skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually if you study the history of LBJ's "Great Society" expansion of the U.S. welfare state, a major argument was that we had to spend more on food, housing, and health care for the aged and poor in order to win the PR war against communism.
Response to OM's Facebook Post: Why to Integrate in Reg & Login Flows
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OM: "My web without Facebook Connect"
That's a clever idea, and if it works for you, great. In fact I think it's a much better use than PowerPoint's intended purpose of crushing your soul bullet point by bullet point: http://norvig.com/Gettysburg/sld001.htm

It looks like you can sort of do this in Google Presentation too, though you have to figure out the URL to link to other slides.
I guess I can see that argument, but at the same time its so easy to add memcache that it really seems silly not to add memcache for you models at are accessed a lot. Here is a simple user model, adding memcahce is a total of 7 lines. I just cant see the case where you wouldn't add this to start with:

from google.appengine.api import memcache
from google.appengine.ext import db

class User(db.Model):
email = db.StringProperty()
password = db.StringProperty()
sessionKey = db.StringProperty()

def userKey(self):
return "User.session="+self.sessionKey

def put(self):
super(User, self).put()
memcache.delete(self.userKey())
memcache.add(self.userKey(), self, 600)

def getCurrent(self, request):
user = memcache.get(self.userKey())
if user is None:
user = User.all().filter('sessionKey = ', request.header.cookie.get('user'))
memcache.add(self.userKey(), user, 600)
return user
Didn't Nishimatsu (JAL CEO) resign from his post?
A couple others have mentioned this, but I looked in to multi-room audio a few months ago and it seems to me that AirPort Express is not only the best solution (at least if your music is in iTunes and you carry an iPhone or iPad) but also the cheapest: it's $99 per room plus audio equipment.

Having a WiFi base station in every room is just the icing on the cake.
I am pretty sure there's a better reason it got banned. Facebook does not allow storing user's data externally. You can cache them but they must be up to date:

-- http://developers.facebook.com/policy/ --
You may cache data you receive through use of the Facebook API in order to improve your application’s user experience, but you should try to keep the data up to date.
--

Plus, applications that rise to millions within days usually employ spam tactics. I 'm curious what's the motivation behind all this blog attention, though
Probably within a month or two. We're wrapping up our first release now and are planning to do a small private beta before launch.
Natural language query is the holy grail of search engine perfection. I am sure, whichever company leads in this technology will have a prominent role in future. Imagine, having this functionality in the cell phone? People don't mind even paying monthly subscription to have this functionality.
Maybe sell the less quality ones for 10c a piece, but the really cool ones for a buck. That's my vote.
Ask HN: when does your product become overpriced?
I've been following kreci for a while now, on HN and on his blog, and I see he just launched a 20-page book:
http://www.kreci.net/android/make-money-on-android/

While I do believe the contents of his book are valuable, are they worth $20 ? I know for most of you it will be hard to appreciate without seeing the actual book, but for me (i have it), it looks like a "buy my book which will teach you how to get rich" scams, written by someone who started to make money out of pure luck, with a less-than-valuable product (iFart stuff).

I know this topic might start some flames, but I believe it's a fair question.
I'm curious how you respond to the idea that Jesus didn't exist as a historical figure. The argument for this idea typically points to the lack of a first hand account of Jesus, with the first accounts appearing decades after his alleged death. That would make it a little difficult for the Roman authorities to provide evidence that Jesus was not supernatural.

Wikipedia has a decent overview of this at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_myth_theory
It's half a dozen employees constantly trying to keep up with what is now a 1 billion page views a month site. From what I understand they're carefully trying to balance getting new hires (which Conde Nast now lets them do) and keep the damn ship afloat.
Not to be negative but he might be doing it to avoid income taxes. So many silicon valley CEO's do that. The real questions are what is compensation + stock options. The article does not provide that information.

Nonetheless, its a good idea to appreciate people's value with good pay.

When you accept money in payment for your effort, you do so only on the conviction that you will exchange it for the product of the effort of others.
- Francisco D'Acconia
Oh come now, there was certainly abundant industrial innovation in those soceties.

The sawmill (like at Hierapolis), grainmill, shipmill, cranks and connecting rods, roman cranes, the first book (codex) had many advantanges over scrolls...

The first recorded (buttress) dams, cements, camel harnesses, foot-powered looms, force pumps, glass blowing, hydraulic mining, hushing (flood mining), reaper, lateen sails.

Almost all of these were not toys; they filled a very real need.
I find it perfectly compatible. But then I happen to know that the word "faith" in the new testament means "assurance based on a track record" or "forensic evidence." It does not mean "blind belief in nonsense" or ignoring evidence. See here: http://www.tektonics.org/whatis/whatfaith.html
Cool. There's also a book called "Swarm Intelligence" by Kennedy/Eberhart that describes swarm behaviors very well (my favorite book).

For anyone interested, here is the Craig Reynolds page that describes the flocking behavior http://www.red3d.com/cwr/boids/
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I agree that majority of managers are attracted by large sums of cash and other perks and were probably even more just a few years ago, but not all. JAL's CEO cut his own wage (from article it seems like that only his wife didn't like idea too much;) ), he's Japanese and I don't know their culture and values good enough to understand if that's normal or not for them.

However founders don't work 24/7 for the reason of cash primarily. I do work to show my talent, to create great work, perhaps even change the world for better. Can't do it for nothing as I need some cash for living, but you get the idea.
I've also used Excel for some mockups. This forces you to keep things in grids and focus on simplicity, functionality and usability rather than the fluff that Photoshop filters bring.
I stand corrected. In fact, I just checked and it seems like even Uranium isn't actually extremely toxic.
Engineering requires some coherence of vision. Coherence of vision in society is hard to achieve and probably undesirable -- the best systems of government, in my opinion, are the ones that protect difference and function in spite of it. In other words, if you successfully solve the engineering problem of designing a system of government, the resulting society will not be amenable to social engineering. If society and politics are amenable to engineering, then the system of government is almost certainly poorly designed. In a democratic society you can only achieve coherence through perceived ethnic and cultural uniformity, but that perception is manufactured at great cost to everyone who doesn't fit the imposed national identity.
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Dive Into Python 3 does a very good job of explaining what a character and what a byte is, their difference, and why it is important (particularly for Python 3). http://diveintopython3.org/strings.html

Spolsky's article on character encoding is equally as good. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html

I recommend both to every programmer.
I love Buffet's response to anyone concerned about America's future:

> The prophets of doom have overlooked the all-important factor that is certain: Human potential
is far from exhausted, and the American system for unleashing that potential – a system that has worked wonders
for over two centuries despite frequent interruptions for recessions and even a Civil War – remains alive and
effective.
Wow. Thanks for posting this. There are some amazing quotes from that:

"Money will always flow toward opportunity, and there is an abundance of that in America."

"Commentators today often talk of “great uncertainty.” But think back, for example, to December 6, 1941, October 18, 1987 and September 10, 2001. No matter how serene today may be, tomorrow is always uncertain.Don’t let that reality spook you. Throughout my lifetime, politicians and pundits have constantly moaned about terrifying problems facing America. Yet our citizens now live an astonishing six times better than when I was born. The prophets of doom have overlooked the all-important factor that is certain: Human potential is far from exhausted, and the American system for unleashing that potential – a system that has worked wonders
for over two centuries despite frequent interruptions for recessions and even a Civil War – remains alive and effective."

Is it any wonder I want to move to America ASAP?

-Jaded kid languishing in a publicly funded Canadian chill out(University) forced to educate himself because the kids in his crew don't get it.
In parallel with this discussion, I'm doing some design work in a Word table. It's funny, I didn't even think of using Excel. Excel's grid-oriented focus gets me out of creative space and into analytical space. Also I used to do a lot of spreadsheeting and would have dreams about being in the grid of the spreadsheet and having to maneuver around, so it doesn't have particularly pleasant associations to me.
If you have a hard time reading this, just press the left and right buttons to run the slides.
Slavery didn't export or transmit Roman culture as much as Roman citizens and traders settling conquered lands, and mixing with local elites, who adopted Roman traditions, economics, and lifestyles.

My reading of the history is that the literate Roman slaves more-or-less bought in to the system-- indeed, for the literate slave, there were paths to freedom, and some of the most trusted imperial advisers were freedmen. While slave uprisings were always a huge concern in Rome, they played no part in the eventual downfall of Rome, and the most remembered one-- Spartacus-- was of the illiterate war captive type of slave.
Yeah, I've known some PowerPoint wizards who can build decent-size executable prototypes using .ppt files.
Knuth's book "Thinks a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About" (http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/things.html) gets in to this topic. I found it to be a great read.
clickable: http://www.kreci.net/android/make-money-on-android/
Wasn't low-cost sequencing of human genomes created by the competition generated by an X prize? Maybe we simply aren't harnessing gamification principles properly. Maybe really big games like wars aren't the only way.
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Stages of MMORPG addiction
No, nothing like that.

However, it (the primary) project is a technology that can take the current state of the art of information retrieval methodologies just a notch further; something that can have a compelling value proposition for search players to acquire.

By contrast, the major off-shoot (by-product) is in the SN sector, with some unique twists. It will (probably) create a new segment/category in the SN space, without actually competing with any existing player and has a high probability of going viral.

And so the dilemma continues - which way to go?
I've no problems with its looks, but is there a way to not start with "fit page width" and therefore a bigger window? I always have to resize and change the modus which is unpleasant. (on Windows) Thanks in advance!
Yeah, I have a feeling most presentation tools (Keynote, Impress, Google Presentation, etc.) would work well for this. In fact the only pain point I've ever had was the occasional desire to change the slide size. I've found that most of the basic effects in PP have a CSS equivalent as well, a surprising number of the things mocked up in PP can be recreated entirely in CSS without images.

Most of the actual graphics I use in the mockup I've made in Photoshop anyways, and just put them in the mockup, so those are reusable art assets on the final page.

(plus you can even mockup smaller gui details like drop-down menus if you are clever enough, though it's usually more work than it's worth)

I've found that most of the MS-Office tools can be abused to do a pretty good job in roles far removed from their original intent.
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I remember my 8th grade science teacher telling us all about Plutonium's toxicity and I believed it for many years, so I don't blame you. Apparently some researchers had a "Hot Particle" theory that said that because of the way plutonium was taken in by the body it was much more dangerous than just looking at its radioactivity would lead you to believe - concentrating in certain areas of the lungs. Its not surprising that media figures like Nader confused this with chemical toxicity, or didn't notice when experiments contradicted this theory.

EDIT: Edited for horrible grammar caused by rewriting something without proofreading after.
Whether or not it's fair, most people will blame Facebook in a situations like this. Unless they can get security issues under control, they're in for an increasingly rough time ... one more reason I think they're waaaay overvalued at $70B.
Interesting site. I wonder however whether you could be done for copyright infringement for embedding youtube music videos.

I ask this question because I was going to embed some david bowie youtube videos for a project I was working on but in the end decided not to risk it, because of concerns over copyright infringement.
Learn to admit when you're wrong. Don't penalize each other for making mistakes. It's okay to take a day off every now and then. Celebrate small victories. Hug it out.
To paraphrase: When you understand why you don't believe in Zeus, you'll understand why I don't believe in your god. This author uses such loaded words about programmers: nerd rage, fear, panic. He just doesn't understand that his belief system doesn't hold up to basic logic. The level of thinking that accepts a religion as truth would not serve to get us across a busy street safely.
Windows-1252 (cp1252) is similar to ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1), which is a subset of Unicode; both are a superset of ASCII. Windows-1252 however has a few characters mapped to different codepoints.
>It converts, for example, über to uber.

What does it convert 'ぬびばざべ' into?
Reddit was stable for a long time. It's really only been the last few months (~6?) that they've been suffering serious service outages.
I'm always reluctant about going completely schemaless. Reminds me of the blog post by FriendFeed about how they use MySQL, highly recommended: http://bret.appspot.com/entry/how-friendfeed-uses-mysql

I feel like like there needs to be a better middleground for having some schema but being able to augment it easily with metadata that you're not querying against (yet). Then later extracting the metadata into queryable columns.

I wrote a post outlining some ideas of how to do this: https://github.com/shazow/everything/blob/master/idea/arbitr...

I've only implemented bits and pieces of this in practice, huge convenience so far.
Let me get this straight, the World is accusing Google of cheating because its search engine provides a Google based client amongst the first choices instead of the client that might be more familiar to that factor.........

Tell the Harvard professors to walk into 2,000 McDonalds and order a happy meal and take a survey and complete case study on how many clerks suggest Burger King before they suggest a number 3 value meal.

Now, if Google wanted to be firm, and maybe this does exist, not sure, but when the only privileged results in a search should come from companies who pay for it, and if they do pay for it, Google should have a special surcharge from companies wishing to appear above Google services in that specific search.

Google doesn't cheat, it does what most businesses try and accomplish, a way to run your customers back into your cycle. - GTV
Start with closest evironment- your friends, collegues, people you know. Let them know what you built, invite them, may be ask a favor to come and register.

I remember how founder of CollegeHomour shared his experiences how he started site by creating countless accounts by himself and posted basic content to make site rolling. You should start with some user base to make site rolling.

What from technical point of view- sign in twitter and facebook icons looks wrong. You should make Twiiter/Facebook auth as first choice.
https://github.com/axiak/pybloomfiltermmap ?
I don't know what quantum computing is doing on that list, but a mere glance around you will confirm that small increases in intelligence and brainpower, such as that involved between humans and the LCA of humans and chimps, can have rather large effects. Marvin Minsky once said, "Nuclear weapons are not really dangerous because nuclear weapons are not self-replicating." To this I would add that nanotechnology is not really dangerous because nanotechnology is not smarter than you.
Gmail has been very slow of late.
Hey, if you want to chill out instead of studying, that's your call. Don't blame it on the country.
Posts we've had to Less Wrong on this topic: http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Cryonics
you're not doing it right

That's a facile, if persistent, criticism. An agile process such as XP has always said "If you practice technical discipline, work in short work units, deliver working and completed milestones frequently, work directly with your stakeholders at the tactical and strategic levels, and collect and respond to feedback as frequently as possible, you can deliver great code and delight your customers."

Someone who decides from that to have standup meetings every day, push some code out the door once a month, and not write documentation missed a few necessary conditions.
The U.S. health care insurance system is term insurance at whole (i.e. life) insurance prices.

The resulting marketplace, including availability of treatment, is correspondingly skewed. We pay for crisis management, not health management.
It's technologically feasible to send a mission to Mars.

It's unfeasible to have self-sustaining colony on Mars.

Mars Direct proposal does not even try to cover self-sustaining part.
I liked the article, but I'm curious about the title choice. Why prepend it with 'OM:'? Because the domain is shown on the right, do I really need two sources of authenticity?
I agree with the mindset argument.

One of the things that improves my confidence and energy tremendously is simply to go to regular meetups. Either about technology (Ruby, Python, JS) or more business-oriented meetups like startup-centered ones.

It's suprising what talking to passionate people can do to your spirits :-)
The idea that Jesus didn't exist as a historical figure is laughable and people who defend that idea normally end up tying themselves in knots. We have four independent eyewitness accounts, sometimes using the same sources, sometimes not, mentions by a Jewish historian, Roman historians and prominent sceptics - who by the way mock the nature of the resurrection, not the existence of the person. I guess it's kind of stupid to deny the existence of someone so close to the time they were around.

One of the "biased" sources - Luke - is widely regarded by people who know what they're talking about (like Sir William Ramsay who spent a lifetime digging up the Middle East) as the finest, most accurate historian who ever lived.

The fact that the first written accounts of Jesus appeared only decades after his execution is extraordinary to scholars of ancient literature who are used to dealing with gaps of many _centuries_, sometimes even a millenium. I can't remember offhand what the earliest copy we have of Tacitus is for example but I think it's a good 800 years after he wrote it.

When I apply the same methods of the Jesus mythers to Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Tacitus, Mohammed and even Abraham Lincoln, guess what? None of them ever existed either.

You need a great deal of hand-waving, special pleading and outright dishonesty to be a myther. Robin Lane Fox, who is certainly no Christian, is at least honest when he reads the account of John and concludes that it's an eyewitness account. Would that Dawkins and Price had the same integrity.
If I remember correctly you are able to exploit DMA access through firewire by creating an iPod that would be able to dump the contents of memory to the hard drive. If you had DMA access using Thunderbolt you could dump the contents of memory in a very short time!
Some of those where invented there, but, not unlike Hero's turbine, never enjoyed a widespread adoption. A lot of other is non-machinery processes that can't really be easily replaced by manpower alone (sails? dams?)

Industrial innovation (as in replacing manpower with machines) was not really catching up in ancient times, mainly because there is little incentive to save on labor if you have a steady supply of slaves.

Perhaps the best illustration of social dynamics at play there we have is North vs. South states, pre civil war. Same people, same starting point, but such a dramatic difference.
So keep using Lua? Langauges choices are all about that...choice.
Lawsuit waiting to happen?
I think you've both hit on and missed the point of the article at the same time. We think war = technological progress because that's how it happened in our civilization. We're biased toward that line of thinking because the evidence -- our history -- keeps us biased. The article is saying, it didn't have to be that way. Likewise, that isn't how it has to be in the future. So, yes, you are correct that funds provide progress, war provides funds, so war provides progress, but that's only one of many possible scenarios. It isn't a law of nature.
Look I built a crush notifier too (www.adore.ly). I made a few attempts to even market on HN but I didn't get to front page. You forgot luck is a huge factor in entrepreneurship.
Japan Air filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last year.

A Japanese Airline filed for bankruptcy under the bankruptcy laws of the United States?
This is exactly backwards. One needs to start with the needs of the user, which means mocking up the user experience without regard for implementation. The tool might vary, but the concept of starting with the user is essential.

Starting in code makes it about the coder, not the user. It conflates implementation with design.

I am a coder, and will do mockups in code -- only when I know a real design won't be available. I would much rather be directed by a good UX person. Better for the user, and faster for me as an implementor.
I am late to this conversation and Fred already posted a follow up but I wanted to just add that this is not Fred's normal voice. He is upset about something. When usually his posts are very open and constructive, this one was bitter.
You don't have to mess with the internals, unless you want to put a bomb in someone's laptop. Reboot in single user mode, change password, do whatever you want.
There are other authors who contribute to the same blog.
"The lesson here is - do something controversial and make a name for yourself. Notoriety is far better than obscurity for an entrepreneur."

This lesson isn't anything new, it's been around since Diogenes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes_of_Sinope
I'm gonna second radiant heat in the floor. You'll never regret it.