skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But it does break the premise "but so does the cost of shelter." There is an advantage to sell while it's a seller's market and rent, while doing the opposite while it's a buyer's market. That's leverage that breaks this premise.

Hedged is never optimal but it should never be disastrous either.

You can often profit from unhedged speculation. If you can successfully predict the market you have nothing to gain from hedging. That you can do it profitably and possibly reliably doesn't make it hedged.

>> "You might do better renting but you don't have the future right to occupy that house at any cost."

> This thinking is one of the key reasons why it's so easy to make money off of real estate. It seems sound and logical, but it's fear based and irrational.

This thinking may be based on fear and suboptimal in terms of dollar wealth outcome but that doesn't necessarily make it irrational (stability and security have real value to some people) but you are right that it creates opportunities for those seeking profit.

The Steve Keen / Ponzi finance comment was in agreement with you.
First OS X fake installer malware spotted
Slax 7.0 released — KDE-based GNU/Linux distro in just ~210MB
Google Docs has no relation to OpenOffice iirc. The word processor came from writely and the spreadsheets was some other company's source code, the rest was just extensions on that.
As a long time Ubuntu user the new "Software Center" is a huge disappointment. Just browsing it is enough to freeze and sometimes crash my computer; Installing packages is difficult and the UI is slow and unresponsive. Unity also frequently crashed on me for seemingly no reason.

Also, drivers are just as bad as they were back in 8.04. I still can't watch a fullscreen YouTube video without terrible stuttering, screen tearing or audio lagging. And before you say so, no, it's not my computer hardware that's causing these problems.
My smirk apparently agrees with you. That pseudo-evolutionary statement reminds me of the mouse-over for this xkcd

http://xkcd.com/685/
Github has been on fire for one week.
Somehow I doubt that we'll decide to drop support for 65.5% of our users (roughly 26 million websites).

http://wordpress.org/about/stats/
The original site describes the pictures as a "mock up" (i.e., photoshopped) because the actual technology is, you know, secret.
I get that they have to make money somehow, but I can't help but feel that they should be focusing on polish, bug fixes, and regression management instead of piling on more features like this. I'd be a lot happier if they were adding these features after fixing things like broken Compiz quirks or Unity commandeering the super key and breaking your personalized keyboard shortcuts.

Hell, I'd even pay cash money for Ubuntu if they could guarantee regression-free updates and a truly solid desktop (i.e., no "oh yeah it works just fine, except for this long list of annoying problems"). But their priorities seem to be elsewhere. Blame can certainly be assigned outside Canonical but the buck has to stop somewhere.

Personally I think this cheapens the desktop quite a bit. I'm already advertised at for 90% of my day, now I get to be advertised at in my one sanctuary, my desktop.
Wow - looks awesome! Congrats Steve et all.
w00t! Go Steve
What's the use-case-scenario for this? Seems like if you had complex calculations you needed to perform, you would do it on a server side language like Python.
Yeah. Wow, these comics are amazing too, thank you.
If you're rooted, you can often find custom, more up to date Android kernels optimized for various phones. (The android dev community being what it is, sometimes they're not optimized very well, but if you hunt around and find a good one, they can make a difference to battery life/etc.)
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Link is down; here is an alternative:

http://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-4.0.0.html
He's not muffled. He actually sounds like that. :)
"Pay your money for the service at the new lower price if you like, but prepared to see your personal genome results repackaged and reinterpreted for years to come before you learn anything from them that will help you improve your health."

This is precisely the spirit of the project from my interpretation. Increase the data set that is available for trend analysis, and therefore increase the quality and precision of the predictive analytics available.
Landing pages are done the way they're done because that's how they've always been done. People implement and recite the same bits of {marketing,programming,writing,...} advice they heard and vaguely understood years ago, never giving it a critical look.
I'm interested in Lisp but haven't done much.

an elegant and intuitive standard library

Now that actually seems like one of the points of hesitation. Lisp is actually notorious for not having a lot of accessible libraries, to paraphrase "The Bipolar Lisp Programmer". http://www.lambdassociates.org/blog/bipolar.htm

I mean, Lisp may have managed to get a bare standard library after many, many years but the odds of you finding X algorithm implemented in Lisp on the web is, in my experience, low compared to c++, java or python.

Lisp sounds like perhaps the strongest possible tool to "hack your way through the wildness". One can do amazing things "right out of the box" (as your example show). Unfortunately, it also seems like it winds up mostly being only that, rather than being a tool for building large systems interfacing with many people and other systems (that might not be a bad thing but its worth mentioning if you mention libraries).
Actually they have the relative finder since a long time ago (i think from the beginning?). Also, you have to consent to that, and when i joined they had a warning that situations like these can happen. Sounds to me that in your case, the website delivered on its promise.
I was hoping that they would finally add the ability to put a gist in a folder or tag one :(
Curious - do you see price as being the only differentiator?

To the representative of the company - does anyone on your team have industry experience and/or have been a HR (or possibly finance in smaller companies) director?
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Why Lisp?

1.) Because you need it.

_EOF_
The macro will not necessarily look weird, nor will you necessarily need to put spaces between the terms; in Common Lisp you have reader macros, and you can make this as simple as using [] to delimit regions of infix notations.

As for why you do not see it done in practice, I would say it is mainly because it is not terribly useful in practice. Infix notation is just what most people are comfortable with, because they learned it in school; it has no real technical advantage, and the need for precedence rules is something of a disadvantage (though not a terribly major issue).
GitHub seems to be in the midst of a spree of new non-trivial features: in the past week or so, there have been 7 blog posts, every one introducing something new!

(Christmas spirit, maybe?)
I'm on 11.04 as well. I'm still trying to find a good desktop alternative. So far there is not much and KDE certainly isn't an option. I'm keeping an eye on Mint as well but I'm not sure if that's going to be it..
The point is that the probability that JS code will segfault the browser is dramatically less than the probability that C++ code will segfault the browser.
Well, if you spend time in some inner city schools and school systems, you can see that being at school vs. being at home isn't a solution to the overall problems in those communities wrt poverty, health care access, and a bevy of other things. Longer school days in such environments won't really do anything for those communities.
Agreed, I went to click on the image of the chatroom on the homepage thinking it would zoom in on it, and instead I'm taken to a page with even fewer images.
Netflix says Google Fiber is "most consistently fast ISP in America"
At least you wouldn't need a new image for each new language.
If you look at what he's doing from an art perspective, he's engaging in Generative art, art that is created by process outside the control of the artist: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_art

I usually think of John Cage when I think of generative art, and the way he let the environment or random events become part of his music.

One of the coolest things I've learned about recently in this realm is Joseph Nechvatal's Viral Symphony, a musical work composed by a C++ program that seems similar to Conway's Game of Life: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_symphOny
Are Google and Facebook Too Big to Fail?
I'm pretty shocked you didn't use TestFlight or some equivalent. Did you manually build test versions of the app on all your tester's devices? How did you manage getting them updates promptly?

I know TestFlight can seem a bit daunting but MAN is it worth it in the long run.
Can someone explain the "OpenERP AGPL + Private Use" license? I don't really understand how that works. How can they selectively make modules private/not under the AGPL?
For the record (hah) "Fair use" is only a legal concept in the US. Other jurisdictions sometimes have analogies to Fair use, like the right for journalists to quote parts of a text. But those rights are much more limited. There is also no DMCA which means site owners are responsible for the content users may publish.
I love "Secret Gist" vs. "Public Gist"

gist.github was way behind the rest of Github for a long time. It's good to see they've finally released this because they've no doubt been working on it for a while.
Most people buy/pirate music that has album covers or can easily be organized around album covers. iTunes is pretty good about giving even a library with pretty horrible metadata decent covers.

Plus: There is the artist view. I don’t see the emphasis on album covers. The artist view is just as (if not more) competent and it’s not at all based around the album cover.
Sadly, it's not possible. datetime is a C class, so it is immutable.
My point is that Ubuntu's main job is and always has been as a package curator on top of Debian.

If you are a long-time Linux user then you should not have a problem using apt-get or synaptic, or installing xubuntu-desktop or whatever you want. You should also be familiar with the concept that some hardware does not come with good Linux drivers. Ho hum.

Any popular linux distro lets you choose your desktop and almost everything else, the main reason to choose one distro over another is your faith in their package curation
Ask HN: What's a great algorithms book?
A web resource would do, too. I'm looking for an engaging read, and a tool for recognizing patterns, more than a complete dissertation on the subject.
Great stuff. We used message queues when rewriting major components from an ancient VFP Client heavy application to newer C# code running on an application server. It enabled both asynchronous work as well as ordered operations.
Many people like them. :)
Lisp code can be hard to maintain because programmers use it to create their own little worlds.
U.S. Government Will Launch a Dynamic Airwave-Sharing Scheme
Wow - quite a story! After all that, was it a positive experience? Would you do it again?
Anyone know the weight difference between the three configurations? Haven't found it anywhere.

The curb weight of the 85 kWh model is 4,647 lbs, I wonder how much of that is the battery.

I suspect the weight to be the main difference in efficiency, though each configuration (as well as the 85 kWh performance version) has different specs for Peak Motor Power and Peak Motor Torque.

Also, I wonder if power/torque differences between models are because they're using a different powertrain in each model or if it's an electrical (or perhaps software) limitation.

I'd love to know if anybody knows more about these things...
I assume you are talking about Common Lisp; Clojure clearly does not suffer any issues with library availability, since it can utilize and interact with any Java class. That being said, most of the CL implementations I know of have some sort of FFI that can be used to invoke functions written in at least one other language. Finding a C implementation or library is not so hard for most things; using the FFI is a bit painful sometimes, although grovelling tools can help.

Also, where it counts, there certainly are Common Lisp libraries -- XML, SQL databases, GUI, distributed/parallel programming, various mathematics, etc. all come to mind.
Are you serious? Sorry, I work for a company with actual revenue and profit. We make actual products, not 'social engagement'. Yes, if I brought that product demo to my management and shareholders (because they're the ones that okayed our huge investment in ERP) and it crashed 30 seconds into the demo, I would be in the shit. I see no reason why it shouldn't roll down-hill to OpenERP.
Great improvements, love the search.

Still wishing I could get Gist pull requests or merge forks of my Gist from the UI.
That's MSFT and their NIH syndrome for you. Fortunately, there are several projects which allow you to map Event Log to syslog such as the aptly named "Eventlog To Syslog" ( http://code.google.com/p/eventlog-to-syslog/ ). This allows you to replace WMI with actual SQL (as Event Log can't use an SQL backend itself), and leverage all of the functionality of an RDBMS.
Thanks, I've taken it up with ElasticEmail.
Show HN: JumpCrowd - Roll your own crowdfunding for non-tech project starters
We saw the http://selfstarter.us/ code on GitHub that Cameron and the guys at Apigy released and wondered if non-tech project starters would like to roll their own projects too. This is a side project for us but we thought it might fill a niche and it seemed like a fun project. Please check us out and let us know your feedback. http://www.jumpcrowd.com/
great! ping me at sjkaliski@gmail.com if need be
Stories from the Drug War in Mexico
How is what you're talking about here substantially different from any other criminal investigation? They were suspected of committing a crime, investigators got permission and looked into it, they found enough evidence to support a case, so they got a warrant, made arrests and collected evidence. That sounds pretty normal. Where does due process break down? It's not like the investigators tell you they're wiretapping your phone and give you a chance to argue against it when you're suspected of embezzlement.
Apple blocked Dropbox from the App Store until they removed a link to IAP from their native client. Dropbox finally relented and removed IAP from their native client and the application was allowed in the App Store. I'm (reasonably) confident that as soon as Microsoft removes IAP options from their Skydrive native client, that, they too will have their app approved for the App store (presuming they pass the other conditions).
> You can reduce the size of the channel, but you can't close it completely.

Of course, no one would argue otherwise. Every time you decide how much to reduce it, you define a tradeoff in terms of work vs. benefit.
That has nothing to do with it. GP said that it's good for Python that Guido doesn't work on it full-time, and instead keeps his hands dirty with other projects. But this experience of Guido's doesn't really expose him to 'thousands of people' any more than looking at the Python issue tracker would.
Government Plans An Internet Of Networked Cars
If getting AD Domain Services off of Windows will actually avoid the need to buy any Windows Server CALs, then it certainly makes the proposition more interesting. But, this presumes that nearly all the other services (file sharing, http, etc.) are also not Windows.
yes, we're currently doing that. look here: https://github.com/sjkaliski/numbers.js/blob/master/lib/numb...
How accurate are their results for non-caucasians especially non-mainstream minorities like east indians?
As someone closely following (and contributing to) the progress of Wordpress over the last few years, I continue to believe they are heading in the right direction given their constraints.
Oh I completely agree that California is terrible with money management.

But the entire article is a thinly veil shot at unions and collective-bargaining-agreements.

Over simplified, the article is saying unions are causing all this mad spending and it's easy to see that they are at the root cause.

It praises all Republican, while blaming every Democrat.
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Sex can easily be detected from the phenotype in most cases.
Agreed that it cheapens it. Surely there's a lot of money to be made in server service/support now that Ubuntu is becoming a major player in the server market.
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Why are you still on 11.04? 12.04 is the LTS release and nearly everyone should be running that this point.
Shipping spirit :) It's definitely nothing planned on our part. We just happened to wrap up some stuff around the same time.
Correct. I've gone with his latter solution for now and added a warning about import order. I'm not very happy with this solution through and will be spending some time with ctypes in the next few days to come up with something better.
Wordpress has adopted the PDO standard. It will be in WP 3.6. http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/21663
This is precisely my concern.
Please please please please ban "extremetech.com" its this exact same annoying pattern over and over.
What we talk about when we talk about a TV from Apple
What I don't get though is why doesn't spotify pick a more sustainable subscription price. I guess there is the issue of less sustainable competitors. I would be happy to pay at least double, that would be a vast collection of music vs 2 albums a month.
I was on Ubuntu from 6.10 to 11.04. Then switched to Mint Cinnamon Maya (based off Ubuntu 12.04) recently. Cinnamon looks a lot more like Gnome 2, and loving it. I'm back to installing whatever applets I want! Maya being an LTS, all the better! I recommend you try it
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Github is slowly turning into an IDE for the web.

In my opinion: In a couple of years we will not use Emacs or Visual Studio or anything like that: Most of programming will be done socially in Github via small changes directly from the website, from hundreds of people... it'd simplify the process of collaborative programming a lot.
Thanks for the heads up!

After posting on Y there was an unexpected surge in traffic. Everything works fine after increasing the number of Heroku instances.
Instacart stops selling alcohol for compliance reasons
If I asked you "Why do you take your hand off a hot stove?" you might say because it hurts. But the fact that it hurts for us when we put our hand on the stove is our genes trying to keep themselves alive, because otherwise they risk being killed.

In the same way, a person might say they had an affair for whatever reason, but really its their genes who want to be able to pass on themselves.

(Edited for clarity.)
Why? I have such motivation, yet I have no intent on eliminating Windows from our desktops. That would be very disruptive to our 2.5K users, and Windows does a pretty decent job there. However, AD is very pricey due to CALs, and what it gives me is IMO not worth the price if I can replace it with Samba 4. That said, we're only beginning to explore this option, so it may not be viable or wise.
Yeah, "Add comment" etc. is on its way out. Thank you all for your feedback.
"If you look at what he's doing from an art perspective"

What exactly is an art perspective? I buy stuff every month from Amazon to serve different purposes, so that they are pseudo-random if looked from outside without context. That doesn't make me an artist, at least not in my book.

I don't want to start a modern art flame fest, but where do we draw the line? I mean, it seems like nowadays anything is or can be art. And if I say that I don't get it, well, then it is my problem for not looking at it from the right perspective.
Looks promising! Thanks. Any other learning material from the Military?
Just in time to ruin the OS, now that (a certain, but reasonably large subset of) PC-users are looking for something not Windows too migrate to in response to Windows 8. Fantastic.

I know Ubuntu 12.10 made it certain I wont recommend them. This is only making things worse.
Here is an ugly iterative solution, in one lambda:

from itertools import product
f = lambda n: [
s for s in
map(''.join, product("abc", repeat=n))
if not any(a==b
for a,b in
[(s[a:b], s[b:c])
for a,b,c in
[(i,i+w,i+2*w)
for w in range(1,len(s)/2+1)
for i in range(len(s)-2*w+1)]])]

>>> f(5)
['abaca', 'abacb', 'abcab', 'abcac', 'abcba', 'acaba',
'acabc', 'acbab', 'acbac', 'acbca', 'babca', 'babcb',
'bacab', 'bacba', 'bacbc', 'bcaba', 'bcabc', 'bcacb',
'bcbab', 'bcbac', 'cabac', 'cabca', 'cabcb', 'cacba',
'cacbc', 'cbabc', 'cbaca', 'cbacb', 'cbcab', 'cbcac']
I would be willing to shell out top dollar for a UNIX OS that's as stable as OSX and "just works" the way OSX does but is also as customizable and hacker-friendly as Linux, even if it's closed source. I've been wondering if there's any room for a company in this space—its obviously a very niche market, so you'd have to charge a lot, but I (and maybe other nerds?) would certainly be willing to pay.
Possibly because Gansta Paradise already is a poor version of Stevie Wonder's Pasttime Paradise? Musicians borrow from each other, always have always will.
Similarly, my employer offers a product[1], which I have worked on, that can subscribe to Event Logs, syslog, ZMQ, etc., and do whatever you like with them. The inspiration to write this was the near-impossibility of getting the interesting, mostly AD-related stuff before all the super-chatty, useless crap pushes it out of the circular logs.

[1] http://zetetic.net/software-combine-index
fedora + mate
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Thank you for pointing that out! I may want to try it in the next release. It would require a clear point system though. I want to keep things as simple as possible for the time being.
'I wish I'd spent more time on the internet' - nobody, ever.
aka 'the pressure of immediacy' - just because all this knowledge at hand, should we be using it interrupt our every waking hour?
For the breakfast programs issue, I wanted to point out an important aspect of the history of those programs: they were created to respond to a need that those communities had by individuals outside of the country or state government school system.

When we talk about the issues with US education, we have to realize that many of those issues are caused or made worse by the top-down nature of implementing policy. As you rightly point out, those policies don't necessarily (or usually, even) come from within communities to address their specific needs. Indeed a lot of current state and federal policy revolves around more top down influence: using standardized tests to remove individual consideration of performance, replacing experienced teachers with less experienced teachers to reduce money spent on salaries and benefits, attempting to template-ize teaching curriculums instead of relying on teacher's professional training and experience, opening more state and federal dollars to charter schools (which as you point out have less oversight and accountability even by current metrics).

When we talk about the Scandinavian model, those things are essential to helping to address the needs of communities most harmed by the aforementioned policies. We need more professionalism from staff, more opportunity for people in those communities to shape the programs that serve students. School systems were never designed to be social services institutions that attempt to alleviate all of the social ills that exist in the community. Since schools currently do not accomplish that kind of a mission, to increase the school day and push for more time in school is a form a punishment where you are intentionally removed from your community, family, and friends for simply existing in a poor community (a community that is likely to be color, no less).
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