skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really? Are we arguing about this? The males in all mammal species are better at physical tasks. It's called testosterone. It allows you to build more muscle mass. If women take it, they also build more muscle mass. So do female bunny rabbits.

There are other things that go into it, obviously, like body shape. Women are 8 times more likely to tear their anterior cruciate ligament because their wider hips cause them to impact the ground at problematic angles. And boobs are a dead weight.

But yeah, this is something where the biology is very well understood.
Wow. This goes to show you how easy it is to overestimate what you know - my patent experience is all about translating stuff from German (or French) into English, so now that I think about it, all the appeal documentation I've ever seen has been before the European patent appeals court. The thought of defending a patent in front of a "jury of your peers" is frankly something I never even thought of.

The insidiousness of ignorance...
There's already another goods provider which seems to have been directly affected by this decision: http://forum.daz3d.com/viewtopic.php?p=2562075&sid=38561...
The Lesson here is : if you do make a pile of cash, lock some of it away so that you and your family have an (almost) assured retirement plan.
If it's difficult to derive and produce, you're not likely to need patent protection. Patenting a large hadron collider would be money and thought wasted - it's a unique undertaking and people will come to you to use it anyway.

The bleeping 1-click patent, though, God, it's enough to make my head explode if I think too much about that being patented. An utter perversion of the original intent of the patent system.
@tibbon: this is exactly the pain-point I wanted to solve when we applied to Y Combinator (but we pivoted after being accepted into the summer batch and built AdGrok). Antonio blogged about it: http://adgrok.com/plan-a
Slightly negative. First, language differences continue to be a barrier to understanding, and this won't go away in a generation or even over several; it's naive to generalize from the internal dynamics of a country to the world at large.

Second, even when people have a language and communication medium in common, the existence of flamewars, shows that it doesn't necessarily result in people listening to each other more closely.

You might this an interesting read - written by a game designer, but easy to extend to other net contexts: http://www.mud.co.uk/richard/hcds.htm
If you haven't read a lot about SSDs, you should read the big Anandtech article: http://www.anandtech.com/show/2738 .

I didn't think SSDs were that important until I read this and was like, "Oh, I should get one." Which I haven't done yet -- soon, though. When AppleCare on my iMac expires.
Google to invest $5B in offshore wind power project
We have 66 registered users and ~2200 answers to ~90 unique survey questions. The survey system is adaptive so that the most important questions are served to you first. You'll get a list of matches of interesting people to meet at Startup School, and the system will email you once a day with the current list of your top matches.

Anyone can pose a question to the community (and please do!)

Please note below any feature requests.
Not serious statistics, but very cool visual nonetheless.

Now, so long as everyone realizes the 'woman at the bar' scene in A Beautiful Mind isn't actual game theory, feel free to go nuts.
http://www.linode.com/about/ - In the Interesting Statistics box.

48% of deployments are Ubuntu
24% of deployments are Debian
16% of deployments are CentOS
4.3% of deployments are Fedora
3.1% of deployments are Gentoo
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The $250 is a sunk cost, but the further $100 penalty if you don't pay is not. That's the critical point that you're ignoring.
Read "The Mono Trap" by RMS

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/java-trap.html
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That seems inconsistent with my experience, I've never had a root canal in my life, but have had several sore teeth that resulted in a filling. Any well informed people care to comment?
Here is an idea:
an eBay like site to link buyers and sellers in real-time.

One simple way to implement:
Twitter hashtag #buyitnow
Notice how the novell site swallows up comments? What's up with that?
And if anyone genuinely IS interested in attempts by the dismal science to suck the soul out of romance, check out Gary Becker's 'A Theory of Marriage' papers.
(not) Messing up your Data Model because of your ORM
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I would have to imagine this would have been patented if your "heatsink" source is practical. Unless you are living in a area like Iceland where you can tap into geothermal energy, I would have to imagine any other method would be impractical. You have to obtain the heat from somewhere. Be it natural or from some form of man made energy source.

I do remember reading somewhere about capturing/retaining heat during the hotter parts of the season and then releasing it during the colder seasons. The solution involved a massive hole I believe or something like that.
Apple Awarded a Patent To Prevent Texting "Objectionable Content"
The Myth of the new Framework (or Language) User
Yeah, Amazon 1-click was the public start of the insanity. Peer-to-Patent formalization just can't come fast enough, it's a great idea.

And under this framework, difficult to derive implies a need for patent protection, in order to prevent one entity from piggybacking off the derivation work and investment of another. But difficult to implement implies a lack of need for patent protection due to an implementation moat/barrier. Combine the two, and it gets into gray areas.

I used the LHC as an extreme example, but I can imagine other less extreme examples of #4 where the patentability is not so clear. Say, quantum processors - lots of time and research is going into deriving them, and they certainly won't be easy or cheap to produce, but the payoff may mitigate the implementation/production cost and be particularly attractive to some company looking to piggyback off the derivation work/expense of another.
# of programmers * months to MVP * credibility * $10k.

Even a mockup is better than nothing, but you'd do well to find your own tech partner.
Good timing, just started learning rails and hate reading tech books. #purchased
How are programming/technical books on the Kindle 3? I've read reviews that the Kindle DX can handle them but the normal Kindle has a much more attractive price point.
Matt Groening figured this out a long time ago. He says that whenever he creates a new character, it has to be recognizable in silhouette. Look at all his characters. Bart, Homer, Leela, Bender, Fry. None of them need color.
I'm either gonna win $130 with 47% chance or lose $130 with 53% chance. My $250 bill is sunk and completely independent of this decision and outcome. Otherwise any time I have an expensive bill to pay and will be left with only about $130 why not gamble it save the amount I need to pay in the long run. This is the start of a gambling problem.

No, you're missing the point: the $250 is, indeed, a sunk cost. The $100 fee that's going to add on if it's not paid on time, however, is not.

Stripping away all the irrelevant details of the problem, the (completely contrived and artificial, indeed) choice is between:

A) Certainly losing another $100,
B) A near 50/50 shot (minus a single-digit house edge) of either winning $130, or losing $230 (lose the $130 bet, plus have to pay the $100 "late fee")

The $250 owed is irrelevant to the problem except to trigger the late fee and set up this payoff structure.

Firstly the concept of expected value only make sense over repeated trials of the same experiment and using it here on a one off is a misapplication.

Whether or not expected value calculations are valid for single shot deals, are you really saying you'd choose option A in this situation, which loses you twice as much as the expected loss in option B?
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Same. Prefer text or audio. I can speed-read text, or continue working while listing to audio. Video monopolizes both my time and control of the info rate.
Muscle mass seems fairly clearly distinct from endurance, given that most distance athletes aren't particularly bulky. And I'm highly skeptical that "The males in all mammal species are better at physical tasks". Among humans, I think it's generally accepted that women have better fine-motor control (for example, women were hired to assemble early core memories for this reason). Another well-known counterexample is lions: "Lionesses do the majority of the hunting for their pride, being smaller, swifter and more agile than the males" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion)
Gotta wonder if you could get funding for "Geothermal Offsets", to replace some of the Earth's sapped heat from geothermal power sources. You could possibly run such a system for free :D
Cosmic strings are super-massive, ultra-thin cracks in the universe
UK agents definitely want easy. Either be in London or say you you are if you're not but canget there quickly (eg eurostar from Paris).

There is a practical reason for this. Once a position can be filled it is often filled very quickly. Getting a position can come down to who is available right now. This can even hinge on whether someone can be reached by phone that afternoon.

Also if you have a choice of interview slot, pick the earliest you can, later interviews will often get cancelled if a suitable candidate is found earlier. Companies don't want to waste time.

I got a job once that caused the next TWO DAYS of Interviews to be cancelled. This came down to being reachable by mobile phone and having access to a fax machine (this was 2001).
I look at it this way: most startups have more than enough work, and not enough hours in the day to accomplish it all and therefore should be concentrating on solving the things that are absolutely core/critical to their product/service. Those are the things that your customers find valuable (and will give you money for).

Anything that's "undifferentiated slog" that you sort of have to do in order to exist, but that your customers don't give a fig about should be eliminated, reduced, outsourced or purchased if that saves you time to spend on what they do care about. Are you selling the box or the chocolates: http://forio.com/resources/article/the-pitfalls-of-outsourci... ?
Why do Americans resent upward mobility?
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This is like the ultime HN article.

* Born hacker

* Issues of race and oppression

* Entreprenuer spirit

* Issues with patents

* Big companies stifling innovation

Someone should write "Inventors at Work".
Dr. Metz in Brighton, Michigan, since you ask.

Sorry to be coy with the name, it's my instinctive "protect other people's privacy" thing from being on the Internet too often. I forget "he" is also a business and that doesn't really apply.
any source of energy will have a chance of causing far more energetic particles, if not directly then through particle interactions. For the same reason, water far below boiling will steam.

As to the rest, can't help you there. IANAPP :)
As in: seconds before BofA or some other institution is about to pillage someone for $30, the 'angel' swoops in with a just-in-time loan, charging the person (in fees and interest) any amount less than $30 -- and lower with more competition.

It's called a credit card or savings account.

If you have a credit card, you can't overdraw it. Or you can link your checking account to it, avoiding the "we're loaning you money even though you didn't ask for it" fee. Or you can have a savings account, and dip into that when your checking account runs out of money. Or you can just not run out of money.

I got hit with an overdraft fee back when I was in college even though I explicitly opted out. I didn't make that mistake again. I stopped using a debit card and started using a credit card again... and now I even get 1.5% cash back. (If this happened to me now, I would have just filed a complaint with the state's attorneys general office. Customer service doesn't want to help? Enjoy the fine and new regulations.)
This is nearly useless. Every point either

- focuses too much on twitter specifically (3, 4)

- focuses on large startups specifically (1,4)

- is a platitude (1 through 5, plus the "Bottom Line" section)

- is complete bullshit (5, given how many 3rd party apps Twitter has screwed over).

And a couple of asides:

- having a "Corporate Social Innovation" department, sounds like something straight out of Orwell.

- "if you can't read, you can't tweet" also seems Orwellian, because of course the only purpose of reading is to increase the uptake of the social network flavor of the day.
Ah, but then the article would have to be edited to remove the false exception, thus making the exception valid again.

It seems we've arrived at a proof that Wikipedia in fact can not have perfect, comprehensive knowledge of the world.
> However the license isn't valid in a case like this unless it passes the TCK, right?

No. Since it's licensed under GPL, it's completely Oracle-proof. The license is valid regardless TCK compliance.

> How this plays out with OpenJDK and its derivatives I don't know

Any derivative is also covered by the same license.

> refuse access to the Java 7 TCK, resulting in a freezing of the GPLed version?

OpenJDK can gain any features present in JDK 7. As long as it's derived, Oracle can do nothing about it. What may get you in trouble is calling it Java without passing the TCK. I am happy with changing JDK and JVM to "Just-Like-Their Development Kit" and "Just-Like-Their VM".

It will be funny if, in the end, it's Stallman who makes Oracle into a civilized corporate citizen.
It will certainly limit possibilities of 0day ssh exploitation.
The maximum heat you can get from sunlight is the temperature of the sun: definitely hot enough to ionize most gases.
I am in the same place.

I'm thinking about a couple of months vacation after this job, to do some web hacking and learning the newer frameworks.

I really like the present place, but I almost doesn't touch the web/CPAN. I have managed to drag people here from 1999 to 2005 or so, but that is probably the limit. :-(

(The killer now, is that I seem to be in the worst place in Scandinavia to have a peanut allergy. [Edit: The lack of challenge to learn new things is not good either.])
Why intelligent people drink more alcohol
I always said, the thing is broken. Never worked properly...
Posterous is hiring Rails and infrastracture engineers
No need to brute-force. It's pretty easy to just eliminate possibilities:

The largest number must be larger than 7, else the largest possible sum of the three numbers is 21.

If the largest number is 8, then the other two must sum to 15, which is not possible since they must both be 7 or less.

So the largest number is 9, and the other two numbers sum to 14. The possibilities for those other two, with the smallest first are (5 and 9), (6 and 8), or (7 and 7). Clearly (5 and 9) would duplicate the original 9 (5+9+9), and (7 and 7) would duplicate the 7.

So the only possible solution is 6+8+9.
this is what I came here to say. Exactly this.
I don't know about that. It sounds like it could be a good idea to me. Ambient air temperature varies 25 degrees or so from night to day. The pool is going to tend to gravitate towards a temperature between the ground temperature and the average air temperature throughout the day. If you want to heat the pool in the Fall and Spring, just circulate the water through an air-source heat exchanger in the afternoon, and turn it off when the temperature starts to drop. Voila, warm pool. In some places, pools get annoyingly warm in the summer. Use the same device, at 3am, and the problem is solved.

Don't want to use your pool in the fall and spring, but want to save on your heating and cooling bills? Use the pool as a heat storage device, and save the desirable temperature (afternoon or night, depending) in the pool, then run the heat exchanger in the house to enjoy the cool night air during the day.
Haha, I'll keep that in mind.

Thanks for the advice. It makes a lot of sense.
I've worked IT for a few dental offices. It's know as "drilling at shadows". (the dark spots on the xray are likely candidates for decay) Some dentists are more aggressive than others who take a "wait and see" approach. (You do go every 6 months right?)

Dentists will often drill and fill these dark spots "just to be sure". This is the first time I've ever really considered the financial angle and the perverse incentive that may also be at work.

The proliferation of digital xrays with instant networkable images creates a fascinating opportunity here. There's probably a startup in instant second opinions...
I wrote a few early in my career, but not since then. I don't think I've ever seen one for any candidates I've interviewed - just resumes.
This is also important as digital x-rays use much less radiation

Actually the operative word should be can use much less radiation. Because the sensors are digital, the software will auto-compensate for exposure levels. A study at my university by the physicists in the radiology department showed that the x-ray techs were often using much higher exposure settings than necessary on the digital setups, but no one was noticing. On film, overexposure would make the images unreadable, and it would have been noticed immediately.

A question you need to ask your dentist is, "how often is your x-ray equipment calibrated?"

Granted, you're getting much less radiation exposure at the dentist's than at the doctor's office, unless you're getting dental CT's.
C'mon man throw us a bone here. What exactly did 'your reading of economic history' teach you? Why can't patents, even the steam engine one, be justified?

Patents will not increase innovation, and they shift activities from secret invention to invention whom designs are easily reverse engineered.

When the industrial revolution was in full swing in England, there were many steam engine inventors that were working on it, but they keep getting in the ways of each other. Instead, inventors, especially James Watt, ligate rather than improve or manufacture their design. Since their work are built on each other, steam engine tech proceed much more slowly. After the repeal of Watt's patents, engine production increased dramatically.

Why do you already reject his reasoning?

His reasoning is flawed based on the fact of taking into account only capital cost, but the cost of using humans to develop it. The cost of development has to exceed the cost of duplication. Therefore, it does make not sense that patents are useful in more capital enterprises because the relative costs of development versus production are similar.This is my economic reasoning.

On empirical evidence, his reasoning does not simply match. Moreover, invention and inventing are not the begin and end process of innovation. Innovation is much broader than that. It is also about marketing, finding out people need certain products and so on. Inventions, by themselves are useless without entrepreneurs turning it into a business. If there are only one entrepreneur for one inventions, than it might just fail in the marketplace. What if the inventions satisfy no needs? The process will simply be slower, be plagued with ligation and so on.

Big companies do not alway win, nor are they able to copy everything with efficiency, and nor do they recognize all business opportunities.

Why do you need to read and dig more if you're already decided on the issue?

As much as I am sure of what I believe in, I taken the maxim "When you meet Buddha, you kill him" seriously. My position on intellectual property is very strong, thus it will be a continuous target of refutation. If my arguments are well supported, but in fact wrong, than there is no one to convince me that in fact, I was wrong.

Though, the more I read, the more I am convinced on my positions that we should go ahead and abolish the system altogether.
I know OO and testing (at least Test::More and general test writing), though I haven't played with Moose more for a lack of time than an aversion to it.

Half the jobs I've taken give deadlines for projects that make it impossible for me to learn more than I know to complete them and the list of things I have to learn in my time (that also competes with lists of projects, blog articles and other things) is growing constantly. I miss having free time.
Somewhere between $0 and $20,000, probably much closer to $0; depends on your credentials, the intuitive strength of your idea, and how hard it is to build.

You're asking the wrong question, though. Regardless of whether you can get an investment (and sure, you can always scrounge up $2000 from somewhere), this is the worst conceivable time for you to try to take an investment. You are optimizing for terms will ultimately cripple your business.

Build something first.
Could someone explain the differences in acquiring funding as an inventor vs an entrepreneur? Reason I ask is that I was recently laid off by a failed startup that had secured and wasted an investment in the amount of 2 million.

After that experience I went on to do some contract work with another early stage startup. They had no solid idea or vision for a product and had funding in the amount of 1.5 million.

It is concerning to me that a proven inventor like Johnson, who has a solid concept, is struggling to pull in his initial 100,000
How much would you pay for your dream job?
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Is still Ruby and Rails slow as hell in Windows?
I’m not a Java/JVM expert, I’m just trying to state the article’s argument as I understand it. I think the claim is that the legal issues (patents) w/ Oracle make Java the language harder to compile to something else. There doesn’t seem to be any overwhelming technical reason.
The blue is slightly too vibrant also. You want to be careful about the saturation of your colors. Vibrant/Saturated colors are subconsciously distracting and unprofessional.

This is completely subjective though. To me, for instance, We Pay's current webpage looks like a site I might use for the scenarios described in the NYT article, like a way to collect payment among a group of friends. Your mock-up looks like the site of a bank or mutual fund, which is exactly not the sort of site that comes to mind for the purpose. Again, this is completely subjective - I just don't think there is any way to justify something as vague as 'vibrant is unprofessional'.
Of course, poor people _do_ gamble more.