skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I don't disagree with you overall (i.e. that military robots are not necessarily Skynet), there is a fundamental difference between having military decisions, even at the tactical level, being made by machines vs. having them made by humans, at least until we have AGI (and possibly even afterwards).
I think the most common model is that tickets are randomly generated and winners share the pot. Two winning tickets do not decrease one's odds from having a winning ticket since they are independent.

Clearly it isn't a forest/trees issue, I just thought it was a bizarre addition since under any reasonable assumptions it is incorrect.
Oh cool, I loved this community collaboration book editing idea when Real World Haskell used it.
http://www.divorcerate.org/
I really thought Microsoft was ahead on this when I noticed their Live.com spider hitting my site 3:1 for Google. That was 1 year ago. What took Google so long to realize real-time is where its at?
That is an interesting form of lottery. Do you have any references to lotteries run in this manner (and proof that the tickets are not randomly generated)?

I think the form of lottery I (and others) are referring to is the one where there are N unique tickets and you have a 1/N chance of matching those N numbers. Therefore, there is no dependence between different tickets and the likelihood of matching the winning numbers.
Very good point. Finding the second breakdown seems harder.

At any rate, it's still the wrong game to play for the OP.
Seamless screen recording? Sweet! Now, to find an excuse to create a screencast...
Part of the sick beauty of Creationism is that there's no way to prove it wrong

It's not that you could never prove Creationism wrong, it's that faith is not required to be proven. That's why it is called faith. People who believe in God are going to believe in God, even if you could irrefutably prove beyond any doubt that (a) evolutionary theory is correct and (b) God doesn't exist.

You'd still have failed to prove it in their "heart", or wherever pure, unadulterated illogicality happens to live.
Although I agree with the main point of this opinion piece ("Reading Aloud" is a Good Thing), the author comes across as a bit pretentious when he tries to capture the magical "je ne sais quoi" about reading aloud, and how young people (students) can't seem to do it right.

(1) "If the work is their own, they are usually trying to read the intention of the writer."

ummm, if it is their own work, then they are the writer. The words express their intention, so reading "the words" and reading "the intention of the writer" are the same thing.

(2) "It’s as though they’re reading what the words represent rather than the words themselves."

ummm, actually, when I read a story to my niece or nephew I don't just "read the words" (if that is all we wanted, we could have a text-to-speech program do it for us). Instead, I often read what the words represent.

"Who goes there?!" shouted the witch, angrily.

"No, no, you're doing it all wrong", whispered the grey-haired professor, almost inaudibly as he shook his head. "No young man", his deep voice admonished loudly, "Just read the words! Read the damn words."
Whatever you do, when it comes to marriage, don't rush into it. Don't do it because it seems like the next logical step, don't do it because it brings a partner health benefits, don't do it because either family is pushing you.

You can take your time, give the r'ship loads of time to be tested (by travel, financial compromises, living together, sexual compatibility, etc) - if and when you do it, only do it for absolutely the right reasons.

It's harder to undo than it is to do.

(Personally: Married and divorced before 25. Now engaged to someone after 6-7 years together including living together for much of that, and travelling the world for 12 months.)
In case anyone else is curious like I was: Winning $7,900 in 1971 would be like winning $41,594 in 2009 according to US Bureau of Labor Statistics.
May that's the more "human" response but probably less optimal. starts writing dating algorithm
South Carolina Holds Its Own Poll, Still Loses
I agree completely. All poverty statistics should be denominated in eggs.
I just read Dan's book, Predictably Irrational, and it was really great. http://www.amazon.com/Predictably-Irrational-Hidden-Forces-D...

There was a lot of stuff that was applicable to marketing/sales if anyone's interested in that.
Looks attractive. I'd rather not have the flash overhead (loading...). That's why we use flot for our dashboard.

http://code.google.com/p/flot/
I have a Dell Mini 9 I've hacked to run OS X. It's not going to replace my MacBook Pro anytime soon, but it's the perfect kick-around town/living room computer.

The install, while not yet one-click, is fairly simple to do and works with a standard Leopard DVD. I've certainly gone through worse Linux installs. And when you're done, it might as well be a Mac - Airport, webcam, Quartz Extreme/Core Image, scrolling touchpad, even the special function keys work. Hell, the thing wakes faster than my MBP, too, and does the same creepy pulsating-sleep-light as well.

The only downside with the Mini 9 specifically is the bizarre keyboard - there's a really thick border around the edges , which cramps the keyboard and forces it to use odd-sized keys, pack them too close together, and arrange them with apparently little thought - keys like the apostrophe/quotation mark are down by the left arrow key. You can get used to it, but if you want to run a Terminal session you're going to swear a lot.

Some of the other netbooks do have better keyboards, but none of them have the near-100% compatibility with OS X the Dell has - there's always at least one piece of hardware that's non-functional.

Overall, I'm really impressed. I'd heard OS X was easy to install and runs well, but it was still fairly mind-blowing to actually see it run as well as it does. If the netbook concept intrigues, a Dell Mini 9 running OS X seems to be as good a choice as any. (Excepting that damn keyboard.)
There's a lot of herd phenomena on HN. Humans are social animals, and animals are dumb by nature.
My last Mac laptop was a 17" Powerbook from the G4 days. I sold it years ago. Recently at work, I needed to do some testing on OS X (I usually use Windows at work), and so I borrowed a Macbook with 10.4 and a Macbook Pro with 10.5. I was startled at how cheap the Macbook felt, while the Macbook Pro felt just like my old Powerbook (which I'd really liked). So if this thing feels even cheaper, I'm not sure I'd be able to stand it. :)
If "food" is a line-item on the paycheck stub, it's not free. If it's not a line-item, the only way to count it against salary is to have line items that don't add up, which falls under the category of "my paycheck is wrong".
one thing confuses me about this hackintosh phenomenon. macs always made a pretty big deal out of their pram, which is where they store which partition to boot off of and a lot of other stuff. how is that emulated on garden-variety pcs?
There is indeed often a mismatch between how the company feels a given benefit should be valued by the employee and how the employee actually values it.

Complicating matters is the fact that the company wants to provide benefits that provide greater utility to the employee than the cost to the company, but smart employees will take that into account.
or ask wolfram alpha:
$7,900 (1971 dollars)
Sounds like more of an indicator to me, so they can go talk to the person if the red flags go off. On there size scale many people would probably slip through the cracks if they just used a regular method of trying to get to know all the employees that work under them.
thanks, "$7,900 in 1971" == $ 1511.71(1971 US dollars)

"$7,900 (1971 dollars)" == $ 41284.37(2009 US dollars)
Next iPhone coming this July?
Being an Omaha-native, I attended this event and it was excellent from start to finish. Many creative people, entrepreneurs, and developers in attendance.

Gary's keynote is definitely worth your free time. I might just watch it again the next time I'm bored.
Also, $100k in 1971 = $520k today. How does an individual get millions of dollars in debt?

I'm curious enough to maybe read the book.
My problem with secret questions is that I dont have a ready answer for a lot of them. What is your pet's name? None, my SO is allergic to them? Who was your favorite elementary school teacher? She was old and ugly and wore see through blouses, but I can't remember her name. It was a long time ago. Maybe if we could make up the questions too, it would help. What is your SO's daughter's married name? Whatizname. No, no. I just went to their wedding. It'll come to me.
Should you move to India for a job?
That stuff dissapeared with PowerPC.

They're EFI-based now.
Did you read the article I posted? It pretty extensively explains why that statistic is useless. Number of divorces / number of marriages is not the same thing as the chance of a marriage ending in divorce.
I'll second that recommendation. I also read Dan's book recently and it was both entertaining and insightful. I'm an academic, so I like that the book is based solidly on research, but it has a nice narrative style that keeps the pages turning.

This particular TED talk is nice, and a good example of what's in the book.
I'd Actually Use a Netbook With Intel's Moblin 2.0 OS
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It doesn't just communicate it to your partner, but to society. Getting married is a ritualized promise that is done before one's community of family and friends. I think saying the vows to your partner, in front of your family and friends, is markedly different than, say, writing a poem and getting tattoos.

I suppose marriage is what you make of it. I consider being married to be a different state than not being married. I don't see any state change happening from writing a poem. But there is one with getting tattoos.

Whether or not you get married in the eyes of the state or a church I don't think is important. But I do think that promise is important, and it is further weighted if done publicly.
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Be brave, my little chou chou: Carla Bruni's words for French Pres are caught on tape
> You pay additional taxes if you marry. Do the math for single vs married tax rates at various income levels.

If you do the math you actually find that married folk pay less US federal income taxes in certain situations and more in others. (CA is the same - I don't know about other states) The result depends on the distribution of income between the two people

If both people make roughly the same amount of money, being married results in more taxes. If one person makes all the money, being married results in less taxes.

It turns out that a marriage differential (different taxes for married and unmarried couples) is a mathematical consequence of any tax system that has progressive marginal rates and treats a married couple's income as a lump sum.

That said, the marriage differential can be "married is always cheaper", "married is always more expensive", or "some times married is cheaper and some times it isn't" (as is the case with US and CA). It all depends on the various rates and deductions.
Why Invest In National Real Estate Now
If you are really interested in buying real property then this is the right time to go for the national real estate .
Quicksilver allows you want to do something other than find and open a file. Though if that is all you want to do quicksilver opens as a default action.

Coming from a linux background I like to automate/do things faster whenever I can so quicksilver is just one way to do that.
Was the MacBook one of the newer ones with the aluminum unibody frame? (Probably not if it only had 10.4) apparently they feel more solid now. I could tell the difference between my old 17" MBP and a newer unibody 17" MBP.
Perhaps it is all in the name? Naming a fossil Darwinius makes it really easy for everyone to get all wound up.
He got clapped for saying that his family is the most important thing to him as if that's remarkable nowadays. A sign of the times!
While Eclipse is indeed one of the best Java desktop applications I've seen, it's still much worse than most "native" desktop applications (at least on OS X) in terms of polish and performance (though it certainly has a lot of functionality)
Tipjoy Makes A Useful Premium Twitter App To Test Its Payments API
Can a US-ian consider moving to India in search of work? Can they enter and work if they already have a position lined up? This was easy coming to Canada, but there's all sorts of treaty arrangements between the US and Canada. If the Indians are protective of their job market, US-ians just won't be able to go unless they're entrepreneurs who'll create Indian jobs for natives?
New Social Polling Startup
Hacking:SF:HackerNews is like Jazz:NewOrleans:WWOZ
I'm a long time reader/lurker, first time submitter. My friend created a startup and I thought I'd help him out by posting it on Hacker News for some feedback.

His website is called polladium.com and it borrows features from the social aspects of Twitter and the core of Reddit to define social polling. Please take a look and let him know what you think. Comments, suggestions, likes, dislike?
I've occasionally bitched and moaned about Gary V as an entrepreneur - basically inheriting a family business makes it a heck of a lot easier - but he's a pretty good speaker. And that's a large part of it.
All you've stated is a batch of truisms. Perhaps you could rewrite your first paragraph like so:

I think there is a lot of false hope in what [some person or group] are telling their audience. Just because someone out there does [some activity] to make a lot of money doesn't mean that's how the average jane or joe has to do it.

No shit!
This is the pretty much the station in New Orleans. So much fresh new music they can't play it all on two stations running 24/7. As it happens, the site is designed and maintained by a small outfit with ties to the local 2600 scene as well.

Maybe its the trolleys.
The road less traveled: Hacker House: Lessons learned (and how to start your own)
>I think that what women want is to raise a child with a partner.

I really think you're being unrealistic if you think women don't care about getting married before having children with someone. You can place whatever value judgments you like on the reasons for that, but to say it isn't the case isn't realistic.
I cannot find the statistic, but I am sure I read once that statistically marriages started between 23-27 have the lowest rates of divorce (if you only count first marriages, then I think the lowest rates come at a bit older age). Anyway, it's marrying before 23 that has the much, much higher rates of divorce. After that, I wouldn't worry about statistics.
Can you update it without it breaking? One of the biggest problems I had with Hackintoshes (albeit over 2 years ago) was the fact that pretty much any update that required a restart (including, but not limited to OSX point releases) would completely brick the machine and require a complete reinstall. How much has this changed?
Thank you! Their site gives a better idea about what's actually going on in the world about proteomics, and is a great start about finding affiliate companies.
so i actually watched this and marcus nelson is quite informative giving you an interesting behind the scenes on his startup, uservoice, from the pre-first-dollar-angel days to the most recent 800k round.

what initially caught my eye was the association of uservoice with google via their openid integration ( http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2009/05/google-openi... ). then when i got to their site i realized they are the people behind the little floating feedback tab on what seems to be more and more websites out there. after that, i just had to take a look. the convo does not have any tech details behind their product/platform but rather the soup to nuts story of how they went from a shoestring to getting enough funding to make it happen. worth a listen if you are either working on getting funding or thinking about it.
That was actually a good list of tools. I went in there expecting "use firebug and jquery and here are a few tutorials" but came out pleasantly surprised with the depth of suggestions.
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Awesome awesome! Gary gave our entrepreneurial / tech community just what we needed to hear in what many think was one of his most passionate and motivating talks.
Antibody Docking, Pfizer and AWS
pre-unibody macbooks were more akin to ibooks of olde. they've always felt a little cheap and stained easily.
americans won't be able to adjust to the indian system (corruption, pollution, high ego etc.), also they would have terrible US accent :) and finally "Emily" from US won't become "Chameli" in India :-)
Apple The Storekeeper
I can dig that. I've been through the process myself. In the beginning, my thoughts on the matter were perfectly in line with yours.

Now that I'm on the other side, I've seen that neither the church, nor the state, nor the social network of community witnesses (nor the legal commitment of having adopted her two sons for that matter) could stand in the way of her caprice-driven dalliances.

And, living in a "No Fault Divorce" state meant that her violation of the terms of the marriage provided me no benefit or protection when it came time to kick her to the curb out of self-preservation.

Society, with all its witnessing, was nowhere to be found. Everybody wants to come to the wedding. Nobody wants to come to the divorce.

Next time I'll opt for the tattoo. ;-)
Good thing, too. I was really starting to doubt the other eight million pieces of evidence.
But PC laptops still don't have EFI I thought.
I'm not exactly sure how it works, but I think most of the newer install methods will put the extra (non-Apple) drivers on an EFI support partition that isn't touched during system upgrades, to keep the install as pristine as possible. This also allows you to install from a real OS X disc.

In my personal experience, the Mini 9 didn't have any trouble with the 10.5.7 upgrade. I had to boot into safe mode and run the driver installer again, because the new update apparently affected the video card driver, but that was it.
Critical reading skills here are a lot lower than you'd think, especially for comments with dozens of upvotes.
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Although I find it inspiring that King (who is a very successful person whether I like him or not) was broke at about the same age I am now and still went on to become rich and famous, going to the track and lucking out at 100:1 odds was not the life-enhancing advice I was hoping for.
The hackintosh mods add EFI emulation, I think.
I often read my writing aloud in my head. Which is to say: I imagine myself reading it aloud, at what (to me) feels like the right speed.

There was a time when I used to speed-read fiction books. (I was often impatient to know how they would end.) But I caught myself doing that and deliberately trained myself to read good prose at a more moderate pace.

One thing you really should read aloud is poetry. The art makes a lot more sense when you savor the sounds of the words. You should also read poetry fairly slowly. Make each word count. Every one of them was lovingly designed for that purpose.
Finding the Right Wave to Ride (Secular Trends)
Open sourced, and written with Django.
The "missing link" conventionally means between humans and primates - and books, films and websites would certainly benefit from the publicity.

But... how can I say this?... although it is an exquisitely formed fossil, and an important contribution to the evolutionary relationship between prosimians (lemurs) and anthropoids (monkeys, apes, and us), it's no Google killer.
Ask HN: What Netbook Should I Buy?
I want a netbook and am going to get one. What should I buy?!
Usually because they either poorly written and/or one party was coerced (or claims they were coerced). As with all contracts, you should get a decent lawyer. And your partner needs his/her own lawyer.
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I have one of the new Unibody MacBooks and it's as well built, sturdy and polished as any laptop I've ever seen. Particularly what strikes me is it's strength and structural rigidity. You can hold it by the corner and there is no flex whatsoever. The same cannot be said for previous gen MacBook Pro's and Powerbook's etc.

As another poster mentioned though, the white MacBook is a replacement for the iBook and built to a lower quality therefore.
That's because you need two more things besides just a pre-nup: A POST-nup and $15k to the woman to go find her own lawyer to work through the paperwork so she can't claim ignorance. With that you are pretty safe.
As an aside, I know a guy who had his father own the deed to his house and paid "rent" to him. When the wife cheated on him and left/was kicked out she couldn't get much because most of his assets were in his dad's name.
I still think these are problems that are easily solved with a good pre-nup.

And there's no blood test in VA anymore (nor DC for that matter).
No, white with wobbly keys.
i love my eepc 1000he
I don't care that much about such fossils. DNA evidence for evolution is already overwhelming.
It's pretty simple: both you and your spouse-to-be need a lawyer to review the document before signing it. Then nobody can claim they were forced or didn't understand.

And, really, this is pretty basic legal advice. You should always have an independent, disinterested lawyer review contracts before you sign them.
IIRC though it's actually getting easier to make the best seller list over time. The reason for this is that before Amazon and computers, being on the best seller list meant getting your book on the table in front of the door and next to the cash register in all the bookstores. This is no longer the case, because most books are sold by a handful of chains, and they don't do their laydowns based on the best seller lists but rather based on computer algorithms and deals with publishers. In B&N making the best seller list still gets you a discount and onto a special shelf, but it's still less good than getting onto the front table.

Because of this the only people with a big incentive to game the list anymore are people who want to use the credential to use consulting, so there is a lot less competition than there used to be. Of course new authors still try to game the list all the time for ego, but usually they do it half-heartedly so if you really have a permission asset in place and a good strategy its not that hard.
check out the current pa hh rates ;)
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When I first started reading this I thought it was about focusing on personal relationships for mutual benefit rather than networking out of pure self interest. That's a good message!

But then it started to sound like bad dating advice from one of those creepy "Dating 101" books. Without genuine interest in making personal connections, the best you can do is temporarily trick people into thinking you care about them. Effective or not, it's sort of sad.
Another tip: get a cleaning lady. 5+ guys in a house can get messy quick. :-)
Also worth a read: http://markcaudill.com/index.php/2009/04/javascript-new-feat...
Good idea, congrats on the launch.
Cool idea for a Website. I like that I can add this to my blog and my theme for my website sticks throughout the visit on polladium.com. I also like that my polls can make it on the homepage of polladium.com to increase exposure to my blog. The theme support could be better. I'm also still a bit confused on how it all comes together, but I'll poke around a bit more.

Tell your friend, nice job so far, but work on simplifying the site. It has a lot of potential, but people won't stick around if they don't get it within 10 seconds.