skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'Science as the Enemy': The Traveling Salesmen of Climate Skepticism
I agree that the 8% number is, at once, misleading, harmful, and true! True because it is a simple observation, but misleading because people behave as though the future recapitulates the past, of which there is no guarantee.

I think that the "misleading and harmful" part is more important--which was the crux of my original comment about the lack of consistency.
Check the last sentence.
Political, economic, science, technological & medical news
In addition to this news list would like to note in my university teaching I send out a weekly eNewsletter highlighting key stories under reported or under appreciated. For example, this week
Charlie Rose Show - http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/11229

Bob Woodward is probably the best connected journalist in Washington. This conversation
with Charlie Rose was one of the most astounding ever seen. He discusses his book 'Obama's Wars' a behind-the-scenes look at how the White House is dealing with Afghanistan. If what he says is true, we have the modern equivalent of Rome's Praetorian guards attempting to usurp civilian leaders. This is not a good development. Urge you to spend 50+ minutes watching this riveting discussion.

Those on this list are welcome to receive it by emailing me at university address jhuston@hawaii.edu
Sorry, I do apologise for mentioning ATM instead of the payment terminals. It wasn't what I meant and I don't mean to mislead anyone off the back of it. My bad. Sorry once again.
Part of the idea behind mongrel2 and using sqlite is that there isn't supposed to be a canon config script/format thingy. Baking m2sh into mongrel2 so you can pass it in with a flag canonizes it.

I admit that right now it does seem to be the de facto standard but that's at least partly because the m2 community is small enough that Zed is still important in it so the tools he ships are the tools people use. In the event that m2 takes over the world though an -m2sh (or similar) option is going to be criticized as obsolete bloat that no one needs because every one uses the M2ConfigDeploy.py library.
Or possibly so many developers are just used to using ALT-button 2 that it isn't a pain point for them.
Zsh does that. Actually even Bash can do that, but its implementation is a bit weak.
I totally agree on the latter point. Before you code anything, as your primary goal here is making money, get an Adwords voucher and see if you can get traffic to your site from ads. If people are clicking, then there's probably something there. If nobody visits your site after a bit of promotion, what's to say customers will visit when there is actually a product there? You can go right as far as the credit card signup page, depending on how you morally view misleading potential customers.
Running on Async Rails 3
I'm surprised Israel was so low given the info I read in the book Startup Nation (http://www.startupnationbook.com/)
Ask HN: What should I watch out for in starting a business
So I have an idea that I'm fleshing out right now into a business model, and starting to test it out with users in the hopes of opening to the public soon. I live in Southern California, with a baby on the way, so applying for YCombinator is out. There aren't any real needs for employees/resources right now, so funding probably isn't necessary.

I'm just wondering what some common things I should be watching out for might be.

Should I get incorporated as soon as possible, should I wait. Do I need to copyright/trademark stuff soon, does it not really matter. The articles I've been reading are very helpful, but it would be cool to get some perspective from people who have done it.
I've never been on deucescracked, but as a long-time acquaintance (and poker foe) of Joe Tall, DeathDonkey and Jay Rosenkratz, I'd be surprised if it wasn't good.

I can still remember the exact moment back in 2002 or 2003 where I realized just how much than me better Joe Tall was. We were having a cigarette near the Foxwoods poker room and he reviewed the action on a few hands we'd just played in a 20/40 game, and he remembered them in more detail than me, but he also processed the detail differently to emphasize different aspects of my game.

I was a winning player but after that night I stopped playing for a month, did nothing but study books, analyze hands and sessions, and grind out math to see if some of my assumptions about lines against various hand ranges were correct.

After that I got a lot better, jumped limits, and ended up meeting DeathDonkey in a 100/200 game at Commerce and again realized I was outclassed.

I'd say I owe them a debt of gratitude, but I'm pretty sure I already paid it at the tables.
Good post. Have been thinking a lot about influence and reputation lately, and the relative nature of both of them.

Products that only cater to the Quora early adopter crowd won't ever make it big, but ones that are able to siphon them off such that they feel like they're special might.
Anyone know enough to guess the amount of time that would be required to post Angry Birds to a Windows Phone 7?
I realized something this morning: when I spend almost all of my life doing something I don't want to do (working a full-time job... Leave the house at 7 am and get home around 6:30 pm) recreational consumption is almost completely full-filling. When I have as much time as I want to work on stuff I like and am passionate about recreational consumption does almost nothing for me.
Truth Over-estimation
Yes, Italy did it!
Last in Western Europe and highly developed countries (a part from Greece).
The same thing happened pretty quickly with stackoverflow.com. I wanted a way to search for questions by users who had high reputation, simply as a way of increasing the chances of finding interesting questions to answer. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like it'll get implemented. I've long since stopped visiting SO except for questions related to my areas of responsibility in the company I work for's products.
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The difference in cost between a luxury item and a regular item is also masked by the availability of credit. You can lease a high end Mercedes for the same monthly payment as buying a Honda Accord. It could be that a large portion of that 86% of luxury cars driven by non millionaires are leased.
In Mountain View, Paul at P's Barbershop gives a great cut for $9 (plus tip): http://www.yelp.com/biz/ps-barber-shop-mountain-view

In New York, Encore is only $11 (plus tip): http://www.yelp.com/biz/encore-beauty-salon-new-york
How we improved signups by 30% by doing nothing.
A way for Linux to succeed as a gaming platform
From the article: "In Academia, high school students have to fight to become undergraduates. Undergraduates have to fight to become PhD candidates. PhD candidates have to fight to become adjuncts. Adjuncts have to fight to become tenured and tenured professors have to fight to become Dean. I can’t even think of a single online community that bears even the slightest resemblance to this sort of power structure."

Interesting point. Maybe having forms of recognition that are demonstrably difficult to achieve does help outstanding contributors feel more like staying.
I have a Duracell AA/AAA charger that can also use the charged batteries to power a USB port for other devices. That and a couple sets of AA rechargables and I can use my phone all day without an outlet.

Unfortunately it looks like they discontinued it:
http://www.amazon.com/Duracell-Charger-Rechargeable-Batterie...
Indeed, and it may incentivize and motivate them to do things they might not otherwise have done within the community.
The primary problem with this situation is that this kind of fee comes as a surprise. If the fee was known, you would demand a lower price for the property and the realtor would take some of the additional valuation when the property got sold. Sounds familiar? It should. That's basically a stock sale.
My experience in Canada in starting a business agrees with its 2nd place rank. It only took a couple of hours to get an incorporated business setup, as long as it's a numbered company (e.g., 4312341 Alberta Inc., although, I forget what my number was). It's a couple more hours to open a bank account, make a shareholder loan, and get company cheques (sic).

All in all, it takes about a morning to have a legal operating funded company up and running.

Of course, revenue is another story :).
When you're essentially facing no competition (e.g., Windows, Office, 10 years ago) you can push a closed approach. When you're behind and facing two formidable rivals (Apple and Google), you need to apply a different approach.

Apple learned this lesson upon Steve Jobs return. The first iMac was much more compatible with PC peripherals. The compatibility was further enhanced when Apple shifted to Intel processors. This compatibility certainly helped Apple attract more customers and complements to its platform.
Excellent! You're in Peru, right ?
Does that number count bus accidents?
Nice job. A small nitpick maybe, but the sound level of the intro and outro is very disproportionate to the rest of the screencast's sound. Quite unpleasant when wearing headphones.

That said, I'm looking forward to the next one, subscribed to the youtube channel.
I live in Los Angeles and when I started my business I formed a CA LLC right away. I don't have any employees in the US, just remote workers in the Philippines. I don't plan on taking any investment, so an LLC is fine. In CA there is a minimum $800 annual tax, so take that into consideration. Forming an LLC made sense for me because it protects my personal assets in the case my company is sued.

I'd suggest talking to a lawyer to get some advice...
Haircut (that doesn't look like shit) is at least $50-60 here.
It's my understanding that the EPA's 1993 study on second hand smoke was only able to achieve its desired result by redefining the previously accepted statistical threshold of "scientific truth". If that's indeed the case (I don't know or exactly care, since I'm just plain allergic to it) then calling it "junk science" is only speaking the truth.

I only skimmed this article; I sure hope it doesn't try to deny that a lot of science, and most especially a lot of medical science, is highly politicized and often just plain wrong. If you've been following Official Truth on fats for the last 4 decades as I have you can discern for yourself that something is seriously amiss.

Worse, if the people who excessively slammed fats pushed people to carbohydrates and thus diabetes (I think this is only speculation now, but it's hopefully getting a serious look) then they have a lot to answer for.

Heck, how about the previous US Official Truth that babies should be placed on their stomach for sleep. Oops, that may have had a significant effect on SIDS:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_sleep
This maybe considered spam. You need the permission od the bloggers, journalist, and reporters to email them.
How long did your upgrade take?
Images Formed by Thousands of US Soldiers
Cool, and good job...
Or alternatively, if there is some sort of power structure that is difficult to move through, people don't bother because there are other places for them to go that don't require as much effort.
"A handful of US scientists have made names for themselves by casting doubt on global warming research. In the past, the same people have also downplayed the dangers of passive smoking, acid rain and the ozone hole. In all cases, the tactics are the same: Spread doubt and claim it's too soon to take action."

Global warming (global cooling, climate change) is starting to sound like a religion. I always start to question things when:

1) It's about the money. The same people that claim that global warming is a problem are also invested in carbon credits (including Al Gore). Not to mention the fact that governments use it to fill their pockets with billions of dollars in tax revenue (we need a TV, radion, and Human tax because we emit carbon dioxide).

2) Any scientist that even hints at mis-information regarding global warming (and backs it up with stats) is immediately attacked and discredited.

3) Those emails that circulated were pretty damning, yet supports still won't believe it. They falsified information and many universities and organizations came out (before anyone investigated) to admit that yes, they were also using this info.

"With his sonorous voice, Fred Singer, 86, sounded like a grandfather explaining the obvious to a dim-witted child."

For a minute, I thought this article was on the onion.com
Why would anyone engaging in an online community want to partake of an elitist "power structure". Okay, other than power junkies whose world is embedded in this kind of delusional existence.

Most folk don't want that insidious role-playing in real life. Online they can just walk away. So that would be why it doesn't exist.
Right, you need some kind of happy medium (not too easy, not too difficult).
I love twiddla. Fwiw, it runs circles around this.
I'm not sure all those numbers are correct. I was born in the Dominican Republic and I can say that the time to open a business is least than 20 days.

Besides, there are some companies offering "packaged business"s with legal fees, registrations, and other paperwork ready. You can buy one of those and get up and running in 24 hours. They take care of transfering the company to you.
Now, that's much more worth reading.
There sure is.

The legal process of getting a company going here in NZ is really very simple. The distance from the rest of the world feels kind of overwhelming at times which is our big disadvantage. No over land connections with other countries, not in the middle of a nice trade route or anything. Great time to be a techy here though, the internet is a wonderful thing, when it works.

I saw a big of talk about VC work in agriculture and so on, not so much in the web space.
The underlying problem with putting water on the world market is that the market value of your labor might be less than foreigners value the water you need to stay alive and fed and healthy. Strange that we don't view it as we do organ smuggling, because the moral calculus (others have the means and now the incentive to outbid you on your own continued survival) is almost the same.
It would also help if the map attached to the GPS was actually accurate. I seem to find a lot of secondary highways in rural states that are not located correctly. It is a true pain when your GPS starts screaming about "getting back on the road". Really a pain having to turn off the sound when you come to certain highways.
IP address for your body sends updates to your cellphone
My wife is Japanese and when I said I was starting a company she asked me But, how? Are you even allowed to do that? I didn't really understand how you could not be at the time.

I guess that's why NZ ranks #1 and Japan ranks #91 for getting started.
Open source RTMP streaming server written in Erlang
> After a while, you start to subscribe to what I call the Groucho Marx rule. You stop attending any event which would have you as a participant.

I ideally like to be the stupidest and least informed person in any room that I'm in. At the very least, not the smartest. Continually looking for groups of people that are challenging and stimulating to be around means very fast learning and growth. But, I think most people prefer the opposite - they'd rather be the star, or at least mostly on par with everyone else.

Admittedly, it's hard. I had a mentor of mine invite me on a cruise. Now, that's the kind of frilly thing I'd never buy a ticket to on my own, but I like being around good people. So, I went - and man, it's not fun being gently corrected on how to hold a fork because I was out of touch with the etiquette. Hold the fork upside down? What?

Embarrassing, but you gotta learn it somewhere if you run in crowds that care about that sort of thing...

Don't get me wrong - I also like to help people, take time to answer questions, be available for people who reach out, give back, pay it forwards. But I think taking the attitude of trying to be the most humble, hard working, and least gifted person among a group of people means very fast absorbing of lessons, though admittedly at the expense of constant amounts of little mistakes and embarrassments.

Edit: I should add - I think thoughtful new members are necessary to prevent evaporative cooling - by introducing new points of view and asking questions that people haven't thought about in a long time. Normally two very successful members of a community won't have a discussion about the fundamentals, but might really enjoy each other's points when talking to a third person asking smart, good questions.
I think there's probably a direct correlation to economic strength and development here as well.
Yahoo messenger coming to iPhone and Android with cross-platform 3G video calls
Yahoo messenger coming to iPhone and Android with cross-platform 3G video calls
I thought so too at first, but if the intentions are good, I can't imagine why they wouldn't want to receive the emails if they are relevant to the reporter and would help them do their job.

By saying I would "need" the permission of them to email them, what do you mean by that? Do you mean that it would be more effective? Or it would be illegal without?
I wonder if there is something that can be done to the actual road to make it more "friendly" to robot vehicles? Roads are constantly being worked on and it would be interesting to attack parts of the problem from that angle.
Similar story. Grew up on a dairy farm. Our taxes stated our income as around $13K for a family of 5. Farm & equipment sold for 1.2 million (2001). Government got about $600K in taxes. Another $200K went towards existing loans. $120K towards a 1000sqft 1 story ranch home for my parents to move to. They gifted 20K to each of us kids to avoid further taxes on that. Each of us has done well using it to pay off education, buying land, or reinvesting.

Anyways, they both have medical problems that no insurance would cover in the past decade (part of the reason for selling the farm). Having just turned 60, they're both sitting on about 150-200K to retire on. One can't look at this as anything except a system rigged towards a Sisyphean outcome.
NZ has expensive (and not particularly fast) internet, which is probably why. On the other hand, setting up a limited-liability company took me an hour (including registering for GST) and cost $40 when I did it (it's a little more now), and costs nothing to renew. And the time zone difference means we're often working when the US is sleeping, which can be handy when you're deploying a new version of a production site for a US audience.
What's the cost, especially compared to standard incomes in the nation? I know a number of countries score very poorly because of this (CHANGED: per capita income is a factor in the calculation: http://www.doingbusiness.org/MethodologySurveys/StartingBusi...).
Reading this list made me think, "wow, I could have been born in so many other countries, with such dramatically different possibilities, but I was born in the US." Just a strange thought to consider. A lot of these countries barely have the rule of law: police misbehavior anywhere is unacceptable, but next time I see "Police mistreat innocent bystander X" here or on reddit, I'll think "but at least you can't walk down the street and bribe the cop to get away with Z" for a second before I start being furious with the system.
Analyzing JavaScript Class Patterns Performance
Yeah, more hand-waving holy-war non-sense.

Lisp is a great language.

You could probably compress this page a fair bit.

80% of arguments against lisp are superficial

15% of arguments are unsubstantiated

5% of arguments are good and come from SmugLispWeenies who've actually used Lisp for many projects and get to know its warts pretty well.
As noted in other comments, the numbers are a bit skewed.

E.g. it takes half a morning to open a company. But it takes up to two weeks to get all the approval documents mailed to you.

In any case, this info is not for tech-startups, its statistics for opening 'real' businesses.
Why we love lisp: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WhyWeLoveLisp
Nowadays, most people could probably bolt the hood on their car shut without any consequences (but there would be outcry from the car guys).

But a lot of cars nowadays basically do this. There's an engine cover underneath the hood hiding all the engine parts, with only a place to add fluids visible.
Is it just me or does that sound like a fun job, to answer stranger's strange requests?
I started collecting photos from sold houses on real estate sites as interior design inspiration. One day I put them online, categorised them (bathroom, bedroom, etc) and added in a few ads. I've left it largely untouched for 2-3 years since and it pays my mortgage.
While I'm academic and more positive on it than some of the sentiment around here is, that actually seems like one of the biggest downsides of academia. It at least partly selects for careerists/game-players/CV-padders over experimenters/thinkers (doubly so for anyone whose goal is to become Dean). Lots of smart people end up burning out or going elsewhere, and many of the rest have a lot of their time taken up learning not-very-interesting things, like how to negotiate the web of prestige, publication, and funding agencies in their field. To the extent it works, I think it's despite all the hierarchy, not because of it.
Oh yes, that is correct
Er, my bad; I was thinking of terms of international policy, "politically" was the wrong word choice. Public opinion has been shifting in favor of (or, less opposed to) widespread nuclear power, but not nearly fast enough to make it a reality.
Israel ranks really low on "Dealing with Construction Permits" and "Registering Property", according to this list. Don't let this list fool you, it's a true start up nation. The amount of tech and start-ups coming from Israel is amazing.

From the book: "a country of 7.1 million, only 60
years old, surrounded by enemies, in a constant state
of war since its founding, with no natural resources—
produces more start-up companies than large, peaceful,
and stable nations like Japan, China, India, Korea,
Canada, and the UK? How is it that Israel has,
per person, attracted over twice as much venture capital
investment as the US and thirty times more than Europe?"
I think it's one thing to see it happening, and a totally different thing to actually know how to fix it.

I run an online community and what this article describes has happened to me a few times already, even with a karma/reputation system in place. I know I must fix the problem, but I don't know how right now.

Does anyone have specific suggestions on how to broadly lessen this kind of problem?
Already did. No issues
http://askubuntu.com/
I've not used this app but this is definitely possible and has been covered in the literature. The final link is to a paper presented recently which actually proposes using a mobile phone for this.

Would be interesting to see what other information can be extracted from optical signals. Tricorders can't be that far off now.

http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?uri=oe-18-10-1076...

http://vassilios-chouliaras.com/pubs/c51.pdf

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2717852/

https://embs.papercept.net/conferences/scripts/abstract.pl?C...
I'm surprised that no one has cited that there was already a book just like this called "The Millionaire Next Door" which was all about pointing out how the millionaires don't act like we expect "rich" people to. It originally came out in 1998. This seems like a rehash.