skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wasn't able to find any viewport biasing, that would be very useful for disambiguation. For example, "Im in the Mission right now" is pretty vague unless I could viewport bias the analysis to 37/-122. Google Geo API offers this, but last time I tried it it didn't work very well.

I was impressed by this api from Yahoo a lot. It worked really well. I'd already written my own but this works super fast and reliably. I just need more control over disambiguation.
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Ask HN: How to calculate if a box will fit through a hallway with a 90 degree turn
It seems like it should be simple geometry but I'm stumped.

Will my box:

--
I I
I I
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Fit through my hallway:

I I
I I
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I hope this isn't too off topic, but it's like a life-hack, right? We all need to know if something will fit in our houses before we buy it.
Thats what you get for skimming. Take to the time to read the entire thing, digest it, recheck your facts.

Yes, I am sticking my neck out on this. Feel free to come chop it off in 3 years if we don't hit a depression, if my predictions don't come true, and if my estimates in the chart don't come true.

At that time I will be happy to tuck my tail between my legs and you can throw pie in my face.

I wrote about what is happening now in 2006, new president with new movement, redistribution of wealth coming, and old media going away. (www.flairjax.com) you will have to search for it.

Again, I suggest stop skimming and read the entire thing.

Let me break it down for you since you like bullet points.

I will talk slowly...

Hoover deported Mexicans.
Bush would have but they didn't want to lose the election so he built a fence (billions in $) so it is a major step up from Americans just complaining about Mexicans.
See my comment above should have been 'upheld' prohibition not 'passed' my bad.
Yes, generations are continuous, but those in power and those industries created and run by Idealist Generations, such as railroad owners, newspaper owners, etc don't have all the power and money. Why do think blogs are struggling? When newspapers die blog will take their place and skyrocket. Just as the automobile did against the railroad.

Maybe if you slowed down you might actually learn something. Your opinions aren't facts. Yes, I have my opinions, but they are supported by data.
Where is your data?

So all these numbers are just one big coincidence?

Come chop my neck in three years if I am wrong its sticking out on this one. Go ahead mark your calendar!
Reminds me of this coz' I used the back button pretty early on

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HypmW4Yd7SY
I think if it can fit at a 45 degree angle in the corner then you're good.
I think this appeals to the identity crisis that programmers can sometimes have; are we really engineers? We're the most removed from the physical of all engineers with the exception of the ORIE/FE people, and nobody's quite sure what they are either. You generally do believe the argument that being an engineer is more about the thought process than having to do work on physical structures, but there's always that nagging bit of insecurity, the itch you can't scratch. Working with your hands on electronics alleviates that nagging fear.

That's my theory, at least. The most I ever bother to do though is assemble my own computer from Newegg parts.
Never said running out of oil caused the depression. Please don't skim.

Yes, I am sticking my neck out. Lets wait 2 or 3 years then we will see....
Part of the benefit of monolithic frameworks is the third party tools built on top of it. If you choose libraries independently, you've avoided reinventing a few wheels, but there is more functionality you could avoid reimplementing than just the basic database interaction, template system and request handling.
You're going to need a tape measure either way, so tape-measure out the longest edge of the box, then take the tape measure and see if you can put it through 90 degrees of motion within the bend without hitting a wall. If not, then I'm guessing you're in for some breakage.
If it fits in both corridors without reorientiation,
it follows that it fits through the corner, which
is part of both corridors. (Imagine sliding a square
on a chessboard.) Or are you asking something
more complicated? Is that ascii drawing supposed to be
to scale?
"- none of U.S. cities rank in the top 100 most livable places (Mercer Cities Ranking)"

This is rather false:
http://www.citymayors.com/features/quality_survey.html

This calls into question the other assertions. What is your source?

I actually agree that the U.S. has been pretty badly mismanaged lately, but despite this I've encountered many hardworking immigrants who manage to do well for themselves. I believe the main reason the poor continue to be poor is lack of drive and lower intelligence/education. Both of these derive mostly from environmental factors, especially family life, poor values, poor education and generally inhospitable surroundings.

You would need to make some pretty radical changes to turn it around.
I don't know the proper way to calculate it geometrically but the most practical way might be to make a template with the same dimensions (WxL) out of a single sheet of cardboard and give it a try.
he might be implying somehow that one or more people are carrying it, which might require rotation.
Please put a tldr - cultural upheaval, the generation gap, and dynamic business shifts (like energy and the internet) create a transition period that devalues the older generation's skills and production faster than the newer generation can come in to replace them. In turn, the older generation resists the change using their existing political and investment power, which further disrupts economic activity.

Nice try - it needs some work before it is an essay. I think I would agree with the conclusion, but there is way too much rambling, anecdotal evidence, and personalization - and you sound like you can't contain yourself at some points, which makes it sound on the whole unprofessional. Also, give us a summary in the introduction - we don't want to read it all as it is way too long for its own good.
Kernighan of K&R didn't invent C. Only the "R", Ritchie did. They wrote a good book together thought.
If you gzip your ascii box, it will fit in your hallway. Or provide the measurements and someone here will do the math for you :)
Surely they should decide this by measuring something, like they did with the shades of blue, rather than just based on people's opinions in meetings.
- I agree that a depression is likely, but that doesn't change any of the things I pointed out.

- None of the stuff you mention is specific enough to constitute a prediction. If Bloomberg had won in 2008, would you be talking about how this represented a "new movement"? What about Huckabee? Edwards?

- Hoover did not have the constitutional authority to end Prohibition; the 18th Amendment could only have been repealed by another amendment, with the consent of two-thirds of both houses of Congress and three-fourths of
the states, as indeed happened in 1933 with the 21st Amendment.

- Blogs are not struggling; they are growing exponentially (http://econsultancy.com/blog/092-surge-in-blog-statistics-as...).

- What numbers? The only numbers in your comment are "3" and "2006".
While this is always true, it is possible to get a longer object in if you turn as you go. It's an easy problem if the object has no thickness, but trickier otherwise.
This may give you a place to start

http://archives.math.utk.edu/visual.calculus/3/applications....
This isn't just for great speakers. It's how I'd like to live my life.
Added a graph and a link to where I found the data.
Yes, but it will eventually become part of the browser once the API is mature. Most Mozilla Labs projects have the goal of integrating with Firefox whenever possible (like Ubiquity).
John Resig works at Mozilla.
Use jquery for cross-domain xhr.
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Probably if you don't mind rotating it around. I spent a summer working as a mover once it's surprisingly easy to get a sofa round corners. So unless you have a very small hallway or a very large box, I'd guess yeah. It would help if you told us what was in the box, but I understand if you're under NDA :-p
There are many unique combinations of the alphabet.

26 factorial = 4.03291461e26

pick your favorite.
Here's a paper on finding the maximum size of the box:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/95mh987542674584/
Sorry some things you should take the time to read. Or if you are quick enough just look at the PDF and you should see a trend or eerily similar trends.
You can find out with a piece of string. Make the string as long as the mid-point of the box on one edge to one of its corners on the other side. Hold the string at the inside corner of the hall. If you can sweep the arc without touching any walls it will fit.

If you don't know the size of the box in advance, hold the string at the corner and make the string the longest possible length that can sweep this arc. Take the sting with you to the box.

What you are really doing is measuring the distance to the corner from the closest wall and then making sure the line from the box's midpoint to one of its corners is not longer. There are edge cases (ha!), but this generally works.
That's passable, but Greasemonkey does it in a more secure way than script tags, and it supports more features, like setting headers.

http://wiki.greasespot.net/GM_xmlhttpRequest
Has there been any word on the slated time for Taskfox? Furthermore, has any real work been done on the work with command name collisions?
That's the GetSatisfaction/RipOffReport business model.
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What is really depressing is the fact this impoverished article made it to the front page of Hacker News.

What do you suppose we can do about that, now? How do you fight corruption of this sort on a site like this? Do we need basic research and reasoning skills tests for users?

I'm serious. What can we do we do to save Hacker News?
To solve the problem for an object with thickness, imagine shifting the wall on the inside of the turn in by a distance equal to the width of a box (with the corner expanding out to a semicircle), and then consider moving a line segment through the appropriately shrunken hallway.

Note that we're still being possibly inefficient, as we are not using our third available dimension; however, this is only relevant if the box is much longer in one direction than the other two (for example, if you were trying to carry a 2x4 around this corner).
I would add Linear Algebra to mahmud's (great) list of mathematical "stuff to learn". A lot of ML needs Linear Algebra . (e.g Neural Networks, SVMs .. )
Generations are usually continuous, but the boomers were less so because they were largely the result of a discrete event: the end the war. Because they were all born at a similar time and there were a large number of them they had a lot more power as a generation than most generations (hence the unrest of the 60s).
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=7.2+wa...

Works fine, used it all the time in my Physics class.
I am (a little) surprised at how well the C example reads vs the C++ version. I would have thought that an OO design pattern (here, Observer) is where C++ syntax would be a better fit.
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True; however, he's talking about the generation before the boomers, not the boomers themselves.
nice. ah... the beauty of the angel of death.
Yeah, but "saturation" as you're using it is arbitrary, based on HSL or HSV, which are extremely simple transformations of RGB space, which means that it's based on the (arbitrary) choice of R, G, and B primaries for your screen. HSL/HSV were developed because computer hardware of the 1970s couldn't do large lookup tables or complex math with any kind of reasonable performance. There is really no excuse for them to persist to 2009, and that they are still being baked into specs is something of a travesty. They're essentially pre-20th century color theory pseudo-science, resurrected because anything better was too computationally expensive 35 years ago.

What you're looking for (to be perceptually meaningful, based on real psychometric data) is something like the "chroma" of the Munsell Color System. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munsell_color_system
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He didn't mention thorn, my favorite obsolete letter, and the reason for old timey signs that say "Ye olde something or other..."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_%28letter%29
I've been an IEEE and ACM member for over 20 years. Although I've cut back on the number of publications I subscribe to, I still find reading them very informative. I can read them on the train/bus/beach. They provide a snapshot of the state-of-the-art.
Consider the subscriptions to be part of your on-going professional development. In Australia, the subscriptions are tax deductible so that helps too.
As for the myIEEE, I find Google Scholar more useful. But that's when I'm trying to follow a specific topic.
The permanent e-mail address on acm.org has been excellent for staying in contact as I change jobs, ISPs, etc.
Be careful. "Complementary" has a technical meaning in terms of color science.
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I think if there were an extension to the STL for unicode, string handling and simple sockets few people would even need ruby :)
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Some parallels, Major differences. the Hacker mentality is something Ayn Rand would have never considered as incorruptible. Her view on white hats was never discussed even though she was around through it's birth and maturity. One of the great reinventions of the hacker community is 'you mess with me, me and my friends will screw you tenfold'. Selfgoverning society was often taken to it's basic animalistic extreme in Ayn Rand's perspectives, seeing it first hand would skew anyones faith in humanity. Hackers are more like mathematicians in not really caring about real-world applications of the knowledge sought, they are in it for the knowledge for knowledge sake.
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Generations are defined not by a strict date, but by the events, technology, the things of the time. As an example, someone who grew up on Atari is probably dramatically different than someone 10 years before them. My sister was 16 when the Atari came out and I was 7. She skipped it as she was interested in boys. She doesn't get or understand technology or why we have a gaming industry. Thus, she is just out of Generation X and a totally different view on life.
You might enjoy reading this interview:
http://www.ams.org/notices/199704/arnold.pdf
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Use mars. But you need to fix it.

Earth's core is radioactive and that's where the energy comes from to keep our core molten. Molten core is needed. Otherwise all the water seeps to the center leaving you dry topside.

Mars core lost it's radioactivity sometime in the past that's where the water went.

So here's my idea. Let's crank up our nuclear program and send all the nuclear waste up to Mars where it will be dropped down deep shafts in an attempt to get the mars core molten again.

At the same time you send little space "tugs" up to tie on to asteroids (one at a time) in the asteroid belt and guide them individually into collisions with Mars. You target the collisions so each one gradually moves the planet into an orbit that's closer to the sun. Each collision also increases the planets mass and hence it's gravity. Need a little more gravity there also to make it habitable. Could take a few thousands of years to reach the objective but I think Mars could eventually be an inhabited sister planet.
I never said that you said that running out of oil caused the depression ;-)
A rival to Google's Chrome Extension API?

http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/extensio...
Your current text is "Also, income inequality, measured by the ratio of the top 10% of wage earners compared to the bottom 90%"

You need it to be "Also, income inequality, measured by the ratio of the average income of the top 10% of wage earners compared to the bottom 90%"

But the linked article doesn't make sense either, or maybe I'm just not getting it. It put it this way:
"Under President Hoover, income inequality, as measured by the ratio of the average income of the top 10 percent compared to the average income of the bottom 90 percent, rose from 7.1 percent in 1929 to 7.8 percent in 1932."

Ratios are when you compare two quantities, like 1:9. Percentages are fractions of a whole. So it's strange to express a ratio as a percentage. The obvious interpretation is to say that a ratio of 7% means a ratio of 7:93. But I don't think that's what they're saying, because in the same paragraph they say:

"These periods of high-income inequality sharply contrast the period 1942–1987, when the ratio of top incomes to the incomes of most Americans never exceeded five."

Which would imply a percentage of 17%, if we're using this strange ratio/percentage conversion. That is: 17:73, i.e. 1:5. But they seem to think that higher is worse, so that can't be it.

Maybe they never meant to put percentage symbols in there, and they just meant that the average income of the top 10% is 7.9 times higher than the bottom 90%. If that's the case, I would distrust that source if I were you. That's a basic error.
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- Its a prediction because I say it is. That is why I wrote it. ( will update it to be more specific)
- You just proved my point nobody would have beat Obama (read the article again) it was because the civic generation made it so.
- You are correct he didn't have the authority, but he backed it and his counter parts during his election years said they wanted it repealed. Hoover didn't so what does that say about Hoover?
- What do you consider not struggling? Compared to the billions newspapers make and the power newspapers have (though dwindling) they are struggling. Again read the article thoroughly (see the mention of Rupert). You need to slow down and not skip things.
- The numbers in the article ( those things that aren't letters ) Also see the BIG graph.
What does "counting" against "notional salary" mean?

Different kinds of expenses (benefits and salaries are expenses) have different tax consequences. Things that are on the pay stub may be taxed differently than things that aren't but I don't think that you're going there.

Are you thinking that telling employees "here's how much I'm spending on you that doesn't appear on your pay-stub" is going to have some effect? If so, I suspect that you're about to learn that some folks would rather have that money in their paycheck and that most will tune you out.
In case your are interested my favorite book to learn C is "C Primer" by Les Hancock http://isbn.nu/9780070260016
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If you're the kind of person that needs to go to a payday loan place, you're not going to be eligible for a 0% APR card - if you're lucky, you'd be offered a fully-secured credit card (meaning you have to give them money first before you can use it, and you can only use up to the amount you've given them) with a maximum balance of five hundred bucks, which you wouldn't have lying around anyways.

You get those card offers now because you're (presumably) employed to some degree and have a decent credit rating, so the card company thinks you're a pretty good bet to not default. If you need a payday loan, it's unlikely you have anything near a good credit rating, if you have one at all.

As for optimizing things, it depends on who you want to optimize for. If you want to optimize it for the credit card and payday loan companies, that's pretty much been done already - they have a very permissive set of regulations they operate under, and aren't short on profit margin. If you want to do it for the customers, that means you need to set up a financing service aimed at high-risk individuals, but you're going to have to mark-up some to make up for the default rate.

A good deal of people who frequent payday loan companies can't even get it together (for whatever reasons, both in and out of their immediate control) to get a normal checking account - you think that they'll be offered no-interest unsecured credit cards?
It actually had nothing to do with it - I only found out about this the other week. I'm not complaining, though!

As I understand it, it was more a logical extension of Ubiquity's functionality and API (Ubiquity uses jQuery to simplify a number of interactions).
Hah, I can just imagine the confusion when Gmail is beta for some users and not beta for others.
This isn't using "script tags," it's using the (relatively) new Cross-Site XMLHttpRequest:
http://ejohn.org/blog/cross-site-xmlhttprequest/
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i think what Arnold is trying to convey is mathematics needs to be "learned" intuitively, rather than in an abstract manner. Pure mathematics may, however, be practiced (though one can argue that intuition will continue to play a significant role )

The essential bit is about being able to visualize a mathematical concept, before being able to express it in mathematical language. For example, I think the visualizations of sorting algorithms give a intuitive understanding of how something should work, that you will be able to see quicksort in your mind, before you code it up.

Physics can easily be interchanged for computer vision as a tool for aiding in mathematical intuition. Learning is hard, practice is easy.
"During FY 2008, the U.S. government spent nearly $800 billion on defense and homeland security, approximately 30% of tax collections." (and this does not include interest on debt owed on past military expenses - http://www.warresisters.org/pages/piechart.htm; therefore, it can be argued that almost half of the U.S. budget goes towards defense) - (GAO-2008 Report Page 35): http://www.gao.gov/financial/fy2008/08stmt.pdf

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

The big picture argument here is: the U.S. spends almost as much as the rest of the world's defense spending combined - http://www.globalissues.org/article/75/world-military-spendi...
Interesting. I get the same feeling when I look at pixel art as compared to 3D rendering: http://pixeljoint.com/pixels/new_icons.asp?ob=rating