skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
* National Day of Service and Celebration http://www.nps.gov/september26/

* Paving the Way: National Park-to-Park Highway http://www.pavingtheway.tv/

* PBS National Parks: http://www.pbs.org/nationalparks/

* National Parks preview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mx8WbZIWCSM

* Find a park: http://www.nps.gov/findapark/index.htm
Regulation costs California $500 billion a year
"The study finds that the total cost of regulation to the State of California is $492.994 billion which is almost five times the State’s general fund budget, and almost a third of the State’s gross product. The cost of regulation results in an employment loss of 3.8 million jobs which is a tenth of the State’s population... California currently has 12.2% unemployment, and its economy has almost fallen off a cliff over the last two years. A reduction of even half of the regulatory burden on businesses in California could create almost 2 million jobs and kick-start their economy."
Why don't you use gestures for switching tabs and moving back and forward?
Google wave is trying this, see preview video
Windows Internals looks good, thanks. I'll probably go with that. I'm no longer a student, so I'll have to make do without the source I guess. Given that there's more of an explicit public kernel API than in Linux, I'm hoping I'll have less need to poke through it.

Your points on the OSX book are duly noted. I'll thoroughly 'look inside' on Amazon before deciding. It might still be useful to me as I'm relatively new to OSX, at least compared to my Linux/Windows exposure.
More anecdotal evidence.. I bought a few packs of cheap "Globe" brand CFL bulbs on Amazon, and had several failures after about 2 weeks. These were just in a normal ceiling fixture in the kitchen, which we only use a few hours a day.

Sadly, the packages mention a guarantee, but there seems to be no way to claim it. They're Chinese made bulbs imported through Canada and the company doesn't respond to phone or email.

OTOH, the Ikea branded CFL bulbs we bought have been working fine for years. I guess you get what you pay for..
I have simply not seen one of those new artists, but that is definitely a good idea.

If you get an agreement with the major labels, I will become a paid subscriber. It would be one of the greatest things that have happened to music in this millennium.
SVN Flaw Reveals Source Code to 3,300 Popular Websites
Build a device for use in bars with lots and lots of imported beer to keep track of how much each beer drinker likes their beer.

When they go to throw away the bottle, have them scan a barcode, and swipe their license or other identifier and then vote on how much they enjoyed that particular beer.

Associate data as necessary and distribute as required.
About: Werner Herzog's Rogue Film School
The point I think you missed is that people only publish results when they succeed.

So, if you look at the entire scientific landscape, let's pretend there is an experiment done where p=.05. The reality is that there is no effect, but in fact 20 of these experiments are done around the global at roughly the same time. At p=.05, we would expect 1 of those 20 experiments to support the null hypothesis /by random chance/.

So the author here says that the problem is that all 20 of those experiments don't get published, but instead only the 1 that happened to show an effect. That's misleading because it makes the result seem significant, when in fact it's just an artifact.

So then you say, but wait! It's okay, because now we can try to replicate those results so the bogus result from before will be found out, and we can all rest easy knowing that the brave men and women of statistics are vigilant.

But here's the problem: this one reported result leads to a wave of experiments trying to replicate the result, and according to the author there's a strong bias against publishing a paper that doesn't support the result. So let's say the finding was SUPER EXCITING (OMG), and 100 teams went out to replicate it. 5 of them should support the original result just by coincidence, even though they are all wrong.

Who publishes? Those 5! And maybe a couple others. So now, even though the work has been done (but not published) that pretty clearly demonstrates that there is no effect, we have in public view:

1 Study that shows an effect to p=.05
5 studies that support the findings of the first also to p=.05
2 studies that reject the original null hypothesis

6 studies supporting. 2 against. Ah, interesting. It's a small controversy, but "clearly" there's something here worth studying. Right?

Not so much. What about the other 112 studies?
time to move my email offshore
I seriously like the numbers he's giving. He actually outright states what the theoretical max of certain technologies are, like if wind turbines covered the whole of the UK we would only extract 200kWh/d per person (which would involve the levelling of every city to blanket cover the country), and his estimate for the UK is 195kWh/d per person of usage.

Even his best-case production estimate (which would basically turn the UK into an importer of everything as 75% of our arable land would be producing biofuels) he states we would only likely get 180kWh/d/p and that's assuming the technologies don't conflict (like having 10sqM of PV and 10sqM of solar heaters on our roofs per person - so 80sqM of roof usage in a 4 person house - would be feasible, especially considering the amount of people in high rises). The actual estimates though, from the Institute of Electrical Engineers and a half-dozen others, puts the estimate at ~18kWh/d/p of renewable production, compared to our 180kWh/d/p of consumption. Big gap.

Basically our option if we want to cut carbon emissions as much as possible is to go nuclear. The US has a consumption of 270kWh/d/p and Canada has a consumption of 350kWh/d/p (due to heating use, in some places basically 8 months out of the year). Both the US and Canada are benefited by being the 3/4th largest country and the 2nd largest country, respectively, which might make us capable of going green without nuclear, especially Canada.

However the infrastructure costs, employment costs and everything else will be astronomical. Simply put the US cent/kWh cost for electricity generation speaks worlds, in the UK it costs roughly 4 cents/kWh for nuclear, 7 cents/kWh for onshore wind, and 11 cent/kWh for offshore wind. In Europe those costs can jump to 15-20 cents/kWh for onshore and offshore respectively while nuclear jumps only to 7 cents/kWh.

The usage of natural uranium in reactors and the reprocessing of fuel (MOX) can significantly cut down on costs, especially considering that ~$300,000 of palladium can be recovered from 1 ton of spent fuel during reprocessing. The MOX can then make a second cycle, bringing up the palladium content per kilo of fuel purchased. Palladium reprocessed from spent fuel is actually less radioactive than a granite counter top, and due to its emission type and half-life (6.5 million years) it eventually decays into silver.
How about a portable (as in removable) home media server, but for the car. Ideally this would be directed towards families with children on long car rides. It could sync w/ your home library, and allow each child to listen/view the specific media they desire of off their 802.11 device of choosing.

Since it is portable, you remove it from the car during your hotel stay, and again use it in your hotel room to keep the kiddies pacified.
Several ways to do this. On Ubuntu, one could use PulseAudio's networked audio. You could tune your source with instance of VLC, streaming at a port, and tune other VLC instances on the network to that port. On windows you could run a Shoutcast server, even recording from line in or the master audio (depending on soundcard drivers) and tune that in with your favorite audio program on other machines. There are really quite a few programs that do audio streaming and tune in audio streaming. Most any way that I can think of digitally will cause audio delay, because computers simply don't have the timing.
Automate Algae-Based BioFuel Refinery
Sometimes it's largely statistics and genetics, and this is so unambiguously well supported that the only reason to disbelieve it is a desire to maintain a certain fantasy about human beings that isn't true but that nonetheless may be valuable or good for social function. (E.g. Kenya / Distance Running, Jamaica / Sprinting.) Of course then this effect becomes amplified by those places getting a better support and infrastructure.
TRIZ began as an investigation of creative thinking but now seems to be more a way to sell books and courses.

Salon article on Altschuller and TRIZ:
http://archive.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/06/29/altshuller/...

TRIZ intro:
http://www.mazur.net/triz/
They have a desktop client, but you (apparently) have to be a member for that. I'm not sure about the features, but I would think it would allow for that.
Zappos has selected an Ad Agency
RJ-45 to USB converter. More specifically, it would be two separate connectors, each with a female RJ-45 port. Just add the proper length of cable you need, and bam, instant USB cable. Not sure of the signaling issues, but you are an EE, and if they can make it work with HDMI over CAT6, it should be viable.
A breach in your OpenID account is the same security risk as a breach in your email account, if the sites do account recovery via email.
I would like to see some interesting links to where AI and astronomy/physics combined
I've been using it for a long time and totally love it. I have the same mappings I have for Vim, for open and move between tabs and so on. It's an awesome tool.
There is definitely a limit there. No matter how cheap or silly, as long as it doesn't seem cheap, if it came for free people will remember. The times I have been given something free that is particularly cheaply made, usually something made out of very low quality plastic, I always think "Oh, these guys evidently don't care about their users/fans/supporters, if they're going to give me something that won't last 10 minutes".
also - to make the score pertinent:

- either cap underlying comment scores at 50 points

OR

- instead of giving a percentage score for a comment's proportion of total comment points, rank comments in terms of lowest positive score to highest positive score: then give each comment a score between 1-10 by segmenting the long tail into 10 even parts. (the initial ranking may not even need to be used)

having no visible scores seems surreal.
802.11 or RJ-45 based infrared server. This device would connect to your home network, and could have extensions in each room of your room. It would have the ability to "learn" the remote control codes of your various device remotes. You could then use the included software (that you will write) to either automate specific tasks or create macros. Then you can use your iPhone or Ipod touch as the true controller for the infrared server and control all the devices within your home from one device.
"Look at your comment score, looks like I'm right." is an appeal to the democratic theory of truth.

The use of pejorative language obscures your content. Like "fuck that". Also consider pg's comment recently about "bogus" research, and how so many people then jumped on him. Actually, someone got sued in the UK for calling research "bogus", instead of factually and objectively calling out the problem with it. It's also in the HN guidelines to use neutral and factual language without connotations.

By observing myself, I've noticed that my interpretation of a comment is affected by the upvotes/downvotes on it. It's not surprising, given the experimentally confirmed tendency to conform in humans. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asch_conformity_experiments

Finally: negative scores on a story are still shown... not numerally, but by how gray it is. Thus, the current experiment does not apply to comments with negative scores. I think it would be worthwhile extending it to include those, at least for -1 or -2 comments (for example, by not graying them out til they hit -3).
TIP for the Vim lovers out there:

Firefox: you can do a quick search hitting '/'
Skype [Mac]: you can replace text in your last sent message with the 's/<old>/<new>/' syntax

I would love to hear about other apps with Vim-ish behavior :)

VIM IS FULL OF WIN!
How about an affordable bidirectional version of X10 home automation devices with mechanical feedback.

I would love to be able to buy a wall switch for $15 to $30, that I could remotely turn on and off, and it would physically move to the on or off position. Additionally, I would be able to query the state of the device and determine if it was on or off.

I want a whole network of devices like these, similair to the X10 product lines.
Animal communications is limited to survival calls(warning cries), mating and social signals(which include status signals).

Ape communication is very much "here and now", especially the signing apes: "Mary want banana, Mary want banana, banana, banana, give Mary banana..." etc.

Apes do have some sense of self, but it is far from human consciousness.
Constructible number
Timeclocks (for employees).

Current corporate offerings suck, both in terms of the device, and the proprietary formats.

Make it export to CSV or Quickbooks OR XLS. Make it durable, and reasonably priced.
The Fix is In
Tablet Wars
I get this same problem in playstation 3. Everyone just sends messages in the title cause it shows up on their screen.

I don't think we don't do it to look like we're not trying to hard. I think we don't do it cause we're too lazy to come up with a title for a quick message.

The title should just be automatically made from the first few characters
Getting the most out of Sa Pa travel
Google Bing Hybrid Search - badabingle
Is that any different from the crocodile who waits quietly by the riverbank until the gazelles come to drink?

Chimps also will hunt in packs and use spear-like tools.

But neither behavior resembles human consciousness. A person as bright as that chimp would at best be in an institution.
Thank god for physicists.
That explains why you have so much time to read all the comments.

I don't have time to read all the comments so I'll look at the greatest hits. You can find the conversation based on the kharma scores, both positive and negative. If someone says something -4, it might be worth reading because it got such a reaction out of people. But a bunch of 1s and 2s on an old thread are noise that aren't worth reading.
why would anyone pay for what they can do with, say, indent utility or emacs for free?
The experiment interprets the dolphin's hesitation as "metacognition". But most animals will hesitate and equivocate their action under the right circumstances. Certainly all mammals.

Give your dog a treat. When he takes it, immediately pop him on the nose. Offer another treat. If he takes it, pop him harder on the nose. Keep going until he hesitates. Voila, "metacognition"! (Unless you have a pit bull, in which case you may have difficulty reaching the metacognitive level).

And the second question: does this equation hold:

"metacognition" = "human consciousness".
Sounds like messages mean to be tweets.
Probably the same reason they are amazing programmers
Ask HN: Looking for co-founders
I was wondering if anyone would like to meet up this weekend near SF or Mountain View, CA area?

I would still like to do something in the social media space and although I have a number of ideas, I think it really depends on what kinda team can be pulled together.

So I would like to find a few people interested in co-founding a new company.

I am a particularly creative person who is able to find indirect solutions to problems. I am currently living in LA, although I have lived in SF before and I am expecting to move back before the spring. I have been interviewing for CTO and Architect jobs in the LA and SF areas, but I would much rather start a company.

twitter.com/jdavid
dont forget :helpgrep !
That explains why you have so much time to read all the comments.

What, that I'm a student? Reading comments doesn't take that long. As I said above: Fifteen minutes at most? And that's if it's a seriously long thread. Most threads are five minutes' skimming at most.

If someone says something -4, it might be worth reading because it got such a reaction out of people. But a bunch of 1s and 2s on an old thread are noise that aren't worth reading.

Not necessarily. Perhaps somebody made a brilliant comment, but only after people were done reading. In any case, that hasn't changed now: Top-rated comments appear at the top of the thread, same as always. So if you want the most "valued" conversations, read at the top.
If someone is smart enough to play chess at the highest levels, wouldn't he/she be better off as a mathematician?
You missed out the part where you bought a domain, learned HTML and worked out how to set up your domain as a reference to your OpenID provider.

Prove me wrong, but I think those are three skills not normally found in the average Facebook user.
Agree.

Google has absolutely nothing to do with this. Google is actually the way you could resolve this.

To turn this into action, probably the most efficient way to work on this is to provide your current happy customers with a testimonials page on your current corporate blog.

To collect feedbacks from your current clients, do a survey by email (ex: surveymonkey.com) and provide a discount on your service or a special offer for all clients that fill in the survey (even the angry ones). No matter what, this survey will give you analytic data on how your clients percieve your services. Listen to your clients, there might be something you're missing out on too.

Focus on facts! You said that 80% of what was said is untrue, then you clearly need to demonstrate on your website that your not only provide great service to "counter argue" the 80%, but you also need to show that the 20% that was true is something of the past and that you resolved (with facts) the issue. Do it in a professional manner. It's all about making the first good impression for new potential clients.

Also you said you have 90 employees, try to give them a way to express their great experience working in your firm. Provide your employee the possibily to write a blog a week, or even better create a subdomain per department and provide public news (press release).

Google any firm name, if you really look hard for it, you will probably find unhappy customers saying how much company x or y sucks. This is not uncommon.

You can -in conjuction- always have your lawfirm work on this, but dont forget to Focus your resources on providing a voice to the happy customers of yours (and employees).
A lot of Web 2.0 sites don't even bother validating your email anymore -- such as hackernews, reddit, etc. They have a username and password that isn't connected to anything. That works for me.

And I don't have to signup for some completely unrelated service to receive an email -- everybody already has email.
Ask HN:  What happened to the "points" display in the replies to a topic?
I just noticed that the # of points of each reply to a topic is no longer displayed. Only the 'up' arrow is displayed along with the name of the person who posted the reply. Before it would show how many people 'up' voted each response.

Is this a bug or a feature?
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It's a nice story but it's wrong, Russia has had a strong reputation in Chess since the 1700s several hundred years before Krylenko's chess schools.

Merim Bilalić's team did an extensive study that was published by the Royal Society to find out why there are so few strong female chess players. Their study concluded it was purely statistics, less female players overall meant that there were less female outliers (i.e great players).

I imagine something similar is at play here.
I had a similar experience. I was working thanksgiving evening and sent them an e-mail complimenting their unique advertisements (weird, I know - I'm graphic artist though, so I really appreciate the creativity that goes into most of their ads). I got an e-mail back a few minutes later, from the cfo. I was blown away, and actually felt kinda bad for e-mailing on a holiday!

I never expected a response at all, let alone that night.
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And scientists. The reason I think is in the traditionally more system-oriented education.
Its a nice concept, executed well too.
Cheers!
To maintain balance we have politicians and bureaucrats.
Most medium-size supermarkets in the UK do that (Tesco Express, Sainsbury's, M&S Simply Food). I've never seen it in a large one though.
And that's awkward - maybe even unusable. It takes you out of the context of the discussion.
If I didn't think you were violating google and bing legal rights, I would say bullseye!
Is there any evidence that there is a strong correlation between playing chess at a high level and being a great mathematician?
Not really, a mathematician would likely make less money than a toplevel chess player.
And a very advanced education system where calculus and physics are taught in 5th and 6th grade
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Ask HN: Where did comment karma go?
I no longer see a 'karma' score beside comments other than my own. A new experiment?
That's an interesting interpretation of what really amounts to a position statement on software licensing, a position that I'm sure most of all already accept and live by. The base android code is open source. Google has not open sourced the apps they provide that integrate with their other service offerings. These apps are proprietary. Any carrier or handset maker is able to use the android platform, which is open source. I think it's reasonable to allow, and expect, the same entity, be it individual developers or companies, to provide software under multiple licenses. Proprietary software is available for open source operating systems run on desktop computers, and Android helps enable that same software ecosystem on cellphones also. This hardly seems like a reason to NOT get an Android phone, but rather the reason to get one.

No one expects any app developer to open source their app just because it is sold or available in the Android Market. And app developers are welcome to get a carrier or include their app as part of a base install, which is effectively what Google has done as part of being an app developer. If the carrier pays the developer for that, or the developer pays the carrier for that, or if money doesn't change hands for that, maybe the developer just wants increased exposure and usage of their app that would come from it being in a default install, that's between those two parties.

EDIT to add:

It's unfortunate that Google is saying that they license their apps to distributors. What would it take for ROM creators to become licencors? Alternatively, since Google presumably has an interest in people actually using their apps, that they don't provide a way for users who are using a properly licensed phone/ROM who are using those apps to be installed other than through the base install seems kind of shortsighted. Some of their apps are available in the market (like the Finance, My Maps Editor, there was an update to the core Maps app that you installed from the Market), but an alternative of allowing the people who should be able to use the apps, because they've purchased a phone with a ROM that is licensed to, update them seems necessary and right.
Yup. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=844979