're stuck on a company name, simply substitute "working title" until you get moving, and the name will come.
You were raised by Transformers? AWESOME.
I much much much prefer desktop linux, I would hesitate to call windows decent, let alone by far the best.

Yet I have still found it as much as impossible to buy a computer without windows preinstalled.
This is the first version where conformance to RubySpec was made a high priority. It now passes over 99% of the spec. This is great news for the community because it makes it much easier for alternative ruby implementations to remain compatible.
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I don't have the original one on hand. The research I encountered was done at the University of Victoria back in the 1980s, and I learned about it while I was a student there.

However I just looked at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_cup#Environmental_impact which has the comment, Paper cups may consume more non-renewable resources than cups made of polystyrene foam (whose only significant effluent is pentane). which includes two citations for the fact.
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Cherry picked examples.

Some magazine ads are relevant to the content (particularly when the magazine intentionally runs features relevant to certain advertising bases and then approaches relevant advertisers). Most aren't.

Some websites curate ads very carefully, some even integrating affiliate links and algorithmic recommendations to a far greater extent than is possible on paper.

It's a little easier to quantify digital "ad-blindness" though...
From the source at http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2010/08/06/1001509107.full...

"We recruited 505 participants through Craigslist in seven US metropolitan areas: New York, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Houston, Dallas, Denver, and Los Angeles."
I guess I'll need to read Warren's book; an interview with co-author Amelia Tyagi (at http://motherjones.com/politics/2004/11/two-income-trap) is giving me a rather different impression from your take above.

Choice quotes:

"So we looked at the data for two-income families today earning an average income. What we found was that, while those families certainly make more money than a one-income family did a generation ago, by the time they pay for the basics -- an average home, a health insurance policy, a second car to get Mom to work, child care, and taxes -- that family actually has less money left over at the end of the month to show for it."

"...[A] big part of the two-income trap is that families have basically bid up the cost of living. Housing is a big example. A generation ago, an average family could buy an average home on one income. Today you can't do that in three-quarters of American cities. We all know that housing prices are going up, but what most people don't realize is that this has become a family problem. Housing prices are rising twice as fast for families with kids. ... Average mortgage expenses have gone 70 times faster than the average father's income, and the only way families are keeping up is by bringing in two incomes."

"The point is that families today are spending their money no more foolishly than their parents did. And yet they're five times more likely to go bankrupt, and three times more likely to lose their homes. Families are going broke on the basics --housing, health insurance, and education. These are the kind of bills that you can't just trim around the edges in the event of a downturn."