skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"No it's not."

Yes it is. Because that's what it says, as opposed to what you'd like to believe it said. In fact you quoted its fundamental point right there -

"Of all the different types of people I've known, hackers and painters are among the most alike. What hackers and painters have in common is that they're both makers."

How is this not equating hackers and painters? How is the rest of the verbiage not 'a thesis he is trying to prove' but rather 'a source of ideas'. The writing directly contradicts what you are saying.
It could also, of course, be simple uncritical rationalization.

If staying in business and out of the cross-hairs of the DoJ's anti-trust division means you have to play ball with some data retention "requests," then you're probably going to rationalize a million tenuously logical reasons why that's the right thing to do.
We have some! http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=330582

40-50 66 (25.00%)
50-60 52 (19.70%)
30-40 42 (15.91%)
60-70 35 (13.26%)
80+ 21 (7.95%)
70-80 16 (6.06%)
5-20 14 (5.30%)
20-30 11 (4.17%)
0-4 7 (2.65%)
264 points over 9 options
openhosting.com, check them out ..
"..he'd like to see some early profits send a graffiti "tagger" to art school."

I'm into photographing abandoned buildings, and the graffiti inside them is often incredibly artistic. Too bad that there's no publicly-sanctioned space for these artists to show off their work. Perhaps the illicitness of the process is part of the allure, but I can't imagine working that hard on something that would be seen by few. What's also notable is that, at least to my as a middle-class white guy, most graffiti doesn't seem gang-related. Most of the low-quality stuff probably is, but the good stuff is often something incredible like an abstract city skyline.
Dude, that's rough and I've been there; I think a lot of us have. Let me know if you want to talk or something.
If you fail, then you will have gained experience and honed your skills. Also...

I wouldn't worry too much about "blowing it" with your social life. Ive lost countless friends to new relationships, but I take them back once they've stabilized (or broken up...). It's part of life. Your friends will understand.
So to put that scenario in the same context as the original quotation, one just needs to imagine the surprise party being ruined because the secret was handed over to the authorities under the U.S. Patriot Act.
would you expect anything less?
Yes, 20 MHz is a higher frequency than 60 Hz. While that would help for the sensor version of the design, it would not directly help for the synchronization of the AC sources. It might help you while building a switching supply to do the AC to DC conversion, and it could help when approximating a sine wave on the DC to AC conversion.

Still, all of that is quite a bit more complicated than just quickly switching in a new source when the other source drops out.

(Credentials: I'm an electrical engineer and have designed and built power supplies.)
I do close the door, but I don't search for pinhole cameras in public bathrooms, in spite of the fact that some exist. I think that highlights the difference between expecting privacy and trying to ensure it.
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Things that should not be doing are usually done in secret, so from that point of view, Eric Schmidt's saying is a truism. Unfortunately, it gets applied in the converse form, which is wrong: people, and especially governments, infer guilt from a desire for privacy (a politer term than "hiding").

This is explained very well in nfnaaron's post
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=983997
The average global temperature is about as useful as knowing the average phone number in the phone book.

The world is an extremely large heterogeneous set of systems.
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Everyone must be downloading it all at once. 22 KB/sec download speed on a T1 connection. I would expect better of Google.
Too bad that they introduce the clever idea needed for levels like 16 (& I think 14?) in a level that allows no alternative: the skill build-up is a little too slow to make those AHAs as satisfying as they should be.
Thoughts on Taking Venture Money
The first thing I did was convert the address bar to use a Google "I'm Feeling Lucky" search so that it functions more like Firefox.

Here's how: Right click the address bar, choose "Edit Search Engines...". Click the + to add a new search engine. Choose whatever name and keyword you wish, but for URL use http://www.google.com/search?q=%s&btnI=Im+Feeling+Lucky. Make this your default search engine. Works tolerably well.
Here is a link to an article that provides the name of the company, Radixs Pte Ltd: http://www.e27.sg/2009/12/03/who-really-killed-the-crunchpad...

If you go to this article in the comments you can see one related to the folding of that company:
http://blogs.todayonline.com/techtalk/2009/01/fusion-garage-...

The Radixs site is now a parked domain. I did not have time to do more searching for information about the company.
There isn't a problem with slang, until you work with those who do not speak English as their primary language. A lot of aid workers I've spoken to actually practice speaking without slang, as the life/death things they need to explain to others needs to be understood.
Still no functioning bookmarks manager or bookmark sync. I was hoping they'd enable that in the beta release.
Ok, I'm German, so I guess I'm qualified to put this into perspective. ;)

First off, this sounds far more than a health paradise than it is in reality.

If you go to a regular doctor, you definitely have to sit in a waiting room - unless you are an emergency.
Some weeks ago I injured my ankle and had to sit in there for 3 hours for a total of 10 minutes examination by the doctor...

I don't know about hospitals, never been there. Here in Germany you only go to hospital if you're seriously sick/injured (eg accident or something) and/or if it's in the middle of the night otherwise you go to your doctor.

And there are loads of other problems coming with our health care system, eg it's expensive, sometimes paradoxically inefficient and what not.

That being said, I think it's still a great system that ensures the stability of society and does more good than harm.
Well, and I'm born here, so there are probably a lot of things that I take for granted but aren't available in other countries.

Just wanted to point out that this isn't the land of milk and honey... ;)
Cool!

BTW, if you're interested in doing this sort of thing -- 2-wire piezo buzzers from radio shack make good velocity sensitive sensors. I built an electronic drumset out of PVC pipe and plywood and taught myself how to play drums with it.
Cuil answered that question very definitively :D
I think it's better to do what's right for the product, even if it means annoying a minority of customers.

When it comes to features in apps in general, I've noticed that no matter how bad a feature is, or how awkward the UI, there's always somebody out there with lifestyles (or senses) so bizarre that it was the killer feature for them.

Notice how many still want a stylus to click buttons when the screen now works with fingers. There are even some who've trained their voice to. speak. in. the. cadence. of. their. voice. recognition. software and resented it when a newer version came out that could handle natural speech.
Why the public and private clouds don’t mix
Hm. So what's the alternative? I've tried to do research in a corporate environment, and am now in grad school: in my experience, it seems like getting a Ph.D. has a lot to offer in terms of teaching you how to do good research. I've learned a lot more about both my area and about the practice of research in general in graduate school than I did when I was working in a corporate research group.

I'm not convinced that working at a smaller company (or, since this is HN, starting one) would have helped, either. In fact, I'd guess would have been even worse. It would have been harder for me to gain access to advice and mentorship, there would have been more distractions, and the pressure to stay relevant to the goals of the business would have been even more intense.
Probabilistic Feature-based On-line Rapid Model Acquisition
Yes and no.

What if you were so excited about painting that you spent 16 hours a day painting. You produce the greatest masterpieces man has ever seen, you change the world of art forever... but yeah, you're an addict.

So what? What's so bad about being addicted to something worthwhile? It's pretty usual to hear about musicians who will spend 20 hours a day in the studio getting their songs just right. Artists of all types do the whole obsessive addiction thing all the time, but we don't point at them and say "hey, you better chill out, don't worry about trying to achieve Artistic Nirvana, just chill out and have a beer with some friends instead".

Being an alcoholic or a coke addict is bad because it's an empty addiction that produces nothing of worth and destroys you along the way.

Being an art or business addict is a different thing altogether. There's a good reason why there's no "artaholics anonymous" group. Art is worth getting addicted to. Arguably, so is business.
Don't have my mac handy.. Does it have full screen support on OS X?
I have this funny feeling that we could shout our lungs hoarse about 80 hours being detrimental and not convince anybody. Social norms are powerful, powerful things.

Instead, anybody want to get some data together? I track productivity. I can't be the only one. (PLEASE tell me I'm not the only one.) Poor sample sizes, self-selected reports, and non-comparable metrics aside, going from hoary old wives tales to actual numbers has to be an improvement at the margin. (Data collection on this topic at the day job convinced salarymen that overtime was overdoing it. You know why? Because the hours worked versus productivity graph was so unbelievably borked that climatologists couldn't coax an upward trend out of it, that's why.)
Really? My download completed in about 20 seconds. T1 lines are highly reliable, provide guaranteed bandwidth, and low-latency, but are also very slow at only 1.544mbps (on par with low-end DSL).
Cool, but you can't say "it's getting out of hand" from a single data point.
Promising Upstart Takes Advantage of Viral Social Media and Personal Branding
Obviously you do not understand what seignorage is, how it works, and the difference between getting coins from the US Treasury vs. Federal Reserve Notes from the Federal Reserve. Why don't you read up on the subject so you can understand what I am talking about.
I might just be a local network condition, though the rest of the internet is loading at its usual speed. My Chrome download is still chugging away....
Great site! I wish it the best- seems to have a simple yet promising business plan!
Study Island
I'm pretty frustrated with this as well. I've been using Chromium for a while now, and I can't use this Beta because it doesn't share bookmarks, or allow me to import from Chromium, or even move/delete the existing bookmarks.

Guess I'll keep with the less stable nightlies for a while longer.
Collective. Not a buncha' people meeting once. Those people meet to (hopefully) negoiate how to build useful incentives for a collective change in behaviour. And that's (incentives) what's the important thing. Not symbolic fluff.
There is data, with references, here:
http://lostgarden.com/2008/09/rules-of-productivity-presenta...

It was (very lightly) discussed on HN six days ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=971708 (I posted clickable links to the references, so you don't have to retype them).
It is the land of milk and honey when compared to the US.
hey, guys, chill out.
He's not saying that you shouldn't do anything you don't want the public to know or anything like that. Google is actually protecting your privacy from the public. Your search history is not available to anyone except for the law-enforcement with a subpoena.
He is only saying that under some circumstances Google has to release some information according to the current law. And if you don't want this happening, you should't have this information on Google in the first place.

For example if you plan to murder someone you better not google for "how to hide a corpse" :)
Thunderbird 3.0 Stable - Early download
What's your implementation language?
If you want custom themes beyond what Google provides, I'm hawking a tool a hacked together a couple of weekends ago. It's a just-for-fun thing so the UI is pretty sparse, but it works! :)

http://sexychrome.com

I'm a big fan of Chrome. Favorite features include the speed, full-screen browsing, detachable tabs. Needs a robust extension for CSS inspection/manipulation, though. Built in one doesn't quite flow as well as Firebug. Decent JS console.
The release page is not up yet but will be at:

http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/3.0/whatsn...
I bet he used Google to find hotels for having liasons in... Wait, Eric, why were you looking for a room in Las Vegas last week, you told me you were in New York?
Truth (or at least data) comes to those who seek. A short google later:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/All_palae...

It's worth pointing out that if you go too far back in the past, the data is actually meaningless. 5 billion years ago, when it was still being formed, I'm sure the Earth was a lot hotter than it is now - but that doesn't mean we wanna go back there.

The real questions are:

1) Is the climate changing? (very probably)

2) Could the changes cause great disruption, war, famine, loss of life, etc? (probably)

3) Is that climate change induced by us? (maybe, or "probably" depending on who you listen to)

4) Can we do something about it?
"X and Y are both instances of Z, so let's use Y and Z as a source of ideas about X."

This pattern is basically repeated in every single paragraph, e.g.

* The reputations of hackers probably have a large random component introduced by fashion, as happens with artists.

* In hacking as with painting, it’s best to start by sketching

* Both software and paintings are intended for a human audience, so both hackers must have empathy to do good work.

The essay was written for the benefit of hackers, so if you want to attack the ideas in the essay, a 'good' argument might be that hacking does not require empathy. As opposed to saying that the idea that the best paintings were done between 1430 and 1500 is just some guy's opinion, which adds nothing.

Now if you wanted to challenge the ideas about art as a way of challenging the ideas about hacking then that would at least be interesting, but just nitpicking about art history is lame.
If someone says that a problem is so important that I should change my behavior but is unwilling to change their behavior, they're telling me that they're not really interested in the problem, that they're really just interested in screwing with me.
Yup, although the option is grey-ed out on my machine ATM, and I couldn't tell you why...

I've used it before, though
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SWAT showing up can really ruin a party.
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Nah, never was an English major. However, I did draw a crude comic about them:

http://www.zoitz.com/archives/38

In my real life as an electrical engineer designing power supplies, I learned that you can't just hook in a second unsynchronized AC source to a circuit and expect everything to be peachy. Frequency, phase, peak voltage, waveform shape (and therefore RMS voltage) -- all of these things are important if you're going to have multiple AC sources. Yes, the math becomes much simpler if all of those parameters (except for voltages, of course) are identical, but conditioning the sources to achieve that state is far from trivial. That gets back to my earlier comment about how in the real world, a trip through DC is often required.

(Ref: http://books.google.com/books?id=lrN8wLFL3R4C&lpg=PA55&#... )

If we were simply adding another DC supply in parallel with an existing DC supply, things would be much simpler. Assuming that the voltages of the supplies were identical, assuming that the resistance of the wires between the supplies, and assuming that the supplies remained linear for the expected load, then sure, just hook the new one in, disconnect the old one, and call it a day. The big difficulty is that, as you mentioned, the machines are designed to consume AC. I suppose that one could crack open the case and start hooking into the DC lines after the power supply, but the number of required voltages would make that rather difficult.
So how are they not screwed once the first Chrome tablet comes out?

It's basically the same thing, but Chrome OS is open source and has the weight of a massive company behind it.
For a computer generAted voice it is impressive, but certainly not good enough. I'd rather hear from a real developer hands down, it doesn't even have to be voice talent! Just a human.
One Pot Application
I only started charging for DropZap recently, so money is not an issue with respect to this particular feature.

But yes, this is more of an issue when they pay.
> don't try to talk to VCs, bankers

Two groups that would never use slang!
Schneier: The Value of Privacy
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1,200 limos and 140 private planes?

There are at most 15 groups attending that require such amenities. The rest don't have that kind of thing at home, most probably make do with public transport, so why exactly do they require it here?
Maybe this would be a good starting point:

https://www.ixquick.com/eng/protect-privacy.html

They claim to be "The only search engine that does not record your IP address."
Linux too!

http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/w00t.html
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Why would they intentionally make it difficult to compare prices when travel agents and price comparison sites make it easy? I am pretty sure AA thinks that their website is the easiest way to book AA flights. If you disagree, you can get the same fares elsewhere trivially.

The "search by price and schedule" feature makes it easy to see what options you have on AA if you choose to go that route. Without even clicking anything, you can see the effects of leaving on a different day, choosing a different fare class, or taking a connecting flight versus flying nonstop. This makes it pretty easy to compare. (It is arguable that there are too many options. But this is becuase air travel is expensive by default, and people want cheap. So there are a lot of "discounted" fares around. If you don't want hassle, pick "search by schedule" for the search type, and "economy without restrictions" for the fare type. You will have your ticket in seconds, won't have to pay for checked bags, will have the option of paying $50 to upgrade to first class, and can cancel or change the ticket at any time with no fee. The only downside is that the ticket will cost 10x as much.)
'If you don't want anyone to know, don't do it'

Bullshit argument for invading privacy. I prefer to hide my genitals from public view.

Since he has nothing to hide, let's set up a streaming webcam outside his house, zoomed in on his bedroom. Or better yet, let's implant a nano-camera up his rectum.
advice from an old mentor...

Take care of:

1 - Your health

2 - Your family / relationship with God

3 - Your work

The advice was given to me at a time when I was working 100 hour weeks. I was told that even a 40 hour work week is unacceptable if I don't take care of items 1 and 2 ahead of my work. As with most quality advice, it took years to sink in.
measure.
I don't particularly care about the government investigating me.

My concern is about the people in power abusing their power to get information about their main rivals. Think "Watergate". Except without the physical breaking and entering.

There are legitimate reasons why people who have done nothing wrong would want what they have done not revealed to those in power. My concern about our descent into becoming a police state is that the checks and balances that should protect those people are disappearing.
So, will there be an adblocker soon?

Edit: There is, but it doesn't work due to a syntax error in the installer:

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/fkkedmmdcjakdoef...

Edit #2: Found one that does work:

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/cfhdojbkjhnklbpk...
No but I think a lot of people do.

I think a lot of people think the slowness is Government was caused by technologically backwards administrations and that now things are going to be different. My point is even when you have a President that uses a Blackberry and knows what a dataset is Government still takes forever to get things done.
And what's the point?

Another atempt at a Climategate/SwiftHack hitjob?

Trying to have the tail wagging the dog?
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Yes but no but yes but; Sally is a slag 'cause she ain't even done nothin' or somethin.
So people who do good work are never interesting? Or people with fascinating ideas never learn to polish them? I'm confused.
They're probably not trying to convince us, i.e. Hacker News reader types. More likely trying to convince the more general public.
Particularly recommended (meaning only that I found them particularly interesting when I first saw them):

http://home.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/NoMotionGC.html (realtime garbage collection)

http://home.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/Prag-Parse.html (META parsing)

http://home.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/LazyAlloc.html ("CONS should not cons its arguments", a way of doing automatic memory management without giving up most of the benefits of stack allocation)

http://home.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/CheneyMTA.html (compiling Scheme into weird C whose function calls never return)

http://home.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/Subtypep.html (efficient type inference using bit vectors; see also TInference.html)

http://home.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/ForthStack.html (the relationship between "linear logic" (where a value can only be used once) and stack machines; Baker wrote several papers about "linear" programming; this stuff never really went anywhere, but it's interesting to think about)

And, not at all a research paper, but I thought it was very funny: http://home.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/sigplannotices/gigo-1997-0... (snarky satirical criticism of Ada).
You should really check out this website, which I love with all my Dutch-learning heart.

http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/

"Slim" isn't a very good example for that dictionary, but check out something with a lot of possible EN-NL translations, usages, and jargon.

http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/vertalen.php?src=NL&des=EN...

That site refers you to "Babylon 8", another installable dictionary which just came out with a Mac version. I'm not sure if it returns the same results as the site, but if it does I'd say it's a pretty good competitor for the VDGW (which is truly fantastic, itself).
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Fair enough.

Certainly for me, a tilted bowl of fruit that defies logic is more interesting than a boring bowl of fruit. It still doesn't fascinate me incredibly, but it at least adds something worth thinking about. I'm not that well-versed in painting, however, so perhaps somebody more enthusiastic than I can explain to both of us what makes Cezanne so awesome?
He might not have any, The same way people who work at sausage factories don't eat sausage. His searches could be anonymous, encrypted and routed through foreign gateways.
I talk in slang like crazy, but I find it really easy to switch into different speaking modes. I think the issue could be that some kids aren't having enough experiences where they need to switch modes.