skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People don't have straight forward mathematically rational utility curves. High risk returns are over priced in all markets. High beta stocks are overvalued relative to low beta stocks, for example. Security is also "irrationally" over valued (treasuries, put options).

You could say this is irrational, or you could just say it's the way people are.
Catonmat never fails in fascinating me, regardless of how stupid this may sound, the more unpopular the language he implements his tutorial/illustration in, the more I realize how unimportant the language actually is. As long as we can/are reuse/reusing what we write, we can rest in the idea that what we do/did now/before actually matters for what we can/are do/doing in the future/present.
Samsung Blu-ray players to support YouTube and Blu-ray rips
Earlier discussion on same news item from the BBC here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=799725
I'm for planting 100,000 'real' trees. All kinds. Everywhere. 100 times that in fact.

But when it comes to CO2 processing I'm with algae. Not ponds, but highly engineered, sustainable facilities that create jobs requiring solid educations.

I look at the picture and think that's where 100,000 cameras are going to go.
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Are these more efficient than real trees? I read before that our solar panels are more efficient than photosynthesis at generating energy from sunlight.
Shure, I think I could work it out, but I would still like to see your process.

PS: A pendulum and a calendar and a stopwatch or clock?
Prophecy:

In less then 12 months either Apple, Google or Microsoft will buy DropBox for more than 500m$
"Me and Stacy’s been together for four years, but off and on we get into a fight and split up for a while and I think those babies is what brought us so close together . . . neither one of us . . . could live without them kids."

Did Stacy have jealous boyfriend or secret admirer? She did work at a bar. Murdering Stacy's partner Willingham and their kids could bring them a step closer. Maybe someone was targeting Stacy. Who knows?

The system went for the dad because he was an easy target, and so the system could then move on.
That one of many possible explanations. Science relies on reductionist proof.
Software Carpentry: an introduction to basic software development
Fair enough. I was on my iPhone and about to go to bed. It was an interesting claim and I wanted to know if it was founded or not.
Yes you are crazy. And yes, I say do it. It seems the vast majority of the time, that the less crazy an idea is, the less it's worth doing.

Also, I'm an entrepreneur in Ann Arbor, MI, which could be an option for a closer stop if you want to do a trial one close to home first. We have an extra couch you could crash on.
Yes, pendulum and stopwatch.

More later.
Ask HN: What language do you think in?
Whenever I'm thinking about a problem, my solutions are immediately prototyped in my head in python.

I'm curious to see if anyone has an interesting languages that are not really popular that they attack problems with first.
Because the human body ages, and traveling involves physical stamina. When I travel, I often end up walking around multiple hours a day for a week or two. This is getting more difficult as I get older. I can imagine that when I am in my 50s or 60s, those tour buses will start looking mighty tempting.
Despite what the article says, both the fearful and happy monkey music are not that far off from some modern music I've heard. The fearful music reminds me of some George Crumb pieces, particularly parts of Black Angels.

The happy monkey music also resembles some modern compositions I've heard. I could imagine either of these monkey pieces being used to create music for humans.

Of course, humans probably have a different relationship to music than most animals, since we make it for both emotional and intellectual enjoyment.
Wow. I am glad he survived. My father was charged by an African Cape Buffalo in Tanzania several years ago and the results weren't pretty. I shudder to think what might have happened if it was an elephant
My take-away from this: We don't know anything, for sure, about sleep yet so do what comes naturally.
Judge comments on Google's inconsistent trademark policy
I think in C.

Python is a fairly straight-forward mental translation and functional languages I tend to need to spend more energy thinking about unless the problem is embarrassingly recursive.
It depends on the situation, but I generally think in terms of pure (recursive) functions and types. This then usually provides me with a reasonably quick mapping to my preferred languages (e.g. ML or Haskell), as well as providing a reasonably simple way of mapping back to languages like Java or C or PHP or whatever else I might be called upon to write occasionally.

Interestingly, I've spent a some extended blocks of time working inside theorem provers. I find that it requires me a bit of time to switch to and from that style of thinking.
Yeah, that must have been what I read and extrapolated a bit.
What is a true football fan by your definition?
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"If I was to nick your car, which is worth £10,000, say, I could go to jail," Baylis told the BBC.

"But if I were to nick your patent, which is worth a million pounds, you'd have to sue me."

This is nonsense. A patent is just an idea, and as such, isn't worth anything. Someone has to develop and market an idea before it's worth one dime.

The protection of "intellectual property rights" leads to violation of simple property rights which say I can do anything I want with whatever I own. See today's previous article: http://gcn1.posterous.com/i-bought-a-cd-not-a-licensing-agre...
I wish there was a video about this. Stills don't do it justice.
Metadata Performance of Four Linux File Systems
Google Patents It's Homepage
"It depends on the situation, but I generally think in terms of pure functions and types. "

This resonates. I think in a weird pseudocode myself and after getting a grip on type theory I find I think in typed weird pseudocode.
Apple's App Store ayatollahs
I've had better results with a siesta schedule -- 6 hours asleep at night, half-hour nap during the day, awake for both night life and morning obligations and nobody thinks you're crazy (as they would with the Everyman schedule).

The Wikipedia page on Sleep actually covers the current theories pretty well, including this article's hypothesis and a rebuttal to it.
I think in pseudo-code, then figure out what language is best suited for the task.
The object, as I understand it, is scrubbing CO2 from the air, not generating energy.
You sound like you have nothing holding you down and a great trip ahead of you. Once the job and bills start rolling in it becomes more difficult to break away and do it. Not impossible, just more difficult.

Just do it! I'd recommend doing the west coast bit if you leaning that way.

My way would be Chicago -> Seattle -> San Fran.If time and money and/or your desire permit then swing down the south for Austin -> New Orleans -> NY -> Boston.
As languages go C may be a lot of things but I don't think you can call it "unpopular".
To convince people of natural evolution, also teach them genetic programming?
Many people find evolution by natural selection as a rather implausible way of explaining the diversity of life.

But what if all students were required to learn genetic programming? Would that improve the situation?

Example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCXzcPNsqGA

http://www.karlsims.com/papers/siggraph94.pdf

http://www.karlsims.com/papers/alife94.pdf
It's down here before it's up there. The idea is to stop it before it goes up (by "cathing it" quickly, or by not emitting it at all), because once it's there, there's not much to do about it.
Dilbert Deconstructs "Industry Standards"
I imagine the CO2 way up there diffuses down here.
I suppose http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEVA0WbmfAA applies to manpower as well as brains.
Is modern finance more like electricity or junk food?
When Should Founders Be Allowed to Take Money off the Table?
True, although depends on if you're naturally a mousey person or a keyboard/shell person.

For some reason I have an instant distrust of anything mousey - seems like a barrier between me and what is really going on. But as you say good option for those who prefer working that way :)
I would be curious as to the energy + carbon emissions required to manufacture one of the artificial trees.
I think in English. Whenever I'm thinking about a problem, my solutions are immediately described in my head at a high level. This allows me to rapidly iterate over the solution space without having to venture down into the pseudocode or code level until I've found something I'm convinced will actually work.
Thank you, these are great resources. I've had my eye out for something like this for a while.
Well, I think it's reasonably intuitive to think that way. It basically involves asking yourself the questions - "what types of values am I interested in?" "what types of results do I expect?" and finally "how do I get from input to output?"

I think most programmers probably think it reasonably similar terms - it's just that having working in STLC or a high-level functional language gives you some mental machinery that doesn't rely on decomposing this thought process into some concrete syntax from a programming language.

(incidentally, this is one of the reasons why I think there is a lot of value in learning the Lambda calculus early in a computer science education).
We need more explanation as to what new CSS and HTML elements you've used!
Maybe. But according to a number of climate scientists, we've screwed the earth by then if we keep pumping it into the air.

It's not the perfect solution, but it's nominally a better scenario. Who know what we might do with a huge load of CO2 in 100 years? We might have industrialized photosynthesis, so we can convert it all back to oxygen and coal.
Makes me wonder if most web2 startups have taken this a little too far. It almost seems like the startups doing somewhat well(translation: making money) are doing so by charging money for a need that already existed.
HELL TO THE YES.

I'm not l33t enough yet to check /etc into VC, but everything textual that I work intensively on -- code, writing -- gets its own git repo. It will save your bacon later on down the line: trust me.
learn svn, because it's like the english language of version control. then, move on.
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I tend to do it visually.
I would say I think in pseudo-code, using natural language to describe the problem in a way that can be converted to code ("for all of these values in this array/container...", etc). That said, I work a lot in C#, so I usually go right to that pretty quickly, if not right away for commonly-solved problems.
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/28/from-good-t...

Good to great isn't that great.
I think in data-structures opposed to one language in particular, if anything I think in markup; everything starts as a list, each item evolves into another list until it eventually ends up as dictionary, which can sometimes spawn another list. . .my thought-process is hopelessly recursive, this is easily my cardinal sin for all my unproductive days.
I can't find the full paper online, but it does seem to be a very narrowly defined idea of language aquisition. It deals only with children learning to read their native tongue. No allowance is made for any learning outside of the classroom. No consideration of the difficulty in learning the gender assignment to words in non-English languages. There are some valid observations too, but it's a pretty serious leap to draw the conclusion in the title.
Amen. I love fantasy too, but you can bet your ass I'm much more concerned with the game than the ancillary "gossip" going on. Parent definitely needs to meet some real fans.
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I'm trilingual, but I tend to also think primarily in English (not my native language).

Apart from that I prefer to think in images.
Cypher: ...I...I don't even see the code. All I see is blonde, brunette, red-head. Hey, you uh... want a drink?

-The Matrix 1999
How about thinking in general, say when waiting to fall asleep?
Also, if you're going to focus on outdoor gear, you might want to update your copy to something with "outdoor" in it. Maybe "Custom Outdoor Gear Alerts to Your Inbox" or something like that.
What is it about CSS3 & HTML 5 that makes this impossible on "older" browsers? Maybe I'm missing the point, but I'm not really seeing anything that couldn't already be done cross most browsers?
Saving is Obsolete: Etherpad adds time slider
Jim Collins' books are based on pseudo-research. Phil Rosenzweig does a beautiful job of showing this in The Halo Effect: http://www.amazon.com/Halo-Effect-Business-Delusions-Manager...
Porting Chromium to FreeBSD
Press release on the same study:

http://www.dundee.ac.uk/pressreleases/proct02/dyslexics.html

(I looked this up to get a better idea which countries were considered, and which were not.)

Excerpt from a good book on dyslexia by some of the leading researchers in the field:

http://books.google.com/books?id=OTMYM5ijMtMC&pg=PA383&#...

Here's another good link on dyslexia:

http://www.springerlink.com/content/l15r432m85775666/

Here's a link to a forthcoming book with practical advice to parents about dyslexia:

http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-047042981...

My overall comments on the submitted article and the claim in its title are:

a) Yes, the English penchant for preserving etymological spellings from multiple languages (especially Norman French) makes learning reading of English more daunting than learning to read a language with a reformed, consistent spelling such as Spanish. But linguists have applied thoughtful effort to improving reading instruction in English, and it is possible with the best materials, for example Let's Read: A Linguistic Approach by Leonard Bloomfield and Clarence Barnhart,

http://www.amazon.com/Lets-Linguistic-Approach-Leonard-Bloom...

to make great progress in reading English independently in less than one year of instruction. (It's regrettable that more schools don't use superior books like Let's Read for initial reading instruction.) Part of the difficulty that pupils have in school in English-speaking countries comes from suboptimal reading instruction rather than from inherent features of the current English writing system.

http://www.amazon.com/Early-Reading-Instruction-Science-Brad...

b) The study didn't test "European languages" exhaustively. It may be that there are some languages in Europe that present similar difficulties. Certainly there are languages in other regions of the world (including languages in the Indo-European language family) that present tougher challenges to primary-age learners learning to read, although those learners often overcome those challenges.

c) For overall adult performance in reading, exposure matters, and for second-language learners of English, the network effects of having huge numbers of users of English (both first-language users and second-language users) all over the world ensures that most second-language learners still reach quite an adequate level of reading proficiency in English, which indeed in many cases exploits the similarity of English spelling to spellings from foreign languages. English gains its position as the world interlanguage honestly and will not be challenged as the world interlanguage by any other language in the lifetime of anyone reading this message.
Just noticed it in my account. Pretty slick! For those wondering what this is - PG used an early version of this to show his essays as he wrote them.

Example from notes I took during an interview with Marcus Nelson of Uservoice. https://pstam.etherpad.com/ep/pad/view/ro.XF6No8LU/rev.1087
Subversion is much easier to start out with.

False.

1. Subversion requires you to use tools which are Subversion-aware. If happen to delete or rename a file from the Finder, Windows Explorer without Tortoise, or the command line without using "svn rm", Subversion will muck things up, and you won't even notice until you try to commit. And heaven help you if you try to use a non-Subversion-aware IDE. If you're just starting out, you might not know that you must install Subclipse in Eclipse. If you don't, a simple class rename will leave your working copy in a state from which it'll take a lot of painful work to recover.

2. Subversion requires a separate repository to be set up. Often, this means either setting up a whole server for Subversion itself or a web server to serve up the repository over the WebDAV front end. Yes, I know you can just use a local directory, except you still have to read the documentation about how to do it right. Either way, typing "git init" or "hg init" right in the directory where you started hacking takes a lot less effort.

Look, I kind of understand that some people think that Git's index takes some getting used to. I disagree, and consider the index an important feature, but de gustibus pravis non disputandum est, and all that. In that case, try Mercurial. It's a perfectly fine VCS. It probably is a bit more intuitive than Git for the first fifteen minutes. Don't worry about either system's more advanced features yet. As a beginner, just get used to saving incremental changes to your code and the ability to experiment safely, and look at what has changed. Eventually, you'll find yourself saying "hey, I wish I could track my code in such-and-such a way," and when you do, Git and Mercurial both have solid documentation.

Setting up a Subversion server won't help you become a better programmer. Wondering what went wrong when Subversion thoughtfully breaks your working copy won't make you feel happy about using version control. Even worse, looking at the behaviors of some programmers I've worked with, Subversion teaches people really bad source control habits --- making commits with tons of random unrelated changes jumbled together.
I think the folding is only a side effect with this bike. More importantly it's completely modular and you can assemble it IKEA or LEGO-like.
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Site: http://www.ironlogin.com

Hey folks,

I've just released IronLogin Lite. It's a free introductory product that replaces browser password popups with skinable in-page login dialogs. Once the user is logged in each page contains a skinable bar at the top with a custom message, the user's name and a logout link.

The Lite version is free and the Pro version which is in development will be for sale. The Lite version works for 1 site with 1 password file (same format as the htpasswd file). Pro will work for multiple sites via a single admin with its own custom database, your database, LDAP, AD, or Radius backend and allow you to specify fine grained access control by url, mimetype, extension, etc.

The main use case for IronLogin is to secure existing applications that don't offer the access control that you need and to provide a single signon interface for multiple apps in an Intranet.

Let me know what you think. Thanks.
Why do you think subversion is easier to start with? You have to understand the difference between the local copy and the repository, you have to manage the server, you might have to deal with the incredibly painful corruption issues that pop up every now and then.

And I personally don't think the day-to-day use is any easier, either, unless you're only working with one branch, and even then, the only 'savings' is you don't have to stage first.
Well when I was at Uni in 2005, Trevor (the inventor) came to give a talk. A professional swimmer, he made his money from water tricks in a circus (eg, like Houdini) and bought a house, and lived in it for plenty years, and invented his radio only much later. So his wealth was NOT from radios. Not only that - he was at our Uni basically to plug Baylis Brands, which if you pay them some money will help you with marketing your invention. Yuck!
Learn both SVN and a test framework now. Do it right from the start.

If it seems like too much at first, think of all those programmers who complained about people learning OO or structured programming from the start.
Here is the url since I forgot the main text doesn't link:

http://www.ironlogin.com/
That would have a lot more credibility where it not coming from an investor. A VC writing an article that says "just sign the term sheet immediately without having your attorney review it" is actually preposterous.

His overall sentiment is not necessarily without merit (that you should shop around terms/valuation verbally rather than emailing out copies of the term sheet to every VC on Sand Hill Road) but wow did he go about expressing it poorly.
In 2005 I got malaria while in a rainforest in Palawan, Philippines. Out of a group of 4, I was the only one who was bitten, and I have type O blood. It's a small sample size, but it makes sense!
> If I don't win, they don't need to contact me

Hey, how would they recruit you otherwise?
Here's another one taking it apart:

http://www.businesspundit.com/why-good-to-great-isnt-very-go...

> ... For instance, Collins says good-to-great companies practice "First Who, Then What," which basically means "hire good people." I'm willing to bet no one read the book and said "Eureka! I've been hiring slimy weasels when I should have been hiring top performers. That is why we aren't a great company." ...

It's really one of the business books I liked least when I did a bunch of summaries for Squeezed Books. The "research" is a very small sample that, as the other posts point out, is not a very good sample at that. The only quantitative research seems to be picking the companies. The rest of the "research" is interviews and subjective stuff like that.
I used to curse FCKEditor because it was so slow and unweildy for ajax apps. Creating and destroying and then customizing was a pain. Not many WYSIWYG editors really do these nicely. They all seem to be made to work in a static load once html page. Now CKEditor says you can do all that so I'm very excited. If it is fast, can create and destroy with ease and plays well with jquery then it's my new favorite editor!
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I knew that as soon as I saw the Lib Dems were on-board.