skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting.

I absolutely suck at math, and I blame the computer. Here's why :) :

When I was a kid I was good at 'arithmetic' in school (grade school, I really wouldn't call it math). Anything up to say raising stuff to arbitrary powers and doing lots of multiplications, long division up to fairly high numbers without pencil and paper.

Then high school came along. In the first year I was probably the best of all the kids at math, it didn't cost me any effort either, trigonometry and so on was a breeze. I liked doing it, the teacher was great. Then in the second year of high school we got a fairly lousy teacher (sorry, it's the truth, especially when compared to the guy from the first year), and I got access to a computer.

That changed everything. Computers were so much more fun than math yet somehow related that my interest in mathematics dropped like a stone and my interest in computers went through the roof. After that mathematics never managed to wrest my attention away from coding long enough to make it count.

Even today I have an almost untouched calculus course sitting on my bookshelves that I've been planning to work my way through 'one of these days' for the last decade or so.

Programming is just too much fun.

I know I'd be a better programmer though, with more math under my belt, so maybe, one of these days...
gizmo and silentbicyle, the papers are up:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=834175
If the point about Body Language is also taken into consideration then this shouldn't be a problem.
There is a famous story about this: Wunderkind, by Carson McCullers. (You can find it online if you search around.)
Most observers pegged the recent acquisition by FriendFeed of Facebook and by Mint of Intuit as at least partially – if not totally – driven by FriendFeed’s and Mint’s user base.

Not FriendFeed! It was a technical and people acquisition. Facebook has more users than most nations.
Very interesting. I've had experienced like this. So I guess it's some sort of learning strategy. Perhaps you blitz the field from certain approaches and are slower at others. Do you have any theories about what your strong approach is?
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You probably wont beat the RIAA, but you can carve a nice niche for yourself. It has potential and there are a billion possibilities. Keep at it and keep us posted.
"svn.cacert.org uses an invalid security certificate.

The certificate is not trusted because the issuer certificate is not trusted."
I've seen microlending leading to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_abuse

I think http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income is better way to fight poverty.
YCombinator is not a VC organisation.
In Nazi Germany everybody, like in other fascists dictatorships, was suspicious anyways.
Thinking of those two things as distinct concepts with clear borders is a mistake. Both religious and ethnic group do not usually have definite boundaries and they are not always seperate from each other. Saying Arabs when you mean Muslim is what you mean is indeed a mistake. Most Muslims are not Arabs, but that proves nothing about how to classify these things.

Hebrews is a different issue. Jewish is actually Judah-ite, from the tribe of Judah. These were (according to the tradition) the surviving tribe of the Israelites or People of Israel. People is actually a bit misleading. In Hebrew it uses the word normally translated as 'Nation'. In modern times, the relationship between Judah & Jewish has been blurred since some groups trace their heritage to other (lost) tribes.

In any case, all of these equally refer to an ethnic group though you could argue that they are not exact synonyms. This is not just about the origin of the words. It is also the religious tradition. Jewish is not a Religion in the sense that Islam or Christianity are. It are not something you chose. It is not something you can stop and it is not something that anybody who is not (ethnically) Jewish is required or encouraged to join. Basically, the "religion" as you would probably call it doesn't distinguish between religion and ethnic group. The members of this ethnic-religious do not usually do so either. That is, many secular, atheist Jews describe themselves as Jewish, and behave in someway that indicates this.

Hebrews & Israelites, People of Israel, are as far a I know, used interchangeably in the old testament. In modern Hebrew all but the most pedantic (and religious) will use Israelites interchangeably with Jews. Secular Jews are unlikely to say Jews. "Hebrews" is not really used in modern Hebrew unless making some sort of biblical reference. In some languages it has a derogatory ring but in some languages describing someone as a Jew/Hebrew/Israelite is derogatory regardless of the word you use.
Privacy policies are really just there to make people feel good. They aren't legally binding or enforceable. Neither are most Terms of Service. The second you start analyzing that stuff, you'll find tons of holes.
Anything Web Foo Authentication needs to be read widely and would benefit from the community feedback. Please up vote the story.
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Sorry boy, I checked your genes. You won't have sex tonight, you have to wait another 3 years.
But you built hiphopgoblin; you're a winner.
Is that page a joke?

"By including the PHP.JS library in your own projects, you can use your favorite PHP functions client-side."

and:

"Using PHP.JS may speed up development for PHP developers who are increasingly confronted with client-side technology."

I hate being confronted with client-side technology.
Before, you controlled who could get the link. Now Google is giving it out too.
there is a kind of logic to this.
Humans have evolved in an environment where there is continual low level background radiation. So like any other feature of the environment, we are adapted to cope with it, maybe even to expect and benefit from it.
YES.

And a little longer, those that are not busy building stuff and innovating can't stop talking about the stuff that others are doing. I think part of the fascination here is that people think that by second guessing the guys that run twitter they can show how good they would be doing if 'given the chance', but that's like all the armchair quarterbacks out there that know everything about sports but couldn't run a mile if they had to.
I can't say this is at all surprising. My experience in providing rural communities with electricity is somewhat analagous to what is being said about micro-credit.

I've been working on rural electrification in a small developing country for the last 7 months. Donors and NGOs are always banging on about how access to electricity will lead to income-generating and educational activities among the villagers, eg. they could buy a bamboo-cutting machine or study textbooks at night under fluorescent lamps.

But we invariably find that apart from lighting, the first thing most households do when they get electricity is buy a home stereo system or a tv and satellite dish. One of my colleagues scoured the countryside for evidence of income-generating activities and the best he could find was a bunch of villagers sorting farm produce under a lamp.

So like micro-credit, it seems that access to electricity is more about making life in rural communities more convenient than it is about climbing out of poverty.
Maybe MBA candidates and "seed accelerator" founders aren't so different after all!

Replace the top founder reasons below:

Connections to future capital: 8.51
Brand/Alumni connections: 7.83
Business support: 7.42
Product support: 7.13
Pre-money valuation: 5.25
Level of funding: 4.14

with the analogous reasons to go (or not go) to business school?

Connections to finance/consulting interviews: 8.51
Branding from prestigious degree / alum network: 7.83
Learning and honing crucial soft skills: 7.42
Technical Learning in the classroom: 7.13
Opportunity cost: 5.25
Level of tuition: 4.14

Disclaimer: I have never gone to bschool.
I think it might be impossible for Google Wave to live up to the hype at this point. The problem with declaring something is revolutionary or will change the Internet as we know it (blah blah) is those choices are made by massive numbers of users at a grassroots level. You can't just say hey, this is great, you should stop using all the tools you're content with because it's technically better. It doesn't work that way. I'm positive it will be a useful tool to a certain group of people but it doesn't pass my "will my Mom be using this in 3 years?" test. It doesn't even come close. Google should have probably kept this one under wraps until they were ready for a pretty good public beta. Announcing it so far ahead of time creates an environment where lots of people want to project lots of different ideas on top of it without any understanding yet of how people may actually want to use the service.
If a company is funded overseas, they probably want to stay where they are and the investor probably agrees.

A VC fund can probably pick up and move to the States if they wanted to anyway.
I like the production value, but I think it's past time we put 'Amen Brother' out to pasture. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SaFTm2bcac
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Exactly. I love how they bring people in to write success stories when they aren't (financially) successful yet.
Wait til someone posts a link to Jack Crenshaw's tutorial in Pascal ;-)
Neat, thanks.

In general if you link directly to something that's not a webpage you should indicate what it is in the title.
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Don't forget the last line:

> In other words: Sooner or later everyone wants everything as an option.
True, in piano though (as well as in string instruments) where finger dexterity is very important it really helps if you get this ingrained in your fine motor control at an early age. Simply put you can distinguish someone that has spent 5 years learning to play the piano from age 6 to 11 from someone that learned to do the same thing from age 30 to 35 with ease. Even if you were to stop at age 11 and restart when you're 30 you will probably still be ahead of the pack.

And then there is the 10,000 hour rule to consider:

http://www.gladwell.com/outliers/outliers_excerpt1.html
fixed! thanks.

P.S. big fan of your work :-)
"And if you can't code, and you can't get brilliant coders to like and respect you, you probably shouldn't be an entrepreneur."

What if I'm starting a company that isn't a software company? I know Silicon Valley people sometimes forget, but there are other business models around than variations of theme write a cool piece of code and then try to charge money for it.
I may be in the minority but I've pretty much stopped using Twitter entirely. I got sick of the weird code language everyone uses. I don't understand it. I find the trending topics are often pop-culture centric or just flat out cryptic. I don't understand probably 25-30% of the weird one sided conversations I see. It just seems like non-sense since I can't see it in context. Even with a very small number of people I was following I found a number of individuals posted so often that I would have to go back 3 or 4 pages just to catch-up. On top of that 90% of my followers were SPAM so I just started ignoring the e-mails from Twitter about a new follower. Waste of my time to go find out it's yet another spammer or self-seriving individual who offers nothing but self promotion.

I'm not suggesting they're doomed or anything but just giving all the hypers a little perspective on why I find it to be basically unusable. Twitter has some major, massive, usability problems in my opinion. As it has grown it has become a mess -- the UI has not kept up with the inflation of users & posts. Content is not accessible due to arbitrary limits on posting that requires people to use excessive abbreviations and acronyms. There's a whole lexicon behind some of the most basic features that is not immediately obvious.
Bookmarked for next weekend. Thank you.
In general I've found I'm best when I'm self-motivated, which really shouldn't be surprising to anyone on HN.

All the math courses I took up to Calculus BC were through the Stanford distance learning program (EPGY), which really helped enforce this. I also took three courses on C programming from them in 2nd-3rd grade; I was pretty terrible at the time but something from must have them stuck with me really well, because when I finally came back to C 10 years later it was nearly effortless.

Similarly, almost all the skills I would say I've learned really well in recent years (e.g. SIMD assembly) are things that I've learned on my own time outside of class.

Another related observation is that I tend to learn on an S curve ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmoid_function ). For example, take the process of learning x86 SIMD assembly: it took me days to write my first assembly function (from scratch with no knowledge whatsoever other than an example for syntax and documentation pages). Then it took me mere hours to get acquainted with SIMD basics and start writing basic SIMD functions. In just a few more days I had written dozens of optimized SSE versions of MMX functions...

...and yet it probably took me a whole year after that to gain enough experience to feel comfortable writing extremely complicated functions from scratch.

In other words, initial learning is slow, then learning builds on itself to vastly accelerate speed, but then honing ones' abilities is slow again.
There is a cheesy quote that says genius is 1% inspiration 99% perspiration. In college, I found this to be especially true, at least in the math department.
While most people would like you to believe that they breeze through the subject, getting to know people in the department (undergrad) who were very successful, I learned that, while of course mathematically inclined, the amount of effort put forth was quite astonoshing. It was astonoshing to me at least, coming from a non-competitive high school.
It is not unusual for someone on any given week to study 25+ hours for a single class. This was the case for some of the smartest people I met in the program. I found 25+ hours a week turned out to just not seem like a lot to someone who was a) very interested in the subject and b) used to spending that kind of time on things. I struggled to put 10 hours a week into it and would barely pass some classes.
Now that I am older I notice it a lot more. Dedication is a common thread in all stories of success. From Einstein to the kids in my grade that made it. The ability to work hard and push through obstacles is a skill. Some people realize this at a young age and seem to have it very developed by adulthood. I find more and more that being smart is necessary but nowhere sufficient for success, be it in business or academia. All things being equal, I would weigh hardwork/diligence more than intelligence.
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I was under the impression that it is normal to never alter or drop columns in large production tables for performance reasons. Instead, I'd prefer to to deploy a new version which can handle only the old OR both the old and new columns. Then, the data organically evolves to the new schema; maybe a background job does it over time. This is the approach you need to use with schema-less solutions like BigTable.
Insist on doing everything through "channels." Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to, expedite decisions.

Ahahaha.

Post-war and enduringly postmillenial corporate America, anyone?
(woke up grumpy)

A. XMPP is the major leap since HTTP. Wave is just some bloated junk that abuses it.

B. XMPP is not the intermediary network that allows anyone in the world to talk to each other, the Internet is. XMPP is just the model that makes it practical.

Just as the main job of the HTTP protocol is to define client-server communication. The main job of the XMPP protocol is to define client-gateway-gateway-client communication.

Wave is just a bloated, locked-in protocol for asynchronous user group communication. Since it targets users directly, and not communication in general, it will ultimately lose to customer-driven social networks. Meanwhile,
you can build stuff on XMPP that's a lot more awesome, because like all the successful protocols before it (IP, DNS, FTP, HTTP, TCP, E-mail, Web Services), it doesn't really do that much. You decide what it does.
That sounds an awful lot like the greek philosophers who did not hold merchants in high regard.

Making is ultimatively just pushing atoms (or ideas), too.
This is interesting, but I doubt it is quite as widely applicable as the authors seem to be suggesting.

The title of the article is very general, as is the discussion in the summary. However, it appears that all the examples come from medical research. And the methodologies examined and issues brought up are those that are prominent in modern medical research. Perhaps a better title would be, "Why Most Published Medical Research Findings are False".

To be fair, this is an article from a medical journal. Still, these authors are writing as if medical research is all the research there is, and that's a bit strange, to say the least.
I'm currently looking at something which falls under the 'fat node' category (with a few wrinkles/complications) at the moment, so this is of great interest, thanks.
If you have a highly available setup with master-master replication, you can simply run SET SQL_LOG_BIN=0; ALTER TABLE whatever; on the inactive master, then swap masters and do the same on the previously active master.
If it weren't a real question brought up by litigants, I'd say it's a very Stephen Colbert kind of inquiry...
"for PHP developers who are PHP developers"
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Huh? I don't think I've ever known him brag about his intelligence (note: I don't know him personally, but I do read his blog), and he has about as much intelligence to brag about as any person alive. And he applies it all the time; that's his job, and he is very very good at it.

Your comments look like they're meant as a criticism of Tao, but I don't see how to apply any of them to anything about him. Would you like to clarify?

(Note: the document linked from here does include the word "intelligent" -- in some such phrase as "I may be considered an intelligent child". It may be worth bearing in mind that at this point he was a 10-year-old who had been asked, on account of his prodigious mathematical skills, to talk to a bunch of very eminent adults. It may also be worth bearing in mind that he immediately goes on to say something like "but I still have a whole lot to learn before I have any hope of being as wise as any of you in this room".)
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I make music in Ableton Live. I sing, play an electric guitar, a microKORG, a child's glockenspiel and assorted things (plastic bottles, lamps, doors, cassette tapes etc.)

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it's not in public beta yet. not the way google defines "beta". at the monent, only developers get in on it.
I just love it when tech people / tech VCs talk like there is no alternate reality where products get built except for their tech world. There are a lot of other startups that will ex-post have contributed a lot to the future of humanity and will not have come from the internet world.

I consider it fairly ignorant to say "if you can't code (...) you probably shouldn't be an entrepreneur".
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The IPCC features 4 feedback scenarios, and 6 original scenarios which are 'equally-likely', and the discussion is always around the worst case of them.

6 models ::

http://www.grida.no/publications/other/ipcc_sr/?src=/climate...

http://www.grida.no/publications/other/ipcc_sr/?src=/climate...

4 Economic Response Models ::

http://www.lenntech.com/greenhouse-effect/ipcc-scenarios.htm

http://www.lenntech.com/greenhouse-effect/ipcc-sres-scenario...
Wait .... wat?
That's the result of fear-mongering by anti-nuclear groups. Hell, there is NO support for the beliefs that power lines cause leukemia or cell phones cause brain cancer, but lots of idiots still believe it, as the results of environmentalist and "pro-consumer" fear-mongering.
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Fun article, but it's a pity they don't specify exactly what "lots of training" means: "Tomasello and his team wondered if such a rare ability extended to hand gestures and tested chimps to see if they could understand pointing. To their surprise, the chimps did badly, able to learn the meaning of a pointed finger only after lots of training."

Because my own child also understood what a pointing finger meant only after what I feel was "lots of training".
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> Do your own thing, and do it better. So that way you don't need to think about copying.

This is the exact point I'm trying to make in the paper. Accelerator founders need to look hard at themselves, be innovative, and create their own niche. Trying to just copy YC will simply lead to a sub-standard clone.
This reminds me of something Russell Davies spoke about at dConstruct. To paraphrase, TweetDeck is humans solving problems humans have created for themselves.
Title is wrong. These are only the most influential papers published at PLDI, I think.
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Note: I read the abstract for the 35 year study and glanced over the paper.

The researchers findings seem to be that these prodigies are for most part well adjusted/succesful, but do not necessarily go/stay into math/science fields.

Are those the findings, or is there something more?
Am I the only one visualising the SimCity microwave power transmitter disaster scenario in his head now?
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