skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course, that doesn't mean that running Lion on a PC is out of the question: http://lifehacker.com/5823837/how-do-i-upgrade-my-hackintosh...
It just looks messy here, since there's not enough padding on the left side of the page to account for the hanging bullets.
I remember being taught this technique in my discrete math class last semester. At first blush, it seemed utterly ridiculous. One could still infer the result, the true signal.

It was only after some consideration from the human side I realized did I begin to realize the psychological appeal. I can feel in my gut the psychological appeal of hiding behind the throw of a dice but the mind still rebels and the mere paper of plausible deniability it provides.

EDIT: I say this not because I misunderstand the technique mathematically. Indeed, this was one of the more enjoyable topics covered. One could still infer the probability an individual was telling the truth depending on the strength of the fuzzing signal.

I am merely expressing my puzzlement at this quirk of psychology.
I wonder what the tax system should do once >90% of the population can't work as farmers anymore, as a majority of the tasks is done by machines.

I agree with the parent (of your post) that jobs will just change and people will switch to other jobs that provide a better return.

But let's assume that this isn't the case and a few hundreds of people own the robots that are doing _all_ of the work (even founding startups). I'd say that this would be the perfect case:

We don't need to work to survive, but we would have plenty of resources that allow us to work on things that make fun (of course most of us are doing this anyway). Of course it's pretty clear that for this to work we also would need to change the political and economic systems considerably, but this is not a bad thing - they change all the time.
What the hell are you talking about?

Alt-tab works just like it always has.
the task manager works better than it ever has.

Ohhhhh..... I see. Obvious troll is just being obvious.
As far as I know Spain (from 2 years of living in that country) it's not really like that: "carne" means just "meat" and "red meat from cows" is "ternera". And "bistec" is what omaranto said.
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chromium --temp-profile --no-first-run is the ticket for me.
This is a now legendary email thread.

You can build some great software and leverage the revenue to acquire and expand further - but if you lose sight of the big picture then stagnation, disfunction and decay is not far away.

When I first saw Google+, my first reaction was that Google has risen to this challenge that Microsoft faltered on - and may have just bought themselves another decade of stellar growth.
Ask HN: What do you wish knew about saas/microsv projects like BCC?
Submarines (submerged) are not visible by satellite. Satellites also orbit (reconaissance satellites would rarely be geosynchronous), so even if they could see submarines, they would only see them when their courses intersected.
But won't people soon get wise to the actual intent and clam up again? Not if the results are used carefully, Jones argues. "It's not going to be used to criminalise people," she says. Instead, the results could be used to target conservation outreach efforts and compensation for livestock lost to predators on areas where ranchers are especially likely to kill carnivores.

This is key. When you criminalize people for trying to meet their own needs, defend themselves and so on, you create very big problems. It has to be acceptable to survive, make a living and so on. There has to be a system in place for resolving conflicts of interest that adequately considers the needs of both sides.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both. -- Eleanor Roosevelt

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Finding the quote I wanted also led to these quotes and I like them:

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. -- Abraham Lincoln

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment. -- Mohandas Gandhi

We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party. -- Mohandas Gandhi
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Assuming equally sophisticated robots. But the money you spend on your robots is proportional to alternate cost of humans doing it. It makes sense for a US company to invest more than a Chinese one.

I mean, this is a pattern that repeats throughout history. The Athenians could have had steam engines. But since they had slaves already, it was never worth them developing the steam engine beyond a toy for philosophers.
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But that is very different, both practically and legally, to creating a copy on the hard disk that may persist for days.
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The problem is pretty universally solved:

1. Use some sort of schema migration tool to keep track of and version all changes you've made to the database since your very first commit.

2. Never do a backwards-incompatible schema change. Never. Time and time again these are the ones that will completely bite you in the ass when the day comes that you broke production with a deployment and desperately need the old version back up and running. You're going to end up losing data and shit will hit the fan. It doesn't take much code-wise to support the old scheme, and it will ensure that you have zero downtime while rolling out your updates.

3. Never delete data. The only exception being if some user-submitted content violates a law, like child pornography. In which case, it shouldn't be part of your migration/update process to begin with. Just use deleted flags / boolean fields. Note in your code when certain fields are no longer used anymore because they're only there to support legacy versions.
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> I wonder what the tax system should do once >90% of the population can't work as farmers anymore

What do you mean by this? Are 90% of people farmers now?

> I'd say that this would be the perfect case:

Actually in that case I'd say people would be consumed by politics and trivial bs and destroy themselves in a generation. It'd be very similar to today, except rather than spending all day minus 8 hours on youtube they'll just be on there all day.
Honestly I think the only way to deal with the BS that we're being handed at the moment is complete and total compliance. Turn off browser caching for uk websites, deindex all uk sites from search engines, and drop Set-Cookie headers for everyone in Europe. One hour of the internet like that and everyone will realise how stupid these laws they're bringing in are.
Check the actual source of the page you're viewing. It's HTML, generated from the markdown file.
" Among 4,800 small and medium sized enterprises surveyed, the Internet created 2.6 jobs for each lost to technology related efficiencies."

This is from a study made by McKinsey for e-G8 this year. I can't seem to be able to reach the direct link so here's the Google cache:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

And their PDF:

http://www.eg8forum.com/fr/documents/actualites/McKinsey_and...
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To each his own opinion. For me mutliple levels of bullets approach a mind map [1], rather than a list of things. And those can be really handy.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_map
Which company did he leave?
We have a while longer until we don't have to work anymore, if that will even happen. What happens in an economy where jobs are automated, is that even more opportunities are being created for other types of jobs.

Just because farming will be replaced with robots, doesn't mean those people will sit home doing nothing. They will get other jobs instead, and pay taxes from there. If the farmers themselves are buying the robots, then their companies will pay the taxes, since they'll have a business then.
I think what he means is that there will come a point at which technology renders most occupations obsolete. What happens when 90% of the population aren't needed in the workforce?
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Just a logical step in the development of countries/industries. First human labour is cheaper, then it becomes more expensive and robots become cheaper too making them a good alternative. As a plus, humans dont have to do the dangerous jobs anymore. This very cheap labour will now also move to other countries, making them richer in turn until they will also move to robots. This is the good side of globalization and should be applauded, provided that people who are fired have a chance to move to other jobs and get supported by training and education if necessary.
Google needs an identity. One with a face, one that's accessible by those of us without a huge blog audience.
Are you actually getting some message about 'phorm', or are you just getting redirected to slated.org like I am?
1. Arcane knowledge 2. penetration skills 3. mindless followers.
Simple Lisp READ and EVAL are very small programs. Supporting all of Clojure would be a bigger project, but enough for a useful REPL is a quick undergraduate project. Unless for some odd reason ClojureScript doesn't have APPLY.
I think he didn't leave a big company. I found it interesting, to think about the fact, to do things you like, and abandon things you don't. In our market, it isn't that hard to find another job, you just need to make the move to do it.
You still need to deal with your suppliers. If the majority of your suppliers are based in China/Asian (for example, nearly all the chip and screen fabs), the shorter supply chain may be a benefit.

Also, keep in mind that Foxconn is actually a Taiwanese company. I think that frankly they don't really care about the social development of the Chinese lower and middle class outside of long term impact on sales.
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> That leads to the question: if a factory doesn't bring jobs to town, is there a reason locals should still be positive towards it?

If "positive" means "throw tax money at them" then no. But if "positive" means "not actively opposed" then why not?

Also, in this context, "no jobs" means "fewer jobs than an old world manual factory". Having a thriving community of factories, even if they are not piled high with "Modern Times" style workers is still very likely to be a very positive thing for a community. Advanced factories still need service, they need supplies and end products shipped to and from, they need said supplies to be made and most importantly, they need innovation which attract innovators which starts the cycle over again.
So .. site is run by someone playing at being a Sysadmin who used a service s/he didn't grok (evidenced by their lack of understanding of the difference between ephemeral/instance storage and EBS), and is now trying to blame the service provider for their personal fiduciary failure?

Developers != Sysadmin. Deal with it.

Just because something is easy to get started with doesn't mean you understand it properly.
So I've got an informal meeting with a VC this week - originally, the meeting was setup to talk about positions within the startups he's funded. The meeting took a while to happen because of various delays/vacations - and during that time I've come up with an idea I'm executing on. But it isn't ready to show, and, quite honestly, I'm not sure a VC would be interested in it, but they might be.

Should I just talk about the positions, or bring up the idea? I'm concerned I'll appear to be all over the place (does the guy want a job or to run his own shop), when the reality is that the side project is an exploration at this point.

My current plan is to NOT discuss the idea as I don't have a prototype working yet (probably 1-2 months), but then contact him again later when I've got something to show.

Thoughts?
Ask HN: Would a startup sponsor my visa?
Are U.S. start-ups able/willing to help foreign (European) developers get an employment visa, or is this too much hassle for a smaller company? Have you done it in the past?

EDIT: I rephrased the question, as it was meant to be general. I myself am not going anywhere for at least 1 year. I am merely planning my career on a long-term basis during this weekend.
Also there is a lot more general infrastructure and expertise in manufacturing a lot of product types there. And no doubt the factory making the robots will be down the road, improving the ecosystem. Generally you do not do every process in house so you need component suppliers and specialist process makers nearby.

Reindustrialising the US and Europe would be hard.
The USA is already a strong manufacturing country. It accounts for 20% of global output, and output has more than doubled since 1975.

In the same period, worker numbers have decreased by 31%, implying that US manufacturing is already beginning to replace workers with robots.

It's also worth pointing out that China has only exceeded the USA in output this year, and then only by a few percent. Given that China relies heavily on cheap manual labor, whilst USA employment in the manufacturing industry has plummeted, the USA is already betting heavily on robots.

Sources:
http://mercatus.org/publication/us-manufacturing-output-vs-j...
http://articles.boston.com/2011-02-06/bostonglobe/29344173_1...
http://www.manufacturingdigital.com/tags/us/china-vs-us-manu...
I did look at the source, and I see that's it's HTML. (I hate trying to enter code on HN, so here's a gist with the full source of that page: https://gist.github.com/1116746)

But it's only a partial page. There's no doctype, no head, no formal declaration of body. There's HTML and CSS for the browser to render, but it's guaranteed to be in quirks mode (unless I'm confused). That's why I said "full HTML page" above. (Edit: I see now where my first post was unclear. I edited it to make my complaint clearer. Thanks.)

I'm not quite sure where this is useful - I may not be understanding what it's for. I would hate the idea of lots and lots of sites serving this kind of partial page.
Too bad the Windows client isn't usable. It just takes 100% of the CPU all the time. It seems like an easy bug to avoid, but it's been there for months.
OP's account does nothing but post *zor.com spam.

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=dkd903
Neatly summarized by this comic: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2320#c...
Your other objections are interesting and I want to research them further. But I wonder how this comment doesn't prove the editorial's point:

> It does delegitimise the extremely severe nature of the illness.

How does merely positing a psychosomatic origin for the syndrome "delegitimise" its "extreme severity"? Or is it you thinking that mental health is somehow less important than physical health, which doesn't even make sense considering the brain is an organ too?

> Psycho-social explanations of CFS seem to be nothing more than "hysteria" rebadged for more modern times. It's easier to say "Well, maybe it's your fault!" than to accept the hopelessness of not knowing what's going on.

Uh huh. And it's easier to take the idea of mental health being relevant as a personal insult, like people are saying it's one's own fault, than to accept the hopelessness of not knowing there's a magical cure as soon as the doctors discover the sole physical cause.

Again, I really want to read further on research being done on CFS and other subjective and idiopathic syndromes. It's interesting from a medical and social standpoint and I'm close with several people who suffer with such issues. But I've also seen their blind spots related to the issue. I'd like to hear more on the work that's disproven psychiatric origins of the syndrome, since while the editorial touched on Wessley it seemed more to be talking about the need to explore all possible causes and solutions of a problem affecting many.
1) You diagnosed yourself with CFS

2) Your condition matches a number of viral and post-viral conditions which would explain why your chosen treatment worked

Sorry, but your post is in no way, shape or form an argument that CFS is not a mental disorder.

I've been diagnosed with CFS. It sucks. A lot. I still think it's a mental illness. The difference between me and most people is that I don't think that makes it "fake" or "not real" in any sense at all, but I'm sure if you told your boss you were too tired to get out of bed because of a mental illness, you'd be laughed at. So what? The same could apply with major depression, less people would argue that depression doesn't exist.

People like you are holding us back, people using reasoning similar to yours are justifying this campaign of harrassment upon researchers that are just trying to find the truth. They're not trying to prove people with CFS are lazy, or making it up, or even that it's all in the head - they want what everyone who has the disease should want - to find out what it is.

An additional warning to anyone wanting to compare anecdotes: CFS is a "diagnosis of exclusion". This is a fancy way of saying that actually, we don't have a definition for this disease. It's entirely possible that multiple poorly-understood diseases with similar symptoms are leading to a single diagnosis ("CFS") at present, which complicates any effort to share experiences.

On the front of these people sending in death threats... I know quite a few people that claim to have CFS. Some of them quite clearly do not have the same thing as me, were not diagnosed by doctors, and would resist quite violently any attempts to re-classify them. They enjoy having a label they can hide behind, I guess.

Lastly I want to say: This is a real thing, or at least, there are things we don't understand and this is the label that gets put on it. I don't know for sure what I had, I don't know if it was physical or mental, but it was real. I've encountered many people, including licensed doctors, that mock and denigrate people with this condition, and if you are one of those people I would implore you to rethink your position. We know very little about the connection between our physical and mental well-being, but at this point it's incredibly clear that there is a very strong link, and that mental issues can cause very real, physically observable and empirically testable problems.
I agree that it's bad form to plaster this all over every admin page, but I do like the idea of asking for ratings and can't blame the dev for trying. Seeing this, I may try something similar with my plugin.

Besides from just having a great plugin, how do others get folks to post high ratings on WP.com?
> Medicine isn't omniscient. Blaming extremely sick people for the lack of research into their predicament is absurd.

Granted. But medical doctors are people too. And I can tell you from my experience in the completely different field of technology that I'm far more willing to work with clients who are willing to listen, appreciate effort on their behalf, and are grateful for a solution or workaround that helps them even if it wasn't what they were hoping to hear.

If a client made death threats to me (I've had some go off the deep end but never that far) I have to say I think that'd be a swift end to the working relationship.
>The size of the public sector which is an important part of our economy will have to shrink.

Yep, that's what they always say. Yet the only countries in Europe that are doing GREAT are countries with big and healthy public sectors: Sweden (+4%), Germany, Austria, Denmark etc.
I've had CFS and I still find many of the "sufferers" completely insufferable. I don't know if this is a UK phenomenon, a western phenomenon, or just a thing that people do, but the majority of people who choose to disclose to me that they have a mental illness are self-diagnosed. CFS is one of those things (like ADHD and Asperger's) that is very appealing to people who have certain problems. I don't think this disease will be taken seriously until we actually have diagnostic criteria, proper names, proper understanding... Overall, acceptance of mental issues as real problems is definitely growing in this country.
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Read "Player Piano" by Kurt Vonnegut.
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It seems like something like Twitter would benefit lots from a good generational GC. Any more info on the one they wrote and how it differs from the built-in one? I'd love to learn more.
This article misses the point. Technology is a tool, it's implication for morality is not decided by the sort of technology we have, but how we use it. This may sound weird from a software developer, but we don't need more technology. As a species, we can solve all the problems in the world with the technology we have today. We just collectively refuse to.

When you hit your thumb with a hammer, you don't blame the hammer company, you blame yourself. If facebook didn't improve social cooperation, it's not facebook's fault, it's the facebook users' fault.
State-owned lotteries transfer wealth from one group of people to another group without any coercion. I don't see why private individuals can't participate in the transfers also.

More generally, this is an example of how simple changes (the rolldown) can have surprising consequences. TBQH I'm surprised the lottery operators aren't just keeping the surplus funds rather than doing a "roll down".
Why can't something be medical AND psychological? Stress, bad diet, lack of social interaction, etc. Our bodies and minds are legacy material thanks to the technology we created. What I don't like about the medical profession is how they jump to definitive conclusions to many things and fail to question so-called established wisdom.

Symptoms are as real as the patient feels it. It's not over until they feel cured. Anybody who's struggled with something outside their power knows that strength of will can work miracles but only get you so far.
care to explain, instead of just down-voting?

here's the link: (see: "growth")
http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/05/europes_ec...
I wrote something similar a while ago, mostly inspired by the various Zen Coding plugins. Nice to be able to compare my approach with someone who knows what they're doing.

You can play with mine here: http://viewinglens.com/dojo-modules/brian.util.create.html

And the source: https://github.com/brian-c/dojo-modules/blob/master/brian/ut...
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> It's an interesting idea but the notion of using a selector syntax as a creation syntax seems to break down rather quickly.

It's also unfriendly to (partially) generated or separately-configured names, leading to some kind of weird positional-only substitution system.

> Also, the syntax to remove something is truly bizarre; you put() the negation.

Not to mention it's not the actual negation: you add the class 'foo' with `.foo` but you remove it with `!foo` instead of `!.foo` (or even better, the perfectly standard `:not` negation pseudo-class: why not remove `.foo` with `:not(.foo)`?). This leads to a non-generic removal syntax: attribute removal has a different one (you negate the attribute name within the brackets), and ids apparently are not removable (via the #-syntax selector).

Neither can you remove a child from a parent I guess, not without getting a handle to the child element itself and writing `put(elementToDelete, "!");`.