skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Somewhat. It depends on what you value. There are other considerations. If price is important to you, but time is not, it's cheaper to have a home desktop printer. 3D printing services are quite expensive. The size of the object also affects your decision. The larger the object, the more economic it is to print it yourself.

If price is less of a consideration, but time is more important, then you may find it's better to use a 3D printed service, so you don't have to maintain the machine. Or if you don't print very often. Or the object you want to print is relatively small, so it doesn't break your wallet.

The advantages you cite, such as higher quality and less hassle, will diminish, given the pace and directions for improvement of the current generation of 3D printers. I believe different materials and hence printing techniques, will remain a differentiator of online printing services for the foreseeable future.
So close, with minimal effort they could map that to '/bgb/1353'. It seems that dejure.org actually works that way -> http://dejure.org/gesetze/BGB/1353 seems to map to http://dejure.org/gesetze/BGB/1353.html, but they graciously ignore any kind of file extension...
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Nice, you almost managed to get a spit-take out of me for this post.

I'll just note that the philosophers who answered this survey do not appear to agree with you.
Give away the car for free and make money on servicing.

"Low Interest" loans

Hmm.
Comfort food is comforting because it is nostalgic.
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I read this and was interested enough to do a bit more research into the topic, and found this writeup here: http://formulate.com.au/research/mad-libs-madness/

Unsurprisingly, context is everything, and for some things standard forms are clearer and win in UX. Some sites saw conversions decrease from using mad lib forms, some saw them increase.

A/B test it if you do this.
Ask HN: Coming back after burning out?
I burned out at the end of last year. At the time I felt I needed to spend every second in front of the computer - I'd feel guilty if I wasn't working on something, anything, productive or not.

I hit a wall in a big way. Heart palpitations would wake me up in the middle of the night and my blood pressure was through the roof. The culmination was bursting into tears in front of my partner and being unable to stop crying.

At that point I saw a very nice doc who prescribed me some meds, calmed me down and over the festive period I backed away from everything a little bit.

It's now 4 months on. I'm exercising almost every day, eating well and I feel much better. But I'm still having a problem with sleep and motivation. It's very difficult to get to sleep (and consequently get up), and I find it hard to motivate myself into doing much. As the bulk of my income is contract work, I'm finding this really hard to deal with.

I've read a lot of posts on HN over the last few years about stress and burning out, but few about getting the motivation back. Anyone who's been there - do you have any advice? Medical or otherwise?

Thanks in advance and apologies on the anon account.
There are 3 different concepts in play here:

- rsync algorithm

- rsync protocol

- rsync program

The algorithm is fairly well described here: http://rsync.samba.org/tech_report/

The protocol documentation is non existant (AFAIK), and basically the only standard is the rsync program itself. The protocol is strange, and there are some quirks, so it is not trivial to replicate or write custom clients.

This is why it is hard to implement an rsync program that can talk to the standard rsync program, but it is not that hard to implement your own client and server which use a custom protocol that implements an rsync-like algorithm.
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Twitter has been using Drupal for some time at https://dev.twitter.com.

Source: http://buytaert.net/twitter-using-drupal
There's quite a bit of further discussion (including explanations of a number of the questions) scattered across a couple different LessWrong threads.

Explanations of many of the questions:
http://lesswrong.com/lw/emj/poll_less_wrong_and_mainstream_p...

What do professional philosophers believe, and why?
http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/hbw/what_do_professiona...

Here's a list of links to more discussions: http://philpapers.org/bbs/thread.pl?tId=420 I haven't actually gone through these, though.

You might also want to check out:

Survey of eating habits among philosophers:
http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2012/10/philosophers-e...

Survey of beliefs among economists:
http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2009/02/news-flash-economists...
Exactly, this doesn't look like Adium, it looks like a flat version if Apple Messages.
What do you mean by "practically we can treat the mind as an epiphenomenon"?
I'm surprised scientific realism fared as well as it did.
Because stupid linkbait survey.
I am both astounded and encouraged by the fact that the NHS has such a high trust rating.

I wonder how that could factor into the ongoing American health care debate.
You saw that AMD announced hUMA? So AMD APU's will have the advantage again if they land about the same time.
I just started as a BA at Westminster, currently working on customer journeys and user stories, redesigned website and content to follow early next year....watch this space...!
I get you are joking but... That's just as bad as thinking that the most popular answer is the right one. The best you can do is to decide which one is best by analyzing the contents, not the % values.
I agree. Daily exercise and stretching helps tremendously as does keeping an eye on your posture. If I slack off on exercising over a week or so I begin to see my posture decline and start to feel uncomfortable while sitting for long periods.
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Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses.
It's not the ALTER that's expensive, it's the people who have to figure out that the ALTER has to be run, set up testing environments, run test cases, verify them, run the actual update in production, etc. (Or: possibly miss it and thus end up with bad data or crashes in production.)

I'd think the number of cases in which it's a worthwhile tradeoff for new development to save 4 bytes times even tens of millions of rows (each million costs you 4 MB, the size of a song) is vanishingly small today.
This bug is my retirement fund :)
Just like those COBOL guys back in 2000.
32 bit integers are probably the most commonly used size for integers in contemporary programming, even though they seldom will need anything near that kind of capacity. Is it really necessary to be a miser with memory when it comes to this?
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I see that you are from Uruguay, where you in Argentina at Corralito's time? ITT Uruguay is more trustworthy in banking terms.
I agree with you.

It may be that I'm just partially missing the point of the groups, but I think that what I was actually looking for from women-in-CS groups is "doing very technical things with other women". Most women-in-cs/tech groups I've encountered are more "doing/talking about female-focused things with women who are technical".

Do you think there are groups that do what I was really looking for?
Not knowing which faculties at which institutions this derives from (although, one could probably assume that they're not Theist institutions) that is a plausible explanation.

However, if you change the Population selection to the "No Affiliation" option the numbers are still pretty skewed in the atheist direction.
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All very nice for you, but we've hit a core issue: you are now talking about your personal preferences for tax rates, rather than addressing the actual economic question regarding start-ups.

The economic question is: "At what level of taxation (both in terms of effective tax percentage and income level where it kicks in) do taxes become the largest factor preventing the formation of start-up companies?" We need to be talking about Big-O optimization: we should always solve first the problem that is largest and whose solution will cause the fewest new problems.

So, if the amount of startups would be the same why not to tax at 80% ? Would it still be the same?

See above. You are asking the wrong question: "Do we get more start-ups with a higher tax rate or a lower tax rate?" That assumes tax rates on high-income professionals (in Israel that 46% rate is for the top 10% of income-earners, the people earning the most income you can without owning a company) are the dominant factor in whether or not a start-up gets founded.

This assumption is ideologically based (in American anti-tax rhetoric) and almost definitely wrong. Why? It's obvious: a start-up founder running on savings and investment isn't actually bringing in enough new income to get hit with the top tax-rate! Think about it: if you're a founder getting your start-up going, in any country, do you burn your seed money to give yourself a salary in the top 10% of incomes, or do you forgo the larger personal income to keep more of the money in the business for a longer time? Obviously the latter.

So the tax rate on the rich and the upper-upper middle class is not the deciding factor. To pose a counterpoint: would you found a start-up in a country with a 10% income tax but no intellectual-property laws?
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I was surprised to see so many leaning towards the switch in the Trolley problem. I still haven't made my mind on that.
Or a device you do control streaming to servers to you do control. There isn't a little MiniTruth man checking every byte going through the camera.
Was going to say the same thing. I hate to be pedantic, but a better term is "fill in the blank". Traditional forms would actually be closer to a MadLibs interface than this.

Still, I knew exactly what the form was from calling it a MadLibs form, so it didn't confuse me.
My guess is Wiccan. Philosophers love their witches [1].

[1] http://www.uwo.ca/philosophy/undergraduate/Courses/2000.html...
If you flick the setting at the top to "fine" you get a deeper breakdown. I won't paste it here as it would be quite tedious to format it here.
Speaking for my self, a UK student 14 ish years ago doing Computer Science...

I found lectures mostly a waste of time. What I found was that the lecturers were simply presenting the latest chapter from the prescribed text book. So, I ended up reading the chapter the night before and just used the lecture as confirmation of what I thought I had learned by reading. Very occasionally I used the lecture to ask some question, but that was rare. By Year 2, I barely went to lectures and simply studied at home, handed in the required work, then did the exams.

Now, I fully accept that what I did does not suit all, in fact I am happy to be considered a minority case, but, and here is the point I'm waffling towards, I did have to question the true value of actual lecturers if all they did was present chapters of a text book. A video on-line might well have been better.

Another thing I ended up questioning was the length of the degree course. It could have been very easily done in 2 years, if not less.
Yes, I'm aware that majority of people don't agree with my philosophical views, but I think they're pretty rational, not the usual philosophical babble :)
Bikes. And doughnuts.
If you have to use time in multiple indexes, you would use significantly more than 4MB in a 10 million row table with 64bit vs 32bit integers.
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Rerun of Y2K...
One of the former chairs of our department (CS at the University of Chicago) has a saying, "all curriculum reforms initially succeed."

So I'm not surprised that the pilot program had great pass rates, as pilot programs are usually staffed by eager people with amazing support networks who are interested in putting in the time to make it work. It'll be more interesting if SJSU does ramp up their experiments to start to include professors or lecturers who are just fulfilling their service requirements and seeing what the difference is between student performance under those faculty and the prior model.
It helps if a) you're old, b) you drink large amounts of coffee/juice/water. Then you'll be getting up at least once an hour, like it or not.
I completely agree with this one. I do design and code and it really pisses me off how pages are designed (I design ugly websites, and pretty ones as well, but whoever I design for, it works).

Everything looks like a theme now-days, and oversized as well because it's responsive. Some stuff is just useless and every designer keeps saying ' less is more, less is more ' while designing stuff like this? Less IS more when you know how to use it, when to use it, and what it really means.

I would give this website 2/10 for their effort.
> The letter is part of a brewing debate about how MOOCs might deepen the divide between wealthy universities, which produce MOOCs, and less wealthy ones, which buy licenses to use those MOOCs from providers like edX.

Why are only top universities producing MOOCs anyway? Do San Jose lack any renowned classes, or just the will to MOOCify them?
Ask HN: When can we have keyboard shortcut please?
Should take less than a couple of hours to implement and will make HN interface much more hacker friendly.
Cool tool, a bit of a pointless jab at Etsy.

I don't know how it queries up Memcached but it's probably a good idea to see how it affects performance of it before running it against a production cache pool.

Just a thought.
Apparently he is a 3rd connection. o.O
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What do you mean by designing better cars? How would that help?

Also wouldn't there already be an industry that makes 3D printers? Why would the car companies try to go into that business?
Why is measuring so hard?
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Weird that a tightly controlled nation like China hasn't killed the fen yet.
Agreed - I am actually building my own CMS which I really really need to use to launch my blog Real Soon Now.

So its OSS, which may or may not be a good idea, but this does beg the question - how much of my needs are likely to replicate into the communities needs or is it just worthwhile for everyone sticking with their own me-ware for now?
The "responsive" design of the page might shrink the image down if your window is too narrow. Here's a direct link to the image on the page: http://cdn-static.zdnet.com/i/r/story/70/00/014803/freetype-... which looks fine, I think.
I take "other" to mean "Well, it's complicated."

I'm most surprised to see deontology so high (nearly as high as consequentialism) under normative ethics.
Tl;dr: they're distributed among "unclear", "more than one", "intermediate view" and so on.
Optimistic news sites and forum posters seem to expect that the Air will get Retina treatment this year. That seems extremely unlikely to me. Even it if were cost/tech viable, it would significantly erode the differentiation between the Air and Pro lines.

Is a safe bet for both the new 11" and 13" Airs to get the non-Iris GT3 part? Or is the 11" in weedy GT2 territory?
This is a perfect example of failing to understand the open source mindset.

MOOC's are two things, a curriculum and a means of teaching. If either of those are subpar, you can both evaluate that, and/or make a case for why they are detrimental. Aside from that, these are just tools and pieces of content. It's not an existential threat to professors any more than Wordpress is an existential threat to web developers, and certainly not a threat to content publishers.
Simple, switching results in fewer deaths.
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not gonna nitpick because this is the first government site that actually looks decent.
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There is a limitation: questions and answers. The place professors will have value is in direct student communication.
T-Mobile is a national provider whose territory includes Puerto Rico. The lack of support is not PR-specific; it's the same company and same infrastructure.
>Content of consciousness is the only thing that we can be sure of. Let's say I'm scared. This fact is true no matter if I'm in a dream or hallucinating.

I admire your confidence.
Laundry? US bills are made of cloth.
In all fairness, undergrad CS at UChicago has gotten way more awesome in the last few years. There wasn't even an active ACM on campus.
Here's one of my favorites. Glad to see the pros are evenly split, because this one really toasts my brain too.

Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death?

Accept or lean toward: survival	337 / 931 (36.2%)
Other	304 / 931 (32.7%)
Accept or lean toward: death	290 / 931 (31.1%)
I agree, I was looking for a definition all over the page.
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Not much in the short term. This sort of thing still isn't really suited to the sort of industrialized testing most commercial labs are undertaking. Maybe when the price comes down enough or they're reusable in arrays it might have more of an effect, but at the moment it's still more reasonable to hire a few entry-level people to perform DNA extraction and PCR.
I can't believe how many upvotes this difficult to navigate website has.
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I'm sorry, but when did pornography start implying objectification? Last I checked, both men and women watched porn.
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Your prejudice is showing. Philosophy is about knowing and reasoning about reality. There are charlatans who try to pass off their weak ideas through obfuscation, but there is a core to the endeavor of philosophy, and good philosophers out there making noteworthy observations about reality.
Glad to see they finally fixed that with a redirect to a sane url.
I seriously doubt that. Most "professional philosophers" these days are doing analytical philosophy, and it's been at least 500 years since a non-crazy person has been persuaded one way or the other about God by studying logic.

I suppose Georg Cantor might be an exception to this.
That was not my experience. I went to a small Cal State Uni campus in the 80s. However, I often had good professors who expected you to read the material before class, so as to have a discussion about it in class, rather than just a talking head in front. While it may not have been a prestigious school, staff spent time on the students.
I just pictured somebody at Twitter suggesting that they use Tumblr and getting death stares from everybody in the room.
I agree, it would definitely be neat. What would the business model be like though? How would they generate revenue?
> It's a valid question that must be asked and answered and can't be ignored just because people get tired of hearing it.

It is a valid question. It has been asked, and answered, many many times, with research, with opinion and philosophy, with politics.

Concern trolling is "just asking questions" - there comes a point where we need to say that these questions have been answered thoroughly, and that there's little left to be said about them, and that people who want the answer should really do the minimal amount of work needed to get very many answers.

This is not a question plagued by the LMGTFY problem, where people are told to use a search engine, but they only find other people asking the question and being told to use a search engine.
What you have just said doesn't in any way help answer most of the questions on the survey.
This a total 1st world problem, but I stress over what to make for dinner way too much. This seems like it would help a lot. At least I cook.
Certainly, but it's not completely one sided, which is why a word that is completely one sided is unfortunate. It's unfortunate because it simultaneously alienates some reasonable people who would be comfortable participating under a gender neutral term and attracts some radical people who would not be comfortable participating under a gender neutral term.
I completely agree, but The Chronicle is the higher ed trade magazine. It may be like I saying MMO in a gamer magazine or TDD in a developer's blog.
"When Netflix launches in a new territory, the torrent traffic drops..."
Is this related to artificial intelligence? (strong vs weak AI)
Wow, I've never once seen any of that on the site. All our phones are on Domino prepaid plans, though (that might make a difference) because we're only in Hungary one year in three or so and a regular contract just wouldn't make sense.

I'll have to take another look.
I always have msttcorefonts installed which includes Verdana. It's part of the script that is the first thing I run on a new install...

(Like, a half hour ago, I checked that Verdana was installed and then recreated the screenshot from the original post and it's identical as far as I can tell.
I read the original open letter and think that there's quite a bit of misleading and FUDding, of course, masterfully done coming from a philosophy prof. I approach this from a different angle:

"We believe the purchasing of online and blended courses is not driven by concerns about pedagogy, but by an effort to restructure the U.S. university system in general ..."

I agree with him completely here, a large part of this discussion is not about pedagogy but is financially driven. However, unlike him, I think this is a good thing at a time where many universities are battling high costs and students loans have reached record high levels.

The problem with his main argument (and with similar arguments about teacher ratings, etc.) is that it pits the best possible case against the proposed idea in trying to refute it: Isn't having an excellent prof/teacher in flesh and blood who cares about your education better than some canned video? Well, obviously it is, but the point is a lot of professors/teachers are not like that, they, like everything else, have a distribution of excellence.

If we rephrase the argument as: Isn't having lecture videos of good faculty preferable to having an underpaid, uncaring professor/teacher or the option of canceling that course because the university cannot afford it? This is the question that Prof. Hadreas needs to answer, I think.
It's great to see numbers but the reality is to get exact answers from any professional Philosopher you would need to let them rewrite the question every time. Working with pro and academic Philosophers on symposiums taught me that even the folks in the same micro sub-field with each other have these chasms of interpretation that led to huge difference in expression.
That seems very easy to detect (with police on foot, like US underage alcohol stings) and send people to gulag for.
If you pick up a copy of Hegel's smaller Logic or Philosophy of Mind, you will find that about 2/3 of the text (as I remember it) is essentially boiled-down lecture notes from his students. For all that, professors have taught courses on Hegel, and their students have had mixed success figuring out what exactly he was driving at.
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Thanks for the explanation! Now I'm way interested in reading more about these zombies.
The problem with this (and my viewing habits) is not that Netflix doesn't have any good movies, it's that they've got mostly good movies I've already watched.
The Humanscale Freedom chairs are amazing.

I had one in the UK, and gave it to my accountant when I left for North America 6 years ago. I still miss that chair.
[Sorry about the horrendous spelling/grammar errors. I was in a hurry.]
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