skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's so true, I traveled a little and as soon as I returned I noticed 1) our supermarkets have no seasons 2) the chicken was mushy and flavorless. I still can't eat fast food.
"Every man knows that his highest purpose in life cannot be reduced to any particular relationship. If a man prioritizes his relationship over his highest purpose, he weakens himself, disserves the universe, and cheats his woman of an authentic man who can offer her full, undivided presence.

Admit to yourself that if you had to choose one or the other, the perfect intimate relationship or achieving your highest purpose in life, you would choose to succeed at your purpose. Just this self-knowledge often relieves much pressure a man feels to prioritize his relationship when, in fact, it is not his highest priority.

Your mission is your priority. Unless you know your mission and have aligned your life to it, your core will feel empty. Your presence in the world will be weakened, as will your presence with your intimate partner. The next to you notice yourself "giving in" to your woman, postponing your mission and denying your true purpose in order to spend time with her, stop. Tell your woman that you love her, but cannot deny your heart's purpose. Tell her that you will spend 30 minutes (or some specific time) with her in absolute attention and presence, but then you must return to carry on your mission.

Your woman will be more fulfilled with 30 minutes a day of undivided attention and ravishing love than she will with a few hours of your weak and divided presence when your heart really isn't into it. Time you spend with your woman should be time you really want to be with her more than anything else. If you'd rather be doing something else, she'll feel it. Both of you will be dissatisfied." -- David Deida, The way of the superior man
If you're looking for a way of bundling resource requests for arbitrary file types into single HTTP request, there is already a feature in the HTTP 1.1 that allows you to do this; it's called HTTP Pipelining [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_pipelining]. Unfortunately this feature is off by default in Firefox, but you can override it to be on using about:config.

Other browsers don't yet support it, but they don't support archives yet either. As it stands, CSS Sprites are really the only cross-browser compatible option we have, and we're going to have to make do with them.

I like your idea, but it appears to me that this is better implemented on the HTTP layer.
There are pros/cons for govt. subsidies. Some third world countries subsidize seeds/fertilizers/electricity for poor farmers. Many times this is barely enough for subsistence for them and their large families. I'm not sure what a feasible alternative is.

Not all nations go to war of course. But an imbalanced trade equation, especially for basic necessities, does at the very least lead to a loss of leverage at the negotiation table.

I'm not saying subsidies are good; all I'm saying is I can understand why the US govt. would want to maintain a source of homegrown food supply.
That's an interesting idea.

What about broken code, though, would I not be able to save that?
Have you ever noticed that every time there's an article like this there's one 20-year DBA veteran who says the original author doesn't understand SQL?

Yeah.

Anyway, having built both transactional systems (trading algorithms) and big social systems (delicious) I think the main issue is: The right data structure and tool for the right job.

Banking is a radically different problem then internet-scale social software (which I assume is what they are talking about when they say "doesn't scale".) Access patterns are different, read and write loads are different, etc.

The main issue here is that a lot of social software wants something like a fast per-user data store, something like a distributed inverted index for globally finding things.

There's NO great reason for one user's data to be in the same table as someone else's. I guess it was handy for stuff like calculating the average number of tags, etc.

Instead, you want to be able to have better control over data locality and similar, given your access patterns.

Now, personally, I would use an actual SQL engine for a single-machine persistent store, and build a distribution layer on top of that. Concurrency is hard, etc.

But assuming RAC is the right solution to all problems is probably not a good one. I've seen this go terribly awry.

SQL wins at things that btrees and hash indexes are good at; but a lot of things are better with other organizations of data.
Thanks. The link is a good answer. I'm gathering, then that the concern is just that the need for sanitizing the input code was not dealt with in the OP?
"Transformable" Robots are quite popular here in Japan... see for instance this creation...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3Q6c4a6zNM&feature=relat...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6pDVX2tBx4

oh, and really interesting are those construction kits where you can "manually" transform the robot into different shapes ... "Bioloid"

Humanoid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCIW7SmwuFk

puppy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unHnx3SjSRA

spider
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paHcqN9iarg&feature=relat...

etc..
More video game playing, but increasingly of used/rental games
"You don't have to write resumes that sound like robots wrote them."

It depends on the company--at many, robots are going to read my resume, so why shouldn't a robot write my resume?
Please. Even McNamara himself admitted that the "domino theory" was retarded. The U.S. should stop intervening in other people's business, period. Yes, the communists were brutal thugs, but it was their country and they should deal with it. They should have the freedom to make their own mistakes and pay for it with their own lives. I don't see why American boys have to pay the ultimate price to solve a crisis which does not concern them.

Oh, and if the communists were brutal thugs, so were the Americans. For example, CIA's Operation Phoenix (which killed over 60,000 Vietnamese) was the bloodiest operation against political targets ever, second only to the Nazis' terror campaigns in occupied Europe.

You should travel to other countries. The U.S. is perceived as the biggest thug in the world, right now. There's no moral high ground after Uncle Sam's thugs butchered so many innocent people overseas.
Can you say High-fructose corn syrup?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-fructose_corn_syrup#Sweete...

With government subsidies for corn, it's more economical for Coke/Pepsi to use HFCS.
The popularity of these strategies has spawned a cottage industry called "co-location," or "proximity hosting." Exchanges sell the funds "rack space" in the data centers where their servers process trades to gain an extra couple of milliseconds on the competition.

The ultimate in optimization.
Yes, the latest Debian stable release (5.0 "Lenny") uses SSH 5.1.

$ cat /etc/debian_version
5.0.2
$ ssh -v
OpenSSH_5.1p1 Debian-5, OpenSSL 0.9.8g 19 Oct 2007
I suppose you are of the opinion that screwing over other people IRL also is all right, as long as it's legal? I mean, if it wasn't meant to be done, then it would be illegal, right?
This is the whole point of beta programs. They talk about you once when you release and again when you're out of beta: free PR.
Any idea how they keep the clicks from escaping the login dialog?
Interesting. Because when we were looking at signing up for the university version of Google Apps, they expected us to do our own tech support. Is it different for the corporate version?
I actually thought it was great copy. It communicates the benefits of the product, then makes it more likable and memorable.

I also thought it was funny.
Question along these lines. What version should an updated RHEL4 server have?

I'm only at OpenSSH_3.9p1 yet up2date says everything is up to date.
Im scared of spiders. Less so now (simply through will power) but anything beyond a house spider will give me chills (and I cant look at tarantulas on screen). No other bugs though: which seems illogical to me.

I also get that clutching, tight-chested thing when I think about my death (in the old-age future rather than in the now). Conversely when in an immediately dangerous situation (either physically or mentally) I find it exhilarating: the potential of "death" in those situations is exciting.

What kind of fear are you interested in though? The most interesting clash of fear/logic for me is travel. People will jump in a car without a seconds thought but conversely are uncomfortable in aeroplanes. Despite the latter being leaps and bounds safer than road travel. Gut overrules the logic in Head and decides being up at 20,000 feet is "NOT SAFE" :)
"most modern web servers handle pipelining without any problem. Exceptions include IIS 4 and reportedly 5."

Color me surprised.
Ah, sorry I misread the contrasted "value vs. length". That does make sense.
In Search of Dignity
What if I come into a situation where I have to choose between 'going with the flow' or staying a decent person, and I know if I stay up for the good they will kill me or worse torture me? Will I be strong enough? And if yes: what a life.

These days you can easily get picked by the CIA for some stupid reason. Actually I am a bit uneasy about US-customs for that reason.
Tell HN: California Extreme Classic Arcade this weekend in Santa Clara
Another thing I would add is "knowing the skills and strengths of those in your party is just as important as knowing your own." If you know what your party members are capable of, it makes planning your own actions easier and significantly more effective.

We used to roll random characters, equipment and enemies to get used to playing in the shoes of another player and learn about all the different options available to us. Though, I have still never actually used grappling...
I have liked Michael Lewis's writing since I read "Moneyball", which I highly recommend by the way. This article is pretty good, although not as math and statistics oriented as some of his good sports writing.

I think the large scale destruction of trust in the finance and investment world is going to be very hard to rebuild. I am not sure of all the implecations of that, but I think people of my generation are never going to poor money into the stock market via 401k or otherwise invest in the quantities and ways that the previous generation did.

The distruction of trust extends to the other side of as well, I think people like me will be much more reluctant to take on debt. This extends to starting businesses as well as consumer and housing debt. I have reached the point where I really don't give much thought to any startup idea that requires venture capital or other outside lending.
Nope. Had one for a while (http://orageek.com) but found I didn't really have much to say all that often to warrant maintaining it.
This link has tons of data visualization examples and resources

http://www.meryl.net/2008/01/175-data-and-information-visual...
CSS Sprites aren't stupid, they're just clunky. Single browser technology, however, is positively retarded. Next?
Cool hack.

In the future, when network speed is not an issue, we should be able to send the whole web app (or page) in one packet.

One request, one response.
The biggest money is still probably in finance. I don't think that can be done by contracting online; you need to go to Wall Street or another country's financial center.
On the other hand, there's a lot of great farmland that is constantly being developed for housing and retail purposes. I see this all the time in Illinois as the suburbs constantly spread out into areas that used to be farms. As far as I know, it is far from trivial to go back to farming once that sort of development has taken place. So while subsidies are not the best of solutions, I'm not entirely convinced that it is a good thing to make it even more profitable to develop farmland.
readwriteweb.com

thisisindexed.com

infosthetics.com

incomediary.com
A press release isn't data. I'd be interested in seeing the comparative results of the trials CERN put Oracle through.

It's not that I don't believe that Oracle can scale better than MySQL, it's just that I haven't seen any convincing data that it can scale so much better that it's worth the cost. I'm no expert, so maybe the data exists. I just haven't seen it.
Fun fact: in the interests of forward compatibility, Firefox appears to have used liboggplay for its video pipeline.

This means that if they ever want to use anything other than Theora, they will have to completely rewrite the entire video system. Apparently the problem with doing something sane like using Gstreamer is that... it's LGPL. Which apparently isn't free enough for them.

They also force YV12 -> RGB conversion in software on playback and do two sizeof(videoframe) callocs per frame, leading to the tremendous irony of having video playback vastly slower than Flash.
First of all I want to say that I have used justin.tv a lot during the NBA season. It was awesome, so thanks to you guys.

Secondly, I like the redesign which IMO is much better than the previous one because of a few reasons:

1) Bigger screen are devoted to video which is why people use the website
2) Of course less ads, which, will please a lot of current users.
3) Less scrolling, better website IMO
4) Grey background is way better than the black one.

I think if you can have an on/off button for chat, it will greatly improve personal experience, because I think not a lot of people come to website to chat with others, but to watch.

Good luck.

-Ujjwal
When I lived in the US I was at first fascinated, then disturbed that bread, milk, etc stayed fresh for so long...

Americans who come here at first are always shocked at how "quickly" our food spoils, well, it's supposed to do that!
Statistics is extremely relevant to the web (especially the Wb 2.0), and businesses in general. Services like web analytics, localized services, etc... are becoming more important.
The latest release is 5.2.
Toronto Lisp User's Group Meet tonight
Next meeting: July 7th, 2009 at 6pm at LinuxCaffe
Hello everyone! Our next meeting is coming up soon.

Toronto Lisp Users Group, July Meeting:
Tuesday July 7th, 6pm, at the Linux Caffe

Directions: walk south of Bloor from Christie Station, until you hit Harbord Street.

We're looking for volunteers for talks, discussion, and tutorials. We'd love to hear about your current projects, proposals for projects, libraries you like, tutorials or related LISPy languages, issues relevant to Lisp, etc.

As a special bonus for those who show up tomorrow: VJ has finally received his copy of "Programming Clojure", by Stuart Halloway! and will bring it in for anyone who wishes to thumb through it.
He broke a social contract, not a game play mechanic.

It's like fat people walking down the middle of a narrow hallway; there is not explicit rule that prohibits that. But they are still breaking implicit rules which pisses people off.

PS: People don’t clearly separate games from real life. If you follow to closely to an avatar in an MMO for to low it will also bug people.
I think you kind of missed most of the last half of the article. The overbearing asshole is not presented as the villian. AIG FP is not presented as "turning a blind eye", in fact they are described as halting much of their sub-prime involvement, if a little late; the article suggestts that if they had unwound the positions they did take before they realized the mortgage bundles were 95% sub-prime instead of 10% as they had been previously, AIG FP might have survived and the big banks would have had bigger loses.
It's not so long ago that a tech-equivalent civilization was doing its best to sink everyone else's Atlantic shipping. Can't happen again? Can you say "peace in our time"?
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Newest ubuntu uses 5.1p1

SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.1p1 Debian-5ubuntu1
Who cares? As long as you can monetize it, it's a company.
Search Craigslist locally or all of it on the same page
Perhaps, but don't you think that any war serious enough to warrant a massive shift of global food production would arrive with enough forewarning to allow emergency crops to be planted?

Also, keep in mind that the war would have to involve a hostile Mexico AND Canada and our adversarie(s) would have to block access to the eastern and western seaboards.

Perhaps in a previous era (such as the cold war) where fear overcame rationality on a regular basis, such a scenario sounded plausible. But it is fairly ridiculous today.

It is my guess that whatever third world governments are doing to "subsidize" it is necessitated by other policies that cause harm. Sadly, many third world nations have highly corrupt governments which largely siphon resources away from the average person rather than providing infrastructure, solving coordination problems, etc.
Goodbye Quicksilvεr, Hello Google Quick Search Box + Proxi
Someone Needs To Stop Tripping Over The Power Cord At Rackspace
$ lsb_release -d
Description: Ubuntu 9.04
$ ssh -v
OpenSSH_5.1p1 Debian-5ubuntu1, OpenSSL 0.9.8g 19 Oct 2007
Pandora (And Other Internet Radio) Has Officially Been Saved
Google Web Toolkit does this; I'm sure other web development frameworks do as well. A quick search for a standalone utility revealed: http://spritegen.website-performance.org/
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Thank the folks over at ffmpeg for that; they write the (en|de)coders.
The Future of Web Apps?
And it seems the latest LTS version (Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy") uses 4.7.
For future reference, cold hard facts are much more useful than posting your resume. I'm not trying to say you're unqualified or unintelligent in any way, just that rationalizing an opinion with a job history is far less compelling evidence than factual examples. It's also interesting that you would immediately associate a well-made and supported argument (for those of us who have any experience scaling with technologies other than Oracle) with someone who isn't a database expert and doesn't know what he's doing.

Now let's get to the facts: while perhaps Oracle might have nice features, that doesn't mean that SQL is the best we can come up with, which is one of the primary points of the article (and one that seems completely unaddressed here). In a sense he brings to attention a common occurrence throughout human history wherein we reject change for comfort and these comments are doing nothing more than supporting that. Oracle is, for the most part, entirely too expensive for most businesses and even the businesses that are large enough to adopt it aren't making the profit they could with more affordable technology. You should also make note that, while banks do have strict requirements on data handling, they are really responsible for serving very small user bases when compared to things like Google, Amazon, Ebay, Facebook and the like. Sure the requirements are different for each of these, but ultimately your argument hold no water against these infrastructures, which are inherently not SQL and, at the same time, seem to be much more accepted as innovators of scalable technologies for the future...

One big problem is that real innovation comes at the expense of backwards compatibility, which would involve making a lot of changes. I can relate, since massive changes in most case imply bugs, which is a very unsettling position for some of these, but it doesn't mean there isn't a problem. Sure banks and other largely established companies would rather shell out the cash to support their legacy ideals than innovate new solutions, but he's right in that we've been spending many many years of man-hours trying to tackle the problem of porting a dated philosophy to an age that requires more scalability at lower cost. Lets also say that banks haven't been proving their practices to be economically sounds lately, so what is their input worth in this matter? Other than large boatloads of cash for Oracle that is.
Automating Science
Oh, it may also be worth noting that engineers and administrators would have to change their way of thinking in all this too, which doesn't affect some too much, but may have a bit of an impact on somebody who's been sitting on the same technology platform for 20 years.
I think you're confusing allowing self-destructive trampling with romance.

Anyone who's such a doormat that they'll encourage you regardless of the cost to them is not capable of true romance.

Your desire for unconditional support is pure selfishness, and not conducive to a great relationship.
Dying alone.
Well the idea is that fear is often times hyperbole - an unnecessary exaggeration of a natural and healthy response to a legitimate threat. So if you're mountain climbing or skydiving, a fear-adrenaline response mechanism is natural. A fear of death defying stunts isn't really what I'm looking into.

What I'm more interested in is if you were unreasonably afraid of spiders, for instance, and you read everything there was to read about spiders, and you saw a spider that you knew for certain posed no threat, but your logical understanding was overpowered by emotional fear. It's the difference between finding a Brown Recluse in your tent versus a St. Andrew's Cross in your shower.

And I've thought about the travel fear paradox quite a bit and it actually makes quite a bit of sense. One thing I've noticed is that it's really difficult to affect our fears with social adaptations, but logic is easily overcome by recurring social or cultural situations.
Not in the Netherlands. Here it'll be 08/07/09. I'm from California, and I'm having terrible trouble getting the hang of day/month/year, even though it makes so much more sense.
What they mean by "older version" isn't specified anywhere. It could mean not current for all we know, e.g. < 5.2 (unlikely though). Almost none of the popular distros use the latest version, will be interesting to see which ones are affected.
I must admit I don't understand how the "isolate various control paths" thing works. The other stuff I guess really depends on what you are used to. Probably I look more for indentation than for braces.
http://incubator.apache.org/cassandra/
A good relationship requires that you're more committed to the other person than to business.

Only you can decide whether you want to be that committed to this person.
JPEG, GIF, PNG are used as long as nobody threatens us with patent lawsuits.

Just make H.264 free for the world to use (without fine print legalese) and we will adopt it and support it inmediately.

Meantime, theora is the only free and viable option.
Actually, GIF was patented for a very, very long time:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_Interchange_Format#Uni...

LZW patents only expired in 2003. Before that, GIF was not only patented, but the patents were actively (and often obnoxiously) enforced by Unisys. The situation was similar to that of MP3 with Frauenhofer in the late 1990s.
spiders, centipedes and pretty much most bugs bigger than an ant, had trouble killing them even with a paper towel. Hell used to get afraid looking at them in pictures.

To overcome it, I built a "weapon" to kill them with. Pretty much took one of those post office poster rolls, and attached some paper towels to it. This way I could kill them at a distance.

Now, have no problem getting upclose and personal and killing them with a paper towel. Can now watch them online without any problems(i.e. one of those giant centipedes eating a rabbit)

I dunno if it's something I overcame on my own, or if its something I just grew into. i.e. I used to be scared shitless of the Alien and the Predator movies, and now I more or less consider the series as an action movie, instead of a horror flick.
For the time being, would be also a good idea to move the ssh port to something other than 22 to avoid getting carpet-bombed by automated exploiting scripts.
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Also looking for hint on #27