skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's interesting that this was covered by Reason and that liberty/oppression is apparently part of the theory now. I wondered why it wasn't mentioned when I first encountered Haidt's ideas, because it seemed to me that would leave libertarians valuing the same things as liberals (fairness and (lack of) harm), but different interpretations of those values. That's how I had felt when taking that test, anyway: I felt that my ideals were coherent and well-defined, but it showed up very much like Mangu-Ward's results, as if I were a less-moral liberal.

Edit: typo.
make way over to machine at the end of the bar

Really? Here in Portugal portable payment terminals are nearly ubiquitous. The rest is very true, though.
That's my guess. Or else they'll announce that they're starting a space program!

My understanding is that ably $66 billion is offshore. I really expected them to sit on the cash until the US government gave them some sort of tax amnesty
BBC's Wild China series is one of the most awesome documentaries I've ever watched.

Coincidentally, it was the first series I watched when I got my Netflix account :).
In Canada uncontrolled airspace are the areas not in an aerodrome and goes up to 1,500 feet (?), I forget the exact height, that's where radio controlled planes, hangliders, ultra-light aircraft, hot air balloons can go without needing a pilot's license or special permit.

If there was some device floating or flying there but not in controlled airspace or a danger to other aircraft it is perfectly legal for it to be there.
PirateBay takes cloud computing literally, experiments with airborne drones
I know it's not feasible but I would love for them to become a telephone service provider.
I've always wanted to build a replica of the Z1

http://www.pcgameshardware.com/screenshots/original/2008/12/...

It was a mechanical, binary computer. It ran at 1 Hz, had 1400 bits of memory, and it could add, subtract, multiply and divide. It even had a control unit which means it could run real computer programs. A 22 bit floating point multiply took 10 clock cycles.

And all of that in a completely mechanical system!
The “Twitter Mafia” Poised to be Silicon Valley’s Next Great Network
US startups/small business owners: who are you using for your business checking account?

I had my business and personal accounts with Fifth Third for many years but had to switch to Bank of America when I moved to a state where 5/3 didn't have locations. Now that I'm back in Chicago, I'm looking to switch away from BoA due to their ridiculous fees and questionable business practices.

I have to make check deposits once or twice a week, so small credit unions are probably out of the question. The one good thing about BoA was that its ATMs accept check deposits by scanning them without filling out deposit slips and they have locations everywhere, so I've only had to deal with their tellers like twice in the past year and a half.
It would be very difficult to jam a CDMA signal.
How are they planning on powering these devices? The original article doesn't mention . . .

Solar seems the most obvious choice (to me).
I would wonder a lot about air quality – radon accumulation or other local equivalents. Might not be worse than fumes and wear traces from other modern building materials, though.
Its just a semi replacement for Google code search. To be honest, its just something I play with. If something comes from it great, if not im not terribly worried about it.
great, instead of hiding those proxies in some random apartment complex with a fibre optic connection, you're putting them up in the sky for all to see - I doubt this post is serious. and btw. what about the ground receivers? your local law enforcer can take those down pretty easily and I imagine if you're gonna send 100Mbps thru the air, somebody's gonna pick up on that pretty easily.

if I was piratebay, I'd rent a cheap appartment somewhere in downtown zurich (switzerland is unlikely to take down filehosters (rapidshare is located here as well)), get one of those cheap fibre optics connections (check under: http://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/content/ewz/de/index/telecom/ewz... ) and install your servers in there. you get 100 mbps up for about 200$ a month. admitted it's still an expensive setup, but that would be some reliable hosting.
These days Java seems to become one of the choices to do system programming in a different area/level:

HBase, Hadoop, Cassandra, GWT tools, MQ, App Servers (Jetty, Tomcat, GlassFish, etc), EhCache.

Unless if people categorized the above software as non-system-programming.
I agree with that. Good writing should sound like spoken language. One of the classic mistakes of beginning writers is to use excessively formal diction, e.g. to use connectives like "furthermore" that they'd never use when speaking.
What about .int?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.int

Also .eu is international, i.e. not a single country, although a single legal jurisdiction
A nice permanent exhibit in the engineering and technology museum in Berlin testifies to him being well known in Germany.
I should mention that the current boost.thread (v.1.49.0) doesn't provide a simple way to change the priority or scheduling of a thread.

You have to do it thru the underlying system-specific handle obtained by boost::thread::native_handle().
I agree with the general argument that ideas are best capture in writing but I think there are some important points that are left out in this piece:

1) When you are listening to a talk/speech, you are hearing information at the speed which the speaker chooses. Less time is given to process individual concepts unless you're able to rewind. When you are reading, time is less of a factor. Now think about what this means for writing vs. speaking.

2)The role of the spoken word in teaching should be highlighted. Some people learn better when they hear something. One great example are the talks on the site The Khan Academy. Information is being conveyed in spoken and visual terms to thousands every day and writing is more of an afterthought.

3) I was once given the privilege of delivering the graduation speech to my university class. Before I prepared my speech, I asked the college president what advice he had on speaking to such a large audience of peers and parents. His response was this: "Just have a conversation with your class." I took this to heart and thought what message would resonate with my classmates who had worked hard during their academic careers. Now many were going to go out into the workforce and this undoubtedly would bring anxiety, confusion and excitement. Tapping into this emotion, I constructed the speech's core idea to be a simple one: Build yourself a career worth retiring from. It's no coincidence that I was able to create a speech only after I wrote out my thoughts and got feedback from the people that I trust. Writing the speech took 5 days, practicing and perfecting the speech took 2 weeks.

The point I want to make is that writing and speaking are best used in tandem. You'll never know what you want to say until you can write what you think. At the same time, after you have written it down, telling others your idea in the form of speaking is the best way to tweak your idea and get feedback. Perhaps in the entrepreneurial world, that's why we want to see people pitch their ideas in public. Think about all the serendipitous/transformative moments that have occurred when people pitch their ideas through speaking. Surely, this is a skill which members of the YC Community can do better to embrace as well as strive to improve.
The proposed system still has a very weak point, the drone-controll-station and land/take off spots. The government or the MAFIAA will simply intercept the drones on takeoff/landing. Wasnt it in the USA where a law was passed a few months ago to prohibit civil drones in the air, or at least "regulate" drone-flying? Sending stuff up in the air will be a crime.
The discussion on the last time this was submitted : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=927757
My two worthless cents: an acquisition. Who they'll acquire is anyone's guess...a carrier (probably not), a content provider (maybe), or something more technical (my insane guess: ARM).

Not that I know more than anyone else, but I don't feel Apple really paying a dividend out. They've never really seemed too beholden to shareholders in the past (well, the Steve Jobs past anyway), and I think they'd rather invest the cash in something that would benefit the business more. It's not as if the share price is in a bad place, after all!
That might be acceptable for your personal information, but for a startup? Let's see what that does to your conversion rate.
I think this is an area that is screaming for innovation.

Top problems with excel:

* Much of building a spreadsheet model is copy and paste programming, either literally, or aided and abetted by the ability to "fill"
* you can't easily diff different versions of a workbook to see how the code has changed.

I'm sure there is more, but I haven't had to really do much in Excel lately, so I've blocked out a lot.
The deficiency with AND queries due to term based partitioning reminds me of a hack I did a few years ago trying to build a basic IR system on simpledb:

http://codingthriller.blogspot.com/2008/04/simpledb-full-tex...

Of course, I was backed into this corner by the various constraints at the time, and this was just a fun hack. It sounds a bit precarious to consider using Riak for text search, at least compared to something like Solr, if it truly has issues with the basic bread and butter of search like sorting by recency and conjunctions. (of course I am only going on what is in this post, I have no experience with Riak)
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This usually requires a sort of "pop" or "business" angle on your speaking.

An anecdote: I got an email after my Old Spice speech from somebody who charges $30k a speech. He said "That was good, topical, and funny. If you want to do more like that, get an agent. You will get gigs."
let's hope not, because stock buy backs can be interpreted as a signal that management thinks tremendous earnings growth is behind the company.
I will eat my shoe if Apple buys Twitter.

Edit: In light of this post (http://dcurt.is/100-billion-units-of-strategy) I'll add that I will also eat my shoe if Apple buys Netflix.
What a difference a title makes...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3720699
> Anyway, what I'm trying to get at is: Bank of America is not evil. They just hire the dumbest, cheapest people they can possibly find, and the result is ... predictable.

The result is ... getting payed $37 billion a year in bonuses. That's pretty damn smart if you ask me.
> you'll probably give it a name via the variable

Variables are easier to name than the more general notion of class or type (being specific to what is immediately at hand and thus not a distraction), which I think was the original point.

And even assuming that my structures will be named is assuming too much. Consider common uses of the fold function, e.g. which act on the pair of (accumulated-value, item). It's common that the pair isn't named. It's parts are named usually, but that's beside the point, I wasn't forced to name the structure itself, much less create a "AccumulatedSumWithNextItem" class.
A standard keylogger would do the trick, I guess: just store the timestamp along with the key pressed, register yourself to the OS as a keyboard device and then replay the keys back. How hard could that be? The only plausible response I can think of is to go the HDMI route and force keyboard manufacturers (and the OS) to only recognize cryptographically sound connections.
Proposal to tax Angel investment in India
Why?

I've read that they offer few benefits, but I've never heard this explanation. I also don't see how it makes sense for a company in their position?
How is it that credit cards can be used anonymously?
What do we have now if not an actual civilization?
Skimming is only a problem for magnetic stripe readers, which at least here in Portugal are increasingly rare.

Chip based readers are safe, since the chip actually performs cryptographic operations itself - the private key is never copied out.
I swear it's Apple's only choice, throw up your hands and raise your voice.. monorail!
Speaking to a technical conference
I'm sure they'll find some countries where simple air balloons by citizens will be allowed. And the real way to go ahead is to think about launching a satellite...
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In the UK I often fly Ryanair who due to falling under the Irish Aviation Authority have been allowing the use of electronic devices while the fasten seat-belt light is of (although, not phones) for several years.
You seem to not be listening very well.

I talked about force. I think you disagree with me but you don't say so directly.

Who are you saying is or isn't using force? What did I say that you disagree with?

Did you get the wrong idea that I was defending the journal companies? So your angry emotions got the better of you? I didn't defend them. I said the researchers are even better than the article suggests. As far as I can tell that puts us on the same side, yet you're pissed off and ranting at me.
Twitter wouldn't even put a significant dent into the nearly $100B in cash they have. They'd still have ~$90 billion left over after buying out Twitter.
Obviously this guy and his readers know nothing about math. Th number of possible images (400 by 400 with 24-bit color) is in fact 16,777,216^(400*400), which is an outrageously huge number. You can reduce this slightly by accounting for symmetry.
Here's a blog post written in reaction to this one: Thinking out loud about the compiler in a pure OO world. http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2012-0...
I'm really hoping apple will try to become an ISP and revamp our infrastructure.
And how do you propose to do that? Pre-crime?
Apple solved 4G (+retina) on the iPad with a 70% larger battery.

But I think they'll solve it differently on the iPhone ("4GS"?): using Cortex-A15 + PowerVR G6200 (Rogue), both drastically underclocked, to give the same performance (or slightly better) than now. The A15 has x2 the efficiency of the current A8; the G6200 is x5 (five) as efficient as the current SGX543. Performance does not seem to be particularly an issue since the 4S went double core, so instead "spend" this improvement on power consumption. It will be hard for tech-focused competitors to make this trade-off.

4G efficiency will also improve slightly (or maybe a breakthrough); perhaps a slight increase in battery; and they might even delay the next iPhone until 4G is efficient enough. After all, it has limited coverage so far (I was surprised they put it in the iPad, since it's of no benefit to most users so far).
Solar in Scandinavia?

One of the real problems with solar is that you need a lot of surface, which means more weight, which means more power needed...
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I wonder if there is any value in the comments from the second time around or if rereading the first set of comments is sufficient? Maybe a double blind study is neccessary.
how many percent of customers would the other carriers lose if apple made the iphones/ipads apple-carrier-only?
Thank you for this. This is exactly how I feel about programming, and about love. I’m 21, finishing my fourth and final year of college, and have been programming since around 10 as well, so far as I can recall. When I started, it was just something I did because it was fun to make stuff—web pages, games, toy languages, that sort of thing. It wasn’t until probably 2006 that I realised how it had grown on me, so much that I really don’t want to imagine my life without it. Any skills or knowledge I have gained are owed to the obsession of one smitten.

To quote Tim Minchin (If I Didn’t Have You):

“If I may conjecture a further objection, love is nothing to do with destined perfection. The connection is strengthened, the affection simply grows over time, like a flower, or a mushroom, or a guinea pig, or a vine, or a sponge, or bigotry. Or a banana. And love is made more powerful by the ongoing drama of shared experience and synergy, and symbiotic empathy. Or…something.”

That about sums up my feeling on the matter.
I don't prevent people from trying stuff, I just don't ant them to keep with a different IDE. They try it for a while, after that either we try it with the rest of the team an decide to adopt it all together or we reject it.

I don't know what is the problem. We just adopted New Relic with this method, removing pingdom + a bunch of custom stuff after someone proposed it, tried it, extended the perimeter of the trial and then it was good to go. We delete the other stuff, and it's our new common tool.

We did the same with our deployment scripts, where a guy started in his corner, but after a while we decided to go whith it and now it's out of question to use any other way to deploy an instance unless we do a collective decision to change.

Concerning the workflow, one guy tried a new testing tool, it appeared good, we now use it. That's it, everybody uses the smae testing framework, the same monitoring tool, the same IDE, the same deployment system. And they can do trial on the side, we'll extend the trial if the first guy testing the tool thinks it's a good stuff for the team and then we'll decide together to adopt it or not. Mostly if the tool is not deemed good the first time, the others won't really ear about it, and if it's good and the extended trial is good, I'll ask we delete something else if possible, try to "trade" one tool/library for another and limiting the entropy.
Notice how the posts that are downvoted have no replies, because the downvoters cannot argue their case. How sad.
Good speaking, like good writing, is about narrative. They are delivered in different ways and each approach is powerful in its own right. A good speaker is often able to get ideas through to a broader audience more effectively than the written word, and definitely you can connect to your audience in ways you can't in writing.

It seems somewhat ridiculous to say one is better that the other. Both are important, both can be effective. Some are good at one or the other. A smaller number are good at both. Personally, while I love reading essays (including PG's), listening to a great speaker can be inspiring and present many ideas and points to ponder.
first time I see "cheap" associated with Zurich :-)
Presumably because the transaction would be logged and he would get immediately caught.
I use Quickcursor -- you just setup a global hotkey and it will open the contents of any text widget in the editor of your choice.

http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/quickcursor
You make a good argument for choosing one style and sticking to it, but I don't see how it helps you choose between the different styles here.
1. Hardware that batches DMA and replays it: a full device reset when the driver first initializes (before enabling bus mastering) should fix this, right?

2. Drivers that depend on this: which ones? Are they hard to fix?

Obligatory: I'm a kernel developer so I may be overly optimistic, but isn't this a security problem, at least in one sense? (That is, a malicious device may try to use bus mastering to attack a running kernel.)
Apple and Tim Cook have made it clear that they have more cash than what is required to run the business. Apple is spending billions on data infrastructure, manufacturing, pre-purchasing components and expanding retail operations; despite all these investments, they still have more cash than what they need.

They will likely generate another $50B in cash this calendar year. Even if they want to maintain the $100B war chest, they could pay out ~$50/share/year. I think a share repurchase or dividend (whatever they think will return more value to the shareholders) is highly likely.
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Sure, if all you want to do is add and subtract, multiply and divide, then that's all you need.

But if you want to work in machine learning, or driverless cars, or marine navigation, or any one of the hundred really, really cool things people do with computers, you need to be really, really comfortable with a wide range of stuff that's beyond addition and subtraction.

But sure, if you just want to do the programming equivalent of flipping burgers, percentages are about as far as you need to go.
What if there were a $1 fee to post to HN?
Why disabling commenting on digital news are so dreadfully wrong
It would be nice if these combinations had permalinks so they were bookmarkable. This way, if the service providers' change their underlying URLs, this site's permalinks could still be useful.
With some helium and a few solar cells they can stay in the air until they fail. No need to land them.
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I'd like to see them take $10b and create a huge amount of free educational content on the Internet. In the long run, this would drive enough sales to be a worthwhile commercial decision for Apple, but it would also make the world a much smarter, more peaceful, and more economically vibrant place.

Particularly, I'd like to see this content available in Spanish, Arabic, various subcontinental languages, and Chinese. There's been some progress in English, but not a whole lot in other languages.

Online (free) education is right where technologies usually are before apple swoops in and makes the Apple version -- concept proven, but somewhat painful user experience (no one could look at coursera, khan academy, mitx, etc. and call them Apple-quality UX).

It would also be a great way to deploy part of the $70b or so which is trapped outside the US. As much of the US portion of the cash as possible should be returned to shareholders as a dividend (assuming the tax code doesn't change in 2013 to change dividend taxation from 15% to 39.6+3.8%; if so, a buyback makes much more sense, or just holding cash).
I saw Paul speak at the first Startup School in 2005, where he literally read his talk on stage from an essay he held in his hand. I saw him again at PyCon 2012, and he's improved a lot. But this article makes me think that he still sees speaking as a kind of poor delivery mechanism for an essay. They're really different beasts.

I wrote a longer article about what goes into good public speaking for a technical audience over here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3721333
Because it's frequency hopping? I'm not an expert, but I thought that was only hard with a single antenna. If you can broadcast noise on all the channels, it's still jammable. No?
that's what the wednesday afternoon is for, changing our way of working. But we sometimes do it before.
We've a problem with our python formatting guidelines, and I'll bring the issue tomorrow I think (we've to decide for spaces or tabs and camelcase or underscore, since it's not our only language, we've to arbitrage between a common rule for all our languages, or the usual rule of each language).
Monthly dividend. End of story.