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Actually, the notion of scientific consensus arose many times in physics: the Copernican world view versus the Ptolemaic, gravity, quantum jumps, the statistical interpretation of entropy, the existence of electromagnetic waves, the notion of the atom, 'vortex theory,' the possibility of heavier than air flying machines, problems with the semiclassical theory of the atom, whether general relativity could possibly be right, the Ergodic hypothesis, the EPR 'paradox' -- the action at a distance that tormented Einstein, positivism, whether the Copenhagen interpretation were sufficiently comprehensive/actual described reality, Bells theorem, the validity of Feynman's interpretation of QED, the validity of renormalization, the validity of lattice approaches to QCD, gravitational waves, the existence of blackholes, whether string theory was even scientific, whether quantum computation was possible, whether information really was physical, the arrow of time, the understanding of mass, the 'holographic' principle, etc. etc. etc.

Quite a few of these haven't even been resolved!
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Resubmitting the runt of my recent submissions: the myth of college football http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1059489
http://www.chillingeffects.org/notice.cgi?sID=17460

If you search for Aboriginal Encyclopedia on google.com.au it shows up down the bottom.
The magic ink paper was on top of HN 2 years ago[1]. I remember bouncing off it the first half dozen times I ran across it on the blogosphere. Eventually I focused, and boy was it worth it:

http://worrydream.com/MagicInk

It's still my #1 paper of all time, for both exposition and presentation (layout, typography, figures), and the paper I have quoted most often on my linkblog (http://akkartik.name/search_results?q=bret+victor)

I wanted to submit this to the recent thread on the future of UI (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1055194)

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8120. 19 points was a lot in those days.

Edit: searchyc tells me it was resubmitted 8 months ago with success (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=600799)
Microsoft blatantly hung up on us - so this is how to crash IE8
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Why would they have to be low value? Doesn't taking $50m in a $150m post-money valuation have the same effect as taking in 1M on a 3M post-money valuation?
Thanks for filling in some details. I think you strengthen rather then weaken the case that founders might end up with what sounds like a small percentage though.
From my last twenty submissions...

Pretending objects: http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/16/pretending-and-games.ht...

Superstitious beliefs cemented before birth: http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/10/30/paranormal-supersti...

Sacraficial virgins of the Mississippi: http://www.salon.com/books/review/2009/08/06/cahokia/index.h...

Also, anything that isn't text rarely makes the front page regardless of how good it is. On that note, I think the new technology developed to create the movie Oceans is pretty cool:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfjEydlUdT8
>Google has in place limits to stop things like pornography showing up, with it's safe search feature. This is already a form of censorship based on the values of countries like the USA.

You are confusing their quest for relevance with censorship. Google filters out pornography from most search results in general under the assumption that pornography results are not desired. If, however, you do wish to view pornographic content, you can always search for pornography related topics directly, in which case pornographic results will be returned.

Turning on Safe Search, a user controlled option, will try to do a stronger job filtering the results. A notification is displayed that safe search is on, and the user can always choose to turn it off. This is not 'censorship', it is a useful tool for their users.
As does perl. You need to declare variables as shared, there is apparently some performance hit, but it's mostly localized to the shared variables, so reasonably manageable. I've actually found it easier to work with than implicit shared data across all threads because you actually need to think about the exposed surface area and how you can minimize it.
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There's some serious problems with American law. My father is a lawyer, I almost became a lawyer, I've taken a fair number of law classes, spent time with lawyers going over business law, and done some casual legal/historical research. I've read a lot of the famous decisions and critiques of them in my spare time for the hell of it, and I'm reasonably well versed in American law for a non-JD-carrying person.

The United States is (mostly) under a system called common law. Long story really short, common law has the advantage of making the law evolve more gradually and less abruptly than the main alternative (civil law) because judges create new law through their decisions and writing opinions.

Common law was a pretty good system at one point. Then this happened:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_realism#Essential_beliefs...

Legal realism is, in my opinion, one of the largest disasters to hit the United States. Take this, for instance:

"Stated differently, legal realists advance two general claims: 1) Law is indeterminate and judges, accordingly, must and do often draw on extralegal considerations to resolve the disputes before them. 2) The best answer to the question "What is (the) law?" is "Whatever judges or other relevant officials do"."

Legal realism did two things. The first was that it re-acknowledged that well known and previously fought against notion that judges were influenced by extralegal (outside of the law) considerations. This has been known forever, and has traditionally been battled against - we're all human, but we can aspire to higher and more pure forms of reason and justice, but okay, legal realism acknowledged again that it happened.

Second, it specifically blessed that behavior, and encouraged judges to take it.

Which has predictably been a disaster.

Certain domains of American law, especially family law, are so arbitrarily and capriciously enforced, that there is effectively no law there. Just a set of extremely loose guidelines, and then it's up to the judge's emotions and feelings on the situation. The actual letter of the law routinely gets thrown out, and the spirit of the law is very much an arbitrarily determined thing. I've both participated and sat in on courtrooms where a judge basically outright says, "Yeah, that's the law, but sod that, it's not right so I'm doing something different." (This is possible when the law mandates something that would be "unconscionable", which has become an ever lower threshold to reach)

I think common law is too far broken in the States to survive, and personally believe we need to move to a drastically simplified civil law code:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_law_(legal_system)

The code should specify very specific remedies for situations, so parties know very predictably what's going to happen when entering into a dispute. That's how legal systems are supposed to work in theory, anyways. This is unlikely to happen without some form of dramatic change, but I think the stability of the United States depends on it. Judges and lawyers answer only to each other, and treat each very well, and the system is rather an unpredictable mess in many areas right now.
It is difficult to comment without knowing more as to why you need to write a server, perhaps you care to give a few of the reasons. However, the way you explained it, you need low level control. How about Lua, it has a beautiful syntax, small footprint is ultrafast and interfaces very well with C (in many ways you can think of it as a Library for C). (See http://code.google.com/p/lua-web-server/). I know a lot of people consider Lua only for games but ...
I'm not sure I even want to mention it, but I highly recommend you stay away from the article called 'offended' if you find it linked anywhere, unless you are the kind of person who likes visiting shock sites. Consider yourself warned.
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Nice Idea, I am curious to know how contextsense give ratings.. could you please describe in more detail .. Thank you
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i think these videos are targeted mainly towards a much less technically-savvy audience than the folks here on HN.

I watched some of these lectures - they're excellent, but a bit too hand-wavy.

sure, but what more can you expect from 10 minutes? i don't care how great a 10-minute youtube video is, it can never provide the depth that sophisticated primary sources can. but then again, we shouldn't expect it to go nearly that deep :)
In the past week, I removed the last active (and crashing) Windows OS from a production machine and installed Ubuntu. Our Windows development lives on in sandboxes. We're liking Ubuntu.
That's really cool! I sometimes go on streaks of actual work and always knew I was missing some great stuff. Thanks.
> - Zero with a slash

Debatable. Zero is typically narrower than uppercase O, so it is trivial to distinguish them even without the slash that merely adds to the visual noise.
It doesn't give out ratings. It will rather generate tags and categories which represent a submission. Tags such as: erlang, database, module, in-memory, etc. You can also generate other features such as word count, presence of images, (domain name, poster's name, etc.)

Now what you do is to go through all (or as many as you could) stories that have been on HN front page, calculate features for those stories. Those features are used to learn a prediction model which you can apply to new stories to predict ratings.
Oh my... 22 comments and no mention of Dina. What is happening to HN lately ? :-)

http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Jibz/Dina
Calm down, man. The previous poster expressed a reasonable opinion. Disagree if you want, but don't resort to ad hominem.
This article promotes the myth that getting good grades in college is what prepares you for life, and if you don't go to a good college and get good grades then you can't be successful.
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Wombat, if I may.
I'm sorry, but no issue is black and white like that. There is a gray area because two human rights are in conflict on issues such as these: freedom of speech and freedom from discrimination. In most countries, including Australia, limitations are put on freedom of speech specifically to address this issue.

You can support laws such as these without being 'against freedom of speech'. After all, the very first article in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights says "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood." Both this and article 19 (freedom of opinion and expression) must be supported, and when they are in conflict, a balance must be found.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_...
Uh, honestly, getting diluted at all sounds like utter bullshit. Imagine being told "you will get 100,000 dollars at the end of the year," and then halfway through the year you're told "okay, now it will be 50,000 dollars instead." What's your recourse there? How is it not a ripoff?

Am I misunderstanding a crucial aspect of the system?
Just click the "Add my cofounder wish list" link in the home page. We're uploading the contents of the Google doc at the moment. Let me know if you encounter any errors.
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"I couldn't find a good (free) text editor for MAC."

Have to wonder why vim or emacs were not considered, or not considered good, but TextMate and Netbeans are viable choices for text editors.
The problem is the legislature has a really nasty habit of passing bad public policy. I frankly wouldn't trust them to come up with a good civil system. I'm not comfortable with our system relying on what judges had for breakfast, but I'm less comfortable with a system relying on what legislators do to appease populism over sound policy.

I suppose the best way to find out whether you're right, might be to look and see if Louisiana is doing better off with their legal system than some of the other states?
Evidence in economics is messy---and political. Trust logic instead. Of course monetary contraction causes deflation; you don't need evidence to tell you that when people have less money, ceteris paribus prices will fall.

As far as the "gold standard" goes, beware: most so-called historical "gold standards" are not gold-as-money, but rather some weird bastardized version, such as "paper currency (partially) backed by gold". As I said: messy. This conflation serves the interests of those who benefit from manipulating the money supply. Messy, and political.

I take it you mean Rothbard is "amateur" in the pejorative sense. Have you read Rothbard? He is many things; "amateur" is not one of them.
Is a chunk of HTML and javascript that crashes IE rare? Unless my memory is faulty, I feel like we've come across code that crashes various IE versions a dozen times in the last few years. Reporting these bugs to Microsoft is practically unimaginable to me -- I wouldn't know where to start.
Exactly what I came in to say. It is exactly this kind of thinking that gets so many young people in to trouble. In fact, the football players that don't make the NFL probably got a great deal.

Every year there are a large number of students that go deeply into debt with the belief that they will come out groomed for a financially rewarding future.

Contrast this with D1 football players who are typically on scholarship. The football player may be just as unprepared as the diligent student, but they probably have much less college debt.
A summary of the subject matter, the reasons why you like it or a link to an online version would vastly improve your comment.
http://www.ps.uci.edu/~markm/einstein/aharonov_einstein.pdf

Curious quantum eraser article on Science a while ago.
Thanks outotrai. Couldn't have said it better myself.
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Not entirely correct. Australia ratified the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and is part of the United Nations.

From Wikipedia: "While not a treaty itself, the Declaration was explicitly adopted for the purpose of defining the meaning of the words "fundamental freedoms" and "human rights" appearing in the United Nations Charter, which is binding on all member states. For this reason, the Universal Declaration is a fundamental constitutive document of the United Nations."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_...
I had not heard about this, but honestly I could not care less. If people just ignored this shit rather than pandering to the trolls, maybe there'd be no incentive for them to keep doing it.

eBay has (or had?) a habit of spamming ads in Google searches that said things like "Looking for ${WHAT_YOU_SEARCHED_FOR}? Buy it new or used on eBay!", no matter what you'd searched for.

So of course people would search for all kinds of imaginary/dangerous/illegal/offensive/etc. things just to see if it would spawn any "hilarious" auto-generated eBay ads.
Idle thought: A script running on HN that, on slow news days, looks back on submissions on high news days and finds those that (by some criteria) got pushed off the the radar too quickly.

It then selects some number of these (again, by whatever criteria, TBA, etc.) and re-submits them.

That way, slow news days go away, and decent links get a second chance.
"Unskilled and unaware of it: How difficulties in recognizing one's own incompetence lead to inflated self-assessments."

http://psycnet.apa.org/?fa=main.doiLanding&doi=10.1037/0...

a.k.a. the dunning-kruger effect:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect
A few of my favorites, chosen from computer science and from physics:

D. E. Knuth, "An empirical study of FORTRAN programs," Software: Practice and Experience, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 105-133, 1971. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/spe.4380010203

A choice quote: "A first idea for obtaining 'typical' programs was to go to
Stanford's Computation Center and rummage in the waste baskets and the recycling
bins. This gave results but showed immediately what should have been obvious:
waste-baskets usually receive undebugged programs."

D. E. Knuth, "The errors of TeX," Software: Practice and Experience, vol. 19, no. 7, pp. 607-685, 1989. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/spe.4380190702

Knuth recounts and analyzes the process of developing the TeX computer typesetting
system.

A. Einstein, "Zur elektrodynamik bewegter körper," Annalen der Physik, vol. 322, no. 10, pp. 891-921, 1905. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/andp.19053221004

Einstein's seminal paper "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies" that proposed
the theory of special relativity. A good English translation is available online
at http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/specrel/specrel.pdf
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California's government didn't kill prefab in America. Taiwan, China, and Korea's lack of labor laws or living wage laws killed prefab in America.

You can't compete with companies who aren't required to pay their workers.
"Massive IQ Gains in 14 Nations: What IQ Tests Really Measure" by James R. Flynn in Psychological Bulletin. Here is the correct APA citation form, modernized with the doi reference:

Flynn, J. R. (1987). Massive IQ gains in 14 nations: What IQ tests really measure. Psychological Bulletin, 101, 171-191. doi: 10.1037/0033-2909.101.2.171

URL:

http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/bul/101/2/171.html

This was a path-breaking paper, which, as N.J. Mackintosh comments, introduced many psychologists to long-ignored data that could have been noticed long ago: "the data are surprising, demolish some long-cherished beliefs, and raise a number of other interesting issues along the way."
If this was truly an AI approach then the reprogramming would not be necessary.

Reprogramming Deep Blue is like replacing Kasparov with Anand, halfway through the match.
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Almost all of those non-AP networks you see (usually with that name, and never with a route to the internet or dhcp) are due to a pernicious Thyphoid Mary behavior in Windows' wireless networking UI.

In at least Windows XP, if you ever join a "computer-to-computer" network, your computer will advertise that network (or the last such network) whenever it is not connected to another SSID, in perpetuity. Airports are the primary breeding ground for this disease.
No one is trying to force reincarnation, astrology, yoga, or voodoo into public-school science classrooms, though. Astrologers weren't behind Proposition 8, and New Agers have been responsible for relatively few outrages-of-the-week as well.

When these things happen, these groups too will come under attack by the reality-based community.
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Agree with you that the legislature is in bad shape too. As for Louisiana, there's probably better examples. I'm thinking something similar to the transition to the Napoleanic Codes in Europe as a realistic best case scenario:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleonic_code
It's an AI concept for representing knowledge.

Here's the link:

http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/Frames/frames.html

And here is a wikipedia article describing the concept:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame_(artificial_intelligence)
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Jokes aren't racist just because they mention a 'race'. The 'race' in a particular article in the Encyclopedia Dramatica can easily be substituted by another, even an 'opposite', 'race' and the article would still make as much sense. If that is the case, the 'race' isn't an integral part of the joke and it isn't racism.
I like the general concept.. The only issue I really see is with promoting groupthink. Doesn't that approach create a positive feedback loop. (TO be specific - if those predictions were exposed in a meaningful way, people would be more likely to view those stories, thus they would be upvoted, thus similar stories would be predicted to be successful)

The second issue is that stuff like this: (One of mine but I think it was a fascinating article) would probably fail any relevancy test: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1046378
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Shannon's original paper introducing Information Theory is pretty great.

Shannon 48 [http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/ms/what/shannonday/shannon1948.pd...]
I agree. The impact of this paper on my understanding of my own nature, the nature of those around me and the overall social-political structure of the World is immense.
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"Estimating betas from nonsynchronous data" by Myron Scholes and Joseph Williams in Journal of Financial Economics, December 1977, pgs. 309-327.

Abstract is below.

Nonsynchronous trading of securities introduces into the market model a potentially serious econometric problem of errors in variables. In this paper properties of the observed market model and associated ordinary least squares estimators are developed in detail. In addition, computationally convenient, consistent estimators for parameters of the market model are calculated and then applied to daily returns of securities listed in the NYSE and ASE.
Grellas, you're one of my favorite commentors here and always insightful.

I'm with you on your points - do you have any ideas for reform? I'm particularly against mandatory licensing requirements as they tend to be sold as a shield to protect consumers, but are frequently used as a weapon to drive prices up and deter otherwise qualified competition entering the field.

How could we do away with in the States? Some sort of constitutional amendment barring discrimination on the basis of being a member of an organization or having attended a university? Restrict licensing requirements to being competent with a very flexible way of proving that?

I spend a bit of time thinking about this, and I'm curious if you have any thoughts on the way forward.
Sounds like the article was written using a writing template, it has no natural feel that writing should. It's quite odd, because the sentences and paragraphs aren't bad, but the entirety of the piece doesn't mesh cohesively together.
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...because msie hasn't had enough bad press this week.

i would be laughing but half our install base is ie6 and i doubt that this weeks events will register with anyone in a position to change that :(
Looks like another Microsoft employee on Reddit is looking into this ... but I'll followup on this too.
Oh come now. While there are certainly exceptions, in most cases going to college, learning how to learn, developing a strong work-ethic, does indeed prepare you to be successful in life.

I know we like to go on about how you don't need a 4-year degree to be a successful in software development. But this doesn't extend to most fields.