skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Why bother replicating the Soviets? You flip flop from building multiple soviet naval carriers to the concept of nuclear arms in general, which is hard to read."

"For a political statement, a nation could make it very clearly demonstrated you have, say, a dozen."

Uh, these aren't even proper English sentences. Pardon me for not taking the rest of your paranoid fever dreams about shipping nukes via UPS even a tiny bit seriously.

Anyway, the question is not whether any of this is technically possible, but weather any of it can be done without danger of absolutely crushing retaliation. And as we all know, from the DOJ to the Pentagon, if there's one area in which the US Government excels, it's completely, insanely over-the-top retaliation.
How do you imagine it being involved?
Differences in traditional institutions ?

While it makes sense NOW, nobody would have had predicted that outcome in 1964.
And those institutions dont exist in a vacum either.

The importance of clanic indentity has increased in Somalia because of the civil war and the statelessness.
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Could it be because OTC derivatives forced us to bail out AIG?
Key words: "small, prestigious"
There is another program arranged in a similar circular shape that calculated pi experimentally using it's own source code as the circle to test.
One thing my Dad always told me about software estimates: "Take the estimate, double it, and increase the time unit by one. So if they tell you it's a couple of days effort, that's really four weeks..."
There's some truth to that, but it's also true that children are an economic factor in the lives of the poor, especially those involved in agriculture.
Well this sure is a post you made on the internet.
This happens when you are logged into google apps as admin.
Show HN: Personal Webpage
Well the financial industry doesn't exactly have a perfect track record of understanding finance either. Even smart experts are just as susceptible to biases and herd behavior as anyone else.
Strange, because I also get it on my work Google Apps email account even though I'm not an admin on that account.
Depends on yellen vs kohn, but either one is better. If it's yellen I expect a response similar to japan's equity run last fall/winter, abeonomics.
I've been thinking about what should replace Wordpress in the CMS space (as opposed to blogging). There are a lot of aspects of Wordpress that make it great, and a lot of things that make it absolutely terrible. I think part of its problem is that it seems intended to be a platform that non-developers can maintain themselves, while presenting features that really require a developer. As a result, it is not a suitable environment either for non-coders or coders.

I'd love to see a platform that is easily deployed on shared hosting (written in php, using mysql) but that lends itself better to version control and switching environments. It should keep configuration in plain text instead of in the database, and it should allow easy definition of node types in addition to the standards (post, page, comment, etc.). These should also be defined in plain text instead of in the database (I'm looking at you, Drupal). Meanwhile, theming should be just as easy as with Wordpress.

Anyway, it's good to see others trying to enter the blogging platform space and compete with Wordpress, but I really want to see a truly good CMS come along.
Why, are female orangutans known make these calls and elicit gender-reversed responses?
So Iran is working on building weapons right now, does that mean we should voluntarily disarm and then immediately rearm because we already know they're developing a nuclear capacity?

Alternately, do we really want to give Russia, China, Pakistan and India the power to dictate terms to us and our allies?
I will even suppose that something useful and important is being done in those fields--nevertheless, at the end of the day, I can point to my computer or bike and say "Engineering and hard science made this possible", and they can't point to a damned thing anyone cares about.

Ahem. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Simpsons
Interesting. Since I am admin on my Google Apps account, I assumed it must be for that. Guess all Apps accounts get it.
A market economy presupposes a market ruled by supply and demand, free from regulatory interference. In such a market, there is no inherent mechanism to make the rich richer, or the poor poorer.

Rather it's human behaviour which determines wealth and distribution of wealth. So while this effect is certainly something that economists study and will continue to study, it's entirely due to human behaviour, independent of the 'type' of economy. Even in Communist countries you see this effect - the ruling party consolidate their wealth and power while the subjects are handed out a finite amount of resources/wealth.
Filling in the first row from the center out beats the AI every time.... I'm sure the AI is a technical marvel - still needs some work though.
Break on access to a property in JS
There have been a ton of CMS's written I think the problem is just adoption. Without mass adoption you don't get much in the way of ready extensibility. Thats one area wordpress really has the space on lockdown.
I agree with you completely. Just saying that the involvement with corporate sponsors will bring out the conspiracy theorists in droves.
I think Laravel 4 would be a good start for something like that, with Twig as the templating engine. Use as many existing, open source solutions as possible.
People getting rich of bitcoin are the enthusiasts who understand it and use it daily, like myself
The layout looks great, with an easier layout to learn than my DataHand--but do you ever miss the option/Windows key being in a convenient location? Or is the diamond convenient enough? My Topres require as little as 35g of pressure--what is the activation force required here? And do you miss being able to type "cd" quickly with a two finger combo due to the straight columns?
Depens on what you think about when you think about colonialism.

If you're thinking about the period when Africa was ruled by European power, I'd say it didnt help (mostly because of the deeply authoritarian aspect of that rule) but there wasnt much to destroy at that point.

Then there is the period Right before which has some deeper effect on trust, corruption, institutions, stability, trade, population movements: the transatlantic slave trade.

Edit: and the eastern one too.
But we're discussing what would be the case if the US gave up its nukes.
Reminds me of the episode of the Daily Show where Neil deGrasse Tyson informs Jon Stewart that the Earth is spinning in the wrong direction in the opening credits of the show

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy3PgFhIpyM#t=0m56s
Maybe it was coded on board the ISS.
Are there any other CMSs that are actually better than WP but that haven't been adopted? I've seen some that are intriguing, but ultimately most seem to have the same problems, such as stored configuration in the DB.
I came here to say this. I think there is more than a kernel of truth in it - it helps you remember that effort almost always never equals duration.
> Is the average criminal really twittering information about their crimes?

No, but observers may be. Think Seattle WTO 1999...
That book is essentially worthless. Its methodology is to read through philosophers and literary critics, find places where they talk about science, evaluate whether they talk about science accurately, and when they do not, to dismiss their work.

Picking out bad analogies and inapposite asides is not a good use of anyone's time.
A proper luxury product should debase the consumer, ie,

"LoJack for luxury handbags" that would adapt radio tags for monitoring wild animals to the task. (Sans Civets.)
I'm a programmer, so as opposed to prose-like text typers, I heavily use Enter for newlines. And I exclusively use my right hand's pinky finger to press it without precise aiming/thinking/looking.

It is really hard for me to do this for non-L Enters.
We had to read all three, Plato, Nietzche, and Kant, in high school. (I went to a Jesuit school, though).
lets get krugman lolololol
How to receive your Payoneer Prepaid debit MasterCard via DHL or FEDEX
In general I find it very odd for a company to change the favicon for a domain or site since it's meant to aid which recognition of what tabs go with what sites you are familiar with. Putting an icon that is unrelated to your own logo destroys the ability for the user to recognize their gmail tab quickly. At best, their intent could be that this is meant as a placeholder favicon until the user sets his/her own custom one. But even in that case, I'd except the regular Gmail favicon until the user feels compelled to seek out this configuration and set it themselves.
I think the hard line to see is between "better leveraging the type system" and "trying to fit it all in the type system."
Has anyone noticed they increased background noise when demonstrating the volume of the keyboard?
I see there's lots of insightful comments here from "digital nomads." Are there any good forums or communities online where you congregate to discuss these issues?
My daily driver is the kinesis advantage.

http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/advantage.htm
Scott Sumner (http://www.themoneyillusion.com) and Nick Rowe (http://worthwhile.typepad.com/) have done an incredible job at helping me understand money and its role in the economy even though I have no training in economics. It's worth going back and reading their archives.
Tickmarks don't work here, you need to indent by two spaces.

https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
Personally, I suspect that a few governments track where pretty much all the nuclear material is in the world, given the public state of ground penetrating radar technology and the likelyhood of advanced versions of that tech being put on satellites.
The proven track record, of course.
Janet Yellen might as well the the first woman Fed chairman. We have first-woman for pretty much everything else already, so this will be good. Next up, Hilary for President ;)
obviously, the OP didn't go to Ha-vard.
What if you don't make money from it now, but use what you learned to profit ten minutes later? How about 10 days later? Or 10 years later?

Non-commercial use for something that is directly involved in the production of something else is fairly easy to determine; it depends on whether that something else is sold for money or not.

But for analytical software like this prover, you could indirectly use it to improve something that is sold for money, but the process of improvement is not necessarily a commercial transaction. It could be performed by students at a university, for example. I have in mind formal verification of program invariants, with potential identification of breaks, as an example.
"Commercial = I make money from using this; Non-commercial = NOT commercial
"

False.
There are cases where commercial was held to mean "any use by a for profit company, regardless if the use is research, earns money directly or indirectly", etc.
What happens when the blogs that inevitably grow bigger than a platform need to turn into a community and something more? Surely just a blogging platform will not suffice.

How many people actually use Wordpress for just a blog, anyway? This is all reminiscent of the early blogging platforms that did one thing well but in reality most people need more than that one thing if it's something more than an area to post personal musings.
Ask HN: Is there a way I can make $10,000 before the end of December?
I want to earn $10,000 before the end of December. I'm a student and an app developer (iOS and Windows Phone). I took the fall semester off to do some more work but my apps aren't really making much money.

My goal was to develop more apps which in turn would net me more money but I don't think it's a viable plan. I just want to make enough so I can get through school without any problems. That's how I settled on the 10K figure.

What do you guys think I should do? I'm open to any and all suggestions.
This is a theme for WordPress, is it not?
I downloaded Kodu game labs for my 9 year old. http://fuse.microsoft.com/projects/kodu

He asked me "How do I use it?" I told him that I didn't know, and that he should watch the tutorials. An hour later I came back and he had made a game where all the characters attacked each other automatically. He showed me how he chose the characters responses (if this happens, then do that). I thought it was pretty cool. I still don't know how to use the software, but he has made a bunch of little games.
Thanks, that clears it up. I suppose we can't really complain about poor proofing, seeing as they are giving away this content for free.
With how much liquity floats around today, there's no such thing as too risky. No, Vinod jumps in early exactly to maximize leverage and over the founders and other investors. Why not simply treat them like any other seed? Then leverage over time with pro rata rights? As an angel, did you ever require insane positioning? And angel investing, as you know, is pretty risky. Seriously, two seats, take a step back see that you are justifying a terrible position for founders right out if the box, most especially when they take the options pool from their shares as well. You talk like it's charity when it's robbery, and then of course Vinod's ego runs wild on them.

I note here you keep failing to answer my questions. Bad Vinod is real and it's not just the experiments. With first time founders, the word is to be very careful with KV and many choose to avoid altogether. New founders, less connected in the Valley, are especially vulnerable.
Let me tell you what I did to get a job with a philosophy (and a sociology m.a.) degree:

- took a programming specialist course (this is how they are calling it over here)

- found a job

- profit

The fancy thing is philosophy is not a technical profession, like medicine or engineering, and I dare say it does not have the aim of making its students to "get a job". You can write books and maybe be another Zizek but more often, you do not do that, or rather cannot do that because life wants you to find a job and get your own life ASAP.

Which sucks, sucks because if I am doing a job which is totally unrelated to the education I have taken, why did I lose all that time and money? To get a piece of paper?
I am about to receive Ph D in the social sciences, an MA in anthro, tons of discussions with sociology students. I am sure that you wouldn't be satisfied, but I am not in the "very little knowledge" category.

And I am very pro-science, which is why I am anti social science. THe latter would be more intellectually honest to say "really, we would be lucky if we were in the same place as the alchemists were in the 12th century". Instead they fill journals with ideological crap that (in) directly supports their power struggles.

> All of these fields are intensely focused on empirical evidence, statistical testing, and sturdy experimental design.

Yeah whatever. The use of regression as the end-all be-all scientific magic that justifies a theory is the basic problem. What most sociologists don't understand is the difference, in real science (Physics, say), between a linear and a non-linear system. Most systems of any consequence, including orbiting planets, are nonlinear; if we could actually model human interaction, it would be nonlinear too. So a regression method might be able to describe a very local effect, but it has as much validity as a complete (global) model as a straight line does in describing the elliptical movement of the planets -- ie, none.

Furthermore, we have no real way yet to test social theories, which have too many moving parts to get a clear signal in an experiment, much less get consistent between repeating experiments. Without repeatable experiments, we don't have science. Post-hoc regression is not the same as an experiment. No offense, but most of the "science" in these fields is, in my estimation, nothing more than a Roman soothsayer making sure to get the incantations and the colors of his robes just right. We just have no fucking clue why stuff happens, for the most part, just like them.
More than likely the problem is the same as in other poor African countries, as well as the Caribbean: Corruption.

Corruption saps a country of it's wealth, enabling a small minority to enrich themselves. My wife comes from a country that has never had any sort of war, yet is about on par with most west-African countries who have seen decades of war. When there's systemic corruption, encouraging any sort of investment is impossible, and wealth doesn't stay in the country.
(Let's keep this civil, free from personal attacks. Save them for more serious problems in the tech world, like racism/misogyny.)

Social fields lead to people questioning local power systems, like states. These power systems happen to also fund research.

Take economics for instance. A rational curriculum would help people invent more advanced economic systems. Textbooks might try to enumerate many possible kinds of economic systems (encouraging students to do better), and we might spend at least billions experimenting with radically different alternatives. We'd encourage diverse researchers, particularly from groups suffering under the current economic regime. (As they'd naturally have interesting critiques.) The only thing like this I've seen is Z's "economic vision instructional", which is outside the university system.

But unfortunately, we're in a universe where economists basically work within a religious priesthood, to constrain solutions. Universities may tolerate certain ideological rivals to state religions, but within bounds. (So capitalist states may be fine with top-down forms of marxism.)

Even the hard sciences are under attack. Take (http://disciplinedminds.com/). However, states see the sciences as important to their economies. And the problem of the soft social "sciences" is that science doesn't easily apply to complex systems like psychology. There are other modes of inquiry than just science. But social pseudoscientists (like economists) naturally want the hard-won respect accorded to hard sciences.
We're not going to nuke Tehran. Full stop.

Even if the Iranians detonated a nuke in Times Square (which, come on), we wouldn't respond with a mass atrocity of our own. We'd invade, yes. And we'd absofuckinglutly destroy the Revolutionary Guard. But indiscriminate mass murder extending into the millions?

Get real.

Also, how does having nuclear arms allow these countries to "dictate terms" to us our allies? What, sign this trade deal or we'll nuke you?

Even without nuclear arms, the Pentagon runs the largest and most lethal military force ever assembled in all of human existence. So yes, we're perfectly safe without our nukes, even if others have them. Also, we're rich enough and technologically sophisticated enough to rebuild our stocks very, very quickly if anyone is foolish enough to threaten us with armageddon. But again, why bother, when we have so many other ways to respond?
In terms of applicability, SMT (satisfiability module theory) solvers basically allow you to do things which are slightly more complex than plain SAT solving.

If you're looking to learn more, Leonardo has a nice introduction to SMT and its applications over here: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1995394. To make a long story short, various problems in program verification and static analysis have seen success with SMT.

/some academic navel-gazing follows.

Yices (http://yices.csl.sri.com/index.shtml) and Z3 are the two main SMT solvers used by academics today. Yices is the "original" solver and was developed by Leonardo de Moura and Bruno Dutertre at SRI in the mid-2000s. At some point towards the end of the last decade, Leonardo moved to Microsoft Research and for reasons which are unclear started working on Z3 independently. I am told that Z3 is a slightly faster solver today.
"...The gist of why estimates are hard: every new piece of software is a machine that has never been built before..."

Yes, and that's why a lightweight, repeatable estimation process beats every other way of doing it. As you continue to estimate, you create and refine a mental model of the project's complexity. For some projects, you're able to create a mental model that has high fidelity quite easily. For others, it takes a bit of work. The entire article here was an exposition on this fact.

Some folks figure that out and want to just give up. Estimation is impossible! Other folks, however, are going to figure it out if it kills them. What happens in these cases is they start to list every possible variable that could be involved in such a model in every scenario, and then create one uber, ultimate, super model that works in all situations.

Over time and through lots of trial and error, both approaches have been found to be bullshit. Instead of giving up, or creating more and more complex models that take more and more time to work, with each project you're better off starting with the most ludicrously simple model you can and then adding complexity as needed. The trick is incremental complexity, repetition, and convergence. If you have that nailed, the details of your actual model, oddly enough, do not matter that much.

Obligatory link to previous comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6389227
In semi-fairness(?) to trend-following humanities scholars, deconstruction is a little bit passe by now anyway. (It's telling that the article we're talking about is from 1993). Badiou is the big new star, Deleuze/Guattari is much edgier, and Zizek has a stranglehold on the mass teenybopper market. Deconstruction still retains some following but some people kept Yahoo as their homepage all through the 00's.

It's useful as an intellectual exercise to analyze the theoretical merits and shortcomings of deconstruction, but because I'm a basically shallow person I'd like to point out that in terms of hipness and relevance we may as well be analyzing the music of Hall & Oates.
No idea. But we recently hired someone who had to go through him as well.

Our candidate said the same thing about him, though he did get through his interview unscathed.
In Beyond Good and Evil he talks about how the slave morality of Judeo-Christianity brilliantly overthrew its masters. Go look it up.

Derrida read a lot of Heidegger, even wrote some essays on him before Gramma-whatever. Heidegger used the german phrase "destruktion" of the basic ontology of western society. Go look that up too.
Why was there so much pressure to write absurd loans? Because the derivatives market was so lucrative. It's all connected. The housing bubble wouldn't have been what it was without all the extra money made available by people buying and repackaging mortgages.
I'm looking forward to getting the BETA as well. I have been e-stalking this project :)
I think the problem is that developers(including myself) tend to make estimates assuming that they're not going to find anything that makes them say WTF! Code is never perfect and it's extremely difficult to know how much time it's going to take to dissect and restructure code to accommodate your new feature.