skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Free Powerpoint Presentation
Download unlimited free powerpoint templates, free powerpoint presentation and background. www.freeppttemplate.com is a leading powerpoint templates provider.
The problem with this is that all issues regarding taxation/government spending are non-orthogonal, and can't be uncoupled easily (or at all).
Yes, and also, the solar industry is not necessarily low margin since there is a fixed point to compete against (if your tech is protected with patents enough) - which is the cost of energy from oil/nuclear or other sources; and those are fairly static. If a watt costs 2$, you can charge 10% less and sell as much as you can produce; regardless of production costs. So if you could produce for 1.5$ you could have double digit margins, and the cheaper you make your process, the more margin.
Were you able to actually clear lines?

I have been playing with a pair of colleages and when we finally got the whole thing ready for a tetris clear... the lines stood there laughing at us! :S
A leak in Wikileaks.
But this isn't rocket science. It isn't even long division. Maintaining a safe angle of attack is the _most basic_ pilot skill there is. If you fly an airplane at all, this is something you have to think about both on approach and takeoff.

To me, it seems ridiculous that pilots are unable to remember this stuff. Really. To recover from a stall, you ease down on the stick and alternatively apply power. Barring a deep-stall condition, it's really that simple. They even teach you that the most basic error in a stall condition is to pull back on the stick in a panic-stricken attempt at forcing the plane to gain altitude. I'm stupefied at these reports.
I think you are right to object right now, but with time mindsets will change. Each new generation moving closer and closer to direct democracy.

Technologically it's already possible.
First ever images of an Electron in Orbit
Nokia Shuts Down Developer Forum, Fears Hacker Accessing Members Info
Morto Worm spreading via Remote Desktop Protocol
OK, the Roman system was better, because it had checks and balances.

You could do the same with direct representation. Have a constitution, wich can only be modified by a 2/3rds majority. Require a 2/3rds majority to execute philosophers, start wars, and murder the male population of subject states.

And Socrates was not just a kindly old Zen master, preaching peace and understanding. He was a bright guy, but as he developed philosophy he also preached against democracy in favor of some kind of military dictatorship run by philosopher kings. Some of his students led bloody revolts, overthrew the democracy, and executed hundreds of democrats before they were eventually toppled. He wasn't quite the Osama Bin Ladin of Athens, but he was responsible (in a sense) for a lot of deaths. But he couldn't be executed for that, because there was an amnesty; so they got him on some trumped up charge related to his religious skepticism.

Of course, his more philosophical (and less political) followers (i.e. Plato) painted his execution as a great miscarriage of justice.
I'm a glider pilot, and I'm close to stalling every time I fly. It's just something that's part of the regular procedure: You recognize when it's about to happen, and take the appropriate action (which is to ease down on the stick and maintain correct angle of attack). If you're at a reasonable altitude, there is no danger involved. However, I'm pretty sure that an airliner operating regularly practically never approaches a stall condition.
I'm saddened to see he's being down-voted. His arguments are rational and sophisticated. I think people are just disagreeing and that's not a good reason to down-vote.

That said, I down-voted you. Don't reduce this argument to name calling. People are voting up my arguments; you seem to be in the minority in not finding the alternative I'm suggesting to be better. That's fine. I wouldn't belittle you for it.
Unaico - Sitetalk Review 2011 | Direct Selling Facts & Figures
When I read posts like these, I can't help but wonder if minimalistic people go around feeling smug and superior all the time. If you think and talk a lot about how great your minimalistic life is, then you're probably suffering from what some call spiritual materialism.
If the server is compromised, the intruder should not be able to read any of the documents

If the server is compromised, the attacker could put a bad JS file in the HTML page (which is sent to the user), which will read the contents of the textbox showing the decrypted content, and then send this to $EVIL_HOST
Stylish and Leather Shoulder Bags at Lowest Price in India
A shoulder bag fits everything a design savvy town girl needs. Most of these units have inside pockets that provide effortless access to your phone, keys and other essential things. This hangs at your back keeping your hands free. Buy latest collection of shoulder bag purse at discounted price with free shipping in India.
Ah. I didn't see it as jargon. I recognize the term is accurate, but my main point still stands: the connotation is still there, and still does suggest we should learn less about those systems if we want to preserve their original purpose.

Worse, the end of the post suggest we have to preserve things like schools, markets and elections, even though we learned enough to spoil them. Therefore, the only thing left to sacrifice is learning itself.

That would really really sucks: I'm curious, and I always want to learn more. There are many things I would sacrifice before I accept to put hard limits on what I am allowed to learn.
19 years old iPhone hacker Nicholas Allegra (comex) joins Apple
Oh yeah, The Republic is a scary book. An alternative title could be Brave Ancient World.
Only tangentially related to the post: you know that bit about firms ridiculously underinvesting on SEO? This has been true over and over and over again in my experience. If you somehow manage to avoid that pathology, you will eat your competitors' lunches.
I think the problem might be a deeper problem.

The writer of the article is asking generally about how a system's rules can be exploited to the point that the original intention of the system is no longer achievable. The sortition is also a system with rules, therefore it can be exploited. As soon as I saw the rock-paper-scissors, I remembered a competition some time ago where different bots played rock-paper-scissors against each other. Now the
best bot exploited the reality of the seed number generators, compiled a database of sequences to find which seed the opponent was using, and so on.

So even sortition might be exploitable.
Sorry, missed that. Very interesting and indeed, his opinion easily trumps mine. However, I would like to see some evidence rather than the word of an expect (if only to learn). For example he says that "This code has the mark of having been audited by People Like Us", what marks would that be?
Christian Louboutin Sale
Well, PostgreSQL is licensed under BSD, which makes closed-source, commercial forks possible. That's why it is attractive for large businesses, like Apple.

GPL-licensed MySQL serves the opposite purpose: it is impossible to fork it into commercial DB product, grow it as times goes by, and threaten Oracle. It is nearly impossible to create commercial product for this market, because there's a free product there: MySQL. MySQL is like a ditch around the Oracle stronghold, a ditch to keep competitors far away. GPL is a perfect tool for such tricks.

In contrast to GPL which suppresses commercial developments in it's market segment, BSD encourages them.

For the same reason, Apple slowly gets rid of GCC in favour of clang. It is perfectly OK from legal point of view to include BSD-licensed compiler into commercial closed-source IDE, unlike GPL-licensed compiler.
And how do you do that at the corner Starbucks without using the command line?

Despite what Hollywood says, using a command line does not make you a super leet hacker. If your security system can be broken with a command line, then I doubt you care that much about the data you're securing. Just put the data in plain text and call a spade a spade.
And how is he doing it? What's special about him? Does he have industry-specific knowledge, does he know how to get big accounts?
To be fair as well, creating beautifully designed, expensive personal computers has never really been a world problem.
Although very loaded, Fukushima recently had a very similar problem.

Generators unfortunately are not everything -- perhaps more companies should think about how to gracefully fail instead of try to keep the ship afloat no matter the odds.
And I think you're missing the point: representational government has been gamed. It's not about them being smarter and understanding the laws better (they often don't even read them, but use assistants for that); it's a bottleneck, ripe for corruption. Billions are at stake and only 535 people stand in the way; with lobbying(bribing) being perfectly legal. It's broken.

You may not like it, but it's not really up to you (or me) to decide. The people can choose to eliminate that ineffective, rotten layer.
No, I don't. I've accepted that people are really different. Another minimalist/buddhist thing I try to do is not to judge other people, but just try to understand them and feel compassion.
No need to cry for me, the tide of votes seems to be turning.
You also don't see breathless AccountingCrunch articles about accountants getting $41 million to develop accounting for pets and similarly silly things.

I don't agree with the normative implication here, but strongly suggest you subscribe to the Wall Street Journal. It will help expand your worldview vis-a-vis questions like "Is accounting Important?" or "Is $41 million a lot of money?"
That's great. My comment above was not directed specifically at your post, but more generally because I've read a lot of similar posts.

I find not judging people almost impossible. Isn't judging people, things and events what makes me an intelligent creature? What do you (or Buddhists) think of accepting oneself as a judgmental person?
Comex - the jailbreaker who became an intern, does an AMA on Reddit
Can The EZ Suite dethrone LiveJournal in Southeast Asia?
Thanks for the suggestions.
I looked at LFS and Gentoo as alternatives and they seem like viable options as well.
I'll be giving it a try.
You're widly misinformed when it comes to SAP (edit: reacting to point #2, I agree with the other two.)

For specific SAP projects I worked on they had development offices in Tel Seoul, Beijing, Berlin and Waldorf. Another project had development offices in Tel Aviv, Palo Alto and Waldorf. And this goes on and on. It's areally international company, more development spreadout than with Microsoft f.e.

Their customers range from Pepsi and Coca Cola. Also, do you know what runs at the backend Apple itunes? What do you think makes Philips' distribution channels tick?

SAP always claims that of all the goods being manufactured, shipped and sold across the world passes through an SAP system.

That said; SAP is primary a support and consultancy organizaqtion. They spend a shitton of money on R&D and new software development but the last time I read their year report they gained most of their revenue from the very expensive support contracts they sell (but as a big bank who cannot afford downtime they will then guarantee you to have an expert on site within 2 hours yaddayaddayadda)

What that SAP dude is doing at HP is beyond me.
In addition to the good advice elsewhere on this thread you might find the following links to be of use.

http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2009/01/lean-hiring-tip...
http://joelonsoftware.com/articles/FindingGreatDevelopers.ht...
http://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/five-essential-phon...

You might also find this link to be useful, but I wrote it myself so ymmv
http://fragile.org.uk/2010/03/anatomy-of-a-technical-intervi...
Not true. SAP tends to acquire a lot of new companies (with the fight with Oracle heating up in the past couple of years) and a lot of these smaller companies are based around the globe.

The core of some of these applications are not even developed in Waldorf but f.e. in Palo Alto or Seoul; so that interviewer doesn't know what he's talking about.
> And I think you're missing the point: representational government has been gamed. It's not about them being smarter and understanding the laws better (they often don't even read them, but use assistants for that); it's a bottleneck, ripe for corruption.

Right.

If you look elsewhere, you'll see my notes on the particulars of the US system. We have rent-seeking here in Australia, but nothing like the scale of the US.

The difference is that US Members of Congress are basically independent agents. No party discipline, and no executive constraints, prevent them from that kind of deal-making. It's down to the peculiarities of the US system, not representative democracy in general.

Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater.

(Plus there's the standard libertarian argument that reducing the power of Congress reduces incentives to fiddle; but that doesn't do away with merely petty corruption).
For many people, including hosting admins, MySQL was the path of least resistance. MySQL required less maintenance than Postgres back in the day. It's pretty much exactly the same situation as with PHP. The tool created by mere mortals is usable by mere mortals, so they use it. The tool created by scholars is technically superior at core functions but is slightly more difficult or cumbersome to use so is used by fewer mortals.

One thing people seem to forget is that Postgres has not been around longer than MySQL, both were released to the public in 1995. Postgres skipped a few version numbers so maybe that makes it seem older.
There is an alternative explanation for the pro-minimalistic posts: maybe reducing your stuff actually has the benefits the posts speak about? In this case it would be natural to share it so that other people can benefit too.
It is extremely hard. I am very bad at it. However, once you get better at it you'll notice how you can accept people for who they are. This then helps understanding them, and (almost?) everybody has an interesting story to tell, which you wouldn't have heard otherwise.
Is Apple on the crossroad following the resignation of Steve Jobs?
You're not alone. I get a definite Area Man Constantly Mentioning He Doesn't Own a Television vibe from posts like this.
It's backed by the largest military on earth. That's not nothing.
When you're trying to use awesomebar to find a tab you already have open based on a URL, and the tab itself is not loaded into memory until you switch to it, and the page will load in <1s (ie. most web pages).

Why bother leaving the tab open?

I'm quite compulsive about keeping my tab bar tidy, getting back to recently closed tabs or commonly used ones is generally done through awesomebar or some TMP clicking shortcuts.
You raise a good point but what most people don't realize is that tablets and phone use is completely orthogonal. You can run a phone application on a tablet but this would be the least optimal solution.

Phones give you one view and only that view. You open an application and get a list, you click an item in the list and you get the details, you click on an item in the details and you are taken to a completely different window. Need to change a preference? Click a link and you are presented with a list of preferences. Your application is no longer there (it is, but you can't see it).

A real tablet application can give you multiple views, you aren't booted from that view to change the preference. And in the case of Android those views are SW-rendered. Scrolling a very long list skips and stutters as more information needs to be loaded into framebuffer.

Stretching is just a hack, instead of being more informative its the same 480x320 information blown up to scale.
From a pure techie point of view you can do great stuff there as a programmer. But the end-result is just nog as sexy as having developed games for an iphone or invented the New Social Thing. But your software scales over 100 gigs of RAM, is blazingly fast and can process transaction records in the order of 10,000s per second; that's non-boring to me :P
CoffeeScript wraps its output in an anonymous function, so to create a global var you have to explicitly assign it as "window.varname" or, at the top level, "this.varname".
reminiscent of: http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-constantly-mention...
> Accept when I use the wrong word.

I can't tell... was that intentional?
MySQL got the wrong results faster.
Nothing against Rand or SEOmoz, and to be sure I'm sorry they had to go through the mess he describes, but if I were running a company with nearly $12 million in annual revenue and an 83% gross margin, it'd take a pretty serious cataclysm to crush my soul.
I wish I didn't feel this deserved voting up, but I've seen so many people make this mistake that it bears repeating.
Cocktail Dresses
blog.brandsexclusive.com.au. presenting cocktail dress women's and lifestyle dress were showing off their fine taste in fashion.
Really awesome concept. I loved playing around with it.
Link me to a well written PGP tutorial that even normally experienced people can use with Gmail. Perhaps this would be more useful than all this JS Crypto.
My brother-in-law runs is MD of the SAP office in Kazakhstan, seems pretty global to me too.
An expiration warning isn't usually what you'd see if somebody was trying to do something malicious, but rather a CN mismatch and/or not-signed-by-recognized-CA error -- but yes, difficult for "the consumer" to distinguish.

It's up to the site administrator to make sure their SSL is valid and configured properly. A certificate doesn't "just expire".
That's true, hence the probabilistic tone in my comment. I know from personal experience that reducing stuff can simplify your life and make you feel better. But so can having more stuff, just like the author found by getting a Kindle!
Social networking bullshit has had a massive effect on politics and everyday life. It has leveled the playing field between the elites and the everyman. It is easy to dismiss social networks, but upon further reflection they are revolutionary (sometimes literally).
"some kind of military dictatorship run by philosopher kings" — while Plato advocates this through the mouth of Socrates, most scholars believe it's Plato using Socrates as a hand puppet in this and many other later dialogues, not an actual recollection of things Socrates might have said, as is more likely for some of Plato's earlier dialogues. Forgive me the nit-picking :-)
I'd say the biggest reason for this is that Android is still being updated while webOS probably isn't going to change much in the future. So far webOS is my favourite tablet OS though.
Haha, nice :D. I watch TV shows though.

BTW, I don't even own a television!
83% gross margin and only $1m in net profit per year? Isn't that a bit low for a tech company? (no mean to be harsh, just questioning)
Gears 3 beta
Gears of War 3 is an upcoming shooter video game developed by Epic Games and published by Microsoft Studios Gears of War is an outstanding technical achievement, but in addition to looking and sounding amazing, it's a seriously awesome action game. For more details please visit our website.
I browse this way. Here's my best guess as to why (which could possibly be useful in understanding why others do, too).

* Some sites (Netflix, banking sites, etc.) can be annoying to have to log back into and get to a certain page so I just keep them open. Yes, some of those sites will expire the login anyway, but I don't know when I'll want to visit them again.

* Keeping tabs open just feels abundant and allows me to ignore having a certain discipline for awhile (closing tabs when done). It kind of feels like opening the Sunday newspaper and tearing out each section and throwing them on the table. Yes, it is a little messy, but it helps you feel good for awhile. Further, at some point you can just discard it all and nothing was really lost beyond possibly feeling embarassed by people watching you or feeling inefficient.

* I think it also metaphorically better fits how I learn. I like to build connections between my previous knowledge and things that I read. Keeping something open after I'm done with it can be convenient in that I might discover it again later after learning related information (helping me to understand it in a different way). Or perhaps the page has been updated with new comments that I don't care enough about to subscribe to, but would like to see again if I happen to run across it. I think it also helps flow, especially if I'm working on a new project.

This only works if you have plenty of memory (which I do.)
Why did someone downvote this? That's not helpful towards finding what I was looking for.
I was talking about tablets. Most people don't need a desktop.
Most of the time it probably doesn't matter. But it can never hurt to know more about the important women in ur life, doesn't it? Also think about the following example: You feel that something between you and your girlfriend is off. So you want to do something to increase her happiness. If she is with you because you are so hot, you might dress better and invite her to some clubs to have fun together. But if she is into you because she thinks you will support her well, showing her your commitment might be way more important. Doing the one or the other both can be good or not. But which might safe your relationship depends on why she is attracted to you.
http://nodeknockout.com/teams/maguilas - Slide-Tap - A simple way to create online slideshows.

Everyone in our team are proud of our submission.

I, particularly, had one of the best weekends in a long wile and I am glad that this idea I had a long time ago was not only possible to make in 48hs but also is alive and kicking some ass!

If you like it, please, help us using Vote[KO] badge!

Any comments and suggestions are appreciated! We plan fixing a lot of bugs and adding a lot of features after the voting ends.
Ask HN: Is it wise to leave out your phone number on your namecard?
I know this is kind of against the notion and idea behind the namecard, but is leaving out your mobile phone number on your namecard a wise idea?

I used to have weird people calling me in the middle of the night or have my phone added into some telemarketer's database on my previous phone number which was listed on my namecard.

Is there anyone out there who doesn't put their mobile phone on their namecard and is there any pros and cons to that?
I generally have between 5 and 30 tabs open, usually around 15. I am what I am.

Because I use my browser this way, I finally had to move from Firefox to Chromium. Chromium manages memory and CPU WRT tabs much better than Firefox.

I don't really like Chromium, but I got tired of listening to my laptop scream.
Cheap Nike Dunks SB shoes and Air Jordan shoes limited for discount sale
Welcome to our cheap Nike Dunks online Store, a great opportunity to purchase series of excellent and cheap Nike shoes and services securely and conveniently. We offer numerous stylish Nike Dunk, Nike SB Dunk, Dunk SB, and Discount Nike Dunk SB and some valuable Air Jordan shoes limited edition here. And we hope that we can offer the top quality products and first-class service for our customers all over the world.
Sprint mobile phone plan discounts for everyone. ~ Mobile Tech Spot
Evening dresses under 100