skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"He tried to become Prime Minister of Britain running on an anti-Europe platform."

It should be noted that the majority in Britain is 'anti-Europe' so I don't think that's anything out of the ordinary.
"these embryos" means the ones that are used to do stem cell research. As I said, mainly discarded from IVF clinics.
It's next to impossible to be anywhere near accurate without knowing the topic of the site, its niche in the topic, etc.

But.. based on the profit alone (assuming that profit takes into account the costs of continual content development - if required) $150k would be a bare minimum IMHO. Since the "growth trend" probably relies on you and your plan somewhat, a purchaser is not going to be so interested in those speculative numbers.
These signs are basically physical spam. They're also popular with the kind of scammers who buy old people's houses for cash, and 1-800-GOT-JUNK. I yank them out whenever I find them.
But, Data creates Algorithms. For some set's of problems using Machine Learning / AI works well. But, it's inportant to understand what limitations your data creates in the same way that you need to understand what bugs exist in your code.
'Do you honestly feel that someone saying "Global warming is part of a natural cycle and there’s nothing we can actually do to stop these cycles. " has a reasonable grasp of the issues.'

Yes. I'm not going to start another argument here, because like religious arguments, no one ever wins. If you want to spend your time worrying that it's slightly hotter than it was a few years ago, but still freezing compared to a few years before that, go ahead. Ice caps melt all the time. New ones form. Guess which event the media report.
He is just trying to publicly discredit the competition. If you actually think Microsoft is ignoring Android internally, then you are very mistaken. He was asked a question about it and answered it. His only realistic options were to do what he did and talk about it in a negative sense or politely refuse the question. What else would you expect him to say? He's not going to legitimize a competitors product, especially this early in Android's life cycle.
$3000 for a dating site membership? I've been doing pricing wrong...
I wonder how much of the company's secrecy is a reaction to the expected illegality of placing these lawn signs. I see them frequently on municipal or state property, and I'm sure they are frequently removed by public works crews. If cities could easily find the person responsible and bring littering/vandalism/whatever fines against the parent company, this business model would be nonviable. I suspect the system of sub-companies, satellite offices, and probably "subcontractors" that this organization uses is basically an elaborate legal ruse. Like how the mafia never has the top guys do anything illegal.

Perhaps some ambitious state attorney general will bring these guys up on RICO charges. :)
That's a straw man argument.

What makes religious arguments impossible to refute is the in ability to test life after death etc. However, building a device / system that control's the climate would tend to disprove that. I propose the urban heat island effect around	New York, NY as one such device.

Edit: It's also more than just temperature: "Partly as a result of the urban heat island effect, monthly rainfall is about 28% greater between 20-40 miles downwind of cities, compared with upwind.[1] " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_heat_island

PS: Unless your suggesting that at some point the sun will die as the natural cycle. But in terms of million year and less cycles humans can do a lot.
This can simply be answered by looking at the number of start-up scripts that are being executed. If that number has increased relative to 7.04, then of course your boot time is going to be slower. There are not too many things inherently different between the past few releases in terms of booting.
Honestly, I wasn't aware that there was a right-wing, "blame the unions" meme.

Large corporations down to individuals file bankruptcy to shield themselves from debt obligations all the time ... so, if anything, labor is more sacrosanct.

There's a reason car companies who want to sell to the US put their plants in Canada, Mexico, and Alabama (in the case of Hyundai) ... and it's not the weather.

Again, I don't claim to be an expert on this, but you haven't done much to convince me that poor management is entirely to blame.
But Siege says the following (so may not be enough)

"We've had people ask about configurations like -c1000 -d1. A single pre-forking apache server cannot handle such load without modification. It has a hardcoded limit of 256."
Dissidents were not sent to prison camp after Stalin has died, unless they tried to organize a movement or something. There were actually very few political prisoners in the USSR in the 70s.

But those who thought differently and were not afraid of saying that in public were denied jobs and banned from publishing their views. And eventually forced out of the country.
BBC bans respected scientist for denying man-made climate change

should have been the title. Sorry, my fault.
Millions might be a stretch ... the UAW has 640K active members according to their site.

I'm sure there are tertiary jobs that would also be affected, but how many really? Auto parts and auto sales?
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Got that part.

I was just challenging your statement that they "would never actually become humans" with the fact that anything of the homo sapien species is human, which of course would include the embryos. Just like dog embryos are very young dogs, and cat embryos are very young cats. 'Embryo' is just one stage of a single line of development.
BBC bans respected scientist for denying man-made climate change.

should have been the title. Sorry, my fault.
i doubt he had any say in that. They probably decided on a "site to help open up the government" and then some IT guys were told to make it happen.
I think it is low. I found this chart on Nation Center for Education Statistics' website that suggests its more like ~75k: http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d06/figures/fig_15.asp?re... .
Judging by her bio, she looks amazingly well qualified. I don't think that being a former VP at Goldman Sachs means it's "more of the same". If anything, when taken into context, it just means she'd understand the industry at a greater level, which would put her in a better position to help fix its problems.

http://www.changemakers.net/en-us/user/3018/view
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See also Parenscript -- http://common-lisp.net/project/parenscript/ -- which is a CL library that generates Javascript source code from s-exps.
Stand up and get a drink of water. Walk away for a minute and you'll realize how much time you're wasting and get back to work.
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I wonder if this is how AltaVista felt about Google.

"Don't those propellerheads from Stanford know that we already have perfectly good search engines? Interesting, but not compelling."
You want a drug that will make you actually love exercise? This is no secret. It's called testosterone. You can actually get pure testosterone prescribed to you in the US if your levels are low, but this might not be much. Alternatively, you could get it from steroids. Carefully.

This is completely serious. Few realize how what a powerful effect testosterone can have on how you mentally feel. Like Arnold said, "You feel like you're cumming all day", among other positive effects.
I recommend a book by George Leonard called "Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment". It talks about this topic... very fascinating and useful read (also quite short)

http://www.amazon.com/Mastery-Keys-Success-Long-Term-Fulfill...
After audio and video of him hooting, howling and above all sweating profusely to the sounds of Gloria Estefan surfaced on the Internet, perhaps audio/video of his appearances has become restricted.
I'm not a huge fan of propping up businesses, but your analogy is flawed on so many levels.

First, you're assuming that the market for shit bread is the same as the market for gourmet bread. That's ludicrous. All you've done is drive up the price of bread for everyone.

The other issue is the fact that the gourmet bread maker may actually only be in existence because shit bread is the commodity. People who buy luxury brands do so specifically because they are not the most popular option.

So know you've popularized the luxury item, but it's even more expensive than the shit bread that it replaced.

As I said, the auto industry is certainly not the easiest to defend. To be honest, I think this is a perfect chance for the government to force them to think in ways that actually improve their business models. Of course, that's hard work and nobody wants to do that.

Allowing the invisible hand to sort things out has the slight problem of absolutely crushing economies in the bad times as much as it let's them thrive in the good times.
According to the source of the Change.gov page, it was generated using Microsoft Word.

Granted, it's just a placeholder for the site, but still. I sure hope that isn't a sign of things to come.
I was thinking "franchise" from the first bullet point. The global reach of the internet is great, but many needs are local (think fast food). One solution to this problem is franchising. But, if the capital costs are low, you can do it with a single company and local offices, as they did here.

This model could easily be copied in another country (e.g. here in Australia), but it doesn't sound very groundbreaking (or much fun).

Half-way through, I felt a strong suspicion that the article would turn out to a device for gathering leads for "geekdating.com"...
>This would most likely wipe out existing share owners

Which is probably about 80% of all investors in the market, btw.

It would also render insolvent all their existing pensioners retirement funds, as well as every loan that GMAC finances...

Not something anyone would be thrilled to deal with.
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I'm a little fearful of efficiency in government. I believe that, in most areas, government can never be as efficient as a free market. Making the government closer to a free-market efficiency just makes it harder to get to a fully-free market and makes it a lot easier for the government to grow in other areas.

Rothbard went into a little more detail on this in a lengthy criticism of Friedman: http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard43.html
He didn't say no one can refute a religious belief, he said that no one ever wins religious arguments, which is pretty much on the mark. I have a suspicion that you won't leave this discussion with a changed opinion about global warming, and I doubt that anything anyone's going to say here will make you change your mind.

Personally, I agree with you that mankind could do something that would have a permanent effect on global temperature. I am simply of the opinion that there's nowhere near enough cogent evidence that this is what is happening. A paltry 150 years' worth of possibly inaccurate data, containing two decade-long periods of cooling? If you take away all the media hype and bias, there's not a lot there to convince me.
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wow that seems pretty cheap actually. As an example, unnamed friend got a $40k offer on his blog that had 100k pviews/month and very little monthly income. He just had a passionate following and a decent pagerank.
Sure, some people apparently get a runners high and really enjoy exercise, and they'll say how much people like me are "missing". My dad is apparently one of those freaks, as is my wife. I'm not. I have never in my life felt like exercise has made me feel that way.

The diet and exercise comment isn't like the Amazon suggestions of the type "If you love being healthy you'll also enjoy good diet and regular exercise", it's more about reminding you that, as far as weight is concerned, it's more or less simple accounting: deposits without caloric withdrawls = increased balance.

I understand that it's frustrating to hear this message all of the time (especially if you are unsuccessful at meeting your weight goals or don't like exercise), but nobody's implying that it's going to be fun, just that it's how the numbers work.

Furthermore, there's more benefit to exercise than burning excess calories, which is why credible dietitians and doctors don't just say to eat less: there are innumerable cardiovascular and muscular benefits; maybe not so important at 25, but definitely something that can make a difference between a youthful and a pre-elderly 50 year old.

Disclosure: I don't do any of this stuff. I do not live a healthy lifestyle and am not chiding anyone for doing (or not doing) anything. I'm just saying the math is what it is and that getting frustrated about it doesn't accomplish anything.
I think they're using it as a metaphor:

Current administration = Word-generated page

New administration = Web 2.0
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Be careful with this method. I've heard a story of a German entrepreneur who built a valuable business around a web service and was bought. He wanted more money than the buyer could give so they agree that he would get a significant amount of the value as shares. There was much more share value than money because the seller was confident in the business model. Then the bubble 2000 exploded and the shares lost all their value. But wait, the worst is yet to come.

The next year the IRS claimed the taxes on the transaction and refused to take in account the loss of share value. SOo the seller had to borrow to pay the IRS and pays it back by working for the buyer !

The lesson I learned is to think twice in getting payed with shares or revenue promise.

Today the economy is really uncertain, so watch out for this kind of accident.

It also depends on the business and the expected long term stability of your business. Today I would prefer a sound business instead of a big pack of money. I wouldn't know how to secure it.
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Agreed.

That's why I hedged by saying "most of the reasons". I agree that as people become more tech savvy things get tougher.
I sold a site doing 4,500 uniques a day, but a much lower page views and incoming profit for about 2.25 X yearly revenue. It was a good call on selling as the sites growth was starting to stall.
According to the meta-data in the source of change.gov, this is the guy that wrote it:

http://www.smartcard.gov/thurston_bio.cfm
Alas, poor Yang Alas, poor Yahoo
I already switched to using OpenVPN over an otherwise unencrypted Wi-Fi network a while back. Obviously the unencrypted network is entirely separate from the rest of the LAN and only the OpenVPN server is listening on it. Getting all my hardware to play nice with WPA was getting very fiddly, and it even seems a little faster doing the encryption entirely in software. Plus, I have more faith in the OpenVPN guys than the people who seem to be unable to release a new standard within a couple of years.
as much as you hate those....you gotta admit this stuff probably has incredible success rates. You start seeing those all the time you will go check it out. And one sign is probably seen by thousands of people, the one day it survives.

My question though, is why doesn't the city/state do something about it? I mean this is like littering but with your home address listed on it. Can't the cities/states charge a removal fee for this road spam?
That is an awesome article. When I started seeing these signs, I swore it was an internet franchising scheme.

Also note, it was an awesome way to drive traffic to his company -- and let us all know what they do! Looks like it was even submitted by an rjmetrics guy.

Also interesting ... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=355833
I have to agree. Both skiing (and snowboarding, which tends to have a bad reputation among older folk, sometimes for good reason) are something that everyone should experience at some point in their life. Going 6 to 8 hours without seeing a computer screen, just you and the snow, is amazing. Those who haven't tried it - I strongly suggest you do! If you want fast results, try snowboarding. Snowboarding tends to be faster to learn initially, and harder to improve once you're good, while skiing is rather difficult at first but then is easier once you're past a certain point.

Disclaimer: These are, of course, just my opinions. I've been skiing for 10 or 11 years and snowboarding for 4 or 5 years.
Here's another excellent site for learning styles if you are interested:
http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/ILS...

In particular, visual is opposed to verbal in this model, whether it comes from reading or hearing. This model seems to be more concerned on how the brain organizes the sensory input. VARK is more about cataloguing the types of sensory input.
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Apple, a growth company, is at a P/E of about 18.

The historical average is about 20. Growth companies (like Apple) were at 30-40+ recently.
OK. But this is quickly progressing into heavy moral/philosophical territory -- we should probably stop here.
1-800-GOT-JUNK isn't a scam -- it's a real, hugely successul business.
Two lines of text, guess how much source code Microsoft Word generated to render it.
The trouble is that "human" is a very ambiguous word. If a "human" is a living organism made out of cells with DNA typical of humans, then certainly embryos are humans. If a "human" is a thinking, language-using, tool-using bipedal mammal, then certainly embryos are not humans (but neither are 3-month-old babies).

There's nothing wrong with that ... except that most of us have strongly held beliefs about "humans", which don't necessarily come with precise definitions of "human" attached to them.
1) (I guess this only works if you're a programmer) Don't completely finish your last task of the night, leave a comment with TODO-110608 (that would be the date of tomorrow) where you need to polish. Gives you an easy entry point to your work.
2) Schedule your wasted time. I have three 20 min blocks dedicated to internet waste per day. No more. (I just spent 3 min on this)
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"Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers..."
I doubt it would be difficult to track these people down if they were doing something illegal. There are a number of strategies:

Sign up with your information, when they start asking you for money, serve them with papers.

Lookup the Whois record; if it's a proxy, subpoena them. Repeat until you have the real company.

etc, etc.
The BBC actually used electoral-vote-cartograms for its real-time results, which was pretty handy. Showed a much more realistic picture of what was going on.
Yeah, I was planning on making something for Firefox that tracked my Wikipedia treks, because I wanted to keep track of pages I went to and when, but also how I ended up there. It'd be interesting to see but also good for preserving topics.

That being said I haven't even started it yet because I have so much on my plate :( Also had a plan to somehow enhance the way bookmarks are stored in FF, but I figured it was already covered by something like del.icio.us.
Brew a strong cup of coffee. Drink it while being away from your desk. Return to your work as soon as you finish enjoying it.

Creating a pre-work ritual is amazingly useful in getting into the correct mindset.
I think I understand what your saying, but we do need to celebrate ours victories along the way. I don't think anyone that is pushing for meaningful change thinks the job is done.

Obama's win was hard fought. Despite how electoral math works, I do not consider his victory a landslide. The popular vote spread is around 6 points. That is not a big margin.

I am from south Georgia. I know black-white racism all too well. Despite the fact that Georgia went to McCain, this was an historic win and I think it should be celebrated and the momentum should continue.
Yes, I agree that a single, pure unknown will render a formula useless. But are there any pure unknowns in the TTAPS formula? It's hard to say, looking at the article, because Crichton trails off with "etc.".

But are the unknowns as bad as Crichton suggests? Almost certainly not. The very first value is "number of warheads". This number can certainly be estimated... There are probably people in the U.S. whose entire job is estimating this number. The numbers given in non-proliferation treaties are likely not more than an order of magnitude off. Likewise, we can probably estimate the "size of warhead" and "height of detonation". I don't know how well the others can be estimated; they appear to be physically based, so perhaps small-scale experimentation would yield reasonable values and probabilities.

But Crichton insists none of these numbers can be known at all -- that how much smoke a city gives off when it burns is every bit as unknowable as the probability that a planet will generate intelligent life. I think he may be exaggerating a little.
They probably are doing a lot of little illegal somethings. The issue is that each violation is minor and each "victim" has no idea of the scope of the operation -- so it's natural to just throw away the sign. This is the sort of pathology that has prompted the creation of class action lawsuits and the national do-not-call registry.
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use virtual desktops (or spaces or whatever it's called on mac os). put your web browser in one workspace, your e-mail/im client in another, and your coding environment in another. work in only the coding workspace with no other apps showing. if you're working on a web app, open a new browser window, hide your bookmarks bar, and drag it to your coding workspace.

use things like growl notifications to alert you of instant messages and new e-mails. that way you can remain in your coding window and quickly glance at what that little chime was just for. if it's an important message, switch and take care of it (or don't). if not, ignore it. this way you aren't forced to switch workspaces and interrupt your work every time something comes in that you hope might be more fun than your current problem at hand.
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Where you happened to have worked doesn't dictate who you are.
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True, but I don't think these people fit in the 'gamer' category (or rather, 'dedicated gamer'). Well, generalising is bad, but you get the idea. I see them as two (almost) opposed concepts :P

And I mean opposed as in, gaming is usually done for your own sake and enjoyment (with or without friends), nothing to do with helping someone else, most of the time. I don't mean gamers are unfriendly people (I'm a gamer myself), just that the concept of gaming is more a personal goal than an altruist one.
How do you get efficient outcomes in monopolistic markets without government involvement? Where substantively do you feel more efficient government is problematic?
I thought WPA had been cracked a while ago. Am I mistaken?
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Don't sell it. Move to Thailand and manage it from there. You'll save money and have a better life. Seriously.
Although terrorist threats are real, I don't consider our War on Terror to be anything but a method to ensure spending against it is the size of war spending. Bush is a war president who is the son of a war president who is the son of a Senator that was also made loads of money off wars. People do what they know.
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