skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's gotten bigger than Greece... if the recovery was intact it would just be the weak countries like Greece that couldn't pay their debts, if the economy dips then the big countries like Spain and Italy can't either. It turns into a death spiral, the more people panic over the crisis, the worse the economy gets, the more countries are at risk of default.

Meanwhile, German economic policy essentially consists of:

1) Tight fiscal policy to crush any signs of a recovery.

2) Tight monetary policy to crush any signs of recovery.

3) Tie yourself to some profligate countries so that you have a cheap exchange rate
and can sell s***loads of exports.

4) When the countries you provided vendor finance to start having trouble paying
you back insist that they follow 1) and 2).

5) Wonder why everyone hates you.

..."It's a pulley system - you throw everyone over the cliff and let the rope
take you higher. But eventually you reach the pulley."

http://macro-man.blogspot.com/2011/11/raising-dead-and-axis-...

reminds me of Air France 447, the people running the show initially reacted by pushing the stick in the wrong direction, they're still way behind the curve, by the time they react with sufficient force, might be too late, crash of markets, governments defaulting, countries abandoning the Euro.
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Despite having to build -part of a- personalization infrustructure for a major news organization, I always thought it was a terrible idea.

Humans are creatures of habit, so when you disrupt that by giving them too many choices, the overall experience can become much more frustrating and overwhelming. Additionally, it severely limits the business' "editorial" power when the user is essentially acting as their own editor.

Personalization is good for sites that don't depend much on editorial content (youtube, Facebook), but for the vast majority it's just a bad idea.
Typical diets are to blame too. I can not completely back this up, but it is well known in body building:-

Person begins to diet, they actually do lose weight (rather than just the usual water weight), but up to 25% of the weight they lose is actually lean mass, that is muscle. Your body devours itself when it is lacking caloric input, via fat reserves, and muscle tissue. In order to minimise the muscle loss and maximise fat loss, you need to be doing an appropriate amount of strength training, as well as eating enough protein.

The worst possible outcome is that you do a number of cycles of a diet, with zero strength training, and every time you gain weight after a diet, you've gained more fat, and are now the proud owner of a body with even less lean mass.

Muscle burns energy even when idle, fat does not. So you are spot on, the easiest way to lose fat is to gain muscle mass. Most of us are physically piss weak and shouldn't be.
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Rule #3: Spammers are stupid.

http://bruce.pennypacker.org/2005/02/28/the-rules-of-spam/

The barrel is immense, and even the bottom is quite large.
I've found the slowdown from hadoop to be very problem dependent. I've seen anywhere from no slowdown to 1000x slower. It sounds to me like those projects should never have been using hadoop in the first place. If your problem is not IO constrained naturally, moving it to hadoop will make it IO constrained. In my experience doing that will get you a 10x-100x slowdown versus a more appropriate solution on the same hardware.

If your problem is IO constrained, for example processing 10 TB of log data, hadoop will get all your disks to 100% utilization just as well as anything else will. It will leave your processors horribly underutilized, but that's just the nature of IO constrained problems. If you could get 10 TB of ram dedicated to your dataset then you could easily get a massive speedup over the hadoop solution but that's just not realistic.
Depends on your perspective. He sold OneBox for $850 million, so I'm sure he's happy he didn't stay in sales.
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You realize of course that your friends include any attorney with a subpoena, the worlds' intelligence agencies (who's to say there isn't Intelligence life in space), and all the criminal hackers on the planet.

Sleep tight.
Huh, thanks, I had no idea such large discounts were available for lenovo hardware.

I used to pay attention to fatwallet but I removed all that stuff from my life because I felt like I was buying a ton of crap I didn't really want or need, just because DEAL DEAL DEAL was arriving in my inbox / rss all the time...
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Have you seen the perception of Jordan lately? I was and probably still am one of the biggest Jordan fans ever but he's a dick and as a fan I have to admit it. His former teammates do not have many nice things to say about him and the people he played against even less so. Right now there are a bunch of young NBA players, who grew up watching Jordan's accomplishments, considering boycotting Jordan brand sneakers because of him being an asshole during the lockout negotiations. Even take a look at how poorly his hall of fame speech was regarded by the general public and his peers. The chip on his shoulder helped him be a winner on the court but not so much off of it.

Yes, your egotistical ways might lead you to win in your field but don't expect the people you ran over to all of the sudden see the light and respect you as a person. You can respect a persons accomplishments while also despising who they are as a human being.
> Car crashes in the US kill 40,000 people per year [2], and the US has a suicide rate of 11.1 per 100,000. With a population of 300 million, that's over 300,000 suicides in the US per year. 260,000 more than car crashes. Does that surprise you? What do the media report? Car crashes!

Your math is off by 10x. 11.1 per 100k * 300M/100k = 33,000 not 300,000.

The rest of your comment is still valid.
You can jailbreak iphones... Apple won't sue you. Sure their updates might break that jailbreak, but they aren't forcing you to update. They won't sue you for jailbreaking, but they don't have to help you do it either.
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Nothing changed in the software. Things just move slower on weekends.
Provide a working solution for all customers. Not just 25% of them.
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Bankruptcy details are from PACER (pcl.uscourts.gov). The rest is obvious, of course.
I agree regarding the semantic web, but i have three things to say regarding the "attention economy".

1) The attentional economy is more an observation about the state of the world than a "thing".

2) You can get free access to wifi at Boston's Logan airport in exchange for watching an ad (in fact i did just a couple of days ago)

3) Content creators are aware now more than ever that they're not competing solely with other people in their industries for attention. To that extent there is an effort to reach viewers/consumers/users on the users terms.

In short, i think it was incorrect to formulate the attentional economy as an actual thing with literal market places. The observations that've come out of it are still relevant and useful.
if in terminal options you select "use option as meta key" [1], then option-b and option-f move forward / backward on words as normal in bash. You can also remap caps-local to control.

[1] http://earlh.com/dump/hn/terminal_settings_meta_key.jpeg
In any case, Apple is more hostile to hackers and developers than any other platform I seen in the mobile world.
Yes this is why Sony just announced big loses. All Japanese exports are getting more expensive in dollars
http://www.google.co.uk//finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds...
No, he's missing a Wozniak and a Jobs.
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This sounds interesting too: http://www.cryptovirology.com/cryptovfiles/newbook/Chapter6....
I do. I don't carry any secrets though (and for sure wouldn't share them on Facebook), and am more afraid of being ran over by a bus. Otherwise I would just get off the internet.
He flips companies. That's nice and everything, but it's not innovation. He's essentially a parasite.
This. After years of writing detailed specifications I realized I'm always stupid and always wrong. Now I plunge as fast as I can into code to find exactly where are my mistakes.
This is not correct. At least you can't say that without depicting the full picture.

Greece is a country that can't afford it operations. It has no economic growth and large unemployment. It survives by borrowing money. In a "normal" situation, it would go bankrupt and its money would be devaluated. Then in several troubled years it could experience growth again because with a devaluated money you are in a better economic position to make things and sell them.

In reallity, Greece is part of the Euro zone so its money is the Euro and it has no control over it. Greece's situation is comparable to that of California (although not to the same extent).

While many economist agree that austerity doesn't bring growth, at least it stops the bleeding. Also, we "don't know better" is the general concensus. Not to mention it worked for Iceland.
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My hunch is that's it's both - kind of a feedback loop. It shows a certain lifestyle of a highly select group, and those outside that group (viewers) want to emulate it.
I've owned a kindle 2, a kindle DX, a kindle 3, and a black kindle DX. I've had a few crashes. Spontaneous reboots, actually. The most recent ones I think happened when I was looking at a PDF, so presumably something about the PDF did it.

Nothing major.
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And he's worked for Jobs for over 20 years.
wow, interesting. reminds me of those pay for blocks of pixels sites... this site may make some cash and get some news then everyone will copy it and get nowhere because it is all about the idea and necessarily the implementation.

on a tech note, there is no SSL. It is run via stripe (which may mean my CC info never hits their server) but that doesn't mean they shouldn't use SSL.
And those businesses are accordingly regulated by society. But good luck trying to foster that winner-takes-all free-market world of yours. I'm sure it'll be a real blast.
Yeah, I imagine that happened around 1990 too when nerds wanted to use C++ with all that hard object stuff in it. Baysick looks like a breakthrough. If the Baysick program can be displayed in a window somehow, you know, to make it all visual, it'll be a slam-dunk. Visual Baysick -- you'll be able to hire all the below-average Joes you want with that.
"Pee your problems away and think ahead!"

"Ask yourself, why do you think the best ideas come when you're in the toilet?"

It sounds trivial and you won't suspect a magic or pattern behind it. You'll think it's just coincidence, but in reality you secretly remember the toilet is an awkward place where you magically solve the problems that you were stuck with all day. It's way of thinking, releasing yourself from stress to focus on the path you want to go with your planning and code, not so much theory here. It's not enforcable.

The only room, where you're alone with yourself and where you relax your inner muscles. As you know, every contraction happens in your cerebrum first, this relaxation acts as stimulus for something I can't explain.

Planning, Development, Strategy and Success aren't entirely seperate, they live in symbiotic co-existence and strengthen each other. That's why many people say "You first start coding and the rest will follow". In reality this is an illusion, you can't code without planning or strategy, it's fueled by hard trained routine and effective problem->solution matching. You know it: The more you code the better you become and success boosts you into new directions.

We've all experienced it, sometimes you're better than usual and you want that effectivity back, when you're stuck and don't know a solution. Call it flow if you want, but I think it's peeing problems away :)

My routine is to do more learning than planning.
Because the more relations from very different topics I can come up with, the more effectively I can solve a problem on a special field.

Have a nice weekend!
You haven't been in mobile long then.
With regards to the semantic web, this was mentioned on hn a few days ago: http://mqtt.org/

It's pretty neat, and will allow all sorts of machines and devices to be connected to the web.

It certainly seems possible that in a few years Berners-Lee's vision could become a reality.
I'm looking forward to reading the Isaacson biography, but I will put on my skeptical spectacles. Thanks for the great comment, it's good to see both sides to things.
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Maybe its still hard to explain exactly because they never hit it big.

I think going back in time and explaining social networking to an audience would be tougher than it sounds.
First of all, it's intellectually dishonest, if done the way you were doing it. It'd be more correct to simply say "no, it's about current events/politics, and that interests me".

However, there's something about that in the guidelines:

"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime".

Also, "anything that interests the group" is a terrible way to run a site like this, because eventually the group grows, and if you don't place limits, you'll start getting Ron Paul stories, taser stories, etc... etc...
W3C held open standards back, everything web related was more or less moribund for 10 years while they wanked off about xhtml and the semantic web. What people wanted was to build applications with web technologies, thats why flash won.
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It's yet another drug article. As a bet, I'll buy you a nice bottle of wine and ship it from Italy if one of those hits the front page of the site without generating a "we should fix the problem by legalizing drugs" discussion.
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Why even mention it if he doesn't think that Color could be the disruptive company that can make that leap?

I doubt he's saying "Yeah a bunch of companies are going to fail at this, including Color, but hey throw cash at us anyway". That doesn't make for a good sell at all.
hahaha :) fun, I believe I can share the same frustrations with non-programmers, except that I used to learn to make non-programmers viable tools that round-up the programming experience. It means that they can help in more ways than you can imagine as a programmer.

Also I think that using the right tool to plan is very important. The right tool must be something that fits into your routine and thinking more cognitively and intuitively than conceptually.
I loved this and ended up reading your other post, CoffeeScript and Learning Languages, as well as several on your Github blog. Willpower and You're Using Caffeine Wrong were favorites too. Keep writing please. :)
What about Sony? Didn't Apple at least hire that iPhone hacker? http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/26/apple-hires-iphone-hacker-n...
This is correct. The most common algorithm used for type inference is Hindley-Milner (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindley%E2%80%93Milner).
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The 'hero/asshole roller coaster' is a widely accepted description of what it could be like working for Jobs.

On the other hand, there are plenty of people who worked for him for decades, and people who worked for him, left, and then returned.

I suspect part of it was learning how to deal with Jobs and his tantrums, part of it was being talented enough to spend more time as a 'hero' than an 'asshole', part of it was feeling that Jobs was trying to achieve something significant and thus the expected effort was worthwhile, and part of it was finding ways to stay out of Jobs' sight when necessary.
I agree TDD/BDD is the result of good planning and the byproduct is a coverage of cases into a application skeleton or bounding box.
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I, too, dislike the taste, although if that's your only issue there are drinks with enough other ingredients to mask it (mudslides, pina coladas, daiquiris, etc.).

Supposedly the max health benefit is 1 drink a day, followed by zero, and more than one is detrimental. However, there are studies that say a glass of red grape juice give similar benefits as one drink. I don't know anybody who follows that advice with any discipline, though.

Not drinking doesn't affect my social enjoyment in the least. First, I find that most professionals (my social group) these days drink less than they did 10 years ago. But I was in a social fraternity in college and have no problem being at parties, bars, clubs, etc. with other people who are drinking. In fact, it's the opposite - I've found my NOT drinking affects the enjoyment of some drinkers. They get self-conscious about it, perhaps guilty. People don't want to drink alone, so if I'm with only one other person they usually won't imbibe. And I've found that those who are actively agitated by my not drinking are those who are alcoholics or marijuana addicts. That's rare, and they stop socializing with me, but I'm dodging a bullet and I'm not at a loss for friends.
I think there's a difference between being pleasant and being good and the writer of the linked article appears not to. A lot of good people aren't especially pleasant (Richard Stallman, much as I disagree with many things he says, might serve as a nice example). Jobs certainly seems to have been unpleasant in many ways, especially when he was young.

As far as I can tell, Jobs is guilty of three major sins in the book:

1) He screwed Woz on the Breakout deal. (Well-documented.) He did not screw Woz on the Apple IPO, however, and made him a very rich man.

2) He behaved abominably to his daughter Lisa's mother, but tried to make up for it later. Lisa's mother comes across as a dissolute user (e.g. she cons Lisa into signing over a house Jobs had given her to live in but bought in Lisa's name, and then sells it to go traveling with her guru). We don't know if Jobs had reasons for what he did, but Lisa chose to live with him.

3) He screwed Kottke out of equity in Apple during the IPO, deciding that his contribution was insufficient. This seems pretty unfair based on what we learn (which isn't much) in the book.

That's it, as far as I can recall. There's probably a few minor things, but those are the ones that stuck with me. Aside from that there's a lot of screaming, shouting, and whining, but it's basically pretty much a story of an incredibly dedicated guy trying to make great products and not really caring about money.

(How is Jobs supposed to have used Ives? By making him rich and giving him a huge amount of power?)

If you wrote the life story of pretty much any businessman, I think you'd be unlikely to find fewer immoral acts.

He also did some really mean things to some of his friends early on, but -- at least in most cases -- he owns up to them and tried to make amends. This is not like, say, Bill Gates who pretty much screwed everyone he did business with at some point and rationalizes it all away. But hey, he's curing malaria now so all is forgiven. (Bill Gates also comes across as an asshole, not to mention unhygienic and smelly, in various biographies.)
There are PCI-E enclosures that connect to Thunderbolt:

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Except none of those are good analogies to what's going on here, where people aren't actually bidding on something of monetary value. I find it hard to buy your argument that this is in any way unethical.
"Is it really the end of the world because Steve Jobs told you that your shitty design was shitty?"

Especially if you then went on to make a truly great design.
I wonder about that. The Germans have imported labor from all over Europe plus Turkey in an effort to keep positions staffed. I don't see how it benefits Germans to create all these extra jobs and then fill them with foreigners.
and this is why I need to start learning python.........
Well this article was written by the author of SwfObject which is, last I checked, the default way of embedding a Flash object on the page so I presume he actually does know a thing or two about the Flash ecosystem.

As for the enterprise...wake up dude. They're shelving Flex as well. 4.6 is it. http://jessefreeman.com/articles/game-over-how-adobe-killed-...
I'm inclined to take Ives' complaint with a grain of salt.

After all, as the face of Apple design, Ives might be getting some amount of credit for designs that his underlings have made. He might not be seeking it, but that's how it's working out.

Ives is pretty much the only designer at Apple who gets any credit at all, at least in the media. And that's been the case for years now. He hasn't exactly been laboring in obscurity while Jobs sucked up all the credit and adulation.
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