skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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"We thank you in advance for your understanding and cooperation." ~ Google

What's the word for that?
Economies where the currency was on the gold standard have also had speculative bubbles - from the tulip craze to the South Sea Bubble.

The Federal Reserve has sometimes actually served its purpose of maintaining a stable currency - notably 1935-1970 and 1980-1990.

The article does well to evoke Minsky but it should be remembered that Minsky wasn't a gold-bug but a partisan of regulated capitalism. Unlike "Austrians" and libertarians, Minsky analyzed markets as being unstable and advocated regulation. Of course, the problem is regulators can become, accommodating and corrupt as easily as markets can become unstable, rigged and speculative. That's why we have democracy - except that citizens can also become fat, lazy and stupid. So, well, you can't win. Perhaps, that's why we have cycles of dominance between nations...
Typically, municipalities control what gets built where by "zoning" various territories. In most municipalities for at least the past 40 years, large parts of the city are zoned for commercial, industrial, OR residential usage. You cannot run a store out of a residential zone, so there is essentially no possibility of a neighborhood incorporating both workplaces and residences.

This is good if you're a city planner allocating parking meters. This is bad if you'd like to live in an apartment that has convenient walking access to some shops, restaurants, and public transit.
Nathan Myhrvold on Invention and Inventing
Not very well argued, but it's a plausible summary of a potential outcome.
Any chance this was Apple's way of disseminating misinformation to track down a leaker?
Well, apparently, it was obvious. AFAICT, no one has come up with a better explanation than using IEEE floating point where bignums should be used, which I pointed out in my original comment.
Agreed on all points. I'm using the term "status update" as a catch-all to include everything that Twitter is used for, which is inaccurate. I stand corrected :)
The ability to ignore and avoid thinking about certain things is essential when visiting 4chan. If you practice, you can read sentences like the above without having mental images of the described event. More advanced filters can prevent you from thinking about it with imagery even after seeing something you wish you hadn't seen. ;)
The chances that there are two bombs independently on a plane are utterly, utterly miniscule, and that's why when I travel I always carry a bomb with me. I can be certain there won't be another one, and since I won't let mine explode, I'm safe.

And so are you.
Federal Government Mulls Web 2.0
I think you can not give away the Copyright to things, but I am not sure if that has any practical implications, as Copyright is just one of many rights. Most contracts by publishers manage to get the rights to do with your stuff whatever they want anyway.
well, the netbook is worth around $250 and then there is the $250 credit --- so if you take 50 hours to build your submission then it is about $10 an hour. doubt it would take that long though.
Cache would need to grow to something like 200x its current size to act as graphics memory today. So the need for more graphics memory would have to be far slower than Moore’s law for a long time for that to happen.

PS: Don't forget 3D graphics cards are still far too slow. You really can tell the difference between images generated with 1000x the processing power of today’s graphics card vs. 100x more powerful. Sound and 2D graphics cards passed that threshold where people stopped noticing more processing power so they became integrated.
Please elaborate? Middlemen as in people making my code malicious and pass it off as my code? How would that work?
How to lose friends & alienate people - charge for pitching without offering anything better than the next angel investor.
The way you've phrased your question it's kind of hard to say that you're not.

So, I'm not :)

I don't like fighting, though I appreciate the discipline and control that goes in to things like karate.

When I was a kid and in high school I fought my lifes share of fights and since then I've worked hard to stay away from violence in any shape or form as much as I can.
BTW, bing does it right: http://www.bing.com/search?q=999999999999999+-+9999999999999...
Dustin... awesome. Has anybody else done something like this? This could be like a "Supersize" movie, but about the perils of travel. Film it! And @#$%... make sure to stretch regularly.
You make a good point. Maybe there is a way I can post links on my blog that take people DIRECTLY to the article on another site without requiring another click. Unfortunately, if I don't drive traffic through my primary blog location I have no way of knowing what my traffic levels are, and which stories are the most popular, etc (i.e. so I know what to write about in the future). Anyway, it is valid criticism that I should not make people have to go through multiple clicks.
Impressive. I find that extremely hard, it's like things play on an internal monitor that I'm forced to watch and can not ignore no matter how much I want to.

I run a webcam site and over the years we've had some pretty weird stuff happening there and I really wished I had not seen any of that.
In Germany (and some other jurisdictions), you're forbidden to unilaterally disclaim responsibility for something you've written, which the public domain implies. Instead, you can only assert that there's no warranty (for example) via license (and/or contract, I guess?). Explicitly placing things in the public domain has a history in the US, but actually is not directly supported by law even there, only precedent.
What is gained by abolishing legal tender since, as you state, another standard will rise in its place?
A true counterexample would show that the monetary prize gave a faster or better result than no prize. Without a control, you haven't shown anything.
Homer: Listen, Flanders, you still have that store?
Ned: For two more days. [sniff] It becomes Libertarian Party headquarters.
I hope they have better luck than I did.
Typical of someone to glibly say 'where's regex matching?' when it's very advanced, and it's possible Google simply don't have the cpu for making (and searching) a search tree for many megabytes of mail.

I don't know how Yahoo do it, but this guy should at least present a solution to the problem. It reminds me of that Alexei Sayle sketch where he says 'I blame the council' (which in the UK is the local authority and handles all sorts of things in a town or city), and at the end, wanting someone to blame for blaming the council? He blames the council!
Man, http://stomachly.com got a mention. Thanks!
I don't think anyone would be able to move, no. We're already fully remote anyways since Kirubakaran and I are in different parts of the country.

Have them drop me a line at icey@icey.net and we'll talk :D
I did a search for a mail I was sure I had in gmail a few weeks ago, and it returned 0 results. I came to the conclusion that I'd simply deleted the mail.

Now I'm wondering if it wasn't me at all.
Ah, but Mission Critical actually has a place. When you're working for NASA, you operate a nuclear plant or some other outfit like that.

Everywhere else it's just pretending you do something important.
I bet the guys at blekko don't have this problem when they launch.

http://www.skrenta.com/2008/04/microsoft_bias_in_msn_search_...
TestiPhone.com - iPhone Application Web Based Simulator
Unfortunately, I cannot tell you exactly how to develop this ability, because I only discovered I had it by trying, but I remember not having the ability to NOT think about a pink elephant, so it can be developed. Somehow. :)

Edit: Apparently rms knows how; see his comment.
It's not really a Ruby vs Rails way of doing things. The Rails implementation is arguably more in line with the standard Ruby behavior since it throws a NoMethodError for everything other than Nil objects.
Thanks for the background. This whole thing strikes me as a horrible loophole in the legal system. I'd imagine the same is true in most western countries.
there are plenty of different ways to monitor web page clicks without using a third party site that completely masks a link.
I do Movement Meditation in a class run by a seventy year old guy. I'm the youngest at fourty-five. It's an art, no violence or aggression, but intense training. I don't get injured - ever.

Previously kubatan, and some close protection training. I rate Systema very highly, but I still think running away is the best self defence. As I mentioned in a previous post, go surfing for the best exercise of mind and body.
I wonder when the time will come that someone treats money and this crisis as technical problem and analyses them as such. Reading all these smear pamphlets blaming certain people, institutions, political parties, secret associations, or even just races is boring.
This is probably a good place to start learning that ability. http://www.vipassana.com/meditation/mindfulness_in_plain_eng...

When I read those sentences I didn't even come close to thinking about underage girls, girls covered in fecal matter, or underaged girls covered in fecal matter. ;)
Indeed, an appeal to authority. Moreover, "Helicopter Ben" Bernanke's claim to authority comes from his various clever extensions and justifications to Alan Greenspan's financial regime. His most notably justification was his promise to fight deflation with Helicopters full of dollars (most of which seem to have landed on Goldman Sach's roof).

But even Bernanke's "fundamental research" was basically fleshing out the claim that sufficient Fed accommodation could solve even a problem as extreme as the Great Depression. We are clearly getting a chance to see whether this is true and I'm with Paul Krugman in calling bullshit on it.

So, "World's Greatest Economist" or fraud? The proof will be in the pudding and the pudding is certainly not done.
Climbing is popular amongst physicists and mathematicians—Raymond Paley and Jacques Herbrand come to mind. Scott Aaronson wrote about this last year.

http://scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=355
There is more to the tulipmania than meet the eyes: http://mises.org/story/2564
> The evidence abundantly suggests I am not alone, either. Given the choice, a lot of people prefer suburbs, or suburbs wouldn't even have come into existence.

I'm not entirely sure that's the case. You certainly can't reach a simple conclusion, because living in the city is more expensive than living in the suburbs. One might equally well argue that most people would prefer to live in the city, otherwise it would not command a price premium.
If it's expensive, then why not reflect that by providing it to people who pay for their accounts?
You say that like the "world's foremost economist" knows everything there is to know about economics, so it's a waste of his time to debate on them with others.

Also, Ron Paul is pretty frequently put on cable business news networks (FOX Business, CNBC, Bloomberg, etc.) to discuss things...I doubt they would ask him to come on if he wasn't knowledgeable about the economy.
because I've rewritten it completely.
For some of us, things are more fun if there's no possibility of money at all; bringing money into it means a cost/benefit calculation, whereas doing something for fun doesn't usually involve that. I like playing WoW, but if I were paid for playing WoW at $5/hr, I would do less of it.
I would love to hear your suggestions. :)

Keep in mind I don't control some of the locations where my articles are posted (i.e. and can't see any traffic information from them).
xingyi (aka hsing-i) is one of the three general internal chinese styles along with taiji and bagua. if you've seen jet li's movie "the one", you've seen xingyi (and bagua). its the only pop culture reference i can think of.
Was Darwin Wrong? We need an appendix?
Abuses and deficiencies of any one currency would be kept in check by competition, even if one currency dominated. An issuing authority couldn't abuse their position because everyone would just flee the currency.
I don't think that's the only reason sports are divided up. It's also because you need people of nearly equal skill before the competition actually is competitive and not just one player trouncing everyone else. Statistical methods would ensure that this happens, but may lose the other sort of divisions.
> I doubt there are any distance running health benefits compared to benefits from short distance running and/or walking.

The 32,000 person study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (1999) I mentioned above found that there are.

Can you refer me to any peer-reviewed research linking sprint training or weight training with equal or greater benefit in any of the health indicators that Paul Williams's found distance running improved? Or any research demonstrating that strength training induces neurogenesis?

If not, then please stop sharing what you personally "doubt" or "suspect" is the case. It's just not constructive.
Yeah. I'm a libertarian and even I think that this article doesn't fit with HN, nor is it a good representation of the scholarly arguments for abolishing the Fed.
If a middleman takes your code, compiles it, and then distributes it to the user, then that user has no access to the source code to the version installed on their system. This is one of the events the GPL is designed to guard against.

In an ideal world, everybody would provide their users the same rights they received from the copyright holder. The only licenses required would be MIT/BSD style. I would love this; a simple license, in my opinion, is better than the enormous complexity of the GPL. However, since in the real world people can and do restrict user's rights to source code, the GPL is still needed.
Yes, that was very much my reaction. I strongly suspect this fellow has never lived in Europe, and really has nothing to base his claims on.
Please keep numerical errors in mind. They accumulate.
all the hackers have grown up and work desk jobs.

if you're not contracted out to test for vulnerabilities and exploits then there better be some other incentive involved since you're no longer living in your parents basement.
it just redirects to:

http://tour.passionsearch.com/free_online_dating_join_V2/500...

so, you're just running an affiliate.
I see where you're coming from, but it still makes me think of 'incongruous'
Most zoning requires a minimum of land and road frontage. In my rural part of Massachusetts it is 2 acres and 200ft of frontage. I live in a small village where if my house were to burn down and I didn't rebuild it within 2 years it would be illegal to rebuild as it only has 80ft of frontage and 0.25 acres of land.

Its kind of crazy. The zoning laws were put into place around here to "curb density" which is the exact reason people love living in the little village I live in.

The tide is changing though - we are starting to see more and more "New Urbanist" developments in the states (but not around here). Basically replicating a dense communal shopping area with 2nd floor housing and nearby single family houses. They feel a little serile however.
I didn't think it was that big a deal to begin with, hence my emoction.

Agreed though that it's rated pretty high, but at the same time that is most people's first reaction, including mine.
I am not aware of any bubbles that happened without government policy. There is always a state driven monetary or fiscal component.

> maintaining a stable currency - notably 1935-1970 and 1980-1990.

By stable you mean inexorably lose value through inflation? The dollar in real terms is down something like 98% since the establishment of the Fed. Flat or falling prices was the pre-Fed norm.
I would argue that, no, there isn't "standard Ruby behavior" in this instance. It's just a method.
Again: you are using two libraries (Rails and plugin X) that depend on their own versions of try, which they include.

One of the libraries is going to break.
Our team built http://loanit.to as our entry. It allows you to track things you've let friends borrow. Some great potential for Amazon affiliate integration.

Very impressed with the quality of the apps this year. Some awesome ideas! It's going to take days to go through them all!
I'd say both matt's comment as well as the quote he was pulling from have similar logic problems.
Yup. Perhaps he was thinking of Python, where his assertion is true.
I've created a table at TableSurfing! Anyone in Pittsburgh that wants to show up, here you go:

http://tablesurfing.com/tables/double-wide-get-together

Best website idea ever.
Stomachly is awesome! Great design, even better tagline! Nice work!
RailsRumble needs a prize for most hilarious app. We should lobby for that next year.

This year, stomachly wins.
Shimon is correct. If you'd like more detail on the subject, see some of the articles in City journal: http://www.city-journal.org/ or The High Cost of Free Parking: http://www.amazon.com/High-Cost-Free-Parking/dp/1884829988 or The Option of Urbanism: http://www.amazon.com/Option-Urbanism-Investing-American-Dre...
Hey, really nice job on pocketsapp. How did you do the phone interface? Is there a good resource for learning that tech?

Thanks!
You're aware of the RIAA's lawsuits against file sharers, correct?

Your comment about using the legal system for extortion is a real problem.
Hey man, I have a hard enough time getting my head wrapped around learning (in no particular order) django, python and lisp right now :)

But I appreciate the pointer and I've filed it for future reference.

One thing though, my 'vivid imagination' really comes in to its own while reading books, I literally see the scene in front of me as though completely immersed in it.
The Pirate Bay is Offline. Where are Our Collective Guts Hiding?
How to Record Streaming Media with Web Stream Recorder 2010
Prosper is Back
I think you are correct in identifying a conflation of eula with copyright. In fact I don't understand why the link to djb is there at all, even given that conflation.
The heavy, cream-colored two-button serial mice were the best on the market at the time, and the Sidewinder Pro was a very nice joystick. The mice they sell today are simply ordinary, and no keyboard of theirs has ever held a candle to the old IBMs or the current DAS keyboards (among others).

On the other hand, Windows 7 is the first Microsoft OS since 3.11 that I can use for a full day without doing unhealthy things to my blood pressure.
Beginner´s Guide to Propulsion
dabbled in Aikido and tried MMA. maybe some serious BJJ soon and try the rubber guard :)
It might be too large to support all the judging & infrastructure (hosting, etc). However, if they could, I agree it would be awesome!
Google loves Hacker News.
definitely. after having fenced for a little while and then testing the martial arts waters again, i found that i'd gained a lot of interesting, useful insights. the commonly pointed out anecdote is that bruce lee was a fencer, and it influenced his philosophies and development as a martial artist.

my bread and butter was teaching. the money and opportunity wasn't around for me with respect to fighting or tournaments or anything else to warrant seriously focusing more on them than i was.
Not so hot. I also think that doing font shadows on small fonts is ridiculous because it just makes it harder to read. But I'm obsessed with readability, so...
It seems like they've worked on mitigating this on the web with suggestions for alternate spellings and by displaying related searches. While you can see stemming at work in many Google searches, I'm pretty sure they don't build extensive substring indices on the web end either. For example, I've had searches where a substring returns 0 results and the exact phrase returns a handful.
What I think is that he had a great anecdote and felt the need to shoehorn it into the news of the day.

I'm still not sure what his point was about TechCrunch, but I sure did enjoy the story about the hippie wife who didn't know her husband was a spy. (Hmmm, that would make a good movie actually...)
Creationists, now they’re coming for your children, by Richard Dawkins
Fair enough! If you have a suggestion for an alternate title I would be open to it!

I know what you mean about staying away from violence.

I was on the receiving end of a lot of bullying in High School, I guess in the end I've gone the other way in trying to make sure that if any violence occurs, I'll be in control of myself and, as much as possible, of the outcome.
Bing gets it wrong if you add enough digits:

http://www.bing.com/search?q=999999999999999999999999999+-+9...
Uh, this article is a fine example of "austro-gymnastics".

"In Garber's view, tulipmania was not a mania at all, but is explainable by market fundamentals."

Rationality is a slippery concept. A speculator who can "rationally" expect his neighbor to be the bigger fool can "rational" buy inflated items and "rationally" profit from his gullible neighbor. Whether the folks who traded acres of land for single tulips were acting in this "rational" fashion or not, speculative bubbles are clearly damaging for a society as a whole.

Similarly, perhaps these folks were acting on "market fundamentals" but this simply a humorous disproof of the claim that market fundamentals automatically produce social good.
Just imagine you are Searle's "Chinese room" :).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
I know exactly what it means, and I can easily spell it and pronounce it, but it's still horrendous. The person who wrote this poll must be a developer because it's so objectively oriented. Here are some subjective aspects to consider: what other words does it remind you of? would you be embarrassed to tell someone the name?
That's basically what's happened to my company (the lawsuit is still ongoing).
Would you care to defend the claim that the netflix contest would have attracted anywhere near the amount of effort it did, without a million dollar prize at the end?

I understand that the Netflix "experiment" has no control, but that doesn't mean we should dismiss it as evidence. (And start talking X-Prize, Darpa grand challenge, etc. My assertion is that payments work sometimes, and clearly don't work other times, and I'm wondering why that is.)
Immediately made me think "gangrenous."
I'm not really clear what you are trying to do with these models, but agent based modeling may be related : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent-based_model This may be a useless comment, but I would also recommend you focus on the software engineering aspect - provide a clean, simple interface that describes what you want and do a naive implementation that will allow you to work out the rest of your system, then you can keep working while studying the ideal mathematical model for behavior. I think the general search term for this field is "numerical analysis". One quick and dirty technique that is sometimes useful if you have a set of input vectors and a set of goal states is to do polynomial interpolation with something like a lagrange polynomial.
I'm intrigued by the fact that you did close protection training, I've been looking into the same thing. I find the whole concept really interesting.

After seeing the damage the a knife-fight can do in very short order I agree that running away is the best overall tactic. I do martial arts for fun and for the situation where I run away and the guy chases me :-p
I thought it was a well-known fact that "angel" groups who charge for pitching are just scam artists. My mailbox is full of spam from these groups inviting us to pitch to them for a "small fee". These dudes even operate like scam artists: by spamming the hell out of you.

I haven't heard of a single well-known startup like Google, Ebay, Cisco and thousand of others, that has been financed this way.