skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. I've replaced it with a Miele and a Siemens (needed two)
2. The both clean better, I find less dirt in carpets and e.g. in corners than with the Dyson.
3. Personal subjective opinion: Having a bag is cleaner for me.
Ask HN: Where can I search early usenet (what happened to Google's archives)?
Google Groups offered an early Usenet search "going back to 1980," but today I can only get results back to 2000. Maybe it's a blip, or a UI change, or maybe they silently killed off the archive (I hope not, after all that great press about preserving open access to digital history).

Was this news at some point and I just missed it?

[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/1709527.stm

[2] http://itools.com/tool/google-groups-usenet-newsgroup-search

[3] Google Groups Usenet Timeline is now a dead link: http://www.good-stuff.co.uk/useful/google_usenet_timeline.php

[4] http://www.salon.com/2002/01/08/saving_usenet/
The nice thing about patents is that in finite time they go public domain (unlike copyright). It is an oft overlooked value.
Does your printer print with light? I'm able to print out a full rainbow from my printer and it uses Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow, with Black for added punch and printing text.

What's inside your printer?
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I've never understood why anybody would think that central planning would ever work. The very idea is total hubris - before you even get to the decision making process, you need accurate data to work from. It should be painfully obvious that data about (and especially provided by) humans is at best an approximate representation of reality. Often, it is completely wrong. Real-time noise is still noise.

If you want proof of this, consider why work-to-rule[1] works. While it is obviously intended to be used as a type of strike or similar direct action, the idea is that you are technically doing you job too accurately. The work continues to function thanks to the fact that almost nobody does everything they are technically supposed to do. We speed on the way to work, we overlook minor mistakes, we fix instructions and reinterpret orders. Reports are regularly sent up the chain of command that "yes, project $FOO was finished on time" even though everybody involved knows it wasn't.

The idea that you can take known-bad data, apply it to a fantastically complex model, iterate that model to add unknown amounts of chaotic noise, and get usable results is completely insane. Given the realities of how bureaucracies work, that noise will simply be re-interpreted until it says whatever the people involved want it to say. In the end, it is still a situation where the people making decisions are distanced from the consequences of their decisions.

If you want to fix some of the problems we have, I suggest that we need a lot more of the opposite of central planning: local decision making authority. A control system tends to work better when it can get accurate and immediate feedback, and in human terms that means experiencing - or at least directly seeing - the consequences of any decision. We, as a species, are notoriously terrible at evaluating any decision where the consequences are not felt immediately and personally.

[1] http://libcom.org/organise/work-to-rule
Then there's the fact that no one can know what any given person wants to buy at a given time, and therefore central planning is doomed to failure because you can't centrally plan "the right" prices for everything, and then you'll end up vastly misallocating resources, and there will be widespread destitution ala Soviet Union.

In conclusion, central planning ultimately just completely fucks up any economy. Check out Venezuela for a recent example.

So if 100% central planning results in a total catastrophe, then there should be no central planning at all, because any extent of central planning is harmful compared to less (or ultimately none at all).
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Yes, but we shouldn't encourage it.
You were just presented with a case where nothing was invented, a drug was simply looked up in a commonly known ancient text. Colgate owes India damages.
> The laws are created and managed by people put into power by the governed.

I see from the apparent sincerity behind your comment that I have lived in Chicago, and you have not.

The way the system works is that you vote, the government pretends to care what you think, and it continues to do whatever the hell it was doing as before, only with minor tweaks to its public relations budget. It's still better than the alternative, which is an armed regime controlling your life without pretending to care what you think.

Libertarian fantasies notwithstanding, most people need to join an armed cartel in order to realize a better quality of life, and no one really benefits from whitewashing over that. The real world reads Machiavelli, a Modern Approach, and the politics of money, fear, and control are now very nearly perfected.

It works "pretty well" only for a minority of wealthy backers. It's very easy to find someone faring worse than you under the prevailing political system. In 4000 years, the mechanics of human political power structures have remained largely unchanged, while technology has improved by many orders of magnitude.
Thanks for the additional note, I updated my post. I wish Microsoft would just post a real, actual comparison instead of just linking to summary pages and forcing you to read licenses. That's just about as user-unfriendly as it gets.
I live in a world where people have the capacity to make more informed decisions as time moves forward and they gather more information about both the world and their own self. That is, people know themselves better at a later point in time than they did before (but it is entirely possible these reverse) and they have a different set of options because the overall state of the world tends to vary with time.

If you make a goal at time t1 and decide at t2 that that goal was a hasty and thoughtless goal, then I think the person you are at t2 should be the person you evaluate yourself as, rather than clinging to statements you might have uttered in the past. Black and white thinking of "success / failure" is a good way to make sure everything in your life goes exactly as planned, while wearing blinders. You need a combination of both in order to really be successful.

Being mean to yourself doesn't necessarily lead to success. If you've only got a mile left in the marathon and you've already ran 25, yes, that extra mile is kind of important, but also, no, it really isn't.
This is pretty much all you need to read:

Davis’s termination came less than two weeks after top IPRA officials, evaluating Davis’s job performance, accused him of “a clear bias against the police” and called him “the only supervisor at IPRA who resists making requested changes as directed by management in order to reflect the correct finding with respect to OIS,” as officer-involved shootings are known in the agency.

Since its 2007 creation, IPRA has investigated nearly 400 civilian shootings by police and found one to be unjustified.
Reading about the internal administrative process in large municipal governments is like learning about business in an alien culture.

I can't imagine a healthy, successful organization of any kind making such an inane and chilling statement:

> The spokesman said there would be no interview and sent this statement: “This is a personnel matter that would be inappropriate to address through the media, though the allegations are baseless and without merit. IPRA is committed to conducting fair, unbiased, objective, thorough and timely investigations of allegations of police misconduct and officer-involved shootings.”

> The performance evaluation covered 19 months and concluded that Davis “displays a complete lack of objectivity combined with a clear bias against the police in spite of his own lengthy police career.”
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Krebs has a bunch of information on this: http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/07/online-cheating-site-ashl...

It's recently been updated with a statement by ALM.
The examples in the article are really poor examples for a number of reasons.

First of all, Jordan didn't "quit" to go play baseball. He had already won three championships and had already done pretty much anybody at that level could do. He wasn't "begging for a new direction" either. He always wanted to play baseball and wanted to fulfill a childhood dream is all. After doing so (no matter how bad he was) he went back to basketball and achieved even more when he came back. No exactly someone who quit and stayed away.

If you actually read the Jordan Price article, it talks about the boss he had and the psychological abuse he was taking. Sure he was at his "dream job" but the jokes and insults from his negative boss drove him to quit. It wasn't really his choice to quit, it was more he was driven out by an his boss who was a douchebag.

And the Ellen Poe situation? Quitting is completely different than being set up to fail. Again, using her as an example of "goal disengagement" completely misunderstands her whole situation. She was set up to fail, then driven into submission by the inmates who are running the asylum at Reddit.

If you want to use a better example, try Robert Smith, the running back for the Vikings who abruptly quit after a career year in the NFL. He was about to get a huge contract extension, but he gave up the money so he could pursue a career in medicine. He also wanted to get out of the NFL without any lingering physical issues. He still appears on some NFL and college football shows, but for the most part lives a pretty private life post NFL career.
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Because it encourages the behavior and even makes it seem socially acceptable to some degree when it isn't.
Well, individual posts are still available: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/net.jobs/CTGh9MHaaWc/q...

If you search for the title of that 1984 post, "Microsoft needs Wizards" you get no results.
Agree.

I think it is actually a good post, and I agree with it conceptually. But I don't think it has anything to do with Pao's resignation.
If (cyan + magenta) + yellow = green, how would (cyan + magenta) + (cyan + magenta) + yellow = just cyan?

To get cyan you simply remove the magenta from blue!
I think it's time we recognized that we are essentially second class citizens, after police.

They are consistently able to commit crimes without being prosecuted. They can use their position and influence to target and harass their personal enemies. When they are prosecuted for a crime, the sentencing is consistently far less than a non-LEO offender's.

And there's no more recourse for us. When a police officer shows up, there's nothing you can do, and no way to predict what will happen. If they're in the mood, you can be beaten, pepper sprayed, tazed, bitten, or shot, for any offense no matter how minor or imagined.
Maybe drugs shouldn't be "invented" by pharmaceutical companies? Is a company always the best organizational structure?
You must be a Netherlands-Dutch speaker then. It's an accepted word in Flanders. :>
Jean-Baptiste Say coined the term. I do believe he predates Walt Disney by quite a bit.

The entrepreneur ventures with a plan to use money in such a way that he will make a profit from his activity. It's simple. It requires an adventurous character, some perceptive understanding of market prices, notions on how to make a profit from productive activity, and the will to act accordingly. The concept was needed because countless people were doing it in the 18th century, under the eyes of those now known as classical economists.
Basic English uses approximately 850 words, and produced this communication between Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt:

Churchill (so much for automatic text recognition): "When I was with you in the United States last August you expressed to me your interest in Basic English. The Cabinet Committee which I appointed here to consider the possibilities of Basic and means of promoting its wider use have reported and we have adopted the recommendations they have rode. I thought it might be of interest to you to see the Report and am sending you copi

[...]

"If the United States authorities feel able to give their powerful support to the promotion of Basic English as a means of international intercourse, I feel sure that that would ensure its successful development. My conviction is that Basic English will then prove to be a great boon to mankind in the future and a powerful support to the influence of the Anglo-Saxon peoples in world affairs."

FDR: "...Incidentally, I wonder what the course of history would have been if in May 1940 you had been able to offer the British people only "blood, work, eye water and face water", which I understand is the best that Basic English can do with five famous words...."

http://docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/psf/box37/t335k01.html
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Who's making assumptions now? The ONLY hard facts we have are what they announced: A mutual separation. Why are you so sure it was a firing?

I think it's a relatively reasonable logical conclusion that Ms. Pao, freed from responsibilities at Reddit, is pursuing things that interest her. Are you saying that she's most likely pursuing things that DON'T interest her? The 900-word essay seems to set out a thesis or mission statement for what she might do now...
iSAX was an improvement over simple SAX indexing scheme that was known since 2005 or so.
If you want to dip your toes in algebraic geometry and functional analysis, you could do a lot worse than Lang's book on SL(2,R) for the former and Bollobas' for the latter.

cf. http://maths-magic.ac.uk/course.php?id=339
Unfortunately there's no one application that does it all. I use Google Docs for collaborative document editing with various teams I work with, Arena for collecting bookmarks, embeds, and images (some of that activity is collaborative), Evernote for collecting and synthesizing ideas (also sometimes collaborative), Trello for high-level project management, OmniFocus as a personal task manager / universal inbox for ideas, references, etc., and I was using Ulysses (and Daedelus for iPhone) as a kind of journal / space for thinking through ideas, but I'm slowly migrating that over to Evernote.
Dutch, 22 years old, haven't heard of it either.

Even splitting it up, 'apple blue; sea green' does not make any sense to me. Well sea green, maybe a bit, but not really in combination with the rest. Since it's a composite word* you can't find it in a dictionary, so I can't really check whether it really exists.

* One word made out of multiple, like the English "car mechanic" would become "automonteur". Though automonteur is an example common enough to have its own entry: http://www.woorden.org/woord/automonteur

Edit: as per this comment[1], I've ran it past a Belgian guy: the word seems to be Flemish indeed. He knows it as "a color between green and blue".

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9916562
Several times, I've had my "Thanks" post downvoted on threads where the entirety of replies was less than a screenful. IMO courtesy is never a bad thing, particularly when someone takes the time to answer a question you asked. An upvote is (to my knowledge) anonymous.

However, "Me too" is best done with an upvote.
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Well, actually; Not all semicolons
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Interesting. We always say "darchini" too.
I'm pretty sure the author is against using special tools to read static text. That's his whole point, that people don't need browsers/readers or any fancy app to read static text!
It would be really nice to talk about leaving a job, seeing your goals and expectations change, or finding yourself in a position that previously seemed like a "dream job" only to find yourself not as fulfilled as you expected. Rather than fixating on the specific example of Ellen Pao. The piece is about an experience that many people face not about Ellen Pao.
God I love listening to this man. He was such a concise and effective speaker.
Cool post.

Any idea if it is possible to search the open graph to find out who shared a given link?
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Yes. The article sets up a false equivalence. In the case of the happy meal the power imbalance is not nearly as severe as it is in the case of employment. I think I tend to agree with the author regarding benefits, maybe, but either way I don't find this a convincing out productive argument.
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Sounds just like Beats. Maybe Apple should buy them out and make gold lights for $6,000.
Too bad this does only contain the preview of .NET 5. I hoped this release would bring a more stable version of .NET 5
Warning to anyone using Windows 2012 Server R2 as your workstation - if you install Microsoft Emulator for Android, it enables Hyper-V which will cause your video drivers to no longer work since Hyper-V replaces your video card with a virtual one (or something like that).
There are 2 sides to this.

1. Quit: I spent a summer in investment banking, at a prestigious bank after 2 years of hustling at a state school (way easier to get this type of job at an ivy league). I left after a summer despite loving the people and perks -- it wasn't for me.

2. Persevere: While learning computer programming, it was rough to start from scratch. Seeing how slow I was compared to others was discouraging, but I pushed through and now love what I do/the skills I have. I recall taking a graduate level computer systems course, while working full-time, which was fairly challenging for me at the time (this course required writing and debugging assembly, writing programs like malloc from scratch, etc. with no other formal CS background). It was 100% worth it!

Perhaps the lesson here is that learning at the early stages is tedious, and one should push through. Or that you should have a motivator that isn't financial in taking on something tough.
>First there is the issue at the business level. Returning customers are the easiest and cheapest sells...but if your customer only buys a product every 30+ years...not great for business.

This exact line of thinking has created scads of products that suffer from the opposite problem -- products that are kind of cheap and need to be repurchased every couple years, overall costing several times more than a good product would and generating several times more garbage.

> At what point does a product last "too long"? It seems that designing an expensive lamp and marketing the fact that it lasts 37 years seems kinda...dumb.

Well it is somewhat dumb because nobody believes it will last 37 years, partly because of the "everything is junk these days" effect that we've come to expect, but also because it comes with a two year warranty.
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NoGUI.
You need a lot of confidence to start the Darien Scheme ( equivalent to Vasco da Gama )

Unlike da Gama, the Darien scheme ended in disaster for the whole of Scotland and the poor souls in Caledonia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darien_scheme
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Yes yes, the brain, the mapping, the neural network... the physical, chemical, electrical thing that if wired properly would produce consciousness...

It would be so easy if it were that easy...

And brain science can't explain too much, because it couldn't research these substances, since they're illegal everywhere in the world.

Edit:

Long story short - take the red pill and you'll see for yourself how little we understand about the mind and the Universe.
Does anyone know if the RTM version will be able to upgrade to the full version once it is released? Also, will it be able to install updates later on?
You're right, that's the sort of thing that seems to deserve neither a patent nor any other sort of monopoly. But my question is about the many billions of dollars spent on other sorts of pharmaceutical development. Or is your argument that cases like this one outweigh the benefits derived from drug development in cases where it requires genuine, prolonged, and expensive research effort?
...yes its actually easier with less money as 83 clicks a day is all you need so you aren't competing with high cost keywords which tends to start being unavoidable somewhere past 100+ clicks/day.

And yes, I've done this with $500/month as the spend. If you go through my comment history you'll notice I used to work entirely with small businesses as a contractor which I've mentioned at least a couple times I believe.

I wouldn't use up-to-date hypotheticals from my current job given its a scale almost no one on HN would operate at. :/

I'm not really sure what your conviction this isn't possible comes from?

Obviously, $50/month/sale is not going to work out for a book that sells for $10 but that is a different problem.
Can you imagine if your build process worked that way?

"Yeah, the integration tests failed 400 times, but in all but one of them, it was the test runner that was the problem."
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This is better known as the OPLSS, Oregon Programming Languages Summer School. It's amazing and the lectures each year are absolutely chock-full of gems. Anyone interested in PLs should listen to a few if not actually attend!
> I'd like to know how the first Swiss knives looked like...

Taken from wikipedia:

> During the late 1880s, the Swiss Army decided to purchase a new folding pocket knife for their soldiers. This knife was to be suitable for use by the army in opening canned food and disassembling the Swiss service rifle, the Schmidt–Rubin, which required a screwdriver for assembly.
In January 1891, the knife received the official designation Modell 1890. The knife had a blade, reamer, can-opener, screwdriver, and grips made out of dark oak wood that was later partly replaced with ebony wood.

Photo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Army_knife#/media/File:W...
Hackthe.computer 2015 coding competition
Hey folks, this is something I and a few others have been working on for a week or two. We’ve made some really interesting challenges. If you compete, you’ll end up learning erasure coding, Diffie-Hellman key exchange, write a small programming language, etc.

These things are super fun and I’m happy to be able to run one again.

Let me know if you got some questions!
Let the bitcoin extortion begin... :-/
The LEDs last 37 years (well, 154,000 hours). I have a feeling that, for example, the capacitors in the power supply won't last that long. I also notice that they only provide a 2 year limited warranty. (LED lamp lifespan tends to be limited by other components failing in general, unless you get dodgy LEDs or do something really screwy with the cooling.)
Previous discussion from 10 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9914024
She's a fan of a bunch of languages, not just Finnish. Breakdown of roots:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Toki_Pona_etymologie...

She deliberately picked a broad sample of roots across human languages so people would find it easy to learn. It's pretty easy to say basic things in Toki Pona, which is all that is possible to say in this language?

Sina pona?
I would encourage you to look into it a little more (or perhaps I need to).

I certainly don't think being a transparency activist precludes you from also being a sexual predator. However there seems to be a lot of evidence that the charges are political.
Sorry but I think NASA has done a LOT more for generating interest in science than any other project.

It's cool to hear that people are podcasting about it. I'm glad you were able to plug them on HN.
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