skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cassidy: Startup Stripe is living the college degree debate
Nope. I ran with plain Unity for the best part of a week and found it didn't give anything of value over the classic interface. The performance issues forced me back to the classic interface though. Not had any performance issues with classic.

I'll give Unity another go when I upgrade to 11.10 in January (3 month delay gives them time to fix the worse bugs). I'm not spending my time trying to make it work nicely if I can just fall back to classic to fix things.
What Every Government (Except One) Doesn't Get About Startups
This has been observed with other seemingly less intelligent species as well, for as long as man has kept pets. Anyone who has ever had f.e. dogs or cats at home as part of the family, coupled with one pet in the "litter" dying suddenly or accidentally, knows how notably different the other animals in the home will react to this compared to when one dies from drawn-out illness or old age. It is like that other side of the coin of missing someone, something most of us know is a characteristic that animals share with us. Animals being in mourning during sudden deaths of their kinsmen and companions is something the pet keepers among the population knows very well - there just haven't been much of formal or scientific studies in the topic.
So what did go wrong with the way CDOs were supposed to work and they did work in reality?

Counterparty risk.

Home loan CDO's were supposed to allow people to take a long position on housing. Assuming counterparties didn't go belly up, they would have done exactly that - the owners of various securities would have made money when housing went up and lost when housing went down.

When someone says "This is simply a mathematical identity." - how is all of this stuff grounded in reality - do people actually do controlled experiments to work out if any of this stuff is scientific?

It's just basic arithmetic. The borrowers are going to pay out a certain amount of money. The senior tranch gets paid first. If any money is left, the junior tranch gets paid. Short of politicians overriding the rule of law (e.g. the GM bankruptcy), there is no scenario where the junior tranch gets a payout and the senior tranch does not.
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Interesting, another poster argued the opposite -- to do manual labor without much mental demands, as a way of getting over burnout. :-)

(For the record, I have friends that use both methods and it seems to work for them. Personally, I read literature (-: ok, an exaggeration -- sf&f :-) and just take time off.)
Anything with a fear of death knows it is mortal (can be killed). I think even the most basic creatures understand this.
Given that VC-backed startups are obviously receiving far more press than bootstrapped ones, is there any statistics on how widespread are former and latter, and how successful they are, in consumer Web?
He said "but steak". There are various kinds of vegetarians as he says, some who have eggs, some who have milk products etc. Regarding fish, I actually have relatives from Kerala, South India who are vegetarians who eat fish. They call it "the vegetable of the sea".
My friends at Supertouch (also in NYC) who have been doing work with 'interactive mirrors' for years won't be happy about this article: http://www.supertou.ch/
Yes, some people have no problems. But the performance issues with Unity on 11.04 are well known and wide spread.

FWIW, all I usually have running is Thunderbird, Instantbird, Firefox and some terminals, and since switching back to classic I haven't had any performance issues.
This is all so contrary to my experience, that I can only assume we are actually talking about completely different things. At best, I must simply be explaining myself poorly. (See, e.g., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revision_control#File_locking for a brief description. I tried to keep my description brief, but perhaps it came too close to 'cryptic'... apologies...)

Anyway, should you ever meet one of these systems in practice, rest assured that the problems you suggest will happen, won't.
The PC's Future is Delightfully Complicated
How You Talk About Competitors Speaks Volumes
Hopefully someone should get a kick out of my story: Over memorial weekend of this year, my new 360 250gig Slim and entire 360 collection was stolen out of my home.

What they did not take: My kinect and small collection of 2-3 kinect games. Perhaps "Dance Central" Scared them off.

Seeing hacks like this for the kinect has given me something to do with it while I waited for an appropriate deal/time to purchase a new system, but honestly it's a little bit creepy.

I do not think the average consumer would be okay with a camera/internet connected device with a camera in their bathroom. That being said, coolest hack since the head tracking.
With a streaming news channel and notifications of upcoming stories you really can call someone, have them turn on the TV (or streamer) and catch the entire story from the beginning like they do in television/movies.
But staying with TC, notably. As he said after the sale:

So we begin another journey. I fully intend to stay with AOL for a very, very long time. And the entire team has big incentives to stay on board for at least three years.

However, I rather hope Michael's "dream" comes true instead: http://peterc.org/blog/2011/381-michael-arringtons-dreams-of... ;-)
"Now isn't that cruelty" - was meant at the species going extinct. Just a pun. Not a literal comparison with slaughter.
if you have got the sandy bridge processor, do NOT give into increased-graphics-performance temptation and upgrade to the 3.1 kernel.

There is a 76% power regression vs 2.6.3x kernels http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux...
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I love the form factor of my ipad, but realistically, it's nothing more than a media reader to me. With my bluetooth keyboard, it gets about 5-10% better.

But, for it to become my laptop replacement, it would need an entirely new operating system. Its current OS is just a toy, as far as I'm concerned.

Of course - I realize that 80% of the population aren't doing 'computing' - they're mainly viewing media with a few edits here and there.
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Believe it or not, it's from a survey by the National Association for Continence...
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/WolfFiles/story?id=93103...
Internet Grows to Over 215 Million Domain Names
It doesn't matter. Warren Buffett said it best, there's a class war going on and only the people at the top (government, banks, multinational corporations) are winning. They spread propaganda about unions being bad for you, or they create ridiculously stupid laws (such as the software patent system!). If the peasants won't revolt, the best we can hope for is infighting amongst those with the most wealth and power.

The problem is capital being concentrated; we need a more horizontal society otherwise we're all waiting for the trickle-down effect and that simply doesn't happen. Companies are firing more than they are hiring and it's been like that for the last few years.

If a business owner has no clear vision of what the future holds, then the prudent thing to do is not to invest...

No, the prudent thing is to invest and to profit as much as possible by firing employees, forcing the remaining employees to be more productive, and screwing them over on wages and benefits. Then get the hell out before it falls apart.
Computerworld on Age bias in IT - What's your take on this?
This is worth reading for anyone who has even a passing interest in how "real" math is done. But it's hardly a new development that the book is available online... that web page has been up since at least 2008.
Even if your statics are correct the time spent in a place changes when you can do different things there. In the past people only sat on the toilet to take a shit, but these days you have books, ebooks, netbooks, smartphones. I bet people spend a lot more time there. And this technology can also be used for other mirrors in your house.

AND don't forget people have big, big mirrors in their bedrooms for a reason and then remember the slogan "sex sells" and that the possibilities only stop, where creativity ends.
Intel reportedly plans to back off MeeGo OS
I'm Danish and have often wondered about this too - there are so many options here for electric height adjustable desks and everyone has them, from banks to car dealerships. I would never work somewhere that didn't offer this, I even got one for my home office: http://imgur.com/A1eS2. Set me back about a thousand dollars, about what I spent on a cell phone every other few months.

Mine is from http://www.conset.dk (Danish) by the way. Huge selection of frames (one, two or more columns) and you specify your tabletop yourself (size, position and dimensions of the cut-in, bezel, finishing (oak/maple/cherry)), all online.
Working out of one's mother's basement was my thought. :P

Atleast a garages these days have some panache!
"... big cities are, if anything, even bigger and denser than they were when Clarke made this prediction."

Big cities are definitely bigger and denser, see the BBC special report on urbanisation: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/world/06/urbanisation/...
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ZX Spectrum 128K on DE1 FPGA board loads emulator images from SD (with video)
Forget TrueCrypt, use self-encrypting drives.  Gear-level crypto.
37signals? :-)
This actually sounds both revolutionary and immediately practical for lens design. Covering lens with gold nano antennae sounds expensive, and I assume the surface is delicate, but thin spectacle lenses and super lightweight camera lenses are an obvious result.
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Those channels are already popping up on Roku (Wealth TV is one example). I think Apple TV can do it too, I just don't think they can play the "we're Apple" card and have everyone pay them that way when there are competing platforms with just as large user bases (X-Box and Playstation for example) offering a better deal. I'm sure Apple wants in to the market, but only if it's wildly profitable.

So far it doesn't look like being a box provider is going to be wildly profitable. The prices have been driven down to $100 - $200 tops so you're not making money on the hardware and there are too many competitors who want content to really make money through subscriptions.
No, but I've noticed Netflix definitely doesn't lack in children's programming. It's insane! This is pretty sweet too.
Advertising in social networks: business-oriented check-ins
Sadly, this contact for the sake of television will probably be the death sentence of the tribe, as many such uncontacted tribes don't have resistance to diseases like the flu, measles, chicken pox, pneumonia, etc., which can end up killing over 50% of the tribe. http://www.uncontactedtribes.org/articles/3106-uncontacted-t...
Interesting stuff, but to me it's a bit of a stretch to say that they've rewritten the rules of refraction, since the basic laws assume ideal interfaces between media. What they've actually done is created a material so exotic that that abstraction is no longer sufficiently accurate to describe it. I imagine QED (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_electrodynamics) still holds.
Breaking up the banks will only delay them for a bit or will encourage them to do some neat accounting tricks and further take advantage of whatever loopholes they can.

Even if they do split, what's stopping them from forming a free organization of banks that colludes to further mess things up? Note that I said free organization rather than corporation.

No, what's needed is a completely different system that makes having a lot of money no different than having just a bit of money. Then there wouldn't be an incentive to make millions of dollars.
Do you think there is any way of developing an objective "too big to fail" test that could be applied to these companies and actually give a realistic answer?

[Edit: I just noticed that the former auditor of RBS is now the Chairman of Deloittes!]
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Thanks for the info. This does affect me. I'll be sticking to 2.6.38 until they sort these issues out.
Is this the article you're thinking of?

The Case for Working With Your Hands
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/magazine/24labor-t.html?pa...
I don't know what you mean by "real math"... but Doron Zeilberger is a contrarian and their approach is quite different than that of most working mathematicians.

That said, the book is wildly original, absolutely brilliant, and much more accessible than most current math research.
"Counterparty risk."

Presumably you mean the people taking out the mortgages?
Thanks for doing that, I found myself wishing they had put error bars on when I saw that graph but was too lazy to do it myself.

With respect to the statistical power issue, it may be they just didn't have enough students. Unlike your typical clinical trial or scientific study where you're recruiting people, I got the impression this was from an existing pool of students for a specific school. Once you go beyond this, the design gets tricky since there are practical issues to how big a class can be. Then you need more teachers, and you need to normalize for per-teacher variability. Not saying a study like that wouldn't be great, but it would be complex to get right.
His closing quote:

My argument to the richest members of society is, "You will do better with a smaller share of a rapidly growing economy in which people feel comfortable, they're not angry, they won't resort [to] and support demogogues then you will having a larger share of an economy that's almost dead in the water and a politics that's getting steadily angrier and meaner."
Why would it be in Google's interest to do so? It makes coming in via search a better option, thus adds value to their site.
Perhaps this is what they really bought TechCrunch for?
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Most likely yes. I run 11.04 with Unity on an 1.5 GB Intel Atom-based netbook and have no problem with it. I find the extra screen space specially nice when I am mobile, but also welcome when I am hoked up to a large screen.
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He certainly got that wrong, at least for now.

However there may come a trend to move out of the cities sooner or later. For example even now a lot of people get tired of 'busy city life' and would like to move to the land and have some more space. If you can work remotely, why not.
On the other hand, there's not a lot of Bayesian analysis taught in high school, statistics 101, or any of the other places that non-stats-nerds are likely to be. It's useful for a lot of things, easy and intuitive (thus its popularity amongst statistical laymen). So why isn't it taught?

The costs of teaching and learning Bayesian Analysis are low (it's just not as hard as, say, the method of moments), and it does have benefits.

My old stats 201 book (Wackerly, Mendenhall and Scheaffer) covers Probability, Discrete Random Variables, Continuous Random Variable, Multivariate Distributions, Functions of RVs, The Central Limit Theorem, Estimation, Properties of Point estimators and Methods of Estimation, Hypothesis Testing, Linear Models / Least Squares, Designing Experiments, Categorical Data, and Nonparametric Statistics. 15 topics (including the introduction), and Bayesian analysis isn't mentioned. Bayes Law is (of course), but only as a theoretical tool, and for solving toy problems about pirates, beads, and rats in the second chapter.

You wouldn't take an engineering analysis book seriously if it didn't mention FEA, but statistics courses can hold their heads up while completely ignoring a useful and easy to teach tool.

Of course, good statisticians and mathematicians will learn about it (later, or on their own), but there's leagues of economists and engineers coming out who will never bother wrapping their heads around it.

Of course, it's entirely possible that it's not so much a conspiracy spearheaded by old-guard frequentists so much as introductory stats courses being focused on teaching a core of theory (LS and MoM), rather then teaching practical tools to people who will use them. You could also accuse introductory math courses of ignoring useful, fun, and easy stuff (scaling?), while focusing on an old, predefined, widely accepted body of theory.
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You don't get it because you don't get how the system works. This is how it works; the rich get richer, the poor get poorer.

This is about image; if they don't sue, they'll look bad. If they sue, then they can at least say "hey, we tried!"
E. M. Forester (1 January 1879 – 7 June 1970) predicted the Internet. Right down to blogs, and the crappy compressed quality of many voice comms and video chat.

http://archive.ncsa.illinois.edu/prajlich/forster.html
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Because the system itself includes the government and why the hell would they do that to themselves??
I'm not sure that there's enough free software developers that even have the expertise to work on something like FCP. If there are, then where's the GPL video editor that competes? Pro tools like that are still commercial only until someone proves otherwise in code.
would anyone here hire someone with only KA credentials?

I definitely would NOT hire anyone only with Khan Academy credentials in mathematics. Mathematics courses are what made Khan Academy famous, and as far as I know, Salman Khan does about as well as anyone in online mathematics lectures. (I've seen very little of his lectures, or of anyone's, as I would rather read books about mathematics than watch videos about mathematics.)

But "mathematics is not a spectator sport," in the oft-repeated phrase, and no one can get a complete education in mathematics without solving A LOT of problems.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2760663

The Khan Academy developers are aware of this issue, and are currently rewriting the exercise engine(s) on Khan Academy to make more challenging online exercises for the Khan Academy math courses. But it will take a long time to get the delivery model of the courses unstuck from exercises and fully interweaved into problem-solving.

An organization that is much farther along in building an infrastructure of sound mathematical instruction based on problem-solving is Art of Problem Solving, which has a free online problem-solving database called Alcumus

http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Alcumus/Introduction.php

and many online courses in various levels of mathematics, supported by thoroughly written textbooks

http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Store/index.php?

and an increasing number of video lectures, as well as discussion forums.
I was trying to think of a college or graduate level course I took that had random quizzes, and I couldn't think of any off the top of my head.

I remember there was one freshman level math class where you can drop off homework assignments and exams in the teacher's mailbox. I diligently completed every homework and exam, but didn't attend a single class. I knew most of the material already so I spent my time more productively elsewhere. To this day I don't even know what the professor looked like.
Even if I had the slightest interest in solving this problem

Yet, is this really a "problem"? I've never had a problem with finding out when a movie comes out...
EDIT: ...or finding out about a new movie. What's wrong with Flixster?
I'm not sure the market even knows what the hell FCP is. If they start putting keyboards on the iPhones, then we can talk.
I don't think that there will be any kind of collapse, sudden peak oil or any other sudden and drastic change of civilization. Some people are bored with their life and want to believe in such things, but it's unrealistic to expect that this will actually happen.

There will be, of course, change. For example, at some point we may (slowly!) run out of oil, which would mean that oil prices will go up. But this will be a process that runs over a decade or more. And by then there will be alternatives, like electric cars, that allow you to live a similar life.
Me and my Chromebook
A dead OS is finally buried.
Lenovo unveils latest IdeaPad Android Tablet for $199
‘Lenovo launches its latest tablet running on Android OS dubbed “IdeaPad A1” with the starting price tag of $199’, reports says.
I tried also this:
9999999..999999
same results!
I lost it at "If you don't want to make your apps intuitive and easy to use, I hear OpenOffice is looking for some Java developers."

Hilarious, great article.
Does anyone know if it will do any good for the dual gfx card laptops? These new acer series laptops have two graphics cards on them. One is the intel on board and one is the nVidia G-Force. It uses a technology called nvidia optimus to select one of them according to need. But Linux seems plain confused and always uses both the cards I think. Thus on windows laptops run for 4:30hr with everything turned on and it is just under 2 hours for linux.
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Safari 5.1 won't even let me try that link, saying:

"Safari can't open the page... because Safari can't establish a secure connection to the server 'service.diginotar.nl' "
Keep in mind, he was an attorney first. Attorneys founding or investing in startups aren't that bad a sign.[1]

1. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel
Strange that they say this now, there have recently been a few Meego OS based netbooks come out. I believe the Asus was even a top seller on Amazon for a short time.
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Yes. Working with your body feels good, whether it's exercise or work. Another thing I really liked is helping friends with moving or home improvements.

I did consider taking a job as a craftsman. However, I did not need a lot of money to survive but had savings, so it wasn't urgent and I didn't do it. Too bad, I think it would have been a really useful experience. Maybe sometime later.
half of them I never even heard of...just goes to show the lack of coverage for self funded companies
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Isn't this akin to pulling the plug on a brain-dead patient?

Also in breaking news: Fusion Garage cancels plans for a JooJoo 2. Film at 11.
Not every class has a professor who is engaging, funny, presents the material in an intuitive way, and invested in his/her students' success. My college tuition was on a per-semester basis, and not a per-unit basis, so I took the required classes as well as classes I found interesting, but spent more time on the later than former.
Thanks for the link, this is exactly what I was looking for.
That's the point. If you fall behind on your payments, they own your house. How much real estate do you think the banks own now because of these crap loans? They can sell that for whatever they want and on top of that, they got paid for it with the bailout.

They are professionals; they know how to shape the system to work in their favour, not in your favour.
Authenticity is important, but don't a lot of startup founders generally behave in their own way, and get known for it? Maybe that's a self selecting group tho...
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Do it short but do it right
I wouldn't think so because why did they have him stay so long as editor at TC instead of just switching over to the VC fund?
Problems with ORMs
Lucky for me most of my undergrad classes had take-home exams.
Manipulating Files in Java 7
iOS isn't that much a toy if you consider it as the OS of an inout/output device (aka a dumb terminal).