skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting how so much money/power/responsibility is diluted and reconcentrated over and over in mutual funds, pensions, insurance companies, governments, etc. -- much like those subprime mortgage tranches. And we call this capitalism?!
A British programmer, a French engineer, and a German "pragmatic scientist" are in a bar. The programmer and the engineer are arguing about whose country will be next to put a man on the moon. After a while, they asked the German "pragmatic scientist" why his country wasn't in the race. "We're going to the sun," he said. "The sun?" they asked incredulously, "You'll burn up before you even get close!" "Oh, no," he replied, "We're going at night."

That's the purpose of humor. When something is so absurd that there's no other way to deal with it, we turn it into the joke that it really is. OP provides perfect fodder.
The articles not that amazing I agree, but it started a fairly interesting discussion.
Can't blame him for that... It's really awesome, isn't it?
Wow, slick! Browser for environment/introspection is definitely a killer feature. What does "save/commit" do? Is there a git-y thing behind it? It'd be nice to be able to have it auto-push to github et al.

I get a generic "Error committing to counter.st" when I try to follow the tutorial though right now, using Chromium nightly on Ubuntu.

(Trying to think of a project that could be called Caesar... ;)

edit: oops, can't read: the browser's already called Caesar.
Sounds to me like a guy on a bike hurt your feelings once, and now you generalizing that one case to "all the time".
the journalist was an aspiring one, writing for the crimson - harvard's college newspaper.
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That is disappointing. This means that the "vision of American life" is not in the artist's head per-se, but is just a photo. He's got talent like a talented photographer to see the scene, frame it, and photograph it, and talent in his hands to be a "human developing machine". These are impressive to be sure, but the spark that allows great artists to paint things the way they perceive them (or would like to) is missing in this technique.

I suspect that he does a lot of catchup bottles because he's "got that down" and its become easy for him.
Thanks for the compliment! We do have some hacky code that gets chrome to work, but we're not sure why we need it. Googling around you don't hear other people facing the problems we are.

We built http://lazeroids.com in 48 hours for the http://railsrumble.com/ programming contest. Since we didn't have a lot of time, we didn't get to much performance optimization. There's a ton of low hanging fruit in that area that we'll deploy after the contest voting ends on Sunday. (You can't make changes during the contest, only during the 48 hour weekend competition).
Some of the quotes are interesting in that light:

> “I do stuff like this all the time,” Zuckerberg says in his relaxed tone. “The facebook literally took me a week to make.”
That's 'phase 1', 'phase 2' will be about great financial offers by people in warm countries, then you will be offered debt restructuring (phase 3) and finally when all this has failed you will send a random mixture of the above ad infinitum on the off chance that one day you will come to your senses and you will finally succumb to these great offers.

What bothers me more than receiving spam is that they keep sending the same spam over and over again.

If by any chance you've set your email client to display images in email attachements you may be tipping off the spammers that you actually receive their email.
google 'hn'.
I think the article could use better terminology. Aggression is not really the right term. (Probably some lost-in-translation happening here...)

But the article's subtitle is something that does seem pretty spot on - and makes you think a bit:

"telling jokes is a method of reinforcing a social hierarchy"

And as erlanger's comment says - the end of the article crystallizes the meaning pretty well:

"Nurses and midwives tend to tell jokes about patients but not when the doctor is present. And when someone initiates a joke they tend to be ignored if they are in the presence of someone of a higher status."
I have to disagree with the other commenters as to its suitability as general object code.

I find it too high-level, with insufficient control over the lower-level details. For Skulpt (my Python-in-JS implementation) it works "ok" because JS and Python are similar in some respects, so some things map pretty well. But, for other things, like implementing longs (aka bigint), or implementing exceptions and attribute lookup faithfully to Python's semantics, it requires overhead that I consider unnecessary. Control structures from more flexible languages would require extensive hoop-jumping too.

Really, JVM-in-browser was the "right" solution, but the implementation of that is obviously horrible and impractical.

Not sure about #2, I guess it's a chicken-and-egg problem. With Google compiling from Java there should be some motivation to improve that use-case.
The study seems to say that whether a person uses humor (and what kind) depends on their place in the social hierarchy. But that is a far cry from saying that the purpose of humor is to define the hierarchy.

Similarly, the type of food people eat reflects their social standing, but the purpose of food clearly isn't to define the social hierarchy.
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High five!

I still have two A500+ machines, one of which has a 42MB external HD with this program on it. :)

I did a 192-frame, full-color animation in DPIV back around 1996. Took me five days to finish. Still trying to figure out how to migrate it to my XP box.
Actually, the root meaning of the name is 'Light', from which one can arrive at the notion of 'Sight' So what is really ironic is that any sentient would deny their inner lucifer and presume for itself an objective view of truth ...
That's a great joke - in fact I've never heard it before. But, at the risk of being a spoilsport, the OP is not completely absurd, and neither is the original version of this joke. Googling, I found two common versions of this joke. The first two in the bar are invariably an American and a Russian (countries with a prestigious history of space exploration). The third person is either:

1) a blonde
2) an Irishman

Now it's no longer just absurd, it's making joke at others' expense. Blondes (in the US) and the Irish (in the UK) are stereotypically dumb. (Maybe there's a French version involving a Belgian?) It's still funny for sure, but there's more to it than harmless absurdity.

edit: I found the French version:
http://www.blague.info/blagues/humour/drole-2228.html
No, my wording was what I meant. As the other reply points out, it is the usual case for a set of consecutive integers to have one member coprime to all the others. E.g.,

{2,3} has 2 coprime to 3.
{12,13,14,15} has 13 coprime to 12, 14, and 15.
{24,25,26,27,28} has 25 coprime to 24, 26, 27, and 28.
{48,49,50,51,52} has 49 coprime to 48, 50, 51, and 52.
I've found traveling, and staying at hostels and partying with other backpackers, is really good about recapturing that college feeling.
There are many things that are cultural and that you'd need to see in the context of the region where the events occur. In Germany for instance, the business culture is quite formal and 'stiff' compared to the countries around it, and I can easily imagine that to be the case there.

But in other countries in that region (say, Poland, Belgium or the Netherlands) you'll find a completely different culture.

In Germany for instance in many firms even today it is still very customary to indicate a senior in the company with 'Sie', the polite form 'du' would be frowned upon unless it has been explicitly stated that that is permitted.

I seriously wonder how much of the report should simply be viewed through a German cultural lens in the region where the research was conducted, instead of used as a universal set of truths regarding humour the way the article suggests.

You really have to keep in mind that Germany is still very 'status conscious' compared to many other countries (at least, in my own limited experience, maybe 50 or so trips into Germany visiting people and businesses for various reasons).
Perhaps decreasing the font (I use Numbers so don't know whether it is possible in Excel) of the horiz. axis will allow the full text to appear (if you can't display in 1,000's).
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My wife is a painter; she tells me that it is actually pretty typical for modern painters to project an image on to canvas rather than paint from a print. An image that is painted from a print tends to be flatter and an image painted from a projection tends to have more depth.
The search filter seems a bit too eager. Type one letter and it tries to enumerate scrillions of methods, which kills Firefox.

It's probably the DOM manipulation specifically. Are you adding the results in one big innerHTML assignment?

You can also try breaking the search into small chunks with setTimeouts between them.
How is voluntarily paying people to manage your money for you anti-capitalist?
a single entity that can exert that kind of influence

In the US such an entity has a legal obligation to act in the best interests of his clients, and can be held liable for failing to act properly. Bernie Madoff is a prime example.

Regrettably, The Authorities often look the other way. Ken Lewis decided (well, was pushed) to go ahead and buy Merrill Lynch even though he knew he was screwing his Bank Of America shareholders. Still, it was a violation of the law and he should have been prosecuted. So while it's wrong to screw clients for personal benefit, evidently it's not wrong to screw clients for the government's benefit. (I don't know what that's called, but it's not "capitalism".)
Well, they seem to have come out $2000 ahead on this one. Perhaps they ran the math and realized "the legal system" was intimidating enough that to deter most who would be forced to look to it for help.
Agreed 100%. I'm also not a fan of photorealism, but I believe that other posters in this thread are underestimating the skill of the artist. Especially now that I realize that he is working in watercolor, which doesn't easily allow the kind of layering that you can do in acrylic or oil.
OP is not completely absurd

When something stupid gets posted to hn, some of the instant responses typically include:

- stupid
- not hacker news
- a sample size of one means nothing
- ameteur ramblings
- belongs on digg or reddit
- correlation != causation
- citings?
- anecdotal, not scientific
- fail
- flagged (not only do they flag, they comment that they have flagged)

I've been reading hn for years, and OP is the most absurb thing I've ever read here. All of the above apply. But since it was about humor, I just turned it into the joke that it already is.
his visualisation of the memory is just brilliant. Broader view to see what memory is being used, and then zoom in to see the specific values and addresses.

Very clever indeed
Most Tiger users are probably on PPC, a CPU that is not supported by Snow Leopard. And please remember that Windows XP has a huge botnet problem.
"I think the data won't be so easy to collect."

A poll by an external agency wouldn't be very representative of Facebook's population, so Facebook is the only organization that has access to data to accurately make these kinds of claims, which they're going to hold very close to their chest.

Therefore, the obvious easy way to collect this data is to wine and dine some Facebook statisticians :D.
>but the purpose of food clearly isn't to define the social hierarchy.

Actually food is used to define social hierarchy in many groups and societies - mainly the order in which it is eaten. The head of the family eats first and gets the largest piece of the chicken.
This kinda makes sense. Subordinates will often try to inject humour in order to break a the tension in a serious situation. Superiors can't allow their subordinates to control the tone of the conversation like that, though, so they'll ignore it.

The article ignores, however, the fact that an awful lot (the vast majority?) of joking takes place between social equals. Now I come to think of it, jokes between social equals are the only ones which are actually particularly funny -- jokes told across different social levels tend to elicit a good-natured chuckle, not uncontrollable guffawing.
Painting through projections is actually still quite difficult. Remember that what you see on the canvas is a lighted projection, and not true to the original photograph's color. What the projection can be useful for is retaining the proper proportions and locations of a highly detailed photo. The real skill involved here comes from being able to reproduce the color (the way they are shaped / blended) and paint without leaving any evidence of the brush.

Note: I have been painting / drawing for about 18 years and while I thoroughly enjoy the challenges of drawing (finding correct proportions / locations, creating volumous shapes through line), I find the process utterly tedious and boring while working on a painting. The reason I picked the brush up in the first place was to get away from the pencil.
For the love of god, does everything now-a-days have to be about how someone is oppressing someone else, blah, blah, blah.

Being politically correct is like trying to pick up the clean end of a turd.
But will there be Segway support?
In many groups, the head of the family eats last and gets the smallest piece of the chicken.

P.S. I'm using humour for self-defence.
except perhaps in the case of stand up comedy: which for me usually elicits the loudest laughter.
Had to hard reboot about 4 times. Every time it picked back up with the installation without a problem, but still quite frustrating.

Now I can't login to my main admin account directly. I have to login through my gfs, and then switch over to the admin account. Anytime I login straight to admin, the dock, finder/taskbar, and icons never appear. It just sits there.

I tried removing every app that starts on login, but still no lucky. Fortunately I can still access my main account by going around, but it's definitely annoying.

I rarely ever turn my computer off so it's not that much of a bother, but lingering in my mind that my computer just isn't working right. :(
And? Unless you're running a server (and, incidentally, OS X Server does default to 64-bit), then I can't imagine why a 64-bit kernel would benefit you.
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"Incidentally Vanguard et al have no managers in that sense either - they just track the indices."

From the wikipedia page (which lines up with my knowledge): Since its founding in 1975, Vanguard has grown to become the world’s largest pure no-load mutual fund company. While mostly known for its low-cost index funds, Vanguard also offers a variety of low-cost, actively managed mutual funds and a line of exchange-traded funds (originally branded as VIPERs.) Vanguard also provides brokerage services, variable and fixed annuities, educational account services, financial planning, asset management, and trust services.
You guys fell for this? Really?

This wreaks of those email scams where you enter your license # or SSN on a 'government' website to see if you qualify for some made up crap.
Incompetence as a Signalling Device
Where in the world are all the hackers..?
The Great Flu
Pretty amazing. I was doing something vaguely similiar in 2000 or so, to find C64/SID tunes, but nothing as advanced as this.

Sadly, the demo doesn't go into the 'Sound' menu option.
Humor at the expense of others CAN be an act of aggression.

Good natured jokes made by a manager to make his or her employees feel at ease is a demonstration of people skills. People use humor in stressful situations not necessarily because they want to be in charge, but to actually lighten the tension. How is that aggression?

There are so many obvious situations of humor being anything BUT aggression. This is a completely ridiculous statement stating the exception to the norm as the general rule.

"Cars are used to kill people"
"Food is poison"
"Headlines are linkbait"
For cool Python coroutines with networking code, have a look at Eventlet. I'm using it for a lot of my server code; it makes server-side socket programming dead-simple to understand.
Do you really think we used genuine phone numbers?
Weird thing is that I already have Moonlight (Mono-powered Silverlight) installed, but it still isn't working :S
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> Last time I checked, you don't have to unclip to stop your car.

The last time I checked, clipping was a choice. We don't excuse drivers who make choices that make it inconvenient for them to obey traffic laws....

And no, "training" isn't an excuse either.

> Just out of curiosity, have you ever ridden a bike?

Yes, what of it?

> You get a sense of what rules you can and can't ignore.

Oh really?

> I don't feel at all bad ignoring a stop sign when there is literally no traffic.

That's nice, but observing bicyclists shows that "no traffic" often means "can I beat it if other folks give me a pass?". (My assumption that they're checking may be unfounded.)
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I think it's interesting. What I'm wondering is, does that mean given current technology and "infinite" budget, Google could have this high a resolution for the whole planet? What stumbling blocks, obvious or otherwise, are preventing such an upgrade?

Or is this just a one-time hack where they took the picture from an helicopter or something... In other words, Will it Scale(tm)?
right, because everyone needs a quick simplex algorithm under their pillow
You should try instapaper.com
Sun Microsystems, Intel, AMD and Microsoft have all been pushing multi-core/multi-CPU for years. His statement might be correct from a UI perspective, but it sounds a bit naive from a system perspective. Windows is much more fragmented than OS X in the UI layer. WPF, WinForms, Win32, Qt, Swing, Adobe, Softimage, Maya, Autodesk, etc etc.
http://stevehanov.ca is a respected site with some really cool stuff. The fact that the telephone number bit doesn't work is surprising and unusual for the site, and I'm interested in why it's not working. The question was intended to try to pin down why it didn't work.

I'm confused as to why I got downvoted. It's not a complaint, I accept that perhaps someone feels the question is of negative value to this site. Fine. But an explanation as to why would be appreciated.

Help me to understand.
I don't recall, but I think I just settled on 50 or 60, because I didn't want to skew results too incorrectly.
Yes it's most likely from a plane or helicopter.
Most of the highest resolution stuff in google maps/earth is (the big cities, etc). And no, it won't scale.
I think you have to go back farther than the 2000s for the real reason of its decline. The government split up the telecoms because they were monopolies, and that killed the cash cow that was powering all this research. It seemed bad at the time, but the litany of innovations that came about may have made it worth the extra price for long distance calling.

Today I don't think anyone is looking for Bell to come back, but for Microsoft, Google, Apple, IBM, Accenture, GE, Boeing, Lockheed, Oracle and other companies with huge cash stockpiles and big teams of scientists to get into more of a pure research role.
Humour is a fine Old French vocable, and so is its original meaning.

You can pervert anything, and humour (together with real love) is one of the most often perverted (but originally really beautiful) things...

:(

Try to create real humour to tell your own children; it's not that hard -- and it will be real humour.

:)
> Take Vanguard or Fidelity for example, they "control" a vast amount of money, but all they do with it is track indices on behalf of their retail customers.

Control or power doesn't disappear, any more than mass-energy does - if Vanguard or Fidelity aren't controlling the billions in index funds, then who is?

The answer should be obvious: whomever decides who to include in an index. This is part of the reason public companies are so eager to be listed in the Dow or Nasdaq or S&P 500; they know that listing guarantees demand from the many index trackers etc.
All I can say is that spending quite a while as a cyclist and a pedestrian I am now as the driver aware that I am the one sitting comfortably in almost a ton of steel who can speed up effortlessly.
A lot of the better images are aerial instead of from satellites. Close-up like this is not common though, costs would probably be insane.

I guess this image was donated by an independent person to Google, a employee maybe.
Anyone want to compare this to http://rosettacode.org/ ?
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Full coroutine example in uC++:

http://www.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~cs343/examples/FullProdC...
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> Actually food is used to define social hierarchy in many groups and societies - mainly the order in which it is eaten. The head of the family eats first and gets the largest piece of the chicken.

So you're saying that the hierarchy would not exist except for the food? The OP's post said that humor, like food, _reflects_ an existing hierarchy, and, as far as I can see, this dinner table hierarchy would exist regardless of the food.
...Wall Street's increasing focus on short-term profits...

I'd love to see evidence of this fact.

To me, it certainly isn't obvious. There are various companies and products focused on profits at various stages. VC focuses on the long term. Assorted securitized consumer loan products (mortgage backed securities, etc) are also long term investment. HFT companies focus on the short term. There are various medium term investments as well.

Have you any evidence that there has been a shift from long term to short term investments?

[edit: just curious, why am I being downmodded?]
I wish more people read Atwood.
The hierarchy would exist - yes. But the order in which food is eaten reinforces the hierarchy - no?
www.earthclassmail.com is the US version
No, that's why paperbacks exist I suppose ;)

s/Hard/Difficult/
The current Ruby to JS project:
http://www.ntecs.de/projects.html

After some recent ambitious JS development, it's become clear to me that the language is just unsuited to large scale development and no library is going to change that.

As such, I am really keen on these compiler projects, but I think it's a mistake to avoid language features because they are difficult to implement in JS. Syntax is nice, but it's those language features that are really needed.
My high-school art teacher once questioned painters like these: "why not just take a photo?"
I'd say, look for alternative physical transport layers. I don't know the timeframe until practical deployment on a significant scale, but I fully expect this.
It would have been nice to see some 'depth of visit' info next to the referral information, that would give an indication of the quality of the traffic from the various sources.

Time on site, number of pages viewed, that sort of thing.
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