skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, yes, and we'll all nod and smile in agreement, thinking to ourselves, "Of course I'd be one of the smart ones! What a clever pyramid! How true!"
Nice job! I saw a similar service called umbrellatoday too.

A month or so ago we ( http://sleep.fm ) launched wake up to ur weather report. We speak the weather to you upon zip code entry/alarm time passing.

Thought I'd share via the relevancy of this post. Congrats on your launch!
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From memory: the Excel bug that caused Moody's to give high ratings of mortgage securities (one of the probable causes of the whole mess) was known, but management decided not to fix it. So, greed can override checks and balances.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal-agent_problem
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Nicely done - except it says it won't rain, so I looked outside - no wait it is raining. From other comments looks like Google's fault though - but still: putting that my emphasis on one aspect of the forecast and then getting it wrong ...
In “Peer Review? What Peer Review?” McLean writes, “The IPCC would have us believe that its reports are diligently reviewed by many hundreds of scientists and that these reviewers endorse the contents of the report. Analyses of reviewer comments show a very different and disturbing story.”

http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/press/ipccprocessillusion....

Also, the 20-page "executive summary" is voted on, line by line, by politicians, who (as politicians do) have every other motive than actually objectively figuring out the truth. We have politicians deciding which science is right. If that's not BS, I don't know what is.
i love the last paragraph of that post Paul. so true.
Don't you know society is responsible for people's bad decisions?
As lutorm said.. also, if this is condensed into a 45-minute townhall format, you get "My friend Joe the Eskimo thinks icebears are cute" and while it's great TV, no-one is more clever for it.
Everyone does stupid things. The same person could end up in either section depending on when the data was collected.

I understand the diagram to be a joke for people who have worked in large organizations rather than a precise statement about the way things are.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law
tbh i see no use in this karma thing.
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... from Feb 07!
thanks for the link.
cappuccino looks interesting - except that it also looks _way_ out of most people's league. by that, i mean that you appear to have to abandon everything you've learned - the server-side languages you're used to - and go the whole hog into both a new language _and_ a new framework.
i've included it for reference, on the original article at advogato.
The delay is between when it's first claimed finished by the author(s) and when it's agreed to be ready by everyone involved. After that it can be deployed instantly...

I guess it would be possible to note in a bug tracking app "we would have deployed here" and then see how many, and what kind of bugs were found between then and actual deployment, which checks found them, and whether any of those were rollback-causers.

That would give an estimate of how much good the checks did in each case, and a way to choose which checks are ineffective for their cost. (Ish - some checks may only trigger once, ever, to be priceless).
Their higher up position gives them [the potential for] a better view.
Don't call it Karma.

Call it with its real name: Democratic Dictatorship.
When I first saw the article on reddit, I tried to see if I could figure it out myself, by trying to imagine motion of moon and Earth. But I couldn't.

Then I went to the article and was skimming through it. Just gave up when I hit this imagine "race track" thing. Was too lazy at that point in time.

However the wikipedia picture did it in seconds. I didn't even have to read the above quote :)
Just proves that "a picture is worth a thousand words"
Agreed. I say it's flipped vertically, balanced delicately on the pointy end of the smart people, with the weight of the others on top, driving the smart into the ground.
I dropped out of my CS school to pursue a career of my own choice i.e. business of software. I've been quite successful so far. However, you've no idea how how much I want to go back to school but irony is that it's no more an easy choice. It's really hard to go back to school later in your life. I dropped out of school because I was kind of bored too. I will reckon that you should stay at school. Attend as many math classes you can. Also, take the hardest courses you can find in your school. Remember, these four years is the most important time in your life and this is when you can really enjoy life. TRUST me. Keep attending the school. In the interim try different things. IF something takes off and has a potential to grow only then consider this choice. Now that I'm married and badly want to go to school but you've no idea how hard it is. I know eventually I will.
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Another great opportunity that's unique to the college experience is the chance to do research and work closely with a professor. You mentioned you have a lot of experience in computer vision. If that's something that interests you further, I'm sure you could pretty easily land a job in a research lab working on cutting-edge computer vision problems. Just talk to a professor who is doing work that interests you, and bring your resume and code samples. With your background, you're easily one of the most qualified undergrads on campus -- and you'd be hard pressed to find a day job that lets you work on something that interesting.

And some universities will provide startup support if a research lab produces a marketable idea. Who knows -- in 4 years, you could have a stack of scientific publications under your belt, or you could be in business with a professor.

The social environment of a university is unique too. Nowhere else will you find such a large group of people who don't yet have the stress of working a day job and are willing to discuss whatever academic issues interest you. The opportunity to make connections and meet like-minded people is biggest here. I've met the most brilliant people I know at my college, and I'll be going back over the coming months to hire some of them for my startup. It would be significantly harder to find programmers and thinkers like that in the free market.

I think people like Gates and Dell are extreme outliers that greatly improve the drop-out image. Unless you have a lucrative idea that's already taken off and it's clear your time is much more profitably spent outside of college, it's silly to think you can easily follow in their footsteps. It would be different if you had a plan, and you may well reconsider if you launch a successful idea while you're still in school.

For everyone else though -- whether you're trying to get a corporate job or pitching to VCs -- having the endorsement of a top school greatly helps your image. Even with your years of experience and great background, it's a sad but true fact that many people would automatically give you less consideration than college graduates.

It's pretty clear you're not going to college for the education. Think of the classes you have to take as the 10-20 hr/week day job that you trudge through for the sake of the rest of the experience. If attendance isn't mandatory, you're probably better off skipping all the boring classes that cover the things you know. In the meantime... make connections. Talk to fellow students, your professors, everyone. Find like-minded people and brainstorm with them. Take the most advanced classes you possibly can -- surely there's something that will challenge you. There's a lot more to the college experience than just the classroom, though.

Don't think that the only benefit of the college route is taking classes, getting a degree, and going to a corporate job. I fully intend to never, ever work a corporate job after I graduate. Exploit the possibilities and opportunities to further yourself, and do the things that truly interest you.
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If you drop out now, you're basically handicapping yourself for the rest of your life -- unless you get lucky. You say you "mastered several scripting languages" in the last two years -- any CS department worth its salt will demand significantly more from you than that. What about theory? You say you saw a 4-year student who lacked "basic programming instinct" -- I certainly saw a lot of that as a CS TA, too, but I also saw brilliant students who made the most of their education.

If you're so ahead of the game, why not try to get involved in research -- talk to professors, take more advanced courses, join ACM? If you push, you can use college to advance your skills and connections far beyond what you could (generally) do on the "outside".
I am not sure if the giant squid gave permission to have his video taken. Shell should expect a DMCA notice any time soon, signed with a squirt of ink.
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The time is ripe for a rip by netbook PC
Sorry for late response - holiday weekend.

I'm trying to setup the company very loosely to attract entrepreneurial developers. We have plain-english contracts in Google Docs that we jointly edit until we're both satisfied.

Since I've been responsible for all of our current product ideas, I'm entitled to a majority of the profit (usually 60%) but it's negotiated on a per-project basis. For example, one of our app's has a "web service" integrated into it hoping we can monetize on ads on backside traffic. Per $1 we decrease that products price, he gets an additional 10% of the ad revenue on said website. That said, I think you need to handle each product and developer on a case-by-case basis.

As long as the developer adequately stands behind the product with support and feature-add, then they get to keep their share. If they are not interested in supporting, adding features, or localizing the app for other countries -- then their profit decreases ~20% per additional developer required.

I also extend each developer the ability to publish through our company account on their own terms if they have an idea. Whether or not our company directly promotes their product(s) is up to me (and them).

Feel free to contact me if you have any additional questions.
"With more services offered through the Internet "cloud," a growing number of consumers are content to just browse, use social networking sites, e-mail and consume their favorite media on their laptop"
With a transfer cost of course :)
Otherwise you could misuse your karma to move your comments up all the while.
I don't have time to research all of the people that call themselves "scientists" that have invested in carbon credit companies. But, according to this: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=545... Al Gore "buys" his credits from a company he owns a financial stake in.

You're right, these predictions are going to change. They are going to change forever because there are infinitely many variables that go into the climate. For someone to take guesses at what the values are for 70 of them and call that model "science" is bull crap.
CL is pretty definitive, although walking around and looking for signs or working your network can yield results. If you have a smart HR department they're often helpful as well.

Especially in San Francisco it's going to be brutal and pretty much a full-time job. Keep a rental resume (metrorent app, credit report, letter of reference, etc) handy and try offering to pay the move-in cost on the spot if you fall in love with a place.

It's significantly easier to find a place if you're (a) willing to share an apt (there are tons of professional people around splitting fairly nice apartments) or (b) willing to live in a professionally-managed apartment complex/tower/whatever. If you go with an apt complex in SF, avoid Skyline/CitiApartments.
dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=369183
While going through some of the recent controversial threads on HN, I felt that something like this would be a nice thing:

When people mindlessly downmod some controversial but valid comment, some people who stand for free speech and connect with the validity of the comment might want to upmod it more than +1 and show their support. In such cases, the extra upmods should be in the form of karma transfer. It's analogous of throwing your reputation on the line and standing up for someone.
Version control for bills would be quite interesting.
Go away and post this on Digg or Reddit.
They didn't link to the same address as you, all are slightly different.
I think this is great. It is the right thing to do.
I love the fact that there are real life "sea monsters" that are yet to be discovered. A reminder that despite mankind's scientific achievements there is a multitude of unknowns for our children to explore.
Anyone doing anything with even a small connection to climate change would not have got funded without the bandwagon. Lots of scientific careers hinge on this gravy train.
http://liltompeep.com does just that with no sign-up whatsoever.
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Still not thankful for ZDNet.
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A Python replacement for PHP software ?
it better not have any internet/lan support ever... "runs everything in kernel mode and all applications have access to everything".. If I was a virus-programmer, my fingers would itch...
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Not only is this not hacker news, this is old news. It's been floating around Digg/Reddit for a month.
"[...] Vecchione suggests a feeding behavior that is more like trapping than hunting. He speculates that Magnapinna passively waits for prey to bump into the sticky appendages."

Fascinating, reminds me of barnacle monsters from Half-Life.
What SpaceX, Virgin Galactic etc. are doing with space tourism is great, but I reckon a lot of people would pay good money to see one of those up close (safely!).
It seems that the MySQL guys are working really hard to give a lot of people the excuse they were looking for to switch over to PostgreSQL.
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And at this point in the troll thread it's probably too late to point out that Al Gore has apparently gone out of his way to power his house with renewable energy. [1] Because, you know, of what use are facts in a character assassination?

But the point is that Al Gore is not advocating that you live like a hermit. He's advocating that hermits live like hermits on renewable power, that lawyers live like lawyers on renewable power, and that millionaires live like millionaires on renewable power. Which he does, to the extent that the infrastructure makes it easy. And then, because he's neither a back-to-nature homesteader nor a backyard engineer, he wisely invests his time and energy in what he is good at: lobbying for better infrastructure so that we can all create less CO2.

The irony is that if Al Gore did live like Saint Francis he would be less effective. He would be accused of being some kind of scary hippie socialist. That script is just sitting on the shelf waiting to be used. "What does Al Gore have against the average middle-class millionaire?" would be the cry. "He wants to force you to live like a hermit even after you make ten million dollars!" Or maybe they'd just make fun of his hair. That never gets old.

[1] Wikipedia entry on "Al Gore". I'm not about to descend farther into the research chain, dodging propaganda all the way. Talk about a waste of CO2. It's not like facts are going to do any good in this thread anyway.
I was just bringing up another argument, but let's play it out a bit.

Why would the temperature today be the best for the people? Is there something about the current temperature, or is it just any kind of change from the current temp would cause so much chaos as to outweigh any benefits?

I guess if you wanted what was best for people, you'd want the temp that had the most arable land, right?
"At Yahoo, we call it Progressive Layered Enhancement."

PLE! We have our catchy acronym :).

Good point about the security implications. That must be an integral part of any web application design methodology. For traditional kinds of desktop applications, that wasn't so much of a concern.

In my day job, we have a Java back end with a lot of user interaction implemented with Javascript in the browser. Data access server side stuff actually plays to a lot of Java's strengths, I think, and the more dynamic nature of Javascript is a good fit for DOM manipulation in the browser. I'm not sure I would want to pick one of them to run both places.
small correction: it's a bigfin squid not a giant squid.
The System Access fee is an outright fraud. If any other industry tried to do what the telcos did with the System Access fee they would be charged and convicted as criminals. In Canada the wireless cartel does whatever they want. They have a defacto oligopoly and are criminals in my mind.

more info: http://www.cbc.ca/consumers/market/files/services/cellphones...

Excerpt: "The verdict on the “system access fee”? It’s a made-up charge by the wireless companies disguised as a government fee – the only thing it accesses is your wallet."
Checks have a cost, for sure.
What about Eric Reis's split-testing axiom?
If in a startup the developer/coder is basically the customer of the enterprise because the cost of the check is paid by the rising frustration of the coder, then should split-testing be looked upon as a check?
Even if it is, the idea of an available metric to backup claims of efficacy is really compelling.
Gloriously impractical.
Worth reading for this single phrase: "Our approach is not to set a goal. Our approach has been to create the best physical model and let customers choose".
> Global warming may be true and deadly. But that still doesn't make it science.

What is science but the study of physical truth? Isn't the ultimate aim of science to be able understand the way the things work so that it is possible to project the conseqences of different actions into the future? Your position is irrational and stupid.
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I have been using Debian for a while now and love it, wondering what advantages Ubuntu may have over it?
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Through a poxy little screen. That's still the biggest turn-off for me.
Al Gore received the Nobel Peace Prize, not one of the scientific prizes. The Peace Prize is entirely political. Yasser Arafat (a famously corrupt and dishonest politician) also got one, so their standards are obviously not very high. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/
"However, the very same excellence in mentalism would make such psychotic savants much less noticeable than their autistic counterparts, whose deficits immediately identify them as odd, socially-isolated, and eccentric. Psychotic savants, by contrast, can be expected to be deeply embedded in successful social networks, and found at the centre of excellence in such things as religious and ideological evangelism; literary and theatrical culture; litigation and the law; hypnosis, faith-healing, and psychotherapy; fashion and advertising; politics, public-relations and the media; commerce, confidence-trickery, and fraud of all kinds."

This is scary.
Exactly! I didn't know it had a name.
If you're not interested in your coursework, perhaps you're pursuing the wrong degree. If you already know how to program you may want to consider economics or business.
The interviewer kept trying to get him to admit he was spreading himself thin. What gives?
The bug wasn't in Excel. It was Moody's own fault, not Microsoft's.
Most of us don't visit those sites. :)
P.S. In case you are atheist: if you can scientifically prove that Eternal Paradise does not exist, I'll be glad (or so) to hear from you!

(Side note: the current situation on our Planet is still that much more than 50% of currently living souls actually do believe in God/Good/Heaven/Paradise; and the already gone ones, actually already know exactly!)
Some of the changes are extremely important. For instance, Obama originally had this to say about forced labor:

Obama will call on citizens of all ages to serve America, by developing a plan to require 50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of community service in college every year.

Now all he says is this:

They'll [Obama and Biden] set a goal that all middle school and high school students engage in 50 hours of community service a year, and develop a plan for all college students who engage in 100 hours of community service to receive a fully-refundable tax credit of $4,000 for their education.

(Both from http://change.gov/americaserves)

There are major, substantial changes being made here. There is also obfuscation going on, as you see above. Knowledge of what he previously wrote clarifies what "set a goal" means. I think it's important for the American people to see this.
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Sure - it's an awesome story and more should do it, but you give the impression that manufacturing is more noble or meaningful than "mere symbol manipulation". Is software a "real, actual thing"? Is cancer research a "real, actual thing"? We can't all work in the industrial sector - nor should we.
I'm a 5th year at Georgia Tech graduating in 2 weeks. In a bit of a rush now, but feel free to email me (email in profile) if you have any questions about GT.
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Your analogy is close, but flawed. Instead, I suggest the following as an analogy for your argument:

Al Gore is arguing for an across the board tax increase. He thinks that everyone should pay more taxes. On the other hand, he's not donating his money to the government. If Al Gore really thought it was a good idea to raise taxes, wouldn't he pay them whether the government mandates it or not?

That illustrates more clearly the fact that action on global warming is collective, the same way that taxes are. In fact, you could probably implement action on global warming as a tax increase, by requiring people to purchase carbon credits. I hope you see why it's not required for you to donate extra money to the government in order to argue for a tax increase. Given that, I hope you see why it's not required for you to preemptively stop consuming carbon to argue for government action on global warming.
I never said the IPCC reports were peer reviewed, I said that report 1 on the science basis of climate change contains about 150 pages of references to peer-reviewed articles where the science is done, as a response to the comment about climate change researchers being in too much of a hurry to publish in peer-reviewed journals.

While we can argue about the process behind the IPCC reports, your link smells of paranoia to me. For one, those politicians voting include reps from the oil-producing Gulf states and to think that they would be predisposed to wanting the finding to be that oil is bad seems far-fetched to me. I'm sure the representatives for the U.S. government wasn't exactly pushing to acknowledge global warming either.

Besides, I must argue with the basic premise of your comment. The politicians are the ones who get things done, and in the end they, just like everyone else, will have to choose what conclusions to draw from the science. Given that the IPCC is at least made up by an assembly of scientists who are trying to synthesize and summarize a whole body of research for those politicians, I think that's about as good a process as one can imagine. It's certainly better than deciding, apparently on their own, that the science on global warming is inconclusive like a certain outgoing US administration appears to have done.