skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Scientific American" is a sad shadow of it's former self. It has gone mass market and PC.It used to be closer to one step below a peer revue scientific journal.
Beepl's functionality - reply, answer, "more" and "more like these" are making this flowless experience. We really hoped to come up with something new. Try it out and let me know.
BTW, is Paul Allen on Twitter?
I'm surprised The Atlantic didn't make it on that list. I always see it mentioned in the same breath as the other sources and have found most of the articles fairly unbiased and interesting.
Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal both have a strong right-wing slant.
I have been thinking that a subscription model could work if you got enough big name papers to go behind a common pay wall and remove themselves from Google. Really unless there was enough to put a dent in the quality of news you get by using Google's aggregater then it wouldn't work. A simple common system though that gave access to many publications content with a single payment could be the only thing convenient enough to work, I guess the payments could work in a similar vein to cable TV packages.
For what definition of unbiased?

News are always biased. Facts are the only ones that can, potentially, be without bias.
You seem to think that I am against people being candid, but I'm not. Don't assume that everyone secretly thinks what you think but is afraid to say so. I'm perfectly candid, I just don't share your views.

>Snark aside, the great thing about being human is that you get to set your own standards

And the great thing about writing about your standards on a public forum is that you get to hear other people's opinions on them, right?

>We could compare and contrast, if you like, how your politically correct pseudo-chivalry is working vs. my slightly more gritty candidness.

Actually I'm gay, so I'm afraid we can't compare our vaginal insemination success rates. But maybe we can lock horns? Or compare penis size? FWIW I do ok with other guys (and I generally allow them to dress themselves).

But if you just want to boast about your love/sex life, please don't feel that you need my cooperation. This is an open forum, after all.
Ok, so, I took a quick look and the only thing that works is if you click on a question from the page you link to, you are brought to a page with stuff on it. This looks like a non-functioning, reskinned Yahoo! Answers, that may at some point start charging people to find someone to answer the question. Is this the intent? Is there some deeper thing that I've missed here?
I would love to give this a shot, but I'm going to have a hard time tearing myself away from my excel sheets.

I haven't thoroughly searched your site or signed-up yet, but before I do I think it is fitting to ask: is it possible to upload excel sheets or connect it to my google docs spreadsheet?
Note that I'm not claiming Ruby's parser and lexer are slow, or that they're the cause of any greater problems. I'm just picking on them as one example of deeper differences between the Ruby and Lua designs/implementations.
Small UI considerations:

- Top and bottom navs need rollovers, as well as the sign-up button

- Support page textbox hover effects are awkward and inconsistent, and the button needs a rollover and a cursor: pointer

- Same with the signup page

- Re-order your site nav - Home | Sign Up | Login | Blog | Support

- Your logo is cool - nice job! - but the "For Google Apps" doesn't fit

- As far as I could see in the screenies - your quick search box is an ugly gray. I think white is OK in that situation.

- Dashboard needs a padding-top, and you could probably slide the rest of the content over since there's a lot of blank space.

- You'll want different icons for different types of actions inside the dashboard. Try reducing the size of the icons and floating the text left OR keeping the size the same but somehow centering the text underneath them.

Other than these things that I could see, site is looking great!
A mix of jewelry and electronics going mainstream is pretty unlikely.

Jewelry tends to be expensive and retain value over very long periods of time. Electronics tend to be pricey at first (but cheap relative to jewelry) but become obsolete and thrown in the trash very quickly.
it would be interesting to see LuaJIT as part of LuaTex.

Super fast desktop publishing FTW !
I wanted to look at some traffic-related dataset and the download link linked back to the homepage. The site is poorly put together as far as I can tell.
In my experience, the 1.x releases of LuaJIT have typically made whole programs (not just benchmarks) run 2-3+x faster than standard Lua. Without any other changes. :)

I haven't tried LuaJIT 2 yet, but I'm eagerly waiting for it to get ported to amd64.
Problem is though if your already losing money, increasing your quality is initially going to send you bankrupt even sooner. Turning around your readership numbers I'd imagine would be a slow process over many years.
A summary of the Google-China faceoff. An early experiment in news aggregation.
<tin-foil-hat>

He could be doing all this because he wants to run for office. The site frequently refers to Gates in the third person, it's kinda structured like a lot of political candidates sites.

</tin-foil-hat>
Maybe you're thinking of the Washington Times.
Be warned, it's possible to be a little too candid, as I found out recently. Or, at least don't let her mom find out about your candid comments.
Aid Urged for Groups Fighting Internet Censors
Because He Dreamed
Joshua Haberman gives some details here: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lua.general/62321

Our Lua usage isn't too widespread at the moment; it's really one infrastructure project in particular that uses Lua to allow user-defined functions to run within a tightly controlled container. Lua was the best choice, because of its low overhead, fast execution, and the ability to set limits on execution time.

Unfortunately I cannot be more specific, since the project is not public.
I'm not sure what you're getting at. Yes, there are multiple levels of abstraction. Yes, from the fact that someone hasn't said X, you cannot infer with 100% certainty that they do not believe X. I doubt anyone could disagree with these banal statements, but they don't have anything to do with this discussion.

>Have you read Douglas Hofstadter's classic Godel, Escher, Bach?

Yes, I've read it. Thanks for the recommendation.
We're still in alpha, but we will be connecting with Google Docs spreadsheets both for entry and output. Looking at another month for what your looking for.
It's a great business, but they steal the paper.
Apple Sees New Money in Old Media
I think its worth of note how most of the comments they get on techcrunch are people just coming in to say they love the service. A trend I've seen on dropbox that I can't say I've seen with too many other services in the past.

I, for one, am one very happy paying customer too, and have said it more than once.
>They are actually pretty rare in the US, especially single.

I think this is exactly the kind of attitude that some of us object to. Basically, a bunch of guys sitting around passing judgment on all the women in the world, concluding that hardly any of them are worthy of their (presumably much sought-after) affections.

For me, your explanation of what is meant by "quality" basically pushes all the buttons that the OP did.
I don't believe in the alpha/beta dichotomy. Well, there's some truth in it, but among my friends, we actually jokingly talk about "alpha male types" who are kind of loud, and crass, and things. [snip]
For me, I usually think of things as strong/average/weak, where strength is of character, internal strength so to speak.

External assertiveness and internal strength usually go together, and when it comes to attraction, women don't seem to actively distinguish between them. They're attracted to cockiness. They do, however, notice when somebody points out that the two things aren't in sync. Make a cocky guy look like a fool, and you've turned his cockiness into a negative. Wit is the key.

However, wit and foolishness are in the eye of the beholder. Your wit might turn one woman's head and mystify the rest. You can adapt your wit to your audience to a certain extent, but it's more realistic to focus on an audience that is capable of appreciating you. You're never going to undermine a stereotypical sexy worthless asshole in the eyes of a sexy worthless bimbo; they're made for each other, and everybody else should just get out of the way.
Keep in mind that free isn't necessarily a great selling point when marketing business software. Business owners are often reassured by a fee and a contract.
His point is the important thing about people is themselves, not their qualities. If the relationship is based on "quality" and not on love, he (and myself) thinks it is missing something much more deeper.
Is there a accepted modification to the function to make it scale invariant? I'm kind of weirded out by something that would spit out a different result if did a unit change.
For one it's going to be free and for small businesses that is always a really key thing

Your questionnaire on registration asked for how much I was prepared to pay a month. This threw me out :) Perhaps you need to say so somewhere. I also must state that I don't believe that free is the key thing for a small business. I've seen too many small and one large business fold due to not having the right accounting systems in place. In many instances your market actually will be the external Accountant of the business. He will set it up for the Company and maybe give them a bit of a quick training of what to do - rather than keep everything in a shoe box. A lot of the hassle of accounting systems is set-up and statutory returns, end of year wrap-up and so on. You need to bring the features out more prominently.
You might try googling the concept of "intrapreneurship". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrapreneurship

Best I can do.

Good luck.
The NBC Article has more detail about the apps that the man used while under the rubble and how they helped save his life:

http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local-beat/Earthquake-Survivor-...
And in other news, sources have confirmed that water is still wet. Film at 11.

Is there anyone who actually believes that the US has not lost economic freedom, when the mortgage and auto industries are under government control, with healthcare shortly to follow?
I thought exactly the same, so I made a chart:

http://saffell.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/dist.jpg

Sorry it's not a histogram, but you get a sense of the distribution. The full data is at: http://saffell.wordpress.com/2010/01/21/distribution-of-2010...

(3 countries below 30 are not on chart)
I hadn't noticed some of the other blog posts until they were pointed out to me, but they're worth looking at.

"Your Race Affects Whether People Write You Back",
"Rape Fantasies and Hygiene By State"
etc.
For an apples-to-apples comparison you'll want to look at the single-threaded performance:

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all...
Wow, the Zii looks really cool. Has anyone tried it?
People are ontologically equal, we all have the same fundamental ability to make free moral decisions, which is what makes us human.

However, people are not equal in the gifts they've been given.

But, I agree with your fundamental point. True relationships aren't based on our external qualities, but on the soul. Today's evolutionary stupidity completely blinds many to deeper relationships.
Your right but the small businesses I've talked to even though they are doing well love the free part. Of course there is tons of things to sell as well payroll and taxes being the big ones.
One of the great things about dropbox is that you don't need to predict. You can just look at their feature request list and see what's on top.

https://www.dropbox.com/votebox (API is nr 9)

Although I'm not sure what file system for the web means. I believe dropbox itself stores files in S3.
Agree. I suppose the Airlines, having seen the uproar of Southwest daring to charge really fat people for an extra set, decided that weighing passengers would cause an emotional reaction.

I think I should have to pay more because of my fat ass.
I took a quick look and found a couple I like:

http://basecamphq.com/tour -- Highlights each feature with a screenshot, with a link to a demo video.

http://www.freshbooks.com/tour.php -- Screenshot only tour, but shows screenshot for each section of site, then breaks down the features in each section below.
Some of Ruby's more excentric semantics are really hard to optimize away by a compiler. It takes a much greater effort to compile Ruby source code to machine code of similar quality than for Lua. Since time and money are not infinite resources, especially for compiler development, you'll get worse results in practice.

So, yes, language design does impact performance.
Microsoft for President!
My data shows that IE6 is about 20% of the traffic in the healthcare, biotech, and telecom industries (among others).

On the bright side, government & gov't contractors are only 10% IE6.
This is also true for New Scientist, which has really gone down hill over the past few years.

The front sections of Science and Nature are pretty good for general science news. Science News might be another option, but I haven't read it in several years and have no idea if it's even still being published.
Yes it's exceptionally good, though some of the key people tech people may unfollow him if he only talks about his foundation.
But it's mostly about distributing it to people who wouldn't buy it anyway. If they want to claim a file copied to 100 users prevented 100 sales, they must have a reasonable evidence indicating those 100 downloaders are capable and willing to buy every song they download, which is probably not the case.

Most downloaders I know of are more collectors and explorers than anything else. By making numerous copies of artistic works, some of them very obscure, they could as well be providing a valuable data preservation service for future generations.

Just imagine if a generation manages to completely DRM works of art just to discover they lost their keys and the programs required to reconstruct those works... Without proper context, they will look like random noise to future archeologists.

I agree artists deserve adequate rewards for their works. Perhaps a compromise should be reached. It seems copyright has been abused and extended far too much, to a point where it creates more harm than good.
> There's only so much complexity you can pack into that structure.

This makes it sound complicated to us modern folk because that complexity hasn't gone away; it's just been moved into the software layer.
Thanks, that questionnaire really cemented the idea that free was the good way to go.

The problem with selling to the external accountant is usually they try and sell Quickbooks or something and get money from doing that as well. Looking into this though.
Great idea. I will use it next time I travel and if I get a great deal I'll be a loyal customer.
I am reminded of both "Diet for a Small Planet" (the political portion of the book) and "Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed". There is also TV Tropes "Stop helping me": http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StopHelpingMe
Disappointing but unsurprising that the data-parallel primitive in their standard library is the least-abstract, most-stateful implementation, and is named For/ForEach!

Could they at least implement slices, map, and fold/reduce?
1-5% is the norm, usually towards the low end
Google, do not take Chinese netizens hostage
Cooking and fashion are much more labor intensive than copying files.
No, I am sure the OP was talking about the Post. The news coverage the sort of "inside the beltway" stuff you would expect from the local paper to a one-industry town, but the editorial board is pure neo-con.
That sounds like kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/
It will get more than $46 million to provide these tools and by-pass censorship. Current countries on my list that are censoring are:

- Afghanistan
- Algeria
- Australia (in the queue to censor)
- Azerbaijan
- Bahrain
- Belarus
- China (including Hong Kong)
- Cuba
- Egypt
- Ethiopia
- India ?
- Iran
- Iraq
- Israel
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyzstan
- Libya
- Malaysia
- Moldova
- Morocco
- Myanmar (Burma)
- Nepal
- North Korea
- Qatar
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Saudi Arabia
- Singapore
- South Korea
- Sudan
- Syria
- Tajikistan
- Thailand
- Tunisia
- Ukraine
- United Arab Emirates
- Uzbekistan
- Venezuela
- Vietnam
- Yemen

Please add your own and or correct me if I am wrong on anyone. I am not sure if India still censors any blogs at a stage they were doing it.
There is always some form of bias in reporting of news. Journalists are people so no matter how hard they try to be balanced there will be some degree of slant. There is a difference between slant and bias. Bias is trying to fit the facts to the story, not the other way around. So how do you check for bias and misinformation? What about choosing what you consider to be unbiased news sources, "news you can trust?" This isn't enough you also have develop a contrary viewpoint. [0]

How?

I read a Sciam article yesterday [1] that outlined a few hints. Misinformation, is opinion presented as fact reported as news. See if you can spot the following techniques used reading or listening to your "unbiased" news:

- lack of evidence
- use of supporting imagery
- repetition
- framing
- entertainment & fear

When searching for unbiased news I source from many sources: print; radio; tv; web; Favouring depth to breadth and keep my eyes shut to deceptive images.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrarian

[1] "How Effective Are Misinformation Campaigns to Manipulate Public Opinion?" ~ http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=misinformat...
I love those shows, but how can you say they aren't biased?
As a liberal, I at least take pride in understanding that when I watch Steward/Colbert/Olbermann/Maddow, I'm watching partisan arguments. It's sad that many conservatives genuinely believe that Fox News is fair and balanced.
standard library? if you read the article, you would have seen that it's some guy's blog, not microsoft's C# API.
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This judgement is a travesty.

- Justice is only just if it is handed out evenly and in proportion to the crime. If ten million people share an mp3 and only one person is convicted for it, should that person have to pay for the alleged damages caused by the ten million? That's contrary to my sense of justice and to hundreds of years anglo-saxon jurisprudence.

- Stealing one CD from a store is clearly a more tortuous act than making one copy of the songs on a CD. If you steal a CD then the owner doesn't have it any more. If you make a copy of a CD then the copyright owner's potential sales may be diminished by some theoretical fraction of the original value of the CD.
For a company like Google it would probably be worth doing just to make sure all those Windows PCs stay online and continue to access Google services/advertisements. Imagine a truly malicious exploit that knocked 10-15% of Windows computers offline instead of joining them to a bot net. Even if only half of those computers were previously accessing Google services they would see a big hit in advertising revenue.
His customer is either fleeing from your products, or has been using Excel / Google Docs to avoid using them in the first place.
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It's actually all about that "stuff" beepl populates back to questions. Have you tried "more like this"? And it is very much functional - I am aware only about the registration problem. Seems to be working for some, not for the others - no idea where the problem is.

Anyway, it's about the results - we match these semantically.

I really hoped one would notice - at least wikipedia references, or question auto-categorization, if nothing else...

Thanks for the feedback - very valuable.

Yes, we still seem to have a lot to do - and yes, we do consider Yahoo! Answers evil. Thank you.
This is sane, because to get a Singularity, you need those non-CPU things

No one knows including Kurzweil. Maybe it really does take x number of flops, maybe we need better software. Maybe we need quantum computers. Anyone that pretends to know is lying.
Yes, it has both options.

Zoho Discussions has 'Follow this Topic' option to receive emails on the discussions you are follow.

To post to Zoho Discussions directly from your email, it has Email2Forum option. More details on this are available here.

http://help.discussions.zoho.com/forum-settings.html#Email2F...

https://forums.zoho.com/topic/explain-email2forum-feature%3F

Ofcourse, these features can be made available for free for open source projects.
"These policies have resulted in job losses"

Can someone explain to me how the recent government policies have lead to job losses. I have always thought the opposite was true.
Let me fix the lede:

"Policies recently enacted by Democrats are ruining the country, according to a set of rankings released today by a conservative think tank which believes Democrats will ruin the country and a conservative newspaper which believes Democrats will ruin the country."
I would love to see Dropbox and Google Docs work well together. Overall, I don't want to change my habits to much. That's why I like dropbox. I want to keep using the office programs that I've been using up till now, save them normally, access them normally via the OS file system.

The web access is great but marginal, for me. It would be a lot better if the default experience was that clicking a spreadsheet or powerpoint opened it in Google Docs (or similar) rather then downloading it.

A web experience on the web and a desktop experience on the desktop.

I think the problem with things like Google Docs (or Zoho, for example) is that they are trying to get you off the desktop. MS wants to keep you on the Desktop. Google might not be highly motivated to sync your spreedsheet to your PC for easy access via excel.

Dropbox might pull off a serious coup if they became the platform agnostic glue. Log in to Zoho, all your dropbox files are available to you. You edit them, they are still available to you via open office, Google Docs, MS Office, whatever.

Google, I suspect, might want the filesystem to be with them though.
I'm sure he's got some other people doing stuff on the site (code, server, etc), but I'm likely to believe that this is indeed him writing the content. Maybe he's got someone proofing it, but Bill like most of us probably find something nice about writing out your thoughts and interacting with people through a blog.
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