skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then you should look at whether you advertise it as "unlimited". It could look like mis-selling and I think the service looks good so you should possibly look at this

EDIT: I'd like to just say that I've downloaded and am using the app and its lovely. Really well done. Regarding the bandwidth usage, I think you should still be able to come up with something that is representative rather than what you are currently using. Hosting companies have done it for many years, so just come up with a bandwidth figure per Gb that you are happy with
A launch shouldn't be about alienation. Is there any reason the video couldn't have been accompanied by text?
Reason is not like a rider atop a horse. Instead, each person’s mind contains a panoply of instincts, strategies, intuitions, emotions, memories and habits, which vie for supremacy.

I can't express how badly I want this meme to take hold! I've wondered for years why anyone can believe that humans are rational agents in the face of the existence of the huge marketing apparatus present in advanced economies. I mean, if we really are rational decision-making agents, why does a manufacturer pay someone to come up with a jingle? To engineer a fad via guerrilla marketing? To create brand impressions by slapping a logo on a race car or sports stadium? All of these techniques, and all of the other successful marketing techniques out there, survive precisely because humans can be persuaded to spend money irrationally.

"So what?," you say? Well, that great artifice, "Classical Free Market Theory," rests on the foundation of rational agents making locally optimal solutions with imperfect information. It seems to me to predict, for example, that there's no profit to be made anywhere in a steady state condition. The rational masses, so the theory goes, will always seek the cheapest goods that meet the need, regardless of brand recognition, sexy women placed next to sports cars, or celebrity endorsement. In this case, every competitive scenario results in goods being produced at cost.

Thankfully (I think), this is not the case, and there is a way to wealth that is left open. Namely, a successful entrepreneur needs to be present when people are making non-rational decisions with their money. This is not to say that these are bad decisions, or that the entrepreneur needs to be unscrupulous. It's just an acknowledgment of the fact that rational decision-making in a quasi-equilibirum economic scenario results in zero profit margin.
While it's funny, it's also pretty sad. I value HN so much.

Thank you all for remaining conscious, and engaging in such stimulating debate.
The central planners running the economy in soviet Russia were incredibly smart as well.
Having already, accidentally overwhelmed my netbook's drive while using Dropbox, this does look interesting. My suggestion for Dropbox was the ability to designate some machines/directories as online only.

Unfortunately, Zumodrive doesn't have have Linux support right now...
Or the problem is that they chose to do it in such a ham-handed way. I've seen MacBook Pros used in advertising before, and I think the usual method is to just paint over the logo, covering it with the same sort of metallic texture the rest of the laptop has, or in print ads, to Photoshop it out.

Covering it up with a big sticker in the middle just looks cheesy, much like the rest of the ad.
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I mean, look at it like this. I have a bunch of legitamite but highly used content. I throw it up on this, knowing that amazon's s3 service can serve it far easier than I can.

And it uses one hell of a lot of gigabytes. Hundreds of 'em. A week.

Would this get me terminated?
Yah, a lot of loading - but it's less time than clicking on each and every one of those things one at a time.
Pricing is pretty expensive!
Why is Economic Recession Good for Startups
You can now watch Ustream live on your iPhone
I'd love to refute this article, because it's incredibly depressing to suspect that it's on the money. There's not much hope for software engineering if the features that make for a poor language are also the ones that make it popular.
I am curious about the implications of Rails migrations here. It seems that migrations give you a pretty good level of softness in your data models when you need it. Of course, I think a lot of Rails apps do end up with much of their logic in the M part of MVC. And understandably, some folks are not very comfortable with that.

Can anyone speak from experience on this? Talking about mature Rails apps now. Are Rails migrations a help or hindrance in terms of 'app aging'?
unlimited = if you pay for it.
I wish I could upmod you more points. That's 50% of the reason right there.

mod_perl was a far superior solution, and you didn't have to restart Apache every time. However, this was not the default configuration, which is apparently enough to deter decently smart people.
If I were any kind of ornithologist, I'd devise a sensory device (human-inaudible sound, most likely) that would frighten the birds away, possible via mimicry of a predator.

Note that this is an excerpt of a comment I made on the news article page.
I was just thinking about that same thing.
PHP won because mod_php was well done. The language isn't especially relevant. Perl's mod_perl was simply a no go for the typical hosting scenario because it gives way too much power to users to screw up the server; you can't realistically set it up for basic shared hosting.

mod_perlite is a new piece of software that brings a php style system to perl. It's mod_perl made suitable for typical hosting needs.
Think about the possibilities - being able to watch any major speech on the go, watch the major news as it breaks...

I'm interested to see how people use this. Mobile broadcasts will become mainstream.
Circuit City shutting down
There are huge numbers of people with high IQs who accomplish little.

Have you read, or read of, any of these longitudinal studies?: http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/eric/faq/gt-long.html

The best known longitudinal studies were conducted by Louis Terman. In 1921 Terman and his colleagues began a longitudinal study of 1,528 gifted youth with IQs greater than 140 who were approximately 12 years old. Over a period of approximately 40 years, the researchers laid the groundwork for our understanding of giftedness and paved the way for efforts to identify and nurture giftedness in school. Terman died in 1959 but the study will continue until 2020, to encompass the entire lives of his original 1528 gifted youth. Results of the study have been published in several volumes

http://books.google.com/books?id=KQ4rLiAbHQQC&pg=PA41...

Intelligence is an important determinant of lifetime achivement. The classical study demonstrating this association was carried out by Lewis Terman and his colleagues. The study began around 1920 by intelligence testing a large number of children in California. From this sample they selected 1,528 (857 boys and 671 girls) with IQs of 135 and above. The minimum IQ of 135 represents approximately the top one percent of the population. The average IQ of the total sample was 151 (Terman, 1925).

These children were followed up thirty-five years after their initial identification when they were in their early forties. By this time, the authors of the follow-up concluded that "the superior child, with few exceptions, becomes the able adult, superior in nearly every respect to the generality" (Terman and Oden, 1959, p. 143).

Terman and his associated found that 70 percent of their sample had graduated from college; two fifths of the men and three fifths of the women had gone through graduate school. Of the men, 86 percent were in the two highest socioeconomic categories of professions and management. None of these individuals were in the lowest socioeconomic category of unskilled workers, as compared with 13 percent of the male population at that time. Seventy of the men were listed in American Men of Science, and three had been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Thirty-one were listed in Who's Who in America. Between them, they had produced nearly 2000 scientific papers, some 60 books in the sciences, 230 patents, and 33 novels. Fourteen percent of the men did not fulfill the promise of their high IQs and failed to obtain socioeconomic class one or two occupations. These men were almost all impaired by psychiatric problems or lack of motivation.

Among the women, most of them became housewives and mothers and consequently did not have such visible achievements. Nevertheless, seven women were listed in American Men of Science and two in Who's Who in America. Between them they had produced 32 scholarly books, 5 novels, more than 200 scientific papers, and 5 patents.
RESEARCH: Gender Bias in College Admissions Tests
Sphinx Search at Craigslist
For those who are just as confused as I was - Morten Lund, ladies and gentlemen:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morten_Lund
Can anyone enlighten me what's the difference between Zumodrive and JungleDisk? I've been using the later for a year. It creates a 'limitless' network drive on my MacBook with 1GB local cache (size can be increased), while synching with my Amazon S3 account in the background is almost not noticeable.

And by the way, JungleDisk simply passes Amazon S3 bandwidth/storage charges to me, no caps there; I can bypass it to access my data on S3 buckets; it is available for win/linux/mac etc.
Nope. The PhD was the distressed one.
The technology is rarely the big problem. The big problem is getting the client to stop calling you multiple times per week.

"How did you set up that sshfs thing again? I lost the FAQ you sent me."

"I was following your FAQ, but I did something wrong and now I can't find my files."

"I love that sshfs thing you set up for me; can you set it up for my ten friends? I'll pay you five bucks!"

I haven't used this new thing, but I do use Dropbox, which solves these problems by being gloriously boring. You set it up in less than one minute, with no docs required, and then it just sits there, working.
It's popular because it's a great platform, not because of its poor language design.
The model may still become a bottleneck if objects are tightly coupled and you can't scale out the model in a horizontal way. The low level nature and conceptual simplicity of the relational model allows database vendors to pull some pretty amazing tricks with scalability and clustering.
People aren't building big database centric applications because they don't know any better (so I would hope). It all depends on the context. It shouldn't be the default because it can be inflexible.
(To anyone overly sensitive reading the grandparent post -- Note that I am a Smalltalker.)

My sister says: "Unless someone might lose their life or a limb, it's not a Big Deal."

To this, I'm going to add: "If it really is a Big Deal, then FFS, use a checklist!"
I'd say it's a ways off considering how many years they've spent trying to shoot down much larger missiles with lasers. A missile moves much faster than a bird, but the small size of a bird is going to make it extremely difficult. There's also the issue of how to deal with a flock of birds. This, of course, is assuming you've figured out how to cost-effectively equip hundreds of passenger jets with lasers and the necessary tracking systems given the space constraints. I understand power is also an issue when shooting down missiles. I'm not sure how significantly this requirement is reduced when shooting down birds.

There's also the issue of using a weapon over heavily populated areas and at low altitude. Shooting down a missile will probably take place at high altitude. It's also possible, or even likely, that it will take place over a sparsely populated area or war zone. It could even be over an ocean. The laser might even be fired upwards. If you're shooting down birds from a plane there's a good chance you're going to be firing a laser outward or downward. What if you miss and start blasting holes through nearby buildings?

Bird strikes tend to be a problem most often during takeoff and landing-- usually at either end of the runway. Planes gain altitude so quickly that it's rarely a problem outside of a couple short windows as the plane is approaching or leaving the runway area. I remember reading about an airport with an especially bad bird problem that had success using dogs to keep birds away from the runways.

I think there is a simple solution to this. It might even be possible to put plants or grass around the runway that birds don't like. What about something with thorns that will be difficult for a bird to perch on? Or maybe something with a particular scent that birds will stay away from?
Yes, that's exactly what it is.

edit: Evolution also includes genetic drift - random chance mutations not driven by selection. But the point is evolution is not synonymous with progress.
"No," we're told Schmidt said. "And don't bring small stuff like this to me anymore."

Killing Dodgeball is not a significant decision for Google because it does not cost much and not enough people are using it for it to become bad publicity. This story is about cuts that are basically rounding errors for a company the size of Google. They sound good but they are not a long term path to increase profits.
In rails the database is mostly a storage space for freeze-dried model objects. Your typical enterprise RDBMS woes don't apply.
Migrations just make sure that the database scheme is consistent with your actual model. As far as writing Rails applications is concerned the actual technology used to persist objects is (mostly) abstracted away from the task of application design and development.
Taking performance away also directly impacts the bottom line of airlines and airplane manufacturers, so highly unlikely.
You know, the prius has one of these, too. ;) Or at least, the one particular model I saw. It may vary from year to year.
Then don't kill it by posting unimportant images.
I thought the a380 has flexible engine blades that bend temporarily upon a bird strike. I wonder if its engines would have shut down with a similar bird strike as the one that occurred yesterday.
these pharma-companies are paying a big chunk of change to make sure something useful happens when you take those pills.

Unfortunately, it's not always clear that those drugs do work. The problem isn't in the scientific process, but how it's often carried out and reported by the companies, who know exactly what it takes to get FDA approval (this is BIG business). I'm interested in how this process can be improved.

The "alternative/complementary" medicine thing is a red herring, to be polite.

Here's an interesting article that discusses some of the less than ideal ways that pharmacy companies report the science behind the drugs they develop, among other things.

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22237

I think it's an important and interesting issue that needs to be addressed better (probably by the government).
Ex-glider pilots have been known to do awesome and unorthodox things in order to save a jetliner. This tale of the "Gimli Glider" is another example of grace in an extreme situation.

http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=744
When I hit up I get: ^[[A

Some other frustrations: reload() seems to not work on occasion(haven't figured out the pattern yet)

Tab completion would be nice (I'm going to try the script above)
Text would have been redundant. The entire thing is launched. The interface is self-explanatory. (If you've never used Tumblr, it really is beautifully simple, despite this new clutter.) The video is there to get you excited, not to tour the site. Lines like "The first thing you'll notice about the new Tumblr is that it is sexy as hell" don't guide, they boast. Tumblr's staff blog is often very much about the people behind Tumblr rather than about the site itself, and this video as no different.
Mac is targeted to inexperienced computer users.  So why is it popular in Silicon Valley?
Is it simply a hatred of everything Microsoft?
I believe Zumodrive is S3
An Illustrated Guide to Git on Windows
This document is designed to show that using git on Windows is not a difficult process. In this guide, I will create a repository, make several commits, create a branch, merge a branch, search the commit history, push to a remote server, and pull from a remote server. The majority of this will be done using GUI tools.

Although this guide is targeted for use on Windows, the git gui tool works the same on all platforms. Because of this, git users on other platforms may find useful information here as well.
From later in the article:

"Mr. Aso’s comment would have stayed inside the room had a political reporter not been eavesdropping at the door — a common practice in Japan."

Is this really common? It brings to mind a pretty hilarious image.
Funny, it's the lack of submissions like this that make me like HN.
I'm surprised more people don't realize how short sighted it is to increase the power of government

Even if you think that Obama's ideas will be absolutely brilliant, and think he be able to increase the power of government to cause change which you want, it is still short sighted to increase the power of government. The reason is, your guy won't always be in charge, and when he isn't, someone you disagree with will be able to use these newly expanded powers in ways you don't want.

Everytime someone says, well we need a CTO to do this, because otherwise, the other party will do that, that person is setting themselves up for extreme disappointment. When the other party comes into power, these new found powers will be used against you, and you will be worse off than you were to begin with.
This is why I like startups so much: you can do whatever you like that will make the most use of your skill set.

There is no need to convince anyone to allow you to do that -- with a test, interview, etc.
Reddit is that way -->
"If, as you say, naturopaths are just practicing scientific medicine but using plants rather than chemicals, all they are doing is adding a new source of errors to traditional medicine."

The theory is that when plants have powerful drugs in them, they usually also have other mechanisms to prevent those drugs from being toxic. The idea being that eating the whole plant is often less harmful than taking a massive dose of one specific chemical. For example, people die every year by OD'ing on Red Bull or caffeine pills, but hardly anyone ever dies by drinking too much green tea. Why? Green tea has lots of acid and other stuff that'll make you throw up long before you can drink enough to kill yourself.

There are many other things that traditional doctors won't tell you take because they are illegal. For example, coca tea is far less likely to have nasty side effects than the altitude pills your doctor prescribes you, but your doctor isn't allowed to prescribe you coca tea because it's illegal.

And of course most doctors also accept bribes from the pharmaceutical industry. Every few months we see huge articles in the NY Times to this effect. Think of how many times your traditional doctor has advised you to take a plant-- probably never. Because plants aren't patentable and the pharma industry isn't there giving your doctor free trips to hawaii if he tells you to smoke weed for your bone cancer instead of taking some dangerous chemical compound.

Of course the dosages are a lot more variable than if you just got a pill, but that's why you go back to your naturopathic doctor every week or so instead of just taking a fixed dosage and going back if it gets worse. The whole idea is that the medicine is based around what makes you feel better, not what works for the average person as compared to a placebo.
Text would not have been redundant: it would have allowed users to see everything that was new instead of having to crawl over the site looking for new stuff. Eg: I have to check three or four possible locations to see if I can now see who my friends are reading, instead of checking a list of new features.

The evidence that text wouldn't have been redundant is even on this thread -- poster asks what's new, is answered in a sentence. A line like that accompanying the video, or even in a separate post, would have been of unquestionable utility to users.

Or, hell, Apple software is pretty self-explanatory too. Perhaps their minimalist "bug fixes" change notes are sufficient after all?
Mac is targeted to unexperienced computer users[sic]

According to who?

edit: While I'm fairly certain this post isn't, it certainly smells of trolling.
Aerodynamics and weight. Both are very important for all aerospace vehicles. Something like that would also decrease engine efficiency.

Supersonic aircraft engines usually have an aerospike, which could impale a bird... that would be a bloody sight.
Probably because it's based on a linux core.

Edit: sorry, seems I was wrong :-)
Mousedroid
Description for an idea I had for a virtual mouse for the real world. Comments are welcome and appreciated!

best,
-racso
Looks like it's actually Karna Warrior.
It's based on a unix variant. So was it popular in Silicon Valley before OS X?

Of course, in today's web 2.0 world, the OS core is not so important: more people are building web apps rather than desktop apps.
It's not. Even if it was, it wouldn't be the reason people use it.

(FreeBSD user-space utilities, with a FreeBSD/Mach hybrid kernel.)
As title suggests, it is a twitter news source...nothing else
Dimensional Fund Advisors (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimensional_Fund_Advisors) diversify among currencies, markets, and asset classes according to some math I don't really understand. They seem pretty sharp, though, and they're low-load for the buy-and-hold version (they have market timing funds designed to lower the fluctuation at the cost of lowering the long-term return).
Oops. As it turns out this box is running FC. I'm going to try things on a different box. Thanks for pythonrc! (doesn't quite work on this box because readline isn't working for some reason)
I prefer dropbox, more free space.
Sorry! I completely misread you. Thanks for the advice!
Yeah, for us, sshfs, or even rsync is great for our uses. But what about the regular people who wanted online backup and sync across multiple devices?
I agree with most of what you said, but:

Most people are very bright and just don't care to apply themselves.

I think it's probably closer to the truth to say most people don't know how to apply themselves. Just about everyone starts off with dreams of doing something great. Most people, no matter how smart, either give up to quickly or (less often) spend their lives working on the wrong thing. Figuring out what to work on, and then not giving up, is way more important than raw intelligence.

Perhaps you've missed this because some people give up so quickly that it appears they never tried at all.
Business rules applied to the data are good (constraints, etc.) because they force the developer to fix the old data when they introduce a new rule. Doing data migration from old systems is quite painful when required fields aren't there. It's hard work to introduce a foreign key constraint when there are a million rows that have to be updated...

However, much of what people call business rules are much more complex logic than that. I like the store things like the state transition mappings in the database, but ultimately the application is the more flexible place to execute the state transitions.
And an equation to sum it up:

DatabaseSchema + RealWorld = Entropy
It's pretty obvious that the mac is all about simplicity at the cost of flexibility, choice, power, and price.