skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"why would that be necessary if spending were reduced or income increased?"

i think that's exactly where the problem is. the debt payments are due soon and until the republicans turned the federal debt limit into a political issue, it was being presupposed that it would be raised "automatically" by congress. now they've turned it into a bargaining tool (similar to what they did under gingrich in the nineties) and we have "inconsistent time scales", in that budgeting changes take much longer than the time to next due date. basically, the republicans hold up the extension "in return" for concessions by the president on the revenue side (i.e. no tax increases for their plutocratic clientele) and forcing him to regulate the long-term debt problem only on the spending side.

but you know what, i shouldn't be talking through my hat. i'm not american, have only limited understanding of the us budgeting process, and like i've said have turned my eyes off the markets for a while now. so if anyone knows better, please, enlighten us :-)
yeah, it really is.
Shallow social connections have earned me two jobs and a number of deep social connections by leapfrogging off of shallow social connections.

If you think there's no value in maintaining shallow social connections, then I think you too need to put some energy into adding meaning to your social connections.
The problem of qualia[1] is about the relation between knowledge of a phenomenon and experiences of that phenomenon. 'Emotion' has nothing to do with it, unless you consider the mental state that is the result of 'the perception of something blue' to be a distinct emotional state, in which case your usage of the word 'emotion' deviates from the common way[2] it is used.

I'm sorry if this seems unsubstantiated and unsatisfactory, but I'm afraid that you just do not yet understand the profoundness of the problem 'derrida' refers to. Your proposed way of attacking the problem is too naive.

[1] http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qualia/
[2] http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/emotion/
Damon Horowitz is an extremely talented and smart guy who's proven himself in the startup world, but I don't think he's giving the best advice here.

He mentions Steve Jobs at the end as a technologist who's clear evidence of the importance of a liberal arts education. Jobs does credit a lot of Apple's design to that calligraphy class he walked into in his early days (while he was a college drop-out)... but if there's anything to be gleaned from the best and brightest, and the most creative, in industry, it's that they're self-taught - their creativity isn't a product of the humanities in academia.

Who was the last Philosophy PhD who went on to start the next great tech company? Or do anything particularly innovative?
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That's the second vulnerability that would need to be found. Maybe it's locked down and we're okay. Or maybe the code in OSX that reads the battery's health and capacity has a buffer waiting to be overflowed.
> * the timing functions you get from the browser are way too low resolution.*

The JS time function returns epoch milliseconds, not seconds. At the scale of network latency (hundreds if not thousands of milliseconds), the lower order bits should be effectively uniformly distributed. Resolution isn't your problem, the number of usable bits per network call is.
broad question. what have you considered?

you can use datasets for initial content and see how it evolves with your new users.
You're right, my error.

I haven't used IRAF in a long while, but I'm still going to have to chalk that up to "stupid things I said in the absence of sufficient coffee."
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I have to agree with one of the comments. All you did was rant and didn't say something useful. Perhaps you can tell your readers about your experiences so that you can convince them that NoSQL is useful (Of course, I am NOT saying it isn't) to implement in their projects?
An Idea For Your Next Web App.
The whole real name thing was the deal killer for me. The last thing I need is more crap that will be stored forever, probably sold, analyzed, run through a bunch of machine learning algorithms and used to give me a multitude of bayesian probabilities forever and ever with my real name attached. The whole thing is just creepy. Google + isn't a financial institution or a military contractor. Why do they need to identify everybody so precisely?
Then make or add friends before starting. Twitter makes this crystal clear when you open an account. Respond to people, engage - it's not that big of a problem.
What are the inconsistent time scales? Was it somehow impossible to cut spending between January and today? How long does it take to reduce spending?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870395400457608...
Deep rooted in the way they do hiring interviews in the first place maybe? Look like they target heavy cold problem solving people, can it get them conflict-solving people?
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Honestly I don't care - I just want to be able to use ipad in a tweet without getting tons of offers and occasionally look at the trending topics without wading through a ton of spam.
If you can take a minute to watch our video i would highly appreciate it, maybe at that point, advice can be a bit more relative. Our iphone app lets users leave photos, videos, messages and more inside what we term living bubbles at any location. When they leave, their bubbles remain behind for others to discover. Bubbles can be cloned, modified, stored, carried, or moved elsewhere. These bubbles grow, divide, multiply and spread with interaction and shrivel and shrink with negligence. Basically, popular bubbles prosper and spread and unpopular bubbles pop and die. So these bubbles basically evolve. Now we started creating content and we have a drop tool that enables us to leave content at different locations on a map using the google maps api. But is that a good idea? Should we just create a bubble or two in everyone's bag that they find once they download the app? I hope that's a bit more specific to get some help on the topic. We just applied to TC startup battlefield in San Francisco and we're hoping that the event will give us somewhat of a boost!
they've been doing this regularly, I believe, in the UK, where the civil order sought (for disclosure by a third party) is either a Norwich Pharmacal Order or a CPR Part 37 (http://www.justice.gov.uk/guidance/courts-and-tribunals/cour...) depending on the stage of litigation.
It's about naked shortselling - maybe a better summary here:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/14/patrick_byrne_on_dod...
I think this is the first (and hopefully last) Reddit-esque novelty account I've seen on HN.
http://www.millennium3.info/2010/04/26/stephen-hawking-says-...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/25/stephen-hawking-ali...

Edit: Okay ... I give up. I wasted a lot of time googling for an original source or a video where Hawking actually said these things. My Google search skillz are off this early in the AM and I can't bear to see more ads associated with 1 minute clips. The story that humans should stop trying to contact aliens (attributed to Hawking) became quite popular a few years ago. I even recall someone from SETI saying how this is not what they are doing ... rather, they are merely listening for signals from intelligent life that may exist rather than attempting to initiate contact.
In a similar vein:
http://blog.mappiness.org.uk/2011/04/05/logo-qr-code/
and http://2d-code.co.uk/bbc-logo-in-qr-code/
Firefox: view -> style -> No style

Disabling CSS dumps the unstructured page. You can also pay it a visit in a console-mode browser.

I'm (sadly) finding this to be increasingly necessary to view web pages (as an aggressive user of NoScript).
To use WordPress or Custom CMS for the Website?
As much as i love WordPress, it's little over bloated.

So as the title says, Which will be better?

Create a WordPress theme for my website and use it or to develop a custom CMS for my website with only the features i need and use it to manage my website?

Right now my website uses WordPress.
At one point in Android's development, Google was
using Sun Java

Android developers still use Oracle's Java in development mode -- only after the code gets compiled for distribution it then gets translated to Dalvik's bytecode.

But Dalvik was there from the start and if you're implying that somehow Android used Sun's Java instead of the current Dalvik, then no, it never had.
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The idea is really nice. If I understand correctly he let's the students computer do the grading (and not the server, who he can trust a lot more), but that is just a small security design problem. Allover using a program to solve the problems of a CS class is quite smart and I wonder (since I started to study CS) why not more people do that.
Sorry to answer on the most superficial aspect and last line of your post... But I wonder why PG's site is so thin in width, making it extremely well readable, while HN uses the whole screen width? I consider the whole screen text use a UI anti pattern.
I think that folks do still do this stuff, but the Internet is so much more well suited. Sorting through parts drawers is a lot harder than typing into a search box.
Do you really <i>own</i> your domain? You're likely dependent on a registrar where you're probably a $10/year (i.e. nearly nothing) paying customer.

What if your domain registrar simply fails and loses your records?

The US government has been seizing domains associated with sites accused of violating laws; are you with a registrar who will fight that?

I'm not saying that you shouldn't own the domain for your email address--it's simply that you should realize that it solves one problem but creates others.

Once you look at things at detail, almost everything in your life is dependent on trust. Knowing how much to trust different aspects and how to evaluate risks is key.
Even the CEO can't figure it out. Source:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/even-ceo-cant-figure-out-ho...
A detailed post about his experiences or some tricks that he learned is much more useful than saying "bullshit".
Thanks for the tip. I'll take a look into it.
I'm not sure how often research papers reflect reality, but Bing may be doing this as well, according to this Microsoft Research paper:
http://jeffhuang.com/Final_CursorBehavior_CHI11.pdf
That might work but it's expensive and what if the school is refurbished or relocated or something?
Great idea, but not very great execution. It looks nice to use once, but hardly will be used again until see it again. You should add some things that will connect tha user with the site. Like "if u asked yourself a future question, post on our wall the answers" or something not like that! Don't limit yourself!

Make A plugin for facebook and an App for iphone. The result that the software gives you is small, so if u build something (an app for example) that usually gives you small result, it will fullfil your expectations. If you don't know how to improve the design and build an app for ex, look for some technical partner.

It really have potential. I just think that u should take care of what will bring the user back to my app/site/whatever.
I studied Mathematics, Chemistry, and Computer Science in college. I'd put my well-roundedness and intellectualism up against ANY humanities degree holder in the blink of an eye.

Furthermore, I do not consent to the core conceit that a college humanities program is either a good, reliable, or even sufficient mechanism for instilling humanities values and knowledge or even the fundamental skills of intellectualism, critical thinking, and basic reasoning.
He's only experienced with MySQL? How can he judge the SQL vs NoSQL battle when he's never used a proper SQL system? NoSQL does not 'save development time' in general, it's just a different tool. A much younger and less refined one at that. Real RDBMSs do a whole lot more than execute your SQL queries for you.
Rich technologists are exactly the type of people who should get PhDs in the humanities, since they require either a) you to have sufficient resources to live a life of leisure or b) external support by an organization which has a pile of rent and a big desire to spend some to signal status. Sell your startup, go get a degree in English. Become a Scholar in Residence at e.g. Google, do some pathbreaking anthropological work about youths' use of mobile devices. Whatever.

If you actually work for a living, though, this is terrible advice.
CM7 nightlies + Google Apps. It's actually a very nice, useful tablet. Flashing mine took me about an hour of effort (mostly waiting).

I do wonder if this is a loss-leader for B&N. Not that I care if they have a broken business model. I just wonder because it's so cheap.
Show HN: Comet server w/end project, barely breaks a sweat at 1000msg/s
"I visited your twitter account, and I saw that most of your tweets don't have replies."

When I look my TV, or read a book, I rarely answer the writer, anchor, redactor... Still it is communication. Not like "communication with friends", more like "mass communication". It still allows you to share your opinions, bring new ideas, etc. People will only answer if they think they can add additional value or disagree, else they'll just read and enjoy or not.

Look, you are on HN, and comment here. You don't expect every member of HN to answer all your comments. Think of Twitter has an enormous HN where you can choose who you read comments from.
A cloud containing 140 trillion times the amount of water in our oceans would be pretty hard to miss if it was in our solar system! In fact, it might be bigger than our solar system... Anyone care to do the quick estimate math? (I'm on an iPad, impractical...)
Rooting the b/w e-ink Nook is also possible and it's a better deal imho. You get a tablet with the advantages of e-Ink. Yes, it's grayscale but you can use it for weeks without charging your batteries and it's much better for the eyes.
Undo is actually 2, C-/. And not all key combinations are created equal. I'd argue that I can hit C-S-j faster than you can hit F1 (especially with caps lock as control)
My own best ideas so far are:

a) Find a large reputable law firm and tell them to find me in 40 years.

b) Write some kind of distributed agent, a virus if you will, that learns about new communication media, runtime platforms, free hosting options for its code, etc. It has one goal: Keep track of my identity until the time comes and then hit me with the message on all channels it knows at the time.

That would be very difficult but not impossible I think. Yes, the internet may be long gone, but it's very unlikely that another platform like the internet would emerge without a very long period of transition and lots of interoperability giving the agent time to pick it up.

But what may be the downfall of such an agent is any change in the legal system that bans all anonymity on the net. One day, no code of any sort might be a allowed to communicate without using some kind of electronic signature.
I agree with you that Haskell's approach is imperfect. There are too many liftIO's, and some method of taking the union of state monads (rather than nesting them) would be vastly better.

But I'm going to disagree with you regarding the claim that pure functional languages are bad at state. All of the problems you mentioned also exist in a non-functional language. In a non-functional language, you have functions which live in IO, in StateT GameState IO, and pure functions. The only difference is that you must carefully read the code to figure out which is which.

The approach of having one gigantic state monad which goes everywhere is precisely what you do in an impure language - just with some syntactic sugar to hide the liftIO.
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Proper SQL? Nice No True Scotsman.

Everybody has a pet feature in their preferred SQL DB that they think makes it a "real" SQL database, Postgres and Oracle people in particular. I agree that MySQL is a bit janky, but get real.
Undo is also mapped to C-/ by default, IIRC.
About the window switching, I've remapped it to M-o, and M-1, M-2 and M-3 to do splits, etc (I use this more often than repeat commands, so it makes sense)
Key bindings is the least of your problems. If you want to play Nethack well (ie with any chance whatsoever of ascending), you'll need to read hundreds of pages of FAQs to understand exactly what the hell is going on.

And once you've read all those, most of the surprise is gone, since you'll know that kicking a sink has a 1/20 chance of producing a black pudding and so forth.
I think it's a bit bogus to compare it to the iPad. It's slower and smaller. But I accept that because it was so much cheaper - cheap enough that I could have got 2 or 3 of these for the same price as an iPad2.

I use mine to read recipes when I'm in the kitchen, and for single-purpose tasks like planning journeys using the Google Maps app. For these limited things, it's absolutely excellent.
I can only speculate. :-)
Maybe restricting the width to improve readability would yield suboptimal results in heavily nested threads. One might find out by manipulating the corresponding css attribute. Doesn't chrome or firefox support this out of the box?

So this is the width of the paragraphs. I think it would still be useful if you could disable the automatic line breaking to provide your own formatting. I think there is a middle ground between the two regarding readability.

EDIT: Of course you can disable the automatic line breaking as I've done exactly this by indenting the whole post with 4 spaces, except for the links. But that also changes the font to the monospace family.
The major downside being that you really can't use it for doing much besides reading. The slow refresh rate of eInk just doesn't work for most things.
I've participated in a few discussions about this. I also once posted one and in it I had gathered a few links to previous discussions on the topic. I am only posting it here because, since it is my own submission, I am aware it exists and I can find it readily. Hopefully, it is a place to start.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2126209

A search of the site will turn up other discussions on this topic. I mention that because this type question often does not generate good new discussion so a look back is sometimes your best hope of getting some insight. You might also search on my user name and "chicken and egg", since that might lead you to a few posts with lots of links gathered where I commented but was not the submitter.
Firstly, I can attest that migrating the datastore of an application which has scaled to require a NoSQL solution is no trivial task.

Secondly, I believe the author of the original posting really meant that "premature optimization is the root of all evil." Like this post points out, NoSQL solutions vary wildly in their abilities and usefulness. A relational database is a good place to start on the path to an MVP. And if you need features that a NoSQL solution can provide, and you understand the problem you're trying to solve, then use a NoSQL solution.
please take the time to break through the very steep learning curve to give this game a fair shake

I don't know, I don't think we have the same attitude towards games. I already spend hours a week sitting in front of a computer doing really difficult stuff with screenfuls of ugly text for non-obvious rewards. It's called "work", and it pays me in real-world money and real-world glory. I don't have much desire to do the same sort of thing in my spare time.

Nope, give me a beautiful, overproduced and shallow game any day.
I love his analysis about the training in arts. Too many people discount the artistic side of things in the technical world, but it is quite obvious after working in the animation industry that there's nice parallels and inteconnetions between the two seemingly bifurcated fields.
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Off topic, but I noticed in your post you said:

> but I liked the idea of keeping an “engineering notebook” as I work.

I've created a site Labradoc (<http://www.labradoc.com/>) that is a low friction way to keep an engineering notebook (or as I call it--a project log). For me it makes a huge difference in being able to keep track of multiple side projects.

You might like to try it out.

Also, thanks for the pointer to the Javascript Markdown parser "Showdown"--I've been wanting to get a Markdown live-preview working for Labradoc and that seems like it could do the job. :)
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Sounds like your keyboard might have a ghosting issue with those keys, as I can jump while running perfectly well.

http://www.microsoft.com/appliedsciences/AntiGhostingExplain...
I did find this point from the original article to be very dubious:

In fact, I would argue that starting with NoSQL because you think you might someday have enough traffic and scale to warrant it is a premature optimization, and as such, should be avoided by smaller and even medium sized organizations. You will have plenty of time to switch to NoSQL as and if it becomes helpful. Until that time, NoSQL is an expensive distraction you don’t need.

Consider:

- how hard most organizations find it to refactor, rewrite, retest, especially in systems that are online 24x7

- when would you prefer to climb the learning curve with an immature technology, when you are small and starting out, or when you are a large company with a large set of users and under "mission critical" constraints (and possibly stockholders and the like.)

My guess is that ongoing companies find it extremely difficult and expensive (and wanting for talent) to switch from one sql database to another, much less switch from sql to nosql.
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Sure, until you accidentally tweet something that the overzealous spam filters get you banned. Then you might care.
It's phrased oddly, and I haven't read the original paper; but I assume they just measured the spectra of its infrared blackbody radiation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_body

Just like how a noncontact infrared thermometer works, except you have to use a space-based telescope, due to the water in our atmosphere.
Not well.
It has only a better design (in theory!) and is GNU (so politically speaking is more Free Software than Linux...).
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no point in replying to your questions because they obviously are rhetorical. good day, sir.