skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> San Diego's Poway Unified School District borrowed a little more than $100 million. But "debt service will be almost $1 billion," Lockyer says.

Poway's population is 48,518, comprising 16,128 households. 6,493 households have children, so this is costing them $154,012 per household with children for one expense, at a time when they already had several school buildings that were not old and were in good condition. The population of children is not increasing. It's certainly not the only expense to run the schools either.

How will the 16,123 households pay their $62,003 debt per household?

If they all sell their houses and assets it can be paid back.
> 2. Yup, and the only way, should you need to set any flags.

Man, if I subscribed to that belief, I might as well just use Gentoo!
Nice buzz words!!
I agree. To take the courier example, you may not be interested in actually starting a courier but in going through the thought process of how a courier operates you might find a problem that they have which you or others could solve.

In my dealing from couriers I get the impression a lot are using outdated software and inefficient processes, might be some disruption in that space.
This attitude works well in social situations where you have some advantage (parent, boss) or are roughly on equal footing. It works less well in non-social settings (the natural disaster example other people are giving) or if you are at a serious disadvantage. For the example he starts with, where he was an embittered boss who felt screwed over, he is absolutely right: "Forgiving" others requires you to first blame them. Blaming them when you had the power over them is petty and asinine. Embracing your own power is far healthier, more effective and feels tons better. And it leads to future outcomes where you stop and wonder what you could do differently to not set your people up for failure.

Though I think it is a tad unfortunate that some remarks here are taking it too literally when it was clearly intended as lighthearted and tongue-in-cheek.
I'm not sure criticisms around cost are as relevant as they used to be. Windows 8 Pro currently sells for $40 on Microsoft's website, and yes, that key can be used to perform a clean install. If you paid $40 to Microsoft every three years when they released a new Windows version, that would work out to $13.33/year.

That isn’t exactly expensive... $13.33/year is basically a rounding error compared to the costs of console gaming.
>This almost exactly describes what the Taliban did. Except in their moral system, the One Rule is different than in your moral system.

Read The Kite Runner for a gripping insight into what the Taliban was. There was no rule, only naked force in the name of religious fundamentalism. Enforcement was (and is) arbitrary and brutal.

The One Rule is totally, completely compatible with Islam. However, it is incompatible with any any belief, religious or otherwise that values anything above non-destruction. The big problem in the Muslim world is, in my view, that they are confused on this point. Enforcing a prohibition of the expression of blasphemy instead of enforcing a prohibition of violence and destruction is a critical mistake, and the entire nation pays the price in perpetuity.

If the universe has anything approaching a built-in moral standard, it's this, and it's implied strongly by the second law of thermodynamics. It's far easier to destroy than to create, and so any culture that doesn't give creation asymmetrical importance is going to relegate it's followers to a life of squalor and violence.

And I don't want that for anyone.
Great....now to get more people onboard :)
Note: This is only tangentially related to our thread.

The word "agency" is often used to describe the ability of a human to act as an agent, or the ability of a system to act as an agent. Philosophers like Marx often focus on systems as agents, other philosophers (I am not well read) and sociologists commonly focus on individuals as agents. Debating agency is very fun, and can be done at all times in all places, since literally everything is an "agent" :) . How much free will does a given agent possess; how are an agent's choices constrained by the systems in which it exists and the tools it has available?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agency_%28philosophy%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agency_%28sociology%29

Also there is an academic philosophy thread here that you might be interested in:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4891502
That would means ads would be blocking page load, with javascript loaded ads, you can have the ad load asynchronously to the page.
So do you want to know the real reason I cut those chapters?...I this...I that...I something else...(I could list another 20 of these, but you get the idea.)

Lots of good stuff here, but I never found the reason I would most hope for: No one gives a shit.

In business, we all see it every day: who did this, who did that, who said what, who was right, who was wrong, who is hurt, who is angry, blah, blah, blah. The gossip part of our brain wants to hear more, but the business side doesn't; it just sounds like a whole bunch of played out drama.

Better to just shut and move on. Glad you did. Just not sure I'm glad why you did it.
Aiming to build a circuit that switches on-off in a femtosecond. A femtosecond is a micronanosecond.
Ars reviews the new 21” iMac
Interestingly, it looks like the front fans blow _into_ the rack. This means that if the door isn't securely closed it'll blow open - being on hinges and having massive fans attached.

It would be better to have the fans on the back and suck air through the rack rather.

That said, DC floor space is cheap compared to power and cooling. I'm surprised they didn't lower the density so as not to have a massive fire risk.
I'm not sure, but I think Rob Pike recently advocated against syntax highlighting, saying it was distracting, leading to focus on tiny parts instead of reading the program as an integrated whole. Surprisingly I agree with him. Syntax highlighting is probably a side effect of unbearable complexity. In Pike's context I guess he could avoid it, his culture and work run around small, elegant and expressive code.
I've been keeping an eye on the ergodox, but was probably going to go with a kinesis. You've tempted me about the fun of building one myself instead.

Could you ballpark what the cost to build one would be?(ignoring tools like the soldering iron?)
There is a list at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoimmune_disease

Why is difficult to accept that a system that evolved to attack certain cells can misidentify targets, especially if the real targets have selective pressures to mimic friendly cells?

It happens all the time in other systems (friendly fire, false positives in anti-virus-software)
Interesting idea. Congratulations.
I was going to buy it, but it requires iOS 6. Shame.
How Start-ups Are Bypassing Recruiters
(I didn't downvote you.)

Your comment is a little harsh, but totally accurate. I saw all the video and I want my 3:42 minutes back!

(Note: I remember that one of my comments initially got two or three downvotes in spite of having only accurate relevant facts (not opinions), I got a little worried but it bounce and finally that comment got like 12 points. Don't worry, be happy!)
Yes, parallel is the way to describe it. Not driven by racial animosity, I don't think, but just people keeping within their own circles (kind of like Jews and Asians in New York).

The interest in professional services makes sense when you consider that Delta, UPS, Home Depot, etc, are headquartered there. Logistics services, consulting, legal services, etc, are all in high demand, and the city is the hub for that sort of work for the surrounding region.
We'll also need something to deal with these high-latency links. A piece of hardware which generates the ACKs locally so our computers will send faster will sell like gangbusters! It'll really pep up the connections.
I guess in this era of Bitcoins and Tor hidden services, it's inevitable that a site using credit card funding and a public IP address for piracy is being shut down. Low-hanging fruit.
Thanks for the thorough analysis! You are totally right and I was playing too fast and loose.
You Can Ask Siri Where Your Friends Are
How the hell are you reading a denial of the existence of the immune system in my post? You must have some serious persecution complex issues if that is what you think I just said. You just keep digging yourself into your hole though... and yet you are confused why people don't take you seriously...

You can heal some injuries without going to a doctor, and you can fix some car difficulties without doing to a mechanic.

You read that as me denying that your body can heal yourself? What the hell? I cannot possible see how you could have so much difficulty understanding.

I don't know how anyone could be expected to have an intelligent conversation with you on this topic. You are completely closed off to it.
> NetApp has a port to Linux, but is still shipping FreeBSD. 50/50.

This is the first I've heard of this. Source?
The power in this article is not in accepting responsibility in general, but in accepting that a degree of self-interested rationality governs the actions of all people, including those on your team whose efforts run counter to yours, undermine you, or betray you, and that as a person with authority, you are responsible for the environment in which this rationality will play out.
Jesus was the original discoverer of Banach-Tarksi.

(http://spikedmath.com/234.html)
Or root your phone and replace the GPS library function with one that does what you want.
Ah yes, the things he hasn't been charged with yet?

I agree that they do count as serious though.
Build a Business, not a Startup
There is a decent amount, but perhaps more importantly, you can get really weird conclusions if you assume choice is false!

Simplest example: you can have a product of non-empty sets be empty.
They say that about my condition. It doesn't explain what is going on. If it were accurate, it should be actionable.

They say people with CF "overproduce" mucus and are "drowning in their own mucus". It isn't true. They are drowning in phlegm because they underproduce healthy mucus and become highly infected. Unlike skin, mucus membranes do not keep out infection when dry. One study found people with CF produce too little mucus, yet this crazy idea persists, even though it isn't logical and doesn't fit the facts.
Validate you idea and build a solid product (series): Cold emailing with style.
So true, but then again bland story without the emotional content makes for … bland story.
Sure it existed. It just had two names.
I still need to install software packages occasionally in order to do useful things with them.
He put "moral values" in quotes.
Right. I'd meant to write up the pricing.

Keys - $0.80 x 78
Diodes - $2-$3
3D printed shells - $240 from Shapeways. Cheaper from a friend with a makerbot
Keycaps - Cheapest when harvested from a board found at goodwill. Otherwise, $35 or so from WASD
Teensy++ - $24

I'll leave the "priceless" joke to the peanut gallery.
It's to mitigate people linking to the same story 10 times.

However, if the additional content is noteworthy, then you could link to it on HN, but make the title accordingly specifying that it is the opinion of the writer, and not the original source, that is what the reader should be considering.
The claim is basically that humans are incapable of manufacturing healthy food.

You may disagree with the premise, but the conclusion "food manufactured on a 3d printer will not be healthy" does follow logically from it.
I enjoyed Stephen Jay Gould's books:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bully_for_Brontosaurus
One thing that Instagram is missing with this whole web focus is a login feature on their homepage. After looking around, there's a Your Account feature in the footer text. Not very obvious.
well, it wasn't due to anything in phantomjs actually -- it was because qt introduced project lighthouse & their qt platform abstraction. project lighthouse was a fork that got integrated into qt 4.8 that phantomjs includes. (you can see the entire qt source tree if you git-clone phantomjs)
Try actually contributing.
Shell is very nice, but work like http://xiki.org/ , and ideas about using dom as user-space (domus, catchy right?) graphical substrate lead me to agree with his underlying point.
Well, they do provide good machine density when you rack them like he did.
The linux attempt at this in Gallium3D[0], which is the previous work I was alluding to in my last post. I believe a D3D 10/11 state tracker exists for it but the problem is that only the open source ATI and Nvidia drivers support it. Unfortunately the 3D performance of those drivers is somewhere between broken and terrible so it doesn't mean much today.

> if another project implemented D3D on top of OpenGL

This is exactly what wine does.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallium3D
Very useful though when doing the 90% of code work that isn't composing new stuff from scratch. A real gift for people doing lots of code review. As you say great support for issues would go a long way toward that.
As a thought experiment, still on the headlights: there is no state. I strike a man with my car and kill him. Then I continue on without telling anyone. What discourages me from this? Clearly he has no recourse.

The presence or absence of a state makes absolutely zero difference in the situation you are describing. Dead men have no recourse in any scenario.

* It sounds like it would make an awesome anti-randian story about the absurdity of following capitalism to a logical conclusion*

It sounds like you're so blinded by ideology that you refuse to consider that there are alternative ways that things could be done. Of course, the present system is working so well that one wonders why he should even bother to consider alternatives...
> anyone actually tied to OS X as a server platform?

Yes, if you make software that runs on OS X (or iOS and you want to test on iOS Simulators) you need OS X machines for your build and test process. You need lots of machines so you and your fellow developers can run speed things up and run tests in parallel.
This is a pretty good idea, but it would be limited to people who are on Hacker News. A wiki website would allow for anyone to contribute. It would also help reduce redundancy.
Maybe I'm missing something but that blog is a tour of System Electronica, a 3rd party contract PCB manufacturer, not an Arduino owned factory.
> Instead, offer me a graphical solution to the same problem

1. open a folder

2. Click the "File Type" column

3. Drag to select all txt files

4. Hold Ctrl, click to deselect the ignore_me.txt
Snow vs. Technology
I've setup a Wikispace wiki for this to begin. If people contribute and think this is a good idea, then maybe its own domain and custom design will be in order.

I love this idea and I think we should run with it. Go to:

http://howdoistart.wikispaces.com/

and edit away!
And yet recruiters still exist and employers keep paying them.....
I've setup a Wikispace wiki for this to begin. If people contribute and think this is a good idea, then maybe its own domain and custom design will be in order. Contribute at:

http://howdoistart.wikispaces.com/
Does it support the iPad 1? I'd have bought it right now if it had a dark theme + coffeescript highlighting (currently making up most of my work).
> It is all in one place, very simple to use

Especially for socket/mach service activation. This feature is integral to both iOS and OS X, and is dead simple to configure.
I commented about this here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4886028 the other day.

Essentially, how often will Valve upgrade its Steam Box? Certainly more than every 6-7 years. For those of you thinking right now: "you can ugprade it yourself!", well, yes you could , but that defeats the whole purpose of having one standardized spec for developers to target. Throw in a new graphics card here and there, and you've suddenly splintered your user base into those with PCs, Official Steam Boxes from Valve, and Official Steam Boxes from Valve that have been upgrade by the users. And now, certain games will only work on some combination of those three.

I'm a fan of Valve, their games, and their culture, and want to see this succeed. I'm sure they've put much thought into scenarios like this and trust them to make the right decision.
That's terrible, it's a shame that publishers have to do that. It shouldn't even be allowed.
From the article:

"Ramsey says it was a good deal, because his district is getting a brand-new $25 million school. 'You'd take that any day,' he says. 'Why would you leave $25 million on the table? You would never leave $25 million on the table.'

"But that doesn't make the arrangement a good deal, says California State Treasurer Bill Lockyer. 'It's the school district equivalent of a payday loan or a balloon payment that you might obligate yourself for,' Lockyer says. 'So you don't pay for, maybe, 20 years — and suddenly you have a spike in interest rates that's extraordinary.'"

No, I would leave that on the table. I wouldn't agree to a sucker loan like that on my own behalf, nor would I agree to it as a public official on the taxpayer's behalf. The problem here is that the public official forgot that he has a fiduciary duty to the public. I wonder if he learned his civics and his understanding of the mathematics of loan interest in a California public high school.

AFTER EDIT: Oops, I almost forgot a rare example of a pithy quotation attributed to Mark Twain that is an actual genuine Mark Twain quotation. This is what he wrote about school boards more than a century ago:

"In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made School Boards." -- Mark Twain, Following the Equator (1903) 2:295

AFTER SECOND EDIT: The claim that the school district did well to take out a loan on unfavorable terms to also obtain a loan with a federal subsidy doesn't take into account that all the taxpayers in the district are also on the hook for federal deficit spending, as most of them are federal taxpayers directly and all are part of the national economy.
Ok, so you show the result in a visual form. How do I then pipe that into e.g. 'parallel du' to get the file sizes?
> Most entrepreneurs rightly consider San Francisco to be the #1 city for starting a company

Most consumer-tech entrepreneurs with a US passport, maybe.
Thanks! The issue right now really is the Googlability.

I just searched for "Installing python modules" and of the top 5-6 hits (listed below) none of them mentioned the advice you just gave. The Python 2.7 docs don't mention it at all under their installing modules page. Everything's about RPM and Distutils.

http://docs.python.org/2/install/index.html

http://docs.python.org/release/2.2p1/inst/inst.html

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/739993/get-a-list-of-inst...

https://my.bluehost.com/cgi/help/530

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9714635/how-to-install-py...

http://discuss.joyent.com/viewtopic.php?id=25044

On the flip side, 'installing ruby gems' does tell you about the gem application, but doesn't mention bundler in the top 5 results.
Arh! That's terrible. I'm sorry. What typos did you find?

I noticed the word "ge" should be "get" so I've fixed that now.
not really. The majority of traffic on youtube is not pirated material. I agree though that I support his right to due process but not his innocence itself.
Anyone have any advice for canceling the order, is it possible at all?

Might your landlord allow you to post a sheet a paper to your front door stating that you refuse delivery? This is what I did to refuse delivery of a 16GB Nexus 7 (I found a 32GB Nexus 7 for a little over $200), and it worked. I didn't need to interact with a UPS driver.

That being said, the 16GB Nexus 7 I ordered was delivered to Google on Nov 29 and I still haven't received a refund or been contacted by Google regarding my order.
In the first example, which you quoted, they ended up allowing for greatly more variability than intended, leaving the regulator vulnerable for exploitation. The author speculated as to what sort of exploitation might have occurred, but did not state that it did.

The rest of the examples had nothing to do with the specific relationship between standard deviation and sample size, but with the more basic fact that a relationship exists. This observation is arguably the more important one, and is poorly argued in the chapter. It's also why some people always demand error bars, though I personally prefer plotting individual data points where possible.

The last example, while interesting, had very little to do with the equation (despite a claim to the contrary), which makes me believe the topic was an afterthought.
It's hard to believe people on school boards are given this level of financial power. Even though the California state government is horrible, it's hard to believe they'd be more incompetent than local part time school board members in making financial decisions like this.

Criminal prosecutions may be in order. Certainly there have been financial crimes at the county level in California (Orange County being the famous example).
Sigh. No. Let me try another tack.

If your car has a damaged part, they replace it. With CF, they often outright replace the damaged lungs -- as if the body is like a car and needs a replacement part because it can't grow its own.

They nuke the body with poison, then stand back and wait for your lungs to fall below a certain level of functionality. You can put a different type of gas in your car, it will never heal, not even a scratch. You can put different food in your body and see big, big changes. Doctors acknowledge this when they blame obesity, heart disease, etc on your diet and lifestyle. They turn around and dismiss it when it comes to healing.

I am sorry you are so flustered. We should probably drop it if it upsets you so much.
I was pretty dino crazy (as most kids are, I suppose), and to me, Brontosaurus denotes the animal with the short, massive head that the camarasaurus skull implies, rather than the slender head that the actual Apatosaurus had.

That chimera certainly never existed.
Back in November after the first batch sold out within half an hour, I wanted to get a Nexus 4 to give Android another go and check out Google Now and other new features of 4.2, as iOS6 felt a bit stale despite being a big fan of the black & slate iPhone 5's industrial design. But I got tired of checking the Google Play link everyday which always read "Out of stock". So I got the iPhone 5 instead.

When the second batch became available, I ordered one for a friend, still waiting for it to ship. (it said 1-2 weeks so it should ship this coming week)

From everything I've read so far, the Nexus 4 seems like a great phone at an unbelievable price, but Google and LG are really shooting themselves in the foot with customer service, shipping on a frustrating not-on-first-come-first-ordered basis and repeated delays.

I think a lot of customers would've been happier if they sold it through Amazon instead.
I know I know but why should one not try?

Remember a side-project is, at least in my case, something you work on OUTSIDE of regular work. I work on weekends, early mornings and late nights. When you only have about 5-10 hours per week you have to cut corners and do what little you can.

Also, in my case, I do everything myself. The client-side code, the server-side code, the optimization, the system administration, and last but not least, the marketing. It's not easy but I'll be damned if at least one of these can't become a success.
Facebook, Google, Zynga Ask Courts To Reject Patents On Abstract Ideas
Very interesting! What do you experience?