skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quite an interesting point. You suggest that the act of doing something mechanical does add emotional value to it. But what adds even more is time. Look at your Facebook posts from five years ago, or even your tweets from last year. Time passing makes you feel different about things.

I think the emotional appeal of those pictures pasted to the wall comes from the sheer age of them, in sharp contrast to the high tech equipment in the same room.

I am more concerned about the preservation of our postings than the emotional value. Things that really matter will produce the same emotions regardless of the medium.
The problem with this is that with many steam games (such as TF2) the game data itself updates constantly aswell.
I'm thinking more of the data analytics-heavy reporting, reviewing public records and making them more accessible, etc. Almost a new breed of thinking and approach to the subject matter.
Yes he is. I have had the pleasure of meeting him during one of his train journey layovers. Very nice guy and very interesting to talk to.
It is true. John B. Clarck and Edwin Seligman (two leading figures in the development of the Neo Classical Economy) sold out in the late 1800's to the wealthiest of the day and transformed the science of economics into something that is as reliable in predicting the economy and offering solutions as your average fortune teller.

The rich industrialists of the 19th century made sure that the universities (on whos board they sat) taught only the flawed neo-classical economy so entire generations of young minds were corrupted.

It's thanks to Seligman by the way that we are all paying taxes on the labor we perform while the act of speculation (which destablizes the economy) remains largely un(der)taxed.

Economists should go back to basics: Smith, Ricardo, Mill, George, ... and rebuild their field as a true science.

I invite everyone to read "The Corruption of Economics" by Mason Gaffney for the full story.
I wonder if the comments from "The Guy Who Knows" on the article page are real, or just some very random trolling.

The Guy says:

Well... Braging of you success, right? Guys, I work for the company who ordered this Matrix thingie... Martin Legeer designed this and built this first version. What this article doesn't say is that it DIDN'T WORK AND WE HAD TO COMPLETELY REBUILD THE WHOLE MATRIX. The cables were poorly soldered, when you touched them you got hit by electricity, the place was too small for its purpose... We had to completely demolish it and build it from scratch, this time with guys who knew what they were doing.
And FYI you are not authorised to use these pictures Martin, so be as kind and delete this whole article and stop boasting with something you failed at!!!

assuming the author of the article intends this to be useful to e.g. get potential clients, that looks like a comment to be deleted or at least replied to.

Also interesting that the angry commenter blames the OP for building this in a too-small space, I got the impression the space was simply part of the deal, and not chosen by the OP. Weird.
I pick hostnames from this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumerian_King_List
theoreticly you could work around the library/datafile issues with LD_PRELOAD hacks to make it load stuff from your home directory instead, but thats pretty awful.
Just like you can reliably model a gas but not its particles, i think you can reliably model a crowd but not its individuals. To me economics is the science of predicting the interactions of crowds.
There has been a silent revolution in the last few decades which has resulted in a new branch of mathematics called Chaos Theory.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory

It happens to be quite capable of making a science out of traditionally difficult to understand subjects such as economics, psychology and sociology.

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:naTCJqLey4QJ:...

The comparison would have been absurd last century, not so much today.
No offense, but the copy looks a bit like it was automatically generated.
Join Instagram, join a collective act of self-delusion
the issue is, if you have a cluster of games/etc managed by steam in your home directory that is already not under the control of package management, what do you gain by splitting out the steam client itself? it is easier from valve's perspective to just allow steam to manage its own updates along with everything else it manages, than to have a rather arbitrary split that gives you no real advantages anyways.

Steam has always been designed on both osx and windows to be a portable folder that you can move around from system to system and run stuff out of wihout worrying about installers and dependancies.
I've got the same material (and more) on my personal website at:
http://www.coulouris.net/cs_history/em_story/
There's complete source code for 'em' there too.

George Coulouris
I was expecting some archive.org advertisement at the end.
Steam for Linux - Github
fortunately or unfortunately the future will require all gui capable computers to have hardware accelerated graphics. To compensate for bad drivers there will be fallbacks to somewhat fast software rasterizers like llvmpipe.
The fun thing with economic predictions: make enough of them, and some of them are bound to come true. The whole fond business seems to dwell on that, publishing lists of successful predictors by the end of the year. Research has shown that the successes are actually just random, but by cherry picking the success stories you can create a nice story for advertising.

In any case, it would be interesting to get more references from you (who predicted what, and what are the suggested steps).

I think there are always a lot of people predicting doom for the near future. Every now and then they are bound to be right, but it doesn't prove anything.
Chinese scientists link bacteria to weight gain
Keep exploring new jobs. Or do something you actually enjoy.
You need to update the client to fix that. Easiest way to do this is to evade the beta check (start steam with "steam steam://store"), then choose "steam/check for steam client updates" from the title menu.
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The scary thing about Krugman is that his whole ideology seems to depend on that example of one babysitting exchange ring that didn't print enough money and therefore couldn't trade. It's an interesting story, but I wouldn't simply translate it to whole economies of nations. I can think of a lots of other factors that might have made the babysitting ring fail.
Yet Krugman derives his ideology from a tiny babysitting ring that didn't print enough money. Even smaller sample than Estonia...
IBrowse would have been a bad choice. There is an Amiga OS Browser which goes by that name, and it is a little bit older than Safari.

http://www.ibrowse-dev.net/
By that reasoning, if you have one package on your system that's not managed by the package manager, you should discard the package manager entirely.

The more packages managed by the system, the better. Ideally, you'd want the games, too, but I understand why Valve might not like that.

Using the unclean alternative when there's a clean one that's just as good isn't a good decision, in my opinion.
it's good they will stay alive. Looking forward to see more games on linux.
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I think that applies to a lot more than images. I think that this new technology spreads our friendships wide (we can have many friends, including people we haven't met in real life) but not deep (more text messages saying "what's up?" and fewer long conversations in person).

Conversely, it can spread our interests wide, and much deeper than before (for those that we really care about).
The rise of enterprise cloud
May be you are looking for something that would challenge your skills.
Not only is Siteswap used to turn tricks into sequences, it's used to get them back out again. Anyone with a few minutes to spare should try Juggling Lab to see what the tricks look like in practice: http://jugglinglab.sourceforge.net/bin/example_gen.html
> Kickstarter hasn't been very prompt with making changes to the business model or tools -- the only things I've seen added have been related to newsfeed and social promotion.

Huh. I'm not a frequent user of KS, so I haven't noticed. It makes me wonder what the hell their employees are doing all the time.
LittleBigPlanet, our PS3 game, was (is) called 'ps3test1'. the sequel, LBP2, is... also called ps3test1.
that project really was our first attempt to bring up a devkit, probably with a rotating cube.

the project, and compiled output, on every platform, is called 'pc.elf' (or .vcproj or .exe or whatever)
SIGH

there's an inverse correlation between awesome-ness of directory name and chance-of-shipping, in my experience.
Agree 100%, but I would add a suggestion: buying google ads will often give a better return than SEO optimization for 'organic' results.

It's all well and good to say 'create interesting content', but for many sites it just isn't worth it - simple brochureware sites for brick & mortar businesses, for example.

The take-out restaurant on your high street shouldn't spend a lot of time creating interesting and shareable content. Just advertise the menu clearly, provide your contact details and location at the top of your home page in html (not images), then buy some properly-targeted google ads. If someone is looking for 'chinese restaurant <area>', they're highly likely to click your ad.

Buying ads and keeping your page simple often produces better results than cluttering your page with lots of 'optimizations', in my experience.
It doesn't have all the great learning resources that tryfsharp has but I believe tryfs.net works by sending the code for compilation on the server so you don't need silverlight:

http://tryfs.net/
Here is why this government spending recommendation is just a head fake: assuming the economy can be in a functional state at all, it is obviously true that if the government would spend money on the right things, it could create a functional economy. The real problem of economics however is resource allocation, or in this case, what should the government spend the money on. The proponents of government spending don't give any details - they don't solve the problem at all. They just market themselves as prophets by spouting trivial truths (spending money on the right things is good).

You'll answer "spending money on infrastructure" but that is not good enough. Even for roads there is a point when enough is enough (imagine every square meter of the country covered in roads).

To fix the economy, you have to devise a mechanism of efficient resource allocation. Just saying "let the government decide" is not an answer.
The achieved the latter by making "the right way" also be "the commonly-used way"

Be Inc did 2 things well in this regard

* They designed their API/App Framework so that launching threads was easy, and passing messages between threads was safe & easy

* They developed a culture (both within the organisation and also within their developer community) of using those features everywhere.

Those two things are more closely linked than they may appear. The framework was explicitly message-based. You interacted with different components by sending and receiving messages. And it was heavily threaded (Be called it "pervasive multi-threading"), to the extent that every window had its own thread, separate to the main app thread.

By having those features, and not having any particularly good way to write apps except by using the official framework, the developer community was forced to learn how to develop multi-threaded, message-passing apps.

And once developers started to think in terms of messages and threads, it was natural for them to use those elements to solve all sorts of problems, so that no self-respecting BeOS developer would ever think to do significant processing inside any of the UI handling threads.
I think there's a misunderstanding here. From what you said here:

> As I like to say, this is as good as printing money - I can say precisely what should be changed in a billing statement, why, how much it will gain, and the probability to find matching evidence in the patient file.

I understand that you, or your system, adds items to patients' bills for tests that either have never been performed, or that have been performed unnecessarily.

Is that the case, or does your system check what probably was performed, and makes sure that it wasn't left out of the bill?
Thanks for the post, it helps us immensely planning hackathons in Hyderabad.
https://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0716/banks-business.html

It was Merrill Lynch, not Goldman Sachs. Goldman Sachs role in the guarantee is murky, several ex members of their staff have been associated with the events, e.g. Geithner, who it is claimed torpedoed efforts to default on bank debt.
I couldn't find a way to delete an element after placing it in the workspace.

I also wanted to play with the initial setup but completing the tutorial made a video pop up and there was no way to get back - just an option to start a new workspace.
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> Even though I agree that the golden ratio article here is fanciful to a fault

This is, dare I say, the mistake. What's emphasised in those articles about the golden ratio is that it is golden where what actually matters is that it's a ratio, and therefore creates patterns and introduces consistency.
Keyser Soze was either German or Turkish in the movie, the Hungarian mob were going to buy the only guy who could identify Keyser Soze from a group of Argentinians!
So after the Middlebrow Dismissive Comments we gonna have the Middlebrow Dismissive Comment alerts? Would it be dismissive, the GP was at least about the article, while your comment (and so mine) simply spoils the discussion.
21.5% on $100k, are US taxes really that low?
Meh, 500 error - does anyone have a copy of the article (or a link to one)?
Recently I was investigating using LESS on windows. I didn't want to do it at run-time a la DotLess, but at build-time. I wasn't able to install node.js so i had to scout around for other options...

I came across this: https://github.com/duncansmart/less.js-windows

It leverages the fact that windows has long supported running JavaScript (OK technically "JScript") outside of the browser, without node, to create a command line utility from the less.js implementation. Works perfectly :)
You don't need DNS to propagate across the WAN. Just set up your own root server. You'll have low-enough load to set near-zero TTLs (or just have a single root server which everything uses). Although I admit I don't know enough about your use-case.
Yes, as far as I know this is correct. In fact, reports by the monitors said that there wasn't even a capability to actually collect taxes in the tax collecting agencies, apart from no willingness and no real idea of how/why.
I'm often using it to select stuff like h2+div { ... }, label + textarea { ... } or (LESS-style) label { & + input, & + select { ... } }.
Perhaps Tau Ceti is even close enough to not be trapped to the paradox of interstellar travel: "No matter when you launch a voyage somewhere, some one else will build a better spaceship and get there before you."

Is there a sci-fi novel about this? (an interstellar space voyage for a remote planet discovers humans launching after them already have colonized it when they get there)
I'm from Brazil too and this year the company I work for gave a pay raise of 8.0% for me and my fellow programmers, a little bit above the expected inflation for 2012 of 5.6%
Apple stores repair unit password in plain text
When something catches your eye on the Internet, do you pull out virtual scissors and paste the clipping to a virtual wall?
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:sweet.i...
To take the head-scratching out of the start of a project, and to give apps personality, we use surnames of film directors.
That may be true--I'd like to know what specific tax cuts you're referring to. It also looks like it was the 80's when the debt really started growing, according to the numbers in that article. It's true that government spending (as % of GDP) never went back to pre-war levels, and has continued to increase: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_spending#United_Stat...
"I tried a half dozen ways to get standard out from that thing. Makes me feel dumb."

Sometimes real world programming is annoying like that. I still stand by my point: you seem to be able to autonomously dig through API documentations and look up algorithms on Google. That makes you a good programmer.

"I can't remember all the different modifiers on tags, I don't remember hex colors, and I keep messing up ids, selectors, and classes syntax when I try it."

All these things can be looked up, also I think it is good to keep CSS hacking to a minimum (don't apply too many tricks). Using something like Bootstrap should eliminate most of the need for that?

I think we will wake up in some time and realize that with CSS we have created on of the most unwieldy programming constructs ever. Once they'll introduce scripting (which is planned I think), it will be real hell. The problem is that everything has so many intractable side effects.

As for contracting: I know the feeling of not knowing anything well enough to sell yourself as a specialist. I think the solution could be to just take on a small project (like a web site) and not be too specific about the technology.

Firefox Mobile keyboard: see, most people wouldn't even know how to start doing that kind of thing.
Agree on the title change. "3:1" pushed me over the edge to seek out my PayPal password and make a donation.
Having to type in Gerðr or Þrúðr would get old pretty fast. ;)
Rather than optimizing only for the latest trend, it'd tremendously help to provide content people are looking for.

Google usually is quick in weeding out fluff, of course it also helps to have a sane URL-structure without keyword-overload and maybe naming images appropiately - not only for the added benefit of SEO (Image Search comes to mind) but at the same time you provide some context for people with screen readers...

Following basic accessibility concepts, providing some context to pure image content go a long way and should be done for the sake of the visitors to the site and not SEO.

edit: Now that i've read the article from Google Cache i realize all my points have been raised there too - so, 100% agree..
There is a correlation between being very religious and being a criminal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlates_of_crime#Religion

Not that it implies causation but food for thought.
Sad to think that people feel taking a fifth of a persons productive output is low. Throw in city and state taxes and burdens can be pretty abysmal. Throw in on top of that all the embedded taxes in nearly every item you buy today and I wonder where our true tax load is.

The US does not have a taxing problem, it has a spending problem. Even if the President got his wishes his tax increase on the "rich" would not net more that the US deficit spends in ONE month. If you tax 400K+ it only returns a possible 70 billion more PER YEAR!.

Worse, instead of using these taxes to reduce the deficit they already have new spending lined up.

So, sorry I feel that even twenty percent is pretty bad. It means for over a fifth of the year I am not working for myself. Since my effective is near thirty percent I spend an incredible amount of time working for someone else.
Yeah, basically. Like how processing.js has a small runtime engine that can run processing documents, but you don't need the whole code for the entire authoring environment. Like CSS animations, but what you've got is more than those can really handle.

The exported code can be compacted, that's fine.

End goal is that I'd love the ability to save and export my creations and self-host them outside of your tool.
Interest rates should then also be fixed to central bank AAA rates...no risk, no fun.
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So in this world of more than 8.3 billion web pages[1], I'm just supposed to write really good content and wait for the traffic to roll in?

Believing that if you build it well, they will come is something that has contributed to the death of many startups that I know. You have to make an effort to stand out, and in a world wide web of 8.3 billion pages, you probably need to be pushing and shoving your way to the top.

[1] http://www.worldwidewebsize.com/
Like Soulver?

http://www.acqualia.com/soulver/
Just I case FYI: the off by one errors is part of the joke of the statement.
At the end of the post there's this quote:

> Simply put, content owners who can deliver quickly and without error are getting more licensing revenue from Netflix.

Really? Can Netflix afford to be picky with content owners? It seems their main problem is the limited size of their online catalog...? They should take anything they can get!

I just finished watching "Elite Squad 2"; it's such a great movie (really, it is: see http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1555149/) that I wanted to watch the first one, but it's "only available on DVD".

Why, why, why?
Out of curiosity, what happens when you tell them you doing it better this year (assuming you're telling that to them)? If you not doing your job better than last year, is there any other good argument for getting a significant raise?
If Cleveland had its own currency, you could derive globally applicable lessons. But it doesn't.

Well, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Greece, etc don't either.
Fake testimonials are not a smart way to promote your app / service
I liked the Team Meat commentary. There's a few points where they're like "wow, did we really say that stuff?"
Ah, some propaganda to start the morning.
Find the "international association of home inspectors" or the equivalent. Talk to them, talk to their members, about how much work you'll be sending them.

You don't need to hire them - just subcontract with them. Kinda like what Home Depot does for installation work - they have a vetted network of contractors around the country that they schedule...

Good luck
This has been my side project for the last month or so. It's a "scratch your own itch" type of deal, because I wanted a CLI address book and there didn't seem to be one.

I tried really hard to find an existing one, but I'd be interested to hear if I messed up and accidentally reinvented the wheel.
I'm going to start printing out stuff and actually glue it to the wall behind my monitor. Should look awesome after a year or so.

Thanks for the idea.
In ireland, owe the bank thousands and it's your problem, owe the bank millions and it's not the bank's problem
Africa's young leaders on the move around the world
This is the story of young rising leaders from all over Africa who attended the prestigious African Leadership Academy in South Africa. Many of them have graduated and are now studying at many colleges/universities around the world and especially in the US. For any investor/entrepreneur, these are passionate talents/partners to look for in your future endeavors in Africa. You can hear from themselves here: http://youtu.be/pM2I18ehx7k
Thanks - Once the traffic has subsidized i'll bookmark that article...

I couldn't agree more and will make everyone even thinking about employing some zero-effort technique to #1 in SERPs read that...
I think we've seen that working string support requires a substantial rewrite for most languages (perhaps ironically, Java is the one that has managed to avoid it). Ruby 1.9 was pretty big; Python 3 was more so.

Perl 6 was the Perl equivalent. Unfortunately we know how that turned out.
Human hands evolved so we could punch each other
I've changed jobs 4 times this year, same shit. Also, a new grad.

I learn fucking fast, so after some months in the job I know everything and it gets fucking boring and I start to get depressed :-(