skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quite impressive; given that it's smaller and faster at the same time.
I've had this conversation with architects and city planners and they all say this. Only a narrow band of the patterns are in the architect's area of practice; as an obvious example, the architect does not organize the whole world at once a la Pattern 1. Most of an architect's income depends on perpetuating the poor design of modern communities with each individual building. There is just no money in refusing to build anything but a useful space except when being commissioned by an eccentric or some other rare project. That leaves only the arrangement of the interiors which is hampered by code and depends on the taste of the building's occupier in respect to the uses of rooms and selection of furniture. Alexander's patterns must be adopted by the occupiers of buildings so they can work their way backwards to the architects and city planners that don't or won't consider them.
Empir; managing Phar files (jar for php)
If you saw the Altair back in the 70's, could you see Wikipedia?
Great, so you don't do Mises, but you do Mises' academic son, Friedman. Same stuff, different packaging.
Devil-you-know. I don't like US control of the Internet either (said as much in my post in fact). But that doesn't mean I think we should hand it over to the UN.
Massive corporations are full of people who enjoy the protections of copyright.
Well you can try http://www.blueprintcss.org/
Wow, you took his class - that's incredible!

Do you have any class notes / resources you could share? I love the guy.

What was he like as a teacher / in person?
Here's a previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4034147
US Train Companies Consider Natural Gas over Diesel
Camtasia studio has a very good noise removal part. http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.html

Try Sony Vegas for more professional approach!
Interesting I didn't think it could be done.

From that I understand normal thermal cameras can't have a silicon CCD and need to be actively cooled.
Unfortunately the current distros are not very stable. I get a complete system lockup once every hour on the RasPi.
> Layouts basically don't let you layout out things on a pixel basis

It's a natural approach when you have devices with different screen resolutions and sizes. Pixel-based layout works well when all devices have the same screen size, but break horribly when they don't. BTW, I'm curious on how the iPhone 5 runs iOS 4 apps.
Having seen only bits of the information in the wild, I was also impressed to see the GP's summary there.

I had already known that many of the banks that received bailout funds had already repaid it, but (as the GP mentions) for many of the smaller banks, but I didn't know that the initial outlay came down to as little as $431 billion.
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Some gushing about physics and natural history (which a HBS graduate probably finds unfathomable and mysterious).

Yeah, cause all those HBS grads are just idiots, right? They could never fathom something as complex as physics or natural history. That's probably just black magic to them, even though a big chunk of them got their undergrad degrees in science or engineering.

EDIT: Some examples of those idiot HBS grads: http://www.hbs.edu/news/releases/kaplanfellows2010.html
He has a lot of external stuff on his suit I'm worried at Mach 1 it will be torn off.
Many carriers intercept web traffic and, sometimes, inject headers.
Firefox: WebRTC for desktop is now in Nightly…
That's funny, I also have an alias for lsd which does this. But you can do it without grep: lsd='ls -d */'
I think the way to put it is: value/productivity inequality is an inevitable fact of life. We should support economic systems that maximize productivity/value by rewarding those who can produce the most of it. However, money income is a profoundly imperfect proxy for value/productivity, because it can only measure excludable property and services.

Which leaves us with the trouble of: what of people whose work-product is not excludable? This means precisely jobs like teacher, policeman, research scientist, programmer (if programs were so easily excludable, we would all still be running shrink-wrapped packages we bought at Software Etc).
It's not entirely clear to me that the company is actually going bankrupt. The author of the article seems to imply it, but obviously he's never seen the company's financials.

Still, with 11 employees as of July 2012[1] (and fewer now), even assuming $200k/year salaries, that barely puts a dent into the $22M they made this year. They make an iPhone app, so I can't imagine them having many expenses besides people. The math doesn't really add up to me.

[1] http://www.inc.com/30under30/nicole-carter/lucas-buick-ryan-...
Very cool, however I would not fix the cold air spots as they help a lot to prevent indoor air pollution.
The internet is a big place. Maybe only 10 people in the world share your views. Why cheat them?
What do you mean? Do you mean for a non-p2p applications or in general?
Wait, why are you talking about C?
I was responding to this:

-- The $8 Trillion "bridge loan" that finances this? Split pro-rata, of course, amongst the lower and middle class.

I don't think it will be split amongst the lower and middle class at all really. Upper middle class will end up paying for this. Unless you count the potential for a long-term deleterious effect on our economy, in which case we all get to pay for it :)
When I first read "I need to fight it to undo...". I thought "yep, I regret using it too".

After a second thought: It saved me a lot of time. It helped me create a "pattern" when creating documents and, at the end, you can just remove it and implement the classes from scratch.

That said, yes, you do like bootstrap. :D
The interesting thing about Money Ball was that Billy Beane pioneered an analytic model for evaluating the true value vs subjectively perceived value of players.

This list was purely an opinion piece. It was the result of a subjective appraisal of both books, and the public opinion of them.

I'm quite disappointed.
My point with the G4 comment was that it ran much better on my G4 than it did on my much more powerful P3 because the software was so poorly optimized for Windows.

I agree that, in general, it could be a LOT faster. Hopefully the rewrite that's due out soon will fix that.
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So... the weekend project is the landing page(made with launch rock) for your project that is not yet ready? Because if it was a weekend project I would expect to see the project not a landing page.
Pseudo science? The article is referring to the HadCRUT dataset of global temperatures.

Are you suggesting that the UK Met Office is doing bad science?

Are you suggesting that warming is occurring despite the fact that there is no warming trend evident in the data?

Catastrophic global warming is a hypothesis based on the output of climate models. Unfortunately the actual data hasn't aligned with the predicted output of the models for many years. This dataset is yet another example.
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From what I remember, the main knock against the book is that it teaches you to be phony to others in order to get what you want. But for me, it was invaluable as well. I was such a dick in my professional life before I read that book.
The Inner Game of Tennis is very widely read among classical musicians. Probably other types of performers as well.
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Delayed by 20s in case a tragic accident occurs.
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That's easy: how you write your prose or your code should not be dictated by the limitations of your tools. Tools are tools and must satisfy their user's needs. That's the whole point of a tool. If a tool doesn't satisfy your needs and you can't modify it you must find another one.

It's going to be hard if you are emotionally attached to that tool, though.
Google phone reboots while making a call
I think the idea of bootstrap was to have something to quickly setup a website for a concept or MVP, but then it became a "standard" for larger project and extended implementations. That is not what it was made for. It is not to achieve a perfect design, is to build something quickly. If you want something more robust to build on you should really look somewhere else.
The original scheduled launch on the morning of 9 October 2012 was delayed and cancelled because of a 25-mile-per-hour (40 km/h) gust of wind at the launch site. Technicians at the launch site also found that one of the capsule's communications radio was faulty.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Bull_Stratos
I'm skeptical.

For things like appliances most manufacturers already sell replacement parts for cheaper than you could "print" them yourself, without the problems associated with printing it yourself.

For things like consumer level electronics, the manufacturers could sell replacement parts, but they'd prefer people replace the entire item. If the camera manufacturer won't sell a replacement flap, it's unlikely they'll give out the original CAD files for people to print their own.
Yeah; but there's not the same rate of change in mechanical engineering.
Freefall live on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/redbull?v=MrIxH6DToXQ
Baseball is largely zero sum. Reading isn't. Finding good books regardless of reputation is the way to go. But knowing what is good is hard, so you should trust persona recommendations first and ten reputation.
But but but, I thought building a central health-care database is such a brilliant idea and saves so much money!11
Siberia is melting (melted) : 40,000 year warming. Arctic ice melted. Antarctic shelf gone (another 100,000 year warming). How's that for data?

It's silly to argue models when the real world is undeniably in the warmest phase seen in centuries of centuries.
Agreed. I wondered who on earth he's been talking to. At my alma mater, a little liberal arts school with a continentally-inclined philosophy department, somewhere amid all the Heidegger and Derrida I still was taught that Wittgenstein was a BFD.
The article divides the cause of the loss as follows, in one of the first paragraphs: 48% due to storms, 42% due to starfish, and 10% due to bleaching.

Of these, only the bleaching is a mostly direct cause of civilization. But reading the last paragraph, apparently coastal pollution increases the starfish growth:

> "But is there really any hope of slowing the Crown-of-thorns? While the adult Crown-of-thorn feeds on coral polyps, its larvae feed on phytoplankton. Phytoplankton, in turn, multiply in the presence of fertilizers and other man-made pollutants commonly found in coastal runoff. Simply by decreasing pollution in these areas would benefit coral growth."

Apparently, removing the starfish would have a recovering effect on the reef:

> "The study shows that in the absence of Crown-of-thorns, coral cover would increase at 0.89 percent per year, so even with losses due to cyclones and bleaching there should be slow recovery"

We should take care not to kill off one species to save another, though. The starfish are very widely spread than the reef, but any intervention should still be carefully considered.
We don't have that many cores yet. The biggest servers have 64, some phones have 4. That's all within a range where we can parallelize by running different processes on different cores without changing our code.

I guess we will see more urgency in a couple of years when hundereds of cores are going to be the norm. At that point software that makes use of those cores will pull away from software that doesn't.

I'm not saying functional programming will be the answer but it could be. I don't think it's that difficult to grasp.
All in the name of selling sugary sodas. Noble.
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split-hashtables look pretty cool.
I think writing a novel on Github is a fascinating idea, if people can read your revision history and see the entire evolution of the text.
I see a lot of people making analogies like this, but nobody explaining how the technical problems will be overcome.

Yes, computer technology improved rapidly. How is it relevant to 3D printing? Why do you think 3D printing will evolve as rapidly as computers did?
I'm really curious how you would suggest to measure the "true value" of books.

I think there may be no such thing. Base ball is a clearly defined game with conditions for winning and losing, which gives you objective information on these true values.

But aesthetics (here book appreciation) simply isn't objective to begin with.
> I think 3d printing has a lot in common with 2d printing.

In terms of the process, sure. But the product is vastly different; '2D' printing just generates a new encoding of the same information you've already got stored electronically, and when everyone has PCs and smartphones and tablets, a physical encoding of information is rarely a necessity.

But 3D printing actually creates a functional physical object that corresponds to a design; it's not merely a re-encoding of the information itself, so there's a huge value-add with 3D printing that isn't at all present in document printing, even if the current iteration of the technology is limited to producing small-scale uniformly plastic parts.
For those interested, it can do hardware MPEG2 (and VC-1) decoding as well, you just have to pony up a few bucks for

the MPEG-2 license - http://www.raspberrypi.com/mpeg-2-license-key/

or the VC-1 license - http://www.raspberrypi.com/vc-1-license-key/
I'd suggest that metaclasses are Python's 'equivalent' for magically mutating things.
My 30-day challenge - motivation
And we spend an incredible number of cycles on anti-virus. A 100kHz machine can't afford this. My "how well" comment was about whether the system will break down due to trust issues.
Also make sure to do some less cognitive ones as well. Get certified in SCUBA, get your motorcycle license (take the MSF safety class), play a new sport. All these even if you never plan to pursue it after the cert/license.

The more the diverse your experiences and knowledge, the more interesting and fruitful leaps in abstraction you will be able to take.
SNL puts iPhone complaints into perspective
I can't bring myself to more than skim anything written by Tim Ferriss these days, but it's an interesting analogy in the title.

This seems to be a key quote, though:

> "[Seneca's philosophy is] really for me, the base foundation of an operating system for decision making, and I’ll explain what I mean by that. I don’t view philosophy as an idle form of intellectual masturbation. I really view good philosophy as a set of rules that allows you to make better decisions. What Stoicism helps you to develop is a value system that allows you to take calculated risks, which I think is very effective for entrepreneurs."

Title should therefore read "How to use Stoicism As A Personal Operating System," which is a much more modest notion.
Very shallow guide, IMO.

There is much more to do in order to do a successful launch, such as:

- Pick a good name
- Choose the right keywords and structure for the description
- Analyze your competitors and pick your keywords accordingly (head-to-head confrontation? Or better target your own subniche?)
- Prepare appealing screenshots
- Make sure the logos and other promotional images look professional (a hundred bucks from a good designer can go a long way)
- Set up a coming soon page and try to grab e-mail addresses (way before launch, of course)
- Prepare the docs and templates to eventually outsource the customer support (and even the development)
- Maybe buy some ads
- Do cross-promotion from your other apps
- Maybe set up some partnership for cross-promotion (if it's your first app)

There's also a lot to say about trade-offs for launching soon versus having an appealing MVP product, about targeted marketing, usability, ...
A lot of great books, but it's unclear to me that most of these are actually "undervalued." Check out the blurb on the back cover of Philosophical Investigations, for example:

Immediately upon its posthumous publication in 1953, Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations was hailed as a masterpiece, and the ensuing years have confirmed this initial assessment. Today it is widely acknowledged to be the single most important philosophical work of the twentieth century.

Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain has had a huge impact. From Amazon: "Translated into more than seventeen languages, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is the world's most widely used drawing instruction book."

Same with The Inner Game of Tennis -- it was groundbreaking when it came out in 1972 and had a huge impact not just on tennis, or even sports generally, but on musicians, artists, performers, or anything with a critical mental game. Back when I was working on my music degree it was required reading.

Is it possible that the author thinks these books are undervalued simply because many of them were released a while ago (when he was young or not yet born) and thus they aren't currently being hyped and/or in the limelight? That, or perhaps they're simply not that popular within the author's social circle?
No. The sugary soda is what pays for this inspiring and informative break from the shit on the learning channel.
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It doesn't really contain answers so much as that it argues the questions or problems are really just puzzles resulting from confusions due to language.
Great idea! Hopefully you will succeed!
Can you elaborate on your answer and time frame question?
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‘Point of no return’ found: Peering to the edge of a black hole
One- Not necessarily. That depends on how the legal aspects shake out, which is not yet known.

Two- Competitive forces will favor companies which support this approach.
roughly in 1hr from now he will get to the desired altitude.
Sorry; painted all business school grads from my experiences. You have some good examples there; I've never met those guys.

I'll repaint it: this guy (who wrote the book) was a high-school failure and not in your list. Just read his stuff if you can, to see his level of physics understanding.
IS someone else having trouble with youtube, showing "static" ? (can't connect to live stream)
For me specifically it was being able to talk to our head finance guy intelligently about how cash flow, customer acquisition costs, and customer lifetime value relate. While I can't put a dollar amount on it yet, I can say I think our finance guy's opinion of me was raised a notch.
It's interesting, for sure. But the goal is to get you to drink more Red Bull. It's a very unique ad, but still an ad. For a sugary beverage people should probably actually be drinking less of, not more.
Because it has already?
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Cool! Can you even play online poker in the US these days? I used to play semi-professionally on fulltilt and pokerstars.
This piece understates the problem, if anything. A lot of "journalism" today consists of regurgitating press releases rather than actually reporting on issues. And a lot of tech journalists have journalism qualifications but no tech -- gone are the pioneering days when the magazines found it easier to pick up techies and give them the basic training in journalism to communicate what they understood.

Consequently we find product reviews that are checklists of features, composed by writers who lack all insight or understanding of the subject. And outlets all-but-plagiarizing each others' regurgitated press releases.

(The disease isn't universal, of course. Some sources -- for example, anandtech.com -- get pretty close to the old-school hardcore reporting from time to time. Others actually cover industry movements from an informed perspective. But the drive to get eyeballs on ads is inimical to insight; it encourages facile, superficial, and above all speedy publication with a smattering of titillating headlines to draw the readers in. And it does us all a huge disservice.)

((Disclaimer: I spent years doing this for a living. I also have a CS degree, circa 1990 vintage. I may be viewing the old days through rose-tinted spectacles ... but I don't think so.))
>Marcus Aurelius and his book Meditations, which was effectively a war campaign journal.

I don't think he understands what the book is about.
Though there are sites like
CodeAcademy : http://codeacademy.com
CodeSchool :http://codeschool.com
LearnStreet : http://learnstreet.com
which are providing good content for learning particular language. They are very basics.

Chose what you want to learn - if you want to learn building a product, understand what are the languages and frameworks you want to use and try learning their basics first. Then chose a Cookbook and see tutorials on the web (TutsPlus is a good place). Develop on your own. And keep solving the bugs. Construct for all languages are same.
I really view the "US is less dense" argument with a grain of salt. If it were true, then we would have awesome connections within highly populated cities, and it would maybe just be the suburbs or rural areas that were complaining. As it stands, everyone is complaining, with the exception of a handful of suburbs across the nation that got experimental FIOS roll-outs.
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Wow, that's nice. I just started a new job (Mechanical engineering) and I was happy to have negotiated 3 weeks vacation.

Sure, I'd like more, but 3 starting out is pretty good in the US, so I can't complain really.
Recent firmware has been changed to allow you to overclock your Pi http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2008
Ninety percent of everything is crap. [1] That's a bad starting point. Add to this the fact that free publications on the web have a strong incentive to maximize their income via ads, and what you get is a crap-fest of sensationalism. Good tech journalism exists, but it's somewhat rare and sorting through the crap to find it is rather fatiguing. It's also unlikely to show up on TechCrunch.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeons_Law
I would especially appreciate how one might go about implementing these in some of the concatenative languages listed there, as these kinds of data structures tend to be pointer- and memory-based, which I've found difficult to replicate in Forth et al.
I agree, There's definetly a lot of new tools for simplifying prototyping and manufacturing. And that's a long trend seen in many fields.

But this pushed hard on testing processes. Industries like software, that can avoid testing(through bugs and reuse and good testing tools) seen an innovation boom.

But industries where testing is hard, seen troubles in innovation. Pharma is a good example of this with the small amount of new drugs in the pipeline, even thought there's tons of "prototypes".

So i wonder,is there a need, and how can we automate and simplyfy the need of physical product testing ?
I can't believe he used "Operating System" as "Decision Making Framework".
This isn't necessarily unique to tech journalism, and I highly recommend giving Flat Earth News[0] a read for a greater insight into the commoditisation of news (amongst other things), and churnalism.

I guess it's more noticeable to us within tech, because HN generally aggregates a fair amount of content from TechCrunch, and Mashable, and so on, and it's not unusual to see four or five links to these things every day.

A solution is to post and upvote the original source where possible, and hope it attracts more discussion than the churn does.

[0] http://www.amazon.co.uk/Flat-Earth-News-Award-winning-Distor...
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They're going to be spending money to sell their sugary beverage one way or another, but it's cool they're doing it in a way that will advance the state of science rather than just polluting the world with more billboard ads.