skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> They, somehow, managed to successfully maintain both these ways of thinking

Quite some time ago I read somewhere.... that the mark of intelligence of a person is how well he can function while simultaneously holding conflicting viewpoints on an issue..... I would have to agree with it.... it probably goes towards explaining some of the somehow in your statement.
The likelihood ratio is just true no matter how you use it.

The meaning of an experimental result should not depend on the experimenter's private state of mind (such as the stopping rule they followed) if that state of mind does not affect the experimental apparatus. The likelihood ratio is objective, "statistical significance" is not. See link.
Apply for a job at Amazon Bangalore. They have a team that works on Amazon Web Services platform.

For hackers, there isn't a better job in India than to work on AWS cloud computing platform.
VSS Enterprise Completes First Manned Glide Flight
I'm the author of the 'A Startup A Day' blog listed above. There several hundred ideas on the blog, but feel free to email me and I'm happy to help you pick out a few that fit what you're looking for. Contact info is in my profile.
Having read a few of the books discussed in the article, the author makes a point of showing how actually a small % of millionaires came into their wealth from an inheritance. He states that 80% are first-generation affluant.

http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/s/stanley-millionaire.htm...
Matt Cutts already commented on the article, so I'm sure the right people will know before Monday is over.
how does it compare to the Vocus service?
Totally agreed. But assuming that you wanted to calculate a posterior, what would you have chosen for a prior here?
Made? What happened to it?
I would rather work at McDonalds than Infosys or TCS.
Check out this blog by a couple of HN'ers doing a startup in Singapore:
http://nakedstartup.com/2010/04/singapore-is-nice-but-its-no...

The Startup: http://www.gameplanapp.com

I have no affiliation with them, just been reading their blog
Is it possible to write a plugin that would stream audio not from a file but from some other source like a Unix socket, UDP socket, or a shared memory circular buffer?

Would that plugin be bound by GPL as well?
I wouldn't characterize myself as a libertarian, nor do I think that privatizing is a cure-all. You misrepresent me.

What I said and what you portray my comment as saying are very different; contracting with third parties != privatizing NASA.

If SpaceX delivers, they'll be delivering a lot more for a lot less money. I'm sorry that my use of the word competition set off your "libertarian alarm", but I can't see how anything but good is coming out of contracting with SpaceX.
After running for a year on Google CSE. I built my own search platform and was able to grow it to over 100,000 visitors per day.
The future, it's here.

http://twitter.com/bhyde/status/26945887373
In Defense of Naïve Reading
>> No amount of self-learning can come near years of work in a mission-critical environment when company’s revenue is at stake.

So true!!
It doesn't matter how much you read/experiment with distributed computing (or any advanced field). How many simulations you are running or papers you're reading on the subject.

The only reason I'd sacrifice personal freedom to work for a big company is not money but resources/environment. They have data, millions of users, hundreds of computers and the kind of challenge that will simply push you and make you better at what you do.

It kinda sucks in a way because unlike ECE or any "regular engineering", you don't need money/resources to do cool things in software. Unfortunately, I'm starting to realize that's not entirely true. As soon as you start playing with intense computing, you need $$$

That's really the only reason to work for a big company if you are _only_ passionate about software --> Data, resources, work environment.
A Vanishing Journalistic Divide
Does the computer security industry give good or realistic advice?
He invested in a firm whose purpose is in trading a security that has no value currently, but which will be immensely valuable if the government passes laws requiring people to buy them... and for which Al Gore is actively campaigning to get government to pass said laws. This is the very essence of corruption.
Not going to happen.

Web Workers intentionally can't share state and can only communicate via messages. AFAIK the only JavaScript engine that offers threadsafe access to objects is Rhino.
(Note: Second paragraph in grandparent was edit, original reply in parent may have been to first paragraph only.)

Well, keeping in mind that experimenters should just report likelihood ratios, I'd have estimated a pretty low prior probability that one of two identical pages produced more signups than the other.

But I suppose that after seeing a likelihood ratio of 1000/1 favoring the hypothesis "each of these pages has a separate fixed conversion rate" over "both of these pages have the same fixed conversion rate", using Laplace's Rule of Succession (i.e. a flat prior between 0 and 1 for the conversion rate) in all cases, I'd think that something was more likely than not going on.
Windows Phone 7 Tips & Tricks
After Building a Huge Audience, Twitter Turns to Ads to Cash In
c2 is where the LtU crowd goes to for relief, after a few drinks.

(with apologies to my IRL friends, and avid wikiers :-)
Interesting that the countries with the most startups (USA, Israel, some in Europe, etc) aren't that highly ranked compared to surprises like Saudi Arabia. I really didn't expect Israel to be so low and Saudi Arabia so high.

Anyone know why?
Gee, I wish I'd built that
Next Version of Web Design May Increase Privacy Threats
It's partly available, the first 5 chapters are at http://letoverlambda.com/index.cl/toc
For academic journals, I think that what you propose is totally reasonable. I'll try to give a small taste for those not familiar:

For a new HIV test, I want to know the likelihood ratios, not other parameters which tend to be driven by the background HIV prevalence in the researcher's specific catchment area. My catchment area's HIV prevalence will differ, so other aspects of the test that are dominated by prevalence will not be the same in my population. However, the likelihood ratio will be.

The point that I didn't finish making before getting kicked out of the coffee shop was that, at some point, people will want to compute a posterior, so they'll need to figure out a prior. Your suggestion above is helpful.

Edit - Also, you're right in that I saw just the 1st paragraph when I initially replied.
I think the last slide just points out that there is no problem. The presenter never said you had to fix the chmod situation, just that the machine can't be rebooted. Maybe I misinterpreted...
Ask HN:  Current state of Android Development?
I was pretty inspired by the "Anyone making a living from just 1 app" HN Post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1772199. It looks like all mobile platform responses except one targeted the iPhone platform. I'm curious about Android development. Are there any HN users that have created Android apps? What are your thoughts on the current state of Android development? If you are in multiple markets/app stores, how does Android compare?
At it's peak, I made $15,000 per month.

Then I pulled the plug, because most of the users were using it to search movies and music. I had no legal troubles, but I did not want to stay in the gray area.
Trend Micro blocks Posterous. Categorises it as Disease Vector
Also see Stack Overflow's List of freely available programming books: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/194812/list-of-freely-ava...
But what happens when they need to code something? How do they manage to cover their asses?
http://searchyc.com/android

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1759528

http://gizmodo.com/5483539/car-locator-android-app-makes-130...
I didn't know that. That's pretty awesome :D
Kim Hee Chul Trending #1 on Twitter for 41 hrs. (New Record)
I never understood the magnitude of Kpop's popularity until now and as I type this, girls all over the world are spamming his name, even if they can't speak a word of Korean.

http://www.dkpopnews.net/2010/10/twitter-kim-hee-chul-trending-at-1st.html

http://twitter.com/#!/search/Kim%20Hee%20Chul
I don't understand how Greece is rated 76 in "paying taxes". My understanding is that Greeks simply don't pay taxes... </sarcasm>
Quality and time. Feature is not done when the quality is not achieved.
How Columbus raised funds & 'founded' America.
very good article.. some incredibly powerful (yet simple) statements...

somehow... I think the nature of engagement with religion of the very intelligent 'believers in religion' is probably very different from the type of engagement of the typical beliver (in religion), baring the inevitable exceptions.

For a person who can distinguish between the 'good' and the 'bad' within the teachings of a religion, for one who likes to have some guidance(or examples) in how to behave 'morally' in different situations in life, there is a quite some good stuff in the teachings of most religions of the world. (I am most definitely not referring to the 'faith' part of the religion, here)

Moreover.. in spite of the many horrible things that religion has caused over ages, in the society, I think it can do more damage if 'religion' was completely removed from many socieities of the current age. Not all.. the more advanced and legally stably societies/civilizations can probably deal with its removal lot better than some on the other side of the spectrum.

I like to think, that it is becuase of recogonizing this, that some of the most intelligent people, capable of some of the most brilliant logic and strategies (read the biggest of business tycoons or the past and the best scientists) did a lot to promote religion.... I had to find a possible reason to why the heck such intelligent people would support religion.
I find that very interesting as well. I'm getting married in May and quickly figured this out... its about the union of two people and what makes them happy, not how many layers the cake is or how expensive the party favors are... we opted for a destination wedding with the closest people to us - instead of 200 people in a giant, expensive, impersonal function hall
Life passes by us faster than I care to acknowledge, and while saving your money is important you also need to live. The key, I feel, is finding a happy balance.
What is it? A package manager? If so, how does it differ from ASDF?
http://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-run-an-ab-test.html

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1277004
I think 'can I afford to live without it' is a miserable way of going through life. I certainly could live without ever going to nice restaurants, trying things like kiteboarding and skydiving, going snowboarding or mountain biking, but why forfeit things I enjoy so I can look at my bank statement and see a slightly larger number at the end of the month than I would otherwise?
Okay, so the government should cut domestic spending, reducing the amount of cash available to government agencies and their suppliers?

Or did you mean it should raise taxes to collect more funds, essentially putting a drag on the economy and sending tax-sensitive organisations elsewhere?

Possibly you meant it should print money, causing hyper-inflation and destroying the value of savings and the public's faith in them.

All three options suck, and all three would lead to negative publicity. I think that the government should cut spending on stuff that I don't think is important. But you and I would probably disagree on what stuff that is.

As for the banks model, bank A would probably launch an adversing campaign clearly describing that investing in banks B,C + D is a sure way to loose your money. This campaign (when successful) would make more funds available (term deposits, savings accounts) to A which it could then safely invest.

Note of course that banks A..D are probably not competing on interest rates (they set them all the same) but instead on loan terms. Bank A decides that it is not in its best interest to grant loans to people without security/equity making money instead from 80% mortgages and the like. Bank A looses high-risk, heavy spending customers and attracts risk-adverse savers and spenders.
Possible translation: "Whatever it takes, but no more"?
It's approximately a package manager, in the non-Lisp sense of the word "package". If you carry out that analogy a little further, ASDF is like "make" and Quicklisp is like "apt-get".
The key to interrupting this effect is to somehow give the most desirable users a lot of influence and/or special status, perhaps being in a position to decide whether other users are worthy of the same status.
Actually installed Xubuntu on a netbook (old hp 2133).
That's an interesting essay and a good explanation of why it's toxic for any group to defend their idiots, the idiots whom they tend to find on their side of the issues. In politics, a lot of the ill will between liberals and conservatives stems from each side's reluctance to disavow the kooks and cranks on their own side. In a fragmented online community, members who themselves make high-quality contributions may resist quality control measures because they don't want their obnoxious idiot allies silenced. But that results in them having to put up with the obnoxious idiot allies of their rivals, which makes intelligent debate impossible and results in the high-quality contributors leaving anyway.
Possibly. Or somebody could be using servers in China in a "man-in-the-middle" attack to get information while it is en-route.
You're intentionally confusing the genesis of his interest in the topic with the timeline of his investments to make your point.

It has nothing to do with corruption. He has publicly discussed his business interests, they are common knowledge, and he is in part using it a case study for the good economic opportunities behind sustainable technology and policy. Corruption is pushing for changes that benefit you without acknowledging it, or obscuring your intentions.
I don't know about this. You really aren't enlightening people by saying stop spending money and you will have more money. People aren't stupid. This is the same kind of story as people are fat because they don't know what kind of foods to eat. It's just not true. Everyone know what kind of food to eat, they just don't.

I once went to a nutrionist and she ask what I eat for breakfast; I told her and she said "you know how many calories were in that bagel?" and I told her. She looked puzzled, then I told her "I wasn't fat because I was stupid"

Behaviors with food and even money are learned early on and until people choose to unlearn them; they will be fat and poor.
asdf doesn't install from the internet. asdf-install does that, but not very well, it just knows about tarballs linked to from cliki.

Quicklisp uses asdf underneath, but instead of crossing fingers and hoping things work, it's aggressively tested across Lisp implementation, OSes and platform permutations. Stuff reported to work with Quicklisp, should work flawlessly. It also knows about far more sources than just cliki, it uses code repositories too, for latest updates. It caches packages remotely (aws, which Xach pays for) in case the main site is down, etc.

Join Xach et al, in #quicklisp on Freenode.

I hope other Lisps get to appropriate it as well, just as in SLIME. QuickLisp is solar panels for Lisp, no need to include batteries.
Zed is confusing for malice what can adequately be explained with incompetence.
Is Google TV Just an Unprotected Desktop Running Chrome 5?
Toughness testing
Share websites at specific resolutions with simures
How can a find the best rate on a hotel?
"We now know that the universe did not require a creator."

Oh really?

We can't even explain biogenesis, and you really think we've explained the origin of the universe? Describing what something does is not the same as explaining where it came from.
I love GetClicky
I've got one, it cost me a penny (plus a two year contract to T-Mobile, which I would have got anyway).
I made this site today as an easy way to share resolution-restricted pages with regular people (who don't have/understand browser plugins that let them resize to x by y). I often need to show someone what a particular page looks like at 1024x768 or 320x480, and sending a link that simulates that resolution seemed like a good solution.

Try http://www.simures.com/320x480/news.ycombinator.com

Current limitations:

-it's on app engine, so it needs a www.

-doesn't handle iframe busters yet
That sounds pretty awesome, I will have to update my SBCL install and check it out. Thanks!
Arnold Schwarzenegger's Twitter-Happy Adventures in Russia
This post is in response to a post Chris wrote earlier. Its linked to at the beginning.
I think it's inaccurate to think that the type of organisation that NASA was in the 1960s was purely a product of intrinsic factors. I'd think that the reason NASA was as it was during the 60's was because of the external circumstances it found itself in:

- a competitive race with the Soviet Union against a background of the cold war

- a specific and hard presidential goal of "landing a man on the moon..before the decade is out".

Where those external pressures are in place, it would be almost expected that any organisation could (and likely, would) become entrepreneurial and innovative. And the converse is even more true: absent the goals driving the organisation, bureaucratic friction will drag it to a halt.
Just an aside, but professional PR firms already have detailed internal databases of journalists.
The SmugLispWeenies complaint always strikes me as a really poor excuse for disliking lisp. If a cantankerous old so-and-so gives you a hard time and you run away from the language because of it, I think it says more about you than the cantankerous old so-and-so, and nothing about the merits and disadvantages of lisp. Furthermore, there are lots of non-cantankerous old and not-so-old people using lisp, writing about it, and publishing code these days -- the web is full of good lisp resources. Google answers almost all my lisp problems for me. That means you don't even have to venture into the SmugLispWeenies cave most of the time.

After that, there are quite a few good books out there. I'm reading Doug Hoyte's "Let Over Lambda" at the moment, which is lots of fun.

My current problem with lisp is not the SmugLispWeenies but the fact that there don't seem to be any lisp jobs where I live :-)
Discussion from a few days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1756993
I've driven very nice cars, drank super expensive wine, and done other things that cost lots of money. They were fun for a short period of time, but were not lasting. Time is what I want. I want to be able to do what I want when I want to do it. If the waves are good I want to surf, if I find a cool OSS project I want to work on it. IMHO, that is where real pleasure comes from.
People already have feed readers (RSS/etc.) and use them to generate personalized news.

The rest either don't know about it, or aren't interested.
to be honest, it ranks 8th in actually starting a business. The 4th ranking is the overall doing business ranking, which takes other factors into account.
Lead employees to live healthier lifestyles
Nope, I'm not, I'm pointing out the idiocy of assuming this is a probable risk. The chance that someone does this on accident is non-existent at best, and recovery is simple. The only remaining option is that someone does it intentionally, and then again, if they're doing it intentionally then you are screwed anyway.
I really don't like the recent conflation of contrarianism with skepticism.

Skepticism should be the default stance of all scientists. That does not mean that their conclusions will be at odds with the initial idea simply because they are skeptical.
The post is against all the people who say stupid things like "mongrel2 doesn't have config files I can put in git" when I've got config files I put in fossil. It's a stupid statement that's just false, and this was the latest reason they gave for saying it was a "real world" concern.
What is the spread? For instance, the US comes in fourth and the UK fifth. How much of a difference is there between being #4 and #5?
Facebook's 'Social' Chief Pushes Human Interaction
I set up a Georgia LLC in the course of an afternoon. State registration, federal EIN, bank account. Income for the LLC is treated as personal income for me (it's a single member LLC that's disregarded by the IRS), so even taxes aren't that complicated.

Perhaps I'm doing something very wrong or very illegal, but nothing I've read seems to suggest that.

What did you find to be so much more painful?
Am I naive to think your startup should be that good, that great, that unfailing that reporters should find you?
I can't decide if Apple is going to come out with a 7" tablet or not. There's definitely a place for something that fits into a labcoat but offers a lot more screen real estate than a phone.

On the con side, there's also something to be said for concentrating one's efforts on just a few offerings.
Enjoy things because you enjoy them. Not because they're "super expensive". I don't see why I have to buy a $10 wine when I don't derive enjoyment from them nearly as much as I do out of $30 bottles.

Going out to a nice restaurant with friends, travelling the world and enjoying good food and fun activities all costs a decent amount of money, yet make me happy. As someone else in the comments said - you should want to acquire money to use towards the things you want, not for the sake of acquiring money.

You like to do free stuff that just involves time. That's great. Other people enjoy restoring cars, going on vacations, building new companies, or food and travel like I do, and these require money as well as time.

Ostentatious and pointless displays of money, or purchases which adversely affect your monetary base should be avoided, but not "just because".
Buying expensive wine - no, that doesn't make me happy. Drinking high-quality wine, which sometimes happens to be expensive - absolutely. I enjoy that very much.

Claiming that my enjoyment of high-quality wine is an illusion because you can't see a difference is just arrogance. The same goes for the consumption of any other luxury good you might not have a taste for yourself.
> Previously, there was no config file, and you didn't have this problem.

This is false, there is a config file. Look in examples/configs/ for examles of config files.

People really don't get this. There's a config file, and a config database. Just baffling why people ignore this repeatedly.
Because most consumers value a curated experience more and the cost of clicking from one site to the next is zero.
You don't have to replace anything, there are config files. Look in examples/configs/ and you'll see examples of configs.
I know quite a few online professional poker players. They have won & lost several million combined. Many were 'born' out of a home game we had at Michigan State in the early 2000's. To the average person the swings are insane; for anyone playing high limits online (multiple tables to boot) it is generally expected. Those who cannot afford the swings, or are emotionally effected by them, are generally not winning pros for long.

In some respects, those who do really well (millions won & lost) are akin to athletes or celebrities. They work strange schedules -- for poker you can work whenever -- and have much more money than they could have ever imagined. You can afford to do almost anything, go out 7 nights a week and travel the world. Money is easy come, easy go.

It's rather fascinating. It is a tough lifestyle to maintain a balance when you can lose thousands upon thousands and be playing well. I recall a friend telling me with a dead straight face he lost over 100k the past 2 days and had played some of his best poker...

In the end of the day, I would have to imagine it would be a lot tougher on the spouses. Although, in many respects, we as founders are taking similar risks (uncertainty).