skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can't go into detail, short of time. However, the blog post you linked to was NOT an example of discussion about GW. I don't think it was meant as a contribution to the discussion - it does not contain any scientific arguments to argue about. So your remark "don't look like the arguments characteristic of correct theories" is completely out of place - it was never meant to be that (I suppose).

Criticizing the "argument tactics" is just "ad hominem". Surely you could find lots of examples for Anti-GW folks arguing in a away you find inappropriate. It does not prove anything. What are you trying to say, Anti-GW people are nice people and GW-people are rude, therefore we should believe the Anti-GW? I highly doubt such a generalization, sorry. You write "that doesn't excuse invalid arguments "on the correct side" - sorry, that is complete nonsense, as we are talking about individuals, not about organizations. How could individual A be responsible for what individual B is saying, even if they appear to be on the same side? It is impossible, they can not censor each other. For all I know, some Antio-GW people could be posing as rude GW people to give GW a bad name (it is a standard tactic in warfare, agent provocateur).

On the other hand, yes, McIntyre's stuff LOOKS impressive, but it could also be compete nonsense, for all I know. For somebody who does not know anything about the subject, the "detailed" mountains presented by creationists might also LOOK impressive, but to someone in the know they might immediately be recognizable as irrelevant.

"Either failing could be used as a starting point for a complete rewrite, building something intellectually honest over the rubble of Myers' indignation"

What rubble? Myers did not present any arguments for GW in that article, so there is no rubble. I am also not sure that GW defendants should be obliged to deal with McIntyre's theories, if they are convinced that they are irrelevant (I can not judge that, I have no idea). It could just be a major waste of time.

I remember when I read all those books about evolution theory, like Dawkins. Half of the books were dedicated to refuting useless creationst claims, and I kept thinking for myself: the evolutionists wasted so much time over this, they should have just skipped over it and dedicated that time to advancing their theories. It could just be a tactic by Anti-GWs to seed lots of irrelevant "problems" to distract GW proponents from their main cause.
google gears or adobe air.

here's a good summary of their differences:
http://almaer.com/blog/gears-and-air-the-open-source-differe...
Forget megapixels: How to make gigapixel images with your digicam
People keep ignoring the importance of what the early adopters are doing. The fact that the bleeding edge users have all but abandoned MS should be a sign of concern.
Was Yahoo's Terry Semel The Worst Internet CEO Ever?
"...the average office space per worker in the United States dropped from 250 square feet in 2000 to 190 square feet in 2005."

Wow, two-hundred and fifty square feet on average!

I can feel my ego shriveling as I twist in my chair, taking in a panoramic view of my allocated 7 x 7.
I have experienced only 2 kinds of effective workspace, a private office and sharing a large room with my coworkers. Cubicles are neither.

I always likened them to jail cells where you still have to pay for your own lunch.
That's good to hear. The main reason we're hoping to participate is to just get our feet wet and better understand the startup environment. What project did you work on and how is the startup tech environment in Indiana?

Part of the reason we're driving down to Columbus is to see different startup tech areas in the Midwest. I love the area, but Cleveland isn't exactly cutting edge in terms of technology right now.
Hi Jim - Cleveland Local here as well. There's a few of us headed to Columbus for the event. I've attended previous SW and enjoyed it very much - I also host the Startup Drinks in Cleveland - you should check us out.

Shoot me an email (ak @ MyYCUserName . com).
7x7? What luxury! Here in 8x6 land, we can't even dream of what we could put in that extra square foot.
Mossberg: Mozilla Firefox 3.0 Is the Best Browser For Web -- For Now
NYC tech founders (including YC Charles Forman) swap tshirts for expensive suits in Esquire spread
3-D Microscope
>the invention of double-entry bookkeeping, calculators, and spreadsheets are unlikely material for a captivating History Channel feature

i disagree completely. double-entry and calculators fundamentally changed society.
Movie has Kevin Spacey, Steve Wozniak, and .. Kevin Rose?
Identity Crisis in Computer Science Education
Five job interview bear traps
The Product Guy's Weekend Reading (June 6, 2008)
Why would you deliberately look for low barriers to entry? If it's so easy that people will do it for free, you may have some trouble making a profit -- especially if your motivation is to do a minimal amount of work.
Charles Stross: The Golden Age of Fraud
How to Get a Blogger to Promote Your Product
"What size cells are these? Eight by eight? Ours are nine by nine... no big deal."

(pin the quote on the movie)
Www1 vs www2 vs www3 etc
I am trying to familiarize myself about various techniques that are used to scale websites.

I found an excellent resource from Sitepoint (http://www.sitepoint.com/article/affordable-scalable-websites) that introduces the topic to a newbie.

In the article, for one of the solutions, they mention that you can have a www.mysite.com, www2.mysite.com, www3.mysite.com. Users would then connect to any server depending on the load balancing algorithms.

My question is, does one register www.mysite.com, www2.mysite.com, www3.mysite.com? How does one direct users to each of these unique URLs (thereby directing them to a server)? Is this done by the load balancer?
Indeed, Double Entry is one of those fundamental shifts in business that helped to reshape the economy in untold ways. our entire financial system is build on it.
Bloomington is amazing for it's size. It's a university town with a ton of people focused on UI, usability and programing coming out of IU's School of Informatics. IU also has a great music and business school. The rest of Indiana is certainly behind, but I think Bloomington is starting to take shape as a little tech mecca in the Midwest.
Google's Downfall: Building a New Campus
Gmail Labs: Experimental Opt-In Features
Change Your Mindset to Improve Your Productivity
So instead they forced consumers to use their buggy horrible web browser, making developing on the web really hard for everyone else! Great strategy for them to stretch out their monopoly, but not for users.
you don't "register" subdomains, you just make sure that they are in DNS.

You setup your load balancer with the names of all of your hosts and it will direct traffic to the appropriate one.
I think it's interesting because most hackers also like math. This article is about people who obviously suck at math and/or are complete liars.

Further, most of the folks here are probably above-average in productivity. They should care that their extra efforts are being blown away by politicians. Sure, you can read the linked article anywhere, but you will probably have a more intelligent discussion here about what to do about it, or if it even matters to those you may consider your peers.
Love the comments at the bottom. Especially:

We don’t "all know that men hate to ask for directions,"
Rebecca. This is a stereotype created to protect women
from the embarrassment that they are poor map readers. A
man reads a map, if he can, and asks directions if he
must. A woman asks directons only, because a map is not
helpful to her.
Sounds like someone has a chip on their shoulder.

> "McGrattan boasts that 70% to 80% of the time, she can look at a chunk of computer code and tell if it was written by a man or a woman."

...

> "because only about 20% of the engineers are women, McGrattan says"

Holy crap, she can tell whether code is written by a man or a woman at a slightly worse rate than random chance.

I have a picture in my head of how these standards work out:

int a = 0; //create an integer variable and initialize it to zero.
http://www.htmldog.com/ has a lot of great info on how to build good forms. It's a good resource for things like this.
How to present your company to investors
Twitter - Pull it Together
Microsoft still dominates the Desktop, both in OS and productivity office programs. When they do decide to go 'online' they will just ad it into the existing offerings - example:"Office 2010, now comes with free online office as well.. including powerpoint, word, excel... with 30 gigs of free online secure storage" - also a double save feature if your connected to the net, when you save a document local it will ask if you wanted to save to the 'cloud' -

- MS is more trusted for the average business than zoho or even google, and already has a built in market.
I like this interpretation: http://www.ipod.org.uk/reality/reality_decoherence.asp

Here's the wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_decoherence
Could Facebook Be the New Ning?
pinned: Super Troopers

Heh. Cells. Cubes. Same diff.
Once this decade-long circus is over (assuming it won't take another decade to get the game to its audience), 3D Reams can probably live perpetually on money from the sales of the unfinished versions of Duke Nukem Forever.

I actually heard an interview where a 3D Realms employee joked that since Prey turned out to be such a hit, they were now in an economic position secure enough to maintain development on DNF for another decade.
Ask YC: Review My Startup
Arrington needs to make it less obvious that he's on FriendFeed's payroll.
The distances in the US might be larger, but the pattern similar. Most people go between home and work. And then other trips are similar--shop at the same stores, go out at the same restaurants, etc. Most weeks I don't leave a three mile radius.
Cubilcles are frustrating - no freedom, just cells, cells, cells with people inside...
Now if only we would get out of our SUVs and talk to each other, real communities could form...
The article's only comment about Dr. Gupta is that he uses an earpiece for his mobile phone. From that, you can divine that he's a 'moron', and 'has no good reasons' for his beliefs?

Maybe for him, a 25% chance the studies showing harm are correct (similar to your belief) is enough to justify the earpiece.
Sorry. This may be a really dumb question....but how do you make sure they are in DNS?
Um, they're proving otherwise. They've pissed off a whole boatload of people, and their customer based is still growing.

It's that old, "it nobody hates you, you aren't doing anything worthwhile".
Social Network Frameworks
Do you know of any Open Souce Social Network Frameworks? It seems silly to implement the same funcitonality over and over again, I'd rather concentrate and implement innovative ideas, instead of the xth messaging system, etc. If you have any sugestions, experiences and recommendations, please post them. I'd prefer to be able to host it myself, it should be open source and easily extendable in order to add original features.
they mentioned that they're open sourcing their system at some point soon.
You can check out our Mashable coverage here http://poprl.com/r/Z and Techcrunch here http://poprl.com/r/0W
Not all funding is Series A.
Hi

This is exactly why project shindig was incubated under apache.

Check out http://incubator.apache.org/shindig/
But good people can have insight into these problems. Most people probably don't have any intuition for how to partner with a manufacturing firm in China.

I agree that product design is non-trivial regardless of context - but some problems are a superset of the problems faced by web companies.
Plastic Brain Outsmarts Experts
Awesome article. But I really don't see how Chumby and Buglabs products are open-source hardware. these products are primarily comprised of chips and components that are closed-source.
TV, Meet the Web.  Google Analytics Starts Measuring TV Ads
I don't know...it's still awesome how he starts throwing cubicle dividers at coworkers as though he were a wild ape. Very emotive.

This may have been fake viral, but I'm still happy to get infected.
Apple's Tricks Explained: How To Launch an Apple Product in 5 Easy Steps
They are so done for!
Do many "rockstar" developers show up for these events in Midwest ? people who can architect and kick off PHP, PERL, Ruby apps without looking up documentation all the time.
Reborn IBM Model M a great improvement on average keyboards, features USB port
Darian Shirazi's epiphany
An utopian ideal for equality goes horribly wrong in practice. Not the first time that's happened, is it...

The interesting question is - what will come after cubicles?
The Colarie
Watching while you surf
The BBC show "The Secret Life of Machines" did an excellent episode on the history of the office space. They're even hosted online for free! Scroll down to the second last episode.

http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/SLOM/

I recommend watching them all. Great stuff.
Reader Alert

The New Atlantis is quietly a very conservative publication. Just FYI.
Candidate for new Haskell slogan:

"Let the PhD grecophiles write your code, and _you_ earn the money."
Summary: You should stop listening to your customers if there is a new, bigger market of new customers out there who want something different from the customers you already have. This is especially true if your current customers are going to go away and/or change their mind about what they actually want in the near future.

Some examples:

- Change from 5.25" to 3.5", not wanted by desktop customers, but the new portable market wanted it. Companies that only listened to the desktop market failed, so new entrants (with no existing customers) mostly won.

- Change from 3.5" to 2.5", largely conducted by incumbent firms as customers who wanted 3.5" disks also wanted 2.5" disks.

As always this is harder to do than say :)
Step Three: Profit!: Cross-Platform Monitoring of Filesystem Events
POPrl Mixes Reddit With TinyURL, Gets Strange Result
This is so cool.

what the RepRap team are doing is to develop and to give away the designs for a much cheaper machine with the novel capability of being able to self-copy (material costs are about €400). That way it's accessible to small communities in the developing world as well as individuals in the developed world. Following the principles of the Free Software Movement we are distributing the RepRap machine at no cost to everyone under the GNU General Public Licence. So, if you have a RepRap machine, you can make another and give it to a friend...

Open-source hardware in itself is interesting, but viral machines? Too cool.

It reminds me of the olden days of bringing empty cassettes to a friend's place to copy some of their music.
Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it.

- lazarus long
If microsoft is dying, when will it start paying stockholders dividends?
Autotune's Impact on Music
Sounds vaguelly like the "shopping mall" envisioned by this guy:

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

He wanted to recreate the downtown of a typical European city, but it ended up as "lots of stores packed together", and he eventually gave up and moved back to Europe, disappointed with the whole thing.
Video Game Post-War Therapy: Virtual Iraq
Case Study: Toyota's Innovation in Production Processes
Unexpected Pleasures in Gates/Ballmer interview at D Conference
Icahn recommends Yahoo set a $49.5B sale price
This will surely promote taser sales. You NEED one! Anytime a coworker can SNAP!
Presentation on Chinese Technology Entrepreneurs
"But it can't make steel rods, so it's not a true replicator."

... who cares about steel rods. However:

"The next version of RepRap will be able to make its own electric circuitry - a technology we have already proved experimentally - though not its electronic chips. After that we'll look to doing transistors with it, and so on..."

But... it can't make electric circuits?

So now the extended phenotype includes the brain and vital organs too? Basically, all it can make without externally manufactured materials is the plastic joints?

I'll tell you what it can make without any extra help: overblown, undeserved hype.
Why exactly is Moscow expensive? I've never figured this out. Is there a shortage of land, or is it really, really inaccessible from land, or what?
Because it's a documentary?

Please leave this stuff on digg where you found it.
I'm more tolerant of this than usual descents into politics and general news because:

(1) it's not expressly political/partisan

(2) it's not transient 'news of the day'/horse-race frivolity -- it's about an underlying trend of many decades

(3) it's not been widely covered -- you can't turn on any cable news station and get this repeated every 1/2 hour (like politicking updates)

(4) it's something not many people realize, and yet is relevant to the long-term financial stability of the startup environment and the US/world as a whole

(5) as others note, it involves playing with numbers and organizational/systemic standards, which are somewhat hacker/startup related
I don't think so. I don't think he really gets friendfeed.

TC commenters are worse, though. One comment was so ignorantly negative it made me laugh:

# Darren Neimke

June 6th, 2008 at 4:16 am

Wow, that’s so cool. $5M and they managed to get 3 new hyperlinks on the page. Sweet.
Those numbers aren't for cubicle size, they are for (the whole office) / (# of employees). So don't feel too bad about your 7 x 7, as long as you have a nice bathroom, canteen, etc.
Yeah, strange how the monitors didn't have any cables attached to them. I'd expect the computer case to hitchhike for at least part of the ride.
If this is real then all the other males in there are absolutely sackless for not kicking this guy's ass after he threw the monitor at that lady.
Finding the natural size for your company
I'd like to see a way of comment aggregation, eg for 1 article there are comments and duplicate articles at multiple degrees of separation:

- Article + same story elsewhere on news site + each one's comments

- Blog reference to article + duplicate references on other blogs + each one's comment

- Digg + competing social news sites + each one's comments

- Social network references + other social networks + comments

- Comment communities, eg co.comment

- Friend aggregators eg Friendfeed and competitors + their comments

Would be great to see framework or system to see all discussion in 1 place, not necessarily forcing users to discuss in 1 place, but to see from a historical perspective the different viewpoints. Maybe some type of tag that an original author can insert. Trackback V2 perhaps.
Joel Spolsky (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/04/13.html) has a more convincing explanation for why cubicles are so popular.

As far as the IRS is concerned, improving your office space is not a business expense, so you can't deduct it; the most you can do is depreciate the cost over time and take the depreciation as an expense. If you build walls to create separate offices, you have to depreciate the cost over forty years. If you buy cubicles and install them, you can depreciate the cost over only seven years. If you lease the cubicles, the monthly lease is considered a business expense, and you can deduct all of it right away.
1st step towards von Neumann Probes! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_probe#Von_Neumann_p...)
That sounds like an onion headline.
My cubicle is 'en-suite'.

Oh wait! It's not?!?!?
I'm not sure it would work, if only for the message it sends: "Buy a nice laptop for yourself, send an inferior one to someone less fortunate." I realize the end-user benefit is the same as the OLPC's Give-One-Get-One program, but the equality of G1G1 seems more appealing.
x++;

public static void main.
I was an attendee of the NYC event and was substantially less then impressed by either venue or product. However, the people were fun.
Nationalist Startups
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i think that the second monitor had cables connected, you can see it suddenly stop and fall while flying in the air.
Twittering 'from Mars'
First Twitter doesn't share enough. Now they share too much. Which is it, Mike? Or have you discovered that every time you blog the word "Twitter" you end up with a few thousand more ad views? ::sigh::
Pretty soon these guys will discover the Americas.
I'd like to, but Boston is ~#39 on the list, after having had one back in October. I'd say it's worth it for that nifty badge, if nothing else. :-P

Besides, networking with other startup founders is invaluable. Regardless of what you're working on, there are some business basics that you'll all be going through; getting advice for those things is great.

A bunch of us are available online in #startups on irc.freenode.net - http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.freenode.net&channel=%...
This is what my startup is all about. The idea is proven and I am just there to take a piece of the pie. The industry leaders said the market was tapped out, there was no more room and thats when I decided I needed to become a player in their game.
I dunno, I prefer cubicles to open space. Some privacy is better than no privacy at all.
It did suddenly stop - because it hit a wall. The first one gave him absolutely no resistance at all. He just picked it up and threw it.

Also, those have to be cheapest cube walls I've ever seen. The desks are the only things holding them upright.
Telecommuting.
Leaked Report: ISP Secretly Added Spy Code To Web Sessions, Crashing Browsers
I wonder if machines like this will bring more exotic (and traditionally more expensive) home designs to more people. I could really enjoy designing my own home and then watching it being printed out.
Study secretly tracks cell phone users outside US
That's the first thing that popped into my head when I read that sentence. Hey, me too! Male, male, male, male, male. 4/5 correct. I'm a genius.

70% to 80% of the time I can also guess whether a date in history was a weekday, whether the stock market will rise or fall for a calendar year, and whether your last bathroom visit was a #1 or #2.

Ok, back to writing my cryptic non-commented strings of computer instructions.

Also, your code should read like this for extra safeness:

int a; // create an integer variable

a = 0; // initialize it to zero
To each his own of course, but to me they offer just enough privacy to breed mistrust, and just enough exposure to feed paranoia.

It's hard to tease out a central thesis from this article, but I think I would focus on the claim that offices are part of a bureaucratic system that is slowed by paperwork, and that pushing people together encourages them to wander over and chat about work rather than constantly draft memos. I think that view is out of date, in the age of email and IM. Cubicles divide people enough that they don't feel like they're side-by-side on a team, yet distract technical workers and break their concentration.
The author must had some success as he completely ignores how many google-wanna-bes are out there two or three years ago, and then the YouTube-wanna-bes, the Digg-wanna-bes ... There are always tons of dead-bodies in the wanna-bes.

I think the key is to avoid the "hot" wanna-be market. Google got into search when it's not hot. So is YouTube, java, digg ...
Amazon is down ... implications for AWS?
Everybody has a a different creative process, and the only important metric to judge it by is: does it work for you, and does it work in the context of your team members?

the easiest way to stumble into a wrong approach is to blindly adopt somebody else's approach without tailoring it to the particulars of how YOU work and think.
I'm getting a
HTTP Status Code: HTTP/1.1 503 Service Unavailable
from here http://web-sniffer.net/?url=www.amazon.com&submit=Submit...
and of course from my own PC
Great article - worth a read. includes a few useful tips too!
Microsoft: The iPhone envy is starting to show (already)