skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or lead to new, possibly more motivating, reasons to work for academic success.

Perhaps teaching will have to change and therefore improve. Maybe instead of spending time memorizing data for fear of a bad grade, students spend time really learning about the subject now that the focus is on the subject rather than the grade.
I don't think that it has gotten to that point or near it very often.

This is what makes it more economical.

other things like media & information to project their power

Yes, but behind all that, there's guns.
Why Asia's Rise Shouldn't be Assumed
You're going to look like a moron driving that Smart Car.
Hrmm. Many essays extolling the virtues of grit (see 'current issue), but how are they measuring it? Why do people have grit in some situations and not others? Do people with especially low self-esteem have more or less grit? There's a lot of hand-waving going on.

The most useful article of the bunch seems to be this one, focusing on how to develop and extend one's persistent side: http://www.incharacter.org/article.php?article=151
I'm surprised no-one has yet pointed out that #15 does not work in FireFox 3 (I happen to know the answer and was confused that there seemed to be no way to enter it - until I switched to Safari.)
A horrible rule.
You go to war with the brain you have, not the brain you wish you had. The best you can do is be aware of these emotionally-charged valences so that you are able to discount them when appropriate.

Besides, even if you could completely turn off these processes, I am not sure that you would want to. By calling it the reptilian brain you make it sound like it is only appropriate for reptiles. The fact is, the same system that tells us instinctually that snakes are threats is probably involved in much of what is called "people skills". Normal social interactions would be at a huge disadvantage without them.
In my mind, reentrancy is associated with threading, and implies that the code could be executing in multiple locations simultaneously, whereas an idempotent operation is one that can be repeated multiple times without negative side effects.
Not to mention people who have his music on records and tapes but not CDs or MP3s.
How are they funding this? Is everybody just chipping in $100 a month?
Sitting on Panels
Or emacs-w3m (http://emacs-w3m.namazu.org/), if you're on Unix.
vimperator + yubnub = awesome
Of course, there's also the singleton that always returns itself:

>>> recursive = lambda: recursive
Your professors/program didn't serve you well, then. State machines are heavily used in computer games and for programming simple devices.
Watch out for using ActiveRecord’s update_attributes on dirty objects
There is one huge bit of information missing which makes this whole though process moot. What is the default case? If a ticket owner doesn't do anything do they get their money back or get a ticket? This will determine more then any other factor how many tickets are out on the market. People are really lazy. Assuming that everyone went and selected what they wanted (impossible) we get two cases for the $150 ticket, and two outcomes:

- Tickets are worth $5000
-- I keep it : I make a killing (or keep it), either way I have a great story to tell
-- I sell it for $150 now. I have a sad story to sell and look foolish if I told other people I sold it.

- Tickets are worth $50
- I keep it : I sell it later and loose $100 and either sell it or store it away and never tell anyone.
- I sell it: I get all my $150 back, but the story really just comes out that I was lucky.

Adding in the ability to have a really good story and piece of history for only $100 seem like a win case.
Idempotency is a property of mathematical functions: f : X -> X is idempotent iff f(f(x)) = f(x) for all x in X. Absolute value is an example of an idempotent function.

Reentrancy is a property of computational functions: a function f is reentrant if two copies of f can run at the same time (in the same memory space, etc. -- the details vary) and both copies behave as if the other weren't running. This can exclude or restrict, e.g. static fields or global variables.
"And wheat bread is probably a lot healthier than rice, even brown rice."

No dice. Wheat and rice have a similar nutritional profile, however the more grains are processed, the more nutritional value they lose. Bread made from bleached flour is about as nutritional as sugar water; this is why it has to be fortified with vitamins, which sound pretty on the label but aren't actually digested the same way as they would be if the wheat was processed less. Rice (even white rice) beats out bread every time.
The article is discussing people who are good at ignoring short-term gratification in favor of long-term achievement. These people care about their future, so they have to give a shit about the present.

That being said, I agree that the current educational system makes it pretty hard to have this attitude. I certainly didn't.
Yup. Individual contributions of $100 a month pooled together.
People often hold compulsory education in the same esteem as at-will employment, analyzing it as though it were the student's "job,"

agreed. education lags 25+ years behind the realities of being a productive member of society.
I have no idea what an objective analysis of todo lists would look like. A simple list of features? That wouldn't be very useful.
Blog about website design + blog post about website security = Excellent source of well-intended data that perpetuates PHP code that people think is secure

For a better post on securing PHP scripts, see IBM's post at http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-php-... or just see http://shiflett.org/blog/2006/jan/addslashes-versus-mysql-re... to understand why anyone recommending addslashes should be ignored.
$250,000 is next to nothing for a movie budget. It can't be done. Here is why. Aside actual pre-production, production and post-production costs (which COULD be done for $250,000 - though more realistic budget is $2-3 mil), there is a print distribution cost which can get REALLY high.

Distribution copies are expensive, about $1200 per reel copy if you are really lucky (multiply with about at least 1200 screens for a moderate indie flick (about $1.5 mil).

If you think targeting digital distribution sites is another option - think again. You still pay print copy equivalent expense, but not to the print service company, but to the actual screen venue. This is a ploy George Lucas "invented" and pushed onto screening venues in order to push the cost of digital screens to the distribution companies instead of the screening venues. This will last for at least 5 years from when the venue bought digital screening platform.

Then, there is a marketing cost. In A+ budget titles it is in the order of $30-40+ mil. So when you hear about, I don't know, Spiderman 4 having a budget of $200 mil., it means about 60% of that is marketing and distribution cost.

Now, let's turn focus on actual production costs.

SAG, WGA, DGA - all have a different perspective of what low budget means. There are different categories of low budget titles, and based upon those categories there is a minimum wage you have to pay to actors, screenwriters (treatment, script, whatnot), director, etc... What this means, if you live in some area of USA where those guilds operate is that you are illegal production if you don't pay those minimum wages based on your budget. I have somewhere those scales, if anyone is interesting I can follow up my post and present them.

tl;dr;
$250k budget is not realistic. Too many people have worked on this problem already and smallest realistic budget for a visible project is in the order of $2-5 mil.
Hardly. By creating inferior products with Apple logos, they are giving consumers a bad experience and poisoning Apple's brand. Paying homage to the design is what HTC, Nokia and co. are doing by copying the design innovations of the iPhone.

Counterfeit makers are just crooks. If you think your device is good, make it under your own name.
PRS: Performing Rights Scam
With a little bit of imagination, the novel “Gold 45 Revolver(SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING EXALTED VIDEO GAMES AND VIRTUAL REALITIES WHEREIN IDEAS HAVE CONSEQUENCES )” gaming technology could open up brand new universes of gaming! The major gaming companies are leaving billions on the table!

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=314...
he's also selling VoltDB (OLTP memory resident DBMS) and SciDB (Scientific Data).
It's true that in this moment it is hard to come up with practical benefits of semantic tags/structured data for end-users. Still, the structured graph they are part of holds a great potential and the Web of data is evolving fast.. I guess the time will show.
The workers are actually 3/4 related (assuming a monogomous queen), not clones of each other. This is because they all have the same genes from their father (since the father has just enough genes for one set of chromosomes), but only overlap on half of the genes they inherit from their mother (like mammals).
HR department? At a startup?
They are pooling their money together to entice smart, creative individuals of their choice to spend one month each at their coworking office by giving them recognition and paying them $1,000 to be there. This will be a great way to meet and learn from such people who they might not ever hear about or meet otherwise, never-mind work alongside for a month. It also gives the house some publicity as well as a list of cool people who were "guests".
Similarly beware of using the wrong digit for "L".
Printable batteries
Au contraire, my wife swoons everytime we see one, and asks (yet again) when we'll be able to afford to buy it. The efficiency is a very distant second consideration for her.
Generally speaking there is no altruism among members of a species unless they are very close genetic kin or at least part of a social group. You need to "expect" that the beneficiary of your altruism either has some of your genes, or will return the favor later.

By "expect", we don't mean conscious calculation, of course. Rather, we mean that the genes which favor this sort of behavior tend to be successful than genes that do not.
How Much Did Michael Jackson Rock the Web?
I live in Calgary, Alberta, which is home to most head offices for Canadian oil and gas companies.

Peak Oil is a fairly important reason why I continue to live here despite frozen winters and cool summer evenings.

From an investment perspective, I'm essentially all-in betting on Peak Oil. Job, house, golf membership, cash investments, all of this is contingent on the continued health of the oil and gas business.

The only question about Peak Oil is when, not if. It may have already happened. Price-speculation in 2008 aside, the average cost of a barrel of oil is going up. The price of natural gas has not gone anywhere, which is likely because of shale-gas production coming online in the US. They're not making more oil. . . .
How is it not helpful or useful??
Someone from boston should submit a proposal to manually curate the MBTA's scheduling information and produce a version in Google Transit Feed Spec: http://code.google.com/transit/spec/transit_feed_specificati...
The self-esteem thing is really out of control in the US right now. I've heard that in many schools, they do things like have prima facie competitions, but at the end all of the students "win" the award. This "every child is special" thing is nonsense.

Let's face it, some kids are just not very talented. To claim otherwise is a disservice to the really talented kids, and it's also dishonest and harmful to the others. If we give them a more realistic view of the world early on, it will eliminate the just-graduated-what-to-do-now haze that everyone here goes through after highschool and college.
I've written a web-thingy for this. I enter a bunch of tasks in the text area and then I can either continue editing them from text field or use GUI. Bonus: it understands (with some restrictions) natural language ("due two days from now", "project blablabla.blehblehbleh", "high priority"), unlimited nested projects and is available from anywhere :)
rian johnson's "brick", which won an award at sundance, was made for $450,000 on 35mm. then it was sold to distribution companies which made all of the below costs you're talking about.

if they're shooting it on 16mm with a small crew (union or not) and their actors are working indie sag, $250,000 doesn't sound unreasonable at all for a film looking for a festival run + talking to potential distributors.
It seems as a database engineer, I am going to have to bulk up my skills in non-RDBMS technologies, even if just to be able to say "yes, I am very familiar with <random non-SQL DBMS> and it's not an appropriate solution to this problem".
Oh cool. Has he released a new track, or something?
someone from boston should also make a microsite, is_it_raining_in_boston.com

def index( request ):
return HttpResponse('yes, damn it')
Gorgeous design.

The Extend -> Themes (and others) link doesn't work (404).
You're much better off eating eggs instead of meat. Much cheaper, less time to prepare, much more nutritious. Dairy products are also a less expensive source of protein and fats. Rice and beans and eggs is pretty much an ideal meal in terms of nutrition. Add in some base vegetables (onions, carrots, whatever else is cheap) and fruits for extra vitamins and anti-oxidants and you pretty much have an ideal diet.
"We wanted to release a Windows version as part of Windows 98, but sadly, Microsoft has effective building security."

Best line.
More Proof Of Why AT&T Needs To Keep That iPhone Exclusivity
Thanks a lot. :)

Those seem to work for me, they just don't have anything in there yet so it's empty.
You essentially skipped over the fine, the jail time and other considerations from the case. i'd answer those if you want to make it a better analysis.
There seems to be a small bug in the navigation.

I clicked on Code and on that page all the navigation links have /old/ in them and 404 if you try to follow them.

The rest of the pages seem fine, it's just the code page that breaks the navigation. I have a feeling it wasn't updated for the 2.0 release?
have you read the theory of the "baby face" phenotype being a ploy on this (and/or very similar) mechanism? I'll try and find the story I read.
I always found this type of analysis to be where genetics/sociology becomes most interesting

EDIT: although it's well off topic, sorry
EDIT': all I can find are the "babyface helps black CEOs" story... wasn't that one I read but it deals with similar findings
Open source software only comes in one edition: awesome.
Interesting. Do you happen to know what the breakdown is for the major companies?

I always assumed Apple was like Wal-Mart, having the upper hand in negotiation and knowing how to use it. Maybe that's only the case for independent artists?
I agree. The site design is truly stunning. I especially like the choice of colours. It's hard to subdue such bright colours but it was pulled off very well.
I think this parenthetical is a typo:

(> ~500 words for you precisionists)
Configuring CruiseControl the CruiseControl way
What filesystem to use?
I'm setting up a system to store hundreds of millions of files distributed across many servers. Total storage is several 10's of terabytes, output is tens of thousands of requests per second.

Modification rate is on the order of several hundreds of files added and or deleted per minute, deletions can be totally random.

The system will use varnish on top of apache to serve out the content via http.

What filesystem would you recommend to achieve these goals ? I've so far looked at XFS and EXT3 (this all runs on linux, redhat 4), with varying results.

A trial system has been built using XFS, but
I can not get it to perform well, even after
reading lots of tuning guides and tips.

Especially deletions are very slow, but archiving data is slow as well (4 Mb/sec is not unusual on an otherwise unloaded machine).

Pohmelfs looked promising but I could not get it to work reliably (and it would still need an underlying filesystem), ditto glusterfs.

Any information you could give on this subject to guide me in the right direction would be much appreciated.
This is a really great summary. I always love it when people shine a little light into businesses I know zero about.
As mentioned, the regulations are the biggest problem. Rather than scheming, just make secure webapps from a new country. Having thought it through a bit, I'm pretty confident micro nation building is easier than taking on banking regulations.
I think this article makes some good points. In fact there are times when I've been very frustrated at the "We can't to better than RDBMS" attitude many times. Particularly that time we were storing a tree in a table. Specialized data stores are very neat.

I do however think there will always be a good place for the traditional RDBMS. For instance, there are times when I'm creating that I don't know what the layout of the data will need to be, and where the optimizations will be most needed, so I back an app with Postgres. Should I need to expand later, it will be easier as I have actual data to work with.

I guess the point I'm trying to make is: unless you know for sure that your data will benefit from a different model (e.g. known performance needs, or a better conceptual mapping), not using an RDBMS seems like a premature optimizaton.
Annoyingly it removed the menu and toolbar, and I don't know how to get it back...
The only way they could have accomplished this is by calling a lawyer that doesn't know anything about securities law.
Well, fortunately the issue is now fixed on my Blogger.com blog at least.

Basically, you just have to remove the JavaScript that attempts to link the comment form to the Google Friends widget.
uh, time for shameless plugging again

http://www.qwikitodo.com - no sign up, collaborative, wiki-ish editing, past revisions
Why do you need them? :D Well if you really need them back, type :help to find out how.
TANSTAAFL.

The solutions for peak oil, global warming, etc are extremely costly. For example, the Waxman-Markey bill would impose significant indirect regulatory costs in addition to making electricity substantially more expensive (http://rollcall.com/news/36393-1.html?type=printer_friendly). For example, buying smaller, fuel-efficient cars will lead to more fatalities (http://iihs.org/externaldata/srdata/docs/sr4404.pdf).

The cost of being wrong leading to misallocation of resources is being poorer, less competitive globally, and deader. It may indeed be worthwhile to pursue these mandated-change initiatives anyway since being right means being relatively rich, competitive, and alive, but the downside costs are certainly real. Just because the author grows some of his own food and enjoys bicycling and thus his behavior when wrong looks very much like his behavior when right doesn't mean that he and everyone else wouldn't be bearing the diffuse costs of being expensively wrong.
Twitter Now have Censorship?
http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/frogboil.asp
Well hey, finally a messaging feature that the iPhone really is the first to have! I hope AT&T supports root kit SMS (RKSMS?).
The Jackson ticket game theory thing is noteworthy - but indirectly discovering that The Times is partially hosted on typepad is more remarkable to me. I'd be interested if other Murdoch papers follow suit.
Good call, I'll fix it.

Also just a warning the site seems to be under a bunch of load right now :-( We'll be keeping an eye on it, but sorry in advance if you can't get through.
It was his first (or second) post on News.YC, and it seemed sarcastic. (I've removed the first sentence of my paragraph.)
What's not clear to me is if the $1000 is actually supposed to help fund the Awesomeness, or if it's basically just intended as a reward for doing something Awesome. For instance, should submitted ideas be confined to something achievable within that budget? I assume not, but the whole thing could use a bit more clarity.
You're correct. The documentation system we use is NaturalDocs, and I had to modify the source to get it to spit out decent HTML (plus HTML that matched the theme). I haven't updated it to use the new look, but the documentation there is accurate.
Personally, I use the free hosting from Blogger because it is always fast and always reliable. I don't have to worry about overloading my server if my site experiences a sudden success on Digg, or Delicious, or another service. I also don't have to worry about paying for hosting. This allows me to stick to my no advertising policy.

All considered, I've been using Blogger for nearly two years and this is the first time I've experienced a real bug.
i've used keyconfig for that for many years (and is consequently why i get so frustrated at websites that default to focusing some search text box when the main function of the page isn't to search).

it isn't marked as compatible with firefox 3.5 but i've tweaked the xpi file to say so, and it works fine.

http://jcs.org/tmp/keyconfig-35.html
Interesting, but I shudder at the thought of yet _more_ designed-to-be-disposable stuff...

I am still waiting for body-generated electricity a la Neal Stephenson (I think - Diamond Age) - Tiny wires getting electricity from the human body via skin penetration to a human electrical source. Just stop before we get to The Matrix. :)
Good point, even with a $15 or $20 CD the artists 'take' is probably only slightly higher (maybe even lower) than their cut of an iTunes sold track. All that 'missing' money is why the recording industry (mainly the big labels) are hurting and not the artists (they were always getting reamed).

MJ probably had different deals throughout his career, but I would guess that even $700 million is a low estimate of his earnings.
Why do they mention all the security features of the OS when it doesn't help one bit against this rootkit? It sounds almost as an PR how iPhone is secure!

On another point, from an AT&T memo:

On June 25, the day Michael Jackson died, text messages sent on our network spiked at 65,000 messages per second

I wonder how much would it be if somebody made this into an exploit sending it to the whole address book.
Here is some good info on the advantages and disadvantages of various file systems:

http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/388

I've had good results with JFS, but with much less data than what you're dealing with. Chances are most information you find will not apply to such a large amount of data so you're probably going to be stuck doing your own benchmarks.