skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most actors/actress are ugly. I don't really care for amateur because they are often ugly too. It'll get the job done, but it's like watching a really badly done horror movie. Not scary or sexy at all.

The manga world is often in stark contrast to the reality tubes. Some of them will make you angry and some will make you fell in love with the characters. They are also often beautiful.

Even though they are high quality, they might as well be mass produced. The reality tubes is mass produced but is of bad quality.
I just wish there was a way to get 12V & 5V at ~1A in addition to the 110V outlets in my house, supplied by a large transformer in my basement. That way I could avoid wall-warts for all my electronic devices like my router, usb hub, phone charger, etc...

Even better would be a standard for 12V at 5A or 10A or something, to power all the other electronics in my house, like monitors, DVD players, etc, that have built-in transformers. But I'm not an EE, so maybe the losses from dozens of feet of low-voltage in the walls outweighs the efficiency gains from having a single large transformer...
http://www.freakonomics.com/2008/07/28/from-good-to-great-to...
Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom Gets $750,000 Back
That's an excellent example.

Another example is lack of cash - governments are not doing things like going to space.

Moving cash into the hands of private people has allowed those people to start exploring space.

But where are the other examples? What other companies are doing similar things? This isn't just rhetorical. I'm sure plenty of companies are doing exciting things that don't get decent reporting. (I guess folding@home is one example.)
>You're very much parading your ignorance.

And you very much missed the whole point. I know all of those resources, I've programmed in Smalltalk in the past, as I have on many other languages (4-5 of them professionally). I also follow Kays projects of late.

All of those you list are MARGINAL at best (--ten+ year old books and projects that limbo around). I mean, "Many projects buzzing with activity"? There are probably more HAM radio enthusiasts that people involved in those projects.

Compare Smalltalk "activity" with the activity behind C, C++ Objective-C, Javascript, Python, Ruby, .NET, Java, heck, even Scala.

It's not even close.

Some elementary investigation would reveal:
1) http://squeaksource.com/
2) http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners
3) http://www.pharo-project.org/community
4) the 'quality tools' are generally acknowledged to comprise the finest IDE in existence. Just fire up a Smalltalk image and see for yourself.
5) http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks.html
Finally, while many projects are buzzing with activity, there's certainly a need for an influx of new users.
Using 'porn' in the title is also kinda porn.

Edit:

Seriously though, I would replace 'the porn generation' with 'the porned generation'.

"Corporations are not looking out for your best interests; they’re looking to make as much money as possible."

That's the obvious part. But the interesting part is how all this big corporations managed it to finally break into our lives. Not only the sell us all kinds off stuff we don't need. They also very actively comment our consume behavior. Something is always wrong with our lives. We are too fat, too boring, our relationships are not thrilling enough, we don't manage to get what we deserve.

Corporations are not longer selling stuff to us in the traditional way, from producer to consumer. For them, we are gigantic consumption mass, trained to buy and to be evaluated from day one.

We are not consumers, we are here to be consumed. We get porned.
>> The minimization is done by the programmer because
>> she is lazy and longs for conciseness.

I view longing for conciseness to be the sign of a good programmer, not a lazy one.

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...
"He thought his goal was to write as small and fast a program as possible, and that the lines of code metric only encouraged writing sloppy, bloated, broken code.'

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?LinesOfCode
"Measuring software productivity by lines of code is like measuring progress on an airplane by how much it weighs."- Bill Gates
Will Your Next Smartphone Have Super-Science Wonder Glass?
> It is perhaps worth noting that 12/24V DC is just as deadly as 120/240V AC.

No it definitely isn't.

> There's naught deadly in voltage, it's the wattage that electrocutes you.

In fact, if you want to be precise, it is the current (Amps) that kills you. The reason why 24V isn't nearly as deadly is because at the resistance your skin normally has the current will be low enough that it does not get dangerous.

Up to 48V is considered a 'safe' voltage, but you can definitely feel it and DC is far more dangerous than AC (because with DC your muscles contract and stay contracted so it can be very difficult to disengage from the source).

If you lost muscle control over 6V then likely there were some other circumstances in play, for instance you could have been poking around in a spot where your skin had been breached or you may have had sweat or some other salty solution on your skin.

Real danger starts around 80V for DC and 150V for AC. Yes, you can get electrocuted at lower voltages but you'd have to really work at it.

Most high voltage circuits that you are likely to come in contact with have an internal resistance that is high enough that they can not source a high enough current to do damage, that's why you perceive high voltages as safe. But if a high voltage circuit is beefy enough that it can supply a couple of hundred milli-Amperes you're as good as dead because at that voltage your skin is no longer a strong enough barrier.
> Maybe they should able to do that to anybody. Nobody wants to work for racists, assholes, or sexists.

I don't follow.

It's not that the employers are racist, sexists or assholes(they might or might not be; that's not what that matters here). It's just that anything they say can be used as a basis for a lawsuit.
I think a bot should auto repost Graham's Mind the Gap and How to Create Wealth in the comments of every economics post.
Eventually natural selection will take over and the ones that figure out that glass isn't bird-permeable.
Looks good I've tried a few local application based software applications but this has the feature that they're lacking/not as full as I wish and that's the custom parts.

I havn't been doing anything major, just wanted a PIC board as I have to include on in an AS Level Project.

Brilliant timing cause it's due in in two days and was going to start final diagrams tomorrow. Cheers!
I fully agree that the losses from the War on Iraqis/SS/medicare/etc don't outweigh the profits made by taxing Apple/etc and providing them with a few cheap services (corporate registration, enforcement of contracts, etc). That's a separate issue.

Ironic that you mention SS and Medicare. Two programs designed to help companies out (and people too). Do the cheap services include a road system? Do they include an education system capable of producing adequate workers? Do they include protection from enemies? These things are not cheap. And it is especially helpful to be located in a country with great influence that helps smooth things in other countries.

I think you don't understand what regulatory capture is. When an industry has capture the regulators that is a good thing from the perspective of that industry. Regulatory capture is what oligopolies want. It's the good kind of corruption from their perspective. Large companies don't flee from corrupt societies. They use that corruption to their advantage. Obviously there are counterexamples to this but overall the gist is correct.
To be honest, I tried it years back and liked it, but forgot about it and didn't miss it. I may try it again sometime.

All I'm saying is that most people won't like something that offers no immediate major benefit and has annoying defaults that they have to find an obscure setting to fix. This is probably why so few use emacs, even though it is awesome :)
> Most people don't have this luxury.

Maybe one way to make globalization great for more people, is to make international mobility practical for more people.
Despite classic logics denial of authority, once you subordinate logic to observation (Bayes) then authority is actually a good positive indicator. Lack of authority however is a poor negative indicator. Long story short, authority only adds support indirectly, but that's useful more often than many would like to admit.

I think you're simplifying this into a pro/con dilemma. Stephenson is obviously very pro internet. So what he's pointing out is really a lack of ambition in using the new computational and communication toolkit we've built. Digital economies are fundamentally different, despite the bubbles using this to hype absurdly bad traditional business plans, this basic characteristic remains. We have not even begun to explore the implications of that.

We're too busy gratifying the desires born of an older world.
(Note: I'm one of the developers of CircuitLab.) I believe a parallel question would be: are the "serious work" users avoiding cloud-based software such as Google Docs, Dropbox, Github, Basecamp, and even Gmail?
I agree its very easy to project our own view on others, and I probably still do despite trying not to.

But I am speaking from experience spending quite a bit of time in Morocco and various other relatively poorer countries, where when internet cafes are available, become quite the community hub
Chrome's biggest issue on OS X is that it's ugly. Its UI looks like Chrome on Windows and Linux, but not like OS X. The tabs are the wrong shape, the wrong color, and use the wrong font size. The latter two complaints apply equally to the bookmarks bar. At least on my machine (Chrome 18.0.1025 on Mountain Lion), the URL bar is hideous. It's too high, and there is more padding underneath the text than above it, and the focus ring is wrong. While Safari's panels are neutral gray with translucency, Chrome's panels are opaque and stark white. I have tried to use it, but it makes my eyes hurt.

While Mozilla may be slow to implement Apple's new UI features, at least they can paint the UI widgets properly.
A good majority of apps use a hierarchy of views, which is exceptionally natural since we see generations of things everywhere, including our own families. One view is parent to the next, and so on.
The reason why you don't really want that is because the line losses over even very short runs of copper wire at those voltages are huge. You'd need extremely thick wires (costly) to deliver usable power.

That's why houses that are powered by solar/wind backed up with batteries convert the battery voltage back to household AC, it's not just a convenience, it is also for reasons of efficiency.

Power delivered is Amperage x Voltage, if you want to consume 500 watts at 120V that's a bit over 4 amps which you can do with relatively thin wire, if you want to do it at 24V you'd be using 20 amps, requiring a 5 fold increase in diameter of the wiring! And that's just the beginning, then there are the troubles associated with DC breakers as well as wear and tear on a plug-in system designed for currents that high. Imagine a toaster or a water cooker designed for 24V, you'd need cables thick enough to do double duty as jump-starting hook ups.
Indeed. As it is mobility barriers partially serve to keep masses of people stuck and this could possibly lead to a new, modern form of feudalism.
The most common derivation of Black-Scholes absolutely does assume a standard normal distribution. There are other models that don't (i.e., Mandelbrot tried to get people to use Levy distributions, and a lot of newer models are built around martingale theory), and traders have adopted rules-of-thumb that pull prices out of line with what BS says they should be, but it's certainly not the case that anyone who speaks of BS assuming Gaussians is lying or speaking from ignorance.
Unfair advantage means:

1. Interview questions for fresh grads are very CS oriented. For example, I have seen candidates immediately dismissed for not being able to estimate algorithm complexity. Same for memory requirements. Same for variants of knapsack problem. Same for not being able to get to alternative approaches. Good luck getting those questions right without spending 4 years doing CS.

2. Internship. CS grads get 2-3 very solid internships on their resume. This comes up during the evaluation as a big factor.

3. The "he is not a CS major" comment popping up during the reviews unintentionally.

4. Cultural fit (very true for other industries as well). People hire people like themselves. CS grads have a lot more in common with other CS grads.

Google/Facebook/Microsoft/Amazon/Apple/LinkedIn/etc are at the top of the food chain. If you want to be the best, you have to compete with the best.
Collaboration app I built using Node.JS, Express, Socket.IO and HTML5 Canvas
So if Apple is operating as a foreign entity for selling this stuff, does that not mean they have to pay import taxes, or are they somehow exempt?
Case in point: Slashdot.
By that analogy, it seems odd to hire someone only to find out they can't eat, and then a month later you need to hire someone again.
(Note: I'm one of the developers of CircuitLab.) That's the second time we've heard a story like that! The first was from someone on Reddit making a "rage comic" titled "Lab report saved": http://imgur.com/4E8qP from http://www.reddit.com/r/EngineeringStudents/comments/s3yik/l... Good luck with your project.
I haven't downvoted your first comment, but I think you have a very prejudiced (and wrong) view of porn.

Firstly, (almost) everyone watches porn: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/relationships/6709646/All-men-wat...

Second, nothing in consuming porn inherently means the person "lacks self-control" (there's certainly porn addicts, but they're not the majority) or "settles for fantasy" - in fact, many couples watch porn together and use it to improve their own sex life.

Thirdly, porn is a highly competitive industry with a lot of talent in producing, managing and distributing content, both online and offline. They run very big websites and serve huge amounts of video traffic per minute. Xvideos alone has twice the page views of Reddit.
An aside: Lion's fullscreen support is awful. I have my TV hooked up to my computer and can't fullscreen anything that uses Lion's fullscreen API.

http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/17941/how-do-i-run-...
MPAA Boss ‘Forgets’ Hollywood’s Pirate History
So you're approximately 12 and like to lie on the internet?
How to Create an Empathy Map in Google Docs
Google Doc hack to collaborate online via an Empathy Map.
What strikes me is how similar these guidelines are to what we practiced for my fraternity's recruitment in its best days.
In C# I think MS has the nicest language of the three and I can't imagine Visual Studio is as bad as Xcode 4. I'm keeping a close eye on the WP market. If sales pick up at all I'm going to try my hand at a few apps. iOS is stagnating and the app market is absurdly oversaturated and Android is still the public access television of mobile.
Haha, Brilliant!
That article is little more than FUD and neither refutes the Hedgehog concept nor adds much value to the current discussion.
I see this attitude so often on the Internet: where porn is practically sacrosanct. It's way more complicated than that, and it seems intellectually dishonest to oversimplify matters.

However, the real point I'd like to make is this: you are right when you mention that the author was actually discussing the perils of everything being entertaining. He'd do well to read Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves To Death. It is downright chilling to read when you realize it was written in the eighties as the cultural impact of pervasive television was beginning to become apparent.
I wouldn't say it's dismissive and negative to point out that porn is inherently reductionist. The main difference is that things like nutrition, music, and intellectual enrichment need a degree of sophistication. Porn is just a method for physiological release, not a proper art form.
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The article states that humans often don't mean what they say, but it goes deeper than semantics. It's not as if humans know exactly what they want every time but are frustrated in their attempts to express it. People often aren't really sure what they want in advance because they aren't sure what their options are. Mapping available options to outcomes and then ranking those outcomes is a non-trivial bit of computation that the human brain is performing all the time.
Short the terminals of a 9V battery with your finger. Now unscrew an outlet cover and short the terminals within with your finger. Notice the difference. (Note: don't actually do the second one.)

People love love love to repeat this tired "it's not the volts that kills, it's the amps" line, while completely ignoring the fact that low voltage makes it really, really, really hard to obtain the necessary amps to be dangerous.
Show HN: Replica, id3 file cloner
192kbps and more are standard now, but 10 years ago 128kbps ruled everything.
I had a need to "upgrade" lot of tracks so coded this tool, I'd like to hear your feedback.
This is a new iTunes app store requirement.

Gmail won't help
What about people who "indulge" in TV, movies, and books?
It is wrong to rely on natural selection for animals to adapt to humans. If that is our philosophy pretty soon we will be left with nothing but numerous species of cockroaches, rats and mosquitoes.

There are many animals that are well adapted to live with humans but most of them are actually bad for humans. Thus, we have to ensure other species survive if for nothing other than the whole they leave ecosystem will likely be filled by harmful species.

For example, the biggest beneficiaries of those millions of dead birds are the mosquitoes and various other insects that are most often food for those dead birds.
I think many iPhone fans see WP7 as an attempt to innovate, whereas Android seems more like an attempt to imitate (of course, Android has had many innovations as well).

Apple made the first usable and popular touchscreen smartphone, and Androids success is largely due to the fact that Google recognized this and quickly repositioned Android, and I think that's pretty evident by looking at the evolution of the Android OS. The original Android prototypes didn't look very innovative, they looked like imitations of Symbian or WM6.
Porn is a plague that degrades women, trivializes intimacy and is poison for children and families. It's junk food of the worst kind for the mind.
It's very curious that there is no discussion of affect or feminism in general in this post, both of which are useful to this discussion.
It's a valid point. I think that there are a few reasons why this occurs.

1. Tax payers aren't as resilient as shareholders:

2. There's a psychological tendency to think that "this is not my money" leading to excessive spending.

3. The accountability isn't there. If a politician wastes taxpayer money then he's still a politician for the time being.

But it's not always valid. Many government projects are carried out by private firms that aren't efficient. You just have to look at the NHS IT project here in the UK to see how £12 billion can be wasted by private firms.
I would frame the same idea in a different way: the scarcest currency is thought.

Willpower is finite. There are a very small number of things you can spend effective mental energy on-you can't work at optimal intelligence 12 hours a day (or even 8 hours a day).

Furthermore, I've noticed this trend where spending twice the amount of effective, focused work on X usually results in more than twice the benefits. This means that you have to pick what even enters your attention very carefully.

So ask yourself: what do I spend most of my time thinking about? And what should I be spending my precious thought on?
Capital gains in retirement accounts are tax-sheltered (in a Roth IRA, completely tax-exempt). And it's a serious exaggeration to say that "most" Americans are going to use capital-gains for retirement. For the vast majority of Americans, capital gains are a negligible proportion of their total income. Raising capital gains rates and using the proceeds to lower regular income tax rates (to bring the two tax rates closer together) would lower many more people's taxes than the reverse would.
This is an analogy for mindlessness versus mindfulness. It's also been well understood, for over 2,500 years, that mindless activities only lead to suffering. Even though they deliver immediate satisfaction. Mindful activities on the other hand lead to happiness.
I don't think Stripes hiring process is anything but fair. Given that, the next developer they will hire is likely to be male and there are more likely to be a higher percentage of females in the non-dev roles than in the dev roles.

What I find dishonest is that they pretend this is not the case. They pretend that they are most likely to hire females.

Which is wrong.
Just /node/node2/following::* in a predicate or whatever. Perhaps you're conflating XPath-as-used with XPath-as-specified? http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms950778.aspx explains that you can't support all of XPath (even 1.0) and process things the way that you describe.
really? Not even a voltage divider? That would kill anything plugged into it right quick
I am not sure why I get downvoted.
But why is porn not a proper art form?

I think we can all agree that erotica is a proper art form. It's nudes in tasteful poses, usually with artistic intent. Hell, one could argue that most art produced in the renaissance was erotica. Or the Statue of David for instance.

Ok so that's art.

Similarly, we all consider most types of drawings to be art. People drawing on canvas to produce emotionally and visually stimulating stuff has always been art.

Then take Pollock for instance. He is the complete bastardization of visual art. Pure colour and emotion with wanton disregard for any "form".

That is still considered art.

However, when you do the same to erotica and come up with porn ... it suddenly isn't art anymore?

Why?
Me too. In about:gpu it clearly says I have hardware acceleration for WebGL, and I have FGLRX... this is odd.
Some of us don't have the privilege of downvoting :-(
Well, what's the benefit of porn? To be a glass where you can look but cannot touch? To compensate for some oversexuality that is not freely expressed? To turn everyone into proud voyeurs? Most animals see amateur porn among their conspecifics every day and frankly don't give a damn. I bet only masturbating animals would ever buy porn. I know the internet is generally proud of its porn, but general opinion equates porn with masturbation and thus all the negative attitude. What's so positive about porn otherwise?
"By example, when I look up a contact in my address book in Windows Phone, it allows me to look up my history with that person. Emails, texts, IMs, tweets, everything- all in one place, because who thinks "Dave tweeted that at me" over "Dave sent that to me"? By contrast, iOS keeps every interaction siloed in-app."

that's a very good point. And that sounds like a FANTASTIC feature I'd love to have on my phone. your right, if the windows phone is more "people centric", as opposed to "app centric" And now that you mention it, I'd love to try out the windows phone, because it really sounds like they have it together. I think Android could go this way too, there's a lot they can do. But as fass as buggieness, and overall satisfaction, I've had a rather disappointing time with android (only smartphone I've owed.)
Irrationality of √2.
http://mathema-tricks.blogspot.com/2012/04/irrationality-of-2.html
Why would they care about HTML5?