skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found the comparisons page more useful than the tech specs page:

http://www.koboereader.com/comparisons.html

Oh, yeah: I googled it and ended up on Kobo's site rather than Borders'.
It’s not that a God created the world it’s that a benevolent God created the world and left teachings which lead to benevolence.

I'm confused. Are you saying that the second part can be true without the first part being true?
Icelandic shares only some and ends up being more like Bulgarian and Portuguese mentioned above - looks like the early Christian influence got the Icelanders too

Monday: mánudagur = moon day
Tuesday: þriðjudagur = 3rd day
Wednesday: miðvikudagur = mid-week day
Thursday: fimmtudagur = 5th day
Friday: föstudagur = fasting day
Saturday: laugardagur = washing day
Sunday: sunnudagur = sun day
That would imply that the current view of god(s) is more advanced (in a provable way) that the old view of them. To an atheist, this is nitpicking.
Alas, I could (but won't) name fairly equivalent errors made at a place that I may or may not work. (If not worse than the ones you mention.) I think the only place we differ here is our exact level of cynicism. "More cynical than tptacek" probably means I need to tone it down.
I believe the glut you might be referring to would be the high proportion of people that fancy themselves internet savants because they use twitter and facebook. Finding someone who knows how to leverage modern platforms and get quantifiable results will probably be harder then you imagine.

As for pay, I'm sure anyone who has proven themselves capable will demand a salary that is representative of their value.
It still seems a little unfair. If Thor flew across the sky right now, brought thunderstorms to the desert, Mjolnir-ed the Space Needle, appeared on television shaking hands with Conan O'Brien, and rebuffed your lunch invitation on the grounds that he has a thumb-wrestling appointment with Quetzalcoatl, you still wouldn't believe in him?
All of these have been exploited in science fiction that is over 3 decades old, and most of it wasn't new then either.

That doesn't make it less interesting, but it certainly isn't new and it hasn't got much to do with Stephen Hawking.
That sounds awesome, but I have too questions about your service that the homepage did not answer (atleast I could not find it straight away):

Is there an export option? I would have to be locked into using your guys just to see your company fail (and you don't seem to have a way to do revenue, esp. when you won't put ads on the blogs)?

Is there a way for me to host blog._somedomain_ with you, I would rather not make my blog the focus of the domain...
Well, at least it's hosted on Posterous.
But those projects listed OpenEEG, the one for anesthesia, etc are targeted as medical devices (I think). Are they just operating under the radar?
There's a legend that emperor Augustus wanted his month to have 31 days as well, just like Julius, and that's why we have 31 days on both months.
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What browser do you usually use for surfing?
This argument is fun but not much more.

"Why don't you have any children?. This seems strange to me."

"Well, there are billions of children in the world that are not yours, I just have one less than you. We're basically the same."

The difference between having no children and one child is big. So is the difference between believing in no gods, and one God.

I think the original argument is useful to point out that there are billions of people who don't believe in your particular God, and that it isn't that strange to not believe.
I'm on Ubuntu with Chrome:

http://i.imgur.com/qF0xA.png
Very cool. Congrats to the Fastmail team. Way to persevere when things got tough. Hopefully all will work out and the payoff will be plentiful.
Yeah, but if you look at the etymology of 'religion' it just means to tie back. In other words, to reunite people with some original source of all things. My point is that if you want a contemporary account of god, ask the people working on the Hubble telescope or the folks from csp.org, not some random sect whose beliefs haven't changed in 2,500 years.

To give another example, if I wanted to debunk astrology then I'd start by arguing against the beliefs of Kary Mullis (who won the Nobel prize in science), not some 4000 year old scrolls.
That is my favorite Hacker News comment sentence of the year. Thanks.
Not to this extreme, as far as I can tell, though I wasn't in the industry during the period that got standardized. You can actually go and try out some of the proposals; one, for example, was called Nokia MVC (not to be confused with the much later H.264 MVC); see http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=Nokia_MVC for more information. While it certainly was a kitchen-sink of "interesting" features (affine motion compensation, KLT, etc), it was not so slow as to be impossible to use.

But I can't say for sure that there weren't some totally insane encoders put forward by those involved.

What I suspect is going on is a case of exponents. That is, you have an algorithm that tries every possible A, an algorithm that tries every possible B, and an algorithm that tries every possible C. You optimize them independently, and then in the final encoder you submit, you run them all at the same time, optimizing every possible A, for every possible B, for every possible C, sending runtime sky-high.

I'd read the code, but it's nearly-undocumented C++, written by the kind of people who reimplemented their own option parser using C strings (in C++) in Visual Studio.
It might be legitimate if you were arguing with a deist (holding merely the belief that there is some form of deity responsible for creating the universe) rather than a Christian (holding the belief that God created the universe then sent a bunch of prophets to the Jews then appeared as his own son as a carpenter in Judea for some reason then got himself crucified by the Romans so that everybody's sins would be forgiven).

The former of these (which I do not personally hold) is a more sophisticated and plausible than the existence of Thor, while the latter is pretty much on exactly the same level.
I did not find it in any way engaging. Embarrassing, rather. The "discussion" is not original, as was pointed out earlier, and rather poorly presented (granted the possible real protagonist may have been more charismatic.)

On the other hand, if someone does find it useful or educational, I suppose the only fault can be found in myself for not having pointed to the same insight.
I propose a minimum standard for all programming languages:

show example code on the home page

You will save the audience a lot of time, and be able to convey a lot about your language in a much more concise way. Great for that first taste.
I think the point is very simple and very elegant. It's not about God, it's about the fact that humanity (and our history) is a lot more subtle than most people really compute (I came to that realisation myself not very long ago).

The beauty of it is that the religious conversation didn't matter too much - it was just that the clever rhetoric device (the Norse gods) was the avenue to a wealth of information. It is there for the taking but never actively taught.

So, the point is that you can pick up any passing point of interest and satisfy your craving for it like never before. Then half an hour later move on to something else.

And you will still have those Norse gods/weekdays lined up as a party trick...
Closed platforms...yay.
This is clearly a pun on:

http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/24/how-not-to-handle-a-resigna... (the pastebin link has expired)

and shows that at least they have a sense of humour at Mahalo.

They also have a page on Mahalo dedicated to the incident:

http://www.mahalo.com/answers/from-email/what-is-the-worst-w...
They said "4th dimension", not "4th Euclidean dimension" so I don't see that there was anything incorrect there.
I think the questions you've outlined are usually what anyone should be worried about, except maybe the dog friendly one :-)

Also, it would be good if you can do some research in the the main business model for the company. How familiar are they with their target market, what is their target market? and stuff like that. I've found quite a lot of startups are clueless about that. Finding a year down the line that the equity(over cash) is worthless... is certainly not a good feeling. I've been there personally so i know.

If you're taking equity, get something written on the equity agreement and this is a MUST!
Any luck with this link: http://www.scribd.com/documents/15556326/Structure-and-Inter...
That's a form of static typing (via type inference)
Are you suggesting there's a difference in the procedural, moral and/or intellectual rigor of religion 2500 years ago, as compared to today, on a scale similar to the differences between alchemy and science? or astronomy and astrology?

I can't say I see differences of that magnitude. In fact, I don't see many significant differences at all.

(E.g. whereas most modern religions are far less bloodthirsty than some historical religions, so were many religious contemporaries of those bloodthirsty belief structures.)
This is what happens when you live and die behind a walled garden.
It features three grid sequencers that participants interact with to create music based on Ableton Live sets submitted by artists.
One thing that was mentioned in the linked page is Fantastico, the auto-installer for cPanel. I checked and currently they are including WP 2.9.2(latest) but there is sometimes a delay updating Fantastico. On top of that, the hosting clients may not know how to update their WP install anyway.
Absolutely. Yes to both.

First, our company won't be going under any time soon -- while 95% of the features are free, there are an extra 5% available to power users as part of our "pro" package for ~$4/month. We also sell domains. We're strongly profitable, so you don't have to worry about us going under :)

But should you choose, you can export your site as a .zip file and host it somewhere else.

Also, you can choose from either a .weebly.com subdomain or point either your domain.com or blog.domain.com to us -- in either case, we'll still host your site free of charge.
I've been involved recently in a local incubator YCombinator/Tech-Stars type program (BoomStartup in Salt Lake City). For a while they would have some sort of get together every Friday (mostly to discuss the program and let people meet those involved). I thought it was interesting that the vast majority of people that showed up were "business people". While I'm sure some of them are legitimately worthy of being called a business person, for most of them, that really just meant "want to start a company and can't code". We also had alot of issues with people being too paranoid of having their ideas stolen to feel comfortable talking about their ideas.

I'd love to see someone come up with a good way for the right people with the right mindset to come together and socialize in order to help form teams.
Very true. I'd be interested in seeing some data about the life-expectancy of a business filing lawsuits like this, tho I think theres probably too many variables to accurately measure.
Yeah, it was screened with a live orchestra and broadcast on German TV in February - there are some rips around, although the intertitles are all in German.
A better analogy would be as follows:

"Why don't you believe the sun is composed primarily of hydrogen and helium?" "Well, there have been hundreds of theories of what the sun might be composed of; giant birds, fire, holes in the sky... I just believe one less than you do"

That analogy still only works if there's some particularly good reason for believing that one God is significantly more likely to exist than any other.
Domingo is from "domini/us", lord or sir, or head of the house (from "doma", home).
With the greatest respect; i'm not sure that everythign posted here has to be educational or useful.

Sivers' writing is generally "inspirational" (I love his writing style), light hearted and informative. I actually think there is a very deep and important point to be learned from this particular post.
Surreptitiously browse sites using a standard user-agent string/IP, and just see if something different shows up?
I agree... But it is not my web site :)

For example, the set-valued expression

{1..n}

is the set of integers 1 through n, and

{p in {2..n} | forall i in {2..p-1} | p mod i /= 0}

is the set of primes through n. (The first vertical bar here is best read as such that, and the second as a pause.)

http://setl.org/doc/setl.html#Overview
There are hundreds of people in NYC who will do this for free so you should pay a maximum of $40,000.
The Evolution of Privacy on Facebook
The lazy medium
Weebly is trying to strike a balance between the two. We don't let you upload PHP code to our servers, but we are extremely customizable.

I mentioned more of our features below: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1328512
There is one "error" in that discussion imho. Even if Thursday is named after Thor, it doesn't mean that Thursday was dedicated in celebration of Thor. And on the other side, Easter isn't named after Jesus. So I'm not following how Thursday and Easter are even remotely related.

edit: of course this is just nit picking, and is not really relevant on the big picture.
> So is the difference between believing in no gods, and one God.

Im not sure that takes into account the fact that belief in one particular God (or set of gods) usually precludes belief in all the others.

In that respect belief/non-belief is not very different.
Other: Midori
I use this on my FreeBSD workstation. I would prefer Chrome (which is what I use on my MBP) but Chrome on FreeBSD is not quite there.
Russian is very very similar save for Sunday, which is "voskresenya", which roughly translates to (i think) "the resurrection." "Nedelia" translates to "week," but I've never thought about it as meaning "no work" which it almost also does in Russian.
That's like saying that because we've already debunked alchemy and astrology, being asked to debunk evolution as well is just nitpicking. If you asked someone at the Harvard divinity school what the most compelling arguments in favor of religion were today, they'd probably talk about Thor to the same extent that your bio101 professor talked about star alignments-- not at all.

Whereas oftentimes they're actually using the same methodology, techniques, and textbooks that you'd find in the neuroscience/physics/philosophy departments, and publishing in the same academic journals. C.f. http://csp.org/psilocybin/
ah yeah, the names of the months. September - Siete, October - Ocho, November - Nueve, December - Diez. They would match if it weren't for July and August.
I agree with that statement, but it does pain me that this was his big takeaway. There is no decision that is more life-impacting than belief/disbelief in a God. To see someone so quickly silenced/swayed by such simple rhetoric really illustrates how many important subjects are not getting nearly as much thought as they deserve.

We will spend months stressing about a job or a start-up, which might affect our lives for the subsequent year or two or three, and no more than a few hours here and there really digging into what evidence exists to support an atheist or religious perspective. It's a cycle that sadly continues - 200 years ago everyone was Christian so people defaulted to it. Now, the trendy thing for "intellectuals" is atheism, and so many jump in without a thought (this continues to hold for both sides, as exemplified in the article).

When deciding which direction to take with a start-up we do hours and hours of customer interviews, site visits, market research, brainstorming, reading, and even self-reflection. The same, and more, should be done for religion (e.g., check out a church, speak in a truly unbiased fashion with ardent believers and non-believers alike, grab 20 minutes of a pastors time who has probably dedicated his life to talking to people like us, etc).

There is no topic that gets less thought relative to its importance.
I always understood a dimension as "a variable that you can change to avoid occupying the spot." In 3d space, two objects cannot be in the same spot so either their x,y, or z coordinate must be different. If I add time as a fourth dimension then two objects can be at the same x,y and z, but not at the same time. You are right that time is a special dimension, but there are many things it has in common with the 3 spacial dimensions as well, my example being one.
i haven't ready any of dawkin's books, but it seems to me the "point" of this argument isn't a logical one. the point is to express to theists the kind of "feel" that atheists have regarding religions, namely that any specific religion is just another religion

for a theist, it may be hard to imagine not believing in their particular god. but it's easy for them to imagine not believing in those countless other gods
I thought there was some startup labs and incubator spaces around here?

I keep hearing about something like it at OpenCoffee and Mass Inno.
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How can one identify if they've been compromised?

Is there any kind of fix?
Huh? Zynga's apps only depend on Facebook for advertising in users' streams. This is no different than Google refusing to show a company's ads.

This is what happens when you depend on anyone for anything.
This is not the real problem. The bigger issue is that youtube videos are EDITED. People put hours into editing a single clip to make it palatable. Even if you DO catch a live stream the signal/noise is usually unbearable. No amount of technology will fix this.

For personal video sharing flip/iphone is perfectly fine. I have no interest in watching video of my baby nephew live-- let mom pick the best videos and I'll watch them when I have time.

From there you jump to commercially produced live content. I'm still amazed I can't stream live broadcast TV, but that's only a matter of time.

The real question: is there a middle ground? Will there be semi-professional producers who can create compelling live content that people actually want to watch? I'm very skeptical.

Mass media shows us images of people living fantasy lives. But it's completely artificial. The truth is that our lives feel very boring because we consume so much sexed-up mass media. Question: how many celebrities do you see life streaming? None. Why? Because they don't want to ruin the artificial mystique they have created.

Consider "The Real World" -- the only way they get people to watch is by editing in into something very UNREAL. What is troubling is how many people then feel compelled to create artificial drama in their life just to feel like their life has meaning. But that's neither here not there.
actually, Jupiter is Zeus. I don't think Janus has a counterpart.
Sabado is based on sabbath

All of them except Domingo are also exactly the same in Hebrew ("first-day", "second-day", "third-day", etc).
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dupe of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1328503
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They may use the carrot, but trust me, its the stick that keeps them doing it. I once worked at a movie theater where if a manager heard you forget to upsell to a customer, you could be fired on the spot. I even witnessed it a few times. Manager's friend bought some popcorn, didn't get upsold, manager asked said friend if he was suggested anything, and when he found out he wasn't, walked over to the counter and told the kid to take off his vest and leave.
Absolutely. Modern day religious scholars are doing things like giving people psilocybin in double blind studies to elicit primary religious experiments. (And they found that they were able to create primary religious experiences in roughly 70% of the participants.) Saying that these academic papers that are being published in the top journals in the country are the intellectual equivalent of Catholicism is ridiculous.
Aww too bad... it couldn't have happened to two sleazier companies.
You would think that DST, who's invested tons of money in both Zynga and Facebook, would try to keep the peace here. I read they're pretty hands off though.

Zynga helps Facebook by keeping people on the site and giving them a reason to come back. Facebook gives Zynga a huge audience to tap into. If Zynga goes off on its own I don't see it helping either one.

I'd be happy though, less Farmville spam to deal with.
a good deal of that might constitute stronger evidence than attending a lunch date, and therefore validate belief. Lunch makes a good testing bar, above which other proofs may pass.
Many major religions are monotheistic by definition. The entire premise is that only 1 true god exists.

Saying we "agree on 519 of 520 and disagree on 1" is a non-statement. The first person's belief in that 1 by definition precludes his belief in the other 519.
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There is no decision that is more life-impacting than belief/disbelief in a God.

Disagreed (and I can find you multiple believers/non-believers who will agree with me).

In many ways it's irrelevant - your life choice to make whichever way you choose (with in depth research or knee jerk reaction). There are lots of other diverting things to spend your time on.

It's a cycle that sadly continues - 200 years ago everyone was Christian so people defaulted to it. Now, the trendy thing for "intellectuals" is atheism, and so many jump in without a thought

I feel that's a bit disingenuous - 200 years ago to hold a different religious belief was risking your life.

grab 20 minutes of a pastors time who has probably dedicated his life to talking to people like us

Oh. man no. Religious organisations are designed to self propagate. A pastor is essentially a salesman for the religion. Hear what he/she has to say but treat it with a large dose of salt.

Ultimately religious belief is (or should be) an individual thing.
When I think of long exposures, fireworks and lightning come to mind. Those photos are absolutely amazing.
You do not consider learning a "very deep and important point" to be educational nor useful? :)

However you wish to refer to your experience, for one reason or another I did not share it but, as I was musing, that is sort of irrelevant since someone did.
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I disagree. The point of the argument is that the same reasoning used to rule out all the gods you don't believe in can be used to rule out the god(s) you do.

Your analogy isn't equivalent in that way. Thinking through why you don't believe in Thor might help you reveal a double-standard or inconsistency. Thinking through why you didn't -- what? -- give birth to all the other children in the world is nonsensical.
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Funny! :-P But seriously, since flying and causing thunderstorms are way more exotic and powerful abilities than merely having lunch with someone, they would be acceptable substitutes for lunch. Better than lunch!
This is absolutely going to get scribd bought by Adobe. It's a no-brainer. Case closed. Amazing work, guys!
"Me and Bernie Madoff have a lot in common. There are 6.8 billion people on earth neither of us have defrauded."

A similar argument can be used with Jeffrey Dahmer and murder, various priests and child molestation, Kobe Bryant and defeating people in a 1-on-1 basketball game, or Fred Phelps and funerals protested.

There is a big difference between no children and one, no murders and one, no gods and one, no felonies and one, and so on.
I don't read patents, on principle.