skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't a fair comparison. The United States has always been able to muster its resources with great efficiency in an emergency. That hasn't changed with time. You'll remember about 9 years ago when we had a similar situation and we managed to establish a military presence, mobilize and to a certain extent complete a military operation half way around the world in just a few months.

But for a government to move that fast politicians have to act rashly and that can lead to some nasty side effects like putting Japanese citizens in internment camps. Preventing that rash behavior is why society becomes litigious under normal circumstances.

I'd be the first to admit we've become too litigious but I can't see that stopping us if we made the space program as much of a priority as Pearl Harbor or 9/11 was.

Edit: Just to prove the point there were apparently 40,000 deaths by industrial accident in the first year or WWII alone. So clearly there was a cost to that speed of production.

http://www.historykb.com/Uwe/Forum.aspx/world-war-ii/3992/de...
Do ppl still make that kind of money today?
I looked into groovy recently, and even as a python fanboy I can see how awesome it is for someone who already knows java. It looks extremely close to both python and ruby, and you can drop down to java anytime, use java libraries anytime. It even has a pretty good rails clone called grails. Can anyone from the java community explain to me why it hasn't taken off more? Perhaps other JVM languages have stolen people away or split the people looking for something else. I suppose with a 1.0 release in 2007 vs the early and mid 90's for python and ruby respectively I should perhaps wait and see.
I love when I hear statements like this. Because I don't want the guy who wants to do well. I want the guy who wants to win. I want the guy who wants to monopolize. That old, horrible, cliché about reaching for the stars and landing among them? Totally fits into play.
This kid will, no doubt, have a bunch of competition in the next year. And he may never dominate the scene (well, more than he is right now), but I'd place my bets on the guy who is trying to dominate over the guy who wants to eek out a tiny slice.
Not to confuse OPML (Outline Processor Markup Language), used to aggregate RSS files with OBML (Opera Binary Markup Language).

I was confused why or how OPML would serve Opera's purposes in this instance.
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While I only worked at Apple for about 8 months (started as a summer intern), I can completely echo this. It's never that we _have_ to stay later, it's that we _want_ to. You really have a dedication to the product because you want your customers to love you; that was the overall mindset. With a deadline, that means you'll do almost anything to meet it and succeed.

As for the secrecy, you're totally right. I roomed with 3 other interns during the summer and none of us would talk shop, ever. When interviewing for other companies later, nearly all my answers about what I did at Apple were "I wish I could talk to you about that, but the most I can do at this point is talk 'around' it, if you will, since that's an unreleased product." Not at all unlike government secrecy.

All that said, it really was a glorious place to work. I miss a lot about it; the seemingly infectious excitement and passion for the products was really driving. I loved being in that environment. :)
it massively depends on your market. Insurance and debt keywords pay much more per click than the code related keywords I have on my blog. The only figure you should be interested in is your CTR. If it's above 5% then you're doing really well. Average is probably less than 1% CTR. Good is 2-3%. In my experience anyway.
Presumably that is a feature of the desktop version?

http://www.opera.com/mobile/help/faq/#connection

"Is there any end-to-end security between my handset and — for example — paypal.com or my bank?"

"Opera Mini uses a transcoder server to translate HTML/CSS/JavaScript into a more compact format. It will also shrink any images to fit the screen of your handset. This translation step makes Opera Mini fast, small, and also very cheap to use. To be able to do this translation, the Opera Mini server needs to have access to the unencrypted version of the webpage. Therefore no end-to-end encryption between the client and the remote web server is possible.

If you need full end-to-end encryption, you should use a full web browser such as Opera Mobile."
Google Voice is pretty much not available outside the US and hence is lagging behind absolutely all the other numerous other VoIP solutions out there, which mostly are available globally.

So yeah. The only way they could be using Google Voice was if they somehow proxies their way to the US, to use a paid Google service to call back to Europe at an extra surcharge to then call me. Call me presumptuous, but I will assume none of my associates are doing that.
The article also says Opera is aware that doing this could destroy their business, for the reasons you give, so they plan not to.
>I would wager this is almost certainly why his cholesterol dropped and explains many of the effects.

His cholesterol dropped because he went from a consuming more calories than he burned to a diet where he was burning more calories than he ate. The excess calories were converted into fat and transported in LDL-labeled packets to the adipocytes. Once he started losing weight, adipocytes started releasing fat in smaller HDL-labeled packets for the liver to convert to glucose to meet his energy needs.
ASk HN:Please review my instant map search web app.....
I've posted this for the 3rd time and I haven't received any feedback since I made some changes. I made a big change on the layout, and some of the functionality of my app. Is the goal of the site clear to you? Am I really doing some improvements(for people that reviewed this b4)? Is it by chance useful for you? Thank once again in advance.

http://jamafriend.com/LargeMap.aspx
Wow, lots of feedback - much appreciated.

Re: 1: This is becoming a common theme, so it's definitely something I need to address. I like your suggestions on how to break it down into more manageable sub-categories.

Re: 2: Changed it, thanks.

Re: 3, 4, 6, 8, 10: All definitely on the roadmap.

Re: 5: On the System Build page, there's a tab for viewing the price breakdown by merchant. Is that along the lines of what you were thinking? -- http://pcpartpicker.com/parts/partlist/by_merchant/
Think of it as doing a post-grad degree. Games are often like this too. Each one is a masters, but if you do good work, the connections and portfolio can make the rest of your career significantly easier. Plus, you're hopefully working on cool stuff.
You should also drop people on the hello world puzzle as soon as they sign up.

It helps to be able to see some examples and know where/what the guidelines are before you get started
Is there any better way to measure css support in modern browsers?
And of course if someone doesn't stay later it means they're not dedicated to the product, so obviously aren't suitable for promotion, salary increases, etc.
Many people might buy them just to get airmiles (remember the hack about buying coins from airmile-generating credit cards some time ago?):

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126014168569179245.html
Please review my startup: Open, Democratic, Project Mgmt
I avoided it at first because it feels a little buggy, and the service creator's motivation for creating the service is something that's not super compatible with what I care about (see the about page: http://wlessin.com/posts/2010.html)

But the bugs seem to be minor and the basic service is super simple and exactly what I need. The real test will be to make sure I can get money out of it, which I'm trying to set up now.

Please ask me about this on twitter in about a week or two, and I'll send you some feedback. I'm @seacreature there.
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It is mostly accepted among economists that poor people are better off today than they were in the 1970s.

I'm not going to task with providing a source for that (mostly because you aren't defining what you mean by "poor.") But I'll submit that it's far more widely acknowledged that things have deteriorated very substantially for the middle class in U.S., by nearly every measure, since the 60s-70s. To the extent that some people seriously question whether the U.S. even has a "middle class", by this point.

But as for the poorest, I think that direct observation of (1) inflation-adjusted decline in wages (especially the minimum wage) since 1974, (2) dramatically increased health care, insurance, and higher education costs, (3) rising real estate costs (and the foreclosure morass), (4) permanent outsourcing & again, dramatically increased competition with the migrant (illegal) labor pool would tend to weaken your claim that things have gotten better for those in lower-skilled / lower-earning brackets.

On the other hand, it's possible there are rich people that acquired their wealth through underhanded means.

The article is not claiming that the richest get that way through underhanded means. And even if (on an individual level) the increasing accumulation of the wealth (among the wealthiest) was entirely above board, that doesn't mean this isn't a long-term problem for the welfare of society as a whole -- including, by direct implication, the long-term welfare and financial security of the richest.

... because the welfare of the poor and rich are separate issues. They are not linked in any simple-minded fashion.

No, but they're linked in a nuance, complex, systemic fashion, whether you like it or not. "We're all in this together", is the basic point.

In summary, I think the recent fad of discussing "income inequality" ...

It's not a fad. It's a very basic, fundamental question about the long-term survival prospects of our society as whole -- including the wealthy and not-so wealthy.
Groovy is very nearly to Java as Tcl is to C, which is great, but a common use case for scripts is as a command-line tool and no-one wants to cart around JVM startup times and memory requirements for that when Python is a already perfectly good language.
Seems cool, I had to manually find my OpenID account link to be able to use it to login though.
Kindls DX (9.7" screen) for reading programming books
Opinions from people using a kindle for this. How does it compare to the real thing. Would you buy it again or an ipad instead?
Great quote about programming:

Or is it possible he just loves programming? No doubt the filmmakers considered this option, but you can see their dilemma: how to convey the pleasure of programming—if such a pleasure exists—in a way that is both cinematic and comprehensible? Movies are notoriously bad at showing the pleasures and rigors of art-making, even when the medium is familiar.
Very sloppy on my part. Corrected, thanks!
Welcome to the early 1970s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalltalk
I've been waiting almost two years to post this!
Thank you HN for you support. From giving me a kick in the butt to launch: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1558154, to amazing feedback on content http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1836538 I continue to be grateful to this community.
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It would be nice to have something where it searches pre built systems with 'specs like this'.

Sometimes it is cheaper to buy a pre built system with all (or most) of the right parts than it is to build it yourself.

Another option would be to let users spec out the system and then let manufacturers bid on delivering a system with those or similar specs.

A manufacturer that buys parts wholesale will be able to give a significant price reduction over buying all of the parts on ebay or amazon or egghead. (And any parts they have sitting around are just wasted capital, so they want to move parts as long as they can make money on them... you could even let them sell excess parts).

You could take a cut of the money saved through the bid process/whoesaling.
It's never that we _have_ to stay later, it's that we _want_ to.

I hear this from people, but I rarely buy it. I'm not saying that you didn't want to stay later, but say Tim wanted to just work 8 to 5 each day, would everyone say, "Hey that's cool. We feel bad that you can't stay later, but it's 100% fine that you work 8 hours per day"?

It just seems like places I've been, if a handful of sufficiently respected productive members of the team stay late consistently (for whatever reason) there becomes strong social pressure that everyone stay late.
very nice! Was planning on building a PC after I get paid on the 15th. Will without a doubt use this. Thanks!
> The one pitfall for block indenting in Python is reading online documentation. The block indenting gets screwed up sometimes.

Sometimes, pressing "view source" in the browser and looking at the HTML will reveal what it was supposed to look like.
Ah the dollar action. The evil part of me wants to launch an online auktion house that runs all its actions that way.

The lazy part of me figure it is too much work.
All the Offer HN submissions you've missed
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How much equity are start-ups asked to sell for 6-18k?
I guess you're calling capitalism myopic. I don't necessarily disagree with you, but that's the framework we've set up.

(And yes, I do think drug dealers provide value. It's a service, people want it. In any other context, we'd be writing articles about how a perceptive entrepreneur rose up from a simple upbringing to rolling in cash, it's just that we look down upon the product.)

There's a pretty decent sibling of mine who's dead. You may want to turn showdead on temporarily.
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I will be leaving the HH on November 21 and am looking for a replacement for my share room. The house is a great resource for anyone wanting to start their own company and who needs cheap rent in a very good area.
No, actually, that wasn't usually how it worked. It was all about performance rather than time spent on-site. If you could get done in 4 hours what took me 8, you would be just as eligible for any promotions as I. Probably more-so, however, since you'd probably have worked 8 hours anyway and gotten twice as much done. ;)
Why do they even need an authentication webpage for free wifi? Other than maybe to accept terms of service..

But my point is, what's on there worth protecting?
Also:
Programming is a whole new kind of problem. Fincher makes a brave stab at showing the intensity of programming in action (“He’s wired in,” people say to other people to stop them disturbing a third person who sits before a laptop wearing noise-reducing earphones) and there’s a “vodka-shots-and-programming” party in Zuckerberg’s dorm room that gives us some clue of the pleasures. But even if we spent half the film looking at those busy screens (and we do get glimpses), most of us would be none the wiser. Watching this movie, even though you know Sorkin wants your disapproval, you can’t help feel a little swell of pride in this 2.0 generation. They’ve spent a decade being berated for not making the right sorts of paintings or novels or music or politics. Turns out the brightest 2.0 kids have been doing something else extraordinary. They’ve been making a world.
Upvote. I wish it was more obvious that I wasn't using food groups as a proper noun. Since he wasn't eating fruit, you can see the friction between the language of reality to the use of language in food politics. "Fruits and vegetables" are different. Compared to stems and leaves, fruits are high in sugar, low in fiber and complex carbs.
Why do we never see any comments from Adobe on why the OS X Flash Player sucks such major ass?

And really, the CTO of Adobe is using online ads as part of his example? Who gives a shit about Flash ads? That's one of the most annoying uses of Flash ever, and has given rise to dozens of Flash-block style browser plugins.

I also rarely see concrete examples of highly valuable Flash apps (and there are some out there). Instead it's always this vague allusion to scores of web content, and the idea that Apple users are left weeping in the corner because they can't see a Flash ad from pizza hut, or shoot a zombie in an online game.

While I have no inside info, at this point I'd wager a pretty significant sum that all the whining in the world from Adobe isn't going to change Apple's course on this. How about Adobe steps up and publicly agrees to either:

A) Announce that a Flash player that doesn't eat batteries like Oprah eats bon-bons will be available for OS X in the next 2 months

or

B) Provide definitive proof that some mistake Apple made with OS X prevents Adobe from releasing a well behaved Flash player.

In the mean time, I don't miss Flash on my iPhone, my iPad or my MBP. I've never once said "shit, I need to view this site on my HTC Incredible or my PC so I can bask in all the glorious Flash content".
One thing I dislike in Python's syntax is ":" at the end of some composite statements, i.e. "if X:" or "else:".
"else" is reserved word, why do I need to append ":"?

Also how to do one-liners? ;)
Congrats it's great.

Some vendors in France have this kind of in-house services to build a PC with a subset of parts.

Here some links, so you can see it (it's in french but you should find your way) :

http://www.pcbysurcouf.com/Configurateur/configurateur.aspx?...

http://www.ldlc.com/assistants/devis.html
Lowest level of user-land perhaps. Plus some sections of the kernel were adapted from FreeBSD, IIRC.

It's close enough for tech-blog work, I suppose.
Full CSS3 Lightbox - Absolutely no JavaScript
Wow!

Sifting through sixrevisions.com ... they have some fantastic shit. Good writing, sure, but GREAT topics-- and that's such a rarity.

A big* high-five to abraham for the submission.

*The kind that makes your hand sting. Because I love you, that's why.
That's an interesting tip about what turns programmers off. I've been operating under a similar motto, if it's hard to do, keep doing it.

My best apps in the Market do some stuff that takes a lot of work and talent to complete, and those are the things that have the least amount of competition and make the most money.

There are developers looking to make a business of the Android Market, and there are some that just want a quick buck. Do something hard to avoid the quick-buckers in my opinion.
Introduction to awk
(1) doesn't apply to futures or forex.
At least in my (admittedly short) experience there, I can't say there was much social pressure to stay late. You had deadlines, you had to do what you had to get done, and it had to be done well. How long it took you to get there or at what times of day didn't matter very much, if at all.
lambda functions are pretty neat for one-liners.
I think the president, the VP, every senator, every representative, every supreme court judge and their wives/husbands should be required to go through this.

...and their sons and daughters as well, of course.
Hah. Thanks Jacques. I've got the update ready, though:

UPDATE flights SET flight_haswifi=0 where id>0
True. But a healthy weight is by far the single most important nutritional goal in our society. Malnutrition due to any other cause is exceedingly rare in the developed world.
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I do not think the author was not aware of this, it was more of him digressing.
The fact that it is just a fork of KHTML. Also the fact that Apple hasn't been the main contributor to it for over two years.
Newcomers to Clojure may dislike the intrusion of Java class and method names into their Clojure code, and rush to wrap every Java method call in a Clojure function. More experienced Clojure programmers appreciate the power offered by Java libraries and are comfortable mixing Java methods and Clojure functions.
I have to disagree with you from "big business is still running the American government" on this one. If this were so true in this case why bog down the Airline Industry with the draconian TSA in the first place?
Great work!

I really loved the Price/performance CPU chart. I do find it hard to believe that the Intel Core i5-661 3.33Ghz Dual-Core Processor is much faster than the AMD Phenom II X6 1055T 2.8GHz 6-Core Processor. But I guess it depends on how TomsHardware, etc. did the benchmarks.

One nitpick, the warning about not having enough slots on the motherboard for the amount of RAM is not visible enough because it's at the bottom of the page and in a gray font.
I am wondering if there is some point where a Mac Pro cluster with top-end CPU and GPU winds up with better compute density, at least for problems that OpenCL can address.

i.e., in 5U you get 40 Nehalem cores with 5 Xserves but only 24 Westermere cores with 2 Mac Pros, yet you can fit the Mac Pros with a Radeon 5870 or a pair of Radeon 5770s each, compared to a GT 120 in each Xserve. Eh, probably not. But maybe.
"For 10 weeks, ..."

For his own health I am glad that he didn't continue the diet much longer. There are a number of confounding variables here that the article forgot to mention, which most likely played a larger part in his weight loss than any calorie counting:

Stress. Stress can cause sudden weight loss. This weight will come right back if you give your body any time to catch up and yet the effect is significant enough to provide "evidence" for the craziest of dieting fads. Eating debbie cakes for 3 meals a day is going to put some serious stress on your body.

Metabolism is not constant. Michael Phelps eats more for breakfast than I do in a week, and yet he is in much better shape. The scary thing about junk food is not so much the empty calories, but more how it affects your metabolism in the long term. If you draw out this sort of a diet for 2 or 3 years, then I would expect that not only could you give yourself diabetes, but also you will start craving more and needing less. That is when weight gain will start to become a serious problem.
Interesting that JavaScript 1.6, 1.7 and possibly Harmony will have primitives for Python-like generators
An iPhone4-ish display excepted, what's so outstanding in it?
You can do one liners with lambda functions in Python. e.g:

lambda x: x*2

http://diveintopython.org/power_of_introspection/lambda_func...
Soon enough one guy gave me instructions on how to file a ticket

which is all he really needed to do to get the username.

i got @jcs the same way a couple months ago: open a ticket, ignore the auto-reply email telling you twitter doesn't free up unused names, reply again saying you want the username looked into for inactivity. in a couple days they'll email back letting you know whether the account is inactive enough for deletion. if so, they'll delete it and you'll have to quickly change your username to the new one (since they won't directly hand over an account except in the case of trademark infringement).
UK resident. A good few years ago I asked my optician about the wisdom or otherwise of eye surgery for my (not too severe) myopia. She went through the pros and cons but ended up by saying that she was not aware of ANY opthalmic professional who had had it done to themselves. I believe this remains broadly the situation today. At a recent eye test, the lady doing the testing echoed this, saying that her prof - who lectured on eye surgery - wore glasses.
I still think that's missing the point. Publicly showing what percentage of a users submissions pass/fail is probably not desirable to the user. Keeping it private or using it for problem statistics is pretty cool, though.