skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From their website:

"A Northwest Ohio start-up company is nearly ready to create 2,000 green auto industry jobs!" [1]

They've received 312,000 orders ... right. For comparison the tesla model S has received over 1,000 orders [2]. An order of magnitude difference. Why haven't we already heard of these guys?

1. hp2g.com/articles.html;
2. www.autobloggreen.com/2009/05/12/tesla-reports-over-1-000-model-s-orders/
I am in college but the people I would want to hear in College probably would be
John McCarthy
Peter Norvig
Facebook, Twitter and peers for sale - privately
I think Amazon should fund their own newspaper on the Kindle, as a content driver for further Kindle sales. Most of it can be comprised of aggregation, with a few exclusive investigative stories only available on the Kindle.
Sure, when you checked it didn't have anything. The question is how long that state persisted.
His complaint is that the JVM libraries are not coded in Lisp: opaque routines having no underlying Lispiness. He would rather have no libraries at all, so every programmer needing library functionality has to "implement the feature himself correctly," where "correctly" means "in Lisp." His aesthetic sense has run amok and is out to destroy everything that isn't a "crystalline pyramid," regardless of how useful it is.

Additionally it had compilers for Fortran, C, Pascal and others.

Until this wacko logs in and deletes them, or replaces them with trojans to teach you a lesson about intellectual rigor ;-)

The JVM is optimized for Java and nothing else.

That's true, but x86 is optimized for C and nothing else, so how can you do any better (in real life?) At least the JVM has potential. Sun has realized that dynamic language performance is important, and they're busy improving support for languages like Jython and JRuby. Lisps will benefit from that work.
Hulu is on my TV, using Hulu Desktop application, provided by Hulu, with an 10 foot experience approaching the usability of TiVo.

EDIT:

Hulu Desktop is at http://www.hulu.com/labs/hulu-desktop, have a look at the screenshots or try it.

Note that "Hulu Desktop will work with Apple and Windows Media Center remotes" suggesting they don't expect it to be driven by a mouse and keyboard.
> social status

Why does every arm chair discussion of evolutionary psychology veer to social hierarchy? The evidence is quite convincing that pre-agricultural humans were not so much hierarchical. Humans are not gorillas. It seems like various insecure nerds are very eager to project popularity issues.

I think depression is more about simple calorie preservation. People in situations where they feel they have no control get depressed. Imagine a famine. The cheerful go-getter says "By gum, there's food out there somewhere and I'm going to find it!" He tramps out of camp on a hunt, and drops dead of starvation two days later. Our depressive fellow says "We're fucked. I'm going to lie down and wait to die." He stays still and doesn't even think much, saving calories. Then by chance a deer wanders into camp eight days later and he's saved.

In this age of plentiful energy and food people seem to forget how central metabolism and energy scarcity is to evolution. The human body is mostly a machine set up to cope with highly variable energy intake. Energy efficiency and conservation should typically be the starting point when considering these issues.

As recently as 100 years ago huge numbers of people in northern climes would spend most of four months of the year lying in bed in a semi-depressive state to save energy.
Mohammed Yunus, the Dalai Lama .. (& Barack?)
> Amichai-Hamburger speculates that rather than contributing altruistically, Wikipedians take part because they struggle to express themselves in real-world social situations.

I've made small contributions to a few public wikis, without really thinking about why. And that's pretty plausible.
> Nonsense. If you can hop in a shelter to avoid the occasional solar storm that can kill you instantly, the remaining associated risks are like smoking.

You are wrong. The radiation is lethal. What you wrote only applies near earth.

And it's not solar particles that are the main problem. It's cosmic particles, which have much much higher energies, and do not come in bursts.

See here: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=magnet-forc... and here: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=shielding-s... and here: http://blogs.chron.com/sciguy/archives/2009/05/the_real_reas... and here: http://marsjournal.org/contents/2006/0004/files/rapp_mars_20... (pdf) and here: http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/080331-radiation-shield...

Is that enough? We are not going to mars anytime soon. Even a colony on the moon is not possible right now. We would either need to send people on once only short term construction trips, or some sort of robotic construction to make a shield first. Or a biological protectant of some kind.
I devour everything that guy puts out. Any idea if he's got a twitter account? The one w/ his name doesn't seem to be him.
It's an intriguing idea that seems to be associated with Soviet-era training and the mechanization of human beings, coerced into insect-like castes, as in Brave New World, and the lovely short-story Unaccompanied Sonata http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unaccompanied_Sonata (or Ender's Game itself for that matter.)

I know you don't mean coercion, but simply informed choice; but I think the rebuttal is the same: our theories are not adequate to predict such things, even if we had all the information; especially when factors like 10,000 hours of practice and motivation seem so important. At best, they can suggest a probability distribution. Or: you don't know til you try.

I guess some specifics could be useful, like a probability distribution of expected height for a baby, for his/her potential as a basketball player. However, at the very young age where genome knowledge is most effective (by revealing as yet unexpressed traits). the baby is not able to make a choice. So it would effectively be Soviet-era training.
What do you mean with compromised? A Tor exit node can sniff the traffic. So what? Unless you are signing in on a site, that doesn't matter. There is no MITM attack against your anonymity, provided you use Torbutton to block known Javascript/plugin exploits.

Don't use Tor to sign in you bank account or your email account. Reading news or Wikileaks through Tor? No problem. All what the exit node sniffer will see is an anonymous user reading news websites.
Steve Jobs, definitely. He has knowledge and skills that no college professor can teach. To get a glimpse of his business genius would be unfathomably valuable.
Definitely marvin minsky (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_minsky) . He is pretty much the father of artificial intelligence, and not a bad speaker either.
this reminds me of the UI principle: focus the same way your users do. if your users spend 90% of their time using two features, those are the features you should put 90% of your effort into.
Try not to blame the messenger. He asked to have his application reviewed, so I reviewed it. That was my customer experience trying to download and install his product.

Here, for a counterexample, is the homepage for a different open source software product:

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/firefox.html?from=getfi...

You'll notice some key differences. That page describes exactly what the software does and how it will benefit me as a user. It includes a prominent link to an installer right off the page.

That's what the public face of a software product should look like. That's the message I was trying to convey to the original poster. Dropping potential users off at Github is a dead-end for most of them. An explanation as to why can be found here:

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2009/03/07/how-to-successfully-comp...
Well, Apache would definitely be using more RAM since the Apache process would be actually running/parsing/etc. the PHP. nginx just sends the request along to another process and so nginx shouldn't be using significantly different amounts of RAM from what it would normally use since all the PHP stuff is happening in a different process.
Roger Penrose. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Penrose
RescueTime logs by app/website. In PunchT, you log manually.

RescueTime way it's easier, but not that accurate. For example I use StackOverflow for both work and leisure. RescueTime both uses logs as same. By logging manually, I can mark the difference between those activities.
Or Michael Jackson, clearly.
There is a row of buttons at the top of the page, one of which is labeled "download" (though it seems to have lower importance on the page than, say, "fork"). Clicking that gave me a pile of source code. Are you saying that the text link further down the page is hooked up directly to the executable?

Definitely put up a real site for this if you care about it.
My take (just from the provided page and not from further context) is that Gates was saying MS does not do a new version of software on the basis of / for the sole or primary purpose of fixing bugs. This does not mean they do not fix bugs in a new version. It means fixing bugs is NOT the motivation for doing a new version. Bug fixes do not provide sufficient motivation for users to purchase the new version.

EDIT: I did not mean for my comment to be a child to this parent. Clicked wrong when beginning it.
Any mention of "alpha male" costs you your entrance ticket to the discussion. There is no such thing in humans.

> An aggressive alpha male can kill you

What advantage does an "agressive alpha" have over you? Any human can kill any other human very easily. Rock to the head, game over. We're not talking about walruses.

Social power structures of any complexity are a post-agricultural development, and therefore of limited importance to human genes. The social structure in a hunter-gather band of 20 is simple and flat.
Creating Executable Jars For Your Clojure App
Glasgow Caledonian University first in UK to teach how to create virtual worlds
I see this as the technical/business disconnect.

I've definitely had it at times, when I value perfection in itself. Working with (discrete maths/CS) proofs has exacerbated this. If one aspect isn't quite right, it's a horrible catastrophe, and destroys the whole. This non-pragmatic approach also causes problems in just getting things done.

Behind it is a fundamental question of values, of whether you're working to serve people (an entrepreneur's job), or working to serve truth (a scientist's or artist's job). That's up to you.

One way to combine these perspectives is in terms of a "Hero's Journey": you encounter a problem of ordinary folk (Quest); you journey into a strange special world of deeper power to obtain the solution (Elixir), and then return to the ordinary world to solve it (you can't solve a problem at the same level you encountered it.) It seems that this so-called "monomyth" is so universally resonate because it reflects a common experience of human beings.
Philosophically he doesn't seem to be down with the free-culture ideals. So it wouldn't surprise me if he made them "available" to the public — but only, say, that segment of the public that was running Windows 7, with technical and contractual prohibitions on copying or excerpting.
Haven't paid a penny for Cable TV in two months and never plan on doing so ever again.

I've been doing that for almost four years now, without the help of Hulu or Boxee. I have a DLP projector mounted to the ceiling with VGA cables going to it from my iMac, and a piece of foamcore on the wall. Voila. Big screen. All the content I want, lots of which isn't on cable. iTunes, Netflix instant, Amazon, HDTV receiver, and anything else I want off of Bittorrent.

I used to ride my exercise bike to Google Tech Talks. Today, I rode it while watching Feynman interviews.
Any professor who had Founders at Work as the textbook for his class.

A class in Nutrition would have been good for me too.
Agreed. This debate was in the context of cloud computing. After working with Google App Engine and their datastore API, I more fully appreciate the willpower required by their developers.

Some queries that would be relatively easy (and not super-scalable) have to be reformulated so computation is done on write and not on read. An example is writing an app that uses ranking and decay:
http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/overheard.html

There's a different set of tricks to learn, so in the context of cloud computing, if you aren't willing to confine your approaches to those amenable to truly distributed cloud computing, you're not addressing the basic problems. Of course, there will be apps that can work effectively without web-scale, but are you talking about the "cloud" at that point or just hosted apps?
Bittorrent clients also have RSS feed readers. For less than HD, you can often watch a show for only 30 minutes lead time. If you have things set to download automatically, then there are probably unwatched shows waiting for you all the time. Then, it's like Tivo.
> But there's a world of difference in the user experience of 'Synaptic Package Manager' versus App Store.

I think new users are supposed to use add/remove instead of synaptic.
the process of him decomposing under the earth is not relevant to you as a startup founder though.
I'm pretty sure you're misunderstanding the statement read at the start of the game; it's saying that the accounts and descriptions performed by their hired talent are copyrighted, not that you can't describe it yourself.
Peter Norvig... his talk at SS'08 made me wish he taught all my classes.
Bill Gates just owned the guy ! Amazing ... the interviewer tried to push the guy but he knows exactly what to do.

From my view, Mr Bill and Microsoft cant stop evolving because of the bugs. They are right on focusing in new features rather than on bugs. The problem is building to complex software. That´s the mistake, on my opinion. Sometimes i use office 2000 to write some document and i don´t feel any difference from the 2007 ... well ... both do the job. So why i need the 2007 ? Because it´s have more features ... just this. So the interviewer should go for that, in my opinion, "Mr Bill, why you guys don´t build more simple and less complex software ?" So Bill would probably answer what EVERYBODY KNOWS BUT STILL WANT TO LISTEN TO FROM HIM TO CRUSH THE GUY ... "Well, because simple software don´t give so much money"
FreeDOS is 15 years old
Characterizations of Gould as a Marxist biologist are roughly as ad hominem as that article accuses Gould of being.

As another non biologist, I understand that Gould's main contribution was punctuated equilibrium. he thought that the primary driver in evolutionary change was rare and relatively quick changes across a population - the external environment would change, or a new advantageous trait would develop which would transmit rapidly. It also clashes with attempts to determine more gradual models of genetic propagation throughout populations.
I read it as outlaw "thinking" the first time.
A great deal of government research funding is of the "full employment act for scientists" variety. Inevitable when accountability for actual real-world results - as opposed to accountability for completing the project you said you were going to complete - goes out the window.

For more in that vein:

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2007/10/a-few-thoughts-on...

"This might as well be language lifted from a mythical government release on the Full Employment Act for Gerontologists. It's all so grey and tired - rescue the scientists, pay the scientists, help the scientists. Note the utter absence of any sort of discussion of goals or results. What are these scientists actually doing? What is the value of it? Where are they going? When will they get there? What does it mean to me?

"This sort of thing is exactly why there is little public support for or understanding of mainstream aging research. I've long said that basic research is no different from any other human endeavor. It isn't magic, immune to planning - you can set goals, plans and schedules. You can invest in research in exactly the same way as commercial companies invest in research day in and day out. Those who claim that you can't set goals, timelines, explain matters to the public, create excitement and make real fireworks fly in an area of fundamental research are generally much more interested in the steady flow of dollars or their own particular hobby than in actually getting something meaningful accomplished."
A bit tangential, but there's the idea of aiming at average - as in the "Family Feud" TV game-show, where you have to predict the most popular responses to a survey.

Another approach is to reward the user at every possible moment: the casual game "Peggle" has been immensely popular (because of this, I think). There's still the same information feedback, but presented in an upbeat way. I'm charmed by it despite myself.
Ah. I've screwed up. PG's comment has highlighted that there's an ambiguous "that" here.

Yes, this is intended to be an analysis of the most famous missing "a". My point is that this interview appears to show that he has a tendency to elide the word "a", and that provides evidence that in the "One small step" he probably, in his head, really did say the "a", but the way he says things, it never came out.

Sorry, I really should've made that clearer. That'll teach me to write things once, read through immediately, and not review it after a pause.

The program was "NASA: Triumph and Tragedy" part 1 of 2, broadcast by BBC2 at 21:00 on June 24th.

This link works for me, but probably won't work outside the UK:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00lg2xb/NASA_Triumph_a...

The quotation is at 44:20.
“These grants are not silly, but they are only likely to produce incremental progress”

"but" -> "therefore"
A law to outlaw linking without permission is unnecessary; they can already block traffic by 'referrer'.

That essentially no papers do so illustrates the problem with such a strategy: as long as one reasonable-substitute competitor allows inlinking, bloggers/aggregators don't care, and the anti-inlinking paper has only hurt itself.

What I think they really want is to outlaw all linking unless some cartel (rather than individual targets) approves. Then they can lock out all 'parasites' (in their view) from their newsgathering value.

You can see this true agenda in opinion pieces like the following:

"Newspapers need an antitrust exemption"
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/sunday/la-oe-rutten4-200...

"Laws that could save Journalism"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05...
Leonardo Da Vinci.
Not Billy Mays Too
I also found Nginx to also be far easier to configure.
I would have liked someone to tell me the following:

1. Double-major in something marketable + something unusual. It's important to differentiate yourself early on, and an unusual skill, like say, Japanese fluency, can open a lot of doors.

2. Get good grades. Even if you think grades don't mean much, you might want to go to grad school, or apply to some company that actually cares about grades.

3. I can't improve on Larry Page's commencement speech, so just watch that: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFb2rvmrahc
:( it doesn't work with mobile Safari on the iPhone.
While libtask contains primitives for io (see fdread and other fd* functions) it uses poll() internally which does not scale well.
And that is one of the problems that libevent solves by using the best available polling mechanism available.
Libevent also provides timer and signal events while libtask does not.
Like how it took your competence to recognize the competence of the example?
I think the quality of the London images is better than those in the New York sample.
Has the Earth run out of resources already? What is the rationale here: the Chinese seize the resources on Earth, so the USA goes to outer space to seize the resources of the Solar System?

Sorry, but you're not quite there yet. The old world hadn't run out of resources when the American Industrial Revolution hit full stride. A big part of the reason why the US rocked the world economically was because of advantageous economic geography. (No need to devote resources to defend borders, lots of ports with easy access to waterways, waterways with good access to vast agricultural resources, advantageously situated synergistic natural resources like iron and coal, etc.)

If you look at the economic "geography" of the Solar System, it's quite obvious that Mars will eventually be the next North America. It's much cheaper to get almost anywhere in the Solar System from Mars than Earth. Heck, it even takes less energy to get to Earth's Moon from Mars than Earth. (This makes it likely that initially lunar industrial equipment will be made on Mars, shipped to the Moon, and teleoperated from Earth's surface.)

Also note that you are making the classic mistake of not extrapolating technology. Perhaps certain English shipwrights pooh-poohed the vast American forests. After all, the infrastructure was all in Europe. How many of them could have predicted that ships would be made of steel, sails would be obsolete, and ships would be propelled by coal and steam? Industrial technology in the late 21st century is likely to even more unpredictable to us as our industry was unimaginable to all but a few denizens of 1909. The only sure thing is that they will want to be able to marshall vaster resources and energies. To do that, you must go to space.

I understand the allure of colonizing Mars. But I also believe in prioritizing. The US is fighting two unwinnable wars, and is in a grim financial situation.

Yes, but whatever we do, we need to do it first. It will be much better for the US if the future superpower of Mars is not settled by the Chinese.

Why not start small? We could keep sending robots to Mars. Since Mars has ice and CO2, one could introduce plants in Mars and try to start recycling all that CO2 into oxygen. That would perhaps create a tiny habitat and make things easier for the first humans to ever land on the red planet.

Have you read Zubrin? He thinks along similar lines. However, he's probably spent a lot more time working out the difficulties, likely steps, even specific chemical processes.
Billy Mays, OxiClean pitchman, found dead
Thanks for the video link. I just watched it and am inspired to pick up the book now.

I must confess it is a pretty frustrating task to try and gain a well-informed, well-balanced general understanding of nutrition with an accompanying good idea of "what to eat". I've become pretty interested in the subject of late and in my research came across another source, Gary Taubes, whose theory I thought was pretty damn compelling. Unfortunately, the Campbell position seems pretty much directly opposed to the Taubes hypothesis.

I have no idea what to think. If anyone can point me to a fair, informed criticism of either or both, by someone who knows what they are talking about and is not obviously writing in defense of some preconceived partisan allegiance, I would be delighted to read it.

Right now I would say I find Taubes more convincing, simply because I tend to mistrust any statistics I didn't do myself. There could be any number of factors causing the strong correlations Campbell is graphing; without the full data they are close to useless.
It's like with essays: shorter essays take longer to write, because you have to spend more time editing and wording things in a clear and simple way.
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Street_View#Development) suggests that this is correct. New York City was added at its launch in May 2007. London did not appear until March 2009, almost two years later.
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