skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Poor Have Financial Discipline
Shell_plus is just what I was looking for. Shell driven coding really speeds up my development, and this helps a lot by relieving me of copying and pasting many imports every time I run a new shell.
A (nearly) complete implementation of the Twitter API in Perl
I'd love to see a picture of the desk, as I'm about to build my own.
I think the publisher needs to compare their cost, risk, and proffit in the old system vs the new system. It's not just the average price that droped but also the risk of printing copy's that they don't sell. A reduction in risk often results in a cost reduction.

However, hardbacks have a significant price primium because softcopy's are still their for the price consious. A policy of charging 15$ for everything less than a year (or 6 months) old and 8$ for everthing older than that would provide the same benifit.
You can add these kind of command extensions to your python projects by using http://pythonpaste.org/

Pylons, repoze.bfg etc already use paste for generating project templates, custom shell and runserver.

It is quite easy to add this to any python project.
> "Genetic fitness" was at the heart of every terrible ideology of the past century. Watch out for this type of thinking. Its the first step to a place you don't want to be....

Uhh, what? I can't believe no one here has challenged you on this. There are lots of terrible ideologies that have nothing to do with genetics or genetic fitness. And then there are ideologies that carry out racist agendas in the name of something vaguely genetic, but in reality are just one group of people scapegoating and killing a group that looks different. It's hard to imagine Genetic Fitness seldom plays a part in the day to day thinking of people executing pogrom.

And westerners by the stadiumload have given their doctors permission to engage in genetic fitness decisions with human lives, attempting to select the most viable embryos (and increasingly as the technology matures, the embryos with the greatest chance of expressing desired traits). Heck, these doctors abort fetuses by the half-dozen at a time by a selection process that's half-chance, a bit of science and the parent's biases and preferences. It's called In Vitro Fertilization, and society hasn't come crashing around our ears just yet.

What's truly dangerous and most likely to result in immediate violence is reactionary genetics = eugenics statements and people who equate any kind of genetic fitness propositions with Hitler.
Well i can think of several ironies.

You might be able to draw a comparison between the Singularity and the Judaeo-Christian God as well as Dawkins and Jesus.
start searching real time discussions from the web's savviest investors.

I'm sure the web's savviest investors are just sitting around on Twitter pointing out their upcoming positions and next big moves in the market.

Other than that, I do think this is a brilliant platform for generic real-time stock news (why is this stock tanking 10% in AH??). The Google Finance and Yahoo Finance message boards are often clogged with so much junk and spam there's nothing of value.
Why does this have 23 points?
United Nuclear has it cheaper. http://www.unitednuclear.com/chem.htm

Just, yeah. Don't kill yourself. :P Lethal dose is somewhere between 10 and 20 grams. Rough, spydez-levels of caffeination call for ~1/2 teaspoon of pure caffeine powder per gallon of water or juice or tea or what have you.

Enjoy.

Or, for extra credit, make a caffeinated heavy water ice cube.
Eric Schmidt's Keynote Speech at Carnegie Mellon
Financial secrets of the world's poorest people.
s/Plank/Planck/
I think politics and startups are intrinsically intertwined.
Dear Dustin Curtis...

I looked at your rant at american for their poor usability and it was so overflowing with hyperbole that I had to close the tab. You suggested that by changing out american's design team, they might stop-gap their loss and regain a new glory in the airline industry.

But you forgot to do one thing first: research.

If you had remembered to check out the brand core values you'd know that american is really all about a killer rewards program. The majority of customers seem to be repeats, all holding aadvantage member cards and willing to plug away at that free flight to Cabo they've just been dreaming about.

Your design however doesn't address this need; not one single link, box or other clever device on the page gets you into your account; the place where the airline can customize your travel, offer you deals on the routes you fly regularly and so on.

See, American isn't Southwest, VA or JetBlue - they know that their business is based around repeat customers who all know how to work the system.

Yeah, it's a horrible looking site and yours definitely pops more. But hey, you say it'll help save their losses: i think it'll make them worse.

Yours, an American customer

(BTW: if you were serious about envisaging a redesign of american and not just taking a promo pot shot - then checkout the discussions on flyertalk.com - you'll find people who travel american every day there.)
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Why? Because you think Vim's tabline is a replacement for :ls<CR> ? I talk to a lot of people trying to use Vim's tabs the way other editors use tabs--to list the open files--but it doesn't always work.
You must not be very superstitious.
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I think the IRC support was already part of libpurple, the Pidgin library that Adium is built around, but Adium's interface didn't support it to begin with.
Definitely. It might not be illegal, but it doesn't mean it is right. Tread lightly.
Same here, except that I've been doing the off hours thing for a couple of years, but switch project every few months. That's not a good way to get anything done :-)

Also, 5 hours? How do you do that? I have way less than 5 hours if I subtract (sleep, groceries, cooking, housekeeping, work and commute) from 24 hours.
I misunderstood (HSO - caught my error: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=614738).

Thanks for the info.
What happens to your digital life when you die?
It seems clueless website designers think their visitors will go: "Ok, I've already invested time going through the grueling registration process so I might as well try to use the service as much as I can to have good return on investment", but it's more like "There's no way I'm wasting time going through a stupid registration process like that for something that might not even be worth shit".
Beware that this is released GPL! Because it is client side code, you are automatically redistributing the source so this means your entire application must be released under GPL too..I'm not a legal expert but I don't advise anyone to take any risk with using GPL code for client side..
Congratulations!! On the impending mutual move with your S.O. to your current dream location and your ability to begin working remote (maybe start an Ask YC on experiences with working remotely?).

I don't think you'll regret moving there - but you would regret not moving later in life. In my brief time there, I found Portland to be a community of communities.

Fat Tire beer on tap..

Calagator: Portland's Tech Calendar: http://calagator.org/

PDXTech: http://www.pdxtech.org/

Last Thursday's in Alberta: http://www.artonalberta.org/

upcoming.org (Founder Andy Baio lives there!): http://upcoming.yahoo.com/place/RlEYPWubBZtlFXkb

The 3rd best Farmer's Market in the U.S: http://www.portlandfarmersmarket.org/

(Usually free) live music every night of the week: http://www.mcmenamins.com/index.php?type=music

Amazing large Zen garden
http://www.japanesegarden.com/

"Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon" by C.P.

http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=1400047838

"Everyone in Portland is living a minimum of three lives," says Katherine Dunn, the author of Geek Love. She says, "Everyone has at least three identities"..."They're a grocery store checker, an archeologist, and a biker guy," she says. "Or they're poet, a drag queen, and a bookstore clerk."

Read "Portland's Special Challenges" and "Portland's Special Strengths" (pp17-19). "The Young and the Restless: How Portland Competes for Talent"

http://www.restlessyoung.com/public/pdf/Portland.pdf
You are absolutely right! I didn't have time to redesign my blog who is still using 12px default. But if we use 16px like standard I think we should wait for 80% or more users have monitors bigger then 1024px. If you have two column blog is not the problem to change to 16px, but for multi column site we need more space.

But I was wondering something else there are there 10 and more texts from Kant, Bukowski, Elvis also some blogs, is it easy to read? Do you have some suggestion how can we improve it? Try to be creative, we all spend hours reading on the computer, you probably think of this problem before. Please, share your experience!
Quicksilver (App launcher)

Onyx (Maintenance scripts)

Apple Developer Tools (Terminal/GCC/XCode)

SubEthaEdit (Collaborative Editing)

Textmate (Defacto standard editor)

Cyberduck (SFTP Client)

Perian (Codecs)
If you don't mind open sourcing your code I'd suggest using Google Code to host your project.

Google Code was my first experience with code repositories and using it with the TortoiseSVN right-clicky GUI software made things that much easier to manage. (I used the Windows XP version of TortoiseSVN.)

Google Code: http://code.google.com/p/support/wiki/GettingStarted
TortoiseSVN: http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/

Simple, no command line stuff, and did exactly what I needed it to do. :)
"not one single link, box or other clever device on the page gets you into your account"

I could be wrong but I would probably be tempted to click on "Your account" to get to my account.
What about an audio 'twitter'.. I can leave short voice messages for people, or for a group.

twaudio? tweaker? ugh.. I had naming things after popular web sites.
I like your redesign, it's very effective. But you're making a mistake in your text - you're combining a personal approach with 'angry' text. By doing so, you're creating an atmosphere you don't want, because people are observing a personal fight between two people. I.e, you personify the airline, then also use a personal tone, so people observe a fight, and the reactions to that will always be negative.

Follow the rule: When you go personal, make it positive. When you need to go negative, then go impersonal, allowing people to focus on the arguments you are bringing.
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You have my permission to do what you want with source code(CSS). What license is best for that?
I don't think the problem is so much that it's procrastination, but it's procrastination that seems like work. Like people noodling around with their "productivity systems". Having the option to customize things is worthwhile (I use Emacs, dwm, and screen, and have accumulated a lot of settings for each), but it's a means to an end.

When I'm hitting a dead end, I usually find it more helpful to get away from the computer entirely and go for a bike ride, work out, talk to someone, have some fruit, etc., and see the problem with a fresh mind later.
This is only my space at home, thankfully (not that my work desk is much bigger). I actually quite like my little cupboard because it's dead space in the house. I can shut myself in if I need privacy or time to myself and not have to worry about anything :)
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I'll second latex it's really quite powerful and not that hard to use. Also if your on windows check out protex it's a bundle of everything you need to get started.

Also there are latex to html converters - I'm not too familiar with them.
I appreciate the sentiment, but I disagree with your example. Responding to customer "demand" at a lower price point isn't necessarily a good move. If you're not competing on price, starting to is a bad way to go.
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MIT and BSD are clientside friendly licenses
Probably because you don't know how to code and you write a bunch of articles and annoy everyone with your pseudo-skills by clogging up every internet news aggregator with your blog spam.
With any luck, come this August I'll be attempting just that. Two co-founders in the area with full-time gainful employment, which should mitigate the risk on my end just enough.
Summary: There are a ton of sites based on helping students study/cram for college. Some professors don't like it because they can't reuse the exact same questions over and over again every year. Others think it's more or less an extension of a study group, and if there's a problem with people just copypasting answers and such it can be got around by placing less weight on assignments/homework and more on exams, where they really do test just what you actually know.

/summons lawyer
Apparently one of the sites Cramster, offers worked solutions for even numbered problems (free) and odd numbered (pay $9.95 a month unless you add content yourself) This seems legally dubious to me, on the basis that it's derivative work, like fanfic, so I imagine if one of the big university presses or publishing houses went after them they'd have to pull all that.
My morning smoothie is similar:

1 banana, frozen fruit (some form of berry, usually raspberries), 1/2 avacado, lots of soy milk (almond milk works too), couple spoonfuls of thick plain yogurt. I like adding a bit of protein powder, too, because it really makes the smoothie last until lunch.

The avocado sounds a bit weird, I know, but its what makes the smoothie, trust me. I don't use water or ice, unless I'm out of soy milk.
Take away quote from the article:

"My hypothesis is that most children are emotionally damaged by [growing up in a dysfunctional family]. But a small percentage, whose brain chemistry and wiring is set for resilience, come out of this with a compulsive, relentless and tenacious drive to succeed. They have learned to function in a permanent state of chaos. And they have channeled all this into whatever activity they could find outside of their home – sports, business, or …entrepreneurship."
I feel sorry for all those people selling scaling services on Amazon's platform. I wonder what kind of value-add is next in line, though.
I wrote this comment on ESR's site but it's in the moderation queue:

Interesting article. I myself am Danish but living in Miami. I left about 20 years ago but was back in Copenhagen for a couple of years recently. I did see a big change in Danish, in particularly with the use of English.

In the 80’s it was not all that cool to talk English all the time. It was only a few of us in the hip hop community and programmers who got a way with it. This has changed, but not in the way you might think. I think even on the street someone would be thought of as a poser if he used nothing but English.

What Danes do, do is import English words and make them their own. A lot of this I think comes from the hip hop community which has gone mainstream in Denmark in the period I was away. My 2 favorite examples of English words that have become Danish is Slice and Fck. Slice was new to me when I returned to Denmark. It means a slice of pizza. In Danish you can leave of Pizza and you can’t use “slice” for anything else unless you’re talking about servers.

Fck has become such a common use in Denmark, that I don’t think people even realize that it isn’t Danish. It is used by just about everyone younger than 40 all the time, to such extent that Danes travelling to the English speaking countries routinely and unwittingly cause offence.

So my point about these words is that while they both come from English, they have now become absorbed with changed meaning into Danish. So when I’m in a 7/11 in Copenhagen saying “give mig et slajs” I’m not actually talking English, just modern street Danish.

This absorption of new words reminds me of when I lived in Panama, where words have been imported whole sale from Jamaican and American English to the local Spanish language. The word “Man” for example means “Person” and not “Male”, which caused me never ending confusion when I heard people talking about “la man” and I thought they were talking about some guy.

My theory about what has happened in Denmark is that it is an extremely egalitarian society. Elitist language snobs are frowned upon. There was also a period (say the 80s) where very few decent TV or movies where made in Denmark. So my generation who grew up then absorbed everything we could from American and English culture. The growth of Hip Hop in Denmark has I’m certain also had a huge influence. In the 80s though there were lots of Danish groups singing in English, now I think the majority sing/rap in Danish.

I’m very interested in these kinds of changes to culture all over the world. I wrote this article about how globalization doesn’t homogenize music and food, but rather create lots of interesting new micro fusions. It’s kind of related to this debate and uses Denmark, the Philippines and others as examples.

http://stakeventures.com/articles/2007/09/18/why-globalizati...
I misread Adium as Atium.

Gave me a mental image of Kelsier (from Mistborn) responding to tweets he hasn't actually received yet.

(It's possible SOMEONE else here has read that series...)
just wanna mention my setup, which is to bind the tabs to Alt+number keys:

map <A-1> 1gt
map <A-2> 2gt
map <A-3> 3gt
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Reverse mussollini fallacy. Mussollini also made the trains go on time, so that must be bad, right?

"Genetic fitness" as a theory may or may not be true. But the fact that the Nazis based their ideology on itdoes not make it false.

Incidentally, every terrible ideology? Including communism and radical islam?
I was going to come and post this. Its a very long article to make this very simple point.
Considering that Newspapers lose money on each sale, it sounds good.

For example, a $1 newspaper costs the paper $1.50 to print and distribute. In theory, they are supposed to make back that 50 cent loss (plus cover all their other operating expenses) on advertising.

So, for a newspaper, my options are:
1) Sell a hardcopy at a $.50 loss and make $1 in profit on advertising, netting a $.50 profit
2) Make $.30 on a Kindle sale, $.50 in advertising, netting a $.50 profit, netting $.80 profit (as of now, advertisers usually won't pay as much for electronic ads).
MIT it is :)
Screenshot, please?
I agree. This guy's claims are flatly contradicted by world evidence. As I've posted here before, the Japanese diet derives half its calories from rice, and well over 70% from carbohydrates in general. Two generations ago, it was nearly 70% just from rice. As many know, the Japanese live longer and have fewer "life-style diseases" than anyone else.

Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan are similar, both in terms of diet and in exception life expectancy as compared to economic development. All around the world, there's a pretty consistent relationship between groups of big protein eaters and big people. Americans get more calories of protein than anybody else and are fatter than anyone else. Mexicans and British are close behind in both categories.

Furthermore, research on high vs low protein diets has been pretty conclusive: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=613745
Also I'd like some specific opinion on rice. It's carb, but I haven't yet seen a fat Japanese.

You've never seen a sumo match, then? :)
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The core technology comes from there but the funding comes from Sweden. Let me see if I can wrap up the argument:

Paul's argument, if I understand it, is that innovation is critical. To get it, we need to reward those who chase it, and socialistic systems with their concomitant heavily graduated tax systems don't give the necessary incentives for that to happen.

My argument: I can't imagine someone saying, "I'm not interested in innovating because if I get rich, I'll have to pay 10% more in that upper bracket to do things like make sure I don't step over the destitute and crazy on my way to lunch."

Estonia has less economic equality than Sweden, but much more than America. Switzerland has tremendous economic equality; it's contribution: the web. Finland: Linux. I could go on.

America has a great spirit of innovation and entrepreneurialism. But if to get that you have to sacrifice healthcare and education, it's not worth it.
Thanks for the link,pretty cool stuff.
I sure hope people aren't willing to pay $30 for a Kindle version of a book that sells for $35. They don't don't need storage space or stocks, they don't have to print it or take a loss on shipping. All those advantages and that is supposed to save only $5? We're being ripped off here. I wouldn't consider that a proper prize if they gave me the Kindle for free. Cut it to $10 and I'll start considering whether it's worth buying the Kindle.
To me, this was worth the 5 minutes it took to go through. Each point was supported by good observations. As a supported of agile techniques he nearly lost me after slide 9, but made up for it.

OK, the highlights. The numbers are the slides. If you disagree with one then I suggest you look at its supporting slides before criticising in detail.

9 Write a comprehensive specification
16 Evaluate possible existing solutions
21 Consider the cost of your design choices
32 Make sure your design covers all states
39 Design for reusability
45 Broadband is not a silver bullet
50 Prepare your design files read to send
58 Build your site for cheap maintenance
65 Build your site for low cost quality assurance
73 Use existing APIs

His final point was

"The best way to save money is to let someone spend theirs."

There are many faults to be exposed here, but I think there are many good points to take away from it.

Thank you for submitting this.
are there ads in the electronic (kindle) version of the newspaper?
On that note, you can also emulate Vim in Eclipse: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/
Are you truly so uninformed that you think everything offline is dying? It's been consistently shown that there has been no decline in the sale of 'paper' books, and the e-book sales are currently an entirely independent market with no effect on sales in the traditional market. [Ed: Sorry the last statement was a little incorrect, it's actually been shown through companies like Tor that the release of some of their free e-books has actually boosted paper book sales; those e-books are really killing that old system!]

If anything, book publishers have been seeing record sales of some books due to increased fan awareness and the ease of access to purchasing, like Amazon, thanks to the internet.
I don't think it's a replacement for :ls<CR>. I simply think it is worth mentioning both in an article called "Vim made easy...".
The funny thing is, there's probably 1000x as many investors talking stocks on IRC, as there are on twitter.

One of the biggest users of the Mibbit IRC widget is a share dealing community in Brazil.
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