skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Presumably because avoiding the square alone wouldn't explain the preference for the third option over the second.
There is a franchise with a bunch of locations near me doing this.

http://www.anylabtestnow.com/
Thanks, on my short list. The site doesn't seem to work quite right in Safari but that's a non-issue for me.
Sadly, a test for strep will not find cancer, but nor most likely will a doctor looking for strep notice other problems... you have to watch for unusual frequency and severity of symptoms and be willing to seek second opinions, preferably from specialists in that area of medicine. The test for strep can be done fine by the Wal-Mart lab. When it comes back negative and you still have persistent problems, go see your doctor!

Of course, maybe your doctor will test you for strep time after time coming up negative, and never notice the fricking golf ball sized swollen tonsils that are making you sick almost year round until you finally demand to go see the ear\nose\and throat specialists, where upon 1 nurse and 3 doctors in a row will do a double take upon seeing them and immediately schedule the surgery to remove them.... no, I'm not bitter at all! :| At least strep tests aren't painful....
I think the tricky part is that peak shift relies on generalizations (like "rectangleness") being made about a whole set of objects or experiences, so you first need some kind of foundation (like Pavlovian training) from which a generalization can be constructed.

When I'm designing an interface I try to make sure it has a visual vocabulary that's pervasive and consistent enough for the user to learn it from very little experience. So for example, the opacity of visual elements can be used to represent their importance; important stuff is brighter and clearer while unimportant stuff fades into the background. Once the user picks up on that, they can use it to make decisions about the importance of what they see: they'll focus extra attention on the text that's 100% opaque and ignore the text that's half-transparent.

Simple rules like this have existed in design for hundreds of years -- it's why newspapers give 72-point headlines to "big" stories. What's interesting now is that interfaces are becoming increasingly dynamic, and the tools we're using are letting us broaden the design vocabulary beyond just size and placement and typography.
Scalability of Semantic Search on the Web
Tired of spending hours aimlessly researching products on the web?
Code generation is bad if you ever have to edit the code generated, under any circumstances (the qualification excludes (good) compilers).

I like features like IntelliSense (when they work properly). I mean really, if you don't like features like this then perhaps you should consider removing auto-indent from your editor -- perhaps it's making you too lazy. As for me, I'd rather not remember API minutiae if I can help it.

That's not to say I don't learn APIs. I do and it's important to understand a system completely. But sometimes I forget the order of arguments to some random function.
Vonnegut identified himself as a socialist in his last book.
great idea, but the design feels a little cluttered at first. make the raw feed sidebar a different background color? also, maybe a link to a page with just the raw feed?
The End Of Venture Capital As We Know It?
Love Life
The Quality Rule
Wow. I really miss Kurt Vonnegut. I think his main point was usually life is crazy and people are even crazier.
Yea I don't know what I would do without crunchbase
vs not using ruby and instead using something mature
Another try -
Do term deposits / Government Bonds / ?? pay a higher rate than the inflation rate?

If so - that is passive income. OBVIOUSLY it requires capital / time / effort / luck / something to start with... But once that part is done - the rest is passive.
Been done.
Ha, I've clicked this 3 times because firefox clears my history and I saw the title and thought "hmm, I don't remember reading that." This sort of title changing for editorializing is the main reason I can't read Reddit.
Facebook Closes U.S. Gap With MySpace
How about an Australian version. plese ==> looks great!
Hm, I disagree. Have you looked at Zappos? They have every kind of shoe imaginable, including many very expensive men's dress shoes. Zappos's market is anyone who uses shoes, which is pretty much everyone.
Ask HN: What is your blog?
I want to learn more about the HN community so please post your personal blog/website.

Mine is in my profile, so it doesn't look like I'm spamming
Several months ago I heard about this story and found that it was published in Welcome to the Monkey House. It is a great collection of some of his short stories.
It must be noted that Cuban has been writing highly speculative, badly spelled rants about Youtube since well before they got acquired. Most of his claims, including the one that Google would get "sued to oblivion" if they bought Youtube, never panned out. He clearly has an agenda on this, and has been wrong all along; there's no reason to listen to him now.

For a laugh, see http://blogmaverick.com/2006/09/17/the-coming-dramatic-decli... and http://blogmaverick.com/2006/12/27/ripping-on-gootube-again2...
We'll do that eventually... it's just another feature filed in our bug tracker. It's not clear how valuable that is though, particularly on a US level.

The first goal for personal geo-location will be to show foreign visitors a world map.
We'll be uploading some aussie data this month, if not this week.
looks like a good scam:)
the real world is like high school

I'm interested to hear your argument on this, mostly because I've found the real world to be nothing like high school. When it comes to "Web 2.0" startups right now, sure, today's "hotness" might be nothing tomorrow, but the companies that rely on sheer high school-like popularity will fail sooner or later, just like those types of people eventually failed following high school.

In cases of direct correlation, I at least see it working both ways. Yes, there will be edge cases; certain people seem to be able to make a living online without actually providing anything of real worth, but this is hardly confined to the Web; tabloids have been doing it for decades.
"Salzman says that reports citing low U.S. international rankings often misinterpret the data. Review of the international rankings, which he says are all based on one of two tests, [...] show the U.S. is in a second-ranked group, not trailing the leading economies of the world as is commonly reported."

If I am understanding that correctly, that is not so much misinterpreting the data as not being able to frickin read.

Misinterpreting data, to me, signals an improper application of statistics to some raw data to assert something.

Not being able to look at a grouped list of rankings and realize that just because a certain group as a whole is below another group as a whole does not imply that every country in the second group is below every country in the first group is, well, sheer idiocy, not merely misinterpretation.

If the basis of the 'US is behind in math' idea is really that policy types and journalists can't properly interpret the set of rankings, then it really scares me that they are in charge of our public discourse/policy.
Agreed when it comes to online streaming video, Mark Cuban is belligerent, and just plain wrong. Maybe this touches a cord, having founded the massively overvalued Broadcast.com ( where is that now? yahoo video? ).

But on any subject other than online video, I love Cuban, his blog, and his excellent basketball team.
I think the comments by "Lowell & Salzman L I E" rebut this well:

The methodological problem in the study is it, surprisingly, uses the narrow employment designation of "science and engineering occupation". The National Science Foundation specifically warns, �??The S&E labor force does not include just those in S&E occupations. S&E skills are needed and used in a wide variety of jobs.�?? However, the study used a 4.8 million figure for science-related jobs, which is the number for those in occupations formally defined as S&E, even though nearly 13 million workers say they need at least a bachelor's degree level of knowledge in science and engineering fields in their jobs. In other words, the study reached its conclusion primarily by ignoring about 8 million people in US labor force. That appears to be reason the study arrived at the claim that US has about three times as many S&E graduates as S&E job openings each year, even though there is no evidence of massive unemployment among recent graduates in these fields.

The broader problem with the study is it assumes a "bean counting" approach to what is dynamic in nature. After all, there was not even an Internet economy two decades ago, so to assume that we have plenty of talented people, assumes that we have created all the innovations we need and, therefore, American companies should stop trying to invent and innovate. A market economy can never have too many talented people, since, as we have seen, smart employers and entrepreneurs will utilize this talent to improve all our lives. * -- Pages 10-11 of Talent Search: Job openings and the need for Skilled Labor in US Economy, NFAP Policy Brief, Mar 2008 http://nfap.com/pdf/080311talentsrc.pdf
I found Dovecot pretty easy to install, but setting up spam filtering (especially SMTP-time) is a lot of work.
I don't get why people so want to abstract around Javascript itself

Macros.

http://common-lisp.net/project/parenscript/
If Google doesn't know about them, they are not a threat to you yet. Launch fast, get customers, and move fast. You'll then be the one to beat. I'm not saying you don't want to know about early stage competitors...but I've been amused to note over the years that 90% of my "new competitors" have disappeared within a year or two.

My first company actually had a company that hired me to do some of their development work (it was on Open Source software, so I would get the benefits, as well...they were just paying me to do something I was going to do anyway). They had several million in VC money. They also hired my current co-founder to do UI work and some other stuff (he did contract work for me on a regular basis back then). Clearly they'd read all about what I was doing, since I was never too shy about how I was building my products and my company, and decided to spend their way into the market in direct competition with me. I let them (though I didn't let them use my name, or my company name, in any way to imply endorsement or involvement in their products). They were out of my market in less than a year, and completely dead within 24 months.

What I'm saying is that competition is rarely as scary as they seem, so don't obsess over it too much. It can make you give up on a good idea and something you're enthusiastic about before you really even know anything.
Technical articles on Forbes are usually a disaster. People should know better than to post them here.
Well if it is.... this operation(s) needs to be stopped!
Wow, you got all that from the article? I must have missed the subtext!

Seriously though, people have been speculating about a google OS for years and years, and there hasn't been a shred of credible evidence. A far more likely reason for concealing the User-Agent string would be that those computers are running development versions of Chrome, perhaps on Mac/Linux, don't you think?
Key point: "[Low capital requirement/pure software] [s]tartups can be run so cheaply now (with open-source software, cloud computing, and virtual teams spread across the Web) that many more can achieve profitability without any VC cash."

I truly believe that this is the silver lining for software developers willing to take the leap into the new economy in this cloudy economic situation.
You also have to like the fact that Cuban sold at the right time.

Broadcast.com now points to yahoo.com, probably the most expensive re-direct in history.
How 'visionary' raised - and lost - a fortune
Oh, I don't dispute that he's usually thought-provoking and often right on other topics. When I said "most of his claims haven't panned out," I meant most of his claims about Youtube.
The Wiki Fund: People Powered Venture Capital
You can equate the development of internet to the development of language in humans.Traditionally in mature industries there are specialized roles for each unit and thus it means the entry barrier for a startup in the industry rises as the industry matures.But that's different for web based startups.The challenge for new startups will not be specialization(in technology) but specialization in understanding user behaviour.
I think we would all be happier exchanging sex for cash at free market prices.
Thinkgeek sells the extract in tablet form: http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/candy/ab3f/

Has anyone tried it? I've always wanted to try the effects of the miracle berry and it seems like a cheap way to do so.
Sounds more like a maturity problem, probably reminiscent of what email had decades ago.

I'd love some client-side filtering & prioritization of my twitter data. While it doesn't have the same archival needs of email, I definitely care more about my infrequently-twitting friends than the dozens of them coming off the more famous tweeters.

As for high school, that's what you get when any social system starts to stagnate.
Drag its icon to the terminal to insert its full path. A 'cd' in front of it will do what you want.

Also, Default Folder X has a shortcut for that.
Could that be just curiosity? The article didn't say how much they preferred them or for how long. Maybe mice are just gamblers by nature.
That license "mania" is important. Just because it restricts you from doing certain things you wish you could doesn't mean the license itself is wrong.

RMS once commented that he used OSS not because its better right now, but that by using it (and of course, supporting its development), OSS would be better someday.

I guess if you're a startup and trying to be lean and agile and pragmatic, it kind of sucks, but as a human being, who gets to make decisions where one don't need to optimize for ROI, I think its important to recognize what this is: an opportunity. Improve existing tools, maybe help convince Sun to change their license, learn BSD, any of a number of options.

This isn't because Linux is a license nazi or anything. GNU (and with it, Linux) exists for a number of reasons, but I think at least some of the people working on it push it because of the way the license operates.

In short: feature, not a bug.

(PS: this isn't an attack on you; I'm just kind of frustrated that people always have this complaint about ZFS. Sun made ZFS, and open sourced it out of their own good graces. Linus and hundreds and thousands of other people made Linux, and distribute that source out of their own good graces. This isn't a "well why don't you write a patch" rant, as much as it is licenses and laws and all that boring stuff exists for a very important reason, and its important to be mindful of the effects it has on you as a human and as a programmer. If you don't like the way it works, please try to participate in the democratic process and make your voice heard through other means as well.)
Caveat: FUSE is very slow for ZFS. Use it only to check out the features, but if you run it (hypothetically) on something important, be mindful of the limitations.
Related Article ->

"As IPOs hit 30-year low, VCs hit tough times"

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/30/...
Is that shipping cost due to customs/VAT/not-really-shipping?

171 seems a bit...unexpected to me ;)
People are still debating the great depression, for that matter, so my expectations are that any debate here will simply go the way of typical libertarians vs the rest discussions that one finds all over the internet, rather than adding anything particularly new or interesting. There is a lot that we don't know - who knows what sorts of information will come out over the years from people like Paulson, Bernanke, those at the helm at Bear, Lehman, AIG, and so on. We're still in the middle of this and won't see the end of it for a while, so I really don't think we know enough to draw accurate conclusions. The fact that it's even a recession was only officially declared last week.

That said, I think the problem with the article is one of omission: he points out some regulatory issues, but is blind to the fact that the market screwed up in a lot of ways too:

* He barely mentions the ratings agencies, and how badly they got things wrong, the fact that they were being paid by the same people whose risk they had to rate, and some of what has emerged about how they operated.

* He seems to gloss over the fact that securitizing mortgages without a requirement for whoever is selling on the mortgage to keep some 'skin in the game' is a recipe for market failure.

* He only mentions excessive leverage for Fannie and Freddie. Not even discussing that for banks is indicative that he's simply out to push his point, rather than take a broad, ideologically neutral look at what went wrong.

* He talks about temporary easing of capital requirements. Libertarians like to point out that once the government gains some power, it's hard to get it back. I think the reverse is often true as well - 'temporary' measures become permanent due to lobbying and pressure not to let anyone fail. Perhaps it might have helped, though, but how and when to make those measures go away is a complicated subject in its own right.

* In terms of the bailout, it certainly appears that there are lots of dodgy aspects to it, but it's not like you can back up and run these things 10 different ways to see what works best. I think some of his criticism is sound, but perhaps other approaches would have been worse - it's simply impossible to say. Doing nothing (the real "keep the government out of it" plan) wasn't really an option due to the systemic risk.

* I do agree with his hope that we don't overregulate, but don't think we should fight any regulation, just look for sensible things that will 1) continue to allow financial innovation, but 2) patch up some of the problems with this round of things, and attempt to make future bubbles and busts a bit less drastic. They'll happen just the same, but I view people as basically "muddling through" in terms of the economy. It's too big and complex and vulnerable to new ideas and irrational exuberance to either regulate away all problems (at least without killing off a lot of what's good), and at the same time I don't believe in throwing up our hands in the air and saying "oh, the free market will take care of everything" - there are plenty of ways the market can fail, too.
s/copyright/trademark/

// nit
Gambling doesn't seem to serve a species well in terms of my evolutionary biological thought process.
wow. That was amazing.
I burn on CDs/DVDs and keep them. These stuff are important as most of the time I end up customizing snippets for my use. So the next time I need it I have it!
It may be a publicity thing - they want to stay neutral to OSes. I know in a lot of other industries, it is a large business mistake to show products by a particular client in fear that other clients will find it offensive.
Is this article a joke? Where's the paper?

"...male starlings who ate worms contaminated by female hormones at a sewage works in south-west England were subtly changed so that they sang at greater length and with increased virtuosity."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freudian_slip

That, but used differently.
Then why are we where we are? We're the gamblingest species of all.
A gallery in celebration of Microsoft's latest innovation: T-shirts
As a sometimes Python core developer allow me to say stuff. The main goal was to remove mistakes; an all-at-once deprecation. The release was actually much less ambitious than the original name "Python 3000" implied. Guido read one of Joel's posts on rewriting software [the one on the Mozilla rewrite] and dictated that 3.0 be done in a year or two. See the list of PEPs [Python Enhancement Proposals] for silly big changes that were shot down.

As for python 3.0 being 10% slower than 2.5 - that means that it is is just 1.9 times faster than Ruby instead of a clean 2x? And the backwards incompatible version took just two years instead of infinity like Perl and two years instead of the UNK for Ruby? Python 2.5 benefited from a corporate sponsored "Need For Speed" sprint where twenty of the core devs went on a paid vacation with a mission to just sprint on speed issues. There hasn't been a corresponding sponsored event for 3.0.

A huge amount of volunteer time has been spent on backwards compatibility issues. When the Python 3.0 issue was first floated the Twisted and Django folks had lots of worries about the transition and supporting two versions (2.x and 3.x). Hundreds of hours were spent on the email lists and PyCon dinners hashing out the details. Thousands of hours were spent adding warnings and best practices docs to 2.6 as well as on the "2to3" translation tool.

Time will tell but there will certainly be lessons learned from the Python 3 release.
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Nothing will be done about this because it's very difficult to get men to admit that they're less masculine. It's like the way women are up in arms about unrealistic portrayal in the media, with airbrushing and so on of celebrity photos. Meanwhile you've got Men's Health magazine saying every month "get a six-pack in 2 weeks or you are a LOSER" and men just accept it. Feminists have basically hijacked a whole range of issues that actually affect everyone - and created a generation of males without the confidence to address concerns that are far more important than Barbie dolls and other feminist obsessions.
I also agree.

If his employer coded the first iteration, he may have a better understanding of the problem space and not care if unimportant parts of the back end are sloppy. Or he may need to maintain and debug it himself, in which case refactoring is hurting the business and possibly introducing new bugs.

Those are all perfectly good reasons for development to happen HIS way. I would be really irritated if I hired someone to HELP me they started refactoring stuff instead of following my lead on what are priorities and teaching me in areas where they felt I was weak.

It sounds as if the latent issues here are power and compensation. If it is really about design approaches, try to make the system more modular and take care of building one of the modules from scratch yourself. Your employer is more likely to hand down additional responsibility once you've proven your approach in a restricted area.
This isn't really a big deal, but I just want to point out your reference to copyright because this has been an increasingly frustrating topic for me; most people don't know the difference between copyright, trademark, and patent, and don't fully understand how these intellectual property rights apply to the game Tetris.

Changing the name has nothing to do with copyright. The protection of a logo or name falls under trademark rights.

Copyright protects "original works of authorship including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic and other intellectual works like computer software" from being reproduced, distributed, and sold(USPTO). But, copyright does not protect game mechanics or rules.

A Patent does for a limited time protect a game concept/idea, but Tetris game concept lies in the public domain.

So, anyone can legally make and sell a Tetris/Tetromino/falling block game.

I am starting a blog series (http://desiree47.wordpress.com/2008/11/19/tetris-and-intelle...) covering IP, the Tetris Company, and iPhone Tetromino games. I have only covered patent law, but the rest is soon to come.
I was fortunate enough to hear him speak at my college graduation. We are both from the same town in India :-)
Harrison Bergeron is an excellent film, it's out on VHS but not DVD for some inexplicable reason.
Seems like an odd conspiracy theory. Robo-dialers are nothing new and I haven't noticed any increase in my receiving them. Any evidence for this?