skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not what I meant by certainty. But I can see it might be unclear.

Seriously though. And I am not trying to be contrarian.

Can you please explain to me how this

In examples 7 and 8, Standard English again assumes indwelling spooks and continues to separate observer and observed; English Prime assumes no spooks and reminds us of QUIP (the QUantum Inseparability Principle, so named by Dr. Nick Herbert), namely, the impossibility of existentially separating observer and observed.

http://www.rawilson.com/quantum.html

Isn't complete pseudo talk.

And

Nick Herbert

QUIM

"The Quantum Intimacy Machine"
http://quantumtantra.com/quim.html

Another great quantum product?

I mean I am a monist, I don't believe you can separate the observer and the observed. But QUIP and QUIM?

Have you tried to look up QUIP? Did you see how many of those new uses of quantum exist. Quantum Tantra?!? I mean really?

You want me to take that stuff serious?

And when you finally get to something that actually mentions QUIP and is not some new age rambling (and I say that as one who actually believe some new agers know what they are talking about), what I get is by no metrics comparable to eprime.

They discuss two completely unrelated things. Semantics and QM are NOT related.

That is what I have problems with.
You use Windows?
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Thats true, but it isn't so much the baggage, as it is that you can't distribute a program written in C# unless your users have the .Net runtime installed, which is a pretty fucking big download.

It is 2010, and it still doesn't have a linker (this wouldn't have mattered so much if the programs where still distributed on a CD, but it sucks when you have to download that much).
I don't know, but I think both are bad. If I were him, I'd probably bump the college degree by a couple years.
Did they add the site's tagline after most of these HN comments were made? It clearly reads, "Help to make sense of the Daily Mail's ongoing effort to classify every inanimate object into those that cause cancer and those that prevent it," which makes it pretty obvious that they're poking fun. Everyone here seems to be reacting as if this site is claiming to be a reputable source of information about cancer-causing materials.

EDIT: Oops... looks like acangiano beat me to it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1495362

We even both used the term "tagline," which is kind of interesting, since it could just easily have been called a "subtitle" or something.
You must be kidding, right?
I made this - thanks for voting it to the top of HN!

In case anyone's still unclear, it is a tongue-in-cheek dig at the Daily Mail's reporting of cancer stories. It's most definitely not a medical resource. I could probably have done the same with almost any newspaper, but the Daily Mail is uniquely deserving of opprobrium.

You can get the code and a database export on GitHub if you're interested: http://github.com/threedaymonk/kill-or-cure

I wrote the whole thing one Sunday night and tweeted about it at midnight; by midday the next day, I had successfully crowdsourced the analysis of all the articles. If I'd known how successful it would be, I'd have written a better, more detailed crowdsourcing process.
Enough of our economy is tied to the internet now (and in the future will likely be more so) that it is becoming possible to actively effect stock markets through interrupting key areas.

If you can DOS enough services Amazon, Google, Yahoo, MSN, ebay, etc. for long enough you will get a significant response. Especially denying access to search engines would full-out cripple most peoples internet usage.

I'm guilty of the crime of using google search to find URL's that I know off by heart and I'm a techy. The vast majority of people don't remember URL's (besides perhaps google and facebook) that they'd never survive a search engine block out.

It would be difficult to DOS Yahoo, Google and MSN simultaneously. However, it's not impossible. Hack enough DNS servers too and you can DOS anything.
The answer:

You end up with seemingly arbitrary limitations like single line lambdas, just like Python.
Did the North Koreans seem to do this? Of all the World Cup teams they're the most culturally isolated. Most of the European and South American players all know each other because they play in the same European leagues.
I know some popular site load their javascript ad codes within and iframe. loads much much faster, some ad agencies even allow custom iframe codes but you have to ask for them.
I didn't read this very carefully, but why does 128 bits automatically make it a hash? That's also the block size for AES, and the length of the string "US Cyber Command".
A good barometer for whether a decent college grad should take a job is how elite business schools will perceive the work experience-- they generally require four years of real-world work experience in applicants. I'm not saying that everyone needs to go to Harvard Business School (I most likely won't) but that people should only take jobs that are putting them on the right track.
DrivePromise iPhone app helps you stop txting while driving
Quick summary from /.:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1705630&cid=...
for those with no patience who want to get to the joke.
http://colorillo.com/ is good too.
An idea is a starting point. That's it. It's like loading the first page into the typewriter for a novel -- the real work has yet to be done, and success is not guaranteed. One reason to keep things private is being able to work (and stumble along) with peace of mind it's unlikely others are doing the hard work of figuring out how to execute correctly. If others know you're working on it, they may take that as the validation they should be working on figuring it out (and possibly failing) too!
I don't think it is an issue, plus I'm not sure if it's accurate. Setting aside the automobile industry there are still some extremely successful manufacturing companies in the US.

Eliyahu M. Goldratt wrote an interesting book on the subject in the 1980s.
I connect from my MacBook Pro (10.6), iMac (10.6), iPhone (4.0) and iPad (3.2) to an Open/SWAN server. It works great.

This is with L2TP/IPsec. No crazy auth, just username/password/secret.
Kinda Pythonic, as someone else already noted.
It may sound a bit boastful but I know I can find lots of good idea. I keep writing them everywhere. I see new apps coming out with idea I had years ago. And since I realized that, I don't care anymore talking about them.

Talking about ideas actually make them better since you learn if it was really that great.. or you only thought it was great but it's just bad.

Last thing, you start with an idea.. but as you work through, it changes a lot. So, even if someone would start with the same idea, the end product would be totally different. That's also another reason to publish really fast.. you see if your idea was worthwhile and you can improve on it with feedback.

And, real last thing, from my experience, sometime it isn't that bad to be in stealth mode for the "general public" because if you show them something ugly visually, they might just ignore it by thinking it sucks. So what I do is, I show sketches and prototypes, but not the evolution of my prototype. So, people say "Wow" instead of "Hmm, that could be interesting. (Thinking, ugh wtf is that.)".
Answer: ideas aren't worthless.

An idea has no value to you if you can't execute, but it has long-term value if you might be able to do so in the future, and it definitely has value to competitors who may wish to execute it now.

[Edit: Also, "ideas are worthless" sounds like the speak of arrogant VCs who want to downplay the importance of entrepreneurs... I've never heard an entrepreneur make such a statement.]
Reader does the same thing readability does, because reader is based on readability. They both preserve images within articles as long as they are not in form of widgets (flickr).
Regarding your 15mo there's a good book called The Hungry Monkey. It's about a food critic who is trying to get his child to eat well. The upshot of the story, and from talking to various chefs in the story is that kids eat what kids eat.

It seems that the palettes of people continuously evolves, so even if he devours ice cream and doritos now, he may end up being the food writer for the Times when he grows up.

The key seems to be to present good foods to him. Let him see you eat it. But have something he'll eat too that you can bring out if he doesn't eat. It's more important for his development to eat any food, and humans are ridiculously resiliant to diets lacking in diversity (just use a multivitamin for deficiencies in key vitamins and minerals). Probably the only thing to watch out for is a LOT of sodium. But I'd be less concerned about things like fat and sugars than I would be for an adult.
I think if you have an established player who can jump into your area without a large investment it makes sense to keep your project a secret. The initial jump you get on them before they can counter could be enough time to gain some traction.

This probably isn't always the case and I think most of s probably err pretty heavily on the side of caution, I know I can be secretive at times for little real reason. Just would hate to release something then around the same time have a competitor steal the limelight with a release that addresses everything you were doing to differentiate your product.
Plenty of illegal immigrants have bank accounts. At least around here (Bay Area) it's kind of a joke -- there's literally a separate line for illegal immigrants to do all-cash transactions. Presumably they use a fake SSN to open the account.

Also, there is nothing preventing illegal immigrants from going to college. It's unfair, however, for tax payers to subsidize their education even further when an American citizen who happens to be from another state must pay full tuition.
Gripping, but not HN.
If your respected and well known, you better keep your novel ideas secret, cause people will try to copy you because they assume your ideas are valuable.

It is not as important when you starting out.
I have been trying to come up with a concept for this bias for a while for a certain case. The argument is that the earth has the "perfect" conditions for life. Any deviation would result in a planet devoid of life, thus only an intelligent designer could create such conditions. Survivor bias seems to be the exact term I've been looking for to describe this fallacy. Thanks for the link.
Of course, once you've answered all those questions you now have more than just an "idea." You have a plan of attack, a strategy, market research, design concepts, historical data, etc. In other words, you actually have something worth protecting.

So, are you effectively saying that the answer to the opening question is that startups in stealth mode aren't really protecting ideas, but are protecting the plan of attack, the strategy, market research, design concepts, historical data, etc?

This could be true, but do startups which are not in stealth mode really divulge all that info (plan of attack, strategy, market research, etc) to the public? It seems that the difference between stealth mode and non-stealth mode is simply in telling the public what you are working on. This is the knowledge that is deemed, by stealth startups, valuable enough to keep secret, i.e. the knowledge of what they are working on.
Couldn't agree more. It's the details of the idea resulting from execution that make all the difference. That part of it should be in stealth.
I have played SC, WC3 and the SC2 Beta and I love them all, but I feel as though they need to implement a more complex macro system to allow for advanced players to not need APM's this high. For me personally, it is just too tiring (physically) to attempt to consistently play 100+ APM games.
No, you turn the TV off and set the kid in front of his homework. (I don't have kids but that's what my parents did to me. It worked well enough.)
Sure, The Daily Mail, just like any other mainstream news source creates sensationalist headlines to shock you into reading. That doesn't make the studies cited any less accurate. Nor should it prevent us from having an on-topic conversation about something more in-depth.
Out of curiosity, why did you shorten that URL?
I think it's interesting that in the language features vs editor features debate, Lispers tend to be on the "language features" side, while Java programmers usually favor powerful IDEs/editors.

In this particular discussion, the sides are oddly flipped!
A bit out of topic, but does anyone here write (serious) scheme/lisp code with vim ? Just a curious question ...
Obama Stresses Strong Support for Israel While Meeting with Netanyahu
Interesting concept, but frustrating in that NTP is only mentioned briefly. So what is the difference?

More technical detail, please.
Note that that's not what the author of the article says.

"If it looks like nobody is going to ask a question, I get up and ask my prepared question. If someone actually does run to the microphone, I won't try and beat them (unless I have a question that I really want to ask). It's not that I need to ask a question -- I'm happy as long as someone asks a question."
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is it not a waste for someone to open a fire-hydrant so they can bathe their dog's paws? Your definition of "usage is not a waste" is really questionable.

BTW, there was no ad-hom attack on your handle, but rather an observation of your potential leaning -- i'm a capitalist too ( i think most HN'ers are) so I figured i'd respond to make sure you weren't going to write me off as a hippy-enviro.
You mean expand on the emulator-based debugger?
If you're going to pick one, I recommend HDStarcraft; his commentaries have the best stuff/fluff ratio IMO. I enjoyed his casts so much I tossed him a couple of bucks.
OpenVPN works for me.

We do use Cisco for work and that works across all of them, but it ain't cheap son.
This "cause and effect" argument strikes me as incredibly shallow thinking. Do you seriously believe that the only way people learn cause and effect is from spankings? Appealing to cause and effect is extremely misleading because a punishment is not a natural effect of the cause of misbehavior. This is true almost by definition - you have to create a punishment because there is no natural negative consequences to whatever they did. That's why no-one punishes kids for falling and skinning their knee - the effect proceeds naturally from the cause. So the punishment is by definition an artificial manufacturing of a negative consequence to enforce the behavior of the parent's choosing -- not only is this objectively true, every child knows this. If you ask a kid why they get punished, how many would say "That's the way the universe works, it's like gravity."? None. They all realize that it's the parent's decision and choice, and are well-aware that other parent's make different decisions.

The reason this is important is that attempting to elide the parent's choice in how and when to punish is an attempt to avoid responsibility for being an authority, with all the questions of legitimacy, responsibility, transparency, appropriateness & fairness that that entails. Saying your actions are natural consequences like gravity means you are making yourself into a tyrant who cannot be questioned. This failure to accept the responsibility of being an authority is also a mark of the permissive parent, who refuses to set any limits at all. Even though they seem like opposites, they have something in common.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2316004/Mobile%20Photo%20Jul%207%2C%...

Had to take it with my iPhone 4, so it's not included in the picture. Before you ask, I'm a mobile developer.
There is a much more straightforward and principled way: the Metropolis algorithm (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis%E2%80%93Hastings_alg...). You are basically sampling from the distribution of n-gram likelihoods by following a markov chain. Here is a javascript implementation: http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/tachim/page.html
Yes, that's fucked up and sad. Maybe all his success went to his head. My point was that not everything he did good should be cast in the bad light, for instance, a person wanting to run a manufacturing business could gain a lot from taking his advise. I'm not an apologist, just think there is value in reading about extraordinary people.
Awesome. I'll keep that one in mind for when I'm a world famous intellectual giving a talk. grin
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Wrote a bit about that here:
http://mrdoob.com/blog/post/701
Probably only in the same sense that Sukhotin's algorithm could be modified to implement the rules to Super Mario Brothers.
There is so much talk in this article about how having a child does not affect your happiness positively, and the cited examples range from dealing with the financial burden to the psychological distress of trying to control a misbehaving kid.

The author even notes with surprise that "housework" ranked above parenting on the list of things that made women happy in a Texan study several years ago. I bet video games are more fun, too.

But nowhere do I see a comparison between how it feels to look back on your life after raising a kid for 18 years, and how it feels to look back on your life after playing Xbox for 18 years.

We're all hedonists; the only difference is who has the patience to do what makes them joyful tomorrow instead of what gives them chuckles today.
Ask HN: How could buildings apps that process incoming email be less painful?
I'm doing some research about hard it is to build apps that process incoming email (think Posterous or TripIt), and exploring possible solutions.

If you've built or are interested in building an app that processes incoming email, I'd love to ask you some questions. Drop me an email at ajstiles@gmail.com and I'll get in touch.

Thanks!
> We even both used the term "tagline,"

We were clearly meant to be best friends, Mr. Cantor. :-P
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Well.. You might find Logorama inspiring: http://vimeo.com/10149605
The "Hardwired" movie (bad movie!) has an interesting begining scene devoted to Logos too...
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Yeah - That's a pet-peeve of mine: frontend and backend are entirely contextual. Some people would say backend about server side code. Other might split the server side code into two. Some times your application uses web services; Then people often refer to those as being backend for your application. Without further qualification, the words are meaningless.
And Opera has an "accessibility layout" builtin
Ideas may be worthless, but information isn't.

Having an idea for a better mousetrap, as a trite example, isn't by itself worth much. It's only valuable if you can build the better mousetrap, build it at a profitable pricepoint, convince the world they need a better mousetrap, etc.

But if you're already in the mousetrap business, the information that a new competitor is planning to launch a better mousetrap might be very valuable information.
I found both of the C code examples equally readable, but personally use neither one when I code in C. I don't (usually) stack closing braces in C mostly so that I don't accidentally kill a line with a closing brace on it. That sort of thing can theoretically happen in Lisp, but is usually easier to spot and easier to fix.

I do, however, in C put the opening brace on the same line as the definition, generally to make grep more productive. I've found it nice to be able to grep for { (or even "){" and get some useful information.
I had programmed an APM counter for the SC2Beta that either:

A)autoreports your APM every 10 seconds, or

B)warns you when your APM is below a user defined threshold

let me know if there is any interest and I'll release it (windows only atm).
Agree with this. The front-end developer position should include design as well (as all web designers should have strong HTML/CSS skills anyways to correctly do their job).
I don't think many people will pay for a canvas full of penises (which is what it's been looking like both times I've looked at it, i.e. yesterday and today).
err, this is how investors work. they invest when you've laid down your "kindling" etc. entrepreneurs wish they could raise VC on ideas alone.
Perhaps this is true in CL, but Clojure makes it easy to define private functions.

In the case of the particular example he points to it's just a long function because many people contributed to that function over a period of several months.
OAuth requires a user to be logged in, which is fine if that is the type of service you are running. If you want to search LinkedIn like you might twitter, you are out of luck if you want to do it through the API. And even if you do have a service that OAuth fits, the TOS is scary enough to avoid it.
The point of "stealth mode" is timing. You can gain significant market advantage by springing the surprise on your (potential) competitors instead of giving them X months advance notice of your plans and ideas.

Prominent recent example: ipad 2010. It was rumored alright, still I bet it led to significant constipation at Plastic Logic, Microsoft, or Amazon, not to mention all those netbook builders. To think that Plastic Logic thought they could get away with a price point of more than the iPad's 500 USD for a mere reading device... Now they are scrambling, and perhaps they will find a viable strategy in the future, but still, they are all "behind the curve", and that has as much to do with Apple's execution as with the fact that Apple didn't announce its plans for the iPad 18 months before introduction.
Even the North Koreans leave to play in international tournaments though. Some play overseas in other leagues.
Nope, I haven't changed anything. You can check the git commits if you don't believe me ;-)
Being the first on a new market has many advantages. It doesn't guarantee long term success, but — many times — it has proven to be worth it.
For ideas that don't require heavy investments in infrastructure, and with the abundance of open source clones of commercial software, the "time to market" has decreased tremendously and matters even more.
A good execution will make your idea shine, and being first to release it doesn't hurt either, hence the stealth mode.
So, wanna hang out later[1]?

1 - http://xkcd.com/165/
I met with an angel once who seemed to feel frontend meant suits and backend meant coders. I completely misunderstood his question because I was thinking of the coders' definition of the terms.
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Exercising is probably what helps you. Most RSI sufferers don't exercise enough (myself included).

I don't think it has to do with habit; a lot of RSI sufferers, myself included, started using computers very young. Humans have evolved to walk long distances, but we haven't evolved to sit all day holding our arms in front of us in a relatively static position, doing repetitive wrist and hand movements. If on top of that you don't exercise, have weak muscles overall and bad blood flow... Well, that's asking for trouble.
I made one of these last week to play with nodejs and WebSockets.

My heavily-unoptimized wire protocol used uncompressed JSON objects sent at each mousemove event on the canvas while drawing, which means it's great fun on the LAN, but would choke any affordable Internet link.

It appears that this one solves the problem by limiting the rate at which you can draw—drag the mouse too fast, and it lifts the pencil.