skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Greenspun doesn't bear the burden of proof because he isn't trying to prove anything. He is asking a question and admitting his uncertainty: "The standard 26 weeks of unemployment makes sense to me...But the subsequent 1.5 years don’t make sense...What’s wrong with my thinking?"

Jessriedel did the same thing: "I don't claim he was the norm. I'm just giving this anecdotal evidence to say that...we...need hard data."

You asserted the existence of evidence without providing it (potentially misleading), and then attacked the people who disagreed with you (harmful). If you have your own theory, argue it and acknowledge uncertainty (just as Greenspun and Jessriedel did). If you have facts to support your position, present them (if you do, awesome). Ad hominem attacks provide no value.
I wasn't taking interest into account in my example.

5% profit of $500/year is $25/year. I'm too lazy to work out compound interest over 45 years considering that a new $25 is being added each year, however:

45 * $25 = $1125

If you invested $1125 for 45 years at an interest rate of 4%, you'd end up with $6571. (And investing $1125 over 45 years gets you more back than only adding $25 a year to the investment.)

Obviously it's possible to do better than 4%, but I would suggest that, then, however you are investing the money is "how you are making money", not "having a lifelong customer".

So, have I completely misunderstood your example, or was your maths way way off?
It also requires way more nesting than it should, in my opinion. It would be nice to have a synchronous connect method so that I don't have to wrap my entire app in a connect callback.

And I don't see why 'collection' should take a callback either, unless you're in strict mode and querying mongo to see if it exists.

Some people have written higher level APIs on top of node-mongodb-native, two that I have seen are mongoose and mongous. I'm still evaluating them to see what their performance characteristics look like.
"The global wealth pyramid has a very wide base and a sharp point. The richest 1% of adults control 43% of the world’s assets; the wealthiest 10% have 83%. The bottom 50% have only 2%."

Why do they never think to age adjust these damn numbers? is it not common sense that you can't compare a 22 yearold college grad entering the workforce with $50k in debt to a 65 yearold lawyer about to retire?

I guess because then the numbers stop looking so shocking.
When will it be avaliable?
Poll: What Outsource Site do you like to hire from?
I need to hire some overseas talent to try to kick the ball down the field on some projects I don't have time to work on personally.

As the guy writing the check, your opinion as to which freelance site is the most pleasant to work with might be different from the opinion of those who make their living freelancing.

What site do you use to find freelancers for your projects?
Elance.Com
Freelance.Com
GetACoder.Com
GetAFreelancer.com (now freelancer.com)
Guru.Com
ODesk.Com
RentACoder.Com (now vworker.com)
Scriptlance.Com
I think so long as you're satisfied with your tool, you should just keep using it. If you "don't believe the hype", then doesn't just that mean that the benefits that people describe from their experience with vim/emacs/whatever aren't that important to you? If when people describe how they like being able to delete 10 lines with 10dd, or use '.' to repeat the last thing they did, and that doesn't sound interesting to you, then don't worry about it.

Personally, I love vim, and have been using it for years and years, and feel hobbled without it, but if you're satisfied with your tool, and don't long for something better, stick with it.
you missed the whole point of this article, he wasn't talking about actually starting a single company that is going to make trillions of dollars. He was talking about the system and culture in which we live
But that's how you eventually get to "How could so-and-so have possibly been elected?! I don't know anyone who voted for him!" as we saw quite a bit in 2000 and 2004.

Interestingly, there was a lot less of that in 2008.
I'm not arguing with the entire article, I'm arguing with a mathematic statement he made within it.
I wish I could apply for Y Combinator, but I'm basically on the other side of the planet.
While we're telling war stories. ;) Nonces played a role in a major American blunder too.

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf, Admiral Halsey moved his massive Third fleet out of position to chase a Japanese ruse. The Japanese then moved their Central Force through the gap and attacked the much smaller and ill-prepared Seventh Fleet.

The commander of the Seventh Fleet sent several desperate messages asking for Halsey's help, causing Admiral Nimitz at Pearl Harbor to send a message to Halsey asking, simply "WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR?" (Task Force 34 was the Third Fleet's detachment of battleships).

His clerk changed the message to WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR? And then, while forming the message, added the beginning nonce "TURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG" and the trailing nonce "RR THE WORLD WONDERS". The "GG" and "RR" were indicators of the end and beginning of the nonces.

Halsey's clerk removed the first nonce, but left the last one "THE WORLD WONDERS" as part of the message, apparently missing the "RR". So when Halsey got the message, it read "WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR THE WORLD WONDERS".

Halsey interpreted the message as sarcastic criticism of his decisions by a commanding officer over official channels, and flew into a rage. He then decided to delay the Third Fleet's assistance of the Seventh Fleet, ostensibly to refuel his destroyers.

Had he sent the battleships immediately, they likely would have crossed the Central Force's T and crushed them. It would have been one of the greatest (and last) battleship duels in history.

Of course the blunder didn't affect the outcome of the war, or even the battle in a strategic since. The Seventh Fleet was able to turn the Central Force back, mostly through self-sacrificial courage on the part of the destroyer crews.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_world_wonders
How to write a simple TCP Server in Haskell
For me, vi/m is like kale -- I know it's very healthy, and I've tried it several times, but it'll be a cold day in hell before I ever eat the damn thing again.
Buffer overflows were only very rarely perpetrated by the gets() library function; since the mid-'90s, programs that called gets() would trigger a warning message on the console due to its insecurity. Far more vulnerabilities were caused by sprintf() than were ever caused by gets().

This would be a pedantic comment but for the insinuation that response made that buffer overflows in C/C++ had been somehow mitigated by changes to the C standard library in modern ANSI C. No.
And it had RVM-like features before RVM became popular ... you could specify what version of Ruby and what server (mongrel, web brick or thin ... if you knew what you were doing) you wanted to run your app against
Mercedes Benz Chocolate car: Special Chocolate gift for lovers by Japan
Do you have a rigorous definition of innovation? Or, at least, rigorous enough that you can measure it and stick a number on it?

Because, without the ability to stick a number on it, how do you propose to know which sorts of actions are optimal and which aren't?

Engineering without numbers isn't engineering - it's guesswork.
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Can you retract a licence like this after granting it?
Feedback would be greatly appreciated. :)
The mind is a concept, the brain is a physical thing.

It is very conceivable that things without brains could have minds. 'Strong' Artificial Intelligence is an example of this. Intelligent quasars would be another example. (Meat that thinks? Preposterous!)

It is also very conceivable that things without minds, could have brains. Does a dog have a mind? aardvark? chipmunk? toad? ant? They all have brains that function in basically the same way as ours do. Saying that the mind doesn't really exist is also an acceptable answer, but kind of an odd one from the perspective of someone experiencing it.

Point being: Neuroscience is primarily mechanical.

It explains human brains and monkey brains and dog brains equally well. It explains hwo they work. We primarily study human brains because we have a vested interest in understanding them. (Also we consider our own brains to be the best). We end up studying the mind in neuroscience, because it is one of the interesting (and complicated) phenomena of the human brain (as compared to an ant brain).
But one example is often markets where user behavior is fundamentally shifting, or where there is a sudden change (e.g. adoption of truly smart phones) leading to opportunity.

Great point. A very good write-up on that is http://jasonlbaptiste.com/featured-articles/build-what-had-p....

Maybe I will write a post on how to identify a great market, as that is a pretty big topic.

For what it's worth, I'd love to see you write that.
Kindle books have overtaken paperbacks as the most popular format on Amazon
Mobile operators forced to offer 12-month contracts
In other words, 53% of the world's wealthy people are not entrepreneurs.
Want a VC job?  Stay Top of Mind, But Don't Be Annoying
Your comments about Vim's learning curve are spot on, and I don't think any vimmer will disagree with you, but the argument they make (which I agree with) is that the cost/benefit ratio is worth it.

If you only code every now and then, so you've got a lot of time between sessions to forget things, and not a whole lot of time in total, then something like Visual Studio which has good 'discoverability' is going to be better for you - as you say, if you get lost just go to the menu and it does a pretty good job of showing you around.

If, however, you are coding full time for a living, spending at least 8 hours a day 5 days a week coding (and let's face it, for most people on HN it's probably more like 12 hours a day 6 days a week), then spending even 2 whole weeks getting to grips with an esoteric but POWERFUL editor like Vim will very quickly pay off in terms of time saved and productivity gained.
Dunno about playing un-fun games for achievements, but Civ V (for example) has achievements to push you to explore every part of the game. Going through them has me working on crazy win conditions, the 1-city challenge, different leader strengths, etc. Adds a bunch of replay value for a pretty small amount of extra effort.
You only really fail when you stop trying.
A lot of it has been completed, but it has been one of our internal tools that we use for our facebook pages. We are working on making it available for everyone. We think it will take 2 - 3 weeks to get it out.
It's hard to make suggestions because it's not clear what features the app has now other than adding todo items and tying them to a location.
Well, you better eat some kale then. It's just barely above freezing in Hell right now, actually. Might drop below 0 sometime over the weekend I think.

http://www.yr.no/place/Norway/Nord-Tr%C3%B8ndelag/Stj%C3%B8r...
reminds me of a story i just read by charles stross:
http://www.bestsf.net/presents/RogueFarm.html

about a future in which bioengineering allows individuals to become self sufficient (adding photosynthesis to their genome, for example). this causes the economy to collapse as many consumers no longer depend on society.
Well, it's probably just me but Netbeans support for Ruby was as good as Eclipse(PyDev) support for Python i.e it kinda worked but it left a little to be desired, I for one am not gonna miss it.
It's because it doesn't matter. The $50k income people and the $100k people are in the same bracket.
Some hard things are easy if explained well
Recent college graduates are an insignificant fraction of the poorer half of the world's population.
Link: http://statusscheduler.com
If it's simple "stuff it in, pull it out" stuff, sure. Having things like validations and callbacks and association sugar and the like are really nice, though, in cases beyond the very simple. I think the point is to let you focus more on writing business logic, and less on mucking about with your underlying datastore. If it works as promised, then it could very certainly result in a productivity gain.
The only way to download this PDF is by logging in with Facebook connect. Anybody have a link to an ungated copy?
CoreLife Artificial Life Simulator
That would be hard to tell due to a common issue of confirmation bias. eg during the WorldCom era, there were a lot of wealthy entrepreneurs.
How does unpaid ditch digging help unemployed find employment?

They become employed as ditch diggers at a wage equal to unemployment benefits. The effect on employed earthmovers/DMV workers is that their wages will probably be lowered. Let me point out (again) that I'm not advocating job training, since I don't think it will work.

My theory is that the only way to improve our employment situation is to lower wages, relocate workers, and accept that technology has made some people obsolete.

libnerdtarian

Calling me a nerd, while correct, adds no value to this conversation. Of course, I wouldn't expect a stupid bleeding heart liberal to understand that. (Notice how pointless the last sentence is?)
Rogers is the top ISP in the set, but according to some official statements, their systems inadvertently began severe DPI shaping on encrypted and P2P traffic since September 2010 around when Netflix was rolled out to Canada. This issue still remains today.

I have a 50 megabit plan with Rogers and all my SSL traffic throttles the entire line with an exponential dropoff to 25 Kilobytes a second. The packet loss is severe and persists for all packets even HTTP. It takes a long time sometimes an hour for the connection to recover. You can imagine how many applications this would impact (syncs with large files, P2P, Dropbox make the Internet virtually unusable).

I don't speculate on the matter, but here is some more information.

http://www.christopher-parsons.com/blog/isps/rogers-network-...

http://torrentfreak.com/rogers-bittorrent-throttling-experim...
the Third Fleet was able to turn the Central Fleet back on their own mostly through self-sacrificial courage on the part of the destroyers.

I know of that action from documentaries. Basically, the destroyers engaged heavier ship classes which they theoretically had no hope against. In some cases, "charged" is actually more apt than "engaged."
American Ingenuity at Work
I guess 5%. That is the success rate for businesses.

What I would like to know is how the other half got wealthy.
Deep meaning in Ramanujan's 'simple' pattern
The iPad Turns 1 Today
>any command I don't recall is readily available through the menus.

Any full featured editor has so many commands, menus are not practical to display them. VS included. So you're either using just using a subset of VS' functionality, or use hotkeys in VS too.
Better yet, link to the SEC where, eventually, the S-1 will be published in its entirety:
http://sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CI...

RSS feed:
http://sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CI...
This is a scare tactic. They know that "Anonymous" is really a bunch of basement dwelling geeks between the ages of 14 and 24 and are actually too scared to do anything once their companions start getting arrested.
I don't think you parsed what I said correctly.
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Sorry to hear about your laptop. :(
I think the article is correct but phrases the lifelong customer part wrong.

The habits of a single life-long customer divorced from everyone else whose spending is absorbed by a single player might not be worth a million - EDIT: maybe 50k with interest (being very generous).

BUT if a small player has "in hand" said habits, they could be worth much more sold to the larger players. The larger players can direct the consumption of this consumer to convincing counterfeit items (margarine instead of butter, Budweiser instead of a decent beer, etc). This gives them much higher profit margin. These larger players can also us the single consumer's habits as a model for ten other people's habits.

And naturally it feels nasty discussing things this way...

So I think the "amortized" control of single consumer's habits might conceivably be worth about a million.
They started development in 1974, so only a few years after work on the Space Shuttle started. I'm not sure at what point it became clear that the Shuttle was not living up to expectations, but anyway Buran's development didn't exactly go smoothly either.

This is a better article than Wikipedia's: http://www.astronautix.com/craft/buran.htm
The question is, taking all that in to account and conceding that it is (1) true, and (2) a real problem how will we do better?
The main link (not scribd) is direct here... not sure why you're getting a facebook login...
i rechecked this with dns prefetching off and with it on.

in either case, anything with a standard tld puts the url as the top/selected result on the pulldown, with "send as a query to search" as the second possibility.

but if I have prefetching ON (which I didn't when I first encountered the issue) the prefetching finds non-standard domains (eg register.fur, register.ing) and their servers and homepage titles but the option to treat them as a url and just go to the page appears below the default option to treat them as a search in the pulldown, so just typing them in and pressing enter still sends them to search.

whether that is a big deal is up to you. it seems silly that something.suffix is not treated as a url when the prefetcher has already found it.
You need facebook connect to download from a direct pdf Amazon link?
It's only a moral hazard if you define it to be. Who are you to tell people what they should do with the money they get from the government?
Predictions on Nokia’s new platform strategy: new OS for the US
Amazon Upgrade: a really useful idea that nobody has heard of
I agree that Eclipse isn't the ideal IDE for PHP (or anything that's not java), but I don't mind it too much. Maybe it's just because I've gotten used to forcing it to do what I want.
Pianobar command-line Pandora client
Most workers don't have desktop video and don't want it, report says
there's no civil war!? wtf are you smoking?
And indeed, once people are self-sufficient, why would they care if the economy collapsed?

The only problem with the scenario is if/when wars between the self-sufficient farms erupt.
The State Of Innovation Is Not Defined By The State Of Our Patent Trolls
the corollary is that if he's happily taking on the risk, has funds to pump in and sees you as his best choice of first employee and tech lead then he might be more willing to negotiate salary (especially if you were being paid more at your last job) than equity.
Eric Meyer CSS Reset stylesheet v2.0 as Sass
Math and cs can be researched because hypothesis in math and cs can be shown to be wrong. Can you point one theory that was ruled out to be wrong thanks to philosophy? If you can't then how can you find philosophy and (any) research similar?
Here is a google search that will turn up some useful reading material:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=&q=corporate+identity+th...

I wish you best of luck with this, it's a complicated issue and the authorities are not set up to take care of it.
Microsoft Sold 8 Million Kinects In 60 Days
I kind of agree. I prefer the middle ground of notepad++ (with plugins for code completion and ftp/file explorer). Light and powerful while still resembling something designed for human consumption.
I've been wanting a feature like this for absolutely ages - I keep wanting to do a full-text search of books I only own in physical format. Strange to find that someone has already implemented it, but that it never really took off. It would be great if someone launched something like this now that e-readers are much more mainstream.
Should probably have linked directly to the github repo https://github.com/PromyLOPh/pianobar
So it's actually better for the Ruby/Rails plugin to be dropped by Oracle. Then the community doesn't have to fork to save it from Oracle's controlling hands.
Pianobar: Console based Pandora player
Did you know they have a direct support forum at BroadBandReports.com? I used it a couple days ago and it is useful for smaller issues that you don't want to call in. Must be a subscriber and only you and Comcast can read your posts in the direct forum:

https://secure.dslreports.com/forum/comcastdirect
Some great computer scientists and AI pioneers, for instance Terry Winograd, turned to philosophy to look for solutions to some untractable technical problems.

Some philosophers like Bertrand Russell initiated some of the deepest scientific questions. And it's still philosophy (in the figure of Karl Popper) that defined what makes science. Philosophy is the meta-science par excellence.

Apparently you had some bad luck, by discovering philosophy from a poor professor. I had the luck to discover philosophy through some deeply interesting professors, even though I could deeply disagree with them (my first professor of philosophy even was a priest, eeek). I never stopped studying philosophy ever since I was 16, and I probably never will.
No, I just formed a poor sentence. My sibling said it better.

The reason they don't segment by age is that at the wealth scale we're discussing, the amount accumulated in an average person's life is irrelevant. It's called a 'class' for a reason; mobility is difficult. It's not like "I got a raise, and now I'm significantly ahead." The top 1% is an income of over $350k/year. A lawyer making $150k is just outside of the 5% range.
The competition is real enough for a board member of both companies to have to relinquish his seat.
They're cheaper than both for bandwidth which is what I care about most.
Heinlein: He presents a characterization (or characterizations), but some of his core points soak in over time, as one gains one's own life experience.

Pirsig's "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance": For letting me know I was/am not alone (even in my alone-ness).

Upon reflection, I guess these books haven't changed my way of thinking. But they've influenced them. Perhaps Heinlein helped me to change from approaching the world as it was presented to me to approaching it as I actually saw and see it. Pirsig helped me recognize and... formalize[1], at least for myself, some of my thoughts on quality.

Emily Dickinson: Less really can be more. So much more.

--

EDIT: Re [1], perhaps "explore" would be a better word.
I admit I haven't thought about this particularly deeply, but I suppose the best way to measure innovation is to compare the state of the world before and after the innovation takes place.
Please drop the SOAP
Of course you can. The same way we make HTML manageable; by pre-processing it. Sass, Less to name just the two most common options.
I would guess hard work and working up the corporate ladder to some executive position at some big company.

Or someone working in finance and putting on risky trades which yield in massive bonuses.
Very short on howto, lots on the longsell of whatever he's going at.

Edit: Page 40 before you get to real technique. Skip there.
It is easy to get into long, pointless arguments if you redefine well-known terms to suit your agenda. You and I (I think) agree about unemployment benefits, but you represent my point of view badly, and I wish you'd stop.