skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The paper itself (even in the abstract) acknowledges that we already know that women are visually oriented, though, in the sense that attractiveness is related to receptivity to sexual propositions. The paper is a somewhat more modest investigation of whether facial attractiveness in particular is also predictive (it is), and does a decent survey of some of the issues and related literature.
One recorded talk of his is available here:

David S. Rose on pitching to VCs

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/david_s_rose_on_pitching_...
Maybe that gives them time to develop an idea into homerun for the VC firm, whereas bootstrap entrepreneurs have to hit singles and doubles at first to survive.
This is one of the main reasons why they are getting flack for it -- the $150 only matters to people of a certain class.
"Women mating strategies" by Elizabeth Cashdan:

http://www.anthro.utah.edu/PDFs/ec_evolanth.pdf
I don't think there is enough information in currency markets to build a reputational economy that could replace a web of insider influence. The transition is a lot more complicated than the system Rand talked about.
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It's "already obvious" because women do, in fact, go for attractive men (witness the swooning your wife or girlfriend does whenever there's a picture of George Clooney, Brad Pitt or Johnny Depp around). They find them sexually attractive, just like men find pretty women sexually attractive.

What confuses your argument is that women also tend to go for long term relationships with men that are high status and in such cases seem to place less importance on looks.

This leads to situations where the wife of a scrawny and unnatractive alpha male (the emperor of Rome, say) will bear children who bear a suspicious resemblance to a particularly hunky albeit lower status male from her surroundings (a beefy member of the Praetorian guard, say).

Which is exactly what this paper is saying: women differentiate between sexual attractiveness and desirability for marriage, but when it comes to judging sexual attractiveness, looks win out.
The link to Bill von Hagen's corroboration is broken; site search yields the right one: http://foldoc.org/pub/misc/MelKaye.txt

(whv: thanks also for the gripe@ece.cmu.edu years)
I messed up. I meant[1] sycamores, and they do seem to be a kind of maple. Whether they actually are sycamores, or some other kind of maple, I have no idea.

[1] More exactly, I had got the leaves/names mismatched, which is why I was pretty sure it was a maple (because of the Canadian flag). If that makes sense...!

[edit: OK, they're not sycamores either, because the seeds are different. Still trying to work our what they really are.... later: I don't have a clue. I'm not even sure they're maples, because the seeds are this kind of yellow/green dust, not samaras. Sorry!]

[even later, OK, they're called "Platano Oriental" (eastern banana?!). http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platanus_orientalis - translated in the english page as "Oriental Plane", from the Platanaceae family. So not maples at all. And here's a photo that appears to be just outside where we live, to give a picture of Chile that is significantly different from what is on the TV right now http://www.fotolog.com/mis_rincones/41894088 (as I write this, what feels like a V aftershock rocks the building)]

[And el Mercurio - local 'posh' paper - now have photos up. Probably the best collection of photos of the quake, if anyone is still curious - http://www.fotos.emol.com/?G_ID=13635 ]
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That's quite an assertion - care to back it up with your reasons?

FWIW I've written similar "time bomb" crack prevention techniques that were used in a couple of reasonably high-profile PC games (e.g. 500k to several million copies sold).

Some of the strategies were inspired by this article when it was originally published in gdmag, others were based on certain benefits of being a PC title. What helped a lot was that we had a surprisingly sensible publisher who acknowledged that safe disc prevention was (at the time, I'm not sure about now) virtually worthless and allowed us to ship without it. This gave us the benefit of knowing ahead of time the hashes for various areas of our binary and being able to use and layer those into different checks.

While non of these were crack-proof (or even close to it!) they did serve their purpose and prevent any zero-day or launch window warez releases - which as the author states in this article is about the best you can really hope for.
> I wish the sounds were dynamically computerized by way of mechanical simulations of the anatomical parts involved in human speech articulation.

Actually, I think that's what was attempted in the first place in the early 80's. I remember seeing TV shows and museum exhibits that demonstrated this approach. One I especially remember, and highly dates the efforts, had a vector imaging display (think of the original Tempest and Asteroids arcade games) project a silhouette of a tongue and vocal cavity to demonstrate how the current phoneme was generated to listeners.

Of course, back then, such simulacra were limited by lack of parallel processing power and inadequate understanding of biophysics. This lead to the brute force "sound sampling" approach nowadays as memory became more cheap and audio capture hardware was perfected. I do wonder if it's time to return to vocal anatomy modeling again, now that we have a better understanding of how to perform biometric and physics modeling via massive computational parallelism.
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Not necessarily; it might be easier to corrupt scientists because they are traditionally black/white on controversial issues.

As someone not in either the "intellectually lazy majority" or the hardcore scientific minority it's fairly clear both things are going on.

The science is being corrupted quite a bit by the media and politico's to be spoon fed to the populace on their own agenda :)
I'm no master of women psychology; however, I have spoken to many about what they desire. From what I gather, when they tell you this "lie", they actually believe those words.
As far as why the lie exists to begin with, well it all boils down to saving face. Women have to keep up their social status, lest they fall victim to the double standard of being labeled a "slut", while a men who is true about his desires (and acts on them successfully) is called a "playboy" -- with obvious differences in the connotation.
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Ugly/scary drives me away from converting.
It's tricky to do, though, and I think in the US, only NYC has really come close. Even in Cambridge and Boston, most people still drive, partly because the transit takes a really long time from many parts of the city. And in San Francisco, an absolutely tiny city geographically (about 6 miles across), it's not much faster to take Muni than to walk at a brisk pace (Muni averages 8 mph).
If you have greasemonkey you could use this: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25039
> Just to be clear that all this only makes sense if we assume that intellectual property is a sham.

I do. It's a useful sham, however, so I'd think twice before abolishing it.

> So with the BSD […]

I don't think the GPL forces you to choose free software. GPL software just can't be used to make proprietary software. Right now, you still have plenty of proprietary alternatives. People still buy them. You still have the choice. In the end, if the GPL takes over, that will be because everybody who didn't chose it will be out of business. I'm not sure this is bad in any way.

I think what you actually don't like about the GPL is its give and take nature: if you don't give, you can't take. So, being forced to give imply being forced to take. If nobody is forced to take, nobody is forced to give.

Do you think anyone is somehow forced to take? Meaning, does anyone is forced to distribute GPL derived work? Do you have any example (actual or hypothetical)?
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I'd really like to have The Ruby Programming Language. I've been interested in Ruby for quite a while now, and having a hard copy of this reference is going to make me take the step in investing the time to learn the language.

I'm in Portugal, btw. If you need some funds for the p&p, just let me know how.
A bit, yeah. But the pixels are still really off. I don't even know why, I just see they're wrong.
I imagine the reason why progress on this model has been slow is how very extremely challenging the task is. It would require a sturdy knowledge of linguistics, physics, computer programming, etc. The sampling model in contrast is a piece of cake.

The anatomical model does indeed sound very interesting. Each phoneme would be recognized as one particle, on which intonation and dynamics effects could be applied algorithmically; and much of advancement in this area would be employable by speech recognition models, probably increasing their accuracy by a considerable amount.

I really hope some serious contenders step up to the plate for this.
Is this simulated or from satellites?
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The very clear message they've actually sent is "We can expose our agents and make ourselves look bad internationally. Also we can steal the identities of foreign nationals giving us further diplomatic problems.".
> Consider how much real achievement we would see if all the motivated hackers put down WoW and started up their development environment of choice.

This is a big part of why I quit WoW late last year. I wanted to take one last stab at self-employment before turning 40. (Yes, yet another wannabe iP* developer) While having a day job and playing WoW prior to the achievement system wasn't a problem for me, having to be self-motivated to work with a constellation of "Achievements" at arm's reach probably cost me about 3-4 months of self-funding time getting underway.
This is awesome! I wonder how they achieved it. Normal boot times for Beagleboard are at least 15-20 seconds.

Perhaps it is using some sort of software suspend/resume functionality? I suspect initializing memory by copying an image directly from flash after U-boot starts up would be about this fast.
I don't think there are technical limitations holding this back. You can already get the necessary low-latency video encoding as open-source software, even:
http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/?p=249

Gaikai seems to have pretty good business model to make it happen, too - better than OnLive anyway.
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But, most important, Q10 has sound.

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Jesse Noller (of Python fame) launches simple fileserver for the cloud
Jesse was launching this at PyCon last week. It's a simple appliance NAS server that your normal, every day end users save files to via CIFS or NFS. It just happens to back onto the cloud.

I.e: a secretary saves files to their D: drive, and it's in the cloud. And when you run out of disk space, you buy more from your cloud provider and suddenly there's another 10TB on your D: drive.

I find this very neat as it brings cloud benefits (around reliability and expansion) to real people, using crappy early 2000s desktop apps - ie, most people using computers.

Jesse's blog port on the launch:
http://jessenoller.com/2010/02/09/say-hello-nasuni-launches-...
/Does intellectual achievement or learning happen in the typical English department?/

Huh? What type of question is that?

You seem to be at once completely proving the parent comments point (that the humanities are consistently denigrated), and failing to provide an argument.

(Outside of a backhanded attack with the implication that English professors whose essays are worth reading are few and far between.)

At least provide some evidence that Literature degrees are useless.
(Or that other degrees are less useless than Literature...)
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I would love to improve my knowledge of Java and "Java All-in-one Desk Reference" seems to be a perfect fit :) E-mailed you
The article is worth studying as a masterpiece of political rhetorics. A salesman truly shows his skills when selling a bad product.

He explains that some side issues in the debate (IPCC claims about disappearing Himalaya glaciers,FOIA violations) are mistakes and he conveniently ignores the big elephant in the room: tampering with temperature records, corruption of the peer review process, lack of evidence for AGW.

And this is all coming from the same Al Gore who used to make false claims about melting polar ice caps, increases in sea level rise, ... in his movie "An Inconvenient Truth".

To cite [1]: "You can bet he’d be making the same claim if we had a below normal snowfall records too."

[1] http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/02/23/the-goracle-forecast-a...
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What happens when you are so well read that the only way you will benefit from the conversation is if they are in an entirely different area, and one that you are currently upskilling on? That may sound arrogant, but imagine trying to have a quid pro quo conversation with a rails noob about rails, after many years of constant rails apps. It's a purely one way conversation, and the same thing applies to any field.
Moreover, it can also sort by points - a feature I really like (though indexing at SearchYC seems to be slow)
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The Principles of Biomedical Informatics looks interesting. Can I have it?
I tried it out.[1] You won't learn much, at this stage. It is a promising idea, though.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/b7dil/try_haskell_n...
An interesting implementation of this trick can be found in the LZF compression lib: http://oldhome.schmorp.de/marc/liblzf.html

Basically the hash table used to compare the current input with already seen input is uninitialized, since the two values are anyway compared bit-per-bit to actually make sure there is a match.
Better yet, why doesn't PG add his own search function to HN?
I'd like [8], emailing you.
Metros (e.g. Paris) & bikes (e.g. most cities in the Netherlands) seem to work very well. Bikes are 5 times faster than walking, 2/3 as fast as a car and metros are even faster (but you have the problem of getting to the metro station).
To me it seems that it's sort of a confirmation of subtext from the book "The Secret History of the Mossad".

The thesis is that the Mossad is being seriously damaged by involvement of politics. Mossad requires time to do things properly (getting the job done, covering the trails, not leaving a trail to either operatives, Israel or Mossad itself), but politicians, especially Benjamin Netanjahu required (in 90's) that Mossad perform more operations faster, or so to say "on demand" whenever he needed a PR boost. Thus leading to a couple of spectacular failures that left Mossad operatives demoralized and even got them to start talking publicly about the ways of Mossad.

Fast forward 10 years. Bibi is in charge again and Mossad blew it again. Hmm???

If this is Mossad this is a terrible failure - revealing identity of 25 agents is horrible price to pay. Just imagine what kind of tow this will be on morale of other operatives. Mossad operatives work(ed) so good because they know that the organization will take care of them, that they will be protected and that they are being appreciated (in hacker terms think MS, Google,...).

Kinda reminds me of how in IT when PHB type MBA's come around "demanding results NOW!!!11one!", engineers loose morale, start leaving and everything goes down the drain.

Edit: http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/ht/d/ContentDetails/i/9279/p... - describing the previous Netanyahues debacles.
The lots seem to me a symptom rather than a cause. Parking lots are a low-intensity land use, and as a given downtown revives, the lots go down under the new buildings or (at an intermediate stage) onto the first few floors.
Q10 seems to be a much more lightweight and portable solution. I am liking it already.
He's not trying to define what should be meaningful: he simply accepts what people actually claim they consider to be meaningful and shows how their behavior does not lead to the kinds of achievements that they themselves consider meaningful.
This is exactly what I love about HackerNews. All the important guys are here.

I'm afraid one day when I'm bashing Microsoft, 'sballmer' will downvote me and say something mean.
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So it's like a little more flexible ZumoDrive http://www.zumodrive.com/ (YC backed).
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Isn't that exactly what "Second Life" is?
I hope you know there's a downvote button you can use instead of a flag.
[9] sounds fascinating from its Amazon page. Could I have that one?

I just emailed you as well.
Remaining:

[2] Ruby Programming for Medicine and Biology - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Programming-Medicine-Bartlett-Biomed...
It's yours (it's awesome btw, I read this one!)
For some usage cases isn't Coda a suitable replacement?

http://coda.cs.cmu.edu/
I would be interested in "Designing Virtual Worlds". Living in Germany

What is your new field of study? Perhaps I could send you a book in exchange, as I hate Paypal.
Well, yes, but... Anyone wishing to assess the point reached by the English Departments in the days he mourns should also have a look at what a generation of poets and critics said of the Modern Language Association (Randall Jarrell and Edmund Wilson come to mind) or Ivor Winters's essay "What Are We to Think of Professor X".

What jobs are there? Well, there's law school--a number of English majors I knew took that route. One can try for a job in publishing, though that looks unpromising now. Or you can end up in the tech world
The author decries meaningless achievements without ever saying what he considers to be meaningful. This is nothing more than a load of badly thought through opinions that the author attempts to pass off as insights.
I am not completely sure we are better off. Being barred from meaningful work is to the moral detriment of precocious kids.

Not that we should let people in general subject themselves to danger they don't understand, and kids might lack judgement about that. And education absolutely shouldn't be blown off. But there's something appealing to me about kids being able to work real jobs if they're willing and capable.

Something like this . . . http://www.bigheadpress.com/eft?page=14
One way streets seem to have a similar effect. Even in an otherwise thriving downtown core, one way streets often have a dead, sterile quality to them, except for, and likely because of, the cars that rip through.
Looks like the computer game of the future will be played by both gamers and developers: DRM.
Actually Jesse Noller works for a company that launched this product. I, initially, got the impression that he founded this company-which is not correct.
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I'd really love [4] Ferret - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ferret-David-Balmain/dp/0596519400/r....

Sending you an email now! :D
Awesome. Thank you so much buddy! :D
I'd love to have [3]. If you live in London, i might as well just pick it up from your doorstep.
I'd really love [7] Building Bioinformatics Solutions: with Perl, R and MySQL (Paperback) - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Building-Bioinformatics-Solutions-Pe....

Sending you an email now...
It's yours (no I'm Cambridge, I'll post it to you :))
While Coda has been around for a while and is great - it looks like this provides a different service. This is cloud based, does your backups for you, and doesn't require that you have your own servers, which reduces maintenance. Code is software - not a "turn key" full solution.

But you are correct, if cost cutting isn't your issue and you wanted a distributed file system that's leaps and bounds over NFS that would be your ticket.
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How do I use HNSearch without Firefox?

When I click on the link I only see a page where I can install a Firefox extension.
EIR sounds like the Disneyland of startups.

Would I take the money as an EIR? Sure. Building something of real value is tough work and every possible advantage must be considered.

Would I take the best deal? Yup. There's no obligation for a firm to invest in an EIRs idea, so take the color of money that leaves you with the most ownership.
Yes. That's a misleading title
The ruby programming language or beginning ruby on rails could be handy. Are they available?
Reach me at messel at gmail dot com.

Thanks for the generosity, solid positive karma!
Sorry, only book left is, [2] Ruby Programming for Medicine and Biology - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Programming-Medicine-Bartlett-Biomed...
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I've seen this rebuttal popping up as well, which was reasonably good: http://www.iftf.org/node/3384

It's surprisingly true that "everyone" is talking about this speech, among people who care about games, either pro or con. Seems to have captured a particular utopian/dystopian vision that's a nice conduit for debate.
There are ones you're giving away without even reading :P ?
You're still missing the meaning of 'self-medicating' which is a lot more broad. Drinking a cup of coffee to become alert, smoking a cigarette to calm your nerves, smoking a joint because it modifies or muffles your anxiety etc are all types of self-medication.
At USD3000/year + storage, it's a little more expensive than jungledisk, etc... I wonder if they'll gain the traction they need at the price?

It's an interesting price point actually.
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Dear HNers,

I fairly recently started kendō and I find it helps with building character (especially regarding dealing with pressure in my case). I'm curious about what aspects of which martial arts that others have found particularly beneficial to life as a programmer/software developer.
[7] Building Bioinformatics Solutions: with Perl, R and MySQL (Paperback)

- sent an email earlier.
I know you e-mailed me first but I had given it to someone who posted in the comments after, so I'll send you out a new one from Amazon. Thanks
That's probably better for the eager hands of a computational biologist considering dipping their toes into programming. Hey Dawson, I'm writing up a short blog post about your generosity, is there a homepage I can link to besides your HN profile?
I'm not sure if your comment suggests that .24 seconds is fast enough not to worry about it, or not fast enough.

In my time at IBM doing very performance oriented C development, saying that a server operation only took .24 seconds would get you laughed out of the development meeting as the operations were designed to take 12 microseconds.
Wow wasn't expecting that ;) erm just my twitter page I'm afraid? @dawson you could link to that I guess
I view it as a tradeoff ... the ability to chdir to the package's directory and look directly at the source-code is priceless to me.

The alternative would be a GAC like .NET does, but then you need packages that are compiled in a single file with metadata attached. And you also need to attach to your app a configuration file that says which versions it uses.

And in Python the package's name can be relative to the directories loaded in sys.path, a very useful trait, and you also kind of lose that.

So Python's package system is more simple / brainless. And you can get by just fine with stuff like virtualenv.