skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think this is right. We have a bigger government than we did historically, and the past few years have led to massive increases in the size of the government.

Rather, there seems to be a change in the role of the government. At one point we wanted the government to engage in big projects. Now we just want the government to redistribute wealth and engage in irrelevant expressive acts (yay/nay gay marriage, faith based blah blah, forcing christian hospitals to pay for birth control).

But this tends to mirror changes in the private sector as well, so I imagine it's just a cultural shift rather than something government related.
While I don't think the post you're referring to offered any deep insights, it's definitely not a conspiracy theory to state that the ability of the US to sustain their deficit spending largely depends on the dollar remaining the default currency of the global oil trade, and that maintaining this status quo is one of the key missions of US foreign policy. As such, it's one of the factors that determine US military presence, or interventions.
Very cool. Reminds me a little of http://flavors.me/
Pretty standard terminology. circa 2006: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/11/the-project-postmor...
Nobody uses EventMachine to manage daemon processes. Subprocesses in EventMachine aren't "equated to popen"; they exist for the sole purpose of doing evented I/O popen-style. I'd be careful about calling a developer "incompetent" because they write something that doesn't admit to arbitrary use cases.
I can't believe what passes for news these days. When I saw the title, I thought "this sounds like something that a friend of mine had undergraduate students play with about 20 years ago". Sure enough, it has been known for a long time http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_tweezers
I was surprised that the blog post just submitted here traced the history of the square-cube law only as far back as Haldane, when it was actually Galileo who introduced that fundamental idea to Western thought.

http://van.physics.illinois.edu/qa/listing.php?id=16793

http://dinosaurtheory.com/scaling.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square-cube_law

http://masi.cscs.lsa.umich.edu/~crshalizi///notebooks/physic...
Ballmer recites hundreds of features, how long did he take to remember everything, how should a viewer?

Some stuff next year, some now...
How should i know what are the important ones, he sounds kinda bored. The crazy Ballmer is 10 times better.
It's pretty cool and easy to use, but completely removes formatting for the "Professional Profile".

Eg. my engem.me profile: http://engem.me/doug-barrett and my linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/doug-barrett/53/118/445
You're threading, I presume? We do high speed high connection rate work in EventMachine (for instance, to work with order entry for trading exchanges) and have never seen anything like this --- but we religiously avoid Ruby threads.
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Your reaction was possibly spot on: see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_tweezers ... has been known for years.
For me, the not-one-but-two "tip for a tiny belly" ads gave it away before I even got to Airlie's post. Right or wrong, those types of ads prejudice me against a site before I even get to the content. In this case the content did little to change my judgement.
Nope, person. Try to only post interesting stuff.
Who told you that more is better? Why we should have nested lets and all that boilerplate for a classic filter?
Also, I tested out "send email" and I haven't received the e-mail yet.

PS. Nice use of Zurb Foundation :) I'm using it on an little web app I'm currently working on also.
nice troll, but in clojure everything is a seq.
all truly Big problems are partly or largely social as well as technical

Very true, and the TR article makes this point. However, the article doesn't even talk about how to solve the social aspects of the problems. For example, when talking about how famines are the result of political problems, not technical ones, it dismisses the political part with this comment: "famines will still occur because there will always be bad governments." What a cop out. MIT has whole departments devoted to economics and political science because it understands that intellectual tools need to be developed and applied in those disciplines just as much as in physics or engineering; why can't its magazine recognize that?

(Full disclosure: TR seemed to me to be a much better magazine when I was at MIT, so I tend to rant when I see evidence of its decline.)
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This is so much better than the top comment "This is an abomination." and a much better critique.

I think pg should create a filter to weed out all comments which have stuff like "I'm not trying to be a hater/douchebag/downvote me/rude/etc but".
Let's not forget that many of our parents and gradparents "regretted" working for the man and never following their dreams. That's a huge part of why I'm not interested in working at a large corporation.
Really?

It's stuff I was taught about in physics lessons at grammar school, circa age 15, back in the 1970s. Have things slipped so far?
We used all of these: Rasmussen Reports, ABC News/Washington Post, Investors Business Daily/TIPP, Gallup, Monmouth/SurveyUSA/Braun, CBS News, NBC News/Wall St. Journal, Washington Times: JZ Analytics, Politico/GWU/Battleground.
They were leaked more than 2 weeks ago I believe... http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/lg-nexus-4-photos-and-sp...
I think they are only testing a part of the gameplay.
I agree.. Tim Cook's presentation was borderline painful to listen to, but Phil Schiller was as toptastc as ever.
You have to slowly ship petrol; that puts a severe damper on the market reacting to supply and demand. Imagine how different it would be if a gas station could instantly buy out the stock of a competitor across town charging three cents less.

Anyway I fully understand the bank being slightly off the middle, but with that big of a spread the bank is either lying or has money bonfires somewhere in back. And I'm not really joking there, look at how much is spent on horrible legacy systems out of fear that replacements will have bugs... or at least different bugs.
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Spamming not intended. And yep, John Cook's blog is fantastic. Concise but powerful ideas like the one quoted below.
That... is the most plausible suggestion so far.
25 years ago they said this about the yen.

10 years ago the Euro was going to take over the world.

Now the yuan is the enemy even though people still flock to the dollar even with interest rates near 0%.
Your three line version is pretty much equivalent to this part of the Clojure version:

(let [x (f (first s))]
(if (nil? x)
(keep f (rest s))
(cons x (keep f (rest s)))))

The rest of it appears to be performance optimizations, that probably make sense for a key function in the core library likely to be commonly invoked.
Motif now freely available under the LGPL
I don't know that I would trust this website, maybe its just a small thing but the image they are using is obviously a fake. The image displayed on the phone is from a custom rom, specifically AOKP.
I'm generally pro-nuclear, but a geoligist friend of mine who worked at Yucca mountain (where the government wants to sequester waste) said there was no way they could guarantee long term safety.

I don't know what the exact risk is, but when you're working on ten-thousand-year timescales it's worth being a little cautious.
You could write the clojure version in the exact same way (well, you wouldn't say null?, but, basically the same) as the lisp one. But it wouldn't be as efficient given the various ways sequences might be implemented in Clojure. That makes sense as part of the standard library, IMO---users of keep don't need to care about whether their sequence is chunked or whatever. And it makes sense that there should be a variety of implementers of sequences: there's more to life than singly-linked lists.

(Even Guy Steele, who should know, recommended a couple years ago that language designers omit cons from their langauges!)
Interesting stuff being blogspam adverts from dzone.com? Try again.
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Idea: offer an API that's compatible with IFTTT.
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Microsoft was one of the first to implement a wide variety of C++11 features in their standard library and in their compiler, which made it harder to then port it to Mac OS X/Linux due to the fact that the standard library had not yet yet caught up there.

Now the shoe is on the other foot.
> The applications being developed will be at least as transformative as anything the automobile delivered.

Are you serious? I'm having a hard time seeing a disruptive innovation in CV anywhere.
Without trying to sound snarky, i find that definition of 'big' to be small. 'Big' is about leaps to new things that we don't even have words to describe. Rockets are 60s science, computer vision is an 80s problem and both are advancing at incremental pace mostly because advances in hardware make it easier. Plus i think it has more to do pushing the frontiers of what is possible forward rather than bringing the whole planet up to speed with the developed world.
Here's a slightly OT question, for politically inclined folks:

How likely would you be to look at a site that on election day scrapes election results as they come in from various swing states, and extrapolates the state result by projecting each county individually from already reported precincts?

Obvious some assumptions about precinct homogeneity and turnout implicit in that, but it'd provide at least some value over the raw results ("OMG with 5% of the vote in, Obama's leading by 20 points in Ohio!")
Please, be constructive instead of just dismissive. A nasty tone doesn't help anyone nor does it encourage trying new things.
Oh, excuse me, not an array, I'm old fashioned - heterogeneous vector!)
I'm not so sure he was recalling all those details from memory. You could see him looking at a prompt of some sort quite often (looking down/up, etc).

Of course, that might reinforce your position.
Looks like Facebook isn't happy about it: http://talkweb.eu/openweb/1842
Stripe announced OAuth a few weeks ago.

https://stripe.com/blog/stripe-connect
Not disagreeing...

but "...with interest rates near 0%...", one would expect a great deal of activity in dollars.
I think you basically described FiveThirtyEight
On the pharmaceutical industry: part of the problem is the government and the enormous number of regulations and necessary steps to bring a drug (which still could harm people regardless of how many trials are done) to market. As such, while someone may want to research some new but unproven idea, the time and cost and risk involved would be far too great as a result of regulations.

I do agree with your point though. The government should invest in research, not companies.
Has anyone ever considered using water as heat shielding? I mean that stuff is already one of the best coolants known to man for myriad applications.

Edit: found at least one idea http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn3551-water-could-repla...
You're assuming logic. He's trying to stir up attention for his personal brand, and his associated products. I don't think he necessarily believes that Obama/Biden had anything direct to do with the action, but playing up that angle gets him tons of PR.
He might be blunt, but is correct. You only need look at the terrible fidelity of the back arrow being used to see that it's not had much care and attention.

On top of that almost every component skin has issues that make it feel not right, like the drop down menu having gaps in the horizontal rule margins.

And in general, I dislike the approach to online discussion that everything has to be positively spun. This isn't very good, maybe it will be soon or maybe never, why should we not be able to air a valid negative opinion?
I get what you're saying, but that doesn't really say the hardware or its drivers suck. It just tells me that the community doesn't have the access they would like.

Complaining that the GPU isn't open is one thing and I totally understand that, saying it sucks is completely different to me. Saying it sucks implies that there is something wrong with the hardware and/or its drivers. It would be similar to claiming that a Macbook Pro sucks because you can't swap the battery yourself.

Now, if someone can show where the binary file has a flaw in it so that it could be said to be defective in some way, then sure, let the accusations of suckage begin. Especially if the flaw prevents usage of the device as described and it remains closed so the community cannot fix it. But then if they don't fix it themselves nor allow the community access to fix it then the platform will die anyway.

So, back to my comment, I don't understand the point of the article and others like it.
- Government solved the problem of building rockets first.

- The falling costs of green energy make it a mid-term solution too.
Who knew, all this time you just had to add &accept=1 to the end of the URL.
How much did it cost YouTube to stream Gangnam Style?
I agree that it will greatly benefit their tablet ecosystem. No doubt. But at the cost of a lesser desktop user experience.

They're throwing away the market domination they already have (to some extent at least), which of course is the backbone of their business, to try to get the money to pay the entrance fee in a market dominated by others, as a late comer with slim chances.
With ‘Safe Haven,’ Desktop Weaponeers Resume Work on 3D-Printed Guns
http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2012/10/22/fixing-computers/

Yes, some interesting stuff.

ipython notebook looks nice. Two month wait for paper version in the UK so I'll set the environment up first.
Thanks. Yes, It is somewhat like Flavors and About.me but I think your Engem page would tell a lot more about you than than the snippet that Flavors shows.
If you refined the tutorial and put it in an eBook, I would purchase it. I think a lot of people would.

Maybe contact the pragprog [1] guys?

[1]: http://pragprog.com/
Or worse, `standard'.
That checking is by definition, not type safety.

What you're talking about now is totality. Both Haskell and Clojure allow non-total functions (functions which may not return a result) - the checking that they do are to stop undefined results. Agda is an example of a language that only allows total functions.
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That's not surprising in a culture that equates government with evil.
What is your thesis, exactly? People have a finite amount of attention they are willing to devote to politics, and the obsession with polling thus excludes them from paying attention to these supposedly undemocratic features?

Seems far fetched to me but I'd imagine it's testable. One could test people about their knowledge of poll data and then see whether a higher degree of interest in polls correlated with a lower awareness of these undemocratic feature. I would imagine you'd find your thesis refuted in such a test.

Anyhow, it's likely you're trying to convey something that I'm not quite understanding so please feel free to correct me.

Speaking personally, I would posit that the media puts more focus on polls because they are both interesting and timely to viewers, where as discussions about the flaws of first-past-the-post voting are more dry and are not timely -- timeliness being a crucial determiner of what gets reported as news. So unless there are newsmakers actively making a spectacle about the issue, you're not going to here about it in mainstream media.
Or rename the parameter to CURL_SSL_VERIFICATION_LEVEL.
Thanks for trying it out Doug!
I will try to fix these issues shortly.

PS. I absolutely love Foundation!
Yes, that one: (9m/s)/s. Less a typo on my part and more of a "brain-o".
They really need to bring in some of their better product evangelists like Scott Hanselman for these kinds of major launches in my opinion. He's a guy who can speak well to an audience and is certainly technically capable enough to know the ins and outs of the product he's showing off.
Windows 8 Management, Security and Licensing Changes
Looking at Freelance Writing to Drive Blog Traffic
I'm curious, why did you apply to YC if you were already bootstrapped and bringing in revenue? For the connections?

Unrelated, I like your "Tweet this quote" sidebars...clever idea. :)
I always thought the 1.9 GC instrumentation was a little wonky. Glad they got that cleared up.
"Besides, getting in Y Combinator is easy: just be wicked smart, create a beautiful product, get millions of users, and build a revenue stream that grows 20% each month."

If your company's revenue stream is growing 20% each month on the backs of millions of users, why are you applying to Y-Combinator?
Insightful article that would have benefited from a less sensationalist headline. "Hacking the Y Combinator Application Process" makes a promise that you fail to deliver on.
I went back and looked at their application to see what we liked about it. What we liked is that they really understood their domain. This was not random undergrads making up some idea about social shopping. These people clearly understood local newspapers.
looks like Google Now.
No, libevent existed before Twisted; its first release was in 2000, and we used it extensively at Arbor Networks just a couple years later.
Your question is a bit too generic, what do you want to trade, why, etc ?
There's a few companies that make "pico-ITX" boards that run x86 processors [1]. Mostly low powered chips like Atom, but you can get Core 2 Duo boards if you've got the cash. Prices started around $300 last time I checked.

[1] http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/eng/meng/wmr/projects/uav/...
I'd say do two things up front, tell me who the customer for your product is going to be and why they will want to buy it. Then get into the details. Amazon has one technique, start with the press release you would send out once your product launches which helps you to do this.

Say. I'm doing X, which will let Y do Z. For you I'd say this is... We're building software that will not just tell people what they like but why they will like it. This will let retailers be better at sell products to consumers which is why they will license our tool.

I'm sure you'll want to change what I've written but it seems like a start at saying what you're going to do.
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> If one of these services is compromised, an adversary will only get your public key, which is useless.

True, but what if you connect to that system while it's compromised and under attacker's control? What if you want to separate your identities? What if you want to limit your responsibility and be able to just permanently delete the key after you finish working with some system thereby completely revoking your access to it? What if you want to store passwords to some keys in your system keyring but enter the pass every time for others?

Yeah, yeah, those are not exactly common but maintaining more than one key costs you nothing and adds a little flexibility.
I'd start with any freelance developer buddies you have. Chances are, some of them have overflow work they could pass on to you. Also check your own networks (including any school ties). Find out who in those networks is in need of some web work and see if you're a good fit.

You're also welcome to apply to matchist (http://matchist.com/talent), a new startup I'm working on to connect quality freelance developers with quality work.
This is a good read. You really know what you want, and what to do. Concrete plan. Midwest is still in the US right. It's funny, I just read earlier here in YC an accepted application but failed in the interview.

This is a good example of a YC application but I'm more intrigue with applications outside America, or in Asia. And dealing with what you said as language barriers, culture differences, and also the visa problem.
There have been many central directories in the past. What is needed is people to actually give a go at the apps and spread them virally if they like them. One would need to organize a large pool of mechanical turks around a pay-to-submit-your-app model.
There are some subtle differences, which makes the whole sense.

Classic version has a self-evident clarity and familiar shape of a recursive function, which utilizes TCO.

Perfection is achieved when there is nothing more to cut off, not when there is nothing more to pile up.)
> but removing a lot of the less worthwhile features

And what are those features, according to you?
This kind of thing is what has really annoyed me about the Pi 'movement'. "Raspberry Pi compatible" means nothing. It's a totally standard ARM based linux computer, of which there are a huge (and growing) number.
The approach Broadcom have taken also makes it really easy for them to support different OSs too.
Because back then 'big' used to mean engineering advances. Now it means people-oriented/social/feel-good advances.
The difference is that the central banks backing the Euro and the Yen have not had an aggressive currency policy.
Followup to "I bought more than 1 million Facebook data entries for $5"
Didn't intend to imply anything negative by "abnormal". It just isn't the "traditional" way to use processes for a user-facing, semi-desktop system. But given Android's special-purpose, single-user nature, it is a perfectly logical system (and quite clever, really). It just isn't the way users are used e.g. on my Fedora laptop.
The way I see it, "rolls eyes" is a violation of

> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is an idiotic thing to say; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

from the site guidelines. Granted, this was in reply to an article rather than another commenter, but I think the principle is the same.
CNN and a few others have been doing this in recent cycles, though maybe their presentation could be improved upon. They do seem to emphasize the raw numbers on-air though.

On this topic, a mirror of the Sec.-of-State result pages might be pretty useful. A lot of them aren't going to be able to handle the load.
Because when you start a company, everything is against you. Being a YC company, for the knowledge base and the connections, removes a lot of barriers and opens a lot of doors.

Plus, being two guys from the Midwest, we really didn't know what we were doing. After YC, our path was much clearer.
Also, Goo Guns Dev: https://twitter.com/googuns_dev
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I would say 3k/month has been the average for this year. I had peaks of 5k+ but it's a somehow seasonal business.

It really picked up this year, but in order to grow you have to put in time that I don't have. I have always wished this grew enough to replace my daily job, but not quite.

1/2X half revenue sounds like robbery, especially when you 1/2 for taxes too. I am sure it could be way more profitable, but I just don't have the time to invest - unfortunately.
Missed one (which I still consider valid): making it trivial for others to extend the firmware might endanger other products on sale. ATI learned this a few years ago, when it was discovered a software upgrade was all required to turn a sub-$150 graphics card into a far more expensive model.

From the user's perspective, all they see is hardware that can Do So Much More simply with a little firmware jiggery, but from the manufacturer's perspective, they've spent billions developing that firmware and if they choose to differentiate depending on its configuration, and they've paid the infrastructure costs to reach this position of privilege, then as far as I'm concerned that's their prerogative.