skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In response to this movement, the editors of Nature defend the value they add to the scientific process as follows: "[publishing original research requires us to] undertake careful assessment of scientific significance, and the refereeing stage involves much deliberation, occasional debate and revisions that significantly enhance the robustness and scientific impact of the paper".[1]

In other words, the editors of a respected scientific journal are openly admitting they would rather have all critical assessments, deliberations, debates, and revisions take place behind closed doors instead of out in the open, where it would benefit society the most! They don't see that they are reducing societal welfare!

I suspect the folks at Elsevier and the like are rationalizing their outdated business models with similarly flawed, self-serving logic. What a shame.

[1] http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v481/n7382/full/481409a...
>A virus that the hardware it's shipped with cannot execute. You have to take the CF card out of it, stick it into your Windows machine...This isn't very newsworthy I'm afraid.

The fact that any potentially malicious software shipped on hardware (whether or not it directly affects the hardware it was shipped on) is indeed newsworthy and should be a red flag for HP's current and potential customers.

This was obviously a breach in security somewhere along the line and hopefully it will soon be fixed and steps are taken to prevent future issues.
Or to put the problem of inequality another way:

Some people have lots of money and thereby the ability to manipulate lawmakers and media to control me. I no longer have the ability to make any money. I do not have the ability to make those people give me their money. I am screwed.
I agree that, when we are talking about high-level languages, I prefer ones that will transparently convert integers to bignum when required. I'm just replying to the contention that (paraphrased) "this is a bug in PHP's handling of floating point numbers".
Hi pbhjpbhj!

Thanks for pointing that out!

It is legal and very common. It is done simply to limit the liability in unforeseen events. Some courts can throw this point out during the case, some may adhere to that. But most terms on the Internet would include it "just in case".

And no, we won't duplicate customers' works and such — we have build it for photographers, and we are photographers ourselves. We care about that stuff.

- Evgeny Tchebotarev,
COO, 500px
I learned my multiplication table in Chinese (mother tongue), which was way easier when every line has the exact number of syllables (4), almost like a poem. I believe I was taught at school in grade 1 or 2 back then, but I (and most other people) had it memorized at an earlier age. It's easy enough to "teach" my 3-year-old just by reciting it in front of him.

Memorizing multiplication table in English is a lot less intuitive, which I attribute to many people's disdain (or pure hatred, depending on whom you ask) of it.

I'm all for teaching a man to fish, but if he's starving at this moment, save him now by giving him the fish fish first before teaching. A dead man doesn't do much learning.

As for my son, he hasn't learned the multiplication table yet, but he's always interested to have us repeat it to him. (Ah, the curious minds of 3-year-olds.) In a few years, once he has learned the concept of multiplication, it'll be easier for him to apply it for the rest of his life if he has the table memorized. Before that time comes, the table is nothing but nursery rhyme to him. And that's fine with me.
Why you shouldn't invite Yehuda Katz to your user group meeting
You guys are brilliant!! Absolutely love this idea!! Every child deserves the best opportunities to learn, and this #Op will help tremendously!! Love you all!! :)
Gotta love the fact that you download the app and can't even sign up!

Yes, I entered my email to be on the beta waitlist, but why release a mobile app that can't be used?

Then again, with Dropbox, Sugarsync & Pogoplug I probably don't need yet another cloud storage provider..
"Intolerable for real-world use. A toy language. Alas, PHP, we hardly knew you..."

Have you been out on the internet the past decade? Do you have a tendency to make extremities of things and trying to stand the needle on its tip?
Nope, I do not agree with the main premise. The article's point is that there are going to be less and less jobs because of productivity and innovation in the world of machines and computing. I do not believe it's that simple and straightforward. Rather, there will be more opportunities to exploit in a more connected world, and therefore more chances to make a living. The people who were operating phones before it was fully automated went on to do other jobs after. There are lot of conversions going around, and people learning skills on their own, trying to get to better jobs, to better situations. Nothing is static !
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To understand what really motivates people, it's much better to look at what they do in the real world. Sure, there have always been women getting CS degrees, but how many of them go out and become programmers or tinker with technology, electronics and hardware late at night because they want to? The people who do that have been the engines behind technological advancement and growth throughout human history. And they've been mostly males. Saying that men tend to be more interested in technology than women doesn't mean that women's interest in CS is purely fixed. It just means that there will always be statistically more males tinkering with technology than females. And those statistical disparities will always ensure that the majority of tech-heavy, companies, and inventions will be led by men.
I don't mean discussing it, I mean that doing it would be. In particular, it seems like a dramatic length to me because an outside entity would never be able to tell the difference between your theoretical swap and a 'standard' upload/copy in terms of the resulting individual. The only difference would be that the person would go into it perhaps more confident that his ego wouldn't 'die'.

But no, I don't agree with you that humans' desire to live is any more real or special than a lizard's, or a tree's, or a rock's desire not to break apart for that matter. It's a natural extension of physical laws combined with the circumstances of our evolution as a system--in this case linked directly to our basest subconscious instincts. To say that your desire to live is fundamentally stronger or more complicated than that of a deer reeks of geocentrism of the ancient world to me.
They actually mention this in the "drawbacks" section of the project page:

>Won't protect against Man-in-the-middle attacks (eg. javascript substitution)

I think it is pretty much the case that anything that works as man-in-the-middle will also work if an endpoint is compromised.
Technology hasn't killed jobs YET.
As with everything in OSM, it depends on which country you are talking about. For example, I believe in (at least some areas of) France the outline of every building has been imported from a high quality government source with address data yet the roads still have to be drawn in from satellite photos or GPS traces.

The US is the home base of Google (amongst other big name tech companies) but it's OSM data is amongst the worst. This is ironic as much of the open data used to map the rest of the world was provided by the US government e.g. NASA radar topography and Landsat photos.

But for the lower level data the best source (often the definitive source e.g. for administrative boundaries that aren't physically present on the ground) is government data, so the quantity and quality of data varies as you cross state (and sometimes county) lines.
Or something that would have to fit in 500px in 12px Helvetica, Arial.
That would be quite nice actually. Our TOS or EULA is about 3 paragraphs, and that's it.
Qlobe, a ruby quine with a rotating globe
"what if gnu/linux or the idea it represents would have never existed?"

Then we would most likely be using some BSD variant. Oh, wait .. I am!
Same issue here, running on Ubuntu 11.10, Firefox V 11.0
Whats wrong with doing both? 2%, 1% to a charity of the business founder's choice, because according to you own arguments an individual has the choice to do what he wants with his money. Which includes and should not be limited to the donations of their own money to a charity of their own choosing. Then who knows, they could give another 1% as bonuses to the employees that helped execute and support his/her vision.

The point being, you can't say a business is just an individual or group of individuals running a company, insist that they shouldn't do with their money what they want, then continue on to say that your argument is based off of letting people be free to do what they want. It's a bit contradictory if you think about it. I figure they can do whatever they want, it's their company.
You're right, there are many alternatives but the ability of sharing for free if you use peer to peer only and the possibility of using folders with their original structure seem nice (if they work!)
There's always Calibre[1], but it's really bloated. It's a very powerful and capable ebook management system though, it's just not really Mac-ish.

Adobe has a very good ePub reader, called 'Adobe Digital Editions'[2] that runs on Mac, Windows and (I assume) Linux. It's an Adobe Flash/Air application and is much prettier than Calibre. If you don't mind Flash on your mac (I gave up last year), It's currently the best choice.

[1]: http://calibre-ebook.com/

[2]: http://www.adobe.com/products/digitaleditions/

[edit] No, there's no Linux version. You can use it with WINE though; use the instructions here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=701191
From wikipedia:

"The Luddite events of 1811 were the beginning of humankind's analysis of whether it is possible for technological unemployment to be other than temporary and confined to particular industries and firms. Contrary to the Luddites' fears, technological advancement did not ruin Britain's economy or systemically lower standards of living throughout the following decades of the 19th century. In fact, during the 19th and 20th centuries, the opposite happened, as technology helped Britain to become much less impoverished than before. For this reason, most economists think that the general Luddite premise is fundamentally fallacious, and thus they apply the term Luddite fallacy to it. Economist Alex Tabarrok summarises the neoclassical presentation of the possible fallacy as such:

If the Luddite fallacy were true we would all be out of work because productivity has been increasing for two centuries."

But the Luddites then, and their modern equivalents, are making an emotional argument not a rational one. Their emotion is very real, they do not see how their particular job goes forward, and in a society where one's job is an often integral to one's identity, that is a very threatening thing indeed.
A female population of 52.5% explains the effect for dating, but not for founding companies. The difference is because it's the surplus that matters for dating but the entire population for founding.

Suppose that 42.5% of the population are women in a marriage or committed relationship, and then by definition 42.5% are also committed men. That leaves 10% of the population as single females and 5% as single males, and there's your 2:1 ratio for dating, created by just the small female surplus.

Would that hold for founding companies? I don't think so. Any of the 52.5% females could start a business, as could any of the 47.5% males. The small excess of women doesn't create a 2:1 ratio here. (There may be some correlation, that married and settled women are less likely to start a business, but the population ratio can't explain the entire outcome.)
Cubby - a Dropbox clone by LogMeIn
> Intolerable for real-world use. A toy language. Alas, PHP, we hardly knew you...

I'm sorry, I would like that to be true, but programmers rarely are half as smart as they think they are. We have many more years of PHP and its resulting insanity ahead of us.
During the past industrial revolutions manual jobs were replaced by automation so workforce kept on moving to industries requiring basic brain power.This was the best fit as most people can function and use their brain at basic level.

This time it may be different as most of such jobs will be eliminated so only a very small percentage of people may remain employable.
Want and need are two very different things.
I didn't invent anything. Those are national statistics:

WHAT POOR OWN
Although people often equate poverty with material hardship, studies have shown that people in poverty often have a variety of major appliances and entertainment and informational equipment.

The chart shows the percentage of people in poverty who own major consumer goods and appliances.

Goods; Percentage
Homes, 46
Car or truck, 72.8
Two or more cars or trucks, 30.2
Refrigerator, 98.9
Clothes washer, 64.7
Clothes dryer, 55.6
Dishwasher, 33.9
Garbage disposal, 29.7
Microwave, 73.3
Color television, 97.3
Two or more color TVs, 55.3
Cable or satellite TV, 62.6
Large screen TV, 25.3
VCR or DVD, 78.0
Two or more VCRs or DVDs, 25.3
Stereo, 58.6
Telephone answering machine, 35.3
Cell phone, 26.8
Computer, 24.6
Internet access, 18

Source: U.S. Department of Commerce, American Housing Survey

---

this is from 2006 so you should expect the mobile phone and internet access ratio to be on the significant rise.
Hi - I see you're back again with a new ID. I suspect mquaes got banned for submitting lots and lots and lots of very similar items - all blogspam.

So just to let you know, I've noticed that it's you, and I'll continue to flag things on HN that I think don't really belong. After the first few, that was pretty much all of your previous postings.

I really hope you contribute useful, interesting and on-topic material.
Microsoft can keep selling Windows and Xbox in Germany, US court rules
The data above doesn't support that - there's only about a 2% difference.
Although boys have outperformed girls in exams in maths at 16 here in the UK for the last three years, girls had outperformed boys at maths for the decade before that.

You're not arguing that men and women are "just a bit different" so much as you're arguing that people should conform to gender roles which don't necessarily apply.

What about gay people in tech - Peter Thiel, Tim Cook, Ben Ling? Shouldn't they have been playing with Barbie dolls, or My Little Pony or whatever at a young age too?
I've been learning SuperCollider for a month or so. It's a weird but very interesting and powerful language. Got some of the nice elements of Ruby : lambda functions, live coding, etc. with realtime goodness.

Overtone is a Clojure port of SC, but since I don't know Clojure, I chose to learn SC language directly (and the community is very good).

Would love to have a Ruby port of SC though!
It checks for the referer to avoid inline linking[0], so this won't affect GitHub Pages.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inline_linking
He said that they had 2 engineers in 2010, 3 engineers in 2011, and 5 engineers 2012, but only 2.5 backend engineers.

I'm surprised that the number of engineers is so low, considering that they had 15 employees.

Maybe the figures above don't include mobile engineers? But then what would the other 2.5 be doing?

Thanks to Instagram and AirBnb for putting this on. It was an amazing event.
Atmosphere .9: Tomcat/GlassFish WebSocket, Netty Framework, Hazelcast, JQuery
http://planscope.io is Backbone with a ton of customization
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i made a chatroom implementation on exactly the same principal a few years ago using long polling. the password to the chatroom served as the client-side encryption/decryption key, the encryption algo was AES and a random IV per word.

here is the algo i was using for the client-side enc/dec.

http://www.myersdaily.org/joseph/javascript/alphac.html
The story you read about Feynman is this one: http://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-connection-machine...

I remember seeing a program that would output Haskell functions given just their type signatures. If you think of type signatures as invariants, this is exactly what drostie described. Alas my Google-fu was unable to find a reference to it.
Why iPhone Users Hate Mobile WiFi Slightly Less Than Android Users Do
I'm glad to hear this. The sexism in SF/SV is one of the major reasons I moved away.
80% of humans are delusionally optimistic, says science
Not necessarily, I work with companies that utilize philanthropy as a way to market to the locals. It's a sort of, "Look guys, come here, we give back to our community." and it seems to work rather well.
Ah, point taken, sorry about that. :)
.tar.gz: https://github.com/addyosmani/backbone-fundamentals/tarball/...
.zip: https://github.com/addyosmani/backbone-fundamentals/zipball/...
Zip: https://github.com/addyosmani/backbone-fundamentals/zipball/...
So, these answers made sense to me at first, but then I thought some more and now they no longer do.

The problem with the usefulness of the Alice-Bob system is that there are two variable pieces of information: c and the classical bits.

Is there a mechanism with which we can control entanglement with qubit c so that only one agreed upon classical bits key, say 00, is the standard and correct key?

This reduces the Alice-Bob system to only having one variable, c, and enables instantaneous communication at a distance.

If Alice is on Earth and Bob on a spaceship, each having their respective qubits, an entanglement control mechanism, and an agreed upon key, then they can entangle other qubits for communication to their hearts' content and receive that information instantaneously.

I think I need to read more about quantum computing now.
The gem has a configurable --max-failures option that can be passed to failover daemon. The daemon will only mark a node as being unreachable if it fails to ping that amount of times (default 3). This might be something that can be improved too, but it was meant to avoid false positives.
Australia vs. Apple: Take two on e-book price fixing
I'd be pleasantly surprised if the Judge took the "basically" column as the legal interpretation.

I would be very surprised if their legal department thought the "basically" column was a good idea. They can say that it isn't legally binding, but that claim isn't ... err... legally binding. Everything written in a contract is equally binding, and the proximity and one-to-one mapping could make the summary column part of the contract. If either party is surprised by conflicting claims, it will be up to the judge to decide which parts of the contract are stronger.

The "basically" column is a really bad idea. The "full" column should stand on its own. If they think it is too complicated, it should be simplified.
I've converted it to Mobi if anybody wants it:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/24776084/backbone-fundamentals.mobi
You could use strcmp like you're supposed to I suppose, or ===.
Reading this just reminds me how awful the state of copyright is. We need a new way for producers of images (and any other digital art for that matter) to make money.
I am not insisting on anything. Rather you are insisting that I am insisting. Company owners can and will do what they want - but I personally am not a fan of businesses giving to charity for reasons I have outlined. That does not mean I would ban or villify businesses for giving to charity.

There is also something of a power gap between employees and company owners that you don't seem to recognize. An employee giving some of his money to his favoured charity is not the same as a company owner giving 1% of his company to a charity.
I saw no overlap in the demos. What did you see as overlap?
I wanted more control over the camera than phonegap allows, so I jumped to native.
> Most dramatic example comes from going from 6 billion to 7 billion in just 10 years or so. We still don't have dramatic increase in unemployment that reflect this whopping 1 billion increase.

I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, but please realise that most of those 1 billion new people were born to China, India, and developing nations, where there is, indeed, massive unemployment.
thanks for the hints :D
Updated the app today, and it's now available to members of any bank - I think this is a big step forward in UK banking.

Am also that much closer to not needing to carry around cash anymore. This makes asking for, and paying back mates that much easier, debts can finally be settled immediately!
This is interesting!

It really is true that if you have an idea there is already someone also working on it. I have been putting together something very similar and I'm just days away from launching it. I just set up the server last night. I will have to get it up ASAP now. Fortunately its a little different to this but built on a very similar concept.
I'm working on http://www.textdropapp.com
What's going on in the WordPress economy?
To your last point, at the same time, the amount of power people have on their HANDS is now larger than ever. In the future, I imagine that you may not need to look for an employer, rather find a way to employ yourself with all the tools available to you.
> This is the danger of having a 'test org' separate from the 'dev org'.

I completely agree with you, in light of how MSFT categorizes their ICs these days. There used to be three test/dev disciplines when I started (in 2001): "Software Test Engineers", "Software Development Engineers in Test", and "Software Development Engineers" (you likely know this already, but it might be useful history for others to know). Around 8-9 years ago the STE discipline disappeared; the company hired for SDETs (like yourself) from that point on.

The big loss here was that now all STEs were expected to be SDETs - writing code on a regular basis to test the application. There were (notice the past tense) many STEs who knew our application very* very well, and knew how to break it, hard. STEs provided quality feedback at a higher level than what a unit test provides - does the application feel right? Are customers getting their solutions solved? If you have your eyeballs stuck inside a unit test it's difficult to step 30 feet back and ask yourself if you're even doing the right thing.

Nowadays I feel like the pendulum is slowly swinging back the other way, and there is less drive to have test write automation (and maybe it is because where we are in the product cycle). I understand that high-level STEs "back in the day" were probably concerned about potential career progression at the time, which might be why they eliminated STEs (I have no idea of the real reasons - they've been lost to Outlook's mailbox size limits), but all-in-all I think MSFT is poorer because of it.
State Of The Internet 2011
What about this one? http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/12/sonys-149-smartwatch-finall...
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I feel like I miss out on a lot of interesting talk videos because I simply cannot stand this kind of phone-camera-in-the-audience execution. I can barely hear these people's muffled voices over the sound of the background hiss.

I mean, someone took the time to put beginning music and titles on this, so why not actually, you know, mic the speaker?
I've not used it, but http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/kitabu/id492498910?mt=12
looks nice, and it's free.
Court rules former Goldman Sachs programmer did not violate federal theft law
They offer free housing and food (plus the tax structure is totally different etc.) so it isn't a direct comparison (but still a big difference).
The "basically" parts don't cover even 10% of the actual terms. As others have said, there are tons of restrictive language in there that are not even hinted at under basically.