skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have 4 children ages 1 to 10. My wife left her position as medical practitioner to work as a full time mom. We also had to externalize some work that I and her where doing, we hire someone for lawn service, we have a girl come and help with cleaning and we now employ a mechanic when we have car troubles. We home-school so that creates more demand on our time to be parents. I would say it was tough for both of us to adjust but probably more so for me. I grew up on an farm where from the time we woke up to the time dinner was served we worked and fixed our own issues. It was a perfect example of self reliance. My grandfather (grandparents raised me) was also an aircraft mechanic in the Air Force, so we fixed all car / truck / tractor issues ourselves. Anyways, long story short it was very tough for a person of that upbringing to adapt to hiring people to deal with personal life based work.

I read a good article once that convinced me to try it and it could be summed up as, if the job is not a specialty job (e.g electrician) and it cost more to hire someone than your hourly rate then do it yourself. If not you should be hiring someone and applying those hours to your business or project or personal life hours. This rule of thumb has worked well for me after I let go of past upbringing and applied it. It was hard for me to let go of vehicle repairs due to the cost of repairs but when factored out it is more cost effective to have the shop do it and apply those hours to my firm or enjoy time with the kids.

In a nutshell the trick is to delegate work to third parties, household work is usually the cheapest work to do so with, this will free up more hours for work life balance and more hours to commit to projects / consultancy.
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I think you're referring to the theory espoused in the book "Gridlock Economy". It claims too much ownership can stifle innovation:

"Private ownership usually creates wealth. But too much ownership has the opposite effect—it creates gridlock. Gridlock is a free market paradox. When too many people own pieces of one thing, cooperation breaks down, wealth disappears, and everybody loses."

http://www.gridlockeconomy.com/
Size and egregiousness, I think. There are worse offenders, and there are bigger companies that play fast and loose with SEO, but this is the biggest company to do something so black-hat.
I think you may be underestimating the misstep IBM took with the PS/2 and the impact that tying their desktop systems to a proprietary MicroChannel Architecture had on their ability to compete with clone makers at a time when the PC market was rapidly expanding. They could not compete on price and could not compete on specs - and could not compete on customization in the PC market; the model 25 and 30 had limited expandability despite their ISA architecture. Throw in that they were pushing two obscure OS's and it's hard to lay the blame at Microsoft's door.

Furthermore, to characterize Microsoft as the dominate player in that partnership is simply rewriting history.
No, it's pretty tangential.
I fail to see how it changes things in a fundamental way. Having your name on a paper is supposed to mean that you contributed to the results of that paper. This is how you build up your reputation: you publish lots of relevant results.

This is only possible if you continue to work and publish, which in turn makes you a more sought after partner for collaboration. In the same vein, if your contributions are consistently minimal, then you will be less sought after which will lower your frequency of publication. In essence, the current system already correlates rewards with the quality of one's contributions.

Thus, the proposed changes do not affect how one garners reputation. Instead, I think the subtext is that the current body of research papers could be significantly improved, but isn't because there is no system in place to revise them in a distributed manner.
Is this how things are done now? Definitely cheaper than a buyout and you don't have to worry about regulatory backlash from either country's government.
"First, you'd have to show that innovation is being blocked in America, considering that most software innovations come from there."

I disagree. The relevant question is whether the benefit to society is greater or lesser than it could be from other laws. If someone is sued for a few million dollars from a patent troll who does nothing else for society with that patent, net loss. When something is brought to market that wouldn't have been without protection, net gain.

Patent laws at least in the software arena are very plausibly a net loss. The best thing about this metric is that you don't have to sit there and argue about whether "software innovation" is being blocked, which is something that will just involve people defining "blocked" in whatever way it takes to win their point. (Boring!) It's about net loss or gain.
Ask HN: SF startup meet up / happy hour tonight
Just wondering if anyone was going to be attending any startup events in sf today. If there's a better place to find this kind of event, I'd appreciate to hear about it here as well.

Thanks in advance!
I had in my mind that this kind of thing was grounds for rejection by app reviewers. Though I admittedly haven't read the guidelines in many months so I may very well be wrong.
See also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhyyUiYQolA

There are also literally hundreds of articles about the algorithms used to randomly generate the worlds in roguelike games, many of which are quite interesting.
It didn't look like there was no vision from an external perspective. It looked just as described, like Justin.tv was launched to build out a huge live video platform.
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I assume he's dismissing it because the article is several years old and it's the second article criticizing volatile to appear on the front page today, i.e., it wasn't posted because it's new or interesting, but because it's volatile witch hunt season.
> Have you had any luck emailing the author of the paper?

This works sometimes. People want to be cited after all. Sometimes you just never get a response. Also not viable for lab courses in graduate school, where you need to "compare your results with the literature", or for "calibrate my instruments" type situations (rather than "cite you" type situations) - there's some data that would be useful for things that aren't really worth bothering a PI over.

If I were a funding agency, I would earmark funding specifically for hosting data, because that's the biggest value of a lot of experimental science. A lot of times the data analysis is pedestrian, but actually taking measurements is difficult and expensive.
Doesn't work, gets caught on leading spaces:

echo ' 1 2 3 4' | tr -s " " | cut -f1 -d " "
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echo ' 1 2 3 4' | awk '{print $1}'
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It's a dynamic programming language that runs on all major platforms and has good libraries.

The code tends to be clean and readable.

(This applies to ruby as well).
So Intel chooses Linux for its mobile devices, and Microsoft takes revenge by poaching its mobile partner?
The particularly pernicious thing about this flaw in the most common implementation of double checked locking is that it seems like such a simple optimization to one of the most common programming patterns, the singleton.

The singleton is something which the majority of programmers understand vs realizing that the runtime can optimize reads and writes to memory by doing things which make sense in the context of one thread but break in multiple is something I'd only expect the top 10% (and that may be generous) of programmers to understand.

So having the complex part be an intuitive (but wrong) optimization to the easy bit is just a deadly combination.
I think this is missing sounds and good transitions...yeah that's the problem!
Think earlier, around the turn of the 1800s. The power loom and the steam engine were both British technologies protected by patent in Britain, but their patents weren't recognized or enforceable in America. And so we got the American mills at Lowell, Mississippi river and Great Lakes steamers, and the transcontinental railroad.

The steamboat is probably a good example of this effect at work. In Britain, Boulton and Watt's patent allowed them to block development of high-pressure steam engines, because Watt thought they were dangerous. In the US, his patent didn't apply, and so Fitch and Fulton were allowed to experiment freely with increasing the boiler pressure, and eventually managed to produce a design capable of powering boats. That opened up a whole new area of commerce.
I was thinking about using a Bayesian filter to auto-assign tags after training
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Are you in it for rankings or revenue? Cutting your price to a third may not triple your sales - $2.99 is still nominally free.
I guess this was the answer to my question: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2149968
Linux Supercomputer is a Contestant on Jeopardy - I'll Take Linux for $1,000
Is Google Zurich the "real" Mountain View? Incredible design by the way
I'm sure we could have an interesting philosophical or religious debate over that subject, but it's not really relevant to my point. My point is that record labels take far more out of the system than they put in. That's bad both from a moral standpoint of what people deserve and a pragmatic standpoint of efficiency.
Interview - Barbara Ehrenreich - The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
Well this guy looks like he does care. (keeps dry fruits to help the kids out) Money would definitely help fix the broken roof, bad heating, broken printers and help keep stocks of paper at the least. Possibly better pipes too.

It seems that you are saying that more cash will not help with the problems he has described. Could you clarify why having more cash will not help?
Please elucidate. Post some URLs that give step-by-step instructions for "placing content into the public domain". Show some examples.

I've heard tell that it's almost impossible to currently, in the US, place anything in the public domain, so I'd love, love, love to see the process to do so. I'd do it myself for some software I've written.
Use any image to customize your iPhone's boot logo
Yes, they have impressive mountain views! ;-)
The office is so incredibly cool!!!
I don't think that there is a one-size-fits-all product. I am a cofounder of Passpack, an online password manager for workgroups. So for me I've found my optimal solution (I built it!), but that doesn't mean it is optimal for every use case. Sometimes I also use the browser's password manager, for example for some non critical sites. Firefox's built-in password manager has good security measures. However since I prefer to browse with Chrome, and Chrome does not have a master password protection, that leads me to rely entirely on Passpack. So as a first step, I think Chrome should add a master password to protect the stored passwords. There's little point in adding sharing features if basic in-browser protection is still missing.
Are you organize or support moving?
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I've occasionally done that myself, but I then post a note that I meant to upvote.
Reading the original article further I understand more of what the author meant -- and I agree with him more.

What he means by "statistical myth", I think, is that you can throw any number of measurements into a big bag, even weakly correlated, and you'll always be able to find a general macro-factor that is correlated with all of them and therefore seems to "describe the bag" pretty well... even if the bag itself is absolutely meaningless.

For example, one could throw into the bag height, sexiness, feet length, and BMI, which are all somewhat correlated with one another and with "IQ".

There is a macro factor describing such a bag; but would you call it "general intelligence"?

The fact that we talk about g is because we consider a priori that there actually is such a thing as "general intelligence" and that we are measuring elements of it. Maybe we are, maybe we're not; correlations alone tell us nothing about it.

The analogy with physics, be it temperature or pressure or what have you, is in my opinion quite flawed, because in the case of those entities we know that the elementary events / forces are linked by way of causality with the macro factor, and we know that for reasons other than mere correlation.

In the case of g, on the contrary, the only link between the different elements is the correlation itself. And it gets worse: to be included as a relevant IQ test, a new test has to be correlated with g. To quote from the article:

"By this point, I'd guess it's impossible for something to become accepted as an "intelligence test" if it doesn't correlate well with the Weschler and its kin, no matter how much intelligence, in the ordinary sense, it requires. (...) This is circular and self-confirming, and the real surprise is that it doesn't work better."

So g is at the same time what we're looking for and what we're building upon, having decided it's there already.

This looks much more like religion than science.
And an obligatory coffee-related IT classic - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Room_coffee_pot
>What makes iOS purchases different are two things:
1. Apple has oversight of content being sold (helps avoid malicious software in many cases, and age appropriate content).

So you mean now Apple is going to have to approve eBooks before they appear on the iOS Kindle app? Oh boy.
"With three provisions set to expire at the end of this month, and Tuesday’s revolt in the House against fast-track reauthorization, there has never been a better time to insist that Congress restore constitutional rights.

Take action now."

http://bordc.org/alerts/2011-02-10.php
Lissn Strips Down To Its Skivvies: Anonymous People Chat While Others Listen
I love the idea of slabs too large to move outside of the rooms in which they'll be placed. I also love that the slabs will have extra space for people in the future to write something to those in the far future.

Nonetheless, I think 'danger' is a bad thing to express. Any group able to access these tunnels will be advanced enough to measure radioactivity and understand the consequences of exposure to it. Some sort of pastoral Planet of the Apes group would simply walk over it none the worse for wear.

The simplest thing to do is to state what's inside (U238 or whatever), how much of there is, etc... Don't seal up the rooms with the details of the area, let them be accessible so what's inside can be updated. U238 should be understandable for at least 2-3k years and then they can worry about it.

I like the idea of making decisions for seven generations ahead (a few hundred years). The point of that way of thinking is not just to think ahead at all (7 generations vs. only this generation), but also not to be overburdened by the too distant future (people a thousand years from now might be excited to find all that easily mined radioactive material). We can't let perfection be the enemy of the good. A solution for a few hundred years is totally fine.
There are lots of such reactor designs. Liquid metal fast reactors, and thorium breeders for two.
>considering that a lot of (most?) webdevs use Macs

I've never heard this ...
`In a study of 67 adults... electrical stimulation ... prompted three times as many participants to come up with an insightful solution to a puzzle compared with those who didn't receive a brain zap.`

Isn`t that far too small of a sample to be reporting on?
Sigh. This is a political issue dating back to shortsighted decisions in the 1970s, not a technical one. Reuse this stuff in breeder reactors, the waste from which has a substantially shorter half life. Then you don't have to build toxic monuments.
FC2 strongly polarises opinion more than most AAA games. :)
http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/far-cry-2/user-reviews
You can't go wrong with either. And Django isn't the only Python web framework out there (Pylons, web.py, Google App Engine). Nor is Rails the only Ruby web framework (Sinatra is nice).

Both can be made to cleanly scale for whatever world-dominating project you have in mind.
We tried hard to make it seem like we knew what we were doing :)

It was a challenge.
I think this is a symptom of a larger problem with American governance, namely that lobbyists for entrenched interests have too much power and the general population (innovators included) has too little.

I'd rather attack the root cause with a constitutional amendment that states "All legislators must live full-time in their home districts", and have them conduct official government business through email and videoconference. That makes lobbying impractical: a company that wanted to lobby Congress would need to station lobbyists in all 435 congressional districts, and the lobbyists would have no more pull than an ordinary citizen that the representative happened to be friends with. The reason big companies have the sort of clout that they do in American politics is that there are economies of scale to political power, and once you have scale, you can buy more of it.
When corporations are suffering as Nokia is, regional management changes happen all the time. I don't think anyone can argue that Mark Louison was doing a swell job of promoting Nokia in the US and that Nokia's US market share will suffer because of the change.
OK, you are not debating honestly, you are playing games.
Their economy is growing much faster than America's though, and there are a few other factors, like, oh I don't know, an authoritarian state and walled off internet that might just be slowing down software innovation independent of the IP situation.
Some advice?

Pick a date and release it whatever state it's in.
We still might not know what we are doing... you never know.
Realtime view of traffic to Al Jazeera's site as Mubarek stepped down
That distinction between difficult and complicated is great, thanks for sharing that. My answer looks arrogant by comparison, because the distinction you shared allows both types of folks to be called programmers.
> Perhaps, for predominantly commercial searches, the old 'goto.com' (which became Overture) had it right: top results should be blatantly (and honestly) paid-for.

But that is more or less the case now - the top commercial results are paid for (you need to pay for SEO). If you will pay Google directly for that, who would use Adwords then?
this topic is called

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_semiotics
Kind of reminds me of the circumstances surronding CNNs popularity after the 1st Gulf War because they had been reporting live from Baghdad during the bombing.

Only Al Jazeera's role was arguably more important!
"Their business model is based on not only stealing, but selling without permission content they don't own. This is criminal and unethical."

Technically, even if what you were saying were true, it would be civil and not criminal. IP is part of civil law, not criminal law.
I hereby release the following original story into the public domain:

Once upon a time five philosophers came for dinner to eat fish. But there was no fish, or utensils to eat the fish. This was a sad day for the five philosophers. A servant boy was sent to buy five fine bowls of spaghetti and five plastic forks. The servant boy quickly succeeded at his mission, returned, and set the table for the five philosophers. They sat down and were about to start eating when one of the philosophers said, "Stop, no one touch a thing. This is a trap."
I was just pondering this yesterday. Specifically the parts about cave generation. I have ZERO knowledge of this, so this is a great intro.
oh, come on. If you have done real science, you should know, that asking for scientific data is like asking for the source code of Windows. You have valid points (it has been published, you have licensed access, you can do cool stuff with it, verify and iron out the bugs etc.): but this is not the way it works. Reality does not match the sharing knowledge mantra - not to mention fudge factors and data context (experiment design, knowledge of measuring device, detector etc.). LEP data is not only useless because it is old and accessible via the dinosaurish FORTRAN, but because the knowledge of the metadata (i.e. shower profile of an endcap) almost gone and certainly not available to outsiders.

Reproducible experiments themselves are becoming the exception and not the norm. In every field. (not to mention specialisation).
Man places his genome in public domain, on Github
Seems like a good message to future generations would be long half-life radioactive material. Enough to detect but not to harm near the boundaries, and then a little bit more at the center so that there's a clearly indicated "this gets strong" idea. If civilization fails and they forget how to build a geiger counter, they aren't likely to be doing much tunneling 1000 feet down.

Also, the mutant sickly plants will be a good indicator.
File expired?
Well I'll be damned -- I sorta assumed it would have been AIX. Feather in SuSE's cap!
I built this for delicious. Worked great but couldn't get staffing. Wah.
they're not convincing anyone and are just making themselves look sleazy

I beg to differ. It's astoundingly effective propaganda, because it's unexpected.

Down in Puerto Rico, there's an incredibly ham-handed, telenovela-like RIAA anti-piracy ad played before every movie in the theater (or was, for a couple of years). People laugh out loud at it, it's so bad, and since it's clear that the RIAA isn't Puerto Rican anyway, everybody feels free to ignore it.

But when you have police coming to pick somebody up for filesharing (!) on iCarly as part of a plot point, you slip that propaganda right past people's internal censors. I had to explain to the kids that this part of the plot was a blatant lie, and my wife still doesn't buy it.

It doesn't matter how sleazy Disney looks to you and me - the question is how pervasive that belief becomes in the populace at large. It's money well spent by Disney for their own bottom line, but I hadn't thought of the larger consequences for society, and that's pretty frightening.
I think the major thing here is to see that there are two types of problems.

The first type of problems are easy to fix. You can throw more money at broken printers and leaky roofs. However, that's the easy part. Generate enough political will and it will occur.

The other type of problem is systemic cultural issue. I grew up in a poor rural area and teachers could leave us alone and we wouldn't get into their desk drawers which always contained money and candy, let alone steal bathroom passes and laptops. It seems clear to me that this is where the real work needs to be done. I see what you might call a culture of urban poverty slipping into Americas suburbs and rural areas.

Has anyone seen anyone doing anything meaningful to address the harder issues found in the second type of problems?
Yes! This is what I am trying to say but in a much more muddled and round about way.
DOM API through Javascript =)
As absurd as it sounds is basically, in my opinion, because it is really easy to write it! That is to say is human readable! (E.g.: for element in list:)

Furthermore, is the time you spare with testing, compilation problems, etc!What it could take you 1 hour with C++, you dont need more than 10minutes with Python...

It has some problems though! Since it is interpreted it will never be as fast and performant as directly compiled code! Moreover, the lack of type definition can generate some unexpected problems during execution! For that I have a trick...I just put a letter in lower case before the variable to indicate the type to myself (s for string, i for integer, t for tuple, d for dictionaries, o for objects and so forth)
Where is the boundary beyond which the link-building is considered black hat? I remember in the past black hat was referring mostly to deceptive tactics like invisible links, serving different page to Google and to humans for the same URL, etc.
$150,000 & a dream
reddit would be a good addition to the list.