skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. Punishing people who make stupid comments seems like it causes resentment and anger and thus more stupid comments.

I wonder if there a parallel with the whole punishment vs rehabilitation aspect of the justice systems. In essence, a justice system is a social tool to cause people to act a certain way. Some techniques are better than others.
I learned cw, and it blew my mind.
I learned 90% of my programming knowledge online, and I think because of that I skip steps just to get to the end result. This behavior leaves me feeling lost sometimes, and usually leads me to starting over.
I needed structure, but didn't know where to start. This video really helped me understand the importance of having a plan and writing it down before you start programming.

Thank you so much for posting this.
Grooveshark is bigger than StackOverflow, and our page views/server ratio is better too. And we run PHP. The language argument is BS.
I will say that Microsoft SQL server is easier to scale than MySQL. But the licenses are significantly more expensive. :)
You should give ci' or ci( or ci[ or ci" a try. (You could also use ci) or ci] if you prefer.)

Do it on a line where there is a pair of quotes, parens, brackets, etc.
Doesn't help you one bit if you are spending $150k/year and going into debt.
Ask HN: Were weekdays ever altered?
For certain research I need following information.

The seven day week system we follow, was is altered anytime ? I mean on a certain day when it was say friday the authorities decided that hence-forth it will be called "Monday" ?

I read the wiki article about Gregorian calendar.It mentions a lot about dates but nothing about week days.

IF anyone has any information specific to India I will very thankful if you can share it.
TippleTop Dev Update #9 – The Alpha is Almost Here
Business opportunity: "Honestly, do you stink?"

A total stranger and/or scientific equipment rates your aroma. Because in general, it's hard to smell yourself, and taboos can make it hard for your friends and coworkers to give honest feedback.
Do's: Focus your communication, clearly define specifications early on, set list of priorities for tasks, and aim for a minimal amount of meetings.
Basic software engineering stuff, but this makes a world of difference. Leave margins for things to go wrong: you'll need them, and your programmers will love you for it.

Don't make assumptions about what is easy and difficult to build. Take advantage of the expertise of your team to assess how much time different tasks might take.
There are some ways to mitigate the problem during the transition: showering more frequently, furious manual hair-cleaning in shower, natural shampoos, washing with just conditioner.
Name one such religion which spreads quickly.
Karma's a bitch.
> Yes. This is something else virtually every economist will agree on.

A statement which only help to make his point about economists being ignorant crocks. GDP is heavily doubted as a good measure of standard of living in all other social sciences.

Examples of what the GDP measure fails to take into account: ecological sustainability, wealth distribution, non-market transactions, underground economy, non-monetary economy, subsistence economy, quality improvements and inclusion of new products, what is being produced, externalities, sustainability, etc, etc...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_domestic_product#Limitati...
I set myself such goals a few years back, at the behest
of my employer.

As soon as I had quit that job and found something to do
that I actually enjoyed, I stopped bothering... :-P

Mostly kidding.

Turns out, the thing I decided to do (start my own company
with a heavy open-source emphasis, building something I
hope will prove to be useful) was actually perfectly
in line with the professional goals I had set myself, so
I'm not sure it was exactly a wasted exercise.

Short-term plans can be somewhat detailed, but long-term
plans should be vague enough to leave you plenty of room
to adapt - for me the point of such plans is to provide some
"rules of thumb" or rough guidelines when making big
decisions.

Stuff (life) will happen no matter what plans you make,
but there are lots of little choices to be made and if
you've spent some time thinking about what you want to
achieve long-term, that can make hard decisions just a tiny
bit easier.

Whether it "works" or not is impossible to say, ask again
in 30 years. :-)
Or just shave your hair off and start afresh ;)
I think we can all agree that fraud does not increase the general amount of wealth. That's why it's illegal.

As for your last paragraph, it sounds like you are in the grip of that "money as debt" video, or worse, the labor theory of value. You should also look at some more mainstream economics before you decide that the whole thing is fraud.

I'm sympathetic to your argument that some financial products are just "hacks", and don't generate value, but just like real hacking, there's another side. Such "hacks" expose weaknesses, inefficiencies, and irrationality. Now, there are some who believe in the efficient market theory, and thus believe that ANY self-interested economic action leads to an increase of information (and thus wealth) for everybody else. That's actually been pretty much empirically disproven, so it's true that there are certain financial "hacks" that are never socially beneficial. However, I would caution you not to conclude that the whole thing is just a drain on society.
I'd have no problem going through the backscatter body scanner every time if the government would just do this to make me feel better:

- I could see the body scan of the TSA agent who is scanning me.

- The body scans of John S. Pistole (TSA administrator), Janet Napolitano (secretary of Homeland Security), and Barack Obama were made public.

I feel that if body scanning is so important then our national leaders should lead the way in showing how it's not a big deal.
Also cit/cat in HTML.
Indeed, at least in professional settings.

There is a guy at the office where I'm doing some consulting now, and he stinks. But I'm no more inclined to tell him that he stinks than I am to tell a certain woman colleague of mine that she uses WAY too much perfume.

I might, however, one day work up the guts to tell the leading goal-scorer on my hockey team that his pads (or something) smell revoltingly bad, even when compared with other hockey gear.

In other words, I'd tell a friend that he stinks, but I wouldn't tell a colleague the same.
I might've found this out through HN, in which case this'll be redundant. Still, I'll risk it: http://vimcasts.org/ is a good resource.

This fellow puts up bite-sized, five minute screencasts of various Vim-related features. Some of the 'casts are more advanced, and some of them are pretty basic.
Keep your dreams private
If there's money to be made then people will churn out high volumes of spammy little "apps" just like they do on iOS.

The barrier for entry isn't significant for either platform.
I recently switched to vim (macvim), and one thing bugs me that maybe someone knows a fix for . . .

The padding between the left edge of the window (or the right edge of the line numbers) and the interior text it ~0. I'd like just a little padding.

anyone?
They just have to make it respond to touch events so you can swipe left and right. It's what http://slides.html5rocks.com/ does and what I stole for http://slippycomics.com/
Human development index (HDI)

Genuine progress indicator (GPI)

Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare (ISEW)

Gross national happiness (GNH)

The Gini coefficient

Just to name a few. None of which is perfect, but at least better than the GDP when it comes to actually saying something about the quality and state of an economy.
Wealth is the ability of an entity to create change.

Skills you know, your business network, your emotional support network, assets you can exchange.

People with great wealth can affect the world in profoundly positive or negative ways. In other words, wealth is closely tied to the notion of power.

A member of congress who has relatively low networth could have as much financial influence as Bill Gates. While this power is not as liquid or easy to exchange as cash, it is still exchangeable and a store of value.

[ To directly answer the OP: No we should not exclude speculation, everything is speculation to some small degree. Even holding everything in cash is a speculation on that nation's currency. We'd have to use other measures to estimate expected security\longevity, like liquidity of assets. ]
Which other countries? The UK and Canada are possibly a bit easier; France isn't unless for EU citizens, Germany the same, Japan has very very few immigrants, Korea, Taiwan.
> This is, by the way, the genius in Wren's consruction of St. Pauls in London: he hid a chain line dome that carries most of the load between the visible outer and inner half spheres.

I think that's the wrong way around. The inner and outer dome follow catenary curves (they only need to support their own weight), and between them is a cone shape, supporting the heavy ornament on the roof. A 'chain line dome' is not a good way of supporting a heavy load on the roof (just imagine how the shape of the chain changes as you hang a weight in the middle of it).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Paul%27s_Cathedral#Structura... , third paragraph.
Clickable: http://VICI.tv
Ask HN: Review My Premium Content Monetization Platform
Hi Everyone,

I've working on this project with the hope to build something useful which can be an alternative to traditional web banner ads.

I've build a premium content monetization platform which i believe can be used by publishers to monetize their premium digital content such as open source software,scripting tutorials,videos,music,photos,movies and more..

The idea is simple to collect a money using various kind of indirect or direct methods payment from members who access the content.

For example in a viral video you can make for about 1 million unique views one guy can make 1000 at 1 USD eCPM .

Where as using premium content monetization platform even if 10% of the people pay 50 cents each

10,000 x 0.50 = 5000 USD

Here is my project:-

http://www.qasto.com

Here is the signup invite URL:

http://www.qasto.com/signup/7586

Please let me know what you think by leaving a comment.
:help numberwidth
This is a good article about fixing dumb makefiles in Joe's book, but please don't use Rake with any actual Erlang projects. Rebar does everything you want and probably more.
Eliminating distractions was actually quite easy for myself. As long as I've got silence, I can focus well.

Procrastination is another issue, for exactly the reasons that the author states: lack of concrete goals.

With bigger projects, concrete goals are harder to make. Especially with software, I'm always a horrible estimator, and I'll write something like "Get X feature to start working". It may be a small feature, but it ends up moving in all the different directions that I'd never expect it to take.

I've tried becoming a better estimator, by recorded what I intended to get done, what I did get done, and then reflecting on that. It's a slow and simple process, but I think it's working. Or maybe its my bad estimation ability fooling me again =p.
I read* that most of the temples of Rome actually did survive for centuries after the western empire fell, until some Eastern emperor decided to remove all the steel brackets to melt down. The buildings then only stayed up until the next earthquake.

* in a tour guide, so not exactly an impeccable source.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Week

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_calendar
More information:
http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/motion.html#object-sel...
Don't forget physician/patient privilege, as well.
One company I am familiar with is a private company that will never go public. They give stock to their employees, and in fact, 100% of their stock is owned by employees (down from 49.9999%, when 50.0001% was owned by the founder). They have zero outside investors. The value of the stock is set by some sort of auditing firm, but there's no actual market valuation.

If this doesn't sound questionable enough, keep in mind that this is the only retirement plan they offer to employees and that upon leaving the company employees are required to sell back their shares.

Maybe it's totally legit, but it always struck me as very, very questionable.
Sorry to keep posting this on similar threads, but thangalin: sounds like you might want to get involved with these guys:

http://www.stopdigitalstripsearches.org/
Reading that it seemed as if OM considers it a given that cloud computing is automatically "better" and squishy humans are just getting in the way of progress.

Cloud computing is in many ways more efficient, but that's really not the only metric that matters, is it?

There is value in independence, privacy and security - none of which cloud computing can ever really compete on. There are also many applications where proximity of data or proximity of processing matters, and the cloud can't touch those either.

So much hype...
Its not easy spending $6.5 billion when population is only 815k.
Ah, I was too quick to reply. Sorry.

I do not know if it's possible to do what you want. I find that a slight variation in background color (:highlight LineNr) helps in distinguishing the numbers from the content.
(Sorry I don't understand the question.)
It may be macvim specific, vim doesn't look as bad. I can distinguish text from line numbers, but it bugs me that they touch.

I posted to superuser with an image to give you an idea of what I'm talking about:

http://superuser.com/questions/205553/how-can-i-add-some-pad...
There is no genuine and negative comment. If it's a good comment, then it's positive whether you agree with the OP or not.

Can you point me to some comments if they are still available?
Please forgive me if this is taking things OT, but if you want to go down the "do it yourself" route but are new to this area, what would be an efficient way to quickly grok the space?

I'm aware there is a plethora of PPC communities and blog posts, but if you are a smart geek who just wants to ramp up efficiently is there a book/ebook/concise set of posts that you(/others) would recommend that covers the basics and moves through to the tips, tricks, optimizations, etc stage?

Thanks
World series math interview question
It's a direct violation of the 4th amendment, which guards against unreasonable searches. I'm not sure what could be more unreasonable than having to choose between being in a nude photo or having your dick groped by a high school drop out just so that you can visit your grandparents for the holidays.
A Personal Perspective on Machine Learning
It's the same in terminal vim. A fix could be to change the background of the linenumbering to something less obtrusive.

Example: http://tinypic.com/r/f0u84/7
We're experts on collective action failure — so not sure how much traction it would gain on the grounds of privacy/health. However, "celebrity nude scans" could be lucrative for TSA agents looking to make a quick buck. The ensuing controversy could help highlight the issues.

P.S. celebritynudescans.com is still free... perhaps a fake mockup site would attract media attention?
"I'm relocating from London to NYC...I've heard that despite being quite cosmopolitan NYC is generally a little more inward looking."

Sounds like you could use a map:

http://strangemaps.files.wordpress.com/2007/02/newyorker2.JP...

(Discussion:

http://bigthink.com/ideas/21121

And, from 40 years prior:

http://maps.bpl.org/details_10595/?mpubl_id=159

http://www.georgeglazer.com/archives/maps/archive-nyc/nyersi... ).
I have life goals but not 3/5 year plans - more just where I want to end up.
There seems to be a continuum here: I don't shower everyday during winter, but during summer I have to - otherwise I stink too much.

I guess it depends on what you do, how much physical work you do, where you live, and properly also on your body.

That said - no deodorant means I stink in a couple hours.
Thanks for your continued response, your last bit of info being vital to understanding the situation.
http://claudiucioba.com/?
Personally identifiable data, explicitly including photographs, are protected health information and are therefore their access and transmission are subject to various legal restrictions in the United States due to HIPAA (at the very least).

But the question is much more important than this, so I'd recommend not drawing this particular analogy. The degree to which backscanners are like a physician visit is only minimally related to the degree to which they are intolerable in a free society.
I am not sure how to answer that question. I know that no optimization was done to it during its build and that some of the pages aren't coded the same when I do a Dreamweaver / view source.
I have been dreaming for a long time of a site where groups could form around issues, put together a bounty, and administer it collaboratively. I think it was tried once, called bigcarrot.com, and hasn't really taken off.

Sad to read at the bottom of the page that they have a patent pending on this. How ridiculous.
Not really - I can't know everything, and Microsoft would have had to add something to IE to justify a new release right?
Lars Rasmussen: Why I quit Google to join Facebook
Indeed. That page now clarifies:

THIS PAGE IS A DRAFT AND DOESN'T REFLECT OFFICIAL OPINIONS OF THE MEEGO PROJECT

(Sorry for the caps. I just copied the literal text.)
What does that have to do with the question? There's a reason they make their own ladders regardless of what it costs.
I don't usually see code, but I see the architecture in flowcharts. For the parts which I've not completely worked out, the chart just fades to an ominous fog.
> Costs half as much, and weighs half as much.

In a high-wind city like San Francisco, being too light is a bug, not a feature.
You're also much more immoral :-) Profiting off of music without licenses that grant you permission, a good business there.
I once asked my mother what her New Year's resolution was and she responded, "To be around to make a New Year's resolution next year."

Ever since, that's pretty much summed it up for me.
If you enjoyed this, you should definitely check out http://http://vimcasts.org.

I caught Drew's talk at Arrrrcamp on Friday and he is a fantastic explicator. His Vim book for PragProg should be excellent.
the driver interfaces are exempt from gpl. that's how e.g. nvidia can publish closed-source drivers.

however;

1) those interfaces are in constant flux (a situation officially supported by linus himself) which makes it more difficult to maintain proprietary drivers. if you open-source your module and it becomes part of the mainline, it's migrated to the new interface by the dev who introduces that change.

2) once you load a proprietary driver, the kernel is considered to be 'tainted'. this means people are much less willing to listen to you when you report problems. (try dmesg | grep -i taint if you're using a proprietary driver)
Relaciones 2.0 - Epic
Wealth is anything and everything that has potential future value.

Making wealth is tapping into that value.
DARPA: The Unexpected Rebirth of the Flying Car
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans"
- some wise guy
If the youtube window loses focus while in fullscreen, for whatever reason, it reverts back to small web size. This is a PITA for people with multi-monitors who would want to use one screen as a webtv.

So far, workarounds involve hacking the assembly code of the particular flashVM executable (won't work if you update). Another option is to use a flash video downloader and just view your videos offline.

Focus-lockable fullscreen is a must-have feature of webtv.
Pretty strange, no luck on 3.6.12 as well.
Regarding your Blu-ray comment. There are many reasons to prefer it.

1. Much higher quality video and audio than you can get from digital distribution.

2. Many people still don't have access to the bandwidth that makes digital distribution easily possible or worth it. Now there are bandwidth caps being put in place by some ISPs making this less desirable.

3. Tangible. You cannot resell that digital copy. You can trade, borrow out, sell that Blu-ray you bought at Amazon or where ever when ever you want.

4. DRM. With the Blu-ray physical copy, you can do whatever you want with it.

5. Price. Digital distribution are priced near or above the tangible version in some cases and it's lower quality and has zero tangible and re-sellable value.

One example: Toy Story 3

Right now you can pre-order the Blu-ray which comes with the digital and DVD version also for just under $25.

The HD version on iTunes can be pre-ordered for $19.99, which is of course much less quality in audio and video than the Blu-ray. Also, you can't resell it.

If this keeps up I honestly don't see how digital distribution will be preferred. I'd love to get rid of all the optical disks and cases, but not if it continues on like this.
I couldn't watch the video ... it requires silverlight to be installed!
Turning your idea into business reality
Please don't post links to pages that redirect me to a login. It sets a bad example.
“removing some of the good bacteria that help maintain a healthy balance of skin.” ... this quote makes me think there's about to be a huge market at Whole Foods for probiotic cosmetics. Anyone for starting a line of kombucha lotions?
Single point cloud storage
Upload files should be as simple as,
`curl -F file=@file.png metabox.it`
great idea, worked like a charm. Thanks.
Health.

Years ago, when my father was very sick, I made a stupid remark like, "Maybe you can get some financial benefit from this." He responded, "I'd trade everything to be healthy again."

Sometimes it takes extremely trying circumstances to really put things into perspective. Ever since that conversation, I have never looked at the subjects of health, wealth, or happiness in the same way.
I live in NYC. That's a good assessment. It's a very cosmopolitan place in that every world culture is represented here. There are groups of people I never knew about until I moved here. Albanians in the Bronx? Fujianese Christian Chinese in the Lower East side? Etc.

However, once you're here, nothing outside of the city really matters. I think it's because of the structure of the city itself. It's huge and fast and inhuman and you're always busy and overwhelmed.

That said, world events are a popular subject amongst the literati crowd, but it's mostly just grist for the mill... so you have something interesting to talk about at brunch, or feel like you've got the right intel to make some money trading the yen against the pound, or whatever...
QR Code Fun
It strongly depends on the perspective. I think many people would define "wealth" as not having to go to bed hungry and being able to send kids to school.
You can make use of the foldcolumn. The fold column is an optionally visible column that can be put between line numbers and text. It is generally used to show markers to indicate level of folding, if any. If you want to use it to create separation between line numbers and text, but don't want to see the folding markers, just set the foreground color of the fold column to be same as the background color. So something like this:

:set foldcolumn=3 (or 4 or 5 or what4ever. . . )

:hi FoldColumn guifg=black guibg=black

That should do it.
What would that accomplish. The original statement was that skype uses vp8 and youtube used vp6 (which vp8 is heavily based off of). Skype doesn't use vp8, and looking at vp7 or vp8 source isn't going to tell me that vp6 infringes on any patents.
-John Lennon

One of my favorite quotes, btw.
#27 has been done: http://www.deadmansswitch.net/

61 to go!
Too light = bad stability in high winds, like those common in San Francisco.
http://www.markorodin.com/content/view/7/26/