skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You may think it's bullshit. I disagree.

It's true that in many cases, there is no conflict. There is no conflict (currently, at least) between believing that God was responsible for the Big Bang and belief in cosmology. In the case of believing that the Earth is <10kyr old, however, the conflict is clear.

I don't see how one can argue with that without resorting to contrived beliefs that God set up a huge hoax by making the Universe seem to be 14Gyr old. (That's not a disprovable belief, of course, so it could be the case.)
Do you not have automated bill payments? Everything in the UK is paid automatically electronically from bank account to bank account. It's kinda cool.
Oh, the irony. I protect myself from XSS with NoScript. Which prevents me from reading the text of this article.

Way to not fallback gracefully.
Ask President Obama anything.
I mentioned it when the idea was brought up, but nobody really said anything.
I don't advocate giving up, merely pointing out that being afflicted with a few particularly strong beliefs is not cause to reject all of that person's opinions. An astronomer afflicted with creationism is no different from an oncologist afflicted with leukemia.
Presumably he's not doing "what he's told", he's doing what he thinks is the right thing.

Anyone pushing a policy they actually oppose is a fraud, gay or not.
It's nasty when the ISP returns an A record for an advertising filled spam page instead of NXDOMAIN.
In this case, as someone on Lesswrong pointed out, religious beliefs are a special category that people have historically proved adept at compartmentalizing so they don't get in the way of day-to-day life. As long as the algorithm constently outputs correct results, the fact that it includes unnecessary steps is only a small worry, not a big one.
> The last part is a very Western value set - that we should "base our beliefs on facts".

Every culture bases most of its beliefs on facts. You just don't notice most of those beliefs because they're obvious. If you want bread, someone's going to have to grow grain. People fall when they jump off a cliff. I have hair.

There are some beliefs that are not based on facts, and they have a survival advantage if they can convince people that facts should not apply to them. Therefore it really shouldn't be surprising to see anti-factual beliefs across a wide range of cultures. The only reason you can bring Western-centrism into this is because science had its really big success in the West.

> Other cultures are a lot less pragmatic, and are willing to ignore an absence of facts as long as they can get results.

Those results are, by definition, factual. I'm not sure what you're saying here.

> Still both sides (the young earthers and the hard athiests) are both pretty dogmatic.

Can you quantify the dogmatism here? Because you sound like you're conflating strong beliefs with an unwillingness to change them given sufficiently strong evidence.
Dealing with Julian Assange and the Secrets He Spilled
Embedly Pro Lets Your App Embed Content From Any Link
Google may not have an easy support system, but it's unrealistic to expect expert service from free products/utilities. When you're paying anywhere from $500-several thousand dollars a month for something, I think you're entitled to complain as often as you're upset and should be able to expect things to be taken care of.
An electronic transaction can be customer-initiated, as well. In the EU most billpaying has been through direct account transfers for a long, long time now. Nowadays payments work across the union, too.
we are targeting a more technical audience right now while we get our feet in the door. We feel this is the best audience to help us get going. If we start to see issues with traction (it's been great so far), we will pivot as needed.
No opting out from Facebook turning your check-ins, likes into ads
i like the idea.I've thought about doing something like this before and wish every place would take credit card for rent. It would be great to be able to get credit card points for my largest monthly expense and also not have to worry about cutting a check every month. Its a great product from the tenants perspective.
> Would Google discourage this?

Yes, I think so. When ISPs wildcard all domains, I think the typical reason is so that when you've typed an invalid name, they return a page with search results guessing at your intent. If I'm right (I might not be), then Google has plenty of incentive to stop that from happening, or at least know that it is happening.

First, those pages with search results are often ugly, full of ads, poorly formatted, etc. Google would like you to have a nice experience in Chrome so that you're a happy user. If you see an ugly, messy ad-ridden page (especially if the ads aren't Google ads) every time you make a typing mistake, Google loses out.

There are probably other more subtle and nuanced reasons that Google would dislike that practice, but I'm not really sure of specifics. (In fact, I'm not entirely sure that DNS wildcarding is even related to those ISP search pages...but I think it is.)
I wonder how he feels about clojure after ~6 months.
But it's not a when question. It's a what question. And if you don't know, why would you code for all the possible possibilities?
A site about secrets, with a Facebook Connect? lol

Although, congratulations on actually learning a programming language and finishing something!
Thanks again! What do you think of alternatives like appcelerator, or PhoneGap?
Shipped to carriers, that is --- figures on sales to consumers are harder to come by. (This is obvious from the article --- first sentence, in fact --- but not so much from the headline.)
I don’t think many scientists believe that it is possible for us to know whether something is an inconvertible truth. Dawkins certainly doesn’t. But evidence, both past and present, matters. We may not be able to be absolutely certain but we can be pretty certain, extremely certain even.

The evidence for the universe being much older than 10,000 years is truly overwhelming and you don’t get to just discount that evidence. You have to find a theory that fits the existing evidence perfectly and you have to find new evidence that confirms your theory. Considering how extremely certain we are about the universe being much older than 10,000 years, you have to be thorough and your evidence has to be truly overwhelming [0], a daunting task, no doubt.

Some study with little evidence and an incomplete theory just won’t cut it if the topic of discussion is the age of the universe and its goal is to make the universe six orders of magnitude younger. Not all evidence and every theory is worth the same.

[0] Astrophysicists everywhere should jump out of windows and Nobel prizes should be thrown at you.
Please. It's not a bubble, nor a religion. REST offers some significant objective advantages over SOAP in most use cases. We wouldn't have the proliferation of APIs that we do today if everyone had to use SOAP.
> and this looks exactly like that and works nearly exactly like that

Except for the two small switches on the side, having to charge it, and having to push pick-up and hang-up instead of lifting and replacing the receiver.
bingo, you nailed it. At least that's how we see it ;)
Jqueery
I remember reading a story about an executive working for Warren Buffett, who cheated on his wife with a girlfriend in a different city. When Buffett found out, he fired the man, since he felt he couldn't trust this person in his business dealings, even if the error was made in a personal matter.

This feels the same way. Does the university really want to check up on this astronomer all the time, in case his irrationality carries over to his professional life?
This one: http://www.vogella.de/articles/Android/article.html

I read it before making my first application.
Didn't reveal the most interesting fact: what is the 5-trillionth digit?
same on my xperia X10. thought that's "the old breed" since it runs android 2.1 only.
No one chooses to use iTunes. You're locked into it essentially if you buy an iPod. iTunes is a success because iPods are the shiniest players.
Roger Pincombe Combines Twilio SMS with DailyBurn to Win Trip To Boston
Here is a landlord feature:

Track the maintenance cycles associated with each apartment.

Here is a tenet feature:

Track work orders to fix a broken appliance.

They might cover the same area, but guess who is buying your product.
Will.i.am becomes Intel's Director of Creative Innovation
Russia says Stuxnet could have caused new Chernobyl
Science comes into stark conflict with religion only in a few places. Your examples are about math, which makes no claims about the world at all. There is no conflict there.
How exactly does social captcha slow down someone who has hacked into your friends' accounts and has seen a lot of tags on photos of friends in your friend network?
ouch, I knew about this, forgot to put in a fix... thanks for reminding me!
First cloud IDE for Beanstalk introduced
You've gone straight from "why the hell are people still using cash/check to pay bills in this day and age?" to "it's in my best interest to pay by check", via the assumption that the only alternative is credit card.

Why not, say, just log into your online banking and arrange an electronic transfer to the landlord's account on a set day of each month?

I think this was parent poster's point - that in some countries (even those less advanced than America in other ways) the banking system allows much greater convenience. Most people in Western Europe have the option of paying their rent electronically without writing a cheque and without incurring extra fees.
Re: Bargaining power - how can "average joes" increase their bargaining power? Especially as unions have a pretty bad name...
Disappointed? Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
But not a new one: "Rocket Surgery Made Easy", by Steve Krug, http://amzn.com/0321657292
It may not be bad, but it sounds like there's zero accountability. If I ask my building manager to fix a leaky faucet, there's no paperwork, and if he ignores me for two months, what's my recourse - assuming that my property owners aren't as on the ball as you and your dad?
Since the step after buying an app is playing with it, you need to pull out your phone anyways. My phone sits on the desk next to me rather than, so that's easy. And since a "link to an app" on Android is a QR code, I think total time spent is about the same on either platform.
IPad was predicted in 1988 by winners of Apple competition "Project 2000"?
"... as long as they're capable, ..."

But that's the whole point. Dawkin's argument seems to be that, while a YEC may at first glance seem adequately skilled, their manifest disregard for scientific evidence means that they cannot be trusted to do the job correctly.

"Other cultures are a lot less pragmatic, and are willing to ignore an absence of facts as long as they can get results."

Aren't results facts? Or, put another way, how does someone determine that they are getting results? I don't see how the willingness to try things in the absence of facts is non-Western. It sounds a lot like experimentation.

The issue here isn't the absence of facts, it's the ignoring of facts (by YECs and their ilk).
I have done this with an iphone app. The ideal case for testing:

-Your app has little publicity and is generally found through keyword searching. This means that you have few repeat visitors to the app page

-Your daily sales data has little variation. You typically see this 2 weeks after release when it is no longer in the new apps list. Avoid holidays and other sources of variation for your test.

-Schedule pricing into the future on one week increments. Try not to have pricing go generally up or down, perhaps by using some randomization or shuffling of possible prices.

-Use the revenue generated during each of the weeks coupled with the pricing to identify your ideal price.

Using poor scientific measurements (I crossed holidays, and did a declining price from a high point) I came up with $2.99 as an ideal price for my app.

Keep in mind that your sales rank influences your revenue, and if you think your app can break the top 100 apps list, then price it at $.99, because once you get into that list any losses prior due to underpricing an app are nullified.

Too bad the app store doesn't primarily sort by revenue (aka value to the consumer) and doesn't provide a continuous scroll past the top 100 which would make such devaluations unnecessary.
Met the Grubwithus guys at the last HN Chicago meetup and they impressed the heck out of me as guys who enjoy and have experience running businesses. Best of luck to them!
Is Facebook Testing Voice Chat? [PIC]
The Bill Daley Problem
The Word 'Robot' is 90 years old today
In Cambridge Engineering, Inc. v. Mercury Partners they found that the non-compete clause was so broad as to keep the employee from finding reasonable work, so it was thrown out. In this case, you signed the non-compete agreement while your company was performing A, now they want to perform B which is something you do on the side. My guess would be that in order to enforce B they would need you to sign a whole new NCA. I would check with a lawyer though.
That approach absolutely works. But fairly few people have enough of a math background to figure out how to do it.

There are also complications around noise from large outliers. Though this matters less with a fixed price service.
This reminds me of the penguin great ideas series:
http://www.penguin.co.uk/static/cs/uk/0/minisites/greatideas...
Do you actually believe that Dawkins would do anything other than chuckle amicably in that situation?
BlackBerry PlayBook may use Dalvik virtual machine, might run Android apps
Clickable links:

http://crowdsifter.com

http://socialmod.com
Tell HN:Simple Tweetstream History Project
http://twitter.com/historyreplayed

In December I came up with the idea of replaying events from history synchronized with their original timeline. With Pyramid and Tweepy, it took roughly an hour and a half to write an admin and the tweet bot.

Challenger's stream runs Jan 22 through Jan 28 is in progress and has been condensed, so, don't worry about getting 97 tweets in 72 seconds. If you're able to follow the stream live on Jan 28th 16:38 UTC, it is rather eerie - especially if you watched the launch live in 1986.

Apollo 14's tweetstream starts Jan 30 is 295 events over 10 days and was the mission that Apollo 13 should have been. Apollo 13 runs Apr 10-Apr 17.

The same engine powers pearljamalive.com's first three year replay of events.

While requesting information from NASA and to get their blessing, an email sent at 11pm to one of the NASA historians resulted in a fairly interesting conversation with four people, each of which had been involved in over half of the lunar landings. Names I had read about as a kid and recognized almost immediately as the email came in with other names cc'ed. For a few days, I was conversing with people that made lunar landings possible, had written the books on lunar colonization and working on the moon, and, were responsible for many of the missions. That alone made the project worthwhile.
2001/"Double Rainbow" video mashup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozhR9fxe1oU

It's both funny and moving.
Does the site actually check gender? Saw several female only meals with reservations from guys.
Congratulations. I am looking forward to the dinner.
> Rich folk affect the rest of us in two big ways. First, the way they spend their money has all kinds of ripple effects. Their hunches move markets. Their consumption supports a whole sub-economy of hoteliers, watchmakers and financial advisers. And their philanthropy funds schools, pressure groups and research into tropical diseases.

Article misses that inventions start as only affordable by wealthy people, but that follows into commoditization and everyone gets to benefit from them. People get so envious of what they don't have, failing to notice the asinine amounts of prosperity around us, things the kings of old could have only dreamed of.

Anyways, I am coming to terms with the fact that human nature doesn't like anyone having more... I'll do what I reasonably can to not participate in various redistributions and confiscations, but I'm starting to accept that there'll always be people wanting to do it and attempting it.
> There is a narrow set of classes on which it is not allowed to discriminate but all else is fair game.

You're thinking about laws around hiring. I can't charge you double to buy a VCR in my store because I don't like your face.
Plus, it's on the back of the phone. So if you need to make a call to someone on your address book, you need to flip the phone back and forth (and then up and down to verify the number on the display) to make sure you typed it in right.
Sure, but that's not really arguing against what I'm saying is it? There's enough of them to transplant their own culture over there. That's not the same as being "culture free".
Then add "successfully" to the criterion. Successfully screwing people over on an epic scale is actually fairly rare, if only because so many people try and there's only so much success you can have that way.
I've lived abroad quite a bit and when you're not sure how long you will be in a city renting is pretty much the only option unless the local turnover is very high (and barring market collapse).

As a consequence I've had a fair number of landlords over the years, from owners that let out the top floor of the house they owned to apartments in high-rises.

The funny thing is that there is no hard and fast rule that says landlords can't be great, I've had absolutely fantastic landlords and really terrible ones and not always in the place where you'd expect them.
It's incredibly useful. The actual definition of until from Arc:

(mac until (test . body)
`(while (no ,test) ,@body))

It's really useful for bodies of code like this.
There's configurability by configuration, and configurability by composition.

You can have a LoggingQuery(TimeoutQuery(Query())) or a EverythingQuery(timeout = true, logging = true).

From what I've seen, @nk loves composition.
The reason Linux trace macros are insane is because C preprocessor is so primitive.

Think about it.

> they are quite powerful

For small values of "quite".
C macros are strictly less (and by large margin powerful than Lisp macros. One can't even use #ifdef inside #define!
He's pretty consistent about arguing when he disagrees, rather than just throwing around insults. Hint, hint.
Great example, from a user named yummyfajitas
My friend, this is a negative viewpoint. I see much, much more evidence that creating lasting value is the far more "tried and true" way of getting rich.

Your beliefs matter. If you believe that you have to screw over people, lie, etc. to make money, you're going to be broke.

(edit: softened the language a little)
Uh, in which part of the Netherlands do you live?
Political beliefs are also very much protected.
tl;dr: The article says that usually rising inequality is a sign of a broken system somewhere, and that governments should fix the brokenness rather than attacking the rich directly. In the US, they blame the banking system. In China, the problem is the laws that prevent migration between countryside and city.
Great idea but you should market it to commercial property owners, not to tenants.
Instead of the REST finger-wagging, can I have a short
overview of what functions your API offers? Or maybe an
example of a request call and its response?

Uh, the page you linked to is an overview of what resources are available, and their content. The first three paragraphs are simply boilerplate to let users know that this is actually a REST API, not XML-RPC, and attempting to head off questions about the example URLs not working.

So here I am, a developer trying to deploy my WAR file
on SteamCannon and that’s the API document I find.

Oddly, I don't see anything in that API description about uploading files -- it's all about managing virtual hosts and host disk images and so on.

I assume an "instance" is an actual running OS -- you could scp your files to the instance's public address.
Has anybody tried using hill climbing to arrive at an optimal price?

eg:

1. Pick a pivot price

2. Make N buckets with prices at fixed intervals from the pivot

3. Find the bucket with the most profit, and use its price as the new pivot

4. Repeat
Yeah, I had the same image.

I think the hacker/cracker language war as been lost.
You can use @public, @private, or @protected on the instance variables. Unfortunately these do not extend to the properties themselves and you have to use a different approach as in the sibling comment:

@interface SomeClass (SomePrivateCategory)
@property (nonatomic, assign) NSUInteger count;
...
@end
Acompanhantes de Curitiba
Acompanhantes de Curitiba, capital do PR.
I think any business with strong customer lock-in, infrequent purchase decision, and an immutable monthly cost/revenue evolves into a business where the company tries to minimize support. Think of the level of support you get at a bank, cell phone company, etc. Awful.

I'm not sure about the opportunity there. If you spent 2x on support costs, what would you get out of it? Tons of referrals when people are moving out? Probably not-- movers are busy and rarely have friends handy who are in that rare moment of hunting for an apt/condo.

Now, SERVICES on the other hand... Certainly there's room for apartment buildings that have great gyms, social events, etc.
It is amazingly arrogant to say that someone could be convinced to "buy crap that they didn't need or that was even harmful to them."

What possibly makes you think you have a better idea of what goods and services I need than you do? By what right do you claim to be better equipped to weight utility, risk, short/long term benefits to a consumer, than they themselves are?

Sleeping your way to riches I view as legitimate. The person sleeping is, in some sense, simply trading their services for payment.

As for 'lied, bribed, cheated, stolen, or killed' - those are all already illegal and prosecuted. Would you disagree with my hypothesis that in, say the last 30 years, less than 10% of millionaires are minted through those means? (I'm not sure if that's true - but I strongly suspect it is. If you disagree, I may do the research ...)
For those browsing, it's well worth the read. Their positioning as an alternative to the groupon model is very interesting. I wonder if they think they can match the same scale though, even if it's just for restaurants. Overall, great idea! I'm going to give the Chicago version a try.
Please don't take offense, but you are going to run into tenants eventually who will call you DAILY to fix things or complain. Maybe they feel the bedroom is colder today than yesterday, or they saw a spider in front of the building, or maybe they don't like the shape of the clouds overhead on Thursdays.

Until you rent to enough people to start getting these renters, you've been isolated.
I watched the video, he's basically a consultant for their marketing team.

More interestingly, this implies that Intel will be increasing their consumer oriented marketing. To me that says they're going to be ambitous about media and Sandybridge.
The iOS mail inbox thing has been getting a lot of hype lately but I feel obligated to point out that Blackberry has been doing it BETTER, for a lot longer.

When you are browsing messages in Blackberry, if you get a new one it will temporarily pop the sender/subject line RIGHT THERE in the screen wherever you are! This notification let's you instantly see new messages coming in without having to leave your place at all.

HUGE benefits of this are, for example, when texting multiple people, if you get a text in from Person A while in the middle of typing a text to Person B, you can revise your in-progress text based on that new information from Person A, potentially avoiding saying something embarrassing, etc.
Nice. Rock on, guys!