skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's unclear what you mean by the "this" in the "this does not happen"

However ...

A helicopter changes direction by using the cyclic setting on its rotors. Then you get more lift from one part of the rotor cycle and less from another. That causes the plane of the rotors to tilt, and then the helicopter goes off in the appropriate direction.

For example, having more lift in the rear portion of the cycle and less in the front means the helicopter gets tipped forward, effectively like lifting one part of a plate. The down-draft now has a significant rearwards component, so the rotors get pushed forward, taking the helicopter with it.

If you then change the cyclic to "flat" so there is identical lift everywhere, the weight of the helicopter dangling from the rotors causes it come come back upright (after swinging a bit)

It's a weird experience sitting in a helicopter when it's doing this, especially if you're mostly accustomed to ordinary aeroplanes.

I don't see any contradiction in any of this, and it really doesn't seem to have any bearing on the fact that contra-rotating disks have no net gyroscopic effect.
If you hate to sound like one of those Ron Paul folks, don't say things like "I'd like to see less engagement of the government in everything". That doesn't make any sense. You're taking a whole bunch of big complicated problems, shrinking them to a single simplification that you can get your head around, and then prescribing one-size-fits-all solutions. That's never a good recipe.

The Federal Government happens to be in a place where they can expend small money for big national gains in a number of places -- energy research in particular is one of those. Federally funded energy research just plain makes sense, especially when you compare it to all of the indirectly-federally-funded oil exploration that happens on a dollar for dollar basis.

EDIT: For "what in what", I meant "people" in "solving the problems we have in this country".
> And your charge example is not so good. For Galilean invariant theories it's only relative motions that matter.

E&M is Lorentz invariant though, not Galilean.

This causes an issue with your starlight aberration example as well. Velocities do not add linearly (though that is a reasonable approximation for low velocities).
I think if Americans had always been so averse to talking about politics in public, America would not exist.

Whether someone is willing an able to discuss politics in a civil manner is a good indication of their overall mindset and personality.
You can use Google's Chrome Web Store to sell HTML5 apps. For info, how to integrate with your apps, see: http://code.google.com/chrome/webstore/docs/index.html
Some good advice I've heard: When doing this kind of market research, don't ask people if they would buy, ask them to buy.

Of course, that's easier said than done in certain circumstances.
Pivot Results in Cosmo Coverage
HackADay has been running a series of articles about getting started with Android development. Introduction here: http://hackaday.com/2010/07/12/android-development-101-%E2%8...
Is there a way to update Facebook when pictures are posted? That would be a really good way to pull in collaborators.

Is there any way for people to search for and find these photo albums? So, like, if someone starts a "Game three of the World Series" album, can everyone who was there find the album easily and upload their own photos? That could be kinda cool.
> have to work until 11pm/midnight the previous night

?

Just don't do that then. In at 9, out at 5. No problem, life goes on.
Flowchart, process diagram, Network diagram, BPMN diagrams, Sitemap, Wireframe
There was some development since you looked at it. For example, that wallpaper is no longer in the builds by default ;).
I think that ad was ironically topical
There was a great "scary basement" story posted here about three years ago that seems to have gone virtually unnoticed:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=85587

If the name seems familiar, well, it's either because you bleed yellow or you've heard of CouchDB.
Peers who give your age group (and you) a really bad name.
Scrum is a child play compare to what happens when
organization gets Six Sigma like stuff introduced through.
Scrum Master as scamster !? Big deal! How about whole management tree getting additional clones - green, brown, black belts - who put their extremely empowered, yet clumsy and arrogant, hands and noses into and messing with everything? After having lived through such thing, a mild degree scrum feels just like a fly spec, a minimally necessary sacrifice to blood thirsty Gods of Office Space.
Interesting article, but probably poorly timed submissing to HN. You could have used this article to promote your product, but you're in stealth mode so we get a "sign up to hear when my product is available" page, but still have no idea what your product is. Good article, bad marketing. Should have released this about a week after you launched the site :)
It's really cute and clever, and if my grandmother has used Google today, she was probably overcome with fright that she had broken something.
For the 40m investment, I wonder how much profit they make. They seem to have a very large staff.
Delivering Happiness: Q & A with Tony Hsieh, Jason Fried, and DHH (Notes)
This is insanely highly recommended.

Possibly the best, and most important, fanfic of all time.
Once the board found out their hands were tied. They didn't know exactly what went down, but there was a real possibility of a story coming out implying money for sex.
While excess demand for laborers did contribute to the Great Compression, it was not the only contributing factor. The actions of Unions and Wage Controls, also played a large role. Nonetheless you have a good point.

The real question is why if productivity of the middle class is rising why aren't their incomes also rising. It seems that the marginal distribution of income should be somewhat related to marginal productivity changes of the workers, but its not.
If this turns out to be the case, the bigger question is whether or not he gets to keep the severance package...

If he does end up at Oracle, I suspect that the money given to him by HP to go away too...
You know what one of the core values of Agile is? People over process.

For fuck sake, the reason the Agile Manifesto came into being in the first place because the people writing it, the people who created various methodologies now known as "Agile", agreed that there was no ONE TRUE WAY, just a set a values they shared. Each and every one of them would agree with you.

This willful misunderstanding of agile is just pathetic. It's like listing to teabaggers going on about death panels.
rlwrap can do completion, given a little setting-up: http://utopia.knoware.nl/~hlub/rlwrap/rlwrap.html
Well, in this case clearing the storage won't be enough as it seems like the ad uses the device identifier to track you and restore the database right after.
Other than cookies and local storage, none of those would be effective on iOS. Flash and Silverlight are out, and given the lack of a plugin architecture and no user installed fonts, fingerprinting wouldn't work past browser version.
Oh man I would love a podcast. And I was only thinking scottish because of the TV show I was watching...
Actually it shouldn't matter to stability whether a recument (or other) bike is front or rear drive. In fact it appears some recuments are front drive. I would think that rear drive is prevalent because that's the wheel carrying most of the weight.

Also I think the larger effect on your experiemt is the "trail" thing the author mentioned. If you spin the front wheel 180 degrees (possible for some bikes) and try again I think you'll mostly see the reverse result: pushing the bike backwards will let it roll a while, but pushing it forwards will result in immediate crash. But the leaning effect you mention could be important too, I don't know.
There are a lot of different versions of the truth here and of what the facts are.

I think most folks believe that the amounts and concealment were not really issues, as neither was either significant or deliberate.

I think the real issue was that the board was too weak to deal with what they expected the media fallout to be after the beating they took in their last scandal.
Do we treat computers like humans?
Blah, it's just a number. Every major publication has errors like this all the time. Every book ever published is rife with typos. It's not like they wrote an entirely nonsensical number like 1634. 1995 and 1955 are very easy to mistype.
all it takes is 5 million? doesn't sound like that big a problem, considering all the obstacles one must surpass to become president.

like if someone would be president, if and only if he could find 5 million, there are people who would give it to him. it wouldn't be a show stopper.

maybe the problem with the donation is he thinks not being homophobic would lose him too many votes..?
Well, I kinda feel bad for the dog. I hope somebody took care of the dog.
The Segway Patroller
A dictionary is insufficient for languages that use compound words such as German and Dutch. You also need some algorithm for taking apart such compound words.
I'm not certain your thought experiment applies. Your use of charges implies that we are discussing EM attraction or repulsion, which we are not.

Considering gravity does not have an inverse (a gravitational repulsion) that I am aware of, I'm not certain we can extend your thought experiment to gravity.
In the 90s CMM and Cleanroom Engineering were popular.

Believe me. That wasn't better.

Then came this thing called RAD (Rapid Application Development) driven by a new set of tools such as Visual Basic.

That wasn't better either.

Extreme Programming was a breath of fresh air but Fred Brooks was right. There's no silver bullet.
My impression (from very brief study of Mandarin) is that Mandarin has a lot more homonyms than most languages, e.g. lǐ has a ton of meanings: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/l%C7%90 It also seems to me that a lot of Mandarin phonemes are much closer together than most languages, e.g. ch and q are both a similar "ch" sound (likewise sh and x). Or maybe these sounds just seem similar to me because of my English upbringing?

Do linguists have a way to quantitatively measure how close together the sounds and words are in a language? Some sort of Shannon entropy measure, maybe? Or a way to measure how spread out words are in "phonetic space". I couldn't find anything, but I'd like to know if there's a way to measure these things objectively.
Yeah, and while I don't use zsh, I keep all my emacs config in a git repository with my other dotfiles. That plus apt-get / pkg_add / etc. seems to solve the problem nicely.
I admittedly don't know the details, but if he has a severance, that usually implies that he was let go. All the non-competes I've ever read were effectively voided in the event of employer termination, unless the severance amount also included a non-compete clause itself.
I use it all the time to check difficult words. It works well. Google usually even suggests "did you mean" the right spelling when you get it wrong.
Eric S. Raymond accurately characterized Agile when he described it as repackaging the things hackers do anyway, in a way that can be sold to non-hackers.

Maybe you don't want to be sold a product. You're not the target audience for Agile Methodology(tm). The MBA and Tim Robbins crowd are.
I don’t think implementation is the problem. Standards are. This really should be done by the browser but it’s nowhere to be seen in the standards process.

It wouldn’t be strange to have a CSS property that controls hyphenation, ‘text-overlow:ellipsis’ (which adds a ellipsis before the text overflows [+]) also changes the text at that level.

[+] http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-text/#text-overflow
I have another question for yourself at their website and buy this product again and again and I'ma let you finish but Beyonce had one of these days I'll bet your life on the road today and
There are also opinions that text justifying is a "crime".

Some (http://line25.com/articles/10-usability-crimes-you-really-sh...) say that justified text is hard to read for Dyslexic users.

Others (http://www.v7n.com/forums/web-usability/42975-justify-not-ju...) claim that ragged right side can help "keeping place" in the text. (but why then the books are justified?)

Anyway because of that and because it is troublesome to implement justification correctly I think adding those soft-hyphens isn't worth a trouble.
Scientists discover tiny solar panels that create themselves
Come to California :)
I certainly don't believe that starting a startup is the essence of being a hacker. What a completely crazy idea. How could I believe that Ken Thompson was missing the essence of being a hacker?

I wish you'd be either less contentious or less mistaken. It would be fine if you were one or the other, but having to deal with both simultaneously gets kind of wearing after a while.
Placing all the blame on Cassandra helps Digg justify letting go the VP, since he was allegedly the guy who pushed it.
There is no way, ever, that Rick Santorum will ever make a 5 million dollar donation to the organization in question - not if he wishes to maintain the direction his ideologies take.

In his case, it would be a complete show stopper. Not from a financial standpoint, but from a political one.
Making Twitter More Useful
You can't support gay marriage and be elected President, not even as a Democrat (maybe in 2016). As a Republican? Forget it.
A tutorial for creating 3D lenticular prints using a non-3D version of Photoshop
When its time to take out their credit cards then they backtrack

And to be fair, even if I am trying to be super-honest, I find it very hard to decide whether I would be happy to whip out a credit card from a concept pitch. It's not just a question of "would I pay for A", it is a question of "would I pay for A it it really rang my bell", and I can't tell whether you are going to ring my bell or not until I have tried your product and your customer support philosophy.

When I look at my credit card statement, I see a bunch of companies not just whose product I like and use, but also a bunch of folks for whom I can say "I like the way they do business".

I didn't pay to cloud-store photos for over a decade, until I found smugmug. So what is the right answer to the question "would you pay to store photos"?

This isn't the kind of nuance you would get from an MT survey I don't think.
The canvas code could be optimized to make it just as efficient.
Tried in in both Firefox and Safari and got the 'we don't support your browser' dialog even though my version numbers were higher than the ones they gave.

Perhaps it is not ready for prime time?
This campaign struck me from the very beginning as mean-spirited and misguided, as it adversely affects everyone with that surname, not just a particular politician.
How to Do Social Media Marketing Without the Big Budget
>> The fact that the CEO will often pull code off the internet and say we should use it shows me that respect is not really there.

Holy crap!
Wired's Clive Thompson on Peer-to-Peer Renting
Failure is a Decision. Own it.
Appyzilla: Chillingo to Develop Billabong Surf Trip For iOS Users
A Half Way House for NYC Startups
it predicts what you're going to type next. this is really nothing new. perhaps the most interesting use of predicting input in this fashion is dasher:

http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/

it uses this prediction to make it efficient for people who cannot type, type.
I voted for it because I find this kind of real world impact of SEO to be interesting.

Admittedly I also dislike Rick Santorum.
Business owners own the output of their employees, so the improvement in productivity goes to the owners. Employee wages are mostly determined by the supply and demand for the input of the workers. If demand is high, wages go up, if supply is high wages go down. It's the combination of low supply and high demand that gave workers the leverage to gain some of the increase in their output during the Great Compression.
Most management is bad, because most managers treat the function of 'management' as a separate domain/skill. Really, management is a combination of good people skills and a strong understanding of your product development & market.
It’s not so bad if you use hyphenation appropriately. Which, as the submission explains, is sort of doable on the web but has serious downsides.

What you would really want is a fancy justification algorithm like the one InDesign uses (it takes into account not just the current line but the whole paragraph and it avoids, among other things, white rivers in the text) with lots of knobs to turn.

That’s currently just not possible on the web which is why justification is often not such a good idea even if you can find workarounds. But it’s certainly no crime. (All books, newspapers and magazines do it.)
I didn't cherrypick, I just didn't search the entire site. I looked at the front page, "economy" and the first page of "education". I'm sorry my post didn't more clearly specify that.
I thought perhaps someone was trying to see Scribe with XSS exploits.
Wait, verizon's 2.2 for the droid requires additional cash in order to tether? I ask because I'm a droid owner using verizon's 2.2 on my droid. I see the tethering option available, but I haven't tried to use it yet, so I don't know if it requires extra cash.
On #2 & #14 in correlation - its a terrific idea to help startups build their team. Hiring is hard in early stages, less known, no time to dedicate on choosing candidates, fear of recruiting the wrong person etc.

Employees define the culture and a few key employees do change the scene for the startup at least on execution which is critical. Many of them might not be inclined or equipped to be CEO's but they are great contributors in the system. A relation/connection with the investor can easily convince these excellent talent to bet on less known startups at early stage.

Edit: rephrased
I work for a company where 99% of our products are coded in our India office.

First, are you working out of that office as well? If not, how can you accurately be assigned the task of figuring out which of these people are great and which suck? You wouldn't know them from Adam.

Second, define "productivity".
I think the folks at Digg where prepared for the heartburn associated with the content changes. They weren't ready for some very serious issues with the implementation. Digg has definitely seen a lot of downtime over the last week or two.
I feel really unclean for having googled this, but you will be delighted to know that the dog will be fine.

http://www.tmz.com/2010/08/17/dr-frank-ryan-dog-jill-border-...

Re OP: my county has recently banned electronic devices while driving (only hands-free calling allowed), and completely anecdotally it has seemed to make a difference, although it's hard to say whether it is a temporary effect.

The geek in me is also thinking "how can it be proven that he drove off while actually twittering" but I am trying not to go there - it's besides the point.
If you do the substitution, you get "management consultants," not "management." I think it's a valid statement. Business always needs management, but management consultants are only good for helping a business solve a particular problem or get through a particular change. Then they should get out of the way. Instead, they work their way up somebody's butt and sit there pulling checks, wielding unaccountable power that is inappropriate for their place in the reporting structure.

It goes like this:

1. People do what the consultants say because hey, you're supposed to be learning from them. It makes sense.

2. Some recalcitrant people refuse to go along with any changes, and upper management puts out the word: "We're paying good money for these consultants. On my authority, do what they say." This still makes sense.

3. The consultants start meddling in things outside their original brief, just because they think they're smart and want to prove it. People have to live with it, so the consultants are gradually accepted as a generic part of the power landscape. This is the beginning of the pathology.

4. The consultants continue wielding power in a disruptive way as long as they can, because if the organization doesn't need their constant correction, somebody might realize it's time to get rid of them. This is the full-blown pathology: consultants actively disrupting productive work because it's the best way for them to stay employed.
Eric Schmidt: “We Know Where You Are, We Know What You Like”
Wait, so if you have two identical wheels on one axis, spinning in opposite directions, and you rotate the axis, are you saying you'll experience precession or you won't? My intuition (and physics understanding) says you won't. But the top-level post is saying you will still experience "gyroscopic stability". Is that true?
I installed Cyanogenmod 6.0 final on my Evo this weekend. It was still in there at that time. Has something changed in the past couple days?
It's interesting to note that Google will intervene in their index if they agree politically (e.g. the Obama monkey cartoons, yet they never had a problem with anyone calling Bush a chimp).
> [... ] how he feels about behaving squeaky clean at Oracle

Alternatively, perhaps Oracle doesn't care about this sort of thing at all. The money he misappropriated at HP was probably a drop in the ocean compared to a normal CEO's expense account. Oracle might treat it as such.
Cassandra was used for a single feature on v3 called "Green Badges". I believe there is a post on the digg blog about the project, in particular.
Not really. Sure, the word is just "Santorum", but if you "click to enter" the site, there's a picture of Rick Santorum that says "Senator Rick Santorum" under it, making it clear who the site's about.

So yeah, people might have some bad associations when they meet a Santorum with no relation to the Senator, but they're not going to think the term was named after them. It's no different than the associations you'd have if you met someone with the surname Hitler.

Some people have the same last name as terrible people. It happens, and no one's going to seriously hold that against the person beyond a few jokes.
Yes, I know that it's not exact for high velocities. My point was just that you don't need relativity for this effect to happen.
In general I think it's wise to beware of gurus peddling software development methodologies. This doesn't mean that there aren't good practices which can improve the process, but all too often the gurus are not applying a proper quantitative analysis to their methodology to judge its relative efficacy, and instead rely very unscientifically on feelgood anecdotes and difficult to falsify assertions.
> TeX really needs to be ported to browsers

FTFY

Seriously though, browsers need better typography in general. http://nitens.org/taraborelli/latex
I think "solid foundation in statistics" refers to the fact that LDA has a proper generative model of documents and topics, while LSA doesn't -- so that it's easier to reason about LDA and to build more complex models on top of it.
Was that intervention a political one or a racial one? (Not disagreeing, just asking. I don't remember the issue or its resolution.)
Why the downvotes? I guess this sort of thing is OK if you're only catching some guineas in your crossfire; if he had a Jewish surname, I suspect the response would be markedly different. And for the record, I don't care for Santorum at all.
Google hasn't blocked any other material on "racist" grounds.
No, the Canon sensors also have only one photosite per pixel -- they're still using a Bayer filter on a monochromatic sensor.