skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice Work!

Your https doesn't work for me because you make calls to the unsecured duckduckgo api and chrome refuses.

You should use: https://api.duckduckgo.com
How Euler Did It
One problem is that many of the teachers of today don't deserve to be paid double. They aren't the cream of the crop.

I'd be fine with dramatically raising teacher pay if you hired the good new people who would be attracted by the pay and ditched all the not-so-good people who are in the field now.

Where the problem comes in is that we all know that's not what would happen.
I think your Wolfram Alpha figures are wrong. This report from the Census Bureau shows public school spending for the U.S.
http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/finance_ins...

U.S average is $10,600 per student in 2010. California average was $9,375. New York was $18,618. Lowest was Utah at $6,064.
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A general request (not specifically towards the author): If you release a project under open source license, please be specific about what kind of attribution you would like to get when your project is used within a product.

Giving credit would be so much easier if one could use for example Maven or npm to automatically create a list of attributions that could be then formatted and included in the "About page".
There's definitely a vocal faction of HN who will defend to the death against any threat to the beleaguered highly-educated upper-class white American male.
Getting started with Clojurescript
Most Americans' wealth is in the value of their homes, which took a beating during that same time:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/fed-americans...

"The Federal Reserve said the median net worth of families plunged by 39 percent in just three years, from $126,400 in 2007 to $77,300 in 2010. That puts Americans roughly on par with where they were in 1992."
True, if you are really serious about 3D in Linux then NVidia is the better option.

With AMD there is still some pressure that someday NVidia could follow. With AMD gone, NVidia does not need to worry any longer, because Intel really isn't a valid competitor in the professional 3D space.
Prince Roy (and his wife Joan) are really great people -- the best of the British in WW2, in addition to all the interesting Sealand stuff later. (I probably met them ~5 times -- we (me, Sean Hastings, Jo Hastings, maybe Sameer Parekh?) had tea with them in 1999 and then went forward with the Sealand/HavenCo thing.

It didn't really amount to anything in the end (written about a lot online...), but was an interesting experience.

I have a lot more faith in either technological solutions (cryptography, cloud computing, threshold cryptosystems, tamper resistant devices, etc.) and in jurisdictional arbitrage of "normal" countries than in any of the "new countries" or even borderline countries (Somalia, Kosovo, South Sudan, etc.), though, for being great places to host stuff. Still seems more likely to succeed than political change in places like the US and EU, though.
No it doesn't. It merely says he'd be more popular if he were what he claimed. That doesn't require the reason he's not popular to be that he's not what he claims.

Suppose a restaurant is unpopular, due to bad food, bad service, high cost, whatever. There's no contradiction in expecting it would become more popular if a movie star started to hang out there every night.

We're now arguing about basic logic. I've found threads are usually irrecoverable at that point, so if you don't mind, I'm done.
Perhaps we are seeing different America's? As someone who started out lower middle class and is now upper, I really see a country that isn't that much better than china and is very class based. Now Europe...has many problems also (aristocrats abound), but the day to day etiquette that is expected goes a long way into promoting at least social equality, if not economic.
> That made me laugh, too. Somehow this has become received wisdom for the press, but not only is it false, it's very false. Here in CA we're spending twice what we spent per student in 1970 (in constant dollars), and if anything outcomes are worse.

The issue in CA isn't that money is spent on eduction. The issue is that it isn't making it to the students.

Here's just one example: a $500 million school in Los Angeles:
http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2010/08/los_angeles_u...
Semi-tangent. In 1989, I did the summer of backpacking across Europe thing. Just before the fall of the Berlin wall, so there was still soviet control of eastern/central Europe.

Anyway, I went to Budapest on that trip, and at the time it was common to be met at the train station by people offering a place to sleep in their homes for cheap. Me and some guys I was with at the moment took one of them up on the offer and went with him to his apartment, $15 a night for the three of us. It was a cramped little place, but in the city, so it was cool. We stayed up late talking to the guy, and found out he was a doctor.

Which was a huge shock to me. A doctor living in a tiny little place and letting tourists sleep on his couch for very little money. That (and the flagship department store in Budapest being nearly barren by US standards) convinced me that the West had gotten some things right, at least.

The guy did have a lot of books though, and asked me to send him some science fiction books once I got home. I mailed him a bunch of cyberpunk. Wonder what he made of that. Wish I'd kept up with him.
Standard social welfare and insurance comes to mind. There are many possible policies, but that's the outlook at least.
Probably the best way to use a marginal state for datacenter stuff for "difficult" content (Liberia, Somalia, etc.) would be to put a relocatable or write-offable datacenter there (containerized stuff which could be fully depreciated in 6mo, which is about as long as you might trust their government...), or maybe a ship in offshore waters.

A lot easier today than back in 1999. Even places like Somalia (+Somaliland, Puntland) have decent bandwidth for cellphone IP backhaul, so you could put a rack or two of equipment in a van nearly anywhere, and either buy bandwidth locally or get 10-100Mbps of satellite bandwidth (expensive and slow, true), But, there really isn't much point.
Ugh, there is a reason that you would be admonished for this argument and it's not because you are speaking some sort of uncomfortable truth. It's because this is sloppy, lazy thinking, and it has traditionally been used as a bludgeon to retard progress for the many in favor of the few.

If you are going to talk about how rich even the poorest American currently is so as to intimate that they shouldn't complain about their circumstances you have to answer one question: Why now? Why is this standard of living reasonable, and an improved one not? Why was it fair of them to make it this far, but any better would be unreasonable. The entirety of human history has been one long story of progress, and at every time I am sure there have been people arguing that everyone has it good enough and working to allow more people to have "more" is wrong. Why don't we just stop after the establishment of agriculture? Hey, now people don't have to risk their lives hunting. Why not stop after we create homes and settlements. Now we don't have to live in caves. Isn't that good enough for everyone? Why didn't we stop when we developed basic medicine? Why not after modern agriculture alleviated periodic famines?

Unless you can say why certain people deserve the standard of living they have right now, and why they also don't deserve a better standard, points like the one you are talking about are counter-productive, and usually used by people looking to keep more for themselves, and damn everyone else. To accept otherwise would mean accepting that there is no argument for the standard of living in your country to increase either, and I am pretty sure you wouldn't agree with that.
Indeed! America has much to pride itself on! After becoming the strongest economy in the world, and its technological and cultural leader, her poor may be content to know that they are much, much better off than those of Bangladesh and sub-saharan Africa. A great society indeed!
Looking for beta testers for social wishlist built with node.js
I'm looking for beta testers to provide feedback on a new project. Wishd.me is a social wishlist application built with node.js and express.js

Anybody can create wishlists and add items to it on other people's profile pages.
The real time information is neat!

FYI, This feature is available (in non-real time manner) in Google Docs and Microsoft Word, which are powered by Google Search and Bing respectively to research terms, images and relevant content.
The following modifies only the file size:

ls -l | perl -pe 'while(s/^((\S+\s+){4})(\d+)(\d{3})([^\d].*)?$/$1$3,$4$5/){}'
It's not about ebook marketing. It's not even about marketing at all.

The silent battle is between taking glam money (angels and VCs) versus rolling your own.

It's between sexy, techcrunch-y, big-name funding versus toiling in the pits unlearning all that self-defeatism and pulling yourself up inch-by-inch.

And sad to say, despite all the assumptions of meritocracy being the super default setting here, it's also about the crab bucket syndrome [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_mentality
History is inconvenient? Just rewrite it.. it is embarrassing the posted garbage like this
Long tail risks makes avg/var/standard distribution stuff useless. Best measure here would be the median income (50th percentile - or the 50th person out of 100).

Same thing with wealth distribution and taxes - averages are pointless since 1 rich guy + 99 poor guys will have an average of ~1/100 the rich guy (which is still a lot of money) - even though the poor guys have $0 in assets (usually negative equity because of debt).

The median of that distribution would be $0 - hence providing a better representation of actual probabilistic income/taxes.
Please provide feedback in this discussion thread. Thank you.
Webfaction is not the typical shared hosting. I got sold on this "We give you a full linux shell account with all the tools you need to compile anything you like, so our service is almost as flexible as a VPS. One big advantage of our shared hosting service is that we maintain the server and keep it secure for you. Also, the memory that we provide in our plans is the actual memory that is available to your application. With a VPS you also have to run the operating system, web server, database server etc in your allocated memory."

http://www.webfaction.com/services/hosting

Personally I bundle this with Cloudflare and it's been flawless!

Caveat: No CPanel! I find their control panel very intuitive to handle and uncluttered but if CPanel is what you're looking for then you're better off elsewhere
seconded. would be fascinating.
Somewhat off topic but out of curiosity, for what genuine technical reasons would one show "There is a queue" message on the signup page? One would be very large no. of signups immediately following the launch. Anything else?

I don't subscribe to the idea of landing pages for non existent products but I feel that if lot of new products start showing such a message when there aren't many technical reasons to do so, no one is going to believe about the queue thing anyway. OTOH, people might start using it as a filter instead!
The printf(3) manpage now says: "Note that many versions of gcc(1) cannot parse this option and will issue a warning."

FWIW, GCC 4.7.2 parses the format string without warnings.
that's a massive range; just in top 1000 sites make millions!
Exposing Reddit's purveyors of 'creep shots'
that would be ridiculous pricing, I presume.
Now using the secure DDG. Thanks for pointing that out!
"... Tactical weapons include not only gravity bombs and short-range missiles, but also artillery shells, land mines, depth charges, and torpedoes for anti-submarine warfare. Also in this category are nuclear armed ground-based or shipborne surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) and air-to-air missiles. ..." ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tactical_nuclear_weapon

Anyone care to speculate what TNW where issued by the Russians?
C is also unpredictable: see the article from a couple days ago entitled "Why does my function run faster when the input array is sorted?"

(The answer was: branch prediction.)
Just a problem statement and initial idea which isn't
that new, but could be interesting if he actually implements it.

There have been many failed systems that hinged
on "sufficiently smart compilers". Some have been thread-parallel machines (like the Tera MTA, shipped 1998) and some have been VLIW/MIMD, like Multflow (shipped 1987). And Itanium.
> To dispel one misconception, the reason it is simple to write massively parallel code in C++ [...]

Are you joking?
What about a guy who sets up a service where you submit a link to a torrent, and his service downloads the file and burns it to a DVD and mails it to you, for a fee?

If it is legal for you to download a file and burn it, it should be legal for you to hire someone else to do that for you.
A classic example of much engineering effort spent on avoiding passing an argument to a function. I would write:

foo = foo_lib.import({clientside_api: true});

Now it works every time and it's easy to determine why.
What if the child didn't much care for marshmallows, and reasoned that spending 15 minutes of their life waiting for an extra marshmallow was an incredible waste of time?
> The i965 driver is the only free software driver that supports OpenGL 3.1

And how does it perform in regards to ATI and NVidia cards?

Valve is surely doing serious 3D work, that is why on their Linux blog, they talk about a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680, not Intel graphics card.

And let's not forget that L4D is a DirectX 9 game level, so the requirements are pretty low in today's hardware terms.

> Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge are pretty respectable.

Not if you're blasting polygons. I have a dual core system that beats a Sandy Bridge system with the hands down, thanks to a NVidia GeForce GT 240M.

> You should reconsider your position.

Does the Intel's GPA finally support OpenGL?

Back in 2009 at Games Developer Conference Europe, I had the pleasure to talk with someone from Intel, stating that OpenGL support was important. This after hearing the guy spending one hour talking how to analyse DirectX with GPA.
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The Most Infamous Computer Hacks & Hackers in History
There's nothing to clarify.

Creative work (including source code) automatically falls under "all rights reserved" bucket unless the author specifically states other licensing terms.

In this case the author didn't so his work is still "all rights reserved" and no-one can use it.

You're confusing "source code available" with "open-source".

"Open source" is a shortcut for: "source code available and under open-source license".

What license is an open-source license? OSI has a detailed checklist: http://opensource.org/docs/osd

(nitpicker corner: to the extent a vague term as "open source" can be defined; people disagree as to what exactly it means).
Yes, I think you're right. WA does cite the same report as its source, but appears to have different figures.

Looks like for CA (before inflation adjustment in parens):

1992: $7684 ($4697), 2010: $9870 ($9375) = ~28%

And NY:

1992: $12267 ($7498), 2010: $19127 ($18618) = ~55%

EDIT: re-calculated using data directly from US Census Bureau (http://www.census.gov/govs/school/).
Leaked screenshots of native Google Maps (Alpha) for iOS 6
not much to go on there. i am holding off on iPhone5 until I can see google maps on the device. If I can't get turn-by-turn directions while I'm driving, then I will not get an iPhone.
You need examples of ad supported websites? Really?

The commercial nature of the site affects whether it falls under non-commercial file sharing the OP would like to see legalized of course, in which case it changes the argument from "legalize non-commercial file sharing" to "legalize commercial piracy".
Well, what I do not understand is the 2$ eCPM, that is thrown in in the comments.

If the average 23k$ hold true for the Top 1000 and if the 2$ eCPM holds true, why did the 5.000th channel make an estimated 57,371.70$? (28685850 AdViews * 2$ eCPM / 1000)

What am I getting wrong here?

Edit: The numbers are totals... OK, I get it. ;-)
When the rich man has an advantage because he worked hard for his money, this is not a disadvantage to the poor - quite the contrary, the result is that society as a whole becomes wealthier.

When the rich man has an advantage because he bribed politicians into passing laws that make it illegal for the poor man to open a business without special permission from the government, or to take a better job without a college degree, that most certainly is a disadvantage for the poor - and in the long run for everyone.

That is what the article was talking about. It's not that it's wrong to be rich or powerful. It's that it's wrong to use that wealth and power to subvert the machinery of government and create artificial barriers. That is the problem that needs to be fixed.
fyi, zemanta (zemanta.com) has been working on a similiar product (targeting bloggers) for years. Take a look at it.
hey, this may be exactly what i was looking for. thanks
The point is SEO and social sites like ... this.
That's not really true under US law. US consumers are legally privileged over vendors or business to business transactions -- the only more privileged party is the Government.

Morally/intellectually, sure.
The iPhone 5 does have turn by turn navigation.
I feel that "two-finger rotation to any angle" is bad idea, if it can't be turned off.

The Google Earth iOS app has this feature and I hate the fact that every time I zoom in or out, I move slightly away from the up=north orientation. After a few minutes, my map view is upside down and I can't orient myself anymore.

I hope they make it optional and turn it off by default.
Under the Berne convention, all works produced in any signatory country are automatically subject to copyright: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention_for_the_Protec...

Wikipedia says "A typical software license grants an end-user permission to use one or more copies of software in ways where such a use would otherwise potentially constitute copyright infringement of the software owner's exclusive rights under copyright law." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_license

You may be basing your prior belief on e.g. Wikipedia's claim (scroll down) that "A primary consequence of the free software form of licensing is that acceptance of the license is essentially optional — the end-user may use, study, and privately modify the software without accepting the license." IANAL, but this statement seems dangerously incorrect to me. It may be technically correct that you do not "have" to accept the license terms--but then if you are downloading the software, or creating derivative works without a license, you would be violating the law. E.g.

Uploading or downloading works protected by copyright without the authority of the copyright owner is an infringement of the copyright owner's exclusive rights of reproduction and/or distribution. - http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-digital.html#p2p
Will Apple accept it? As I remember (not being an app store developer I don't really know), apps that duplicate built-in functionality are not allowed.
This is very very cool, and makes for a good demo too.

One suggestion would be to put the latest topic on top - or at least vertically near where you type.

Second being able to pick the corpus being used for matching. might make it interesting. Say IEEE or ACM, or PubMed. Might bring up interesting things that others have written that are similar, which they've not noticed before.

I can see a very good match with technical writing, publications, etc. Esp if you can pull in excerpts. This would make for much better writing for many who may not have Eng as first language.

Neat!
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01l7w1p)

This BBC radio programme is fascinating.

> In 1966, a former pirate radio broadcaster, Major Paddy Roy Bates, occupied a disused military platform in the North Sea, and moved his family aboard. The next year he declared it to be the sovereign Principality of Sealand, appointing himself Prince Roy, and his wife, a former fashion model, as Princess Joan. Five decades on, the Bates family still occupy the platform, having survived the repeated attempts by the British government to evict them by legal means, and having fought off attempts by rival groups to seize the platform by force. It's a story of coups, counter-coups, guns, petrol bombs, and rival groups of foreign businessmen. Jolyon Jenkins interviews surviving witnesses to tell the story of this real life "Passport to Pimlico".
Maybe I'm dumb, but I can't tell if this is a joke or not. These blurry, zoomed-in photos look like they could be anything. This is either really lame or proof that I'm an idiot.
You just need to find another job. Those don't sound like forms of development, just unprofessional people making bad decisions. Good luck.
The iOS 6 Maps has this too, and I haven't found a way to turn it off. You can also inadvertently "rotate" to 3D mode, which is again very annoying.
This rule has been removed quite a while ago. How else would you think that we would see Google Chrome on iOS. Or Sparrow (duplicates Mail.app)

In fact, in their apology for the maps disaster, apple specifically recommended downloading map apps from other vendors (and they even feature a alternative maps category on the AppStore ATM).

As such I would believe it's highly likely that they would accept a Google Maps app.
Going crazy in multiple projects? Fences. Build fences.
I'm confused ... is the challenge to just use AWS and hope you're selected as a winner?
Yeah! I don't want to trivialize it (a lot), because I understand it would be intimidating to live out, but I'd love to be in a situation that person is complaining about. "Help me, I'm learning too much too quickly!"

Instead I feel like I'm a regular person caught in the middle of a case study on the Dunning-Kruger effect.
> But, there really isn't much point.

I guess some people would say "What about megaupload?"

I'd be interested in a post about best current practice for people dealing with difficult content.
>The point of the OP was "patterns for fast python", i.e performance. It's absurd to claim that you "advocate abstractions over performance" in the context of achieving performance, so your comparison doesn't make sense to me. Just because you don't advocate performance doesn't mean that these aren't the ways to achieve performance.

He never said he doesn't advocate performance. He said performance should not be achieved by sacrificing abstractions.

>In addition, it sounds you mostly agree with regard to rewriting in C... use it as a last resort.

In CPython, not necessarily in Guido's advice, it's one of the first and most common things you hear about performance. "Just write parts of it in C".

If that was the advice of the early JVM guys ("just write parts of it in JNI"), we would never have gotten a fast JVM.
Completely agree, this drives me nuts in the new Apple maps. Unless I'm in 3d mode I never want to be off north being the top, it makes things very confusing otherwise.
As does the iPhone 4... It's a feature of iOS 6.
The rules that Apple applies are sometimes mysterious and seem to evolve over time. They seem to have certain areas that they block competition, but others where they seemingly don't care. Map apps seem to be ok, but apps that step on the toes of other iOS features get rejected.

If you read the app store review guidelines, it is actually written in a very casual, comical tone where they try to explain the personal nature and gray area of app guidelines. However I'm sure it's not funny for those developers who's apps are rejected.

https://developer.apple.com/appstore/resources/approval/guid...
A bit off-topic but Ankit is a boy's name in India. And yes, that's how many communicate, often using teenage girl lingo.