skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Still this paradox is too detached from reality, maybe for its time it was smart. How can we know what is the chance of universe create brain and how many brains there will be per universe? How can we know that universe fluctuation is less likely than brain fluctuation? without this numbers we know nothing.

Universe filled with many brains fluctuation can be more simple than brain fluctuation. Fluctuations may also happen in environment that doesn't even have atoms that are needed for brain , but will have atoms that are needed for universe. Maybe this atoms needed for brain can only be created by universe fluctuation.

If we assume all this unknowns and create our imaginary universe yes there can be more brains in it than universes.
I am a pretty bitter idealist who is currently homeless and trying to declare bankruptcy. I have an incurable genetic disorder, as does my 24 year old son. We figured out how to get well. I would love to offer alternatives but damn few people care or are interested.

I also worked for an insurance company for five years. So I have an insider's view of that aspect of it as well. I don't think our current system works. But it has inertia on its side.
If you're against wealth redistribution (or whatever they like to call it), just come right out and say it.

Yes, that is my point. If you're sick that doesn't give you a unilateral claim to take other people's money. In fact this story is a pretty good example: He got healthcare way beyond what a sane government program would mandate (held his job for a full year, paid for an MRI etc). And it was paid for "socially".

But it is a fact that healthcare's a lot cheaper mostly anywhere besides the US of A.

Yes, the US healthcare system is screwed up. But I don't understand the knee-jerk "universal healthcare" reactions.
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Here are two sets of links/conversations (note that they're all on the "how to boot up/run computer" end vs the "how to boot up/run computer in javascript end")

http://reddit.com/r/programming/comments/f26tu/how_to_write_...

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/f2pnt/write_you...
I think that Python Koans[1] may be useful for you - I learned some non-obvious features of language from them.

[1] https://github.com/gregmalcolm/python_koans
I'll bet he was referring to code he wrote himself. It's slightly more complicated (pun intended) when it's someone else's code you are negating.
Nop of course not. You can check the sources to be sure that Gmvault is only talking to Gmail. You can also use XOAuth (token security mechanism) to allow Gmvault accessing your account. This is by the way the recommended authentication way.
Installing Clojure is pretty easy (http://clojure.org/getting_started) and you can get far with the REPL. After you've played around a bit, you will probably starting using lein (like maven/ant, but for Clojure), which handles REPL startup, dependency management, JAR building, etc.

For IDEs, I really like IntelliJ + the La Clojure plugin. Many of my coworkers us Emacs + Swank/SLIME. I'm not an emacs user and don't know much about that setup, but it's a very popular setup.

A book that I liked a lot is Clojure in Action (http://www.amazon.com/Clojure-Action-Amit-Rathore/dp/1935182...). I've also heard that The Joy of Clojure is excellent, but it's more appropriate after you're already comfortable with Clojure.

As for online resources, I've found https://github.com/functional-koans/clojure-koans to be very useful. You can clone the project, which consists of a lot of "fill-in-the-blank" unit tests. The tests are designed to teach you the common functions and data structures available in Clojure.
What you are describing sounds like my 5 year-old HP DV9000. The keyboard & track-pad were surprisingly of very high quality, very close to that of Apple's IMO.

Too bad though the hardware & chasis design of the product line was extremely shoddy & defective; if the notebook didn't fry itself so often it probably would've been noticed more.
You're mostly right, kind of. I'm going to try and explain this, but it's not particularly easy. The confusion comes from both the nature of the "fair use" defense and the collision of legal vocabulary and common language.

Fair use is an affirmative defense, which means that even if a violation occurred in a strict sense, that violation is excusable. It's not an "I didn't do it" argument, it's an "I shouldn't be punished because..." argument. Self-defense is a textbook example of an affirmative defense -- strictly speaking, I would violate the law by intentionally injuring or killing someone, but I can argue that I was defending myself.

The question of an affirmative defense is not even relevant until there is a prima facie case showing violation, and often the fact-finder (jury or, in a bench trial, the judge) will actually find all the facts necessary for a judgement that infringement occurred before addressing the question of fair use, partly because the answers to many questions of fact for infringement are relevant to whether "fair use" holds.

In the end, you do end up with a judgement that no infringement occurred, but along the way, you often end up with findings of fact that do spell out a "violation".
That's over the course of the whole run; accordingly the average expected value of $1 spent on the Michigan lottery would be $.58 if you bought a ticket for every game every week. But you don't do that. Some weeks the jackpot is higher so you buy a ticket, some weeks you don't. When the jackpot is higher, the EV for that week rises, but since the lottery itself plays every week it doesn't matter so much to them.
I really hope they succeed, simply because there are a ton of developers employed by them in Chicago. If they go under it's going to be bad news for the local developer ecosystem.
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I will take that as a compliment. Yes files are all stored individually as .eml file. All the extra Gmail info (labels, ...) goes in .meta
Outside of prisons, people generally spend their own money at privately-owned grocery stores and restaurants. We don't use a "universal food access" system paid for by tax dollars and negotiated by the government.
Google believes that Napoleon is 242 years old. Google this.
Strictly speaking, wouldn't it be
GoogleGuilty = GoogleViolatedCopyright && !GoogleHasFairUse && ApiCopyrightable

In the sense that false short-circuits anything to the right, and ApiCopyrightable is only a factor if Google is held to have violated copyright under the assumption that Apis can be copyrighted.
Here the obligatory screenshot: http://img571.imageshack.us/img571/5017/napoleon.png

By the way, chapeau. Their "semantic search", "instant answers", "zero click" (call it as you like) is impressive.

EDIT: I did like this one: https://www.google.com/search?q=jesus+age , 2016. Apparently Christ was born 4 years before Christ (I knew there are historian who supports that Jesus wasn't born exactly in the year 0, but it always amuzes me)
There have been enough comments on what this means, whats going to happen next, etc. Something that is bothering me. Juries are meant to infuse some common reasoning into the law. And still, you get decisions like this:

The rangeCheck method in TimSort.java and ComparableTimSort.Java YES, infringing....
> Not everything on the web needs to be 'beautiful'.

Is there anything in nature that isn't beautiful? Beauty comes from the optimal intersection of form and function; in nature, this balance is reached through evolution. That's what we should be striving for.
Yup, and it doesn't work on my ASUS Eee netbook. Result is that I can read Twitter, but I can't tweet or reply when I'm computing on the move. Once again an "update" has rendered an existing system unoperable.

It looks like I'm going to have to write my own Twitter client, if I have the time. Maybe I should just call this a great time saver.

Also, here's the announcement: http://blog.twitter.com/2012/05/new-standard-for-mobile-web....
Read the book. Good stuff. I really liked the format.
Sometimes it works for me sometimes not. Sometimes drinking water will cure it or just taking deep breaths and contracting / relaxing diaphragm and stomach muscles cures it. Also having someone sneak up behind you and scaring the crap out of you can do it sometimes.
I have to agree with the first point of the article regarding 'Invite Only' - this has been one of the biggest headaches in all of the projects I've been involved in. It seems there is little to gain in preventing people to sign up with your app. It doesn't seem to increase interest for users and, in all reality, denying access when the visitor is ready to sign up is just not smart. Numbers count; 10,000 potential users doesn't seem to be as strong a number as 1,000 actual users.
Casinos will comp you a room, meals, drinks if you gamble just the right amount, and it's sometimes possible to get +EV once you factor the "value" of these things into account. No card counting required.
king tut age = about 3353 years (1341 BC)
> Also, all the money that gets paid out by the state has to be paid in first by taxpayers. Moving responsibility to the state doesn't magically make health care cheaper, or free. On average, the taxpayers are still paying for all their health care.

US pays more state money to health care than other nations, yet has much worse health outcomes.
Appreciate you sharing. It's always helpful to see a little bit of data on results, instead of just hype.
We're seeing similar results in our very different (and less appropriate)field at RentShare.
mbsync is a IMAP sync tool. Gmvault is a dedicated Gmail tool so it preserves all Gmail specific attributes like the labels, ... and allow you to restore all your emails in a Gmail account. With mbsync you might be able to upload your emails on a gmail account but you would then loose lots of information and your restored gmail account would be end up being very different.
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That's interesting. Is this view shared by other YC Partners?
You could still prove some estimates of probabilities of the outcomes given reliability of the connection and such. It still can be mathematically interesting.
Yes. If gimp uses Qt, I would use it also.
You don't have any system of food-vouchers or welfare stamps?
> I see but does the fact that the judge told them to assume so indicate something about what he thinks about it?

There are a couple reasons he may have done this - one is that the jury could have found for Google on fair use, rendering Alsup's decision on API copyright unnecessary. He gets to avoid making a potentially far reaching decision.

The second is if he rules against API copyright, and is overruled on appeal, then there doesn't need to be a second jury trial, since the jury already assumed API was copyrightable.
Thanks for the responses.

I took fortran in college (I'm really not that old, 27). I'm really interested in doing something with photography... not sure what exactly yet.
> Cross-browser compatibility is often the reason "good code" turns into messy code!

I think that too depends on how you code it. You can code mechanics, or you can code logic (quoting an earlier blogpost title which was also on HN).

var hr = new httprequest(); //Where the httprequest function is defined elsewhere

versus 10 lines of code right here to support all browsers since IE5 or so. This might be even more readable as when you'd only write it for one browser.

(I couldn't think of a similar example in css.)
The U.S. has foodstamps, WIC,* and other programs to help feed the poor.

* Women, Infant, Children. It is a supplemental nutrition program.
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I think if they charge photoshop for $100, I will buy it the next second and their overall profit will up.
Try writing a blog post about it and submit again (preferably later at night, when there's less competition.)

Also, "Show HN" seems to get a better response than other alternatives.
Hmmm .. "devops" angle .. "developer profiles" .. these things don't seem necessary.
If its vertical resolution is lower than 900 pixels I can't take it seriously as a laptop designed for developers.
Sports become far more enjoyable when you bet on them.
Most banks (CIBC, RBC and TD) have their investment vehicles. Be prepared to pay as much as $40 commission per trade + 1-3 cent per stock. Look into this option if you already use online banking and like to keep your investment aligned with everything else.

otherwise, look at discount brokerages like Questtrade(Toronto based) and eTrade to execute orders. $9 per trad.
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Hi,

Nice one. What about using other data sources? What geo-coding is used in this sample?
I completely agree. If this is true then it's fascinating how incorrect and inefficient the justice system works.
American lotteries give the option of paying in a lump sum.
Thanks for the answer! The pricing on clutch.io's homepage looks good, I was worried it would get a pricing like parse.com that is in my opinion quite expensive per API call.
There are some Good Parts to C99/C11, most of them adopted from Unix and Plan 9. Not surprisingly, most of the bad parts are all inventions.

Read the link to dmr's comment again. His argument wasn't so much that noalias was specified incorrectly, it was that the whole idea of adding any kind of alias specifier to the language is against the spirit of C. I agree, and apparently so did the C++ committee. If you want to write FORTRAN, write a FORTRAN spec. Leave C alone.
Some of them are already in MSVC.
Oddly, I find your one-liner more readable than the parent's. Probably because I don't know when to follow the English grammar or the pseudocode grammar.
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It's just about meaningless until after the appeals.
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I agree that all your points are far more important than whatever image is pre-loaded.

At the very least a laptop designed for developers ought to keep the Insert/Home/PageUp + Delete/End/PageDown cluster in the normal formation, like Thinkpads do.

We are typists before we are programmers, and software is something we do have control over. Dell should be fretting over the things we don't have the ability to change on a lark.
Would love to see Etherpad integrated into this or the other way around! Awesome :)
Thanks for the awesome answer. My girlfriend and my weekend are not pleased with you but I'm pretty excited to explore this. Thanks again!
That's not the marginal cost per plane, because that amortizes the cost of R&D over the current production run. If you ordered more F-22's, they would cost far less since the R&D is already done.
Surprising that no one corrected her about "Zuckerberg owning 57% of the company", but I guess it's a) not that important and b) rude to correct the host. (I think he only has about 28% but controls 57% of the voting stock).
> Even Sequoia, which seems to have a golden halo around here, had the partners pony up funds in order to keep some funds positive.

Can you clarify what you mean here? Adding capital to a fund doesn't impact the return of the fund. And separately, I think you're factually wrong. (aside, I'm an entrepreneur funded by sequoia)
I've done things like this, (spent just about time+money on a small campaign). I didn't document my findings like this, which was a great idea. I'd love to see more experiments in the future!
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Thanks for the support. I am not a designer, I am not working full time on this product and my free time is quite limited. Still I spent lots of time designing the logo. I kind of like it as it is very simple and tells you what the product is. Regarding the website, yes I used bootstrap because it is convenient and give you a good modern look quickly. I am not a web designer and didn't want to spend 60% of my project time on that part. For the moment I prefer to spend more time on the tool itself.

If somebody wants to help to improve the website and the documentation please contact me.
SocialCam should be renamed ScumbagCam
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Reply to the edit - I agree, we'll be less brazen with the next announcement. Thanks for the earnest feedback, we'll use it to iterate on our style.
It worked out fine in Iraq, people just didn't think it was worth the cost and the occupation took longer than people expected.
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I like these lights, but it is important to note the 'CRI' or (Color Rendering Index). This light has it at 80, that means that 80% of the colors you might expect to find in white light are in this light. Further you don't know which 20% are missing.

What that means is that when you use these lights for general purpose lighting, that rug you picked out because it went well with the couch? Well it may suddenly look horrible. Sort of the 'your car color is horrible under a sodium light' effect.

Being aware of that will help you avoid an expensive mistake.

If someone enterprising soul out there wants to make a really cool iPhone App I suggest they use the camera to snap a picture of a color chart standard illuminated by one of these bulbs, and then let you take pictures of your room and have them try to figure out what it would look like with the new bulbs. (Note you need both, the CRI of the lights currently being used and the CRI of the LED bulb to completely figure this out)
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I'm not seeing any mention of an SSD on the page I'm looking at:

http://imgur.com/JjneQ
I've had the opposite experience with working at home vs working in a shared space. I was much, much more productive working at home (having a 'home office', aka a room with a desk and no tv was key) but I am far happier working out of a shared space where I have other humans to bond with (and whom I have become close friends with). On balance, moving into a shared space has been a great decision but I do sometimes miss the ruthless productivity that came from having absolutely zero distractions.
What makes you think that will change if the government mandates that everyone pay in to the broken system?
Awesome! We have a similar service at www.ClientBiller.com that allows you to use your paypal, authorize.net, google checkout, and moneybookers accounts.
I'm always interested/a little depressed when I see Europeans telling Stripe to hurry up and get there. I've seen this comment many times now but have never come across a European saying "Will someone hurry up and do a Stripe here in Europe!?" I think if folks in the US saw a great European service that - due to regulatory issues - just couldn't also be available here in the U.S. there wouldn't be a lot of sitting around and waiting and hoping......Or maybe I'm reading way too much into this.
At least they centered the touchpad and set the keyboard so I can touch type from a center position (no numeric keypad).
LPs need a two-tiered investing model. It's true, outside of the very few top performers, everyone else is a loser. Unfortunately, once in a while, a loser, or more likely, a new fund hits a home run. They should have a portion allocated to investing in new funds with less capital at risk.

The 2 and 20 is also only a problem for bigger funds. For smaller funds ($40mm for instance), it's not really an issue. Assuming two partners, that's $250k annually for each, leaving 300k for office and misc expenses. Not getting "VC rich" with those kinds of dollars. It's when a 2 and 20 fund raises a 500mm or 1b fund that the 2 and 20 causes the base salary to be excessive.
size_ is an amazingly terrible variable name, especially in a scope that also contains size. It's a little bit surprising to me that an open source project with node's visibility has code written that way.
The key observation here is that you're much likely to see false positives coming from the implausible than from the plausible. This is simple statistics -- if p=.05, that means there's a 5% chance that "no effect" would be mistaken for "effect". In cases where there should be no effect (prior probability near 0), 5% of the time you'll get a false positive and almost 0% of the time you'll get a real positive. In cases where it's plausible there could be a real effect (say, prior probability 50%), you'll get false positives only 2.5% of the time (5% of the 50% there isn't an effect) to go with 50% real positives.

Thus, the argument goes, in order to reduce the ratio of false positives to real signal, we should require more signal from implausible experiments. That is, we should make the required p value scale with the prior probability. This is a form of bias, but it's a very appropriately scientific form of bias -- bias based on evidence rather than error-prone forms of cognition. (This is simply a statistical reframing of the statement "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence".)
Hmm, are those values synchronous, though? Maybe an event-based architecture is a better model, though I don't really understand how the law works.
An etherpad running on on Cloudfuji, or integrated into Kandan?

We're dying for a Sharejs-based etherpad app on Cloudfuji, but all things in due time :)
Uuuuh I think there is scale issue. This is an open source tool that I am willing to support. I do not intend to create a start-up here.
Still you are right and I will reference bootstrap.
I use them constantly but almost always BRE. And I'm still discovering new tricks using only BRE. I guess I'm too dumb to use anything more clever. I'll never be a Larry Wall. I still feel I have more to learn just on the level of BRE. I still think there are more hidden gems.

A lot of developers seem to have a serious disdain for anything that might be construed as the "lowest common denominator". I don't get it.

Somehow I find a tremendous versatility in the LCD. It works in so many environments. I can rely on it to work, no matter what the size of the input.

But then, if you go buy a book on RE, what do you get? An explanantion of the most ridiculously complex and difficult to maintain RE. As if the author is just showing off.

Mastery of the basics is too boring I guess. Too simple.
The Jury isn't actually deciding all that much here, especially considering their non-answer to the Fair Use question. The Judge gave them generous instructions, including the stipulation that APIs are covered by copyright, in order to try and limit the potential for a mistrial. He still has to make the ruling on whether APIs(Or some definition of an APIs SSO...) are indeed covered by copyright, which is the crux of the case.

It doesn't sound like he'll be making that ruling until at least midway through this month.

Edit: I'm not sure mistrial is precisely what I mean. Maybe just re-trial? Any clarification would be appreciated.
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I'm surprised they think developers would be interested in this. Having worked with Dell in IT, you couldn't pay me to use anything they put their name on. Dell have a bad reputation in both hardware and peopleware, and it's well deserved.