skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In order:

1) Just because something is obvious doesn't mean it shouldn't be researched. For instance, for a long time it was obvious that light things fall slower than heavy things.

2) I'm not sure what you mean by "really required". In the literal sense, no research is "really required". In the non-literal sense, it's better to have data about something than to not have data about it.

3) I'm not entirely certain why whether you find the results interesting or not is something the researchers should take into account. What's more, adding more independent variables to the experiment would complicate things unnecessarily.
Are there any pros/cons to this approach versus rdiff-backup?: http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/
I don't think so; it looks like it does a lot of stuff in the frequency domain that you wouldn't get by just smearing inwards or outwards along the surface normal of the selection.
Ah, but not the same amount of water. That would be horrendous.
Those are the two items that I've contracted out.

Legal stuff is usually so specific to the case at hand that you even have to shop around for a lawyer that has the required expertise, accounting is something where small slip-ups can cost you a fortune, your business or a lot of hardship.

Keep in mind though that even if you contract this stuff out you are still responsible. So you should know at least enough about it that you can spot it when things derail.
Can you elaborate on what have been doing in terms of marketing efforts? If you don't want to show your cards on here, you can shoot me an email if you want schaecher.michael at gma
The tweet seems to have been deleted, but it was apparently quoting this comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1216467
Interesting. Resynthesizer looks a lot like the technology (and end results) behind the spot healing brush tool, introduced in Photoshop CS2 in 2005.
Or just put it up anywhere, tell people where it is, and it'll be everywhere in a matter of hours.

This is the internet, after all.
Grep is actually a really good example.

First program your own version of it, then look at the guts of grep and be amazed at how elegant that solution to the problem is.

And if you come up with the same solution without peeking you will probably be able to name your own price at some point.
This is getting ridiculous.

Apple was quite successful in the late eighties / early nineties, when Jobs wasn't even on board. Notable product from that time is the Macintosh portable (a friend got a hold of one, and it's pretty sweet :)). Later, their strategy on licensing Mac OS to third parties was actually profitable, but it wasn't enough (too little, too late).

I know you love Steve, he was a part of the rebirth. But let's focus on facts, shall we? ... I see far fewer appraisals for the engineers behind their miracle ;)
Shipping products. Daily, and massive amounts.

Business travel (ie, flights, currently). Less than shipping, but still frequent.

Vacation travel. More frequent than business, but likely shorter distances (still often above 100 miles, though). Though I know of over a dozen people in my circle of friends who have travelled over 1000 miles to get to their spring / summer locations. And these are relatively poor college students.

The problem isn't based around an expected increase in frequency (though there would be, as things are closer), it's that a large number of people do need such large-scale transports, and shoving more of everything together brings up new problems (look at Chicago, the roads & tracks are fairly nightmarish in many places).
Google isn't known for any quality of it's software. Google is known for their search engine. Yes, people on this site might tout the glories of Chrome, but to the average user, all they see is a search engine and email when they are on the web, and a slew of mobile devices that still aren't as clean and polished as the iPhone.
As far as I'm aware, a physiological response to a placebo (and corresponding nocebo) was a well-documented effect. Some examples:

* Heart-rate (not sure what else?) being equally affected by decaf and regular coffee

* Impaired cognitive effects from drinking far too soon after initial drinking (and as measured by BAC)

* Reduced stress hormones when arm is placed in an ice bucket after taking a placebo and being told it's morphine

* Physical nausea including vomiting after being told potential side effects of a trial "drug"

In terms of the body "healing" itself, I can see how the placebo effect could be attributed to other things.
The reason why you probably would want to write your kernel in C over C++ is that C++ does more 'under the hood' and when you're writing an OS you want to have your code as transparent as it can possibly get. Any side effects that are not explicitly mentioned in the code will get you burned at some point.
Lets say you have a company supplied smart phone. Can you use it for emails after work hours?
GoDaddy is also run by a pro-torture extremist

> The interrogation techniques at Gitmo are very mild.
It's important to note that to date, there have been no fatalities among the prisoners at Gitmo. Some of the "terrible" techniques we are being decried for using in Gitmo are sleep deprivation, solitary confinement, exposure to cold and heat (as in a cold room), mental games, constant questioning, etc. All of it, when compared to what has been done in the Middle East to extract information from prisoners is mild, indeed.

-- Bob Parsons, GoDaddy founder, from his deleted blog entry on Gitmo
I wonder if it works the other way around.
Africa is a perfect example of a continent where, in many countries, there is no free press and little access to the Internet. In general you'll find a strong correlation between a lack of free press and low GDP, war, oppression etc. Yeah, causation != correlation, but obviously the reason for a corrupt government to disallow the free press is to keep itself in power.
"The government has not had us sign a MITM certificate yet. Watch closely for the removal of this notice."

http://www.librarian.net/technicality.html
Obvious, but worth pointing out anyway: This is only an option if you trust the remote system you're using for storing your backups and you're sure that it's secure.
They take more risks because it works. That won't change unless society makes massive changes, which is unlikely to happen (much less any time soon).

Though the article wasn't too specific, it seems to me that it works because the risky stuff makes people stand out. Success in higher risk endeavors is much more eye-catching than success in the mundane. You see identical behavior in many other areas: startups that take a risk and succeed are more likely to get funding, anyone that does something unique (a risk itself) is rewarded heavily if they succeed.

I doubt it has anything to do with testosterone, and much more to do with perceived reward. Sure, that can cause an increase in testosterone, but it's definitely not required to do so to exhibit this behavior.
That problem with the tax software does not sound like something to be kept secret. What were you using?
"where I live, the banks charge the local currency equivalent of FIVE US DOLLARS per deposit, even small deposits . . . [more stuff the bank does ]"

And this is stealing? It happens against your will, without your consent?
Just because it seems obvious to all of us, doesn't necessarily mean doing research on it is a waste of time. It's interesting and useful even to see things like "dudes just want to impress chicks" put into the context of psychology, physiology and evolution.
I'm a snowboarder, and, wanting to better understand the risks I assume when I go off-piste -- and how to avoid them -- I took an avalanche safety course a few years ago. At one point during the lecture portion, the instructor said something to the effect that the single most positively correlated statistic with avalanche fatalities is whether there's a girl in the party. I don't know how the data behind that claim was obtained, or even if it's simply an assertion offered to make us think twice before hitting a questionable slope, but it's worked so far: I'm still here, and I've remembered it every time I've strapped on my beacon since.
Talking to the Chief of Yelp, the Site That Businesses Love to Hate
... assuming the web service itself is trustworthy, of course...
Objective-C for Ruby developers part 1
I just scored a semi-nice film SLR the other day; it used to belong to my parents but they've gone digital and it hasn't been used in yonks. It's certainly nowhere near as programmable as even a cheap digital SLR, but whatever, it's fun to use.

The difference, in terms of taking shots, is night and day - with my digital camera, I'll snap 10+ shots of the same thing to try and find the right one; with this, I spend five minutes angling around and trying to find the right shot off the bat.

I'm not a good photographer by any means; in fact, I'm substantially below average if I'm honest about it. But raising the bar to entry certains makes you focus on what you're doing a lot more.

Which I guess is a long and winding way of saying I agree. It's more fun when there' more effort involved.
Recruiting on the Internet and the future of recruiting software
If this is really proof of some Giant Conspiracy that's super-newsworthy, couldn't they just send it to the NYT or the like and let them publish it? The 1st amendment is pretty close to absolute, and this sounds more like a military conspiracy than national security.
Yogurt3D - Loading a model
After experiencing how easy it is to get started on and develop against MongoDB, I feel like RDBMS are a premature optimization. Its so much easier to evolve your data model, and write arbitrary queries, and its plenty fast enough for 90% of the web apps out there. Save the RDBMS for when you have relational data that needs to be faster, or whatever other feature you happen to need for that part of your app.
Yet Another Chat Roulette Clone (Next Please)
We're definitely hiring! isocket is just south of San Francisco and literally right next to the Burlingame Caltrain station.

http://isocket.com/jobs/

We need a web developer and a platform engineer. We're small (6 people), working on something cool, have a small and growing set of initial customers (Techcrunch was our first) and a nice long invite list of people knocking to get in.
The article doesn't seem to have a link to the research.

The journal:

http://spp.sagepub.com/current.dtl

The abstract:

http://spp.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/1/1/57

The paper (pdf):

http://spp.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/1/1/57
EFF seeks students to code for liberty
MySQL is a good product, but it does have some significant failings when it comes to getting top-notch performance out of indexes.

Digg's description of their entire setup seems a bit unusual -- from how they've defined their tables to their query methods. It seems at least somewhat likely that they were not making optimal use of their technology.

I'd be curious what the traffic/content difference between Digg and Stackoverflow is. Stackoverflow uses an architecture very similar to what Forbes proposes here and they have plenty of capacity on rather unremarkable hardware.
"Are losing our love of reality because of the dreams we can so easily create?"

Our dreams drive us to create a better reality.
It's good to hear your completely unjustified opinions about why this is the case.
Duck Duck Go is starting to get coverage
Can a court order you to commit a fraud?
The transition should probably begin by allowing the free formation of civic groups... that's one of the most important institutions missing in China.
Don't forget the perks: Booze & cookies. =)
If you just want the raw "back end WebSocket-compatible multiplexing daemon" functionality, that's not hard to code/devise. You can use something like: http://github.com/gimite/web-socket-ruby - What services like Pusher provide is all the API stuff on the front, maintaining the servers, keeping those daemons running, and, well, just making it super easy to get going without worrying about the back end so much.
but what's the point? you'll be taking up a whole bunch of CPU cycles on every request when you can just use a fraction of the total once a day.
Yeah, I upvoted lhuang, his was not the kind of wrong dissent that deserved a downvote but the type of dissent that comes naturally on a complex issue without a right answer.
Do patterns of brain activation not count as an "objective" difference to them? The effects of many placebos are clearly visible on MRI.
I use this technique a lot:

mv thing thing.old && mv thing.new thing

It works whether the thing is a file or a directory; I have an automatic backup called thing.old; I suppose it's reasonably atomic; and I can do it in ssh with no worries about losing the network connection in between the two moves.
I think you have a good point about the test not being perfect. But I think your explanation is a great example of what such basic tests are really trying to get at: people's usage habits reflect their level of knowledge. I agree that the reasons you bring up are valid, and to use the search bar for those reasons shows your grasp of the technology. There are pleny of people who use the search bar instead of the address bar because they just plain don't understand the address bar. Their reasons are the complete polar opposite of yours, but the end result is the same or very similar usage pattern. Unfortunately, like so much in life, it takes a lot more than a simple test to accurately determine the "why" behind an action instead of just measuring the "what."
Really, you consider the Portable a successful product? While it's a cute bit of nostalgia, the PowerBook 100 is a far better example of innovation in that time period.
Cyclone - A Tornado clone built on top of Twisted
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Hi lhuang, I'm not exactly sure that China's economic growth is correlated to the CCP's decisions. If the CCP makes a mistake or two (or even three, for that matter) - it's very likely that China would still continue growing anyway. I believe the country's reached a momentum where even stupid, really dumb decisions won't make a dent in its growth.
I'm pretty sure this isn't going to be in CS5. The engineer says as much and John Nack, who just posted it, says it'll be in a "future" version of Photoshop.

Which, if I'm right, makes this a horrible way to steal CS5's thunder!
That's a pretty good idea... granted, my city did just rename a street to Google something-or-other (I forget) in an attempt to out-suck-up other locations and I'd LOVE to get it, but that pyramid would be iconic and high-profile. Something along those lines might just win, especially if they went for renewable energy.
A nice idea. But isn't the path from you->notaries still vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks? You would have to use CA authentication to verify the "notaries" you are talking to aren't fake.
Where are the writes?
Based on your description, you seem to be on EAD or will qualify for one (Employment Authorization Document).

A person in the final stages of green card qualifies for AC21 (American Competitiveness in the Twenty-First Century Act of 2000)

Being on an EAD allows self employment provided that
a) It is a full time employment
b) Your new responsibilities are similar to the one original green card application.

For more information refer to the AC21 document or one of the several online forums.
Here's one I recommend:
http://imminfo.com/Library/AC21_issues/AC21-portability-self...
I agree that some data is better than no data, but I think these researchers' time and money could be put to a better use.

And sure common sense sometimes is wrong and it must be corrected, but I don't think this case was a priority.
An iPhone App to Sidestep AT&T
The sun would certainly help, but unfortunately it doesn't raise until 6am (one month ago was 6.30am). Only in summer we have the sun at 5 am.
> Why are people talking about NoSQL and relational databases as if they're solving the same problems?

If you can switch from one to the other and back again, how are they not solving the same problems?
Nerdiness turns women off from Computer Science
Not to disagree, but I'd like to mention that you don't actually need full complex number arithmetic to draw a Mandelbrot set. If you translate the Mandelbrot update rule into pairs of numbers, you get the following recursive equations:

x_{n+1} = x_n^2 - y_n^2 + x_0
y_{n+1} = 2 x_n y_n + y_0

(Not 100% sure I got this right, but it's late.) The Mandelbrot set is then the set of points x_0, y_0 for which these values don't escape to infinity, or even more simply, escape the circle of radius 2 around (0, 0).
And fried chicken and dirty earbuds!
I don't know.. Maybe we should just bioengineer more nerdy women :-/ Evolution seems to be taking a long time
I feel the same way - there's a greater sense of accomplishment when you allow yourself only a single opportunity to capture what you see in front of you.

In photography parlance we call it chimping - i.e., jumping around like a monkey and clicking the shutter like crazy, trying to get the right shot. Even if you get the right one, you have no idea if it's your skill, luck, or just law of large numbers...

When I shoot film I feel more purposeful - I rarely ever take more than a single exposure of any one particular thing - it also teaches you to be patient, and hold the shutter until you know you have the right shot. On rapid-fire you will often get a good picture, but no idea what makes it good, whereas with film I'm aware that this picture works because, say, I waited until there was no one in the background.

My current favored camera is a Leica R4s - only manual and aperture priority modes, manual focus, manual aperture control, and only 2 metering modes (you only ever need one - center-weighted). When you strip a machine down to the bare minimum it opens a lot of creative doors.
Here is a long, only tangentially related story about the computer usage habits of "normals" where the action, a system restart, is much less an indicator of the problem than the reason...

I was getting together with a bunch of high school friends after our first year of college. We were chatting about our experiences, and as tended to happen around myself and my computer savy friend, discussion of computer problems started. One person began sharing a problem that they have with their laptop where for some reason the keyboard "gets messed up" and numbers start appearing instead of letters. I thought it was amusing, until I was shocked to hear not one but three more people jump in and share that they've had the same strange problem. These weren't dumb people either, just not tech savy folks. I was about to explain the concept of numlock to them, when one of the people pointed out that the problem could be fixed with a reboot, and advised the others to try it the next time they encountered the issue.

As I said, not stupid people. Most of them were at ivy league institutions and have gone on to successful careers. They don't know jack about computers. These are the "normals" we have to make sure not to forget when we design software.
There are 1.3 billion people in China. I don't think that any amount of miscalculations could have overcome that fact. It's also not that hard of a sell to say that "As long as we indicate that results were censored, we're doing what we can to bring information freedom to China one step at a time."
The US Army has admitted to planning attacks on WikiLeaks in the past

Not true. The article you link to only contains quotes from the document Wikileaks published. That is not an admission of anything. Nor does the document actually describe planning attacks on Wikileaks: only Wikileaks' description (and subsequent mis-reporting based on that) characterizes it that way. The actual content of the document does not support that conclusion. I encourage you to read it for yourself.
They really need to make the requirements for students a little more clear (for example, I'm a senior in HS, can I apply?). I'd assume they'll flesh that out before they open the student app.

Also, from the questions for students they list there, it seems like they might get some pretty bad outcomes:

>Why do you use Ruby and/or Rails? How would you like to see them improve?

Outline the specific project you're proposing.

Why is this important to the Ruby and/or Rails communities at large? Why is this important to you?

List a clear set of goals/milestones you'll hit during the summer, along with a rough timeline. Be specific about your deliverables.

What are the "unknowns" in this project for you? What kind of pitfalls could you run into?

How will you measure progress? How will you handle falling behind?

To liken it to startups/YC, they're asking a lot about the idea, but not at all about "the team" (the applicant). Anyone can say "I'm going to make something awesome" even if they aren't very good at writing Ruby and will almost certainly not do well.

Sure, they don't give you money unless you hit milestones, but they could experience plenty of projects that technically do what they should but are so badly written that they're certain to go nowhere.

That said, I'm really excited for this both as a potential participant and as a Rubyist who would love to see some cool new projects come of it.

Edit: They also should make it a bit more clear what kinds of projects they want. Just things that are directly useful to ruby programmers (libraries, Rails plugins, etc)? Cool tools that are useful to developers in general (something like http://hurl.it/)? Any piece of software that's useful to the world and written in Ruby (like some good website written in Rails)? My guess is the first 2 only, but that's just a guess.
Looks like this is in Texas (erdosmiller.com), but you might want to also mention whether or not this is a remote work job.
As far as I can tell, those corporations have been using third party ad networks to serve ads on their web properties. I think that limits the amount of control the NYTimes or WSJ might have over the pricing of ads, since the same ad might be run on a high-status newspaper like Washington Post and also on middling web-only pages alike.

I'm sure there are anti-trust implications if done improperly. But "The Deck" advertising network works on the same principle: limit ads to a certain network of blogs with a certain type of content, charging a different rate, having control over the type of ads, and delivering a certain known target market to advertisers. My idea for the big news/media corps is essentially the same.

http://decknetwork.net/
He said he feels more safe and free. In China, the criminals don't have guns, so that's one big point in favor of safety. As far as freedom, he's a Westerner, so he's granted much more freedom than the average Chinese citizen.
[[[YAWN]]]

Yes it is stealing, since the bank is aware that people are forced by circumstance into using their "services". It was either use that bank, or not order the parts I needed.

Defending banks in this day and age denotes a lack of brains AND moral fiber

[[[YAWN]]]
On Richard Feynman and spinning plates, from http://worldandi.misto.cz/_MAIL_/feynman.html :

"He challenged himself to describe in equations the wobbling movement of a spinning plate being tossed in the air by a student in a Cornell cafeteria. After much effort, he was able to show that, consistent with his observations, for a small degree of wobble, a one-to-two ratio between the wobble and spin was indeed valid. When Feynman excitedly described his results to Bethe, the other scientist listened with interest but wanted to know their practical value. [...] Ironically, he found that the spinning-plate movement he had studied just for fun also had application to the electron-spin problem."

It's about creating an accurate model of the world and universe. I never saw the point of being caustic against any kind of research.
It's installed on my iPhone ;)
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Here's the joke: http://cuiler.com/

There's a bunch of easter eggs in there, e.g. search for cuil.