skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
so McCaw basically took advantage of a giveaway to non-profits, which, naturally, the government failed to specify could not be used by for-profit companies.

And the non-profits involved are collecting cash for no real value produced, simply selling something given to them that was intended to be used. So essentially the gifts are not promoting educational uses but are promoting whatever entities were lucky enough to get them for free.

I'd much rather see all things be treated equally and then have people decide to what uses they wish to devote their own resources. What could be more democratic than that?

Some will argue that without the philosopher kings to tell us what to do, we'll make terrible choices. But somehow we terrible choice makers are able to choose the philosopher kings.

The reality is that distributed decision making in many instances yields better decisions. And hopefully fewer instances of people getting rich on the cheap.
"They will probably just stick with Word, but they will often still find the LaTeX-produced resumes better looking"

Can someone show me examples of what constitutes "better looking" when comparing these two tools for CVs?
Indeed. The submitter's account is 1 hour old, and has already submitted 2 spammy websites.
Thanks, this solved that problem. Unfortunately it fails to build array-0.2.0.0 and I'll just wait until it's compatible with more recent versions of the Haskell Platform.
Might be an idea to read "Engineering with Nuclear Explosives":

http://www.archive.org/details/engineeringwithn00plowrich

[Edited to point to archive page, rather than the PDF].
Could not find a 'motivations for berp' doc. Why/how is this useful?
Thanks for this. It's really quite astounding how good ancient cartography was, given the limitations. For all that we live in very exciting times today - and can communicate in almost real time to discuss such subjects - how thrilling, and slightly scary, it must have been to live in those times and be among the few to have a firm grasp on the fundamentals of science and the natural world.
Wouldn't that cause a tsunami?
Clickable: http://todoneapp.com/
I totally second this. As for what is said a little above, both vi and emacs are available on Windows.
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Some nuclear weapons had relatively small yields - as low as 10 tons of TNT:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Atomic_Demolition_Munit...
The article forgot to point out the fact that while Facebook is not the ultimate replacement for social interaction; it does connect folks to other areas of interest that their "friends" are doing. Technically, social network users are not lonely; they just tend to be more open to the diversity of culture - strangers or not.
Youtube doesn't even stream low res reliably for me on the end of a 4Mbit connection. It's probably different for other people, but Youtube is very much a single small hit site for me. Long-format video (or audio) doesn't work for me while tethered to a device.
"the Haskell community which is notoriously anti-automated-tests"

What? That surprises me. I thought all Haskellers loved QuickCheck.
This blog post is breathtaking in its comprehensivity. I promptly reblogged it.
"Skype's network effect and lock-in is extremely small compared to something like Facebook, or even something like an IM network."

Skype is an IM network. I really hate that I have to use it sometimes for that.
Oh, heh, it looked like you were just making the links grey. I didn't notice that item #1 was missing.
Do not call the Russians then: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba
I agree. It is flattering to a sense of those who live in those top-ranked areas. But how about "The Density of Feasible Networks That Could Guarantee Better Livelihood"
Warning: 66mb pdf.
It can wipe out the entire ecosystem of that area as well.
Ycombinator should start financing Nuke 2.0 startups.
I won't be carrying it everywhere but that's not really the point. The times that I don't need/want an ipad such as driving, walking about, going out with friends is what the current iPhone/nexus one/etc are more than sufficient for.

It's all of these other things these phones can do that I no longer care for. I don't really care about the iPhone vs Android anymore because my phone has become a lot less important to me. Basic apps, good web browser and being able to make phone calls are all I really need now. An ipad in my messenger bag can take of anything more demanding in a heck of a lot more enjoyable fashion.
It would depend on how far down the bomb was placed. There are a lot of nuclear test craters in Nevada, in fact there's a museum in Las Vegas about it which is very interesting. But most of those craters were from explosions only hundreds of feet deep (back then the environmental risks of nuclear testing were not as widely appreciated).

This image from FAS suggests that below 1000' the surface disturbance and resulting water displacement would be minimal: http://www.fas.org/faspir/2001/v54n1/sm_crater_depth.gif
Profitable, yes. Consistently, depends on your view of consistency.

My goal has always been and continues to be developing profitable algorithms. I have a few that are interesting, but none profitable enough to be noteworthy. (Although one is very very promising.)

I do actively trade, but not algorithmically. I make short to intermediate term bets based on macro-level observations. I've gotten progressively more profitable and more consistent, but given the events of the past three years, you could claim it was just luck and I wouldn't get defensive.

Regardless, trading has been my educator. For me, it was a valuable exploration, even if it never makes me rich. Trading forced me to be a better programmer; gave me an intuitive grasp of risk and statistics; and inspired my intellectual growth. In fact, it caused such a strong interest in certain types of system that am starting a masters/Ph.D program in computational social sciences this fall.
Good read but I would point out the whole green/red button thing is completely dependent on your site design. I've run dozens of split tests on dozens of sites and there is no right answer. In fact sometimes increasing contrast on conversion points lowers conversion rate. The change in message is the big takeaway from this article.
That's already done.
Right on!

The part I liked the most is the Michael Jordan quote. I didn't know MJ so statistical, and now I respect him a lot more.

A trader should do the same. A simple system of logging trading decisions like MJ did will greatly help a trader improve.

I always wish there are some web app that logs what those pundits (stocks or whatever) said, and keep a tab of their accuracy.
>Anyone that's a hard worker can get an undergraduate degree

I'd find this rather sad if it were really true.

If a degree is not mentally challenging then why not, why are Universities offering degrees that aren't focussed on higher learning (that would naturally exclude the less intellectually able)?
I don't think I was agreeing or disagreeing! Supplementing?

Mosaic cameras have an optical blurring device, the antialiasing filter, between the lens and the image sensor. It throws away information, so the image will always have residual blur. Even if the demosaicing algorithm does something a bit silly, it will still look like blur.
With the advent of electric motor vehicles and such technology non-dependent on oil, we should be transitioning to Type 2 technology
I've got another project I'm working on at the moment, but I expect that to go stable/released soon.

This idea has been very interesting to me for some time now. Drop me a line if you actually start working on this and are looking for a collaborator.
Why I'll never set foot in a transporter
>although with weight of ~1.5 kg it's not particularly lightweight (twice iPad's weight

it looks about twice the size of an iPad?
I'm not sure that this is true, that you really need density, because density is not the way humans interact. We interact with networks of social contacts, now if you virtualize contacts or if you have a higher network density, that means less people but they are better connected you might be able to compensate a lower overall density.
SixthSense Technology: Projecting the world of data onto our physical world
Maybe this can explain the fractals and reverse-engineer them.
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What, pray tell, is the semantic difference between "strong" and "emphasis"? They're lawyer words that mean anything you want them to!

The semantics of HTML are whatever the user agent does with them. It is a declarative programming language. If HTML were a semantic tool, I would be able to define what the <strident> element means in my system spec. Instead I have to find an inline element and hijack it, which is about as semantic as a poke in the eye with a sharp stick. The necessity of using templating engines for HTML is proof that it is a pretty weak tool for semantics.

And if somebody wants to inflict S expressions on me, I'd better get macros.

EDITED.
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The ecosystem of the deep-underground geology? (As hypothesized, blast products might not even reach the sea floor.)
I am curious, how does one remodel his or her brain. Or what type of brain remodelling do you need?
Internet generation of problem gamblers
Somewhere, some company will level the playing field on this feature. It's happened to phone companies, why not on this app?
Can you use a library from ajax.googleapis.com without an API key?
Does anybody know if it's OK with Google's TOS to simply include, for instance, <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.js">... without an API key? It's clear that you need one in order to invoke google.load("jquery", "1.4.2"), but Google may expect you to have it in any case. Thanks!
Anyone? Not sure about that. But most people, probably, yeah. The ex-government over here (UK) had a target for 50% of high-school graduates going to university (and, presumably, receiving a degree) -- it hasn't been met, yet, but substantial 'progress' has been made towards that. Naturally, this has resulted in substantial deteriorations in standards in many instances.

An awful lot of subjects, even the more academic ones, are mostly about remembering things -- understanding is optional. This correlates heavily with determination, time spent, repetition, etc. Intelligence? Useful, usually, but optional.

(Oh, and why? I dunno, the money?)
There isn't even any need to wait for April Fool's, you can see them in action any time you want :)
http://gathering.tweakers.net/forum/list_topics/23?templates...
Seconded, it was a great book.

I recently read a meta-analysis of salt studies that concluded that there was no clear answer, but I can't find it. Instead, here's another NYT article that talks about it: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/23/science/23tier.html?ref=sc...

I notice the OP's link doesn't talk about the science nearly as much. Instead, it talks about the commercial and political aspects, and how less salt will harm food flavors.
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XML and XSLT can separate it, although I don't know anyone who likes writing XSLT.

JSON for content and JavaScript to create HTML DOM would be my choice.
Perhaps someone here is familiar with the natural structure of oil reservoirs, such as the one that is currently spewing forth in the Gulf. I would be interested to know if they would fear, as I do, that nuking the reservoir would effectively just blow the top open.
Students ditch the books in favour of iPads
Byzantine Empire sends several ambassadors to Tang China, what map did they use?
<strong> is intended to convey importance, whereas <em> is intended to convey grammatical emphasis (as you would emphasize a word in a sentence when speaking):

"You're going to be gone for <em>three</em> weeks?" vs.
"You're going to be <em>gone</em> for three weeks?"

"Now we will talk about <strong>encapsulation</strong>".

These definitions taken from the HTML5 spec. Obviously, the words "strong" and "emphasis" are colloquially used interchangeably, but in HTML the language, they mean two distinct things.

Similarly, the old <b> and <i> have been redefined for different use where phrases should be typographically distinguished without the implication of emphasis.

Had we invented HTML today, we probably would have named these tags differently, but that's the nature of backwards compatibility and gradual evolution.
Might be obvious, but would love to see the code displayed with a monospaced font.
Seedcamp is determined to make the early stage investing work in Europe
It's true - Haskell people use a lot of testing, since it's pretty simple to do in that environment. However, compilers in my experience are extremely easy to test. You can start building your input at whatever stage of compiling you need, run a specific transformation phase on it and check the output. I'd risk the opinion that compiler is the easiest to test "advanced" piece of software. Because of that, I'd be more surprised by a compiler project without regression tests.
I do not believe this is correct.

Farmers are usually the last to know about fluctuations of commodity prices. Commodities are driven much more by macroeconomic trends that farmers cannot be expected to bother with. And as for stocks and a fidelity advisor. Oh man, that is also very very wrong. Stock picking is about seeing trends before others do and being gone before those trends end. The former is a relatively common trait, the latter is rarely intuitive and pretty rare.
Slate conducted a mass experiment in altering political memories
Congratulations! I like empirical inputs like these. I also read from one of Kissmetrics' articles that using the phrase "It's Free" also increases conversion rate.
You would still have to drill another hole, which would take the same amount of time as a relief well.
Woa - that was a big bomb. 35km blast radius.
You almost have to nurture a case of depersonalization disorder. If you know any successful traders, you probably know what I am talking about. They don't seem to experience or interpret things like everyone else.

To be playfully ironic, I'll list what I think are the two biggest issues:

1) Completely demolish the instinct to extrapolate linearly.

2) Train yourself to have no attachment to your expectations. (Coincidentally, this is #2 on the referenced webpage's list.)

This is certainly not exclusive to trading (e.g. scientists should operate this way) but I think it's harder to practice in trading. Money makes consequences very concrete. (Edit:) If a scientist conducts an experiment that fails to find anything significant, it's still "good science (TM)." If a trader fails to be profitable, he has failed at trading.
The first 25 minutes of Adam's talk apply amazingly well to becoming a great programmer. (The Q&A after 25 minutes is fun, too.)
Ask HN: Lets talk about Opentable.com
The "Lets talk about Etsy" post seemed to get some really good insight and feedback, so I thought I would do another about Opentable.com.

I will throw out some questions to get things going:

1) How did opentable overcome the Chicken and the egg problem? Did they build up a roster of restaurants before they even opened the consumer side of things?

2) Did OT start with just San Francisco? How fast did they expand into other cities? Or did they go from SF to nation wide in two steps?

3) How hard was it for Opentable to change the way people made reservations? Was the market ready for it or did it take a long time to get people to make reservations this way?
Naked shorts are basically selling counterfeit stock and should be banned. If I saw a naked short seller being burned at the stake, I wouldn't even spit on them.

Covered shorts are a way of renting out a long-term investment that you do not need at the moment. Renting out equity means that the arbitrageurs use it to make the market more efficient. This gives a buyer an improved price today and a seller an improved price tomorrow, with the short seller taking a modest cut for the valuable service they have provided. An analogy is separating land rights (long term investment) from mineral rights (consumption good).
Google hires UI guru Matias Duarte as Director of Android User Experience
If you're not familiar with QuickCheck, it's easy to get the impression that Haskellers aren't big fans of test suites because the type system catches so many bugs for which you would otherwise need a bunch of regression tests to find.
It started long before PG released Arc.

My theory is that because most of those people are very intelligent yet utterly ineffectual, they act as a kind of support group for one another. They view Lisp as a monastic order where in order to keep the tradition alive, one is forced by the circumstances to give up all his worldly ambitions. PG didn't buy it, and succeeded. So to keep the ideology consistent, you need to introduce the assumption that PG is not a "true" Lisper.
Then moneytize transparently, i.e. based on true costs. Charging for skype-to-skype calls is fine as long as clients are treated equally whether they were using dial-up, wifi, satellite or avian carriers. The type of client's connection is as unrelated as the color of his/her socks.
lol src on features windows has but not linux?
inb4 directx
Common Lisp allows you to wrap declarations around forms. Use LOCALLY for that.
Google has released a list of 1000 most-visited sites on the web
you can drag drop play a fractional calculus in Mathematica

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/FractionalDerivative.html

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/FractionalIntegral.html
Some of the more popular pundits are visible enough that independent researchers compile comparative reports on them versus the market in general. Their are many on the (annoyingly loud) lightning rod that is Jim Cramer (e.g. http://www.scribd.com/doc/15672032/Investing-in-Mad-Money). Other people have much more precise records for comparison: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ta?s=BRK-A&t=my&l=on&...

In a similar vein, WSJ had a very clever "dartboard contest" for years. (http://www.investorhome.com/darts.htm) Unfortunately, it requires a subscription to see the results. You might find it interesting if you have one.
Yes, that was what I meant. Sorry for my English.
The extra usability is a function of the carrier's network, not anything on Skype's end. And since many of us are already paying our carriers for data plans, why should Skype arbitrarily charge us a second time? I still don't get it.
True, there are the Flash-clones. Hadn't considered those.

I know the average just-uses-it user has a use for pages-as-apps, and there's the Flash-clone market, but I'm primarily interested in the geeky crowd here. Personally, I'd probably use the browser 95%+ of the time, largely because I can customize it and it's consistent across sites. I value consistency & integration higher than a click or two, but I know I'm not everyone.

Admittedly, I don't have an iPod/Phone/Pad, largely due to being a poor college student. I have plans to nab one and probably make a couple apps, but not quite yet.
Bruce Sterling evangelizes the multitool in his Last Viridian Note: http://www.viridiandesign.org/2008_11_01_archive.html

"I strongly recommend that you carry a multitool. There are dozens of species of these remarkable devices now, and for good reason. Do not show them off in a beltpack, because this marks you as a poorly-socialized geek. Keep your multitool hidden in the same discreet way that you would any other set of keys.

"That's because a multitool IS a set of keys. It's a set of possible creative interventions in your immediate material environment. That is why you want a multitool. They are empowering.

"A multitool changes your perceptions of the world. Since you lack your previous untooled learned-helplessness, you will slowly find yourself becoming more capable and more observant. If you have pocket-scissors, you will notice loose threads; if you have a small knife you will notice bad packaging; if you have a file you will notice flashing, metallic burrs, and bad joinery. If you have tweezers you can help injured children, while if you have a pen, you will take notes. Tools in your space, saving your time. A multitool is a design education.

"As a further important development, you will become known to your friends and colleagues as someone who is capable, useful and resourceful, rather than someone who is helpless, frustrated and visibly lacking in options. You should aspire to this better condition.

"Do not lug around an enormous toolchest or a full set of post-earthquake gear unless you are Stewart Brand..."

(the whole thing is well worth a read)

I think his reasons for carrying one a very similar to the reasons you might want a general-purpose, high-performance, relatively popular, high level and concise programming language in your back pocket. For those odd times when you need to consume an API, or decompose a high-dimensional matrix, or simulate traffic flow. You know, at a bar or something.

And of course, "do not lug around an enormous library of hand-rolled lisp macros unless you are Paul Graham."
barely readable
"most" is definitely debatable. My browser serves for social and searching almost exclusively. Everything else I use an application for, because it runs faster and has significantly better persistent storage.
Ask HN: Are we Knowledge Miners sent by Aliens?
I was watching Ancient Aliens on the History Channel, and Given our current patterns in collecting and preserving knowledge and also by automating knowledge gathering. Are we also some sort of knowledge miners sent by aliens to explore this Planet and report back to them? In my brahmin culture, we burn our dead elders, does this mean we are sending back the knowledge they have in the sky to someone?

This is just what i suspect. think about it :)
which contains the massive hurdle of either parsing all news sites through all changes, or getting the newspapers to work with you / produce an API for getting content.

Good luck to all who try, I wouldn't want to be in your shoes.
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Does anyone recall the studies about markets or securities where shorts are banned?

I seem to recall that onion commodities cannot be shorted and have a great deal more volatility because of it.
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Perhaps multi armed bandit algorithms can help here. They automatically balance testing to see which version is better with using the best version as much as possible.

A multi armed bandit algorithm is a gambler with a number of levers at his disposal. He chooses which lever to pull and then receives a reward. In this case lever 1 is "show page version A" and lever 2 is "show page version B". The algorithms work so that they balance discovering which lever is best with pulling the best lever.

Here's an example of a very simple algorithm. Record the average profit for page A and page B in two variables. Now with probability p (for example p=95%) choose the page with the highest average profit so far. With probability 1-p pick one at random. A more advanced algorithm could vary p over time so that it starts at 0% increases towards 100%.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-armed_bandit
Nitpick: selector matching is done before rendering, so it doesn't actually affect rendering speed (changes that affect opacity and clipping would).
Why does it have to be an atomic bomb? I'm no explosives expert, but I think it is very likely that one could find a non-atomic bomb with the necessary power.
A shallower hole, which would take less time.