skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You Spanish? In US English at the very least libertarian maps to anarcho-capitalist/classical relatively closely. Anarchist is almost always a synonym for anarcho-syndicalist.
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Depending on your age and the severity of your condition, you may be able to overcome it with sufficient effort thanks to neuroplasticity:

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

Note that I don't mean to down play your disability, I'm sure that it is a severe impairment and I don't mean to imply that it is `your fault' for not working hard enough. For what it's worth, I had similar disabilities with writing and social comprehension. I was greatly helped by the Arrowsmith School:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrowsmith_School
I also disagree for 2 reasons.

- At $5, you could try it out & develop trust as appropriate. This isn't market research with a consultant who can guarantee anything. This is DIY & you decide for yourself what it's worth. There's room for both kinds.

- Neither 5 or $50 is going to provide high quality trustworthy anything. That's not the point of this. The point is something interesting & potentially useful at a price that means you don't need to think about it too much.
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Who was president of the US in 1990?

George Bush, with a picture of George W. Bush. Succeeded by Rick Perry.

Yikes.

http://www.google.com/squared/search?q=who+was+president+of+...
Yeah I'm pretty sure that I was storing all of the raw HTML for possible further analysis down the line. I haven't even looked at the code in months but it definitely needs over-hauling!

Initially it started out as a 'what if I do this' kind of app. I would like to re-write the backend with more attention to detail...
Aren't all jQuery UI library's for the web?
> it is a higher-level facility for getting and setting data than ORMs are

No, it's a higher level facility for querying data when you want different result sets back randomly, it sucks most common operations of inserting or updating data.

Forcing me to write a very long statement to insert a row isn't in any way more abstract that saying anObject.save().

SQL continually forces one to write the same boring code over and over. As soon as you start automating the generation of the boring bits, you've started to build an ORM. ORMs exist because programmers get tired of writing the same code again and again.

While SQL is good at what it does, it doesn't do the thing programmers need done most, which is store data structures easily without making them write a bunch of mapping code to translate it first. SQL isn't confusing, it's just frustratingly boring and repetitive.
Great app. A few thoughts.

- The demographic segmentation just doesn't work with 50 answers. Maybe package it (say $5, $20, $50) & either only offer segmentation to the higher ones or recommend against reading too much in to the lower ones.

- Host the images & otherwise make the image part easy. I'm guessing this is an upcoming feature. Since you clearly set out to make market research cheap & easy, this is part of that. You'd be surprised how many people don't know an image has a URL. Also make it easy to get online images from websites without knowing images have URLs.
There's nothing relational about MongoDB. At all. Relations are sets. MongoDB is setless.
Another consequence of the current economic situation is a redistribution of business/entrepreneurial talent from the finance sector. This will naturally create more jobs in other sections of the economy, including technology.

The pressure on labor you're thinking about is true, of course, but the jobs market isn't a zero-sum game. Creative talent can increase the economic benefit for everyone, even as others stream in for their piece of the pie.
Good to know I'm not the only SQL junkie out there. So far, I'm making a pretty decent living eliminating thousands of lines of code by leveraging all that SQL gives me for free.

I continue to be surprised by the number of hackers who don't know SQL well. And when developers say you can only really benefit with RDBMS when you have petabytes of data, I wonder if they haven't worked on apps that are explicitly data-centric. Granted, I spend my work days in apps that are or closely resemble data warehouses, but I can get your standard RDBMS engine to do a tremendous amount of work before I have to touch the first line of procedural code. If it fits your needs, by all means jump feet first into the RDBMS of your choice. When it doesn't fit, know enough to realize it and make a considered decision (seldo, +1 for mentioning the huge number of apps that don't need RDBMS)

The point I'm really trying to express is that any hacker that touches a database would probably be well served to spend some minimal amount of effort learning ANSI SQL and understanding basic indexing, basic normal forms, and maybe star schemas. Adding some intermediate SQL and RDBMS skills to your toolbox is just another step towards maximizing your effectiveness as a developer.
Sure. It certainly will not be a quality product at that price point. And if it costs much more, it will not be competitive. I am anticipating a debacle in which they realize that they can't turn a profit by selling the device for any less than $600, making it a flop: Stores don't order products they know they can't move.

Best-case scenario is a Zune-like reception.
The reason that both validators are consulted is because they can pick-up different errors. The WDG validator is _much_ more reliable when it comes to finding unicode issues and that has saved my ass at least once.

Your other thoughts are things I'll keep an eye on when I do the re-write.

-A
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Check out Sinatra for the micro-framework, and RestClient to get the websites.
I also meant to say:
re: "Framework isn't the issue in this case"
I agree. It is possible to turn out nice code in PHP and write fast, reliable apps. That being said Rails has me addicted to the idea of unit tests within easy reach. I'm not exactly a massive fan of any of the unit testing systems that I have seen for PHP and that is my main reason for wanting to switch away in this case...

I use PHP all the time, I am just a little dissatisfied with it in light of the alternatives that are out there.
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There's also the Calculus and the primacy dispute between Leibnitz and Newton. The dispute itself isn't that interesting, but that something so complicated was created in the background of natural philosophy by two different people.

(I've recently read The Baroque Cycle again, does it show?)
No, thank-you! I just hope that it saves some developers from unnecessary pain!
Although it sounds kind of cool, I'd be a little nervous trusting people working on commission for advice on whether a shirt looks good on me or not.

It seems like it wouldn't be hard to have some sort of follow-up survey to unlock the commission (things like "did you feel comfortable wearing the clothes recommended" / "did you feel pressured" etc.), but as is, I'd feel a bit nervous about the advice.

That, and my girlfriend loves shopping. I think she'd kill me if I ever used this service.
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This can't possibly be the best suggestion.
In my square for programming languages, SNOBOL and COBOL both made the list (in that order, too -- I've never even heard of SNOBOL!), but none of the following appear: (in no particular order...)

C, C++, C#, Common Lisp, Java, Ruby, Smalltalk, x86

Heh, I listed those in alphabetical order without even planning to...
Ugh, I clicked your link. I want the 15 seconds you took from my life back.
I'm agreeing that it's good to question the central thesis of the article, and that there's a lot that casts doubt on it.
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The internet filters at work LOVED the fact that SMUT is in the URL. Thanks.

Other than that, fairly cool photos.
I think the first two here are pretty clever, even though I'm not sure most people will get it the first time they watch them.

The third one just confused me. Apparently, Google's confusing search results caused the economic crisis?
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Wow! Why no radio beacon?
I've had very good experience with Rackspace support. They managed to bail me out in a matter of minutes when I fat-fingered an iptables config and made the box totally unreachable.

Not cheap, though.
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It's usually a bit of a hassle to set those, since you have to set each of the fields and most date fields are rather annoying. Just using plain text is easier.
I think that upon objective consideration of the likely outcomes, you are 100% right.
I'll add a third: The storyteller.

This teacher is more interested in off topic discussions and spinning yarns than teaching or discussing the topic. Results being he (or she) does not spend enough time actually teaching and engaging the students.

Might not be so bad on fluff topics, but can be damaging when this is your 7th grade algebra teacher.
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I'm not sure how this is superior (or how anything along this line would ever make it superior) to getting the information via classical search...particularly since it is readily available, more complete, and more organized via wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABBA_discography). Can you think of any advantage this has?
I got my wife's abilities quite by accident. Like most things that accompanied marriage, it mostly took me by surprise...yeah, men are the dumber sex ;).
Nice. I searched for four scenarios. Apparently, one can train the engine, as discovered in the 4th scenario. In that, it said that it couldn't automatically build a square about the topic and asked me to enter up to 5 examples. I entered Alan Turing, Alan Perlis, John McCarthy, Donald E. Knuth, C.A.R. Hoare. I was delighted to see that Google Squared built the square and added names of Norbert Weiner and Claude Shanon to it.

This is a good application of machine learning.

Scenario 1: "renaissance artists" florence
Squared: http://www.google.com/squared/search?q=%22renaissance+artists%22+florence
Web Search: http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=%22renaissance+artists%22+florence&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=%22renaissance+artists%22+florence&aqi=&fp=1mZ_-PL2Zjc

Scenario 2: "open source" "cryptographically strong" "random number generators"
Squared: http://www.google.com/squared/search?q=%22open+source%22+%22cryptographically+strong%22+%22random+number+generators%22
Web search: http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=%22open+source%22+%22cryptographically+strong%22+%22random+number+generators%22&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=%22open+source%22+%22cryptographically+strong%22+%22random+number+generators%22&aqi=&fp=1mZ_-PL2Zjc

Scenario 3: "string theory" problems
Squared: http://www.google.com/squared/search?q=%22string+theory%22+problems
Web search: http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=%22string+theory%22+problems&aq=&oq=&aqi=&fp=1mZ_-PL2Zjc

Scenario 4: "mathematicians" "computer scientists"
Squared: http://www.google.com/squared/search?q=mathematicians+%22computer+scientists%22
Web Search: http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=mathematicians+%22computer+scientists%22&aq=f&oq=%22open+source%22+%22cryptographically+strong%22+%22random+number+generators%22&
> I'd have thought you'd make the cable have the same net density as water, so it is effectively weightless.

It still has momentum. So it could be broken just by trying to pull it - even without the weight.

And you are right - "pressure conditions" is not correct. It's simply the weight of the cable.
Crushing on an atomic level?

There is no void (air) inside the cable, and the pressure is even all the way around - the only crushing you can do is move the atoms closer to each other. (Compress actually, not crush, and iron is basically incompressible.)
The funny thing is we don't call a "Maintenance Day", we call it a "Been Maintenance'd Day"

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22%E8%A2%AB%E7%BB%...

Just like there are two kind of suicides in China, suicide and 'been suicided'.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%E8%A2%AB%E8%87%AA%...
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Heat does not rise - hot air rises. It's not the same.

A fan is much stronger than that, though.
I just used this site, and learned that 18-34-year-old women find a picture of me without a baby more attractive, while the 50+ demographic definitely prefers the picture of me holding my niece. Biologial clocks at work? Anyway, worth $5! ;) Well, sort of... I wish there was a way to view the votes by (gender,age-group) pair, but most of the respondents were female, so I think I'm interpreting the results correctly.

Also, I just emailed a friend about this and shared the PickFu URL for the results of my photo survey on facebook, which according to Derek Sivers is a great sign (http://sivers.org/purplecow).

Finally, note that you can see all the PickFu questions as they are distributed to Mechanical Turk (even the "private" ones, obviously) at

https://www.mturk.com/mturk/searchbar?requesterId=AI2HRFAYYS...

I hope your site can scale. I predict growth.
Yeah, not my experience. VPSes seem to be treated like anything else.
I would be a little wary about reading into comments about this. Immediate thoughts brought on by a quick browse are often different from while-using wishlist items. There are also a wide range of possible uses for this. I am guessing mine is different from other people's.

I thought of using this as part of a sales process for consulting services. That would put you in some sort of competition (or symbiosis) with compete.com. For that, immediately obvious conclusions (however simple), low price & easy to use (time is an issue here) are all essential. precision, advanced options & such, not so much.
Do you think this US media talk about apathy and ignorance about June 4th among the Post-80's generation is meaningful? Do most Chinese youth really not know what happened? How many anniversaries do you think it will take before they stop maintaining the internet?
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Why does it matter how big the segment is?
Oh yeah. I meant save-to-picasa or such, not locally. Sorry.
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American. Are you saying Daniel Franke is an anarcho-capitalist?
I think that reporting the bug and then waiting approximately 2 weeks with no follow up from them warrants a public post so developers are forced to fix it.

Though I'm a cruel bastard, and I think most people would have sent off an email inquiring about the progress. But in this case it seems it would have made no difference as the mail server was down...
...and WA isn't a search engine. It serves a completely different purpose.

If I want a web page, I go to Bing. If I want math/science data, I go to WA.
> Do you think this US media talk about apathy and ignorance about June 4th among the Post-80's generation is meaningful?

Yes to you, maybe no to us. Because it's not really some fresh ideas, since 'western' media is full of these things everyday.

> Do most Chinese youth really not know what happened?

on some degree. We all know some shit happened to China, East-Europe, Russia in the late 80's & early 90's. some of us probably do not know the tankman though.
It's like anything (hosting I mean.)

I don't care what you THINK you're selling, you're not. You're selling customer service.

Lets look at my favorite bar. I go there ALL the time. It isn't even remotely close to my house (anymore), and the beer is silly expensive (because it's really good). OF COURSE I could run to the local liquor store and buy it, OF COURSE that would be cheaper, OF COURSE I could then enjoy as much of it as I want in the comfort of my living room without having to worry about driving home (meaning I usually only get to have 1 or maybe 2 beers).

So why do I keep going? Because all of the bartenders know me by name, they all know what sorts of beer I like (they have over 500 beers here, so them knowing what I want helps if they're making suggestions) and my glass is NEVER empty (If I'm having a friend drive).

On multiple occasions, the bartenders have said "Hey, I just put 20 free credits in the jukebox, you should go over and pick some songs".

One time, I had ridden my bike there and it started raining...I was about to head home when the bartender set a beer down in front of me and said "Why don't you wait it out, this one's on me".

It's the exact same thing with hosting, or bananas, or toilet seats, car alarms, computers, lightbulbs, EVERYTHING.

OF COURSE I could set up a box on my own, OF COURSE I could find a bandwidth provider and pay them, OF COURSE I could round up enough of my friends to make the cost of running the server less than what I spend a day on coffee, OF COURSE I could keep spare hardware on hand for when it goes down, but you know what?

I don't! I don't do it because to ME, it is worth buying the customer service from slicehost to have them do it for me. THAT is what I'm buying. I'm not buying server space, or bandwidth, or anything like that, I'm buying SERVICE.

Some companies are have figured this out (the one I work for is one of them), and those that have are thriving right now.

(if anyone here is curious, the bar I'm talking about is called 'Papago Brewery' and it is in Phoenix, AZ...if you're in Phoenix, stopping here is worth it, trust me).
It looks pretty good, but I still maintain my position from last summer, which was that this will never cost $200. Of course, that's fine, as I would not expect a device like this to cost that much to begin with. About $400 seems like the 'right' price for something like this.
The article mentions that one of the consequences of numerical illiteracy is the formation of a technocracy. From the looks of our current culture it seems like the opposite. Government is filled with politicians not of a scientific/mathematical background but instead capable of rhetoric (or not capable at all =D).

I think the actual effect is that a government stagnates technologically because the numerically illiterate masses tend to vote for people who share their opinions, and hence there is a void of technocrats in government.

The trend seems to be changing now though, possibly because those 'smart' people (like the readers of HN) are making money, and impressing others. Blogs probably also increase the sociability of 'nerds' and they are sharing their opinions in a medium that the masses can read and appreciate.
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Example: I am designing a logo for a market research site. I put up the pickfu logo against mine (or just use two of mine), & ask users which company does market research.

Examples 2-100: A poll on my site or blog would work fine but... I don't want people on my site to know what I'm polling. I don't have a site. I don't know how to do polls on my site. My IT department says it will take 8 weeks. My web design guys say they don't have the module for this particular CMS - they can build one from scratch for $2k. I told the web design guys to go to hell & found an embeddable polling service, it'll take 4 weeks & they won't be responsible if it doesn't work. I worked it out with the web design guys but my boss says we need to use the companies standard colour scheme - the widget won't change its colour.
your ideas fit with some of the older-Chinese, they think the CCP did the right thing to keep China from breaking like USSR
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> getting a Pre when it comes out since it's the best I can get on Sprint

You should be able to get an Android on Sprint soon enough...

http://phandroid.com/2008/12/19/samsung-android-sprint-tmobi...
For example, aside from the dozen or more web companies I know who'd love to be hiring programmers and expanding their business, there's also me, a lowly moonlighter. Were I able to hire and build my business to the point of profitability in the near term (I've yet to launch), I'd be able to hire still more developers to further the business and so on.

Which all goes to say that there's not a fixed supply of jobs we're fighting for. We're working towards value, and value has a way of building on itself. If the software industry can create more value with those incremental workers, then the migration is good for us all.
Stylus support and therefore support to take notes while on the road would be the feature that makes me lay down even $400 for this thing.
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They're definitely two different beasts.

Kindle if you plan on reading a lot. Doing real reading on E-Ink is much, much, much nicer than reading from an LCD.

CrunchPad if you want to browse the internet, and pretty much do anything else (within it's capabilities that is).

Am planning on getting a DX for reading books and research papers, however... the CrunchPad would be a great item for the coffee table, or... bathroom :)
Wish our team had found this a month ago, we just finished building half of these things.
Why?

Sending a signal makes it easier to find - that's not stupid whether or not it sinks.

Sinking means that it doesn't move much. However, since it's attached to the plane, it's likely to go down with the airplane whether or it it would sink on its own, whether or not it sinks on its own is irrelevant.
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The air under the floor is pressurized, so convection won't play much part in how the air moves.
Interesting continued comparison would be to the Jackson State shootings, the ignored murder of black American college students by the police; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_State_killings

We all have substantial history that goes unnoticed, and in doing so tells all.
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Materials act differently under different conditions. Lots of pressure can make some materials very brittle or even softer. Brittle materials plus the weight/stress from the water currents involved could be what they are referring to.

I don't know the specifics of how the steel/iron/other compounds would react to that pressure but that's a guess.

Edit:

Other sources leave out the pressure part, it looks like the weight of the cable would be the issue. I guess it's also why we don't have a space elevator yet.
> I'd be a little nervous trusting people working on commission for advice on whether a shirt looks good on me or not.

I figure if they're misleading you, you won't be buying from them again later when people make fun of your outfit.
Much like Wolfram Alpha. ;)