skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could be the time of day, day of week. It could also be the more recent movements of stock prices setting a context where this is more interesting to people (a number of articles on Facebook prices in just the last few days). Who knows?
I started writing about the benefits (and challenges) of having many more women in the batch (while simultaneously growing by 2.5x), but I felt the post was already way too long.

I hope to write a separate post on the subject before too long (maybe in September, after this batch ends and I have a bit more time).
Of course rockets are single use.

Actually one of the design goals for SpaceX is to develop reusable rockets. According to Elon in an ideal world, this would reduce the cost of a launch by something like a factor of 100. Elon claims that a realistic target is to reduce it by a factor of 10.

Of course as soon as you design a rocket to be reusable, the task of making sure it is still safe after a dozen or a hundred launches becomes much harder.
With WebGL shaders? Rather unlikely.

What we can expect is hardened shader compilers in the graphics drivers. In 2018 or so.
As with most agriculture in the US (assuming you're talking about the US), family farms are the exception - not the rule.
However, air density is lower the higher you go--allowing for easier acceleration.
I did the back-of-the envelope calculation a while ago, and if I recall, 5-10% of the energy used goes toward altitude, with the rest going towards horizontal velocity (modulo a bit of air resistance).
Analyzing the SMB SaaS Market Opportunity
That isn't so desirable for Facebook because Facebook has a strong interest in having its real users 'liking' many things. Something which real users have no real incentive to do. Anyway, a real bubblehead sitting there 'liking' thousands of things is a valuable thing for Facebook.
This is not the disruption you're looking for. Every launch you're throwing away the entire machine. People keep coming up with the pithy 'imagine how expensive a transatlantic ticket would be if ditched the 747 into the sea at the end of every flight' but it's precisely true. Fuel costs hardly anything, the cost is of these fantastically advanced but single use machines.

So, make them properly reusable (not just rebuildable, not just reusable only say 5 times, able to turn around and fly again within a week) and you will change everything.

To my knowledge there's only sat launcher in the world that's working towards this, (the Skylon Space Plane) but that's probably 10 years and a few billion dollars away.

I don't know how reusable SpaceX's grasshopper efforts will be (as I intimated above there's reusable and then there's reusable). But I watch with fascination!
Considering its predecessor, the shuttle, was one of the least safe rockets ever designed...

According to http://www.futurepundit.com/archives/000940.html as of 2003, the space shuttle had the best safety record of any rocket design that had been flown to space at least 100x.

That fact would argue strongly against your claim.
In 1990 a judiciary investigated itself and found no evidence of bias against men only women. Conveniently that was the socially correct opinion at the time.

Joint physical custody just means that there is regular visitation. So saying "primary or joint" covers all fathers that see their kids regularly.

That quote really says that 30% of fathers actively seeking regular time with their children were denied the right to parent their children. I wonder what percentage of mothers were denied regular parenting time?
And you know that there are extremists everywhere in all groups?

Should we be wary of all christians because there's some who think all religions that don't match there's should be banned? Should we be wary of all muslims because some think it's OK to kill for their religion? Should we be wary of all black people because some of them kill and are in gangs? Should we be wary of all Americans because some of them own lots of guns? Should we be wary of all police because some are corrupt? Should we be wary of all British government activity because they might want to invade and colonise us? Should we be wary of all germans because some are neo-nazis? Should we be wary of all irish because some set off car bombs? etc. etc. etc.

Come on, aren't we past these gross stereotypes?
needs 2 way syncing with org-mode.
For women who get into this program, great! You're set and will probably have an easy time finding work afterwards!

When recently moved back to the US with a basic programming foundation, I really wanted to get into this sort of school. I moved back with the primary motivation of becoming a top notch programmer. As a guy with my background, these kinds of programs aren't easy to get into! In general they all have a pretty strong desire to invite more women, and there are an awful lot of guys that want the training.

Without the option of this kind of top-notch program or others like it, I joined the local ruby meetup group and kept an eye out for any kinds of free instruction... and found that all were railsbridge (women only unless you're invited by a female participant). If you're already at a level where you can build some things, there are a lot more options like going to hack night and asking for feedback on what you've already built, but there's not much if you're not to that point yet.

If anybody reading this now is in the situation I was a couple of months ago, I strongly recommend the Coursera SaaS course through Berkeley. Obviously it doesn't compare to scholarships and in-person teaching, but there are free lectures, automated program graders, forums with active participants, study groups, and even human feeback on the quizzes. It's got pretty much all of the positives of Open Courseware, Code School (also great) and more videos rolled into one. It's open to people anywhere in the world, it's subtitled in several languages and everything except the optional textbook is free.

I'm not trying to hijack the thread-- this is a genuine attempt to help others who are in the same boat I was in until I found this.

https://www.coursera.org/course/saas
Basic mechanics, no.

Text and look and feel are another story, though. In this case EA is alleging that The Ville is a derivative work not because it borrows mechanics but because it meets the 'substantially similar' test by meticulously cloning the look of The Sims Social, right down to copying the exact RGB colors of specific elements.
Wow! Congrats to the Workflowy people!
Thanks, I didn't know that - but I am using "the valley" loosely here to refer to the entire tech sector.
How will he replace him if he is worse-performing? I'm not sure this imaginary company is competent.
Who benefits? How about your competitors who click on your ads to deplete your advertising dollars so their ads will show more than yours?
I have a file manager on my Android phone that has millions of downloads.

I'm pretty sure most users who download the app use it daily.

Do you think the app developers can get VC funding if they wanted to?
The importance of college won't change until hiring practices do. Most employers don't actually test most of their candidates on their skills. Until they do they need a way to distinguish their candidates. Hiring from Harvard is a good way to do it since you can outsource your requirements to the Harvard acceptance department.
Go Workflowy! Love this thing.
I think this is only in Portland and Seattle, but http://www.zoomcare.com/ is a decent alternative, IMO. It isn't for long-term care, however.
I'm reminded of Neal Stephenson's book Anathem [1], which some people didn't like (compared to say Snow Crash or Cryptonomicon) but I really enjoyed. Apart from the mystical elements it raised some interesting points.

At one point it was talking about the Reticulum (Internet), botnet ecologies and how some of these would sublty modify information such that you couldn't really trust anything you read. I find this an intriguing and somewhat alarming idea.

Facebook was good early on because bots weren't sophisticated enough to create real-looking Facebook profiles so if you had a Facebook profile you had a person. Now they're better but still a human can pick a bot pretty easily.

But bots will only get better.

One idea that's been raised is the notion of trust. Usage patterns are analyzed to identify bot or bot-like behaviour. You see this in identifying sock or meat puppets on reddit, HN and other social news sites.

People have talked about the hordes of Twitter accounts used to make content appear more relevant than it is. This sort of thing is already happening.

But how do you pick out the bots when they're the majority and thus there is little to no statistical norm to compare them to real people?

At what point will bots start modifying Wikipedia articles and have other bots or, more likely, some stooges, approve those changes? What about establishing fake sites with wrong information and having them appear valid to search engines?

This will I believe be a big problem.

One particularly problematic aspect to this is that the site owners themselves, within reason, have little incentive to expose bots (or inactive accounts for that matter) because so much importance is placed on metrics like "# of active accounts".

This only becomes problematic if the user experience suffers beyond a certain threshold.

It's going to be interesting to see just how much of a problem this becomes and what we do to solve or at least mitigate it.

[1]: http://www.amazon.com/Anathem-Neal-Stephenson/dp/0061474096
What's the alternative? Password resets are for when you've forgotten everything, so there's nothing that could be used to encrypt them. And email is the only contact mechanism that works on everyone.

(FWIW I avoid the risk by not giving HN an email address)
I don't think it was intentional. My understanding is that getting health insurance through your employer became a major thing when wage controls during World War II prevented employers from competing on salary. It remains a major thing because it enjoys a status as non-taxable income (also dating from World War II).

But even if it was accidental, it is morally perverse. For anyone with a serious illness, you can turn the statement around -- "You can stop working for me, but then you won't be able to get the medicine you need" -- and it sounds a lot like slavery.

One of the things that's perverse about it is that medical "insurance" is handled on a monthly basis, rather than on a per-diagnosis basis. Think about how insane that would be in another field. What if car insurance paid for things on a monthly basis rather than a per-accident basis? What if life insurance worked per-month rather than per-death?

My dream health insurance plan would insure me against the possibility of getting cancer -- and if I was diagnosed with it, it would be their responsibility to cover treatment, not just in any month in which I paid my premiums, but for the lifetime of any disease discovered while I was current on the plan. My dream health insurance plan would be willing to help me insure against variations in the cost of treatment for pre-existing conditions, but for conditions I truly couldn't pay for, would refer me to a charity.

I'm of the opinion that the misalignment is a result of businesses trying to keep employees healthy rather than the natural result of individuals mitigating risk.

The link between health insurance and employment needs to be severed yesterday.
Doing it exactly as cheaply as the Russians would be a real accomplishment. Because it would allow us not to be forced to use the Russians for everything!
Yeah, ouch. At first I was thinking some of the comparisons were going to be reaching but when even the x/y scale of objects is the same, that's pretty blatant.
Listeners, like web site visitors, can only be reasoned about statistically. This is even more true in this century than it was in the last century. If a service (say Spotify or Pandora or whatever) has a population P then the probability that they request a performance of a given piece might be f(P). Popularity might be measured by the number of unique people who request a performance g(P) and quality might be measured as the mode of the number of times a unique person requested a performance.

The remuneration rate, like the 'average selling price' for a commodity, is the median price of the performance across all requests.

My original point is that the 'size' of the music market, in terms of the number of times a song is played, is very very large. There are probably close to a billion 'plays' of songs on any given day in the US. I'm sure Pete Warden could come up with a way to figure out an exact number, I base that guess on half the population, 150M people, and 6 songs per person per day median, so 900M plays.

If the ASP, to artists, is $132/32000 (not saying it is, just its the only real number we've got in this discussion) that would make a daily sweep of like $3.7M. So if, as an artist you were the top song that day you might take home 1% of that or $37,000.

My overall point is that the music industry that is being birthed out of the ashes of the old one, looks a lot different. It's more 'on demand', it's more relational, and it's less understood. Consequently there are a lot of people trying to mold it to something they can control and get the money out of, and that reality distortion makes seeing the real forces driving it harder.

So when you reason about the music business and someone says "Gee the artist only sees one tenth of a cent each time spotify plays their song.", that sounds horrible! A song, for only 0.1 cent? Gee I'd have to listen to the same song all day just so they could buy a cup of coffee at Peet's. But if that song is reasonably popular and it's being played 10 million times a day, that means the artist is making $10,000 a DAY on just one song. That sounds awesome! The difference between these two is all that probability / market size reasoning that is sometimes glossed over.
Totaly agree with the article though not sure how it would effect a situation I had once.

WHen I joined a company they said verbaly(my mistake) I'd get a pay review after probation. That did not happen and shortly afterwards my department was closed down and I was in effect promoted to a higher up department (more in keeping with my skillset as well). I then after a month queried this situation and said there would be a meeting. I was the most productive in that department with getting users problems done and in the meeting I was told that as the company anual pay review period was due next month they would accomodate things then.

Two days later a company wide email goes out that the annual pay review period was being pushed back 6 months due to accounting restructuring. Now given that the directors would of fully known about this before hand and in the meeting I had one was a director I can totaly see how a bad email can upset some people on many levels. Now I'm sure the director in question was somewhat unable to tell me in advance but it was hard not to feel shafted as he would of had prior knowledge and neither my direct boss nor the director had the common sence to contact me and say we messed up and talk about the original issue and they both pretended as if nothing happened. I ended up leaving the company on bad terms and that company's share price has been going downhill ever since and they are on the verge of being non existant. Which is somewhat ironic given the company specialises in mobile email services.
He just meant that Pogue's experience didn't jive with his own. Since we're talking mostly about objective facts (the number of Newtons needed to pull out the wire), it's not obvious that Pogue couldn't be making a claim about everyone's wire. Jeez.
But My Documents is one level below your homedir.

Your homedir equivalent on windows (since Windws XP) is /Documents and Settings/username, or the modern shortened equivalent. That has subdirectories for documents and application settings. Apps that put config data in My Documents are using behaviour dating back to Windows 95.

It's the same on Mac OS - /Users/username has a Documents subdirectory. Mac spps tend to be better-behaved, but a few manage to pollute the Documents directory. On Linux you may roll your own or use a ~/Documents directory created by your desktop environment. The fact is your homedir is the home of pretty much anything that is user-specific, and you either need to collect all the config data into some sort of config directory, or do your own organising in a subdirectory, or both.
Depends on whether his data points were cherry picked. We don't know if they are or not, so we assume he jumped to conclusions. Maybe.

If his sample set, consisting solely of Ahmed Ronaldo, is representative of the rest of the people 'liking' his page, I'd say he has a point - and there's something fishy going on that warrants further investigation.

OTOH, if Ahmed is one of Facebook's 1.5% 'undesirable' users, then I'd say I agree with you, and that India and SA is just full of people who love virtual bagels.
Announcing EveryBlock’s new maps
Sounds like what the Firefox (and Chrome) devs have been busy creating.

http://socialapi.net/

http://jbalogh.me/2012/01/30/push-notifications/

http://www.webrtc.org/

https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebActivities

https://persona.org/
We really, really do not.
I suspect that getting US students is important because they pay significantly more than students from Canada itself. I'm not sure exactly how it works in Canada, but at least at my US public university out-of-state and international students pay far more than instate students which certainly doesn't hurt the budget. Since the US is really close, has expensive education domestically and has a large population, it's probably relatively easy to convince high-paying US students to come to universities in Canada.
Some of the stuff in the details section is pretty astounding. They've copied things as closely as the wall-height to floor size ratio. I doubt even EA thought much about that, other than selecting a size that they thought looked reasonable, yet Zynga neeeded to put effort into copying it so exactly? Why? If you're going to rip off a game, why put effort into making it so blatant?

I understand Zynga even less now.

My gut feeling on reading the headline was originally "Well, EA can't complain, Simcity Social was far more a Cityville clone than a continuation of Simcity", but wow, actually looking at the complaint is pretty damning for Zynga.
Do they have a REST API? It should be pretty easy to write clients if they do.
Micro loans made easy
True, but yesterday a post titled 'How Coffee Meetings Power Silicon Valley' hit the front page.

Every region has people who are self-important and people who are not.
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/speak+for
These Charts Show How The Average American Got Totally Screwed
The difference in this situation of course is that SpaceX is claiming that their rocket will be safe because they are adding more lifeboats (in other words, they are bragging about their planned abort systems).

They are not claiming to be designing a rocket that cannot fail, but rather one that fails safe (though low failure rate is undoubtedly a high priority for them.)

I do not see how such an attitude could possibly be a liability. What is preferable?

Edit: I'm trying to understand your point of view. Is your issue that the are trying to make it the safest, or that they said that they are trying to make it the safest?
deal with men doing worse in others by just trying to do away with the idea that gender matters

No-one said we shouldn't have affirmative action for men in female dominated spaces. I think it's a great idea. For example, in Sweden (and some other countries) the father is legally required to take 2 months of the (paid) paternity leave after their child is born. This sort of affirmative action means that it will become much more common for fathers to get involved with child rearing, since, well "everyone is doing it".
Even if you are wearing a Kilt, which is a pretty manly version of a skirt, you'll be hearing remarks for a couple of weeks.

But to be honest, I feel a little silly making a big deal about the ability to wear a skirt or have a purse for instance.
Maybe they are voting bots that keep liking random junk to not look suspicious when they all together like something the botnet owner decides that they all shall like.

It would look a bit weird if thousands of users always liked exactly the same thing and nothing else.
I thought this was about Lisp.
Some of them are sexists.
I did. Virtual bagels are hilarious.
the thing is, and others will disagree with me, but I think that from the point of view of your average businessperson, I'm right- the thing is that the so-called quantitative, conversion-oriented methods of advertising are not so quantitative. I mean, a lot has been written on the 'last touch' or 'first touch' problem. And a lot has been done to mitigate that, but one of the first things you learn running a business is that if you don't understand something? you massively over pay for it. And I (and I think most business owners) don't understand how a last touch conversion tracking could tell me how that customer really heard about me, and more importantly, how I gained the credibility with that customer required for them to punch in their credit card.

Now, some people think they can compensate for that. But, for me? I don't understand how you could tell that a user learned about me from word of mouth (before they clicked on an adword that got them to my site and a signup.) - To me, figuring that out is so hard that I might as well just focus on the brand-building kind of advertising.

Now, a lot of this is because most people are willing to pay a premium for the 'quantitative' advertising. they are willing to pay extra for things they think they can track. This means that if I'm right (and who knows) then the brand-building advertising, that most people consider largely untrackable, is underpriced.

I mean, I'm not saying I'm right and you are wrong... just that there are a number of businesses that feel this way.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colleges_and_universiti...

Sort by total endowment per student. Cross-reference this list with the USNWR rankings. The overlaps are striking.
Incidentally, Emacs will use %UserProfile%\.emacs.d if you set %HOME% to %UserProfile%, which, as a UNIX user, I personally prefer for consistency. While not Emacs-specific, another trick I've found useful is that, on 64-bit Windows, you can open %SystemRoot%\System32\somefile in 32-bit Emacs iff you refer to it as %SystemRoot%\sysnative\somefile (the original path yields %SystemRoot%\SysWOW64\somefile).
There are companies trying to do that as well. For instance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_airship describes one where an airship that is part blimp, part fixed wing follows a trajectory where first it is lifted by being lighter than air, then it gets lift from moving fast through thin air, then it gets lift from being near orbital velocity.

Theoretically they should be able to get things in orbit very cheaply compared to rockets. So far those technologies have not worked in practice.
Inge Druckrey: Teaching to See
Yeah, my understanding is that the case law was pretty well established with board games. You can steal pretty much the entire mechanics of a game, but not the specific artistic expression. Of course, that doesn't mean a company with deep pockets can't bludgeon anyone they like with the legal system.

A good example in board games is a game called "Anti-Monopoly". (http://antimonopoly.com) It's pretty much a direct take-off on Parker Bros. Monopoly. Parker Bros. sued the creator and dragged the case through the courts for ten years, but the creator won in the end. Ironically, PB Monopoly was itself a rip-off of earlier versions of Monopoly.