skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The part I didn't understand was that the slogan for the concert was "Never again communism - Freedom for Germany". Do I take this to mean that anyone opposing communism is considered a right-winger in eastern Germany?
From Blackhat: NoSQL and No Security
Note: pizzas boom in recessions, substituting for expensive dining.
I'm a UM student and I can't say there's much alumni activity in Detroit itself. Grads generally either work in Ann Arbor, Metro Detroit (Birmingham, Royal Oak, etc.) or leave the state entirely.

This graphic from Forbes is pretty telling: http://goo.gl/4uBr
plenty of 'review my startup' type threads do get attention. if your 'review my startup' topic can't make it to the front page of HN, chances are it won't get enough people excited to be a successful business either.
I'm pretty sure that the commenter was being facetious, but I have worked at a company where they actually did this. They always had job openings posted on their website, and they would bring people in for interviews, even though they weren't hiring and had no positions to place those individuals in. I remember the CEO said "that way we'll have a pool of candidates to pull from if we decide to hire someone".

Needless to say, I never referred any of my friends.
I'm from Detroit, and in high school use to sneak into these abandoned buildings and take pictures. I loved it, and it was a distinct characteristic of the city for me. At the time I would have called myself an urban explorer.

There are many Detroit cheerleaders in and around the city who would dismiss this as "ruin porn" and then bash whatever media outlet published the articles. Detroit has perpetually been in a state of self-declared "renaissance" dating all the way back to the founding of the city and the motto on the city flag that translates to something along the lines of "out of the ashes rises the phoenix."

I love Detroit, and loved my time living downtown. For me, the ruins were a part of that and what I loved. It's also ultimately what led me to move as there wasn't much happening in the city. On the occasions when things did happen, they happened with banners and streamers and proclamations about how this is a testament to the cities viability.

Detroiters need to learn to love what's unique about their city. Embrace the history. Rome celebrates it's ruins, why can't we? In celebrating the ruins, maybe we can't stop being so sensitive to it and start drawing attention to the rampant corruption that has left this city in this state. Maybe if we stop ignoring the past, and its affect on the present we can shape the future.
If apple is able to demand a preliminary injunction against the Xoom tablet like it was for the Galaxy, there is no reason why they should refuse it. Monopoly acquired!
Awesome tool to help users find what size their monitor is
One size does not fit all.

I prefer a 99 dollar ergonomic chair, as sitting and standing both exacerbate my bad hips.
I prefer 3 22" monitors at half the cost of a 30". I prefer total resolution available, not size of the monitor.

I just saved him $1500 bucks, and I'm happier than I would be if I was forced into their setup.
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Watch episodes online, review reviews and part recaps, and correlate with other fans.Complete Sons of Anarchy part guide. Watch episodes online, review reviews and part recaps, and correlate with other fans.
So the real property owner has to respect leases that someone who doesn't own the property made? Why don't I just go rent out someone's home right now from under them, and get protection for my 'leases'?
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I vaguely remember it being some huge number, like 80%-90%? The rest of it goes to ethanol and high fructose corn syrup and other processing. I'm pretty sure the amount of corn that is grown for humans to eat as corn directly is (much?) less than 5%.

A quick Google search showed roughly similar stats.
Yea, you don't want to automate this. You need to keep your resume personal and truly tailored to the job. Unless you really work on natural language parsing the job description and the "about" pages of the company website, it's going to be a lot easier to do those little modifications yourself.

And as you said, you want to make sure the overall narrative flow as well as the overall design of the document makes sense for the job.
No, "Do you know where we are going?" is correct; however, without the "Do you know", "Where are we going?" would be correct.
Another great one from an amazing photographer http://www.lostdetroit.com/
I've been doing the same with transportation. I hope the whole "riding a bike, driving a car, flying a plane and walking" bubble bursts and people settle on one of them
The customary apology...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/tv-radio/bbc-apologi...
Is This The TabCo Tablet?
With interface advances and the cloud, the PC isn’t dying; it’s coming to life
Fixed gear bikes and programming languages
What drove me to cut was this: the content is getting steadily worse, bandwidth is becoming exponentially cheaper for providers, and yet - the price just kept going up.

I would expect to pay less YOY instead!

My in-laws subscribe to a cable service in France called "Neuf", that gives them phone, television, and Internet for something like 30 euros a month. I turned green with envy when I discovered that. THAT is a price that I think is reasonable.
This reminds me of the "Eyesore of I4" which is a high-rise building under construction for the past 10 years just outside of Orlando, Florida.

http://andrewlerner.blogspot.com/2010/05/eyesore-of-i-4_07.h...
Does anyone have any information of this?
You said "Considering the damage the US government has done to the industry..."
Was Rome celebrating its ruins in 400AD?

Surely there's some interesting things to celebrate, but a 50 year old crackhouse that's still occupied by crack addicts probably isn't one of them.

What makes Rome's 'ruins' great is - well, probably a bunch of things - but certainly the longetivity is one of them. There's nothing impressive about rotting crack houses.
Actually, I realize I squeezed in let without noticing. Try this...

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"on" sounds much more natural to me, and I think that's enough for me. Idiom counts in a language, too. In and on might seem technically interchangeable, but (sometimes) if it sounds wrong, it's wrong.

You can say, "I lose my temper." So like you can say "It is poor form to sleep in a meeting.", you can also say, "It is poor form to lose your temper in a meeting."

As someone else commented, you definitely can say, "I let loose my temper." So, "It is poor form to let loose your temper in a meeting." is fine.

But, can you say, "I loose my temper."? I think you can, but it is very very unnatural.
My new business plan:
1. Abandon the city for the wealthy suburbs
2. Leave the poor behind, defund infrastructure
3. Sell tours and photos of neglect and destruction
4. Profit!

Some things to consider:
* While the population of Detroit proper has fallen, the total population of the metro area has remained fairly static over the past 40-50 years http://www.somacon.com/p469.php
* The Detroit suburbs are just as nice as your typical American suburbia.
* The State of Michigan is training hundreds of Emergency Financial Managers who now have the power to go into any municipality the State deems "financially unsustainable," dissolve local governments, and terminate any contracts (union or otherwise) in order to force a balanced budget. So while urban areas continue to be defunded by the state and by fleeing wealthy residents, they are put in the precarious position of trying to balance their budgets or risk a hostile takeover.
* Meanwhile, we all have a good time looking at the pictures.
Yea - Detroit is a sobering experience. I was honestly in shock the first time I went downtown. Bad parts of town and abandoned or nearly abandoned plazas are not new to me, but the scale of decay in Detroit - 20,000 people on the streets! - is overwhelming and depressing.
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Some see chaos, others see opportunity. The story you're not reading about Detroit is that after hitting rock bottom in 2008 it's starting to turn around.

I've got a friend Henry Balanon who was recruited to a new startup, Detroit Labs, which is backed by Detroit Venture Partners

http://www.modeldmedia.com/startupnews/detroitlabs080911.asp...

Though it's been slow in getting started because of the state's right to farm law that never anticipated urban farming things are moving forward.

http://www.freep.com/article/20110808/BUSINESS04/108080324/C...

I've personally witnessed a number of 'unnofficial' farming efforts already underway that have never sought city permission.

Also the city under Mayor Bing has started to direct more of their limited resources towards neighborhoods that can be saved and away from lost causes.

http://www.detnews.com/article/20110729/METRO01/107290367/14...

There have been two very successful Maker Faire's in Detroit that have showcased the enormous talent in the city.

http://www.detnews.com/article/20110730/METRO01/107300364/14...

There are urban pioneers that are remaking entire neighborhoods. There's huge opportunites in the city, you just have to pick your spots.
Funny thing, Pepsi is Iowa's largest customer.
It happens the other way around too (German to English), and sometimes you end up with non-words like "somewhen". It's an interesting exercise to determine a writer's native language by the oddities of their writing.
I have lived in both LA and Detroit. These are really different animals. I read somewhere that you could fit the entire city of San Francisco in the vacant lots of Detroit.

Also, you can easily find lots of property in Detroit for 5000 USD or less. I was at an auction where abandoned homes were going for less than 500 dollars.
No idea why people downvoted you...

It usually doesn't make sense for a startup to borrow a significant amount of money in a currency whose value is dropping.

I disagree with this though. Depreciating currency is awesome if you've got debt financing, because all of the value of your debt drops, but you only lose the value of the money you haven't spent yet. OTOH, it might be bad because uncertainty about depreciation will cause financiers to be reluctant to give you good terms.

Now, it certainly is a bad thing when you're getting equity financing, but that really isn't "borrowing".
If you haven't seen path-tracing before, you should check out LuxRender: http://www.luxrender.net/ It's an open source unbiased renderer that uses similar techniques.

It's a massively parallel problem, so the recent abilities to run general purpose code on a graphics accelerator has really been a huge boost to performance something like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70uNjjplYzA would have been impossible before CUDA came out.
But many of the investors and founders Betabeat spoke with said patent litigation was a costly expense, one that forced tech companies to spend money on lawyers instead of hiring even more employees. “We need to face the facts: patent law is killing job creation,” wrote billionaire tech entrepreneur Mark Cuban over the weekend. “If the current administration wants to improve job creation, change patent law and watch jobs among small technology companies develop instantly.”

Unfortunately, as he admits, it's creating plenty of work and jobs for lawyers, which we have a huge glut of. Lots of starving lawyers + burgeoning area of law = feedback effect where patent reform is fiercely opposed by law association lobbyists. Obviously that kind of work does not create wealth, it merely siphons it at best, but that argument might get drowned out in the financial-crisis-driven scramble to keep billable hours pipes full, regardless of the longer term concerns.
Recursivity - One Night With Clojure Makes a Scala Guy Humble
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This has nothing to do with android, FUD aside.
Exactly my thoughts... wasn't 2008 doomsday?? If so.. doesn't that mean it's GONNA be summer soon (let alone summer came and freaking passed...)?

I think we should stop the macro outlook and worrying. It's pointless. Focus on what you're doing right now, and producing something of value. In most cases, what you have control over day-to-day, whether it's developing a quality product, speaking with customers, improving business processes, hiring, etc will affect your success much more than whether the country's economy is going down the tubes.. You have no control over it, so stop worrying about it. Worry about getting customers. Worry about developing.
A good poet knows when and how to defy grammar.
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Wow, that's a pretty crazy graphic. At first I thought I just couldn't see the black lines, so I clicked Seattle.
From the article, possibly damage to a satellite. However, a really big one, like the Carrington Event of 1859 would take out long distance power transmission lines, most satellites, and unprotected electronic equipment. No Internet, airliners falling out of the sky, probably months or years before everything was fully restored.
What's all the fuss about anyways?
Basically, what progressive economists were (and still are) arguing is that for most people, X% inflation is better than an X% decrease in income. The reason is that most people have long-running contracts forcing them to pay nominally fixed amounts, such as rents or mortgages.

No, this is not the reason Keynesians argue for inflation. Keynesians believe that nominal wages are sticky - people will not work at a nominal wage lower than their pre-crisis wage.

Inflation is a way of reducing real wages (a necessary step in the recovery) while allowing people to maintain their prior nominal wage.

Strangely, a large number of people who support Keynesian economics also support measures aimed at increasing wage stickiness (unionization, minimum wage laws, etc). This last fact is something I can't figure out.
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Was the position good enough for you to fill out that form?
The Vast Starbucks Conspiracy: Jonathan’s Card Wasn’t Faked
In the German political system the liberal party is the right-most party. But that's because we use the original meaning of liberal.

The other parties are social democrats, and christ democrats, greens, and there's the party democratic socialists on the left fringe.

In practice, everybody's a social democrat in Germany to one degree or another.
Not exactly the same neighborhood, but there's already a documentary that covers poverty in LA, although there's an obvious focus on the history of racial tension and gang violence: http://www.cripsandbloodsmovie.com/

But yeah, you can find ruins in most major US cities. I grew up in Upstate NY and abandoned factories are just background scenery to me. What's interesting about Detroit is the scale of what's happening. Personally that's why I will often check out the "ruin porn" when I see it (and I'm usually disappointed), because I want to get an idea about what it's actually like there, I don't just want to gawk at the devastation.
Since you tend to go there only when dealing with foreclosed homes, perhaps you aren't seeing some of the nicer places? I have plenty of friends who live in Detroit and love it. I used to live there myself and loved it. Yes, there is ruin porn a-plenty, and many nasty areas. But there are also neighborhoods where you can live for really cheap and be part of a great, caring community.

Of course, I'm sure my thoughts on the matter in no way reflect the majority's opinion. I've lived in Toronto for 4 years now, and not a day goes by without me pining to go back to Detroit.
I've tried active cancellation headphones, passive ear muffs (including $100+ extreme models), ear plugs, etc. They don't cut it, neither in terms of effectiveness, nor -- with the muffs -- in terms of comfort.

I also am in the same boat as chollida1, in that surrounding activity -- including visual -- distracts me.

I think the point of the original post, in part, is that the costs are incidental compared to the overall expense of the role. Don't nickle and dime your employees -- your coworkers. Treat them as professionals and give them the tools they need to get the job done. If you're afraid they are going to ask for things that are counter-productive, you're not doing your hiring correctly.
and on Coderloop you can also use Fortran, Erlang, Objective-C, Lua, Javascript, Scala, OCaml, Clojure and Common-Lisp :)

http://www.coderloop.com/home/guidelines
Winter is icummen in,

Lhude sing Goddamm.

VCs stop and angels drop,

Like aggregate demand....

Sing: Goddamm.

Downcast brow and skittish DOW

Show profit on the lam

Suster shivers, Techcrunch quivers

Damn you, sing: Goddamm.

Goddamm, Goddamm, (and Groupon's canned), Goddamm,

Watch Pincus do facepalm.

Sing goddamm, damm, sing Goddamm.

Sing goddamm, sing goddamm, DAMM.
I wish it was that easy. Working in higher ed means dealing with legacy and proprietary systems at low budgets. "Change the system" isn't always the option in the real world a lot many times.
I did a little research and it seems you can get 2-3x the amount by selling it on Craigslist.
I didn't downvote but _delirium is correct that you didn't provide any details to an argument. After reading your first sentence I was expecting some examples (maybe the example that health insurance plans can't cross state lines, HIPAA, etc.). The health industry seems to be pretty profitable so I'm not sure what perspective you are coming from when you say "damage".

On a side note, don't set yourself up for a downvote by only providing an opinionated comment and then play the victim card stating that a biased subsection of the community is out to get you.

I should add that I think people should not downvote you just because they don't agree with you, but they should be allowed to downvote you if you are not providing value to the conversation.
Ask HN: how do you keep track of your time?
What is the least painful way of tracking your billable hours for multiple clients? Don't you dare say Lotus Notes.
Springy - A force directed graph layout algorithm in JavaScript
There are a few abandoned buildings in Detroit that might count as having grandeur, like: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Central_Station, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Army_of_the_Republic_Buil.... I agree that acres of rotting single-family homes isn't so impressive.
You can't go skiing in the summer.

It's easy to be all roses in the summer time, but only the tough get to make it through winter.

Should be fun!
Comparing Mongo DB and Couch DB
Stopped reading because site would not let me resize in my eye pad. Too old to squint.
> I've attempted to 'argue' Austrian style economics here before

Careful what you claim. Your account is brand new and shows no such comment history.
Nope. Just if you say something like "Against Foreigners" you just go to jail. So the new skinheads (neo nazis, as we call them, don't know if that is an English word, too) try to act more political correct, while being in the open.
You are right about query languages being a good for for monad comprehensions. See Torston Grust's dissertation[1], specifically "Combinators from Monad Comprehensions."

1. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.88.9...
A Box You Want to Uncheck on LinkedIn
> As someone who could easily be described as "right-wing" in the USA, I'm curious how Germany would describe someone who is for limited-government, individual liberties, and reduced entitlement spending?

Liberal.

> Or, also in the scope of "American right-wing," how would Germany describe someone who injects Christian morality into their politics?

Religious nut. Germans don't mix politics and religion. (Quiet piety is OK, but don't talk about it in front of voters.)
I strongly agree, i've made an Show HN Post two month ago without getting atleast a few comments or clicks.

I really hoped i could get some feedback but it was a strong news day and therefor i never got enough upvotes to make the frontpage.
"funding certainty" is a contradiction in terms
Statements like "local poor people eat meat regularly." are just flat out ignorant.

http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/1990/09/how-poor-ar...

Search for "Food Consumption of Poor Children", read the following two paragraphs. USDA data shows poor people eat a) more protein than non-poor people (yes, really), b) more meat than average citizens of many rich nations (like Japan or the UK), and c) vastly more meat than average citizens of Mexico/Brazil/etc.
Personally, I'd add a walking treadmill to this list. It could double the total cost, though (depending on the model, of course).
I don't particularly think HR capable of evaluating or even understanding open source contributions. Unless, of course, the job description says, "must have contributed to open source."
Basically I think this is pointing to mongo for replacing traditional website databases and couch for only special cases. Do you guys think this is fair? I haven't spent too much time with either but I'm a little bit suspicious because this is from mongodb.

Anybody know of any other direct comparisons between these?
MIT study says Arctic ice thinning 4x faster than predicted
The problem is there's a good chance of measuring the wrong thing.

If you need to pass a test to post, sure you'll keep out a lot of bad comments. But you'll also limit the pool of acceptance. There could be plenty of people who fail the test having something positive to add. Standardized tests prove this. There are those who are lousy test takers but end up being very successful. Also, certain topics might be easy to answer with someone with sufficient experience in the subject without requiring even average intelligence.

So this limitation might increase the quality of posts, but also adds a kind of tunnel vision to the site.
CVE-2011-2702: eglibc and glibc Signedness Issue
When I worked at bigcorp, inc., I used to always prefer going down to the datacenter and working on my projects at one of terminals in the racks, standing of course. No cubicle distractions, no noise except the constant hum and the occasional greybeard shuffling by, standing kept the blood flowing better, and all of it helped me get into and stay in flow better.
Doctors are human, and respond to economic incentives just like all other humans. News at 11.
Ben Brooks: Facebook Messenger, SMS and iMessage
This is true, it's not recession for everyone and there are great opportunities in winter as well. If you make a compelling product that gets traction, there's no reason to not get some money. It's more challenging, but I mean it's ok, it's part of the game.
TechCrunch also wrote a piece on this coffee conspiracy thing http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/10/the-vast-starbucks-conspira...
Thanks for pointing that out, now I'm one step closer to infallibility ;)
It's not the same scope as a claimed 4G attack, but you can already intercept voice and some data on every US GSM network with openbts/gnu-radio; it's pretty trivial to set up an IMSI-catcher with them. This[1] is from Defcon 18 in 2010; I've recently watched someone set up a rogue tower in a lab environment.

(This probably goes without saying, but I'll say it anyway; if you do this in the wild and you don't take precautions for handling emergency calls, you're probably a bad person.)

GSM implementation insecurity hasn't affected iphone or blackberry enterprise deployment, not sure why it would affect android.

1) http://www.tombom.co.uk/blog/?p=244
systemtap is another utility in this vein that's worth checking out

http://sourceware.org/systemtap/