skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Keep in mind that if any subtype of the population is growing exponentially, then the whole population will also grow exponentially in the asymptote. I'd be hesitant to disagree with Hawking on this.
Word's typographical capabilities are just as bad as current ebooks. Word is absolutely not capable of producing professional quality text. So, while it may be useful for drafting a book, it is worthless for getting it ready for press.

As for why OCR is used, just look at the range of books that are now available electronically. There are a lot of books from the 1980s and earlier that are now available as EPUBs. Do you really think that it would have been easier to use the source files off floppies? (Keep in mind that the floppies are, for the most part, long gone.)
I'm going to stick out like a dork I suppose but I prefer slickedit. It gives me all the stuff claimed as great for emacs AND all the stuff claimed great for IDEs. The only thing it doesn't give me is vims smallness but since I rarely exit the editor that doesn't effect my workflow.
During a very difficult time in my life, a friend of mine would interrupt my pity parties by listing some of the good things in my life (or insisting that I do so) and then telling me "now smile" and telling me what a lovely smile I had. It did me a lot of good in terms of both helping me get through a very difficult time in my life and also breaking a bad habit/preventing me from getting mired in something bad.

My oldest son used to do stuff like this as a child -- get wrapped around the axle about what a bad child he was because I crabbed at him for not doing his chores or something. He was maybe 14 when we were in the car one day and heard a news blurb about a teenager (14 to 16 years old) being tried as an adult for murder in a bank robbery case. I turned to him and said "Killed anyone here lately? Robbed any banks? How bad are you really?" And then talked about, yeah, I really need you to do your chores and I will crab at you when they don't get done because it's actually important to our quality of life, but if your mom bitching at you about not taking out the trash is your biggest problem, then life is really not that bad. This incident was a watershed moment and he never went back to being so very prone to wallowing in self pity and giving himself such a hard time.

So it is possible to do this for someone else even if they don't want to do it for themselves. You have to be gentle and have good timing and not wear out your welcome (ie don't simply sound like a nag, which is not a positive experience). But judicious use of such interventions can make a permanent positive difference.

Best of luck, whatever the answer turns out to be.
From the readme, I see two major show-stoppers for me; no .delegate() - or even .live(), and no support for the 'change' event... and I can't tell if selectors support filters like :first, :last, :checked, etc.
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Instead of hitting the pavement digitally, might I suggest mainly browsing the websites of startups, checking here on HN (HelloFax for example is hiring!), and then going to every event/meeting you can slide your way into. I think that would pay off a ton more than any job posting site.
True, but for instance I know neither Python nor Clojure, and yet Python looks more accessible on first glance - even though I have some experience with other LISPs.
Very, very nice. :)
Winning: http://chattanooga.jpg.to/
It works pretty well, although there are some oddball results.
I haven't used a recent Kindle, but the original eInk screens were slow enough that the tablet most certainly could have run TeX on the next page in the time it took to clear the screen.
I think its probably a little more involved than prerendering each page at the different font sizes. For each individual location (I don't know the b+n equivalent term) you need to prerender a page that starts with that location at each font size.

I take it that your 800k novel does not have an index and/or a lot of intra-text references. 30 seconds would be a great time with indexes and references. Why don't you use fontspec too?
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I'm not sure if this is a troll or not but I'll bite.

> First off, "obligated" isn't a word. The word is "obliged".

First off, "obligated" is a word; look it up.

> Secondly, what do you mean "they should"?

Did you really completely miss pradocchia's sarcasm? Really?

> …provoke the police until they use force…

I didn't realise that silently sitting down and staying still was considered a method of provocation.
My experience trying to convince my friends to start blogging is that the absolute worst thing to happen to a blogger is for them to spend an inordinate amount of time tweaking their blog setup, and not actually writing. So yes, if you blog regularly and are looking to improve your process, this may be useful, but if you're just starting off, just do something that works immediately, and worry about the words, not the code.
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The irony is that while Freud is presented as a celibate old shaman, Jung is out living the dream, swinging the hinge
If you think this is about me, you're the one misunderstanding.
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good luck bud! looks pretty sleek...
"Legend of Zelda for literature"

There. That's the reason why. That game sounds boring as shit, and no one would buy it.

Learning in a game has to be implicit, if you make it explicit users will sniff out your agenda and run away. For example, you can't just make the gamer write an essay about Shakespeare to open the treasure chest, but if you somehow included subtle Shakespeare references in Zelda that could work.

And with that in mind, maybe games are already doing this. You're certainly learning something about economics in Roller Coaster Tycoon, and I definitely had to flex my brain muscles for some of the puzzles in Zelda. It has to continue to be implicit though.
Do you have benchmarks for running a tex engine on a tablet CPU? Everytime this topic comes upo on comp.tex the consensus seems to be that tablets are not yet capable of running tex on the fly.
This is similar logic to PE and VC funds who actually look at Multiples of Money rather than IRRs. At the end of the day, turning $100mm into $700mm is meaningful even if timelines differ by a couple years.
In games like Skyrim, I already do learn. For example, I can now identify several different types of plant (potato, leek, cabbage) by their above-ground shape and color. It's not tremendously useful, but I can imagine that this sort of compressed pattern-matching experience could teach any sort of rote memorization: periodic table, birdcalls, gross anatomy, musical chords, geography, astronomy, run-time performance of algorithms, etc.... The hard part is getting people to actually want to play your game, so that you can "trick" them into learning.
This seems to be a software product opportunity. Shouldn't creating an ebook from existing Word and InDesign files be a pure software problem?
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Sure, but it's tactically useless, as they can't know if they're just applying useless pressure because they don't know how many layers of shadow volumes there are to penetrate. So yes, they can be pricks, but to no discernible effect.
wtf is a brogrammer? post-frat douchebag?
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Yes, and: http://300.jpg.to/ :)
So the job interview would take place during the "partying" and you will end up with what we old-timers like to call "competitive" salary?
If you're from planet Earth...

God's from planet Earth. He said, "sports".

Bible on racism:

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+12...

To get God to talk, tongues:

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+14...

10 i = i + 15

20 PRINT "Bible, Line:", i

30 IF i > 99999 THEN i = 0: GOTO 10

40 IF INKEY$ = "" THEN 10

50 PRINT "Bible, Line:", i

http://www.losethos.com/text/BIBLE.TXT

Line: 40800

captivity, of those which had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar
the king of Babylon had carried away unto Babylon, and came again unto
Jerusalem and Judah, every one unto his city; 2:2 Which came with
Zerubbabel: Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan,
Mizpar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of
Israel: 2:3 The children of Parosh, two thousand an hundred seventy
and two.

2:4 The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy and two.
Professor Christensen gave this talk (or one very similar) at Business of Software this year. He was phenomenal.

One thing I like a lot about the culture in younger companies, especially in tech, is that while we are conscious of the appropriate financial ratios, we're not driven by them. For example, Fog Creek, while profitable, isn't driven only by profit, and happens to be passionate about giving developers a great place to work and helping developers create better software (among other things).
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I think you mean emacs23-nox
Not only that, but by its end, the article is postulating a model in which literally one in a million people have sufficient aptitude to be accepted by Y Combinator - whether they're interested in it or not!

Why do you feel this is unreasonable? Do you think there is some huge pool of people good enough for YC who just don't get in? Maybe the true numbers are 1 in 100,000, but I'd be surprised if they are much higher than that.

In any case, I'm not attempting to claim my assumptions are correct. The only point I'm making is that small differences in underlying probability distributions can have large effects in the composition of people accepted into a highly selective program.

I.e., Eric Ries is making the fallacy of the excluded middle: "either aptitude/preference differences are huge, or else they don't explain much." This is simply mathematically incorrect.
IIRC, the Soviet Union didn't test their first bomb until 1949, well after the war ended. Are you suggesting that the Soviets stopped their advance because of the American bomb?

Edit: Oh, I just noticed the bit in your comment about the 1950s/60s. So your contention is that the war might have reignited had there been no atomic bomb?
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Don't think anyone has mentioned here that the Yahoo news app is a lot worse as it also wants access to your email address.
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I thought you had a point. Professional basketball comes to mind, where it's incredibly unusual for someone to be of "normal" height. A height difference gives you an advantage which I suspect creates a positive feedback loop (advantage leads to more enjoyment, which leads to more practice...etc) and remains a significant factor even when all other things are equal (like innate talent).
They likely have to structure this way just so they buy themselves time to create the content during the quarter/semester.
Your suggestion to put images at the end creates the same problem that footnotes do. Namely it breaks sync to last page read. The author of the linked post laments this very problem.
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Please try http://orange.jpg.to or other keywords to see if it works.
Regarding WordPress, the author says:

> The theme for the blog and two static pages took up 12 files of HTML and PHP layouts. Furthermore I had made several hacks to make things be just the way I wanted.

I know WordPress is an easy target on some fronts, but this point seems like a stretch. Twelve files plus hacks?

I don't know all your site requirements, but 2 to 4 WP theme files would probably work for what I see on your site.

I'd be interested to see what the twelve files included. I'm no expert but maybe I could offer some tips for simplifying things?
You don't even have to be logged in to see/edit other people's notes...
Sounds like a lite version of my blog post [1], which is, in turn, a lite version of the book.

[1]: http://www.korokithakis.net/posts/secrets-power-negotiating/
Octopress is a project that uses Jekyll, but adds a lot more features that make it even easier to use as a blogging framework.

http://octopress.org/
that's exactly my point - emacs doesn't put emphasis on the UI at all as you point out. If you can be bothered to learn its, as you put it, arcane ways then it's tremendously powerful tool.

But my mom wouldn't stand a chance.
What fraction of the M-x commands and modal functionality (to say nothing of the Lisp functions) are covered by any CUA binding (or whatever C-c C-p comes from)? If a user turns on M-x cua-mode, do the discoverability problems instantly all go away?
Don't forget:
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I like the idea, and it works. Here's two constructive concerns:

1. Can you make this faster to type than a browser extension that searches from the address bar (or in Chrome's case, omnibox)?

2. How do you account for false positives, like a picture that doesn't match the word?
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In a word, "no."

Typography is more art than science.
> "And with that in mind, maybe games are already doing this."

They are. I'm playing the new Assassin's Creed right now, and as you explore the city of Constantinople you'll run into landmarks and people, each of whom have an in-game encyclopedia entry that you can quick-key into. It doesn't have anything to do with gameplay, and is merely there to satisfy your curiosity. The dialogue and story also make an attempt to communicate the political and economic intrigue of the era.

That and it takes place in a specific period of history that also touches on many famous people in that era, albeit fictionally. I have to say, every time I play an AC game I end up reading Wikipedia about the real-life people, places, and history that it depicts, because it's just so damned interesting.

I can't be the only one. But it certainly beats most "educational" games that smack you over the head. "Now, who can tell me when the Byzantine Empire fell?"
I think there's a parallel to hacking though. On our weekend projects, our babies, our github projects we're most proud of, we like to make sure that we get it right: clean code, beautiful abstractions, efficient implementation, etc -- because we, as hackers, get a kick out of that. We have a gut feeling what is the right way to write a certain program. Like a painter knows where to draw the next line.

...but does that mean that we do the same in our day to day jobs? The code that you have to fire out to meet next Friday's deadline? The program that will make it into the next product that needs to hit the market now? I'd bet almost all of us know the feeling of, "ah, if only I had a little more time, I know exactly how to code this the way it should be". But this is business so (a) the time you need just isn't there and (b) what the heck, you don't care as much about the accounting app your company sells anyway.

So, yes, I'm sure that ebook publishers aren't idiots. And they know that ebooks can be done differently from printed books. But they are businessmen, too, and so the question is always: will doing these changes give them more profit? That is, will the additional costs of e.g. moving the glossy-paper pictures from a central position directly to the parts of the books that refer to them result in more sales? Or sales at a higher price?

I figure if the answer were yes, the publishers would do it. But as long as they get away with sloppy editing and one-to-one copies of paper prints, why would they?

The additional costs are not material costs, but that people have to sit down and make these edits. And that's not just one guy spending half a day to do that.
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I have started using emacs recently. Before I was using vim (approximately 4years), and one of the things I liked in emacs is there is no editing and command mode, you don't have to press ESC and goto the end of program in emacs and then enter to edit mode, for instance. However, I think it will take time and patience to master emacs.
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Wow, the amazing classes just keep on coming! Stanford is really doing a phenomenal thing by making all of these classes free to the public!
RequireJS has an optimizer which concats and minifies - problem solved!
I guess my question is why go for reasonable when you can get incredible performance per dollar with RAID-10 SSDs? A few dedicated DB machines with SSDs and many cores can get you absolutely monstrous throughput without going for any of the more exotic DB solutions.
The next world war would have made all of those minor skirmishes look like, well, minor skirmishes.
I'm a huge fan of slickedit. I've switched to OS X in the last couple years and the crappiness of slickedit on OS X has me looking for a new editor.
Here is Mozilla's support doc for the autocomplete that's built into the browser. http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Form%20autocomplete

Here's a plugin that will work just as well. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/autofill-form...

These were both found with a search for "firefox autofill". http://google.com
I don't think so. A lot of producers/actors don't like playing to an empty room, even if they're being paid well. It's too demoralizing.
looks like a catchall apache url rewrite rule with some rewriting voodoo to corresponding google image hits, pretty lame imho

also the dns is not setup corectly to handle spaces in domains mentioned here
We're not going to have the technology to make other planets habitable until we have a pressing need to develop it. So no, we shouldn't wait for that.
Note that that particular word is a katakana phonetic import from English; in romaji that reads "hakkaa". So while that works as an example of multilingual character support, it may not be the best example for a foreign word per se. :-)
Not me. I'm always amazed at the things otherwise brilliant people say when they're out of their area of expertise. There was a reason we didn't reach Erlich's 20 billion by the year 2000, even though we could probably grow enough food to support that many.
I'm pretty amped about this, to be honest. Gives me a way to take an Algorithms class a semester early, and it serves as a good kick in the rear too! (Well, hopefully not so much the latter - just excited to be able to take the class!)
We all have our biases. Some of us try to pretend we don't but the truth is we all do. For an individual to overcome his/her biases, that person first has to accept they exist in the first place.
.. it's raining free classes this weekend! Must be a deadline Monday :)
1. keyword.jpg.to is the most intuitive and easy to type domain I can think of at the moment. If you got a better idea please tell me :)
2. I planned to allow image upload and voting to select the best image that match the word. I believe this method can give better result in the long term.
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I think you may have something here. I can see it being a place to swap display ad space in local areas.
The Soviets had pledged not to be the first side to use nukes. The US did not reciprocate, because the Warsaw Pact could have overwhelmed NATO forces in Europe with their conventional forces (or so everyone thought), so the US wanted to reserve the ability to use nukes in a counterattack.
One big worry for me is somebody coming out with a free version - or worse, a bundled version.

I usually cheer up after remembering what proportion of the software development job pool can't figure out a linked list.
Multiples of Money is actually another way of saying IRR - it's just adding the dimension of time.

Christensen is ripping on the slaving devotion to single metrics that some firms follow. This is very true. Any individual metric can be gamed. If you focus on IRR only, people will game it. Same with NPV. Same even with the Net Promoter Score that the article pushes. (Easier to delight customers if you aren't worried about profit.)

The challenge of management is balancing these measurements, and minimizing sub-optimization. In short term there are conflicts between them, but firms with a longer term focus find profitability goes hand in hand with net promoter score. But in many ways it's long term versus short.
It has basically ditched the crutches that are the graphical user interface

Because it pre-dates the GUI. Emacs was written for VT-100 terminals and the like.

As far as discoverability, once you learn about apropos you're well on your way.
This guy is a great lecturer, I'm working through his CS161 videos right now.

You can get a sample of what his lectures will probably be like here http://openclassroom.stanford.edu/MainFolder/CoursePage.php?...
It seems whitespace is not allowed in subdomain. I need to research further to confirm it.
Ask HN: is it worth the effort to build (yet another) publishing platform?
I would've thought the culture around YC would discourage this, and instead encourage looking into new niches or doing something more original, but I noticed that YC funded a startup that did just that: Posterous.

Is it worth the effort to try and build yet another publishing platform? I'm personally not much satisfied with any of the existing ones, and I do have some idea that I think are somewhat unique (or at least: I haven't seen them done).

Does it seem very unoriginal/unimaginative? Is it worth the effort or would it be a waste of time?
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Well, okay. But by that logic we won't go to other planets unless we have a pressing need, so the whole argument is moot.

Like I said, if your interest is preserving the human race you can can get a lot more bang for your buck by digging into the earth. No matter what's going on at the surface at least you'll have the kind of gravity humans physiology has evolved to expect.
Are tablet CPUs fast enough?

Probably not for a whole book, but for a single chapter? Almost certainly. And if you eschew the features of XeTeX or LuaTeX and just stick with pdfTeX, things could be very quick: For the example I posted elsewhere in this thread of typesetting a novel in 30s with XeLaTeX, pdfTeX does it in about 6s. A single chapter (32k of text): 0.8s, and I/O bound at that. Even if a tablet's 800Mhz Cortex A8 does that 5 times slower than my Core 2, it's fast enough to be done speculatively. It's certainly no slower than loading a web page over the internet.
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These days I see lots of links from all kinds of "social readers" in my Facebook feed.

A lot of them are actually interesting, but that does not mean I want to authorize the app and start broadcasting my every move online.

Here is what I do: copy / paste the headline into Google and find the article on lots of sites. The great benefit in addition to avoiding the Facebook Big Brother is to read comments from a variety of communities.

It is hard to eliminate Facebook from my routine completely, but I am surely not going to allow them to be more nosy than they already are.

PRO TIP: Install Facebook Disconnect to reduce the amount of tracking they can do

[1] http://disconnect.me/facebook

[2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ejpepffjfmamnambag...
With all due respect I have extensively used Word, InDesign, & LaTeX and, contrary to your belief, typesetting can be (and is often) achieved in Word quite effectively.