skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'You have to decide who you trust before you decide what to believe.'

Right. The difference lies in the way that trust is achieved. The "I trust X because Y trusts X" transitivity is very easy to jump on, but often disastrous; just ask Bernie Madoff's investors. If you read in the newspaper that "X is one of the foremost scientists in his field", it is also dangerous to rely on just this pronouncement, and blindly trust X's assertions.

The other way for the layperson to judge specialists is to learn enough about their field in order to evaluate their predictions. Granted, this involves much, much more effort than lazily following the reputation talk. But it also makes it much safer to trust the people involved, and to maybe stop trusting them if they go astray at some point.

To bring forth examples, evolution is quite easy to verify after reading a bit of biology. For example, DNA analysis comes in a full century after the "Origin of Species" and shows us how amazingly related all living things are, deep within; thus giving precise shapes to the "trees of life" that Darwin first sketched in his notebooks. And there are many, many other predictions of the theory of evolution that can be easily checked by the unprejudiced amateur. You'll rarely find articles that say "Dawkins believes in evolution, and Dawkins is a great scientist, therefore evolution is true".

On the other hand, things like climate science seem (to me at least) to rely much more on the argument from authority for gaining lay support. If some prominent climate scientist had predicted in the 90's that "average temperature in the 2000-2010 decade, as indicated by methodology X, will be 1.4 plus or minus 0.1 degrees Celsius warmer than in the 1990s", I would have a much easier time trusting his or her claims now. But things seem to be moving in the opposite direction with this field, e.g. as witnessed by the very replacement of "global warming" (somewhat verifiable) with "climate change" (unfalsifiable), and the popular attribution of all kinds of meteorological phenomena to this cause, in the same non-comprehending way that, not so long ago, they were ascribed to the god of thunder.
Absolutely, and all these bodies that the public no longer trusts should be defunded 200%. Why throw good money after bad? Defund congress, the presidency, economist liars, education bureaucrats, and especially the thieves that make up academia with its 50k a year tuitions and grad student slave labor. But getting back to Singh, he's pretty clearly an idiot on a lot of things. Cars are not the issue, global warming is man made only to the degree pigs can fly and that you believe that a functionaly retarded government buraucrat should randomly assign 20% of your money to various propaganda projects.

Chiropractors are quacks, but regular doctors are even bigger quacks. And least the chiropractors do something mildly positive for your money. Surgeons are ok, but they are very deficient in whole body well being.

I support the right of chiropractors to say that singh is an idiot and that of signh to say they are liars. Both viewpoints are correct and they should argue for 10s of years. The only reason 200k had to be spent was because of the corrupt laws of the fascist government of britain. The parties should have argued without money or lawyers.

Don't trust anyone, and don't let anyone hold your nice money. The sucker MBAs/politicians will rob you blind every time the second you trust them with any amount of money.
"Swing by...", Channing & Emerson in Palo Alto for the Lee De Forest memorial plaque (not far from the HP Garage). His work preceded all the other sights mentioned.

You might also want to spare 30m for a quick tour of the Stanford campus. About as far from NY as you're going to get, and a SV linchpin.
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Just out of interest: How does unlimited vacation work? I guess you can buy more days of holiday with your salary?
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> if you're into cool, trendier, up-and-coming, non-mainstream music

> I'd like to think I have pretty damn good taste, better than the naysayers :)

You listen to indie rock and use a Windows or OSX operating system, what could be more mainstream. Spare us the narcissism and let me know when iTunes is on Ubuntu and minimal techno is a genre choice.

Niche social networks are great, but I think the obvious comparison is Last.fm . No one is comparing it to FaceBook or MySpace.
I would think the significant issue here (based on their comments) is that a famous mobile platform has passed a famous desktop platform.
You could just take the code snapshot when they choose to run it. Warn them of this, so they only end up showing the recruiter code they think will either work or is suitable for iterative development.
You go against the consensus without a solid explanation. For instance, why don't the weights matter? Would they matter if they were respectively 1mg, 1kg, and 1megaton?
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I love Apple as much as any other programmer, but we have to remember that they lost the Mac vs PC wars.

There is a still popular perception that Macs are for frivolous hippies and PCs is what real people use to do real work. Obviously it's different for programmers and many other people, but we're talking about mainstream marketing here.

They did great in the mobile segment because of extremely weak competition and revolutionary new products. If Blackberry had a non-ass touchscreen device out before the iPhone I doubt Apple's simplicity would've had been effective counter-marketing.
Ken Rockwell is largely regarded as a crank in the Pro-Am photographic community. He is well known for making blanket statements like: "A Nikon D40 is all the camera you will ever need" and "6MP is enough resolution for anybody." and "all higher MP gets you is more noise". All wrong.

The biggest problem with this article is that he assumes that film has infinite resolution. This was just as ridiculous in 2006 as it is today. Anyone who knows a thing about analog encoding techniques will instantly spot the fallacy in this argument. The resolution of film is certainly more "organic" in nature, but it is not even remotely infinite. Film has grain, and while it is difficult to pin a precise equivalent PPI on film grain, it is nevertheless the case that you cannot exceed the resolution of the grain.

Since 2006 the resolution of full-frame digital sensors has vastly surpassed film, and with Canon's announcement of a 120MP sensor, and the mainstreaming of 4K digital video, there seems to be no end in sight. As it is, the biggest bottleneck to resolution is now the glass. It is becoming increasingly difficult and more expensive to create glass with enough clarity, and low enough distortion to take advantage of the higher MP sensors.
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Not beneficial to me personally does not mean "people ... who don't actually contribute anything to society on net", and it would take more research than I have time for to completely dismiss any US federal agency (except perhaps the DOD).
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Anything else can be bypassed
What's wrong with that? I mean it's not like you get a noble prize by winning the lottery! You take random wacko on TV and noble laureate, each tells you their theory, and you (so far) don't know anything else. Who do you trust? Why?

I think the title _does_ mean something: it was neither bestowed upon him randomly nor inherited by blood.

Let me ask you another question: who do you think runs faster, a random guy I pick you see in the street, or a guy who won an olympic medal in athletic? Most people somehow feel winning an olympic medal is all about merit, but getting a Noble isn't!!!
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Concentration depends on context, surroundings, motivation. It can be trained and improved. To use a drug as a quick remedy is dangerous and frankly rather sad.

Please rethink what you're doing.

To put my tin-foil hat on: I consider ADHD an artifical diagnosis pushed by the pharma companies.
I agree that that sentence could give that impression but I think it's a little out of context. If you read Simon Singh's stuff (particularly Trick or Treatment, the book which lead to the article which lead to the libel case) it's really not what he advocates - he advocates having a robust evidence base for what you're saying.

I think what he was trying to say in the sentence you quote is "I believe the overwhelming majority of the people who have looked at this subject, have a history of backing up their claims with robust, tested, reviewed evidence and are doing so in this instance".
It's a good way to filter out the crazy crackpot opinions, not to say these aren't of any value but when you don't have time to be an expert in a field you are much better off trusting those that have had their viewpoints put through rigorous peer review over those who haven't.
Thanks for the suggestion! This goes in my notes.
CL itself explicitly says that for adult services, they have a manual review process for each ad that includes reading the ad, verifying a credit card, and placing a phone call to the number used to place the ad. They are not trying to get by on common carrier status.

The criticism is that these measures don't seem to be sufficient, that coordination with law enforcement has been piecemeal at best, and that CL does not invest more (or all) of the profit from these ads back into anti-trafficking measures.
Even more money was spent on the stimulus. Somehow, it wasn't as stimulating as colonizing a new planet.
So, that settles it: No scrobbling. Less artists than last.fm. Lame. [1]

Looks like ping is another home run.

[1]With all apologies to Rob Malda: http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/23/1816257
Three? Which are you missing?

The Code Book, Fermat's Last Theorem, Big Bang or Trick or Treatment (with Edzard Ernst)?
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PA could be Palo Alto - except for the city name "Conshohocken." Which almost sounds like a verb - like something you might say after getting a parking ticket on University Ave. I can see "Conshohocken PA" generating a parser error.
The conservation of matter is an amazing thing.

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I think your tinfoil hat is on a little tight...
Authority can be useful. I know, it’s usually scoffed at because there is a fallacy named after it. Yet there is no conceivable way in which you can be an expert in all the big fields and little niches of science. You have to use the authority shortcut. You have to find people who you can trust and let them figure it out for you. That’s just a reality of the human condition.

All Singh says is that you should trust people who deal with the topic at hand every day of their life and who use the scientific method. I’m not really sure who else you should trust when you want answers to your questions. The scientific method is certainly not perfect but do you know of any better alternative? I don’t.
New Digg vs old Digg, Old Dogg and new tricks
And then on RoughlyDrafted: "How Ping will kill Facebook, Sony and MySpace and transform Twitter into a potential Microsoft-killer."
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Why reinvent the wheel? If you can find a foundation from which to build a better service/app/mousetrap why not? Consider utilizing a clone a part of natural software evolution. Spend more of your time and effort on making it better than just making it.
Photography has been a big hobby of mine. You can see some of my film photography over at http://www.zothcorp.com/photos/. That being said, I recommend everyone who's serious about learning photography start shooting with a digital camera, then switch over to a film camera.

Digital is a great to learn exposure, because you get results so quickly. You can see immediately the effects of over or under exposure.

But film has a much greater latitude than digital. That is, it's very easy to blow out your highlights on a digital camera. Have whites that are completely white and ugly.

With film you get a nice curve on your highlights, and so you can preserve more detail. You also get that thing called grain, and a physical product.

Shooting film costs more, but you can get great results with less computer editing.

But really, there is no great battle. There's a place for both. My own personal preference has been film for black and white, digital for color.
Will do.

Maybe testing can just start with a TAP library.

POD-like documentation would be a little harder with reader-macros. Maybe a syntax can be defined that doesn't step on too many toes...

Either way, I'll be taking a look at it ASAP. Cheers.
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This is what scares me. It is in the nature of science that tests take a lot of time and effort. On the other hand, if you do _not_ follow science you can come up with a new theory every day. And to make it all the worst the scientist can be sued.

Basically this way the anti-science groups can grind to a halt all of science. I don't want to think all the time good scientist can lose defending themselves from non-scientist instead of doing what they were trying to do: science.
I'm not trolling, and only half joking. Your first paragraph where you talked about the heavier weight falling seemed like a joke about the drawing not including a floor. Which would be fine, except someone making that silly assumption should go all the way with it and assume the man is unsupported too.

Now I understand that you were helping people understand the analysis, and I'm sorry my reply sounded trollish.
I like this analogy for how keys are exchanged and never exposed in transit:

I put my secret in a box and put a lock on it for which only I have the key and ship the box to you. When you receive the box you put your own lock on the box for which only you have the key and send the box now with two locks back to me. When I get the box I take my lock off and send it back to you. Finally you open the box by taking your lock off. The box is always locked in transit and no keys were ever out of the owners hands.
I’m not the biggest fan of Rockwell, but come on,

> The biggest problem with this article is that he assumes that film has infinite resolution.

No he doesn’t.

> Since 2006 the resolution ...

If you look, this article is from before that. So what’s your point?

> As it is, the biggest bottleneck to resolution is now the glass.

The glass has always been one of the biggest bottlenecks. Which is why bigger and bigger megapixel counts aren’t always so useful.
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What if I'm not designing a web page?
At the least the Gates Foundation has enough mathematical sophistication to understand what they got wrong.
So with tech like this, when is the GHC going to become a "platform" like the JVM?
Google launches Privacy Tools page
Does the money have to come from somewhere?
Wow, I think that's actually true (about followers making you the leader). I had a competitor (following, though not cloning), and it freaked me out (like, seriously), and for this reason (and others) I ended up stepping back somewhat from the space. But looking back... my best sales were from that period.

I also had liked being the one and only - but that's ego, not business.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography

The sender and receiver exchange public keys which can be visible by anyone. Only the private key can unlock what is locked with its associated public key. It would be like me sending you a locked box (that only I have the key to) with
a slot in the top to allow messages to go in but not come out. And then you send me a similar locked box with a slot in it for me to put messages in. Once a message goes in the slot, only the private key owner can unlock it.

There is still a problem with man in the middle attacks where an attacker steals each public key and sends his own public key back to both participants. This problem is somewhat solved by the use of certificate authorities who certify that the public keys belong to who they say they belong to. Some of these certificate authorities have delegated their powers to organizations which may not be trusted.
In that shootout link you post (Charles Cramer’s essay), the detail blowups of the 4x5 scan have clearly better resolution than the P45 blowups. (Though obviously the digital back has many other advantages, like turn-around time, marginal image cost, ease of handling, etc.)

> For any serious use, film is absolutely stone dead.

There are plenty of fabulous artists still shooting film with view cameras and getting great images.

For example, are you going to tell me that Burtynsky isn’t serious? (Note, he’s also taken some pictures w/ a Hasselblad w/ a digital back in the last few years, where setting up a view camera is not feasible. But as far as I know the bulk of his pictures are still taken on film.)
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What is the best way to avoid that? How to come back stronger?
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I liked your post but I just wanted to mention a (minor) correction that we have a common ancestor with apes, we did not evolve "from" monkeys.
> The planet is over populated [...]

What tells you so?
It opens with a long story about a couple of your friends who've been kicked off a TV show. Down the line you draw some generic internet-related conclusions but your readers probably didn't get that far before flagging it as off-topic.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If you're interested in Science Fiction, you might want to read Neal Stephensons 'Anathem'. It plays exactly with your scenario: Scientific groups isolating themselves intentionally from the 'secular' world.

Funny enough, their scientists look like priest to the common people. And the common people are basically required to blindly accept what these priest... well... preach. Science turns into religion.

It's always something I think about, when I see another survey whether you 'believe' in evolution or climate change.
Combined with perpetual crunch time, it has the potential to be an anti-perk (since then you won't ever get paid for those days).
Even if you work alone - make sure you keep touch with your friends. And make sure you get a network of business contacts to talk to, people from your part of the tech world.

It´s not only important to keep morale up, it´s also important to get other people's feedback early stage!
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all modern browsers support font-face, I have doubts about whether they dont suffer from the fout but thats about it, people who arent web developers really dont like dealing with images, its a pretty huge pain so just being able to type some text and have a nice icons show up is a nice choice for some.
Not at the moment, but perhaps in the future.
Ordinary thing :)
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Well, the whole thing is nothing but a vehicle for Apple's own iTunes store link spam. It's ironic that Apple didn't realize anyone else could use it to spam their users too.
That's cool, yeah... downvote away in leu of an argument. Thanks guys, for keeping it classy.
> - Ken Rockwell is considered to be a bit of an agitator in some photography circles.

That's putting it lightly, most in those circles say "Ken Rockwell is a douche."