skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for your work on open access, Michael. Now allow me to pick at a nit:

If you put the same text on 2 different web sites, both instances have lower PageRank than a single instance would.

Also, it is less than optimal to put URLs where they will not be turned into clickable links.
Lessons from Space (for software engineering)
Start networking as much as you can. Get to know successful American and foreign entrepreneurs and tell them you're interested in US startups. Ask if they need help. Find out who's working on various problems, and if any of these companies use any open source code you can contribute to right now.
How Siri could revolutionize the 911 system
>Second, those lobbyists are likely to be loosing their jobs soon as the industry paying for them begins to fall apart.

The key would be probably to get the well-funded opposition continuing until that happens, and this will likely last for years. I like to compare it to the end of support of XP.
Nicole Kidman’s Lips: The Non-Disappearing Lip
You are all about paradigm shifting now;)
Thanks for the clarification. Should have guessed that by the clothes in the photos ;). The 90's is still very recent. I'm interested in hearing some of there theories behind why/if they were buried so deeply.
Are you suggesting that in this case the blogger is similarly misinformed or deluded?

I don't think it's unreasonable to think that China is manipulating its map data, particularly when other people here in the mapping industry have already said this is well known in their field.
It is odd that we've settled on a system that taxes upwards of 30% percent on things that increase wealth and provide social stability (hiring, working) rather than tax at 1% or 2% things that don't increase wealth and cause social unrest (large private fortunes)
America is the best place to start and grow a technology company. Here you can find the people, universities, mentors, VCs, and customers for high-tech products with greater ease than in any other country.

In particular, Silicon Valley has spearheaded a culture of innovation and rapid technology adoption that eases the design, development and marketing of new products.

Granted, you could start a new company in Chile, France or Singapore and be well off, but the magic of the Valley is that if you needed to pivot at any point in time, you know that you'll find the technologists to support your new stack or concept.

I think that starting a high-tech company in America gives you much better probabilities of succeeding and scaling your company.
> Many physicists contend this point [ ... ] appeal to imagination.

Not so. The vast majority of quantum physicists now agree Many Worlds has won, including Feynman, Gell-Mann and Hawking. The concept of 'collapse of the wavefunction' is silly and shouldn't even be considered for reasons outlined here: http://lesswrong.com/lw/q8/many_worlds_one_best_guess/

> Determinism; Philosophers disagree.

It's just basic reductionism. There are absolutely no fundamental problems surrounding this.

> On the subject of morality, neuroscience cannot possibly deliver any concrete answers at all.

All moral thought and all moral beliefs up to now have happened inside the human brain. Most moral thought is confused and self-contradictory. If we want to figure out why we are moral the way we are, what our "true" moral beliefs are, and how to build societies that flourish, we have to look inside the brain to see how it all works. Either morality has bearing on the real world and is therefore subject to measurement or it has no bearing on the real world and is therefore irrelevant.

> Then we don't really understand logic and math either, do we? The foundations of logic and math are still part of philosophy after all.

Where the line is drawn between math/philosophy isn't a very interesting question.

> And, well, Hume didn't really understand causality, did he? But fortunately, thanks to modern physics, now we do?

Nope. And yep. And thanks to Bayesian reasoning.
How would this effect Canada or Europe?
For better or worse, the issues discussed in the article also explain why programs like YC are becoming more and more of a necessity. They are one way a VC can cut through some noise, and one way a good entrepreneur can stand out from the crowd.
There are numerous paths for going back to school. A big question is cash - Will you have enough to pay for school and take care of other obligations in your life (do you have a family? Mortgage, etc)?

Learning is always good - you just have to pick the method/path that works for you. You also must keep your expectations inline with your abilities and method of schooling you pick.

Unless you go to a very good school or you want the full-time campus experience, you might be better off going part time. At 30, you will not be part of the regular social scene - so you can gain most of the experience in a part time program. If you live near a large city (New York, Boston, Washington DC, etc) there are very good schools that have programs aimed at you. The hours are arranged for people with full-time jobs.

In your 10 years of work you have learned how to manage your time. You are also much more motivated than you were when you were 18. Studying and homework are easy compared to work.

If your company will reimburse tuition, you can afford the better quality, higher cost university. Unless you have high hopes (move into research) just about any reputable school will be fine as you stated your goal is to learn and change the direction of your career. Not having a BS is a handicap.

I highly recommend going back to school. Look at the programs close to your location and weigh the benefits/costs of part time vs fill time. Will the cash cost of going full-time be recouped by a much higher salary? If you are serious, you can finish in 4 years if you take classes in the summer, test out of everything you can and take distance learning classes. Maybe less than 4 years if your classes transfer.

It will be a lifestyle change - can you handle going to class 2-3 nights a week? Read and study on the weekends?

Get some information and get started. Even if you think there needs to be some changes in scheduling at work, I bet you could do one course a semester.

BTW - I went back and got my BS in CS after 5 years - then an MS part time and finally a PhD. If you enjoy the material - it can be done.

Good luck!
小顔福岡口コミサイト！！
I suspect from conversations with journal editors that it's not a whole lot cheaper to produce CS/math journals than other types, but that's just a general impression, not a certainty.

There seem to at least be some that are much cheaper, in the sense of having budgets literally approaching $0. From some brief chats with JMLR editors, they're in that camp: they run on donated server space from MIT and volunteer editors. No staff, no office, no recurring expenses, yet they're still one of the top journals in CS. That seems like a significantly different cost structure from something like PLoS ONE, perhaps closer to the arXiv model turned into a journal.
or the banks lending out every cent they do have
> Transplants are still non-trivial in humans.

The biggest problem behind human transplants is that our defense mechanisms (which is a hard problem in computing!) will kill the foreign material. So it's a trade-off, not a hard problem.

In any case, the real difference between biological DNA and programs is the latter is designed to be modified in a _directed_ way. You could think of DNA as a highly compressed program which is modified _in its compressed form_. In evolution, changes are made randomly, so this isn't really a problem - if anything, the magnification effect is a good thing. But in computer programs, we know what we want to change, and don't want to have to make several million random changes to try to find one that brings us closer to the goal. And so computer programs are more brittle - small changes have small, predictable effects - while human DNA is more flexible, but at the expense of predictability.
Watch The Walking Dead Season 2 Episode 3 Save the Last One Online
Watch The Walking Dead Season 2 Episode 3 Save the Last One Online Free Streaming The comic goes on to explore the challenges
Fashion House
Lela Company
This reminds me of the Peters Projection, one of the weirder attempts to map the oblate spheroid nature of the earth to a 2D plane.

http://www.petersmap.com/
Isn't there any other way to be in the valley? There is yc, but apart from that I can't think of anything else.
I own Fisher & Paykel dish drawers. They are mostly wonderfully engineered. A clever bit about them: they open the fill falve and shortly after start the wash motor. Then they measure the draw of the motor circuit. When the draw is sufficient (due to the motor working harder against the water), they know enough water has entered and close the fill falve. At one point, one of my fill valves failed and the water wasn't entering quickly enough. This eventually triggers a timer, and the drawers shuts down telling you the water isn't entering quickly enough. Mechanically, you can also work on them almost without tools. Anyway, just thought I'd post a bit because I really appreciate good design.

(They also have an interesting bit of poor design that has caused them to leak out water onto my floor after a plastic part broke. Sigh.)
> In Europe the state owned mapping organisations do the mapping and claim full copyright on the maps & data.

This is true here in Switzerland. You have to pay quite a bit for our maps. I think it's a good thing actually, because their quality is worth the price. They provide extreme detail even in very remote locations (well, remote for us at least ;)). And for doing quick lookups, there's a free online-map at http://map.geo.admin.ch/, which also provides a lot of statistical data.
Ditch the politics / mainstream news and HN will be a very solid resource.
Who has time to read the comments when HN blasts us with so many uncategorized articles. Perhaps you should consider what percentage of comments are even read.
"freakonomics"-style video on Daylight Savings Time
Apple and Microsoft file patents for touchless controls
This. At least with Ubuntu, there is a large enough user base that there is software available for it that is tested and actually works (conveniently available as a binary .deb).

Also, bugs tend to be identified and fixed, again due to the size of the community. If you run into a problem, often times there is already a forum post somewhere with a solution.

If developers are to use an obscure "power user" distribution, it throws out all the benefits of community.

Perhaps what's needed is a "Devbuntu" that relies on most of the same components as Ubuntu, but targets power users.
Informing FBI whatever you do every time is such a pain. Dont you think it makes living less fun?

Also, in the future we could have sophisticated computer systems that could analyze data if everybody started revealing everything. His solution of revealing everything may not necessarily be a long term solution.
Attendant of US Airways Flight Found Dead in Mexico City Hotel | NEWS 365
The flaw in all these experiments is the assumption that the subject's description of their own experience is accurate. It's not surprising that people won't say that wine is white when it looks red, or that a fancy restaurant has served them frozen dinners. If forced to choose between pepsi on the left or pepsi on the right, they will make the choice one way or another. Put people in strange situations and you will get strange behavior. What was actually going through their head remains a mystery.

Regardless, nothing in the world will make me believe that I don't care what my food tastes like.
On most maps published in the West, Tibet is shown as an integral part of the territory of the People's Republic of China, even though plenty of Americans drive around with "Free Tibet" bumper stickers on their cars. That is the GOVERNMENTAL position of the United States at present, that Tibet is part of the territory of China. (Of course historical Tibet includes regions outside the current boundaries of the Tibet Autonomous Region administrative division of China, including most of the territory of what is called Qinghai Province and quite a bit of land in Sichuan Province.)

The case of Taiwan is even more confusing. A world globe I have from a decade ago, commercially published by a private business corporation rather than officially published, shows Taiwan and the mainland territories of China in the same color. (Usually this globe distinguishes different countries by different colors.) However, the globe also marks the location of both Beijing and Taipei (so spelled) with a star symbol indicating a capital city, suggesting that Taipei is the seat of a national government. United States law under the Taiwan Relations Act strikes a delicate balance between agreeing with the original assertion of both the P.R.C. and R.O.C. regimes that there is one China and Taiwan is a part of China and the current facts on the ground that China (the P.R.C.) and Taiwan (the island of Taiwan and various outlying islands, including some that historically were part of Fujian Province) are under distinct national administrations.

The Wikipedia article on Taiwan independence

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_independence

seems to have enjoyed some good editing back-and-forth so that it is not entirely slanted to one point of view or another.
> Wine experts don't judge the quality of the wine but the quality of what the wine is supposed to taste like based on it's appellation controléé

If that's really true, why do they bother tasting the actual wine?
Content should be limited to items of technical or scientific merit. Putting a political spin on stories has led to the degradation of quality in both submissions and comments on HN. Leave your personal grudges/beliefs at the door on your way in and stay on topic.
Are you suggesting that in this case the blogger is similarly misinformed or deluded?

No.
If you mean buildings over 100m, then no:

1	Hong Kong
2	New York City
3	Tokyo
4	Dubai
5	Shanghai

Beijing is #20.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_with_most_skyscr...
Jared Diamond tries to make sense of history in a methodical manner referring to researches done in diverse areas spawning evolutionary biology, archaeology, ecology etc. I would expect any such serious book (though targeted towards readers not steeped in diverse fields which he refers) would appear dry.
I suspect that Tokyo might well have more. Anyway, the loss of accuracy in such a case wouldn't cause a consistent effect like this - it's normally not in a consistent direction and generally doesn't put you off by so far.
I applaud people for trying to find clean ways to add chaining to langauges like JS, but feel we are working at the wrong level of abstraction. Chaining is a syntax and grammer problem, not a semantic problem. Smalltalk solved this by making chaining part of the syntax. if you write:

foo
:bar;
:bash something;
:thenBlitz.

The semi-colons tell the interpreter to chain the method calls to the original receiver. That way you can read the sntax and know chaining is involved without needing to know whether those methods were written to be chained. The return value of a method is its semantics, and should not be chosen to try to implement syntax.

Summary: This problem should be solved by the parser, not by the function author.

p.s. paging @jashkenas!

p.p.s. Did you ever take that test yourself? Yes, my comments apply doubly to libraries like #andand.
I've been complaining about Unity since 11.04. The only worthwhile improvement in 11.10 is that Dasher is no longer ugly solid black. Well, the menu in the upper right has some sensible options now. They took away screensavers, like it's up to Canonical to make the world green? I never used them on my systems on a full time basis but it was nice to take a break sometimes and play with them. I can't change fonts now, even my wife who is a non-technical user said, "the new fonts are terrible why can't I change them?".

I'm going to try out KDE for a while, it's heavy or it used to be, Gnome 2 was just right. I've tried XFCE and it feels like an older Gnome (which isn't a bad thing), down the road it might be the better option until they get a wild hair and go nutts too.
Ruby 1.9.2 + Thrift 0.7.0 Problem and Fix
OK, so I am writing this post after a whole day spent in effort to get Thrift working on Ruby 1.9.2, so that I can run the Cassandra gem. I don’t want any of you to waste your time on the same exercise that I did today and waste a Sunday! Hopefully this post will help you fix issue.
Disagee this is a well written post.

Agree people don't understand the contexts under which a node.js type system is useful.

Personally, I think there are a million better options than server-side JavaScript.
I'm more optimistic. I think most HN readers could pass an ideological turing test. Nonetheless, in the context of political discussions it's often socially acceptable to be obtuse.

I've had a few discussions with people on HN that have bordered on political (mostly around Wikileaks and Terrorism) and I think these discussions have left me more rational, as any good discussion should.
Korku Filmleri
Ah ok. But probably it also wont take long until the private key from the TPM chips gets hacked.
those would have to be accurate in order to function

The most common form of map, Mercator projection, greatly distorts the area of land around the equator, and makes northernly (& southerly) lands appear much larger. It makes Canada, Greenland, Alaska, et al. appear quite large compared to Africa & South America. But those areas are much larger.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection#Uses
Factors Which Determine Tattoo Prices
Time element replaced with data element in HTML5
Because the appellation controléé determines the quality of the wine.
Meet ThoughtWorks' CTO and the Head of Technology of in Americas
Were you trying to make the point that your analytics can be for more than reporting? Ex: if you have a platform then you can feed the data back into a user-facing site to drive sales of popular items, make automated tweaks, or offer experiences tailored to the specific visitor?
Siri hack on iPhone 4, iPod Touch can now chat with Apple’s servers
Do you have any sense of the state of open access publishing outside the sciences? I am a graduate student in the humanities, and it sounds like many of these mechanisms aren't designed to extend beyond the sciences. Most humanities research is not done with support from NIH grants, for example---at least, not directly. Humanities faculty with smaller research budgets are less likely to voluntarily pay a fee to make their work open access through Elsevier and Springer. And I don't know of open office humanities journals on the level of e.g. PLoS One (though of course that doesn't mean they don't exist!).

So, it sounds like the only mechanisms you've mentioned that might also apply to the humanities are institutional policies like Princeton's, or the Federal Public Research Access Act. Princeton and other top tier research universities are in a unique position of leverage over journals, because few journals can afford not to accept research from faculty at these institutions, but most researchers are not working at institutions with that kind of leverage.

Does the Federal Public Research Access Act have language that extends to humanities research? A lot of humanities research, I think, is indirectly funded through public funds, since universities take a cut of incoming grants for the sciences, and then redistribute that money to humanities departments. The right language in this bill could therefore extend open access requirements to humanities research by requiring that whatever research the money ends up supporting be published open access. Do you have any idea whether language like this is in the bill?

(I also worry that, if it isn't, even science researchers could start using the "university cut loophole": the university takes the entire incoming grant and redistributes it to science researchers without open access requirements attached. Is there any danger of this?)
I think the gp is telling an anecdote that is an interesting example of the difficulty that exists in China for certain things, and in no way states that the blogger is misinformed or deluded.

An interesting anecdote from my side, though not necessarily map-related. But in the same theme as gp. This summer, I was volunteering teaching English to rural kids in China. One of the kids kept writing this big message on blackboards and stuff that Osama bin Laden was still alive. One of the local volunteers read what he was writing and was upset at him for fooling around so much. Later, I asked her what's up, and she told me what he was writing.

WTF.

So in the team meeting later that night, I talk with my fellow volunteers about this, and wonder if I have some kind of crazy kid on my hands. Then the Chinese volunteers told me not to worry about it, he's just writing stuff. I'm like, "What do you mean, how do you know?" Then they started talking about how people distrust the government these days, are unhappy, etc. I'm like, "What the heck does that have to do with anything?"

Turns out that all over the Chinese web, this was a really popular meme where Chinese youth displayed their sarcasm at anything the government said. Even things that they knew to be true could not be true because the government said it. It was only a meme, much like the Hitler videos we see on Youtube.

Scared me for a day.

But suffice it to say, people in China aren't so trusting of what their nation says as before. Living here, I hear it from my colleagues and friends every day. That being said, there's very little right now that they can do to voice their opinion because it's still a touchy atmosphere.

This lady is very informative. http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/yang_lan.html
It says something about our tax system in the US that people need to spend that much time finding, documenting, and calculating deductions that by right are theirs.

I do wish we went to a simpler base deduction then flat rate past that (something like $20,000 deduction per taxpayer then 20%).
They use both, for different resolutions.
My advice :

Take some money from your country, create a startup in the US with a local guy. When you are able to make money, then if you make enough money, you can even sponsor yourself or go get some investors => you'll be able to sponsor yourself.
What is Network Marketing?
Zuckerberg: If I Were Starting A Company Now, I Would Have Stayed In Boston
Free Ways to Make Money With Google
Is K&R available as an eBook somewhere? I'd even gladly pay the shocking $50+ for an eBook version just so I don't have to lug the dead tree around.
$5 registration fee that goes to the EFF. Might slow growth to a more manageable level -- give people more time as lurkers, so they learn the culture.
401k takes no time on your taxes. The amount you've contributed is already reflected in your (lower) taxable income on your W-2.
San Francisco 49ers vs Cleveland Browns live stream
San Francisco 49ers vs Cleveland Browns
Match schedule:
Week 8 NFL Regular season
Date: SUN, OCT 30 2011
TIME :4:15 PM (ET)
Venu: Candlestick Park
watch and enjoy San Francisco 49ers vs Cleveland Browns live streaming
and also watch NFL full season live streaming online here.
Large private fortunes provide capital needed to start businesses or local governments bonding to do infrastructure. No capital, no business. Check the FDR taxes on certain types of wealth for serious historic failure and unintended consequences.
non "in vino veritas" sed "in vino confusionem"!