skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no need to keep track of all previous values.

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All that OP is saying is that there would have been 2 extra co-founders, if it was 10 years ago.
I was excited to try this service out after reading the article. I called them up, and after a couple minutes on hold, was connected to Michael. I didn't need to enter my account number, but it's possible they used my phone number to know that I have a credit card.

I asked him if there were any local stores that sold caffeine-free Diet Mountain Dew. He put me on hold for a couple minutes and came back, asking if I had tried Wal-Mart or grocery stores. I told him I hadn't seen it there. He said that he found some Facebook page talking about caffeine-free Mountain Dew, but he was unable to access it because Facebook was blocked from his location. He suggested I search on google for it myself. He apologized for being unable to help me.

So I searched and the second hit pointed me to http://www.pepsiproductfacts.com/storelocator/index600.html and there is a store 19 miles from me that sells the "extremely limited" caffeine-free Diet Mountain Dew.

I'm not impressed.
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how would that work? I can understand how pulse is detected, as you are measuring the differences from second to another and finding a pattern. But how would you know what correlates to a particular level of oxygen in a particular person?
There are some very clever ideas in there. Number 4 ("A website that you can submit your design and work with vendors to manufacture your own clothes line") is something I'm sure my wife would take advantage of.

I wonder how much of a market there is for something like this, or how many people want to be a micro-boutique?
How would you monetize these? Mostly from just adding Adsense to the page? [For example, I'm looking at the geolocation of #hate/#love tags, and the imbored-counter.]
That does not change the situation materially though, normally speaking you would have done some research before committing and so on.

You are essentially asking for a gift, not for an investment.

Your business as it is today does not stand a chance of survival unless it is subsidized in some form, that is not something an investor is likely to do.

Sorry to bring you bad news but I can't make anything else of it, maybe someone else has a more positive opinion on this but I can't see - at the moment - how outside of a gift or a subsidy you could at least fulfill your obligations to this first batch of students.
Seems to work perfect for me; it reported 68, and I counted 66 manually (by counting the number of beats myself in 10 seconds and multiplying by 6). For reference, I have an iPhone 4 and it utilized the flash.
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Ew. I used to write a lot of Python, but I didn't know there was a standard INI parser. Gross.
This essay reads like something from another time. I stopped reading after this:

"Most of the blacks I taught simply
had no interest in academic subjects. I
taught history, and students would often
say they didn’t want to do an assignment
or they didn’t like history because it was
all about white people. Of course, this
was “diversity” history, in which every
cowboy’s black cook got a special page
on how he contributed to winning the
West, but black children still found it
inadequate."

No idea why this is on HN.
Things smarter than humans do already exist, in most every specific feild. Whether the 'hard problem' of AI can be solved remains to be seen, and the current political/economic feedback in industrialized countries leads t a different distopia.

As monopolies grow, wealth is focused into smaller and smaller groups, and political lobbyists get more and more influence. Things stop changing, much new research is suppressed because its destabilizing to the powers that be. We don't get nanotech, or strong AIs, or supermedicine, not because they're hard, but because they destabilize incumbent interests, and the incumbent interests are huge, self interested, and hold all the money.

Moral of the story? Buy rental properties. Be a landed noble.
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A co-founder would be the one to tell you "What the hell is a picodollar?"
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That doesn't make him wrong though. The fact that you consistently ignore the advice to get a co-founder given by people that mean you no harm to me means that you are in your 'comfort zone'.

The fact that you don't take some of the other advice at face value indicates that even if you had a co-founder it might not last long, so you might be right not to choose for having one :)

Mahmud offers a good third alternative though, between taking on a marketing savvy co-founder and going it alone in your own (I would add 'pig headed' here but I don't mean that disrespectful) way, a white label version would make a lot of sense.

That way you get to concentrate on the tech the way you want to and you can enable other parties that are more marketing savvy to be your shop front.
they did say "on our dime"
This reads like a refutation of Mark Taylor's "Crisis in Higher Education," a new book that holds tenure and the organization of academic departments largely responsible for the declining quality of American universities.

The Fox News angle that the writer leads off with is a giant red herring. The problems with tenure have little to do with professors' politics (since employees already have laws protecting them based on their political beliefs). It has more to do with paying professors millions of dollars in salary and benefits for decades after their most productive years have ended.
http://codepad.org/1dImO2j0 -- 26 lines of ruby will keep running throughout the year :P
Keep in mind that there are already millions of lines of code running in modern cars. The worst-case failure mode of all that code would certainly result in loss of life, and legal liability on the part of the manufacturer/insurer/etc. So really the question is just how much automation we'll see in automobiles in the future, not if.
A lot of dreaming and fantasy reasoning going on there. A compounding rate of 8% is a false premise to start from. Ask anyone who has figured the lat 20 years into their retirement calculations. A more rational take would be to assume you can't project rates in the future, but if you do the talk you will get money now, which has value now. A bird in the hand. And if he is concerned about what happens to his money after he dies then the most rational approach is to spend it while alive. History shows the heirs will waste it away.
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Campaign monitor is using this for their graphs - http://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/post/3161/say-goodbye-to...
I don't think it's a valid comparison between your large data set and my configuration storage, but cool that you went simpler and got more out of it.
Well I have been able to cater the first batch efficiently and will be able to keep myself afloat till that batch remains. I am also getting some new students but there are certain things I had in mind for my company which I wasn;t able to realize with what money I had to invest. With minimal fees that I charge I wont be able to acquire them soon. I am not asking for a gift but for work. Something I can do make it happen for my company soon.
I like how he compares the hypothetical 8% compounding to the concrete values of the tax cuts.
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But I don't think infrastructure/libraries can be considered "co-founders"

A better way to express the utility he gets can be summed up in this article: "We Are All Open Source Billionaires" http://thecodist.com/article/we-are-all-open-source-billiona...
Clever that Ubuntu 10.10 is released on 10/10/10.
Ubuntu has a lot of stuff that isn't free: unrar, java, flash, etc.

You are free not to use it, but personally it doesn't bother me too much, as long as the data formats are open.
> Instead of having a simple text format that is the configuration, he encourages everyone to write their own.

Uh no, you obviously didn't read the article where at the end I show you the default format we provide to you in m2sh. I think before you go waxing poetical about something you should learn more about it.

And it's not powerful, it's simple. Take a look at the code that loads the configuration in mongrel2 from sqlite, and compare that to similar C code (also written by me) in the m2sh source to just parse a config file. Code doesn't lie and in this case, parsing a config is a hell of a lot harder than just loading it out of a sqlite file.
I've always felt that autojump's "jump" command could be hit or miss when you had directories with similar paths. Because of this, I wrote a tool for myself to quickly jump around to commonly used folders by using short named aliases.

The manual directory alias naming means that you can target the folder that you want much more accurately. Combined with tab-completion, this thing has become a huge productivity booster for me.

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My idea will sound somewhat original, odd and sadly not IT-related, but if you are willing enough to change your job for the sake of travelling (kudos), try hooking up in showbiz such as revues/theatres which travel around the globe with their shows. Unfortunatelly it's a very limited market, but if you get on that train, you live a crazy life and travel all around with expenses and accomodation covered. Not much in the IT field, but lot of various technicians work there and often people jump from one position to another. My parents lived almost all their life this way and seen really a lot (sometimes with me onboard), and I assume that if you get there, you'll stay for good.
10.10 doesn't provide much over 10.04 for a server, so people should wait maybe? I installed the 10.10 RC a little while ago on my primary machine but I am on 9.04, 9.10 and 10.04 on various other machines.
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The non-human readable interface is exposed for experts who wish to have python/ruby/whatever edit the sqlite interface. If you don't like this interface, don't use it. If your sysadmins are desperate to screw things up, they will.

If you really want to make it hard, your runmongrel2.py script can store the actual sqlite file in os.path.join('/tmp',str(uuid.uuid4())), thereby making it more difficult for sysadmins to find/edit.

Lastly, if you are truly paranoid, you can put something along these lines into your server restart script:

$ echo '.dump' | sqlite /tmp/b5497e39-f55a-4234-8f5c-99ea8c1e8ee8 > /tmp/oldconfig.human_readable
$ diff /tmp/oldconfig.human_readable main-git-repo/conf/config.sqlite_human_readable
If you want 3G in the US, then your choice of phone ties you to a carrier. I own a Vibrant (off contract) and although I can use it with any carrier when in Europe, I couldn't leave T-mobile because the 3G radio won't work with other US carriers. (I'm happy with T-mo, but that's not the point.)
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Out of curiosity, does anyone know what tax rates looked like in the 1800s? Zweig's 'The World of Yesterday' says it was in the single-digits in Vienna, but I'd like to have better numbers for more places.
I think me and you have some different definition of canonical:

http://www.wordnik.com/words/canonical

All I see are things about religion, dressing like the status quo, and other things that say "old way of doing things". I think you mean to say "official" or something like that. Let's use official.

In this case, the config file you use is the "official" configuration. If you use the m2sh format than that's the default official format. If you put those into version control then you have solved your problem.

But then, I'm sure you have some witty reply to this reply to your canonical one-liner:

"Conforming to orthodox or well-established rules or patterns, as of procedure."
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Contributor: "Please pull from me."

You, after examining diff outputs: "No, you are adding a second config file. Use the existing config file and deploy script."

Contributor: "Ok, fixed and rebased, now there is no trace of my stupid misconfiguration in the repository. I'll be sure to learn about the project conventions before committing in the future. My mistake."
He's ignoring the fact that having Mankiw work less may be a good thing. If Mankiw makes that $1000 for an article, he'll sock it away and it won't get spent for 10+ years. If a starving writer instead takes the job, he'll spend it immediately.

I do not see the downside.
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Ubuntu's Software Center == Apple's iTunes Store. Making it as easy is a huge opportunity for Ubuntu. Looking forward to giving it a shot.
> At any given moment your server cannot be guaranteed to be in a configuration that is specified by your dump file, or by any version of your dump file.

It's a database, and one that's used by the entire world to reliably store data guaranteed. So this is just false on technical merits.

> Why? Because the server exposes a tempting non-file-based interface to its internal state, and people who are trying to fix the servers at three in the morning will tend to use this to make "out-of-process changes".

Yet, you say people store things in version control. You have the exact same problem then. People can go and make changes out of band that aren't in version control and forget about them. Happens all the time, and that's a people problem.

What you seem to not understand is that you just need to take people out of the equation. Automation is the future of operations, and a system that allows any programming language with sqlite3 bindings manage the config is going to help with automation.

Once you don't have humans logging onto machines like it's the 90's then you've actually solved the problem. A config file won't do that.
Of course, there's one :) Sure, it's not the biggest in the world, maybe not the most vibrant either but there are definitely interesting companies and great people. A few people you could try to follow/contact to get a sense of what's happening in Italy (I'm not Italian myself, so they'll know better than I do). Stefano Bernardi, VC from Milan, Pietro Polsinelli, one of the guys behind licorize.com in Florence, of course Peldi Guilizzoni from Balsamic in Bologna (I think), Luca Filigheddu in Sardegna (twimbow among other things).

And that's only those I know or heard of but there are for sure many many more...
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I like the SQLite config.

SQLite seems like more of a PITA for some cases, but when using something like chef to configure an instance, SQLite makes more sense than using something like sed to mangle a config file.

Now, yes, you can define a whole config file in a template, but sometimes you need to have a separate recipe that makes a change to an existing config (I'm looking at you engineyard), and for that, we must unfortunately resort to sed.
I love the implication that there are only 13 kinds of consumer startups, as if nothing else could possibly exist. My reaction is to run screaming from anything on that list.
Arguing against higher taxes because they discourage people from working is like arguing against jailing people for drug offenses because it overcrowds jails. It could be right (though in the case of raising taxes, history doesn't seem to bear this out), but it's not the real reason that we shouldn't want to pay higher taxes. The reason is that they do bad stuff with our money. There's a sense in which it can be said that all of your tax money goes towards paying down interest on the national debt, but if you take a look at what that debt is for, you'll likely be unhappy. If we (the people who don't want to pay higher taxes) pretend that it's for some reason other than it is, we put ourselves at risk of being told that our made up reason is stupid.
Do Americans have to pay income tax whenever value of stock appreciates (even if he does not sell in the market)? I doubt it. Since valuation of stock would vary.

Here in India, the only tax Mankiw would have to pay is when he sells the stock after 30 years and gets a capital gain. So, he would still have an effective 8% compound rate. So he would end up paying tax on $10000. Assuming 30%, he would still keep $7000.
Interesting.

And here's a couple of notes from a site that tracks business regulations: http://www.doingbusiness.org/economyrankings/

While Nepal doesn't rank highly in terms of "Ease of Doing Business" it's better than e.g. Brazil and India. And like the author's experience, it's not too bad in terms of "Starting a Business", e.g. it's ranked on three down from Germany (why am I not surprised? :-).
What? You should totally be into .ini files. I mean, one incomprehensible difficult to automate bizarre ass user interface file is no better than any other.
I used the word in the sense of "authoritative"; M-W might say "the most solemn and unvarying part". Which seems like the right term to use for "the form of the config the server actually honors".

You chose this as a design feature worth highlighting; you asked for people's opinions about it. I think it's flawed. Other tools I like are flawed in similar ways (tinydns, for example). Don't worry, I'm not leading a movement to overthrow you.
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A few problems with your analysis.

- Money that is "socked away" in savings accounts or investment portfolios reenters the economy through lending or through decreasing cost of capital for businesses.

- It is inherently better for Mankiw to write articles than it is for starving writers to do so. If anyone derived value from what the starving writer was writing, they would be getting paid for it and therefore not be starving (generalization -- there may be a few cases of highly valued writers being paid almost nothing and sharing their works for free to a wide audience, but I'm not aware of such). In the common case, that means that we are paying the starving writer for producing ~0 value, and decreasing the value that Mankiw produces, resulting in an overall decrease of wealth for society.

The fundamental misunderstanding you seem to be embracing is that the function of any individual in an economy is to pass the money they receive in wages forward to the next person in the chain. But this is not so: from an economic perspective, value is lost when less overall wealth is produced, so it's important not to encourage people in pursuits that hold no value to society as a greater whole. For example, society ought not pay artists that produce nothing other people want to look at for their services, nor should society pay programmers who produce software no one uses. On the other hand, society should avoid decreasing the output of those whose work is valued highly, like Mankiw's.

(If you derive some perverse value from having money wasted, then it would of course be fine for you to pay starving artists, but I'm arguing that society as a whole through the government should not.)
You'll pay more for car liability insurance (in the US) if you have a poor credit score or a non-existent credit history.
From what I've read it simply takes the ratio of absorbance from the systole and diastole and considers that a stable non-linear estimator of %SpO2. The device itself needs to be calibrated to get the non-linear fit in place, but each individual is assumed to be (in gross measure) similar enough to get meaning out of it.

Of course, there's going to be huge variation across finger types, blood volumes, lighting conditions, placement. I wouldn't consider them to be accurate much more than those impedance-based body fat percentage computers. In both cases, huge discrepancies from healthy values are still telling despite small-scale noise.
A couple people have mentioned this, and really I'll tell you a little secret:

The config loading in Mongrel2 is all abstracted away and could support anything. I haven't done anything explicitly to let you write a "config load module" but it'd be possible. In theory, since the design kept this MVC idea, you could configure out of a config file, redis, couchdb, really anything you need to get your ops mojo working.

I could have easily just went with a config file as the default setup instead of sqlite3, but then where would all the FUD slingers and bikeshedders go to waste their energy? :-)
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Another important point is that it sounds like the scientist's own company would also benefit extensively from the bee problem being disease rather than pesticides. As you say, this may not invalidate his results but it does mean they probably need further scrutiny.
Your last sentence is hard to argue with, but it's worth pointing out that there's a cost to designing systems as if the universe you want to live in is the universe we actually live in. Let's call it "the Bernstein tax".
Not when stock appreciates, but you get taxed each year on dividends and interest paid out by investments. That is how I end up paying taxes on my investments every year, which still have unrealized losses of 35% or so.
Savings with a bank would typically continue to circulate in the loans the bank makes. Even if one were to hide money under a mattress, the effect would be very, very slightly anti-inflationary (by withdrawing currency from the market), which anyone else with savings, or just cash, would appreciate.
I think you win a prize for seeing into the future.
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People who want higher taxes don't agree that they do bad stuff, or they wouldn't want higher taxes.
Dear Zed, please throw the bikeshedders a bone
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It's a false dichotomy to suggest that because INI files are incomprehensible, difficult to automate, and have bizarre asses, all text configuration files must be the same.

But, like your comment, that's just message board geekery. I wouldn't want to suggest that it's worth arguing about.
I've not found answer to question why mongrel2 doesn't use ini files..

It's not so hard to generate sqlite file but it is even easier to generate ini, yaml, json or xml if you don't like particular ini format. And you can manage these files by git/svn and config loader could show you line with error if loading fails.
But I do have to pay for launching instances with these IDs on my own, do I?
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> He's ignoring the fact that having Mankiw work less may be a good thing

Indeed. His tenure in the Bush administration was mediocre. Then again, he could be a great public speaker.
I like the implied reasoning saying that "Other governments are willing to take a bigger slice of the fruits of your labor, so you have no grounds to complain." Except I don't, actually.