skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like your general idea. But its effectiveness would sharply decrease as customers began to outnumber people actually willing to sit there. Not to mention, it might not be effective from the get-go.

After all, the chance of a burglary happening is rather slim, and sitting there without being paid by the hour is sort of drab/not likely. I know I wouldn't do it.
Although a good idea, I am convinced this will NOT happen, because the last thing Paulson wants is transparency in the process. .

If this act passes, Paulson will have the authority to artificially assign arbitrary value to papers that the marketplace already valued at zero. His plan is to pay top-dollar for worthless paper, with money borrowed from you, me, everyone else and the next generation. -- That's why he does not want transparency.
People tend to oversimplify this down to "how to accept HTML in user input", but the problem is more general: lots of applications have two-stage rendering sequences, where data is accepted and stored as HTML, and rendered later.
Scheme vs Common Lisp
Not really, no. The "stop bit" is an asynchronous delay inserted between the transition edge of the final bit of a byte and the rising edge of the next start bit. It's a fundamentally analog unit of time that just happens to be measured in "bits". In principle, there could be hardware that wants three stop bits, or 0.7. To the extent that there are only four values, that's purely because of historical convention (and maybe limitations of early PC UARTs, I don't have datasheets handy).

All of which could have been easily and more robustly encapsulated by the use of a float instead of the bizzaro-world enum that they chose.
Let's see, Gmail is free and the Gphone includes Gmail. No surprise there.

The fact that this is a story just exposes the brokenness of the cellular industry.
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I thought of that, but it doesn't internationalize well. A USB plug is probably more universal but a little weird.
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Risotto - all that's required is rice, stock, and parmesan. Add mushrooms, shrimp or whatever if it's saturday.

Spaghetti bolognese - make a big serving and freeze it in portions.
Eric executed actual attacks against all the projects mentioned in the article. Most of them resulted in data corruption (e.g., making a page unviewable by setting a non-existent user ID) but on one he was able to change his order status to "paid".
I have no idea about food prices in your part of the world, but being a high school student living on a very small budget (think $200/month for food expenses, and this is Denmark which is relatively expensive) I have learnt a few tricks.

One of them is baking your own bread! I have an electric mixer with some special tools for dough, so I spend 15 minutes every two days and have pretty good and cheap bread.

Soups are another nice one, forget about the advanced ones, go with something simple, yet good, e.g. potato-leek-soup. Make big portions, put it in the freezer.

Basic courses such as pasta can be pretty good if you spice it up a little. Forget about the ketchup, mix up a simple tomato sauce.

And a little gem from The Silver Spoon: Some oil on a pan, put on a whole garlic clove untill it's brown, get it off the pan. Add a can of tuna, and some tomato puree that has been mixed with a bit of water. Turn down the heat, give it some fifteen minutes and add to your pasta. Inexpensive, easy and surprisingly good if you spice it up a bit.

Basically anything that you can make in big portions and freeze is a bargain.
The real use of this kind of site is for new gadgets. If you can compare things to the size of an iPod, deck of cards, etc. it makes for a nice feature on a news story for an upcoming gizmo.
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- eggs are cheap. egg white omelets and frittatas are reasonably healthy.

- chili and soup. you can make a ton at once and then keep it in the freezer for meals the rest of the week.
Saute mushrooms, with rosemary, garlic, onion, red pepper, salt and black pepper (to taste). Serve over couscous with yogurt (I recommend full fat stonyfield farms yogurt).

Variations: add sundried tomato to mushrooms.

Pasta with red sauce. Red sauce: saute garlic and a small onion. Add tomato puree (2 big cans), fresh basil (1 plant, break leaves off, wash, chop), garlic (saute first, then add tomato), oregano, parsley, salt and pepper (to taste).

Variations: add some cream and vodka to red sauce, gets you pink sauce.

Another good pasta sauce: saute garlic and onion in butter, then add heavy cream. When that heats up, add grated cheese (parmesan or swiss), salt and pepper (to taste), and possibly 1-2 tablespoons of flour (to thicken). You can also add sun dried tomato (saute it with the garlic), or cherry tomato (add it at the very end).

This video changed my life: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU_B3QNu_Ks

In fact, just youtube Gordon Ramsey, Alton Brown, Jamie Oliver, etc, for good ideas.
Yeah, I was really impressed when I heard about it.

Makes you wonder if there are carbon credits in other areas (e.g. Computers, Data centres? Who knows).

Water is also a big issue in Australia. With the right legislation in place around water you might be able to do the same with water-saving measures.
Huh? You said that you were a "C programmer" when you asked about running lisp executables.

When someone says "I'm a C programmer", as most folks asking about "lisp executables" on comp.lang.lisp do, I think that it's reasonable to assume that they've heard of and understand dynamic libraries.

Some lisps have static linking, some don't. I'm sorry that this was a show stopper for you.

Would an "install shield" builder, as is typically used for windows programs, have helped?

I don't suppose that you had the same reaction to Java, Python, Perl, awk, sed, tcl....
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A friend of mine did this for his BSc graduation project, on a Mac, and it's not that hard.
Monitors with the same diagonal can have vastly different DPI resolution.

Other than that, a very nice website.
Not all of these toxic assets are loans but essentially insurance, i.e. credit default swaps.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_default_swap

If you bought some of these for 1 penny you would be obligated to pay out money to cover some of these bets that have already gone bad.
Fish. Find the chepeast possible fish and eat with rice.
If you're doing it for thanks, pity, or money, you're doing it wrong (1) , anyway. Do it for what you can learn about the subjects on which you blog (be it programming, startups, yourself, ...). It could be quite painful for you if you are expecting a substantial emotional or monetary return.

(1) Unless you started for other reasons and progressed (through solid traffic) to one of the other things.
That fails rather dramatically (approximately .7x reality) on my machine.

If it furthers the matter, I'm on a ThinkPad T60p (15" UXGA), XP, Google Chrome (verified in Opera as well)

Pretty cool site, though. I was pleased that the several things I tested were sized as accurately as they were.
Sometimes really remarkable programmers start out as "sissies", you know.

People who give the language a reputation of having a rude and insular community accelerate its death.
I go to whole foods every 3-4 days. Pick up just enough:
- Tuna salad, Turkey, Pre-sliced peppers, Broccoli, Yogurt, walnuts, Green / white tea, prepped salads, walnuts, etc

Trick is to make sure its ready to eat - even if its a little more expensive, that keeps me from eating out. Also, going every 3-4 days means that I eat everything, no waste.
These guys must be making a mint. They caught me on my way out, scheduled a time to come back, then when I cancelled at the last minute, came again. All they got where 3 bulbs, but they still seemed pretty pleased. More persistent then door to door mobile phone guys.

I guess this is like a super simple case study in carbon trading, pitfalls & all. How many credits should these guys be getting?

In my case, I probably would have replaced those bulbs anyway. In other cases, the incentive can be weirder. For one thing, There's a double jeopardy going on here. 1. Individual feel-goodness of the guy who traded in his bulbs 2. Individual feel-goodness via the carbon market.

Both are getting credit here. I feel like I'm lowering my emissions. But since those credits have been sold, someone else is emitting them in my place. They do the equivalent of taking my 100W bulb & plugging it into their wall with the fuzzy feeling that even thought they are emitting carbon, it is being offset. We are both claiming credit.

That's before the perverse incentives kick in. Why should I pay $8 X 10 to bulb my house with low watt bulbs when I can pay $0.50 X 10 to do so with cheap bulbs & call in these guys?
I had no idea that anybody expected to make money by blogging.
Nice idea, but given the Commonwealth Government will pass legislation to ban incandescent light bulbs in 2009/10, this product has probably has a fairly limited life. My local supermarket has already stopped stocking them for the most part.
That was probably my favorite part of the article. I got to hang out with Mark a little bit last week. It was quickly evident to me that he is an animal in everything he does. I have no doubt this was written with two thumbs.
nice timing. after reading about the nyc tri back in july i decided to give it a serious go next summer. so i started training and have already lost about 15 lbs in bout 7 weeks.

the nyc tri is an olympic distance tri and i would seriously suggest that you increment your load over time to work up to an ironman. beyond ironman and olympic distance there are triathlon events at various distances being held all the time all over the world. as a precursor to the nyc tri i am working up towards a half-olympic distance as a first test of my abilities (or lack thereof).

also, not to be forgotten is diet! along with swim, bike, run, weights you can not forget the diet. rule number one? stop drinking soda. rule number two? stop eating crap with high fructose corn syrup.
+1 for your own bread. My mother gave me a recipe for "food processor" bread, which involves about $0.25 worth of ingredients and a few minutes of work.

It's not the right season at the moment, but you could also consider growing your own stuff in the garden. Fresh herbs from the grocers are $$$, and don't taste/smell as good as what you pull and carry to your stove.

Commercial tomatoes breeds are optimized to have a tough skin, so that they can be thrown into large containers while green and hauled to the grocery store while ripening. None of this has anything to do with tasty or healthy. Growing your own tomatoes is also easy if you have a sunny spot, and you can pick varieties that taste better than what you'll end up with from the store.

None of these are cost-optimizing in a large way, but if you're going to be cooking anyway, you might as well enjoy better taste and the satisfaction of producing something physical and tangible.
Salad. Cut up the lettuce (the more colors the better - spinach, red leaf, romaine) once a week. Stick it in a big covered bowl in the fridge. Then add different stuff for different varieties - corn, tomatoes, avocado, shrooms, tuna, steak, chicken, ...
I recommend finding someone on craig's list to cook for you, so you don't have to worry about it. Time is at such a premium when you are trying to launch your own business, and if they're shopping for a family, they are probably better at bargain hunting and coupon clipping than you are.

I did just that, and I discuss it in this post. Wasn't sure if HN would appreciate it, so I haven't submitted it here:

http://sidsavara.com/personal-productivity/the-price-of-my-d...
+1 for soups. From beans to chili to harvest veggies you can't go wrong.
When delivering an application to an end-user, hoops that the end-user has to jump through in order to run the application ought to be considered. The optimal route, in my opinion, is to deliver a totally self-contained application that doesn't require the user to install any runtime systems whatsoever.

In that light, yes, Java is suboptimal. However, installing the JRE is pretty straightforward for end-users. Many users even already have the JRE installed. Asking an end-user to install CLisp is a whole other kettle of fish.
I've seen those 'kitchen gardens' on infomercials.. 'just 3 payments of $49.99'. You can grow your own lettuce.

Would be cool if you could actually create something that would sustain a family - it will be difficult to find produce that will yield well for many conditions without expending a ton of energy to control its environment though.
But since those credits have been sold, someone else is emitting them in my place.

I know what you mean - but they will be paying to emit them, which will set up an economic basis in the long term.
Whole Foods is probably the least economical place to shop.
It's quite amusing how different the TechCrunch's coverage is:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/22/technorati-survey-says-...
Cook huge meals once or twice a week and save the leftovers...Spaghetti lasts me 4 meals, chicken pot pie lasts me about the same. +1 for PG's beans and rice...I cook it with kielbasa and sautee peppers and onions and that lasts me for 4 or 5 meals. Since I'm doing all my cooking, the average cost per meal comes in right around $3...not bad for a 2-guy-in-a-garage budget.
Unfortunately, only over-the-hill Canadians

Has it really come to that? :) Well, the reference was from the later crappier seasons.
I cook based on price, ease, health, and how long it takes the materials to go bad. My favorites:

Lentils with onions, potatoes, and/or ham. Chop, put in saucepan with water. Salt.

Chili with rice. Fry hamburger and onion. Add canned kidney beans, tomato sauce, chopped habanero, and chili powder. Salt. I highly recommend a ricemaker.

I also like Thai curry with rice, but it'd be too much hassle if it weren't for the basil plants I grow. Fry chicken or fish with curry paste; add other stuff, like potato and peanut with red curry or eggplant or bamboo shoots with green curry. Add basil and habanero at the very end.

I keep some beans, tortillas, and cheese on hand for when I'm too lazy to actually cook, and lots of fruit for snacks.
Carbon credits are a scam.
In fact, it specifically says it is non-reviewable:

Text of Draft Bailout Proposal:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/21/business/21draftcnd.html?_...

Sec. 8. Review.

Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency.
Spinach - lots of spinach. Popeye had it right.
"Cool" invention triples athletic performance
The invention is based on a neat concept but can this $2500 device stack up to a bag of ice? This may be a case of over-engineering a solution.
Dynamic URLs vs. static URLs
Sony Ericsson Standard Charger CST 70
Genuine New Sony Ericsson Charger CST-70 replaces the CST-60 charger. For the following Sony Ericsson mobile phones: W880 K800 K750 J220 W300 W550 W600 W900 P990 Z530 Z520 J230 K310 K510 K758 K310 K610 M600 And Many More......... Input is 100 - 240V so it is ideal for traveling Output is 4.9V - - - 700mA So this charger charges faster than the previous CST-60 (450mA).
I'm quite embarrassed.

Nah. Arguably the HN algorithm could do slightly smarter matching on URLs. It's interesting to look at the URLs in this case:

http://www.longnow.org/views/essays/articles/ArtFeynman.php

http://www.longnow.org/views/essays/articles/ArtFeynman.php?...

http://www.longnow.org/views/essays/articles/ArtFeynman.php#...

http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0504.html?printable=1

(Yours is the third. Note how the second invented a query string to deliberately skirt the rules!)

Three of these URLs could be considered equivalent - drop the query string in one and the anchor in the other. The last one, of course, is just totally different.

On the other hand, if you do this, you'd probably get some false matches, because some web pages use query strings to represent different content. Plus you couldn't do things like post neat Google searches directly.

So probably we should resign ourselves to an endless series of duplications, whereupon the geeks pounce, digging up previous versions and posting them all in ever-lengthening lists. Not so bad, really. :)

Edit: how about preemptive duplicate prediction? There's an obvious gap here:

http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0504.html

... and one day, someone's gonna post it. (Actually, it gets redirected to still another.) Or maybe they already did and we could make an even geekier list. But how to check that without actually submitting it?

Edit 2: Do I win for minutiae of the day?
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Look the person put masking tape on the window to block out the neighbor's house across the street.

If I were a sign thief and I saw this I would just stand out of frame and nab the thing with a lasso
Joshua Bloch: Bumper-Sticker API Design
People tend to anthropomorphize for dramatic effect. It's very unbecoming.
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+1 for grow your own. I take that a bit farther since I have chickens (http://softwarefromthefarm.blogspot.com) :-)

Although I have the acreage to grow pretty much whatever I want, you can grow lots of stuff in a small apartment as long as you have a window that gets enough light. Herbs don't take up much room, esp. if you use a strawberry pot and plant multiple types in the same pot. You can also grow tomatoes, etc. in pots
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My wife and I have been working on this for a while. We want to eat at home, but we really don't like the process of cooking every day.

So, we cook once every 4-8 weeks. We purchased a freezer that we put in the garage for $3-400, and we do all of our meal prep at once. We buy all of our ingredients in bulk at Costco or the local Farmer's market, and then we prep 30-40 meals in one day. So, all we have to do for each meal, is thaw the package the day before, throw it in the oven or in a pan the following day, add a salad, and you're done.

It takes a lot of planning, and it takes a while before find a set of recipes that freeze well, but after a year or so of doing this, we pretty much have the list. We're at the point now, that my wife pulls 8 or 10 recipes from the database, she puts the ingredient list together, we go shopping on one day, and asssemble and freeze meals the second day. It's about 8-10 hours work for both of us, and it cuts down 1-1/2 hours of meal prep and planning every day for 4-6 weeks. Along with the recipe in the database is a label with cooking instructions that gets printed out and saran wrapped to the package.

If you Google for this, it's called "Once a month cooking".
I don't understand how to listen to the, it says mp3 but that isn't clickable.

Where are the actual podcasts? I have to download something?
"... Related to this news ... The one writing is Danah Boyd ..."

Beaut hhm.

Busy this morning and I post before I look then edit later. I've updated the title as you suggested. As a rule I tend not to post/read RWW - they "advertorialise" their stories.
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Or you can go to Dreamhost / insert your favourite cheap hosting site here - and throw up your files for $5 a month. Try that with lisp.
You don't need a year-round supply of fresh fruits/veggies. Just need to be able to preserve the out of season stuff.

I used to have those grand plans of automated gardens until I realized that 90% of the problem is solved by a small greenhouse you can build for $10 in Home Depot materials.
Outsourcing Cooking with Craigslist for $60/week
Bumper-sticker API Design -- Josh Bloch
Eat food (as opposed to processed food-like substances). Not too much. Mostly plants.

Read Michael Pollan's "In Defense of Food": http://www.amazon.com/dp/1594201455/

It's a whole different model from the shifting "red meat is bad" "no, carbs are bad" "avoid fat" "eat omega-3 fat!" madness that has ruled eating for decades.
Yes. This really isn't aimed at startups. (pdf) http://www.oracle.com/corporate/pricing/technology-price-lis...

There's a reason my Larry Ellison owns a Mig fighter jet, one of the largest yachts in the world, and has his own 747. He occasionally has the San Jose Airport stay open late, just so he can fly in after hours. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Ellison
Any good Rails 2.0 tutorials/examples?
Bought Agile Web Development W/ Rails and it's already deprecated (how rude of them to break backwards compatibility). At any rate, anyone here have good resources for learning Rails 2.0.
There is an Israeli company that has built a 'farm-scale' robotic hydroponic system. They presented at an investment conference I went to a few years ago. The unit kind of looked like a big Dalek. I can't remember their company name, but a few minutes on Google might turn them up...
Actually, it's really hard to make it ultra reliable. 30 frames per second, 82K seconds a day, possibly hundreds of cameras...10^8 frames daily. False alarm rate of 0.01% makes for thousands of interruptions.

That's the difference between a school project and a system you can sell.
This post is proving my point: instead of answering simple questions being asked, lispers start lecturing and picking on other languages. You shouldn't know about static and dynamic linking, interpreters and compilers and other under the hood stuff to write simple lisp program (or even quite complex) and show it off to your friend without installing whole lisp implementation (maybe emacs with slime too?) on your friend's computer.

Why lispers are so elitist? Lisp is good not because it is the hardest language to learn, it is actually quite easy to pick up basic stuff, lisp is good because it is very powerful. Why make it harder for novices to try this language? This is not the way to develop the community.
I like his distinction between fundamental dislikes and competitive disadvantages - sort of essential objections vs. accidental ones.

But a lot of the accidental objections seem not really to be about what they claim to be. How many people have really hit a roadblock because of a missing library? (I know I haven't. If I did, I'd probably just write it.) How often is the "libraries" objection made without mentioning any specific missing libraries? At least 90% of the time. Probably at least 95%.

So I think one needs a third category: the pseudo-accidental objection. In other words, to some extent "libraries" is just the "it's too slow" of this decade. I don't know if it makes much sense for the community, such as it is, to put a lot of effort into addressing these, since the objections will just shift to something else. I'm not going to write a library I don't need.

But I'm all in favor of the Lisp community getting its act together and answering real objections (or rather, addressing real problems) and especially being helpful to beginners who want to get started.
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Great post. Can I ask where you are located?
I find it odd that the options he considered were restaurants, take out, and hiring a personal chef. Don't the pizza shops in his area deliver?
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The things poor people eat all around the world:

- rice
- beans
- soy
- potatoes
- fish
- veggies (anything dark but not too expensive)

The real key to a good-tasting meal is freshness, even with simple foods. Seasoning is like makeup for food.