skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I attended a lecture once by Dewitt Jones, a National Geographic photographer. He says that people always
ask him how many shots it takes to get that magazine-worthy shot. To which, he answered "Not shots. How many rolls"

http://DewittJones.com
I love huge obvious typos in headlines.
This response feels poetic to me. Well, that and it made me laugh the way you describe using it as an excuse to break off with your girlfriend.

But there's something that feels so right about living according to a principle seeking things of usefulness or beauty. And I'm very impressed that it truly seems you live this way.

I'd agree I used to shop more to have spare shirts, but now my spare shirts sit unworn and I simply wear the same few shirts over and over so I don't see the point in having the spares.
I was a pro shooter for three years and 90% of what set me apart was being a nice guy to work with, being professional and being consistent.

* Other pros that I took work from were often jerks. Being a nice, direct and reasonable individual takes you a long way in that business.

* Being professional meant having a studio, quoting and billing clearly, being a good communicator with clients. Things amateur shoots don't always do well.

* Being consistent in terms of quality, turn around time, etc.

There is still work out there if you have a stable of good clients that need and value the above. But in cases where stock photos will do, you're screwed.
"This dramatic shift from the survival of the fittest to the survival of the smartest..."

It really bugs me when people use terms like this. Survival of the smartest is survival of the fittest. Nothing has changed!
Obviously, some problems are harder than others. However, many of us come from backgrounds of some privilege. You have a computer and likely have the capacity to program. You speak English, the current language of commerce, and you likely live in a country where capital is available. You were born on at least first base.

That means you're in a position to gather the resources to make a difference in these problems, even if you can't start today.
Any interest in talking more about your downsizing experience and/or videotaping your "stuff"?
Apple sued over multitouch
"yes! you could even charge a small amount of money for that! most of the time i'd gladly pay a small amount instead of waiting several days for the scrape/api to finish!"

And you'd be surprised at the number of sites that will happily sell you a dump of the data. It's just such a niche thing that site owners will rarely tell you on your site.

As geeks we tend to assume that if something is not mentioned on a website as being for sale or available, then it must not be available. This is not true.

Always ask!

(but be prepared to pay a commercial rate license!)
Ugh; I'm going to be in for a nasty shock when I upgrade. At least they make it easy to remove.
Flash comes with a nice, integrated IDE that allows
quick production of visuals and scripting. I think
it'd be hard to make an argument that HTML5 development
is equally assisted for most use cases.

It's not hard at all. I can write my HTML with any editor I like. I can see the source of any page I like. No need to buy Adobe tools or hunt for .fla.
> In the bay area at least, virtually anyone with a home on the peninsula probably has a net-worth of around 1M.

You're forgetting that most of those folks also have hefty mortgages, so their net ownership of their houses is considerably less than the value of their house. (I doubt that the median price of houses in the valley is high enough that "virtually all" are worth >$1M.)

However, none of this matters because the definition of "net worth" used for determining whether someone is an "accredited investor" specifically excludes many things, including residences.

There's a huge drop-off from $1M to $2M in assets, no matter how defined. These things obey power laws.
Self-referential Aptitude Test
Why is it "definitely", besides the curious timing?
Terry Tao is on it! http://mathoverflow.net/questions/9731/polynomial-representi...
That's what Task Queue is for:

With the Task Queue API, applications can perform work outside of a user request but initiated by a user request. If an app needs to execute some background work, it may use the Task Queue API to organize that work into small, discrete units, called Tasks. The app then inserts these Tasks into one or more Queues. App Engine automatically detects new Tasks and executes them when system resources permit.

Python:

http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/taskqueue/overv...

Java:

http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/taskqueue/overvie...
The other answer here is not to offer a SQL dump but to offer a query language that lets the developer interrogate the data in other ways.

Most API sets are based on providing rows back to the user, but what if they want to do COUNTS() or UNION() type calls?

This is why Yahoo!'s YQL and Facebook's FQL are so great.

The answer is to offer a query language on large data sets.
Doing Business in India: 20 Cultural Norms You Need to Know
@schammy, hah good point! For reference, VaynerMedia is excited about all of this :)
They just graduated. (They were one of the teams I "mentored")
I can't answer that question. I live in SC and haven't registered. j/k
> The primary market for cars like this won't entail a full charge/discharge cycle in daily driving, so it is very practical to charge over common 110V.

However, the leaf is not a very good "only car". It's at best a second car, and probably commute only.

$33k is a lot of gas, and it also takes insurance and registration.
While it's unlikely one amateur could have coincidentally matched the pro's efforts, a few thousand amateurs working independently could have come up with at least a few pro-quality shots -- and not demand professional wages to do it.

Note also that not all pro work is concentrated around difficult shots or situations. Gabe Rivera of Techmeme tweeted a few weeks ago about Agence France-Presse flying a professional photographer out to the U.S. to shoot him as part of an interview package. The photo they used online? His hand holding a mouse:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jj324Ei1-...
Wearable Bluetooth Hub Timepiece
(he also mentions that they're not stored the clear "They are stored as a hash and in a reversibly encrypted form; access to the plaintext passwords is heavily logged.")
Just like the "online tax industry" is fighting to keep the IRS and state tax services from offering direct online tax filing.

I'd likely still use tax-prep software, but I'd like the option to file directly to the irs without an intermediary trying to charge me for services.

I guess that would be another "government takeover." :|
I'm surprised anyone with the tech savvy to be reading and contributing to HN wouldn't be using a VPS for hosting.

The lowest tier server at Linode is $19/month (see http://vb.ly/linode) and will easily host plenty of virtual host based sites - although you could also check SliceHost or RackSpace Cloud Servers, etc.

Learning to run a simple server is really rewarding and you get to own root and run the box the way you want to.

Full disclosure: the link above has my referral code in it - it doesn't effect the cost of Linode's plans to you but if you do sign up you'll cover my hosting for a month. I hope people are ok with that.
Right, writing normal HTML is easy. In this context, I'm referring to animations and other graphical niceties that Flash has historically been deployed to provide and which HTML5 addresses with its canvas elements. I mean that such things are easier to make with Flash's IDE, which comes with many drawing tools, the timeline, layers, etc., vs. HTML5 canvas which, as far as I know, has no serious development environment offering any of these things.

Even if it isn't so hard for a programmer to figure out how to duplicate things in HTML5 canvas, a large reason Flash has been able to spread so widely is because it appeals to designers and other visual producers, and is usable by them without much difficulty. To displace Flash, canvas will need to acquire a development environment that does the same.
No. For many reasons:

- doesn't run multiple apps at the same time. Seriously, this is a must feature, I want to be online (facebook for example) while reading or playing.

- Writing is harder with a screen.

- My netbook (same price), has same weight and is yet more powerful, can run windows 7 and Android. And it has got a camera for video chat.
The fact he is running sites that want to be anonymized and he feels there is a high chance of "something happening" to them means everyone else should consider looking elsewhere.

Don't put up home in the ghetto.
You are moving the goalposts. The original comment discussed a party which is "anti-empiricist, anti-civil-liberties, pro-internet-content-restricting, etc." This describes both major political parties in the US.
Most people wouldn't consider it, but what about TinyScheme? It's small, around the 5000 line mark, a single C file, and an init.scm file, and hackable.
Razor works by latching a signal twice at different times and comparing the two values; if they differ, the signal must have arrived at the primary latch late which is an error. It specifically detects timing errors which are caused by negative voltage margin, not other types such as soft errors caused by cosmic rays. http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=956417.956571&coll...

I wouldn't be surprised if Intel's work is similar.
Fuzzy logic is useful for appliances. Let's say your dryer knows the humidity and temperature of incoming and outgoing air and approximately how dry you want your clothing, and how long it's been running. At what point should it turn off? Now, let's add it has various sensors that have some level of accuracy which you can extrapolate by how effective the device is at drying clothing at a given temperature and humidity.

Now you could setup a wide range to test cases with various loads, temperatures faulty sensors etc. Or you can figure out a reasonable approximation by hand based on Fuzzy logic and ship it.

Note: your solution must run on a 4bit 32khz cpu with 400 bytes of ram.
Wow, you're right. I just ran a test on one of my Python apps and found the same thing. I always assumed 4 seconds was an acceptable start up time, especially when compared with some of the Java apps I have runnning on App Engine which have often exceeded the 30 second page limit on startup and generated a DeadlineExceededException. Thanks for showing your results. I would never have known this was an issue.
Twitter needs to do this, or at least something like their own version of Facebook's FQL (which is a really outstanding way to get data and even to offload some of the compilation of the data)
Just me or is the search kinda slow (or broken)?
What Dijkstra blogged about Lisp
my understanding: spammer would have to intercept and modify the public key in the very first (and all subsequent) messages.
I am confident that Paul has never released the book "into the public domain". He does have the book available at no charge on his web site, but that is not the same thing. Last I knew, Paul owned the copyright (I believe it was reverted to him by the original publisher years after the book was last printed). He has just been generous enough to provide a PDF for all who are interested in reading it.

Over the last four years or so, I keep hearing that Paul is going to republish it (on actual paper). I think he has just been too busy with other things of higher priority to get that done. I hope he doesn't abandon that idea. I think it is an important book that has far too few hard copies available. Online copies are wonderful, and I'm very glad that the book is available in that format, but as can be seen by my multiple bookshelves, dead tree copies still provide a pleasant experience not reproducable by a computer. I know many other hackers share that opinion, and prefer to have the paper copy on the shelf.

So, Paul, if you are listening, is there a chance "On Lisp" will make it to the printer again any time soon?
The thing I have always wondered is, with Trademarks, in order to continue to stake a claim to them a company must vigorously defend the claim. So for instance, if trademark comes into wide use as a verb and the company that owns it fails to defend the trademark they risk losing the right to it.

With these patents on genes, technically anyone who procreates is infringing on the patent by copying the material without consent so when a company fails to prosecute parents for for patent infringement are they setting themselves up to lose that patent?
Computer Vision Tech Grabs Humans In Real-Time 3D
Google is now saying that this is a technical glitch on their end. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230473910457515...
Ask HN: Check out my app
Hey guys, new to HN. This is my first app. It's an anonymous messaging app that allows for continuing dialog and lets you get your message across by physical delivery, email or SMS. I know there are lot of similar sites out there but this is a little easier to use.
I wonder if this is a case of a company attempting to give Apple a dose of its own medicine?

Apple's own heavy handedness with multitouch related lawsuits and dealings may have triggered this.

Either way, I'd like to see a lot more multitouch out there.
Ugh. I hate this fallacy of composition. I think you know what he means, but it is easy to be the teacher's pet with a shiny apple of misinformation.

Making complex animations (not a sliding nav, for example) is not easy in HTML5+JS. Sorry, it isn't. We can have this argument forever, have yet to see someone produce the evidence of their accusations.

Flash IDE, with all of it's flaws, trumps any "HTML editor" for animation or UX complexity. Sorry, that's just the way it is. No "Visual jQuery" exists.
That's indeed cool. Also device change events -- that's something we've had problems for a long time... USB headphones have their own devices, so removing one in the middle of a Flash experience would kill sound (and sometimes the whole application) until it was restarted. Same with any other plugin, I'm assuming, although I haven't tested Unity/Silverlight/etc to see if they're constantly pooling the list of devices or what.

So awesome to see Adobe/Google tackling on this.
I'm somewhat amused to see people complain that "commonly accepted" alphas of .05 are yielding high error rates. Surprise: setting your confidence interval at one-sigma yields a ton of false positives. There's a reason particle physics uses three-sigma as a threshold for further investigation, and five-sigma for discovery.

The difficulty is that in biology, psychology, and other really complicated systems, attaining even two or three sigma can be difficult and expensive. That suggest that we should continue to use low-confidence results... but accept their tentative nature instead of bestowing them with the aura of truth.

And before you start treating a few hundred thousand people with a drug, get a bigger sample size. :)
Question: Does 37signals buy traffic/Adwords? Has that ever been part of the use acquisition strategy?
By that logic you could have any industry run by government employees and not call it a takeover.

Government airline pilots. Government Facebook employees.

No netloss of headcount has nothing to do with it being a takeover or not. It does in fact matter who the employees work for.
K5 was already toast by the time that came in.
Have a URL I can check out? Seems OK on this end. Thanks.
Selection pressures have changed, but, yes, it's still "fitness." It's just that the criteria of "fittest" in that situation has changed. I think people conflate "fittest" with "physically fit" which is not what the word means in "survival of the fittest."
That's really good stuff.

I was in a band in the 1990s and remember hiring some photojournalist friends of mine to take our publicity and live photos. We paid the equivalent of $50 for a few rolls (it was overseas) but I remember in the end we or some friends started doing it for us for free. Kind of wish Flickr had been around then, maybe we could have gotten some useful shots from a wider range of people and cameras.
The point is to answer the question using experimental evidence and logic, which is clearly impossible. Fortunately, that's not what he meant.
Prices of Apple products, adjusted for inflation
Brightcove Unveils HTML5 Video Player For IPad, iPhone And IPod Touch
HTML5 is not superior to Flash from a development standpoint.

daeken was saying if it is superior, then developers still have that option. They aren't choosing one or the other, as (say) Apple has with not supporting Flash at all on the iPhone/iPad platform. It's good news for everybody except the small contingent that specifically wants Flash to die out. It doesn't hurt people who choose HTML5 for other reasons (such as reaching iPhone users).
Some of us aren't heavy web programmers.
The Cell, as a HPC core, makes little sense. You can get more mileage out of a generic GPU these days, it seems. And with the coming arrival of x86s with on-chip GPUs, I guess it will be very hard to sell a Cell blade at those costs. It simply doesn't have the horsepower.

Sony may end-up being the only customer using it. And that may bring an early arrival to the PS4.
I personally am not, but if someone else CAN then I don't think they should be stopped. I also don't think that's a good reason to not open source data.

It would be especially hot if this was one of those free datasets on AWS.
While I also disagree with the previous comment somewhat, "No need to buy Adobe tools or hunt the .fla" is not an advantage of any other development platform; that's because the real tools used for Flash development (Flex SDK, the compiler, and asdocs/etc) are free. Indeed, the IDE is seldom used nowadays by many shops; it's not that there are "alternatives", but that there are better ways: I know I've been doing Flash for 10 years and my IDE of choice now is none other than Eclipse.

For all it's worth, you can create full Flash content with notepad, the official command-line compiler, and if you want graphics, some SVG editor or GIMP or whatever.
The Lowdown on Routes in Rails 3
I can (kind of) answer that question, with one Google search for "Basecamp"

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Aphex actually released an SSTV track in 2001!

http://www.discogs.com/AFX-2-Remixes-By-AFX/release/19175

Track 3 contains an SSTV image with text detailing the programs used for the release and a picture of Richard D. James. Sometimes referred to as "Bonus High Frequencies".
If more weight is the goal, wouldn't it be beneficial to try to determine some sort of correlation between exercises, time spent, reps and caloric intake to figure out the right formula? I've tried a few apps that let you record certain aspects of your workout but haven't come across anything that aids in the discovery process. Maybe that's not your thing but it might be something to think about. Good luck.
Digital Due Process
I found this helps when collaborating remotely, to send big files around - and there are other companies offering a similar service:

http://free.mailbigfile.com/index.php
Yes exactly. I would put it similarly, "Life is a game. The objective is to design and implement your own game. Whoever dies playing closest to their own rules wins."
Making complex animations are not easy in Flash either. Unless Flash can draw thing for you, can it?
As for basic tweening, you do not need HTML and JS for that.
Now you can have CSS transforms, transitions and animation. Those are extremely easy to use and while they are not enough for really complex stuff they can and will replace most of the basic effect flash has been overused for.
Based upon this article, I am also not sure what is really new here. Probabilistic AI has been around since the 1980s (see Judea Pearl: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judea_Pearl).
I think a widget compatible with amazon would be cool to attract people to your site. I.E. when someone reviews a book on amazon, they could click the alikewise widget that took them to your site and pulled their relevant amazon data to pre-populate a profile on your site. Of course you could then do the whole amazon affiliate link thing on your site to reciprocate people back there.
Well the 3G iPads are sold unlocked, and they don't need a wireless carrier unlike the iPhones. I can't see why Apple wouldn't start selling them as soon as they had enough inventory to do so.
Or, as jey said, you can actually use probabilities to control your appliance, and then have a lot of theory behind your inference process. i.e. not something ad hoc, like fuzzy logic, which can ultimately be transformed into probabilities regardless.
True, but 37signals also offers an affiliate program, so it's possible that ad was created by an affiliate member. I don't have a link handy, but I remember when they reported early results of the affiliate program they specifically mentioned people finding success with search engine marketing.
You have a point. But the $5 for new accounts only helps if moderators ban undesirable accounts. The $5 is a way to give the banhammer a bit more meaning. are you prepared to ban people for commenting like the above?

Personally, I don't think that harsh criticism is necessarily a bad thing. (I mean, the aforementioned comment was perhaps written without reading the article, I mean it doesn't make much sense in the context of the author actually doing those things... but I personally don't think that negative comments are always bad things.)

One thing I hate about the real world is that nobody ever calls me on my bullshit. I'm not saying I think K5 is the optimal form, but in many ways it's better than a place where everyone is always encouraging me and telling me what a great guy I am.
Honestly, that doesn't matter.

Anyone who is the slightest bit technical would gain a lot from managing a VPS for their site. Even if you just want to host a bunch of wordpress blogs, or even static files.
Original source:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?sid=aAUwSSjk1Qjk&pid=...
The Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth, So Help Your Reputation
Here's what Harris said in his TED talk:
"If you hold to classical utilitarianism, science can help you decide which actions are in line with that morality."

Here's what Harris claimed to have said in his TED talk:
"Science can help you decide what is moral and what isn't."

I think it's the gap between these two things that caused so much confusion and commentary.

Here's what Harris says in this rebuttal:
"If you don't hold to classical utilitarianism, you're either an imbecile or self-delusional, and everyone else should ignore you. This isn't really a defensible position, but it's the only one that makes sense."

Unfortunately, this does not close, or even address, the above communication gap. I just can't figure out why he's afraid to use the word utilitarian.