skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fine, but this doesn't change the main point. Even if you figured it was worth your time to determine the effect of each candidate on your future, it still wouldn't compel you to vote for the candidate which helps you most; the expected value would still only be a tiny fraction of a penny, and you'd be better off using your vote to signal allegiance, assuage your conscience, etc.

...unless you are alturistic, and you value the impact on the other 300 million citizens (and the rest of the world). Then it can make sense to vote for who you think is best.
Even better is concealing your helmet under a long blonde wig.
Homebrew is the best, but I always end up building everything I need from scratch, because I'm paranoid that some idiot package maintainer will require some tiny library that will necessitate building and installing X11, which software is largely the reason I use a goddamn Macintosh in the first place.

Also, Interface Builder.
I got hands on with a pre-release WP7 phone earlier this week. I think all the "kill Apple" stuff is kind of stupid, but the WP7 phone was really really nice. There were lots of nice features and flourishes, and I can honestly say I liked it a lot better than my wife's iPhone.

MS has obviously put a lot of thought and a lot of work in WP7 and it shows.

Whether it will survive in the marketplace is a different matter.
Yo, I'm coming from LA too (and am renting a car). Email me and we can all figure this out.
Google's first product was a version of a search engine, something that many people had developed multiple versions of years before it existed.

Google's second most successful product was a web-based mail service, something that existed about 10 years before their version.

Apple's most successful product existed a few decades before they entered the market.
If women had designed Facebook maybe it would have been....Myspace?

The short stint I had with facebook was straight forward in that you logged on and chatted with friends instead of worrying about frills and other junk that clutter up the screen. Of course that is the large difference in male and female psyche. Heck, I like the picture of the blocks better because of the rigidity, simple angles, and symmetry.
I don't like your first argument because it won't always be true. It seems more an more likely that most of those low-end jobs will be automated away at some point during this century. The argument for the worth of every human being needs to be based on something besides needing to have them around for your convenience. Fortunately, I think there are plenty of arguments that meet that requirement.
Sure... however last time I checked, you can only assign hotkeys to 12 of them.
I do sort of both by running Debian inside Virtualbox on my Macbook as a dev environment. I especially like being able to install -dev packages to get header files/libraries into the right places, whereas on OSX, if you want to compile software that depends on anything that didn't come with XCode, it's a mess of manually extracting things and passing pathnames.

I don't go the whole way and just install Debian on the machine mostly because having OSX handle things like the touchpad driver, hibernation, wifi, etc., is less hassle, and I also like OSX as a desktop environment (e.g. being able to use multitouch gestures in the browser). But Linux in a VM is definitely a nicer experience imo than fink was, as a way of getting a parallel Unix CLI userland onto OSX.
"Up until now, holography has been for the eyes only, and if you'd try to touch it, your hand would go right through. But now we have a technology that also adds the sensation of touch to holograms."

Clearly I missed something here -- what are they using to create the holograms?
Thank you for the very thoughtful write up about the reasons not to build billing and how Chargify has helped. The ownership of CC data is an important topic and many providers talk about the importance of this. Three things to consider

1) How often will you actually change gateways? I can tell that we have had the same gateway account for 7 years and processing millions of dollars a year and changed merchant accounts many times. The gateway industry is pretty much a commodity, very little price change, no difference between gateways so there is not much value in changing. There are reasons you might change merchant accounts as rates do change and volume can make a difference.

2) How to change. If you really do need to change gateways and keep in mind Authorize.net is not going out of business so that is not a consideration, think about the right way to do it. I would either slowly move accounts over as operations like CC updates happened or run multiple gateway accounts to diversify risk.

3) Where is the risk? The largest gateways are not going anywhere so your real risk with not doing billing on your own is the billing provider. And yes I am saying this and I am a co-founder at Chargify. Would you prefer to have your CC details held there or at a gateway where you can always access the token to make future charges? This gives you the ability to move billing providers compared with getting locked in.

At Chargify we take security very serious and have reviewed all of the different reasons around this topic and can tell you that today all CCs are stored at the gateway but in the future we will have an option that gives YOU the choice where to store this data and how.
Switzerland is far more democratic than the US and the people are much more in control of their government. Proportional representation, no one person in charge as president and referendums on most significants actions of the legislature make for a much more decentralized system. Its very difficult for a vast industry special interests to insert itself into the process.

The key is not letting people decide everything for everybody, but preserving the individual's ability to decide their own fate.

The developing "democratic" disaster in the US is not what the founders wanted. They thought they had put things in place to prevent this, but they failed. And its looking like only a major crisis that our leaders cannot cover over will force us to reconsider how we operate.
We have been using Mollie for IDEAL payments in the Netherlands. Mollie charges 0.99 Euro cents per transaction, that is all inclusive (no extra bank charges).

Paul, our programmer who handles our payment gateway stuff, wrote a Python interface to the iDEAL API by Mollie.nl for use in Django projects. We also have our own transaction system, as we are dealing with donations, not your normal purchases. So we ended up rolling our own.

http://github.com/peeb/django-mollie-ideal
I am baffled to see this story up again. In fact, this was introduced at SIGGRAPH a year ago http://www.alab.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~siggraph/09/TouchableHologr...

I remember this because I must have jumped around for a week after seeing that video.
Is it really? Wow, I hate that line so much I must have selectively misheard it. Sorry!

Oh actually, now I remember: we got there a few minutes late. I didn't even realize there was an opening dinner scene. The first thing I saw was an upset-looking Z running across campus. Since the credits were still rolling I assumed the movie was beginning in medias res, and it worked fine that way. Who knows, maybe even better that way.
Looks like folks are being more specific, so I'll clarify:

We're looking for really solid PHP/Ruby/Python developers. Right now a lot of our server-side code is in PHP, but we've been writing a lot of stuff recently in Ruby, Python, and even a bit of Java.

Experience with scale is a major plus - we've got a lot of interesting scale problems and we're trying to be creative about solving them, including using a lot of Redis.

We're also looking for people who either have AS3 experience OR rockstars with 'traditional' game development experience (C/C++/Lua/whatever) - we've got two Flash rockstars already and they both knew zero about it when they started.

Also, if you're a master of CSS, we need you as well.

At Klicknation, you'll spec new features on Monday and launch them on Thursday. You'll have a lot of fun, but you'll be held to high standards and you'll learn a lot.
The hard part is proving that this, or any other evolutionary scenario, is what actually happened.
Yea. I agree with Churchill (at least for the correct quote: "It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried."), but I think these glib slogans are non-constructive or worse.
i guess no one else liked the allegory
Pencil and paper is often unbeatable.

There is a nice notepaper generator (including source code in Python) made by Simson L. Garfinkel:

http://simson.net/notepaper/index.cgi

This is very nifty when you have to take notes and want to have an already prepared format for your notes.
You're right, but the article isn't really a response to that one comment, it's a response to all such comments.
The latency of NAND flash (~25us) is still orders of magnitude too high to support MMIO access, so you're better off using DMA a la Fusion io or Violin. PCM-M may be a different story if it arrives.
Of course, you don’t actually end up getting there. Sometimes you achieve the goal and then you feel amazing. But most of the time you don’t achieve them and you blame it on yourself.

No, where the author goes wrong is believing that unmet goals == failure. The best thing to do is not drop your goals, but stop labeling yourself a failure, blaming yourself, etc... when you miss them. Sure, the only one who can "own up" to that missed goal is you, but leave it at that and don't make it a cycle of negativity.

Just a quick example -- in my HS track years I had a goal that I wanted to break 2 min for the 800m... On the best race of my senior year, I kicked a tad early and gassed out about 15m before the finish, running a 2:00.46.

It'd be quite silly to feel poorly for running the fastest 800m of my life just because I missed my goal (which also would have given me the school record).

To continue the running analogy, goals should be akin to saying "look how far I've come", not "look how far I'm from" the finish line.
"First, scaling horizontally has little to do with the database engine itself - creating a transparent, consistent hash function is the easiest part."

That is just so incorrect that it's hard to take the rest of the post seriously.

What happens when you want to add a node to your cluster? What happens when a node goes down? What happens when you drop some packets between nodes? When one node has an unbalanced number of keys?

Then, answering each of these questions brings with it many more questions. For example, if the answer to "what happens when your node does down" is to replicate some data to another node, then how do you deal with inconsistencies between different replicas of the data? What happens if the node you try to replicate to goes down? What if the node you try to replicate to has a different idea of what that data should be?

If a database is to be truly horizontally scalable, it will have an answer for all of these questions. Which has a lot to do with "the database engine itself."
For equal capacity, they surely don't. Compare, say ten 200GB SSDs against one 2TB HDD; the power ought to be comparable (of course, the SSDs would provide dramatically higher performance).
I'm interested, but their "about" page isn't detailed enough. What do they do? I guess they give you the contact info for your representatives and then provide verification for the representative that you are a voting constituent? What do they do to organize ("match") people?
That whole school is hetero?
Would the lawsuit against Motorola be the anger stage?
Right, standard twin technique I guess. I was disappointed in Eisenberg for playing Zuckerberg like such a cliché. His character really doesn't do anything all movie except scowl and deliver socially inappropriate zingers, with a couple interludes of unconvincing forlornness about girl(s). Oh and build a business empire, but the movie takes that for granted.

Maybe it's the director's fault. He seems not to have found the character very interesting. But it weakens a movie to have a one-dimensional lead.
This article is interesting but the perspective isn't balanced.

What works for one person may (and likely won't) work for another. We all work differently, we all learn differently, we're all motivated by different things. It's true that some people may fly happily through life without so much as a thought to personal or professional goals. People who do not define goals have an equal chance of being successful as those who carefully plot their course. A lot of the time, it's more about effort then it is about short term goals.

The underlying problem here is that a lot of people, some of whom are successful, don't know themselves very well. I believe that it's important to know exactly what your learning styles are, where you draw your motivation from and what makes you happy.

Personally, I record long term goals and then think (but don't write) about what it's going to take to reach them. Every day that I devote a significant amount of effort to whatever goal I'm working on, I put an X through the date on a calendar. This is surprisingly rewarding and when I see a chain of X's, I don't want to break the line. This works for me, but it might not work for anyone else.
It's fine for Leo to talk about how great it is to not have any goals. What he kind of glosses over is the years of hard work and goal setting/achieving that was required for him to get to this point.

It's like a highly skilled musician telling you that he never feels the urge to take lessons and practice.... of course not. He already has the strong foundation needed to allow for his new lifestyle.
It sounds like that experiment is flawed, but the article doesn't go into detail about what the participants are told. At any rate, you can't draw the conclusion it does from that experiment as given and then extrapolate it to the outside world.

IF you put any group of people together for an experiment, and give them nothing else to do, they are going to trade. especially fake money because there's no real risk. Unnecessary trading is going to result in abberant activity.

The bubbles we've had in our economy are due specifically to government forcing interest rates below their market level. You do that and you give institutions the power to make free money-- buy from the government at %x, invest it in low risk situations like mortgages at %Y and then pay back the government in devalued currency (due to inflation) at %Z. In each of those steps you make money...so, its a no-brainer.

If you want to stop having bubbles, remove the power to set interest rates from the federal reserve / government. Then the market has a chance to self regulate.

Right now the primary price signal that would keep bubbles from inflating is being held down, and the natural bubble prevention is being short circuited.

So, it is no wonder that bubbles are happening. The sad thing is that this is not a very controversial or difficult subject, but it is rare to find an article in a publication like the Atlantic that seems even aware of the effect of interest rates on interest bearing securities!

The reason that the mainstream media and government pretends like they aren't manipulating us into bubbles is very simple: Letting interest rates operate normally would also put a restraint on reckless government spending.
It does sound like things are better in the city. It's sad to see so many commenters have experienced it though.
This is about instant personalisation, where you don't have to log in for any of this stuff to happen.

It should be a huge reason to log out of Facebook after every visit (or not use it at all), but 99% of users are never going to do that.
Ask HN: How do I come up with an idea?
I'm currently studying a mixed media university degree which focuses a lot on web design and development now that I am in my final year. We have to submit a major project which is pretty much what potential employers will judge us on.

I drew up a few ideas, one of which my tutor told me to go for (it was a google maps/flickr API mashup) as it would push my coding skills and set me up for a path to take me down a more developer or hybrid approach (which I've started on anyways with learning Rails and coming from a programming background before university).

Turned out that it was already done and exists as the explore section on Flickr pretty much.

I'm struggling to find an idea that will push my abilities, is reachable, interesting and doesn't exist exactly as I imagine it already.

Any tips on how you come up with an idea?
Ask HN:  How to gracefully exit Facebook?
As we left the Social Network movie last night, we hadn't even made it to the car when the wife said "Well, FB has crested." I would like to take down my page and get out, but I don't want to just disappear.

Has anyone here made a graceful Facebook exit? What did you do? What did you wish you had done?
Is this idea inspired by the four hour work week book by any chance?
Aren't you assuming that all you can do to protect your 50k is vote? And that all votes are independent? What if you could spend 25k mobilizing your side in the election? Or running an issue ad? You gain it all back and then some.
Your odds of swinging the election with your vote are 1 in 100 million

This assumption doesn't make sense
I disagree. If you actually look at existing and historical states, those that are democracies generally do better.
I use a different browser for social networks, no kidding. Maybe I should look into my browser's profile options and use seperate profiles instead.
Eventually, trying new things wears you out and you stop appreciating them.

I think that depends on the person. I certainly haven't found this to be true.
Freedom of speech (for the lobbyists) and freedom of association (for the congresscritters)?
A counter argument can be found in the book "The end of history and the last man". It puts forward the idea that technology improves at the greatest rate in a free market democracy because the professional classes are at their most effective.

Link to the book:

http://www.amazon.com/End-History-Last-Man/dp/0743284550/

I disagreed with parts of the book but it stimulated the way I think about such subjects.
I think they inherited that transition from Debian, where it's also been a bit of a pain. Part of the mess is that it wasn't just repackaging/renaming, but a switch of upstream sources too, which weren't exact drop-in replacements for each other--- teTeX hasn't been actively maintained since 2006, so Debian (and most other distros) shipped to TeX Live as their new upstream.
> The reason China will outperform the west is because it's not a democracy.

You may be right. On the other hand, there are plenty of autocracies that show no sign of outperforming the west.
The real problem with democracy is Parkinson's law of triviality, otherwise known as BikeShedding. Every executive on the board knows what color they want to paint the office bike shed. They argue about it for hours. How to build the plant or do something complicated is left to overpaid consultants or specialists who are given the hands-off treatment.

Same thing with legislation. Take an issue like gay marriage. Everyone can understand it at some level, so everyone has an opinion on it and it becomes a popular subject to talk about when discussing politics.

Now take something like financial regulation. The future of the country is riding on it, but it's too complicated for most people and thus people fall asleep after 5 minutes of talking about it, so it's handed off to specialists and consultants who work for the finance industry.
Hi,
You might find these websites more useful in terms of substance and practicality.
uxmovement.com - Usability articles
designshack.co.uk - Well-written articles on design
www.alistapart.com - Web design

I guess you'll also be interested in the presentation of information and statistics. I recommend Edward Tufte's books. I second the recommendation of Steve Krug's book, probably one of the most practical and well-written guides.

For typography, I found these articles quite good as an introduction:
Basics of Typography
http://designshack.co.uk/articles/typography/8-rules-for-cre...

If you have Illustrator, you can design some pretty nice text
http://designshack.co.uk/articles/graphics/an-in-depth-guide...

This is a pretty good introduction to some classic fonts: http://www.blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/articles/25-classic-font...

Have fun! (I'm also picking up skills to be more well-rounded)
Ryan =)
Working on it. My suggestion is send your friends some contact info, like email address and or phone number (depending on whether they are really friends) and let them know you're shutting down your facebook account. Don't really need to give any explanation, just say you're closing it down. If pressed, maybe just say it is a distraction, or whatever.

Facebook won't actually close your account, though. That's the hard part. You have to go thru and delete all your information manually. IF you look on your feed / wall, you can see everything you've done, and you can go and click on it, and delete it. It is a long slow tedious process, and it takes me about 2 hours to do a year.

The normal "cancel my facebook account" procedure that facebook does is to just suspend your account. IT is all there and if you ever log in again, it comes right back. While it is suspended you won't show up on your friends lists, etc, but all your activity is still there.

This makes it really easy & tempting--in the days where just about every webpage has a facebook like button that if you accidentally press will cause you to see the facebook login screen-- to bring your account back.

I went around and around with them over a year ago about this, and their policy is that there is no such thing as "canceling" a facebook account. They keep it ready and waiting for you "for when you want to come back." Thus they will only allow you to "suspend" it. (this policy may have changed given all the high profile facebook quitting in the last year.)

I'm deleting all of the info, when that is done, I'm going to change the real name on the account to asdsrqwer sadfvcawer and then the password to something random and then "Suspend it".
I used to email myself links to articles and HN discussions...which got totally lost in the avalanche of email my inbox gets. I started a posterous account so I could email myself stuff like that and actually have some hope of finding it again. If I want to add some kind of commentary (aka "notes" to myself), I can add it to the email before hitting 'send'. Most of the time though, I just put in a title and link to the article and/or HN discussion -- and sometimes other specific things that led to which I want available and grouped with this stuff.

I'm sure there is lots of room for improvement over that. But, so far, for me, that's a huge improvement over my previous method.

Good luck with this.
There are plenty of SQL and NoSQL applications that are designed to be disk-based databases. Redis is explicitly designed to be a very fast, in-memory database. What you are complaining about is a feature, not a bug.
I use Tracks the Rails app for Todo lists GTD-style

I use plaintext files edited with VIM for web-related notes, and organizing thoughts.

And finally I use a LiveScribe digital pen for lecture notes and jotting things down while reading printed papers & books.
I don't really think you want a factory susceptable to software bugs. I would think they would design stuff with hardware saftey measures. Maybe not. On a PC, for example, it's pretty much impossible for software to damage hardware. (As far as I know. Maybe thermal stuff can be adjusted, but I doubt it.) It is no longer the case a monitor can be ruined, I'm pretty sure.
Ah, interesting. I just shot you an email. Let's talk about this further.
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