skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love bookshops that let you do that. Many near me even have in-store cafes, but I do wonder if this is effective in increasing sales or if the coffees subsidise those people who read the book but not buy.
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which is called a continuation
A republic can be a democracy. They are not opposites nor are they synonyms.
I wouldn't necessarily expect white space devices to work that well. Since 700MHz signals propagate so well you'll have to worry about interference coming from a block away instead of next door. And if the device mistakenly thinks it detects a TV signal it will shut off.
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His name is Michael Badarnik, and unfortunately he was the Libertarian presidential candidate in 2004. I watched a 8 hour lecture he gave on the legal aspects of the constitution. How many candidates can claim to be able to do that?
That's not a product of idiots voting. It's a product of compromise.

The US system, favours a binary choice. You vote A or B. Australia (where I live) is even more this way. It's a stable sort of a system. Governments are fairly powerful. There is less need for the shaky post election coalitions of different systems. But it comes at a cost: Compromise.

Republicans (from what we hear down here) get votes from social/moral conservatives, religious conservatives, social libertarians, nationalists, militarists, & lots of other subgroups. Then you get these smelted into traditional voter groups. So an rural area in some part of the US with a certain religious, moral, social & historic heritage might be generally sympathetic towards a militarist, nationalist, socially conservative & religious party. In the US of 2008, this is the Republicans.

Along comes a decade where the region stands to gain from certain policies. For technical reasons, these policies are at odds with the part of a political theory at the centre of their parties history. This is the part of the political theory that supports less government intervention in their lives, a lot of freedom over their property, personal lives, & a lot of other stuff that they like. But the link between economic policy & individual liberty is very academic. They just want the damned price of canola to stay put.

Under a different political system (say Italy's), this issue could cause a party split. Lets say, the ICP (Idaho Conservatives Party) is formed. They put a bit more emphasis on this & a bit less on that but stay close to the former party line. The difference is they support the subsidies which benefit their voters. They join the coalition that the Republicans now need to form government because three of four of these parties split. This allows the ICP to focus mostly on subsidies & a few other issues that are important to their electorate.

The ICP is free to say they mostly leave issues other then sex education, subsidies & genetic patenting to the Republicans. The Republicans are free to admit that they don't like subsidy A, but it's a small price to pay to form Government. Otherwise they would have to get a different party on board with different compromises or reform the government. Theoretically, this allows parties to stay loyal to core principals.

Deals get done either way. The US's system is more stable. But you could argue it's less Democratic. Minority opinions are under represented. Voters make bigger compromises & get a less granular control over what their vote means. This is probably felt more now that there are several divisive issues on the agenda.
Although it doesn't affect your argument, I feel compelled to mention that cable TV isn't over IP; it uses MPEG transport stream directly over QAM.
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I said "only." And just for the record, I've read all of Hofstader's books, not just the popular/mainstream one.

EDIT: Ok, not all, just the ones in English. ;-)

And a further
EDIT: all three of those books are about "Art" more or less. I can't see how someone who read those books can't read fiction. So I'm guessing you missed "only."
One supposed explanation is that Apple only provides beta stuff (and docs for betas) to paying developers to weed out people who aren't serious developers.
I don't know if it's worth it. I attended WWDC and by far the more interesting and educational experience were the labs and networking, and the videos are close to bordering on "meh". Useful if I want to learn something but I don't know if I'd pay up to $1000 for them, and I most likely could just live without it and asking questions on forums/mailing lists/irc.

I do believe there are some sessions available on ADC on iTunes from older WWDCs that you can watch, as well as some iPhone videos one may find handy that are all free.
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There's a limit to how much work can be completed in one cycle. There's also a limit to the complexity of the function, given that the programmable datapath is fixed size.

I also wonder how well this approach would work when you're working with an algorithm where the data access pattern is as important as CPU.

It doesn't help. For that you need a programmable memory controller.
In Australia it is.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-trice-27-o...
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/police-prepare-for-unres...
http://www.democrats.com/node/18092

Hmm. No mention of Fox, and that's without going into the lefty blogosphere.
If we did everything the rest of the world wanted, we'd all be speaking German or Russian. The world wanted to appease Hitler, the world wanted to appease Stalin. It took Americans to actually stand up for liberty to bring down the great monoliths of evil.

If we did what the world wanted, we'd be letting the Islamists do whatever they wanted: Cutting off the heads of infidels, cutting off every womens genitals and spreading hate.
Where'd this vote hypnotoad meme come from? I've seen it pop up a couple places today.
This is it exactly. When I first started at my current company my boss and I did not share a first language. And only just barely a second language. But we did share a sense of imagination, and we were astounded many times to see that in a meeting with several people present, he and I would be easily layering our ideas, while the other people in the room (all sharing his first language) needed to see very explicit drawings before hesitantly seeming to see what we were seeing.

Without imagination, the world is entirely composed of that which you have already seen. How boring.
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There are two main pieces to our perception of the world - the bare facts and the larger picture you get from combining the facts. The larger picture is more universal than the bare facts, so it is more useful than a use case.

Plus, and this is often ignored today, big pictures are not entirely mutually exclusive. To use a comp sci analogy let's look at search algorithms:

Use cases are more similar to deterministic partial solution searches (backtracking depth first search, breadth first search) for which the more interesting problems are intractable. Additionally, such search algorithms are very self contained, and it is usually quite difficult to combine them, making these algorithms a one time tool.

On the other hand, big pictures are more similar to stochastic solution spaces searches, which won't get you the best solution, but they'll get you a pretty good one much, much more quickly. And since solution space searches all interface with the same space, they can be mixed and matched depending on what is most useful for the problem domain. For example, with genetic algorithms, once you can make your problem domain fit a standard GA representation, the whole of GA theory can be applied.
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Is it possible for people to surpass their hardware limits, like self adaptive FPGAs, or are all our limits hardwired?
Most of the blog exploits on the web (including the one in the article) seem to be focused on WordPress. Are there are a large number of people exploiting vulnerabilities in other blogging platforms, like Movable Type?
There's no way that advice given within the last week can be delivering big wins already. I would be very keen, however, to hear people who have been using the ideas outlined in the long-term. There are no quick wins in promotion, because you have thousands of other people against you, and getting people's attention is hard.

One downside to your particular situation is that your app is both soccer related and relating to reasonably competitive matches (that is, not just a kick around, but actually "organizing players" and the like). In this case, I'd say your app is so specific to a certain demographic that you need to narrow in on that demographic very tightly and focus on it alone. You're less likely to find your ideal market in general areas online and on highly specific forums, Facebook groups, real life, etc.
This is interesting particularly as Papermaster has expertise in chip design.
More and more arrows pointing to apple doing something big in chip design.

What are the implications of another viable mobile chip design competing with ARM?

Just my two cents as to what Apple is up to...
I agree. The best products are more about their potential, i.e. the internet, than a particular concrete, killer app. But it is easiest to understand a killer app and hardest to understand something's true potential.
Barack Obama to become next president of the United States
I too enjoy reading. I commute and read books on the train.
I also read a bit before going to bed and otherwise opportunistically. I read multiple books at once, and this can be a problem. I have sworn not to buy any more books from Amazon this year. I borrow books from my local library.

My favorite book this year is The Naked Ape by Desmond Morris, because it made me think about people and their behavior from a new (to me) perspective. His autobiography is also good fun.

Why do I read? Reading properly is like entering into a fully immersive virtual world, where your imagination paints the pictures, sounds, etc. You also get to learn new stuff and when reading fiction or autobiography experience many worlds vicariously.
"World" != "your preselected hateful minority"
> And expensive, capped, government controlled internet.

Geographic reasons for the capped and expensive internet. Long undersea cable to the US. Historically we have paid for traffic both to and from the US.

Government controlled? How? At least we can still play poker online or bet on the US elections. What restrictions do you mean?

> Which the government wants to add an extensive government firewall to.

Yep this would suck but it's not operating yet and can still be stopped.

> And logging/surveillance of which websites people visit.

Um no. You'd be thinking of the NSA there mate.

> But who want's freedom when you can have sausages? ;)

I'd welcome a legitimate comparison of the virtues of the Australian as opposed to the US system of democracy.
I have a 3M MPro110. It's 640x480 (vs. 480x320) and about $350 (vs. $430). Also pocket-sized. I don't see the comparison.
Flagged.

Now this is _exactly_ the kind of thing that needs to get killed in order to make it clear that the "no politics" rule ain't kidding. If this doesn't get killed, the site is screwed.
Flagged as well. Not to mention that even though it seems inevitable, we're nowhere near announced victory.
PG says: Unless a political story is big enough to affect hackers, or related to things hackers care about. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=349168

I think this applies.
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Ask YC: Please don't announce any winners before there's *actual* facts behind it...
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It might apply, when it's official.
One of two things will happen. Obama will continue acting like he has the past few months, and lead as a Bill Clinton-style centrist. Or, he will revert to the hard-leftist, communist-sympathizer he has been since his youth. If he's smart, he'll do the former. The end result for the US will be the same either way, and the latter might actually alarm the kids.

ADD:

You know who called it first (that I'm aware?) "Kos" of Dailykos.com. It was over 4 years ago, prior [0] to Obama's ridiculous-yet-acclaimed DNC keynote. Kos said "Obama's the future of the democratic party." And he was right. The media has been extraordinarily careful with Obama in a way that I've never seen.

Example. Howard Dean, for reasons I can't quite understand, was politically destroyed by a crack in his voice that occured during a single speech. The MSM replayed the offending video 1000s of times, for no evident reason.

Obama, by contrast, has an entire lifetime of poisonous associations [1], an obsession with identity politics [2], ludicrous political fiascoes [3], and otherwise snake-oil do-nothingism...but, all we hear is the Messianic stuff.

McCain. I hate him. I really do. For political reasons. But he's an honorable, decent man. And that is what we have rejected. America deserves to suffer.

[0] I'm wrong. It was at the same time as the speech. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/11/3/14550/8880 It's kind of interesting to go through the comments there, so long ago:

It's going to be a pleasure and an honor to vote for that man for President in a few years.

Obama's gives me chills from start to finish

Hawaii, Indonesia, and Kenya (Obama's father's birthplace) are all coffee producing areas. Coffee savvy Democrats should develop and market an "Obama blend" (TOO LATE, but I still see a future in Obama-branded Kool-Aid)

[1] Communists, Terrorists, and Racists. The triple crown!

[2] See "Dreams from my Father"

[3] http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YTQ0YjhlOGVhYjQ0OWRhZjI...

The South Shore African Village Collaborative (SSAVC) was very much a part of the Afrocentric “rites of passage movement,” a fringe education crusade of the 1990s. SSAVC schools featured “African-Centered” curricula built around “rites of passage” ceremonies inspired by the puberty rites found in many African societies
Meditate until you top level pattern matching code is not influencing your low level perception and new patterns are formed based on the true inputs.
This guy is such a straight shooter of a election modeler, that he may as well be the top story. Alternative includes http://www.rocketboom.com/
The Absolutely Necessary Fall of John McCain
Yes, I'm submitting one of my own posts and I apologize in advance. But I feel strongly about this and I was happy with how the post came out so I thought I'd share. Feel free to rip me a new one if you disagree :)

P.S. I know this is pushing the "Hacker News" line as far as what belongs and welcome the mods to smack it down if they wish. But I think the issue of Government Authoritarianism reflects very significantly on tech stuff
target platform is presumably based on the dominance of the platform in the market.

http://www.google.com/trends?q=joomla%2C+wordpress%2C+drupal...
First, I assume this is for the same reason that most viruses are for Windows -- WordPress is one of the most common species in the ecosystem.

Also, If I understand the architecture of Movable Type correctly, it renders much of the site into static pages. I would expect that this tends to reduce the number of points where vulnerabilities would be possible, at least as far as points where it might be exploited via causing it to execute with malicious parameters via an HTTP request. i.e. In Wordpress, every page you load is the result of the execution of some PHP scripts, while in a blog that is rendered to a bunch of static files, it's conceivable that the only thing that unauthenticated users can mess with is the comment system.
It's an absolute rip-off of Tumblr.com.

This is bogus.
I think it's interesting that your reaction, when presented with this information, is to get defensive.
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Perhaps mstefff is a democrat (small d - an advocate of democracy) and doesn't believe in voting within an electoral framework that isn't truly democratic.
I'd go for "Please don't announce any winners".

Seriously, I can get that from any other site. How about one island of tech news, sans US election crap?
Legal plunder, perhaps would be a better term:-) And I would stand by that term as being correct. “Stealing is the unlawful taking of your money” agreed, so why is the constitution not being obeyed? Most of the programs, etc. are not constitutional along with everywhere the government is not obeying the constitution… there is a lot of this from not declaring war, to gold and silver coins. If the rule of law is not being obeyed, or was changed legally, by your own definition, perhaps it is stealing in many forms first of the power reserved for the people or the states.

I didn’t know “The Law That Never Was” was a conspiracy, I thought it was a factual record of what the state’s recorded and what the GSA and government recorded. Perhaps the term of conspiracy is a better label? or you are using a loaded word, to mark an area of taboo. After pushing towards a 100 years of tax/need brainwashing, I don’t know what the affect would be if the 16th was to pass today, I think it would never have passed in 1800, though:-) to say it is moot is like saying because the people would not approve the constitution today, using that document of freedom is moot as well, we should disregard it. I do not believe that would be wise. The more I think about how the rule of law is not being obeyed, in all its forms, the more I think stealing might be better than legal plunder….
I like your case though, thanks for reply
Now I understand the perspective you were writing from. Certainly our inner cities are crumbling. For very specific population groups, quality of life and life expectancy is shockingly bad, and that is indeed the fault of politics.

The US is the only major democracy that seems content to cheer the success of the lucky and laugh at the failure of the rest. Sadly the poorest of the poor have in large part bought this destructive mantra of "self sufficiency" and "freedom" that in real terms means: tough luck if you get hit by a bus!
"... InternshipIN allows employers to make job posts, while also crawling other job boards, such as SimplyHired, for internship-specific listings ..."

While the site is small you might get away with trawling other sites. Scraping will show up on the logs of other sites & could be blocked. What is another way to get "intern" job ads?
Ask YC: Going to switch to django from asp.net, any advice?
I'm going to start working on a couple of web apps and have decided to switch to django. I am most comfortable with c#/asp.net and mssql, but have decided to try out django for a couple of reasons:

1. I want to develop on os x and not boot into windows (as I also have a couple iphone apps I've done, and I hate using windows... just a personal preference)

2. Windows server prices are expensive (even something like mosso)

3. I want to learn something new, I'm getting bored with c#/asp.net

So I wanted to ask if you guys have any advice about django or about switching away from asp.net? I guess I want to know if (in your guys' opinion) making the switch is worth it?
Who would you want as CTO of the US?
Who would you nominate to take the new position of the CTO of the USA that will be created?
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Is this really the interesting part? Obama's odds have moved by about 10% according to Intrade, and by less than 1% according to FiveThirtyEight.
Democracy in Cambridge
The minute Ohio was projected, it was over, statistically. The last hour has been about keeping ratings up, and making the west coast feel like their vote counts.
My identical twin and myself are politically opposite.
That probably depends on where it is. ;)
I have spent all my life in Bangalore, India and I'm nearing 30.

Thanks, this helps in putting your comments in context. My first reaction to your post was that it probably came from someone has not spent too much time here. My bad.
CNN/Fox Projection: Obama wins presidential election.
:)
"It does not surprise anyone when I tell them that the most important tax haven in the world is an island," international tax expert Marshall Langer pointed out in a speech last November. "They are surprised, however, when I tell them that the name of the island is Manhattan."

By OECD standards, we are the largest tax haven in the world. The United States, for example, source:
https://www.reason.com/news/show/34248.html

the power to avoid, adds to freedom, not suggest with 19,000 pages of tax code though....
learn python?
these sorts of machines have been around for awhile. We use them at University Hospital in New Orleans. They're skippy and all, but the virtualization is heavily dependent on the network, and when every doctor, nurse, resident, and med student comes in between 0530 and 0630 to check on every single patient, the added graphics requirements over the network turn simple database queries into tens of seconds between each mouse click.
As I commented on another story, it was over (statistically) the minute Ohio was projected. They just had to wait till polls closed on the west coast, so they could use their exit polls from CA/OR/WA, which everybody on the planet knew were Democrat.
Can they announce a projection while there are open polls?
AP calls Florida for Obama, if he didn't win before when CNN called it, Florida will guarantee it.
Now that that's finally over, back to code! :)
That's a pretty broad question. Rather than talk of switching from asp.net to Django, it's important to just run out and do a few quick and dirty projects to get your feet wet. From there you can make a personal decision about it.

If you're looking to learn new things, instead of just picking up a new framework, I think there is a lot to be said for stringing together your own framework. In that regard, PHP is a really easy way to get started, although the language isn't overwhelmingly gorgeous.

Django does open up some interesting work opportunities, especially it's somewhat over-represented in the small/medium newspaper world.
I agree with the point that the teachers make a huge difference, especially in the formative years. (Not only in math, but all subjects).

I distinctly remember a few who made subjects like Sanskrit, Organic Chemistry, History (that itself is interesting in any case) appeal much more, and never let the curriculum dictate or slow down the learning process of fast moving kids.
All the better when coding and knowing the guy you voted for understands what network neutrality means.
Since the tendency of the kids on the internet is to criticize the establishment, do you think digg and reddit and sites like that are going to start leaning the other way?

For the first time in weeks I saw a story critical of obama on digg.
Ok great - we've all had our fix. No more politricks on HN for 4 more years. :)
and intends to appoint a national CIO
I'd guess they had to wait till the minute the west coast closed, so they could use their exit polls to say CA went democrat.
Fox News is calling it. That means it's safely over.
And overall supports intellectualism.
And as a cabinet member. A CTO sitting at the table with the Sec of Defense and Sec of State.
From someone who didn't vote for you, congrats Obama!

A couple of sources called it (really) once Ohio flipped.

Now it gets interesting. I would beg Obama voters to follow along and read multiple sources as things go forward.

I love politics.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=338507

Lessig is my pick
Hardly news. SchoolRack.com is built by two 18 year-olds.
Yet another outcome correctly predicted by pg's "It's Charisma, Stupid" essay. Although the need to nominate only charismatic candidates hasn't sunk in.