skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the other side, the United State government benefits, as they are seen as more important than ever and they can justify further tax increase In other words, they benefit from a situation they did not create.

Of course, it was not rational in the long run. But for the careers of certain individuals, it is a good thing. The harm may be so dispersed that they barely felt it or they are shielded from it altogether. Furthermore, they are fueled by our irrationality of perceiving rare, media-worthy like a terrorist attack as more important than many common death scenarios and the more common(and arguably more important) horror.

Keep in mind that organizations will either choose to expand, or disappears. If the US government choose the rational way for society and enlightened self-interest, it would have make itself disappear by unemploying themselves in the process. Of course, the government choose to makes job for the insider instead.

In some sense, this is what the party of the US government wanted and what terrorists desire. But if they aren't so wrapped up in the government or being a terrorist, they might have a different perspective.

It's like being a luddite at the dawn of the industrial revolution. We saw that we are losing our jobs, but we don't see that eventually our quality of life is going to increase. Now that we don't have to make clothes, we can enjoy the finer thing in life.
Perhaps they use Automated Linux from Scratch?

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/alfs/

Although there's little documentation to speak of, so I can't tell whether it helps with upgrades.

If you want to build from source and tinker with compile flags but also be able to upgrade seamlessly, Gentoo or Arch Linux is probably more appropriate.
Your response is really exciting! I'm grateful--it's pointing at exactly what I was hoping to find. Deutsch seems to be talking about how to evaluate challenging arguments that come before evidence.

To contribute something, other than my thanks, here's a link to Deutsch talking about knowledge, evidence, and incredible cosmic relationships:

http://www.ted.com/talks/david_deutsch_on_our_place_in_the_c...
Before the 11:00 break

PG & Marc Andreessen - Partner, Andreessen Horowitz; Founder, Ning, Opsware, Netscape

James Lindenbaum - Founder, Heroku

Jim Goetz - Partner, Sequoia; Founder, VitalSigns
Families grow exponentially. It's possible that over the years it was spread out to the dozens of great great great grandchildren who are probably so far from the core family, that they don't act as a unified group any more.
The rum diary trailer
the rum diary trailer
the rum diary trailer follows Paul Kemp Johnny Depp, a divorced alcoholic and struggling novelist who decides to kick around in San Juan until his ship comes in, working as a journalist for a newspaper
had to add "mind blowing " or it wouldnt be worth it uh
How to choose the right type of wicker furniture
Brand extension has worked well in starting to transition the UK across to digital radio, too, as argued (by someone other than me) in this blog post: http://james.cridland.net/blog/its-all-in-the-brand/

Rather than filling the dial with unknown names, like "The Groove", "BBC 7" and "Liquid" as they tried (and failed) in the early 2000s, broadcasters have transitioned to using extensions of familiar names.

If you already know and enjoy Absolute Radio, or BBC Radio 4, on your FM radio, you're more likely to try out Absolute Classic Rock, or Radio 4 Extra on your shiny new digital set. Good, well-targeted extensions can only help widen the reach of any particular brand rather than dilute it.
I've used it in the past to learn how a distribution is built from, well, scratch. :)

Nowadays distributions like Ubuntu allow you to install a full system with just a few mouse clicks, which is great for usability but not much use if you want to learn how everything works.
Marc Andreessen talked with Paul Graham at the beginning. James Lindenbaum gave a talk and right after him Jim Goetz was on stage.
This is potentially a really good idea.

But how do I tell people about it? From the TOS:

>You shall not [...](iii) create Internet "links" to the Service
But low incidence / high impact things (like cutting off your hand with a buzzsaw) need a bit of regulation.

We used to, for the most part accept that such things would happen, and not try too hard to prevent them when the impact was mostly limited to the person making the poor decision leading to the accident. I'm not sure that's such a bad thing; regulations shift the responsibility and costs away from the person actually doing the potentially dangerous thing on to the organization as a whole. The whole process slows down as a result.

I'm not against regulations or some equivalent (such as best practices plus liability) in situations where someone being stupid puts many people or the public at large at risk, but don't tell me I need certification to use a buzzsaw. I learned to use one when I was 12.
Watch UFC 137: Penn vs. Diaz Live Stream
Nick Diaz’s UFC drama took another unexpected turn today as he has now been announced as the opponent for B.J. Penn at UFC 137 on October 29th.

After being dumped from his welterweight title shot against Georges St. Pierre for missing two press conferences, it looks like he is being re-tooled as an opponent for the dangerous Penn.

Originally, Penn was scheduled to face Carlos Condit, who was moved to the main event to fight GSP. Immediately after the move had been announced, rumors of Penn vs. Diaz began to surface.

Diaz (25-7) is on a ten fight winning streak that saw him claim the Strikeforce welterweight title. With Zuffa’s acquisition of Strikeforce though, it didn’t take Diaz long to be lured to the big show.

Penn (16-7-2) is a former two division UFC champion. The “Prodigy” has been on the UFC roster for a decade now and remains one of its biggest stars.

UFC 137 will rock the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas on October 29th and will of course be available on pay-per-view. Along with GSP vs. Condit and Diaz vs. Penn, the fight card will also include some heavyweight hopefuls as Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic takes on “Big Country” Roy Nelson and Cheick Kongo faces former NFL’er Matt Mitrione.

8CN will be on hand to continue reporting UFC 137 changes and additions as they occur.

Main event:

170 lbs.: UFC Welterweight Champion Georges St. Pierre vs. Carlos Condit

Main card (Pay-per-view):

170 lbs.: B.J. Penn vs. Nick Diaz
265 lbs.: Roy Nelson vs. Mirko Filipovic
265 lbs.: Cheick Kongo vs. Matt Mitrione
145 lbs.: Hatsu Hioki vs. George Roop

Spike TV “Prelims:

155 lbs.: Donald Cerrone vs. Dennis Siver
145 lbs.: Tyson Griffin vs. Bart Palaszewski

Preliminary card (May not be broadcast):

185 lbs.: Dustin Jacoby vs Brad Tavares
135 lbs.: Jeff Curran vs. Scott Jorgensen
205 lbs.: Brandon Vera vs. Eliot Marshall
185 lbs.: Tim Credeur vs. Brad Tavares
170 lbs.: Danny Downes vs Ramsey Nijem
185 lbs.: Chris Camozzi vs Francis Carmont
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Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011 – Live in the Mandalay Bay South Seas Ballroom
BerkeleyDB JE is for the most part excellent code (as excepted, given the calibre of the team at Sleepycat/Oracle that built it -- what else should one expect out of a startup founded by Margo Seltzer and Keith Bostic?).

That said, the main drawbacks are:

* At most, I can give the JVM about 18-22 gb of heap, out of that, at most 8-12gb (usually 10) of heap can go to BerkeleyDB's cache. If I give BDB-Je too little heap, I run the risk of it not having enough space for buffers (for cleaner thread, for scanning through the entries). If I give Bdb too much cache, memory pressure becomes an issue.

So now there's 10-12gb of memory (per machine) that's neither use for caching data by BerkeleyDB itself, nor used for the OS page cache.

* The index takes up surprisingly much space. In most cases, the index still fits in memory -- but it could definitely be smaller.

* Couple of implementation issues that are being addressed by the BDB-Je team and aren't really Java specific. I won't go into them.

That said there are many pluses to BerkeleyDB JE:

* Log structured B+Tree. Awesome for use with SSDs. SSDs also make the penalty of going outside the in-memory cache much less costly, a random seek for reads is 0.2 ms, and due to log structures design random writes -- not very efficient on SSDs -- don't happen. Additionally, log-structured design means less wear on an SSD. That said, I'd still strongly suggest using an SSD even with a conventional B+Tree (e.g., MySQL InnoDB) -- but benchmark your application first.

* Avoids overhead of JNI

* As I've mentioned in my comment, being on the JVM means you can spend a lot more time thinking about concurrency. The locking/latching design in BDB JE is very well made.
1) Yes, here are some marketplace type sites using the WePay API: http://bellstrike.com/ http://www.everribbon.com/ http://www.listcharming.com/ http://www.attendstar.com/

2) You can issue refunds for any payment in your marketplace with the /checkout/refund call. For chargebacks, we 1st attempt to get the money from the payee's WePay account, then from their bank account, and finally from the API application. We do a lot of really cool stuff that reduces the chargeback risk and fraud in general.
Thank you. :)
Going to be a long night. (european resident here)
How to calibrate your monitor
Why not just use UIAppearance on iOS 5?
thats totally wrong.
you can do WebM live streaming that works in Firefox, Chrome and Opera. Ogg Theora with Icecast also works in Firefox, Chrome, Opera
Especially since there are so many no-shows, based on the amount of unclaimed badges :-(
Can I offer some suggestions on the site copy? All meant constructively.

Draw with a finger
It's the paintbrush we all have. Scary Colors lets your kid finger paint on screen. Just as fun, but far less messy.

Special Scary Edition
Right now it's Halloween, so there are 30 spooky pictures to color in. More pictures will be available soon.

Share your kid's masterpeices
Easily send their colored pictures via e-mail and share them on Facebook with family and friends.

We provide some magic
All the fun of finger painting, but the color stays inside the lines, just try it. (You can also turn off the magic to test their skills.)
“Are You Using Your Learning Skills to the Fullest?”
Overpowering your Lizard Brain
Well, launching MVPs are supposed to challenge your assumptions and it sounds like you're sitting on a pretty big one right there.

That your market can only be disrupted by this hand-wavy awesomeness you're alluding too but we have no idea wtf you're talking about.

If, for example, you're talking about setting up a new human-computer interaction device and the MVP is a mouse where you really want to build a gesture based input device, then yes, you're probably right. A mouse is not going rock anyone's world and it's a saturated market.

If, on the other hand, you're making a way of easily managing incoming sales calls that's not really been done but you'd make an awesome UX as traditional form based layouts suck, but you know, it'll be awesome, then no, you're probably wrong. The core of your business is the sales call management not the UX and you're going to waste a lot of money on that UX without even finding out if there's a market for the sales call manager.

So details, or personally I'd just ignore all the advice here as no-one's got enough information to tell you anything useful.

EDIT: I guess I'm trying to say have you sat down and figured out if the market you're going after is for the awesomeness or for the actual product. Making an MVP smart phone won't work, but making something better than the iPhone might, but will be expensive. If you've spotted an under served market, go for the MVP just to find out if the market really exists.
What if their parents are ordering them to sell the cans of soft drink all day and the kids have no choice? If you allow 7 year olds to do it, do you allow 27 yr olds? What of the 27 year old looks like a junkie and they are selling drinks in a nice middle class neighbourhood? Do you have one law for nice wholesome people and another for the underclass? If so, how do you write that law?
When is it too late to go back to school
I want to go back to school (I am a two semester drop-out of a state school). I just got back from spending some time at the MIT campus and while I don't think that it is absolutely necessary, I lust for the formal teaching with good, enlightened CS teaching.

Part of what opened me up to this was postings on HN of EWD's "The Humble Programmer" and "On the Cruelty of Actually Teaching Computer Science" that were posted here.

I'm happy with my career, but now I am struggling moving into C and systems programming which is what I like. My carrer progression was 6 years of SA work, then more like security administration SA work (Kerberos, firewalls, fighting off snake oild vendors), and finally Kerberos engineering which I have done for a few years (C code, high level understandings of the protocol, evangelism).

Is there any path of going back? Work experience credit? I feel like the 10 years of IT that I have done counts for something. I'm 30 now, is it worth it?
The entire point of the lean startup is getting out of the building and validating your ideas with customers. Everything else is gravy.

Go out, talk to people, and they will define what you should be building, and what will constitute MVP or MVA.

You seem to not be spending enough time talking to customers. You cannot define these things on your own, that's the whole idea.
you can do WebM and/or Ogg Theora live streaming with Flumotion, Icecast, GStreamer. This just works in the video tag in Firefox, Chrome and Opera. It does not work in Safari and IOS since Apple refuses to support those formats.
That's not always true. Any image with an alpha channel will have an opacity style attribute. In the firefox logo[1], for example, you see things like this: <td bgcolor="#081b3c" style=opacity:0.17;filter:alpha(opacity=17) />.

[1] http://www.imgtocss.com/convert?url=http://www.imgtocss.com/...
For my Fact2, I simply point out there are very fewer black engineering students and as a result, fewer tech founders. I agree with you that it's a cultural problem. There is a research showing that recent African immigrants perform better than those whose have been in US for hundreds of years. So the problems are not inherent but cultural. My point is that Silicon Valley is not to blame for not having many black founders. The problem starts from family,part of the culture they have inherited and as a result, education and career they end up choosing.

"Where nice people meaning no offense will cross over to the other sidewalk and back, especially at night". I agree that this does happen. I'm guilty of that. But only when I see a group of black teenagers at night, and I might cross over and back without even thinking much about it. I don't know how to solve this problem. One of my black friend who went to Havard Law told me he is guilty of the same irrational fear when he is walking at night.
Not much of one. I read the bio too, and got a different picture - Jobs used Buddhism because he had such problems. We'll probably never know what problems specifically, just like we'll never know what his eating issues were (Isaacson says Jobs was urged to see a therapist about it, but refused) - narcissism as one woman speculated? Bi-polar?

To me, the most insightful anecdote was:

> 'Our consumer desires are unhealthy, he told her, and to attain enlightenment you need to develop a life of nonattachment and non-materialism. He even sent her a tape of Kobun Chino, his Zen teacher, lecturing about the problems caused by craving and obtaining things. Egan pushed back. Wasn’t he defying that philosophy, she asked, by making computers and other products that people coveted? “He was irritated by the dichotomy, and we had exuberant debates about it,” Egan recalled.'

Yes, I guess that's one way to describe it...
In templates, it is almost impossible to remove the 'auto'. Even something simple like:

template<typename T>
void f(T t1, T t2)
{ auto sum = t1 + t2; }

There is nothing to replace auto with. Similar things apply to most templated functions. Of course outside of templates things get much easier, but I wouldn't expect to see quite so many autos.
This is not just black people. Entertainment is almost always valued highly over technology even in the general American population.

I think Marc Andreesen (not exactly sure if it was him) wrote about how companies that provide entertainment (YouTube, Twitter etc) end up being worth much more than others.
Really cool experiment. I'd love to see a breakdown and explanation of the code. It would be interesting to hear how you went about creating this. Thanks.
I'm slightly glad about this. For a long time, undesirables (junkies, blacks etc) would have gotten more police harassment if they were running businesses from the street whereas a blind eye was turned to nice middle class kids doing what is almost the same thing.

Now the cops have to apply the law to everyone, and yes, if you want to give the police the power to move that person who makes you uncomfortable then you must give them the responsibility to shut down the lemonade stand.
You know, the only lesson I took away from a lemonade stand is that people don't want to buy lemonade. This may have been a result of our rural environment and, therefore, complete lack of traffic traveling under 55mph past our sign.

Seriously, though, there are a lot of other ways for kids to show entrepreneurship and make money. Lemonade stands, if anything, teach that being cute gets you handouts. Mow some lawns, wash some cars, cut some hedges.
Big is Beautiful: Can Small Businesses Make America Prosperous?
Good point about laundry detergent. I remember in particular Procter&Gamble who was marketing Ariel and Vizir at the same time (in France). Similar packaging, same base product, similar pricing.

One thing I remember now is that they had (in the 80s-90s) introduced a little ball in which to pour your liquid detergent to put in the middle of your laundry. Both brands had it obviously, so I imagine that made the other brands look like they were lacking something.

Instead of having brand A with new unknown feature X, competing with brand B without X feature, you have two brands A1 and A2 with that feature and B without. I'd expect consumer to start thinking "well these two brands have it, so that must be good". Instead of comparing A and B, they're now comparing A1 and A2 instead.

Clever.

I'm not sure either how well two brands could work for tech/business products, but I wouldn't be surprised if the above example with the specific feature could work a bit: if you're trying a different approach to a problem but bring it through two brands, in a way it validates the approach. (if you don't know better)
The actions of the US government were not actually a response to the 'terrorism'. Those incidents were merely their excuses and cover stories as they proceeded to do exactly what they intended and desired previously (witness the Patriot Act, appearing in it's full 8,000 page glory 2 days after the WTC was destroyed).
is there a schedule for when each speaker will present?

i know of the list of all speakers but not their order of presentation.
The Wikipedia page doesn't really explain how the language works. The manual is a much better source: http://shakespearelang.sourceforge.net/report/shakespeare/
I'm not sure but last year you could watch the replay of every video on justin.tv ;)
Eh? That was the most obvious evolution. As Gerald Ford said "A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have." He wasn't talking about physical things.
Often certification, degrees or display of skill is required to get a programming job. Setting up a stand in your front yard requires no such requirements & the business relies on short-term transactions that probably don't let potential customers gauge the quality of your business.

Food permits & vendor licensing fees are there for a reason. Go look up your local county health departments food inspection results for local food vendors. You'll be surprised at some of the joints that are barely staying within the food safety guidelines.

As far as kids go, they are definitely not infallible when it come to food safety. I saw friends running stands as a child & they were reusing cups, diluting the product & I am not sure if they ever washed their hands.
I found one here: http://startupschool.org/schedule.html
[edit] this was indeed from last year. Here is the current one: http://pastie.org/2779036
But not ie9. And I don't believe they support playing h264 video in a webm container, so you either have to write your own broadcasting tools or transcode everything to vp8.
Thank You! It is about rapidly learning about our market. We have existing customers and we're building an add on module. We're going to pole our customers this week about what they want. Do I feel dumb.
Weebly (W07) is hiring talented hackers
Will this be recorded and available later to watch? I missed the beginning
I'm still an undergrad so it'd be completely logical to just ignore my opinion, but..... you went from doing research to supporting PHP apps? Did you initially want to go into more researchy things and then decide "this is boring, I want to just support PHP apps instead", or did you go into research knowing you'd eventually want to do something like supporting PHP apps?

I'm unsure about my own career but going to grad school and doing research (potentially at a company, after I graduate) is definitely something I'm seriously considering, primarily because I feel like (perhaps naively, I don't know) I want to be doing more interesting, "fundamental/ground-breaking" work in cs, and not just managing PHP apps for some company, or something along those lines. I don't see much personal value/fulfillment in that.
thanks, but i think that's last years schedule. i just saw the heroku presentation and it's not on the schedule list.

[edit] http://pastie.org/2779036 is indeed the right list.
completely agree with your reason. I'm a long time Slackware user. I discovered Slackware cicra 1995 or so and throught out the years tried different distributions only to go back to Slackware for its simplicity. Many of the O'reilly books talk about the contests of various config files for NAMED, DHCP, etc..... and Slackware just does not deviate from these. Outside of the Slackware installation, upgrading new packages can be done from the raw tar-balls. Never having to wait or build RPMs or other cryptic incarnations just made things easier, faster, and me a better Linux admin when I had to diagnose issues in other distributions.
This seems like the schedule from last year. There's a schedule for this year the justin.tv page (scroll down).
wow, that looks cool. But the whole world has to be 3D, wanna see the Himalaya and rain forests and my home town in 3D :-D
Ask HN: Siri and data sent to servers
Has anyone thought about what happens to the sent data to Apple's servers when using Siri? Is it kept there, for how much time, what is their policy regarding this question?

The voice data is for sure translated to text, later to be parsed and all that stuff, to figure out the answer.

But, all those sent emails, created appointments, personal searches, alarms, etc etc... they are all data that can be mapped to a certain user. Remember that iPhones already track user's location. That's too much info about someone.
An unique ID for every Indian
The germ level on some kids hands might have you thinking they were doing colonoscopies instead of making lemonade...