skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only method that could be used to (in theory) see something as small as the Flag on the Moon would be to use two optical telescopes set (for example) 1000 miles apart. This would easily provide the required resolution, the huge problem however is combining the images from both telescopes in such a way to realize the resolution. As far as I know right now that technology is not available. Even if the technology was available, the unsteadiness of the Earth's atmosphere would likely render the method useless.

I've read about this method being used a lot in radioastronomy. But how does one proceed to use it in optical astronomy?

And surely if it is possible to algorithmize this it wouldn't be a problem to write a program that will take care of such "technology"?
The author argues that these four types of investments are very unlikely to go down at the same time - if one loses a lot, the other types grow.

"	It might seem that a Permanent Portfolio
containing these four contradictory investments would
be neutralized: As one element rose, another would fall
and nothing would be gained.
On a day-to-day basis, that can be true.
But over broad periods of time, the winning investments
add more value to the portfolio than the losing
investments take away."

He gives some numbers in the book, from 1970 till 2002 the portfolio lost money only in four years: 6.2% in 1981, 0.7% in 1990, 2.4% in 1994, and 1.0% in 2001. Three of these four years were followed by double-digit gains. The average gain was 9.5% per year.
Actually we have tried python-readability. The problem is if you want to run it on AppEngine you can't use lxml (no C code) so you're stuck with BeautifulSoup. It was also hellishly expensive, I think that experiment cost us ~$10 an hour in CPU costs.

As a result, it's better to stick with the javascript version of readability and run it in node.js. It's perhaps a dash slower than a python version would be, but the results are much much better and it's easier to keep up to date.
I didn't really have time to dig into it but.. I'll have a quick look for 5 minutes now anyway. I'm on 1.9.2 by default so might easily be able to see the problem.

UPDATE: Ok, you have a pull request now ;-) Got it working. Specs now pass.
Awesome work. If you haven't heard about Tim Bray's WideFinder challenge, it was really interesting.

http://tartarus.org/james/diary/2008/06/17/widefinder-final-...
Were it only that simple! No, "engaging with the ACM" means becoming involved via either local chapters or with the national organization -- and it starts with becoming a member. If you're curious about other ways to get involved, I'm happy to offer ideas -- I can be reached at my HN user name at (naturally) acm.org.
Botnet of smartphones
Oh, so that is what the deal is with references in C++
I did a few quick searches and Vancouver would be at 25 on their scale for a single-family detached house. That's using a median listing price of $900,000 and median rent of about $3000/month.

The data is out there and the Canadian real estate sales market could certainly use the shakeup of someone like Trulia.
Aperture synthesis. For instance: http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/telescopes/coast/handout.html
A high PE ratio is an expression of the premium the market is paying over and above the cash flows a company is already generating.

Here are the comparables for ARMH:

AMD	12.41
INTC	10.36
NVDA	69.17
ARMH	95.01
MIPS	36.06
QCOM	26.28
AAPL	18.84
STM	19.99
MSFT	12.18
IBM	11.58
BRCM	28.05

Anyone still think ARMH is a "find"?

I actually agree with the earlier commenter on this thread who lamented that he was probably going to watch ARMH double while he sat on the sidelines. I've recommended against buying AAPL a bunch of times too and been a poor fortune teller. But that doesn't make the methodology being used to pick ARMH sensible. The market knows ARM powers the iPhone.
I agree that the cutoffs are a bit low, and, at least for Seattle, I think the numbers for buying ($400-500K) are a bit high of reality.

I was able to buy last summer, trading in a rented two bedroom condo at $1350/mo for a two bedroom house in the same neighborhood, and I'm paying less than $50/mo more for my 30-year fixed mortgage than I was paying in rent. Yes, I've got more skin in the game with my downpayment, but it's in a growing neighborhood and I'm pretty confident that values in my area will go up in the next 5 years or so (its already appraised for higher than my purchase price).

Plus there are a lot of benefits to home ownership that I can't really assign a dollar value to. When I come home from my tech job and I don't want to sit in front of a keyboard anymore, I hack on my house. I've done a bunch of plumbing and electrical upgrades on the house, and I'm planning on building a backyard office / guest house "shed". And nothing can erase the stress of a long day quite like taking your shoes off and walking around in YOUR grass and relaxing in the backyard hammock.

If that stuff doesn't appeal to you, you'll probably be happier renting anyway. If I'd looked at it in purely financial terms I'd probably be in a rental myself.
The method you're referring to is called optical interferometry [1] (well, interferometry in general but optical for visible light obviously). Great strides have been made in this department in recent years and I believe it's been used for exoplanet detection [2].

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_interferometry

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_optical_interferom...
Wow... that's pretty expensive. Better to just do all this stuff locally and save your money for serving up requests to your users IMO. Kudos for setting it up to work with node.js though, very neat.
Excellent point. It goes back to Djikstra's "Go To Statement Considered Harmful."

I was just pointing out that changing the title from "... Considered Somewhat Harmful" to "Arrays are Harmful" is just linkbaiting the title. At the same time, it bastardized a play on the title of a pretty important paper in Computer Science.

At this point though I feel like we're really wasting keystrokes on something silly and off-topic.
I've heard your argument too. It's been the guiding thought behind slow land release -- that it will lead to higher density. That and the fact that it expands stamp duty receipts.

But that overlooks the fact that overly complex zoning laws, NIMBYist resistance from residents and the odd spot of outright corruption has basically prevented density from increasing.

Density has its costs too. It's cheaper to extend a sewerage and water network in a greenfield project than it is to dig up and replace it in a densely settled area. It's cheaper to maintain small streets than large streets.
it just isn't physically possible to resolve a flag on the surface of the moon with anything less than 3.5 mile diameter telescope. The technology used can't help much with physically impossible things!
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I doubt you can do this with whatever license you're using unless you put that explicitly on the terms.

But I'm no lawyer and neither a GPL advocate, I'm only interested understanding licenses.

EDIT: I understand that the previous distribution license is revoked only if you fail to comply with the original term under which you agreed to use the software/code.
I don't really understand land releases, surely this could happen faster, it feels like its geared towards maximum profit to only release in small chunks when there are large areas they will eventually be subdividing.

Somewhere like Melbourne though, I think things need to become a little less inner city focused. As in new suburbs are popping up but not a lot of employment is close to them meaning that transportation becomes worse as there are ever increasing numbers of people making long trips to work from the outer suburbs. I've always thought it would make sense to stick another inner city like hub somewhere and put high speed rail or something between them, rather than forever branching out from a central hub.
I think the relevance is that CR-48's are shipping again (after shipments were halted in early December)
To be fair, we got to the point where common usage of a word or phrase often becomes acceptable as correct usage about 50,000 years ago. That's how the English language came about in the first place. If we were strict linguistic prescriptivists from the beginning, we'd still be speaking flawless Ooga Booga.

I agree that some changes make the language less clear and might be ill-advised for that reason, and I also agree that some usages are not appropriate for all crowds, but let's not pretend the English language as it was taught in American schools in the late 20th century is the pinnacle of verbal communication.
The answer is on the terms page:

You will only upload, post, submit or otherwise transmit data and/or files: (i) that you have the lawful right to use, copy, distribute, transmit, or display; or (ii) that does not infringe the intellectual property rights or violate the privacy rights of any third party. Dropbox has adopted and implemented a policy that permits the deletion of files that violate this policy, and that permits the termination in appropriate circumstances of the accounts of users who repeatedly infringe or are believed to be or are charged with repeatedly infringing the rights of copyright holders.
That's only a part truth. My example specifically deals with San Francisco (because Trulia showed it to be a 'rent not buy' city). In SF there have not been anything like the level of defaults seen elsewhere in the US. Elsewhere in the US, rate adjustments on ARMs were just one part of the problem. The other bigs ones behind the recent crisis were: over inflated house prices (in SF, prices were only down ~15% on peak); people qualifying for loans that they could not afford with-or-without rate changes (by lying about their income); people being unable to re-mortgage now because they have now equity/down-payment (tightening lending criteria as a result of previous over-loose criteria)

Summary: what you say is a true statement about part of the reason the US housing economy blew-up. But it's not very relevant to my example about buying a $750K house in SF with 15% down and a mortgage that you can actually afford (the only type you can get today - i.e. $100K in income)
I find the FSF FAQ about the GPL (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html) extraordinarily clear. Have you read it? It covers lot of the common questions people ask, including how GPL and non-GPL code interact from a legal perspective.

I've pretty much always found that every GPL argument (and I've dealt with a lot of them, having worked with GPL-licensed code in commercial products for over a dozen years) is settled by simply pointing someone to the correct portion of the FSF documentation.

Yes, Open Source and Free Software fans often don't understand the license or its implications, and more people are woefully ignorant of its meaning and purpose than actually understand it, but I don't believe the blame can be placed on the FSF documentation on the subject. As licenses go, it's pretty plainly spoken, and as clarification of licenses go, the FSF goes into extensive detail for anyone that wants to actually look into it rather than starting flame wars based on whatever crazy notion someone has about the GPL and what they want it to mean.

I really don't think the blame can be placed on the FSF in this regard. People just don't RTFM, especially TFM for licenses.
Why every website needs a great explanatory video
A court of law might find that there was an unwritten contract agreed to when they let you download the code under the GPLv2 in the first place. I can't see any other way to view such a transaction.

Of course, IANAL and AFAIK this has never been tested.
It suits both government and developer to do small releases. The developer can charge a premium and the government maximises stamp duty.
If I could upvote you 100x I would.
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True. But on the other hand, I'm not factoring any upside relating to increase in value. See my edit in parent about risk.
What do you mean by trash? Could you give an example?
mkey, but one will have to build 3.5+ mile wide optical interferometer...

largest being built right now is 400m wide:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdalena_Ridge_Observatory_Int...
I think it's difficult to compare Java to Haskell. Java is JIT compiled and trades startup time for optimized performance. Haskell is compiled to native code and has a much faster startup time, but the optimizer doesn't have as good information because it runs when the code is compiled rather than at runtime.

In general, Java tends to be better for a long-running process while Haskell might be better for a one-off job (not to say that one couldn't do the other without problem though).
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Also, this is a good place to mention that his book, In the Blink of an Eye is an essential book for anyone who is interested in film editing, and an enjoyable book for anyone who is interested in watching movies. Fascinating stuff. Brilliant guy.

Note: He's not my father-in-law. I've never met him, just a fan.
Parse.ly closes $800k financial round
LoL WTF ! There´s no flag at the Moon ... Apollo 11 is a big joke!
Mueller Defends Java Android Code Claims
All of this you have essentially no control over and are exposed to for possibly a 30 year period. At least with renting you can look for a better deal after a 12 month contract ends. I'd imagine a lot of people were lured to buy by people telling them house prices would never fall and lost big.
1) My gut feeling is this is a harder problem than it seems at face value, with plenty of competition.

Take the auto-submit part, which might seem like a simple development problem but it far more of a sales/marketing one than an app development one. Thousands[1] of job boards employ many different ways of submitting and paying for job ads with many of the most important and relevant job boards selling and updating their ads with good old-fashioned labour-intensive phone, fax and email[2]. Old fashioned, but provides the chance to keep pushing the message that 85.2% of jobseekers surveyed prefer TradePub Weekly's industry-leading job boards and you can have a print ad and a banner in their e-newsletter for half price if you sign before the end of the week.

Probably the tech solution to the numerous boards is to encourage them adapt their boards to accept submissions via your API and centralised payments. But since they're often part of conservative media companies and you're cutting them off from their highly prized client relationships they're only going to make these changes if they see indications that you're sending a lot of advertisers their way (Giving the tool free to HR depts and trying to negotiate a commission from the job board owners is your best hope for traction). The guys currently selling ads, who spend all day on the phone trying to bring advertisers in and face redundancy if you successfully disrupt their market, will be very keen to see you don't succeed.

[1] sure, you could start with a small number, but to make your app valuable to hirers it needs to have most of the outlets they'd consider advertising in. Including the vertical/local ones. The inefficiency and expense to them of old-media outlets is tolerable if the candidates applying through those sources are better.
[2] also the preferred methods of recruiters, who might feasibly make up a major segment of your apps end user base

2. There seems to be quite a bit of competition emerging at the bottom end of the market with crowdsourced or Mechanical-Turk approach to human translation and improvement in automated translation. The higher end of the market might well be worth testing though, particularly if you can make it easy to find translators with knowledge of industry-specific terminology.
I like giving broad times - like, "any time morning Singapore time 5AM to 9AM, or suggest something that works for you if that doesn't."

I don't mind "whenever works for you", as long as the person is really likely to take any time. If you get 1-3 times back after "whenever" and none work, then the burden is really on you to nail down exactly when you're free. But a general best times works better anyways and narrows things down a lot.
In which case you've essentially got a contract, with promissory estoppel serving as a substitute for consideration.

It's interesting that if one searches, in either law textbooks or in the case law, there just isn't much that makes a distinction between licenses and contracts outside of real property law, where they are usually talking about bare licenses. In almost all other contexts, the terms are largely used interchangeably, although it seems license is more likely to be used when it is a one to many arrangement (e.g., one party is making essentially the same contract with numerous other parties) and contract is more likely when it is one to one.
If the company does start to become bigger, and groups in charge of certain aspects of the products start to form, is it possible to still apply this model on the smaller formed groups?
Then the weekly leader of each group meet and therefore encourages employees to maintain the "bigger picture" of the product.

Is this doomed to fail? what do you guys think?
The restrictiveness is the main point; using a grid is a relatively easy way to divide a page up into areas, and to make sure that things line up --- which in turn contributes to having an overall "clean look". (If things on the page look like they could be lined up but aren't quite, people read that as "sloppy", even if the things in question don't have much to do with each other functionally or topically. Using a grid is an easy way to avoid this sort of thing.)
You are not "forced to give away code" any more than you are forced to use whatever others built and generously made available to you as a starting point or as a building block under the condition you are no less generous.

Feel free to reinvent as many wheels as you like to keep for yourself.
The 'govt' will only raise rates substantially when they feel the economy requires a cooling effect (taking away the punch bowl just as the party gets started, and all..), by which time house prices will have gone up. The circumstance in which we could have high rates and falling property prices is the crash after the next rally (if market cools too quickly), which is a ways off.
"in my opinion the demeanor of Armstrong and crew during the Apollo 11 press conference is indicative of deception"

Well that was scientific. Do you think it would stand up in court?
More FUD.

"If I inadvertently infringed, I might have peppered that GPL code throughout miles of my own code."

Really? You "inadvertently" used miles of code copyrighted by other people without bothering to understand the license under which you obtained said code? That's a stretch. Even if you don't understand the GPL, as a developer with knowledge enough to locate the code you must understand that copyrighted code is probably made available to you under some terms that you must comply with.

Whether you buy a license to use the code, or received a license for free, you can't possibly be a computer programmer with zero notion of what "license" or "copyright" means.

"Just saying, the article seems to confirm that the FUD isn't FUD after all."

The FUD is that once you've introduced GPL code into your software, no matter how small a piece or for what reason, you could be forced to GPL all of your proprietary code. That's simply not true. If, on the other hand, you used so much GPL code that your product can't exist without it and you can't possibly rewrite the violating code, and you did so without putting forth any effort to understand or comply with the license under which you received the code, the best result I can think of would be for your company to go out of business.
Fair enough. To clarify, I don't subscribe to really any of the doctrine or ideas presented by the conspiracy "mainstream." I do believe American astronauts have walked on the moon during six individual Apollo missions. I also believe in the instance I referenced previously, that those three men are lying about something.
Good start. But a long way from a finished product
An "outlet" is one of those Freudian concepts that hasn't been proven and Wikipedia says that scientific opinion is divided.

It just seems illogical to me.

When your options for spending time and energy are infinite, are we required to include a certain number of angry activities to expend anger? A certain number of negative activities to expend negativity? Then why should it be necessary to have a certain number of "us vs them" activities?

Sources:

Does Venting Anger Feed or Extinguish the Flame? - https://illinois.edu/lb/files/2009/03/26/9293.pdf

Catharsis on Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catharsis#Therapeutic_uses
FWIW http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/magazine/16-06/ff_h...

As far as stamp duty goes, IMHO that system needs to be abolished. Property taxes should be applied smoothly rather than transactionally. For one thing, stamp duty reduces the flexibility of the labour market.

Consider: someone owns a house in Sydney worth $1 million. They're offered a job in Perth for, say, $150,000. Now to sell up and buy a new house in Perth they'd need to pay $50,000+ in stamp duty before you even get into agents commissions and whatnot. Why should someone take such a huge initial hit? Unless they didn't have a job where they are or the new job was substantially better, they're best off not moving.
Except that there is nothing that matches Fermi for GPGPU computing on the market. Certainly nothing from AMD and Intel who are still trying to figure out how to match NVidia's lead in GPGPU computing
As much as I like the idea of not having middle managers, I think it's impossible at a certain point. I mean, Google would love nothing better than to do away with middle managers altogether, and they have them. I think the best counter-point comes from Joel Spolsky: http://www.inc.com/magazine/20080901/how-hard-could-it-be-ho...
You can turn the red light off with alsamixer (find the SPDIF column and hit M to mute, as I recall). There must also be a way to automate this on boot, though I don't know it off the top of my head.
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If you need some help actually getting out of bed when the alarm goes off (instead of hitting snooze and rolling over), check out this article:

http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/04/how-to-get-up-right...
Sorry, either either the autolinker or I screwed up that post. My point was that if people cared about security, they could have been visting the facebook login page by manually typing HTTPS in the first place.
... Use Google docs.
Dropbox is great, and it's one of the few companies I don't mind pimping out. However, even I have my limits, and "the best 30 comments on this post explaining why Dropbox is awesome will be given 5GB, of extra storage on their account" crosses the line. It's just ego stroking and obvious advertising at that point.

If you must, why not reward people with the best ideas to improve dropbox or who have unique ways of leveraging it? I'll give you $5 to tell me how great I am...seriously?
Actually that's not true. Never before has sound not originated from the actual location of the sound maker.

In this new Talkies all the sound comes from one speaker on the floor and it doesn't sound like it's coming from the actor at all.

Obviously I'm being facetious, but there is no reason to suppose people won't learn to handle cinema 3D.
No. Notice I added a caveat that my statement was opined based on what I believe is true regarding human interaction. I could be off.
From what I've been told, Office docs are made up of objects accessible via an API. So theoretically one could build a version control tool that works effectively for Office docs.