skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, though that's a component of it (usually social economics or social equity).

The broadest definition of economics is "the study of the allocation of scarce resources" (from Samuelson's classic text), or "studying the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services" (Wikipedia). Not to be confused with finance: "how investors allocate their (money and other) assets over time under conditions of certainty and uncertainty" (Wikipedia).

Prior to the 19th Century, equity ("positive") of distribution -- how wealth should be distributed -- was a much larger component of economic thought (from Greek/Roman times and before). Even Adam Smith addresses this at great length. Since the 19th century, and particularly through much of the 20th and 21st, "normative" economics (describing how things are rather than how they should be) has been more in vogue, though there's some backlash against this particularly since wage stagnation and reversal in the lower quintiles of the population in the US since the 1970s.
Oh please. While I agree that's undesirable, it's a problem with their DNS hosting service (which is free) and not their registrar service (which you pay for). By all means warn people away from their free DNS hosting, but it's not fair to trash the whole company.
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How has it worked for WSJ?
Thank you sooo much for recommending Flight of the Phoenix. I just watched it last night, and it's one of my new all time favorites.
If its a fileserver pair that go down and they are serving a subset of repos then what do you do? Well you could keep serving all the other repos and start a recovery process, whatever that may be. Perhaps redirect the requests for those repos to another datacenter where there's another copy. Or make the decision of failing over the entire site from primary to secondary datacenter.

My point was really from the standpoint of a system and network wide outage for which it will take multiple hours to recover. Its about business continuity. I've been making comments from the standpoint of a user and the open source community but what about from the other side. I guess its a subscription like service for paid for customers so it has no immediate consequence on revenue but in places I've worked downtime is money lost and customers would actually require us to have SLAs and disaster recovery procedures in place before they would sign contracts with us. Anyway, yea the step from single server to multi server, to multiple datacenters does normally involve some re-architecting at the state layer, everything else is load balancing.
Don't have any self-control? I might be different than most but as I'm at my desk coding and surfing 10 hours a day the last thing I want to do fsck with a phone while I'm watching a movie. That's escape time.

In short, I decided I don't want to and therefore don't, simple as that.

Also, productivity pundits will recommend checking mail/news once or twice a day max. Any more is a waste of time.
MapQuest offers a geocoding service which doesn't tie you to MapQuest's maps the way Google does. It's free up to some usage amount (I think it's 5k requests a day). You can see more here:

http://www.mapquestapi.com/geocoding/
The internet needs more details so we can make an uninformed opinion and collectively decide to be impotently pissed off at the university or not.
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so that seems to contradict an earlier post that suggested google does not use the call audio for their own purposes...
> on having to type two spaces after the end of a sentence.

Sounds like Markdown.
I downgraded to a basic phone around 4 weeks ago, and am very happy with my decision. If I find it really necessary to look something up or answer an email while at the dinner table, I make the trek up my stairs to do so. I didn't realize quite how often I was on my phone checking texts/emails/facebook. If I didn't feel a buzz for a couple of minutes, I found myself checking my pocket to make sure my phone was still there. Now I can leave my phone upstairs or on the counter without thinking twice. My wife is now considering the change herself. Now that I'm not on it so much, she finds herself being the one distracted from our conversations and doesn't like it.
Universities have been among the biggest producers of patents for 50+ years now.

The patent system is, in fact, extremely well suited to the university research model. First, they generally produce technologies that involve very high R&D costs. The major U.S. research universities spend $350-$1,500 million per year on R&D. They work in fields like aerospace, medicine, etc, where the inventions take years and millions of dollars to make. These aren't "One Click" type patents here. Second, universities are not in the business of bringing products to market. But they are responsible for much of the basic technology that goes into those products. By taking out patents on those inventions and licensing them out, they can get a cut of the revenues that accrue from products based on technologies they developed. Patents also allow for the orderly creation of spin-offs to bring products to market while kicking back some revenues to the parent university.

I think one fact that is often lost on HN is that this kind of thing is what most engineers outside the software niche think of when they think about the patent system. In most engineering fields, there is a much tighter synergy between the universities and industry than there is in software, and patents are a key mediator between the two spheres. Most of the engineers I know (aerospace, chemical, mechanical) would consider it unfair for a company to implement the technology they read in a university research paper, technology that cost a lot of money to develop, without paying the university a license.
BWAHAHAHAHAH
As you say, love is not quantifiable, and it's not a question of who you love more, but to put a different angle on this... in some senses putting your marriage first is putting your kids first.

Kids want a stable, loving environment, and will learn about adult relationships by observing how their parents treat each other (as well as how they treat them). Being around a strong marriage is pretty much the best gift (as well as time) that you can give kids.

I always thought it was a mistake for my parents not to spend more time together outside of their parental roles, and even when I was a kid I could see these as seeds of later turmoil. So whilst this advice isn't directly for you, I'd advise any parents to make some time to enjoy together, away from their kids (so long as the kids are old enough to be looked after by others). Its not selfish if everyone wins.
Accusing Carnegie Mellon of patent trolling is probably not the most effective way to advocate for patent reform.
It depends entirely on the kind of software in question. The R&D cost for advanced vision processing technologies, advanecd radio technologies, robotics technologies, etc, are not at all minimal.
This article, and many other similar to it, completely miss the point. (Or perhaps, beg the question we are all waiting for an answer to).

I don't know if anyone ever debated the notion that paywalls will produce revenue, and it's great that the NYT earns more from its paywall than many industry analysts expected.

But the fact is, even at the revenue levels that it may produce in upcoming years, it still costs more to produce that content than people are willing to pay for it. This is the big hold-up with journalism. Even if people will spend a billion dollars a year purchasing your newspaper, if it costs you two billion dollars to produce it you're screwed.
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That's crazy talk, like all the people that pay over a dollar in the humble bundles or actually go out and buy the music they tried out via illegal download. Just crazy talk.
Thanks for the input. I like this idea, but it's hard to measure output. For example, if I put aside an hour a day, some of the time I will be thinking about code, maybe design, but what would be a good measure of how much code I write? LOC, characters, functions... And would it vary depending on language?
Pretty. Appears to be a simple document but won't show anything without javascript enabled--should not be a requirement. Document text doesn't wrap when font-size increased, leads to overflow. Fifth word is a typo. Carry on. ;)

Just realized that the text is in a pre tag with the font set to a proportional font. That needs to be changed.
I find machines are also more permissive of terrible form.
hah! i agree and i have that opened when i'm writing to NOT STEAL from it but i'm actually more interested in having my protagonist relate to the one other programmer in the story differently than he does to everyone else.

thanks for your time.
I'm not interested in reading all of that the Times.

$15 per month is too much for a bunch of content that I'm mostly not interested in.

In theory I'm paying £200 per year for Wall Street Journal; £270 for Financial Times (standard, not premium); £117 for the Economist - well, these three are nearly $1,000 per year. Add in a UK daily paper (because that's where I live); and Private Eye, and something like Monocle and the costs are easily over $1,000 per year.

So, I gently write to newspapers and ask them to include tipjars on articles (so they know how much people actually value good writing); and I leave ads turned on but ask for single-article payment systems to allow me to view ad-free articles; and I hope that something gets done to implement micro-payments because it'd be awesome.

PS: Why are newspaper websites so awful?

(http://www.independent.co.uk/)

(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/)

EDIT: Here's my complaints screenshoted.

(http://imgur.com/a/V00kO)
Yes and no. Among the problems with rent are that there is a low level of switching between owner-occupied and rental housing in many markets. In the case of condominiums, especially, HOA restrictions on renting out a property. This is also seen in REO (bank-owned) housing, in which what could be offered as rental units are kept off the market to support both higher rental rates and housing prices, largely as a hedge to support bank asset valuations (and maintain bank solvency).
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Writers can just sit down and write whatever pops into their heads. Programming doesn't work that way. You have to think things through, look at them from different altitudes, all the way from a bird's eye view of the entire project, down to what's going on in this particular function. You might also have to spend a ton of time debugging. These things are too nebulous to measure quantitatively, so you have to measure them qualitatively.
This is the core of the issue... the people in question are being misunderstood. Yes, some people crave approval, but there's another group that crave building happiness, and the two are not the same thing.
I get your point, but only ever trusting primary sources would require you to be an expert in everything. At some point you need to trust that someone else synthesized the data correctly. Or else you simply have no opinions on topics you don't know from first principles.
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Developers looking to increase their design vocabulary and skillset outside of top five lists may find this introductory book beneficial:

http://www.amazon.com/Universal-Principles-Design-Revised-Up...
I came here to say this. I read about all this stuff years ago on SomethingAwful of all places. If you've ever bothered to do any research rather than just believing whatever your gym tells you, you know all of this.

For life in general, or at least the things that matter in life, it's always a good idea to do your own research. Otherwise you end up going through life believing the half-baked stories people make up so they don't have to think, and the bullshit people tell you to sell you stuff.
So what do you do if your gym only has a smith machine and dumbbells? It's dangerous and hard to bench without spotter.
Constructive criticism:

1. I tried adding my @outlook.com email address and I had to manually allow SMTP and POP3 servers. A newbie mom or dad user is not going to know what to do and ultimately dismiss your app. Make it much cleaner so it works "at once" with Outlook.com email addresses.

2. Scrolling is very slow and annoying. Can you make the scroll use the current default speed on my machine? (Using Windows 7 64 Bit)

3. Visual bug in the search bar area: http://i.imgur.com/ybO7G.png

4. Clicked on an email and it's stuck on Retrieving for a very long time... still stuck there... :(

5. BREAKING BUG: I added my Outlook.com email and get this notification:

pop3.live.com told Inky this: "-ERR Exceeded the login limit for a 15 minute period. Reduce the frequency of requests to the POP3 server.."
I'd recommend reading a programming book on a topic that interests you. You'll write better code after reading it, and may be inspired too. Any simple metric such as character count or lines of code are useless. It is much more important to find something interesting to work on, then commit to learning everything necessary to complete it.
you see those in india too, especially in older houses and rural areas.
We used to STONITH (with an APC network power switch) over serial. It didn't really help because serial ports have really bad quality control, and lose a lot of 'packets'. :)

We ended up with dedicated serial cards, and multiple network links just so STONITH worked properly. And even then, Heartbeat was buggy as hell back then, so we'd end up in a active-active situation way too many times and we'd end up with FS corruption.

We were running Reiser on DRBD (ahh, the good old days). Had to hack the kernel a fair bit to make it all work.

Anyway, in the end, we just abandoned the automated Heartbeat failover stuff, and just used it to alert us. We manually ran the failover scripts when a human determined that there was in fact a real failure.
Other blogs by sklearners:

http://peekaboo-vision.blogspot.fr/

http://www.mblondel.org/journal/category/machine-learning/

http://gael-varoquaux.info/blog/?cat=20

http://fseoane.net/blog/

http://blog.vene.ro/
Apparently everything I know about X is a lie. And here are 10 reasons why..
That isn't a technology problem, it is a people problem

== & That's why we cant have nice things
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenzhou_train_collision
Everything I know is a lie? So, eating huge amounts of fat and sugar, and never exercising is not less healthy than eating some vegetables and going for a run? I doubt it. So can we please stop with such ridiculous headlines?!
IMO, body weight training has a big hole- it's very difficult to progress when you don't have a minimum level of strength to perform a given movement.

With weights, you can just use lower weight, and can thus freely work your muscles to exhaustion. With body weight movements, you can try negatives, but again- much more difficult.
If your goal is to actually clean your hands, then it's not a waste. Proper hand-washing requires not touching anything dirty after you've cleaned up. And how did you turn the faucet on? With your dirty hands. So, wash, dry with a paper towel, turn faucet off with paper towel.
Relatively recent clone? Sounds like that would screw customers up pretty bad if they don't realise the problem.

If they went to a second site, having synchronous commit to both sites is how it should be done, no? The extra latency on infrequent git pushes is far less an inconvenience than the possibility of grabbing the wrong code.
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He said might end up.
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> Fox News exists because the other national broadcasters weren't serving half of the market

Yes, the half that want to be lied to because reality is too distressing for them; so distressing in fact that they call reality liberal media bias.
We use the Figaro gem to setup ENV variables per project without messing with your system Path.

It also pushes your ENV vars to Heroku with one command. Pretty neat and simple.

In case you want to check it out https://github.com/laserlemon/figaro
It's negative space.
Off topic, but please change the background on your blog, it's not very user friendly.
I think (and I have no professional knowledge) the pay wall is more about establishing the concept that the content is worth money. If you don't want to pay for it then you'll find ways around whatever NYT implements- it's not worth the effort.

As long as you establish that the content is worth money, a lot of people are more than happy to pay for it.
I'll just point out that experience with heartbeat from 2001 is rather outdated.

That would be similar to comparing 2.4 kernels problems to the most recent 3.7 kernel. Likely not an overly useful anecdote.

For the record we use heartbeat at work with no issues such as this.
To the last man standing
You might want to try out low weights but lots of reps. See my reply above about trying out low weights, high reps to the point of exhaustion.
Yeah love it. It does video and pics. Better than poke or Snapchat. And has the FB integraton and filters too!
Can you give me an example of a query that was made much faster?
I don't know if I would call QNX a "modern desktop". 200MB is not a floppy, yes, but part of the value equation proposed here is how much you get, not just how little it costs you in space.
How do you measure PR and branding effects?

If you aren't controlling for variables, it isn't very scientific. It's possible to run multiple tests at the same time and test different things, but you need to be able to isolate what you're measuring and be able to measure something that's statistically significant.
Did you read the article? What do you think of the contents of it other than the headline?
The difference is that Google provides ad based services. It's important that users remain loyal to use their services. Both Microsoft and Apple are predominantly product based companies. They sell products and all that matters is whether the product is good enough to pay for.
it's not a really hard problem in general; it's a really hard problem when layered atop facebook's constant attempts to subvert it. from a technical perspective it would not have been hard to add a "only these people can see it, and no one can reshare it" setting, which would need people actually copying the image and making a deliberate effort to violate (a very different thing from a psychological perspective).
Correction, it seems Martin's not speaking at Punta Tech this year, I still hope he attends.
That is completely false. You do not control your privacy on the internet. You can choose to never have an email account, never sign up for any social networking site, etc, and these companies will still build a profile for you and collect tagged pictures of you and learn as much as they can about you.

Privacy on the internet is definitely a hard problem. Don't dismiss it because you have a simplistic perspective and trust other companies to understand that you don't want to have a presence on the internet. They don't care.
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BeerSmith - an excellent program which helps you come up with recipes for beer, tells you the estimated strength your beer will likely be, based on the grains etc. you choose.

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Wow I hate this view of the future. My family photo albums are for the people in my living room to see. I really want the digital equivalents of them to be the same, and feel like pushing the paradigm in that direction is valuable.

This "well the future just sucks, DEAL WITH IT!" mentality that I see parroted here on HN so often is disgusting.

Online is broken. Let's fix it, and let's champion anybody else who is trying to fix it.
If your gym only has a smith machine it certainly isn't dangerous to bench; dumbells also offer many exercises, you can even bench with dumbells. Needless to say though, if that's all your gym has, change gyms.
Another patent troll hurting innovation.
I was all ready to come on here and trash this article. The headline and the first few paragraphs had me rolling my eyes. But I kept reading and changed my mind. I've now bookmarked this article.

People seem eager to find some magic, half-hearted shortcut to reaching certain goals. There really aren't any. The best advice is often the kind you don't want to hear. To really improve, look at the people who are the best in their field and mimic them. Why would you blindly trust a magazine written by someone trying to sell you a product?

Look at any college gym to see how well the article's conclusion is supported. Women generally stick to cardio machines. The skinny guys trying to get strong are all on the weight machines, and the big guys are all using free weights.

Having recently switched from distance running to weight-lifting because of an injury, I've had a rapid improvement in a few months. The exercises recommended to me from a guy that benches 400 lbs (180 kg) include: squats, deadlifts, bench press, dips, chin-ups, flys, and ab-crunch machine (only machine he mentioned). Dips and chin-ups should have weight added when body-weight becomes too easy.

Also, since I've very paranoid about injuries now, I've been watching and reading as much as I can on proper lifting form. In this case, I would recommend against copying the strongest guys. I see some very strong people with bad form. All that means is that they've been lucky so far.
Tell that to rackspace not sure how many where effected on Christmas Day they decided to update a router - causing a 3-1/2 hr outage from 8:30 est to 11:00est aprox, took out part of my infrastructure - made for a nice Christmas morning surprise. Effected the ORD datacenter- only thing I could on RS status is https://status.rackspace.com/index/viewincidents?group=2&.... And of course the ticket in my account
Benching with dumbbells is fine, and potentially a better workout than a barbell bench anyways.
As a person who has been lifting weights for more than 10 years I completely agree. Bigger, Stronger, Faster lifts the veil of lies just a little:

http://m.imdb.com/title/tt1151309/
Can you cite even one case of this?
Actually, eating huge amounts of fat, with the absence of sugar and other carbohydrates can actually be very healthy. I've followed a keto diet for some time now and have much improved cholesterol, triglycerides, and I've lost > 30 lbs. Check out /r/keto on Reddit. Fat is not bad.
This hit really close to home for me. Two years ago I had a nearly falling out with my partner because she claimed I wasn't listening to her enough (I was, it was a yum cha place, and I was busy reading reddit on my phone).

I introspected a bit and decided to change my lifestyle. I would let technology adapt around me, instead of me adapting my lifestyle/life choices around technology. Although I must say this one is a two way street - I cannot live without my smart phone.

Now, we have rules: When having personal one-on-one time with other people, no mobiles allowed. We still suck with crowds so, mobiles still come out in crowds like parties.

Personally I think this has got to do with our brains and our information diet. We're being constantly drip fed information that is being pushed to us. I feel sometimes that pulling information, with limits (HN's procrastination feature is great). Heck I even wrote a write up on this: http://theslowweb.com, and tried to get a movement going.

Oh well.