skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It could be restricted to a 4 year bachelors degree (or higher) from an accredited university in specific programs. But then again, the accreditation system is completely subverted now by these for profit schools.
To throw out some data, checked out the Stratford site, which is the education entity whose students overwhelmingly dominate the OPT STEM program. Looked at Software Engineering, Masters. All courses can be taken online. There are 5 core classes and 7 elective classes. Of the 5 core classes the one that sounded the meatiest was Software Engineering. The description made it sound pretty easy and shallow. Total tution cost for that M in SE is $22k. Overall impression from looking at their site is it is oriented to foreign students, and online-centric, and gave me impression of being a diploma mill. Getting a M in SE from them looks pretty easy and fast, as long as I cough up the $22k.
master list = the alphabet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_papers
The link has been posted on his twitter and facebook.

Here is the link to twitter status.
http://twitter.com/#!/jdcrunchman/status/11219584119996416

His Facebook posts are seems to be for friends only, though.

http://www.facebook.com/jdcrunchman

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1229269/Screen%20shot%202010-12-05%2...
The best description I've ever ever seen of American football (can't remember where I read it) was 'random violence interspersed with committee meetings.'
New profile, but Last.fm still loads blank in Chrome after several months.
Fun abstract image generator using SVG and hashes
I saw Stratford-on-Avon and thought, "How would Shakespeare students qualify as STEM?! Oh, maybe that's the S."
You can add Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie to that list, both of whom became so exasperated and annoyed with the characters of their creation that they killed them off.

In particular: http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/devon/hi/people_and_places/arts_...
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=13&...
My wife, suspecting that there is no such thing as inborn rather than developed talent, ran an experiment. She took something she was terrible at even after some fiddling -- drawing. She sucked at it. Her stick figures weren't very compelling.

She set out to learn how. Over the span of about two years with a lot of work she got to be amazing at it, and painting as well. She now all the time hears how she has such an amazing (previously undeveloped) talent.
Readability - An Arc90 Lab Experiment
Related: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks%27s_law

"Nine women can't make a baby in one month"
This is the only self-help book that has helped me. (Self-help books are normally waste of time)
"That person" isn't Jeff Bezos, though. Jeff Bezos has been in many tough negotiating positions before, and it's at times like that when one's character is tested. Your proverbial "boycott Amazon person" is likely not going to have their character tested on point regarding Wikileaks, but that can't stop opinion or in, for lack of a better phrase, voting with their hopes. There are a lot of people that wish Amazon didn't accede to becoming a proxy for government censorship and hope that they wouldn't do the same. Bezos wimped out.
There are no scenarios where he recommends the E Ink Nook. Strange. It's actually a decent device, but is there really no room for it in the market?
You Think You Screwed Up? Have I Got a Story for You
A former boss of mine had a simple rule: you can't complain unless you can suggest an alternative. It was a great source of ideas.
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs737.snc4/65739...

I love how that looks. They put all the useful information into a nice bit-sized block, yum... all that's missing now is the guy's SSN.
Ok, serious question. I have been writing SQL for 7 years now and can normalize schemas with the best of them; but I am wanting to learn the proper techniques for creating scalable data sets like what one would store in GAE BigTable or EC2 SimpleDB...

Let's say I have a book review site. In my SQL world I have tables of 'users', 'authors', 'books', and 'reviews'. When a user creates a review, it creates a new row in 'reviews' which contains the userid, bookid, and rating. Throw some JOINs together and I can pull out rows that have the user data, author data, book data, and the rating all together.

What do you do in non-normalized world? When a user creates a review, just insert a row into a 'review' table that has user_id, user_name, author_name, book_title, book_isbn, book_etc, ..., rating ??

I can see how this would be a much more scalable table and fetching a review is just one row, but it just seems like so much duplicate data...? Or maybe I am thinking about it the wrong way?
> The site is down for me.

http://pastebin.com/Dmpyyv8Q
This sounds a lot similar to how thinking is much more efficient and productive when jotting things down with pen and paper (or marker and whiteboard) than doing it digitally.
That was sarcasm. Thanks for the downvotes though.
I just realized that Facebook uses data more structured than their crushed competition. The relational database pundit in me rejoices.
I like it.

I still don't use facebook much anymore though. Doubt this will change that.
This guy sounds like a total dick and isn't a stickler for details, but he does touch on an important conundrum stated more eloquently by other social scientists like Jared Diamond in his book "Collapse."

The conundrum being that feeding people and providing them with vaccines, new crops and other means for a better life without checks on population growth can lead to some serious problems - competition for a limited amount of environmental resources probably being the biggest one.

How do we ethically balance our concern for fellow human beings who are suffering in abject poverty on the one hand, and what kinds of problems overpopulation can lead to because of those same efforts in environmentally strained areas on the other hand is a tough question to answer.
Because the stakes are so small.
I think you'll be seeing a lot more processes being 'forced' onto the profession. I know process and system engineers like looking at the medical field in general and then pull their hair out at just how many places you can let human error slip in. And I know a lot of people want to go change that.

So that'll mean you'll probably start seeing more checklists, set procedures, expert systems, etc etc. And it will reduce your independence. But it'll also (if we do it right) be better for your patients.

If you want an example of stuff engineers get brain boggled at, look at the labels on drugs used in hospital. The vials are typically sized for one dosage and so are fairly small, so you have small label to begin with (nothing -wrong- with that). And then half the label is taken up by a company label (at best). And then the full drug name is written out in tiny print.
Order of a finite field very well may be 2^n, contrary to what the article says.
developer build? mine screws up a few pages
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I am doing some market research on a food related idea I had. If you are in the US would you mind taking a short survey (few minutes)? Would appreciate it. The link is http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/3JCSMGJ
I doubt very much there is going to be any significant boycott at all.
I just read 5 different people that had 5 different reasons for renouncing their work? Which do you mean?

Did your backend software turn into a tyrant?
The Y gathered (and charged) the wrong audience for the talk – a task made easy by today's technology.

Not so different from when some small blog, writing to an audience of regulars, suddenly finds something it says put in a new context, broadcast and re-spun across the net, and a whole new slew of commenters without the common context show up (or viciously opine elsewhere).
I think that his arguement is a bit flawed. Just becuase you can come up with one arguement why joins dont work dosnt mean they are never the best solution. I know that for my day job they are the correct solution because I need the data to be transactional and correct. I shudder to think how much effort it would be to port them to a keyvalue store and maintain the same levels of data integrity.
you're not, denormalization implies duplication (though not all normalizations are created equal). It also usually implies that you have to replicate DB functionalities in the client (e.g. write data in two places yourself).

But denormalization is not only a mean to "infiniscale" storage, you can use it even in smaller scale to just get better performances in certain things.

As usual, everything is a trade off.
The Idiot
I'm not so certain.

A lot of the value in wine is tied up in branding/marketing, both of which seem rather ephemeral in comparison to other more historically stable measures of value.
Because (a) I've always been interested in science, (b) I am obsessed with learning about new developments in medicine, (c) I would love to help a person feel better who was suffering from a chronic disease, (d) I think I have the potential to be a very good doctor because of how interested I am in the field and how much time I'm willing to invest both during and after my formal education, (e) it's enough money to comfortably raise a family with, and (f) it provides tremendous opportunity to conduct research on new treatments, something I would like to be a part of.
I'm not a Christmas person. I don't want people spending hard earned money on me unless it's something I really want, otherwise I think it's a waste of money. I am fine with cards or trinkets. My dad is getting me a plane ticket to fly home, that works.
It depends on the data of course, but sometimes it might be easier to just create a new entry rather than update an old one :)
this was signed in late september
Still waiting for an ereader with a screen > 9" and good PDF support. The Kindle DX is oh-so-close, but it doesn't support PDF table of contents or annotations. A touch screen would also be nice. Anyone aware of any other products that meet these criteria?
Does this apply to founders as well? If I've got a side project, is it worthwhile to start a C corp right now?
I'm quite surprised at the amount of work done at NASA to push this paper as something extraordinary without so much as a critical eye. The claim made in the paper is extraordinary and that alone should be reason for caution, not for bringing out the big drums.

The bigger problem is that if it turns out the result is bogus this will be a net negative, both for NASA and for the scientific community, the public at large will not see this as proof that 'the system works' but as proof that they were being duped.
Well, I wouldn't call it an association of mine. It's thoroughly recorded in history, the soviets and all that.

Puritans? They're alien to me, except for Quicksilver, that I've read a week ago. I think you're right that they're not in the same axis as european parties. But that doesn't invalidate my point: that this question is ideology (or religion) more than science.
I would include lawyers in 0.) diseases.
Nassim Taleb's The Black Swan. At 17 I thought there was nothing that couldn't be achieved by shear will and concentrated effort. The Black Swan introduced me to the notion of Mediocristan and Extremistan, two very different domains with entirely different sets of risk. I don't think I'd have done anything differently, but had I read it earlier, I'd probably not have beat myself up so much when things didn't go well.
The one thing i dont understand about wikipedia is didnt they ever hear of videos and photos and things like that. Everytime i go to the site i feel like i entered a portal to 1990. Its ugly beyond belief and actually difficult to find proper information because of that.
It would be nice if facebook pursued the design goal you've outlined, but it would be irresponsible to interact with the facebook system as if that goal had been achieved and cemented for all time.

I think the guiding principle for Mary, or any user, should be that she doesn't type anything into a web browser that she doesn't want publically known and tied to her real-life identity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serenity_Prayer
I do that if I'm doing collection.each in Ruby or something, but if I'm in C or even if I'm doing collection.each_with_index, I use "i" for the index.
Many of these suggestions are being attempted in journals like PLoS One (plosone.org) or through groups like Faculty of 1000 (http://f1000.com/) for commenting/discussion. Many journals now have comment fields on their articles, and you'll notice that most of them go empty. All the discussion happens behind closed doors before publication in anonymous peer review. Nobody wants to stake their reputation on something not polished.

edit: I partially take-back my suggestion of Faculty of 1000. Apparently, they are not open to unaffiliated and require a subscription. I like what they're doing, but it shouldn't be so ivory-toweresque.
Yes, I was hoping for a list of what each letter is used for.
Why are variables “i” and “j” used for counters?
Really guy? Did you read the guidelines and FAQ before you decided to start threadshitting here? Or you just don't care either way?
A brief synopsis of sexual predilections would be nice, too.
This period is for people who may be able to reduce their 2010 tax liability. If you don't realize your gains before the end of the year, you'll be filing them on your tax return for 2011. If you made your gains prior to September (when the law was passed IIRC) then you did so with the expectation that 50% of them were going to be taxable.

You really should read the text of the actual bill, which starts addressing tax matters on page 51. Alternatively, have your accountant or tax lawyer explain it for you. It modifies the existing rules, which are already complex and require knowledge (or diligent research) of the tax code.
Whoever modded you down has no sense of telecommunications history or humor.

The extra experience all those around you will have learning morse code to figure out what it is that you're telling them alone is worth an upvote ;)
Why the office is the worst place to work
More than likely, they'll be charged with the violation of these, as well as numerous digital laws. They'll do anything possible to make charges stick.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_Three_of_the_United_Sta...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espionage_Act_of_1917

Eric Holder has publicly said that he's considering pursuing the charges over the Espionage Act.
Admittedly, the OP is not very clear. There could be at least three questions, based on the headline, the body text question, and the example URLs cited:

(1) "Why are journals not open access?"

(2) "Where can I get free copies of academic articles?"

(3) "What open access journals/preprint servers exist?"

My response attempted to answer (1) and (2) with "most journals/conferences are ultimately not interested in dissemination of research results to the general public" and "Google Scholar, which generally has un-paywalled PDFs from academic web pages," respectively. Other people answer (3) elsewhere in this discussion, with answers like arXiv and PLoS.

If your point is that it is not yet clear economically how academic publishing will work in the future, then, I agree.
The problem is that arxiv-style publishing cannot replace peer-reviewed work in academia. Peer review isn't just something the big publishers are pushing- it's an integral part of academia. Without reputation, a journal doesn't get read- and reputation in academia necessitates peer review.

OTOH, layout is pretty replaceable. Publishers guard their layout guides pretty seriously (lol!), but I'm not sure typesetting services are so important now that most universities- even liberal arts unis- have at least one resident LaTeX guru.
They did the same thing with the "life from Mars" thing a few years ago. It's a way of attracting attention in order to raise money.
Judging by how that worked out for them they ought to have known better. You can only cry wolf so many times before you are labeled the village idiot, too bad for you if the wolf eventually shows up and nobody believes you due to 'past performance'.
I’ve created an online ebook creator called eBookBurn.com
Outsource Your Kitchen?
The idea sounds good in concept but do real data points show the same conclusion? Please take 2-3 minutes to answer survey questions.
Twitter needs that feature too to prevent people from Tweeting that they just saw Mary at the local store or something.

If you think about your request a little more, you'll see that it's not plausible. There's a reason why people who really need to hide (e.g. witness protection) may have to change their names, cut off old connections, etc.
The profile for that Twitter account has a broken link:

http://www.en2go.com

It is common for celebrities to be impersonated on Twitter, and this is not a verified account.

John Draper is a security expert. His MySpace page has a video of him talking about how to avoid getting scammed online. Surely he understands the need to establish his identity before asking for money online. Yet, I don't see any mention of this situation on his website.
I'm charging to use it, but for the next few weeks, I'm giving away a few free trial subscriptions, so if anyone here would like to try it, use the contact form on that site and let me know (please mention HN in your message).
The comments on that page are actually very interesting to read. I try to do my part to filter by voting down what I do not like and voting up what should be addressed. That is just how it is when you allow 500M users to say their view regardless of age group and other demographics. You get a multi-layer of " I want this , this and not this " but then a next person says the opposite. Some people want it to stay the same ...others welcome change.

They are not joking around when they meant that they wanted to make the world more social. Because of this change my dad realized where the Poke Button was located. Go dad.... If you remembered the boxes' (Top Friends ,Gift Boxes etc) removal a while back you would see that (at least to me) the current change made sense. Now the focus really is in the interaction with the user (info,photos and wall are packed in the top middle) and their interests not the "glitz and glamour"

Now the real item that needs /that I hope it is not really a need.. I cannot tell Facebook what they can and cannot do/ to be addressed is the 10% of friends option ( this has been discussed in other formats 10 friends,8 friends ..etc). The everyday user does not interact with all of their "Friends". If you can force me to choose only 10 or so of my real friends to interact with ..those that I mail,sms,send messages, actually see outside ... that would be great.

If you could even couple notifications with Facebook Chat on your phone ... FBM (FaceBook Messenger) /BBM/ . Just an alternate reality thought.
This book changed my entire outlook on the world.
Added to this list are:
Singularity is Near and
The Selfish Gene
Why the P2P DNS project will not work
You don't want X-ray scattering crystallography, you want elemental spectroscopy.
I do appreciate your suggestions, but this doesn't have anything to do with my ego.

It's great to have constructive criticism like the points contained in your comment, but had it been written without the sarcasm and small insults I would have found it that much more compelling.

Sounds like ego to me. There was no sarcasm in his host, and its critical tone is probably warranted when your site takes that long to load.
Precisely why I specified what "down-voting" is for. In my view, the correct score for a valid opinion that nobody else agrees with is 1. I feel up-voting can express both agreement and/or belief that something is valuable.
The only evidence of SEOing I see in this thread so far is your 4 completely unsubtle mentions of dubdubdub launch is.
Yes, those people are bad too, but it's not a dichotomy. People tend to overvalue their non-portable organization-specific skills.
don't make that information public, and don't friend people you don't know and you will be fine.
"At the risk of overgeneralizing, the most important talent is meta-analysis. You have to be able to self-analyze and self-correct."

I disagree with the OP but this I can get behind. I teach at the college level, and I have seen, repeatedly, students who put in a lot of effort but get nowhere. Not a ton, but always a few each year. There's also almost always a much larger group that maybe muddle along to a passing grade but don't understand why they don't understand more.

What both groups have in common is an inability to learn from their own errors. They can listen to what I say, and absorb some of it, and they can read the book, and absorb some of it, and after they've gotten something wrong they can come back, talk to me or a tutor, and absorb a little more. (Maybe.) But the more productive route by far is to look at the specific thing they got wrong, and learn from that, "fix" the specific misunderstanding that misled them. And whether by inclination or ability, they don't do that. And despite spending big chunks of time on my class, they don't do very well.

I do think there is such a thing as native talent. There pretty much has to be. But I think that the skill of meta-analysis can account for a large percentage (not all) of what is usually chalked up to "talent".