skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on who you know, actually. Most business expats are doing this exact same thing for their paying employers. If you want a freelancer, it depends on what business you're in; if you are interested in electronics stuff made in Guangdong province, I don't mind going through my rolodex and introducing you to my friends. Shoot me a mail.

The reason I specified the product industry and manufacturing region is that it's not just a matter of calling up factories and looking at their samples. It takes a lot of effort to create a relationship with the Chinese. If anybody tells you they can "get anything from China" they're blowing smoke; they can't, at least not efficiently and cheaply. Everyone is in an specialized industry, and whoever has a lead outside his expertise passes it on to someone in that industry. China is all favors, face, guanxi, and connections.

The concept of "face" is a lot like consumer rewards and frequent flier mileage; the more you buy from a factory the more perks you get and the more face you have with the management. At the high end, people with good contacts can get millions of dollars worth of products up front :-) reputation is currency. People who hop-industries, the jacks of all trades, don't get any deals and nobody knows them. (or worse, people do know them and they have a negative reputation.)
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I read this article last Tuesday at the auto mechanic, after I finished the book I brought. So it's probably the September issue, which comes out before September.
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That's my honest mistake; I'm aware of the Friedman family but clearly I wasn't aware of the two of them.

Not editing so as to leave evidence of ignorance intact.
The quality was much higher this year. I think teams are really learning how to compete, and it's getting a lot harder to win.
You're still missing what the experiments showed- money expands the time taken to do a finite task. Indeed, the base argument is that without a million dollar prize, much less effort would have been expended... yielding the same degree of success. The defense rests on the experimental data and the similar evidence of Wikipedia and kernel patches.

The X-Prize and Darpa challenges are qualitatively different in that the tasks require (expensive) material components, not just the undervalued resource of time. Nothing in the talk covers this scenario, and I'd suggest extra experiments.
I did not realize they use floats to represent all types, 64.64 would have been an excellent choice for this and would go a long way to solving the issue reported.
So if you want to buy more disk space only, that would reduce the size of the pie for everyone else who wants disk space, so you'd need to reduce the allowed disk space on all plans to leave some 'spare' in case someone wants to expand their disk.

Or maybe Slicehost could use some of the money to buy some more disk space and hook it up.
Link bait? Are you serious? I don't own SEED magazine, and I have nothing to gain from your clicking on it.

I think it is an appropriate use of the word hack.

Since the producers allow contestants unlimited time to work out answers (as long as they’re not just stalling), I knew that I could employ the most basic of priming tactics: talking about the question, posing scenarios, throwing out wild speculations, even just babbling—trying to cajole my prefrontal neurons onto any cue that could trigger the buried neocortical circuits holding the key to the answer.

...

I tried priming the missing words of the acronym, reiterating “National Collegiate Uh Uh, National Collegiate Uh Uh,” over and over until my synapses finally fired off the complete pattern: “National Collegiate Athletic Association.”

He interpreted the rules cleverly to gain an advantage, in a way that I suspect no one did before, at least not to the extent that he did.

If you don't like the title, suggest a better one, and perhaps the mods will change it.
>wall outlets are usually behind a local fuse even before a home's circuit breaker

I live in the UK and I don't know anyone with fuses in the actual outlet. We normally have a circuit breaker and fuse in the plug. For things like my PC, I also use 4-way extension cords which have an additional fuse and surge protector.
On my HP48X rpn calculator I get = 0

The HP35 scientific calculator also give 0 as an answer.

wierd.
Stay Tuned.........There's more to be added to this list of 50.
You're missing my point

I think you are missing your own point. Faced with 99 head tosses, you think the 100th should be heads because it proves the system is gamed (eg. the coin is biased).

The article addresses people who believe that faced with 99 head tosses, they think the 100th should be tails (because it is "due").

In other words, the people in the article behave as if they believe that the system in independent (not gamed) but reach the wrong answer.
Incidentally I find Patri's stuff much better than David's (if this is any indication).

Seasteading is far-out but Patri seems self-aware of that and has the wisdom to take an "I don't have all the answers yet" attitude where warranted.

From what I've seen of David's work (again: if this is any indication) it seems poorly thought-through (probably) or dishonest (possibly); a post-state anarchist society is going to be different, this stuff reads like epicycles-within-epicycles to convince you it'd be "the same but better".
Seems startup worthy to me.
Another great Wallace essay:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/20/sports/playmagazine/20fede...

"Federer as Religious Experience"
That he's not trying very hard to vanish? The guy is still taking photos of his cat and uploading 'em to flickr. Also, he's hanging out in Wired reader central -- San Francisco and Santa Monica. If he really wanted to vanish he'd be camping in Utah by now.

Unless of course he's camping in Utah while leaving a false trail in California...
Aaronsw compiled the complete list. http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/offline2 I have the .pdfs of some of the paywalled ones, anyone reading this can email me.
That was a fun read. In this scenario, how do I start a protection agency when others are already competing? They'll kick my ass and shut me down. Do I need to hire myself protection until I can grow large enough to protect myself? In other words, how do we deal with anti-competitive behavior?
The real world Lisp/Clojure + Hadoop approach is definitely fun to hear about. Also interesting to see a YCombinator team with 8+ people including a domain expert. Mashing up 4+ messy data sources is tough to do. Very unconventional on many fronts.
But your argument supports the opposite of the classic gambler's fallacy. The traditional mistake is to expect the 30th flip to be less likely to be heads, because 30 in a row is rare. So peoples' intuition is even less appropriate to the real world than probability theory is.
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Personally, I think the million dollar prize is just a way to justify it to your spouse / boss / whoever holds the carrots and sticks in your life. It's an appeasement tactic so that those who love tinkering with this stuff can do so guilt-free, because it "might" lead to That Ultimate Approved Outcome.

Same with the X-Prize, and the Darpa grand challenge. Those teams spent way more on their entries than the challenge money brought back. Throwing in a few million just legitimizes the fun that everybody's having; it's not actually the motivator. I mean seriously; you think Red doesn't build robots when Darpa doesn't have prizes?
Is there anything that can do infinity - (infinity-1)?
Ask HN: should we be publishing screenshots?
Our company has a personal health records platform that we are proud of because it is user friendly and powerful. It is built on top of open source software and the company that created that software wanted to feature us as one of their partners. I am pleased by this vote of confidence and was trying to decide what screenshots to share with them.

However, in the last week, two CEOs of different start-ups that I was interviewing for a book I am writing refused to provide me with screenshots of their products to publish in the book. Both said their user interface is a trade secret that they did not want to share.

I cannot figure out if they are being naive (for missing out on an advertising opportunity) or I am being naive (for being ready to give away my own company's "trade secrets").

Any advice on what I should do?
Perhaps it would be an option that they could sell to people?
I think the explanation from wikipedia makes more sense (to me anyways) than the little graphic in the article:

In Chapter 2 of The Existence of Nature and God Anselm′s
Argument for the Existence of God is as follows:

1. God is something of which nothing greater can be thought.
2. God may exist in the understanding.
3. It is greater to exist in reality and in the
understanding than just in understanding.
4. Therefore, God exists in reality

Anselm's second argument

Anselm in his Proslogion 3 made another a priori argument
for God, this time based on the idea of necessary
existence. He claimed that, if God is that than which no
greater can be conceived, it is better to be necessary
than contingent; therefore, God must be necessary. To sum
up:

1. God is the entity of which nothing greater
can be thought.
2. It is greater to be necessary than not.
3. God must therefore be necessary.
4. Hence, God exists necessarily.

I like to think about the whole God topic with Immanuel Kant's theories in mind (i.e. that there may be things that exist but that we cannot physically reason about).

In that light, I'd say that the difference between a startup and God (by the omnipresence definition, anyways) is that your startup must be human-made by definition, thus it cannot exist in a manner that cannot be reasoned about.
... or so ...
The idea was more interesting than his speaking, at least for me. I felt like Walter from The Big Lebowski - "... I did not know that...".
I thought this article would be about looking at the reaction of the host while reading each of the answer choices but it was still an interesting read.

I imagine there are people who are able to say a list of words and then know what the person is thinking of based on their reactions.
I think you should probably shoot the competitor an e-mail and mention to them that you're doing it (and tell them about your useful export API, and ask if they can reciprocate!)
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Someone still listens to radio ???

(Just kidding ... try KEXP ... )
Higher courts often find the lower courts wrong, but from what I understand basically never penalize the corporation for following the offending court's orders. It's obvious why, it would set a terrible precedent.

Corporations don't have a responsibility to take every case to the Supreme Court if they have to. If a court orders them to cough up information and they do, there is virtually 0 chance they will ever be penalized for that by another. Can you name one instance?

I'll ask my IP attorney friends about this, but I remember one expressing similar sentiment about mobile phone corporations before.
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Even in non-standard models of arithmetic, where you could use infinity as an operand, the value of that expression would have to be undefined (not 1, as you seem to expect).
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just a tip to all startups that have a blog separate from their main website - please include an "about us" page link on the blog, or a 2 sentence summary of what your company does somewhere in the sidebar. Or at least a link to your company's product page.

(took a surprising amount of time for me to figure out what exactly Twilio offers, as I had never heard of them before...)
Check out SQLite's license. IIRC, that is in the public domain.
Peter Norvig says exactly what I said in that video.

He says it when he says "... but the computer doesn't understand physics." Why not? The internet knows a hell of a lot more physics than I do.

The statistical stuff is cool, but all you can do with it is fancy accounting. You can never really pull out meaning .. and doing real analogical / inductive reasoning on statistical data sets is hard.

You'll notice that suggestion (4) can only be considered doable because the internet has easily accessible APIs to determine who is real and what organizations they belong to.

While suggestion (5) is not feasible at all at the moment.
Definitely, yes. The first thing I take a look at when browsing for a new web based application is the screenshots (yes, before the screencast).

Do not hide what you are trying to sell.
While this is definitely good geek porn, I have to say as a C# programmer that there might be some things which C# can do but which you might want to abstain from :)
It's possible that putting things in the public domain is no longer allowed even in the US. Peter Saint-Andre puts all of his work in the public domain, but he wrote an essay with links almost three years ago discussing among other things that it may not be legal https://stpeter.im/index.php/2006/12/30/pd-howto/ . He has a lot of other writings about PD and copyright issues here : https://stpeter.im/index.php/category/publicdomain/ . Note for those using IE; IE does not recognize his CA, you need to either click through or change the https to http.
You have a war.
actually, I think one of the only real difficulties associated with high IQ is that generally speaking, its fairly generally the case that people have extreme difficulty easily communicating with people whose IQ differ from their own by about 2+ standard deviations (1 sd is about 15 iq points).

For example, if your IQ is say 145, the way you communicate when talking will in some sense be fundamentally different from someone whose IQ is less than 115 or greater than 175. This is not to say that its impossible, only that it actually takes cognitive effort to translate what you're saying into a suitable cognitive frame of reference for the other person's consumption. This is similar to the difficulties in communicating with someone from a completely different cultural background, albeit different details.
Krav Maga, Kali, boxing, and bits of Muay Thai and Wing Chun; Python, BASH, and a bit of C.
I didn't intend to imply you had anything to gain from attracting clicks, so I want to withdraw any such accusation as may be inferred.

I was referring to the HN guidelines, specifically that "You can make up a new title if you want, but if you put gratuitous editorial spin on it, the editors may rewrite it." and the general policy of using the source's title wherever possible. I felt adding Hacks was gratuitous spin.

"Who wants to be a cognitive neuroscientist millionaire" tells me more about the story than "Brain researcher hacks ...", but it appears that we have different applications of the word hack, and I respect your explanation.
Makes you wonder how they will respond when actual users are looking at those screens. Do they have to sign an NDA too ?
fantastic! Just signed up.
Out of curiosity...

C:\>ruby --version
ruby 1.8.6 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 287) [i386-mswin32]

C:\>irb
irb(main):001:0> 999999999999999 - 999999999999997
=> 2
irb(main):002:0> 9999999999999999 - 9999999999999997
=> 2
irb(main):003:0> 999999999999999.0 - 999999999999997.0
=> 2.0
irb(main):004:0> 9999999999999999.1 - 9999999999999997.1
=> 2.0
I hit the wrong arrow and upvoted this turkey when I meant to downvote it. Most problems are the "victims" own fault. Unless someone is the victim of a totally unexpected attack, eg 9/11, he at least assisted in his own problems and often enough caused them entirely on his own.

EDIT: By "turkey" I meant the statement about "blaming the victim" which is repeated over and over in all sorts of contexts and is usually mindless PC-speak. I have yet to see it defended except by screeching and name-calling.
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Why does the paper report the percentages to one decimal place when the margin of error is about 5% (men) to 9% (women)?
As long as you have a "Export to [competitor]" feature as well I don't see what the problem is.
searched google for: "it's better to be" + quotes

e.g.

Matt Damon: It's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody.

Marilyn Monroe: 'It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.'

Mae West: It's better to be looked over than overlooked.

Steve Jobs: It's better to be a pirate than to join the Navy.
Xkcd: on the windows file copy dialog
This rings truer than ever:

http://dustincurtis.com/dear_dustin_curtis.html
Yes, but on its license page (http://sqlite.org/copyright.html), it has a section for how to obtain a different license for people "are using SQLite in a jurisdiction that does not recognize the right of an author to dedicate their work to the public domain" (among other things).

Also, I've commented elsewhere in thread (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=783320) about problems releasing it into the public domain has caused him.
Real world Anecdote:
I'm a cube Monkey. Six months ago I switched from Coke to Coke-Zero (I can't stand the aspartame taste in Diet Coke, they managed to mask it somewhat in Coke-Zero). No other lifestyle changes whatsoever. I dropped from 195 pounds to 175 without really noticing and then stabilized.

So, for whatever reason, I'm a data point that tends to be contrary to the thesis put forward in the article. Sounds like a fairly easy thing to do a controlled study on though.
According to the article, 10-15 years to become functional, and since they're alive, they can last for centuries (some of them are 500 years old). Obviously, they're not for everyone!
The big trick is then to bridge the gap.

I think that if you really understand stuff you can explain it to just about anybody, no matter how big the gap. This may take a lot of time and hard work but both parties willing it should be possible.
+1 for Lookout...free and works like a charm!
There are many subtle differences: as you noted, the rows per page differs; clicking to select all offers "Select all conversations that match this search," rather than "Select all conversations in <Label>"; the "Remove label <Foo>" button disappears; an Archive button appears; "Move to" disappears, but "Move to Inbox" appears instead; etc. It's not broken in the sense that it doesn't work, but it's broken in the sense that Google's implying an equivalence that is not there.
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Maybe we could just define "infinity = 999999" or something like that ...
In my estimation, not being able to do substring searches in emails, sucks.
It's more fun if we aren't restricted to some company's application platform.
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I would think the host doesn't get the answer until it's "final".
This may explain my observation that people who drink diet sodas drink a LOT of diet sodas, while people that just drink soda do so occasionally.
Exactly....I have always wondered why there is no google premium...I would gladly pay $100/year to have a collection of certain domains easily removed from my google searches, or pick from a list of my favorite sites for a "site:" search, etc etc.
Absolutely right -- when we were fund raising we experienced the exact same thing. I am convinced these angel groups are the biggest scam to first-time entrepreneurs.

When we first moved out to the valley to fund raise, we didn't know the difference between angels vs. angel groups. So we thought, oh, what a great way to pitch to a bunch of angels all at once. When they started asking us to to fill out a 500-page online application (AngelSoft makes me want to puke), and asking for $5,000 per presentation, we immediately wrote them all off.

The idea of me having to pay to pitch disgusts me. I even ask one of the groups outright -- doesn't it make more sense to charge the angels rather than the entrepreneurs? I mean... they are the ones who have money while we are the ones starving right?

For all you first-time entrepreneurs out there, please do not waste your time talking to angel groups like we did. If you network well enough you can pitch to any angel / VC in the Valley without much problem - and most importantly, for free.
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[...] In the Victorian era, the social climate or zeitgeist was indeed very repressive. If there were a motto that best described the social milieu of the time, it would have been "Don’t even think about it!" People were over-controlled and were programmed to be very apprehensive [...]

[...] our age is most characterized by its degree of permissiveness, license and privilege. And if there were a motto to best describe the Western cultural milieu, it would be as the once popular commercial advocated: Just, do it!. As a result, [...] modern culture has created a situation in which increasingly more people are not hung-up enough to restrain themselves from simply doing what they want to do and with a fair degree of indifference to the consequences [...]
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[...] In the Victorian era, the social climate or zeitgeist was indeed very repressive. If there were a motto that best described the social milieu of the time, it would have been "Don’t even think about it!" People were over-controlled and were programmed to be very apprehensive [...]

[...] our age is most characterized by its degree of permissiveness, license and privilege. And if there were a motto to best describe the Western cultural milieu, it would be as the once popular commercial advocated: Just, do it!. As a result, [...] modern culture has created a situation in which increasingly more people are not hung-up enough to restrain themselves from simply doing what they want to do and with a fair degree of indifference to the consequences [...]
Absolute waste of time. Please don't bother with it.
No worries.

I did consider using the original title, but felt it was a bit cryptic. Maybe it was just me.
WHOOPS not again!

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,955183-1,00...
I think the point of the article means that you would drop another 20 pounds by switching from diet coke to water :-)
If it is a curse to you, then you probably have other specific difficulties. I am a high-functioning autistic with an IQ of 156; I have trouble with all but the last 2. In fact, working as an employee helps offset my problems with "unrealistic expectations" since my biggest problem with that is lack of focus, and when employed my employer provides the focus. Unfortunately, since my last good employer died in 2001, I have been bouncing around between low level jobs ever since. I cannot work closely with others more than briefly, so I either have to work alone, which is what I mostly did in the 1990s, or switch jobs every few years, and with the economy and the torture looking for work is for me, I have been mostly out of work since last October.
This is definitely not just a matter of using double where something longer would have been better. 999999999999999 and 999999999999997 are both exactly representable as 64-bit IEEE floating-point numbers (i.e., doubles).

They're not using single-precision floats either; with one 9 fewer in each number, everything's fine, but those numbers are way out of range for 32-bit IEEE floats.

Doesn't look like fixed-precision decimals, either: reduce the second number by 1 and you correctly get a difference of 3.