skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you understand the history behind this? I didn't imagine that "fuck' was used so often.
Hence why the only semi-healthy vegans I know are those that cheat.
Doesn't Cassandra require a lot of RAM?

http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/CassandraHardware

I can't find any numbers for riak RAM requirements...
As python runtimes/JITs get better and better, the literal version could get relatively faster, since static assertions can potentially more easily be made about it; whereas the global 'dict' could be replaced with anything, requiring much more sophistication.

Say you use a dict in a non-mutating manner, it is made up of string literals only, and you construct it within a loop; it could be able to be pulled out as an invariant, the same could be true of the function-call case, but potentially not as easily.
Who would put a space inside the key name for an item in a hash?

I'm confident it's commonly understood best practice (among many languages at that) to use an underscore (_) in lieu of spaces in such things.

I agree that the quirks themselves are odd, but the matter of using a key with a space in it really stood out.
Freezer foods purchased in the store are not representative of what is possible (see for instance the article and discussion at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2067764 ).

There are books dedicated to creating freezer meals. I'm not sure if I have enough experience with them to recommend one, I doubt there's all that much variance to them. There are some tricks to the process, but not all that many. I still recommend at least starting with their recipes though of course we branched out once we were comfortable with the idea in general.

The primary effect of working for freezer foods is simply the loss of range; obviously you can not, for instance, freeze a lettuce-based salad. I say that's the primary effect precisely because losing flavor and quality is not the primary effect. Freezer food probably has the single largest quality gap between commercial food and home-prepared food there is. Some meals take a slight hit, many you can not tell, a small number actually have their texture slightly improved by freezing them. If this sounds interesting I strongly recommend trying it, a bit of Googling will probably scare up enough resources to try a couple recipes without even investing in a book.
I find it fascinating that Twitter was bidding on Flock.
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Ah, then my earlier comment is invalid. Thanks for the correction.
Good friend of mine has a older son who wears glasses and a younger son with perfect vision. Must be the buildup of ZOMG VACCINATION EVILZ that ruined his eyes, right?

I know, you're not saying that, no one is, but it seems about as silly.
Several such systems are built around computer learning of the wikipedia corpus.

Any ones in particular that you've found work well?
totally. sub the beer for the chicken. try the leanest meat you can find though
No way anyone made much money on this deal with $30M funding raised. Except lawyers, perhaps.
Get enough sleep. Sleep deprivation has a profound effect on one's ability to focus and to rationalize excuses for not focusing.

Interesting data point: the most disciplined worker I've ever seen -- someone who can hit 15 min deadlines for knowledge work -- ends up surfing if she doesn't get enough sleep.

Consequently, she's fanatical about going to bed at the correct time.

It's something I'm trying to work on, but I think I'm basically addicted to sleep deprivation after about 20 years.
I am not surprised.

When you have a job where the masses cannot achieve it simply by going through school, and finding a worker is very hard as the right one is one in a handfull, and a good worker can save tons of money for companies, or even make companies, or do wonders, I am in no surprise about this.

My wife is a speach pathologist. Don't get my wrong I am in no way playing down her job. She had to study for more than I did, and it is no easy task. However now that she has a job, her interview is "when can you start" literally. There are too many jobs for speech pathologists; they are needed everywhere. And too little speech pathologists out there.

So basically when the demand is a lot higher than the supply, that job will be the best one to be in. As many studies and as tons of experience notes it, many programmers can't program. Which means that for the good ones, work is easy to find. The technological boom has just started... what 10 years or so of heavy tech advances that penetrated our culture, and 30 years of just advances? Everyone wants a piece of the pie but as people realize you need the right people.

I remember during the dot com burst, many of my family friends were getting laid off, could not find work. My family was telling me that programming is a dead end job that you DONT want to be in. I stood my ground, and it was worth it. However it is most definitely not for everyone. Those getting fired left and right who cold not get another job, yea they had their 1 year of training in "programming" and could not tell you what a thread is to save their life.
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So rather than take the risk that a part of government may become corrupt, and attempt to manage that risk with a system of checks and balances, we shouldn't give the government any power whatsoever, and instead leave any other organization that gains any form of power free to use that power without restriction?
Start doing things that are very physical but aren't repetitive or boring. I climb. Gymnastics works. Swimming is great for you. Start running outdoors. If you go to a normal gym, listen to podcasts or good music while you're there, or talk to new people.
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I think it would take too much curation to make sure people receive semi-useful stuff. Check out the results for various prices at this site for instance:

http://www.filleritem.com/
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Augustine's Laws

Like the mythical man month, only not mythical.

http://www.amazon.com/Augustines-Chairman-Lockheed-Corporati...
Seems like the summary of the research is that there is a BLATANTLY FRAUDULENT argument on one side.

Erroneous consensus or agreement to disagree is NOT superior to objective truth.
There exists no private entity that can legally stop me from saying what I want

Correct! Your company can fire you for saying something bad about it online, but they can't throw you in jail. No one can throw you in jail for what you say online (with technical exceptions for some forms of hate speech I believe). Companies can't do it, nor can the government. Why? Because of... heh, The Government!

You've got press blackouts in the 1940s, you have the PMRC triggering congressional hearings about musical content in the 80s, you've got crypto laws in the 90s, you've got the DMCA, you've got the DHS seizing domains, you've got calls to have Wikileaks banned. Your all-caps "the government" did these

Yes. Sometimes the government violates its own laws. And when it gets caught doing that, other parts of.. The Government, actually spring into action. This is called the system of Checks and Balances, and you may have heard of organizations such as the ACLU and the EFF making use of it to correct the Government's behavior using... The Government.

The internet, as a whole, belongs to no one. It belongs to us all. In a sense, it is Public Property (on the whole). Protecting it is therefore the responsibility of The People, through the mechanism known as Government.

(Edit: BTW, you'll note that most of the examples you cited happen to be caused by contamination in The Government caused by the private sector, known as regulatory capture (as another commenter pointed out).)
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Incorrect. The H1N1 vaccine given to children and pregnant women explicitly did not have Thimerosal due to exactly this sort of concern.
-- body does actually use vitamins, fiber [...] Your brain requires them as well --

Just nitpicking here - by definition fiber is 'the indigestible parts of plant food'(1). So even if it can possibly be said that the body uses fiber - it is probably used in some non-nutritious way - we can be certain that the fiber does not reach the brain.

(1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietary_fiber
The insider trading happened in 1986, and there's nothing about Greece in that Wikipedia link. I asked for actual evidence to back your assertion, and you linked a non-source and told me to read a blog.

It seems like whenever finance is brought up, the standards for what constitutes information just die. All I need to see is, Goldman can be clearly shown to have done X, where X is either a) illegal or b) unethical according to some standard philosophy of finance[1]. If Goldman is so evil as people say then this shouldn't be hard.

[1] For example, consider the repacking of low quality housing debt and selling collateralized debt based on it. The underlying assertion is that Goldman should have stopped selling them when many of the most sophisticated buyers didn't understand how dangerous they were--to say nothing of the salesmen.
>How is it that even large companies with dedicated HR departments, training for managers, etc. still seem to push in the opposite direction?

For one thing, managers probably care more (on some level) about asserting their status over the regular employees than they do about making the company more profitable (especially at larger companies).
Well, I do know that it's never meant anything but what it means today. It was probably more common in oral circulation than written down, but it probably did show up in text too. I think that the Second Great Awakening would have effectively eliminated it from print during the period the graph shows. From Wikipedia:

"Though it appeared in John Ash's 1775 A New and Complete Dictionary, listed as "low" and "vulgar," and appearing with several definitions,[10] fuck did not appear in any widely-consulted dictionary of the English language from 1795 to 1965. Its first appearance in the Oxford English Dictionary (along with the word cunt) was in 1972. There is anecdotal evidence of its use during the American Civil War."

@tom: Ah, very interesting. OCR error would have been my second guess.

http://books.google.com/books?id=EIBIJunqzeUC&pg=PA278&#...

"War will fuck away their souls."
> I'm lucky enough to work somewhere that has almost legendary catered meals (Google)

No, it's truly legendary.
It is usually done as a uniform price auction, with the airline upping the offer until they have enough volunteers. All volunteers usually receive the same (best) compensation regardless of what level they first agree to give up their seat. At least in my experience, you are right that it is not possible to negotiate directly with a gate agent, but then again I'm sure those with superior negotiating skill can negotiate just about anything.
And TV, and playing too many games, and commenting too much on HN.. oops..
> Why? Because of... heh, The Government!

ahem:

>> The government has two roles: to keep others from infringing on my rights, and to keep its nose out of my damned business unles I infringe on others'.

> And when it gets caught doing that, other parts of.. The Government actually spring into action.

You're making my point for me. And as far as I can tell, the government isn't doing much to stop itself in the last three cases, and last time I heard, some music still has "Warning! Explicit lyrics!" labels on it, so the PMRC ended up getting its way there.
No no that's not what I'm saying at all. I did not meant to say that you should put up with a slacker, but that you should give enough flexibility and empowerment to the employee so that he feels at least a sense of loyalty to your company and a sense of importance within whatever project he's working on.

I'll work the hardest when I'm not treated as a mere employee like all the others in crappy jobs around the world. For most of us you don't need to wine and dine us, as the perks are part of the offer. For example, if you where hiring me I would ask for three things:

1) A decent/competitive salary (i might take a 100k offer over a 120k offer just because I feel that your company is a better fit though)

2) Good equipment and comfortable workplace. There's nothing worse than having to code in a miniature cubicle with an underpowered laptop (been there, xcode on a 3 year old standard macbook?) and no external monitor.

3) For you to treat me like an adult and an important part of your company. I don't need to be chastised for not working over 40 hours a week or arriving at 10 instead of 9. If you don't do so I might work an 80 hour week when it really is needed as a thank you for not being a pointy haired boss and I'll make sure I'm giving you the results you hired me for.

Listen, as an employer you can be one of two people. The boss everyone is afraid of and secretly hate, or the boss that eats at the same table as the rest of us. I'll give you better results and really care about your company if you're the later. If you're the former, I just want my paycheck until something better comes along.
I think people, possibly including me, get irked with Demand Media et al more because they're more successful than we think they deserve to be rather than because they actually decrease the value of the SERPs. For SERPS where DM ranks well, the results prior to DM existing generally pretty much sucked. Maybe that is a Google issue, maybe that is an Internet issue (memo to Internet: middle aged women exist, please write for them, kthxbye), but for whatever reason, if you routinely Googled for [how do i make a blueberry pie] every week for the last ten years I don't think you ever had an awesome search experience.

DM pages are adequate for much of what they rank for, in much the way that USA Today is an adequate newspaper, your local state school provides adequate degrees in history, etc etc. They're adequate in a scalable manner, though, and they understand Google much better than the average publisher, which means they get visibility in excess of what some people might expect.

P.S.

Demand Media: http://www.ehow.com/how_2933_make-blueberry-pie.html

Virtuous publishers on the Internet: http://www.pickyourown.org/blueberrypie.php

If I wanted to bake a blueberry pie, I'd go for that second page every day of the week, but it is highly non-obvious to me that it is a better result qua search engine result than the DM page. I love this example because I think Google fundamentally doesn't think [how do i make a blueberry pie] is looking for a blueberry pie recipe. Most searches will not actually convert to pies. For the 98% of searchers who merely want to satisfy their pie voyeurism need, the DM content may well be better.
Thanks a lot. I will get the books and see what they say. The biggest hurdle I have is there is no easy way of diagnosing other symptoms you mention. I find that I know more than my doctor about this condition and the internet is a far better resource of information than him.

On a side note, I think one of my sons inherited my genes and has the same problem. He is young enough that bad organization, not finishing things etc is not causing him problems yet. But I expect that to change once he goes to the elementary school. What are your thoughts on giving ADD drugs to children? Would it have helped you if were on a drug regimen when you were young? I am scared of giving him drugs because of the side effects you mention(I get most of what you get plus the extreme insomnia). But if it is going to help his quality of life and learning, it might be a worthwhile thing.
No kidding. Of course governments can and do abuse their power, but that is an entirely different argument. The only alternative to having laws, as far as I can tell, is having no laws, and faced with that option I think we should aim for the best laws possible.
It's really common, actually. A symbol can actually have spaces in it:

:"Some Text" is a perfectly valid symbol.

ruby-1.9.2-p136 :001 > h = {:"Some Text" => 123}
=> {:"Some Text"=>123}
ruby-1.9.2-p136 :002 > h[ "Some Text".to_sym ]
=> 123
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If you are really looking for lunch in Santa Monica, there was talk of two LA-based groups of interest to HNers mentioned in the past that I remember (and never be able to attend, which saddens me but my schedule is what it is...)

http://promenade.thursdaylunch.com/ - exactly a lunch in santa monica :)

http://www.meetup.com/Los-Angeles-Hacker-News/ - a broader meetup group

And if you're ever up for Tuesday evening dinners with Cocoa developers (any level of knowledge/experience, but devs only please, no headhunting and marketing stuff), there's NSCoder Night in Santa Monica that I regularly attend, feel free to contact me for details.
There's a lot of junk on amazon that I wouldn't want...maybe it should be a smaller site like thinkgeek or something.

Kind of sounds like the woot bag of crap...
You can do the same contract on yourself but switch the "don't go" to donating to the BNP/Republican Party/similar. A great way to ensure you never give in.
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It's a smart, easy optimization, so I'd be surprised if .NET wasn't using it, but ultimately it has the same effect as reducing the frequency of GC pauses. It doesn't lead to faster execution. It doesn't change the fact that the code didn't pass through a more thorough analyzer/optimizer. How good are JIT compilers at automatic vectorization, for example? Opportunities for automatic vectorization could be encoded into bytecode such that the SIMD capabilities of different architectures could be used, but I don't think .NET does that.
But then they are no longer ping pong balls... Just plastic goop.
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The risk that they're taking in consumer apps is the games market -- existing games won't work (although arm isn't that popular for gamers anyway), so it's a kind of chicken-or-egg problem as to getting games developed for that platform. I'm not quite sure how large that segment of the windows market is, but it's going to be a factor in the switch.
Precisely. As long as that power was obtained through voluntary cooperation in the market, there is no concern. Power in a free market sense is only gained by being valuable. No longer valuable to your customers, no longer powerful.

Government Power and Market Power are pretty much opposite.
Not quite as silly. My point is that when you combine (a) a known increase in autism cases that isn't fully explained, (b) lying researchers, (c) media hysteria, and (d) personally having to deal with the condition, it's understandable why some might take that side—even if it's based on a fallacious argument.
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I skim the job postings once in a while just to remind myself of why I started by own gig.

Also, just like bad candidates will always be supply, bad posting will always be in supply. Just like the best candidates never blast out resumes, the best companies don't have to post postings.

Everyone already wants to work for them because their employees tell their friends how awesome it is to work for.
I suspect that there are a lot of great employers sitting quietly hiring the best talent and are making a killing doing it.

Why would they want to tell their competition that all those draconian conditions attract are the worst of the talent pool willing to work under those conditions. It's good employees finding good employers and bad employees finding bad employers.
He thinks he invented cross-posting?
I'm not quite sure how it will happen, but at some point I think it will be beneficial to commoditize the underlying crawl and index data, so that there can be more domain specific focus and more diverse sources of innovation applied to solving this and other search problems. One or two sources trying to be all things to all people and all problems isn't going to scale.

Blekko's slashtags are a good start, but it needs to go much further.
First of all, if the worker is a taxpayer, the employer is already paying for those services in the form of pre-tax wages. I pay for my own police protection, and I raise my wage commensurately [1]. This is all included in the cost of labor.

Secondly, most government spending does not provide those necessary services. Roads, police and water are just not very expensive. Most government spending is just transfers from the wealthy to the less wealthy - see my second link in my previous post.

[1] Actually, my landlord pays for police protection, and has raised my rent commensurately.
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It’s impossible to do any meaningful product research with Google.

Right now, I often start my product research within Amazon. However, that's only a start, as Amazon isn't great for everything. For large appliances, Consumer Reports is a good starting place. I guess I'm an example of the switch from search engines to "expert" sites.
Interesting -- thanks for the tip. Do you have any recipes / other ideas on how to use it, aside from beans?

Incidentally, a while back there was a food thread in which I learned one of my new favorite recipes for dal:

Anyway, my favorite dal recipe is thus (six servings, keeps forever):

1 1/2 c. dried lentils/split peas/etc...
4 c. water
1 1/2 tsp salt
3 tbs butter/oil
1 tsp cumin seeds
1 tsp ground tumeric
a small stick of cinnamon (or 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon)
1/4 tsp cayenne pepper
1/4 tsp fresh/ground ginger
1/4 tsp mustard seeds
6 cloves garlic

Cook the lentils. Cook some rice. Heat the butter in the pan and then fry all the spices until the cumin and mustard seeds begin to pop. Pour the spice mixture into the lentils and mix. Possible toppings include: plain yogurt with dill (dried or fresh) diced cucumber, any variety of chutney. I'd add a recipe for chutney, but the cooking and canning process is too long to put here.

Thanks to whoever posted it. I often put carrots and potatoes in with the lentils and mix up the spices some, but variations on the same basic idea work really well.
Target: Businesses. Your executives can get a tablet. It will run windows so IT can lock it down. It will run ms outlook. It will piss people off after 2 days of using it.

Thats the strategy (xept for the last part).

I can't think of any other rationale that will keep my sanity.
On the other hand, 125,000 miles gets you a round trip international first class ticket, whereas that normally costs around $30,000.