skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a really good search engine. I've been looking for one and I'm going to use this as the default in my browser for a while.

Very nice work. Very impressed. It's fast, the results are pretty good and the interface with the show more and hitting the down arrow to keep going is really nice.
The article does not actually say how (or did I miss that)? It is just saying "some researchers have tried to create a mathematical model for predicting who are the biggest losers", and taking several paragraphs to say that.
"The purpose of every educational system is to prepare humans for life"

Required reading assignment: John Gatto's The 7-Lesson Schoolteacher

http://www.newciv.org/whole/schoolteacher.txt
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I'm getting very tired of the "Sorry, Wolfram Alpha is temporarily unavailable. Please try again." or "I'm sorry Dave".

Regardless of whether or not it's "released". It is "released" and I'll be avoiding it until it's less frustrating to use.
I would hire a copywriter; the copy seems to be the weakest part of the site from looking at it briefly.
Thanks! After you (or anyone) tries it for a while, e.g. a week, I'd love your feedback. Feel free to email me (contact info in profile). We're always looking for feedback from real users.
I recall reading his book of it a while back. It was interesting, but I can't recall whether it added much to the article.
Go to a party. Listen to the laughter, that brittle-tongued voice that says fun on the surface and fear underneath. Feel the tension, feel the pressure. Nobody really relaxes. They are faking it....These are not people who are at peace with themselves. Watch the news on TV. Listen to the lyrics in popular songs. You find the same theme repeated over and over in variations. Jealousy, suffering, discontent and stress.

And here we have the crux of it. This is Nietasche's ressentiment, the origin of moral feeling. Observe the hatred he has for the successful and the contented. They have won at the game of life, in that they fit in, are laughing, are enjoying themselves, yet the author feels that there must be something wrong with them. They must deserve his scorn because he has not achieved the ease and confidence that they show. It must be a chimera. Meditation sets the author apart. He has stamina. He has determination. He has 'grit', and for this he is despised by the masses. Bullshit.

And isn't it suspicious that meditation always leads to a higher place? Isn't it at least possible that meditation might merely unveil yourself to you? Or maybe, more laughably, help you to obscure yourself from you? Or, even more laughably, to obscure the nature of reality from yourself so that you can continue to believe that you have the high ground in some realm of ideas, despite your losses and discontentment in the observable universe? It strikes me as suspicious that someone with this obvious contempt for the masses could take hold of a meditative practice and use it objectively, to discover the true nature of anything, let alone any inner 'true' happiness.

We have only the observed facts that the author has provided, minus his 'insights' into the 'true nature' of these observances or the 'ulterior motives' of the actors he observes.

Zarathustra's advice would be well taken by him, and all who find this article compelling: "Always love your neighbor as yourselves -- but first be such as love themselves"
there was a similar post on nerdblog recently: http://www.nerdblog.com/2009/04/good-enough-zfs-nas.html
Um, cellular automata can by definition not be wrong, because they are only what you define them to be. So your assumptions about them can not be wrong.

I think I get an idea where you are coming from, though, and I lost all interest in discussing with you.
Unfortunately, it's not. I may have some affiliate links to Amazon or others but, most of the time, the users will be purchasing products directly from my website. Amazon's affiliate program's TOS says that images cannot be used on a page unless its principal purpose is driving traffic and sales to Amazon.

TigerDirect's TOS is a little looser, but I'd still rather have control over the images. I don't like the idea of being dependent on another company for photos without a contract guaranteeing my access to the images.
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By targeting the worst players based on information stored about them in a database, it seems that they are doing the same thing a player would be doing if s/he counted cards and bet high at a time when s/he was most likely to win.
Reminds me of Blood Diamond, except they're fish.

In Angola, they are fighting over Diamonds and Oil.

In Congo, it's Copper, Cobalt, and Coltan

These are all wars started by the west using Africans to fight the war by proxy.
You bring up some good points. But associating Danger Mouse with Girl Talk is doing Danger Mouse a HUGE disservice.
That's what Wikipedia's good for. It's not nearly as good at what Wolfram is trying to do, which is to process and comprehend complicated data analysis. They're two entirely separate things.
The 192 KB/s version is 65.4MB.
Yeah. It seems like they're sending the results back (with tons of \n's), then replacing that text with images of the same text. I wonder why they're displaying images instead of simply styling the text? Strange...
Religion requires that you believe in things that require faith. Meditation and psychotherapy don't. I don't really care about that myself - if Jesus helped you stop smoking crack, great, whether he's real or not, but it's a big deal to some people.

There are measurable effects of all of them, including meditation. You can quantify depression, personality traits, drug abuse, etc. You can measure brain state, skin resistance, heart rate, blood pressure, etc. All of this has been done.
It looks like you're competing with these guys. http://www.textwise.com/

I get the feeling your site may over promise on this a little, I get a lot of "the sky is the limit" but not much on what one would do with this.

I tried using semantic fingerprints (from Textwise) to create features I could feed to a classifier for creating a personalized job ad filter. My results were pretty mixed. Maybe I was trying to get the wrong things out of the technology.
Seems like an expensive "hostel" at $53 a night.
Hey, the OP probably has the actual code as well. If you really want to be sneaky, you could install a little back-door just in case things get serious.
James Hong: More on Happiness
I think "The Implementation of functional Languages" by Simon PJ is better, a real aha book. It is also available on-line for free. Though the one mentioned here is newer.
I can thing of loads of other things between watching TV and building a reactor. Reading Hacker News would be an example.
W|A is good at dealing with huge numbers, unlike Google Calculator:

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=9999999999999999-100...

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=9999999999999999-100000...
How many roads must a man walk down... (wolfram alpha knows the answer)
it is not so much about screen real estate as much as jumping from window to window without a mouse. dwm + vim + vimperator = most productive environment. It is very natural to switch between programs all using the same key bindings.

It is amazing, well not really when you think about it, how much faster you become when you dont have to keep moving your hand(s) off the keyboard.
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I thought the other way around, but to each his own... >:)
"Is it really true that political self-interest is somehow nobler than economic self-interest?"

Taking out the adjective, self-interest is self interest.

However, general observation gathers a lot of evidence that beings with political self-interest are usually more aware of the effects of their "greed" on an environment. Especially the global environment. Economic self-interest is about consume, consume, consume in order to profit profit profit. It matters not who or what is being ravaged. Political self-interest at least nudges people to stop, take a deep breath, and look at the effects of such a cycle on an environment. Political self-interest is perhaps more noble in that it requires one to view onesself in the larger context of his or her community at large.

Negative externalities, one of my favorite econ topics, are rarely addressed logically by beings who thrive on the consume consume consume in order to profit profit profit cycle.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_externalities)

*edited ~ not enough sleep last night!
I would look at the people who practice the technique rather than the doctrine itself. If Steve Jobs sits regularly and he still acts like Steve Jobs, there's your answer.
I agree with you and upvoted you, but you gotta realize we are in a den of thieves here...
This is a really lame idea and easy to disprove. Go back in time long enough and there were /no/ ideas, therefore, there had to be at least one original idea. If there had to be at least one original idea, there can be many original ideas.

There are lots of new things under the sun.

Edit: I apologize for the lame part. It's not really lame, that was an emotional response.
The main issue with the homepage is that it doesn't immediately capture my interest to learn more. Your buttons on the bottom "invest in us" are large -- bigger than the actual body text!

Instead, why not make two or three super important points that describe your product, and have that take up the majority of the body?

You could also A/B split test multiple version of the homepage, and track which versions lead to more people ultimately trying your product, or clicking on more pages.

Hope this helps.
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Sure Larry won't mind giving the world one more reason to abandon the Solaris OS he just bought. This is so Larry...
Wolfram Alpha - meaning of life?
What kind of horror stories?

I am looking for something like this instead of tape backups. I looked at some NAS devices that hold five drives and seem pretty robust. One of the devices can mirror itself to another NAS over the network so you can have two separate places to store your data and not have a hardware failure of one device kill the other.(one exception would be the case where the master device gets degraded to the point where bad data is being written to it and then propagates the changes to the other device. I don't know how likely this failure situation is though.)
The distinction is the amount of work, energy, creativity and risk required to produce them. One requires a lot of it, the other requires clicking a button.
The Datacenter as a Computer
Tried to sign up but all I got was an animated gif in the popup window. Tried with Safari and FF on OS X.

Edit: The popup worked from /courses but not from the home page.
I am an amateur photographer who enjoys spending a lot of time in the darkroom. As the rise of digital cameras has caused "darkroom technician" to turn from a profession to a hobby, some materials that once had pre-made formulations from Kodak or Ilford now have to be cooked up at home.

It has been increasingly difficult to get Sodium Hydroxide (lye), Potassium Permanganate and Potassium Dichromate. I actually had to register with the DEA to get Potassium Dichromate, even though I can't figure out what it's used for in the drug trade.

Although I'm usually a more or less rational person, part of me really is worried that some day I'm going to buy sodium hydroxide and a pack of pseudoephedrine on the same day and get raided at 3 AM.
There are measurable differences between the brains of concert pianists and checkout clerks as well. It doesn't mean that the change necessarily represents something that improves the human condition. If I was to practice balancing pencils on my fingertips, four hours a day for 40 years, you could certainly detect that my brain had become different from that of a random individual.

Whether meditation brings a peaceful state that is preferable to the one that comes from drug use, a stable family, rustic living or some other lifestyle is an entirely different question which probably can't be answered by science. It's nothing more than a lifestyle choice.
please, let us all forget about IE6 and go on our newer and better lifes..
I didn't say ideas, I was referring to the rearrangement of matter and energy. Music and sounds and just rearrangements of basic "atoms" that have been around forever. So its not all that lame.
> Only 20% of Americans even have a passport.

Yes, but there is far more diversity in the US than in other regions, let alone other countries.

For example, there's more diversity south of the Tehachapis than there is in Western Europe. (It would be mean to point out the diversity within 50 miles of Disneyland.)
Will do. I saved a draft in my outbox so I'll remember.
The biggest problem preventing more widespread adoption of .NET on the web is hosting. Compared to Linux-based hosts, the market for Windows/IIS hosting is not quite as large, and also not quite as trusted.

.NET really is a great platform, it's just a bit hampered by the baggage (imagined or otherwise) that is the Microsoft juggernaut.
Even if you want to go that route, I would still argue that due to the vast number of combinations of atoms in 3D space, there are certainly some that have never before existed in history popping up still today.

Lots of the periodic table was created by Humans, which didn't exist at some point in history:
http://www.ptable.com/

Sure, they could exist in a black hole or whatever, but really what matters is whether or not the material is new to consciousness and exists in memory and many new thoughts/arragements of atoms/etc are exactly that -- new to consciousness.
Same here - FF/Vista
Are you sure about that? I lived in Pamplona for a year, and I noticed a lot more cultural difference between the local Basques, the French Basques across the border, the Spaniards to the South and the Catalans to the East than I ever saw between LA, NYC and Nebraska.

That's one 50 mile circle. Europe has dozens of similar examples.
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I personally don't like generic icons.
It's probably not too late to ask them for a link.
Living abroad gave me a suntan and a bit of perspective, but honestly, I don't feel any more creative than when I left the States.

That said, it's pretty good out here and the dollar is crazy strong right now. I'd hop a flight if I were you!
thanks for the comment. The "cultural mapping" here is two-way: explaining to the Westerners why a particular Western has to be translated (or not translated) to its equivalent Chinese idiom. This way the Western client progressively understands certain Chinese idioms. i.e. http://knowledgeworkx.com/index/brochure_na.html
Well, then, I guess the question is whether those two are the only places he could have mentioned (fitting his criteria of not being particularly friendly with the US).
> The point he's making is that Erlang grew organically into its current form by way of continual sculpting during use by its creators, rather than being refined to approach a theoretical ideal.

Thank you. That is exactly what I meant. Whether Erlang satisfies some definition of "functional" or "OO", or "concurrency-oriented" does not matter. What matters is that it's a kick-ass platform for building scalable distributed fault-tolerant apps.

(That said, Erlang is a good introductory language for someone who wants to explore functional programming.)
I did that too :). I also left a comment, but then comments were apparently closed before they added mine. This post was a last ditch effort.
Anybody know what percentage of Europeans have been outside of Europe? That would make a much better comparison, and I'd wager it's a similar number.

(Egypt and Morocco don't count, for the same reason Canada and Mexico don't.)
true, ui != photoshop. one can have pixel-perfect but unusable site

i like ui.jquery; adapt the API & bundled example source-code to simple projects, then after practicing, apply to larger projects.

for ornaments, i like inkscape (pkg_add inkscape or apt-get install inkscape). it's parametric, svg->png. the bundled tutorials are extremely good.

gimp and imagemagick sometimes are useful, but not necessary.

i focus on ui.jquery and inkscape (both free, open source) which don't have very steep learning curve.
Looks big enough to hold 2-3 people, which brings the cost to $18/night.
I think the site is just under a bit heavier load than normal and until I get some more traffic it's running on a pretty low-powered server. Be patient please!
I would caution against listening to this as I highly doubt it has any basis in law.
The article sounds more like reaching a predetermined conclusion, rather than research.

"Nevertheless, where both negotiators had lived abroad 70% struck a deal in which the seller was offered a management job at the petrol station in return for a lower asking price. When neither of the negotiators had lived abroad, none was able to reach a deal."

Struck me as incredibly obvious, in the few seconds between the presentation of the situation and the solution, and I have never lived abroad, and don't usually consider myself all that creative.
Confessions of an Introverted Traveler
My intention was to point out that the results of meditation are something we can measure. This was, when I read about it at the time, news to me, and it appears to be news to the person I was responding to.

My intuition is that anyone who engages in focused practice of an activity that one can improve in will show similar differences in their brain activity. That is, I think there is a similarity to meditation and what we call "being in the zone" for activities as varied as basketball to programming. My personal experience is that such practice is beneficial.
I would suggest reading about "Work for Hire" it's a legal term. I'm not a lawyer, so don't take what I'm about to say as legal advice, just my personal experience.

In my understanding, in general, if you are paid to do it and there is no explicit contract that says the employer owns your work, then you own the work. However, you must look at your contract with your employer. I am guessing you signed something saying the University owns what you do while you work there, most do. Universities are smart like that. It may be a sticky issue to say who wrote what and when, so probably best to avoid using your own code at work if you want to retain ownership of it.

http://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22work+for+hire%22

If I were in your situation, I'd take the opportunity to solve the problem in /another/ way, one that may be better. Worst case scenario, your brain gets bigger and you can still do things the way you were doing them before you wrote the new way for the university.
Pubb is right, it's the same for me. It works from /privacy and /courses. Clicking on it from the landing page returns 422 "Unprocessable Entity" as a response to the ajax call.

Chrome/XP.
Parkinson was writing humor. There is a core of truth to his stuff, but he obviously exaggerated for effect.
i agree, it's amazing what ms office can do these days.

my niece did image manipulation (gradient, bending, shearing, shadowing) by just clicking on previews in ms office 2009?. the same feat would take me 15 mins in gimp
I don't think it was about suffering so much as not thinking the move through and, more especially, in taking their eyes off of what was important.
Google is also an outlier. Hardly representative of business in general.
Whoa, Whoa, Whoa. Have you been to a party recently? I mean, a serious beer-pong-playing, beer-bonging, naked-ignorant-frat-boy flailing party? They're terrible. Everyone is clearly pretending to have a good time. Everything smells like beer or puke.

Also, have you watched the news lately? I don't think that needs elaborating.

Popular music is exactly as the author describes. No one could possibly be content listening to...wait, they're piping that shit in through the loudspeaker at the baseball game now? Fuck.

The fact that you accept the possibility that those people at the party and stadiums are masking their misery with beer and baseball says more about yourself than it does about the author. You seem to agree, but don't want to come right out and say it.

Starting a company is not socially acceptable. It seems 99% of startups fail. I could easily fit in and survive by getting a job at some major software company, get benefits, paid vacations, etc. Actually, I did and it leaves me with the feeling that the author describes.

I believe the author's "ressentiment" is born out of the belief that the drones at parties and baseball games have somehow given in and given up rather then getting what they actually wanted. Many people, yourself included, mask their personalities with a phony sense of optimism and say, "Hey, mang, leave my friend alone. He may be happy here at this baseball game, getting drunk and probably later falling asleep in your garden."

Also, the author implies that contentment can not be had from the material universe. Again, this may be reason enough to detest the phony atmosphere that permeates the environment of every antisocial activity.

In a way, we have to deal with the drones' innane bullshit, because they can't work out properly what they want. Racism, sexism, nationalism, extremism, isms galore. They'll grab any new idea that works rather than what works the best.

I'm a drone, just a lesser one. Proudly so. I'm not going to get worked up and punch a guy in the face because he dissed the Sox. This shit happens at every game. Every single one.

If meditation slows these people down and forces them to ask things like, "Why am I like this?" or "Is there another way?", then I'm willing to take my chances.
I wouldn't expect these structures to remain tax-free for long.

> 1. In the exclusive economic zone, the coastal State shall have the exclusive right to construct and to authorize and regulate the construction, operation and use of:

> (a) artificial islands;

> (b) installations and structures for the purposes provided for in article 56 and other economic purposes;

> (c) installations and structures which may interfere with the exercise of the rights of the coastal State in the zone.

from Article 60 http://www.un.org/Depts/los/convention_agreements/texts/uncl...
> Although I'm usually a more or less rational person

For what it's worth, we are nowhere near that sort of real-time reporting for things like pseudoephedrine. At the pharmacy near me they are still having you sign a giant 3 ring binder when you buy pseudoephedrine.
Maybe they could get jobs.

And they can't whither away and die while having money for us to take. If they still had any money they'd buy food. No matter how few friends you have, and how socially awkward you are, people will be happy to sell you food.
Merely by presenting his arguments in the way he has, he shows that he doesn't actually get the point of meditation (or at least the Eastern philosophies which generally practice it).

If he did, he'd realize that all those people were miserable because they're choosing to be miserable. When they decide to stop being miserable and alter their perception of this subjective, all-encompassing, constant thing of our own creation you refer to as "reality", they won't be miserable anymore. They'll be enlightened.

I mean, he even goes on to question the time he's spent meditating. Questioning anything in this way, i.e. deciding if something belongs in the "Good Bucket" or "Bad Bucket" again simply shows that he doesn't get it. For the love of God (or whomever), if you have any interest in meditation, of seeking enlightenment, of altering your perceptions, just ignore this entire article.

There is a "higher place". There is such a thing as unveiling yourself to you. You can come to understand that there is nothing objective. And you can do it whenever you are ready to. If you feel you must meditate or seek a Zen Master or whatever, then you should do it. But only because you feel you must.

Personally, I'm not through with the game just yet.
Think I fixed it. Sorry for that guys!