skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it does. It clearly implies that ideology took precedence over evidence in the previous White House. That's a significant punch, if making a true statement counts as a "punch".
The essence of this 5:20 video is to say that creative artists should be patient with themselves during that phase of their creative life when their taste exceeds ability to create:
So they cannot then create something that meets their own standards.
Amazingly, 395 reviewers of the youtube video gave it an average of 5 stars. Whatever.
Ira is a great story teller. But this is not a story: it's a blog post. [This picture is worth less than a 1000-word summary. (or 100 word summary) ]
Maybe the other parts (#1 & #2) are more worth.
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Which means you could hack it like the Social Text fiasco.
Hans Rosling debunks myths about the so-called "developing world."

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_be...
What's the benefit of a flat touch screen versus a laptop?

Why not make it thinner?

Why not make it a web TV and Internet tablet?

Why is this such a cruddy article?
Read the article before you make health claims.
During my unemployment phase I would hide in between the aisles in between business books and technical books of Borders from opening till closing. One thing I've mastered was the art of reading business books. It's really simple: open up a business book with catchy hook, flip through the table of content, note the chapter titles, close book. There. That's all you need.
Definitely great talk. Highly recommended.
> made for everybody.

For, and by everyone (or nearly everyone), which does confer on it some amount of legitimacy. Still though, I agree that if people are able to go off and try new things, that's a good thing.
Steven Pinker's talk: A brief history of violence is great: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/steven_pinker_on_the_myth...

Some people fail to realize that our time is the most peaceful there has ever been.
Are you suggesting that you want to have your cake and eat it too?

Who's going to take the risk for the rewards you want?
Eliminating languages would be devastating to culture.

How about a software solution for translation that works perfectly?
Chris Abani's talk on Humanity.
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Actually, she said it would cause inflation only if the central bank also successfully increases the money supply at the same time. I think Monbiot is suggesting this as an alternative to that, rather than something to occur simultaneously.

It's also worth pointing out that although central banks will always be able to produce the necessary liquidity, they have to take ever greater risks to do so. At the extreme, they could purchase each and every public and private bond in the economy, but then they expose themselves to the risk of default on those loans, which could result in severe future inflation. If they are unwilling to do this, then they will not be able to stop deflation. So although they can stop deflation, it's not clear that they will.

Perhaps the most unfortunate thing about Monbiot's article is that he sees alternative currencies simply as a means to fight deflation, but Lietaer saw them as a way to create social capital. The benefit of a negative interest rate mutual credit currency is that it encourages a gift economy, rather than a competitive economy, and therefore builds social ties as well as financial wealth.
Some of the categorisation is a little unusual with libraries, PEAR, and templating systems, Smarty and Savant2, thrown in with frameworks and the version control section containing only continuous integration tools. It's a good list though.
You mistyped the link? That seems to be a spam domain.

In London we have http://journeyplanner.tfl.gov.uk but there is no api and the user interface is shoddy.
I would like to see a digg/reddit/HN site where in order to post, vote, or comment your IQ must be greater than 3 standard deviations from the mean (ie: Mensa).
I missed a dot. It should be http://transit.511.org. Past the edit deadline unfortunately.
I think you're being a little harsh. There are, like, 10 books worth reading on that list.
Here are a few Linux-specific wants:

> an intuitive UI for configuring everything in xorg.conf

> an intuitive UI for everything involving mounting, fstab, mdadm (raid), network shares, etc

> improve the awk, cairo-bar interfaces to be on par with RocketDock

> a more intuitive PulseAudio interface that controls everything relating to sound (including OSS and older)
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Variations on these schemes are already successful. Examples include:

Time Dollars: http://www.timebanks.org/

Ithaca Hours: http://ithacahours.org/

Tlaloc: http://www.vidadigna.info/index.htm

The difference between negative interest and inflation is that the interest rate can be set by fiat (whereas inflation can be uncontrollable) and the value of one unit of the currency stays stable, so contracts written now are still meaningful in the future.

Also, no one is forced to spend, you are simply taxed for holding a non-zero balance, just as you are with a normal loan (or normal inflation, if you are in credit).

As for the examples from history: all the examples Monbiot cites are those where the normal currency has collapsed or is suffering severe deflation. So regular money was clearly not a solution in those edge cases.
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Why only 200-300 years? Either go for the gold (live forever) or accept your mortality.
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Corbis.
In order to eliminate fraud of this kind you would have to change fundamental human emotions.
This is an excellent idea! Anything that lowers barriers to accessibility is a good thing.
If you approach problems on a big scale I definitely would suggest solve the problem of developing nations and their misery. I know actually it is a whole bunch of problems but I think that there is a solution which could be successful in the long-run: Educating people. Let them know what is possible and how to achieve things. Help the people, e.g. in Africa, to keep up with the world and especially also their elite which at the moment often is dominating them because they don't know better.

The OLPC project took a shot at this but besides creating net-books it wasn't too successful, to summarize, the OLPC project was ambitious but rubbish ;-) I don't know yet how to solve the problem of educating people ion those countries, especially when it comes to basic things like literacy and/or math but I definitely think it would be worth quite a lot of effort and also be a business opportunity because of scale (if not now maybe also in the long-run).
We already have that, but probably not in the way you mean.

Lithium Ion batteries -- the current king of the hill -- are pretty much the same today as when they first came into use in the 1970s.

We've been seeing longer lifetimes and shorter charge times because device manufacturers can afford to throw in more hardware to control discharging and recharging.
Back in the day (mid 90s), you could actually mount ftp.microsoft.com on your desktop, e.g.

c:\> net use m: \\ftp.microsoft.com\pub

That would have been a security nightmare tho' (SMB over the Internet, WTF) and they stopped it, so I'm guessing they still haven't quite figured it out.
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Ask YC: How can you recruit and reward non-founder programmers at early stages?
I constantly run into situations, where it would be useful to recruit additional non-founder programmers to help out on a project. However, I am not sure what compensation should look like for these non founders. I.e. We have been working on a project part-time for over a year, but could use another rails developer to help out on our front-end work. We'd like to pay with equity, but I am not sure what that normally looks like. Ideas?
It's entirely logical: you just have to think outside the box (big enough baloon vs. small enough vehicle: plus it overcomes some of the niggly "near ground" effects [why do you think so many next-gen space vehicle designs launch from Airplanes??])

The physics is there and probably workable.

(EDIT: my initial thoughts would tend towards a high altitude launch of several smaller sized vehicles that re-assemble on the lunar surface... or interact there. S o for example someone above mentions the comms issue: a static relay planted on the surface interfacing with a seperate rover device would probably work well. In fact I would launch 2 or 3 of each type (assuming cost could be kept low) to ensure that you got at least one functioning pair :D)
This problem has been solved. Implementation is due Real Soon Now.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A2960633
I think you're conflating education and the granting of credentials[0]. Education is cheaper and easier to obtain than ever before. It's possible to work through an entire graduate degree program worth of study material using resources freely available online.

I think the problem you seem to be interested in - the rising cost of formal education that results in a degree will be solved not by reducing its cost, but by reducing its value. It will continue to cost a lot to get a degree, but you probably won't want one.

[0] which seem to be growing less important: http://paulgraham.com/credentials.html
Lying politicians. I want all video of politicians to come with live fact checking, comparison against previous statements, and colour coding of statements for truth values. The comedy shows do it a bit, like The Daily Show's penchant for having pols debate themselves, but I want it everywhere all the time, so every time they lie, they get called on it.
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Could be channel switching from interference from a nearby similar device. You can set your router to stick to one channel and this should stop.
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How much equity have you set aside for non-founders in total?

Are you intending on hiring other developers? Is the developer you're hiring permanent?
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Some would say that the amount of internationalization of the world has also devastated most cultures. Different dialects emerged because of regional isolation amongst different groups throughout times of historical growth. As the world is no longer isolated from each other any more, the need to persist those independent languages has lessened to the point where distinctly different dialects (alliteration?) only hamper communication.

While a tool to instantly translate a conversation while two people speak would be amazing, it would have the same effect as having a universal language in my opinion.
and if you're using a mac just use Transmit
Mine was approved in 2 business days.. It caught us all off guard! It was a free app to control a specific piece of really expensive hardware ($5k-10k whole house audio systems) so that might have made it easier.

What was odd is that the app doesn't do anything without the hardware, and there was nowhere to provide additional testing information, so as far as I can tell they didn't really use it. Perhaps they just scan the binary (or source?) for bad things.
few thoughts:

S3 = awesome, Transmit makes it nice and easy to use too

Dreamhost = awful, seriously consider moving to another host. A Small Orange are awesome, and would probably happily help you out in times of traffic bursts.

Please do post back with how you got on! :)
I spent six years at another Oxford college. All Souls is an odd institution, very closed to the outside, and I was never blown away by any of its fellows. From people I know who've taken the test, apparently the dinner at the end is the most crucial part, where they basically decide whether they want to socialise with you for the next six years.
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"Rather, it has been the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things ..."

I liked that bit, as well as "We will restore science to its rightful place", and the mention of "non-believers".
Funding - okay if the VC has recently raised a fund, pretty awful if its an old fund.
Consumer spending - in general, screwed due to unparalleled level of consumer debt; online services - will also dip but not so dramatically, cost-cutting online services could thrive.
Ad-spending - will fall as the recession kicks in (advertising, no matter what form, gets crushed in recessions).
Near future - if your in the US, think of the government as a customer, especially if your in clean tech.
There has to be a way, I used to think about this, too...

Not sure if balloons get you that far, though. I think mostly you can avoid the friction of the air to some extent, but if I remember correctly, the altitude where you still have air to float a balloon in is only a tiny fraction of the stationary orbit altitude.

Just a thought right now: what about nanobots? Perhaps something could be made so tiny that it doesn't even fall down... kind of like a balloon without a balloon. Not sure if it would still be workable without an atmosphere...
Thanks.

There doesn't seem to be an api mentioned anywhere on that site. It appears to be for end users only. Am I missing something?
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Its a well known technique (using border slants), though I enjoyed to implement it by myself as a simple drawing class that works in major browsers. What I want to know, is where it can be used (or maybe it is useless?), and what should I add or change.
No offense, but tgdaily really doesn't seem the best source for computer news out there (see also the Linux girl article from the other day). Sure, online storage would be nice, but without really, really high speed internet connections, it seems doubtful that it would replace "local" drives.
Ask HN: algorithm to slice a number into parts
I am trying to write a algorithm to slice a number into parts; such that those slices add upto original number.

e.g. n = (n1 + n2+ .. + nm)
where n is number and m no of slices.

n will be positive integer and m won't exceed 50.

Do you know any algorithm for this?

Edit: slices should be of distinct values.
A well worked natural language processor tied into this would work wonders.

"Computer, call Home..."
That certainly seems doable with todays technology, but how many people need it?
I nearly started a project like this but decided that it wouldn't be worth it - how many developers would be programming on anything except their rig?
Don't get caught with your multicore pants down! (Recent survey on multicore adoption)
Save mobile barcodes: http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/1/are-mobile-barcodes-toast

Might be something to step in on.
I also thought recently that grey goo is a very unlikely scenario. If there were a new kind of self-replicating naonmachines, they would likely also be subject to evolution and diversify into all sorts of colorful things, just like biological cells.
I think your problem description is missing something; otherwise n1 = n2 = n3 ... = n[m-1] = 1, nm = n - m + 1 is a trivial solution.
1) If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, 2) or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify, then 3) the Vice President elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified

1) Did not happen, Obama was chosen (President Elect) weeks ago. 2) Did not happen, Obama was at no point refused the Presidency between his election and his inauguration. Consequently 3) did not happen.

Anyway, if Obama was not president because he had not been sworn in then nobody else was for the same reason, and if you follow the argument in the blog then you get to "the {XYZ Position} shall act as President". Acting as president is not being president anymore than acting as a Spaniard makes you a Spaniard.

Also, if you read "Before he enter on the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following oath. . . ” without any surrounding context then it's vague. There is no office of President-Elect, Barack Obama has no office, so it could read:

Before he [The President] enter on the Execution of his Office...

As in, someone has to be President before being able to take oath and execute the office of President. Similar (in my layman's terms) to how ex-presidents retain the title of President without executing the office of president.

But if Secretary Rice was not President from noon to 12:01, then who was?

If you guys had a constitution written in Haskell you could have a "maybe nobody" president and it could be lazily-evaluated so this question would never be explored until it was really needed.

The cited article quotes a professor of constitutional law
Fallacy of "proof by appeal to authority" alert.
Why is it hard to survive the night? Because of the coldness?
Why would the coldness be a problem? Even if the machine couldn't operate in such a low temperature, can't it just hibernate until day?
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"Do the Mac and Windows guys say that at present?"

You seem to be suffering from a sense-of-humour failure. No, the Mac and Windows guys don't say it. But in my ironic alternative universe, the Mac guy would say something like:

"Hi, I'm the new Mac. I have just one button. Anywhere. Do not try and move the cursor. That's impossible. Instead ... only try to realize the truth."

And the Windows guy would say:

"Hi, I'm a PC. Vista makes me all shiny, which we think is much more important than running with your legacy hardware. Or your favourite software. Or with less than 10Gb of RAM. Good luck with any of that!"

But seriously, why take seriously something which was only ever intended to be a flippant remark?
Ok, the most important risk I see in practise is that you will move and it's cumbersome to carry around stuff.
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I did some research into living forever at one point. Basically, three things kill us: Disease, old age, and trauma.

Disease seems beatable. Reversing old age is going to be trickier, especially as things we don't expect to fail start failing after we prolong our vitals for longer. But these both should be doable.

The real killer is trauma. I scubadive. Given forever, eventually I'm going to something stupid underwater and that'd be the end of me.

The 200-300 years seems like a good place to start. It'd involve preventing or treating fatal diseases and finding ways to keep especially your vital organs running. I started spending more time in the gym and eating a bit better after my research.
5-10% depending on the quality of the developer is what I have done in the past and as soon as we start making cash they start getting paid. Also I only do this deal with folks I know well as it is so much more complicated than standard hiring.
There can be many ways to do so, one of them is already described by cperciva.

Another can be,

a) All Integers
n1 = n2 = n3 =.....= n[m-1] = int(n / m) and
nm = n - (n1 + n2 + n3 +.....+ n[m-1])

b) Floats
n1 = n2 = n3 =.....= n[m] = n / m

I feel the problem can be more serious if you want the parts to be in certain fashion or distribution.
I'd recommend you to read up on the Austrian School of Economics.
A rather easy introduction is this: http://mises.org/books/econforrealpeople.pdf
More advanced: http://mises.org/rothbard/mes.asp and http://mises.org/Books/HumanActionScholars.pdf
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This could be great for beginners; they could start coding without having to install anything.
Maybe add some collaboration features to make it usable in school, e.g. students can send their code to the teacher for review by the press of a button.
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I think it's rather probable that speakers of different languages think different. So a unified language might lead to (more) unified thinking.
I'm not sure if that would be a good or bad thing.
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Do n1, n2, ... have to have different values? Increasing values?
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> I imagine it would create a thousands of government jobs, boost every sector of hardware sales, foster the creation of thousands of start ups and bring accountability and transparency to government, among other things.

The money you need to fund this stuff has to come from somewhere; hence destroying thousands of non-government jobs, slowing down every other sector of the economy and preventing the creation of thousands of startups.
I'd say it should be:

taxes shutdown()

but I have a feeling it would be void shutdown()...
I believe that's called the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapir-Whorf_hypothesis), which I generally agree with. A universal language would change the way people think about stuff -- it's a very interesting thought experiment.
I'm not American, I don't watch more than 40 minutes TV per day.

Also, I can't imagine how anyone with a full-time day job (40 hours, nothing spectacular) can even manage 4 hours of free time. I don't think I have 4 hours a day.
It would be easy to implement:

return (DEMOCRATS == current_administration) ? REPUBLICANS : DEMOCRATS;
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It would be nice to know in advance not to be sitting in my underwear when the UPS guy knocks on the door.
Obviously the teachers in France and Germany aren't paid, and the buildings and furniture just felt down from the sky.
As others have said, your problem as stated is trivial. Here's a degenerate solution:

n1 = n2 = ... = n(m-1) = 0
nm = n

I'm sure that's not what you want.

Here's another solution:

n1 = n2 = ... = nm = n/m

I'm sure that's not what you want either.

Others have asked relevant questions. Assuming you want the numbers to be integers, and as equal as possible, then compute:

k_min = floor(n/m)
excess = n-k_min*m

All will be at least k_min. If they are all k_min, then you will have a total of k_min*m. You need an additional "excess", so assign them, one each, to the first bunch.

n1 = k_min + 1
...
n(excess) = k_min + 1
n(excess+1) = k_min
...
nm = k_min

If you want you can reverse this so that the larger ones come after. That's left as an exercise for the interested reader.

You could also put all the excess in one place, so you have

n1 = n2 = ... = n(m-1) = k_min
nm = k_min + excess

So really, it all depends on what you want.
We already have English.
n[i] = i for 1 <= i < m

n[m] = n - m.(m-1)/2

This is still fairly trivial.

I sense there are yet more requirements you're not telling us.