skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's fairly clear to see that stimulus will have different effects depending on whether it is a housing stimulus or an "everything else" stimulus, and that stimulus can mostly only help with the knock-on effects.

This is exactly what is not clear. If Keynes is right, then any stimulus which boosts aggregate demand will have the same effect on unemployment, whether it acts through the housing market or by building Furbies. It is not that Keynes is unable to recognize the distinction; he positively asserts that the distinction does not matter when in a situation of deficient aggregate demand.

A lot of the unemployment is in housing and related industries (~2 million jobs lost in construction), but a lot of it is also not in housing and related industries (~8 million jobs lost total). Every industry save health and education has lost jobs since 2008. The expected effect from a large loss of jobs in one sector, absent the resulting loss in AD, would be an increase of employment in other sectors, since the employees freed from the bad sector would lower the price of labor in other sectors. This is simple supply and demand. The fact that the opposite impact is seen every single time strongly suggests that the adjustment is blocked, per Keynes theory.
I think this is a better article than most of the commenters here imply. I think Adams realizes that genetics plays a role, that there is such a thing as good and bad practice. But he's not claiming any universals: rather he's proposing a deft experiment to show how ability correlates to practice rather than to innate talent with regard to one particular arbitrary skill.

I don't know exactly how his experiment would turn out. And it would be hard to decorrelate practice time from innate ability --- I certainly find it difficult to keep dedicating time toward activities in which I see no progress being made. But it's a good experiment, and a style of reality-based learning we should encourage.

My intuition is that he's right, and that the winners would be dominated by those who spent the most time practicing. But I'd love to have real numbers against which to test that intuition.
Or:

"There are well known and eminently achievable use patterns for achieving high scalability based on this technology."
The problem with this is reading a 400 page book on a tablet is a problem for those of use who experience eye strain. The refresh rate and the backlight really fatigue my eyes after more than a half hour or so.
Also, the Kindle and Nook are now priced way WAY below even the budget tablets and have much better displays for reading.
One of the biggest reasons I can think of for the eventual decline of HN are the result of these words;

>>>On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.<<<

The problem over here is that people's version of what gratifies their intellectual curiosity varies. What I find interesting is deeply subjective and I need to acknowledge that to contribute anything, anywhere. The same thing goes for HN in general.

HN is starting to attract people outside of its core audience and in doing so it inevitably leads to the point where people come in whose mean of what's interesting is different from the mean of what's interesting for the core audience.

It isn't their fault, but this process feeds into itself. So, if I see a post here on HN on death. I have this tendency to post up stuff related to death. Regardless of the fact whether or not they adhere to the spirit of the guidelines. People see that and they are more inclined to upvote it, since there is already content like that on the front page. So, it accelerates.

You might have noticed that the front page of HN always follows a pattern there are a series of similar posts which come up and stay there over the course of time. This is a good thing and a bad thing as well. The trick is in stopping it at the right time. That's where the community and the moderators come in, but if the majority of the community don't know any better than that. This means that the community can't self adjust. The moderators then have to play a stricter role, which is inherently negative in the longer run.

At the same time, if you define those words too strictly then HN won't be HN, anymore. This is the underlying paradox that needs to be solved to avoid that decline.
I'm guessing that this means he had a really fast lens on the camera? I'm still in point and shoot land, so I'm going to be getting and education in shutter speed vs aperture in various lighting conditions soon.

But it seems given that i have taken 1/1000 pictures in bright sunlight wide open in the past, to correctly expose at 1/8th the shutter, you'd need 8 times the light, or 3 f-stops of a faster lens.
Agreed. The problem is, I don't think phone manufacturers are adding enough value in their enhancements for customers to care. As it stands now, the new features that Google adds in every update to Android are much more desirable than whatever features the manufacturers are tacking on.
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For my part, I don't use awk for anything more complicated than one-liners. I used it for a while, stopped when I was working on something else, and forgot all the awk-specific stuff.

My MO these days is if it's anything more complicated than an awk one-liner like awk '{print $2 " " $NF}', I'll use Python or, lately, Ruby. (Perl would be fine, too, if I used it in other contexts often enough.)

That said, there's nothing quite like, well, programming your environment. The extent to which you can manipulate files, directories, and text in *nix right out of the box makes me feel privileged to understand it. I can remember a time when renaming a bunch of images en masse seemed tantalizing but out of reach. I've since learned quite a bit, and even though it's relatively mundane now, it still feels magical. Upthread, someone called it "moving mountains." That's precisely it, and I love it.

Yes, yes. I'm a complete and utter nerd, etc.
> * The interpreter should have a fast profiling mode (hashed counting of loop backedges) and a slower recording mode (for every instruction call the recorder first, then execute the instruction).

It already does this. The recording method is specialized for '[' (since loop headers can only be '['). All other opcodes go through a fast path that simply checks if we're in recording mode and stores to the trace buffer.

> * Don't record traces for a long time and then compile everything together.

The tricky part with this is knowing how to start up the profiler when we hit a side-exit. PC 123 may occur at multiple places in the trace tree. If we want to extend the tree on side-exit, we need to be able to recreate the path through the trace tree that led to that point. In essence, we need the compiled trace to continue updating the trace buffer. Certainly possible, but doesn't seem like a great idea offhand.

> * Sink all stores, especially updates of the virtual PC, data pointers etc. Don't count on the optimizer to do this for you.

Because I'm using tail-call based direct threading, there are no stores to the virtual PC or the data pointer. They're passed in registers to the tail-callee.

> * Due to the nature of the source language you may need to preprocess the IR or you need to teach the optimizer some additional tricks.

Yes, there's a whole range of pre-processing tricks that could be used to accelerate both the interpreter and the traces. I haven't even scratched the surface of that.
We don't expect to supply all the capital you'll ever need. The great majority of the startups we fund are able to raise more by the end of the 3 months.

Off the top of my head I think only 4 out of 36 startups in the current batch are fresh out of college.
Why Spice Girls are a poor choice for a new product focus group
If it was me, I'd be doing what they're doing - putting back the lost features, and trying to assuage disgruntled users.

I think the people in charge stopped thinking about what's best for the company long ago in favor of what's best for themselves. That also needs to be reversed.
I tried both and have decided to go with the Kindle. My wife and I both thought the glitchy lag between page turns on the Nook was a deal breaker. It was far less noticeable on the Kindle, and we haven't even gotten our new gen Kindles yet.
Also, the UI was slicker on the Kindle (in my opinion). You'd think a touch screen would be better, but it's slow, laggy, and glitchy compared to the Kindle interface.

Still, I liked both of them and the differences between them were very slight. It really came down to that page turn lag for us.
Hi,
a few notes

- generally speaking, I agree that's a useful service. Users should be able to set up not only "coming soon" pages, but also little "corporate websites" the can be online before the designers prepare the final corporate site

- when I log in, if I click on "Account" I see a blank page

- Is it already possible to create a "coming soon" page? I don't see this functionality clearly accessible, I see only the Verification functionality. When I log in, the first thing I want to learn is how easy is to set up my customised landing page.

- Please don't use your Twitter account to send only advertisement. As a Twitter user, I find that very annoying, and usually end up blocking users that do that
Thanks! We've got lots of plans for the future, but right now we can't change anything until the voting ends on Friday.

In the mean time, if you select the first character (with the headband) you will be the only one on your screen with his look. It's just how it works right now :-)
A friend of mine works for Westinghouse on Thorium reactors that he says are being built in China and India. It blows my mind why the switch hasn't happened yet.
Please don't post political topics. Thisas nothing really to do with hacking or startups. I'd like HN To not become the poltiics subreddit where your karma is dictated by how closely you hew to the party line.
I understand your point, but people have itchy back buttons. They'll bitch for a bit, and then they'll leave. The people who should be getting indignant are the people running the company - it is an advertisement-supported website after all. Downtime = lost revenue.
but it is much heavier, I can't read it all the time because of battery life, and it costs like 4 times more than a ebook reader.
It's descended into mob mentality. Everyone just wants to watch it burn. I'm sure they'll have a sizeable chunk of readers left by the end of the week, but as for contributors and discussions, it might as well be a ghost town.
Blackberry Gets Another 60 Days in India?
The reason is that the market value of companies who pay 39x is less than those who pay 40x. 40 may not be the perfect number, but the market is working toward finding it.

In other words, CEOs get paid X under the premise that they will cause the value of the company to increase by more than X.
I think they care a little. Apple continues to make interesting moves that hint at moving away from using Google's service stack. They've acquired some companies that specialize in services that Google currently provides, for example. Plus, Bing is now an option for Mobile Safari's search bar.

Android is a direct win for Google because they're guaranteed some influence, which means more opportunities to serve the latest hot ad unit. Anything that isn't Android is a much more tenuous proposition. Look at iAds.
Indeed... first it showed me some rural area in Scotland, then some beautiful suburban place in Denmark, then somewhere equally beautiful in Holland - I'm amazed at those countries.

I'd love to live in such a place.
Cool, however, you can get a complete Chumby One (LCD, touchscreen, speakers, case, etc.) and disassemble it for $99 at Costco.

http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product.aspx?Prodid=11529965
I disagree. Cell phones are mainstream tech that people obsess over. My girlfriends high school and college age sisters know nothing about laptops, TVs, and blu-ray, but they know every version of every cell phone available in a Verizon store.

i.e. "How can you only have an LG enV v2 when the Droid is so much better? Come ON, I thought you were into technology?"

A survey of people will return a lot that could care less about their cell phone (I care far less about my cell phone than my laptops/computers), but it would also return a large chunk of the population that cares far more about their cell phone than their laptop.

If anything, this is why laptops are now commoditized and cell phones are getting more feature competitive.
I can't tell exactly what a Pro account gets me, and how much it is.
Generally I don't get asked for an estimate until after I've done the design, so these numbers are code, unit test and very basic test on real hardware only. These are the rules I use:

- If I think I understand everything it involves, then I take my estimate for all the bits, add them up and multiply by 4.

- If I think I understand everything it involves, have done something similar before, and gone through my list of things to do a couple of times looking for stuff I've forgotten, I can multiply it by 2 instead. If I'm unsure how long something will take I am never allowed to round down.

- If I find myself sizing something with the word 'just' in the sentence, I'm missing something big. (e.g. Then it's just a matter of recreating the error condition and making sure my error gets triggered correctly.)

- If I'm not almost finished (i.e. functionality working with some hacks, unit test passes) by halfway through the time then I'm going to miss my deadline.

- I am still mystified as to where that other half of the time goes (I have a proper 90% rule going on), but some of it is getting my code in a shape where I'm happy about checking it in - dealing with comments so they mean things to people other than me, removing ugly bits of code, checking with co-workers in places where I wasn't sure I'd made the right decision. My maximum speed on this is about 500 lines a day. Some more time is then spent getting things back working again, because I'll have broken things in the process. And I need at least a day to get a sandbox build behaving properly, and willing to run on my hardware.

edit: formatting
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Charity write-off.
I think that this is probably the case. I can't say for certain if he was mimicking swordplay or just clubs (it's not too specific at that age). But he was definitely mimicking some type of projectile weapon quite often...and often with absurd pretend devices that bore no possible resemblance to a gun...like animal sound boxes and such. He'd just hold them at some specific angle and make loud "bang!" sounds.

Interestingly, he was home-schooled until about 9 (when his parent ultimately realized that it's actually not possible to absolutely isolate a child from the world and have them grow up healthy and well adjusted), so it's not like he was getting alot of this from other kids.

In general though, I think it's too easy to simplify things to "girls go with pink and dolls" and "boys go with blue and guns". I think it's far more likely to be "boys tend to go towards kinetic play as they grow older" and "girls tend to go more towards social play as they grow older"...and I think this appears to hold true cross culturally and I don't think it has a lot to do with social expectations. At least in my family, there's a pretty concerted effort to play with the masses of kids in the same games and pretty equally.
RWW launches Highlight to Search Feature sick
But laymen know there is an iPhone, an iPhone 3G, an iPhone 3GS etc.

Google has made a clear break with the 1.x vs 2.x series, maybe they need to make that more prominent
If the key is revoked, the digital signature done with this key is effectively revoked, since it no longer establishes identity. Look how CRLs work in PKI.
Dear everyone ever (especially "a smart bear", who should know better): stop saying "leverage" when all you mean is "use".

"I leveraged my fingers to type this reply."

"I leveraged the wheels on my car to drive to work this morning."

Etc.

Please stop.
I'm sure there are lots of great websites that have adopted that philosophy, most of which I've never heard of.

There are three groups of people who should have an interest in a given site:

A) The site owner, who wants it to get relevant traffic and generate business.

B) People who write online, and need new content to write about--especially if it's useful to their target audience.

C) Potential customers of A), many of whom are part of the target audience of B).

Now, it is in nobody's interest for A) to refuse to speak to B) on the grounds that C) will somehow find A) naturally.

I believe this guy was punished because his "experts" used paid links. Can you find a reference for the assertion that he was punished for hiring someone to help him rank well, or that Google believes in punishing such activity? Bear in mind that the head of Google's webspam team routinely speaks at SEO conferences, where presumably all of the attendees are in the results-gaming business. If your worldview is correct, that's really weird; like the CEO of Brink's making a habit of speaking at safecrackers' conventions.
Whichever way inspiration takes me usually.

I often have a bunch of half finished posts saved that might get finished, reworked or abandoned. Normally what happens is I have a better idea about which I can write a whole post in one sitting so I do that instead.

That sounds a lot like un-organisation doesn't it?
Podcasted lectures probably show an enormous selection bias, in that professors who don't care about teaching probably have no desire to make their lectures available to a wider audience. That aside I will concur that "professors don't like to teach" is probably much more anecdotal than evidence backed.
It is August. A lot of people are on vacation - including writers of blogs and articles. Get used to it. We have X numbers of stories on the front page, we won't always have X amount of interesting stories. Some days we will have 0. The world doesn't fit into nice even patterns.
I keep thinking he could use a better/smoother drawing method. A way to 2x the speed would be good for my attention span as well.

Edit: looks like newer videos have better rendering - http://www.khanacademy.org/video/linear-algebra---eigenvecto... versus http://khanexercises.appspot.com/video/raising-money-for-a-s...
Come on. Everyone who has actually tried it knows that "if your content is good, people will link to it" is not a valid SEO strategy- especially if you're doing e-commerce and actually trying to sell something.
Nice. Yeah, apparently China and especially India are investing a lot in this technology. I guess there are still a lot of politics involved in the energy market, with no big players wanting to give up a slice of their pie.
Ryanair and MaxRoam deal to slash roaming by 70pc
Take a look at the comments on Motorola's Facebook page to see (relatively) mainstream users caring about the version of Android their phones are running: http://www.facebook.com/motorola. The complaints about un-updated phones are relentless.

I think the phone manufacturers can blame Apple for this -- they set the expectation for mainstream phones to get regular and significant software updates. Now customers feel slighted if their phone doesn't get upgraded.
Congrats to the fellow Toronto startup - I met with them shortly after they started and was really impressed with what they had accomplished in a short period of time.

And one of my good friends just started there 6 months ago, I finally know why he stopped talking about work!
Windows and Android are not the same platform and buying a computer is a difference experience than buying a mobile phone.

Even if I give you that they are the same, The eMachines and Packard Bell still looked and felt the same (from an OS perspective), you could blame the performance on the crappy PC, not the software running on it.
That wouldn't take care of a formation not being detected because the pixel responsible for it has very high latency or is disconnecting. I think this kind of false negative is a much bigger issue than the false positives.
Recovery Act: How Obama's Stimulus Is Changing America
The future is here! Two USians and a European working successfully on a 2-day hackathon using such technology that blurs the boundary between server and client ... what more could we ask for!

Except robots
Don't self diagnose, see what the doctor says. Read some literature related to RSI (aka OOS) which is probably more likely than CTS. Do your stretches and take regular breaks. Consider a wrist brace. Check your wrist position when you sleep, ensuring you don't curl your hands like a claw.

http://solutions.3m.com/wps/portal/3M/en_US/ergonomics
So I think that is not technically speaking impossible but you have to really, really contrive it to make Like facilitate a BCC-to-Tony narrowcast. You can create "groups of one" by altering the URLs being liked to make them unique, saving the association that "Tony" => "uniqueUserID" somewhere outside of Facebook, installing a callback function to let your website know when one of your unique URLs gets liked, and then broadcasting a Tony-pleasing message to Tony's group of one.

But what is actually going to happen is Tony is going to favorite the front page / the product / etc (those two aren't necessarily the same thing), and then the only option for talking to Tony is to take out Ye Old Megaphone and blast everyone who likes the front page / product / etc.
Always good to see a troll admit they were trolling.
"If your content is good, people will link to it organically"

I think that's generally a bit of a myth - you/your service have to have not just good content but interesting too - a lot of stuff is just never going to fit that last requirement. Just because I'll never give a shout out to whoever makes my socks (I don't even know) doesn't mean they have no claim on the keyword.
Maybe Google can actually pull off free wi-fi, unlike its attempts in San Francisco.
If you've only got 30 users and you're aiming to get millions, then you might consider "standing your ground" (although even this situation is dubious -- it seems almost always better to build).

But as Digg has millions of users already, what your users want is the same thing as what is best for the company. You say sorry and revert back to the old site, then have a long hard think about what you did wrong and how to avoid making that mistake ever again.
Somehow Kevin Rose has become the Web's babysitter. Product launches are hard, and having revolting factions of whiny Diggers has got to make it nearly impossible.
Yep. Liberal democracy has surely caused the world its fare share of ills.
Nearby Friends is no more cyber stalkerish in 2010 than Facebook was in 2005. Don't you agree?
Try multi password recovery on windows

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Node Ko - Unit Testing in the Cloud with CloudQ
We built a cloud-based QUnit testing framework using Node.JS, sandboxing, jQuery, and a lot of glue, for the Node Knockout Competition -- this is a blog post from in the trenches.
tl;dr on the FAQ: private property creates hierarchy.
I don't think there is any coherent point that the users want. Some want V3 because they don't like change, others want unicorns, others want to have fun burning Digg to the ground. I'd love to see it succeed, but I seriously doubt it will.