skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who would you rent them from?

In a libertarian world who should have owned the cables for the past 20 years? How would competition happen when the cost of running new cables all around the country is extremely high?
A better investment would be to fix the holes in the first place.

Or, better yet, spend that money to educate users and administrators alike on how to protect themselves.
Are you by any chance Chuck McManis?

I learned quite a bit from him back when I used to follow comp.robotics.misc!
Could you expand on that? I was unaware of any way to "save" a story without upvoting it.
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Also note imaginary colors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginary_colors

You can see some imaginary colors here:
http://www.skytopia.com/project/illusion/ipage-et.html
> I think, I wouldn't even try this...

Then maybe that's why you'll never succeed in it :)
The color doesn't reproduce at all on screen, so I have to assume it's partially an optical illusion.

I'm sure you know this, but RGB is not able to represent all possible colors, and monitors themselves are not able to represent all of RGB. This gives us a somewhat limited subset of available colors for use on screen, which is why (I assume) photographs don't look as colorful as the subject did real life. The film / CCD can't record all color information, and the print / monitor can't display it all.
Mcmc is what takes the time more tham the size of the model.

Definitely large models seem more likely to me in bayesian because it is so much neater to build them.

I notice that you are very fervent in your bayesianism, but please correct me if i read that wrongly. I was once at a conference in which a similar debate was ongoing at the lectern. Dr cox was main guest of the conf and when he was asked where he stood he said, and i misquote probably awfully from poor memory, that it was a bit silly arguing about it because you just used whichever was appropriate to the task at hand. I thought that was pretty cool.
So if I want a faster connection I'd have to gather a quorum of people who live in my area and convince them to force everyone in the area to chip in the money required to upgrade the cables?

When my internet is down and the ISP claims the cables are bad who do I call? Myself?
Asteroids could have delivered ammonia to the early Earth
I started so far back that the only thing written down was TAOCP. A book on Simula 67 would certainly have influenced me had I known about it. The mythical Man-Month, dated but still a good read. Sedgewick, Algorithms, although there are newer and fatter books. I guess meta books got me to think more about the art than did core technical books.
The most disturbing thing about this episode is that DOJ referred BoA to HBGary. It is truly scary when government is in the business of targeting its own individuals. One has to wonder how it is different from Ben Ali or Gaddafi targeting their own people. Sure the scale is different, but the principle is the same.
Have an accountant dig through their books. Have a technical guy (sysadmin/programmer type) dig through their network.
Most of those books wouldn't interest 99% of programmers.
Also see an entertaining storyline that didn't make the movie's final cut: "Cult of Jobs vs. the Android army."

http://malarkeyfilms.com/2011/02/cult-of-jobs-v-google-droid...
I wonder how long it'll take them to implement automatic language detection like what we see in Google Translate.
idot? is that some new shiny thing from Apple?
More than just cred. I've learned to simply not trust founders who weren't motivated enough by their own vision to not at least take a shot at it, if only to get some understanding of what building it actually entails.
About a year ago WePay had an excellent blog entry that discussed this exact problem. Look to item 2 in http://www.wepay.com/blog/2010/03/11/5-things-i-%E2%80%9Ckne... to see what it says about finding a technical co-founder.

The biggest takeaway if you're a non-technical person is that you're facing an uphill battle, and it explains why this is.
(I am not a rep for Sharespost - thought some of you would like to know about it)
Why Is It Taking So Long For Amazon To Close Its Diapers.com Deal?
The dorms filled up before I got a room, so I spent my first year off-campus (but not at home); as a consequence, I missed out on getting to know people until, well, even now in my 4th year. Being an active participant of a club helped counteract this tremendously.

On the positive side, I spent less money, had more room, and had unfiltered internet.
Collections of individuals don't act with the same motivations and ethics as individuals, so they shouldn't have the same rights.
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I agree that those concepts don't really hold up to philosophical scrutiny, but they're useful for political categories. Libertarians, social democrats, and conservatives all mean something real when they say "liberty" and they are 3 different meanings.
Pick smaller more approachable projects / problems and you can.
Alan Kay has a great list of recommended reading: http://www.squeakland.org/resources/books/readingList.jsp

It's very broad by comparison with most lists of this nature. Here is a HN discussion of Kay's list: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=664324
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I think it was originally drawn during the Summer '08 batch, as it was already there for Winter '09.
Note that "building" is used in a loose sense: the transistors and wires are simulated. It sounds good anyway.

It would be interesting to compare this to the last chapter of SICP, which also builds a simulated computer and compiler. Around 1980, the authors swapped their typewriters for soldering irons and built it for real.
I get the feeling it's probably a useful project, but I'm not quite sure what it does or how. I'd consider putting a more in-depth description up there.
the hair perming helmets or whatever they are called still seem futuristic to me, but hair irons and hair dye have been around for a few millennia
Developing a nose test plugin to time python tests
well, Google Street Car won one of last years' World Press Photo Awards :)

Infinite Monkey Theorem - QED!
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This isn't a one-man project, and nuclear engineers are not idiots. The worst-case scenario here is that the sodium coolant gets out somehow and reacts with water, causing a chemical explosion and breaching containment. Sodium-cooled reactors are not a new technology, and there are well-developed methods of making such disaster scenarios vanishingly unlikely, as well as ensuring that the side-effects if they do happen would be minimal.

So yes, you are missing something.
CSS Rounded Corners in IE6+ without images via IE's CSS Behaviors
We probably wont be writing our own CSS Behaviors for IE6+, however it looks like they can be used for a number of neat things to fix IE.

Below are examples of using IE's CSS Behaviors to fix border radius and png transparencies.

http://www.htmlremix.com/css/curved-corner-border-radius-cross-browser

http://scarfoo.com/archives/16

http://www.twinhelix.com/css/iepngfix/

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms532147(v=vs.85).aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms531078(v=vs.85).aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms531079(v=vs.85).aspx
Thanks for the heads up, I'll update the readme

To be brief its updates an ftp site with the changes made since last deployment, only uploading and deleting files that has been modified. Its a work in progress scrip to scratch an itch I have with some of our customers web hosts (no ssh access).
The title on the post has been changed to "Building a Better Groupon", which is much less linkbaity and more in-line with the story.
That's my point, there is no way to save a story without upvoting it, but the two are mutually exclusive, or atleast should be. People will use the vote button as a way to bookmark stories that they want to read later but are forced to vote as well.
Is there any known, or conceivable technology, that would improve the color field for displays?
The lesson is to screen for and not hire giant egotistical douchebags who will write checks that they can't cash.
Well, you know I DID get some regional sales awards… polishes fingernails on jacket
Well, I don't entirely agree here; there are some valid concerns about Py3-specific design decisions. Take, for instance, conversion of `str` to Unicode. That

* significantly increases the memory footprint as every character requires 2-4 bytes to encode.

* does not provide 1-to-1 correspondence with certain Asian encodings.

* creates an impedance mismatch between Python and byte-oriented filesystem/internet protocols.

Personally, I believe total Unicodification in Py3 was worthwhile, but from some perspective, it could be seen as a regression.

That said, I'd love to hear what specifically in Py3 could cause such a burst of hate.
Recently I've been thinking of a career change. But this, surprisingly, is the first time I've smiled about web development in a long time.
Ha ha. I used to repeat the p value interpretation over and over in different ways to the class in the hopes of eventually explaining what it is not. I did dare you to wrap your head around it, so you were warned!! It is an upside down concept.

You know the value is 0.05 because fisher had a tabulation of the zeta function lying around with 0.05, 0.025, and 0.01 in it when he was writing the paper?
Microsoft was not a one man company either. And the only thing that could go wrong was...errrrr...StuxNet ?
The TD in TD Waterhouse actually stands for Toronto-Dominion. They picked that up after the merger of the Bank of Toronto and the Dominion Bank of Canada waaaaay back then.
The problem I have with people who claim that "all languages are the same" is that they aren't. You can't use that bit-shifting trick in some higher-level languages, and any lisp fan will regal you for hours with descriptions of clever solutions to problems that just can't be done in C.
Awesome! Can't believe I didn't see that earlier, I did Google it a number of times but from memory all I got was torrent spam.

Thanks heaps!
This is exactly the problem we're trying to solve at Techcofounder.com. We've found that there are a ton of entrepreneurs with great ideas but who might lack a large network of developers. This is especially true for entrepreneurs who don't live in large tech hubs like SF, NYC, Boston, Denver, or Houston.
Ah, your point is that they may upvote it in order to save it for reading later, but had they read it first, they might not have upvoted it.

Yes, understood. I believe that will not be a significant effect in the analysis I want to perform, but I will keep in in mind.

Thank you.
Any idea if google is uing using http://code.google.com/p/ocropus/ to do this?

I was under the impression that was what they used for the book scanning project.
Personally I'd be interested in the results and any statistical analysis. Would this be made public?
A lot of the concepts are correct, but the surprising thing is the lack of advancements in materials. The images use cloth, soft metals, wood and canvas for everything. It's almost impossible to state how big an impact plastics and high quality metals have made on our day-to-day lives.
You're absolutely right. It is exclusionary. Participation should be exclusive to those who can vote. This means, no corporations, no organizations, no churches, etc. Individuals _only_.

Not letting Canadians vote in our elections is exclusionary too, that makes sense to me. Just because it's exclusionary doesn't mean it's a bad thing.

Of course we can't get consensus on 'best interest' but at least we can limit participation to those who's interests are on the table.

If you're CEO of X-Corp participate all you want, but do it with _your_ money and _your_ vote and that's _it_. At least there's a chance I'll be able to reason with and engage in political debate with you.
I've done stuff that normal people would consider ubercool - doing illegal raves, run one of the hottest bars in Ibiza, throwing parties for the jetset.

When seen from the outside it looks amazing - you get to talk to models, you get free booze, get in for free at all the clubs and have sex with models.

The thing that nobody tells you is that it's hard work. Most of the actors that go to the oscars aren't there to get drunk or laid, for them it's a chance to talk shop with their colleauges. When James Cameron is talking to Natalie Portman he isn't chatting her up, he's trying to get her to star in his new movie. If, by accident, John Cusack gets drunk at one of the clubs he gets into for free he'll be all over the tabloids and he won't get that next role, so he can't do it.

A friend of mine just came back from a tour with a known rock-band. They worked hard from nine in the morning until after midnight six days a week. The last day of the week they just wanted to get home to their families. No screwing around with models, no getting drunk and no clubbing. Just hard work. The rockstar life is mostly something the media makes up.

Remember that the grass is always greener on the other side. Or as Brad Pitt once said "Fame's a bitch man"
Makes sense.

What if they output in LaTeX for more complex things, and there was a LaTeX plugin for browsers?
My question is what did Jon Gary do to get his whole name in there?
Awesome work man, you'll love working in CodeIgniter, I have loved every minute of it since I started using it a year ago.
marisa tomei IS beautiful :)
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You read every ToS for every service/product you use?

Community and social standards often trump legalese. For instance, most absurd restrictions in apartment rental agreements are not enforceable.

In this case, linking to another site, no matter how "deep" the link is, is common practice.

If WA really doesn't like it, they can prevent it by checking the referrer, or going even further by adding a pseudorandom token to their query page, switched every 5 minutes and valid for an hour or a day, and redirecting deep links which don't have a valid token.

Of course, doing that would probably kill some traffic they like, so they have a silly, selectively-enforced and probably unenforceable ToS clause instead.

I don't see any reason why such provisions need to be enforced legally, since they can be enforced technologically in most cases. Expanding the law because of laziness is a horrible precedent.
Sorry, I don't understand your question. Can you elaborate? Thanks.
Software people do not have anything like the track record of safety that modern nuclear engineers do. The two are not directly comparable.
Neuromancer by William Gibson. Single handedly (bookedly?) got me interested in how the Internet worked and how computers work. It also gave me an unshakable belief that programming was somehow cool.

It's fiction, but there's nothing wrong with that!
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There are "HDR" displays that can display a wider range of colours, my university had one.
Outsourcing the Email Assistant
Companies opt to outsource the customer support role to outsourcing companies that charge very less amount annually and also provide high quality customer support to its customers around the clock without any interruption. Outsourcing the support group is a convenient option.
Member of the App Engine team here. Yes, to confirm, this is not an abstraction on the current Datastore but a separate "real-deal" service.
I think it's true that when you adopt one perspective you (momentarily, at least) often suppress other perspectives. The trick seems to be to have ways of generating lots of different perspectives.
I'm about to start working through these 4 books Joel Spolsky recommends for any good programmer: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/414779/what-should-a-self...

SICP and K&R also happen to be up on that thread's list.
Still relevant. Very. In particular if you are using canvas (where the first solution applies inside it, whereas the html5 DND support doesn't, even though they both are on html5 spec).
And Sourcewatch (AKA Center for Media and Democracy, AKA PRWatch) supports its union masters: http://www.prwatch.org/news/2011/02/10080/koch-denies-intere...

What's your point?
It seems like a great book for folks just getting started, but I read it after I had a few years under my belt, and all the advice seemed either really basic or far too specific to the C++ Windows world. I can't imagine re-reading it.
Either it's just you or it's started working in the hour since you posted this.
Absolutely. The problem is that the most powerful points of view are so effective they're easy to confuse with reality. That's the upside and downside of reductionism in a sentence. :)
Being able to specify that an element is placed within a document flow (inline) is useful. Conversely being able to specify that a (block)-level element has its own position (relative or absolute) is also useful.

Sometimes it's useful for an element to be placed 'inline', but also share some of the properties that a block-level element has (like width and height) - so 'inline-block' has its place too.

I think part of the problem is, there are no every-day terms that can be used to illustrate a lot of the concepts that CSS makes use of.

If simple terms were chosen, the ability to do a lot of things would be crippled. Only simple things would be possible - and this wouldn't suit everyone.

But I do agree that it would nice if everything made more sense from the get go.
It's not clear to me why the author should be bound by terms of service that he never agreed to.

A web request is merely a communication with the web server. The server is free to do what it wills with such a request. If Wolfram doesn't want to respond to requests from the author's apps, that's well within their rights. Similarly if they do respond, it's because they explicitly set it up to so respond.
You demand, eh?

Honestly, really, truly, honestly, i never bothered with p values as a statistician except for two cases. The first is when performing a test for somebody else to go into a standard article format. The second is when automating reports on complex data.

P values are for people who you do not trust to make decisions. Graphs and arrays of summary statistics fro. Several differentodels are for statisticians.

Also, i disagree that model choice will be overwhelmed by the data.
Thanks, good catch. I have updated the submission.
This looks great. Can't wait to dig into it some more.

Also excited about the timing... next week I'm starting a new position at a research co where most of my colleagues work in SAS (vs. my preference for R).

This may be just the thing to help win some converts :)
Fly an ultralight instead? Then you don't have to deal with regulations and all that.

I think if people really wanted to fly, there would be mass-market ultralights. But the reality is that driving is just as good and feels safer and easier to understand. (What do you if you get lost flying? You can't just pull over and ask for directions.)
I didn't know that as well, but it's a nice feature. More than once i later wished i had kept some bookmark of stories i found via HN. Now i'll just upvote more and save all the precious bits.
Those people aren't creating a startup in a weekend, they're creating a web app in the weekend. There's a big difference.

Web apps don't need legal structure, a brand identity, customers, revenues, profits, hell they don't even need a name.
Yes, but there are multiple open source licenses, including, but not limited to, GLP (which is used by R), AGPL, LGPL and BSD.
Thanks for the link. Looks like there's already a similar answer: http://answers.onstartups.com/questions/18629/taxes-for-andr...
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Hello, my name is Linus Torvalds and I pronounce Linux as Leenucks.
Does that link throw a 404 for anyone else?
Adelle Beatty?
Can you give your favorite example where ML methods lack a (useful) corresponding Bayesian substitute/replacement?
The NOSQL Tapes, vol. 2: D. Merriman & E. Horowitz on the origins of MongoDB
The truth is that people who use Groupon-type deals are the last kind of customer your business wants.

I'd really like to see a study that proves this, because unless this is true then the entire article is bunk. Almost every form of advertising is based on some sort of incentive, and the concept of "mention this ad" to gain a benefit is not new. From the perspective of a small business owner, Groupon not only makes people aware of your restaurant/store/whatever, but also gets people in the door, which is something traditional advertising doesn't do.

I would postulate that just because they're coupon chasers doesn't make them bad customers. It just gives the business owner more reason to provide exceptional service and get people to come back even without an Groupon.
With the risk of being downvoted, Sir, with all respect, may I ask why is this HN material?
No one has ever created a "startup" over the weekend.

A startup is a company, attempting to figure out a scalable business model, by creating a product, marketing it, generating revenue, earning profit, etc.

Something created over a weekend, or 6 hours, may be a cool app, or a neat product idea, but is certainly not a startup.
I have been taking this approach as well and at the very least have been able to focus and sharpen my ideas.
I'm not really sure what you're talking about… Did the video not play for you?
Apple's new MacBook Pros raise quality concerns
What happens when there is more CO2 present (I mean a lot more in a controlled area for testing)? Plants grow faster.

See: http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/CO2plants.htm

Name me a toxin that does that ...

CO2 != mercury in the water supply
How much data do you need for data mining?
The general attitude over at the Energy from Thorium forum is not enthusiastic:

http://energyfromthorium.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=57&t=...

It doesn't seem to offer much (if any) advantage over other liquid metal fast breeder reactors.
So I guess this means we can expect a MSFT Office for XBox? 95% of users really only need email, word processing, internet browsing, media playback (music, movies, etc). XBox does or could do all of these sufficiently for most people.