skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps they're bait. Which is to say:

1. You want to make sure everyone in a community is persuaded of some fact.

2. But you don't want to expend unneeded effort in producing evidence to convince them if nobody needs convincing.

3. So you assert your conclusion as a bald statement.

4a. If anyone denies it, then you know there's a point in expending effort.

4b. ...or, maybe you'll just wait and hope that someone else gets annoyed with the denial and expends that effort for you.

Either way, you've increased the probability that your point will be made. The second strategy (#4b) is likely pursued more often than the first (#4a), because given a saturated community of "vigilant believers", the likelihood of the denial being fought will be nearly the same with or without you--and the cost will be much lower without you. I imagine these people write these as "drive-by" comments, not looking at the results, but feeling smug knowing that they've sicced their in-group on any vocal proponents of their associated out-group.
True, though "old" articles like this are interesting reads as case studies. When you analyse how many times these type of discoveries occur and then trend, it offers both sides of the camp interesting data.
It's not uncommon for employment contracts to claim rights/powers that are invalid. When I lived in California it was common to see rights assignment in contracts even though a case would never make it to court in most cases, as I understand it. (IANAL)
Just looked that up, but it seems like more of an argument for "most universally executable language" rather than "least powerful".

The problem with Javascript ironically is that in some ways it is too powerful. People want a simple scripting language with a basic type system but instead get a psuedo-functional/psuedo-OO language with a type system construction kit.

JS programmers and library designers seem to expend a lot of effort beating JS into the sort of language they want to use, the result is that many JS programs may as well have been written in entirely different languages.
Related segment on QI:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f7urmRaRxY&t=2m12s
Stuff like a tenfold drop in stolen cars in new york is hard to explain away with changes in recording.
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Thank you for you're explanations. They're useful.

I understand and sort of agree with what you said about the upvotes. I know that it isn't really anything new, but I thought that I did a solid job of articulating things that people think, but don't necessarily know how to say. I know that personally, I always sort of thought them in an abstract sense, but after writing this essay I became more aware of what it is I was actually thinking. So for that reason, I thought people might like it enough to give it significant upvotes.

Anyway, I understand what you're saying about this being insulting, and about self-awareness, but I respectfully disagree. While I may have came across as an asshole, I am actually a benevolent person. I care about the world and the happiness of society. There are a lot of things I think I can do in my lifetime to drastically improve the world. One of them, is making people more rational.

I think that self-awareness, among other things, would be a consequence of rationality. By thinking rationally, by definition - http://lesswrong.com/lw/31/what_do_we_mean_by_rationality/, you're making the right choices. Encouraging self-awareness would have its benefits, but I think that encouraging rationality would have those same benefits, as well as many many others.

Regarding the insulting nature of calling people stupid, I think it's necessary. I feel hesitant to do so, but I really really think it needs to be done. In our culture, people are so reluctant to disagree with one another and offer constructive criticism. It is ridiculous. People are always encouraging irrational thought by saying "you can think whatever you want to". It's ok to disagree. Me calling people stupid is my way of proclaiming mass disagreement. Granted, I could do so in a less insulting way. Still, I think that the costs of me insulting people are outweighed by the benefits of 1) the fact that it gets peoples attention, and 2) it more clearly conveys my point than me saying that "people make epistemically and instrumentally irrational decisions both frequently, and about important things".

Note: I think this conversation would be more productive and clear by me giving an example of people being stupid, so you could picture that in your mind instead of the abstract concept of people being stupid. People don't put thought into what they're going to do with their lives. They just choose from the handful of options that are common for the neighborhood in which they grew up. See http://www.collegeanswerz.com/i-graduated-high-school-now-wh... and http://www.collegeanswerz.com/being-wrong-about-what-you-lik....
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In Canada, IP assignment only is for work done on company time & equipment unless otherwise assigned in your employment contract.

I've almost always excluded specific prior built or in-progress IP from my employment agreements without issue, as long as my employer's HR knows about it. Informing your employer of what you've created or are creating independently is almost always the best policy as it's unlikely they'll argue against it when it's early-stage (and you're protected if it becomes suddenly valuable).

More info
http://www.cipo.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/cipointernet-internetopic....
This is actually a great idea. (obviously don't check JUST airbnb; vrbo, homeaway, craigslist, etc.) Potentially also watch the news/police for mentions of crime or restraining orders or convictions with tenants, too. As long as the terms of your lease or HOA clearly state what's prohibited, making it easier to enforce this seems like a useful service.
Hi, I believe that's wrong. I don't know why there is conflict in the technical literature, but I believe the consensus is that US healthcare outcomes lag behind most industrialized nations, including the UK. See e.g.

http://politix.topix.com/homepage/7019-us-is-27th-in-the-wor...

and the paper from which the figure is taken

http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleID=1710486

Those data show that the USA ranks far below the UK on Years of Life Lost due to several cancers. I don't see how that's consistent with your claim. [Edit: actually, YLL is an incidence statistic, whereas parent's claim is that survival statistics are higher in the US, which the sources I've found agree with.]

The Telegraph is a right-leaning paper and is well known to be anti-NHS. Please; being economically laissez-faire as people are on HN are is not incompatible with supporting state provision of healthcare, along with the other things a state provides. It's sad to see libertarians / laissez-faire economics people bashing the NHS by quoting stories cherry-picked by right wing media sources. It's just not something we need disagree about.
Should we now be preparing for the next pandemic? If so, how?
Loneliness and startups
http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleID=1710486
I agree. You have to look at the Ray Davis experiments to really appreciate what this article says. If you read Frank Close's book it gives an excellent introduction to the oscillation problem of the neutrino. Fascinating stuff.
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Research In Motion is a pretty big tech company... Just saying.
Moved to http://dghubble.com/brewing-a-bitcoin-wallet.html
I think the downvotes are coming from people who have known and been inspired by CSS Zen Garden "back in the day".

The thing you need to remember is that CSS Zen Garden was big around 2004 and most of the designs are from that period. The site was a big inspiration at the time to show that with a single HTML file, you could completely change the appearance of a site. This was huge!

So the downvotes are likely coming with a thought along the line of "how dare you show disrespect for that venerable site!".
> Vitamins are fuel - the more intense activities you do, the more you use them.

Vitamins aren't an energy source. They're not burned up.

> if you do bodybuilding or intensive physical or mental exertion, vitamins and minerals from supplements are almost a must.

No they're not. You've been listening to too many bros.

> Most bodybuilders know that a dose of pure protein powder is much more effective for muscle building than any amount of meat or cheese

Most bodybuilders are clueless bros that don't actually read scientific research. Yes, the bioavailability of whey protein powder may be higher than other protein sources but there is very little evidence to suggest it's "much" more effective for building muscle. Possibly more effective before and after a workout, not at other times. There isn't much research into it outside of the workout window either.

> Same goes for glutamine and other supplements, and of course vitamins.

Nope, nope, and nope. There's absolutely no scientific evidence that glutamine is helpful to bodybuilders.
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Some people believe that the future price of aluminum is going to be sufficiently higher than the prevailing price today that they would prefer to pay to store their aluminum and sell at some point in the future. The NYT correctly suggests that this increases the price of aluminum today and that this generates (literal) rent for people who own warehouses. The NYT is furious about it, because they are not envisioning the possible future headline "Women and poor worst hit as consumer good prices skyrocket due to aluminum shortage."

Note: this is me explaining what is happening rather than explaining the causal chain which the NYT thinks is happening, because my version is a lot simpler and more likely to be correct.
> The US should have dropped xboxes on Iraq instead of bombs

If the US intention on that war was avoiding terrorism, there wouldn't be a war at all.
Here's what I'd submit to them:

10 PRINT "GET FUCKED"
20 GOTO 10
Here's an industry analysis I did on Vancouver a while back:

http://vancouverdata.blogspot.ca/2010/09/what-is-work-of-dog...

In Vancouver we have MDA, which makes satellites, PMC Sierra, PlentyOfFish, HootSuite, PhoneGap. Not huge, but substantial. Oh, and a dark horse named D-Wave.

And we had Creo and Flickr.

We don't have much of a military presence to help with R&D funding, hence Ottawa's slightly bigger scene. They almost got rid of the only army base on the West Coast a few years ago in fact.

There was an article on here a while back about what made a good startup city. We do have some old wealth (mining cos), some great universities, and nice weather by Canadian standards.

Also doesn't help that we're a 2 hr flight from San Fran!
I'd expect in most places you'd get damages, and most likely the costs for the ensuing transplant (after all, you were needing to remove the left kidney for a reason, so now you have no other option).
That doesn't seem any different in practice than ordering them to build the filter under penalty of a fine equivalent to 100% of their US-derived income.
That site pretty much put me on the open-standards side of web development. I was a huge Flash nut.
hmm. Amazing what the front page can do for a story, even if that story doesn't deserve it.
Expect to see more kinds of these stories as people discover new things (hint: medical devices). And the advent of the "Internet of Things" is also putting Shodan in a new light. For the technical folks though, I hope to release some cool new stuff soon :)
It's a made-up language - blah blah, blahblahblah blah, blah, blahblah.

They're all amusing but the first one (makeup) is screamingly funny.
Calling it a haptic device is a stretch.
A neat design here, but I'd rather see designs that are more creative. What about an iShirt whose color could change via bluetooth from your phone, depending on how many unread emails you have?

And the quote about graphene was distracting to me because I know for certain that Apple would not have a layer of graphene that would be as thick as Saran Wrap. That's crazy talk- too expensive. I know he wasn't saying it would be that thick, but that was the first thing that came to mind: "no way they would do that".
Wage rates are less elastic than simple supply/demand until you get to macroeconomic scale.

I'm obviously not an expert on Canada, so I'll try to illustrate one way it might work, but please feel free to shoot this full of holes...

Say companies in Canada start by paying their employees half of a competitive wage. Not all employees will notice. The ones who are willing to move thousands of miles will eventually disappear but there will always be new hires, right? Thus the management gets away with low wages.

I _have_ seen this exact scenario play out in several locations in the US, but not Canada.

In this scenario, the company slowly accumulates B and C players who drag down the company's reputation: death by a thousand paper cuts. The company doesn't _die_ outright, but everyone just thinks, "Oh, not a Silicon Valley level company."

At that point the company will never make enough money and can't even dream of raising wages.

Only at that large scale (companies competing for talent and then trying to turn their talent into revenue) do you start to see the effects of their salary range.
Thanks. In terms of the name, I know what you're saying, but we think it's catchy, and easy to remember. I agree with the autocorrect thing, will do that soon. I also changed the mailing list button label.

Now, in terms of your last idea: I like it. What do you think is a way to reward the winner? i.e. send us your worst text, and we'll give you X... The app for free, $50, something like that?

Thanks for the help!
Because as we all know, code written in C can't ever crash or suffer from memory leaks.

I don't think anyone's advocating JS for life-and-death use cases. It's all about the right tool for the job, there's no reason to write off any particular language or environment a priori.
This is why I enjoy torrent sites.
That's fine. Airbnb doesn't need 100% of people to act as hosts.

They just need X% of people who haven't hosted to start hosting.

There's a large amount of people who haven't given the matter as much thought as you have. Some will decide differently.
Personally, I've found a lot of useful stuff there in the past.
Why you should care about your local hackerspace
It's so silly, though. Does this guy work/speak for Apple?

Is he an electrical engineer who can say for certain that the retina display can actually be manufactured in this edgy way?

No, he's just a guy with Adobe Illustrator.

So... why should I care what he thinks?
Fellow Philadelphian here, while Philly has a ton going for it, its crime rate is more than double New York's.

http://city-crime-statistics.findthedata.org/compare/4852-65...
Stretchable gold conductors bring bling to elastic electronics
Existential Depression in Gifted Children
Did you have a single experience?

I came to Airbnb with prior couchsurfing experience. You learn how to distinguish good listings from bad. Every single one of my Airbnb experiences has been both inexpensive and awesome.

Some markets are tougher though. Manhattan is extremely expensive. Most other cities seem fine.
$50 Amazon giftcard for the winner works fine, but you'll find that a heck of a lot of people care more about momentary Internet fame or amusement than they do about money.
Actually the HP Veer had this design, with magnets and pogo-like pins. As noted, however, the Veer's USB cable is a bit bulky and has fewer pins.

http://www.webosnation.com/hands-on-hp-veer-s-ridiculous-hea...
It works on my Windows XP. Not just Firefox/Chrome which have their own SSL libraries but old IE8 too.

If IE6 is broken, I can accept that even on a large website.
Spatial ability: A Neglected Talent Domain
Would be nice to have at least a link to a detailed spec of the supported RE syntax, for a not good example, http://perldoc.perl.org/perlre.html
The little guy is an actual Aluminum Extrusion company, with actual people making an actual product. Jacking up prices of raw material even 1% is taking profit out of his pocket because he certainly cannot pass that cost on. (I used to work for a small company in that business)

He is hurt because he is small and barely getting any discount at all. So all these imagined charges hit HIS pocket for 5% or more "off the top" because he can't avoid buying from the warehouses.
They're presumably avoiding that because they'd have to answer the uncomfortable question "And how many billions of dollars have speculators stolen from hardworking Americans by hoarding aluminum since the Reuters piece?" "Er, the spot price is down by a third, actually."
What's the best way for a young entrepreneur from Montreal to live the startup dream? Can I start a company in the US? Should I start my company here and move to the US? How does that work?

I don't have any measurable "unique skill", nor do I have millions to invest. Is there any way for me to move to SV and get proper funding?
Thanks for the link.

Here is another similar site: http://www.greenmedinfo.com/greenmed/display/substance
I'll have to admit that is exactly how my family thrived. Parents with little to no education, survive by creating a small business when no one would give them a job.
nostromo can you elaborate on why its a dream come true? what could the landlord do?
Interesting concept but weird choice of language. Yes, JS is popular, but that's because it's the only language supported universally by all browsers. And now people are moving away from it (CoffeeScript, Dart, etc), this project embraces JS. Or maybe JS is now the new JVM?
But Steve's comment has quantifiable goals.

Make it the size of a book. Make it battery-powered. Make the UI good (they failed on that one, but moving on)...

OP's link is just "Take an iphone and remove the edges and make it lighter by using a material that doesn't exist."

That's not innovation. It's actually incredibly formulaic, and completely different from the Steve Jobs quote you gave.
> Not enough people have the gut and commitment to create or help create something truly meaningful.

That's not the whole story by any means. No matter where you are the problems are almost always money and time. In this case, how much will it cost to lure people to Canada, which is not know for big tech? Google didn't happen overnight, but now that it exists, any new tech company is competing with Google in a way for top talent, if that is what they are after. So, not only would Canada need to grow a Google, they'd have to compete with Google. That is difficult. Throw a less friendly business climate than the U.S. into the mix, and that is just more money and time that would be required.

All of that said, sure Canada is spoiled and lazy, but that's no different than the U.S. We expect too much.
Kick them out for breaking the terms of the lease and raise the rent up to current market rate for the next tenant.
Yes, Enough with the PPI race. On a 4" or 5" display give me 720p and more battery life over 1080p.

If the manufacturer does not opt for the top of the line GPU, games suffer too, since by doubling the resolution, you need to quadruple the pixels rendered. Apple made this mistake with the iPad 3 and iPhone 4, both which performed worse than their predecessors.

This PPI race reminds me of the megapixel race in cameras. Where dumb consumers think a "higher spec" is better when it actually gives them a fuzzier screen (pentile OLED over non-pentile, not in LCD), worse battery life, and worse performance in games.
Eating insects actually looks closer to the norm outside of McDonald's land, so farming insects should definitely be an option.

It's only taboo because people never tasted it. I ate ants [1] here in Brazil and it's delicious. In Vietnam, apparently, fried tarantulas is another delicacy - tastes like lobster. The article mentions crickets, but by the smell of it I don't think they make a good appetizer.

[1] http://flavorsofbrazil.blogspot.com.br/2011/11/recipe-ica-fa...
Very thoughtfully written piece. One would wonder what this has to do with HN, but the content is universally applicable, therefore not only in regards to children. Plus, we could suppose that the majority of HN's users consider themselves gifted :) Anyway, read the article folks, you won't regret your spent minutes.
I am a student from the Startup Institute in Cambridge MA...definitely not a Disney employee. My contact details establishing my ID are in my profile.
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Completely agree. However I'd like to hear what solutions out there you have used that do a good job of fully encapsulating each of those roles (context/memory, persistent store and networking) and work together well out of the box or with simple adapters?
I will grant that you could apply the statement, with a little stretching, to the US because the offenses are not quantified. But I don't think the actual situations are that similar.
> Personally, I take 5-HTP

5-HTP daily? I hope you have a spare heart on hand!

From my understanding, you can take ECCG with 5-HTP to help prevent some of the heart damage serotonin in your blood causes, but even then. There is no reason to take 5-HTP daily, a small dose every 3 or 4 days should suffice!