skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It definitely wasn't an application of Occam's razor. Sigh, what is everyone's obsessions with retrofitting a small amount of logical tools everywhere?
CitizensAgainst StreetHoodlums
This group connected to me on myspace. I followed their link to Facebook. I'm trying to figure out what their interest is in me because I am neither a veteran or in law enforcement or any of the people they describe that they are focusing on.
Can't speak for other OSes but Mac OS X has a Dvorak layout that switches to Qwerty for hotkeys. I leaned on this pretty heavily when I first switched to Dvorak.
I studied the Dao in a Chinese History course only briefly and one of the statements that I particularly like is wrapped up nicely here: http://www.myrkothum.com/the-meaning-of-the-finger-pointing-...

It's almost obvious when you think about it that abstraction necessitates containers like memory pointers and that referencing the abstractions is more efficient, but in the magic of our minds, the underlying truth is not guaranteed to still be there.

Another quality of what I read in Daodejing is that it basically proclaims itself to only be such a pointer, and that the truth can't be contained and still have a word to call it by. How many other philosophies and religions do you know that try to explain all and -do- claim to have all the answers or have proponents who claim that every truth can be found within their corpus? I did come away believing that Laozi had captured the fact that any all-inclusive truth is ineffable, something that can be logically reinforced by studying paradoxes such as Russel's paradox and self-reference.

To sum up the paradox. Define a set of all sets. The set itself is a set, so in order to be the set of all sets, it has to contain itself. Writing a program to create this set will obviously never terminate because any result must be put inside the result, so there can be no final result. Cool resolutions to many problems of natural thought that would otherwise spiral off into infinity. Teaches you to recognize them and terminate the process, freeing memory and mental cycles for other things.
That doesn't seem like a reasonable presumption to me. You can't do justice to major belief systems even at a high level if you squeeze it into part of a course on a different topic.
You can't live comfortably in Austria for $1000(~737 eur)/m. I've lived in Vienna for 8 years and that will just be about enough to live like a frugal student.
I certainly wouldn't ask you to :) I'd like to prove the service first before monetizing. However, you say you wouldn't list your app: does that mean you wouldn't want your apps selected even if you didn't have to do anything?
I don't typically manage hostnames, but I use planets from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy for removable drives.

Unrelated: if you use the time measurement list for hostnames, or anything else that other people have to type, please for the love of God spell "millennium" correctly.
Colemak user here.

Yes it will slow you down when using QWERTY but if you are using both daily it is barely noticeable.
The only way countries have /ever/ developed is by the production of value, products that a market wants to buy, usually an export market. Handing out free money doesn't help to achieve that goal. It just perpetualtes dependence.

It seems to be the "new hip thing" within the aid-industrial complex, though. I hope it will not do too much damage to these societies, like many of the previous "effective forms of aid" did.
I recently designed several themes for a website. To simplify my naming process, I decided to find, like OP did, an already defined list of names and ended up using Paris' Métro stations [1].

Some examples:

- Alesia
- Concorde
- Dupleix
- Exelmans
- Madeleine
- Pyramides
- Solferino
- Trocadero
- Voltaire
- Wagram

As a bonus, you can use the Métro lines' color to visually identify your themes (or hostnames).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Paris_metro_stations
Yeah, I didn't explain very well, but that's what I meant by needing a world government with a strong rule of law - the minimum wage would need to be implemented across the board, or it just ends up screwing people in the country that implemented it.
You are absolutely correct. That being said, I "disliked" COBOL as I used to be a mainframe programmer. It's a foul, foul language, but ironically, owes much of its success to that (long story).
Why would that sound silly? One example is European/US colonization and related efforts in recent times. Foreigners taking over your country is something you _should_ be worried about if you are paying any attention to history. The wealth differential in countries like the US, would be a huge advantage for foreigners to take over business markets if it weren't for laws like that.
Because Harvard awards degrees based on a GPA cut-off that ensures only 50% of the graduating class get Latin honors.

So if you were a Harvard student who wanted to get Latin honors (...of which there are more than a few) it's in your best interests to take the easiest general-education (core) courses to ensure you have more breathing space for studies in your major.

I Head TA'd a core curriculum class at Harvard, and you would be amazed at the number of seniors who e-mailed me once grades came out begging to be bumped up as it meant their GPA would be pushed over the honors cut-off.

This was one reason why the Harvard cheating scandal last year was so widespread: the course fulfilled a core requirement, and it had a reputation for being very easy, hence hundreds of people took it.
If giving $20 to a Kenyan does more good, and you think the most moral thing is to direct your efforts where they do the most good, then there's how they're not morally equivalent.
Also, it's sort of condescending. No Western professor teaches Heidegger or Schopenhauer by breaking them up into easy-to-digest, feel-good aphorisms for better living.

That might explain Hegel's obscurity.
The top 10-20 business schools will do fine. Those that are specialized will do fine. Very cheap ones will do ok but the middle and lower middle are going to get squeezed. The Jc Pennys of business schools are going to have some painful reorganization in a few years. But the management biz profs should know how to handle that right?
Because then you graduate with Harvard University on your resume and can slack your way through management consulting or hedge fund jobs, racking up a nice nest egg in the process. There is a stark difference in workload between studying Ancient Chinese Philosophy vs. Quantum Mechanics.

Harvard students are not stupid, and quite rationally choose the path that gives them the greatest returns for the lowest effort.
As somebody who has administered Mono apps in production, Mono is a huge pain in the arse. This was a year or two ago so mono may have improved, but you're always going to be somewhat behind the cutting edge, and you'll be suffering through much more sysadmin headaches than if you were running a python app. This essentially means you've got to stick with Windows if you want to run C#. Any why would you tie yourself to a dying ecosystem like that?
Possibly, except my point was Meem is hardly random. If everyone took that initiative, Meem would get a ton of support because of the publicity--but no one else would.
When to send push notifications?
While the regulations that do exist are weak, they are an improvement over existing conditions. What's saddening is that there have even been a number of cases where the engineers in regulatory agencies have gone into factories and reported structural failures and fire code violations to their superiors only to have it completely shut down.

In most cases in Bangladesh corruption occurs at the inspection level with relatively low-level individuals. That the factory owners have been able to buy out the higher level officials that the inspecting teams report to is troubling and has me worried.
You're pretty much right.

This has no production value. This is great "look at this thing that we can do" video but the reason no one else attempts it is because there is no next step. They didn't just stop at 744 meters for no reason, fuel is the limitation here.

It is impossible(unless you want to build something the size of Saturn V again) to put enough fuel on a launch vehicle to carry a satellite to orbit and then land it back like this.

I don't have the exact data, but as an guesstimate it would take twice as much fuel(fuel + "return fuel") to land the rocket back like this. We also need to put in extra fuel to take the "return fuel" up there in the first place...you get the idea.

Extremely un-economical. I do not see a next step for grasshopper because building another rocket is cheaper than returning the engine back like this.
I meant the curation: however, it's interesting that you bring up the Humble Bundle, as I was considering going that route as well.

There are multiple takes on the idea: one being more of an index of high-quality games/apps, and the other being a HB-style sale (which of course, would contain only high-quality apps).

As a consumer, which would you prefer?
I think the argument is that initial capital can jumpstart that production of value. If you spend 10 hours a week maintaining your straw roof, and then someone buys you a metal roof, you can now spend those 10 hours a week on an exportable trade/product.
They might be simple input validation filters created using the create_function() function which allowed you to create anonymous functions of sorts in PHP prior to 5.3. You can't assign an anonymous function to a constant. An alternative would have been to include a big switch statement in the param_get_slashed() function but since the same validators are used in a bunch of places it seems cleaner to use anonymous functions and have each function that uses them loop through and call each function passing the parameter named in the array key in as an argument
Strange Economics
Right. That's important to make this program work, and it's an unusual set of circumstances. Not many places have both extremely poor people and a high-quality mobile payment network!

Bad stuff can still happen: people could potentially be swindled or harassed out of their cash once they get it. But at least getting it there is a huge step.

Also, perhaps one thing you can take from this is that a full-featured mobile payment network needn't be thought of just as conveniences for the first world. It also makes stuff like this possible.
> No Western professor teaches Heidegger or Schopenhauer by breaking them up into easy-to-digest, feel-good aphorisms for better living.

This is true, but there is comparable treatment in early Greek and Hellenistic philosophy, with multiple schools arguing very different things getting lumped together as if they are the same.
"In 2007, the majority of Australians (60.8%) over 14 years of age drank alcohol at levels that involved a low risk of harm."

There are laws regarding the responsible service of alcohol. That's why every bartender has done the RSA. The problem you describe effects a minority of the population.

The fact that the person that served you couldn't discern that you were intoxicated isn't only their fault. You have a personal responsibility to limit your own consumption. Just as a person that's drunk and decides to drive home is responsible for the decision to take that action.

No one is forcing you to do anything. Bartenders do due diligence as is required by law for them to do.
Yes, is the Sdk somehow locked to the processor serial? How does production work?
On a sidenote, I never found out why French keyboards switched both the Q and W keys to turn it into AZERTY (and why the M was moved next to the L).
Well... In a nutshell the north is poor and south is rich and full of international tourism.

It's something weird of Argentina as a country, 50% of the population lives only in the capital, Buenos Aires. The capital has always had a lot of power (they used to have access to the only port of the city, so they kept ALL the taxes money, while all other provinces received none and were not allowed to have a port).

So, only people in Buenos Aires were rich, everyone else was poor, what made the south "not poor" is the fact that basically nobody lived there (because of "La conquista del desierto" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conquest_of_the_Desert), people moved south from Buenos Aires to find new customers, find new oportunities and just avoid the "city life".

Also, the south is full of international tourism, cities like Bariloche are full of immigrants and a beautiful Apine-styled architecture, tourists and outsiders are treated quite nicely :)

The north on the other hand has a very native south american culture as there are a lot of immigrants from Bolivia and Peru which have a strong native south american lineage, people is closed-minded and isn't really used to outsiders.
The courses which changed my life the most were those which covered history, literature, and philosophy. The courses may have been easy in many ways, but they left a profound mark on me.
My guess is that companies will offer to "write nice proposals" for groups of poor people to get free money and then charge 30% as a fee from them.
"recommends users switch to dominant URL shortener bit.ly"

Often old links can't be changed – easily or even at all. (Tweets can't be edited, for example.)

URL redirection is such a lightweight service that Yahoo/Bread should commit to either redirect indefinitely or ship the mappings and domain off to someone else who will.
I was a philosophy major scheduled to graduate in May 2013, so I have some relevant experience. When I left Hamilton in Feb. 2012, I had only 3 classes under my belt and less programming experience than you do now. As an engineer at a large company and now at a start-up, here's what I can tell you.

1) When people ask what I do, I tell them I am a philosopher and a typist[1]. It sounds like a joke, but I'm serious. Most of programming can be broken out between solving the problem and then typing it out (syntax, semantics, style.) For the 'solving the problem' piece, you've been trained to solve abstract problems, to logically work your way towards a holistic, pragmatic solution.

Don't underestimate that.

I reference Wittgenstein and Berlin when writing API documentation. I look to Plato to decouple architecture and encourage sane data-modeling. You have one hell of an advantage. Computer science has been around for 60 years; you're leveraging the wisdom of thousands of years of accumulated problem solving.

2) Do it. You can spend your tuition on learning at a hacker school, but nothing will prepare you like building it yourself. Build yourself a website. It can start by being static with HTML and CSS. Then merge that into a framework (Rails/Django) deployed on Heroku. Then provision your own VPS and deploy it there. You can over-engineer the hell out of a simple website. For a job, never do this. For your personal projects, go apeshit. You need to learn fast. Not all of the implementation details of every technology, but the mental models.

The largest blocker for you right now is that you don't know what to Google. You're smart enough to solve any problem, but you don't yet have the experience to accurately frame them.

I would recommend working as an intern to learn the basics. Get familiar with the problems.

If you have any questions, I'd love to talk more. Shoot me an email at chris at zenpayroll dot com.

(1) http://twitter.com/comaddox
I know that argument, but it is incorrect.

Production needs to be efficient in order to compete. Efficiency needs knowledge. These "groups of poor" lack that knowledge. And the amount of free money is way to low to produce anything with enough surplus value. How many unskilled carpenters, metal workers, and hair stylists do they need? I am currently in Kenya, and the amount of barber shops is amazing.

Production of value is stuff that a country can export, to earn hard currency that can buy knowledge to increase the country's production efficiency. Like Taiwan did, and Korea, and Malaysia, and China, and any country that has ever successfully developed in the past 70 years.

But the aid curse will not allow it, unfortunately.
The noteworthy bit is that writers for such introductions are expected to work for free.
I read the Analects of Confucius. It's a good one because like Gilgamesh it was created outside of the constant necessary glorified warfare world of the Old Testament and the Iliad and the Odyssey. There's so much conflict and war culture interwoven into everything in the west it's hard to figure out that that's not all there is to public life. Eastern religion, even Confucius who is seen as more conservative and hierarchical, is far more serene.
I do this too, but then my confidence takes a dive shortly after that point, and recovers only when I'm making the closing statements.
Twitter’s Dick Costolo Was Fired (And Rehired) in 2010
> Sigh, what is everyone's obsessions with retrofitting a small amount of logical tools everywhere?

It makes them feel smart. I'm going to put my head through a wall next time I see someone type 'fallacy.'
Both questions can be answered with Facebook. For messaging though, Whatsapp is very common here these days. I don't like the service at all, but you're almost out of the loop if you avoid it - well, at least among my friends.
I think both these explanations are missing that there are many factors behind successful economic development, and increasing one factor of production will help if it is the limiting factor, but hurt if it is already abundant.

If you give money to people who already have technical know-how, a willing market, a solid distribution network, and a stable legal system but just lack access to capital, it will usually have very good returns. If you give it to people who have none of these, it will get spent on whatever good happens to be available, usually booze. If you replace the government of a country that has capital, an educated populace, and solid infrastructure but suffers from endemic corruption and lack of solid legal foundations, you will probably also help spur economic development.

What I wish more poverty-alleviation problems did was focus on identifying and eliminating bottlenecks to economic growth. The casual American readership loves to think there's one solution and then loves to argue over what it is, but I don't think it works that way. Poverty is complex; the reason that inner-city Baltimore is poor is very different from the reason Kenya is poor, which is different from why rural China is poor.
Ignoring the fact that China was at a near continuous state of war during the time of Confucius, with many huge and bloody battles as the various Chinese states tried to conquer each other.
can you build one for $14k?

if not, pg won't know anything about it.
python -c "import random; print random.choice(open('/usr/share/dict/words').read().split())"

Nerd factor: really, really high.

P.S. you're still allowed to exercise the power of veto.

I've managed to convince others to let me use this technique to form a team name in a couple of Uni projects.
I've been using Colemak for a couple years now - but instead of learning it with my laptop's keyboard, I learnt it with a new Kinesis Advantage Pro. I now find that if I'm using a standard keyboard, I can type qwerty without much more difficulty before, but if I'm using the Kinesis, I have no trouble touch typing Colemak. My guess is that the massive difference in the actual keyboards stops my brain from getting confused.
Self service checkouts are there because they trust you. :-)
it's too bad I live in ATX, or I'd try them.
I saw this post and came to write a comment about "save yourself some trouble, make it random or positional and just have a functional inventory system which you'll need anyway" but hey, look, it's gmjosack beating me to it! ;)
More from one of cjbprime's sources: GiveWell does a lot of evaluation of charities, trying to find where an individual donor's dollar can make the most difference. They hold donations to GiveDirectly to a pretty high standard, comparing it against stuff like antimalarial bednets and deworming, and think it comes out looking alright. In addition to cjbprime's link, they've written:

1) Cash transfers intervention report--talking about where recipients spend the money, GiveWell's worries about transfers, and studies on the topic:
http://www.givewell.org/international/technical/programs/cas...

2) The Case For Cash--posted after their recommendation of GiveDirectly, talking about how a one-time cash transfer can have long-term benefits and how giving to the third-world poor differs from giving to the U.S. poor: http://blog.givewell.org/2012/12/26/the-case-for-cash-2/

3) Responses to objections on cash transfers--mostly about more in-the-weeds issues, like how to interpret their numerical comparisons among cash, bednets and deworming: http://blog.givewell.org/2013/07/31/responses-to-objections-...

They produce a lot of thoughtful research with a lot of effort to ground their recommendations in reality--browsing around their site a bit is a pretty rewarding use of time if you're interested in this kind of thing.
If anyone is missing Bread, my friend made a service that is exactly like it: https://shrinkonce.com/
We use character codenames from the Metal Gear Solid universe. Ocelot, Octopus, Raven, Wolf, etc.
Also take a look at Antichthon Universalis (http://triptico.com/artwork/antichthon_universalis.html). The artwork is not as stunning (far from), but at least it's a real cypher with real meaning, still unbroken.
In this case it was a profitable business and the guy was also hiring locals. There are probably tax considerations and I would say this is breaking the spirit of the law.

Those shared work spaces could be subsidized to encourage locals so taking advantage of that is problematic.

It would be different if he was just building his product, no business entity and no local hires...
Food fadism: exposing the gluten myth
What is ridiculous is that industrial hemp is grown in Canada and then imported by American car companies, to use in the production of certain car parts.

So Ford (for example) can import industrial hemp to the USA, but it was not allowed to be grown in the USA...
> If your local filesystem is literally an untrusted source, then you have big problems.

When has an easy to use general purpose data serialization format ever stayed put on local filesystems?
Looks cool, can't wait to play with it.
> a programmer's text editor (such as ed

YES. Clearly the capricious abregation of Ed was where we went wrong. Let the faithful return!

http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.txt
Some are lazy. Some don't care. Some are taking them because they want to be able to focus more of their efforts on other, more challenging courses that are more related to their field of study/actual interest while also maintaining some sort of life.
I don't know why these students are taking it, but reading Zhuangzi in college was an eye opener, as the philosophy contained within runs almost paradoxical to traditional Western thought. Those reading are very short and contain many fascinating insights http://www.amazon.com/Chuang-Tzu-Writings-Burton-Watson/dp/0...
Because they are all Chinese?