skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
/You can't use science to look for God because science only works on everything in the universe. If there is a God worth the title, he she it is not going to be in there./

If we restrict ourselves to talking about a god that is not a part of and cannot interact with the universe (because if it can then it can be measured and science applies), then how can such a being or its existence or nonexistence even be remotely relevant or interesting to us as residents of this Universe?
I don't disagree with the substance of your post, but I wanted to note that the AMA, and the national and state licensing boards are non-government entities. While the states do make it illegal to practice medicine without a license (or practice law without a license), for the most part they let these professions regulate themselves.
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They force weak passwords for the users, not for the admin, so you could hack an account but not the website itself.

Accounts also have plenty of protection besides the password: IP is logged, if it's not the usual IP my bank asks a secret question, and after 3 failed tries it locks out the account until you phone them, succeed at getting a human on the line and explain your situation. You can't brute-force much in 3 attempts.
The Reserve Bank of India has not approved wallet services yet -- and Paypal function as a wallet.

What it means is that you can receive payments into your paypal account, but you can't transfer them to an Indian bank account.

That sounds like a fund freeze to me .. you can make the money, but you can't have it.

Bugger.
From pg's article (http://www.paulgraham.com/bubble.html):

...have you ever seen a Google ad? Something is going on here.

Admittedly, Google is an extreme case. It's very easy for people to switch to a new search engine. It costs little effort and no money to try a new one, and it's easy to see if the results are better. And so Google doesn't have to advertise. In a business like theirs, being the best is enough.

Now we are seeing Google ads. So I guess Google is starting to get worried about competition, and the ease of switching search engines.
I disagree. Just using a tiny variation, like adding the length of the website's name at the end, will be enough to defeat any automated system. Even for a human, figuring it out would require cracking several websites and a lot of brain cycles to spend on his particular account.
If someone promises to beat the market for you, don't hire them. Go with someone who applies academic theory. I spent last summer interning with a firm in Maryland. I learned a ton about the academics behind it and am writing my senior thesis on portfolio theory right now. He takes clients by referral only but here is his Web site: http://www.marylandcapitaladvisors.com with lots of interesting articles.
"Note that flickr only has Creative Commons and All Rights Reserved options. There is no entry for public domain, nor for the kinds of restrictions that the government would like to put on these photos."

This is not true. Please read the copyright status next to the image here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse/4333446300/

which clearly indicates the photo is a United States Government work, and links here:
http://www.usa.gov/copyright.shtml
I do. I tend to double or triple click to highlight the word or paragraph I'm reading. It's more of a fidgety thing than the need to track what I'm reading.

Side note: Any website that uses a double click on a word to launch a webpage defining the word or a search of their website with that word is EVIL and needs to be wiped off the face of the internet permanently. New York Times, I'm looking at you. (Besides, on a Mac I can right click and choose Look Up in Dictionary or Search in Google)
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Users can add a pledgie donate button to their repos: http://github.com/devinross/tapkulibrary Looks like it's bigger than that signup button too...
If Google does a Super Bowl ad next year, what about using AdSense in the commercial? This way they can offset the cost by providing an ad within an ad.
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This advice feels wrong but it reminds of what Jason Fried said at this year's startup school, which I feel is better advice anyways. [I'm probably butchering it but one of the gists of it was] Just get started and practice making money.

http://www.justin.tv/clip/b897875d2e8cd907
I think she's in a good position of bootstraping with 30-hours work week from home while raising kids and living on husband's salary.
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A former Apple exec who now sells MacBook-to-tablet conversion kits? Could they have picked a more biased source?
Very clean writeup on Vul's paper.

It's also a fantastic real world example of "lying with statistics" that is subtle and easily overlooked. The simple presentation of a subtle (and possibly misguided) descriptive statistic can easily mislead a casual or biased reader.
Ask HN: Would you submit this paper with its literal title?
I came across this paper titled Fuck. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=896790 It is a 78 page paper that explores all aspects of the word, which I thought would interest the polymaths here.

It also has some very unusual information like the piece that:

..during the last Egyptian dynasties, legal documents were
sealed with the phrase, "As for him who shall disregard it,
may he be fucked by a donkey." The hieroglyphic for the
phrase—two large erect penises—makes the message clear.

which gave me immediately a different outlook of ancient Egypt.

I apologize if the subject of the paper offends some people here and hence my question.
That was my first comment as the ad ended.
For anyone starting out in 3D - welcome to the steepest learning curve in the creative industry!
Maybe I should shoot a little narrower then. Religion and science can be compatible so long as the don't try to overstep their respective bounds.

"That's a role for of all philosophy. What makes religious philosophy perfect for it? How does the introduction of supernatural claims improve anything?"

Like I said, it isn't, it doesn't. Science and philosophy are compatible too?

That's not what I said; I asked why religion at all. If there's a conflict in science and religion, it's that religion typically encourages believing things absent reason (i.e., basing actions on faith).

Of course it does. Its a big problem. Not all religions or religious people make this error.

We're really talking about falsifiable things here. Science sticks to falsifiable claims. Religion sticks to non-falsifiable ones. They get along fine. Philosophy is welcome at the table as well, at any time.
Also, just about every SLA is pure window dressing. I know this because IAAL.
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The second sentence of the disclaimer in question:

"The photograph may not be manipulated in any way and may not be used in commercial or political materials, advertisements, emails, products, promotions that in any way suggests approval or endorsement of the President, the First Family, or the White House."

is clearly about "approval or endorsement". It's not saying the photos can't be manipulated, it's saying the photos shouldn't be used to imply "approval or endorsement".

Various information supporting the White House's position, including references to case law, can be found here: http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/...
I have been toying with an idea based on walkthroughs http://www.cs.unc.edu/~walk/ do you know of anything off-the-shelf for this?
Time Breakdown of Modern Web Design
I don't doubt that close friends are an invaluable source of meaning but I think you may have missed the point of Rand's post.

I'm pretty sure he is not arguing that there is deep wisdom to be found in 140 characters. Rather, through your interaction with many tweets from many people you can distil meaning.

The point of Twitter isn’t knowledge or understanding, it’s merely connective information tissue. It’s small bits of information carefully selected by those you’ve chosen to follow and its value isn’t in what they send, it’s how it fits into the story in your head. There are great stories to be found on Twitter, but you have to do the work.

You're not precluded from discussing tweets with your friend.
Top Level Domain Extensions–What do they stand for?
The first brick that lays the foundation of the pillar of your online presence is a domain name. When we talk about domains, it becomes important to mention top-level domain names (TLDs).
It's very old, and the posterous owner thinks its fine to blatantly copy entire articles by merely providing "From: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=14218138919 as the only indication that it wasn't original.
congrats on the inheritance. Look into government TIPS: http://www.treasurydirect.gov/RI/OFNtebnd

However, I would suggest taking 1% of the inheritance and work on trying to increase this amount consistently more than 5%. Prove yourself with a small amount and gradually grow larger. Don't bury your talents http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_talents_or_minas
I still say robots are far better than humans for space exploration. There was even a proposal for repairing the Hubble with them. It would have been better if they had designed it with this type of repair/upgrade mission in mind. But it is always easier for them to justify an incremental cost, along with the romantic notion of humans in space.
the fact that it is minimum 6 chars and max 8 limits the size of the search field as well for brute forcing
Well, it's nice that Flickr provides other options, but I only bothered to test my own account and I only see CC and All rights reserved, and there is no indication that any other option is provided or special exceptions are made for specific accounts. If I was downvoted, whoever it was, for not having access to the flickr account of the US government so I can see all the options provided to that account, I apologize.
Including the political materials clause is important. The official White House photographer(s) shouldn't be doing press work for the next DNC news letter.
I think this ad absolutely exemplifies why Google so utterly dominate almost everything they turn their hand to. The ad is utterly simple, to the point that there is practically nothing to subtract; This elegance of form reveals the magic of the substance.

Compare to recent ads by Yahoo and Microsoft:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqbaZcX67L0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl2OXiX5esE

The ad by Yahoo is particularly poor, but they both make the same mistake - lots going on, but very little content. They're dancing around the subject, almost as if they're ashamed to talk about their product. Lots of glittering generalities, but no specifics. The ads could be for any old crap. They are the crudest of branding exercises - show vaguely positive images and slap your name on them.

The Google ad takes a simple narrative and uses it to show you their product and what it can do for you. They don't talk about wonder and joy and 'bringing people together', they just get on with making it happen. Google say "This is our product. We think it is magical and wonderful and profound. We credit you with the intelligence to come to your own conclusions.".

Google know that their product is so powerful and elegant that it needs no explaining. They understand the implications of their technology on a deep and fundamental level. They can talk about search so beautifully as to make people cry. That is as great a commercial advantage as I can possibly imagine.
Y Combinator vs. Graduate School
Betting Big on the Super Bowl Winner, for Merchandise
IANAL either, but I'm confused about something here: Note that the licensing link on the photos points to this page (http://www.usa.gov/copyright.shtml)

Should the paragraph attached to the whitehouse page flickr photos be treated as an addendum to this page? If so, why not place the addendum on the page?

It would seem that the specific claim attached is based on the first caveat listed: That of publicity rights of the the Obamas.

Since the Copyright terms page EXPLICITLY states that derivative works may be prepared, my non-accusatory instincts suggest that this is really just poor wording in an attempt to prevent further publication of these images, in whole OR manipulated, for any advertising purposes without express permission by the Obamas.
Advisors use brokerage accounts at places like Schwab, which give both you and the advisor access to the account.

And brokers are not investment advisors. They are in the business of selling stuff to you. So if you are saying don't give money to brokers to manage then I agree :). When you hire an advisor you agree on a strategy beforehand and the advisor makes trades to keep certain averages in your account. This industry is pretty regulated and advisors know they are liable if they divert from an agreed-upon strategy.
What if you are not based in the United States?
Am I the only one that finds this ad kind of scary?
58 comments so far and not one mentions privacy.
Google can tell a lot about a person from their search history, and this ad illustrates the point well.
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I think I may be using a different definition for meaning. I equate meaning to wisdom rather than information or knowledge.

I don't think twitter has much wisdom to offer. It has starting points for valuable thoughts from time to time. Which I see as the the point of the article.
Why is it so difficult finding good C++ prigrammers?
I need a few good hands for lots of projects.
-Ernest
Verizon Blocks 4chan
One thing to consider: Google has a market share of 38% in Japan vs 72% in the U.S. http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Plan...
Windows 7 helps with this a bit, Win+Arrow key to snap a window to the left or right side of the screen evenly. Press the arrow key again if you have multiple monitors, and the window moves to the other monitor. This method is quite handy and I use it frequently, but ironically (in the context of this article) would be far more useful if my 1920 pixel wide monitors were just a bit bigger. 960 pixels often ends up being not quite wide enough for my purposes, so I can't just run with a 50/50 split.
I've never gone through the process. However, were you so inclined, you could presumably contact Apple, tell them what happened, and ask how you can assign the domain to them at no cost.

I am not a lawyer, so am not sure that this is the best route to keep you out of legal trouble - but it does seem reasonable.
Yes, Microsoft.
Agreed contingent on two points of concern:

1. Did you gain enough practical/technical knowledge before or during undergrad to attack a given problem with a profitable solution?

2. Can you convince an investor of point #1?
Sorry, but I can't believe that he is not even owning up to his mistake. And becoming a celebrity for it, too. Is this like Hip Hop, where we admire the gangsters? Or is it because everybody hates Techcrunch so much that they simply want to root for the other guy?
1. Don't expect to be able to "bank" money and get a 5% annual return; in 2010, 5% is too high of an expectation for an autopilot. But check out TIPS http://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/products/prod_tips_glanc...

2. Get a financial education, really, because nobody cares more about your money than you. In fact, few really care very much at all, and 80% of money managers under-perform the S&P 500 index. So invest in YOURSELF first. Be very picky about your professor; make her or him someone who has successfully managed money before, not just an dime nerd. One of mine is Bernie Schaeffer, whose writing on expectational (sentiment) analysis was groundbreaking. http://SchaeffersResearch.com/

3. Capital preservation must always preclude capital appreciation; always look to how NOT to lose money and the making thereof will happen.

4. Making a return on investment requires you to have the vision of an assessor, who finds people, companies, commodities, or currencies who are undervalued. So find something in which you have uncommon insight, and invest there. Don't EVER risk money on things you don't understand.

5. Sow where you go; invest in yourself (if/when you're a good investment) and in causes or persons around you whom you TRUST to succeed. At the end of the day, creating value or enhancing worth is all about FAITH.
The last two paragraphs, are the most interesting:

'Perhaps there is a clue to be found near the end of Solotaroff's essay: "Writing itself, if not misunderstood and abused, becomes a way of empowering the writing self. It converts anger and disappointment into deliberate and durable aggression, the writer's main source of energy. It converts sorrow and self-pity into empathy, the writer's main means of relating to otherness. Similarly, his wounded innocence turns into irony, his silliness into wit, his guilt into judgment, his oddness into originality, his perverseness into his stinger."

'The writer who has experienced this even for a moment becomes hooked on it and is willing to withstand the rest. Insecurity, rejection and disappointment are a price to pay, but those of us who have served our time in the frozen tundra will tell you that we'd do it all over again if we had to. And we do. Each time we sit down to create something, we are risking our whole selves. But when the result is the transformation of anger, disappointment, sorrow, self-pity, guilt, perverseness and wounded innocence into something deep and concrete and abiding -- that is a personal and artistic triumph well worth the long and solitary trip.'

Perhaps the first time creating something is the most difficult.
You don't need to move to Australia. I opened an Australian bank account precisely for this purpose. All I had to do was travel to their branch in London to identify myself.

Apart from high interest rates, there are other advantages to AUD: low government debt, and a commodity-rich country that is likely to thrive if things get tough for the world.

I also bought AUD from USD when it was 10% undervalued according to PPP, so that's already a 40% gain in USD terms:

http://fx.sauder.ubc.ca/PPP.html
Self selection worries me a little bit, but I try to focus my worrying on things I can change rather than things I cannot.

I got a lot more helpful negative feedback by surveying users than I do by my typical approach of sitting by the email box waiting for someone to complain. That is enough reason to do the survey for me.

Of course, test and measure to supplement the feedback people give you with data on what they actually do. If they say "DON'T CHANGE A THING!" and your data says only 5% of users come back, time to fix.
In a simplistic sense, yes, you are paying for graphs and ajax.

You can host git repos very cheaply on a random server. You can probably even make it work on shared hosting.

You pay for GitHub for a very convenient and pretty web interface (which is pretty well exemplified by "graphs and ajax"). Permissions on private repos are easy. You can look at code, commits, blames, etc in ways that your eye can parse easier. Graphs let you see some cool-but-probably-unimportant data. Your newsfeed tells you what's going on on repos you care about.

None of that's essential. You can see blames by typing `$ git blame <file>` at your favorite shell. But it's way uglier and doesn't show you blocks of lines that were last changed at the same time as intuitively.

Then you also get GitHub pages and a few other things like that, but it's pretty easy to setup jekyll on your own.

Basically, you just pay for a lot of small conveniences that add up to being worth not setting it up yourself and losing the better interface.
I think the article pretty much replied on that and most questions of the sort..let me sum it up:

It's hard, but hardships are what's driving him.
No, the current title lacks any description of the piece in question. (Other than on containing an offensive word.) I think a title should be able to stand alone to some degree.

I see the author's intent to stampete through any prudishness surrounding the term but I think a more description title including the title would be better.

Possiblities.

* Analysis of Fuck

* Fuck: Legalities and Taboos

* Fuck: First Amendment, broadcast regulation, sexual harassment, and education

(This comment has been edited a couple of times to get my idea across, sorry about that)
Pretty anecdotal. In that vein, I definitely see far more google IPs in my app logs when they are new and have no traffic. When I see traffic that isn't someone with a beta invite or some bot trying to find a PHP exploit, it's pretty much always google.

In fact, I just checked on two sites right now and I'm seeing 66.249.67.152, 66.249.67.49 and 66.249.68.123, all of which are googlebot. I see one yahoo IP (67.195.111.167) and nothing from msn or bing.
I think it's the reason why he has built such a following. He's a truth-seeker. He seems to be 100% focussed on finding what can be learned from an interviewee. In the media environment that he is surrounded by, it's a rare thing for someone to be indifferent to hype and scandal.
I am not a fan of Google at all, and even I must admit the ad was pretty good. I'm interested in what's behind this reversal, though. I read that Larry and Sergey had previously vetoed any kind of Super Bowl advertising. I think albertsun and others here are right -- Bing is now a serious competitor.
"Religion was born when the first con man met the first fool." --Mark Twain
Sure. It's a paper all about the word "fuck", why not title it Fuck? It's not like someone's going to say, "I was ok with him spending 78 pages talking about the word "fuck", but titling it Fuck took it too far!" They're either going to be offended because it's a whole paper about the word "fuck", or they're not. Might as well let them know what they're getting into as soon as possible so they don't waste their time.
Sony iPad clone? "That is a market we are also very interested in."
Click-able link http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=896790
The experiment will rigorously demonstrate something utterly abstract

Actually, the "average faces are more beautiful" claim hung up on something very specific (skin tone). I think it's small details that aren't controlled for that often invalidate the more abstract conclusion of psychology experiments.
Religion is like investing in Lottery.
Science is like investing in Stock Market
"My first three books sold, in combination, fewer than 15,000 copies in hardcover."

So what was she living off? Did the publisher pay her for years, just hoping she would one day hit it big? Or what was different from today?
this made me laugh when I saw the headline. Very shrewd move by Andrew Warner, well done.
This may be one place where Sony's penchant for closed vs. open may not be a big impediment. They need to catch up with their own OS and App Store. Perhaps they could leverage Android? (A Sony/Google web pad?)
From Python to Clojure
I would not want to be a Verizon rep right now, nosiree. Given the scale of the shitstorm that kicked up when AT&T briefly blocked 4chan due to a DDoS, I can't see this ending well for anyone.
Yes and no depending on whther or not I've taken your meaning correctly, I may have got the wrong end of the stick~

Zbrush has http://www.pixologic.com/zclassroom/,
http://simply3dworld.com/ is an umberella site that caters for Maya, Lightwave and Max.

The problem with offering a complete training solution for 3D as a general subject is that much that is learned from one app can be rendered all but redundant by another, such is the difference in interface, overall function and language used in each. This is why there's a certain level of specialisation when it comes to sites that offer training. Each app requires a high degree of focus and commitment to become proficient.
Characters In Entourage Vs Characters In Journey To The West
does this is why the fund transfer i made on 27 jan is not showing in my bank account. contacted paypal but no reply.