skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although I am _quite_ happy in the Unix monastery, I will note that it does have a few drawbacks. Of course one is that we don't seem to be quite as good as the Redwood Forest or the Apple Orchard builder at foundations... every time you try to build a home on a new tract of land, you find something not-quite-perfect about the way the home interacts with that land (this is especially true of mobile pieces of land, known as "icebergs").

Another is that while I'm all for life-long-learning, it's exhausting the amount of seminars you have to attend to really keep up with modern building techniques (e.g. composite materials made of beryl, or e.g. quantum chromodynamic xorgs), which is necessary unless you're willing to live in somewhat out-of-date cast-offs from elder members of the sect, at their leisure (they're generous enough to make those donations to novice members like myself on their own schedule, but they get pretty grouchy pretty fast if you ask them to customize your house FOR you).

That, and of course as we all know there are a few pieces of furniture that one just can't fit in through the front door of one's monastic house. For this purpose I choose to rent a cottage over in the Redwood territory to hold some of this esoteric furniture. My favourite is this Steam-powered monstrosity full of Valves, but your aesthetic tastes in furniture may vary.

Ah well. One of the reasons I (mostly) live over here in the monastery is my irrational faith that work (or at least preemptive laziness) shall set me free.
Ironic that you mention Google, because they famously care about degrees. A lot.
Many of the online learning solutions quoted throughout this comment thread are excellent for people who are autodidactic (and I suspect a vastly disproportionate % of the HN audience are autodidactic).

But, for everyone else who lack the will power, discipline, attention span for self-education, college is a great way to structure higher education. College is more than just a piece of paper, it's an opportunity to explore new subject matters and grow both intellectually and socially.

College isn't for everyone. Most private colleges are too expensive to be affordable to 90% of the attendees. But, nearly every state offers a high quality public university at 1/10th the price, so if cost is the main reason why college is taking such criticism in this forum, then I'd agree in merit, but I'd encourage more students to consider public college options instead of skipping college all together.
It could use a short privacy policy. Do you keep the email contents at all - even in a log?
Depends on how you view the sale. If you are fully transferring rights I would just sell it to them, with the price set at 100 dollars an hour for however many hours you estimate you worked on it. If you plan on retaining rights I would ask for 20-30% of that first figure plus 10-20% of revenue generated(with some stipulation on what that number is if they give it away as a value add).
It does make the investor's work a lot easier. YC has already done all the sifting and sorting and filtered the top ~3%, so why not?

"Up to 5 dozen startups" is what surprised me. I thought it'd be north of that this cycle.
Richard Feynman spoke well and humorously on this topic: http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpYhM4x4PmY
And for the millions of us who didn't get into Harvard, what's the point?
That's very romantic, but I think instead we're going to learn that intelligence is not such a well-defined idea as to be engineered into anything imagined by science fiction.

Further, there are plenty of techniques which aren't ANNs but still are "shaped by experience" and "figure out their own solutions".

I side pretty strongly with the idea of building tools to bring the powerful modes of computerized learning close to the powerful modes of human learning. I think we're inordinately far away from replicating one with the other.
As a fan of Thisweekin I would like to see how they respond to this move.
What they did not do (according to this paper) is account for the fact that in the satellite frame, during the neutrino's flight the receiver station was moving towards the source.

That can not possibly have an effect. The clocks are synchronized before the experiment. Once the synchronization is done, the satellite could be swallowed by a black hole and it would not affect the measurement.
Would you consider putting some kind of resource on the site for explaining some of the common results? For example, why the Text to Image ratio matters.

Also, I've tried a few emails: 1 of them ranked a 1.0, 2 of them a 0.4, but all three times the little white dot was in the same position (at about 2:50, if it were the face of a clock). Not sure if thats a bug or not.
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> I assume that a major criterion for Google shutting down a service is low usage. For them, that constitutes failure.

I guess the question is, low usage compared to what? Compared to other Google services (search, mail), almost anything will be very low usage.
I find this API to be "0.0 excellent"

Cool idea, but what do the scores mean?
The statistics seem to disagree. The most recent report from the census bureau (http://www.census.gov/prod/2004pubs/p20-550.pdf) indicates the completion of a bachelors degree almost doubles the average earning.

Of course these are statistics, thus broad generalizations, but there is a strong correlation between education level and (monetary) success. Certainly there are exceptional individuals out there who will be able to achieve great success without the aid of a college education, the computer industry is full of examples, but for the average person, that just isn't the case.

I live and work on the campus of one of the top research universities in the U.S. (#19 in the list above), I have yet to meet a student who's here for the party. Sure, they have fun now-and-then, but they're here for the education. The vast majority of the undergrads would have a difficult time making it past a phone screen with companies like Google, Microsoft, my startup, etc. On the other hand, those who make it through UIUC's intense CS or ECE programs can compete with anyone with 5 years of experience.

I guess my point is, not only do the stats back up the claim that more education leads to more (financial) success, so does my individual experience.
then that synchronization is tested extensively on the ground

Not possible. There is no way to test whether the clocks are synchronized. If they could "check" the synchronization by any other, more accurate, source then that should have been the reference.
Headline should be: Search company shuts down search product to focus on social networking.

I suppose their Blog Search is next.
See Netra:
http://mashable.com/2010/07/01/netra/
http://web.media.mit.edu/~pamplona/NETRA/

Netra is an MIT Media Lab project ($2 attachment that attaches to a cameraphone) for measuring prescriptions. Huge market.

They're in the process of making it into a company and putting the team together. If you send them a friendly email, might even get you a job/consulting position.
Slightly misleading title. Should have been something like Git 1.7.7 benefiting the everyday developer
And...weren't some of the most popular SNES games ports of popular arcade titles?

Yes! Street Fighter II (and sequels). The Mortal Kombat series. These were HUGE when they arrived on the SNES. I still remember how amazing it was when SF2 came out.
Also - ads for e-books perhaps. If you end up looking at Hibernate code, you are struggling with Hibernate. Why not clicking on "Hibernate In Action"?
1. The distance traveled by a photon going through a fiber optic cable will be different from the distance through the ground.

2. The distance traveled by radio waves bouncing off the ionosphere would have much more uncertainty than the ~60 feet in question.

3. Radio waves in the air and photons in a fiber will move noticeably slower than c due to the fact that they are not traveling through a vacuum. Neutrinos, however, minimally interact with matter, so they would travel faster than the test photon(s).
I agree, but that's actually an argument for persevering with the platform. That trust problem can only be fixed with time and continuing investment, and dropping platforms if they don't succeed right away would only compound the trust deficit (especially with developers).
Please don't do that. Here's a one liner:

round( 2.0 * star_sum / num_raters) / 2.0
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you're absolutely right. Even though this idea's been out there he's shown a rare ability to be a critical thinker and problem solver, something that is lacking in most adults. I'm sure kickstarter thought about this and did the research but what they did was turn this relatively expensive idea into huge PR move. Cheap invention plus cute little kid with corresponding e-mails with childish font equals win-win.
Four hours a day is about the maximum amount of dedicated practice possible. Three is more usual.
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I've lost password of my 3+ yr old account. How do I retrieve it, since I want to keep my username? I looked around HN, I didn't find any page to reset/retrieve. (embarrassing)
Will I need any mod/admin's help? If so, who is that?
I enjoyed reading your back and forth in this thread. I can see both of your points and don't really know what side of the fence I land on my self but I would like to jump in with one observation you might find poignant.

To carry on with your climate analogy... My economics professor used to talk about "the destructive winds of innovation or invention". I think this might be a perfect example of this. Markets are a messy place where new ideas displace old ones, new models challenge old models and sometime you compete with companies that behave in unsustainable and irrational ways. I think you can wish it wasn't that way but I tend to believe this is a symptom of the human condition. What alternative is there? Surly none of us want the government to regulate what projects companies choose to work on? We are stuck with people self regulating themselves and this always has mixed results.
Was it motion capture (driving a 3D model from sensors) or was it video capture (making sprites from videos). I believe it was the latter. MK's photographic realism really made it stand out in the arcade.
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effect of being linked to from HN :)
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Can't you just internally multiple everything by 2, average the whole thing, round, then divide by 2 to get half point ratings?

stars = round(star_sum * 2 / num_raters)/2
You joke, but I watched "How Did They Ever Make a Movie of Facebook?" (a making-of doc about The Social Network) and it blew my mind a little bit seeing the process of test-shooting the wardrobes and makeup.

Ah, here's a clip online:
http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi1594268185/ ...skip to 6:45

There's a quick cut in there where there's a table with what looks like a hundred pairs of watches.
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You... might wanna check that link out

Here is the actual link to his post, for anyone curious:

http://shenglong.posterous.com/at-interviews-dont
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Good idea, good intentions? Yes.

Will anyone provide funding to support code doc and release? I don't see any signs of it.

Is there incentive for PIs or grad students to do this? Not much.

Is there cultural pressure to do so? Very little.

Conclusion: this is not going to happen.
Nice! I have created something similar, called Konstati (http://konstati.co), focusing on email marketers. So far it only tests emails against Spamassassin, providing useful tips about each SA rule (still only in portuguese, though).

I'm currently working on it to support W3C validation, link and image checkers and email previews.
not in the live version, but you're right. I'm adding this to the todo list.
Bullshit. AI works everyday and VERY well. AI does a fantastic job tuning SQL Queries. A* does a fantastic job finding reasonable routes between destinations. AI finds optimizations to massively speed up software. AI lays out the very circuitry of most of the ICs in your computer. AI routes the packets between you and HN. It seems that as soon as something in AI works it becomes not AI.

I guarantee you that when we find out exactly how a neuron and neural networks work the human brain will be equally unimpressive. Each person's brain is the product of an uninterrupted chain of evolution stretching back 4 billion years. The field of AI has been around for about 60 years, sorry it hasn't quite managed to best the human brain in every task imaginable.

Also, if one looks at "natural intelligence" they can see some pretty stupid things going on. Losing spaceshuttles due to metric / SAE conversion, wtf?

Ask the average person to name the country that lies between Iraq and Afganistan.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=what+country+borders+on...
Like Ron and Yuri, Andreessen Horowitz are real pros. I think founders will like them.
So, the deal stays at $150k correct?

What incentive do Ron and Yuri have to give up 1/3rd of the Start Fund deals to Andreessen Horowitz?

Forgive me if this is a naive question.
Double quotes seem to stop it from tokenizing, e.g. "pthread_t".
When using special relativity it is extremely important to understand which inertial frame you are using. So the in the formula

Time = Distance / Velocity

you must explicitly say in which frame you are measuring the things. It could be

Time_EarthCenterFrame = Distance_EarthCenterFrame / Velocity_EarthCenterFrame
Time_LaboratoryFrame = Distance_LaboratoryFrame / Velocity_LaboratoryFrame
Time_SateliteFrame = Distance_SateliteFrame / Velocity_SateliteFrame

and it is usualy not a good idea to mix the frames like

Time_SateliteFrame ¿=? Distance_ LaboratoryFrame / Velocity_EarthCenter :(

In the same way, it is not a good idea to add the velocities classically with

v_tot = c + v

you should use the relativistic correction

v_tot = (c + v)/(1+ cv/c^2) = (c + v)/(1+ v/c) = c* (c + v)/ (c+ v) = c

so in every inertial frame the speed of light is the same.

(Really, the SateliteFrame, LaboratoryFrame and EarthCenterFrame are not inertial frames, but this is another kind of problem.)
You're right. Here's the relevant paragraph.

The team switched from digitized actors to motion capture technology (the quote is incorrectly referring to Midway as Acclaim): "To make the characters in video games more realistic, actors are being recruited to serve as models. Acclaim, the video-game company that made Mortal Kombat, has created a special 'motion capture studio' for this purpose. A martial-arts expert with as many as 100 electronic sensors taped to his body sends precise readings to a camera as he goes through his moves—running, jumping, kicking, punching. The action is captured, digitized and synthesized into a 'naked' wire-frame model stored in a computer. Those models can then be 'dressed' with clothing, facial expressions and other characteristics by means of a computer technique called texture mapping.
you can probably find many great reasons for why someone started a startup. But what I found underlying most reasons was the fact that a person thought that they could do something better than what was out there coupled with the fact that they deep down desperately wanted to be their own boss and be in control. Sometimes the latter even predated an actual idea for a startup.
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Ok agree with that. Now that I think about it. Mobile Me was a nightmare for months.
The tool is nice but unfortunately it would miss the key spam score components tied to IP reputation.

AWL (auto-white-list) is the most obvious rule, but many actual Spam Assassin installs include plugins that rely on all kinds of 3rd party service.

Is the IP you are checking against the same as IP used to send your transactional emails?
i was in the exact same situation in a few cases, even not too long ago, just on the other side. i was the ceo.

we are in webapp development, so basically everything related to that belongs to the company.

now, one of the guys did a really cool tool in his freetime and showed it to us a couple of weeks later.

my first question to him was: how much do you want for it? even though this really had no connection to any of the things we did at the time, not even the plans we had for the future.

still, we agreed on the price and he got paid out immediately.

exactly one month later a client came with somewhat similar needs for his website, so we sold it without any update.

since the the sales price was quite above the aquisition cost, and we had to do no work on it, the guy got a compensation later to become 50/50 with the company in that subject.

me buying stuff from co-workers happened many times, i think it's great when a company has an offer or an opportunity for you, other than your regular job.

it might not change a thing during workdays, though. :)

anyway, i suggest you go for it, try to get best offer you can get, but if you name the price make sure you don't look like a fool by settling in a fraction of your first offer, so price it right!

we'll try to help you if you ask :)
Have you tried a recursive solution?

def round_to_half(x):
if ( x < 1) {
if (x < 3) {
return 0;
else if (x > 7) {
return 1.0;
} else {
return 0.5
}
} else {
return round_to_half(x/10);
}
}

x = star_sum/num_raters
dec = round_to_half(x)
x = floor(x/10) + dec

This way you look smarter for using recursion.
Syndication diversifies and mitigates risk. You're adding a third pro to the mix, so you're more likely to have a proper solution to any given problem.
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Are they all static (elastic) IPs?

I have a similar alias file for the instances which have static IPs. But not all of my servers do. E.g. my loadbalancer has a static IP, but why would all of my app servers have one?

I have a similar script to generate names.
Why I’m scared of the post-PC era.
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E-learning doesn't prevent you from building a structure and motivational tools(i.e. peer pressure). You could, together with a few class mates, do a weekly/daily study group , using google+ hangouts.
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SpamAssassin score could be in range from -1 (best) to 25 (worst). 0.4 and 1.0 is almost the same, so it's normal for white pointer to stay on the same position.
1. AH could offer $50k on the same terms if they wanted, and most companies would probably take it. It's not like Yuri/Ron have any exclusivity arrangement.

2. YC classes have grown in size a lot. It's probably a bit more expensive than they planned, so they don't mind sharing the load.

3. Having AH as a partner helps the startups, which means they're more likely to succeed (hopefully).
I think the big advantage here is reducing the noise and the effort. If I'm going mountain biking this afternoon it only takes me about 10 seconds to let all my mountain biking buddies know that. I don't have to figure out which group I'm sending the invitation to and explain what I'm going to do and where.

I believe simple, targeted apps can be useful.
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Thanks for feedback! I already fixed this and it would be deployed soon.
Are Ron and Yuri then admitting worry about the outcome of these deals? If they see the need to mitigate risk to a 3rd party (to the extent of giving away 1/3rd of the potential outcome), it seems they may be unsure of the bets they placed with Start Fund.

Help me understand the thinking here...
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From the article:

"if anyone has the motivation, the resources, and the smarts to get AI right, the iPhone dev team is it."

Which is why they acquired Siri, instead of writing their own? :)

http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/28/apple-buys-virtual-personal...
indicates the completion of a bachelors degree almost doubles the average earning.

What can we really make of that? Hard working people tend to make more money? That has been true since people started trading services, long before colleges.

It is definitely an interesting correlation, but correlations are just that. The stats show nothing to prove that college is the reason for success. It is much more likely that the people who go are successful people to begin with. When I was in high school, the people who went to college were really driven to go there and I assume continued with that drive into their careers. Those who did not go to college lacked that drive not only when it came to school, but in all aspects of life.

The chances of finding a million dollar record deal are much higher if you are in a band too. It doesn't mean joining a band only to become rich is a good idea. Your fortune could have been lying elsewhere all along. But as long as you love what you are doing, it doesn't matter.
I know investors tend to stick with the companies they fund and help them out, but since $150k split three ways isn't all that much for each investor, how much commitment have you seen on the angels' part? I mean, even if a quarter of the YC companies take the offer, I imagine they'd have a lot of companies to deal with.
>"I stressed that children gain a lot more from college than just the education."

Therein lies part of the problem. We treat 19-22 year olds as children.
So the clocks were set incorrectly.

Then I'm left with just being confused about frames. How is it that the satellites slow one result and not the other? Assuming for simplicity you are using one satellite, it would have to be directly between the test sites in order for this to happen, right? If the satellite is approaching both sites, or if it is leaving both sites, the changes would affect both sites equally.

I'm not following how the general east-west orbits of the satellites have anything to do with anything. The only thing that's important is the relative motion between the satellites and each station. Both should be affected the same way I would think. No?
It's an investment in the future of the country, and it should definitely not be a "passtime".

Where is the proof of return on investment? (That is the point under discussion in the submitted article.) I am happy to spend my own money on education--I still do--and I am happy to spend family money on my children's education while my children are minors in my care. But why should some person poorer than I am pay for my children's education in their adult life if what my children are doing is exploring options to make up their mind what to do with their life? That's the kind of issue I was responding to in my response to your comment above. We all have teen years while still in high school "try out your hand at different fields, and figure out which ones you are good at, and where you can be successful in the future," if a high school is properly structured.

After edit: a friend on Facebook, a high-tech engineer, suggested this link today as a rationale for examining ALL the ways that colleges spend money now.

http://reason.com/archives/2011/10/14/stop-funding-college-s...
I probably agree with your first paragraph. That might be the inevitable consequence of big, or it might be too tight a focus on explicit shareholder value in the regulations, or ...

Your 2nd and 3rd paragraphs won't surprise me.
Just a note, if you have the sync turned on and own an android phone, it'll automatically grab the apps. This can be viewed as a pro or a con depending on the apps.

There's also an issue with the usb mounting when copying over large chunks of data. It'll randomly disconnect from time to time.
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