skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stagnation in the 1800's? Keep in mind this was the century that saw the invention and spread of the railroad, the invention and spread of a nearly instant global communication medium with the telegraph, the telephone, the moving picture, photography, the typewriter, large-scale mechanized factories with the spread of steam power, etc.
It has had a huge effect on my sleep as well. In fact, I jail broke my phone specifically to install f.lux and that's been even better.
I live on the land next to one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monterey_Bay_National_Marine_Sa...

While the prohibitions aren't as clear cut as what you said, they are definitely in that spirit http://montereybay.noaa.gov/intro/mp/regs.html#prohibitions
…but you haven't.
Why does Google dis my site?
Web site: couponprinter.com
Function helps print coupons
Ranking on bing for coupon printer search term : #1
Ranking on google for coupon printer search term: Twilight zone used to be number one.
How can a site that has the name couponprinter.com and really does help people print and find coupons have no ranking on google ?
How Ridiculous Is It That Apple Maps Redirect To Google Maps On The Web?
Donate to charity while avoiding to pay state/country taxes which can benefit the whole community sounds so hypocrit !
Almost as ridiculous as the number of puff pieces AOL has spewed out about Apple Maps!
This is dreadfully wrong. There's a bunch of activity in the healthcare space, which is currently heavily reliant on pen and paper. They will soon transition to PC's, many institutions already have, and the results will be dramatic. Mobile will play an important role, but most likely in conjunction with desktop based devices that people work from, because of the extent of typing that remains involved.
The 1 penny used to be 12.5 pennies, not long ago.

That is yummifajita's blog, btw.
It is probably hard to change as students who were A students this year would be B students next year without the inflation.
The greatest innovation shall be human compassion and decency.
The kind of discovery that doesn't let half of the world starve in a vain pursuit of tech gadgets.
The kind of invention that will make it obvious that 47% of a population is not aspiring to live any less freely than the other 53%.
The kind of transformation that will end all prejudices.

Alas, while we are great at opening Pandora's box, we totally fail at evolving as spiritual beings.
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FTL devices don't have to "criss-cross" for you to be able to create causal loops. And even if you don't have any causal loops, other violations of causality violate thermodynamics. It's not as if if you've solved the problem of causal loops--which as far as I'm aware, no one has done without postulating a preferred frame of reference, which is basically rejecting Relativity outright--then you're off the hook. All violations of causality are going to make most scientists shake their heads. And, if it is infeasible to accelerate an FTL drive up to speed, then the point is moot for space travel or communication.
Good point. I was thinking of things whose state is not proper or measurable.

"Ignored" perhaps?
> Instead of tech worker demand driving infrastructure, it has simply created a separate (but equal?), exclusive, mirror transit system.

On the list of pros and cons of living in a large state this is listed under "cons". The roads are maintained by the state, not by the municipalities, and however important, tech industry is just one of many voices in the state of California. Paired with the squeaky wheels of agricultural lobby, state employer union, teacher union, prison worker union and film industry, tech lobby basically gets no grease.

Northern California becoming its own state would probably solve a lot of these issues, as tech companies and their employees tend to be pretty significant revenue generators for the state.
The sad part is that very few hackers are willing to put their money (and their hardware) where their mouths are. It truly is not inconceivable that, if we all would spend a little bit of our time and money contributing to Linux/Ubuntu, that we could have a solid OS that we could all use on a daily basis. But instead, we spend hundreds and thousands of dollars on Apple hardware, and Ubuntu has to resort to adding advertising to their OS. It really is quite a sad state of affairs.
The Monterey Bay Aquarium has an excellent guide to sustainable fish, web searchable, printable and as Android and iOS apps. They also distinguish between farmed, wild caught and if appropriate method of catch:

http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/cr/seafoodwatch.Aspx

Just because fish is farmed doesn't make it healthy. A high density pen will have high concentrations of everything.
If you place a limit order you can be the one stealing shoelaces. Or you can be your shoelace in exchange for getting instantaneous execution, just like you pay your ISP a shoelace for the megabyte of data used to send the order.
http://www.mindingthecampus.com/originals/2009/11/grade_infl...

"Finally, the "draft fear" explanation cannot explain why a very similar pattern of grade inflation has occurred over the decades in Canadian universities which were spared the tumult of the Vietnam protest era and student fears that they might be drafted and sent overseas to fight and die."
That was a reference to http://paulgraham.com/say.html which explored his fear of arbitrary fashion being mistaken for morality. As for torture, I regard that as something we're guilty of through having effectively lost democratic control of the country, and I've seen very little disagreement and none I find convincing.
If you take asking for the additional damages the law allows (most of which is based on willfulness, which the jury explicitly upheld), plus an injunction (which everyone always asks for) as anything other than lawyers taking the case to its logical conclusion, you're being silly. Whatever you think about the case, this is nothing new or surprising.
<3 Keep fighting the good fight. We need more people thinking like you.
The issue with Taxis, in particular, is that they need to be regulated in some way. When hiring a taxi consists of standing on the curb with arm extended, while someone ducks out of traffic to pick you up, there is very little negotiation that can be done. It makes sense that, within a city, the economics of a taxi transaction be defined in advance.

That said, I fully believe Uber should be allow to do its thing. A transaction initiated by Smartphone App allows the passenger sufficient ability to consent to whatever deviation from "standard" terms the driver may provide.
People are willing to pay a higher fare for the service?
I'm seeing airberlin (flying to europe) and airasia (flying within asia) quite a lot in these flightfox contests.
That would explain grade inflation remaining steady, not getting worse.
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Closed. I'd take one well-moderated list over 20 open lists.
-I don't know about you, but if I had to hire between 50 A students and 50 D students, I'd hire the A students.

-Schools in Africa grade students, who are they trying to keep out?

-Some schools might be run as a business; I think most aren't (they're subpar and inefficient). If they are, they're run as a mom and pop. If San Francisco schools were businesses, they'd have gone bankrupt and displaced a while ago.
Side note about f.lux. I installed f.lux on my windows XP laptop and it kind of messed up the settings. The funny thing is even after uninstalling f.lux, my laptop retained the brightness settings that were set by f.lux. (Thankfully, it is fixed now.) It also crashed a few times due to its memory consumption.

Issues highlighted in the FAQ page here.
http://stereopsis.com/flux/faq.html
Neither side is flush on the 4/4S. By making only one side flush on the 5 it's easier to tell which side you grabbed as you pull it out of your pocket/purse/bag so you know to flip it the correct orientation before you ready the device in front of your chest/face.

Every Android phone I've owned is similar in this respect (as are the 3GS and below) but my 4S not so much. This move is for the best.
That's just ridiculous. First, you assume that people buy Macs for the OS rather than the the beautiful hardware. Even if it's true, where's the evidence?

And why does it matter that Apple ties the OS to the hardware? Still not illegal because the according to your link, it's illegal if it's a tying of unrelated products. OSX and Mac hardware happen to be very related.

Apple positions itself more as a luxury brand with a somewhat higher price point (arguable) and the consumers are allowed to choose what they want. And they have spoken.
I'm all for more efficiency, but can these companies who add more efficiency to the economy really suggest they are "creating 1000s of jobs." By definition, if you are making an industry more efficient aren't you taking away people's jobs?
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> At the time homeopathy was believed to be quackery.

It still is believed to be quackery, because it still is quackery.

> In fact the reason the AMA was launched was to combat homeopathy because it was cutting into their profits; one of their first acts was to launch a 'propaganda department' to scare people off of homeopathy. (Essentially the AMA was founded to kill people. They knew they were less effective than homeopathy at the time and they knew they were killing people, but they just didn't care because they wanted the money.)

This sounds like conspiracist nonsense. Do you have a single cite for any of it?
I agree, and it's also a direction that I'm personally headed (currently focused on freelancing/bootstrapping), but I also think it has more to do with the current recession more than anything. It's a really tough environment now and I think a lot of the innovation over the next few years is actually going to come from the big tech companies.

Some of the best startup advice you'll ever get is by @yegg in "Paths to $5M for a startup founder": http://gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/06/paths-to-5m-for-a-st...

No one ever becomes a great entrepreneur overnight and it's a fallacy to think that you could do a high-growth startup only when you're young and in your 20s (Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison, Jim Clark, Mike Bloomberg all started their big companies in their 30s; Mark Cuban and Mark Pincus started their billion-dollar co's in their early 40s).

I think it's wise to maintain a very long-term view of the startup game, and to take bigger risks gradually as you develop into a stronger entrepreneur. So, I think it's smart to prove yourself as a bootstrapped entrepreneur and make your first few million and be financially independent, and then be in a position to take big risks to work on a high-growth startup.

Jim Clark, the greatest serial tech entrepreneur to date, started SGI when he was 37 and Netscape when he was 50. This is a long-term game.
Once it starts in one place it's a race to the bottom everywhere.
Odds are, sure.

But I'd like them to gravitate towards that, not be marketed to believe that they ought to be an X or a Y.
I'm extremely pissed I went the first 27 years of my life without knowing this. It completely changed my life.

When you wake up you are dehydrated. Immediately have a sip of pickle brine and a cup of water. The electrolytes (salt and potassium) help you absorb the water quickly. You will feel MUCH better. Coconut juice is another possibility if you find pickles gross.

This is also helpful for hangovers.
I've always felt that way about apple, which is why I've never owned any of their products. If this is how you feel, you'd likely feel better if you did the same.
The reality is that Disk Utility lies. There is a recovery partition it hides from you. What you're describing is impossible without a relatively huge EFI partition, or net boot.
You have a lot of patience. I would have resorted to piracy at around step 2 of the process.
I'm prone to Yegge-length expositions in a blog, so the HN format might be better. These libraries could be thought of kind of like extensions to curses. In some cases, they actually depended on curses, in others, they did the work curses did and then went beyond that. You could typically draw into a defined buffer that represented a window, then have that window blasted onto the terminal replete with the character ASCII art that decorated the window borders without having to work out the arithmetic drudgery to put the right spaces and characters to draw the borders.

More elaborate libraries let you overlap the windows and would optimally redraw them when you moved the windows. They simply let you avoid having to roll your own text user interface starting from curses and building from there. Open source equivalents never approached the comprehensiveness or polish of these commercial libraries, though the open source ones are pretty good. Now that the commercial libraries appear to have dropped off the face of the earth, the open source ones seem to be all that is left. CDK [1] and NDK++ [2] on Unix and DFLAT [3] on DOS are examples of the open source libraries. I just felt the commercial libraries were interesting pieces of software history that should be preserved.

I personally feel that the kind of high-speed manual data entry optimization that these libraries facilitated is likely on its way out with advances in machine learning and the self-service customer culture of ecommerce. Certainly nothing prevents someone from using a standard web browser to present a user interface that responds entirely from keypresses, should the need for a highly optimized data entry-oriented Javascript library become necessary (something I've looked for but haven't found either for sale or open source). You would need to come up with a way to buffer up all the keypresses locally on the browser and ensure they all make it to the server, but it's doable.

If someone really had a burning desire to have some kind of in-house application presented through a character terminal interface via PuTTY in today's world, then they can still fall back to curses I suppose. Though I sometimes wonder if it would be faster to just write something in Emacs Lisp and autostart that when the user logs in.

[1] http://invisible-island.net/cdk/cdk.html

[2] http://ndk-xx.sourceforge.net/

[3] http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/deve...
I meant filing an FOIA request, my bad. From what I hear the FDA is usually pretty good about complying with requests for basic results, so a court order shouldn't be needed most of the time.
following the example set at http://thaddeusquay.deviantart.com/ this dude needs to be banned. he's a real fruit.
Can someone advise me on the point in the article about how Time Machine is insufficient to backup one's entire computer?

My wife's Macbook Air uses Time Machine to backup, and I haven't done any other sort of backup with it. If her hard drive crashes, will she lose information, or is Time Machine reliable enough to restore her entire laptop? I just assumed it was good enough. If this isn't true, and if she loses any information, it's not Tim Cook who will need to deal with her wrath...
I am very happy with the laptop I bought here: http://linuxcertified.com/linux_laptops.html
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Is anybody really surprised to learn that apple is a scummy business? Their polished exterior hides a rotten core - as anyone who's ever worked with xcode or any of their APIs can cofirm - and their smug, self-satisfied, elitist marketing has always been the biggest indicator of this.
I've successfully restored and migrated from my Time Machine backup, so I don't think there's currently any widespread issue.
Eh, you bought a working Leopard system, you messed with it (removed the OS and installed an unsupported alternative), you broke the original media sometime over the next 4 years, and you didn't make a backup, and chose not to use any other backup copy, of which there are many millions floating around the world. It's not all Apple's fault here.
@Derleth

Read the book Homeopathy: The Academic Years. Even the AMA admits that this is true, and they give the book a very favorable review on their website. (And also the AMA talks about their propaganda department on their own timeline of their history.)
Things like "Jiro Dreams of Sushi" make you realise how few people treat their job as a "craft" let alone a profession. I can't remember a single time in school being taught that what I should be striving for in a "career" is mastery, excellence, or to even take pride in my work.

When you don't care about your craft, stuff like this happens.
I agree with your sentiment that software patents need fixing, however some level of patent-like protection needs to be put in place - thus government interference is necessary. A completely deregulated system would spurn innovation, because everything would be copied at the drop of a hat.

As for your foreign policy beliefs - the US needs to be involved with the rest of the world because they have the potential to cause us serious harm (either in a real war or through terrorist attacks). Thus, as with patents, some level of intervention is necessary. A completely isolationist policy would come back to haunt us at some point. How much intervention is necessary is a matter of opinion and debate.
Indian Android Developers can publish Paid Apps on PlayStore
Gaming and video rendering are another couple that could use more CPU.
I really don't think public unions is really the blocker when it comes to development in SF - after all, why in the world would density be a chart-topping issue for, say, the teacher's union?

SF residents are their own worst enemy here. Everybody loves the rows of cutesy Victorians, and everybody has a death-grudge against high-rises, or even mid-density low-rises. Every time the issue of development is brought up, people scream foul and act as if the sky is falling. Everyone has a knee-jerk opposition to building things, even though their all-time favorite thing to moan about (rent) is their own damned fault.

Indeed, it makes no sense to blame this particular thing on unions and public employee's, and every sense to blame it on San Francisco's famously myopic citizenry (of which many are techies).
I think NAT traversal is actually only one part of P2P becoming successful. Between UDP hole punching, uPNP, and other techniques you can cover a pretty large percentage of users.

The harder part, to me, is distributed trust in the discovery phase. Without a central authority it's really hard to ensure authenticity, fight spam, etc.
I love it when people complain about how Apple likes to control their store. Next time you are your Walmart, ask the manager ask why they engage in censorship because they don't carry your favorite magazine.

And your 30% complaint is silly, considering that retail markup is often far greater than that, and that anybody can sell their own enooks direct to consumers if they like.
It's their search engine; they can rank you however the fuck they want.

Edit: your site is amazingly ugly and disorganised. It looks like a parody of a 1998 spam site. I don't mean to sound snobby, but what the fuck do you think you're doing presenting this mess to NH? Most of the links don't even work.
"I don't know about you, but if I had to hire between 50 A students and 50 D students, I'd hire the A students."

The science suggests that if you we're assigned both groups at random, you wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
I don't want cloud service providers forcing me to buy an application a SECOND time, by limiting my access to installer.

And I'd really prefer not to pay second time. Because that reinforces the behavior of profiting by screwing people up. Maybe it saves my time. But it is unethical.
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A great news! wait is over :)

I tried to configure Merchant account but its not working as of now, but India was on Country list. Hopefully in few days it should start working.
promises and stability provided by some government regulation and oversight

Government properly has the role of defending its citizens, protecting private property rights, and providing stability through the rule of law and due process. Societies don't function in complete anarchy, and even libertarians allow for some amount of government. Beyond those basic responsibilities, things tend to go off the rails pretty quickly whenever the government tries to "do" anything.
Lived in SF, currently in NYC. I don't think the biking situation is comparable. SF drivers are vicious, but biking is so prevalent that in many parts of the city you own the streets.

Manhattan on the other hand is just one gigantic traffic clusterfuck - and that's for cars. The risk of taking a bicycle through the streets of Midtown is IMO many, many times of doing the same in downtown SF.

Sure, Manhattan has a great selection of bike trails (better than SF, IMO), but cycling as a commuting or general transportation option? No fucking way.
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TL;DR: Most people in pre-industrial Britain slept the same number of hours we do today, 7-8, but went to sleep earlier. Often by 9, almost all by 10.

Update suggested by comment: In addition, more people than today expected to wake up in the middle of the night for an hour or so.
I don't think Ubuntu is really thought through.
1. Commodities don't make record profits. There is nothing "dickish" about that… That's how companies work.

3. I've hear equally terribly, if not more terrible percentages from Amazon on physical books. In fact, I've heard worse. Amazon has been known to require publishes to set lower prices… At least Apple lets you set your own price!

4. Apple seems to have done more to improve working conditions than any other company that uses Foxconn.

5. False. While Apple might not directly donate (although, I'm not entirely certain they don't), they have implemented a policy in which they agree to match the donation of any employee (up to a certain amount).

6. That's not patent trolling. Patent trolling is when you have a patent which you don't use yourself, yet sue people who do… and thus make most of your revenue on patent lawsuits.
Social Security and Medicaid/Medicare step in at this point.
Why does Apple Maps redirect to Google maps on the web? Maybe it has something to do with the fact that there is no Apple Maps website? Where do you think it should redirect?

Also, what does womp mean?
He is not merely "fluent with computers." He co-created three operating systems and at least one programming language, including the OS Apple managed to hinder him from installing. If your process is beyond him, your process is very, very broken.
I've done several full system restores from Time Machine.
W13 means Winter 2013, so the URL won't work for awhile.
That's why it's called "financial security" or "financial independence"
If the student evaluations correlate strongly with the standardized tests' measures of student progress, then:

a) What's the purpose of having both?

b) If the evals are preferred over the tests, will "good" teachers continue to teach to a predictable, standardized curriculum?

c) Is the correlation additional evidence in favor of "differential compensation", that is, a compensation program based at least in part on exam scores?

d) Even if the information supplied is similar, doesn't this extra test/survey administration detract from instructional time? Is the information gleaned sufficient to compensate for the loss of instructional time?

e) Atlanta (Georgia, USA) is still reeling from a years-long cheating scandal. If such evaluations become "high stakes" (and there will likely be a push to do so, despite likely union opposition), won't these results be exploitable as well? (And perhaps even more so, through campaigning, social engineering, etc?)