skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hurricane Irene: Top 5 Online Sources for Weathering the Storm
Yeah, in that time period you couldn't really get away from writing really defensively. It was even worse, earlier. When I wrote C code for x86 there were all sorts of different memory models you could choose from at compilation, and we were producing both a 16 bit and a 32 bit (for the daring) versions of our product. You couldn't assume anything.

I write java now and this is not something I miss.
I think "overlearning" is not a good term (edit: it is quite accurate, though), because it tend to suggest the worst solution of all: that we refrain from learning. I prefer "lost purposes"[1].

The primary purpose of a game is generally to Have Fun. This purpose is lost if you have "solved" the game. The stated purpose of patents is to foster innovation. However it doesn't work[2]. The purpose of schools is learning. However its methods are flawed [3,4]. And so on.

The trick is to know your goals, and then find out means to best achieve them. The author said:

> But, in real life, we need to keep "playing the game": we need to have elections, and protections for inventors, and laws that govern society, and a market where companies can raise money.

But the actual goals are different: We don't need election, we need a working democratic system (which may, or may not, mandate elections). We don't need protections for inventors, we need innovations. We don't need laws, we need a fair and working society. We don't need a market where companies can raise money, we need a working economy.

Well, I could attempt recurse further up until pure morality, but that would be intractable. But at least you get the idea. If something looks broken, think about its ultimate purpose before you try to fix it.

[1]: http://lesswrong.com/lw/le/lost_purposes/

[2]: http://www.dklevine.com/general/intellectual/against.htm

[3]: http://vimeo.com/5513063 (Dr Tae)

[4]: http://www.khanacademy.org/
There are some really good comments and links there, thanks.
IPad 2 Bag
In an , in nhanh , in offset http://bit.ly/innhanh
Perfumes for women | Bvlgari perfume omnia 65ml. | Bvlgari perfume for women
"Bvlgari's newest, light, modern oriental fragrance is a sexy blend of mandarin, saffron, Masala tea, and white chocolate. This scent smells truly good enough to eat.100% Genuine, FREE Shipping, money back offer. "
The proxies are what we have today with Congress: elected representatives. It's my understanding that the reason it was created is because technically it was too difficult to allow everyone to vote on every law.

I'm saying: eliminate Congress. Allow people to vote directly on all bills. They can read various opinions online (no advertising allowed).
Its been a week since the firestorm, getting CM7 working this fast is already impressive enough. I have no doubts Honeycomb will be soon.

I don't see any difference with running Android 2.3 vs webos. I find webos inferior in browsing experience, apps, localization, customization and ability in general. Webos is slick and polished, but not even close to what Android can do. I'm very much looking forward to getting Android on my tablet.
Indeed, certain comparisons are as useful as:

Apples Oranges
Fruit Y Y
Vegetable N N
Apple Y N
Orange N Y
I don't think most of the LP community still promotes Prolog, although it's hard to delineate exactly what the LP community is. Going by papers presented at AAAI and IJCAI, the bulk of the research is on answer-set programming (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Answer_set_programming), which tends to be used as a more specialized solver rather than as the top-level loop of a program. In other corners of the world, multiparadigm logic/functional languages like Mercury seem to be what people are hanging their hats on.
Looks like it has been expired for a few days. I see "valid from" until 8/25/2011.
I seem to be hanging on "Building World". Mac/Chrome.
Our entry is a fun bug tracker for small projects.

Try it here: http://uberpro.nko2.nodeknockout.com/

Info page: http://nodeknockout.com/teams/4e24c9fe4d4c760100001495
Andy Dalton bengals jersey
Sure it does: laws are held to be constitutional by the judicial branch. Such laws as killed Socrates are not constitutional.
The second half of your explanation, which boils down to "it's everywhere" makes sense now, but is only true because it was already in demand.

That it was faster (for certain applications), easier and more reliable does make sense. I understand, for example why PHP got popular even though there were other options available at the time that I believe were better from a software engineering[0] perspective. Things get popular by being better at the things the majority of users care about, even if they're awful at everything else.

[0] Did I really just use that term? I can't think of a better one to describe the issue I'm talking about.
If some guy gets into medicine because their parents did their homework, drilled them in SAT techniques, and hired a firm to fabricate a good admissions letter, are they really more competent than a kid who did their own homework, got a high SAT score because of their IQ and good study habits, and wrote an honest admissions letter?

Do people think our current politicians are legitimate? I'd rather see them be more willing to say what they think, and act with conviction than get a guy who is 0.1% more popular.

Yeah, it's a strawman. Will randomization discourage people from playing the game dishonestly? Or will people panic, and play the game harder, and give up on the honest component of what they are doing? I don't really know.
Pedantically, what we have in a Congress or a Parliament is trustees. They exercise but do not own the power.

> It's my understanding that the reason it was created is because technically it was too difficult to allow everyone to vote on every law.

It was created that way to prevent the tyranny of the majority.

"A pure democracy can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction. A common passion or interest will be felt by a majority, and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party. Hence it is, that democracies have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have, in general, been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths."

- Federalist No. 10.

Think of it as defence in depth. Do you pin all your security hopes in file permissions? Of course not: you demand randomised address layout, auditing tools and so on and so forth.

In short, you want defence in depth. Representative democracy is a defence against majoritarianism.

> I'm saying: eliminate Congress. Allow people to vote directly on all bills.

Who will write these bills? How will they be proposed? Is there a minimum number of sponsors required, if so, how many? How do bills lapse? How are they amended during discussion?
Why do you have gmail.com listed for the canonical.org SPF record?

"v=spf1 a mx include:gmail.com ~all"

Might be a reason your emails end up in spam at gmail. Although a and mx would cover it I would also add:

ip4:208.70.31.125 a:canonical.org

If you use gmail to send mail the SPF should be: include:aspmx.googlemail.com or include:_spf.google.com
烟囱堵漏
> Its been a week since the firestorm, getting CM7 working this fast is already impressive enough. I have no doubts Honeycomb will be soon.

Unfortunately Not. Honeycomb is closed source (aside if the kernel) and only available to a few OEMs.

Google maintains that it's just not ready for public release, but that was nearly a year ago now, so I wouldn't be surprised if Gingerbread was the last public release. Even more so with the recent purchase of Motorola.

(though I'd love to be proven wrong by Google of course)
I like the fact that this library has no dependencies. I suggest that the _MAP variable in keymaster.js should be equal to the specialKeys variable defined in jquery.hotkeys.js.

https://github.com/jeresig/jquery.hotkeys/blob/master/jquery...

in order to cover all special keys.
not trolling but I don't see how webos a tablet os is different from android 2.3. The launchers (depending on which one you install with android ) serve the same purpose displaying your apps but on android you can at least use your home screens and customize.

edit:asking a legit question, from a user experience pov.. tablet optimized os, in this case webos works in the same way as Android 2.3. What makes webos specifically tablet optimized. Just asking for clarification if he means the stock apps are optimized for tablet, the only ones making any difference would be email and calendar. On webos non tablet optimized apps show up as cards in the middle of the screen ( Pandora), its terrible.. where as on Android at least they will stretch.
Which would indicate that some or all of these facilities have been abandoned. That's partly why I asked the question - are there others that I don't know of, and what (if anything) do people use?
A few followups:

A elaboration from van Emden, which describes part of the problem as Prolog being pushed by Lispers who had only recently become enamored with Prolog: http://vanemden.wordpress.com/2010/08/31/the-fatal-choice/

A different take that blames "technological and cognitive issues" at least in part, especially debugging: http://synthese.wordpress.com/2010/08/21/prologs-death/

A different take that blames competition from more specialized declarative-programming languages: http://www.kmjn.org/notes/prolog_lost_steam.html
> But maybe PC sales help drive enterprise services (as businesses will buy their PCs from HP, then tack on a high-margin service plan, and finally add on some ludicrously profitable consulting jobs).

Just anecdotical, but I've seen this happening at least in one case: my wife's employer, a reasonable large European gas&oil company. They first bought HP computers and very expensive printers, and then, obviously, they also signed a consulting contract with HP's local reseller at pretty high rates.
Updated htaccess tester: referrer support
Interview with Gabriel Weinberg (founder of DuckDuckGo)
Xerox PARC, Apple and the truth about innovation - By Malcolm Gladwell
You're still missing the point. Unpopular people would be made subject to laws meant to get them. This already happens in representative democracies, it would get much worse.

Socrates might not be executed (depending on the constitution in question), but he might still find himself prisoner for life because the law had mandatory sentencing provisions.
The recent comments by Eric Schmidt about school level CS education in the UK (even though there is no UK-wide educational system) made me look at what my 12 year old son might be studying in a few years.

Interestingly enough it appears that Prolog is alive and well and in Scottish schools - for example see this exam past paper:

http://www.sqa.org.uk/pastpapers/papers/papers/2010/AH_Compu...
How about:
-> Take a Bow.
-> Something like 'Incline' or derivatives.?
not a nook owner but I've read of honeycomb running on it sdk 3.0
The specs and prices of upgrades for things like ram/cpu are really impressive!
Physical Therapy Assistant Schools in Nebraska
Detailed list of all accredited physical therapy assistant schools in Nebraska along with the campus location, contact details, type of degree on offer and whether each school is private or public.
拆烟囱
http://nko2-infopoprac.herokuapp.com/

It’s stock exchange for open source projects on Github. Each project is valuated by its popularity, and it changes over time. So you can earn GitCoins by betting trending projects.

Login with your github account, we give you 1000 GitCoins (that’s our currency) on start. Buy promising project and sell it, when it become Rails killer. Earn gazilions of GitCoins and become Gordon Gekko of Open Source World.
厦门代办信用卡,成都办理信用卡
UGG Tall Romantic Flower Boots - Popular UGG Tall Romantic Flower Boots for sale
What To Buy in Dubai for Shopping Lovers
“Browser X is using Y MB of memory with Z tabs open” is meaningless
Overlearning/Overfitting is a term from machine learning/statistics that means that a learning system fits its learning data so well that it does not generalize to new data. The examples given in the article seem like perfect examples of this, e.g. elected officials fit the election process very well, but do not "generalize" to leading a country.
Frozen on “Building World...”
Consumed all cpu and a lot of gpu tho...

(Chrome/win)
Why would a Seattle company try to raise in NYC vs. Silicon Valley?
The losing side will always find some reason to claim the outcome is illegitimate and if you don't get in you will always be able to find someone you think you are better than.
London Web Design | Web Design London
UK Website Design Company specialise in offering innovative and pocket friendly solutions to our clients across the globe.We intend to set up a one point window to cater to all your global IT needs,
Opening hundreds of tabs in different browsers across multiple 2560x1600 resolution monitors is the reason the computers I use have 16gb+ of ram.

(And running VMs, but that does not make it as extravagant)
Your whitespace bot looks nifty :) Will you post the results when you start running it?
look outside the box, Enjoy!
It's only an extra 3 hours by air.
None of this soft touch crap - the state next door ran an anti-speeding campaign where they had people extending their little finger at speeding drivers (as in 'little dick syndrome'). Absolutely laughable and the folks who are the bulk of the problem - young men - ignore crap like that.

New South Wales (the state next door) has seen a similar reduction in deaths. In about 1970, the death toll was around 1300 per year. It is now down to 367 in the last year, and has been averaging about 400 the last few years. NSW has a population about 30% larger than Victoria.

The ads seen here (NSW) are mostly in in the same graphic vein as those seen in Victoria. Indeed many of them are the same advertisements.

The 'pinky' ad was actually an attempt to reach the young men whom you say would ignore it. It was though that they were actually ignoring the more graphic ads, still thinking that it won't happen to them.
People that do this are NUTS. Ever heard of Evernote, Read It Later, or the plethora of websites that exist for this very reason? Man up and shell out a few bucks...there is NO reason you should have more than 10-12 tabs open on a regular, consistent basis...
Stop Snoring
I presume a blog concentrating on stop snoring will get you the most bang for your buck. There are quite a few other items that go well with some development. We've covered that all. I feel as if I've won the Triple Crown. Sometimes using that is too misleading. You should surround yourself with guys who feel the way you do dealing with this question.
Yep, but the Honeycomb that's running there is a hacked version of the SDK image (!!).

On my Nook Color it works, barely. I get crashes in the browser, have issues getting apps available from the Market etc.

An amazing effort, but not the same as something built from source and which can have defects fixed if they get frustrating enough to me ;-)
Legacy of Steve Jobs - people who matter - And it's not Tim Cook
Show HN: Get notified if your shared G-Docs change (Chrome ext. w/end project)
Q345b无缝钢管
So...who's Neil?
Of course, you already see this in indirect form in professional PR firms whose sole job it is to influence public opinion on a narrow issue, and in direct form in places where 'direct voting' is implemented in some form, like in California's referendum system for which on almost each issue specific lobbying groups have a major influence on the outcome.

I'd argue that referenda are more even susceptible to the problems described in the article than transparent representative democratic systems are; laymen are easy to influence, and groups of laymen even easier. In the end it depends on the population that is being ruled though - people get the rulers they deserve, and blaming the elected people while still participating in bribery, nepotism etc (while rational! classic prisoners dilemma!) is useless. But of course somebody needs to step up, like the Indian guy is doing now.
I think it's possible that this extreme tab usage could be pretty common. I don't have 500 tabs like him, but I can get into the 50-100 range. For me, too many tabs isn't the problem - it's just that browsers can't seem to handle so many tabs without using up all memory.
Windows Azure seems pretty cool. At least it has the best relational database of the big three clouds, and the best blobstore+CDN solution. However, it makes IIS mandatory, which seems (I'm still learning) to be optimized for short queries. iisnode should make long-polling and websockets possible.
Wii dvd
I seem to faintly remember that in the beginning Postgres was Unix only, and MySQL was available for Windows, too.
>does a reasonable job of prevention the most stupid ideas from getting Mainstream attention.

Citation needed? Some pretty stupid ideas get through and lots of corruption (e.g. "bridge to nowhere").

>The people deciding political issues wouldn't be the reasonable and smart people who hang around here.

What kind of people do think are in the Senate/Congress? They're not the reasonable and smart people who hang around here either. And in any case, those people you so happily deride are choosing said representatives anyway.

Any problems you see with giving everyone a say exist with giving a subset of those people a say. In fact I would say the problem is exaggerated with the smaller group because the kind of people who would be good for government are the kind who would never be willing to do that job. I bet they would be willing to voice their opinions though.
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted, because you give realistic objections to the simplistic 'solutions' being proposed. It's easy to be 'contra' something, but it's juvenile to be against something without have a better alternative.
'Cut it's losses on palm/WebOS':

They didn't even try. Seriously.. Was it a bad decision to acquire Palm? Maybe. The way it was executed made it a waste of money. The _potential_ was good, the system itself is awesome. It lacked decent devices (and a global supply chain, opposed to 'You can only buy a Palm Pre 2 in France'), mere hardware.

They bought it, did a half-assed job to come up with a new line of hardware (still nothing to boast about on this front) and acted surprised when the market didn't jump to buy everything with HP and WebOS logos.

The original Palm acquisition _only_ made sense if you understand that you'll need 2-3 iterations to make that business successful.

Your '0 chance WebOS would be a "hit"' line seems off to me. It's more beautiful than Android (and iOS to me, but YYMV). It's far closer to your garden variety Linux machine than Android (which might appeal to geeks only, granted). The development model for the platform is great and could bring in lots of people that so far haven't started mobile development at all. Synergy/Just Type were executed well for the most parts. WebOS had a very decent chance, but like any other piece of technology you need to support it first, do a couple of iterations based on market feedback.
Cheap International Travel Secrets
sigh OK then, so who is going to pass the laws that the judicial branch will uphold, and/or who is going to appoint the people in the judicial branch? Are they going to be elected by the same people who elect the officials?
Nice point on competition (the last one), that SQL (and even LINQ!) replaced some aspects of prolog. I would guess that mathematica/matlab/R also have...? BTW In academia, a related competing paradigm is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constraint_logic_programming.
Makes me think of the alleged OS X philosophy that you should never worry about closing apps. So what if bookmarks and tabs are essentially the same? If you never worry about closing tabs, they are essentially just bookmarks that load really fast. It seems inevitable that things will head that way. So there should be better tools for managing tabs, similar to bookmarks (and there are no great tools for bookmarks yet, either).
If you read the piece, you can see that we were actually approached by investors in a bunch of geographies - SF, the Valley, Boston, NYC, even San Diego. We ended up signing something with a firm in NY, but were not geographically biased in accepting inbound interest.
I'm sorry, what lies am I making up?

I do love a good keyboard warrior
I liked this reply: "Half way through reading this, I realized that people were actually attempting to do this in real life"
The fact that people do this is a strong indication we're missing something fundamental with the browser UI. I'm not nearly as bad as the guy in the article but I do open ridiculous numbers of tabs at times.

It seems to me that tabs + bookmarks doesn't quite cut it. Perhaps with the exception of pinned apps we need to move away from the idea of 'open' pages entirely and really rethink how navigating the browser's history works.
How many do you have to know? Born 1989 but still can relate to 60% of the stuff.
Anyway nice compilation.
Bob Mansfield is missing
I agree, anyone who claims they need so many tabs open is flat out lying, you can't possibly be using them all. Bookmarks exist for a reason, and you can do a lot with them. In Firefox there are keywords you can set up as well as Awesomebar modifiers that allow you to do a lot of powerful things with the bookmarks system all without having to have tons of tabs in memory. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Location_Bar_search#Location_Bar_s...
Most browsers (including mobile ones) except IE support the <keygen> HTML element [1]. This creates a "secure" keypair. The public key can be sent to the server and the private key is stored locally somewhere (I guess gnome-keyring, Mac Keychain or Windows registry). I haven't ever seen this in use except in technical demos. While this can't be used for many things where JS encryption is in use, I'm sure it deserves more recognition than it currently has.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/En/HTML/Element/keygen
Real-time Code Coverage Heat Maps in Node.js
Yeah, I'd say some use of constraint-programming in lp is now nearly standard, though sometimes in a better-integrated way than other times. Nearly every Prolog system now has both clp(fd) and CHR built in, for example, but they don't always interact with Prolog derivations in an ideal way (especially not with Prolog negation-as-failure).

Answer-set programming has constraint stuff more as a core feature. A common paradigm in asp is to mix "normal" lp type rules, where you specify how to derive exactly the correct solutions, with a generate-and-test style where you over-generate (with choice rules) and then filter with constraints (called integrity constraints in asp), which is sometimes easier to specify.
If you are convinced of this, you can open a bet at http://moonco.in
Unless you have something specific to be gained from having a new term, just go with Like. It's something everyone knows and understands. Following is different from liking.
A great inside view.

I'm particularly impressed by Rand's ability to keep his spirits up; as one who has been through similar, I know how soul-crushing it can be, if you let it. Kudos.
Regarding politics, it is interesting to note that the people have not, for their part, also overlearned the game of electing the best man for the job. I wonder why this asymmetry exists?
That's an interesting link, Jacques; thanks.

Remember, though, at that time the world was ruled by monarchies and it was thought that people were too stupid and illiterate to be part of their own governing.

It's 2011, and no one can debate this: It's up to the people to decide themselves whether they want to someone to override their will or to respect it. No one has the power to say, "Should we trust the will of the people?" The Enlightenment happened. You and I can debate, but we, the people, will decide.
Looking Ahead to Tcl 8.6
Well, to be fair, we were in a bit of a rut on where to go with computers. Now the future is more clear.