skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey! Thanks so much for responding! The first idea I ever had I ended up outsourcing the work, which was a big mistake. Part of the mistake was I did not validate my concept and idea with the people who I was targeting, and I ended up with a lot of code for something no one wanted to use. One of the best things I've learned after attending events like Startup Weekend is that validation of the idea is critical. We think we've found enough validation after talking with a number of businesses and their customers to go out and build this. Thank you again for the advice; I really appreciate completely honest feedback like this.
Apples Network Link Conditioner not working on i7?
I will definitely learn how to code. Would you recommend doing tryruby.org and then moving on to Why's Poignant Guide?
First China has to hold together over that time frame. This is feasible... this is not inevitable. There's a lot of tensions over there. Then even if they pass that test, there's other things they're going to have to deal with.

Right. It's entirely possible that China can hold together as a sovereign nation, but will develop or hold onto pathologies which will cripple it as a major power. Then again, the same could also be said for other potential powerhouses like Brazil, Russia, and India. The same could even be said for the EU and the US.
Here's what appears to be the original press release that this article (and related ones) are getting this from: http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/11080201-e....

"At 2:30 pm on August 1, as radiation level of surface of connection of emergency gas treatment system piping arrangement at the bottom of main exhaust stuck of unit 1 and 2 was detected over 10 Sv/h, keep the area out for restricted area with signature. We will consider countermeasure such as shilding."
Elk Creek is a 30 mile drive from where I was born and raised.
At Cheezburger.com, our technology stack is built on Wordpress/PHP for the content sites (icanhascheezburger.com, failblog.org, etc.) and ASP.NET MVC 3 for the site that binds the network together (cheezburger.com). ASP.NET MVC does not have "performance issues" -- we comfortably serve over 8000 requests per minute per IIS server during peak usage.

Your choice of platform matters so much less than your ability to execute on that platform.

Biggest drawbacks:

It's not a completely open platform (e.g., ASP.NET MVC sources are "shared", but csc.exe, the C# compiler, is not)

It has a stigma of being heavily used in enterprise, and there isn't a lot of excitement around C#.
Actually retirement accounts are demand leakages. For example quantity theory of money gives us MV=PY money * velocity = prices * quantity of goods/services produced. So if money is squirreled away in retirement accounts it is no longer circulating in the economy and in order to maintain the same level of economic activity we have to 'make up' for the lost M. So retirement accounts are a drag on the economy.
The Most Important Parts of HTML5 (or why video and audio tags are boring)
Yes, since so much is happening in the browser, there's absolutely no reason to tolerate the unpleasantness of Windows.
Cosmos Will Get a Sequel
It'd be better if the warning said "sent and stored". Reading the Privacy Policy didn't give me fair warning that this info would be retained in this specific instance.
Sounds like the guys who recently switched from Erlang to Python [1].

"Too afraid to learn Erlang" exactly.

[1] http://code.mixpanel.com/2011/08/05/how-and-why-we-switched-...
I don't think that's my complete phonebook
What happens after the US downgrade?
To talk about jobs lost, there were 4 million farm horses in Briton before the industrial revolution, and then over a period of 25 years in the nineteenth century, that population dropped to under a million.

Ford, and every other company, ran a 48 hour work week in the united states until Ford decided his factories were efficient enough that he could hire more people, pay everyone the same for 8 hours less labor, and thus sell more cars. Most every industry followed.

Now we've nearly a tenth of the workforce unemployed, but the story people tend to ignore is the actual hours of employment demanded per capita. The far scarier story than the United states unemployment is its underemployment, where people are willing to work but only get a few hours. Employers want to employ more people...but they can't fill more labor-hours. They can split those hours up, and because of that, a lot of the job loss is hidden.

Does anyone know of any other animals losing their jobs to robots?
What precisely are you upset about? I did not work on this feature, but I'm trying to understand your reaction.

Your friends entered their phone numbers. They are your friends. You can see those phone numbers if they choose to allow you to do so. You also (possibly) chose to import your address book of your friends and Facebook is showing them to you. The numbers are not public and everyone involved explicitly agreed to share the information. What part of that do you object to?
Every now and then I have similar complaints, but I don't think it boils down to cli vs. gui - the situation is actually far worse.

Building high quality productivity tools that are able to exceed the expectations of expert users is both difficult and time consuming... and there is almost zero market incentive to accomplish the task properly for consumer-class applications.

[edit] this is not to imply that consumer apps are trivial -- I think I once saw Minsky discuss an early attempt at AI that started by interpreting children's books, thinking that would be easier than understanding journal publications, etc. -- it quickly became clear that the task of parsing a children's story requires an immense store of implicit context and as such, was completely intractable at the time. The challenge of writing 'simple' things like email, text editing, and spreadsheet apps seems related to that.
Sure, it's ideal if you avoid all the pillaging, burning, raping, death and so on and so forth. Do get your point, but I think it's a little ... erm, disturbing.
> unless you really do get multiple choice questions in university

Having gone through the UK university system, i can honestly say that multiple choice questions can be some of the hardest questions there are (not that I ever had any on 'finals'). They can instill doubt where otherwise there was none, and a subtle, minor change can screw you over.
If I were willing to let Google sell my info to their advertisers, I'd use an Android phone -- they work unbelievably well when you choose the Google lock-in. I guess the crux of my post was that I'm happier locked in to Apple than Google because I trust Apple more than I trust Google.

For a normal, I usually recommend iPhone, because the app selection is better, but the phones qua phones are largely interchangeable these days, IMHO.
I agree with peregrine on webforms--just not clean, hard to make feel like a modern web app oughtta. The good news is that ASP.NET MVC 3 makes it easy enough to completely avoid WebForms.
Sounds like something straight out of Orwell's 1984? The economy is based on ridiculous spending my the military, which enables companies to write paychecks to facilitate consumer spending at home. So basically, our way of life depends on finding excuses to go off and kill people, which in turn justifies our military-industrial complex.
Wufoo is.
It's now been 5 months of dire predictions and yet it apparently remains somewhat under control? Are there any decent summaries of that the genuine situation and implications? This article just sounds like more of the questionable-source, hysterical variety.
I would mention that the US is still getting value out of many projects that were performed during the Great Depression.
"The Great Stagnation" from Tyler Cowen of Marginal Revolution, is a long essay that address this issues from an economist point of view. A wonderful read. http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2011/01/the...
"It concerned the future ratio of U.S. debt to the size of the economy, with S&P officials projecting a larger share than many experts."
The only thing that annoys me is two “Expected ';'” errors after e. g.

var f = function () { return 0 }
No one is arguing that guis turn you into some kind of unerring productivity robot instantly navigating through huge sums of interface magically.

The point is that well-designed GUIs can make better use of a large subset of the human brain. Poorly designed ones will not.

And, some tasks are so inherently visual that they're not even up for debate. For example, there simply is no opportunity for a command line tool to enable what Lightroom or Aperture enable. It's simply too visual a task.
I wish I were free to comment on this one too.
Newcomers to Erlang tend to do string handling with a heavy Ruby/Java/whatever accent. That's the problem. The default Erlang string type is a linked list of ints (which can be pattern-matched on), but atoms (AKA "symbols" is Lisp, Ruby, etc.) and binaries (arrays of raw binary data) address situations that need more specific trade-offs.

In particular, redundant string concatenation and flattening tends to be CPU hog, but IO-Lists automatically flatten all string types during transmission and have already been thoroughly optimized.

Of course, if you ignore the serialization solutions Erlang provides, there is a performance hit.
Re: Factor: FizzBuzz
There's no proof that anything is "under control" really. There's a 30km exclusion zone so there's not too much risk of radiation floating into populated areas (that we know of). so as I see it it's a matter of what information we're getting from TEPCO, which isn't a lot. There won't be any more explosions to send material into the air, and that's all we know.
With learning to code would you recommend going through tryruby.org and then doing Why's Poignant Guide? After doing these do you think I would be able to a prototype of Selfey? Thanks for responding!
You can be sued (in the US) over anything. They could certainly be sued for screwing things up without even any public evidence, but as you point out it's difficult to prove gross negligence, so most people won't bother.

But certainly it becomes much easier if you have evidence from someone inside the company.

YOU don't really need to see how they could be sued, or how an engineer's comments could put them at risk, in any event. If Google's legal counsel believes it to be a risk, then that COULD be what's going on behind the scenes.

And this is exactly the kind of thing that a lawyer would advise, which is really my only point.
The point being that after a while, everyone is related from a mixed lineage, but male-only or female-only lines may die off, either a man having only daughters or a woman having only sons, or having no children at all.
I think it did make a technically interesting point--if your infrastructure is written in a language that nobody in your team has mastered, it might be worth the investment to port it to something else.

Erlang is widely regarded as a great platform for servers with lots of concurrent connections because threads are so lightweight (Facebook chat is built on Erlang). And yet Mixpanel decided to rewrite in a language that would be more maintainable for them in the future.
Katy Perry Performs a Mind Blowing Dance in Montreal
Katy Perry Performed a Mind Blowing Dance in Montreal on 3rd July, 2011...................

Some Images of that show are given below..........
I just turned this feature on because I didn't know the iPhone supported it. Thanks Facebook!
FizzBuzz never feels natural to me in functional languages/style. The Python is much more readable.
I am going to learn how to code. My problem is I want to get something built quickly, but we only have so much money. Thanks for your response!
Just to make this clear - there is no such thing as "too high for a geiger counter to read". There is "too high for the geiger counter in my hand to read", just as with any other instrument, but all they have to do to get a better reading is find a less sensitive counter or one with a smaller aperture. I suspect that TEPCO has already done so and that they're just rounding things off for the press.
"Economics in One Lesson" by Hazlitt is digestible, a quick read, and gets to the heart of a lot of issues, IMO.
Most Bitcoin enthusiasts are speculators. These exchanges and online wallets are popular because they allow speculators to respond instantly to opportunities.
I never got into using mh, but have experienced a similar inversion when I switched to mpd, where what was a monolithic interface for playing music was replaced with a broad set of tools that center around the command line. It's exhilarating to enter that kind of environment, I found myself writing dozens of little utilities to control mpd in short order.
I've never understood this argument. Google Plus is free to do what they want, and we are free to say what we like about it. I have yet to hear a legal argument against Google Plus. What you call "unwritten law" is what other people call social norms. No one has said they cannot legally require real names, but that they should not require real names.

Leaving is not the only option when you don't like something.

Why would anyone start with siding with Google as their default position? Google Plus is not a finished product. When people complain about bugs or missing features for a new product they help to make a better product.
Welcome to the HN reality distortion field...

"It is bizarre that people are upset about this. After all, nobody has ever died as a result of a nuclear accident, right?"
Some people may, but especially in this specific example, there's a large societal force that would positivley squash such behavior. We call it 'fashion' (which is actually quite often linked to inbuilt, brain-hardware based ideas about aesthetics that we can't change)
Emailer: "ITA [Software Inc.], the other alleged Lisp success story.. also says much the same thing.. they don't really use Lisp except for certain key things"

PG: "Using a language for these "certain key things" is exactly what it means to "really use" it."

I thought this was a terrific observation about language wars. You can build a website in Ruby or PHP or Python etc., without really using the language. If your code ports nearly line for line from say, A to B, you're probably not taking advantage of the benefits of the language(s). You are using the language, but not really using it.

A more concrete example:

You can build a website in PHP that also has a chat room written in node.js.

In this case you are really using both languages.

Alternatively, you can build a website in node.js that also has a chat room written in PHP.

In that case you are using both languages, but not really using either.
"largest untapped deposit"

Emphasis mine. This is still an awesome find, but it would be better if these deposits were also large in absolute terms. Is there any chance someone has found better details?
I would suggest Greg Mankiw's Principles of Economics.He also has a blog here
http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/
A nice essay on this topic by Neal Stephenson.

In the Beginning was the Command Line

http://artlung.com/smorgasborg/C_R_Y_P_T_O_N_O_M_I_C_O_N.sht...
NHSTA should place data loggers in self-driving vehicles. In case of an impact (crash-detection) these data loggers should be able to precisely tell who was in control, person behind the wheel or computer?
Awk makes it trivially easy to parse text. How does Haskell handle this parsing task? I am curious because I've always wanted to learn Haskell, mainly because of its lazy evaluation, but hadn't had the time yet. Hope to do it soon.
Well, if it was only 2000 women, and he was doing it during his entirely 21 year reign, then he was only sleeping with a new woman on average a little bit less than every 4 days.
linenoise[1] is a fairly small readline alternative which seems to be gaining some traction. I know that one of the more common objections I've seen to using readline in some smallish utility is that it's a pretty big library, so that might help out.

1: https://github.com/antirez/linenoise
Grading?!? Wait til they get a budget, a schedule, and major requirements that change weekly...

More seriously though, this is a fascinating glimpse into an aspect of human motivation.
What makes you want to believe that?
The Twitter Engineering Blog post is way more interesting http://engineering.twitter.com/2011/08/storm-is-coming-more-...

Despite having a "master" node, it sounds like this actually has no single points of failure. Since all the state for the master is in ZooKeeper, I think you could just fail over to another server running the master if your first main one gets messed up. Pretty cool. (I may be totally wrong here ... All my distributed systems knowledge has come from being around people who know about distributed systems.)

Though one thing that's not especially satisfying is that if his answer for when a Bolt needs to store state is "use a database". I guess the Hadoop answer is that if your reducer fails, it just runs it again, and there's no real analog to doing that when your bolts are meant to run infinitely
This is supposed to be paired with the alternative viewpoint:

Are You Guilty If Pirates Use Your Internet? Lawyer Says YES

http://torrentfreak.com/are-you-guilty-if-pirates-use-your-i...
Thomas Jefferson and other of the US founding fathers thought a permanent military and central banking would ruin the country because military people do nothing while things work at it should they need to create new enemies so they can justify their existence.

The rise of a professional military is often cited in as a major factor in the decline of the Roman Empire. Military Conquest drove economic gain, which provided wealth, which in turn motivated greed and more conquest.

Nowadays, we don't need conquest so much as the economic activity motivated by a military, but the same cycle is there, minus the emphasis on holding territories.

It's curious to think about: The reason a state needs particular access to petroleum, is to support a large mechanized military of the kind first realized on a huge scale in WWII. This petroleum resource now creates a US dependence on other nations, which in turn justifies a large military. While a lot of other things we do need oil, there are alternatives which could offset a lot of those needs. None of those is viable for a mechanized military, however.
Choosing The Right Arguments For Your Argument Essay
An argument essay encompasses arguments and justifications that are in favor or contradict a topic under discussion. These points are linked to the thesis statement which is introduced at the beginning of the essay
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> Even more surprising is that they would use the terminology of prior and posterior probabilities and the like, applied correctly. It gives one the impression that the author knows what he is talking about.

Well, the author of the review is John Allen Paulos, a mathematics professor.
In comparison: the Chernobyl output was at 300 Sieverts near the reactor core shortly after the explosion.

Edit: forgot the source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster
Not necessarily. The traditional conservative nutjob string pullers are people who own natural resources. They are getting very rich right now -- and that's about all they care about.

The traditional patrician Republicans are getting owned.
If there won't be more radiation getting into populated areas and there won't be any more explosions... then that pretty much sounds like you're saying it is under control. The 30km exclusion zone might not be a control that we are happy with for the long term, but it is a control.
"stickies" application that comes with macs. Easy to access easy to change
Well, there's certainly a difference in scale here. If you have a shop where no one knows Erlang and everyone's experienced in Python, and your conversion project can be knocked out in 2 weeks by a fresh intern, well, I think the time savings are pretty straightforward.

X developers x Y time to "really learn Erlang" = Z > 2 weeks
Yeah, I don't think anyone disagrees with you. It's just that this point was rather hidden beneath a misleading title and content!
How many people have died of this one?

Downvotes, huh. I guess I'm not supposed to ask that question for some reason.
Output _where_? The measurement reported is on the second floor inside the reactor building.
Cloud Computing is not the same as Utility Computing
Likewise, nobody is saying those kinds of tasks are served better by a terminal program. However, I would argue that adding an autocompleting command line to any of those kinds of programs would make them better, but that is a different point.

The core issue at hand is this: people should really look at the tasks they do and consider whether a command line interface could be beneficial for the task, they might likely be in for a very pleasant surprise if they try it.
Absolute Address - What Is an Absolute Address
Absolute address is the form of the address that is used when defining the positions of the objects that are found over the earth. Through this service, it is quite easy for the people to work with th
If you think scaling to a few thousand concurrent connections is some closely guarded monk secret then you are making my point all the stronger: our education is failing. The C10k document was released in 1999. That is 12 years we've known how to handle 10k concurrent connections (bare in mind this is not the exact use case mentioned above). Twisted came out a similar time ago. Libevent dates back to at least 2005. Erlang first appeared in 1986, and Erlang was just abstracting how people were already solving concurrency issues into a language. This stuff is not hidden or elite or privileged information. How is it that your average HNer can spout off reasons why NoSQL is claimed to be superior to an RDBMS for scalability yet doesn't seem to know the fundamental concepts? Our education is indeed failing the current generation of programmers if they don't know the basics for a topic that the internet is flooded with.

Finally, I didn't say "ruby is too slow and doesn't scale", I pointed out that the various issues with doing things fast in Ruby have been known for a long time, even to someone only following Ruby. What I did say was that the basic approach the original commentor chose is known to not scale (which it didn't). This is a fundamentally different approach than the VMWare product you mentioned which has chosen a solution similar to Twisted. This approach is known to scale far superior to the original solution.
Apple Started Crack Down Against Unauthorize iOS 5 UDID Activation
see also http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2849849
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That's correct, the design will make it easy to cluster the master node later on.
Tips to save your battery life on Android devices.
Note that it does not mention anything like "too high for measurement".
If you already have a decent grasp of programming basics, then Michael Hartl's Rails tutorial[1] is a good place to start. If you need more introduction to the basics, then Learn Ruby the Hard Way[2] may be better. Both of these are available for free on their respective websites.

[1] http://ruby.railstutorial.org/

[2] http://ruby.learncodethehardway.org/
Author of the post here. I agree that 0 and 1 aren't the best choices for a response, but you have to keep backwards compatability in mind. We wanted this change to be transparent to people who have production code that interacts with the API, so it wasn't the appropriate time to change that. On the other hand, for people developing future APIs, we've added extra feedback in a way that doesn't affect other customers' code. I agree that it's not the best solution, but you have to make these kinds of compromises when you have real customers.
Working servers matter more, the page doesn't load for me.