skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"You might buy something that you find is unsellable, killing momentum."

You can't allow that to happen, if you do you fail at the game.

You have to study all submitted options and pick the best according to all variables involved, time included.

If you get enough publicity perhaps Mercedes will give you a car for half the price so you can sell it quick, going from 50k to 100k in days. Or any other sponsors, Rolex may help you jump from 5K to 10K. Harley-Davidson from 10K to 20k, and so on.

Free publicity for the seller and for the buyer if they choose so.

Luck may be on your side...
I volunteer at a suicide hotline. To judge from what they say, the people who call there aren't interested in economics, they're in pain.
Of course, but is the marginal cost of adding a few trays of ice really more expensive than running an air conditioner?

The problem is so under-specified at this point it's kind of silly to pretend we could get a meaningful answer yet. Are we talking about the ice/fan and a/c cooling the room to the same temperature? Or are we just talking about the sleeper's comfort, in which case we should take into account that i/f can be put right next the sleeper while an a/c has to sit all the way over in the window? Etc, etc.
Your Baby Is Smarter Than You Think
If only Starbucks were open all night...
I highly, highly doubt that would actually work. You would be much better off taking advantage of evaporating water somehow, such as putting a light damp cloth in front of a fan or something else.

The problems with that design are highlighted in the comments, but it mostly comes from really not having enough surface area.
I agree. In other words correlation is not causation.
I think it's called inheritance, but most programmers try to stay away from that because of the headaches of the diamond problem.
Flying within a country is different from crossing international borders. Even within Schengen many (most?) countries still require visitors to be holding a valid travel document (passport or ID card). Random spot-checks are often carried out close to borders (although by local police, rather than immigration or border guards).

I'd certainly be interested in discovering whether airlines are required to confirm that passengers have these.

Many airlines now also require 'official' ID for flights even within a country, but AIUI that's purely airline policy rather than a legal requirement.
I believe you may be right.
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Yeah, but I didn't say when Linux crashes, I said when the X server crashes. When the equivalent happens in Windows, well, if you read the article, you know what happens.
I think thats a good rule of thumb at the very least and it works for me in California.
5.1.2 just specifies that it's a RequestURI and does not further define it.

I'm not sure if I understand. The one I'm looking at further defines it as:

Request-URI = "*" | absoluteURI | abs_path | authority

Edit: ah, of which, absoluteURI refers to 3.2.1, which references RFC2396, which includes mailto.

Still, doesn't include user:password@domain, though :-P

Src: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt
I'm seeing companies that manage to stay competitive because they are using Erlang. If a company manages to make things happen with less resources, it means that resources are available to invest in other things.

To me that is enough to qualify as an "economic driver".

If your argument is that Erlang is not contributing more to GNP than what disappear in rounding errors (or even that), then sure, companies using Erlang are contributing peanuts compared to what products from companies like Microsoft and Oracle are.
This is how I would partition my disk:

1. /boot - having a nice, working grub is always a plus

2. /home - keep your data safe

3. /data - name can be anything, but I would keep large media files (movies, mp3's, .iso's etc separate from anything else). If you have dedicated disk for such storage (like I do), it would be mounted here. FS could NTFS for Windows compatibility.

4. swap - This is optional, as modern Linuxes can use swap files too afaik.

5. / - I don't see the point of having /var or /usr or anything system-related on separate partitions in desktop machines.

Maybe /etc could be stored on a separate partition, as many files residing there are useful to have when reinstalling, or to be shared between installations.

btw /tmp is usually mounted as tmpfs which is practically ramdisk, so you don't really need a partition for that.
It's absurd that I can't search in both podcasts and my normal music library with one search field. I have a number of podcasts from live shows (like NPR's "Live Concerts From All Songs Considered"), and if I look up an artist ("Neko Case"), I'll only get tracks from within the "Podcasts" or "Music" folder (depending on which one I'm currently in). I can't see any reason why search shouldn't offer a global search of iTunes folders.
Heh. I'll pay a few karma to crack necessary wise. What else can you buy with it, right? It is interesting that so much info is lost by only displaying the net, though. A comment with zero activity is indistinguishable from one with 100+ and 100-. I'd be more interested in "most controversial" than "most net upvotes" given the choice. Not a big deal, though. Simpler is probably better.

Edit: added 2nd "net"
If you have a large hard drive and are not sure how you need it partitioned, you can set up the entire disk as a Volume Group in LVM and give your partition structure your best guess with relatively small volumes. Then when you outgrow a volume, extend the volume ( http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/extendlv.html or use distribution GUI tools).

This is relatively uncommon in the Linux world, but it works very well. I believe this is best practice on commercial UNIXes that have logical volume support out of the box (such as AIX). It works particularly well for desktops or servers where you may pre-configure the entire hard drive by default and then add additional drives to the volume group at a later time.
In physics we are introduced to Galileo, circa 15th century, then Newton circa 17th century, then Einstein, circa 20th century. It has been about five decades since Einstein lived and perhaps the academical community is still accommodating to his theories. You have to know first what is, before going beyond to what else could be.

As for his suggestions and problem, I think society has already found the solution. Whenever you read of people who are considered to have made a great contribution to this world, you will notice that their parents are aristocrats, or business men, or judges, surgeons, rich people basically. The child of these people is free to spend their time as they wish, outside of the confinements of the current system and it is perhaps this freedom compounded with the networking and other means of influencing, which allows them to contribute so greatly.

The only way to open the door to more people is by paying scientists as much as footballers are paid. However, while a footballer peaks in his late 20s, a scientist peaks in his late 30s, so even this approach would perhaps not address the issue and lead to a world of pop science which seems to be flourishing somewhat currently.
The title doesn't match the point of the question very well.

"How many technologies out there are well kept secret weapons" or something similar would be better.
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"young theorists should just try and work on speculative ideas"

We need them, thousands of them, 999 can be wrong but just one right would be enough.
Free e-copy of Red Mars at the same link.

I've got the series in dead tree form already, but may as well grab it while it's there.
Here's a simple idea to make you an instant thousandaire and you don't even need a computer...

Purchase a mailing list of 4,096 football bettors.

Then start mailing postcards every week proclaiming that you have a system and a newsletter absolutely positively guaranteeing at least one "Lock of the Week".

Week 1 - Mail a postcard to 2,048 selecting the Tennessee Titans as the "Lock of the Week". Mail the other 2,048 a postcard selecting the Buffalo Bills as the "Lock of the Week". Keep only the 2,048 names whose team actually won.

Week 2 - Mail 1,024 postcards with one "Lock of the Week" and 1,024 with the other team as the "Lock of the Week".

Repeat for 3 more weeks.

By the time the season starts, you will have mailed 5 consecutive correct "Locks of the Week" to 128 bettors. The probability of this was (.5)^5 or .03125. Damn, you're good!

Now sell those 128 bettors your Absolutely Positively Guaranteed "Lock of the Week" Newsletter for $1,000 but only if they buy before Sunday.

If half the bettors buy your newsletter then your income will be $64,000 with a printing and mailing cost of less than $2,000. Not bad.
For those rare cases when a windows display driver crash will not take the whole machine with it (usually by freezing or bluescreening) you might get out of it that way.

But for the majority of those cases you'll have very little choice but to reach for the power button and keep it pressed for 10 very long seconds.

Again, this is anecdotal, but I have never seen windows recover from any kind of crash in a graceful way.

There are several layers to this stuff, hardware, driver, display server, window manager + applications.

If any layer 'below' your application crashes you're lucky to keep your data (whatever the operating system). Now, I don't do the things the author refers to (switching screen modes to full screen and back and stuff like that), which might easily be why I never see these issues and for him they are common.

But to suggest that in windows (where the lines between the layers are much more blurry than they should be) is 'crash proof' in any way shape or measure has me chuckling a bit.

My linux machines (servers & desktops) go down when:

- the power fails

- I have to move

- I upgrade kernels

- hardware failures (mostly disks, occasionally a power supply or a memory bank)

Other than that they're on, up & running 24x7 year after year.
Mutation Tied to Need for Less Sleep Is Discovered
"Without Fiji Water Fiji is kind of screwed."
Paper: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/sci;325/5942/...
The site has the potential value to bring traffic to advertised web sites.
Venomous spiders! Why would any scientist dare go in there!
I'm somewhat "conflicted" with regards to Susskind. I'm a physicist, but I don't know much about string theory or LQG. As a bystander to the "Not Even Wrong" debate, I agree with Smolin's points about falsification and predictions being an essential feature of a physical theory, thus, on a personal level, I took Smolin's side (').

Then, couple of months ago I found the Susskind lectures on iTunes, watched and enjoyed many of them. (They're aimed at a general engineering audience, but I still found portions such as General Relativity illuminating.) Susskind is clearly a physicist of the highest caliber, the last time I heard such first-class lectures was when I listened to the Feynman MP3s during my freshman year. So on one hand, if Susskind says these ideas have merit, they're probably worth taking a look at. On the other hand, there are so many other interesting areas (in physics and elsewhere) where I feel something tangible could come out of that I am still ignoring string theory for the most part. I should note that I'm not very representative in this regard, as Smolin notes, most theoretical physicists at top U.S. universities are string theorists. It's interesting that here in Hungary, while the graduate school offers some courses on string theory, I don't know anybody pursuing related research. Most theoretical/particle people are doing SM/QCD related stuff, which is clearly a cultural thing here.

(') In reality, falsifications and predictions are a tricky business in physics with people making implicit assumptions, circular logic, estimated error bars, etc. --- I think that non-physicists' view of this is similar to my view about police work based on CSI:NY.
I would also like to note that a straight dd on normal partitions does boot correctly, but if you dd an LVM group, it still functions fine!

Useful if your hard drive is dying and you need to to a dd-rescue.
hehe, I heard about that one on a slightly different tune, send your letter to 'investors' and do it 10 times in a row (so 2047 letters in total).

Then go to the last investor with an investment proposal for a lot of $ and disappear into the sunset with the loot :)
Ok I'll reply in a USERs point of view.

I installed ubuntu 9.04 on my HP mini-note 2133 (not a quad-core 4GB powerhouse). I don't use evolution but everything else run perfect for me. I too installed VLC and it plays videos well enough (some minor problems when jumping forward while watching HD).

It never crashed on me. Oh wait.. it crashed 3 times after I installed conky. First time it just happened. I made it happen the second time to check, third time to cofirm.

Yeah X.org some times pisses me off but gimme a reason why I should complain? It gave me all these things for free & there should be lot's of people working to improve it.

I honor the effort of everyone who made this free OS (all the tools together) possible. I don't blame at little problems, I just point them out. I contribute when I can.
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Yes, it's true -- people who are thinking of committing suicide are more likely to do so after hearing about someone else who commits suicide. (This is also true for other acts, like murder-suicides.) There's a lot of research on this.

But it doesn't necessarily follow that the right response is to try to cover up suicides. For one thing, people who are at Caltech are bound to hear of anyone who commits suicide at Caltech. For another, it's hard to cover up anything that happens to someone, particularly a young person, in the era of Facebook and Twitter. Third, counseling can actually work for those who get the counseling. Most suicidal people can be helped by one strategy or another: cognitive-behavioral therapy, antidepressant drugs... even just frank discussion can help. Remember, a large number of suicide attempts (in the USA, at any rate, and especially among women) aren't actually meant to succeed. Just because the phrase "a cry for help" is a hopeless cliche doesn't mean that most suicides are not, in fact, cries for help.

And, of course, even if some genius psychometrician crunched numbers on all the above scenarios and concluded that the best response to a suicide would be a coverup and the silent treatment... nobody would believe it, and the school would get hammered, in public and in court, for trying such a policy. After all, the same aspects of culture that recognize many suicide attempts as desperate last-ditch cries for help also recognize that the appropriate response of your friends and family is to... offer help.
LOLcats founder is perplexed by company success
Interesting, I've used svn for about four years and have never "lost" anything I've changed in my working copy. I've certainly had some cases of merge conflicts that were tedious to resolve, but my changes were all "there". And if you're working in a branch and commit to your branch before you try to merge back into trunk, you can always get everything back if something goes awry.

I'm not saying git doesn't handle this better; I have not tried it yet myself. But in my experience it's possible to use svn without risk of losing your changes.
Try turning on Compiz. You'll see some crashing.
I consider the "child neglest" laws to be a major consideration against having children, ever.
Unfortunately, they seem to spawn here and there like a plague.
Not a great title, but a good article, nonetheless. If you're interested in machine intelligence, you need to spend some time with infants.

I have a nine month old, and it's been really interesting to watch her develop.

You can see where people get these ideas of multiple agents interacting. For a while, anytime her hand was within a certain distance from her face, it would "snap" to her mouth. She'd clearly be trying to do something else, but then the hand would get close to the mouth, and OMNOMNOM.

Pattern matching and mimicry. Most things we do, we do because that's what we've always done. /hand-waving
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We don't have enough nukes (Data visualization)
My graphics driver crashed on Vista just yesterday. The screen flashed and I got a nice pop-up in the bottom right corner telling me that the display driver just had to be restarted.

How many machines are you running Vista on, anyway?

Now, I have lots of Linux crash stories. But I run a lot more Linux servers than you do, so of course I would.
I bet if he had seeded it to make it look like a few people had already paid, he might have made some sales by now, joke site or not.

I recently launched a website with a gatekeeping fee pegged to the number of users (fee goes up $0.001 per user) and it surprised me how many people assumed that I started by charging $0.00. Do you really want to be the first paying user of any service?
I'm happy to hear you run lots more linux servers than I do, as I said before, it is all anecdotal evidence, and so should be taken with a lump of salt.

We have exactly one machine running vista here, it's fairly new and it has crashed more than all our linux machines combined.

So, just out of curiosity, how many linux machines do you have ?
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Not to belittle suicidal people's feelings, but pain is an economic factor when economics is treated in the broad sense. People contemplating sucide feel that any potential joys of living are not worth the pain that they are experiencing. That is an economic decision, whether the decision maker is aware of it or not.

edit: spelling
I've actually been checked in Holland by customs when coming home from a Schengen country.

He asked me to show an ID, I asked "why?", and he just responded "Because I say so". I was a bit too flabbergasted and not prepared for that answer and just showed him. He then proceeded to someone else who was even requested to come to the counter and let his bags get checked.

I'm curious whether I was actually required to do so.
I fly often and can't imagine going through any of this just to prove a point. I always print my boarding pass at home, never check bags, go directly to security, and use my frequent flyer card to go through the express line. I show my driver's license for inspection, but no data from it is ever recorded. IMO, a small price to pay to move quickly through the airport.
I somewhat agree. For an interesting viewpoint on the NKS discussion, check this NKS review: http://www.amazon.com/gp/cdp/member-reviews/AOUPSNSAAC8DM/re...
The last of the regulations seems to imply that it is possible to fly internationally without an ID. I have no idea what you would accomplish by boarding an internation airplane without an ID, because you will get sent back once you get there. There is no way the other country will accept you without a passport.
I usually don't partition my linux drives, but on windows it's a different story.

I recommend you to at least have it partitioned in three.

One for windows C:, one for your data D:, one for linux E:

As soon as you install windows, reassign "MyDocuments" to D:

Whenever you have a windows crash, you just reinstall and keep your data safe. You could also boot from linux and try some repairs or backups.

I've done that for every family member and friend, and couldn't be happier everytime I get "that" call.

No matter how many times I wear that "I won't fix your computer" t-shirt, I always get the call.
The guy's tone may be somewhat shrill, but that doesn't make his argument bogus.

With all due respect to the X developers, it's nearly 2010. It seems reasonable to demand that resizing a window not crash every open app.
My grandmother helped watching me sometimes. Financially she did it all herself.

I had a step dad two times, neither of them worked much though. Contrary to the idea that two parents are better than one, I thought life was better when it was just mom and me. My grandmother was around a while. She watched over me during the summers sometimes and lived with us a while, but she wasn't reliable, so mom paid for baby sitting a couple years. The rest of the time I was latch key.

She also finished her degree while I was growing up. She'd take me to the college library with her. I was always frustrated by the lack of books for kids my age, but somehow I endured.

From the time I was 5, she had a good job with the government, so life was pretty stable. Except for the name calling, I only felt the effects of not having more money once. We were on the way back from her university and we stopped at a convenience store and I asked for a sandwich. She said we couldn't afford it. They were a special sandwich I really loved and not being able to afford it, I thought they must have cost $20 or something. Years later, when I was in high school I stopped and got one of those sandwiches for $2 and it hit me all of a sudden that we didn't have a lot of money.

Except for that, I always felt like I had all I wanted. Looking back, had we had more money, I probably would have had a computer growing up. Maybe I'd be better at programming, or maybe I'd have gotten bored with it. Who knows. I lived pretty rural, so our house was more than big enough. I worked during the summers as quickly as I could, so I had my spending money.

I think it actually helped me to be honest. Not having a lot as a kid and finding happiness anyway has helped me live frugally as an adult as well. I find cheap ways to run my startup as well.

I think today, most families have dual incomes and both parents are away most of the day. Mom was at home with me as much as parents are at home now, maybe even more. I never really felt like anything was missing.
Some statistical analysis of university suicides can be found in Is Suicide at MIT a Poisson Process (http://philip.greenspun.com/research/suicide-at-mit.pdf).
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The real reason to de-ice is that the ice interferes with the flow of heat between the items you place in the freezer and the cooling coils. It wastes energy, but by making it take longer to cool things down.
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A few dozen.

I won't tell you guys how to troubleshoot your crashing Vista machine, but the OS isn't at all the first place I'd look to find the problem.

Most Vista boxes don't ever crash. Mine certainly don't. On the server side of things (Windows Server versus RHEL, say) my impression is that Microsoft outcompetes Redhat on stability. Just not on cost.
The study you mentioned describes a different situation, suicides within a media coverage area when the media hypes an initial suicide. That's hardly a similar situation to a college campus, where the administration can respond by making counseling resources available. There are also studies that show that an initial suicide may actually have a preventative effect for further suicides within a closely-related population. (http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/154/2/120, for instance, though that was just a quick google, and I'm not vouching for how good it is).
Another data point, schizophrenia, and certain other brain chemistry issues, tend to appear in the late teens and early twenties. Here's some medline for you:

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/schizophrenia.html

There is another cluster of suicides from men in their mid 30s, from what I understand.
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An interesting video that shows how to build a battery charger that will charge the nonchargeable battery.