skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See also http://regexpal.com/
I see he had a nice write-up here:

http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/article.pl?article_id...

It's a couple of years old but describes his strategy, which seems to be: get a loan to buy a business, add value, sell and move on to gradually bigger loans and businesses.

Nice execution!

P.S.: I don't know why somebody voted down your comment because to me this adds helpful information.
An Interview with Dan Pink
I played with this and its not faster than other TCP. In fact my implementation of NetBLT (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc998.html) blows this one out of water.

An enhanced TCP that we use internally stacked up as follows w.r.t Normal TCP and FastTCP (times are for retreival of a 180KB file)

RTT	Normal TCP	FastTCP	InternalTCP
48	548	205	180

94	984	359	232

140	1546	593	334

188	1985	797	381

UDT,for different latencies clocked as follows

48 - 3.498s
94 - 3.262s
140 -3.640s
188- 3.987s

Hope that makes it clear
Money is freedom. Having money in the bank is freedom.

Spending lots of money is the opposite of freedom, at least for me. I'm glad I have small expenses and monthly payments, because I value my financial security and freedom a lot more than shiny gadgets.

It might be a cliché, but I'd rather not become a slave to the things I own.
Health care has problems that go way beyond the Baumol Effect. Costs have well outpaced income. Many studies suggest this. . . e.g. http://southflorida.bizjournals.com/southflorida/stories/200...
No you're not. It is not the same quota.
That wouldn't help with costs anyway. You'd be paying about as much for a bunch of new patented drugs - actually more if they were good enough to get you to switch from generics. You might get better treatment, but not cheaper treatment.
Seems then that a public option would be good for health because the insurer of the public would want to reduce costs over the life of the member. If a lot of the costs are due to diseases that could have been prevented cheaply earlier in life, then total health care bill would be lower and thus the public option could operate much more cheaply than a private insurer with a 4 year outlook.

Again, this is another data point on the short sightedness of our nation. We continue to look less and less far into the future and the human race is suffering. We are paying more for less quality. The environment is suffering.

We need a vision. we need to look into the future. we need a more longterm outlook with perhaps some short term sacrifice so that we don't end up some day not existing.
wow nice ui,I noticed you used jquery for the actual stores but cappuccino for the actual application.
screenshots of the service:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/21/google-music-service-th...
I agree. I fear that many people will read that headline and say, "yeah, banks suck, I am going to go buy a flat-panel TV".

Then when a crisis strikes, they will default on their loans and I will have to pay higher taxes and higher interest rates on borrowed money. Wait, the author is right, saving is for suckers...
I posted an idea in this thread:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=848766

quoting myself:
'''
Hey, this isn't my idea but I wish someone would do it. Only useful to programmers or web developers, but hey..

A little tray-app (or something) that works like this: - You select text representing a color in a text editor (i.e. something like #ff00ff, (1.0,0.0,1.0), (255,0,255) etc.. - You hit the tray app or some magic key combination and it sends a Copy message to the window, pops up a nice modern color editor, you edit the color, then you hit "Apply" and it sends a paste message with the new color formatted in the same way as the old one.

This would allow gui color editing in any text field with almost any program, and sharing of palettes between programs that use different representations.

This is totally doable in X11 or Windows.
'''
Already got the seasonal flu one, three weeks ago, along with several million other people.

So put YOUR money where your mouth is, and show some evidence that more than a miniscule percentage of the vaccinated had that sort of reaction. Otherwise the irony stands.
Besides SICM, http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/wisdom/AIM-2005-003.pd...
Guido's Proposal: Moratorium on Python language changes
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> Gold seems to continue to drop in price, even as we print paper money.

In the real world it's done the opposite. Golds gone up in value as we've printed more money.
83.26% of statistics are made up and 75.91% of people believe that.
I wish. Aside from the ethical problem that adults are compromising the survivability of their children, who are not in a position to make the decision for themselves, this view depends on the idea that illogical thinking and paranoia are heritable traits.

To be sure, growing up in an ignorant family may well offset the benefits of education, but many otherwise intelligent people can fall into error. Consider deniers of evolution or moon landings, who often know enough science to put up superficially persuasive arguments for their conspiracy theories (a favorite being 'van Allen belt radiation would have killed the astronauts') but seem unable to deal with questions of probability.

These beliefs are more common in the US than in Europe; I wonder if this is due to some basic weakness in the design of US school curriculum. Maybe if basic programming were included as part of the math curriculum people would b better equipped to deal with these issues.
I hope they have stopped paying taxes since they hate the government so much so that the IRS can pick them up :D
"I know the science in the article is wrong."

And that's when I stop paying attention.
The flu vaccine is very hit or miss as there are multiple strains each year and vaccines are only developed for the strains most likely to be the most active each year so there are many possible explanations for your case, but one thing is certain - the vaccine did not cause you to get the flu as a dead/weakened virus cannot cause the illness. Also, you may have had the flu before but not recognized it so I'm not sure you could say you've never had it before except that one time unless you've done extensive blood testing. But let's say you really never did have the flu except that one time, well, if millions of people are tossing coins you would expect that there will be cases where for some people it always comes up heads with one tail.
I'd be kinda weirded out if your sperm impregnated your mother... so I'm glad to hear that it wasn't yours.

Though, if you impregnated your mother causing yourself to be born...
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Girih - [Beautiful quasi0periodic tilings]
If you're making the hydrocarbons from CO2 and H2O, you're taking as much CO2 from the air as burning the hydrocarbons will liberate.

Obviously, you need to put in the energy too. But I think synthetic hydrocarbons are a great way to carry around useful energy. They're very energy-dense, should be cleaner than oil from the ground and the whole world is tooled up to use them.

However, they're not useful until we also have:

- loads of power

- an efficient way of turning that power + CO2 + H2O into hydrocarbons
I'd never use it, but kudos for playing with a NoSQL database and making something neat. No better way to learn than by playing like this.
But it's the best guide we've got.
That's a rather severe position when you consider that the children are the ones who will pay the price for the parent's ignorance.

I don't think most people would be comfortable with letting the children of ignorant or misinformed parents simply perish though.
Oh great, now my brain hurts. Does anyone know of any papers mapping cryptography to category theory? It seems that there could be some interesting results of such a thing, even if it is just reasoning about security protocols in terms of string diagrams.
How did the duplicate thread detector miss the previous submission?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=892441
See also http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/week281.html for discussion of some of the math.
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Spontaneous unsober events involving on by cross-infection, THC, and alcohol? Sounds like a regular night in San Francisco.
Precisely. This is an education issue which we should try to address, not just say "well, they'll all be dead soon enough anyway"
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As I said yesterday, the behavior of individuals within organizations is largely the result of systemic forces. This much we know from psychology, sociology, and organizational behavior. (C.f. the Milgram experiments, the Asch conformity tests, the Stanford prison experiment, etc.)

Clearly different cases are different, but making a completely new decision based on each new case shows a misunderstanding of human behavior; as long as our systemic environments are the same, we will tend to produce the same sorts of behaviors.

So the burden of proof shouldn't be on me here to prove the CDC is covering up information, the burden of proof should be on them to show that they've changed the systemic structure of their organization since 2000 in a way that promotes transparency and accountability. And I haven't seen any evidence of this.

I'm not saying these vaccines are necessarily dangerous, they're probably not. All I'm suggesting is that if you try to interpret history and make decisions without using the lenses of sociology, psych, and OB then you're bound to find yourself over in Iraq looking for WMDs, boycotting France, putting poisons into your body, etc.
Fine, the complexity of the laws of physics.

(And is it really that difficult to discern which reading of "basic" gives a non-contradictory reading in that context? Hint: a near-synonym is "fundamental".)
You can mass produce pills, but you can't mass produce prescriptions for the pills. The cost of getting a doctor's permission won't go down regardless of how cheap drugs are.
Thats a good point, actually. If Pythons docs gave better type information for the parameters, then this would be solved..
Exactly. This is dotcom bubble logic - we don't need an income stream, we have investors.

Amazon ran a loss for a long time, but at every point in time, they were actually selling product and getting money. This Porter guy may say Twitter is wildly successful because they're a business that's not about such peasant concerns as making money, but of Amazon and Twitter, which is more likely to be around in 10 years?
> For our data serialization and RPC protocol we are using BERT and BERT-RPC. You haven’t heard of them before because they’re brand new. I invented them because I was not satisfied with any of the available options that I evaluated, and I wanted to experiment with an idea that I’ve had for a while.

> As much as I want to like Thrift, I just can’t. I find the entire concept behind IDLs and code generation abhorrent.

No (CORBA) skeletons in his closet.

Most importantly, his non-requirement:

> No need to encode binary data

http://github.com/blog/531-introducing-bert-and-bert-rpc
Online Art Store gets funded - Artix 2.0!
I had the actual flu once, at an inopportune time in my higher education studies, and that convinced me that I want to get the vaccine from now on. I have a family member who has previously suffered severe pneumonia, and in recent years had another family member (now deceased) who was paralyzed, so I have taken special care to make sure that all my family members get vaccinated against diseases that may lead to pneumonia, as flu often does. No one in my family has any history of bad reactions to vaccines, so it's all benefit and no detectable risk for us to be vaccinated.
A dramatically higher savings rate would likely be disastrous for the US economy. That is why financial regulations (I presume you meant to suggest tax policy or other government incentives rather than regulation directly).

Why is that? If you double the savings rate, at a high level, money changes hands about half as often across the aggregate economy. Halving the aggregate amount of economic transactions would represent a huge missed opportunity for profits (by individuals and corporations) and taxation (profits for the government).

Don't believe me? Imagine a savings rate of 10% (far higher than the US rate; far lower than the 1970s/1980s Japanese rate). Inject $10 into the system by A buying something from B. B now saves $1 of that and spends $9 with C. C now saves $0.90 and spends $8.10, etc, etc.

Tracking that until the next spend is under $1, with a 10% savings rate, that $10 turns into $91 of total spending.

Making the rate only 11% reduces the spending to $83.

15% is a disastrous $62.

20% is $47 in total spending.

5% is a stimulative $181 and 3% is the taxman's dream of $301.40.

While I don't believe that the actual economy is so simply modelled, this "Fiscal multiplier" has more than a grain of truth to it, explains why "small" stimulus programs have a disproportionate effect on the economy (providing the savings rate stays low), and why the government is NOT incented to raise the savings rate substantially, assuming you think their goal is a steadily growing economy.
Here's another letter that addresses to the Congress as suppose to FCC:

https://secure.freepress.net/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&p...
Wasn't Pets.com, too?
Off Topic: I miss your giant RSS icon... :(
Obligatory link:

Robert A. Heinlein - All You Zombies

http://ieng9.ucsd.edu/~mfedder/zombies.html
There is no reason to not get the shot. I work in public health, with a lot of really smart folks who are both educated and well meaning. Don't trust me -- there is no science of a convincing magnitude that says flu shots are bad. The only ones out there say things like "there might be an association between x and the flu shot". Those studies are either epi studies (which can show correlation, but not causation in this situation) or lab slide studies, without any proven real world whole entity issues.

Plus, the injectable flu shot is dead, so it doesn't increase the chances of getting the flu. I firmly believe the nasal spray is fine as well (it's an attenuated virus, rather than just virus "corpses"), although I would get the injected (dead) vaccine if I had young kids or other severely immuno-compromised folks.

Long story short, get your flu shot.
There's a good chance the errors in the original article were introduced by amateurs trying to redo the science after the CDC covered up the original data. Which is sort of my whole point.
I'm not sure people heard of pets.com outside USA. I never did, for instance.
As for Twitter, people have heard of it in EVERY single country I've been lately (including some in Europe, Asia and South America)...

But relatively (to it's time and the size of internet), yes - pets.com was probably successful at that too... :-)
Replying to myself with a clarification: there are cases where people have allergies to the flu shot. But that's going to be about the limit of negative reactions. It's safe.
You could have just said "no," instead of flailing your hands around.
I have a couple of faves:

- MindMeister (brilliant and almost entirely JS+html - not sure which framework though)

- SlideRocket (Flex - almost like using KeyNote on the web)
Look at your source and see if they are credible.

first they say that vaccines contain mercury which they do not they contain thimerosal (sodium ethylmercurithiosalicylate) that is not mercury. Further in the body it is metabolized to ethylmercury which is still not mercury. It still has a whole ethy group. There are entire compounds that by slight deviation can mean the difference between fatal and essential.

While ethylmercury has some links to not being that great for you, the fact that the article is so grossly negligent to call a compound mercury (because everyone knows it is bad stuff) tends to hint that their is either a political agenda or that are looking to scare up a story.

Further, thimerosal was removed from all children vaccines in the 90's so even if there was a link, there is no valid reason today to not vaccinate you child.

Personally, (if it where mercury) I would much rather expose my child to even a small dose of mercury to prevent a return to the infant mortality rates of a century ago.

Can you imagine a time when it was unusual for a family to not loose a child. Ponder that for a moment, then weight it against the risks. Up until vaccination technology, a family would almost assuredly loose a child in their lifetime.

My grandmother lost her older sister at 10 years old to a vaccinatable disease. That was the reality back then The math says it all, something changed infant mortality rates and medical science has testable reproducible results that say they where responsible for that change, until the witch doctors can provide reproducible results, I am sticking with the guys that are using science.
And of course the comparison is even easier when you remember that vaccines have no link with autism.
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The IT business rebounds: Betting on bytes
Why do people use full tabs and put the braces at the indentation level of the opening statement? I have discovered the one true coding style: 2 spaces indent, opening character immediately after opening statement, closing character on new line indented with preceding code block

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I'm not sure why the government would want to kill its own taxpayers. What could they possibly gain from it? This guy isn't even a good conspiracy nut.
There is no such thing as superflu and you will not get polio.

And you won't become autistic if you do vaccinate.
Physician supply is a long, long way down the list of fundamental issues with US healthcare.

Right now, we as a nation have bigger fish to fry - such as making the moral decision on whether we as a society feel healthcare should be a right or a privilege, and getting the right alignment between economic incentives and effective healthcare.
I think iMacs used to be easier to upgrade, but now it looks like a nightmare:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=350120

I'm not doing that!

It's probably so they can get everything inside the case. Making it user accessible would really reduce their options in placing parts.
Google Music Service: The Screenshots
Yup, there is a labs item to customize your shortcuts. I couldn't use Gmail without them, for the most part. It's not a great visual UI, but the workflows behind it are amazing. It's kinda like emacs in that aspect, I suppose...
Io is an absolute joy. It's too slow to be practical but that's my personal bent. Not everything has to be practical of course.
I use this - try example 4:

http://en.gibney.org/calculator/
A Remarkable Reversal (re Stallman's MySQL letter to EU)
Yes you are correct, but there is a loss of meaning by being pedantic.

My comment would be meaningless to most people if instead of Africa I said a small region of Ethiopia, which probably wasn't even a country at that time, and probably a vastly different place due to continental shift.
Possible unintended consequences of net neutrality: eliminate the power of carriers to control their own network traffic and watch them (maybe) shift to a new pricing model altogether, one that shifts the cost of bandwidth hogging to all consumers ("Carriers Eye Pay-As-You-Go Internet," http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870381620457448...).
This is a bad idea for a number of reasons. Why water down the quality of physicians rather than increase the number of Physician Assistants or Nurse Practitioners? They are more than capable of providing basic preventative care.

They are also less expensive for the system.
Wow, really? I'd never known/noticed that. That's really weird.
"If communications cannot be restored and the failsafe measures fail (as they appear to have here), current drones lack remote-kill or self-destruct mechanisms"

Yikes. Jamming seems to be a pretty big vulnerability for unmanned vehicles in general. I wonder how they account this.
I wasn't commenting pro-php; the php api design isn't going to win any awards other than popularity.

You're not really responding to the point I was raising: poorly-designed or not, php's official site has easily-findable and easily-accessible documentation (which it needs given the quality of the api design); its official central documentation site is well within the range of modern best practices.

There's not to my knowledge a comparable common lisp online reference (reference, not tutorial) that's anywhere near as accessible to the beginner or intermediate user (that nebulous phase between getting through a few tutorials and having deep knowledge).

These are all excellent resources:

http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/

http://docs.python.org/

http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/

http://www.php.net/manual/en/

http://clojure.org/Reference

...etc., where is the common lisp equivalent that won't look out of place (in terms of contents + organization)?

Stuff like this matters for accessibility and usability.
I have the same policy - I will not use a vaccine until it's been in (at least moderate) use for at least 10-15 years.

A good policy is never use a vaccine that is still under patent (although that's 21 years, which is probably too much).
Is there a good python message passing implementation? Some problems fit message passing more naturally than threading.
Has the hardware your product runs on been similarly proven correct?
frequent changes to the language cause pain for implementors of alternate implementations (Jython, IronPython, PyPy, and others probably already in the wings) at little or no benefit to the average user (who won't see the changes for years to come

If this isn't a good reason to leave a language's semantics mutable via compile-time macros, I don't see what is...
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Exactly, it's called "observation selection effect" (coined by Nick Bostrom):

http://www.anthropic-principle.com/primer.html
My wife works at a hospital and is required to get both the seasonal shot and the H1N1 shot in order to keep her job. She is also pregnant. Because of her pregnancy, they are giving her a different version of the shot that doesn't contain mercury. I'm not sure why the 'regular' shots have mercury in them. She polled about 20 physicians on whether she should get the shots (before they were mandatory), and it was almost equally divided between yes and no. Some of the doctors do not want them, and said they would have to be physically forced to get the shots themselves.

I have a compromised immune system, and I'm still not sure what I will do. I have always gotten sick immediately after getting a flu shot, so it makes it a tough decision for me - a game of odds.
What added risk?

The swine flu is not worse than regular flu, it's simply that more people than usual will get it. That's troubling to governments, but should not matter to you.
I started a cafe while I was in college, which is still in operation today (4 years later). I no longer own or manage the business, but it's exciting to grab a brew there when I visit my old campus.

Looking back, that cafe gave me a huge insight into leading a creative team-- we had 7 very active employees-- and taught me to to appreciate the less glamorous side of starting a business-- like staying late to clean up or restocking the shelves.