skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny you mention that. If you had your own implementation of variables, you could probably override the behaviour of parameters in the #returning method to get the behavior in the OP without rewriting code.

Naturally the syntax looks a little ugly to the ALGOL-shaped eye, but imagine such a thing written into the language. It would be trivial to permit the ALOGOL-like syntax in the code but also allow you to override the #get and #set methods when you want to.

IIRC, this is exactly what Generalized Variables are in Common Lisp. Variables where you override the meaning of setting and getting their value.

Ruby sorta kinda allows this in a very limited case. While you cannot override the meaning of:

foo = "foo"

You can create setter method such as:

class MyStack

# ...

def top
@array[-1]
end

def top=(value)
@array[-1] = value
end

end

Thus, stack.top and stack.top = "foo" can do whatever you want.
> Maybe there needs to be a visa program for Asian students without advanced degrees who are starting businesses.

Or smart people, period. I'm Canadian and have an undergrad degree in Psych and Computer Science. I've written code at big media companies that you've heard of and started an online education company from scratch with an American co-founder that's growing nicely.

All told I've helped generate millions for the economy and created hundreds of jobs for Americans, and it's still a pain in the ass for me to start a company in the US (technically, I can start a company without problems. But working for a company I start is nearly impossible w/o an American co-founder).
doesn't respond to apple-+ or shift-apple-+ so can't make text larger....not a problem in this case but, could have been.
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I've noticed some of same issues with http://scholar.google.com ...

It seems great if i'm trying to locate a specific article or ref by title or author ...and has in fact helped me at least get the exact citation for very obscure dissertations, conference papers, etc. But it's proved so helpful for search by keyword/topic.
You know Canada just has price restrictions on drugs, right? The US doesn't, so we subsidize the cost of drugs for all the other countries that have price restrictions. If we implemented those restrictions too, the financial numbers for the drug companies would suddenly become much different, not without consequences.
Slackware is still my favorite distro (even though I also use Ubuntu a lot nowadays).

It's the best choice IMO for learning Linux, for power users and for developers.

I still prefer to compile most of the software I need by myself, to get the latest releases and to compile with the options I want. And there's nothing I can't get running on Slackware. This is mostly because Slackware uses unpatched/non customized versions of each software, compiled with default settings.

I also love that fact that it doesn't even have its own visual branding. KDE is just KDE (with the default theme and its own wallpapers) and everything else comes as if you would have got the source and compiled yourself.

\\//, live long and prosper, Slackware.
Thanks for these opinions all.

I can see the arguments both for and against wizards and gui query tools.

On the one hand I personally agree with the jcdreads and viggity. These sorts of interfaces are very difficult to get right and dilute the SQL focus.

On the other hand a number of people have suggested going this way, so people do think it would be useful.

I have no immediate plans to go this way but I intend to be responsive to what customers request.

Cheers
The point is that any factor purporting to explain the graph must increase with parental income. Age at adoption and race of the baby do not.

Your hypothesis that richer people are more racist does increase with income, so perhaps that is the explanation.
http://arxiv.org

Google with site:arxiv.org
"Papers" definitely looks worth a test drive (Free for 30 days; then $42/é29), though I'd love to see something web-based, not requiring download to your PC, particularly if you have to do some of your research from within institutions on their PCs/Macs. [ BTW: "papers" won an Apple award, so probably works on Macs as well as PCs. ]
A bit tangential to the issue, but it makes me wonder what it gonna do when the anticipated "death of the press" occurs. Refer to opinion blogposts?
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it takes a real man to admit that, bravo!
The 23 Cocoa build is a bit broken, though:

http://atomized.org/2009/08/cocoa-emacs-231-cvs-builds-and-t...

I've since reverted to the Carbon Emacs 22 build (since I can't cope without fullscreen).
India is a trillion dollar economy. This was a 75 million USD programme. For comparison, India recently announced a 30 billion usd national id scheme. A bridge was built in my city - Bombay, India - that costed 4 - 5 times as much as this moon programme. Both of these do less towards providing the Indian poor with basic facilities than the moon mission. I can cite numerous other instances. Also, the BBC did not mention India's dying poor lacking basic services while reporting on these programmes. This BBC report is decidedly shoddy, crass and is a shame.

Chandrayaan-I was India's first mission to the moon. It spent 317 days in orbit and finished 95% of it's scientific objectives. The star sensor which was used by the orbiter's nav system to orient itself using relative star positions died a few months ago due to overheating. The Indian scientists hacked up a scheme to use the on board gyroscope and the pics taken of the lunar surface to keep it in orbit all this while. ISRO has declared the mission as successful despite it falling short of it's 2 year mission life. Also, it is worth noting that this mission planted the first Indian flag on the moon through it's moon impact probe.

I for one can't wait for Chandrayaan II wherein India plans to get a robotic rover landed on the moon. Go India go!
And the point is?
I would care and yes, it would hurt wikipedia if people were allowed to add information about themselves which was not 'notable'.
Thanks SpooneyBarger.
Because i run -current, i didn't even notice.

But hell yeah, it's a damn good news! I'm running the 64 bit version and it is rock-solid (as always is the case with slack.)
Creativity: Boost It With Blue
Is it just me, or has github gotten a lot slower in the last couple of months? I haven't noticed it with `git clone git://github.com...`, but the website seems to be grinding to a halt.
A class clown was at the top of the social hierarchy, at least until recently when Americans tired of the joke.
1. The 140-character (or less) limit seems like a restriction to many people. In fact, it’s a way of forcing companies and businesses to get to the point. You have to deliver the message quickly and succinctly without frills or hyperbole.

I might buy that if every Twitter post didn't fall into one of two categories, inanity like "going to the gym" or bitly links to things of actual value.
I'm also an immigrant (to Norway, actually), and I can tell you that it's quite difficult in practice to tell the difference-- it's not nearly as "massive" as you think.
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I don't care why you won't write for iPhone/Android/PHP/Rails/Mac
Not to mention the point that other countries do research as well is flawed.

You can do research in the UK with the hopes of selling in the US. This does not mean that your business plan wouldn't change if the US market dramatically shrank.
I thought I remembered this, but couldn't find it. Now have. Posted seven days ago and killed for some reason.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=781462
How authoritative do you think a quote is? People are misquoted all the time.
> It doesn't even have automated patch management

That's not true. You can automatically keep synced up.
Yeah definitely acm/IEEE. They also have all their publications online now and do reverse DNS to authenticate so it's all pretty easy. If I don't really have an idea of what I'm searching for then I use google. If I have a good idea but it's very specialized then I'll just walk over to the department and ask some grad student or professor where to go. If I know exactly what I'm looking for then I'll go over to the engineering library and ask someone for help.
Give your online store some bite
That would be Steve "we don't need no stinkin' floppies" himself.
Do you have a monitor that requires a custom colour profile? If so, then you may be unhappier with 3.5.

Otherwise, totally worth it.
I've been using aquamacs for some time now, and I think I'll be switching to plain old emacs because of this page. Is this really just a vanilla build of emacs with no customization? It seems to be much more well-behaved than the last time I tried out the regular emacs (which I think was version 22).
It's comforting to see that even demigods get it wrong sometimes. Knuth shouldn't have used Wikipedia as his blog.
An amusing conclusion the article fails to make.

U.S. health insurance companies have the highest administrative costs in the world; they spend roughly 20 cents of every dollar for nonmedical costs, such as paperwork, reviewing claims and marketing.

In Austria and Germany, if a doctor diagnoses a person as "stressed," medical insurance pays for weekends at a health spa.

US health insurance companies put some effort into reviewing claims (i.e. making certain treatment is really needed and avoiding fraud).

In contrast, Austria and Germany apparently pay for any nonsense a doctor recommends. The money they save on paperwork is spent sending people to the spa.

Relevant quantity to measure:

Administrative cost + Waste + Fraud
Humans did not believe similar threats of sicknes and death on Egiptian piramids, I do not see how these warnings would be treated differently.
>Maybe there needs to be a visa program for Asian students without advanced degrees who are starting businesses.

The link to PG's essay about exactly that: http://www.paulgraham.com/foundervisa.html
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How much higher is the image density here? Is it worth a 15-fold markup? If I'm paying out of pocket and can't afford $1500, can I have the option of paying $100 for a lower-density image?
Please add a "load image from URL" feature; don't make me upload my personal photos.

I uploaded a photo (bugs.jpg) and it showed up at the bottom of the screen, below the footer and outside the container! Firfox 3.5.2.

I am not exactly sure what it does; the only text that I thought would explain what it does only told me the generated code would be compatible with most browsers.

P.S. I like the giant buttons with the nice hover effect in the bottom; very tasteful.
Of course not.

However, you are equating his choice of ending his online presence with the quality and quantity of his work, or at least implying that they are related.

Can you offer any arguments to prove that point?
I love people who fearlessly operate like this:

"After the Ekofisk find, he had to train new recruits. “I, of course, accepted that I am teaching people so that they can make my existence unnecessary … What choice did I have? I had only one hope, and that is that through my contribution, I would become indispensable, which I did.”"
The best money I've spent lately was $20 for this cat. Food and litter's another $15-20 per month at the very most, and I have company even when I'm hacking at 4am.
That's not enough. Get down on your knees and BEG forgiveness.
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I found these which offer MRIs in the $500 range. Maybe they're scams of some kind. Maybe not.

http://www.wecaremedicalmall.org/
http://www.mriscangroup.com/
It looks like a really great product, I might personally find some use for it.

When you're generating the table names, I think naming the table after the sheet it's on might be more intuitive than a single letter, especially when there's only one data range per sheet.
Thanks for the suggestion, I will have a think about it.

The table names can be changed, you could click on the default letter name, 'A' for example, and rename it to SALES_NUMBERS for example.

I see the sense in using the worksheet name although there may be complications if there were multiple data regions on the same sheet or if the sheet name was long, as there isn't a huge amount of screen real-estate for the regions grid.

Thanks for the food for thought.
I think it's just a recognition that it might well be impossible to pull off.
Thanks for this.

Is there a way to make the window open at the center of the screen?
Yes.

"The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth—that is, whether readers are able to check that material added to Wikipedia has already been published by a reliable source, not whether we think it is true. Editors should provide a reliable source for quotations and for any material that is challenged or likely to be challenged, or the material may be removed." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability

Without that policy, Wikipedia's "anyone can edit" policy could probably never have produced the best content site on the web. Just compare http://everything2.com/
I think the next big advance in search AI won't happen until we figure out a better way of organizing data.

I had an idea in 2000 for a new kind of GPS. The technology existed back then, but until now the data is missing (we're gradually getting there). If every brick and mortar store fed an XML feed of inventory and prices to a central service (probably Google), you could tie that to location data and have a GPS that let you search by product and price rather than store name or address.

Let's say you're looking for a charging cable for an iPod. Instead of navigating to the nearest Fry's Electronics, you would type in "iPod charger" and sort by price or distance. The results might surprise you...it turns out TJ Maxx has them for $0.99.

Now, if we could just get the stores to give up that data!
The following PuTTY / PuTTYcyg setting may interest you:

Terminal -> Keyboard -> Change the sequences sent by ->
The Home and End keys -> "rxvt"
URL shortening services have been around for a long time, with the recognition that they weren't permanent. The recent issue with URL shorteners is because Twitter has created a false need for them.

What twitter ought to do is assign a fixed character length to all urls. So if you place any url in your tweet, you get docked 16 characters (that's a reasonable length since a URL shortening service would shorten the URL to about that length). Then just stick the actual URL in the href, and have some generic URL text that is visible.

Now, this might not work for mobile devices that receive tweets. Perhaps twitter should buy one of the URL shortening services, so that if it dies, then all the tweets die, and we no longer care if the links are valid anymore.

The need for permanent shortened URLs is a false need.
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It seems to me that you presume that sending a stressed person to a health spa is "nonsense". Why would that be? Of course it could be, but it seems like a conclusion which is hasty.
I wonder if the same research has any suggestions on how best to earn your money to maximize your happiness (or perhaps more pointendly not earn (as much) money to maximize your happiness).

Does an engaging work project count as an 'experience' in the same way as a restaurant meal or holiday?
In Joel Spolsky's talk about StackOverflow, he says that one of the 9 key points is that Google is your UI. It sounds that NPR traded a few people paying for transcripts to get many more people discovering npr.org.
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My Reasons for Opposing National Health Care - Megan McArdle
Any insight as to why they chose to name it tap instead of returning? I much prefer returning.
"India’s best and brightest swept inland, helped turn a valley full of orchards to Silicon."

Uh, no. Those orchards were gone long before South Asians came to Silicon Valley in significant numbers. The demographic makeup of SV engineers was overwhelmingly white American until around a dozen years ago.

With the importation of so many engineers into the US, wages were suppressed and many American students who had the potential to become engineers made the rational decision to pursue other career paths.
In contrast, Austria and Germany apparently pay for any nonsense a doctor recommends. The money they save on paperwork is spent sending people to the spa.

Not all of it, it seems. Germany spends 10.7% of the GDP on health care vs. 16% in the USA.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_health_care#Germany
konsole is great for long term work, and yakuake is better for some one time command!
Scheme rocks because then you can read SICP.

Everything else is just a bonus. :)
And I have to say that this is a good thing.

If you're going to attempt to write a serious encyclopedia article about Knuth, trivia like his opinion of Wikipedia has no place.
So let's say I build some kind of application. And I create a website for it and a Twitter account and whatever else. Should there be a Wikipedia article for that? By having lower notability standards, there would be, as the article could use the sources I created. Seems to me that there shouldn't be an article for that, though, as that's really just a case of self-promotion and advertising. Besides, there really isn't anything particularly notable about the product itself, is there? It's just something I made on my own in a few days.
"87 rows in 3 seconds" - performance could be a problem. Last time i used Excel I thought that you can already run sql on the data and if you need to really do that sort of thing you'd just export to sqlserver and do it there. I think this idea is the wrong market. Those that know sql will use sql against sqlserver as I just described, and those that don't spend countless hours in excel trying to use formulas.

sorry, I prefer to like start up ideas but this one just doesn't seem to have any legs in my mind.
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Indeed, growth is not the point. The point is to have a great encyclopedia that anyone can contribute to. Wikipedia has succeeded. I think the main reason for the slowdown in editing is obvious: the mission is basically accomplished.
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Wikimedia is in the black, but not rolling in money. Maybe it could be done, though. Here are the numbers:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/f/f6/WMF_Mi...
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rxvt-unicode along with urxvt daemon (or urxvtd). No smoothing or transparency.

A good companion to xmonad.
How on earth can an outsider know that?
So, skipping some steps, that leads us to a conclusion that the Wikipedia's grows has stopped by design. Namely, because the administration prefers to have some kind of "Better Britannica" ("better" means "bigger" in this case) and anything beyond the borders of that vision is unwelcomed.
Thanks for your honest opinion sfphotoarts.

I would say in defense that:

- The return time doesn't scale with the number of rows returned.
I have just run a query that queried 6 tables, invoked numerous string concatenations, included 2 MOD functions, 2 RAND functions and returned 22,000 rows, it took 11 seconds. This is not up to database performance of course.

- There is a static overhead to running a query, and that's much greater in QueryCell than in a database directly.

- QueryCell is not meant to replace databases, just make life easier for people working in Excel.

It was pretty much the 'countless hours trying to use formulas' that made me think about QueryCell.

Cheers
It's mostly common sense. A sensible guide is: would an article on the same subject, but hosted on a different site, mention Wikipedia?
These problems get a lot of attention because people tend to whine loudly about them. But the vast majority of articles are not affected by them.

Except possibly the learning curve. I think the fact that Wikipedia is just a little bit difficult to edit has helped it enormously. That filtered out the people who post the sort of junk you see on YouTube, digg, reddit, etc.
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I found the article self-contradictory.

In case of Google, he actually makes a pretty strong case for the algorithm, not "data". The data (the links) were always there. It was precisely the algorithm that generated information from that data.

And a Bayesian Net itself is clearly the by product of applying an algorithm to a data space.

The NetFlix case is anecdotal, but consider the following (equally anecdotal) counter example: The (massive) increase in the available data to humans since the advent of the networks have not contributed to any significant increase in the general intelligence of the population.

Unless by AI he is referring to the highly narrow case of machine creativity given little to no input (of data), then (obviously) algorithms do require data sources.
Apple kicks ZFS in the butt
I managed to get quite a few excellent tips out of this discussion. I found a far less buggy terminal, and discovered a feature of Windows I didnt know existed.

Seems like a good deal to me...
For arranging your personal collection of papers, you might look at Mendeley.

For searching papers, look at CiteULike
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How would drugs become generic (i.e. fall outside patent protection) faster if the FDA approved them faster?
"For decades, those swells traversed the Pacific and smashed to rolling white breakers south of San Francisco. India’s best and brightest swept inland, helped turn a valley full of orchards to Silicon. And Silicon turned to gold, as baby-faced kings with Coke-bottle glasses made millions overnight."

Could someone please summarize the factual content of the article? The title makes me interested, but I don't have the patience to wade through the novelist-wannabee writing.
Better to assume good intent and not open your mouth...what a maniac.
slackware, the main distro for the church of the subgenius. amazing. wipes tears of joy
I was under the impression that stress was one of the biggest killers in the first world. Why does even the original article put "stressed" in quotes as if talking about the luminiferous aether or some other wild notion.

"According to the American Medical Association, stress is a factor in more than 75% of sickness today. And according to the World Health Organization, stress is America’s #1 Health Problem." -- quote from some randomly googled site.
Mine was free, the best birthday present I ever got. She's sitting next to me right now, giving moral support, just as she has every day for the past 13 years.

Unless you're allergic, a hacker should go to the humane society, pay the 50 bucks, and save a life. Don't worry which one to pick, they'll pick you. You'll always have company, and when you're out, they'll take care of themselves, always ready for you to return. Dogs are great too, but they need much more attention.
With empty suspended coros, we use about 169M for 300,000 of them. So that's about .5K per coroutine.

In Haskell, 500,000 threads waiting for an empty mvar used about 1.4G of RAM. But if they just spin forever (foo = foo), not waiting for anything, then it uses 129M for 500,000 threads; .2K each.

So really, coroutines are not costly at all. Most of the price you pay you would have to pay anyway. The overhead of the coroutine itself is tiny.