skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in Auckland and it feels the same as far as planning is concerned - only worse! There's barely any useful rail here, everything is supposed to happen by road and every time a good rail proposal comes by, the road/trucking lobby mobilises and nothing every happens.

I live a good life though. Like you I live in an inner city suburb (St. Mary's Bay) and can walk 20 minutes to my office. Also like Sydney, Auckland is one of the fastest growing Asian cities in the world, so the food is fantastic. It's also on a beautiful harbour and, despite questionable general planning decisions, there are great parks and green spaces everywhere, plus opportunities (well, if you know people I guess) to get involved with activities like sailing (Auckland has one of the highest amounts of boats per capita in the world).

Auckland's funny though, I'd say we're probably 20 years behind the levels of development and confidence that Sydney is reaching now. We'll never be as big, that's a given, but as far as interesting architecture and commercial developments, everything is still quite under-developed here, but I think the climate and pace of life make up for it - though I must admit I'm itching to live in New York for a while, guess the grass is always greener :)
(cons "Is it an underhanded penny auction rip-off site?" *phrases*)
algorithmic != computational

The recipe for boiled eggs is an example of a non-computational algorithm.
Oh wow, I had no idea the RSE plugin for Eclipse even existed! That might be my golden ticket. I think I might try what you do with the remote server setup. A free-tier EC2 server should be just fine for it.

Thanks for the information, it really helps!
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Imitating the brain may be a matter of having enough computation power to allow a simple method to work. It reminds me of NLP where it seems we are doing a full circle back to the simple methods like Naive Bayes as they are showing better results than complex methods with enough data.
Metasploit includes a significant quantity of reference code: http://www.metasploit.com/
When I make some money it'll probably be a Nissan GTR, but for now it's a Ford Falcon. Super boring, but it's an incentive to get on and earn the aspirational stuff.
Toyota MR2 MKII Turbo, really exotic and enjoyable.
Apple has a financing plan if you are concerned about upfront funds ...

Also keep in mind that, if you are in the US and properly structured your startup, you can take a section 179 deduction if you are using it solely for business. And if your business is in NY you can take a 121.3 sales tax exemption
Good thing you read and didn't just post a comment after reading two sentences. ("He" was a she.... and the type of bike didn't matter.)
The problem domain may seem a little wacky but the calculation itself is interesting and could be applied to some other 'meaningful' problems.

P.S. - Reminded me of one of those questions they ask at McKinsey when recruiting new analysts. E.g. How many golf balls are in the United States?
he blogs about all sorts of stuff but his website is academic papers.
I have to assume the article is talking about driving commute time. I take the train about 45 mintues each way, and although I wish it were less, I have a regular cadre of folks I've met over the years that I can chat with on the train ... or I can read or work or listen to music podcasts, etc. Frankly, to get to my job its the best possible way to commute and I think working at home would be worse than not working in an office (tho I can work from home and do so a few days / month).
TechCrunch Disrupt at it's finest: Lumier's Windows enhancement platform
AskMetafilter solves this problem by asking all users to pay $5 to make an account to vote or post. This low, easy bar is still high enough to dramatically reduce low-quality comments and questions.

But I wonder if the argumentative and negative postings on this site are coming from relative beginners on the site, or people who are more established?
I don't have kids and it is highly hypocritical of me to say so but "Leo Tolstoy wrote War and Peace while living with his wife and 13 children."
Could you explain a bit?

This is how I understood the argument: Parts can’t form machines which perceive (I couldn’t find a justification for this assumption – that’s the sticking point), therefore perception is not created by parts but by a substance.

The meat comment targets the first part of the argument. Leibniz seems to make an assumption (parts can’t from perceiving machines ≈ meat can’t think) which he doesn’t really justify.

I thought he was using the mill as an example to show that perceiving machines made from parts are self-evidently absurd, to ridicule the idea of perceiving (or conscious) machines. What am I missing?
2001 Chevy Z06 Corvette. Bought new in 2000 when I was working for PGP.

ETA: Its seen track use too. Fortunately (or un really) I've not had the spare income over the years to really hit the go-fast crack pipe.
it does, they can fail. humans can fail at assessing relevant information as well.
Qmail does not have a perfect security track record (though AFAIK djbdns does).
You could grab Olark, embed it using out setinline option: http://www.olark.com/community/discussion/12

and toss an XMPP chatter bot behind it :-)
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/bangpypers/2008-January/000...

Cheers,
Ben
Teenage girls have known this basic principle for ages:

"Can you come over later and help me study for the test?"

There are two sides to this. The Ben Franklin Effect[1] and, the theory, that in general, if someone feels like you are attentive and receptive to them (e.g. expert being listened to do by a student, teenage boy helping a classmate (girl) with their homework) that they will like you. Obviously, depending on the situation, we can vacillate between honestly liking someone and faking liking someone. As the old chestnut goes, a great conversationalist is someone who tells you who you are.

However, in the field of NLP, they venture a few steps further and attempt to build rapport via various subtle mechanisms, the most commonly of which is mirroring. People do this naturally, too. Go to a coffee shop and observe couples. Couples that are in sync will sometimes drink at the very same moment or if one partner crosses their legs, they may cross their arms (though this is not an steadfast indication of rapport/relationship quality - because nothing is).

Observe parents and kids. Especially those having a public meltdown. The kids are reversing the power by hitting a weakness of the parent - that the parent could feel they are being judged incompetent (or at the best, having a bad parenting day) in the public eye. That is understandably stressful. Very, very rarely will the parent with the kid having a meltdown be calm. They will likely become more and more agitated, feeding the child's meltdown. Trained CSR (Customer Service Representatives) know that you never ever raise your voice with an angry customer - let them vent (if necessary), be calm.

The best waitresses, hairdressers, etc. don't just flirt (though that may be involved) but make you feel special. They may even, ahem, ask for your help/opinion on something.

The problem I see with geeks (and I observe this myself) is that in social situations we tend to try to 'win' arguments - e.g. yes, I'm the expert. You don't 'win' conversations, but you may 'lose' friends this way. And not just geeks - I was with a bunch of well-traveled friends the other day and the conversation devolved into who had been to such-and-such exotic place - 'You went went to Belize? Well let me tell you about Patagonia...'

And I leave you with this... true confidence is vulnerability.

And, yes, I know that it was possible that the poster wasn't interested in what I had to expound on this topic.

The interesting thing about all this - is that, even if you know what is going on, you can still be susceptible to manipulation. Whether on Hacker News or in the office.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Franklin_effect
No, it's normal at big companies or non programming firms. Spare mental capacity is devoted to sports teams and American Idol.
Yeah, love the google calculator. I wished it had support for high precision numbers.
I personally use vim and svn when I work. Keep it simple.

When I know I will continually have internet access, I will ssh to my server and launch vim instances within `screen'
Why guess? Aren't there server logs?
I'm not entirely sure why you would... My boss doesn't know what kernel version we run, all he cares is that it works.
Good resource! Just a little fix: Dojo is linked to backbone.js.
I take the metra every day. It sucks that public transit didn't work for you, but I live in the suburbs and work downtown. I think taking the train to work is probably the best way to commute, even though its a 40/45 minute train ride each way (with about a 10 minute walk on each), depending on my mood I can do a lot of work, reading, or socializing.
Why would I not continue using craigslist?
I do have a suggestion though, with craigslist so densely packed with rental listings, if you can help landlords rent our their rental properties, you'll have a lot of return traffic and word of mouth for your site.
how many transactions have taken place or take place on a daily basis?

it's a really interesting concept and something that i've considered before. basically a reverse auction where the seller bids to sell the item to the buyer. theoretically the lowest bidder wins and sells the item.

from the buy side, this seems like a great idea. don't spend a lot of time perusing craigslist or ebay. just name your price, and hopefully sellers will compete to sell the item to you. however, my gut feeling (and from what i saw from browsing the site for a minute) is that people who post want a deal. they don't want to pay ebay/craigslist market going rates, let alone retail.

which brings me to the sell side, with craigslist and ebay both offering higher going rates, why would a seller want to take a huge hit on what he/she is selling on this site?

basically, you're trying to appease two markets, and i don't (at first glance) see the incentive for the seller to participate, given the success of craigslist and ebay.

also, how do you plan on monetizing?
In the midst of rebuilding + turbo-charging a '85 BMW 635CSi. Daily driver is a '90 325i Convertible. It's quite fun to drive with the top down and I still get 21mpg with a lead foot.
Nope, you're fine. The only thing more ubiquitous than people judging each other is people proclaiming how bad that is.
I've wanted to take a smart car or mini cooper and stick a powerful engine inside. Have you seen the smart diablo?

How do you obtain the repair manuals?
On notability, if wikipedia only contains things that are generally known, what's the point of putting that information in a reference resource? The point of a resource like WP is so people can find things that they may not know.

Now there's a strawman. All the facts on wikipedia are widely known to some group of people, but nobody knows 'em all. Though actually, you've just given me another excuse to link to my new blog in which I'm (perhaps slightly facetiously) attempting to become an expert on everything by reading every one of wikipedia's 3.5 million articles: http://projectomniscience.blogspot.com/ ... I only started it two days ago but I've already done both aardvarks and zebras.

Absurd examples like people's cats and random numbers are not really the problem and I suspect you know that.

They would be, if you removed the notability guidelines. Well, the cats would be.

It's the abusive use of the guidelines (evoked as gospel) by deletionists to keep n00bs out of their playpen.

Possibly. I've never actually tried editing wikipedia, only reading it. On the other hand, I have been through Articles for Deletion a few times and the vast majority of stuff that gets deleted clearly is crap -- vanity articles and the like.
Powerset was bought by Microsoft and became part of bing. Stopped reading after that tho.
You think linus is the second best hacker?
Yes. After living in NY, that is what I found amazing in SF.

My commute is longer but takes me long hills and perfectly sunny days, along with seating on the BART.

In NY, it was usually either cold, rainy, or humid and hot (spring/fall being the very brief exceptions). And if you've ever had to suffer the NY subway during the summer you really feel like dying.
You do realise that galaggus just got one over on you there, right?
pe·nul·ti·mate/peˈnəltəmit/

Adjective: Last but one in a series of things; second last: "the penultimate chapter of the book".
Relatedly: is there a good home wireless router on the market today? Hardware & firmware revs have made googling for an answer somewhat difficult: I figure here I'm likely to find a good replacement for my less-than-stellar WRT54G.
... hoist on my own petard.
I'd say it's pretty dirty. The subways are disgusting and the streets often have trash strewn about. SF is certainly not that much better (though the BART stations are far cleaner).
I drive a 99 Jeep TJ. My wife's car is an 88 BMW 325i convertible.

I take the jeep off road about once a month, more if time permits. It's stock, but running slightly larger tires (31") and a bunch of other off road upgrades. Last weekend I just about shat myself when I had the jeep off camber and pointing straight up and down inches from a cliff. The only way home was up. That's pretty exciting.

The BMW is a real car -- sounds great and doesn't have a TV screen in the middle of the dash or advanced stability control. With the hard top off, it feels about 1000lbs lighter. Compared to the jeep, it throws you into the seat when you accelerate. I think about getting a new one every now and then, but it's just not the same.

Both are manual transmissions. I weep for the day when I won't be able to get a new car with a stick shift.

I love both of our cars. Most people would have walked away from them after the amount of money I've put into them. I love to drive and these are the cars I've always wanted.
And if a TTC train is stuck, there's like no alternatives (outside of taking a bus). At least with NYC, I've been able to take alternate lines when something happens.

That said, the TTC subways are far cleaner and much more spacious.
If you have a bike with gears, they don't. If you're sporting a fixie, you probably don't like hills so much.
While it can be a waste of time, and many people won't enjoy it, there are also plenty of people who say they love a quiet time driving, and genuinely enjoy it.

I've never driven so I can't say for sure, but I suspect that when I finally bother to learn/get a car, I'll positively enjoy driving it. Plus, it doesn't have to be a waste of time, you can either use it as thinking time, listen to audiobooks/etc, or if you enjoy music, it can be a period of relaxing entertainment.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=savings+rate+US
vs
http://www.google.com/search?q=savings+rate+US

no contest.

I use wolfram exclusively for all my economics homeworks. Google is quite useless for that.

Say I'm crunching mortgage data. The engine needs to hit

http://www.federalreserve.gov/econresdata/releases/mortoutst...

and calculate totals & graph that. Wolfram does those things. Google doesn't.
A 2005 Audi A4 USP (Ultra Sport)... Relatively small 1.8-liter turbo-charged engine, but it's surprisingly quick, and the quattro four-wheel drive has saved my life numerous times and kicks ass on the snow.. I've had it up to 120mph in the desert, too.

I'm sticking with Audi for the rest of my life. Build quality is fantastic, technology is great, and the design is almost as timeless as Mercedes.
Germany pledges to end all nuclear power by 2022
>"Do you really argue that beaches have some sort of, well, “magic”, I guess, property which makes them a beach?"

I'm not sure "scientific" properties do much better for the sort of ordinary human purposes for which the property of beachness tends relevant, e.g. distribution of persons, water quality, presence of tiki bars, etc. In other words, replacing ordinary language with descriptive formalism throws the baby out with the bath water, i.e. no matter how accurate the description of neuron firings is, it will not touch upon what it is like to tuck one's child into bed at night.
I use Linksys E3000 with DD-WRT and it has been absolutely great for me.
Show HN: Share your long weekend project & get feedback.
If you're being a reddit punthreader, please kindly leave HN alone and die in a fire.

If you're honestly asking for more information: http://www.amazon.com/Impro-Improvisation-Theatre-Keith-John... <=Excellent part on status improv
That's a good point, I didn't realize they were in the Cydia Store. I've asked saurik about it. (I thought that ZodTTD had actually released the source, but it appears it is often years out of date.) And you can't ever sell SNES9x, which he is doing. Sigh.
I contribute to Mixxx (http://mixxx.org) and it's our VCS. When we made the switch from SVN, we did it mainly for the very nice integration with Launchpad. Without Launchpad it wouldn't be worth the trouble. Also, it's really dog slow compared to git, especially on our very large codebase.
Those used to be called Microsoft interview problems, or Fermi problems.
They were fun and cool until they became What Is Wrong With Tech Interviews.
New look of CSC Lounge
There is http://www.stardock.com/products/windowblinds/ - how different this would be?
The person you cite is in no way representative of inclusionists. The analogous position would be to say that deletionists believe Wikipedia should only have articles on subjects that Britannia has articles on. You might be able to find a person who holds such a view, and it might be right to call them a deletionist. It would be disingenuous, however, to say that deletionists hold those views.
This puzzle was printed in college application brochure for (I think it was) Princeton in the 1990s.
It was an example of the stimulating and irrelevant academic university culture, or something like this.
Linux has kept its main public interfaces stable for all of its several hundred post-1.0 releases, so using that scheme would mean Linux would have to use rather odd-looking version numbers like 1.632.5
When I lived in Atlanta I did a reverse commute 25 miles to my office in my car. I genuinely enjoyed it every day. Door to door in 30 minutes, listening to some music, going 70 on the highway. Very pleasant.
That's what I'm talking about. :p

I have an '01 Mustang and a '67 Mustang. But I want to get into the european cars. I've had a fond liking to Porsches recently.
Interesting, the most successful team side project I've ever worked on - we met regularly every week at a coffee shop.

Looking back, that served two purposes - one, nothing beats face to face debugging and arguing over the merits of various UX approaches and two, having that weekly meeting was a hard deadline - that pushed each of us to get their stuff done and committed to the repository before the meeting (even if it was 5 min. prior to the meeting).
I don't think removing notability guidelines is the right call either. I think treating the guidelines as guidelines is the right, simple and obvious call.

Unfortunately, notability guidelines are treated like gospel by the deletionists. In cases where stuff is wrongfully deleted, the entire discussion will center around notability, usually with source material references being dismissed out of hand by an overzealous admin.

I'm sure there should be some kind of penalty of some sort or another for editor types who habitually flag AfD and then have them overturned, and that would remedy some of it. But to be honest, speculative discussions about how the foundation could and should deal with the issue have gone nowhere for the better part of half a decade.

Possibly. I've never actually tried editing wikipedia, only reading it.

You really should sometime. I've had things deleted so fast that I didn't even have time to save my edit, then move down to the references section to paste in my references, I swear there are just bots now that monitor new edits and immediately revoke any changes.

It's a pity really.

Good luck reading all the articles! I usually get lost of an extended tour of interesting links whenever I go to the WP.
Unless you create a transmission that reads my mind, or can see the road and surrounding traffic it will not shift "better". Faster? yes. More smoothly? yes. Better? No.
Mine was great until I had too many concurrent connections, which involved a crash and a wipe of its configuration...
CO2 also gets sequestered in plant material. Further reducing the chance.
Similar, but with less content to http://microjs.com, which is credited in the footer.

I prefer EveryJS's presentation though, since it's easier to read the description.
Anyone liking this sort of thing should have a look at A Mathematicians Miscellany by Littlewood [1]. It is an exceptionally enjoyable collection of mathematical anecdotes and some such. It covers Caesar's Last Breath topic, but it also goes over the probabilities of highly unlikely events such as an upright drumstick not falling over during a long train ride.

[1] http://www.archive.org/details/mathematiciansmi033496mbp
Hacked PBS reports Tupac, Biggie alive
I assume he's talking to "Bay Area California Engineers" ... my commute is a 20 min drive up the 101 into SLO, listening to podcasts and looking at the pacific ocean.
This was incredibly awkward and painful to watch. It goes to show why you should avoid buzzwords as much as you can when pitching, it just looks like you're compensating for a lacking product. Startups can learn an absolute ton from this, namely:

- Only demo when you actually have something to demo (an animated start menu does not count).

- Drop the buzz words, and just describe why the hell it's going to improve my life.

- If you're going to put up a pre-launch website[1], don't just list your investors like that is some sort of indicator you'll be amazing, at least put some product information on there.

Cullen's performance here intrigued me, especially his self-noted notoriety in the Windows community. A quick Google search unearthed this: http://www.bluescreenofdeath.org/?p=85, where he discusses "Project Copenhagen" in 2009. It's pretty much the product they claim to be building today, but now with the backing of SV Angel and the Founders Fund. According to their website[1], "It's gonna be big. Really big.". My personal feeling is that there just isn't enough people who will go out of their way to skin their Windows PC, even if it does improve the experience.

1. http://lumier.com
Outdoor Fireplaces & Fire Pits
Fire features add warmth and excitement to an outdoor living environment. They come in a variety of forms and price points - from a simple informal fire pit to a sophisticated stone fireplace, which provide an anchor for an outdoor living space.
As long as there is some component of air that stays the same: both in identity and proportion, the calculation should hold. Is there such a component?

Simplifying assumptions, even those seemingly false, are common in fun math problems. The point is just that, the math. I'm sure the traveling salesman had issues to think about other than the classic math of the problem.

Just for my information, any references to strengthen your last statement?
Depends on the state. In California the labor law is very clear that its a right that can't be taken away (even if present in a contract)
The setting just motivates the demonstration of a method, which finds use in lots of places. Education is valuable.
I'm not sure I trust the underlying architectures that are being developed with my life...

DDOS and MITM attacks take a whole-new meaning if the networked entities are 3-ton objects moving at 65 mph.
It's definitely a quarterlife crisis car.

I want to like american cars (USA! USA! especially given that today is memorial day in NYC time), but everyone I talk to has some sort of horror story with a GM or chrysler.