skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that women have very little need for AFF, but I'm not so sure about this one.

There was a study that got some attention right after the Spitzer scandal (I wish I could find the link right now). It turns out that married people who seek prostitutes do so for the 'thrill,' and sex is a distant second. There are many parallels here: women who shoplift are often rich, they do it because they can't stand the boredom. I haven't watched the show Desperate Housewives, but I understand that a common theme is that women cheat because their lives are too sedate.

Thus, the faint possibility of being caught might actually increase the appeal of this service.

Also, people significantly overestimate their anonymity online. This is the subject of my research (http://33bits.org), which I see someone else has already linked to :-)
That, and be wary of using any work from that stock art website, as their may be... uh... "usage rights complications".
You need to start acting LIKE A BOSS
> So far, the folks who claim that it wasn't regulation-driven haven't explained why so much of the crisis happened in the most regulated and most subsidized sectors of the economy.

De-facto trumps de-jure. If your regulators aren't actually regulating, and are in fact aiding and abetting fraud, then it's irrelevant whether the industry is supposedly highly-regulated.
Good to know, looks like I need to revisit a few of my assumptions. Thanks for commenting.
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So here's the thing: Rails plugins are for programmers. I'm no Rails expert, but I've never encountered a Rails plugin that was configurable without using Ruby. (Which is, of course, perfectly in line with Rails design goals and philosophy.)

The majority of Drupal modules are designed to be used without writing a single line of PHP code. (This is not to say that Drupal developers don't end up writing PHP code anyway... or that this design philosophy doesn't often lead to unusable confusion, or that it doesn't entail some big compromises, of which the tendency to have code stored in the database is one of the most annoying. But I have seen quite impressive Drupal sites built by people who refuse to touch PHP. That's a big selling point.)

So, no: This isn't Drupal. But we are getting there!
I have worked pretty extensively with Drupal and I don't agree with your assertion that the module system has maintainability issues. Performance issues, absolutely, but it's quite maintainable.
what incentive do you have to keep the idea to yourself

That we promised to. And in actual fact it is very rare to hear a good idea from a group we don't want to fund. I can only remember being constrained by our policy once, when a group we interviewed had an idea I thought would be useful to Bountii (I think it was).
It might be a mistake to assume actual FUD when simple ignorance is more likely the cause, and it was in this case, which is why I posted the question to begin with.
Are you forgetting vCloud? VMware's technology is much more mature than Amazon's or Sun's.
All 3, dev on Mac, deploy on Linux, and make sure that your app runs on IE6/7/8 - so there you have all three. Though few months back, I had all threee running in VMWare, my storage was in Linux VM, the app server was in Mac, and the desktop app was in Windows VM.
But many times it also depends on what you are developing.
From my experience, Cornell Alumni have a much greater presence in high-end cs industry than any of those other schools. It's probably worth trying to squeeze more money out of them (what do you have to lose by trying?).

Tufts has a generally good reputation, though not particularly technical. Free is good and Boston is good. You might investigate if you can take high-level CS courses at MIT or Harvard with a Tufts enrollment (I think it's possible, but you'll want to know details). It's certainly possible to join the MIT culture without actually enrolling there.

Yale receives a certain degree of contempt in technical circles. It's probably possible to get a solid education there, but certainly don't expect the name to open doors.
The good news is that a single registration fee can cover an entire collection of unpublished works, as long as they are by the same author: http://www.copyright.gov/eco/faq.html#eCO_2.3
Just something to chew on...

The local active sensing capability required to out-maneuver one or more interceptors would negate any low-observable qualities of the kill vehicle.

The likelihood of the kill vehicle possessing a passive tracking capability sufficient to outmaneuver the active sensing and tracking system aboard an interceptor is clearly very low.

My point is that neither maneuverability nor low observability are guarantees of success due to compromising other aspects of the vehicle; which may ultimately make it more vulnerable to defensive measures than is apparent at first glance.
I just finished an industry analysis for the light bulb industry in the US. The LED technology is advancing at such a fast rate that although they are prohibitively expensive now, in 5 years they will cost less than CFLs and provide higher quality lighting. The big three light bulb manufacturers (GE, Philips, and OSRAM), which make up 95% of the US market, are buying LED firms like crazy.
LEDs last about 10x longer and use 1/10 the electricity of CFLs as well. CFLs contain a small amount of mercury which will help speed adoption of LEDs.
Logos are not copyrightable. You would trademark a logo.
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The more people you talk to about your idea, the better it gets.

Completely agree, I think I've discussed my idea/startup with many people, I don't think I've been secretive with it at all. In my case though it's not so easy to steal - as it actually requires serious effort to implement and it's not a one winner takes all kind of market.

But I've found discussing my idea with many people has helped mould what was a concept into a series of hurdles, which has made it clearer in my mind what I need to do.

This has also helped me come up with several possibilities for shortcuts to get it to market earlier.

I personally think that unless you're trailblazing something very new or producing something that can be easily copied, you probably shouldn't be trying to keep quiet about it.

That's just my opinion though.

EDIT - just an addendum.

If you are going to discuss your idea with people, I find its best to NOT talk it over with your friends. The bias usually leans towards you getting overly positive feedback. Good for the ego, bad for the idea process.... you may end up wasting your time (which is your most valuable asset) on something not worthwhile.
Beggars in Spain is an interesting treatment of that idea:

http://www.amazon.com/Beggars-Spain-Trilogy-Nancy-Kress/dp/0...
I'm not sure this directly applies to you, but the one thing I wish people had told me when I was applying to college was that if you want to be a Master of the Universe, there's still a significant advantage to going to an east coast Ivy League school. My friends at Harvard and Yale and so on have a valuable network of powerful people looking out for them, making sure they get cushy jobs and lecture gigs and book deals. Stanford, by contrast, was all about pushing you into Silicon Valley, either as a startup grunt or a VC pawn.
I think the idea of women going to bars for NSA relations is a bit degrading. The quality of a bar hookup is very low. I'm speaking anecdotally, but I doubt anyone will disagree: most infidelities happen with someone you know fairly well.

This site will do much better with women than AFF for two reasons:

1: the front page isn't covered with scantily clad, beautiful women. yes, there's an image of a girl going down on a guy, but the guy has a very nice body.

2: there's an assumption that the men are married and thus have careers, friends, family, etc. - i.e. they aren't weirdos.
LED's do NOT use 1/10 the electricity of CFLs. Besides being not true, that also violates the laws of physics. CFL's use appox 3 times the theoretical best efficiency possible - so at best a different bulb could use 1/3 the electricity of CFLs. And that's the theoretical maximum, and not likely to be reached.
It sounds like what they actually did was increase your credit line, not your balance. So if people made trades on the (larger than normal) margin and profited, they can keep the profit. If they took losses, they are responsible for losses, slightly better than altering balances, but only slightly.

It is pretty much the definition of giving your users enough rope to hang themselves with.

It is an INCREDIBLY STUPID move on the part of Zecco. While it could be an accident or bug, I believe that it is too much of a coincidence to be chance.
Oh god, they were looking at it as a positive example...

jesus
Back in 2002 Stockart was actively soliciting copyright infringement leads:

...
All we need is for you to give us enough information
to locate the communication which has the illustration(s)
used out of copyright, and we will take it from there.
In return, we will send you 10% of ANY settlement moneys
we recover. This could amount to thousands of dollars for
you AND the illustrators, by simply doing what is right!

http://whatdoiknow.org/archives/000097.shtml

Also, Jon (the designer) said that there was at least one other designer that had gave into their extortion scheme, and that he would've given in too if not for the community support. To me this puts the whole situation in a completely different light. It makes it seem as if the copyright "enforcement" is a part of StockArts business plan.
I've met a few polyamorous girls who sought NSA relations, and a frequent complaint is that finding a partner is easy, but finding a quality partner is difficult, both on the internet and in bars. It's like what Joel Spolsky wrote about job seekers mostly being poor quality, because high quality people are already taken.

This is mostly in England (and not London, where I hear the situation is better), so maybe it's easier in a polyamorous hub like San Francisco.
The difference is that in America's history employers worked in good faith (aside from slavery). In Dubai (and to some extent, China) migrant workers are defrauded and deceived by their employers out of their rightfully due pay.
Wow. Great interview. A little common sense sure is refreshing. I hope more people can hear this message. I still am a little surprised how poorly Obama has responded to this crisis so far.
He's Canadian
And of course, coincidence or not... does it really matter? I don't think anyone with a straight face could accuse TechStars or YC of actually stealing ideas at the investor level, but if an enterprising entrepreneur sees a good idea put into action at one, thinks he or she can do it better and pitches it to the other, so what? From a consumer standpoint, competition is good. (Actually, it's good from an entrepreneurial standpoint as well.)

Anyway, I think likely these are coincidence more than anything. A good rule of thumb: If you have a good idea, someone else has it as well. Right now. And they're working on it, too.

Anecdote: My biz partner and I started work on what we think is a great idea beginning of last December almost immediately after a late-night brainstorming session on IM. By mid-January we'd identified two similar competitors that had launched in the past couple of months. By February we found another that seems similar (but is unlaunched). And two weeks ago a fourth competitor came out of nowhere and launched.

All that means is that other people think our idea is good, too. We think that's probably a good sign (and so hope to launch in the next couple of weeks).
The only problem is that after you read enough of them, you're spoiled on ideas. Oh, a culture where money is irrelevant and people can have backups of their brain and do completely stupid things without risk? How trite.

I am, literally, at the point where I don't even get a rise out of any book unless it's humorous. And Douglas Adams is dead.
Fair enough. Just as a heads up, the tone was fairly aggressive, even though the question was an interesting one.

I'm glad to see some answers in any case.
Unicorn Tears, Eh?
This article is baloney. We've already seen water wars in Gaza and Lebanon.

Because of saltwater intrusion from the sea into the aquifer, and recirculation and evaporation losses of pumped groundwater, the quality of the water is deteriorating faster than fresh rainwater can desalinate it. This means that Gaza residents must acquire water from beyond their borders, which are closed at present; build a large desalination plant; or eliminate agriculture within the next two decades, said the two researchers, Assistant Professor Charles Harvey and Dr. Annette Huber-Lee of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

When the water from the aquifers in Gaza became too salty and contaminated, Israel withdrew from Gaza.

The "security barrier" follows no above-ground border or political boundary. It looks completely random. However, if you plot the underground "mountain aquifer" then the security barrier matches the boundaries of the aquifer.

http://anthropik.com/2006/08/israels-water-wars/

We in the US bullied the Canadians into signing a water-rights treaty that enforces US water-rights laws. Our water-rights laws state effectively that once you turn a pipe on, you can never turn it off. In exchange, CA banned export of water to the US.

On a similar note, I live in Colorado. In both CO and UT, it is illegal to collect the rainwater that falls on your property, because state laws and court rulings hold that that rainwater belongs to someone else. The fancy technical word is "senior water rights."
Aside from the allusion to 70s and 80s car manufacturers, is warning against open standards because "Microsoft could fail" still considered a far flung idea?
There is a potential for fraud from the user as well - taking your example:

The user can edit the html, print if off and say that /that/ was the TOS he agreed to.

I don't know if Google cache or the wayback archive are usable as evidence, that would be for a court to decide, but there is always the possibility that they didn't catch it, and the user can always say 'on X date, when I joined up, it said this and this (with the fake printout)', now the site has to prove otherwise.

In fact the user can just claim he never agreed to such a TOS, that no 'I have read and accepted the TOS' checkbox was displayed to him at any time.
OH PLEASE.

I guess Hacker News is the new Tinfoil.

Decentralized systems are much more stable in the long run than top-heavy centrally-planned ones. Only the looter welfare state crowd is lying to themselves about that.
based on the way the guy typed, I'd bet he'd let them get away with it, whenever they email him saying that they decided that he is right
Why do women prefer online bingo?
Around 82% of bingo players are women. With the advent of the internet and online bingo, this number is increasing. Everyday hundreds of women are signing up in bingo sites. Women find online bingo to be of great advantage, as they do not have to leave their home and waste a lot of time in driving back and forth to the bingo halls. Many women who do not find that kind of time because they have to attend to household chores despite their interest were restraining from bingo. Now they don’t have to restrain themselves from playing their favorite games.
Any namespace issues are largely dealt with by naming conventions such as prefixing function names with the module name. For the 'hooks' that connect modules to the rest of Drupal this is compulsory. You can structure your own code pretty much however you want including using classes or whatever php allows etc.

So while it isn't perfect I don't see it getting in the way too much of module development. You could of course argue that Drupal would be more extensible if it did use OO or some other paradigm but I see that as a slightly different issue.
I'd have felt a lot better about the article if it wasn't for the word "model" sprinkled liberally through the piece. It sounded an awful lot to me like they could have just looked for the evidence of the effect they are claiming, and I find myself wondering if they used a model because it was easier, or if they did in fact look and failed to come up with the morally-correct evidence.

It's easy; go look at those colleges that didn't consider the test, then compare the statistical outcomes predicted by the SAT for those who took it and what actually happened. (There may be some correlations to sniff out ("I know I'm only applying to non-SAT colleges so I won't take the test"), but I bet it's managable.)

Diversity's great and all (though when I say diversity, I mean real diversity and not a whole bunch of differently-colored people all believing the same thing, but that's a topic for a different discussion...), but it's evil to skew statistics to increase the number of "diverse" students taking out increasingly expensive loans who then do not end up with a degree just so you can feel good about how many happy rainbowed diversities your college has. If that is what is going on here. I admit I can't prove it but I don't like the smell.

(Yes, there are serious issues with educational opportunities that should be addressed, and I don't know what the solution is. I just know the solution isn't forcing the already-behind to take on tens of thousands of dollars of useless debt.)
Well, not, it's actually a really important point about regulation. Given a regulator who gets to decide how Goldman Sachs behaves, who has a bigger interest in the outcome -- Goldman, getting 100% of the privatized profits, or you and me, sharing 1/300 millionth of the socialized losses? The more powerful the regulator, the bigger the incentive for regulatory capture.
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A name is just a trademark, but a logo is a work of art, and may be covered by both trademark and copyright law. For example, the Debian/Firefox controversy hinged on the non-free copyright license governing the Firefox logo artwork:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=354622
Does that make every multi-threaded network daemon that manages a thread pool of connections a 'half-assed implementation of EventMachine' then?

(I know who Tony is. I co-wrote Evented Starling.)
Im 17 just finished high school and can already tell that i am not willing to be a slave for the man, but what the hell else is there within my reasonable grasp to stop it from being so? To this point as far as my research has led me there is no way out in sight. This is all that i can think about lately.
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Gah! Ok, apologies. I have to learn to stop over-oversimplifying!

What I mean there was this: Mathematical modeling of the evolution of protein folds points toward the impossibility of convergently evolving folds (but not convergently evolving functionality). This implies that two proteins with the same fold can reasonably be assumed to have evolved from a common ancestor protein, even if that conclusion cannot be reached from sequence information.

Unfolded proteins (at least, above a certain length) cause problems for living things. Thus, the ability of evolution to freely explore fold-space is constrained. There is some interesting work going on in this space looking at the possibility networks of interrelated folds that don't pass through unfolded intermediates, but I think it's too soon to say, for certain, that these networks are sufficient to generate truly "novel" folds.

As for the SCOP classification system, my personal view is that it tends to be on the restrictive side. Of course, that's the point of SCOP: to robustly categorize folds. As for PFAM, it's been a while, but last I looked they still don't consider any 3D structural information in their classifications. I guess what I'm trying to say here is that, whether or not "novel" protein folds are actively appearing depends on your definition of "novel". If I mutate a residue in the middle of a helix that breaks the helix in two, is that a novel fold? If I then insert a few more amino acids and turn that one helix into a helix-turn-helix, is that a novel fold?

The theory I alluded to is not my own, but I can admire the logic behind it. The idea is that it is possible to group many folds through sequence and other (i.e. threading) means into derived folds. However, even when you do this, you don't arrive at a rootless tree. Instead, you find that there are somewhere (depending on who you ask) between 800 and 1300 "roots" to the fold family tree.

Presumably, these roots represent novel abiogenesis events. At the very least, these root folds must have existed before "modern" biology (i.e. the sort that cannot tolerate unfolded states) began. Whether they all have a common ancestor or not is very much up for debate, but so far I don't know that we have conclusive evidence one way or the other.

To be clear, though, I am guilty of oversimplification in the line you've picked out.
You would only trademark a logo if you plan on associating it with your company and you don't want any other company to use the same or similar artwork in their identifying artwork.
Oh, but don't forget: "Elite Republican guard" and "experienced from their wars with Iran". There was a whole series of talking points. Philwelch may be correct on the 3rd vs. 4th point, but I am pretty sure the talk was of them being the third/forth best. (Possibly the pundits think they could have beaten China in some hypothetical fight, since at the time neither could have really projected force at the other to speak of.)

I did say pundits, after all, and I'd add those making the analysis for political reasons. More sober analysts knew better, including the ones who actually planned operation, after all. The fact that they were grossly wrong because of their various motivations is sort of my point.
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I highly taking a serious look.
Do Indians just like memorizing stuff?
Sorry, I mistyped.

I meant that the additional amount of variance described by a more complex model beyond that described by a linear model is much less than that described by the linear model in the first place. Obviously the total amount will be more, or else your model is both complex and wrong. :-)

Consider:

Model A - 1 degree of freedom - 60% of variance
Model B - 2 degrees of freedom - 75% of variance

That extra DOF has gotten you 15% better description of the variance, but at the cost of complexity. Perhaps that is worth it, perhaps not. As has been noted above, that complexity has a real cost that can manifest itself as overfitting, instability, and lack of generalization. The curse of dimensionality is very real.

All that I meant was the linear model will probably capture the most variance per unit complexity. Which gets back to my original point that most (all?) problems are linear to a first approximation. It's not just that people are lazy.
I'm waiting for the Romeo and Juliet ad campaign that focuses on two allegorical star-crossed lovers, with the last ad revealing that the drama has actually taken place at a college campus and not Italy.
Also, anyone who buys a computer bathed in unicorn tears is cursed to a half-life.
quote from Arrington in the article

They either need to adapt or die. And they’re choosing a very noisy and annoying death.

I think they're probably a bit like chickens. Heads already severed but still running around.
Bad headline. This is what the columnist said about pirating movies: "Later tonight I may finally catch up with Paul Rudd in I Love You, Man. It’s so much easier than going out in the rain!”"

Perhaps "News Corp Fires Columnist for Encouraging Piracy"