skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, just don't act on your conviction.
I was puzzled for a few second about what this objection referred to, until I remembered that I have disabled downloadable fonts in Firefox.
(Full disclosure: I have graduated from Popov Electrical Engineering University, St.-Petersburg, Russia)

It bothers me how every time someone mentions the invention of radio, they seem to mention Marconi, not Popov (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Stepanovich_Popov)

Could it be because the history is written by the winners i.e. if Russia would be the world leader in electronics today, more people would recognize Popov than Marconi?
The second one bit me, but I disagree with it because I assumed that the previous statement of God's ability to do anything was necessarily within the constraints of a consistent universe
My experience has always been that people that do bad in school is because they simply don't work at it. Or that they've neglected years of school and suddenly studying really hard will not make up for all the years of neglect.

Cramming at the end of a semester will not help you at all. It has to be slow and incremental. Baby steps and it has to be consistent. If you keep this up for years eventually you get to a point where it seems that you are learning so much faster than everybody else but it really is just that you have been at it for years already and learning new information using the context of all the previous information makes it a lot easy to learn.
It was happy times. Just like all the other fuck-you-up shit I've done over the years. They were a small startup yes. And we used to see and talk to them at the local business events.
Come on, it's not that bad. I could have done it every 15 minutes or owned them, was really just for lulz. Didn't do it for long.
uhmmmmmm, how would the Loch Ness monster be any less natural than God? ;)
You play with the words too much here. Any theory is a mere model, except fundamental physics. But the evolutionary theory is accurate enough to be called "true", don't you think?
Go over to iStockPhoto, note what they charge for a picture of a smiling woman wearing a headset, then raise your prices. $12 is below the care threshold for employed professionals, which describes 100% of the people who will actually pay for this product rather than torrenting it.

If you feel bad about raising your prices and don't think people will pay them, raise your prices to $X and then announce a special grand opening sale.
Hm, it does not even use the same logic I do. I don't believe anything. There are just likelihoods (or proofs).

So how am I supposed to answer "is it rational to believe that Nessie does not exist if there has never been any evidence for it"? I don't think it is likely that Nessie exists, but I can not prove the opposite either. So I can not claim to believe that Nessie does not exist.
That's exactly what I meant: God says "do '" - you do X, no questions asked. Assuming that you believe in the absolute will of God, of course...
I was expecting to do it's contextual-job-ad magic without me having to upload a resume, so was disappointed.

But a great product nonetheless.
Question 12 asks: "If God exists she could make it so that everything now considered sinful becomes morally acceptable and everything that is now considered morally good becomes sinful.".

Which I deem to be true. I earlier responded "God does not exists". So there really is not contradiction as claimed by the game

"You claimed earlier that any being which it is right to call God must want there to be as little suffering in the world as possible. But you say that God could make it so that everything now considered sinful becomes morally acceptable and everything that is now considered morally good becomes sinful. What this means is that God could make the reduction of suffering a sin... yet you've said that God must want to reduce suffering."

since I deem the premise of question 12 false (God does not exist). Again "If God exists than she can do such and such ..." is always true if God does not exist.

Furthermore I also think there might be a semantical problem in the analysis. The game did not establish that sin implies suffering.
The convention in science is that you display as many digits as your measurement is significant to. If it were significant to two digits, it would've been 99%; if it were significant to four digits, it would've been 99.90%.

In any case, that number's backed up by several sources:

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=99478&page=1

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/09/0924_020924_...
I had a lot of illegible writing in high school exactly for this reason. Teachers demanded writing "in pen" for the sake of contrast/readability and I gave it to them, but I wasn't about to deal with the hassle of a non-erasable method. But being a left handed writer, the side of my hand inevitably ended up blackened as I rested it on old text and smudged it in the process. So my works in erasable pen ended up less readable than the ones in pencil.
I'm okay with my new 2 year contract because I have unlimited data still. I wonder if Verizon can offer unlimited data.
Even Maciej concedes that pg knows a lot about certain topics.

I've noticed that pg hasn't been writing a lot of expansive, philosophical essays lately, like attempting to explain national characteristics of architecture. That kind of speculation is just asking for satire. Perhaps he's gotten the message.

I think pg is interesting for being a kind of working philosopher. He had various theories about business, programming languages, and youth, and actually tested them by experiment (betting his own money, too), and by most measures has won the argument.
I find the UK oddly authoritarian / rigid in many of these ways. My GF and myself decided to go to a lake (actually some kind of reservoir) near London on a hot day a month or two ago, and were rather surprised to find out that the lake closed at 6pm.

The very concept of a lake closing, never mind at 6pm on a summer evening (easily light out until 10:30), was alien to my Irish mind.

Meanwhile, there was an article in the Guardian, about whether or not it's OK to go wild camping:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/aug/09/holidays-w...

Similarly, the notion that going to a campsite could be described as camping was weird. I view campsites as more like unpleasant cheap muddy hotels - I grew up understanding one of the appeals of camping is being in the middle of nowhere, with nobody around. The idea of having other people, music, barbequeues, people drinking etc. all around sounds horrible to me.
It actually will. There's a lot of things we weigh the contextual job ads with. A lot of it is the (public) code you write and the location on your public profile.

We do ask that people explicitly opt-in for the ads (available for hire checkbox). One of the decisions we made while trying to weigh connecting jobs with job-hunters and not becoming an advertising company.
Well, that's an interesting point actually. Not just commenting before they have finished reading it: also commenting without enough knowledge to say anything useful about it.

Moderators on meta.mathoverflow.com decided not to allow possibly premature discussions on mathoverflow: http://meta.mathoverflow.net/discussion/590/. The arguments are quite reasonable:

So answers could linger on MO asserting that some parts
of the proof are correct, other sketchy, other flat out
wrong and precious few people will be able to decide for
sure if this is true or not.
Thank you for signing up for a trial license, and thank you for the mention in your recent blog post.

It's interesting you chose MySQL as an example, since they in fact didn't open-source everything, the Enterprise stuff as I recall was/is still closed.

Don't get me wrong, we would open source the core if we could, the problem we have with that is that we're not large enough to fend off a competing framework from implementing or cherry picking our technology, whether it's a direct copy, or a derivation. Once that's done, what's the incentive for anyone to try NOLOH? The more established tool may not feel the same, but on a comparison grid they would still be able to check off whatever feature we provide.

They may not have the vision, and the experience won't be the same, but for many users that won't matter.
Yeah, but everyone knows about that stuff. (Maybe not the architecture.) He also founded the University of Virginia. But his more "hackerly" accomplishments are among the less historically noteworthy ones.

He was personally very disappointed in his presidency, despite all the accomplishments you note, plus winning the First Barbary War. He was in many ways a frustrated idealist, most dramatically in his moral disgust at slavery contrasted with his lifelong ownership of slaves.
I don't think anyone working on these kind of problems for years is aiming for the M$. That just icing on the cake. The main reason for not publishing partial results (which could be considered to be a sort of crowdsourcing, as it will lead to dozens of people reading and inspecting the results), is that someone could recognize the trail and beat you to its endpoint.
But once again you fail at search. Seriously.

Good work, otherwise. Far more interesting job postings than anywhere else.
Thomas, can you expand on the "don't torrent books" statement?

1) Above, someone who's interviewed Myrhvold says the book is probably being sold for printing costs.

2) It's often suggested that Myrvhold wrote this book to advance the field rather than to make money.

3) A legal alternative would be to check the book out from a library. Is this really a greater societal benefit?

I'm not suggesting the torrent is legal or a panacea, but are there not times when it's appropriate? A cookbook is a harder case than TAOCP, but their information content makes them easier to argue than music or movies. Should one just do without the information one can't afford? For bright but poor students to remain ignorant?

Do you feel that there's always a better alternative, or that the collateral damage is too great?
To HN: None of my comments are inflammatory, please stop downvoting. As a long time user of HN, this is really getting frustrating. My above comments were in the plus range until tonight, now all of a sudden they're 0, 1, and -1? At the very least justify your downvote with a comment, as was the original tradition.
The search thing says "filter by city, state, zip code or area", which seems a bit US centric. You already have a job listing in Germany:

http://jobs.github.com/positions/1dd0bfda-a3c0-11df-9efb-0be...

But if you search for 'Germany', it doesn't turn up.
At most schools that might be true. But it beggars belief that, for instance, any human being could graduate summa cum laude (or even magna cum laude) with an engineering degree at MIT when hundreds of lifelong hardworking and genuinely smart individuals try and fail at that feat every year. (Substitute for MIT any top-flight engineering program.)
How do you know that squares or circles are outside our world? I guess it's hair-splitting, which is what the questionnaire was trying to avoid (ie. it's not a rational/refutable proposition), but how do you know for certain? It might be hard to conceive of such a world - much like trying to think about five-dimensional objects - but that doesn't mean that it doesn't exist.
(btw I probably meant to write "irrefutable")

A irrefutable proof in mathematics is no problem - no theoretical possibility of being incorrect exists.

But, if the phrase "irrefutable proof" in "softer" context is to have any meaning at all, it can't mean the same as in maths, since there will always be a possibility of being incorrect.

By using the phrase at all in eg. biology, it must therefore mean "the possibility of being incorrect is vanishingly small", otherwise we're just talking gibberish.

Generally, different context give the same phrase different meanings, so taking literal logical paths through a series of different statements is silly and pointless and best left to philosophers. :)
Or if you search for "Europe" for that matter.
I said: I'm not trying to prove your thesis is false. I'm saying that your thesis is not obviously true. So instead of assuming people have a hidden agenda, you need evidence to convince people that your thesis is true. But I'm repeating myself...
Observe things. ... , look around.

Also look up. In city streets there are things to see above the horizontal plane we strongly tend to confine our view to.
Yes, that's what I meant to write. English is such a moving target.
I'm not "available for hire", yet I like to see what companies are offering jobs in my area. Is the checkbox going to be used for more than just showing ads?
Right now, no. In the future, yes. So if you're willing to keep an eye on our blog (we'll warn you before we make this info public) you can check it. Or you can just search on the jobs site itself — http://jobs.github.com
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I find the 0.5mm leads break way to easily - personally prefer the 0.7mm variety a whole lot better. Especially when it comes to shading in those little boxes while taking tests and filling OMR forms :-)
McGee is very much a compromise book. For any given topic, be it science, practical cooking techniques or food history and anthropology there are several better books out there. But if you only want one book that briefly touches on all those things then McGee is a good introduction to many topics. Look at On Food and Cooking as a starting place to get inspiration for further research, not as a final destination.
Beautiful.

However, your restrictions on names are too strict. I should be able to use the name 話筒. Nice that I can use chinese characters in the chat room name though.

Do you have any intention to monetise this? If so, do you have any ideas you'd be willing to share?
How's this: "Be."
Man. I invested in a web-based photoshop-alike a few years ago. I guess they were (a bit too far) ahead of their time.
It really depends on the sound chip. My emu10k1-based SBLive 5.1 used to be really awesome for digital out (with a small hack to reset the chip every time I switched from DD/DTS back to PCM), but it has gotten worse over the past 8 years. I eventually switched to 5.1 analog output, sacrificing Pro Logic decoding for stereo sources.
Also, do you intend on making it possible to use without javascript enabled? An iframe for the chat input and one for the output each doing long polls with meta refreshes should do it. Considerably less efficient of course, but opens the app to more users...
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I got a direct hit because of a contradiction between question 5 (I answered true) and question 16 (I answered false).

Actually question 16 strikes me as meaningless. If god "creates" something, that something must be a physical thing, which potentially influences our world (unlike the Dragon in the proverbial garage). That, or I misunderstood the meaning of "create".

Squares and circles are not physical things. They are mathematical concepts. We don't create them, we imagine them. Likewise, the fact that 1+1=2 (and not 72) is only based on mathematical concepts. Actually 1+1=2 is not even a fact, that's a tautology. It says nothing about our world[1].

Of course, an omnipotent God could totally make us believe that 1+1=72, or that square circles actually exist in our world. But that wouldn't make it true. That just would make us irrational.

[1]: the concept itself says nothing, but of course, the fact that we thought the concept says a lot about us and our universe.
MythTV supposedly supports wake on lan, but I've got a file server that runs 24/7 to double as a MythTV box so I haven't tried it. Unfortunately, there's less and less on OTA HD that I'm interested in recording.
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"Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well ordered mind than a man’s ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company."

- Seneca
Uses an array to store the alphabet, which also includes a subset of the punctuation and numbers. Classic Java.
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I got the same thing and I chose to bite the bullet.
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* NERD_tree : Tree navigation

* gnupg : Plugin for transparent editing of gpg encrypted files.

Not a plugin, but related: my .vim directory/.vimrc is a symlink to a directory/file in my Dropbox folder, to keep my plugins and settings in sync on multiple PCs.
That's because the hetzner systems are built using desktop components, not server

Opterons, Xeons, etc. are server class components, which need more expensive motherboards (typically those that can accomodate upto 64-GB RAM, 5X HDD, hardware RAID, iSCSI cards, etc.)

Secondly, it's the routers/network equipment that they use - they are much more prone to downtime.

webhostingtalk has a couple of interesting discussions about this.

What I suggest is you take a look at the deals/offers sections of such websites and figure it out. I currently have a 2 X quad-core Nehalem with 12GB RAM, 5TB B/W and 4X500GB HDD in Raid 1+0 for $399
I was merely responding to your sentence:

> The way I like to think about NP is: are there certain types of problems which we, as smart as we might be, cannot easily solve, not because we aren't smart enough but because of the nature of the problem itself?

If you read it one way, it sounds as if P=NP would allow us to solve every formal problem. It doesn't. One very interesting example:

The concept of Kolmogorov Complexity. I'm not a CS theorist, so I can only give my layman interpretation, but if I understand it well it goes like this: given a particular string of bits, the Kolmogorov Complexity relates to the shortest possible program that can describe this string. In effect, that means: the ultimate compression. Well, the whole theory of KC says that you can't find this shortest possible program for every string. Not because it takes too much time to check very possible combination (P=?=NP) but because of the nature of the problem.
What makes fundamental physics an exception to your rule? How fundamental would a "model" need to be to no longer be a model? It seems to me that the explicit purpose of physics is to create ever more detailed models of what happens next at various degree of detail, but there's no "there" down there to ultimately declare as actual reality, just our empirical descriptions (models).
really change my families living conditions and quality of life

Does this mean he was able to get a job with his Python skills?
Ask HN: Is it possible to earn $1/min (not passively)?
I was discussing this silly thought exercise with some friends today and thought I'd share..

Would it be possible for a website/app to exist that was similar to the Mechanical Turk in that you can perform a small unit of work whenever you like, except that it has not been commoditized and actually pays well. Say for example, the work required specific niche skills to perform?

If you had these niche skills and such a magical website/app existed would it be possible to earn a reasonable amount of money whenever you had a spare few minutes and had a computer or smartphone handy? (We were throwing around the figure of $1/min as the hypothetical extreme to illustrate the point).

I'm not talking about passive income that earns the equivalent of $1/min here. Specifically a small unit of work that you perform and receive payment for.

Do any such skills/tasks exist? Would such a situation be possible or would the attractiveness of any such opportunity always drive supply up and prices down such that $1/min is not possible as an equilibrium in reality?

I know this is potentially a pretty silly discussion but what do you guys think? What would be the smallest time unit of decent paying work possible? What would these niche skills be? If it couldn't exist, why not?
Frankly, I hate those open layouts. And please understand: this is not an either/or equation. I agree that group problem solving can be very effective. But a company with good workflow will have large rooms devoted to group work like that. If I'm working as a programmer or engineer, I want a real office with a door that closes. Under normal circumstances, lack of interruption in your work environment is the biggest factor I've found in increasing productivity.
I can see several possible routes out of that swamp:

- the ransom model

- find an investor that is able to fend off a competing framework in the marketplace (drupal has raised a fair amount of money on top of an open framework)

- take the plunge and drop licensing as your income stream in favor of another model

The reason why I picked MySQL is because I think they're the poster child for the situation you're in.

At this point you're trying to sell bibles to the satanists, you are aiming a closed source product squarely at the most die hard fanatic open source portion of the market.

The money is in the services, the (enterprise) support and the fame & glory related income (speaking engagements, that sort of thing), and if you want an enterprise version that technically should be classed as a freemium model.

The road you're on right now I can see enough frustration building on both sides of the divide (wannabe NOLOH users that insist on open source and yourselves) that at some point someone might just get up and build it. Then you've got even bigger problems. Open source is an ecosystem, if you want to play around in that ecosystem (and that's where you are) you can try to adapt to the ecosystem or you can - by virtue of the quality of your product and your unique value proposition - try to adapt the ecosystem to you.

Entities that resist the general trends and conventions in an ecosystem are usually called food ;)

I'm not aware of any company that has successfully managed to do that outside of the CAD/CAM world (varicad, specifically) and even that is not strictly speaking a developer tool.

If NOLOH is as great as it seems to be then the open source route would probably be the more profitable one in the longer term, even if in the shorter term it would mean a complete loss of license income. The 'ransom' model might get you over that hump.
Well, it's a bit like this:

1. Is it justifiable to walk into a shop?

2. John Does walked into a shop and murdered all present. Was he justified in walking into the shop?

Answering yes to 1 and no to 2 is a contradiction in the same way. But, is it really valid to separate the action of walking into the shop with the murder of those present? Is it really valid to separate Sutcliffe's belief from his actions?
this is very logical. Well built and programed. But humans are not logical. You ask questions for the reason to contradict. The fact the Sutcliffe raped people based on that God told him to...Uhm I dont think so. Ask your self this, if this "God" told him to do so; then who is this God? If you read in the bible it sais who God is. And that is not who God is, love does not harm any one. God did not tell him this, unfortunately he was fooled. Making the Q's not valid IMO
dbext - An excellent plugin to execute sql against a db server from within vim - works with almost every major db engine.

snipmate - textmate like snippets. Works very well.

NERD_tree: As others have mentioned.

Not really a plugin but, this is useful for automatically closing your '(' and '[' and quotes etc...
http://concisionandconcinnity.blogspot.com/2009/07/vim-part-...
An article that begins with "Researchers report that a spinal fluid test can be 100 percent accurate"

does not shine a light too bright on the its author's head.