skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you were using cannabis as an excuse and perhaps mis-dosing yourself. Yeah, if you smoke a gram or two per day, it will probably make you a couch potato. Just like if you take enough opiates you'll lay unconscious and die.

But I think in timely administered, individual-dependent dosages the sativa enhances concentration and imagination/visualization skills, not to mention relieves depression and pain. And it's not habit-forming!

I can't underestimate how paralyzing depression can be, fucking with your self-esteem and making you stay at home for weeks. Depression is extremely anti-motivational. Severe depression leads to suicide and that definitely does not make a person reach his true potential.

Now, depression is linked to HIGH DOSES of cannabis in here: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071023183937.ht... ("Cannabis: Potent Anti-Depressant In Low Doses, Worsens Depression At High Doses").

Now I'm wondering if they got the demotivational syndrom from high-volume smokers, basically diagnosing them with cannabis-induced depression.
These are definitely the two questions that are relevant right now.

If you don't have revenue, you're likely best off waiting to go all-in until you have more data to make a more informed decision.

If you do have revenue, that changes a lot of things.
Why do you need 3D glasses? Couldn't you use any frame?
Your Landing Page Is Only Part Of The Sales Pitch
Speaking of CAPTCHAs, a smaller version of this would make an excellent one.

Er, well maybe not, given the ease of programmatic solutions.
Very clever sir! I've used the Mechanical Turk for a couple of interesting tasks, lowering prices to $0.01 and having Turkers complete those tasks in less than 2 minutes which is pretty awesome! It's very interesting how we've started to create some kind of relationship with Turkers, since we've sent over 1M HITs since we started using it.
I agree with your advice - I just don't think most people follow financial news that closely.

However, the euro is down about 8% since June, so it's safe to say there's been a fair bit of selling.
I'm not sure I'd trust the BLS projections very far. According to this article, http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/robot_invasion/2011... the BLS projects a sizable increase in pharmacy work, but automation may end up flipping that on its head.
tough shit. I bet the candle industry was hurt pretty bad by the development of electricity.
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Genetically modified mosquitos can eradicate them from the planet
Very cool. I'd love to see the jQuery you used for this. Is that posted anywhere?
Can correlation be assumed without sources and facts as was done in the article?

"Not all engineers are [figurative] robots" is certainly a fact and was meant as an upper bound on the number of engineers who believe that photography is merely technical in nature. I'm questioning whether the lower bound is statable as "generally engineers believe this", and claiming that I don't believe it is.

To further clarify my opinion: the line drawn by the author is too black and white. Its inhuman and unemotional itself to assume that another large group of humans can't see the emotional and human side of art.
> An alternative solution could be for the government to provide a base level of necessities to the entire population.

I like this idea and the idea of the post-scarcity society in general, but one thing I've never seen explained or examined is how this is actually accomplished. How is the government producing these necessities and distributing them? Could you elaborate further?
Having worked at startups with both cowboys with a "get 'er done" attitude and people who actually care about software craftsmanship, I'll take the latter any day.

Cowboys may get things "done" quickly, but that doesn't help when things are subtly broken, have interoperability problems, or are nearly impossible to extend without breaking.
Real time, user controlled RC car + camera
You can't prevent scraping, but you can poison it. I can think of two approaches:

1. Replace bits of text on output with unicode look-alikes. Humans will still read what you want them to read, but non-humans get crap.

2. The mountweasel approach: put fake entries in that humans would never find. Then you can google these fake entries - any site other than your own with Mt. Weasel, is the result of scraping your site.

But honestly, most of our efforts to protect "our" work is just misguided busy-work...
Might not be live for long, but a user on IRC posted this link. He has setup an RC car that you can control, with a camera on it. It's pretty awesome.
You serious? Keeping your system secure without the users intervention goes against free software?
Agreed. The term for what you describe in your third paragraph is "labor replacement". There is huge profit to be made in labor replacement, with the effect of loss of jobs.

It is troubling that few readers pick up on the use of examples with gross jobs created and not net jobs created. In this case, Amit Arahoni's 9 jobs created are gross, not net. A more-clear example would be that of Craigslist. How many jobs has Craigslist created? Well, 30 jobs in gross, but likely a large negative number in net as it played a large part in displacing at least one entire industry (newspapers).
Just tried this in a VM , Mint's interpretation of Gnome3 is better than Ubuntu's at least. No way to add additional panels though (afaik) which is a major bummer.
'Brinicle' ice finger of death
An idea I once had to improve morale within the R&D group was to have some sort of semi-regular contest within the group where the winner would get to fire one IT guy of their choice.
Well, no organization should complain too loud if it is not valueing the IT department as much as it does its profit centers. The situation in the most companies is that IT is trimmed as cheap as possible, so what do people expect to happen??

Also, for some reason, IT departments seem to get or develop goals that are not aligned with the business. In my current place, IT is actually actively working to make the life of R&D departments harder. It's not even the question how to create a secure environment in which people can still do more than Office and Email.
Yes it is the end, the scam is over and it is time to pay. It was clear for couple years now. PIIGS are about to go and with them the rest of this over bloated, over regulated pyramid.
Moral of the story (and very applicable to individual HN members): don't be a cost center.
Has anyone written anything significant on Android in Scala? I've got an app in the market and I was considering using Scala for additional development. You never really learn a technology well until you've built something real with it.
To the small town which is giving tax breaks, it's a somewhat important thing to discuss.
Hmmm... I received a different variant of the email. Nothing in my email suggested they could have accessed my financial account info.
If all but 20% of programming jobs will become redundant, what advice would you give to the remaining 80% of programmers? "Starve because there's too many of you to fit in the 20%"?
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Listen, you don't understand the complexities...
Isn't this pretty much what Lamson (http://lamsonproject.org/) is aiming for?
It's the exact same with programming. It's an abstraction on top of reality so that we can wrap our brains around it.

It's a complicated system with many moving parts that sometimes don't have any real world equivalents you can use to exemplify the issue.

Explaining a Collateralized debt obligation or a credit default swap is like explaining a Lisp macro to a non-programmer: Possibly but very hard.
Huh? Debt is so simple a four year old can understand it. You give me money now and I give you money later. Many financial instruments are more complicated, but bubbles in even the worst ones are the stuff of recessions, whereas systematic monetary and credit crises are the stuff of depressions.

It's possible you're referring to the monetary system itself, which can be confusing. However, monetary issues have historically been much worse under regimes of "real" money, even when you take into account this current crisis. Illusory money done correctly has a lot of nice properties, and a big problem with the euro is that it doesn't have one of the key prerequisites--monetary, fiscal, and economic union in one. When a country can be drained of its credit supply because it's doing slightly worse than others, that's an undesirable monetary regime, and in the end threatens everyone.
Ask HN: TextMate-style files pane in Emacs
Hi all,

I was wondering: how do I enable a left-hand browsing pane in Emacs that shows the root folder of my project and its files and subdirectories, like TextMate or Sublime Text?
It's worth noting that #if, #each etc. are not built-in structures. They are simply helpers that you can register in the host language. Block helpers receive the block as a function that can be invoked as though it was a top-level template.

Consider the simple #with helper:

Handlebars.registerHelper('with', function(object, options) {
// invoke the sub-template passed as a block to the with helper with the object parameter
return options.fn(object);
});

And its usage:

{{#with person}}
Name: {{name}}
{{/with}}

This means that you can build arbitrary control structures and iterators in the host language and expose them to Handlebars.
Documentary about thorium as an alternative nuclear fuel
It's interesting to me that this is not caused by European countries being in bad shape (most have a lower debt to GDP ratio than the US, although there are of course other indicators).

The problem is the perception of a problem and that leads to higher bond yields and that is what leads to this real problem.

I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but it seems the timing of the downgrades of Greece, Portual, and Spain by US rating agency was quite perfect to cause exactly this effect. It seems at least "dubious".
I don't hate the IT dept.
Medicare and Medicaid are such large payers that the decisions they make move the rest of the market. Second, at some point most Americans are eligible for one program or the other if for no other reason than the good fortune of old age.
Around here in Oregon, I've seen a fair amount of similar stuff over a few decades. A big company moves into the area. Everyone is thrilled to be building the new facilities. Then, a few locals are hired, a few skilled employees are brought in from their other areas, and everyone else is left scratching their heads.

After a few years, the municipal tax break comes to an end. The big company needs new technology anyway, so it's cheaper just to build a new facility in a new town with new tax breaks, than it is to upgrade the existing one.
Most people don't even know there's a problem. I'm from Denmark, which is in the EU and has a currency that's pegged to the Euro, and it isn't even a top story in newspapers here. It's too complicated, and neither journalists nor a general audience understand the issue or its consequences.
This is probably the first time I've ever cares about "crowdsourcing" or his ugly brother-in-law, "cloudsourcing". However, I can't help but imagine why they want a solution for this. Seems like Cold Wat-era spook stuff.
How many people are using those visas to enter those countries?

Meanwhile, how many people are emigrating from those countries to the United States, under the current United States system? (I know quite a few recent immigrants from the United Kingdom and from Ireland in my community.)
Regarding the grocery stores... Layout changes from time to time, often in subtle ways such as (locally, this happened several months ago) the chilled juices being swapped with the chilled raw meats. They were back-to-back, in adjacent aisles. However, this would cause people to have to go searching for these relatively highly sought products.

This, in turn, would lead them past special offers and other 'impulse purchase' shelves. It keeps people in the store for longer, which may lead them to spend more money.

I don't believe it's in a grocery stores interests to get people in and out as soon as possible, so don't expect their cooperation ;)
I wanted something even simpler than Lamson. I think a good analogy would be that Lamson is to Rails, as smtproutes is to Sinatra -- hence the title.
This is a much more sensible, balanced and rational look at the issue. Why and how are people like you not writing these articles?

It frustrates me to no end reading these potentially influential articles written by ignoramuses and self described tech gurus.
In every other country there is a central government who have a department of immigration who accept applications from outsiders and judge them on their experience, qualifications, education etc.

How many of those countries have a net INFLOW of immigrants from the United States? How many have a net outflow of immigrants to the United States, under the current United States system?
If more turk tasks were like this one, I'd probably consider putting some free time into it. That was actually sort of fun.
I think most people understand that lower interest rates mean it's easier to afford a larger mortgage or car loan.

That being said, the beauty of free markets is that individual agents don't have to understand macro (or even micro) economics to make good decisions: Prices provide all the information they need. Interest rates, materials cost, labor cost, dealer margin... who cares? All that matters is whether I think it's worthwhile to make a $300/month payment for this car.

That's why relatively stable prices are important. Uncertain future prices make the cost/benefit trade-off of economic decisions too complex for the average person to make rational choices.
then those countries should be receiving the benefits of immigrant-entrepreneurs and now be hotbeds of innovation because of it. it doesn't seem like that's happening.
This is a hilarious, almost satirical level of entitlement. "I will copy your music if you don't perfectly support my extremely uncommon desktop environment and browser combination, I'm not willing to put in the slightest bit of effort, oh, and I can only offer Monopoly money. What!? That's somehow a problem!? ASSHOLES!"

Honestly, keep your money. I don't think they even want it, $20 bucks says you'll demand a refund right after because you can't grab them in APE or FLAC format anyways. People as picky and demanding as you are never satisfied.
I don't really think lytro is that big a deal.

1. The big advantage I see is that there is no need to focus, but auto-focus is becoming really quick these days.

2. I can't find a picture where I feel like changing the focused object after taking the shot. I focused on something because I wanted it that way.

3. Aside of the focusing, an SLR gives you way more control.

Lytro however, is affordable and could still sell well.
101domain are complete scammers. A few friends of mine wanted to get a .so domain when they went to auction this past April. 101domain didn't even bother to go to auction... but did try to take their money.
Could London Become the Tech Capital of Europe?
I will definitely attend this, looks very interesting!
The Internet: Triumph or Tragedy of Innovation?
As a resident of Los Angeles, I don't see why we are funding this project ahead of advancing L.A.'s pathetic rail/subway system.

Traffic in L.A. is so bad during rush "hour" (which lasts several hours) that you can't travel by car faster than walking speed. It routinely takes 30+ minutes to travel 3 miles or so. Car is your only option in most locations.

The state would benefit from a solid metro system in L.A. FAR more than one between L.A. and S.F.

I can only hope that this metro will link Downtown L.A. to West L.A. and spur local metro development.
I do believe these kind of behaviours are what makes Mailgun sexy.
I feel like the US is the opposite of an "agile" government.

Yes. That is intentional by the design of the federal Constitution. A friend of mine, an engineer, was discussing American politics with me and another friend, a mathematics teacher, one day. The mathematics teacher decried the inefficiency of United States government. The engineer replied, "I'm an engineer. The one thing I'm afraid of is EFFICIENT government." Many Americans are strongly in agreement with Henry David Thoreau that "That government is best which governs least."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Disobedience_(Thoreau)#.2...
Just do a view-source on the unsolved version of this page:

http://unshred.recollect.com

It seems fairly simple for something that gives so much utility.
Git Pop looks like it can help you see garbas' repo. It trimmed the list of repos from 335 to 7.

http://gitpop.heroku.com/?url=https://github.com/msanders/sn...

Although I agree that something like this should be built into Github.
There's a rule that applies to pretty much anyone in any organization in any industry: if you don't really know what you're talking about, you shouldn't do much of the talking. This applies to both sides of any conversation.

If IT will listen to and understand customers, and if customers do the same when looking at IT, then things go well.

But IT is the type of job where "the same" job description can exist at companies that do radically different things. You may hire IT people that have no background whatsoever in your company's specific area. It is imperative that IT new hires be people who are willing and able to learn a lot.

In my experience the "hate" for IT comes only when dealing with people that have no interest in what you actually need: people who are convinced their policy or "solution" is brilliant.
There should be a collection of Jay Maisel sayings published as a book. Throw in a couple of Arnold Newman quips, and you've got a bestseller :)

All humor aside, there is much wisdom in these sayings. W.Eugene Smith's "Available light is any damn light that's available!" comes to mind.

I think technological development in photography is both a blessing and a curse. Sometimes it gets in the way of taking really great photos, despite its intentions.
agreed, by 2033 it's going to be a disaster here if no solutions are completed by then.
You're talking about a post-scarcity society when a growing portion of Americans can't even put food on the table or a roof over their head.

What are the actual numbers here? How does this situation compare with other countries in the world?

The huge majority of Americans have, if anything, excessive food on their tables, and the great majority of Americans live in houses with sounder roofs over more square feet of floor space than people in most other countries. Why should Americans feel any urgency about changes in immigration policy when they know that most people who might like to come to the United States will instantly have more access to food and housing as soon as they set foot in America?
To Develop Expertise, Motivation is Necessary but Insufficient
I think tlammens said it best in the discussion from 6 hours ago:

"headlines like this are the cause of a recession rather than the facts behind it."

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3280507

Not to be a negative nancy, but these discussions are really starting to bore me ... not because the underlying issues aren't important but because at this stage many vested parties are overhyping the issue.
I will give you URLs of car dealers in USA for $ 5
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Sleep Attractiveness is a 2011 Quotes sexual excitement movie published and focused by Julia Leigh.
The video is amazing. There is more information in the link at the bottom of the article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/15835017
RoR
What website/book is best to learn RoR?
Yeah, definitely. Mailgun is one of the cooler services I've seen being built on top of email.

For those who haven't heard of Mailgun, it basically lets you setup HTTP webhooks that fire as a result of SMTP events. Great service for letting you compose your own email-centric applications :)
In your first paragraph, you're assuming that there are predetermined rules for what a good photo represents. You even mention a mysterious "mood."

In the second, you hit the nail on the head. The only thing that truly matters is whether the photographer likes their own photos, and if the people important to him like their photos.

If this doesn't happen, in the first case, they will seek to improve their images, and will naturally come by the same information that you and me consider defines "good" photos.

In the second, they may either care that others dislike their images (in which case, see above), or they may disregard their opinions and keep taking the same quality of photos (which we may subjectively judge as "good" or "bad," among other nuances).
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[AFTER EDIT: I'm withdrawing an earlier statement in the first posting of this comment after doing some fact-checking prompted by the reply below. Thanks. I'll look up some more analysis of the current policy and its historical origins over the next few days. The sentence below was the last sentence in the original version of this comment.]

It's regrettable that today skepticism at the border is so general--surely most visitors to the United States, including you, mean no harm to the United States--but there are legal problems with being selective about whom to interrogate, so almost every visitor is questioned.
They did this a few months ago and it didn't work (discount was not there at checkout).
Because USD aren't legal tender in the Eurozone, so you couldn't actually buy anything with them. You could change your euros into pounds and move to Britain, except your job, family, friends, and so forth are still back home (and once everyone gets that idea, it's not going to work for a million reasons).

Now if you're talking about people with investments in EUR who could switch that over to USD, well yeah, the exchange rate doesn't seem to have crashed. Hm, can you short a currency somehow?
People understand when you start talking about the unemployment rate.
Horrible article that somehow tries to make a distinction between left- and right-wing terrorism while there is none, and then uses that presumed distinction to support its point of view while there could be plenty of other reasons why, for example, there were no engineers in the Baader-Meinhof gang.

The psychology of young men who are resentful, antisocial, borderline delusional, and prefer violence to other means of political influence is so similar that attempts to make a distinction between the left and the right come out as either laughable or politically motivated.
For the last two years I worked on autonomous cars. The one thing everyone in our company agreed on, regardless of political persuasion, was that robo-cars were going to thunder fuck the high speed rail. A 2033 deadline makes this all but certain.
That was strikingly similar to a comment I read just recently...
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