skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I should note that both Safari and Firefox understand the URL 'http:news.ycombinator.com/item?id=796434' as well.
It is a standard form, adhered to for centuries when writing to a British monarch.

Protocols, especially royal protocols, have evolved to ensure that people know what is expected of them and can behave in a way so as not to cause embarrassment or offence. In some ways they really are very similar to computer protocols. They are there to help people communicate effectively without distraction. Many computer protocols seems overly verbose, and they often deal with the potential for things that can no longer happen.

So it is with social protocols. At least with computer protocols and royal protocols they are pretty explicit. Often when in a social context your really don't know how you're expected to behave, and hence become anxious, and there is the potential for huge gaffes.

Again, don't underestimate the cruft that collects over thousands of years. Most people never have to deal with it.
No.

Probably almost nothing you can do can make you heal faster. You can make it heal slower, however, pretty easily (say, by breaking it again!) but it's hard to beat millions of years of evolution with only a few hundred years of medical science.
I comment a lot more frequently than I upvote stories; I have a pretty high bar for upvoting.
Great stuff. One of the things that always bugged me about rails is the crazy html block helpers that require concating to the output instead of just returning a string.

Being able to build and returning simple strings is going to make rails views infinitely better.
RiderOfGiraffes is absolutely right here. It is just a code phrase, but being respectful to the Queen of England does require you to be subservient. British citizens are her subjects.
Indeed, you may. In fact, it's quite likely if you ever show real profitability. That's part of doing business in the PRC. There's a long list of foreign entrepreneurs who got robbed blind, often with government support.

That's why the article strongly recommends doing business in Hong Kong. In HK you still have some measure of order and civility in the business world, and there's some legal protections for your business. On the mainland, it's the law of the jungle, where the person with the highest government connections takes everything. Hint: that's not you.

One more thing. There are two types of laws in China. There's the "public" laws, that are published. There's also the private laws, that are not. You have no way of learning about these laws, and you're always in violation of something. "Quasi-legal" is usually as good as you're ever going to get.
This is the most sensible argument yet.

One thing we should be considering rather than questioning the value of an education is that we should be concerned about what ours are costing us. In most other first world nations, a college education is there for anyone willing to put in the effort to earn it... here, it's available to anyone who's willing to pay for it.

The quality of our education is decreasing, while its cost is rising. Hence the return on investment is decreasing, hardly a challenging leap of logic.

Why should one spend $50k per year on an education in any field? Will that get you a better education? Having obtained a degree from a pretty prestigious institution (Johns Hopkins), I would say no -- it gets you a school with a bigger athletic club and more stipends for brainless athletes (I have nothing against athletic scholarships -- provided that the athletes who get them are there for the education; IMO being an athlete is a valid way to pay for an education, but too often the sport is the goal, rather than the education).
Well in the case of Turing, they did stop doing those same things to the living. In the USA, it took until 2003. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_v._Texas

Gay people are now mostly treated very well, except for that dumb restriction against nationally recognized same sex marriage. Give it 15 years though and one of the last bastions of state-sanctioned inequality will vanish.
Really? I hadn't heard that. What are the problems (especially reliability ones) with ZFS outside Solaris? I always assumed it was more or less a straight port. ZFS doing its own RAID implies to me that it sits relatively tightly on top of a simple block device layer.

The NetApp issue, though, does seem plausible to me. At the very least, you'd want to see some level of indemnity from either NetApp or Oracle before shipping this on millions of devices.
Yeah I heard his name growing up learning CS, I had no idea the troubles he endured. A tragedy to be sure. As for all the comments regarding apologies to groups of people being impossible, I'm fairly certain I've heard some before. A certain Michal Richards comes to mind for dropping some prejudice remarks. I'm pretty sure he made a prompt apology. Just my $.02
I don't think that there was disagreement that there would one day be a problem, even in 2004. But "drawing on the same set of resources" doesn't seem like a fair way to think of it, especially to conclude that your idea would have led to the same thing.

I am one of the researchers on this project, and there are no "resources" which are being made available to us -- it's been something of an uphill battle to do more than just talk. We came up with our idea in January 2006, and spent the year implementing it. Even now, with this attention and with it being open source, there are no volunteers stepping forward to help make it a reality on the Wikipedia itself. We receive very little funding (from CITRUS and LANL, not Wikipedia), and I pay my own tuition from my side-job. Our research group has been really focused this last year to make the code "production ready" instead of just research code, but don't forget that we are academics -- it's difficult to justify our spending time this way, except that we truly believe in the project.

In terms of "credit for the idea", the earliest published work that I have seen is the "Puppy Smoothies" article in First Monday ( http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/ar... ) We cited that and every other blog posting (unusual for an academic paper!) we could find in our first paper. You'll see that there are actually several that existed at the time, but the real issue is in finding the man power to implement the ideas.
"Bad artists copy. Great artists steal."

When you learn, you steal. ;)
Maybe I'm just too old to get this, but why would someone waste their time on this nonsense?
Simplest explanation: couldn't be finished in time to a sufficient level of quality, therefore it was deferred for a later release.

Second simplest explanation: licensing issues.

Both of these explanations are very very boring, and I haven't seen anything to suggest that any other plausible explanation is very interesting.
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Perhaps the reason is that ZFS is actually not a big win for Apple's core product market(1): laptops and single user workstations (even that is grudging). From the original article:

Manage storage, not disks. You can put all your disks in a pool and specify the redundancy level. ZFS takes care of the rest.

Essentially all of Apple's products are single disk. There is virtually no win there.

No more silent data corruption.

The checksumming is a nice feature and desperately needed as disk capacity continues to explode but bit errors remain the same, but in practice probably the biggest risk is bugs in FS code:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/15/joyent-suffers-major-do...

Easy snapshots.

This is slick and gives the UNIX guy in me happy dreams but Time Machine really stole the thunder on this for regular users. It's just easier to explain to an end user "go to your backup and drag the files back" instead of the way that snapshots work in ZFS.

High performance software RAID built-in.

Again, one disk devices can't benefit from this

Transparent compression on the fly.

I challenge anyone to come up with a big win for this for the common Mac case. Most common or data-intensive file formats are compressed because it's just easier for any computer to deal with.

(1) Considering Apple's server products, xSAN is actually very slick, and in a lot of cases the flexibility of SAN storage outweighs the benefits you would get from ZFS's multi-device integration. The JBOD model demonstrated by Thumper + ZFS can be incredibly inexpensive but doesn't align practically with many workloads, including (I would expect) the video processing business, which is probably Apple's biggest server market.
but only in the url bar; both turn a url like that into a relative url when used in an img src, for example.
For a while my FreeBSD 7 ZFS FS would be empty every time I rebooted -- as if it was reformatted in the boot scripts. That was a pretty big bummer and put me off of using it seriously for a few years. The Solaris ZFS bug was enough FUD for me to wrap it up entirely.
So...who wrote the book report?
That does not surprise me, given that many Russians and Ukrainians moved to Israel after the fall of the USSR. But did those doctors start their lives in Israel as construction workers? Or did they start practicing Medicine right away?
The petition is only calling for the apology. The person who created the petition has, separately, called for a knighthood. But that's not what the petition is about.
More generally: Bad journalism makes you dumber. Good journalism makes you smarter and saves you time.
Dead on. As tired as I am of all the friendless as well, there are shades of gray in the between. Take even the balsamiq example the article uses -- the website doesn't jump in your face; it simply tries to be more honest and not present itself as a Fortune 501 company.
Note that a url like //www.example.com will use the context's protocol, which means an img src="//www.example.com" will use http or https depending on which the page was loaded in. Very handy!
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Ask HN: What sorts of consulting work do you do?
[Posting this from a temp account as I'm not sure regarding the validity of the question]

I was thinking about consulting recently and it dawned on me that the only thing stopping me from beginning looking for work is my irrational fear of technical inadequacy. I understand it's probably unwarranted, but it doesn't stop from being an issue.

The question I have is as follows: Can HNers give summaries of recent tasks they had to complete, working as consultants? Any details removed (or left in) is completely understood.

I'm not really looking for advice on finding work, or asking for career advice, I'm just interested in the actual non-overhead work that you'd work on and maybe it would help others in my situation. And if the question's out of line, I understand.

Thanks in advance.
A good example is sdn.sap.com: "Feed your inner geek". Makes me cringe every time.
An example of this is mailto:foo@bar.com this is still totally valid, but email addresses don't use the // notation for nodes.
jhancock, you're based in Shanghai right? If you have time, I'd love to get a drink with you and talk... send me a mail at pm -squigly sign- gom-jabbar.org

Also for any shanghai based hners here, feel free to contact me and let's meet up :-)
That's not depression.

The page you linked to defines "Major Depressive Episode" and "Major Depressive Disorder." Even mental health professionals use the term more broadly than that.
In the same vain, I wish I actually had the time to waste on such nonsense.
Tim Berners Lee, the creator of the Web and of URLs, wrote some time ago that he regretted the double slash in URLs, saying that one would suffice.
Agreed. Also something isn't quite right with the toggle switch animation itself. Lack of easing perhaps? Hard to tell. Throw me off though. Otherwise looks and feels superb on 3GS and 3.0
rsnapshot works exactly that way as well and is a supported package.
I try to make reusable applications of most everything I "know" that I'll be using more than once or twice. Permalinks and named URLs are pretty handy when you do not use the same URLs across different projects.

(EDIT: Added "Permalinks and" before "named URLs".)
It went a little further than that, I think the scheme would have been:

http:/com/ycombinator/news/item?id=796434
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Good lord, that sounds painful. Hopefully you have a rapid recovery.

Your doctor is probably the best source of information regarding exercise.

As far as your diet is concerned, you should just focus on eating as healthily as you can. Your body is going to heal itself at it's own pace; assuming your normal state is not one of malnourishment, you should be planning for what happens towards the end of your healing process. By that, I mean you're going to be largely immobilized (I assume) from this injury, so the best you can really do for yourself is to try to keep your overall health up in a general sense.

I wouldn't focus on calcium rich diets versus a balanced diet - a balanced diet is almost always better, and then you don't end up with follow-on side effects of drastic diet.

Beyond that, all I can recommend is you follow the advice of your physical therapist. They make not sound logical, but they're good at what they do.
Recently I tried PyPDF (http://pybrary.net/pyPdf/) and was not happy with the results. Has anyone else used anything they liked for parsing PDF, namely extracting the text, that is open source?
Isn't that obvious?
Not everyone has the line between "can" and "should" drawn in the same place.
...the only thing stopping me from beginning looking for work is my irrational fear of technical inadequacy...

The most important thing I ever learned from my first programming mentor, "Consulting is not a matter of how good you are, it's a matter of how far in front of your users you can stay."

I've done hundreds of consulting projects and I can testify that his words still ring true today.

Go for it.
Jefferson absolutely did know that slavery was wrong, and he wasn't shy about saying it, or writing it into legislation-- see his first draft of the Northwest Ordinance for a good example.

I'm not getting a real strong moral-relativism vibe from you. I mostly perceive apathy.
Students and parents believe a college degree and graduate degrees are a path to riches. Believing that, they go further into debt, justified by the promise of higher incomes.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/26/business/26lawyers.html?_r...
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Difficulty concentrating is a tricky symptom. Depressed people may have difficulty concentrating on what they want to think about, but they may ruminate obsessively on unpleasant topics. That fits nicely with the article's speculation that depression is "nature’s way of telling you that you’ve got complex social problems that the mind is intent on solving."
> An editorial could be written using 5th grade vernacular but also express ideas associated with post-grad work.

This happens so infrequently that I can't recall a single instance of it. Any particular examples?

Of course I agree that quality of thought comes first, but it is usually accompanied by good presentation.
"College" really represents two separate asset classes: education and credentials. Education leads directly to productivity. Domain-specific education (like what college provides) is not a commodity: its value is not directly market-based. An education does not become more valuable based on demand. The value depends on who has the education, their ability to apply it to the current situation, and the current state of the domain. It can also depend, to an extent, on the number of people with similar education, but this is a very slow-acting force: it can take generations to have any effect. That sort of "slowness" will tend to retard bubbling.

Credentials are a tricky subject as well. The particular credentials we're talking about have value because people trust in their correlation with education. These are much closer to a commodity, because the job market is aware of credentials. Demand for credentials can increase their value. Credentials can, therefore, bubble.

Now, if you're going to college for the education, that's fine. You'll get the same result regardless of what the market for credentials does. If you're going for credentials, you might get caught in the bubble. What's worse, if you're going for the credentials, your education will be of a lower quality than someone going for the education.
I remember porting my MapReduce clone to LOLPython. Three conditions had to exist in order for this to happen:
1) I was in a former cattle weighing town-turned-gambling nexus in northern New South Wales,
2) I was going to be there for 2 months, and
3) I was very, very drunk.

I think there exists a whole set of sub-explanations for each, but it shall suffice that severance pay, boredom and intoxication produce strange things.
I'll answer your question and then engage in some shameless self-promotion. I wrote about it after posting my comment. Here's the chunk which answers your question:

Where am I now?

Heh. I mentioned that looking for duplicate files is harder than I thought it would be. I'm actually on my third try. The first one was when I thought "I can do this with a script", the second was with .NET, where I aimed bigger, but found not nearly big enough.

So, I've just completed the work on the file crawler, and the next bit is submitting the crawl results to the index. I've done this part before, and I don't expect it to be particularly hard, but I have to find the time for it. After that, something resembling a UI (I am trying to solve a problem), then put the whole thing out there with a big fat "alpha" disclaimer (probably Apache license, since I'm using so much of their stuff).

And that's what I'm doing, and where I'm at.

Hope this helps.

http://itgoon.blogspot.com/2009/08/wheres-that-file.html
And remind me again why there's a Wikipedia page on her?
You put her name in the title. That should be enough.
I was arguing -- and continue to argue -- for empathy, but if all you can see is apathy I'll take it.

I'd rather be dispassionately interested than a member of the mob-of-the-day club.
Where's That File?
http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=101
It's The Register. They're always like this.
Tell me where Google News dominates.
Would you play this game to learn more about HN contributors?
To learn more about interests of HN contributors, one could use a matching game where you try to match submissions with submitters.

Would you play such a game?
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I specifically made an exception for anxiety issues. In fact, it was the first several words of the sentence you are quoting. In fact, it is the only part of the sentence that you didn't quote.

Your ability to read the opposite of what is said intrigues me. Are you a birther by any chance? :P
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Ah, it was all my fault that you said what you did.

All of the personal nastiness, the name-calling, on this thread is coming from you and Phil. He introduced it, calling me a "stupid prick." Your claim that I wasn't an adult or even a "real man" was similarly low.

The nastiness that you anti-nastiness warriors dish out here says something, I think.
Unfortunately, I think you'll find a lot of the newer WebKit features missing from the Pre. For example, the canvas implementation is stripped down and lacks, among other things, gradients.
Probably because he had fun implementing it.
Gotcha. By resources I actually meant the data available (timestamp, page views, contributor history, etc.), and not the actual financial support.

Anyway I wasn't trying to take credit for your work, I was just annoyed that no one wanted to discuss it at the time. Great job though, this is a really cool (and important) project!
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With all due respect, but someone who:

1) lives in NYC and has no prospects of finding a job

2) thinks he may become a beggar when his savings are depleted in a couple of years

is in NO position to be picky. It's not a matter of whether he wants to move elsewhere or not. What he wants is irrelevant. It's a matter of buying time and of bleeding off as little money as possible until the economy starts recovering.

For instance, he could move to a small village in the Northeastern coast of Brazil, where a beach house can cost as little as $50,000. And let me tell you, I have NEVER met anyone who moved to Brazil and would rather live in that filthy, stinky, rat-infested metropolis called NYC...

The guy has an MBA, so he should be smarter. NYC lost tons of jobs in the financial sector. Economies such as Brazil's are actually growing. It's simple: move to where the action is. His experience would perhaps be valued in some company abroad that needs to do business with American clients.

Saying that the financial sector is dying was an hyperbole, but the sector is undergoing a huge transformation. A lot of tasks that were done by humans should have been done by computers. The crisis only triggered the inevitable. Again, I shan't shed a tear...
It's awfully nice of you to defend the appropriateness of me arguing with you!
I find it amusing that you continue to provide an object lesson against your own point.
That's funny, I was just going through old bookmarks the other day, and this is one of the ones I decided to keep.

BTW, welcome to news.yc davidkaneda. If you like, you can drop links to whatever projects you're working on in your profile: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=davidkaneda
Thanks for the feedback. Let's look at your statement:

A bubble is only possible when prices are drive up by speculation.

And who says they aren't? There are two sides to college: the actual paper, and the underlying financing. The latter is where I think we will find the bubble.

Analagous to the housing market, the demand for college would not be as great if easy-credit financing were not available. And college loan companies would have less incentive to give out finaid if it were not backed by the federal government. That's where the speculation lies, in the packaging and securitization of tuition loans.

Or it could be rubbish.
The last few consulting projects I did were for a company looking to cut costs using technology. They hired me for 3 projects:

1. Cost/Benefits Analysis for switching to Angel/Salesforce and VOIP
2. Vetting outsourcing/offshoring companies for data entry/low-level programming work
3. Budget forecasting for computerizing data collection processes

In each case, I didn't have to actually complete the technical work, just know how much it would cost and who to hire to actually do the work. I was paid a flat fee plus a percentage of the cost savings realized.
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Off the top of my head, I seem to think that any book by Malcolm Gladwell would fit that description. Would you disagree?
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Absolutely. I'm currently mining data by degrees to analyze the true opportunity cost for various fields. A degree in communications, for example, may not be economically justifiable in the current environment. But we can flip it around and say a doctorate in medicine may not be viable due to the cost and amount of debt on the student. It's all anecdotal until I pull up some real data.
Please, for the love of conciseness, never assign a boolean based on an if statement.
It's 'contributor'.

I try to learn about others here by reading their submissions, possibly their homepages and projects listed on their profiles, a game that would match people with their submissions would be pretty hard on those with less than perfect memory.

And google would allow you to cheat :)