skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
that just made my day. thank you.
Busboys and Poets (either location) might work nicely: beer, wi-fi, no loud music.
search for "dvcs comparison" (unquoted). bing returns many completely unrelated dvd/spam sites, while google is spot on. MS still have a lot of work to do.
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Not at all. In most urban and suburban regions, there are already several schools that are "close enough", and they typically have several classes for each grade.

> If you have two schools, one competently run, one incompetently run, you wind up with a good school that's impossible to get into and a school where you're screwed.

Nope. Someone says, "hey demand, here's some supply" and opens a new school. They start small, a couple of classes is "big enough", and the crappy school starts losing students. When they lose enough, the space that they were occupying becomes empty at exactly the same time as a new school needs more space. (No, you don't need all of the standard "big school" facilities to start a school.)

Yes, someone goes out of biz. That's a feature.

Drive by "Downtown Prep" on San Fernando, almost under the overpass on the Alameda side in San Jose. It looks like a boring office building on the outside.
I note that people actually do open schools, especially when money comes with the students, aka vouchers. Any theory that predicts otherwise is wrong.
With the camera and internet play (see the other family) it's going to be bad for that segment of the TV market, because it'll be easy to set up tournaments with cash prizes. Way more people will compete to win $1000 than will watch TV to watch someone else win $100,000.

On an unrelated note, I wonder if/how they're going to prevent it being used for porn. Obviously they won't allow porn games but the video chat + bored teens makes that kind of activity pretty much inevitable.
Also known as graduate school.
That piece you linked by Cosma Shalizi ‘g is a statistical myth’ is incorrect.

1. The main thrusts of his argument is that test data do not statistically support a g-factor. Gould tried to discredit g but his argument argument was statistically incompetent (for a statistican’s critique see Measuring intelligence: facts and fallacies by David J. Bartholomew, 2004). Shalizi’s criticism is incredibly sophisticated, but likewise incorrect. In a nutshell, Shalizi is trying to argue around the positive correlations between test batteries. If those correlations didn’t exist, his argument would be meaningful. However, these intercorrelations are one of the best documented patterns in the social sciences.

2. Cosma Shalizi misrepresented Spearman and his two factor model. The author tried to present Spearman as ignorant of group factors (he should have called them out as such or noted that they are from the second stratum). The fact is that Spearman gave up on the two factor model and accepted group factors. The fact beyond that is that the predictive validity of group factors typically appears in the range from (and including) zero to about 4%. In other words, the two factor model is not rigorously correct, but it captures virtually all of the practical validity of any test.

For a discussion of neurological correlates with g see this discussion by Professor of Neurology at UCLA Paul Thompson:

http://www.loni.ucla.edu/~thompson/PDF/nrn0604-GrayThompson....
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slew of accusations?

One blog accused them of sharing data. Three months later, that same blog added another accusation that they're basically lying.

That's like 1.5 accusations. Hardly a slew.
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Like Joel said, isn't there still some selection bias there? I would think that even the people you've met because of YC are the ones who are connected to the outside funding "world" in some way.
I wear sport coats with jeans, so eguanlao would probably fight me, but at least I know the difference between a sport coat and a suit coat, so we'd be boxing instead of using katanas. p.s. styleforum represent.
I did have the pause icon, but it didn't go away as I moved my mouse around the screen.
Right now I am using the new IO Developer Conference HTC. Gotta say it is pretty slick. Being a game developer, i can't wait to develop a game for it. Does it compare with the iphone, with apple's brand cachet, accelerometer, and nonstop media attention? No. Still, it's better than my now broken Blackberry, and has the feel of a PSP. Maybe Android has a chance.

I for one, was really hoping that Microsoft came with a handheld competition for the iPod Touch. From what i can see, the Zune HD isn't it. The extent that it lends itself to game development seems to be incredibly lackluster and half-hearted, and i think this is for two reaons: 1) Microsoft doesn't want to officially dilute the xbox brand with a Zune PSP clone because they don't have a mobile game strategy yet (it's Microsoft, it takes time!), and 2) they're still hoping that they can claim some market share in the MP3 market, which seems a horrible plan, but then so did the xbox...
If Natal works, there's tremendous applications in terms of interactivity at work. How about we leverage this stuff for "Minority Report" type interfaces with 50" flat screen TVs? How about rear projection? Imagine collaborative picture or movie editing over the net? Can stuff like this be leveraged for pair programming? How about animated CRC cards which can execute and animate their functionality? Such things have been possible for awhile now, appearing in places like TED. Natal and the dropping price of big TVs can make them easily accessible to small and mid-sized companies.
Slightly offtopic comment.. because I can't see the link, its been blocked by my company! They don't want us to know what stage of burnout we are at!! :)
Obviously they won't allow porn games but the video chat + bored teens makes that kind of activity pretty much inevitable.

There are already porn avatars aplenty. That will make "sexting" visible -- instead of writing and imagining it, you'll just see it. The imagery is probably better with well written text, though. Your imagination is the most vivid rendering system there is.

All that has to happen is for SecondLife to get the interface.
"These designs all have one thing in common: "

They look like print magazine spreads.

Which goes hand-in-hand with your observations on their bright-but-short impact.
Well, with my way I don't have to put up with programmers who think they're too good to put some effort into getting hired.
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This is a totally honest question:

How come Justin.tv can stream live video to 1.6 million viewers successfully but Twitter often has growth problems/outages when it comes to handling/routing 140-char messages?

Am I comparing apples to oranges?
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You are comparing apples to oranges, but Justin.tv has way better programmers.
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After all, you can always just choose not to use [checked exceptions] - just convert everything to runtime exceptions and your own code will be only impacted at the edges.

Forgive me if I'm being dense -- I haven't done much Java programming lately -- but what do mean by "convert everything to runtime exceptions"? Sure, you can define all your own exception classes as runtime exceptions. But checked exceptions seem unavoidable, as you can't (practically) avoid calling all the Java API methods that throw them.
I quite enjoyed this book, actually.
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I've used google docs quite a few times and what looks like normal formatting in docs comes out trash going to msoffice so their exporting still has a long way to go before exporting docx.
Justin.tv is a bandwidth problem. This is "easily" solvable using a CDN.

Twitter is a database problem. I am not a DBA (but I play one at work!), but I believe this is "easily" solvable using sharding. As far as I know, twitter doesn't do this and nobody really knows why.
I don't see where. I've met them (a) because they come as investors to Demo Day, (b) because they're famous founders we've invited to speak at YC or Startup School, or (c) at events like conferences, Foo Camp, etc. Where would there be selection bias in any of those things?
Oh I agree.

And the existence of China (very large state with low regard for IP law and very significant energy requirements) is proof enough that the "energy companies are suppressing this" myth is a farce.

But even if I had that kind of proof - I would suggest you'd still think I was a crack-pot. It would be a very very significant uphill battle to gain acceptance in the science community. (obviously - as I would have experimental proof that a whole bunch of science theory is wrong)
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Lisp (and Scheme) has no syntax. Lisp code is Abstract Syntax Tree, which is written in text form. AST is intermediate form used by compilers or interpreters.

You can use XML or JSON to represent AST. You can write interpreter for AST representations in these formats very fast too. But somebody else need to write parser from language with real syntax into AST.

JavaScript is example of Scheme implementation with Java-like syntax. Write interpreter for this language in 15 minutes.
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If any of this is true and actually delivers, coupled with technical limitations on the Wii (1), it would seem the story is that they can't. At least not without pumping out a new console.

What will be interesting to see is how Sony responds to this. If the Xbox 360 software wasn't already a million times better than the PS3 software, project Natal seems hellbent on making it so. And Sony, unlike Nintendo, have a platform which to some extent allows expansion and further development.

Definitely interesting times ahead in the console world.

1: http://hackmii.com/2009/02/why-the-wii-will-never-get-any-be...
Thanks, that's much better than a plugin.
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This is cheap linkbait by the fluther people. A question is a question, and if you make a question public, anyone can answer it if they want. Sending one email and then publicly accusing a person of copyright violation to gain some traffic is shoddy and dishonest.
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Hence the tiebar, which intend purpose is to allow you to pop out your tie. The further, the more phallic (and dandy).
Perhaps it's more of a negative selection bias.

I know 9 people who have made $5-$10M from software companies they have founded without taking outside investment. Most of the money was made by selling out to a bigger company, although one guy still is doing his thing.

They don't go to conferences, aren't famous and don't invest in startups. Maybe that amount doesn't count as being rich, though.
Yeah I don't think it will work quite as well, especially since it says actual features and functions may vary.. reminds me of them hyping the Microsoft surface.

If it did work that would change games and tv apps so much more than the wii could ever do.
As a side note one with a big screen can use the command "split" of YubNub.
I doubt anyone wants to compare search results as part of their usual workflow: it's a distraction by definition.

You can always bookmark the site, although it should remember your preferences in the url or in cookies.
The problem with this is it's somewhat public. Assuming your system was outstandingly good, could it not raise dangerous suspicions?

I like your plan for dealing with academia.
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Like others have pointed out, justin.tv's main issue in cases like this would be serving the same data to lots of users, aka bandwidth, which can pretty easily solved.

Twitter however has to fetch random data for million of different users, and hence simply throwing more bandwidth at it wont solve anything at all. It basically boils down to making a good and sane database-design which allows rapid updates and lookups for the core uses, and minimizing the load caused by non-core uses.

That and using a database engine which doesn't fall apart when the dataset gets bigger than whatever amounts of RAM you can throw into your server.

Evidently twitter could have made better choices on both those accounts.
I think the mechanism is a bit different than what you described... if it's a user who wants to answer a question, why would http://www.mahalo.com/answers/education/does-anyone-have-any... have no answers?

From the same page:
Did you ask this question via Twitter?
We create a Mahalo account for everyone who asks a question via Twitter.

So yes, the tone of the blog makes it sound like Mahalo is scraping from the web, because Mahalo's pages make it sound like they're scraping from the web.

It's really not an issue about copyright as it is about plagiarism.
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I've seen quite a good number of people who worked hard in middle and high school because of their parents burnout in their first or second semester of college. It's kinda sad when it happens to smart people who were just pushed too hard for too long.

It's usually just the first stage that gets them.
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Unfortunately I already made the icon I wanted, a logo for Arc: http://ycombinator.com/arc/arclogo.html
Many things he discusses are well above my level of comprehension but turbulence is likely to be the main cause of the crash although other planes passed that same region without problems.
It sounds likely to me that heavy turbulence just 'broke' inner electronic equipment/circuits/meters/connections?
For those of us who don't follow news much, there's more factual detail here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447

There were 228 people aboard the flight including three pilots and nine other cabin crew. The passengers were one infant, seven children, 82 women and 126 men

:(
Are we answering a homework question for you? :p
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This is going to be the next disruptive platform. Time to start learning how to dev for the xbox.
I have to think that marketing is a key component. The iPhone has a very particular ecosystem associated with it. The ads are the best example of this. While Android is a great OS (I absolutely love my G1 with Android 1.5), It will be difficult to become as pervasive as the iPhone is without marketing it in some capacity. I know Google has only very recently done tv ads and has traditionally used word of mouth to spread its products, but I think that getting the word out about Android beyond word of mouth is important. As more devices in different form factors come out with Android, I think it would be in Googles and the OHA best interest to market what Android is all about better. If they are unable to do that, the iPhone and other mobile platforms will always be ahead.
So they announced twitter integration, facebook integration, last.fm stuff.

Call me ridiculous, but have they not considered the possibility of releasing a web browser instead? Then people could have twitter, facebook, last.fm, and whatever else they want. Why is this so hard for microsoft to do?

Having said that, the xBox hardware is so noisy it's not a good machine to use for much apart from gaming.
Discovering RSS feeds in perl/php/erlang/yahoo pipes/YQL/ Google libs
Both - I find them useful, and I think it's the "wrong" thing to do morally. I'd much rather it was in a separate sidebar, leaving the google page as it was intended.
If someone is making shit up, it's you. For instance, foreigners born in Germany have always been legal citizens, if they chose to accept the German citizenship offered to them.
I'm reminded from the seminal hacker movie: "There's not a government on this earth that wouldn't kill us all for that thing."
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Love the interface and the real-time aggregation thing. However I think it would be even better if one could submit the topic to be searched and aggregated for --> not limited to events chosen by you. For instance I'd like to find mention of my company at specific times (during a viral campaign, etc.)
New Arc Logo
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Hmm...not sure if you're looking for feedback, but if you are, I'd go with a lighter shade of blue. It's hard to differentiate it from the black when the image is scaled down.
If you've got a good solution, there are plenty of systems you can make more efficient (not only salesmen and UPS :-) I would make a list, create a consultancy and propose my services to the industries with the highest remunerative potential :-)
Yeah was about to say that.

Otherwise it's okay.
The only thing people really know right now is that the plane is missing.

Although Tim's report suggests structural failure from turbulence, it really could be one of many possible causes. If you enjoy the speculation, which I do, check out the Airliners discussion:

http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/re...
I've personally had these types of problems while living in China - I'm sure, as a foreigner, I just scream "sucker" - but in my mind a lot of these problems become less severe if you've developed good relationships with local residents.

Are you in Beijing? If so, I'd love to meet up some time and hear specifics about these experiences.
First, it's encouraging that Arc now has a logo/graphical representation. However, in my opinion, it's not really that good. It looks like it was designed to be a favicon and doesn't scale that well when enlarged, and when it's small it's difficult to impossible to see the "a" shape.

I'm sure there are members of the Arc community and here on HN that are willing and capable of designing a much better logo if given the chance.
Smart. Etherpad is just great. Congrats to Aaron and David on the official change of direction!
Well, if you write a theorem prover, you can probably get just about every mathematical proof prize out there. That's $7 million from the Clay Institute alone...
Ask HN: Ways to transfer money among users?
I'm building a web app that will (hopefully) include a feature that allows users to send money to each other. I'd like User A to be able to enter his credit card info and charge money that User B would receive in the form of a check or direct deposit.

My initial research indicates that I can't just get a merchant account, accept payments, and then write the checks myself. Based on Tipjoy's experience, I'd need money transfer agent licenses for this. Is that correct?

Assuming it is, anyone know any good alternatives? Amazon FPS is the obvious choice, but it has two major downsides: (1) it's relatively expensive and (2) users have to login to their Amazon account to make the payment, which adds another step to the process and looks unprofessional.

Anyone know any alternatives to Amazon FPS for this situation? There are sites like Eimburse (http://www.eimburse.com/) that seem to pull this off without all the licenses, but I have no idea how they do it.
No DHH???
As a follow-up, Buxfer uses Amazon FPS. It's interesting because "Financial Intermediaries and Money Service Businesses" are prohibited from using FPS (https://payments.amazon.com/sdui/sdui/about?acceptableuse), and Buxfer would seem to fall under this category. But apparently they haven't run into any trouble yet.
I still don't get Mahalo's what makes Mahalo's manually aggregated content business model in 2009 different from Yahoo's manually aggregated content business model in 1995.
Which movie would that be?
Not exporting to the combined XML/binary representations of the 97 formats (docx, xlsx) is probably a very deliberate decision by Google.
Pushing out iTunes updates may be faster and more efficient than pushing out Pre updates (esp since those may be affecting the firmware itself).

Still, if Palm is advertising this as a feature of the Pre, then they must be fairly confident that it won't break.
Wouldn't a simple two-color arch (or a geometrical arc) make a better logo?
For what it's worth, it loads fine for me with Opera 10 build 4345, but it didn't work with the first Opera 10 alpha.

Here's a link if you're interested: http://snapshot.opera.com/unix/snapshot-4345/
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I don't know how much of a threat this is. I personally don't like the wiimote a lot, so there is definitely room for improvement. But the wiimote comes with every wii, and can be used on every game.

So the problem Microsoft has is that there will not be a large library to take advantage of the Natal. It seems like it'll be another eyetoy. The Natal will probably sell a decent amount, but its use will languish from a lack of compatible games.

And right now the wii is known for family and group games. One good product launch by Microsoft is not going to change that. Also, unless Microsoft lowers prices, or puts a new bundle out, the wii will probably be cheaper.
Very Mondrian.

Does this logo hint that Arc is the product of De Stijl philosophy applied to computational expression?
Very good point. I was about to jump into the prescriptivist-bashing fray - in fact, I upvoted subwindow's comment, and I can't take it back, since I don't have enough karma - until I took a look at the heading of the "article" and realized that it was in fact part of the Economist's style guide. It's clearly not meant to be accurate reflection of any up-to-date dictionary - look up pretty much any word in its list at www.m-w.com (e.g. "collapse" IS acceptable as a transitive verb) and you'll see they're way behind the times as far as common usage goes. Let them maintain their backward-looking editorial standards if they wish to do so for consistency's sake, and leave them be.