skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, true, there are no hard and fast rules. Whatever works. Some things work better than others, though!

The hypothetical system we're arguing about is kind of ridiculous anyway. No-one is going to go to these lengths to protect just one tiny aspect of their operation, and if they did, it would be dwarfed by everything else. And this hypothetical secret-keeping operator is just going to tell the cops the secret within 5 minutes anyway. You can't "defeat" a country's own government, on their turf, like this.

And let's not even think about the time we've wasted arguing about storing the IPs when the real solution would seem to be to just not store the damn search string ..

Lol, this horse is dead all right.
With high-end server motherboards having as many as 16 memory slots and 8GB DIMMs existing on the market, it's certainly possible. http://supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon1333/5400/X7D...
Zuck doesn't seem very fresh on what he's talking about.
'If you tried, if any Mind tried, could you impersonate my style?' the Chelgrian asked. 'Could you write a piece - a symphony, say - that would appear, to the critical appraiser, to be by me, and which, when I heard it, I'd imagine being proud to have written?'

The avatar frowned as it walked. It clasped its hands behind its back. It took a few more steps. 'Yes, I imagine that would be possible.'

'Would it be easy?'

'No. No more easy than any complicated task.'

'But you could do it much more quickly than I could?'

'I'd have to suppose so.'

'Hmm.' Ziller paused. The avatar turned to face him. Behind Ziller, the rocks and veil trees of the deepening gorge moved swiftly past. The barge rocked gently beneath their feet. 'So what,' the Chelgrian asked, 'is the point of me or anybody else writing a symphony, or anything else?'

The avatar raised its brows in surprise. 'Well, for one thing, if you do it, it's you who gets the feeling of achievement.'

'Ignoring the subjective. What would be the point for those listening to it?'

'They'd know it was one of their own species, not a Mind, who created it.'

'Ignoring that, too; suppose they weren't told it was by an AI, or didn't care.'

'If they hadn't been told then the comparison isn't complete; information is being concealed. If they don't care, then they're unlike any group of humans I've ever encountered.'

'But if you can-'

'Ziller, are you concerned that Minds - AIs, if you like - can create, or even just appear to create, original works of art?'

'Frankly, when they're the sort of original works of art that I create, yes.'

'Ziller, it doesn't matter. You have to think like a mountain climber.'

'Oh, do I?'

'Yes. Some people take days, sweat buckets, endure pain and cold and risk injury and - in some cases - permanent death to achieve the summit of a mountain only to discover there a party of their peers freshly arrived by aircraft and enjoying a light picnic.'

'If I was one of those climbers I'd be pretty damned annoyed.'

'Well, it is considered rather impolite to land an aircraft on a summit which people are at that moment struggling up to the hard way, but it can and does happen. Good manners indicate that the picnic ought to be shared and that those who arrived by aircraft express awe and respect for the accomplishment of the climbers.'

'The point, of course, is that the people who spent days and sweated buckets could also have taken an aircraft to the summit if all they'd wanted was to absorb the view. It is the struggle that they crave. The sense of achievement is produced by the route to and from the peak, not by the peak itself. It is just the fold between the pages.' The avatar hesitated. It put its head a little to one side and narrowed its eyes. 'How far do I have to take this analogy, Cr Ziller?'

'You've made your point, but this mountain climber still wonders if he ought to re-educate his soul to the joys of flight and stepping out onto someone else's summit.'

'Better to create your own. Come on; I've a dying man to see on his way.'
Apple actually had one of the old-time Debian guys, Klee Dienes, for a number of years, starting way back in 1997. I guess he wasn't successful in convincing them to do things properly.
The funny part is that real companies really get away with that obviously impossible lie (with caveat) so commonly that it works as a parody.
You say that as if microprocessors aren't physical...
Yeah, I guess the main point here was to have the CEO give a TechTalk - which fails. Of course showing half of your companys employees during your presentation might be very motivating but if you mess up the tech part it just ends up being weird.
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My face pains of laughing so hard ... Hilarious!
Hope to revisit some day with a Ruby/Rails update...
We run 32 GB on our DB servers ... may be going to 64 GB soon.
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I'm hoping that it is one of his aquariums in the film Seven Pounds, and that he tells people "I do all Will Smith's jellyfish work".
I've been playing with 6 boxes, 32 gigs each.
Our main box has 32gb ...
My favorite is the assembly language example: You try to shoot yourself in the foot only to discover you must first reinvent the gun, the bullet, and your foot.or
The bullet travels to your foot instantly, but it took you three weeks to load the round and aim the gun.
Interesting point on the "globally comprehensible subset". I agree with you completely for international correspondence.

What I had in mind was more of messages and docs required for a product itself.

I had a personal experience building this quite successful app iRead on facebook and I would most always mess up the grammar or the tone in the news feed, which would then go through repeated corrections from people in the US.

People who have formally studied creative writing with English being their mother tongue would be able to message better.
Do you have a link? I would love to read the study.
I use skype with a skypein number, I also have an 0845 (UK local rate) number pointing to that. For my customers in other countries I intend to get an additional skype number that is local to those countries, but then we're only 1 hour time difference. You'd still get difficulty with that if you're UK and US, but then at least you'd have some overlap plus an answering machine.
Heartland Breach Raises Questions About PCI Standard's Effectiveness 
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The mechanisms of popularity are interesting for hackers (at least for me), but hardly anyone understands them. Adding more anecdotes and celebrity gossip isn't helpful.
Except 3, rest all are bloggers...
I wonder how come youtube celebs (like Chad Vader, Obama Girl) are not included in web-celebs ...
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For one thing, I guess if you prefer Lua to Python, this would interest you.

(BTW, I guess Pygame would be a closer equivalent.)
I thought it was waving his hand to the camera
It doesn't matter. His primary goal in giving the talk himself was probably not so much to teach people about memcached, but more to signal his values, one of which is that Facebook is a company where technical contributions are highly regarded.
I suspect "mechanical" would be a better word. Microprocessors are mysterious black[1] boxen, whereas relays, etc, are macro-sized and can be made at home by hand.

[1] For some definition of "black".
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First impression: Nowhere near enough swearwords :)

Also, if I type "trim" and hit enter, I get imagick_trimimage. If there's an exact match, I very much probably want that.
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apt-get install mailman ?

It's not that hard to set up, especially if it's just some sort of internal thing and you don't have to worry about things like clients. Even in that case, with a bit of fiddling it should work just fine.
I worry a lot about trying to get kids to study math simply because it's well paid indoor work with no heavy lifting.

That's really, really not why math should be studied. Math should be studied because it's interesting and fun. You might get a short term burst by claiming it will lead to more money, but study after study after study show that money is not a good motivator, especially the promise of money in the far distant future.

Math should be shown to be intrinsically interesting. It is, honest. We just need to figure out how to convey that. And if you don't think it is, you haven't found the fun bits.

OK, it doesn't suit everyone. But if we can find out how to teach it, then we'll find that it suits more than it does now.
Only if we switch to using iron based solders (or solderers)..... :)
I'm kinda fed up with the idea PHP = beginner's stuff don't touch it (as I am a PHP developper).

True it is a very permissive language with a bunch of awkwardnesses, but that's the main point of using it.

Building something with a tiny LAMP stack is done in seconds, which can then be extended into something huge (think Facebook or Flickr). It's very extensible, you can add any stuff you like (frameworks, ...). Basically it's as if you start with a blank sheet of paper and decide where you want to go.

I don't know many programming languages allowing this.
>> They compete in today's society against humans in creative fields.
> No, they don't. To compete, they must be in the same market.

Chimpanzees create works of fine art: http://images.google.com/images?q=chimpanzee+painting They compete against human artists for prestige, and their works command sums of money.

Chimpanzees perform in dramatic roles in movies: http://images.google.com/images?q=chimpanzee+movie http://images.google.com/images?q=chimp+bj+bear

Chimpanzees provide spectacle entertainment for paying customers by living in zoos: http://images.google.com/images?q=chimps+zoo

Perhaps humans, someday, will be living in zoos, providing spectacle entertainment for paying customers (AI) who vastly outclass them in terms of intelligence and creativity. Perhaps these humans will occasionally be given a role in a movie, and perhaps their "fine art works" will be commoditized based on their novelty value.
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I know you can make a DAC by using pulse width modulation.

Can you do that in reverse? i.e. make an oscillator who's frequency depends on the input (resistance presumably), then each time the oscillation goes above a certain voltage it would trigger a digital 'on' signal (edge trigger I guess). Count how many of those you get per time, and you have an ADC.

Would that work?
Ha, I'm going to borrow this idea of yours.
They are well-paid because relatively few people are good enough at maths to do it at a professional level. And we need the Harvard Business Review to tell us that?

This just in: rock stars make a tonne of money (and I mean actual rock stars, not Rails developers) so why aren't kids learning to play the guitar?

Getting any well paid job involves first paying your dues in practice or study. Anyone who is willing to do that will prosper in any field. That is what schools should be teaching.
There's a similar case underway at the moment in the courts of England and Wales. Simon Singh wrote an article saying that many of the claims of the British Chiropractic Society have no evidence to support them. The BCA have sued for libel. Simon is defending.

You can read more:

http://www.google.com/search?q=singh+libel

Here are some of the hits:

http://draust.wordpress.com/2008/12/23/it%E2%80%99s-quiet%E2...

http://jackofkent.blogspot.com/2008/11/on-bcas-case-against-...

http://counterknowledge.com/2009/01/simon-singh-discovers-th...
This is very insightful and because it's real life data (as opposed to data gathered/guessed/invented by agencies) it has authenticity. Patzer should be official advisor to the government.
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As white collar, intellectual, or knowledge workers, I dare say never [will they be obsoleted by technological progress]. There are simply too many difficulties.

Development of AI will simply stop before it reaches knowledge-worker-class strength? Why would it stop?

What do you think about Theodore Kaczynski's take on this?: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=435437
I didn't encounter any interesting maths until I was 18 and in my first year of a Mech Eng degree. Perhaps it was just the way it was taught in secondary school, altho' I was good at it there didn't seem to be much point. Then they taught us linear programming and it was literally mind-expanding. Suddenly a whole class of things I couldn't even think about before was opened up before me. The question is, how can that moment be experienced younger, by people who don't already have an A-level (or high school diploma, whatever you call it).
A demonstration that Direct2D is ridiculous
if their average user spends $4,000 a month(before savings etc), wouldn't this mean that this data is pretty much useless? I mean sure it might help you identify some middle class families trends but thats about it

Based on that data an average minter makes at least $4,100 x 12 * 1.33(to account for taxes) = $65,436...and thats specific spending, who knows what % of their income gets saved or invested.

So thats the 10% or so of the population who are well off, what about all those people making less than 70-80K?
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how do you have a real discussion if there is only 1 level of comments?
I agree. I really enjoyed optimizing my route, but it was somewhat frustrating when my route turned out to go down the Belt Parkway then make a u-turn because I placed the waypoint on the wrong side of the road, then make another u-turn to get to the next waypoint.
Aww, thanks!

I think that the proper route is to learn both science and art. I don't know that much about various individual fields of science, though I'd really like to, but I know that there's definitely an art to the way math works, and I'm sure it extends to other stuff too.

Oh, and a severe note of warning: Finnegans Wake is extraordinarily tough to read. It's online, so you might want to take a look at it before you go out of your way to read it.
It does hold, because humans aren't as specialized as a robot designed specifically for the job.
I live in France and was mildly inconvenienced by the "General Strike" yesterday. However I fail to see how a bunch of teachers and post office counter clerks taking yet another day off will convince a government facing the worst economic conditions for decades that pay should be increased and that government employment should become an even greater percentage of total employment.

I should think the government was only too glad to save a days pay all round - probably looking forward to this becoming a weekly event.
Your advice is normally good, but I'm a bit concerned by the fact that the original poster is getting this advice from HN and not the adviser.

In principle, the adviser should have told patty all of this, and made plans with the new school to bring students over. Most of the reasons I can think of for him not to do this (he doesn't care about his students, or dislikes the original poster) are signs that the original poster needs a different adviser.
I having pain in my stomach laughing... where is PHP, Python and Ruby ?
I loved the perl one "You stab yourself in the foot repeatedly with an incredibly large and very heavy Swiss Army knife."
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I love this one... So can we say now that 'computing is a child's play' ?
It does hold, because humans aren't as specialized as a robot

That humans are not as specialized as specialized robots was not contested. What about the "whatever the costs" part?
All of the schools that you listed there are in the top 1% of American universities. As for "a rite of passage into the economic elite", any of those will do. And there I don't mean "the Harvard elite" – I'm just talking about the upper middle class and above that most tech entrepreneurs, and presumably most of the people reading this site, come from.

Here's what I'm getting at: As per the article, parents who send their kids to an elite university to get a degree in creative writing aren't doing it because they're under the impression that they're getting vocational training, and nevertheless, it's probably a smart investment. Class cohesion is a pretty powerful force.

(Note: With all of this I'm not saying this is a good thing; just that social factors are as powerful as skills in determining at where someone falls in the economic ladder.)
Ask YC: Favorite blogs?
I checked searchyc - doesn't look like there's ever been a discussion about this! What blogs do you love? Not even what blogs do you think are best, what ones do you love reading?

My favorites: The Big Contrarian (http://www.bigcontrarian.com/), which has incredible essays (one of the best is on something like the third-to-last page), All of Andy Baio's blog posts and links (http://waxy.org/), Daring Fireball (http://daringfireball.net) - which I started reading before I was a Mac user, and which got me into both Apple stuff and typography, so perhaps there's a bias - and Shawn Blanc writes excellent reviews of software he loves (http://shawnblanc.net/).

What about you? Which blogs really get you going?
Morten Lund has more info, in case you're wondering: http://lundxy.com/?p=3250
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As to (2), my point was that I have no way of doing it.

As to (3), I am not "religious about open source". My point was that at the very least I would like to be able to verify what the output is, which I can't.

Your arguments about companies' reputations being on the line are something I don't buy. This is hacker news, I buy technical arguments. And if you believe "reputable companies" don't do strange things with your keys or our data, may I kindly remind you of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY

Regarding (1), thanks for the reference, I will certainly learn more about the technology involved.
I met Perez at the airport mid-month on a layover in Minneapolis. For a z-list actual celebrity, I found him incredibly full of himself. A woman, obviously a fan and just tickled to death, asked if she could have her picture taken with him. He said 'fine', but she would have to come down to his level because he wasn't going to stand up for him.

Thanks, but I can do without celebrities like this.
I agree that "the best thing" is a bit over the top, but the big difference between photosynth and video technology is that the images already exist.
Awesome post and the organization of algorithm in different sections is simply perfect...
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I wonder if this can be used to create Halloween Haunting effects - i.e. playing a sound when an IR trigger is ...triggered. I would love to embed something like that in a scarecrow with a crazy mask sitting on my front porch in a rocking chair. Kids come up - trip the IR - and the eyes light up and it says 'Happy Halloween MUHAHAAHAHA!!!!.
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Dup. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=457961
I don't use mint (long-time Quicken user), but it wouldn't surprise me at all if many married users of mint are couples or entire families. Nor would it surprise me for the average mint user to be in their late 30s, with fairly little representation among the just entering the workforce crowd.

Yes, that might introduce biases in their data that don't reflect with high fidelity the entire breadth of consumer actions, but even slightly imperfect data that's internally consistent can be quite valuable.
The gizmodo version of this story was posted 15 hours ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=457225

Also, venturebeat covered Google's apology: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=457645
"Overall, the mean household income in the United States, according to the US Census Bureau 2004 Economic Survey, was $60,528"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United_...

To be fair he might have been displaying the median income and husbands and wives might have separate mint.com accounts, although I would be surprised if the typical behavior was to divide the cars and mortgage between two accounts.

Edit: looks like sokoloff and I thought the same thing at the same time
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Yup, a good way of getting analog sensor data around eg:

http://www.analog.com/en/analog-to-digital-converters/voltag...

Also, sometimes all you care about is the value of a signal relative to a threshold, so you use a simple comparator to make a higher/lower signal.
Seems to be some missing entries...

Haskell: You create an elegant firearm, one Mikhail Kalashnikov or John Colt would recognize as the most concise embodiment of an optimal foot-shooting instrument. Unfortunately, it requires a PhD in set theory to load.

Python: You draw a Glock, take an isosceles stance aiming at your foot, and squeeze the trigger.

Ruby: You draw a Glock, attach a laser sight, silencer, and fixed stock, create a new stance designed to make foot-shooting feel idiomatic, then worry if you'll be able to handle larger calibre bullets.
Obama during the campaign: "We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times . . . and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK."

Obama now: (from Axelrod) "He's from Hawaii, O.K.?" said Mr. Obama's senior adviser, David Axelrod, who occupies the small but strategically located office next door to his boss. "He likes it warm. You could grow orchids in there."

Jimmy Carter at least wore sweaters when he demanded lower thermostats.

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/01/022681.php

From another Obama speech: "If you want to change the world, the change has to happen with you first. I ask you join in the work of remaking this nation the only way it's been done. in America for two hundred and twenty-one years -- block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand."
One study suggests that increasing broadband penetration in a typical American state by a percentage point raises employment by 0.2-0.3% a year. The idea that governments should be pouring money into broadband seems so self-evident that operators and equipment-makers have been rubbing their hands with glee.

Why not simply give individuals money, and let them set their own priorities? Then, if they wanted broadband, they could buy broadband. If they instead felt that other tools or needs were more pressing, they could buy those instead.
My comment wasn't meant to apply to every business, but the most creative and enlightened ones would definitely take advantage of this and thrive (Zappos is a case in point).
Yes, but it requires other people in the case I outline.
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