skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ha, thank you. I actually mapped out the existing app's "potential data" in a 51-slide Keynote before starting this, and the 11 iterations before it. Nobody will ever see that – it's just bones – but I hoped the thought process would show through a bit.

TripIt favorited my tweet to the link, but... that's it. I'm not really looking to join Concur. I'm just hoping they haven't quit on their loyal and loving users yet.
She even told you her true requirement, which is to look good for her girlfriends. (Watch what happens when ladies announce an engagement or look for the ring shot on Facebook, then tell me I'm off base.)

You did not sell her a product which would make her the envy of her girlfriends. "Cheaper than their rings" is the opposite of a victory condition. Don't sell cheap. Sell authentic, sell natural, sell one-of-a-kind, sell meaning, sell status, sell a story, etc.
Not really a new invention - see 'etherpad-lite' (also opensource)
Just with a little work, it would do the same...

But nice to see how all the trolls play... Maybe this is a real good idea... A contest battelfield for trolls... (as a game)
"If builders constructed buildings the way software developers write software, the first woodpecker to come along would cause the collapse of civilzation."
OOoohhhh. I totally get it now. You are an unpublished internet stranger and the Alcubierre drive has been scrutinized by some of the top minds in physics. But your criticisms are more important for some reason I don't know. Mkay, going to bed now.

Edit:
By the way. I did read the thing about point A and B and understand it completely. The thing is, it doesn't matter. This is why I'm absolutely sure now that you haven't got a clue as to what the drive actually does. Here let me explain it to you like you are 5. If you send a packet of information from point A to point B, and it goes faster than light, then yes that will screw with causality. But if instead you bring point A closer to point B, it will appear as though it is "traveling" (notice the quotes) faster than light. It is however not traveling. it isn't moving. No movement through space. Freefall. zero movement. Stillness. Think about that for a moment. Absolutely positively no movement. Complete stillness. There is a lack of motion with this drive relative to the speed of light. Mind you this isn't a wormhole because even wormholes can screw with causality. This is a space creator/destoyer. Destroys in the front, creates in the back. No movement is involved. I know it's really hard to wrap your head around but just think about it for a couple of days. think about bringing point A closer to point B instead of going through all the trouble of sending the information. Remember, doesn't move.
I suspect that a lot of NoSQL folks come to NoSQL from MySQL.

As for this part:

>"When you have multiple applications accessing the same database, each with their own implementation of consistency rules and their own internal idea of the data schema, come back and explain how that is more fun than using an RDBMS and being able to sleep nights."

The obvious answer from the MySQL/NoSQL folks is "What? That's crazy! Multiple apps hitting the same db? Are you nuts???"

See my blog post at http://ledgersmbdev.blogspot.com/2012/09/or-modelling-interl... for more on this mentality.
Graphic Designers are you Color Blind?
Probably. But in these languages, variable declaration is also an lambda/application :

let x = t1 in t2 <=> (λx.t2) t1

So, it behaves in a sane way (you have lexical scoping for local variables too). There is no "functional scope".
Awesome, checking this out. Didn't know Smashing did a totally responsive redesign either. Thanks!
But the whole point of the article was that that isn't true, because CoffeeScript makes more things optional (e.g. in Javascript if you don't see brackets then you know it's not a function)
cough MySpace cough
I want to know how people are fitting them in pockets. 5 inches IS far too big for a phone. That's a tiny tablet, and apparently is quite good at that...
did this guy really attend stanford? but I have found this link in their almuni page --

http://alumni.stanford.edu/get/page/magazine/article/?articl...
Note that I am NOT arguing for a linear relationship in any way, shape or form. Clearly, a tax rate that approaches 100% prevents any activity from taking place in the open.

Also, one could argue that a property tax would be better than an income tax as a way to enforce maintenance of the commons and to provide infrastructure and an educated work-force. (I tend to favor use of taxes as "investment", rather than "money for nothing")
Can't believe its on the front page, given my comment a few days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4523063
As far as I know, the Galaxy S3 was released somewhere in May last year. If Samsung presents the S4 at MWC in February, the release date will be similar.

And the iPhone releases are not always exactly 12 months apart from each other as well, right?
Please know that in periods of "high personal tax rates" business owners declared their income through their companies thereby lowering their tax rates. You would have a company car, company vacation, company dinners, you can even make it company policy to pay for the employees children college education, etc... This is the same reason any comparison of income equality over time is meaningless. Since income was declared through different avenues.

To understand the tax implications of economic growth you have to look at the tax payments as a percentage of GDP as well as compliance costs. In the US tax payments have held steady at about 18% of GDP since WWII until recently. People hunt for loopholes no matter what. But when rates are low you don't have to look for loopholes, so you can deploy your capital more efficiently. Thus generating economic growth. This is why tax cuts often stimulate large economic booms. Capital that was sitting in say tax-protected muni bonds will move into the market and be deployed for business expansion and thereby hiring.

There's so much evidence to the contrary of this article, even Obama's own counsel of economic advisories share the view that tax cuts stimulate economic growth. Christina Romer, his former advisor wrote a paper on the subject. What they do is look at country around the world to collect more data points for a better regression analysis.

Also note that when you say "tax cuts", not all tax cuts are made equal. For a tax cut to be effective it needs to change long-term behavior. So credits and such have a near zero or negative effect while rate cuts have a positive effect. The most beneficial being capital gain rate cuts (ie every time they have been cut, revenues from the tax have increased), corporate, and then final income tax rate cuts.

-Really going to down vote me without refuting any of what I said.
You began with the question of whether higher marginal tax rates made economic growth "impossible". After finding that there was growth between 1940 and 1980, you should have concluded "no, it does not make it impossible as we have a counter example". This follows and is called induction. But you for some reason chose to then alter the premise and say you proved that high marginal tax rates are not harmful. You have in no way proved this. For all you know without those high marginal tax rates, growth would have been even HIGHER between 1940 and 1980. I am sure you do not believe this to be the case, and that is a very reasonable belief, but understand that it is not proven by this evidence (nor is it disproven mind you).

True evidence-based proofs, the way its done with science, requires that you test one variable. In the example above you'd have to have a parallel economy where all else was the same except the tax rate. Unfortunately this is impossible, but this does not mean we get to change what "proof" means. Economics would work much better if everyone came to terms with the fact that it is untestable and was honest with themselves that all opinions regarding it are just beliefs, regardless which side you fall on.
That doesn't make me feel great about two-factor authentication through my VM phone.
Is it possible to build simple logic gates with LEGO mechanics?
Almost a month ago, I ordered one of the $55 (well, I think it was $58) A13-based tablets from a vendor on AliExpress. It arrived today. So far, it's better quality than the "Matrix One" tablet that was $100 two months ago.

It's flat-out amazing that I can get a not-GREAT-but-perfectly-functional touchscreen multimedia computer with wireless Internet access for slightly more than it costs for a tank of gas. If this trend continues, they'll be giving away tablets in cereal boxes by 2014.
Cashing In Your DIY Projects
Agreed. I shrunk the header on the content pages to remedy that a little, but I'm still learning about responsive design to accommodate 11", iPad and phone screens. Feedback appreciated.
Of course a 100% tax rate is absurd, but it's not completely irrelevant. In particular, I bet that the current total effective tax rate (including not just income taxes but also FICA, sales tax, property tax, and implicit taxes from market interventions such as farm subsidies and the minimum wage) is already supra-optimal for economic growth. A wise and just sovereign—such as a time-teleported and quickly-brought-up-to-speed Marcus Aurelius—would likely find that he could increase tax revenues by lowering (and streamlining) tax rates across the board.
A 0% tax rate would certainly work better than a 100% tax rate. After all, we had no income taxes until the 20th century.
Before you buy your funky wheels, know more of how they pack it
The headline is needlessly inflammatory.

A better headline might be "tax rates and growth only poorly correlated in one particular country in a limited period with the highest rate of technological change in recorded history".
Billions of rows btw is not a problem even on modest hardware, with a half-decent db, etc. It's analytics on this where it become possibly an issue. Retrieving one row out of 1 billion is not that much more complex than retrieving one row out of 1 million, nor is it that much more expensive computationally assuming the right index is in place.

The problem comes with high concurrency, in particular very high write concurrency, or with very complex queries which require a lot of RAM to do properly. But that's where you need a solid db, good hardware, and a solid DBA.
The number of significantly different tax policies over those 65 years is very small--less than a dozen. So concluding anything from such a small number of samples is impossible. Thus it's not surprising they find "no correlation" between taxes and economic growth.
That's a 16% increase in weight and a 312% increase in power. I used to be a frequent poster on s2ki (autocross an AP1), the weight isn't that much of a hinderance when you increase power that much. Braking and turning will suffer.
Inteligência Artificial
É possível que, devido a quantidade de dados e ao funcionamento dos mecanismos de busca e associação das informações, a Internet evolua naturalmente para para uma "Consciência" - ou isso não passa de ficção cientifica ?
I recommend learning Python. It's a very expressive language with libraries for almost everything. It's used for web development, scientific computing, desktop applications, etc. It's an easy language to learn but also powerful.

Some people here are recommending Ruby. Ruby is also a great language, and probably a little more expressive than Python.
However, Ruby lacks libraries for some areas (numerical and scientific computing, machine learning..). Ruby tends to have a more web-focused community.

I would recommend Python.
Rod Brooks Reveals Baxter, Programmable Industrial Robot for the Masses
I really want to smack that smirk off his face.

Uggh, what a painful video, I couldn't even watch the whole thing!
I'm in America, an American, and not Asian. I find what apple is doing repulsive.
- They are using highly questionable patents to discourage competition, are ruling their ecosystem like a fascist regime,
- forcing you to swallow their whole stack to work with any part of their ecosystem (e.g. you can only build ios apps on mac)
- their bundled applications suck (damn the "rainbow wait wheel"
- making disposable laptops, ipods, and iphones which is counter to the environment and very anti-consumer but pro apple pocketbook.

And all this is especially funny when you look back:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYecfV3ubP8

Although that article is definitely not substantiating their bias it's just a shame that brand marketing here has so clearly pulled the proverbial wool over the American public's eyes.
Really nice; I think it will be great for collaborations although the troll environment was quite hectic.
There are a fair amount of things that are better when they're not free. I remember spending a half hour or so wading through free credit report offers online to find one I could pay fifteen dollars for.

Why? In that case no one's doing it for fun do they have to be making money somewhere to pay for the ads. I'll take the devil I know over the devil I don't.

With open source you know why it's free - the least altruistic possibility is there's a user whose main motivation is solving the particular issue you have, and that it's open in the hopes that someone can improve it. With freeware, who knows.
Epictète : Ce Qui Dépend De Nous 
Epictète : Ce Qui Dépend De Nous (modernisé par Bernard Raquin)
> Try gifting her a piece of coal and watch.

That's the whole point. Coal is a hyperbole here, but her special attitude towards diamonds is something manufactured artificially around 50-60 years ago.
Home team advantage. Apple gets good reviews in the US (once you ignore the tech blogs), Samsung gets favorable press throughout Asia, and Nokia might having a fighting chance with Windows Phone 8 in Europe. I've seen lots of ads for the N920.
Google Apps Internet Explorer 8 support discontinued
Node.js, C and Agile - What do they have in common?
You should think twice before you marry...
There was discussion on pgsql-general a bit before the release. It appears that physically sequential scan of a table is about as fast as key-order sequential scan of a covering index.

To speed up a lot, I think you'd need to be able to scan an index in physical order which is not currently supported.

Now if you are using SSD's yeah, you could tweak the planner settings enough to cause it to make an index scan perhaps, and maybe you'd see a modest performance increase, but even there it appears the operating system's prefetch logic really does come to the rescue of a sequential scan of a table in physical order.
Dell Streak (Android) had a 5 inch screen and was released in early 2010. You are a perfect example of what strong brand soundbites have done to the public.
Essentially, Google Wave.
Interesting: how can a belief ever be a rational decision? Isn't it irrational by definition?
A lot of the crap software is white label, like you say; something to sell something else. It's like most hardware; if you buy a camera you get free editing software which is white labelled crap usually but at least you can tick the boxes compared to your competitors.

Then there is the 'getting rich' thing which is more prevalent than, I think, most people here realize. Currently it's about apps => get rich making apps; there are countless 'internet marketing' ebooks online how you make apps without programming and 'get rich' doing it. This used to be actual printed books 'how to become the next Bill G.', usually with VB/Delphi like 'almost codeless' development. A lot of crap comes out of that unfortunately.
Internet Archive Amasses All TV News Since 2009
If you're not too familiar with hardware or how computers work at a low level (assembly language, instruction sets, etc), then I would think about reading Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software.

It starts off with a story of two kids communicating to each other with flashlights in Morse code, and slowly builds up into how a computer works.
I'll point out that differing classes of service (and rates) for work with different turnaround times is standard in the medical transcription industry. There, a patient could literally be waiting to enter surgery because the transcribed pre-op report is late. But something like clinic notes would be much less time sensitive.

It's a brutal industry, though, lots of price pressure, and seemingly becoming commoditized.
As a side note, the picture at the end shows the last second of the great fight between Diego Corrales and José Luis Castillo[1][2].

Round 10: After being knocked down twice and hardly beating the clock, Corrales turns the match, traps his opponent against the ropes and causes the referee to end the fight.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Corrales_vs._Jose_Luis_Ca...

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imZaiGJgbsw
Watch This Author Use A Google Document To Write And Edit A Book In Real-Time
Who are these irresponsible network operators that allow spoofed source addresses out of their network?

There is at least one legitimate use for "spoofed" IPs... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_IP

Of course this protocol is rarely used and can probably be blocked on most consumer ISPs...
Assure your Storage Facilities in Graham
Facilities of storage units in Graham are provided by many companies in the business but there are some points to know before assuring yourself that you have hired the right choice for your business.
Scribd hiring a DevOps engineer to scale the #3 largest rails site (SF / remote)
> So, banks like barclays have been treating diamonds like money

Citation needed. Any appraiser with half a brain knows that diamonds' resale value is almost none. I'd be surprised to find a bank putting their money in diamonds. With toxic assets you'd have at least a chance of resale before the inevitable bust.
Props to the kid for being such a whiz, but DAE shudder at the thought of a 17-year old getting behind the wheel of this thing? My mom's minivan had about 150hp and I still managed to do incredibly stupid shit with it. All the while believing I was an above-average driver...
How to book Gas Refill online
Instead of freezing the account until it's unlocked by customer service, why not just lock it for increasingly longer periods of time? 2 seconds after the third failed attempt, 3 after the fourth, 5 after the sixth, 10 after the seventh, etc.

Not too inconvenient for legitimate users trying to remember their passwords, but it surely makes bruteforcing impossible (if by the 1,000th attempt they're having to wait an hour between attempts).
I worried about 4.7 inch display being too big too, but it turned up to be a perfect size for me.
Node-mruby embeds mRuby into node.js
Only a 15% loss of power to the wheels is very low.

Just the drivetrain loss on muscle cars is around 30% approximately.
Many banks apparently don't let you choose PINs; however from the limited sample of PINs I know of (mine, my wife, my company and a few others) they're not random; they all have doubled digits (like 2554).
That my all be true, but at the root of it, I find the concept revolting. I mean demonstrating your economic viability as a spouse. It is actually the most unromantic thing ever, because it means at the end of the day you marry for economic reasons, not for love. Which is OK, but then don't pretend for it to be romantic.

As for remembering a moment, I don't see why something expensive is required. You could as well collect a special looking pebble from the beach and have it remind you of the romantic sunset you watched together.
Does it really matter that they are/are not security professionals? Virgin Mobile is a major corporation, and (if I understand the vulnerability correctly) are willing to let a unique IP ping their server 1MM times in a day. Rate limiting software is open-source and easy to come by. How does Virgin mobile prevent DDOS attacks if this vulnerability exists?
I wonder if the form is susceptible to timing attacks. That could make identifying a user's PIN even faster.
> Oh wait. Russia tried that. For more than 65 years. It did not work too well for them.

You might want to learn a little bit of history before spouting off the conventional wisdom you learned in 8th grade.

Russia for hundreds of years was a total backwater. At the turn of the 20th century it was incredibly far behind the rest of Europe. Under communism Russia became an industrialized superpower that rivaled the US. Ultimately the communist system collapsed, but partially because of its own success. The impoverished denizens of pre-Communist Russia had never been able to force democratic reform, but with the economic growth under communism arose a commercial class that was able to force some level of democratic reform.
Oh man, that was a fantastic feature! That takes me back...
You can transfer the oem stuff - just phone them to activate it.
It was already shown here https://github.com/blog/1252-how-we-keep-github-fast. So we could have known it would come.
"So long as it is private (probably not for long), our healthcare system will be "the best" -- in terms of quality, but not necessarily cost"

And again a overly broad claim that you don't back up with facts.

Instead of keeping slapping each other over the head with anecdotes - which, to be fair, could only prove my point and not yours, since you made those unqualified claims - let's look at what comparative studies say.

A quick web search gives e.g. [1] and [2]. The general conclusion seems to be that the US health-care system is okay, but certainly not better than that in many other developed countries.

You brought up the "you get what you pay for" argument. In fact, the only thing that stands out for the US system, is its cost. See specifically the second page of [2]. Government costs for health care in the US are higher than in any of the compared countries, even though government spending covers a far smaller part of the total costs.

[1] http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/health/july-dec09/insura...
[2] http://conversations.psu.edu/docs/calkins_comparison.pdf
Try not to get her killed, though. Hasn't climbing Mount Everest something like a 20% mortality rate?
In other news, Yahoo is now being renamed to Yaho to get even more scrape metal to pay off its debts.
That is a strong set of claims, and as long as you hold it, you are utterly to any set of facts that might dispute it.

According to IRS figures, the top 400 tax payers today pay income taxes below 16%. According to the best available figures, the top theoretical tax rate during the 1950s was over 90%, but the average tax rate paid by the top approximately 400 people was 51.2%. Obviously they used a lot of tax loopholes. Obviously they still wound up paying, in real taxes, a lot more than the very rich to today.

Of course if you refuse to believe that the real figures were reported to the IRS, you can believe any figures that you want. But it is pretty hard to reasonably come to the conclusion that the rich today are paying similar tax rates to the rich 55 years ago.

As for taxes and economic growth, it is a trivial piece of economics to conclude that collecting more in taxes immediately takes money away from the economy. However it is only slightly less trivial to conclude that the amount of damage it does is proportional to how likely that money was to get spent. Given that the poor are likely to spent more than the rich, that means that we should prefer to tax the rich more.

Therefore if you're going to levy taxes (and there is no reasonable way to avoid the need to), it is more efficient for all of us to tax the rich more heavily. Instead of taxing them less, which is what they keep telling us we need to do.

(I, along with many of the people on this site, pay a greater fraction of my income in taxes than Mitt Romney does. But is this really good public policy?)
Personally I don't relish the thought of memorizing the REST API of every website I visit. Anyways, it's not like they did away with the URI scheme you are describing...