skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are both combined to large extent in the later dystopian novel "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury. The authorities have outlawed books, so the only source of information and entertainment is the internet, which they control.
yay! i like seeing math posts on HN, even though the prob method usually leaves you feeling less than satisfied. the proofs, at least the ones i've seen, don't usually elicit that AHA moment. but that's just me. i think i still have the copy of the Spencer book i checked out of the library years ago.
Title seems a little misleading, in that some constructive proof techniques are used to set-up the probabilistic tools.
i would recommend a dog over a girlfriend. dogs seem a lot less demanding. although girl/boyfriends can at least let themselves out into the yard to pee.
I am drooling with hacker nerdocity. A beautifully organic 45 year old still-working box passed on from a protohacker connected to a defcon-stickered terminal browsing the web on a cli....I need to look away
Ah, but 8x and 28x are not different classes; they are all the same class.

I think it's clearer if you describe things the way the article does. Don't say "these are the classes"; say "here is the relation".

As the article says:

> Call two such sequences ‘equivalent’ if they are equal after a finite number of entries.

To see whether this is an equivalence relation, you only need to check whether it is reflexive, symmetric, and transitive. Figuring out what the classes are, might be interesting, but it is not necessary.
Perhaps there are alien minds constructed out there whose organizing principle for their version of rational thought involves optimizing Bayesian belief networks, and when they look at these, the deductive reasoning part is unsatisfying, but the probabilistic part gives them the Ah-Ha!
total nerd porn!

I am always amazed just how much shit you can do without a computer in analog. Like a 1900s record player just uses such simple techniques to play sounds, but living in the 21st century it seems almost impossible to do without a computer chip and a sound card and some software.
Due to something related to tax, none of the Google employees attending Google I/O were allowed to get the phone.
Wow, how did you get 6 points with a post like this? I feel you've missed what the goal of feminism is and instead focus on militant-feminists who give the movement a bad name, much like militant-atheists do for atheism.
It occurred to me while reading this: When I choose a doctor, I am not so much interested in his degree; I am interested in whether he is licensed to practice medicine. After all, it is perfectly possible to have an MD degree, but not be licensed.

Unfortunately, there does not appear to be any standard abbreviation for "licensed to practice medicine".

Insterestingly, the corresponding abbreviation does exist for other fields. For example, CPA is not a degree; it's a license (right?) to be an accountant.
I'd actually second this. He faced several periods of pretty intense change in his life, and he was battling his drug addictions, and his experiences are pretty ridiculous and very inspiring. Also, when it comes to living on a shoestring, this guy's got it down.
Here's a picture I took of Trevor and one of the bots: http://twitpic.com/62qnj
It's a language for real-time audio synthesis and algorithmic composition. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperCollider
So is potion, _why's project du jour (though it doesn't have any relevance to Ruby).

On a side note - is anyone here following potion's development?
I prefer AWS/VPS. That way I have root access to a virtual machine and can pick and choose what I install. Personally I prefer Ubuntu environments, apt-get is so convenient. I do my development on a personal system and upload working code for testing / deployment. From my experience GAE imposes constraints which may turn into issues.
Socialized health-care has its own problems but just from reading the comments here it seems like a better system as it routes people to the level of treatment they need. My understanding of the US system (and please correct me if I'm wrong) is that those without insurance have no other option than to attend the ER.

Here in Australia you'd generally go to a GP, a public health center or have a locum come out to visit you before heading to a hospital. There are certainly still wait times, and a system like this might be able to help, but in general I think there's a much better spread of patients to the right location.
Time to invoke Sturgeon's law and mangle it a bit.

90% of all projects are junk.
i think it's fair to say that with the major providers colluding no one knows how much it actually costs to send data.
My first guess was that shaking things up would hurt sports betting based on point spreads.
You've never heard anyone complain that a particular page looks weird, or that it loads or runs really slow? You seem to mixing up the levels of abstraction as we cross the boundary moving into the car analogy. Cars have industry standards, too. Nobody knows shit about them. But they still care, indirectly, because adhering or not adhering to those standards affects in some way the experiences that the end users do care about. That's the only point I'm making. If you actually disagree with that, I'm really surprised.
Wooden box, piano hinge, dovetailed joints, tasteful incisions in the front, discreet plugs on the side.

It's like a steampunk modem, except in earnest.
In the case of a fixed amount of currency in an expanding economy, or if the economy expands at a rate greater than the amount of currency expands, you simply have deflation.

I'm not convinced this is nearly as bad a thing as some growth-uber-alles economists seem to think it is; it would encourage savings and cautious investment while preventing bubble formation. It would slow growth, but endless growth isn't sustainable anyway. (And increasing the money supply too fast, which there's always a lot of temptation to do, fuels highly unsustainable faux-growth.)

Also, although the amount of gold on and in the planet is fixed, the amount usable as a currency increases over time as it's extracted. At least in the short and medium term (probably at least the next few centuries) you would be able to have mild to moderate economic growth without deflation as the gold supply increased.

The best argument I've heard against gold-based currencies is that is mis-allocates resources: it creates a huge incentive to go around digging up gold, which is an activity serving no real useful purpose. When someone spends time and energy mining gold, they're not doing anything else with it; it's basically a dead-weight loss. Still, compared with currencies that can be created arbitrarily it might be an acceptable tradeoff.
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Huh, half the time, I use shell over ssh, on servers that do not even have X installed. How would all that eye-candy in Bespin be rendered? In ASCII?
I'd guess that it is not an artifact of learned phenomena. The rotation has the pixels of the ball moving from right to left, and the illusion is that the ball is moving right to left.

I think that this would hold up for cavemen - that if they see part of an object moving from right to left (in their peripheral vision) that they'd also see the whole object moving from right to left.
10 members in the last hour. Good call there RKlophaus!

[Edit: 22 in 2 hours! Holly crap, we ROCK!]
I frequently hear the statistic that communication is 10% verbal and 90% body language: touches, glances, winks. There is information in these gestures as well. Of course this very conversation is an example of how much we can communicate with words.
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Make sure you add any meetups to http://www.dctechevents.com/. That's what I've been using to track local events.
There would also be an expectation of more features -- inventory management and such. I expect they will do it soon enough.
I can't recommend this first point enough - keeping a banjo next to my desk at all times has done wonders for my mental wherewithal.

It is impossible to feel frustrated while playing a banjo - FACT.
Reading your second comment in this thread leaves me wondering if it would be safe for an american to travel the same as you did. I had wanderlust a few years ago and reading your post makes me want to go wandering abroad again. I would go to South America, but out of curiosity, is Africa or the Middle East safe for Americans?

[Edited for better communication]

REPLY: Ah, so then in a sense, it isn't safe. It would be awful to go out the way you did but remain a tourist. :)
Right I understood your point and could be very valid. But for 90% owning, I have my doubts. Anyway what I felt was later when his dad would have seen his son's business blooming he should have done something about it. Asked him to buy back early or at least let him know that for all his work he owns just 10% and it just the first investment.
Often getting a dog leads to getting a girlfriend, since you'll be outside more and have an instant conversation starter.
Happened to me, though I'm not having a long history like you. Every once in a while I get that exhausted feeling. But fortunately my mind says what should I do. Mostly it's going to parents, go & meet non-techy friends, going on a trip to countryside etc.
Ask HN: Do you write comments, and then not submit them?
I find myself writing comments, looking them over, and then not submitting them pretty often. A friend of mine is the same way.

I'm just curious how common this is.
Nice to meet you. I read your blog sometimes, and just watched a video presentation you gave with Steve Blank. My name is Zack. Customer development and agile software development seem like such neat, rational concepts.

I'm thinking of taking it a step further, though, and would like your opinion. I have a couple ideas for services, but they would take a couple weeks to build. Do you think it would be worthwhile to post an Ask HN thread, seeing if people express interest in paying for my potential products, before I build them?

Zack
a) & b) only if you are ready to treat them well while youl are iving your geeky life. I sometimes have problems with less attention to them. Both a) & b) need love & care which I personally have problems providing, while I'm in hack mode. (Just an advice)
Colleges usually have libraries. Mine had 4.
There was a big media frenzy back when Google first announced its edge-caches physically located in ISP server rooms:
http://techliberation.com/2008/12/16/edge-caching-vs-prefere...
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/The-Wall-Street-Journals-...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122929270127905065.html
http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2008/12/net-neutralit...

Why has everyone forgotten?
Thanks for the group.
Pretty good libraries too! Hard to beat an engineering library or a CS library, even with the combination of the internet and a public library.

Of course, if you live near a good university, and you have the discipline to study on your own, and the food and shelter to stay alive while you do it . . .
> There is NO SECURITY DOWNSIDE to emailing a user's password to them vs. having some multi-step reset procedure.

Yet another downside is that the hacker can continue to access your account indefinitely without you knowing. If they have to reset the password then you'll find out the very next time you go to login.

Despite this I agree that the usability gains from using viewable passwords can surpass the security disadvantages.
I like this one, and perhaps it's pertinent to the atmosphere of entrepreneurship and individualism here on HN:

"If you wind up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest or some guy on TV telling you how to do your shit, then YOU DESERVE IT."
I was deliberately courting excitement. You can safely stay in the tourist circles and be A-OK.
> that those without insurance have no other option than to attend the ER.

Not always:

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

I don't know how widespread those are, though.
Read up on Benetton in Argentina also.
Well, considering electromagnetic's numbers and insightful comments, perhaps it isn't that these species have greater moral sensibility, but that they haven't evolved the ability to disregard morality. It may be my perception that people are more likely to disregard morality that makes me believe they are less moral, rather than animals being more moral. It also seems apparent that humans can express moral behaviors that surpass many species, so I may have jumped the gun by saying animals are more moral than people. If humans can disregard morality and other animals cannot, though that would seem to mesh with the "sense" I have about them being more moral.

I don't really know, just kind of typing it and thinking it at the same time. It is still a question in my mind.

I was thinking about this last night. I was at my aunt's house and she has some dogs that were running around and appeared to be happy and excited. I just thought how amazing it was that that they always seem happy to see people and I couldn't imagine them trying to hurt anyone or being mean. So perhaps my thoughts here are a little bit temporally biased.

Yeah, not very coherent. I'm still formulating thoughts in my own head as well on this topic.
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Video of keynote here:
http://sites.google.com/a/pressatgoogle.com/googleio2009/key...
Perhaps it's because of the linux kernel?
Sure, I've only posted perhaps 1/2 to 2/3 of the comments I've written. They weren't necessarily inflammatory comments, but just didn't add anything useful to the conversation.
I agree, I think it has to do with the motion filtering of your retina. If the rotational speed is faster than the linear movement, the motion detection circuits on your retina will detect movement predominantly in the rotation direction. On the other hand, when you fixate on the ball, the brain instead judges motion by eyeball movement, and the illusion disappears.

Very cool.
Plenty of times. Sometimes I even submit them and delete them a minute later.

I felt like I had something interesting to say, but when I actually articulated it, it didn't add much to the conversation. If you noticed PG's essay that he wrote with Etherpad, he had entire paragraphs in his draft that didn't make it to the final version.
My first thought was, "Go to college and do both.", much like the parent post. However, being educated as a mechanical engineer and self-taught as a sysadmin/developer, I think what is missing here is the influence of teachers. This is a somewhat ironic thought since my engineering professors did little to really give me great insight into engineering or the practice of it. What I do know is this: Someone who wanted to learn administration or development could learn more in one week with me than they would in one year of college or learning by themselves. The information might not be as deeply embedded in their brain as it is in mine, due to all the pain and suffering of figuring things out for myself, but I often wish I'd had a great teacher or mentor. I'm sure my skills would have benefited greatly.
If someone makes a waterproof one I would spend $1000.
Just joined. Good call!
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Joined. Thanks!

Awesome turn around.
Rarely.

I gave up long ago trying to judge my own comments and submissions.

I often submit what I think is a great article and it dies on the "new" page without any votes. Or I'll make what I think is a good comment and no one cares.

OTOH, sometimes I'll just throw something off the top of my head and it gets something started.

I just try to not be a jerk (most of the time) and submit what I'm thinking. Let the community be the judge.
Ask HN: how to unit/integration test app that sends email?
I'm adding a "register->confirm email->reg. complete" functionality to a web app I'm writing. I'd like to be able to unit/integration test my email-sending code.

I don't want to actually send emails. In fact, I'd like to keep all this local to my machine (or at least to my home network). And if I can avoid it, I don't want to install/configure sendmail/qmail/postfix/etc.; i.e., I don't want to install a real email server.

Is there a test SMTP server anyone knows of that's quick and easy to install (on Linux)? Or a clever hack using honeyd to fake out the SMTP communication?
All the time. This is the only place I do that. Mostly the quick joke I'd submit to /. or reddit.
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Ask HN: Why does TweetDeck consume as much RAM as my web browser?
TweetDeck is the number 1 Twitter application on the Internet. I've got it open right now, and it is consuming more RAM than Chrome with 5 tabs open. 86 MB. That's enough to store 644,000 purely ASCII tweets. Granted, TweetDeck has to store user images as well as text, but I only follow 38 people.

What is the cause of this? Is it AIR's fault? Is the application poorly written?
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My first thought was that I was a complete loser!

But, looking at where I went, who I met, and what life's like on the outside, there's definitely an important part of college life. Everyone around you is the same age and going through the same thing you are. Everyone more experienced than you (e.g. the teachers) are mostly there for your benefit. A real incubator to grow up.
I'm disagreeing with the degree of care. I don't think most people give a hoot about web standards. I do think most people care about their car standards/internals.
Yeah, I do it fairly often.

If I find myself putting too much work into a comment I think to myself, "How many people are actually going to read this? What effect is it really going to have on anything? Do I really want to do all this work for something that will disappear into the internet ether?"

I really only leave comments if I can fire them off quickly and I'm in the right mood.
Don't forget that many projects include jquery, prototype, etc., which add quite a few points to js.
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"We expect to accelerate the momentum of our sales in 2010."
"Product pricing will be announced in early 2010."
"Our full feature set will be announced in early 2010."

Am I the only one who thinks these early introductions are kinda silly? Looks awfully vaporous. Let us know a month or two in advance, not a year or two.
How to get our app to market?
We've built a real-time CRM system for our company's internal use, product-ized it, and have several markets to sell it to. We don't want to be in the software biz, but we can't seem to find a partner to sell and support it. How do you find an entity with LAMP know-how and marketing muscle to get a hot product into a market you've already got access to?
> The laboratory for "let's do something crazy and see if it works" in football is college ball, though you are seeing pro ball get more adventurous in recent years.

The forward pass itself was actually an innovation that was introduced by UNC Chapel Hill into American football over 100 years ago. Before the forward pass, college teams simply brute-forced the ball forward.

"John Heisman, a noted historian, wrote 30 years later that, indeed, the Tar Heels had given birth to the forward pass against the Bulldogs (UGA). It was conceived to break a scoreless deadlock and give UNC a 6-0 win. The Carolinians were in a punting situation and a Georgia rush seemed destined to block the ball. The punter, with an impromptu dash to his right, tossed the ball and it was caught by George Stephens, who ran 70 yards for a touchdown.

Heisman wrote he was at the game standing near the action on the sidelines. He is emphatic that Pop Warner, who was coaching Georgia, protested to the referee to no avail. And he adds that he personally wrote Walter Camp, the final authority on football, of the possibilities of the ‘forward pass’ making football a new and more exciting game."

http://tarheelmania.wordpress.com/2007/09/13/unc-invented-th...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_pass
How do you know he doesn't have all 3?
Washington has one purpose today - feed the beast. Entrepreneurship and small business isn't on anyone's radar that matters. I can assure you that Pelosi, Frank, Obama and Maxine Waters - none of whom have ever been in business - couldn't care less about an Entrepreneurs dreams or ambitions. They're blinded by their own.
Definitely. I don't usually submit comments unless something gets my goat or I feel like there is an important angle that isn't being articulated. Basically, the question I ask myself is "Am I adding value to this conversation?" If the answer is no for any reason I either modify the comment or skip it altogether.

Sorry to use the parlance of our times, but people who submit everything they type are IMO "that guy".
Also worth noting: All Googlers got a G1 for Christmas, so presumably all attending Googlers already have an Android phone. (Not the new one, of course, but still...a nice phone running Android.)
The key is if they can produce something as good as the e-ink display without the need for a glass substrate. The glass is the part that cracks/breaks.
I first read destressed as distressed, and wondered why anyone would want that.
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Seconded.

When my dog wants to go out for a walk, he annoys me until I get off my ass and take him out. You can argue it out (and win!) with your wife/parents/friends when they tell you to go out, but you can't argue with a bouncing, yapping dog. My dog is the reason I take 2-3 walks a day.

Also, having him around just makes me happy :)

(See http://twitter.com/ankur_sethi/status/1942297810 and http://twitter.com/ankur_sethi/status/1938415759)
i would say it is more common than not. i find that writing out the thought often helps crystallize your thoughts and at that point what you thought may not be worth submitting after you actually see it in front of you.
hmmm...i see your point and i definitely need to revisit tags. my db was set up with tags in mind so switching over wouldnt be a problem. looks like ill need to do more testing!
Yes. Most of the people giving advice on this thread assume that programming is, ultimately, the right choice for this person. It might just be the case that programming is the wrong profession.
If an item belongs to multiple equivalence classes, then transitivity does not hold. In other words, if you show that the classes are not disjoint, then it's not an equivalence relation.

18x belongs in the 8x class, but 28x belongs in both the 28x and 8x classes.
Since you're writing a web app, there are very likely many well-tested libraries for sending mail. I suggest using one of these, then stub the interface to the librart and make sure your code is using the correct API when talking to the library.
IMO this really isn't appropriate for a poll, here the reason has more weight than a simple yes/no answer.
Work on an IPhone game instead :)
There's no need to let long comments disappear into the ether. I usually mention mine on Twitter. You can also submit them as articles.
In general you're likely to have to file taxes/annual reports in the state you live/work in, as well as the state the business is incorporated in.

Incorporation in Delaware or another random state is a needless hassle and expense for small businesses. Incorporate in your home state. When you get big enough that you have several accountants and lawyers employed by your company, they can tell you the benefits of shifting the incorporation to another state. Until then... it's a waste. Premature optimization, as they say.