skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok but that's not really what he's talking about.

I totally agree that being able to have everyone walk to work may be a better goal than self driving cars and sadly because of past choices our best option is probably demolishing cities (not terribly feasible). However the status quo doesn't have to be maintained, rezoning and incremental new development can fix much of this (look outside American city development) but now we are also dangerously off topic.

Thiel says "the world has willingly retreated from a culture of risk and exploration towards one of safety and regulation. We have discarded a century of can-do ambition built on rapid advances in technology and replaced it with a cautiousness far too satisfied with incremental improvements."

This is his standard libertarian line. More risk, less big government and safety nets. Putting a gun to more peoples heads (metaphorically) will somehow instantly make the world better, create more innovation, and etc etc etc. (There's actually some pretty good data backed evidence instead of gut feeling backed evidence that good social safety nets promote a healthier society that’s more innovative that came up in coursera's Michigan University Model Thinking class [https://www.coursera.org/course/modelthinking])

And he also buys into that false thinking of "yesterday was better" when he talks about "However, we bounded forward in the 1950s and 1960s thanks to a generation of scientists who did not just believe in a better future but invented it" and "The genuine progress in IT from the 1970s up to the 2000s masked the relative stagnation of energy, transportation, space, materials, agriculture and medicine."

I don't buy this narrative at all for the reasons stated above. As I pointed out above, I don't buy his perceived stagnation and lack of innovation and I strongly don't buy into his current fears and solutions. Also, this is pretty much general libertarian/Peter Theil philosophy very loosely redressed to try and seem new and relevant in light of the recent election, but it's the same old view.

In that light, some people agree with it, and some don't but there's nothing new here in this article either.
OMG! Addicted already.
I think this is a great acquisition by Priceline. They are going for market share here to get ahead of Expedia et al.

A big part of their growing business is in Europe via Booking.com, so with Kayak they beef up their market share here in the U.S. in a big way.
This is unfortunately very true.

We don't have a stagnation of tech progress, we keep going forward- but the grow rate seems to be decreasing.

Some people apparently think existing innovation (ex: mindstab comment) suffice to disprove this.

It's not.

Just look at the 40 or 60 to see some real innovation - like antibiotics, nuclear bombs- i.e. paradigm changing innovation in various domains.

What did we got lately? Computers, internet, cellphone, social networking - ok, but it's a bit short, and it's mostly in one domain only.

IMHO, for any self consistent conservative, it's far more worrisome than theoretical weather change, especially because we got used to this fast pace of innovation and growth, and there have built the core of our societies on such assumptions (interest rate for money, population grow for social security, etc) - like, we are expecting technology will improve so that we get new ways problematic (orbital mirrors, tweaking the albedo, ...) to fight climate change if it is indeed man made and

The idea of a deceleration of progress has some merit - to me it's like multiple warnings indicators lighting up, even if I don't know any theory to explain it, except a reduction of the "will to live" in western societies (Nietzsche style)
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I would be part of that market if something nice was available.

I have test installed a diaspora pod as well as a libertree tree.
Diaspora has its well documented issues and libertree is still bleeding edge.
What I was referring to was the fact that no Democratic Senator has voted for or proposed a Budget Resolution for the past 3.5 years, which as your Wikipedia article reference says, is the normal procedure for establishing a budget after the House passes its Budget Resolution. The House and Senate budget resolutions are then normally reconciled through a negotiation process that has not happened because the Senate hasn't passed any such Budget Resolution.

So since September 2010, to keep the government functioning, Congress has passed a series of seven continuing resolutions. In their frustration at the unwillingness of the Democratic Senators to propose a budget resolution, the Republicans even brought President Obama's proposal up for a vote this last year, but it went down 0-99 in a rare show of bipartisanship. Admittedly a stunt, but the point is that Democrats are refusing to negotiate by ordinary procedures.

The Budget Process is clearly broken, and it's a serious problem for the economy and country. The non-partisan "No Labels" organization has echoed Independent former Senator Joe Lieberman in calling for a serious reform of the budget process.

Also, the blog article in question prominently attacked Rep. Ryan, and said the Romney-Ryan campaign did not have a budget plan. At least part of it was a typical partisan hit piece implying "facts" existed where they didn't.
And we're back in control at the original meetup.com group.

Guys, thanks for your support and thanks to the guys at meetup.com com for handing the group back to the community.
Not quite. Achilles and the Tortoise originally came from an essay by Lewis Carroll. Hofstadter had borrowed them for GEB, and in doing so also borrowed their gender -- or so he thought. In reality when he went back to check, long after publication, he realized that Lewis Carroll had left the Tortoise completely genderless.
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Was Nate Silver the Most Accurate 2012 Election Pundit?
Good for him. Friendster was awesome and way ahead of the curve.
Ah, an Infowars article. Always a credible source.
You view it primarily as "a gripe he has with society." I think he views it primarily as "I want my daughter to be able to pretend she is this character." There is a difference.
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If I recall correctly, that is one of the reasons that Google made the translation API a paid service. Regardless, in those cases, I suspect Google would be able flag their own translations and avoid using them, It would be much more interesting if their were a couple of companies dueing translations on many websites without coordination, or if one of them tries to sabotoge the others with subtly bad translations.
It sounds less like a serious attempt to understand this episode in history, and more like a way to score a quick point about 21st-century American politics.
Ask HN: Good place to find budding designers?
I've had good luck hiring college students and recent grads for past projects. You take more of a risk than you do when you hire somebody with more experience, but that also means their rates are lower.

I'd like to give one of my sites a facelift and am looking specifically for a designer -- I can do all the coding myself, but want someone to take care of the visuals.

Looking for recommendations on where I can find budding designers. Would prefer not to slog through some of the bigger sites that also have more experienced designers. Are there any sites that are focused on just budding designers?
The title actually says "falling", which if taken as a reference to their stock price is true over the past few months.

That said, I agree with your points and as a long-term investor, I am thinking of buying some more Apple stock right now.
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I've used a Razer Naga Epic for more than 8 months at my job. Having useful keys, like enter, spacebar, ESC, f5, and arrow keys on my mouse has been a dream for years, and the programmable 12-pad makes this a reality.

The Synapse service was designed for someone like me, who uses the same mouse at home and work, even though I don't use it. Synapse syncs mouse configuration settings across different computers, installs, etc. This way, you don't lose your sensitivity and custom keybinds and macros.

However, being required to use Synapse is madness. The Naga Epic has "offline" drivers. With Synapse, I wouldn't be able to use the mouse at work because of (realistically) strict IT security standards. It's a shame, since I really enjoy my Razer mouse, and was going to start supporting them.
The company can simply turn off the activation server in a couple years when the mouse becomes "obsolete," "end of life," or "no longer supported," forcing people whose mice work just fine to buy new ones.

From the company's point of view, how could it possibly be a bad thing to make people buy a new mouse they don't actually need?
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Superbrothers is the only one that's currently listed in the Steam CDR as having Linux support: http://marlamin.com/cdr/search.php?s=linux&searchby=os
Thanks for another great example of fear, uncertainty and doubt surrounding the undeniable ubiquity of HTML.

http://alwaysbetonjs.com
You should compare branching in Git to "streaming" in Perforce:

http://www.perforce.com/product/product_features/perforce_st...
WMI — Warsaw-Modlin
WAW — Okecie
EPBC — Babice

modlin now appers, but still don't know what babice are doing there :) yep, as I said, it was just recently opened as a passenger airport, and major european discount brands fly from there so by now it should be in every db.

if you want me to help you sort out these issues, feel free to drop me an email; I've had various ideas around travel websites (the one I'm working on is not competing with yours) so I'll be happy to test it out or just chat.
http://www.dribbble.com - best site for this hands down.
It really seems you understand design patents more than many out here. Care to explain, what does it cover more than the rounded rectangle? (I hope you read the patent before commenting).
Green squiggly excluded, I can think of two reasons off the top of my head why even the most advanced general purpose grammar checker would be a bit of a controversial feature:

- Because grammar is typically more expressive, and dependent upon a concept that otherwise may not exist in words. Thus statistical grammar models and context checkers would be much more volatile to generating nonsense from user input (along the lines of the Sokal hoax) or restricting output to a range of acceptable models (giving the machine its own voice in a sense). That leads to the second thing...

- It kills freedom and creativity (or at least, how we receive it). Imagine comedy routines in stoic deadpan. Perfunctory exchanges in formal constructions (and vice versa). Obviously you can avoid all of these situations if you wanted to, but in that case it should probably be saved for those special occasions. It could probably help a lot of businessmen wanting to write their statements and messages in shorthand without spewing boilerplate text. But it's potentially damaging to every child or student who is still finding out how they want to express themselves in the given context.

Note: I think it is fair to assume that grammar checking would include the ability to reformulate or generate text that obeys the relevant models. Spell checkers suggest spellings, grammar checkers have to suggest fixes and changes as well, and if we want to get any further than Win98 era Word it will probably have to have a plain old fix-it generator as well.
I don't see where it says "more secure". Secure only shows up once in the article and once in their privacy policy.

Perhaps it would be better to stick to "privacy" as that's the value i see here.

the privacy policy states:
... affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on FamilyLeaf’s behalf or to provide services available at FamilyLeaf’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others.

Looks cool! I'm hopeful they will be around awhile.
This isn't political correctness run amok. This is simply a father trying to provide a positive female role model for his young daughter. Y'know, so she doesn't get the impression that heroism, accomplishment, ingenuity and adventure are of solely male provenance.

I'm curious - if it was a black father modding in a dark-skinned Link what would your reaction be?
Look at all the pro gamers; they aren't bringing their mouse every where they go, they just save their settings rock in another mouse and are ready for gaming.
It's indeed an ideological reply, because for someone with a libertarian approach (like - me), the slowdown seems to match quite well the rise of the welfare state.

"the world has willingly retreated from a culture of risk and exploration towards one of safety and regulation" - that says it all.

The competing ideology (let's say "progressive") cares about stuff like equality (ex: affirmative action) or safety (look at what you did as a kid, and what is allowed today) while most libertarians and conservative care about efficiency and freedom.

Some equality and safety might be a god thing - but I worry much more about efficiency and freedom - a part of which is scientific progress.

There's some basic differences here and there, but that is IMHO the core difference.
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Works such as this are very near to my heart. As a developer of collaborative games in emerging technologies including "HTML5" I want to articulate the intense delight I feel each instance I discover others pursuing this strange, new, often difficult, but ultimately vastly rewarding path to success. I found this particular exchange exceptional.

The developers (chatting in-game) were rather friendly and particularly forthcoming about their sound choices for their technology stack which I found to be refreshing. This kind of transparency, at least in this industry, is somewhat rare and is absolutely commendable.

If you indeed enjoyed the experience, as I suspect most did, please continue to support these developers and their work. It is through this process we, as a community, will continue to manifest works such as this.

Do not underestimate the power of getting the word out about these endeavours. A "like" on Facebook. A tweet. A blog post. It all adds up. And we really do appreciate such a priceless commodity.
Can someone point me to some examples of software that's non-trivial, stable, performant and fairly bug-free, yet coded like trash because it was rushed out the door as quickly as possible?
The project, specifically, was http://appliedrationality.org/2012/11/09/was-nate-silver-the... / http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4760649
I really like my Razer Naga, but one day I went to install new drivers and found that they required signing up for their "cloud" service. Worse, the old drivers weren't available from their site.

So, now I'm using the mouse without drivers and am unable to benefit from the extra buttons much of the time. I refuse to sign up for their cloud service when all I need is hardware drivers.

I sent Razer a polite but angry e-mail about it a while back. I won't be buying Razer hardware again if this doesn't change.
Razer is experimenting with a new business model: gathering personal and usage data from players and the PC's they use, to sell to interested third parties.
Because when that time comes up, Razer may find they're losing users to Logitech. End-of-lifing my mouse is not a way to get a repeat customer out of me, creating great products is.
Really appreciate your insight. It seems like there are some good online tutorials out there for Python also. Ok, Python will be my first victim. Thanks!
How about two years ago:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vandroid.b...
Here's an hour long interview with the founder, Jonathan Abrams, on This Week in Startups with Jason Calacanis from just a couple of days ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDs2nJf6lro

Good interview, and Nuzzel is an interesting idea. I'm not entirely sure it's something I need, but I'll give it a shot. There's certainly room for an awesome product in the space.
The US's extermination of American Indians was brilliant and cunning. If you study the historical record, one thing you become aware of is that the colonists didn't originally have the advantage. They had guns, but that wasn't so much of an edge that the Indians couldn't have wiped out the colonists with their superior numbers.

Even at the time of the American Revolution, you see treaties with the Delaware Indians that are incredibly deferential, asking for their permission to cross Indian territory to fight the British.

The exterimination proceeded slowly over almost 100 years. We would make treaties, at first deferential then increasingly aggressive, to placate the Indians while slowly moving them off desirable land. American numbers grew while Indian numbers dwindled, until we got to the state that exists now, with them isolated to tiny little pockets of land.
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Yes. The term "quick and dirty" and "bang something out real quick" make me want to throw up in my hat. It's not like it's not necessary to lower standards a bit sometimes, but because people who use that phrase a lot tend to, in my experience, use it as an excuse for churning out a lot of garbage.
Not true of _everyone_, but definitely true of some (including me). Additionally, white coat hypertension is not entirely benign. From the wikipedia article you link:

"In general, individuals with white coat hypertension have lower morbidity than patients with sustained hypertension, but higher morbidity than the clinically normotensive."
This reminds me of something... As someone who LOVED rollercoaster tycoon, please please please consider object/character movement, such as NPC's that move and do stuff. Like puke on the ground after roller coasters =)
Also other players who are in control of a character (like Sims game) would be fun to highlight and watch interact with NPC's.
What's interesting is that both of those characters have evolved considerably beyond their beginnings. I think it is oversimplifying to say that they represent men dictating "how women should be", but both Marston's Wonderwoman and Masamune's Kusanagi have been interpreted in drastically different ways by other writers.

If you believe that a character who's gender is the opposite of its creator is somehow invalid or cannot be a role model then I don't know what to say other than I don't agree. It's a subjective point and not particularly interesting to debate in my opinion.
You should totally do that. I don't know how anyone reads HN any other way. (Not with my specific list, but with a list of people who will anchor sane conversations).
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Most of my time in E16 was spent sitting patient and inert, waiting for someone to walk by my desk so I could impress them with the awesome window flipping and water animations. Well, that and posting endless screenshots of my setup to various forums. Whenever I'm feeling down I pour myself a drink and browse my "screenshots_2002" folder :)

> Remember discovering what a winmodem was...

I still have my first non-winmodem installed in my machine, though I haven't had an active phone line in my apartment for years... ahhh, nostalgia!
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sec...
If any HackerNews member wants a Nuzzel beta invite, email ceo@nuzzel.com and put HackerNews in the subject of the email.
Ok, fair enough. I still don't think it necessitates changing the character's gender. I lived vicariously through a number of fictional heroes of the opposite sex. How this father approached this issue just isn't how I would approach it.
I know this sounds harsh, but you're obviously not their customer. Who cares if you "like" it, or if you stay longer and watch more?

I happen to agree that the video is annoyingly slow to start but maybe their target audience isn't hyperactive Reddit distraction addicts. Maybe their research suggests buyers for emergency services like to be buttered up a bit before being pitched to. Without knowing that you're just speculating.
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any advice on doing "show HN" correctly?

thanks
Yes, wouldn't it be cool if you could fork an entire running app?
a complementary discussion which, it turns out, I started! ah ha!
This is very interesting! I'm a Bengali raised in a mostly white surroundings, though not as much as say Western PA. I too perecive my parents as not using sarcasm, and it being cultural. Though occasionally my mom will crack a joke, which I find quite startling. I don't really speak the language very well, so I can't really follow very when they talk naturally with other Bengalis. I wonder how much is in there that I'm missing.
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That's completely idiotic, and I hope you feel ashamed of what you wrote.

The problem isn't more or less information, it's that insider trading creates two classes of people: Those select few "in the know" who can reap massive profits by getting an illegal phone call, and the suckers.
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Part of me wants to debate this, point our correlation does not equal causation and ask for better evidence. (yeah, I know, cheap attempt at last word)

But ultimately we probably won't be persuading each other and at this point the debate is useless. I've pointed out my problems with the article, and together we've at least distilled the problem people like we will have with the article (well stated by guylhem). I don't think much more progress can be made :)

My critical reasoning and logic prof from Uni always said that logic is a fine thing for enhancing discourse but if you start with different world views, different axioms, no amount of logic can bridge that, it's just a tool for fixing smaller disputes.

Thank's at least for more concisely summing up :)
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