skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A quote from none other than libertarian idol Ludwig van Mises comes to mind:

"If a man has been hurt by being run over by an automobile, it is no remedy to let the car go back over him in the opposition direction."

But the real motivation for the rapid privatisation was not economic growth or stability. Indeed, the article states this:

"Its aim was to guarantee a swift transition to capitalism, before Soviet sympathisers could seize back the reins of power."

In other words, the goal of rapid privatization was to prevent, at any cost, the return of Communism. Was that a good idea, from an economic point of view? Probably not. But an ideology that, several times, nearly plunged the world into a nuclear war, and was responsible for the deaths of over a hundred million people, between the gulags, famines, and the Great Leap Forward, might have generated a bit of fear among the Western countries, who wanted to get rid of Communism as quickly as possible. Similarly, emancipating the slaves destroyed the economy of the South for two decades -- but it was worth it.
So they would be Bath, Bristol, Oxford, Cambridge and perhaps Birmingham / Warwick.

As someone who grew up in Bath (and spent a lot of time in Bristol), let me tell you: you're going to have a very hard time convincing people to move to those cities. There really isn't much going on there.

London might be where people "make a lot of noise but get little done" (citation needed) but it's also the central hub of business, commerce and transport in the country. You can apply everything you just said to New York and Silicon Valley, yet they remain the top places to set up a business in the USA. There are very good reasons for that.
It's extremely frustrating when you want to comment on a different Stack Exchange site but can't due to having no reputation... despite the fact that the new account you made is 'linked' to one on Stack Overflow with thousands of rep.
I remember a friend being excited before Donkey Kong 64's release because he'd heard about the Jetpac sub-game - I wonder if he already had Goldeneye...

I just felt old on realising that the N64, which I remember reading previews of in Edge magazine, is as old now as the 48k Spectrum (treasured artefact of my childhood) was when the N64 came out. It helps a little that I didn't see an N64 in action until 3 years after its Japanese release.
I like the !bang operators because I can get results from Google for specialty searches like maps (!m) and images (!i) right from the address bar in Chrome, but still keep DDG as my primary search engine. Google's results are slightly better, but it hasn't been a big deal for me. I still end up finding what I am looking for.
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Wow, the visual refresh really did you good. Congrats!

And I didn't know that DDG is written in Perl, good looking Perl too.
"Free-as-possible markets ... are better than the alternative[, North Korea]."

That's a nice false dichotomy you've got there.
Stress is probably the worst thing that can happen to you when trying to start. Crushes your immune system and get you sick. Prevents creativity, hell keeps you from doing even mundane and simple tasks well. Makes you hell to interact with your peers, friends and family.

People are always preaching at us to work until our faces fall off, but that's just not sustainable nor productive.
Never before has a piece of software made me wish for a hurricane to ravage my country simply out of curiosity.
If you have thousands of reputation on SO then you should get the 100 point bonus on every site where your accounts are associated. If you don't have it, open a support post on Meta (http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions) and we'll try to see what's up.
Here's one: python list popleft

Third result is: http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html

6th result is: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4426663/how-do-i-remove-t...

Neither one of those contains "popleft".
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I used to participate a lot, but after having ~5 questions go unanswered or only getting shotgun answers, and seeing the general consensus be that a short answer to an easy question is worth more than a long answer to a hard question, I'm not really interested. The reputation isn't of huge interest to me, however the gamification of the site, I think, has led to it being mostly about gamification - It's infinitely easier to find my answer on IRC, reddit, or in meatspace, which should not be the case - SO should be easier than reddit and meatspace for sure.
How does the brain secrete morality
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Cool CSS/JS experiments in online magazine of art, MEGAZINE
Also an awesome story, pics at the end NSFW.
If food gets to expensive more people will trie to make money with food. People will have a bigger insentive to produce, store and consume food in other ways then befor. You advocate one solution. I just trues in markets insentives, People spend moeny on food and the would spend more if needbe. People will sell me food. It may come with reduced life quality in other stuff but thats ok.

If your sure about your solution do a startup.

There are to many variables to accuratly predict ahead so much.
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I guess I always thought it was a fool's errand to contribute to some company's corpus of knowledge which they will surely sell or profit from, and the only reward is an integer somewhere gets incremented. But it turns out the content on StackOverflow is licensed to the community in some way. So, I don't really have an excuse anymore.
A mathematician would install metal doors, walls and furniture.
ratbeard, you really know how to turn this male developer on.
Absolutely. He's doing way better than "nothing".

But you present a false dilemma; it is possible to do some analysis without entering a hyperanalysis spiral of inaction.
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Ask HN: Any recommendations for good, free / open source JS graphing libraries?
Just curious what people are using these days.

In the past I've relied on the Google API, or flot, but wondering what the good folks here are into using.

Thanks in advance for the help
As one of the founders of a new IT start-up in London I can certainly assure everyone that London again has a lot that's positive for creating new companies here.

But this thriving climate of innovation, creativity and new companies is mostly created by those who are part of that group. It's the people in these IT companies, the large group of creative agencies long established in London and those around these groups, those who create things and less by politics or underlying infrastructure. This in itself can be seen as good, but also as endangered when you look at longer term agendas and recent actions by UK politics.

Our biggest concerns currently are actually the stands of UK politics on ACTA, PIPA, their implementations and European counterparts. Instead of "cruising with the flow" the UK should - like with the financial industry - take up this opportunity and safeguard this newly growing and fast driving IT industry and foster its potential by laws that allow for innovation.

One should not forget those who create new innovative solutions - in particular with disruptive solutions - will always be considered as enemies or someone to "lobby against" by those established players who have stopped innovating (or innovating themselves).

Innovation always also means overstepping lines and creating new things by throwing out established assumptions. Over time those become the hurdles the next generations of innovators have to overcome.

We are looking forward to see some of the promises made by UK politicians with regards to London as a tech-hub actually being enacted and this group of young companies protected against malevolent attempts to stifle that growth by established influential(mostly Non-UK)companies that seemingly still continue to believe that their business models from the last century that are sometimes closer to extortion than doing actual business are sustainable by just "paying the right people".

We actually have to come back to a climate and understanding in politics that values the creation of new things similar to the times when the UK was the foremost industrialised nation - and this is quite a while ago.

In completely unrelated news ;-) did you know that you have to wait up to six weeks in London to get a new telephone line (re)-connected thanks to the years of driving up "Shareholder value" with BT (and less spending on engineering or reducing engineering staff by thousands).
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I have no obligation to respond to a raft of talking points from somebody I don't perceive as sincerely interested in having a discussion. I have better things to do.

If you'd like to know my particular positions on this issue, I've commented plenty in this and related threads. If you have some particular sincere question (that is, a non-rhetorical question) about some view I have expressed, feel free to ask.
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I started my career in MS ASP.NET WebForms/MVC, and then recently switched to RoR, and it's obvious that they're mimicking the success of RoR development environment and, more importantly, the culture. Their Nuget packaging system is pretty much RubyGems + Bundler. Last year was the last time I touched MS stuff, and it was pretty raw and not ready for the masses yet. With people like Hanselman and ScottGu pushing the MS culture towards more open, I'm hopeful for the direction of MS's Web stack.
Ugly thought - if "almost all" accesses are Read-Write consistent, maybe an exception list of addresses could be used?

Basically do the 4byte cell approach, and make most of your RAM the "fast" endianness, with some 4byte cells "correct" endianness, because you know they are being accessed in a way that cares. (Since you're interpreting, I'm guessing this is reasonably-easily detectable?)

It does put a "if-addr-on-exception-list" on your mem access path, but if that's a hash lookup it could be OK. If you can further guarantee that your text segments are always fast-endian, then your opcode dispatch loop can still go direct and miss out that test.
It's now GNU IceCat though

Are you sure? http://packages.debian.org/search?suite=default&section=...
Part of using Kickstarter (and IndieGoGo, and the others) is establishing that you're qualified to do what you say you'll do with the crowd's money. He did exactly what he was supposed to do.
Yes, that is true but the training does help _a bit_ (or there is some correlation): Depending on the type of math classes you are taking, you can rapidly ramp up training your mind to think analytically which helps while doing CS. Let me offer one data point: Back in school, I took real analysis and operating systems in the same semester, I could definitely see the grueling work in handling abstractions at the math class help me to easily navigate back and forth up the abstraction layers in the OS course.

On the other hand, I feel software engineering is a slightly different ball game compared to thinking mathematically. E.g. most applied mathematicians who write scripts try not to go overboard on modularizing the code mainly because it is easier to pattern scan with code that fits into a page (and average mathematical models do). Another useful technique is to use the same variable names that were used while deriving the model in the code. While, I am not necessarily defending the practice, I have from painful experience (writing convex optimization code) found that trying to modularize and introduce "meaningful names" to replace those that you just used while deriving out analytically the model and also making sure that your code doesn't go wonky can definitely be a challenge to get right. So yeah, there might be some retraining needed to do at times, depending on the intransigence of the individual involved this might be impossible or fairly easy.
> I suppose if you have a very specific question, it gets the job done. However, in the more traditional forum model, I find the discussion that follows the answer to be far more valuable the answer itself.

In fact, the mission of SO is precisely that: compile as much knowledge as possible in the form of answers to very specific question. There are many forums out there to cover "enrichment", but until SO came around it was significantly more difficult to find answers to specific questions amid the chaff.
Well, sad thing is humans have been creating most of the diseases that have been released into the wild for the past 50 years...

Lyme disease, H1N1(now H1N5-X), etc...

The reason they do NOT cure diseases is because, overpopulation would explode. Cancer isn't cured for this reason but, they certainly love money for a whole bunch more research. The same can be said with HIV/AIDS.

You may think its absurd or wrong in concept but, do the math for yourself...

You think 10-billion people by 2020 is a large number...

If they cured even a single major disease(like cancer), 10-billion would be 20-billion by 2030...

It's an interesting thing to know that humans are responsible for killing ourselves only because, they won't fund technologies for space travel & transforming.

Enjoy being slaves on this watery rock.

;-)
I managed to have a look at it just before it went down (closed due to too much trafic?)

However, the googlecl seems to be rather old and it doesn't even work for me anymore (probably a compatibility issue with python gdata)
The problem is the word "intent". Generally, possession in the home is okay but if you take it out of the home it can be considered prima facie evidence of intent. It is highly dependent on the mood of the state's attorney's office in your jurisdiction. Also, I looked at lockwiki.com and from the looks of it shipping the tools to a non-dealer is illegal anyway, although in practice it is never caught.
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Ask HN: Are we collecting more data, more noise, or more rare events?
I posted this as a blog entry and in quora, but I would also like to hear any thoughts from the hn community on this.

We are in a data splurge. Everyone is interested in data, and developing data driven products. We collect tons of data about our users.

But how does one decide what data is worth collecting? And how do you strike the balance between collecting just increasing noise vs those events that will likely give us the crucial insight?
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A significant amount of time was spent letting advancement stagnate so we could have enterprise features we have now...the features Yehuda wants to be paid to fix.

This project says "Hey, I have helped make Rails a pain in the ass to use unless you know Rails really well. Instead of fixing this at the core level you can pay me to make something else to fix this!"

What's next? A program to make bundler work better? I expect more from a project like rails. It is like an Xbox game with zero day paid DLC. "Here is rails. Now contribute money so I can make it work as advertised!"
> I continually hear stories (friends of friends, of course) of people hitting it big and wonder if I just don't get it.

For every hitting it big, there is an opposite (and often larger) story of losing it big. Often by the same people -- except they are happy to tell you about their wins and don't talk so much about the losses.

It's not even a zero sum game -- the fees and spreads ("friction") are non-trivial.
Tech has moats. Tech is probably the least regulated global industry -- in absurd countries like India, tech companies thrive in spite of bureaucracy. In highly unstable places like Israel, tech companies can compete too. I suspect Africa will have tech as a #3 segment (after extractive mining and some kinds of (relatively destructive) agriculture).

Aviation is kind of the diametric opposite of this -- heavily regulated, capital intensive, and exposed to commodities and union labor.

I don't invest exclusively in tech, but I understand tech better than most other sectors, so I feel more comfortable with individual stock picking. I do index funds in most other segments (with the exception of oil, which I also understand, and transport/logistics). I do index funds for S&P 500, international, MCSI 3000, and specific other sectors.

It is a fair question to bring up.
Remember Al Franken's Letter To Carrier IQ?
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I used flot quite recently and found it very good. Another that I've looked at, but not used, is Graphael: http://g.raphaeljs.com/
I think you will find that the JavaScript community is much like the Lisp community, in which it is so easy to roll your own that a good deal of people roll their own, it is why you see patterns talked about allot in JavaScript a good deal of people are just implementing the patterns that they need. Where the big patters (AMD=Requires.js, routing=Backbone) get turned into a community supported framework. A big portion of the other issues are dealt with by the particular toolkit you use, for example testing in Dojo is done via DOH. If you are looking for a structure methodology of application development like you get in the Java or .NET worlds, then you need to look to one of the large frameworks like Dojo. The jQuery/Backbone path is intentionally role your own, it is more like the Perl philosophy of grab the pieces you need and build it up from scratch. Where the larger toolkits give you a consistent development pattern.
It's a theme and an alternate admin area. From the code on github[1], it looks like you drop the theme[2] in as normal (in `wp-content/themes`). Then you put the `wp-svbtle` directory in the same directory as your wordpress install.

Doesn't really replace the built in WordPress admin area, just adds another one.

1. https://github.com/gravityonmars/wp-svbtle
2. https://github.com/gravityonmars/wp-svbtle/tree/master/wp-co...
I have no idea but I am curious as well. The one thing that did stick out was he said it only lasted 48 hours in the body. So presumably, if you were doing something after it left the body, it would have no effect (assuming it works as intended).
Highcharts (http://www.highcharts.com/) is pretty darn good.
Stick with the current brand for your own country and use the new brand for expanding abroad.
It's a cliche, but life isn't fair.

I could turn this around and say that what he's doing is "unfair" to malaria patients, who need his help more but aren't getting it.

If every single person who wanted to help out would find a cause, then find a better cause, the world would be a better place.
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It's amazing how few people get this.

I just started a new job and everyone is telling me how much everyone here works. I look at the products we make and the deadlines that are set and they aren't any bigger or more agressive than anywhere else that I worked.

It has just always been a part of this companies culture I guess, but I don't see the need to sit in my office for 8 extra hours a week when all I'll end up doing is bullshitting on the Internet.
Pretty damn good. I love how the search engine itself helps you find a better context to frame your search into. It's like having a conversation with the website (instead of it assuming I want something because I searched for it before and it's "most likely" I was looking for this)
paul, the following might be helpful addition to your test/training sets

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3769027
The difference now is that Google is constantly trying to improve now more than ever, whereas before the search engines thought it was "good enough". AltaVista and Yahoo were stuck in the technology of the day. The guys at Google had a crazy idea to implement "pagerank" and turn everything upside down.

I switched to Google because it was more accurate, and for no reason other than that. That's my #1 priority.

Fast forward to today and DDG is not trying to solve an accuracy or crawling problem. I'm not really sure what problem they are trying to solve other than to be an alternative search. There is nothing wrong with that, but I just don't think it fits me.
Good rule of thumb: if the title is a question, the answer is no.
what's up with all the swearing? this trend of swearing as linkbait is getting pretty lame.
I feel the same way - I manage okay answering questions but the tough questions I ask typically go unanswered or are never satisfactorily answered. There just isn't incentive for other people to answer them. (The bounty system doesn't work as intended.)
Would you say it's worth the cost of a full license?

Edit: I should specify we'd need to obtain a multi developer license, and that comes with a large cost
I've been using googlecl for quite a while to edit google docs in vim, but there are bugs/issues, specifically ongoing issues with newlines:

http://code.google.com/p/googlecl/issues/detail?id=301

When this post's site is back up, it will be interesting to see if a) their method is as simple as googlecl and b) if it utilizes googlecl, whether that newline issue has been addressed.

EDIT: ok, saw the google cached version. Still subject to newline issue as far as I can tell.
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This is impossible. In fact, the whole pursuit of mathematical economics and economic modelling is flawed. Se here for a fuller explanation: http://mises.org/daily/3638
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100+ years ago, trains had 'moats' too, but a lot of those stocks blew up too.

How does back-testing tech as a sector work out over the past 40 years or so?
I love DuckDuckGo. My only real complaint is when their search falls back on Google (for maps, and things like that). It would be great if DDG were able to start providing their own alternative image/map searches. I would probably switch to them fulltime.
couple million dollar is so minuscule, that you might as well measure the benefit of it in terms of emotional value, instead of any "objective" measure.

You made excellent points up until this sentence. On a world wide scale, a couple million dollars is not even a drop in the bucket. But it can do tremendous good locally.

In my own life, I was helped out enormously because someone loaned me just $5000 at a critical time. More broadly, one of my professors is involved in a small nonprofit that targets one poor village in Africa. Their global impact is minute, but they have already helped that village create (not given, but helped it create for itself) a school for its children. Globally, a couple of million is probably not objectively measurable, but if targetted and used well it can make an enormous difference in the lives of a smaller group of people.
>. I carry a pair of titanium bodegas in my wallet.

A small metal wine cellar? I was intrigued about "titanium bodegas", so I googled, and found nothing meaningful. Can you provide a link to what you mean?
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a mathematically impossible process
I used to use Ask until they made an announcement that they were leaving the search business and staying in the toolbar sector. I'm surprised they're still up.