skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't take a strong position on evolution one way or another because the outcome doesn't affect me in any way.

You're just fine with having the next generation of schoolkids taught that "God Did It (or maybe aliens)" is the only acceptable explanation for the origin of life, then? Because this fight started with religious zealots trying to prosecute teachers for going against scripture, and it's hard to have any doubt that the clowns pushing Intelligent Design would do something similar if people stopped smacking them down. It might not matter to you whether evolution is right or not, but that's not what the fight is about - the fight is about whether or not scientists should have to poll the idiocracy and make sure they won't offend them before reporting their findings.

And yes, I'm arguing slippery slope, maybe - but the argument in favor of worry is a lot more compelling when we've just finished clawing our way up from the bottom.

It seems like the more we know the more we lose sight of what we still don't know and don't proceed with much humility.

Absolutely. And with climate science, I'd tend to agree with you, we don't know all that much and might want to be careful about how much we trust the preliminary findings - the data appears to be messy, incomplete, and difficult to work with, and the field started out so highly politicized that it's hard to know who to trust.

Evolution, on the other hand, is not even in the same ballpark - evidence is plentiful, it all agrees with the theory, and consensus is overwhelming (and one big difference between bio and climate science is that biologists don't tend to go into biology because of political leanings, so there's far less selection bias amongst researchers).
Ask HN: Requesting HN'ers to give me Career advice
To start with I have started to doubt if at all it is possible to have a career of a software developer/C.S. researcher without any glass ceiling.

Here is my case:
1: I am 22 years and 3 weeks old

2: I am doing Masters at top 7 school in C.S. (and by the time I graduate I would still be 22 years and 11 months old)

3: Even though I am interested in C.S. research, I am scared of doing Ph.D., if I dont get into top few universities.

4: I did my undergraduation in a hard engineering subject in a foreign country. (i.e. I am Fresh of the Boat Alien)

5: I am really good at C.S.,I have authored few papers in a reputed international journal (About application on machine learning in my undergrad field) + presented a poster in well attended C.S. conference, while getting an NSF fellowship for the same. Plus currently I have a cool internship at a billion $ market-cap Company, where I get to work on Hadoop and stuff.

Now here is my problem:
I love solving problems, unlike people who got interested in programming by making websites, I got amazed by its ability to solve problems by computation. Hence I dont want a job which involves significant amount of (for lack of appropriate term) enterprise fizz-buzz programming.
I would love to become an Analyst in company like McKinsey or Bains or BCG etc. Though such jobs are extremely hard to get
My beloved other option is to join any of Google, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Microsoft. These again hard if not harder than above ones.

This leaves me with three fail-safe options:
1: Join a startup (I dont mind low salary, since my major objective is to pay back my loan + I am low maintainance person), however startup rarely take student on F1 [yet I can work in US for 29 moth post graduation without H1B]

2: Join a PhD Course after a year of job or right after the degree.

3: Work on Application development job for three years and then try applying for an MBA.

My Final Aim is to get an MBA from a really good university.
This is in turn because over course of a year I have realized that except for the top 10 tech companies it is very hard to grow as an engineer/developer. I totally resent the comparison with the whole IT guy, which I routinely get in my current workplace, where I am doing far important and useful things.

Lastly I would love to get a Quant Job, however entry level jobs in Algorithmic Trading, even for developers seems to be missing. And all I can find are jobs that require an experience of 5 years in Java.

Please help me...
Thanks
> Speculation is a zero-sum activity between speculators

I agree.

> any individual seller's gain is some other seller's loss

I disagree. A farmer can sell to a grocer and both can gain.
Before the site was shut down in May for legal reasons

Have these been resolved? Can you expand upon what happened and how you resolved it?
From my own beginner experience, while it may become easy when you found your most suitable tools setup, it's not easy to discover it in the first place. Yes, it may be great and modular, but it takes effort to find all the pieces you need and put them together. And doing this usually involves reading a lot of grossly outdated blog posts and HOWTOs, because there is no Official Way(tm).
The reason he gives for 2D monitors being bad for your eyes is spot on.

However, it seems to me that these would actually be better because they would make your eyes change thier depth of focus more.

Looking at sterograms can actually improve your vision by strengthening eye muscles that aren't frequently used in our computer - don't go outside and change focus much - age.
"The command-line invocation of Clojure will work if you have a valid Java setup, and with the addition of jReadline, you have a decent, albeit bare-bones, environment for experimenting. Copy and pasting code and running it directly works, and once you figure out how to 'source' in a file, you can start building something modularized and significant."

That's the really big "IF" that the article is trying to address, I think. If you already have your head firmly wrapped around java, then Clojure isn't a monster - but if you don't, you have to cover a lot of ground to actually produce production code with it.
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Most RSS readers suck because they a) are too slow and b) assume you want to read every article i every feed.

I've not tried all the suggestions here (Reeder and Fever sound interesting) but having used GReader and Feedly I keep coming back to using Firefox Live Bookmarks with the LiveClick plugin. I can very quickly see and scan what's new. And with XMarks the feeds can be synced between your computers. Horses for courses I guess.
Because it's not a storefront to sell apps, it's just a catalog, and the developer of the webapp needs to take care of anything like that on their own.

I understand that it is a catalog and not a store. I didn't mean to imply that the exact webpage you linked was a storefront.

How would Apple try to cash in on these when most of them are free or tied to a service that I assume a lot of developers created the webapp for in the first place, rather than have to fork over 30%/pay the $99 iOS Developer Program fee/deal with review hassles with Apple?

Other than the OP I have seen other complete applications built on top of web technologies. I can believe that there are some web devs who would be willing to have their app reviewed and do the revenue share if it meant they didn't have to worry about setting up a store front and handling payments.
Practical question: How do we go about doing this? Say there's some band out there. A friend gives me a copy of one of their songs. I want to give the band $1. How do I do it?
A fundamental problem that I see is twofold:

First, we have a more educated populace globally (not just in the US) - this leads to more confidence in our own opinions, and when combined with "the university of Google" and trusting everything one reads on the internet you'll get echo-chambers of likemindedness repeatedly referring to each other. We tend to believe things that we hear over and over. Add in the lack of accountability within the media to appropriately question all claims from all sides in a scientific manner and you can easily become highly insular in your views and opinions.

Secondly - science has moved on in ways unfathomable a century ago - a time where the wealthy could afford an education and those without could not (and hence trusted those with an education more, although you can also claim that corporations have also lessened the trust in anyone too). The sciences today are so incredibly complex that the scientific community has the option to either:
a) dumb it down; or
b) dumb it down.
The problem there is that when you simplify science, you lose some of the details and open yourself up for cherry-picking critique. Add in the issue that most science is now not black-or-white (something that the conservative in everyone prefers) but rather is based on probability (yes, I know all about the black swan events that through out prior observations, however scientific method requires repeatability) - irrespective of whether or not the lifestyle that they currently live is based on such approaches. Add in the proud to be innumerate and scientifically illiterate and you've got some major problems. Mix in that science now looks like religion to the lay person, due to the complexity and lack of comprehension, and you're going to have big problems.

What is the scientific community to do? I'm not sure. We need to change the perception of science in the community. We need to educate people on the scientific method (even though there are many in the hardcore religious groups who oppose it). Then we need to build a better grounding in science for the next generation and make it valued in the same way that the financial and legal sectors are. After all - they're all dependent on the discoveries for their own operations.
And much-much more expensive to get it off the planet. Also, six out of every twelve months, you're wrong.
I think this is the way capital markets were originally supposed to work; matching companies in need of growth capital with investors seeking to earn a risk-adjusted return on their long-term savings.

Unfortunately, the financial markets have morphed over time such that now, traders trade for the sake of trading. Instead of our work being our wealth, trading securities somehow became an end unto itself. What's worse is that there really are two markets today: one for the individual retail investor and a second for institutional investors.

Retail investors are taught to 'invest for the long-term', and 'not try to time the market' meanwhile hedge-funds and high-frequency traders play a different game with different rules. Their profits come primarily at the expense of retail investors and in many cases investment banks 'front-run' their own clients taking advantage of their customers in a way that would be illegal in any other industry.

John Stewart explains it better than I ever could in his face to face indictment of Jim Cramer of CNBC:
http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2009/03/13/jon-stewart-an...

(Link for the Canadians:
http://watch.thecomedynetwork.ca/the-daily-show-with-jon-ste...)
Tell HN: Stocks are not a zero sum game and high frequency trading is great
Stocks represent distributed company ownership. Entrepreneurship (creating companies) has historically been positive value in aggregate.

The stock market is the aggregate of all publicly traded entrepreneurship. Trading would be zero sum if and only if the value of that ownership is constant. It is not.

A reasonable argument is that nobody knows what the growth rate of the market is and over short timescales it is kind of sort of constant, so you might as well think of it as so. That response is really a knock against high frequency trading and not generally against dabbling in stocks.

[Most] High frequency trading and "investing" are basically the same thing on different timescales.

Value investing might be characterized as finding undervalued companies, purchasing them, then, as Ben Graham might put it, waiting for Mr. Market to correctly value the company.

There are flavors of HFT that aren't easily defensible, but much high frequency trading is basically the same as value investing, using a different definition of "undervalued", which happens to be measured in much smaller time intervals.
yes, they have been resolved. I will expand upon them more through email.
Follow & Tweet Widget - Another jQuery Plugin
This plugin display avatars of people who have recently followed your twitter account and tweeted your link. It would be useful when you have a new project launch and you need to encourage people to follow & tweet it by showing their Twitter avatars!
Well, what else can I call a bunch of former ISP employee video game player Arduino hacking sex-industry dabbling Discordians who have open relationships and throw costume parties with each other where they have to declare certain rooms PG-13 so there's no full-frontal nudity?

They are silly folks but sometimes lots of fun.
the strong Austrian current you see here is probably due to 2 factors:

1. libertarianism & anarcho-capitalism are fairly popular among programmers

2. the "markets good, government bad" belief is pretty common among business fans

personally I think there's both good and bad, wisdom and horrible flaws, in both of those belief areas
Sometimes I feel like C programmers don't really understand reuse, but the fact that they implemented VP8 in 1400 lines of code means that I am wrong. Excellent work!
Feels like they had a class discussion before each drawing. Its basically the same before and after theme. Before: white lab coat, glasses. After: 'normal' people. Not very scientific, excuse the pun.
Yes, voluntary compliance with regulations works so well to preserve the Commons - it was clearly in BP's interest to comply with regulations in the Gulf, for instance, and clearly in Goldman-Sachs's interest to preserve the global financial structure. Only idiots would choose short-term savings or profit-taking over long-term global stability, after all; enlightened self-interest will take care of everything!

I like your overall philosophy that coercion is wrong, and in principle I agree with it. I wish that human nature didn't contradict it. Sadly, on every hand I see that actual, real live human beings must be coerced to do good if even the slightest amount of consistency is required.
Seven copies of Windows 7 per second: Less than Coke, more than UNIVAC.
It may just be me - I have a really bad allergic reaction to Java at this point - but the notion of making your new language powerful really quickly by linking it directly to Java has always struck me as akin to learning to fly more quickly by handcuffing a B52 to your leg.

This article does little to relieve my suspicions. It sounds like the Clojure newb experience is still a superset of the Java newb experience and the Lisp newb experience.
I completely agree - I see these kids walking through the halls with employees who were told specifically "OK, emphasize normalcy."

Wouldn't it be ironic if this whole this was a setup experiment (well, it sorta was).
At least two companies in the South Bay (Google, Yahoo) hire daily shuttles for employees living in San Francisco, and most offer some form of compensation for those who take public transportation. Are you really losing 2-3 hours when you could be processing email on your smartphone, or reading the news and social updates that you would otherwise dick around with during the workday?
It depends on what you want/need to do with your phone.

If you travel internationally, The Nexus One is a great choice because it's GSM. You'll have to put up with T-Mobile/AT&T in the states, but when you're abroad, just pop in a foreign SIM card and you're good to go.

If you want the fastest internet with no caps, look at the EVO from Sprint. With 4G speeds from 3-6Mbps in about 2 dozen cities and a hotspot supporting up to 8 devices, you can almost use it as your only internet connection at home.

If you do a lot of texting/emailing, the Droid from Verizon is about the best Android phone around with a slide out keyboard, plus you get a reliable network to back it up.

I guess in the end you have to decide what you want and go from there...
I think you mean a "maintenance regimen". Cures are for suckers.
"Now there were no external links to these AWS subdomains but, being a domain registrar, Google was notified of the new DNS entries and went ahead and indexed loads of pages"

Domain registrars wouldn't be notified of new RR's inside a second-level domain - that would be pointless.

I can't see any way they would ever index a URL that used a dns RR that was brand new - I'd hazard a guess that either the URL was used previously within the cloud and published somewhere, or it was set up as a CNAME in your own DNS, or your main webserver returned it as a response to a googlebot in some fashion at some point.
Yes, but to what end? When it comes to creating things that have value, I like objective standards and my favorite definition is Buckminster Fuller's: "Real wealth is whatever nurtures and accommodates human life." Anything else is pointless.

Incidentally, a recent study claims that 60% of UK workers feel that their work is of no use to society. Financial Services, Telemarketing, Spammers, High-Frequency Traders and many other 'professions' would fit this description.
Here is the link: http://www.reddit.com/r/Economics/comments/cjgx7/60_of_uk_wo...
Apparently your wildest dreams aren't very wild.
I live in a 1,000 square foot house. It's the right size for my wife and I. We'd fit just fine with a kid as well... Having lived in smaller apartments (down to 500 square feet) I just don't see me doing it ever again:)
As habitual pack rat I'm fascinated by these tiny houses. I think it would be great to simply live in a smaller space. Then there isn't any room for clutter to accumulate.
http://www.infomarketingblog.com is a good place to start. The author is a copywriter who aggregates successful ads (e.g. the ones with measurable results, that get used again and again). I've read it from start to finish a couple times.

Start with this one, which answers your question at length:

http://www.infomarketingblog.com/100-good-advertising-headli...
Has anyone here done this or is doing this? Back in 2008 when I first encountered this, I was aghast at how you'd first have to do some heavy research as to where you'd locate because the rules were so different, especially regarding what's considered "real estate" for tax purposes.
Agreed.

I think it is because unlike with the real/natural sciences, in Economics it's very easy and common to commit fallacies like cherry picking and making deductions based on incomplete information or emotion-based assumptions. Folks that grew up with a silver spoon in their mouth (relatively speaking) are more likely to be anti-government/pro-market, and folks who want to make a living by running a business tend to not like taxes and not like external regulation of their activities, even when their activities would cause harm or impose external costs on their fellow citizens (pollution, etc.).

Actually I'd argue that Wikipedia may be a more neutral resource than many books because with books there can at times be only 1 person who blesses it with authority whereas most economics articles are vetted by the community and endlessly critiqued and debated over by editors, with both Pro and Con factions wrestling over the fairness and objectivity of each sentence. A book can often just be an attack piece or propaganda tool.
I used http://pchart.sourceforge.net on http://wappalyzer.com. It doesn't look like the developer actively working on it anymore though.
"If you are thinking of building an iPhone/iPad app I would set aside one-two weeks just to navigate the certification process, and setting up all the legal stuff that you need to have set-up just to be able to sell games (rather than give them away for free)."

Uhhh seriously?!

I know the certificate/provisioning profile stuff was broken and hard to get right in the beginning. Like 2 years ago. But now you spend 3 minutes in a Wizard and you have setup your certificates and profiles.
* Google isn't a domain registrar. If they were then one would hope that google.com would be registered under them, not markmonitor.com (a popular corporate registrar)
As pointed out, Google is a domain registrar - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/01/google_domain_seller...

The server hostname is a subdomain of amazonaws.com and doesn't require registration.
* In fact, the entire name is autogenerated from the IP address using a simple substitution rule.

I don't have technical answers to these

* I'm not sure how Google finds these, because their own "what links here" doesn't turn anything up.
Google has a tonne of ways we don't know about for finding domains, there is at least one case I've seen where a deep URL has been indexed after only a mention in gmail

* Side note: while searching for backlinks in Google, I noticed that this article seems to have been copypasta'd to a dozen other blogs. That's SEO, baby!

Thats actually content scraping and aggregation, SEOMoz has a tendancy to get there articles ripped off with much haste and from 150+ blogs (I have been mentioned in them a few times and they always set my Google Alerts wacky)
If anyone's interested I can write up a blog post which walks one through setting up clojure + emacs + swank/slime + Leiningen on Ubuntu. It was quite a frustrating experience.

The first hit on Google for setting up a Clojure dev environment on Ubuntu is incorrect.

[Edit: removed link]
I'd defintely be more motivated to do science as a kid imagining that it was all about blowing things up.

Also, this misses the fact that society just doesn't give too much funding for people doing the type of science that goes on at fermilab. The people that those kids saw were generally those that made it.

There are tons of people that study to be scientists and then end up not making the cut and having to spend the time afterwards working a science job like any other, often without much of the initial passion and curiosity.

Thats not to say that it might be better to (as a society) push people to learn about how the world works, than about something like buisness. At least science gives you some training in thinking.
Thanks for the book suggestion!

On your idea: this is on HN homepage, so it appears the bunch of hackers could be actually paying more attention to such things than you seem to believe.
I was joking about Idaho. Well, half-joking. Actually I figured that since Idaho had probably one of the smallest economies and smallest populations among the 50 US states that it would also have one of the smallest state budgets, and also a pretty "traditional" industry mix (producing non-discretionary and/or physical products or commodities) as opposed to things which are more frothy or flaky like finance, services, entertainment, etc.
Tell HN: Moving Bodies, a play about Richard Feynman
Last night on LA Theatre Works, they broadcast a play called "Moving Bodies", which to my delight was about Richard Feynman.

Serendipitously I'm currently reading _Surely_You're_Joking_, so it was great.

You can find the audio broadcast here:
http://www.bigcontact.com/latw
Or maybe these Republicans went to college, saw how politicized the science departments were on their campuses, and instead of shrugging it off, realized that scientists are prone to mistakes and misleading just like everyone else, and so their claims should be taken with a grain of salt, just like those of everyone else.

I fall into that camp. My time in college impressed upon me how human and fallible the academy is. I went in thinking "professors" had all the answers. Then I met enough people who were stealing funds, sleeping with students, lazily grading papers, exploiting free labor and jealously hording grant money, that I realized these were just people, prone to the same errors in judgment that everyone else deals with.
That guide is, sadly, very out of date and ironically linking to it probably makes it more likely to turn up first in Google search results.

Which parts did you find frustrating? Did you use ELPA? I ask because I've been using Clojure for so long now that I don't run into a lot of hurdles setting up new development environments.