skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, I don't think so. This isn't finding your physical location, then computing the correct profile for that location; it empirically probes the performance your location is experiencing, then directly uses that performance information. While you could analyze the results and at least take a stab at the physical location, it's quite possible it will work no better than cell tower triangulation.

Even trying to empirically map certain performance profiles to certain spaces may be impractical if the client radios and antennae performances differ enough to throw off the profiles, which if I understand this properly and given our proclivities for making things as cheap as possible, probably means this won't work either.
why should each city have the same skillset and specializations? that sounds pretty boring. is SF leading the way in bio and health-care innovations? what about open-source data-y stuff like Cornell's DuraSpace, MIT's SIMILE, Encyclopedia of Life, Brown's Racket (our own little INRIA this side the atlantic?!)..

i moved back to boston from TL after 3 years because all i could find for work in SF was the least-common-denominator/proprietary/centralized/consumer webapp startups that this article is apparently hoisting up as the end-all of aspirations. maybe i wasn't looking hard enough but it's a lot easier to find things i'm into in boston
In the thesis, it was not clear that the new font was easier to read than Arial.

[From a comment I made in the original submission.]

I read the tables in the thesis. There are 12 comparations between the Arial and the Dyslexie fonts, but only 2 of then have p<.1 and none of them has p<.05. So it is very difficult to know if the differences between the fonts are real or come from random noise.
Just a semantic thing, but it is still prior art... it's just probably not prior art that, on its own, is enough to invalidate these claims. It could still be relevant for obviousness purposes.
I wonder what it was about the culture they came from that encouraged that.

I wonder if all foreign students struggling with English exhibit the same behaviour. I say this because such students would find it hard to fit in and participate in other campus activities. They would probably be concentrating on their studies.
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Exactly. Out of date information may perhaps plague trade schools (I kind of doubt it there too..) but in a proper curriculum in a university it's total popular myth rubbish.
Tell HN: Just released ezLove - Marriage as an iphone game
http://itunes.apple.com/app/ezlove/id417091875?mt=8

The game is making you experience the ups and downs of life in a couple but as an iphone game.

We'd be extremely happy to get your honest feedback/thoughts on this game. What are the aspects you'd improve? Do you like the concept? How would you market it?

Thanks a lot!
At my university in the EE program you had to complete all freshman and sophomore level classes before you were allowed to take any junior or senior level classes.

You also had to meet with an adviser towards the end of each semester before you were released to schedule classes for the next. Apparently engineers tried to circumvent the rules too many times, probably because we're always focused on optimizing solutions.
Agreed, shorter time spans are the way to go:

I'd propose an even quicker expiration if the patent is sold/transferred, to curtail hoarding.
Indeed. It also overlooks the fact that the price of fuel is only the second most important factor in determining electric car adoption, with the most important being electric car technology.

Electric cars are getting better rapidly, and I'll probably get one eventually (preferably with a fuel-burning backup motor like a Chevy Volt) but I'm waiting for the technology to get better and cheaper, not for the price of fuel to reach some magic number.
Guh. Right you are: named ranges (http://www.contextures.com/xlnames01.html).

I learned about this feature years and years ago and never used it. Maybe it wouldn't actually be all that helpful afterall. If only I could downvote myself.
Why? Put Grub2 on a jump drive. It can easily present a list of ISO files to boot into as well. I mean, a drag and drop solution or a script to rebuild the grub menu would be nice, but not worth $100. Or am I missing something technical here?

I guess I don't understand why you need to emulate a DVD drive except for legacy operating systems. When I burn ISOs or images to a jump drive, they show up as DVD media in OS X and Windows 7, and the installers for every version of OS X that I remember and Windows 7 will all install perfectly from a jump drive.

It sounds like this is just a piece of firmware to do the trickery of processing the ISO. There are Sandisks that show a CD and a Flash drive and it's all done in partitioning, there's no software involved and it's undo-able via software.

I can only see this being useful if you have a BIOS that boots from USB-CD but not USB-HD. Again, I may be missing something. This sounds cool, but I'm not sure why exactly.
I find your comment interesting and perhaps there's an implicit nod to Aloha/Radiant Systems somewhere in there? As someone directly involved in the market, I'm curious about your thoughts on where the opportunity (creating more card accepting merchants vs. winning market share of current participants) is right now wtf to the POS space. NCR just acquired Radiant Systems, so that seemed like an indicator of disruption in the space.
It's not so much a matter of giving out information or not. It's a matter of having another account to remember and look after.

I just don't want the hassle.
ARIN lookup shows it being hosted at ThePlanet.

Traceroute shows it terminating somewhere in or around Houston TX.

So my guess is one or more boxes at ThePlanet's Houston datacenter.
The "appeals to authority" fallacy applies when I'm citing non-experts (like if I'm citing Chomsky for an economics issue).

Or when there's not consensus in the field.

You state that CATO is "purely political propaganda" without substantiating that claim with any specifics whatsoever.

Why do you keep saying that? The first sentence of my last post makes it clear that this isn't about Cato. I don't care who wrote it.

I'm from Seattle and this school district, up until this year, has been open enrollment which means students could attend any school in the school district they wanted. And the school district would even pay for busing, but traveling halfway across the city, spending 2 hours a day on the bus typically meant people went to neighborhood schools.

And that's my point with supermarkets too. Go to Watts and check out the selection and quality of food in supermarkets. Then go to La Jolla. Sure its a free market, but people don't really have much in the way of choice in poor areas. Unless they want to hop on a bus for an hour each way.

A PhD in econ may mean you've figured out the optimal way to rapidly approach equilibria, but it won't tell you that you can't ride the L through the westside to get to the good supermarkets if you're known to be from the eastside.
theclay is right - the benefit is to make physicians more efficient and to allow them access to tools that benefit the public as a whole. They shouldn't have to spend the majority of their time trying to negotiate insurances and medicare/medicaid (which, by the way, rarely pay the amount it can cost the physician) - they should be focusing on practicing medicine. Using EMRs/EHRs allows physicians to automate part of that process, as well as giving them more analysis of patients.
i dont think any of that matters. nobody cares.

the app can ask me to confirm the transaction after the retailer initiates. that's a game changer.

there is of course lots of lobbying to be done, but you need to already have a business interest to get the laws fixed.
Amusing blog, but an unfair example. Intel did a more extensive analysis of this issue in "Debunking the 100X GPU vs. CPU myth" [http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.170...]
IMO the fact that Opera Mini doesn't try to grab a GPS signal and integrate itself with my phone is a feature.
Actually, the granddaddy of libertarian economics, F.A. Hayek, spent his whole career arguing that people are irrational (which is to say, they do not all share the same preferences), and that attempts to shape the economy based on a presumption of the existence of rational utility are doomed. Most non-libertarian economic systems are based on the assumptions that,

1. There is such a thing as rational utility, and
2. Bureaucrats can figure out what it is.
Why can't the more advanced children tutor the less advanced children?
You have a great point, sir, and Apple (along with other companies) does need to be called out when they say they will allow the general user access to something and they do not put it into practice. What can we do about it, though?
And only if Microsoft would improve their x-platform vm. Oh wait...
Their website is much more pretty...jk.
Get paying customers or written commitments from a good amount of customers to validate your business model. Otherwise you may find yourself without a job, and a product no one wants to buy.

If no one will give you money or written commitment, but say that they will buy, they aren't a customer. It's their polite/non-confrontational way of saying no
I laid out my concern with this sort of system here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2817958
I share your concern, and I believe there are people thinking like that working on solutions. If I had the talent, it would have been built 3 years ago.
Have you tried 'bcp'?
I hope it actually presents itself to the computer as an USB optical drive.

Now, is that worth $100? Probably not, as the number of computers which do support booting from USB cd. drives but not USB flash drives is pretty low.

Edit: Though as some other mention, some OSes on the other side of the equation are hard coded to install from the optical drive.
Earlier this year I was working building the network for a security conference and one of the guys had a similar device‡.

It came in really handy when we had to install all the servers (he had multiple flavors of Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, etc.).

I've been meaning to pick one up, for the rare times when I find myself somewhere needing a bunch of boot disks; but I can vouch that at least this one is really neat.

‡ http://www.zalman.com/eng/product/Product_Read.asp?idx=431
The problem is I can't think of any. Windows, Linux and Mac OS X all support installation from a USB stick.
If the OP's main premise holds, it should take only some research to "expand" oreilly's graph with improvements between each language.
Have you not noticed that the link you're complaining about is in PG's original essay, and the newer version has no link between Java and JavaScript?
Assuming gullible 13-year-olds are the sort to think about the consequences before downloading an executable and clicking "run," anyway. In my experience (so this is really just anecdotal evidence), that's rarely the case, especially when it comes to politics.
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I would guess that this is handled differently between universities and even between departments at the same university. My math and science profs went out of their way to encourage collaboration. The courses were typically weighted so that test results were the majority of your grade. If you were cheating on the homework by copying everything from your study group you'd be found out on the test. The CS department was a mixed bag. Lots of group projects, lots of collaboration encouragement, but some of the intro courses like algorithms took the collaborating is cheating approach.

Where I encountered the most resistance to collaboration was in the humanities. Any course that had lots of writing or research pretty much had a work by yourself mandate. I blew through those courses without much effort and wouldn't have worked in groups anyway, but I always found it odd how often plagiarism was brought up and threats about academic suspension were made.
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As seen on Security Now...
I just stuck the page up as a place-holder for the graph that was played with in 2003/2004.

I'll go change it again to help try to make that clear.
His problem is that you need an O(n^2) or higher algorithm to really see the advantages. Something like the n-body problem will go much, much faster on the GPU than on the CPU for large n.
Therein lies the problem. I haven't seen sexism in the workplace. I'd certainly condemn it if I did, but I haven't. Is that still not enough? Should I carry around a placard denouncing the sexists everywhere I go?

Should I just take the word of someone who got burned by something that there's a huge problem, without anything beyond anecdotal evidence to back up the claim?

Should I do the same for racists? How about homophobes? How about bullies? How about people who leave stuff to rot in the communal fridge?

Am I anti-gay because I don't attend gay rallies? Am I complicit in animal cruelty because I don't volunteer for the SPCA? Am I anti-veteran because I don't help out at the local homeless shelter?

Come to my workplace and point out the sexism, and I'll act to stop it. Otherwise, don't paint me with your brush.

This whole "If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem" attitude is getting old.
I don't think you understand the point of this. It will allow you to create read only USB drives. This means that people who work on computers all the time now don't have to haul a case of CDs around because viruses could possibly jump onto their read-write thumb drive. They can now setup a thumbdrive with all their tools and it's "read only".
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> If the real concern is feeding people, you eat vegetarian.

It is counter intuitive, but this statement is not exactly a fact. The corn->protein process via chickens is actually quite efficient. I'll give some sample numbers:

1 acre corn -> 150 bushels corn -> 10,000 lbs of corn -> 4000 lbs of chicken -> 1500 lbs of protein.

1 acre of peanuts -> 3000 pounds of peanuts -> 750 lbs of protein.

So the corn->chicken process is twice as efficient at producing protein as growing peanuts which are pretty efficient. Sure, a soy protein diet is the most efficient, but who wants to exclusively eat tofu?

Eating beef is wasteful, but chicken is comparatively efficient to eating vegetarian. Most vegetarians I know eat lots of tree nuts, avacados, etc, which from a food supply point of view, is far worse than getting protein from chicken or pork.
Commercializing research is really hard. If Professor Smith discovers something potentially commercializable, then that's great for him. But Professor Smith isn't necessarily interested in doing that, or else he might want to but doesn't have the skills, or else he might want to and does have the skills, but can't afford to take time away from all his other duties, risking putting all his other research on hold for the sake of a commercialization project which might not go anywhere.

Then you've got the flipside -- some academics really want to commercialize something, but the stuff they're trying to commercialize is academically cool but not really serving a market need, so they spend years raising funds, finally get some, then spend the next few years burning through it in an ultimately-doomed attempt to get the market to buy something that it doesn't really want. (I've worked on projects like that...)

These kinds of projects to ease commercialization are a good idea, though of course they're nothing new.
Ask HN: How do I get on top of HN?
I'm a HN user ready to launch my product (helpjuice.com), and was wondering how you'd go about submitting on HN with your startup?

It seems like that you're either really popular(and some having the SIMPLEST of concepts) or no one looks at you -- What gives?
From my small town of 10,000 people, to my college town with 100,000, to my current home in San Francisco, there has always been at least two broadband providers: usually the local cable company and AT&T DSL. Perhaps this isn't the norm, or perhaps two companies with completely separate local infrastructures isn't enough competition.
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Wasn't Angry Birds done in WebGL? That's not HTML5. Microsoft won't implement it in IE. And a desktop computer has quite a bit more power than an iPad.
Minnesota signed into law that cars should require 20% ethanol (I think federal law requires 10%):
Source: http://www.mnsu.edu/news/read/?paper=topstories&id=old-1...

Anyone here good with changing laws? :)
Nikola Tesla - the ultimate mad scientist?
Here are some interesting web pages I've bookmarked on JS:

http://www.bolinfest.com/javascript/inheritance.php

http://fuelyourcoding.com/jquery-events-stop-misusing-return...

If you start reading them, and spider out and read more whenever you encounter something you don't understand, you'll learn a lot.
Wesley?
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I think they said they wouldn't support you in case something went wrong, not that it won't run under VMware or Hyper-V.
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I disagree, I have no expectation that my personal friends will be taking measures to ensure my privacy, I have not paid them money and signed off on a TOS that says they will take measures to protect my personal information. So if someone broke into their house and stole my information it would certainly be unfortunate, but I would not have expected them to be keeping this information encrypted or secured in any significant way.

However, those are not my expectations with a company. I paid Sony for a PS3 and by extension to use PSN and I signed their TOS with the understanding that they would protect my personal information. The same goes for the information that I give my bank, or any other business that I provide my personal information too.

The analogy doesn't break down because of the illegality of the act, there is little doubt that both breaking into your house and breaking into your server are both illegal. Instead the analogy breaks down because I have almost no expectation that my friends will take significant steps to protect my personal data, but I do have expect (and in most cases I have a written promise in the TOS) that the companies I provide my information to will protect it.
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I will buy three of these as soon as they go on sale.

I foresee this having a huge impact on hobbyists and robotics
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i disagree. Lobbying and all can come later. Any bank who decides to take advantage of this new mobile channel both to engage their customers and are able to get a customer to change his payment modalities, they can recapture the mindshare they are losing today to the likes of Google and Square. Doubtful if these financial institutions are as prescient to realize the disruptive forces currently in play in the financial sector, but if they do then they can stay relevant.
Please cite specifically what you're referring to as "political propaganda". Is it the claim that students don't have much of a choice when it comes to public schools? If so, to call that "political propaganda" is absurd.

Regarding Seattle, you're citing one data point. The majority of American public schools don't operate with open enrollment. If you're in a public school, you're assigned to one school in a designated area, and can't choose a different school.

"Go to Watts and check out the selection and quality of food in supermarkets."

This is just completely false and dishonest. There are a handful of Walmarts and Targets around Watts and the majority of other low-income neighborhoods -- all within a 5-minute drive.

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=watts,+california,+walmart&...
What's surprising to me is that, at least with Comcast, there's simply no way to get the cap-free service I had before. I don't have the option to pay more to remove the cap (other than paying per gigabyte over the cap, which is silly).
When it's possible to put scientific results to practical use, the researchers themselves can start a company. My wife worked for a firm founded this way (Coverity) and a friend of mine was an early employee at another (Audience). As well, existing firms and entrepreneurs can and do use published results all the time. The rewards are high if the results are valuable. The problem, as hard as it may be to believe, is that most published results have no direct practical use. This comic rings very true

http://xkcd.com/664/

The NIH is finding this out with their recent push to turn NIH-funded results into drugs. Collins is already backpedaling from earlier this year (you'd think he would have learned this lesson after being beaten to the genome by an organization of 1/10th the means).

At Apple, I worked closely with battery engineers. Lots and lots of battery research is going on -- we hear about nano-virus-assembled anodes all the time. But approximately none of it is useful to battery engineers. Batteries must have energy density, power density, good recharge time, and high cycle life. Press releases about gee-whiz battery chemistries typically quote one or two of these figures, but never all four. That's because all of them have a huge problem with one or more of these things, and no horizon for fixing them. And the instant a breakthrough is made -- like graphite anodes at Bell labs in the early '80s -- everyone will be working on it. There are approximately no 'forgotten breakthroughs' in human society. The incentives provided by contributing to wikipedia are enough to disclose almost everything known.

The whole point of funding basic research is to discover such things, which are too important to be proprietary. Markets are very good at the details that are appropriate to keep under one roof.
Medical records being computerized imposes short term costs on the providers (who are small offices -- the big guys moved to EHR years ago), bur provides private and public goods.

I'm basically a libertarian, but this is one of the least wasteful government programs. As a plus, it was built around open standards vs. trying to have a government standard ehr.

I'd like to see insurers match the meaningful use payments.