skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're implying nobody has any real control over what their actions and thereby assigning killers and rocks about the same level moral culpability. This may be rational if you accept a mechanist understanding of human behavior (as you explicated in your previous post) but if that's the case, it becomes ridiculous to argue about 'morality' in general. Moral judgment becomes just a tool to modify undesirable behavior and indignation in this case is perfectly 'justified.'

Put another way, yelling at a cripple is not likely to give them their health back, but guilting an insensitive 'jerk' will (likely) cause them to change their behavior to something more socially acceptable.
How to organize and memorize tasks?
But who was your roaming provider while in California? Was it AT&T? T-Mobile?
Andrew is also doing excellent job asking the right questions. I was going to add "that's why we're paying him", but then realized that we're not paying anything. :-)

But it's certainly the kind of quality journalist work I want to survive the coming news-pocalypse.
AT&T's femtocell (the "3G Microcell") is out, in "select markets." See a review of it at http://paulstamatiou.com/review-att-3g-microcell

My experience with AT&T has been that I have more problems in large cities, and less when I am in the suburbs. I suspect that this might be related to iPhone (or general smartphone) density.
well, i brought sml into it originally. all i really meant was that it looked more like sml (+ java) than ocaml (if that makes any sense - yeti doesn't seem to have the kind of sophistication ocaml has for handling typed objects, for example). but i'm no expert - i'm happy to see people expand and improve on what i wrote.
But it's not just iPhone users. Wireless users in general are unhappy with AT&T's service. So if it's not the network, but a problem with the phones, AT&T must have a uniquely awful line-up of hardware. That sounds like just as big a problem for AT&T as network issues.
I'm on Fido (Rogers 3G Network) and my experience is the same. I've never had a dropped call, and the phone is almost always fast.

I've also used it in Montreal with similar experiences. So either the Canadian 3G networks are especially good, or AT&T's network is crap.
There can be no automatic presumption of a rational response to entirely measured and legitimate and carefully orchestrated police activities.

Even otherwise peaceful and rational and law-abiding folks that happen to become involved in an altercation with police or that are physically restrained by police can and sometimes will fight with an officer or with a police dog with absolutely everything they're worth, and fight well past the point of personal injury.

There's no automatic presumption of rationality here. There's no reasoning here. Fight or flight is one of the most basic and powerful human instincts. And sufficiently fearful folks can and sometimes do become feral.

This based on over twenty years experience providing emergency medical services on the streets; of working directly with the some of the best-trained police and police dogs, and with the public, and with the aftermath of the occasional collisions among all these folks.
This is awesome. Anyone here ever built one? How well do they work?
Drug development seems to be the case where the patent system actually works and I wonder if that is due to having one patent per product? Elsewhere you get patent thickets and invention choked off by multiple ownership. Perhaps a useful reform would be to insure that no product is encumbered by more than one patent. This could be done by letting the most inventive patent covering a particular product be the trump patent. Minor patents would lose their nusiance value. Research incentives would be turned upside-down. Instead of doing cheap research to get a trivial patent and a seat at the bargining table to leech off real inventors, expensive research, aimed at major breakthroughs would be the only way to win.
Twitter as a Stockbroker. With Webhooks.
Poor Children Likelier to Get Antipsychotics
Yes of course, I'm focusing on the beginning.
Selling the phone unlocked will likely lead to a high upfront cost.

Maybe not that bad. Apple can sell the iPod touch at a profit for $200, and the phone hardware can't add that much. It's a long shot, but if Google does this right they could break the stranglehold that the carriers have on the market. That's what I was hoping the iPhone would do until Apple decided it was more profitable to serve AT&T instead of its customers.
code size is rarely a good indication of productivity in a framework. There's lots of frameworks that allows the developer to have a smaller code size but few actually make it more fun for the developer to work in. I'd say jQuery is popular simply due to their Sizzle library which is now in many other frameworks. It may be slow, but it sure is fun to work with.

I'd also like to note that it's quite nice that jQuery does not mess with classes directly, or with prototype. Although it certainly is cool to add additional methods there, javascript doesn't have a great way to namespace stuff added to global classes and makes it a pain when you mix & match other JS libraries into your project.
Authors and Publishers Argue Over Digital Rights to Older Books
I'm pretty sure rufo means they aren't.
From the submitted article:

"New ventures focusing explicitly on e-books are cropping up regularly, and some offer authors better financial terms than the traditional publishers."

With works staying in copyright well beyond the lifetime of authors who in many cases still sell well, new e-publishing ventures can attract a lot of notice from the estates of those authors.
If they were planning to release an unlocked handset then it might be more interesting if they released it for free.
"yeti appears to be quite a faithful port of sml to the jvm, while scala is perhaps best thought of as the bastard offspring of java and haskell."

Scala was arguably more influenced by ML than Haskell. It's really more of an amalgamation of different languages than anything else.
I've handled one. Hate it. Maybe it's just the sharp corners and the clunk of a physical keyboard snapping into place, but it feels larger and heavier than an iPhone, and certainly larger and heavier than it has to be. Not sexy at all.

If it looks like a brick, then it's not going to turn any heads and nobody's going to buy it. The iPhone, despite all its limitations, has sold over 20 million units. Geeks get too caught up on functionality, and miss what really matters in the marketplace.

I just want an Android phone to have great commercial success, so I can program really cool apps. But no phone designer really gets what moves the market, except Apple.
Syntax is only half the picture. Semantics-wise, I'd say it's reasonably "ML derived".
It's not that hard to think of reasons why the border guards would pull someone innocent over on the way out. Most obviously, he or his car could fit the description of an all-points alert; at least, enough that they want a closer look.
Never built one, but I know about the basics of book scanning. The bottom bit basically just holds the book open, while the cameras take pictures of their respective pages. Two glass panes hold the pages flat while the cameras do their thing. The rest is taken care of on the software side, with algorithms to clean up the image and then perform OCR.

Previously, cutting the spine off the book and using a high-speed document scanner was the norm. This newer method, which is possible because of good, cheap digital cameras, doesn't involve destroying the book to get it into digital format. The operator has to turn the pages manually, but that's a small price to pay for getting to keep the original book.
It's like the experiment in Stanford with the prison where the prison guards started doing typical prison guard things and the prisoners started doing typical prisoner things, even though originally, both groups were composed of people who had simply volunteered for an experiment and randomly assigned a role.

The first way you are treated is what you become in a way. When you get to the border and they are searching your car, you are guilty until proven innocent. And I argue it should be that way.

Think of the ramifications of seeing someone in a car at the border and treating them cooperatively. If they are a competitor intent on blowing the place up, then the guards have a lot to lose in this prisoners dilemma and little to gain. They could lose their life, but they gain a happy dude who got through the border easily.

Unfortunately, in this case, the individual crossing the border when treated like a guilty person didn't appreciate it and things got out of hand. That much we know. That's not the desired outcome, but what was the worst that happened? He got pepper sprayed, roughed up, but lived to tell the story. If the other team had lost, they could be dead -- lots of them could be dead -- or even worse, a city blown up. Dramatic but true.

So, let's all try to understand that we are all in this together. I really don't think some border guards are looking forward to beating up a sci-fi writer and I don't think the sci-fi writer was looking forward to experiencing anything even close to what went down there that day.
But zero actual phones, until this one.
I built a simple version which included the base, a light, and a camera. It worked well and I used it to scan my college text books in order to not carry them around. One of the best parts was running a ocr on the text books and being able to search them quickly while I was doing homework.
If it looks like a brick, then it's not going to turn any heads and nobody's going to buy it.

Blackberries are some of the ugliest phones in existence, but I see a lot more of those than I see iPhones. The HTC Magic / Hero / Dream or the Droid is infinitely more beautiful than any of the Blackberries.

(But, Blackberries are not popular because of looks or function; they are popular because many large corporations mandate them. Just like why Windows XP is so popular.)

I just want an Android phone to have great commercial success, so I can program really cool apps.

Nothing is stopping you from programming really cool apps right now. (If it's a money issue, don't worry -- the iPhone was a commercial success but nobody is making a lot of money from really cool apps.)
What a lot of people forget is that Steve Jobs was into electronics too--that's how he met Woz. He wasn't nearly as talented as Woz, who single-handedly designed the Apple I and Apple II, but the best analogy to Jobs isn't a "business guy", it's a technical guy who does business.
Top Google result:

http://www.sausalitowireless.com/

http://www.sausalitowireless.com/wirelsfaq.html

Can I leave the yacht harbour and still have a signal?

If leaving by boat, you can sail out into
the bay halfway until Angel Island, and
still have a signal strong enough to
conduct even video conferencing.
Alternatively, leaving by car or foot, you
can access Sausalito Wireless in various
locations along Bridgeway (Cafe Trieste or
The Taco Shop for example).
Google is the exobrain. All the world's knowledge in the palm of your hand.
Droid sold a quarter million units in one week. I wouldn't claim that "nobody is going to buy it".

It seems to me that you really don't get Android. You don't need to have one phone to be a great commercial success to develop for it. You need to think on the long-tail. If you have 50 Android phones, each selling "only" about half-million units, you already have more of a potential market than targeting the iPhone.
In aging China, population crisis forces officials to rethink one-child policy
Copenhagen climate change rally leads to arrests
Smart People should do Stupid Stuff
"They tried working with Mozilla for Firefox 2 development, but realized that Mozilla is a dysfunctional project with questionable leadership and insular development practices, so working with them really wasn't tenable."

No, they realized that the Mozilla project could not be bent to Google's whims, so they took their ball and went home. Mozilla has quite a healthy development community and welcomes outside contributors.
I wear a vision-enhancing explant. (It's not an implant, because my glasses just sit on my nose and ears, not inside my body.)
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My problem instead starts to be how much time I can continue to do programming for work.

I'd assume you can continue until you no longer find it interesting...
Ask HN: Question about MySQL "create if not exists" performance.
After searching Google fairly extensively I haven't been able to find any analysis of the performance of "create if not exists" MySQL statements.

I want to ensure that a MySQL table is existent before using it. The question is whether or not it will be a major performance hit to do a simple "create if not exists" once each time before using a table which may or may not exist. Alternately I could query the information_schema manually to see if the table exists and if not I can create it.

My gut feeling is that it is more efficient to simply run "create if not exists" before using a table which may or may not exist. This way I only have one MySQL statement that can simply be executed before using the table.

Does anyone else have any thoughts about the comparative benefits or performance issues associated with doing a "create if not exists" on each execution?
Is there an age limit to thinking? An age limit to "living"? Seriously, there is no age limit to anything. I'm 23 years old with no formal training in Comp Sci and I'm teaching myself Scheme as we speak (The Little Schemer is a great book!).

If you want to climb Mt. Everest and you're 70 years old, what is holding you back? Health? Get healthy. Doctor saying no? Screw em' (I'd rather die on top of Mt. Everest than sick in a bed).

Stop asking for permission from those around you and go f'ing do it if you want to. Stop caring about what other people think, stop being insecure in your "not knowing" and you will achieve whatever it is you want.
zsh can even tab-complete remote paths when typing your ssh command line. (You should have an ssh-agent running or else you might be prompted for the password when hitting tab)

zsh might not be the last shell you ever need. Have a look at the friendly interactive shell: http://fishshell.org/ It looks really nice. But I too, have not yet replaced my beloved zsh.
No, there's not currently any sort of deal there. (Also I wouldn't exactly label Asa as a "Mozilla exec", but what do I know.)
>> "Or people from the Free Software camp who think all proprietary software is "immoral" and "evil" and should thus be forbidden by law."

Do people really hold these ridiculous fundamentalist views? :/
For some very nice tools to extend your ZSH experience, I would recommend http://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh. As a bonus, Oh My ZSH has some extra nice features for those who use Rails.
Ok, You Convinced Me. I've started using zsh on my Mac. Thank you in advance for saving me a whole lot of typing and time.
Some variation of this question comes up every couple of months. It's unfortunate that somehow many people get the message that they are not among the 'select' group of people who can learn new things. Especially since this belief often becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

I feel sympathy for people, of whatever age, who seem to need reassurance that, yes, they really are capable of learning.
There is also more than signal bars. AT&T works fine at and near my home, but it works awfully at one city I travel to. I get full 3g signal bars there, but websites time out, except at night time, and many incoming calls don't get through to me (going straight to voicemail).

So yes, technically I get great 3g signal there, but their network there simply can't handle it.
He's extreme, but I don't agree it's a good cause at all. As a programmer, I should be able to decide how and where my code gets used.
What's happening here is that Paul Graham wrote about apples, and I am writing about oranges.

You saw the word fruit and now you keep saying apples apples apples.
His stance is that proprietary software is "evil". Why is calling him insane any different than that.

Him: Proprietary software is evil
Others: Stallman is insane

Seem pretty equal to me.
One could argue that all non-profit boards are benevolently autocratic; however there points seems to be that the particularly small and insular nature of the Board of Fellows is a problem. Looking at comparable universities, no one has as small a board running the institution. For example: Yale, which notes their small board, has nineteen members; Brown has 55 in its equally powerful two branches of the corporation.
You know there's another side to this story.

The same shorts that have attacked Overstock's CEO similarly attacked the CEO of Fairfax Financial:

"According to court documents, the hedge fund
companies allegedly retained an obscure operative named Spyro Contogouris to drive down Fairfax’s share price, a task he went about with alacrity. In 2005, he’s said to have
approached the company’s former CFO, claiming (falsely)that he’d been deputized by the FBI to obtain evidence of financial improprieties. He is thought to be the author of a
widely circulated 30-page letter that, among other things, compared Watsa to the convicted fraudster Martin Frankel. (It was even sent to the priest of Watsa’s church, St. Paul’s Anglican on Bloor.) In 2006, several false rumours began circulating: one claimed that the RCMP were pursuing Watsa; another said that they were about to raid Fairfax’s
office; yet another claimed he’d placed his assets in his wife’s name and fled the country. By then, the company’s stock had tumbled from highs in the $400 range to less than $100 a share."

full article: http://www.grahamanddoddsville.net/wordpress/Files/Gurus/Pre...
Also known as why the book industry does not face the same pirating problem the music industry does.
Who are "shorts"?
Have any of the projects to make a language REPL/shell hybrid gotten to a useful point yet? For instance, I'd love to be able to type regular commands with tab completion et al, but have anything in parens be a lisp expression. I'm holding off on learning ZSH because that seems like such a better solution, yet a good one hasn't materialized as of yet.
"Wang, the human resources administrator, said she wants an only child because she was one herself: 'We were at the center of our families and used to everyone taking care of us. We are not used to taking care of and don't really want to take care of others.'"

That puts a lot of inertia on the side of maintaining the low fertility rate now seen in China. The low fertility rate, in turn, will keep China's age structure very unbalanced, and is likely to exacerbate the very unbalanced sex ratio found there.
The ideal team is probably 3 founders, one being a business guy with product development experience. One reason behind this is an all technical team will more often become obsessed about the technical widgets and features that aren't needed for a minimum viable product.

Technical teams are also more likely to try and do everything themselves when you may be better off partnering for a technology rather than building it. Often certain components of a given solution may be the entire focus of other companies and many companies are very willing to license technology with no upfront costs rapidly speeding up development -- one business deal could equal months of coding.

Can technical people go out and do these deals? Sure just like the business guy can pickup "How to code HTML" book and start to make a website -- neither will know what they don't know until it is too late. Also from PG's "Managers vs. Makers" schedule piece it is very clear that for a maker trying to do a deal could completely derail their ability to build with the distractions.
I think the idea is, it's a way to sneak Haskell in to environments that otherwise wouldn't use them.
DNS Benchmark Analyzer
This site is designed to import multiple result sets from DNS Benchmark to give you a better idea of longterm DNS server statistics.
The update to 2.0.1 on the Droid fixed a lot of the lag problems (well, at least for me anyway).
I did that during an interview for a power company in 2002. I had decided already that I had zero interest in working for them, so I figured I might as well have fun with it.

There was nervous laughter from his side of the table.
Eshell(http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CategoryEshell) seems to come closest to your specs, though it doesn't do input redirection.
On a related note I have decided to post zsh related links/tips that I discover on twitter via @zshtips http://twitter.com/zshtips
It's exciting they're giving it out to 20,000+ employees. This is a pretty big deal as many of them aren't technical as readers here and demand a more usable experience than just a dev phone.
Shorts are people that bet that a stock will fall. The process involves borrowing a share, selling them at their current high price, then buying them after they fall and giving the share back to who you borrowed it from.
The iPhone/gPhone/Android contest aside, this strikes me as a strange move on Google's part.

Suppose you are Motorola. You just developed the "Droid" and partnered with Verizon for a well funded marketing campaign. You dumped Windows Mobile in favor of Android, and tied yourself closely to Android OS by calling your phone the "Droid." The Droid is your flagship product.

So, as Motorola, how do you feel about Google developing an official "Google Phone"? How do you feel about the fact that they are doing this with your competitor, HTC? How do you feel about plastering Google logos all over your phone and it's software? How do you feel about the fact that the Droid runs Android 2.0, and the Google Phone will run Android 2.1?

Moreover, if you are LG, or Samsung, will this affect whether you want to partner with Google? If you are Nokia, will you start taking a closer look at Symbian again?

And finally, if you are an average consumer that doesn't read TechCrunch or HN, do you have the faintest idea of the difference between the Droid running Android with Google, the Droid Eris running Android with Google, and the Google Phone running Android?
> And since libertarian governments are forged from pure unobtainium anyways

No one said anything about libertarian govts.

Different govts meddle in different amounts. Some don't meddle much at all, providing an existence proof.

Where are govts with qualified politicians?
Forgive me if I'm skeptical of someone whose account was created 17 minutes ago and has only made 1 comment.
Then I suppose my laptop counts as well, since I carry it on my back.

To be honest, it doesn't seem like a particularly useful definition of cyborg to me.
@bashtips is pretty excellent as well.
Haha, same here. I was on the edge for a long time. There goes my Sunday now ;)
HTC makes a lot of handsets so it's hard to judge them all by one model. I'm guessing you used the Eris which is indeed one of their cheapest models. I have the Sprint HTC Hero and it's a very well made phone. It feels very solid. I've had it about 2 months now in my pocket with no case and it still looks brand new. The oliphobic (?) coating on the screen does a good job keeping finger prints and smudges to a minimum. The back case has a soft somewhat rubberized coating that feels very durable. It's probably the best sounding phone I've ever owned. Instead of using a little pin-hole speaker it uses a ~1" wide strip. Not sure if this is all speaker or just a little chamber to direct the sound. Either way it sounds great.

Overall it's a really well built phone somewhat lacking compared to the faster models on the market these days. I definitely sticking with HTC for my next phone unless we happen to see a CDMA 4th gen iPhone on Sprint.
Exactly. The article is using speed measurements to declare AT&T's network as superior. AT&T's UMTS/HSPA technology IS faster than Verizon's EVDO, but what's the use if it's unreliable and most of their network is stuck on ISDN-speed-at-best EDGE?