skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why not go full scale and demand choice of not using the fruits of scary science at all? Demand every store to carry the products made of wild plants and hunted down wild animals only, with no products of selection (aka "genetically modified") at all? Why would mega-corporations force you to eat modern wheat, whose yields and chemical composition was completely modified by the corporate puppetmasters and whose production requires to use herbicides, fungicides, pesticides, fertilizers and a variety of modern chemicals and technologies that very well might be accepted? Why not do the due diligence and eat the healthy diet that allowed our cavemen ancestors to live long and healthy lives? And if you can not feed 7 billion people with caveman technologies - too bad for them, you only have one life and you can't spend it worrying about such things.
What do you expect? You were hired as a contractor tester. I can almost guarantee your experience would have been different if you were a full time developer at that company. There's a million guys they can get to test that game.
The difference between L1 and L2 language competency is deeper than whether you acquired multiple languages in "parallel" or "serially". The competency level, whether you are fluent or near-fluent, is based on the critical-learning period which ends roughly at the onset of puberty. Nothing rules out acquiring multiple L1s in serial, which I suspect to be the case in many instances of multilingual children.

Moreover, the author's anecdotal support is in contradiction with the fact that children do acquire multiple languages largely without problem. There are effects of one language on the other, but they are different in natural, and far less frequent, to crossover effects in L2 language learning, e.g. learning Spanish is high school.
The only thing SV doesn't offer is 3 months of vacation - unlimited vacation on the other hand is fairly popular: http://www.quora.com/Startups/Which-companies-have-an-unlimi...

There's a war on for talent now. Be careful what you wish for.
Doz and Moz operate in the same industry and the use of Doz would most certainly trip the reasonable person standard for confusing similarity. If "Doz's" attorney had performed a 30 min trademark search with the USPTO "Doz" would have been advised to choose a different name.
Huh? I meant wrong by the Doz guys doing this blog post for link bait. I think Moz has every (legal and moral) right to what they did.
Is there a technology aside from VGA that can drive 4k @ 120Hz?
> Yes, the FBI will be impeded when they are held accountable for their actions and when their actions are not secret.

That's not what I asked. Can you answer the question I asked?

> Otherwise I want tax money spent building better schools, paying for universal healthcare, paying for scientific research, paying for competent public defenders, etc. Sorry, but you cannot scare me with hypothetical terrorists.

The US is a representative democracy, so this is exactly what you are putting money towards, as is the intent when conceived. We don't live in a direct democracy because of precisely the answer to the question I had asked - the layman is incapable of safely guiding a government due to the layman's general ignorance. Representatives are selected among the layman population and then these representatives are educated and given the ability to make decisions on behalf of those who elected him/her. Your tax money is not yours to decide what to spend it on directly. You indirectly decide by electing someone. Oftentimes this upsets people mostly because it puts in perspective exactly how little control over their government any one individual has, but that's how it's designed.

No one gets to be king, not even you.

And to answer your question: no. There will always be people who want to hurt the US and the people who live in it. Obviously it's a constant struggle between those who care more about keeping us safe and those who care more about maintaining freedom for the citizens of the US, but that's a good thing. The struggle will never end, neither side will ever stop fighting, and the US will (hopefully) be better for it. Your extremist view is unhelpful and frankly not relevant. You remove yourself from the conversation by taking such an outside stance.
What people are concerned about is basically "embrace, extend, extinguish" business practices applied to agriculture, with the result being a consolidation of ownership of the means of seed production into the hands of a small oligopoly of companies with interlocking patent agreements.

(Others have pointed out that no, Monsanto does not control the whole industry. But they are by far the dominant player.)
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kW isn't that high for pulsed lasers. Particularly since with Q-switching you can get very short pulses and mode-locking ridiculously short pulses. Total energy for a 1ps pulse at 100kW is negligible.
Part of that cost was due to the market though. IIRC it and others like it were targeted at medical imaging and to a limited degree publishing.

If you're an oncologist looking at MRI images, $8K is a Starbucks money.
I skimmed the article, but I did not see mention of the U.S.'s petro-chemical-based agriculture. Without the outsized contributions that petro-chemicals make to the production process of corn and corn syrup (engine fuel, fertilizer, distillation, etc.), corn syrup and HFCS production would be much more directly (as opposed to externalized costs) expensive.

I guess we should also toss soil erosion into the mix. Productive topsoil is a finite resource, and modern agriculture -- while it has improved somewhat, recently -- is expensive in this regard.
I've thought about it and I believe this is the most likely solution. The vehicle would remain aerodynamically subsonic, but could attain supersonic speeds as the air in the tunnel speeds up. This would also allow vehicles to follow one another without too much separation. Turbo fans can be used to keep the air moving throughout the loop. If enough vehicles are running at full speed, the system will always be "pressurized" as the vehicles themselves will accelerate the air in the loop.

Passenger/cargo loading would occur outside the loop (a fork) and would be brought up to speed by the power rail and inserted into the loop.

EDIT - It appears jacquesmattheij agrees with us:

http://jacquesmattheij.com/elon-musk-and-the-hyperloop
> At the end of the day I think you get the development team you deserve/s/pay for.
"GetX" is not idiomatic, but "IsX" seems to be idiomatic:
http://golang.org/pkg/net/#IP.IsGlobalUnicast
+1, but do you mind expanding on "discoverability"?
Not only is the French prison system severely underfunded, as you say, but it has been consistently so for years, despite repeated warnings from the EU. This has been compounded by recent laws handing out longer prison sentences for more crimes (but obviously not following through with a matching increase in funding for the prison system).

As very few prisoners actually vote, this horrid blight on France's human rights track record isn't going to change in a hurry.
Being able to envision the future is only a small part of being able to see the big picture, being able to see the big picture is an even smaller part of being a successful founder. But yes, I think it is a prerequisite to be a great founder.
Yandex moves forward with interactive Search Result Pages
What do you guys think of the next step by Yandex http://beta.yandex.com/ ? Would you schedule your doctors appointment within the search results?
Narcissism:

1. Excessive or erotic interest in
oneself and one's physical
appearance

2. Extreme selfishness, with a
grandiose view of one's own
talents and a craving for
admiration

So explain to me; what does quantified self have to do with narcissism?
re:6

Isn't it?

I kid, I kid. Mostly. But the revealed preferences of where people choose to move and at what price does say a lot about places. Most people, given a choice of buying a nice house in Fargo or Macon for $150k or a nice house in San Francisco or Palo Alto for $150k, probably will go for the latter.
How can you get into HFT without a degree from an elite school?
Most states have private prisons. We read about that all the time, mainly on how profitable they are.

But unlike private health care, there's no one even poking it with a stick in the start up world.
I wonder when Moz was SEOMoz, did they go after SEODoz too? I don't know much about SEO, so I don't know similar they are. But if Moz as SEOMoz didn't pursue similar action against SEODoz, I don't believe they should be doing same as Moz with Doz.

The unfortunate situation is that due to small size of Doz, the cost of litigation will be prohibitive for Doz otherwise SEOMoz vs SEODoz will be a good point in litigation.

What disappoints me most is a companies that as a startup expect to be treated nicely by larger ones, start to behave similar to larger one when they become large themselves.
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I suspect Woz does not do much SEO - so he is safe. For now.
More like third. A proper first class would not be downvoted.
Modeling combat
I think people forget that judges are appointed by elected officials who are acting on their behalf. They either forget this, or are unsatisfied with it due to the incredibly small ability this system grants any individual person (by design).

The idea is that a judge will act on behalf of those who appointed him/her, who are in turn acting on behalf of those who elected him/her. If you want something to happen differently, elect someone different. That's your only mechanism for change in this current system.
I think what you're describing is the observer effect[1], not Heisenberg uncertainty[2].

Heisenberg uncertainty is much stronger than not being able to observe a system without disturbing it. It's more like, at a physical level, making the probability distribution of a position tight makes the distribution of momentum wide.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer_effect_(physics)
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisenberg_uncertainty
Blah blah blah. Knowing about logical fallacies can be instructive for the skeptical among us, but often bringing them in every-day discussions is pedantic.

Regardless of whether the statement was an appeal to authority, regardless of whether Joe Armstrong or arianvanp are "true authorities" or if that's even objectively determinable, regardless of whether we consider inductive arguments as persuasive... regardless of all that.. we have brains. You can see what Joe Armstrong wrote. You can pick up Erlang and Elixir and use them yourself. You can see what arianvanp wrote. Some of us (excepting jacquesm, of course) have the capacity to use our own brains to consider the validity of the arguments at hand without having to resort to the lazy inductive argument that Joe Armstrong is smart about Erlang and therefore is probably right.

If you have a brain, use it instead of checking it in at the door.
Not ever caring about SEOmoz I always thought they were an arm of Mozilla until recently. :|
The only legal obligation here is probably that of your lawyers to cover their asses.

You should ask them what are the actual risks, and how likely they are to materialize, so that you can make an informed decision. Your lawyers' responsibility isn't to your company's total well-being, but its legal well being. They warn you of legal dangers, but do not consider the cost of protecting you from them -- costs like bad PR. That's why you should tell your lawyers: thank you for warning me, but now I need you to try and help me make a global risk-assessment, one that takes into account all sorts of fallout.
http://web.archive.org/web/20121207022623/http://moz.com/

While SeoMoz was promoting Marketing Analytics on this domain name there was nothing about moving all of their services to it. It seems to me that Doz has a reasonable chance (25% maybe) against the giant Moz. I would fight it! There is no way the DOZ guy could predict a domain name shift for Seomoz.com. I visit Woz.com occasionally to see what Woz is up to. I rarely search DMoz.com anymore. I would fight the Moz trademark if there is one... it is too common.

Is moz a person (Woz), a Browser?, a Metal Laminates and Architectural Products company, do they sell MOZ Luxury Wheels?, a songwriter? http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Moz, finance.yahoo.com/q?s=MOZ.TO, do they sell sweaters? viva-moz.com, is it a cafe? moz-cafe, another person Middelton-Moz Institute?, does it have to do with orphans? projectmoz.com. That is just 2 pages on Google.
> Even if you appeal to a True authority, you're just moving the onus to the one you're arguing with. You're not giving a valid argument, but ask your opponent to go find a counterargument himself.

This is always the case, though. If I say, "Fish need water, fish are good, so we should provide water," you have to independently verify my claims yourself or choose to accept the assertion.

No claim is exempt from this.

> I think many eod consider that a fallacy.

Sorry, I don't know what an "eod" is.

Unless you mean "end of day", in which case you're making an argument from popularity which, I'm sure you know, is a fallacious argument because popularity isn't a valid authority for determining whether or not something is a fallacy.
Although you are right to be skeptical of this claim because near-native competency is always possible, L2 competency (learning a language as a foreign language) will always be less than L1 competency (native). For instance, there are grammatical constructions with very low input frequency about which native speakers have strong intuitions, which L2 speakers will not have. The difference in L1 and L2 intuitions may be remarkably subtle, often semantic/pragmatic, but you don't have to work in the linguistic community for long to come across them.
What kind of founder doesn't think this? "In the future everyone will be using this ____ that I'm making" - whether it's a virtual pet app or a new distribution of ubuntu. The problem is that just thinking this is the case is so far from meaning that it has any chance of coming true that the thought hardly helps anything.

I don't disagree with the thought, I just don't think it really carries any particular meaning.
if progress continues

you mean if there is the slightest bit of evidence for any of these. For which, while avoiding any sort of predictions about the shape of the future, there isn't.
Interesting. I think the real challenge behind this though, is not the API itself, but that for it to be really useful there has to be some sort of semi-automated form of data collection, that can be generally applied.

Relevant:
http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/03/the-personal-analytic...
Not a Dvorak keyboard user, eh?
> Knowing about logical fallacies can be instructive for the skeptical among us, but often bringing them in every-day discussions is pedantic.

That's why I wrote the comment. arianvanp brought them up, was pedantic, and also wrong about their usage.
Typosquatting has a larger legal footprint in copyright cases than Hamming distance, of which I can find no references. I'm not saying that typosquatting is happening here, but I would guess that typosquatting decisions would come to bear here well before HD did.
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Fair point. Updated comment.
Well yes. This is CIA job. Or NSA. Or some of the other 40 intelligence agencies out there.
I can resize columns but I cannot drag them with Chrome 28.
That, and lack of operating system support for high PPI displays. A friend of mine has his PC hooked up to a plasma TV, and it's absolutely astounding how poorly Windows 7's UI element scaling "feature" works, in 2013.
If someone else launched a company "Fogdeam", which sold similar software to yours, surely you'd go after them.

I don't know for sure that we would. But I'd argue that, being a longer word, you get more confusion with the one character change, since any one character changes a smaller percentage of the overall word.

The position of the character definitely matters to. For example, in your "fogdeam" case, I'd say it's iffy. But if somebody launched Dogbeam, I doubt the thought of going after them would even enter my mind. This is all, of course, assuming that they didn't also use a similar logo and similar messaging, etc.
Elixir does have currying/partial application.

I can say:

plus_one = &1 + 1

Enum.map [1,2,3], plus_one
You're correct. However, some related variables like a low recidivism rate check out. Not to mention the same phenomenons in other Nordic countries.
Ford bought hundreds of them for CAD/CAM work. I had one at SGI to add support for high DPI to IRIX in 2003.
Eich on Javascript, at Fluent 2013
http://www.fredberinger.com/images/codereview6.jpg

(This picture is funny but very accurate: If you can review code without swear words, your soul just isn't into it)
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3651551
(1138 points, 456 days ago, 176 comments)
This is awesome. I've also been working on a personal data dashboard app, which is similar. It pulls in data from various social and fitness app APIs. You can also enter in data manually. It's mainly for viewing the data and trends, but I'll add an API too if there's demand.

Is anyone interested in using my dashboard app?
Let's sum up this article.

In order to be successful monetarily, you need to make something people want.

This guy is a savant.
Have you read Jaron Laniers new book "Who Owns the Future"? You have similar ideas ("Imagine if the wealth of data collected about you all went to one place, and, most importantly, was controlled by you. Imagine if Company X had to pay you to know about your Amazon spending habits instead of paying Amazon.")

It's a thought provoking book.. and slightly worrisome to boot (about the state of things at the moment, with regard to the economics of "sharing data").
I know that HN has ring detection for up votes, but how about down votes? As of this writing, this post is only 1 hr old and has 98 points (which is higher than many of the posts currently above it) and 105 comments. yet it's dropping fast. It's a bit suspicious.
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How does a good private school for your children contribute nothing to your equity? That doesn't seem rational to me. I'd think that a great school of any type is going to be very beneficial to equity and life in general.
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I agree that it's good for the sellers (farmers). But how is artificial scarcity and rising prices good against hunger? The argument about rotting crops is a bit weak, AFAIK crops can be stored quite well if kept dry.
"Honestly, you're trying to smear the name of "experts" in general, without separating "health experts" (medical doctors, nutritionists, idiot laypeople who label themselves naturopaths, etc) from scientists. I feel like you're trying to find a way to ignore the entire science of nutrition because you got burned listening to a fad or because big tobacco ran roughshod over science six decades ago."

Absolutely. That's exactly what I'm doing. High-profile failures affect the perception of expertise, even across disciplines. The Harvard that credentialed the economists who said there was no housing bubble is the same Harvard that credentials the scientists who say GMO food is safe. The medical science that big tobacco ran roughshod over six decades ago hasn't changed substantially either-- the institutions and how those institutions are financed and run is largely the same.

People are simply not going to nod their heads to experts anymore. It's over, not just because of high-profile failures but because of the Internet. On the net anyone can appear as an expert. Anyone can look like they know what they're talking about.

How is science going to adapt to that? What I'd like to see is a solution to both problems: a more transparent, open, and engaging scientific process that both reduces the likelihood of major errors and frauds and more deeply engages the public.
It's a good way to do adhoc querying of JSON log files, which among other things, can be useful for debugging.
Nice! A few similar services come to mind that might be of interest:
http://lockerproject.org/
http://humanapi.co/ http://developer.runkeeper.com/healthgraph/

Get your DNA in there too! https://api.23andme.com/
> If "Doz's" attorney had performed a 30 min trademark search with the USPTO "Doz" would have been advised to choose a different name.

I don't believe you, and you haven't provided anything to back up your statement.
Even if the terrorists managed to deliver one 9/11 per month it would take centuries to bring US to their knees.
Same. Where's the github repo?
A bit of a false dichotomy, no? The choices aren't necessarily Palo Alto vs. Fargo.

I moved out of SF about a year ago, I am now paying less for housing, in a better neighborhood, in Manhattan.

The alternative to paying ridiculous sums to live in SV/SF isn't a complete change in lifestyle.
Scheme doesn't stop you from using mutable state, I mean what about the set! function?
He really doesn't care: http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2013-January/07...

"Today there is an unhealthy concentration on language and
efficiency and NOT on how things fit together and
protocols - teach protocols and not languages.

And teach ALGORITHMS."

(previous HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5109052)
Actually it was - upstream is a link to an interview where Moz themselves stated they wanted to appear close to Mozilla.
Sorry you are taking so much crap from everybody on HN here.

We may not like current IP laws in the US, but they are the current IP laws in the US.

I agree with your reasoning.
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Personally I'm more concerned by Mount Rainier, continental America's only "decade volcano".

"The Decade Volcanoes are 16 volcanoes identified by the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior (IAVCEI) as being worthy of particular study in light of their history of large, destructive eruptions and proximity to populated areas."

"More recently (since 2001) funding from the federal government for lahar protection in the area has dried up, leading local authorities in at-risk cities like Orting to fear a disaster similar to the Armero tragedy.[38][39]"
> The belief that "criminals" deserve what they get is how all sorts of draconian laws come into being. When the govt. says it tortured a few alleged terrorists, and you stand on the sidelines and cheer, you don't realize you are being instrumental in your own destruction. Tomorrow it can be you getting water-boarded, and the rest of us "good citizens" will stand on the sidelines and cheer.

First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.

Then they came for the socialists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for me,
and there was no one left to speak for me.

Martin Niemöller
Yeah, to each their own. You still sound extremely anti-science to me, so it's very clear we're going to have diametrically opposed opinions. Thanks for sharing!