skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't need a lot of social skills to know that when people ask you what you do, they probably don't want to hear the abstract from your latest paper, but will be quite content with "oh I work at the university". The only reason any one will feel diminished around you is because you go out of your way to make them feel that way.

I know several very smart people with PhDs in very complicated things, working on very hard cutting edge research problems, and they don't have a problem hanging out with people from a wide variety of backgrounds.

The whole "no one likes me because I'm too smart" smacks of lies mothers make up to make their anti-social kids feel better about being bullied at school
Are extensions negotiated over the network? So two hosts can decide they support a random high level primitive and just send that instead?
And if you asked the population of people who have actually been brought up by gay parents whether they were happy with that situation, my guess would be that the vast majority would say "yes".
It doesn't matter how effectively you critique or ridicule a product/process/technique/habit. That won't make it go away.

It goes away only when you offer an alternative which is catchier/easier/more elegant.
Lowercase f free.

He's saying most people use Linux not because it's $0.00, which includes your reason, that it's liberated.
Most people who use vim don't use it as an exercise in minimalism we're often caricatured as constantly undergoing.

How do you know that?
X.org is just another implementation of X11. Re-implementing it isn't what I'm talking about. No, I don't expect it to be replaced, which I consider a problem.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System#Limitations_and...
Here's the issue: why did Apple not just use X? Important question.

There isn't a relationship between X and the start menu in my statement.

Yes, listened to the talk. Audio frameworks aren't why the universe isn't using Linux.
"If you wait too long to set your structure up, you run into tax traps."

We had someone who was effectively a co-founder, but for one reason or another he never got stock. After our first round of investment we realized that we had made a mistake and we founders said "no problem, we'll give him some of ours".

However, in the UK this would have meant substantial capital gains liabilities for us and income tax liabilities for him - so we didn't do it. Eventually once we had a proper share options scheme he got an equivalent chunk out of that.
Personally I'm a scp/ssh command-line user. The last time I used FTP as part of my regular workflow was many years ago.

However, that is one beautiful-looking app and one beautiful website.
I love Spotify and think it's an amazing service, but have recently started wondering if it's just as bad for artists as AllOfMp3. After reading about Lady Gaga earning close to nothing for 1 million plays, I'm not sure if it's a service that we should continue to support that much. If 1 million plays don't earn you any money, what's the incentive for less well-known artists?

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/s...
Isn't it often the case though that in gay couples one is more masculine and the other more feminine? Or dominant/submissive perhaps.

That's probably more important - having both types of personality present?
So I take it you represent Posterous, since you use 'we'.

You should know, you can create photo sets with tumblr, allowing multiple images. i.e. more than just one.

One audio file per week hasn't been around since ver. 1 of tumblr. I'm not exactly sure where you're drawing your talking points, but they're simply...incorrect.
To solve a problem, you need to create it first!
(first rule of politics).
I see your perspective, but the guy is an iPhone engineer, I don't think having lost a prototype at a bar in a very public way can possibly add anything to his resume or make him stand out more in a positive way.

Anyone who hasn't fucked up at least that badly hasn't been trying.

Be honest with yourself. There's no high ground to be taken when it comes to being a perfect employee.
No, it was based on product quality, not fashion. There's a huge difference between the two.
Considering that, statistically, most people are burglarized by people they already know like that shady neighbor, scheming friends, or crack-addict family member. This can only end in total goodness.
What about the new pages feature tumblr just rolled out in the last few weeks, it even lets you define a mobile specific stylesheet without having to use JS and detect the browser..
Spotify responded that these figures were way out (without giving the true numbers). If I remember correctly, the low figure was for a short period & related only to the Swedish market AND for only the Swedish co-writer's royalty - i.e. it was half of the Swedish royalties for a few months, not the full worldwide royalties for a calender year. Here's one report:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/7590782/Spotify-reject...
Python pep 8
Is there enough data on that to be statistically valid?

Are a truly random sample of children brought up by gay parents? I'd expect some large selection bias there.
If you're on OS X you can ease into it by using the 'Dvorak except for shortcuts' keyboard mode.
Opera 10.52 for Mac: Coca Integration, Pinch to Zoom (Multi-Touch)
I've started using Readability to help with pages like that - I find it works really well:

http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/
Just to clarify, Pinch and Zoom requires multi-touch trackpads found in Macbook pros.

"Modern Macbooks have multi-touch trackpads and with Opera 10.52, you can make full use of it. Pinch to zoom or use two fingers to scroll and three fingers to navigate back and forth in your browser history, all from your trackpad."
http://www.pallab.net/2010/04/27/opera-10-52-windows-mac/
Top 4 Bathroom Problems That can be solved by You
Here are four quick solution to common bathroom problems that will save your money and your waiting for the expert visits.
And getting new versions of your software out by trying to get X distributors to include your newest version in their repositories (which are completely outside of your control and each with it's own set of rules) is less complicated than just putting new stuff up on your own website? I don't think so. There is one advantage for users certainly - it's easier to find versions of software which are officially sanctioned by their distributor, although it might be outdated by months. Which does often not matter much for server-software, but for desktop software it's something which users don't really accept.

I think we can discuss if this central-control-by-distros model of software distribution has more advantages or disadvantages, but it's not all shiny throughout. As example when stuff go really wrong with that model - maybe you heard of the troubles with Debian, J.Schilling and the cdrtools. I didn't until I noticed I could no longer burn CD's(!) with k3b and had to spend a few hours on figuring out how to fix this (you have to get the Schilling versions of the tools - the official Debian-version simply does not work in some cases and that is known now for a long long time). So there is a well-working combination of k3b+cdrtools which fails to pass the distributor rules (which is certainly fine) and now the authors can't really get the working combination (of 2 open source packages!) in an easy way out to the users.
but what if the problem is something like:

I have no choice when it comes to selection of service, or,

I am paying you while you fight in court for decisions to be over turned that I don't support

What are they going to do about those?
Or, _Projecting_.
On Ubuntu there is a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ directory and files included there are automatically loaded by apt.

Google Chrome uses this mechanism and it seems to work well. You install the .deb package manually the first time and then the package manager will update it automatically.

I thought that this solution was really great when I saw it.
Wonder if there will be an upgrade for Coda to implement the new T4 engine?
IPhone 4G Leak – Gizmodo Earned 8,00,000$ with 50 Million PageViewsPageviews
Single-page: http://www.itwire.com/opinion-and-analysis/open-sauce/38579-...
this is good link for pep 8
Indeed that's definite intent - but it's not sexual intent...
Personally, I wouldn't try to build a brain like ours. Sure we have nice passions, and deep insight frequently. But there is so much badness possible with our brains. Take for instance the "cognitive cars" if we built a brain like ours, how long would it take for it to get road rage?

I would like a brain that was not like ours. I'd like something capable of deep insight and critical thinking, but nothing like a human brain.
37Signals compare themselves to "Harvard or Oxford". Never cease to amaze me :)

BTW: This is great fun http://friedisms.tumblr.com/
You should really try Arch. I was initially hesitant, because of the whole 'Build you own Linux!' thing, but after doing it once I learned LOTS and realized that it was not near as difficult as it sounds.

There is excellent documentation in the Arch wiki, and the forums are helpful. And I have to say, installing arch linux taught me more about linux than anything else that I have ever done.
The problem is not that women make less than men on average, they often make less than men when doing the exact same job, for the exact same hours.

I am really suspicious of this, because it simply doesn't match my own experience. I've worked behind a bar, I've been a lifeguard, I've done a few jobs in hi-tech and equality is the norm.

Here in the UK the Office of National Statistics ripped apart Harriet Harman's figures on unequal pay... Turned out to get the political outcome she wanted, she was comparing the pay of female part-time workers to that of male full-time workers.

Incidentally, 80% of those working more than 50 hrs/week are male, and 98% of those killed at work are male.
It's a shame that it isn't available legally in the US of A. I have to VPN into Sweden every couple of weeks to keep my account active. I'd be more than willing to pay a premium fee... but even that won't work, your address has to be in the country of your account.

Reasons I enjoy Spotify so much...

* Their client is super quick and simple

* Songs load essentially instantly, it's like they're local.

* They have an Android/iPhone client.

* You can create playlists and sync them for offline play.

Unfortunately, for those last two items, you need a premium account. I want to give them my money, why won't they take it! =(
No, that is a stereotype. Most gay couples don't look like that.
I think you'll find that an artist's income from 1 million Spotify plays far exceeds the equivalent income from ten plays at a radio station with 100,000 listeners.
nor would he have needed a picture of the burgler
Hospital holds newborn hostage when parents can't pay their bill
If you turn it into the police, and it isn't found...
Especially if they don't have your SSN.
Regardless of whether this particular research is any good, independent research into genetically modified food (and openness about the progress from the few market leaders) is desperately needed.
Actually, if somebody interviewed by the Daily Show "accidentally" dropped some classified info for $5k, I'm pretty sure the Daily Show would be held culpable.
Who makes the most reliable laptops?
The Search for Genes Leads to Unexpected Places
I always say... it's better to be too busy doing what you love than to have too little to do.
Gizmodo Editor’s Computers Seized Amid IPhone Flap
FF Believes Search and Seizure of Gizmodo Editor's Computers Was Illegal
XFX HD 5970 Auctioned on eBay for $10,499
Evolution has limitations that go beyond inefficiency. For example: it is completely indifferent to the organisms it operates on. Evolution has absolutely no compassion. It will not select for traits that reduce suffering in dying organisms. Evolution isn't forward-looking. It doesn't notice when it starts on a journey to trap itself in a local maxima. Evolution is slow. Life started on this planet not long after the surface solidified, but it took 4 billion years for general intelligence to evolve. 4 billion years and countless organisms suffering and dying just to get 3lbs of gray matter. Had it taken much longer, the Sun would have gotten farther along in its life cycle and sterilized the Earth before evolution stumbled on general intelligence.

Sorry for that mini-diatribe, but I don't like it when people paint evolution in a positive light. It really is one of the dumbest possible ways to explore a solution space.
What is Apple Inc.'s role in task force investigating iPhone case?
While it would be very surprising to actually be the only one, it's not surprising to feel as the only one. It's quite reasonable to believe that a randomly chosen person is not gay, so you can't just pick someone and think, he is too, fine, I'm not alone. Statistics are not enough, real concrete persons count.
US Senator wants FTC to regulate privacy on Facebook, other social networks
Ask HN: Song Streaming API?
Is there an API that will provide a sample of a song given the artist and song title?

I thought it would be possible to get from Amazon, but I've not been able to find anything related yet.
A Cheap, Thin Film Gives Portable Night Vision to Cell Phones and Eyeglasses
I wasn't talking about 'looks'. I was talking about behavior.

Whenever I see gay couples on documentaries etc, there almost always seems to be one 'feminine' one, and one 'masculine' one. Regardless of what sex they actually are.
New Software Processor Can Transcribe Music From Any Performance
Panoramic Wifi Camera
Discovering Fractals: Brownian Trees
Apple didn't use X because OSX is based on NeXT and NeXT didn't use X. As to why NeXT didn't go with X, I don't know, but I assume it had something to do with the state of X in 1988, and those arguments probably aren't valid any more.

For me personally as a Linux user the audio framework is the one point that is causing me the most pain at the moment, and the one thing I really wish they would fix. If I could get audio working perfectly, I really cannot think of any other major complaint (other than a couple of pieces of Windows software I kind of wish I had) in my day to day Linux usage.
The Unword Dictionary
Replying to myself: if you're in python, get 'tuna' from kernel.org GIT - it has a sysfs module.
Star Trek Phaser mod made by Playmates toy and powerful laser
It's 2010 - finally my jet pack is here
Documentaries != real life.
Lessons for Google From Nexus One’s Sluggish Start
I's send you invoices in Microsoft Reader format. Good luck.
It's always client/server asymmetric communication. Server supports QueryExtension and ListExtensions commands. You can see extensions supported by your X server with xdpyinfo command.

(see www.x.org/releases/X11R7.5/doc/x11proto/proto.html specification for further details)
That is pretty much the problem. The only software that installs easy (in most cases) is the "distribution supported software" (in the version(s) currently used by the distribution that is).
So my next laptop should be manufactured by Asus, be a premium model, and to be safe I should replace it within 3 years.

31% failure rate for laptops after 3 years seems very high. I'm also surprised to find Lenovo well down the list for reliability, but I do forget they are no longer real ThinkPads though.
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Lean Startup Methodology Promotes a Mindset of Marginal Incrementalism
Inside NASA's world-class supercomputer center
Types of Radiotherapy and Treatment For Prostate Cancer
I tried both sansa clip and touch3g.
Sansa is uglier, but sounds IMHO better.
I mean - ok, 4g, but why people are so in rush to see it...
I suspect that it is the record companies that wont take it.
Probably Germans are complaining again?
> The open question is why anyone would buy software for Linux.

Well, I'd be interested in one of the following apps: a desktop wiki, an email client, a contact management app, a feed reader, a music player, a scalable image editor, a layout app, a recording app, a guitar effect app, a GIT client, and probably some more.

Of course, for each of these, there's some free app somewhere. But each of these free ones have something I don't like.

I admit, my willingness-to-pay is quite low. That's partially due to some free apps being available. The better reason, however, is that installing proprietary apps sucks under Linux. I also fear, the regular distro updates will break apps I've payed for.

In other words: If there's a way to conveniently download an app from a store or homepage, and to get security and "distro upgrade" updates (maybe, by registering the app automatically with APT during installation), my willingness-to-pay would be quite a bit higher!

> The key differentiating factor for _most_ people who use it is that it's free (as in beer).

How do you know? Any empirical studies I'm not aware of? Or just the Biased Sample fallacy?

> It's hard to see how you can ask people to pay for software now in the hope that it will eventually be good.

Dunno. There's a lot of applications that were not 'good' when they were first released. People still bought it.
3 key quotes

Instead of talking about coming up with big, bold, crazy, audacious goals and visions that change the world, entrepreneurs discuss the best way to improve by 10% in a carefully designed test.

Without a grand vision and a high potential payoff, it is harder to excite investors, more difficult to sign up customers, tougher to recruit employees, and so on. All of this leads to a dangerous vicious cycle, which kills a lot of startups.

It seems to me that the lean startup promotes a mindset of marginal incrementalism and has failed to acknowledge some of the dangers of such a mindset. To be clear, I firmly believe that the benefits of the lean startup model and its recent popularity far outweigh the costs. But it is worth thinking critically about the framework, because its biggest strength is also its biggest weakness. Especially since everyone seems to obsess over it just a little bit too much.
My Life, Seen Through the Eyes of Marketers
notwithstanding the validity of your message, you are objecting to something that you did not quote.

If modern languages are more than a compiler, that does not denies the ability of the book to cover how to write a compiler.
I notice that Language Implementation Patterns was written by the Author of ANTLR. I've had terrible experiences trying to use ANTLR in practice, which kind of puts me off buying the book. Do examples in the book use ANTLR? Also, is there much point in getting the book if I already know about lexer and parser generators?
I used to subscribe (love the service but found GBP 10 a month too expensive). The library has always been great but music discovery (once you'd exhausted the similar artists feature) was letting things down. This sounds like a great value addition for users.
The problem is not that women make less than men on average, they often make less than men when doing the exact same job, for the exact same hours.

Could you share any citations?

Thus far, when trying to research this issue, keep running into the well-debunked The 76 cents (or 72 cents or X cents) on the dollar myth that still enjoys popularity amongst feminists.

Unfortunately, that statistic simply compares the earnings of full-time workers with the same job category. It ignores the hours of work per week, experience, danger, and a host of other factors. It quite literally compares the salary of people with years of experience who are working 60 hours a week directly with new hires of the same job title who are working 40 hours a week. It lumps them all together.

Study after study I've seen which have actually controlled for factors such as experience, hours worked, travel required, etc have found very little pay disparity. This NCPA article is a brief explanation of The Wage Gap Myth:

http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba392
http://www.iwf.org/campus/show/18948.html

The Cato institute and others have done more in depth analysis.
"Product quality" that doesn't relate to functionality is fashion in my view. Think about it.
'sucks a lot electricity, thousand of volts'...
And that magazine called * Science???
Electricity, like any energy, is measured in Watts.
Volts are used to measure voltage, not energy.
You can buy something like iTunes gift cards for premium access here in Sweden. If you know someone here you could get them to buy it for you and get a premium account maybe?

If you don't know anyone you could drop me an email (it's in my profile) and I could check the store next time I'm out.
Can you not "borrow" a friends address in one of those countries?
Spotify becomes a "total music management platform"
Blaming a bad presentation on PowerPoint is like blaming an ugly building on the architect's drafting table.

(Do architects still use drafting tables, or is it all computerized?)
AI can be created today - it's just a matter of money. Put a few hundred billion dollars into genetic programming, or cyc, or data sets for a svm and you can build general AI.
Previously on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1286510
I have generally found simple text files to be most effective in actually solving problems. The moment it moves to richer formats, some amount of mental bandwidth is taken up by the presentation aspect.
The only trouble I see with this is that it needs to stay up to date with current medical knowledge (which changes all the time). The game will quickly go out of date if it is not kept strictly aligned with current medical texts.
The article starts by claiming

The researchers discovered that animals that eat GM foodstuffs lose their ability to reproduce.

And goes on to briefly describe the study:

Campbell hamsters that have a fast reproduction rate were fed for two years with ordinary soya beans, which are widely used in agriculture and those contain different percentages of GM organisms...

Obviously they've drawn an incorrect conclusion. The strongest statement they could make is "a particular GM food caused problems in a particular animal".

This is so mind-bogglingly obvious that one wonders if they're just trolling.
This is complete fantasy unfortunately.

They make this sound like AI is just a hardware problem, waiting to be solved by the wonder of Moore's Law. It's not. The human brain has 100 billion neurons, and 100 trillion synapses (wikipedia) - but it is the connections between them that make it do what it does. The possible connections are just mind boggling. Let's say you build hardware with those numbers (utterly non-trivial) - how does it connect together? How to we get it to structure in a way that those networks do anything? You can't expect it to wire itself into anything useful.

We have no idea how the brain does anything of significance (merging of senses into a coherent whole; memory; consciousness etc). We can't even define consciousness let alone understand how it comes about. We can't 'program' a neural network of any complexity. Even things that we take utterly for granted like object recognition is immensely complicated, let alone things that we know are 'difficult' like sentience. We can't expect this stuff to magically appear from a large neural network; nor can we program it (as we don't understand it); nor can we train it as we don't know what intermediate steps to train for.

Then, what are the inputs into it (and how are those interpreted by the hardware), and how do we get any output out of it? Let's say you solve both the hardware and the wiring problem - so you have a perfect replica human brain in a jar - how do you tell it what to do? How do you get any sense out of it?

We're fumbling in the dark here. To think those fumbles will achieve intelligence in any form in the foreseeable future is unfortunately fantasy.
They (appear to) check the address on your credit card.