skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The did (marginally) and an occipital bun (an enlargement of the skull in an area roughly over the visual cortex) is characteristic of Neandertal skulls. Mind you, size does not imply complexity, but endocasts don't point to anything obviously less complex than H sapiens sapiens. (In fact, both Broca's and Wernike's areas seem to be about on par, and recent genetic evidence suggests that Neandertals had essentially the same FOXP2 gene we have. That would indicate, given current knowledge, that they likely had sophisticated language as well.)
Actually, a few days ago, an NPR article [1] suggested the possibility that the Neanderthals didn't exactly 'die out'. Rather: "We neither murdered them nor outcompeted them. We mated with them and, in time, simply folded them into our species until they disappeared."

Also, related to some other comments, the same NPR article claims that "there's evidence they thought about life in complicated ways" based on how they cared for an elder and their burial rituals.

[1] http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2013/03/08/173813194/what-...
Jugaad: The Maeklong Railway Market
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For anyone confused by the lack of context, it basically seems to be an aggregation of any post in /r/UniversityofReddit/ that starts with "[Class]".

(There are actual legal guidelines for using the word "University" in some states and countries; I wonder if the name will last.)
What's dead? The project, or the Show HN post?
Google Confirms Glass Will Eventually Work With Prescription Lenses
I wish people(hackers) would spend same amount of time building and marketing/selling their idea. Unfortunately, i think its human nature, it is always easy to start with the fun part, and give up when the steps need to be taken become uninteresting/difficult.

Hackers love creating stuff, but when it comes to the selling that idea to their potential users, they dont have enough energy.

Hackers vs entrepreneurs?
man, i hope that's a joke.
Given a legal dispute between informed developer and a copyright lawyer, caution indicates that I should pay attention to the lawyer.

As Bernstein indicates, Lawrence Rosen argues the other side of this. There is binding precedent on the question in the 9th circuit. However that precedent is not necessarily binding on other courts, the statute does not provide for such a mechanism, and we've already seen statutes bring works back under copyright which had been out of copyright. The most famous example being It's a Wonderful Life. Therefore it is possible that other courts could decide differently, and it is possible that future copyright legislation or treaties could alter the legal status of works that have been abandoned to the public domain.

And this is just the situation in the USA. There are about 200 countries in the world, with different legal systems. Most have some type of copyright law, and that law roughly follows international treaties. I have confidence that in the countries with "reasonable" copyright legislation/jurisprudence, that copyright licenses have force. Given that even the US situation is not entirely settled, I have no confidence that a public domain declaration has force in other countries. Therefore caution would indicate that a simple permissive license is preferable to a public domain declaration.

Therefore yes, I would say that the chances of Damiel Bernstein being wrong on this are good enough that a simple permissive license is preferable to a public domain declaration.
Really great way of helping to visualize different CSS elements, cool
I live on the command line, bash history is so useful.
This definitely does make a lot more sense than throwing out your whole app and rewriting it in many situations, but I'm always a little hinky about moving stuff into C just because it has so many ways to shoot yourself in the foot. You can obviously create bugs in any language (I know I certainly have!), but Go really does hit a nice spot between safety, productivity, and speed, so I can definitely see the attraction.
The standard complaints:

"Your business model isn't a fish-and-chip shop, please go away".

"You don't own a home we can seize, please go away".

"You want to bill and bank in USD/EUR/not-AUD? Please go away unless you are already successful".

"Congratulations on being approved! The next step is to apply all over again to a completely different service. We don't actually take the payments ourselves".
Expertise, the Death of Fun, and What to Do About It
I don't mind the minimalism, it just looks weird sitting in the middle of a tee like that. Something a little more practical would have been cool, like a white tee with a beige pocket and orange trim on top of the pocket. Heck, even if it was just a printed faux practical pocket, it would actually be quite apt really.
IOS Programming with iCloud: An Introduction
Primarily because I knew from previous research that they were easy to implement. Secondarily because unlike most trees, they're amenable to concurrent update (although this is mostly irrelevant to a Python application) and I wanted to get some foundational experience. Locking a skip list is very straightforward, and slightly less intuitive lockless versions also exist.
It's pretty much beige.
I agree that if you're currently suffering from MDD, psychedelic use is very likely contraindicated.

I wasn't speaking of use while actually depressed.
Getting things done means using the best tool for the job. Sometimes that's a language outside of your immediate preference, because that's what the best tool/library/platform is written in.

Today I wrote Java (LDAP server plugin), and ssembly (for unit testing some code that has to minimally interpret x86 assembly). I'll also occasionally need to write some JS/HTML/CSS for the web, work on systems programming for other architectures (ARM, AVR), write kernel code and drivers (C/C++), write/extend a Python script (HTTP test client), write Tcl (to drive simulavr), ObjC (iOS apps), and occasionally write some functional code for fun (I have no business case for it, sometimes it's just nice to work on something clean).

I've done and do all those things (and more) not because I have 'tool tricks', but because in nearly every case, I needed to use the tool most suited to getting things done in that problem domain.

Programmers that refuse to adapt to the given problem domain do their users a disservice. It's like the old joke about which nationalities run heaven and hell -- the worst possible people set to tasks for which they're innately ill-suited. However, programmers can learn more -- if they're willing -- and adapt to better suit themselves to the problem at hand.
I think it really depends on the kind of product and your target market. Certain types of ads might not be worth the time and effort due to various factors.

To provide a counterexample though, I'm working on a student planner (tabuleapp.com). Homework management is a surprisingly big pain point for students, and we've found that Facebook ads are an excellent way to reach our audience. Near the beginning of the semester, when the need for a new organizational tool is highest, we had a lot of success from our first ad with no time spent on optimizing it. I can't think of a better way to reach thousands of college students that's scalable and affordable for a startup.
> Governments spend resources in order to win court cases against such sites and to mount shutdown operations.

Why, if there is no criminal offence, are governments getting involved? Why aren't the rights holders (who claim to be the ones losing money) suing for lost earnings?
It isn't.

http://www.finalternatives.com/node/23100
What do you use for recording and playback?
It says that they analysed 12 countries. Is it possible that they selected these countries specifically, and rejected others that may have refuted their hypothesis?

I'm trying to say this with as little judgement as possible. I just know that deciding to look only at certain countries to support a hypothesis has been done before (c.f. Ancel Keys's Seven Countries Study).
VERY rough ballparking to follow.

Call it 200,000 digital sales per week total, 350,000 digital rentals total. That's for 2 studios, so let's multiply by...I dunno, 4 sounds good to account for the other distributors (this might be way off).

So 800,000 sales, 350,000 rentals. Say the sales net an average of 8 bucks per sale and the rentals 2 bucks each. I made these numbers up, but they match my ancient retail experience.

So that's 6.4 million in sales and 700,000 in rentals per week.

Times 52 and that's 333 million in sales, 36 million in rentals. So, call it 370 million total for a year.

So 5% is 18.5 million. Be generous since we're ballparking and call it $20 million.

Hmm.

Digital alone would probably be a close call. But factor in dvd/bluray and theatrical and it would certainly be worth doing.

EDIT- I didn't do too bad! http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2011/0... says in 2010 the digital market for movies was $385 million. But then tv was an additional $366 million, so double that $20 million estimate to $40 million. And it's going to grow fast.
Isn't there a couple of big differences though - the end product is made of plastic, so will last a long time. Also, the nozzle can pump continuously, whereas with a glue gun you have to keep pressing the trigger?
I wasn't suggesting that Hinton or anyone else should go to Bell Labs or PARC these days. I was just pointing out that back in the day, nobody would have been disappointed or considered it selling out for a notable figure to leave academia for one of those corporate research centers. For all that Google may aspire to have that kind of reputation for research, they don't have it, yet. So some doubting is allowable. However, I can't think of any other for-profit employer that seems to be as willing and able as Google to build that kind of legacy.
I absolutely agree. I have fallen into that trap a number of times. The latest was indeed with Fork the Cookbook. Some bloggers filed a DMCA request (fun fact, recipes cannot be copyrighted, so they essentially were perjuring themselves). It sapped so much energy from our marketing and coding efforts, that 3-4 weeks later we're still recovering - took ages to convince ourselves that it was still worth doing.

There's always a first time I guess
A developer's guide to creating presentations
6-10% increase should be the normal sales amount variation, right? Any given month/week, this much of variation can occur without any reason.
It's not clear to me what being a hedge fund gets you if all you're doing is holding Bitcoins. Sure, there are some regulated entities that can't invest in Bitcoins otherwise (i.e., pension funds), but they probably aren't going to start here. Otherwise, how is this in any way better than just buying Bitcoins on your own and not paying the fees?
This looks promising. However, I'm getting the following when I'm trying to login using my Google account:

Error: Server Error

The server encountered an error and could not complete your request.

If the problem persists, please report your problem and mention this error message and the query that caused it.
Wait, if I'm interpreting the Shannon-Nyquist theorem properly here, doesn't that mean since the signal is 24 Hz that we'd want a 48 FPS frame rate to accurately get the signal?
Possible. Its also part of the trough of sorrow. Its hard to remain motivated when nobody is paying attention to you.

A lot of websites I liked using that launched at the same time I did on HN are now dead despite my asking to pay to use them. slowcop.com is one that springs to mind. I used that damn near every day and still miss it.

I wonder just how much success (small and large) can be attributed to just continuing for years till it actually works.

Maybe people just underestimate how long it takes to actually get traction.
Actually the article seems like a lot of conjecture. I should have prefaced my comment by saying that if they are right, perhaps there is a higher resolution and this might be why.

Whether they are right I don't think we have enough evidence either way, really.
For an alternative body to that headline, you could say:

A) A 30 year history and culture of setting and raising the bar in application design, attracting like-minded designers and developers to their platforms who continually one-up Apple's own efforts.
B) Coherent, stable, powerful application frameworks
C) Relatively fixed device specifications
This archive is taking one more step - right-click, save-as, "re-post to the web".
I absolutely agree. If your startup/project etc is the kind that falls into the long tail, you will stand to benefit from advertising a lot.

For Fork the Cookbook, we had at one point contemplated targeting "recipe management app" and related keywords. I did a quick estimation of effort (I work in online advertising as my day job), and decided that effort was better spent blogging and looking for bloggers.
It's historical. It was started by reddit user http://reddit.com/u/eawesome3

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/c0vx3/dear_reddit...

http://www.reddit.com/r/UniversityofReddit/comments/c0wil/we...
The downvotes are likely because they're reading your MySQL-to-Postgres anecdote as the firing of a shot in an unrelated battle many love to hate, if not a mild troll.
We all know that piracy increases sales, if anything, because [personal story about buying something].
I don't think that there's an option to make your HN email public (yours isn't listed), so if you reply to this comment with it I can email you.
Wow, what a terrible comment. I'm surprised to have heard it from you. Witch hunts against companies that use language development as a tool; what a weird thing to see voted to the top of an HN thread.
Breaking rules makes you seem powerful
I was planning to let the book stand on its own. But the more time passes, the more requests I see for an updated edition. The book is approaching 11,000 copies sold to date, so it's obviously filled a need.

I'm booked through May with MicroConf and the launch of GetDrip.com...but I've added "Consider v2.0 of Start Small, Stay Small" to my task list. To be considered for the latter half of 2013!
This may seem like a really dumb question, but how is this different than just buying bitcoins as an investment? I don't understand what a hedge fund is. If I choose to invest in bitcoin, why would I want to be forced to buy $100,000 and then $10,000 per year?
djb says they're awesome!

But more seriously, salsa is very efficient, so if rc4 is still being used for performance reasons, rather than security reasons, then it would seem to be to be a decent replacement.
Rock and roll. I've seen that movie 20+ times.
Thank you, this method worked and my account is permanently gone now. I still run my blog at another location so I can maintain my content which I prefer to have some level of control over - even if it isn't total.
No.

Quite interesting looking at the comments here furiously looking for flaws in the study.

If the results had found the opposite, I doubt the study's legitimacy would have been so vigorously questioned.
So the secret is that they get all their own apps and the best apps from their competitors?

I guess the benefit is entirely predicated on whether the user cares for the default apple offerings. I don't personally care for the vast majority of them.
Yep, FF on mac here and it looks great. Why do people keep using Chrome, IE, Safari, and Opera?
I bet this would work much better with glycerin or glycerin/water mixtures. Water has a low viscosity, meaning it's relatively easy to induce turbulence. And turbulence, while not exactly chaotic, is somewhat random and nonperiodic.
Public domain is explicitly part of the Berne Convention. Bernstein is, as CS professors go, atypically engaged with the law in general and copyright particularly. I wouldn't be too quick to dismiss him.
Killer Ukrainian dolphins on the loose
That's neat, but where is the hedge against bitcoins? This is a long hedge, you'll need short hedges too, no?
Hi, I'm in the market* for an Arabic sentiment engine for some academic research, can you contact me? My email is in my profile.

*Note that "in the market" doesn't mean I have a lot of money to spend :D
RC4 is fast, but it's being used because Google was forced by circumstance to use it.
Do our eyes have a simplistic frame-rate thus allowing us to reproduce the effect "in real life"?
... and only for the 18 weeks, and 2 major studios, that they studied.

Well, that sounds okay.

But I'd like a statistician to look at the numbers. (especially their model and their scatter plots.)
OpenStruct for rapid object prototyping in Ruby
> Name an alternative that can be cheaply bought on any stupid webhoster out there.

That's not really germane. PHP is perfectly awful -- it's a security disaster, like BASIC it's a terrible language for students (because student programmers "imprint" on their first languages), and there are many alternatives.

http://www.conigliaro.org/2011/07/22/php-considered-harmful/

http://furiouspurpose.blogspot.com/2009/06/php-considered-ha...
When Diablo 1 and 2 were launched, the single player was 100% client-side. As a result, there was rampant cheating. Jump online with your character, and you had an unfair advantage because of your infinite gold, stacked character and rare inventory.

Diablo 3 went always-online to help solve this problem. Loot discovery, inventory, and fighting outcomes are entirely controlled server-side. While it's possible that they could have forced separate online-only and offline characters, it's reasonable for them to have decided online-only for all characters and not duplicate the logic and engineering. Not to mention DRM.

With Sim City, it's conceivable that they went this way as well.
I think the only advantage is for the regulated entities that you mention.
COBOL gets all the hate but if they have a Big iron mainframe then they'll most likely be running RPG.
Or this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mODqQvlrgIQ
Unfortunately no, our eyes don't have a simple "refresh rate." Instead, you'd have to control the light to arrive at the eye at the right frequency - which you've likely experienced through strobe lighting.
It seems like it would be much cooler with the strobe, as it's easy to change it to any frequency along with the speaker frequency (compared to dynamically changing the frame rate on a camera [though, that sounds awesome]). I also wonder what the stream looks like in real life, but am amused that I cannot trust any video to show me.
Even if the result of this study is accurate, the point is irrelevant. Piracy cannot be stopped, and eventually free methods of consuming content will become so prevalent that content creators will be forced to adopted entirely new business models. I don't believe there will ever be a silver bullet that can block piracy; DRM schemes will only serve to ruin the experience for paying customers, while free, pirated alternatives will continue to proliferate and present better and better user experiences.

Perhaps a revenue model based solely on product placement could work, but most likely entirely new business models that haven't yet been dreamt up will resurrect entertainment for profit. Perhaps digital sales will serve purely to advertise performances or other tangible art experiences. Regardless, I imagine the entertainment industry will look vastly different in 10-15 years.
I also tried "Show HN" and Betali.st for my project - sideprojectors (http://www.sideprojectors.com).

They are good starting points. I think Reddit also has a sub-reddit regarding startups.

As a shameless plug, would you like to post your project on SideProjectors? :) I'm doing a private beta testing at the moment with a handful of users. It's a showcase/discovery too for side projects.
I would argue that ~25% == mainstream, especially for a hipster who won't even consider something once more than one friend mentions it...
They were looking at data from two major studios. I assume those studios had good penetration/data for those particular countries.
I'd argue they still do, it's just a modal view with a different animation, thus it makes sense to follow those conventions.

Also in the web app I tend to just click on the background to close a card.
Self-censoring is in my view an important, but largely ignored phenomena that should be more researched.

There is some evidence that people stay away from research that is considered controversial by the public [1]. In my own experience (biologist), a lot of biologists shun away from public debates on more controversial stuff like GMs or creatonism out of fear of being associated with the fringe-elements participating, or are scared of "loosing" their reputation.

There was a Nature survey in which 15% of 3247 scientists confessed of having changed their study-design, methodology or findings because of pressure from a funding agency [2].

More indirectly, this study checked out studies on a fat substitute from Procter & Gamble and found that "supportive authors were significantly more likely than critical or neutral authors to have financial relationships with P&G"... [3]

These are just glimpses, from my own experience I would say that the problem is larger than it's currently being described.

Edit: There is little to no research on what's happening directly with the scientists in a situation in which funding influences findings. Does the researcher self-censor out of fear of loosing funding? Is there a slightly threatening phone-call from the funding agency? No-one really knows!

[1] http://www.examiner.com/article/government-funded-research-o...

[2] http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v435/n7043/fig_tab/4357...

[3] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1447808/?tool=pu...
Everything you say is true, but I wasn't addressing whether PHP is available everywhere and widely adopted, I was addressing how terrible it is. If ubiquity equaled quality, Windows would be the best OS by acclaim.

And I posted my remarks only because the OP is a student, new to the world of programming.
The Rent is Too Damn High. http://www.amazon.com/The-Rent-Damn-High-ebook/dp/B0078XGJXO

If only the NIMBY bastards in the bay area would allow more construction to happen, this could all be alleviated. Construction would not only ease rents at all levels, but also create a lot of jobs that go to the working classes.
Ah, right. My bad. The folly is still fresh, and there is still a bit of pent-up rage that I hadn't made this discovery sooner.
I would love to. Have submitted and waiting for you to be in touch :)
Steve Jobs to be manga hero in official Japanese comic series
Added username and email too.
Add require_relative to IRB
Ah cheers for that, makes a little more sense now.
Mossberg's got an interesting observation here, but he's missing a really important point: Apple's core profit engine is selling hardware. Amazon and Google make money by selling services and non-hardware goods.

Since Amazon/Google make money regardless of platform, they have an incentive to produce content for Apple's platform. Since Apple only makes a real profit if/when you buy their hardware, they have no incentive to do the same.
Oh, Clojure is probaly more useful in practice. We also stick to a Haskell dialect at work, and don't dabble in Agda for production.
I don't think that's true. There are plenty of threadsafe gems with C extensions, and plenty of non-threadsafe pure ruby gems that mutate class/class-instance variable willy-nilly.
Finally, the real-time Markdown wiki I've been waiting for. Love it.

What's the business model? I would be sad to see this acquihired and disappear in a puff of smoke.
Bicycles and Rationality
That's just an imbalance in programming virtues: too much hubris, not nearly enough laziness (unknown impatience).
I didn't have problems 1, 2 or 4 with STG - we were tiny and none of us had any assets (I don't think they even asked).

We didn't try to do number 3 maybe that's the problem?