skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where does the "gets shit done" programmer fit into all of this though? I'll admit that some of my code is confusing and not always "clean" but it does what it's supposed to do, and I'm able to get more "shit done" when I focus on the end goal vision rather than the cleanliness of my code... which in a prototyping phase of product development is really rather meaningless anyway, since you don't even know yet if there's a market for your product/service offering
That's true in partial. Vancouver has some interesting experiences with foreign capital investing in the housing market. It makes for a very expensive city. If the aim of this is to boost the price of the housing market, then I think this measure will do that. Whether or not that is a good thing is an entirely different issue.
Basically, it doesn't take into account all the interactions of the environment required to turn that "source code" into a person.

This is an extremely common, and completely incorrect criticism as applied to AGI complexity estimates.

Here's the way to think of it: the entirety of the information content required to move from non-intelligence to intelligence has to have been figured out some time between single-celled organisms and humans, because the substrate on which our intelligence is implemented literally didn't exist at that point. Which means that any part of the biological machinery that was in place when single-celled organisms ruled the planet does not count towards the complexity of the "intelligence algorithm" itself - it's irrelevant, accidental complexity, not information content that is required to get from "working computer" to "working intelligent computer".

You'll find that almost all of the cellular actions, protein folding, and physics were already working just fine when the single-celled ickies were evolving, so it's all complexity that we can safely ignore, which means we can start the complexity count with DNA. Apart from (IMO) extremely minor epigenetic contributions, the pure-DNA information estimates should provide extremely hard upper bounds on the difficulty of the problem, estimates that we'll probably blow through quite easily once we know what we're doing - evolution rarely finds the optimal solutions to problems, I see no reason to assume that it stumbled across one in this case...
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I realize that. The problem is that they block things by URL in whatever web proxy they use, and if content for Google Reader is coming from a blocked url, it's not going to work for me anymore.

It works both ways; I can actually send mail from my Gmail account via Google Reader, even though they block Gmail. I can't read it, of course, but it's a bit of a hole in their security plan.
The other kind of federal debt is intragovernmental debt; that is, debt which the federal government owes to itself. This category includes the Social Security Trust Fund.
Otherwise known as propaganda.
If you look at the full review, then go to the 2nd page, you'll see that the MB Air smokes the IdeaPad on all the tests despite having only an i5 vs. the IdeaPad's i7 in the test configuration.

3x faster multimedia bench, 2x faster itunes encode, and 34% longer battery.

Also the IdeaPad looks more like a Chromebook, for what it's worth.
Commodities and currencies fluctuate against each other. Over longer terms, the value of currencies tends towards zero. Everything depends on the time frame you are looking at.
This is the most ridiculous idea I have ever heard of. It was probably a project for fun within some circles, that would be all. Here's the reason. US empire like many of her predecessors taxed her subjects. However unlike any other empire in history US has been able to tax her subjects indirectly. When I say subject I do not mean US citizens living within the borders in Northern America, but I mean anyone who carries US dollar bill in his pocket, does trade with US dollar terms and especially buy US treasury bills. These subjects literally subsidize US economy doing just that. Even if US could be able to pay off its debt they would not have stopped issuing loans, why would one want to stop influx of easy money. By creating inflation of money (a.k.a. printing money) US will always be able to pay her debt with lesser value. Same amount but less value.
Steve Jobs: “I’m going to destroy Android, because it’s a stolen product.”
I should have been clearer on the sandwich thing. When he said that it was the size of his palm, he held his hand as he would have held a hamburger. Looking back, I'm quite sure he was describing hamburgers and not sandwiches.

Speaking of sandwiches, I was at a subway. A homeless man was ordering a sub. When his turn to pay came up, he took out a handful of Subway stamps and handed them to cashier. The cashier went on to tell the homeless man about how a roll of stamps had been stolen from that restaurant and that were not accepting them. The homeless man picked up his bag and left. The cashier and the sandwich maker had a small discussion culminating with a who cares is not like he ever bought a sandwich from us. A couple of customers later an older man asked how much for sandwich since it was just going to get thrown away. The guy behind the counter gave a price. He paid for it, walked outside and handed it to the homeless man.
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Its still a good idea coming from a good place, good luck! And do it in SF Bay Area sometime!
Hmmm? Generally agree with the plane flight example, but linear programming seems like a surprisingly bad example to pick. Karmarkar's algorithm has allowed the essential insight of linear programming to be generalized into a programme for optimizing any convex function, subject to convex constraints, over a convex set (see Stanford's EE364).

I assume you are familiar with this as 1988 = date of Fulkerson prize for Karmarkar's work? I guess the point narrowly holds if you're thinking of pure LP rather than general CP. But general CP is really quite a big deal.
Ron Paul is the only candidate in the election with a voting history to back his beliefs. He may say some crazy things, but at least he's honest, and on the up and up.
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It's not "tax, borrow, then spend" but "spend, then tax and borrow."
>Yes, the economy was soaring thanks to the technology and housing boom.

The big housing boom started post-Clinton. It was intentional, to get us out of the 1999 tech crash.

Clinton benefited from the tech boom and the end of the cold war. (Bush I got hammered by the post-war transition recession, which ended before the election.)
is it recursively indexing a large number of folders to determine the item counts for the info?
Laugh-out-loud coffee sprayed on my monitor.

Thanks for that :)
You never receive snail mail?
I kinda regret having chosen Clojure for my project. Its not that I can't express ideas in very little code, its just that my workflow is different from languages like Python.

In Clojure, it seems that I can't apply the method of spike solution (http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SpikeSolution) and then refactor it into working code like I do with languages like Python or C.
its like rain on your wedding day
Honest question: why "austerity in the face of recession is madness" for the countries in Europe, but it is the only proposal given by the IMF to Mexico in 1996 and Brazil in 1996-2000?

Austerity plans are always a tough pill to swallow, and they can cost elections - as it did to Cardoso's sucessor in 2002 - but I fail to understand what is this madness you are talking about. If it were not for the economic policy that forced a surplus in the Brazilian budget, I don't think they would be in the (calmer) situation they are today.
A social media check-in game that might actually connect with gamers
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i just remember the time some homeless dude came up to me near union square in san fran and tried to trade me a stolen macbook for a box of doughnuts.

it's like "what the hell is wrong with ya man? i've already got a pro in my backpack..."
You can install Linux on the Air also: http://www.reddit.com/r/geek/comments/jssu3/linux_on_2011_ma...
Stripe?

I'm going to donate $5, just because the thought of someone being stuck using anything other than a Mac is more bothersome than not having another latte. Maybe I'm too big a Mac fan. Maybe I still have a functioning Mac Plus on my desk.
You are still in the minority in your love of OS X. It isn't only price which is keeping Microsoft sales of Windows high.

Are they truly grading on a curve? Just because you suspect Gruber would say so, isn't exactly a compelling argument.

70% of the market happily go about their day by day browsing the web, emailing, and writing the odd Word document on a Windows machine.
If they moved to OS X, they would have a prettier interface, but it isn't a compelling difference for them.

I own a Mac, so I'm not completely oblivious to the OS, but I (along with the majority of computer users) prefer Windows. It isn't a rah-rah Windows is so much better sort of preference, and I think what turns me off about OS X is how hard fanboys work to try and convince everybody that they have 'the answer'. My distaste for Macs comes more from not wanting to be associated with the group of people who very vocally and repeatedly tell the world that we're all doing it wrong, our stuff doesn't work, you're so much better than us because you use a mac.

I hope this doesn't come off as a flame, because that really isn't my intention. I hope i can open your eyes a bit to the reality of the world you live in. Most people don't care, and shouldn't care about what operating system they are using. The difference between Windows and OS X in performance and capabilities is minimal, so when you comment about a review of a computer not coming with your preferred OS, you aren't truly adding to the conversation in my opinion.

I haven't touched the U300s yet, though I picked up a U260 a few weeks ago and I'm very happy with it. It doesn't quite have the polish of an Air, but it is 90% of the way there, and about 1/2 the price. The screen isn't completely flex free, though much better than the Samsung Series 9, and it is a matte finish which is fantastic. It is a bit lighter than the 13" Air, and the soft-touch finish is very nice and scratch proof.

Why should Lenovo be penalized for not having an OS of their own. Can you imagine what kind of crap would be out there if every hardware manufacturer made their own OS? Look how having their own mobile OS turned out for HP and Nokia.
The list of supported HTML tags an CSS features is here (found inside article) http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_357613442...
Little Wars
Note that "Show item info" only shows up if the current folder you're viewing is in icon view.
And that does not really count. If government department A owes 10 dollars to government department B, the total net government debt does not change. So yequalsx's data is correct for the purposes of the present discussion.
Please link to Steve's actual blog: http://steveblank.com/2011/10/20/how-the-iphone-got-tail-fin...
Maybe there's a technical reason for this? It's possible that the handling of parcel packages is different and is helped by a minimum thickness.
And the cost of components is probably wrong too. Who knows what discounts they get by buying in bulk.
Repealing Glass-Stegal set the fuse by allowing banks to flip loans into the market offloading their risk...

Glass-Steagall has nothing to do with the secondary market for mortgages. Banks were flipping loans in the early 80's. This is how Salomon Brothers became famous.

...the change in the net capital rule (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_capital_rule#The_net_capita...) in 2004 under the Bush administration that lit the match and kicked off the crisis by creating a massive amount of potential credit that led to the banks handing out loans like candy to anyone who'd take em knowing they could immediately flip the loan and pocket the profit with little risk.

I don't think you understand what you are talking about. Flipping is always low risk, regardless of whether you mark to market or mark to model.

All the modified NCR rule would have done is allowed banks to hand out loans like candy and not flip them.
I'm sure he's resting just fine. This is a biography that is for us to contemplate and discuss. It's quoting his own words.

Edit: removed "authorized" from biography since I don't know for sure.
I've got huge respect for them, and if I came off dismissive then that was certainly not my intent. I do find it mythological when folks are just natural born connectors like these two.

These guys took Lil Twist from 4K to 2M facebook fans. That is impressive. With the phreakers in the 70's and the folks at the MIT AI lab, it was not about brand so much as it was about the nascent power of technological change. I see that as a different groove.
The rest of the world can't conceive of a culture where real talent is rewarded appropriately and nepotism, politics and seniority take a back seat to getting shit done.

Maybe we're better off that way.
I don't dismiss the humanities, but I do think that doing a PhD in 'em is very unlikely to be a good career move, and that government funding of humanities PhDs is very unlikely to be a good use of money, nor of human talent.
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Visualizing a startup's dataset, a colourful poster
I would be very surprised if this is true. Optical drives are for the most part following the floppy disc and the 8-track as a media of preference long ago. I'd be surprised if Apple kept the Pro's around for much longer at all.
The nominal value of public debt is an unreliable measure. Ireland's national debt was €30bn in 1987 and €36bn in 2002. But in the same period it went from around 128% of GDP to 32% of GDP.
Same, glad to see this happening.
HTML5 DNA model
I saw he mentioned switching to Emacs. Is the emacs - clojure workflow really as good as it's made out to be, as in good enough to both switching from Vim? I was planning on getting into Clojure this weekend, and if it's actually worth doing I suppose I could learn Emacs at the same time, but I've always been turned off by the weird key chords.
You seem to confound History and the history of web startups in the last 20 years.

I fear HN id slowly becoming us-centric, it's sad. Now I feel like a stranger, more and more.
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It's a long interview but it's worth watching. Jameson's an awesome guy and super smart.

It's kind of funny that I ended up crossing paths with him - in my early 20s WWDG was one of a handful of companies every aspiring Flash dev/artist/whatever with a cracked copy of Flash 4 or 5 wanted to be like, in my late 20s I became a Mochi user when I shifted into game development, and then in my (very) early 30s he became an angel in my own startup.
Humble Honest
> Even the multi-tasking on Android doesn't hold a candle to Symbian (for example I can't switch to my SSH client whilst a web page loads in the background).

That depends on the browser you're using. Can't speak for all of them, but this works exactly as expected on both Opera Mini and Mobile.
The dismal scoop on Groupon
Anyone with a smart cover can break into your iPad2
Love in the Time of Robots: A Duet With Siri
Steve Jobs told Obama, “You’re headed for a one-term presidency.”
Ubuntu’s 7th Birthday Today: Look Back At Where It All Began
If iterated SHA1 and bcrypt are (all other things equal) equally secure, but you're more likely to mess up while implementing your own iterated SHA1, then bcrypt is more secure.
You have to love the 100% payment upon completion. Based on what I've seen from that ad -- this site will never actually be completed -- no payment is ever due.
> Prices are set by each company and registered with the government. They cannot change them each day, and they have to apply to all cars. It does mean that some firms are more expensive (nicer cars, better service) and some are cheaper. There are also some that are better for short trips (low flag fall, hugh cost per Km/Mile) and others for longer trips.

I guess there's an argument to be made for allowing more flexible pricing. Keeping the requirement that prices should be public might be worth it, though.
"Regardless of why they were introduced, medallions do more than restrict competition; they also give medallionholders something to lose if they abuse their license. Were barriers to entry eliminated, unscrupulous companies could put unsafe cabs on the road and simply fold up shop and reincorporate when anything bad happened."

This is not true. In the usual situation where the cab operator leases the medallion one cannot touch the medallion to satisfy judgements against the cab operator. At least that's how things were when I studied this many years ago. So this is no reason to keep medallions.

I agree that completely deregulating taxis is not the right way. But there is a sane way to regulate this. Just require safety and quality inspections, require taxi companies to hold a certain minimum insurance or financial responsibility fund, perhaps even put in minimum driver salary requirements and that is pretty much it.

The number of actual taxis on the streets will limit itself by the forces of the free market.
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Ah, sorry, you're right, it's the Planck length.
That's a thought.. Isn't Siri really a command line with Text-to-Voice and Voice-to-Text?
> Regardless of why they were introduced, medallions do more than restrict competition; they also give medallionholders something to lose if they abuse their license. Were barriers to entry eliminated, unscrupulous companies could put unsafe cabs on the road and simply fold up shop and reincorporate when anything bad happened.

Why don't we just make the responsible people personally liable instead?
> What makes both keyboards great is the spacing around each key. Other phones like the original Motorola Droid crammed the keyboard into the smallest space possible, and there was no space between the keys.

Hm, in my experience it's just the overall size of the keyboard or perhaps size of the keys including any spacing. My previous phone was a Blackberry Pearl 8100, which had a half-QWERTY keyboard with keys large even by Blackberry standards (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Obn3GQp-L._AA280_.jp..., phone width is 50 mm / 2 in). The keys have no spacing between them other than the ridges formed by separate buttons, but were pretty easy to feel out under my thumbs due to their shape and size. I rarely missed a key.
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The debt article is pure evil.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3137560

That hacker news article on hiring a security person should be about going after fraud in the anti-virus department by companies like Microsoft. Paranoia benefits the known brands. Sue companies who cause loses to me by making people paranoid of computer security stuff.

God says...
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ripped to the skin
and performing a dozen or two of insanities, which I can get done in less
than half an hour; for having seen them with thine own eyes, thou canst
then safely swear to the rest that thou wouldst add; and I promise thee
thou wilt not tell of as many as I mean to perform."

"For the love of God, master mine," said Sancho, "let me not see your
worship stripped, for it will sorely grieve me, and I shall not be able
to keep from tears, and my head aches so with all I shed last night fo
It depends. If you look at the peer-reviewed research, you'll see that pharmaceuticals and surgery are not the only option (depending on the disease, of course).

I started http://www.reddit.com/r/altmed/ (non-pharmaceutical medicine based on peer-reviewed research) because in the cancer lab I work in we review this stuff all the time but it doesn't seem to have sunk in to the mainstream yet. Based on my understanding of the research, there are some things everybody with cancer should be doing which research suggests may raise survival rates (eg. proper vitamin D levels, high magnesium intake, lots of antioxidants, etc).
Sure; I agree with all of this.
I feel truly sorry for you. That's not normal, and it's sad that you think it is. It's also generally illegal, both in the US and Canada, if you're doing it for one employer and not getting time and a half.

Good employers insist you not work those kinds of hours to begin with, they know it does not increase productivity in the long run, in fact having the opposite effect, and leads to burnout and health problems.

At best, you are accomplishing nothing working those hours regularly. At worst, you are seriously harming your long-term health.

Edit: By the way, Statistics Canada provides some numbers you should look at:

http://www40.statcan.gc.ca/l01/cst01/labr81a-eng.htm

http://www40.statcan.gc.ca/l01/cst01/labr82-eng.htm
I look forward to seeing more technical information on the streaming P2P protocol. Seems like it would require significant changes to the basic torrent protocol to get the next bits needed without a huge buffer and time lag.
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Yes, but if you spend your whole time out-and-about staring at your cell phone, what have you really accomplished?

If you don't use it much while you're out and about, could you not simply have forgone it, planned your trip 5 minutes before you left home, and checked your email that evening?
I'm not convinced this fallacy really exists. It's not hard to observe that a coffeeshop is a hectic place that makes its meager profits one latte at a time.
"I’m willing to go thermonuclear war on this"
Development of alternative energy sources? Putting flags on distant rocks? I'm sure we could think of something.
C'mon. You guys don't understand the budgets they had to grow these bases. It's not hard to throw $ in a FB advertising campaign w/ a few grand a month and get to these #'s. Props to these guys for being hustlers and tech-savvy but the praise ends there. Tracks.by hasn't proven anything yet
I use Win7/Linux/OS X almost daily. I prefer Win7. Therefore, most consumers are better off with this IdeaPad over MBA.

See I can make ridiculous statements based on anecdotal evidence too!
Nope. I am pretty much 100% electronic.
http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/qa.php - It seems to support IE7 fine unless they have another page detailing IE7 problems.
:(. I will have to switch to UPS now.
I'm one of the guys in the story. We've never spent a dime on any ad campaign for our artists or Tracks.by
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As much as I admire Jobs business acumen, it's astonishing how obnoxiously arrogant he could be.
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The problem with your argument is that you are conflating the artificial scarcity aspect of this type of regime with the public interest regulation side of things.

It is possible to regulate for safety (with criminal penalties for breach of regulation, or possibly a bond which can be forfeited to the city, although the latter creates a barrier to entry and probably isn't a good approach) without creating artificial scarcity.

Commercial zoning regulations are quite different, because they relate to land, which is a naturally scarce resource; the scarcity is not created artificially by the government to keep the supply down and prop up special interest groups by keeping competitors out of the market.
Why use Skeleton when you can use Columnal or Goldilocks?

From a brief read Foundation explicitly supports nested grids, it's handling of centering columns seems preferable, more than one type of button class, slideshow integration, etc.

I recommend reading through the docs (http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/index.php) and if you're familiar with Skeleton you'll notice what's different.

I've used Skeleton in the past but for future projects I think I'd go with either Foundation, Columnal or Goldilocks.
I am assuming an 'h' is missing? launchathon versus hackathon?
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Steve Jobs refused potentially life-saving surgery, biographer confirms