skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to do the exact same thing in Math classes. Iterate on proofs, until I got the perfect one. It vastly enhanced my understanding and gave me these really pretty proofs to look at!

In one class where I was especially obsessed, my (rather famous in the field) professor told me I understood the subject better than he did. That was pretty awesome.
This seems to depend on Silverlight and so doesn't work on my system. (Actually, I'm just guessing that it needs Silverlight--the page explaining why it doesn't work also doesn't work. Either way, it doesn't work.)

You should check out OCaml on the browser[1]. This takes advantage of js_of_ocaml, which is a very good OCaml to JavaScript compiler. You can also try running OCaml with access to the browser apis[2], which is pretty cool.

[1]: http://try.ocamlpro.com/

[2]: http://try.ocamlpro.com/js_of_ocaml/
> The mainstream camp however, thought otherwise and most of the world followed their advice.

Not the mainstream -- a vocal minority. Ordinary Macro 101 textbooks predicted the consequences of the policies in the the US and Europe pretty accurately.
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It was the snark and sarcasm that I was taking issue with. I don't have a strong opinion about the position itself. It's a good point cheapened by coarse delivery. We can do better here.
It's old, I know, however, still inspiring (Chris Anderson)
Chris Anderson, from Wired, is, by far, one of my favorite authors. His simplistic tone coupled with his abstract and imaginative topics make for enjoyable and inspiring reads.

If you haven't read his books, I highly recommend the two classics: Free, The Future Of A Radical Price and The Long Tail.

I just noticed he's released a new book, Makers: The New Industrial Revolution. Anyone here read it yet?

http://www.amazon.com/Chris-Anderson/e/B001JRVGAG"

Awesome!
Nice to see a company updates policy, which actually helps the users. I haven't seen this kind of policy updates in a long time.
Not only obesity, but insulin resistance: basically gave the mice the start of "metabolic syndrome", as also observed in obese humans.
> Is there an app for my phone where I can just click on his Facebook picture or enter his email and transfer that amount to him?

Click Send Money, enter his e-mail address and the amount, press send. Or if you both have the right phones, just bump them together. http://i.imgur.com/p1Gq5.jpg

You can use the native app on iOS or Android, or use the website.
Send it to their email address associated with Paypal.

Here in Australia, I've never seen it used for such. The big banks have launched apps for this purpose, though (eg Commonwealth Bank's "KaChing" app).

http://www.commbank.com.au/mobile/commbank-kaching/what-is-k...
I think there can be contention about the growth mechanism. Again, my main "proof" is I got better after being sentenced to death. Trying to talk about that gets me dismissed in the ugliest way possible. On HN, I was recently repeatedly accused of being mentally ill and hounded by someone claiming I was being irrational and overly emotional. I remain baffled that no one seemed to recognize his behavior as irrational and overly emotional. My only crime is telling a truth which people find so fantastical that they feel entitled to claim I made it up. I am at wits end as to how to carry on a rational discussion in the face of that. I am trying to figure out what I need to do to present my case more effectively. But I also frequently wish that I could, conveniently, just shut up about it and let other people keep dying, like they seem to prefer. I don't know how to do that. It is an option I often contemplate. But I seem to be equally unable to do that. One of those "sucks to be me" things.

I really don't wish to discuss this further in this thread. Again: Please have a good evening.
That "ideal" solution would only work on deb based distros.
I'm curious, in what ways do you feel the culture has changed in your organization? Are there concrete changes to investment strategy/policy? Or a more general zeitgeist-type shift and people at the company have come to the general conclusion that some risks are too severe to take no matter the possible reward? Both/Else?
You seem to be implying that because economists can't run clean experiments like physicists, they can't prove or disprove anything, they can't tell us what happened and they certainly can't guide us. At this point I have to ask, how is your view of economics different from theology? What is the point of such a useless field of study?

Of course, economics can be useful. Economists have a ton of data and a wide variety of tools with which to conduct their study, and while they can't achieve the purity of physics, economics can still be a valid and useful field of study. The problem isn't economics itself, but practitioners whose views are clouded by politics, ego and money.
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You're glossing over the author's solid point on the nature of design, that over-engineering can stifle creative input. In the example he provides, the users became distracted from the purely photographic form of communication by a text-based one.
I think you are mistaken only in assuming that economists don't know this. It's blatantly obvious as soon as you learn about the philosophy of science.

The problem is that economic decisions still need to be made and "confidence" actually is a big factor in how markets react to news.

Since you can't start doing science in economics at this point then you better look to your preferred economic philosophy for some pointers and rules of thumb. And you god damn better make sure people have confidence in you (since it literally makes things work better and because then you get less blame for mistakes).

Since the creation of a fake Nobel prize in Economics to borrow some of that sweet sweet confidence people have in Physics and Chemistry it's been seen as an image problem. A branding problem.

It's very Straussian I suppose, in that "the masses must be lied to for their own good, rulers need to show strength and project confidence" kind of way.

It's definitely gotten out of hand in my opinion, so little effort going towards moving economics towards science and so much on religious arguments when all sides know they can't really model or predict anything.
First of all, "civil rights" means (in the US context) a particular set of issues, which aren't actually the core ones defended by EFF or the ACLU, although they sometimes overlap. I think you mean civil liberties.

Second, EFF has been working on intellectual property reform since its founding. It's long argued that antiquated or misapplied ideas of how IP should be enforced are actually a free expression issue, since (among other ideas) code is speech. It's actually one of the core principles at the basis of mapping traditional civil liberties onto the digital realm, which is at least some of the (looser) ideas behind "digital rights". Patent reform is part of that. It's not just about Samsung and Apple, it's about people being able to express themselves -- in free software, or the application of algorithms, in a digital world.
i was reading this http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm

its an interesting book about this very topic.
I am a big fan of the whole "if you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it" mantra, and while there are some edge cases it tends to work pretty well for the majority of cases.

So, I use:

1. RescueTime to track where my time has gone - after seeing exactly how much time gets sinked into FB/Twitter/App.net sor tof activities I, somehow unexpectedly for myself developed a particular type of anxiety - if I stay on those pages for roughly over a minute it freaks me out and I close it immediately. (I guess it's the realisation of wasting time is freaky).

2. PivotalTracket - to manage the priorities of tasks and to measure my "burn rate".

3. Evernote - I try to stick to the following procedure when reading/watching anything new:
1. Take short notes on stuff being watched/read. Express things using my own words, NOT copy pasting or typing same stuff I just read.
2. Create actionable items from what I read
3. Break those actionable items into PivotalTracket tasks

This helped to reduce the unnecessary news intake dramatically - in the very beginning of each article that I start reading I ask myself - "is it worth taking notes on?" if not - close the tab.

Thanks!
I am a big fan of the whole "if you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it" mantra, and while there are some edge cases it tends to work pretty well for the majority of cases.

So, I use:

1. RescueTime to track where my time has gone - after seeing exactly how much time gets sinked into FB/Twitter/App.net sor tof activities I, somehow unexpectedly for myself developed a particular type of anxiety - if I stay on those pages for roughly over a minute it freaks me out and I close it immediately. (I guess it's the realisation of wasting time is freaky).

2. PivotalTracket - to manage the priorities of tasks and to measure my "burn rate".

3. Evernote - I try to stick to the following procedure when reading/watching anything new:
1. Take short notes on stuff being watched/read. Express things using my own words, NOT copy pasting or typing same stuff I just read.
2. Create actionable items from what I read
3. Break those actionable items into PivotalTracket tasks

This helped to reduce the unnecessary news intake dramatically - in the very beginning of each article that I start reading I ask myself - "is it worth taking notes on?" if not - close the tab.
That's the first thing I did and that is what makes this an impressive offering. The smoothness of the introduction is very well done and you can easily see how it slowly introduces a novice, which you can easily skip as a more experienced dev because of how well it is structured. A difficult challenge which they've pulled off well.
That's what he said - there is a transaction fee on the lower plans, but when you reach $179 it'd be cheaper to upgrade to the unlimited plan which has no transaction fee.
Thanks for the information. I didn't realize Paypal had such a convenient way of doing that.

> Why do I feel like I'm being punked?

Maybe because I haven't heard of every feature that every single web service has to offer?? Just a guess.
Using sometimes 1000's of EC2 instances (for a bunch of movies, not just one).
Very Very good idea for a service. I could see your partnering with fulfillment companies, and integrating with their API ("T-shirts for users 1-2000 are in the mail")

Is there any way to get into this without an active KS? I'd like to poke around, but I don't have a KS running at the moment.

When is the expected launch? What's the pricing? ;)
Yes, I acknowledge it could be a cultural thing or just me that saw it that way.
I lost quite a lot of weight by focusing on killing germs and altering my biochemistry. I would be happy to talk to you about it in hopes it might help you. If you wish to talk, my gmail account starts with talithamichele.
This is potentially huge news. If it can be replicated you can take all the high-fat/low-fat, high-carb/low-carb, paleo whatever diets and chuck them. "we show that one endotoxin-producing bacterium isolated from a morbidly obese human’s gut induced obesity and insulin resistance in germfree mice." "Germ-free mice" are mice raised from before birth with no germs, so the effect of a single infection can be observed without complications. They claim that a single bacterium strain from a human gut, infected into mice, gave them not just obesity but insulin resistance and inflammatory symptoms -- a close analog of the complex we call "metabolic syndrome" in obese people.

If even some cases of metabolic syndrome can be linked to a simple bacterium -- and cured simply by killing that bug -- this will have the economic and medicinal effects of, well, not the eradication of smallpox, but pretty close.

Scientifically it's the equal of marshal and warren finding the bacterial cause of peptic ulcers -- and they got the Nobel for medicine for that.
This is one of the most impressive, heartfelt stories I have read in a very long time and on Yahoo! too. The world needs more people like Jon Kitna wanting to use their money and influence to help disadvantaged and trouble students. Sport is full of far too much arrogance and materialism and by the sounds of it Jon had his fair share of typical athlete behaviour in the early days but woke up to himself.
What was the budget to set this thing up?
Keep in mind that art is most properly classified as a subset of communication, so in certain cases a very similar vocabulary will be used regarding them.

You say the author is incorrect in implying that artistic expression may inhibit us, yet in his context, artistic expressions or attempts thereof do inhibit the users, because they're attempting to communicate artistically, rather than directly and immediately as the author wishes.
Hah! Fantastic!
It's a bit petty of me, but these universal truths are totally specific to the author's context.
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If this is true, then this should immediately put to rest the explanation (that I'll admit I bought into) that only one video format will win out (H.264 vs Ogg Theora/VP8 is the major discussion point) - as video streaming companies would be unwilling to re-encode their content for more than one format.

Apparently they are quite comfortable encoding as many as 120 instantiations of their videos.
That is what I am talking about. Thank you for supplying another example that helps articulate it.
The founder of the company I work for (Lot18) actually climbed Everest - so after sending him the link to this, he dropped by and explained everything we were looking at - and outlining the paths and various dangers associated with the climb. It's quite an amazing story - and I found some slides related to his climb from 2009: http://www.slideshare.net/snooth/everest-2003-north-face-res...
How about splitting inverted navbar into a separate less file?
For anyone interested in the size of the bail out, latest estimates put it at $US 29 trillion.

http://www.levyinstitute.org/publications/?docid=1462
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Ask HN: What are the most important problems in our field?
"Our field" being Technology - software, electronics, computers.

RE: http://www.paulgraham.com/procrastination.html
I do this too, because I feel like it's a good cause. I'm currently up to 14 bundles, and have a bunch of duplicates, but I keep buying them anyway.
> Would-be investors in Icelandic bonds focus most of their attention, not on what happened in the past, but on what is likely to happen in the future.

Once you understand that, you basically understand the entire financial industry. It has no memory. Hell, it barely even has any perception of the present.
His point is that you make it seem like there is no choice but to pay a fee. As your own screenshot shows, this is not the case, the premium plan offered for $179/mo charges no transaction fee. The cheaper ones do because, duh, they have to pay their bills one way or the other. The exercise is left to the reader as to which plan makes the most sense economically for your company based on the amount of business you're doing. But you're guaranteed to never be paying more than $179/mo in transaction fees unless you suck at picking the right plan (and I assume they're easy to switch between).
You could add a CAPTCHA to suspect client IPs?
You could implement some sort of real-time log analysis / monitoring based on client IP, x-forward-for (?) headers and User Agent, also possibly block certain geo-IP ranges from non-core customers. Inserting a javascript "puzzle" is also a way to test that a browser is generating the traffic and not a script.
Hi lutusp,

Thanks for pointing out the typo. Your advice is good, too. I wrote this because I am often asked this question.
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Isn't Greece trying to run a primary budget surplus, i.e. before interest payments. If they managed that, they wouldn't need to tap capital markets after defaulting.
Again: none of those things are actually happening in this thread. I'm not disrespecting you, I'm not accusing you of anything, but I also don't think I'm being irrational. I do believe you didn't really read my entire posts though, but that is more a failure on my part than on yours.

Also, it's actually morning here in Europe. In the spirit of a new day: don't ever shut up, but do lighten up.
I get the point here, and I'm not advocating never spending money or doing anything with your money, but the vacation house and expensive cars seem like unforced errors that don't really add much to one's life, especially relative to their costs.
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Netflix has a limited catalog... YouTube has a much larger one by many orders of magnitude.

However they could still lazily trans code on demand (and cache the result).
I couldn't find anything in a cursory search of google and nothing in any of the links currently here explain it.

Why is it 50 cameras for the effect? Each link I've seen has the same (50 cameras).
I am just curious if there is a reason that the number is used instead of say 60 (every 6 degrees) or something like that?

Edit: It would have been great to see it in action but there is a link elsewhere on the page that had some awesome views of what can be done.
Wrong, you could easily create similar repositories for other package management systems.
How long did it take you to build this application, and in what ways do you expect it to grow in the next 5 years? What problem does this service solve?

I'm just a curious guy. Good post! :)
I recently found my Windows 98 CD. I should pop that into VMware and try out the Internet.
I think one case where someone might object to your comments is the assertion that obesity is strictly a behavioral problem, in the form of overeating. While that may be strictly true by virtue of the conservation of matter and energy, the word "behavioral" can be interpreted as meaning "chosen," as in, "People are obese because they want to be obese." It may be helpful to note that there are many causes for behavior, including conscious effort, habit, addiction, autonomous instinct, reflex, and perhaps even lipopolysaccharide endotoxin.
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On the one hand I can see where you're coming from - charity can very often be done as a self-serving way to justify other evils. Kind of like the dad who out of guilt for never being home buys his kids a nice computer.

On the other hand, 500 million dollars hurts for anybody - even viewing it relatively, 1/20th of your wealth is a pretty sizable chunk of change to be giving away. Having his name on it is right in line with the Gates/Buffett thing of trying to provoke other billionaires to action.

As a side note...I may be wrong, but as I read your note, I think I hear echoes of Jesus talking about the impoverished widow's donation in Luke 21 - if so, I'd say this is a misunderstanding of what Jesus is getting at here - he's not saying the large donations were bad or wrong, but rather that the woman's giving both(!) of her two small coins caused her donation to be most valuable to God. He was focussing on the positive rather than being cynical about the others' gifts - he simply said her gift was more valuable.
> it's because workers set a bar for themselves in terms of quality of life, and they simply want to reach that bar. If it can be done with two salaries buying cheap goods and services, then wages don't need to rise.

thats a post facto explanation, which i don't believe can be used to make predictions. I mean, will wages rise if suddenly, due to post peak oil, that cost of living suddenly became high?

I think the real reason wages didn't rise is because it didn't have to (from the point of view of the employer) - there are people willing to keep the same wage. In other words, people are becoming more and more worthless, especially unskilled workers (automation and robotics etc). Its a sad fact, but its true, and its a problem that needs fixing. Probably only fixable by better gov't policies on education.
This. If you look at the right ideas of Macro 101, the success rate is pretty high. Bailouts, demand-side policy, properly applied monetary stimulus, expectations management and confidence. If you look at famous wrong ideas, their failure rate has been pretty high. Austerity, strong currencies, lazy ZIRP stimulus, do-nothing policy, inflation paranoia. What is true in macro before the recession has become more true. The econ pundits who focused on these Macro 101 truths have been mostly right, with the monetary guys being perhaps a little more right than the fiscal stimulus guys. This should not be surprising as the things that are "true" in econ are such by virtue of hundreds of years of examination and highly reasonable philosophy, which anyone who's bothered to study econ would know.

Most people who say "econ is not a science" have had little to no experience with people who conduct economics as a science. I understand the cargo-cultists and pundits are much louder voices, but someone good at "science" shouldn't lazily examine the most shallow voices and use that to conclude deep things about a field of study.

There's cargo cult science, and then there's cargo cult scientific criticism.
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Pretty sure most of the decisions of western nations (US/UK in particular) decisions were not based on purely economic reasons. I suspect those in power, the background, and their political ties (big banks) played more into the decision makings rather than pure economics.

Geitner, Bernanke, etc. are all big bank people. Krugman and other "independent" (yes, I know there are caveats) economists had other ideas.
BreezeSys makes software that can do this.

http://breezesys.com/MultiCamera/index.htm

I wonder if that's the software that the chap tested.
Refreshing and somewhat shocking.
He does commercial photography. Here is a link to his website: http://www.martinlegeer.us/photo.php

No, this isn't for porn, it's probably for fashion photography.

And to anybody who thinks this is a "lot" of money for fashion photo...a common camera for doing fashion photography costs $35,000+. This is a different niche, but in the same realm of dollar figures.

(If you're curious what a truly "high end" digital camera looks like, google Hasselblad, Mamiya and Phase One.)
You realize how many places use a fast hash for passwords, right? It is nowhere near DailyWTF levels.
>Human rights are the rights that should be respected by anyone; if you need some sort of self-defense by definition you are taking actions derived from a violation of your rights; so your self-defense is already out of any kind of human rights paradigm.

There's no logic in that statement. I have a right to self defense, and for the state to deprive me of the means of self defense is a violation of my rights.

>USA is the developed country with the highest death rate by gunshots

Irrelevant. I don't care about suicides or legitimate shoots. For the purposes of this discussion only murders matter.
There's no reason that you would need to freeze anything but the state. Things like classes represent the function associated with that state. I'd generally say runtime modifications to the class hierarchy are BAD BAD BAD and you should never do them and you should feel bad when you do them, but that's a separate concern from concurrent state mutation. Detractors of OOP might wave their hands and say OOP colludes function and state, but really they're cleanly separated: it's the difference between (meta)class and instance.

Concurrent languages like Erlang allow you to swap function at runtime even though they're mutable state.
Ha, I feel like I'm in a Reddit thread. Ask the man anything!