skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not exactly on this topic, but somewhat relevant when I see articles like these from Indian media.

Media in India is weird in how it feels the need to emulate American events etc and draw parallels to illustrate their case. It's like they need a reinforcement framework to validate what they are saying. And for this, they love to look up to everything American (it's a complement to USA I guess, but also shows the insecurity india has towards modernisation). For example.. media routinely labels controversies as 'something-gate' when Watergate had nothing to do with india, and indeed most people in India probably don't know anything about it. The mumbai terrorist attacks are referred to as 26/11. Now their government surveillance is 'PRISM-like'.

India is insecure like this and looks for validation by trying to find 'standard' versions of what they are talking about, in the form of an American parallel. It's regular enough that I thought it worth pointing out.

India used to be like this before too, with British parallels. I guess the colonial hangover in India has proven to be a very long one. Be more confident in your own ways India; to improve and to progress, you don't always need to emulate.
Because free apps typically employ monetization tactics that are tacky, annoying and insulting, tactics that are generally not found in paid apps.
A few things worth noting:

- There is a virtually limitless supply of intelligent and hard-working PhD students at top-ranking Universities. Thus there is little incentive to maximise the value of this resource, by treating students well, etc. Basically it's the inverse of the SF job market for developers.

- On the other hand, one of the nicest guys I ever met during my PhD also happens to be one of the best in his field, with incredibly productive students. I don't think this is a coincidence. [It's Zoubin Ghahramani -- I can't imagine he'd object to being called on this!]
Why would a paid app be in a better place ? I personally refrain from paying upfront for any app. When there is a paid app I usually need to find reviews and watch video before I buy the app. That's a lot of effort. If it is free I can simply download and most importantly play it, no need to find reviews, and then decide myself if I want to buy some InApp items.
By the way, I see Coursera more like a nursery for future employees than an online university. If they coupled employment with high MOOC competency, maybe that would motivate people. That would solve their problem with monetizing and motivating students to take it seriously.
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> However, that doesn't and shouldn't diminish the fact that the actual science solidly favors one side.

Despite the alarmist title, I found this a good video on the topic of climate change:

"The Alarming Science Behind Climate Change's Increasingly Wild Weather"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-RDE7z2T0k

I'd recommend the second portion of the video, as it’s a good old fashion, boring, highly scientific and un-emotive description of one particular view of how higher arctic temperatures can affect the climate.

I also found the second portion worked well as a tutorial on the basics of how the world’s climate actually works.
Then how does the authority even come into it? Why didn't you make this your first comment?
> There seems to be a culture developing around designing games and apps that are intended to intentionally mislead and coerce customers into making more and more purchases.

You could argue this for almost anything in the commerce world. Should we start putting signs up in malls that say "Warning! Stores that offer deep discounts are most likely trying to up-sell you to other products"?
I can tell you from my admittedly limited mobile social game development experience that user acquisition is really expensive. You need the users you get to make lots of purchases. If your purchases suck, or elicit regret, you're not going survive for very long. It is very common industry advice that purchases should feel really good and provide instant gratification. Industry experts know that once a user makes a first purchase they have a smaller barrier of entry for making more. The industry is all about whales, not about making a quick buck on a user who doesn't know better.

Of course there are companies who don't know any better that are trying to money grab as much as possible, but they're not as successful as you might think. They achieve ranking with a large advertising budget before disappearing into obscurity. But what a lot of people don't want to accept is that a game like FarmVille is a good game that many people legitimately enjoy and feel good spending money on.
The claimed paradox is that this proof contradicts Goedels result "if mathematics is consistent, then it cannot infer its own consistency.". This is not what the paper is about anyway, though.
Wait... I thought this was a thread about a JS-intensive magazine site layout?
Please don't forget the immigration of fertile religious traditionalists.
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From my naive point of view I'm confused about how this argument can possibly work. Perhaps someone can explain it?

1. It seems to me that if you assume that mathematics is inconsistent, you shouldn't then consider an inconsistency in the argument sufficient grounds to throw away the assumption. I suppose that means that I don't accept proof by contradiction in the case that the assumption is the inconsistency of mathematics.

2. Sanity Check: We can create known inconsistent systems, could the same logic prove that such inconsistent systems are consistent too? It seems to me that it could, am I wrong?

3. Supposing that mathematics did prove its own consistency, the fact that inconsistent systems can also prove their own consistency means that you can't take a proof of consistency to be strong evidence that the system is consistent.

4. Gödel didn't say that mathematics couldn't prove its own consistency, he just said that if it could it was unsound, which is a bit of a concern too.
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I am planning to launch a Pre-Incubator as an experiment in learning about propagation of idea before i do the actual propagation of my actual start-up which is a multi platform API framework similar to PhoneGap but based on Html and OpenGL (Still 3 to 6 months to complete OpenGL runtime)

At the same time, i want to publish a Founder Kit for publishing Prototypes which may be useful to many.

The Ugly Pre-Launch site is at http://www.ideatomvp.com

Would love to get comments/advice
You don't at all assume a logical framework to be consistent when "using" it, ie. considering the theorems that follow from it and its properties.
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While that might have been true of the past, we do have countries like Sweden, where the state is currently rolling out 1Gb/s connections. Even the country side is having fiber rolled out.
> Then they tore it down and built this thing called BJs. Now it's one of the three things that's happening in Cupertino.

Ah, IL7. I could do me some Chicken Parmigiana and Ahi Poke right now.
No no, it's a distinction I've wanted to make for a long time. It's a positive thing to encourage discussion of how game development is different from social engineering, and what social engineers can learn from game development fundamentals.
I honestly couldn't tell if this was a troll or not
That's what you're claming American think, or that's what you think?
For a landing page, this is pretty bad unless you're getting a ton of irrelevant traffic from press or other distribution channels.

Hard to imagine what 99.5% of the traffic is doing on the website.
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One of the events they funded was called Balloonacy:
https://www.facebook.com/events/277093279051184/

I helped solder like a bazillion motion sensor LEDs to a board to stick in all the balloons.
My experience exactly.

On a related note, I never understood how anyone could touch-type comfortably on a non-ergonomic keyboard. The keys are slanted in the same direction for both hands, even though the hands are naturally at different angles. For the right hand it works great, both for the left, the finger will run into its left neighbour when hitting a key above home row (e.g. R), and into its right when hitting below (C).
I know Carl a little from the late 90s. I figured there was a 50% chance he would come up with something historically important, and a 60% chance he was crazy. (The two options are not quite mutually exclusive.)

Indeed, most examples illustrating the Incompleteness Theorem involve self-reference. But, it seems hard to prove anything interesting in a system that precludes self-reference.

BTW, the Y Combinator is a way of adding self-reference to a non-self-referential formalism. And we're debating his argument here. Deep.
You would think more Americans would fly to India to get expensive medical procedures done. Or are there other issues that need to be overcome to do this?
Looks like I work just a short walk away from the illustrious "center of Silicon Valley". Neat!
Several different options are available:

We could have a FRAND like situation, where backbone network entities has to sign a Reasonable and non-discriminatory agreement regarding traffic flows. FRAND like systems has it own set of issues, but it has also clear benefits.

Government is the second obvious one. As with roads, government benefit greatly from improved infrastructure. All roads do not benefit from being toll-roads, especially when the traffic flow can radically change overnight. Who knows where the next youtube will be, or if google will move the servers suddenly after a SOPA directive is voted in.

Lastly, government could loosen their total control of the electromagnetic spectrum. Doing so would enabled a true global mesh network to be built, giving anyone with a receiver/transmitter the ability to participated. So long government claims to own the communication layer in the air, I will hold them responsible for the current communication issues in the cables.
As an American. this makes me sad. Just sick to my stomach. It's just greed.
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Really? US owes China 1.3 trillion dollars. So the BIG BAD China debt is only 7-8% or less of a single year's GDP.

In the grand schemes of things it is pocket change.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_tourism#India
Yes and irony is often hilarious.
Depending on your mindset, that could be the case.

What's your stance ? That's a very valid question regarding relationships between individuals, with the law and authorities in one group.
I personally found it highly surprising (in a disconcerting way) that so few people answered "don't know" for the question "is individual success under your control". Am I really the only person who is squarely in the "in some ways yes, in some ways no" camp?
Venture communism?
The difference is that now our war is not against a regime or distinct nation of people, so how can we ever say that we have "won"? There will _always_ be people that hate our country, and will be labeled as terrorists. Our government can maintain on this pretext that we are in a state of emergency, conceivably indefinitely.

I feel so cynical, and dearly hope that I will be proven wrong.
and the university systems are so bureaucratic that when people uniquely placed to solve useful research problems who don't fit well into the hierarchy, the system is unable to deal with them, and spits them out.
Some insurance companies even throw in a cash incentive.

"Need a heart bypass? We'll give you $10k and waive the co-pay if you do it in India"
There is no such thing as a liberalism gene. Cultural evolution plays a much larger part in the development of human society than traditional biological evolution does. "Caucasians", insofar as that term has any scientific basis in fact, might be on the decline. Liberal society is not.
I found it fascinating how this goes way beyond wage differences -- it's a serious focus on fiscal efficiency. The entrepreneur behind this has opened 21 new hospitals in India focused on bringing more affordable care:

"...he has cut the price of artery-clearing coronary bypass surgery to 95,000 rupees ($1,583), half of what it was 20 years ago, and wants to get the price down to $800 within a decade."

This leaves me wondering: Where is the innovation toward affordable care here in the USA?
every discussion I've seen about this has inevitably come to the conclusion that psychopathy and sociopathy have entered the public consciousness, and have ceased being relevant diagnostic terms.

Every description I've seen of sociopaths and psychopaths is basically parallel.

My recommendation is to jump ship and avoid talking about psychopaths and sociopaths, and just stick to new material coming out about the spectrum of anti-social personalities.

Starting at the word psychopath or sociopath will get you to the relevant material, but those terms in and of themselves are not considered relevant anymore.
> No, because I specified that it was under a given value function (mine)

Ok, but what's the benefit of defending a position on the basis of it being a personal belief? The greater context here is on how certain viewpoints shape society, so naturally I assumed that to be your point of reference. Opinions are all well and good, but when discussing effects on a population larger than oneself, it's generally more practical to deal with issues empirically, which means acknowledging additional context and not regressing to arbitrary value functions. What is the ideal value function here? If you have a notion of one, it'd be easier to understand your point of view if you were to explain that clearly first before giving us the end result of your logical conclusions. Then the discussion could turn into a rational productive one about whether or not that value function is actually a logical one.

> let's say there were some means of doubling half the population's output, assuming we only had to keep them miserable by telling them they are worth less for the duration of their childhood. I would not make that trade.

I wouldn't either, but I don't find this to be a realistic example. Adjusting for IQ for example, would ideally increase people's confidence, motivation, and happiness, because they would experience the same ratio of difficulty:reward throughout their lives as everyone else, not the highly unjust and disproportionate one (with way too much difficulty over reward) that they face now. The example I gave of perfect pitch is also a realistic situation, and I see no reason for not exposing your child to more areas he/she might be good at. If you have a value function that differs on these outcomes, please extrapolate on that, because I feel it would clear things up a bit.

> That will never fail to be the case in almost any complex subject you want to talk about

True, but I was talking with specific regards to the development of neurology when I stated that. Sorry, should've probably been more clear on that.

> "I value that women be as free to choose their way as I, and not be systematically diverted to choices that are convenient to males via their representation in the media, via social policies, etc. I value this more highly than whatever minor benefits I believe are likely to stem out of the socially regressive way of doing things."

See, I value this too, and I value it equally when you substitute "women" with "men" as well[1]. I just don't believe that what you're labeling as "socially regressive" is in fact, socially regressive; there is a fine distinction between oppression and well-informed difference optimization. Unfortunately, this has been given a bad reputation historically (e.g. 'separate but equal' nonsense), but the real problem seems to be a greater misunderstanding of what "equality" as a concept should even look like, because generally, differences are much too nuanced to totally nullify or account for, to really provide a truly equal environment.

[1] An important designation to make when dealing with human equality. Here's an interesting 'case study' that exemplafies this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eqYEVYZgdo
I've signed many petitions by 38degrees which have resulted in direct change: http://www.38degrees.org.uk
So this is a patent for sponsored comments?
A few things:

1. People don't know about it.

2. Are the outcomes comparable?

3. Legal protection - you will have hard time suing Indian specialist in India and there won't be much damages to extract anyway.

4. Age? A good chunk of people that need that types of surgeries are well covered by Medicare.

5. You also need plane tickets, recovery time and at least one companion - so you may look at a lot higher total cost.

6. Plain old fear/ racism.

And the moment it becomes common there will be the full media smear campaign, scaremongering etc
What incentive is there in the USA to reduce healthcare costs? The system is totally corrupt.
Google appears ready to ditch Android over its intellectual property issues
If this great firewall of Cameron goes ahead (and I really don't think it will) I wouldn't be surprised if they distinguish between domestic and business customers. Business customers will be left to sort themselves to ensure compliance.
I don't really know Go except for like 5 min of reading up on its syntax, so I could be wrong, but this assertion that it was not obvious how to write to a file in the documentation surprised me. So I clicked on the stackoverflow link.

OpenFile returns type File from the signature.
http://golang.org/pkg/os/#OpenFile

Scanning through the methods (or doing a cmd + f search for "disk") has this method
http://golang.org/pkg/os/#File.Sync

Method description says "Sync commits the current contents of the file to stable storage. Typically, this means flushing the file system's in-memory copy of recently written data to disk." Isn't that what you want?

Was it as clear as the C# example? Probably not. But I don't think this was terribly hard to find. Code examples will come in time, as the language matures.

IMO whether to put code examples into the documentation is really a choice by the language maintainers. Lots of code examples can also clutter the docs. I prefer to just have the docs tell me what each function does. If I really get confused, I can google for examples. Java also doesn't really have code examples right in the documentation, but they aren't hard to find because it's been around for a long time. For example, Googling for "java code example how to append to a file" and click on the first link.
Python, or any of the functional programming languages: OCaml, Haskell, probably Scala. Tuples are really just syntactic shortcut for immutable lists, so Clojure would be appropriate as well, even though it makes no distinction between a tuple and a list (e.g. "rest" parameters to a variadic function are a list).
"Scottish nationalism is a very strange creature."

Why? We already have seperate legal, educational and health systems and a government that deals with a lot of domestic policies.

We have a clear national identity and seem to be immune to the swing towards the far right that seems to be happening in England. Personally, I would far rather be in a Scotland that is independent, free of Trident and part of the EU than left as an appendage to London in the Former UK.

[Sadly, I suspect we won't get indepedence, but I rankle a bit at this being described as "strange"]
But what do I do if I want to increase my conversion rate by 312 %?
Interesting point. But the whole point of social engineers is to figure how to make people WANT to buy stuff (not make them buy stuff) and that includes making them enjoy their purchases.

What i understand from the article is that people don't regret their purchases immediately. What they regret is the realization that they spent way too much on their game. And thus there should be mechanisms to avoid that regret. And so i love the 2nd suggestion.
Many a Bay Area native is offended that Feinstein is one of our senators. The sanctimonious blow hard is only out for one cause -- herself. Just google conceal carry and feinstein. Not to mention, many hated her as mayor of SF.

I look forward to the day she is no longer "serving" the people of California.
> the system is unable to deal with them, and spits them out.

Wow, kind of just like the real world.
The certificate is issued for the domain, not the IP.
Safari 5.1.9 on Snow Leopard.
Hm, I tried restarting the browser and still get blocked. I'm using Safari 5.1.9 on Snow Leopard
The first supposed fact thrown around in the medical costs argument like this is, "Well in India their cost of living is lower, so they charge considerably less, yadda yadda..." but it's obvious the price difference goes way beyond any cost of living gap. That's over $100,000 in price difference, while it is true the cost of living (salary, prices of every day items) in India is considerably less than that of the US, the gap certainly isn't 100k+

It's comparisons like these that really make you sick to your stomach. You don't see this kind of innovation in the American health system because it has been engineered with greed in mind right from the start. The lobbyist super groups, hospitals being paid kickbacks for using an exclusive medical equipment provider, the money hungry mentality of US medical corporations is more than obvious.

I think when your medical system becomes so expensive it's cheaper for people to fly out of the country, pay for accommodation and even some spending money to get the same level of care, if not higher than that of your own country, regardless of cost of living differences and other nation specific costs that's absolutely ridiculous. By the sounds of it, India is going to be the new global superpower if more and more people fly there to pay for medical treatment it benefits their economy in the end (given how a substantial chunk of the population is below the poverty line, this might not be such a bad thing).

A doctor trained in India is no less qualified than a doctor trained in the US. So expertise or training is no excuse either. In-fact I've found Indian trained specialists to be more thorough, careful, understanding and compassionate in comparison to that of Australian trained medical professionals (I'm from Australia). When was the last time you saw or heard of a poor American medical specialist or surgeon?

The question is: Will America ever change their ways? Or will quality medical care only be reserved for those who can afford decent medical insurance or have jobs that provide fair medical benefits?

One thing is for certain, this is submission is going to garner a lot of responses from both sides of the fence if past submissions along these lines are anything to go by.
What is the survival rate in India after that procedure, comparing to the US?

My colleague _visited_ India and returned with a stomach flu, spent a week in a hospital.
"Both of the proposed solutions are against the goals of the app store"

I don't think they are.

The App Store's goals should be about bringing the best apps to the most people. Not about making money by selling apps — even though it does make a little bit of money for Apple.

By having a long term goal based on App quality they encourage more device sales and more consumer trust in the App Store.

Those two things lead to more people being willing to pay more up-front for apps in the long term. Better for developers, and much better for Apple.

A good app could still sell expensive in-app purchases. This article in particular targets consumables. If a game told me I was spending $10 a month on consumables I would be happy to know that — and would continue doing it if I felt it was worth it. It would also let me better understand how those scammy purchases add up in cost, if I were one to go for those sorts of things.