skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would suspect that this is where the practice of preferring moving water over still water comes in... If the water is moving and home to animal/plant life then I would have to assume that any microbial toxins are only present at low levels (along with any other introduced toxins).
But didn't Novell enter into an agreement regarding Mono such that they are not sued for such (hypothetical) patents? Will that not (automatically) cover anyone using Mono?
The first thing that came to mind when I read that is, "There's a brick industry association?"

Seriously, are bricks really a big enough product to be called an industry? I'd think they'd just be part of a larger "building materials industry". Are they volatile enough to need an industry association?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=770005
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California is too big. It really needs to be broken up into more meaningful pieces. The various regions are so widely disparate that there is very little common ground for them to be in the same state.

In some regards, CA is a microcosm of the troubles the US is going through. But at least the federal government doesn't have their hands tied as badly as CA does with the incessant ballot initiatives and super-majority needed to pass budgets. Letting Enron write the "energy deregulation law" was supremely stupid and is one reason for the blackouts and tens of billions of dollars in debt.
My condolences. May Greg rest in peace and you find solace in the memories you have of him.
MIT Technology Review also has an article on 80legs.
Accessible at http://www.technologyreview.com/web/23528/
Just out of curiosity will this program fund the artists in America? I ask because as a ceramic artist I work out of my studio in my barn. I give an "Art for Kids Program" that was created to be affordable to children in the Myakka City, Florida area. And, even still at the price of $10.00 per 3 hour class, they still cannot afford the program.I started the program because Myakka City is approximately 30 miles away from the nearest business establishment a child can go to for entertainment. The program is meant to get children off the couch, away from video games, and up from the computer doing something creative. I have been lucky enough to get a few businesses to donate clay, glazes and tools for the kids to work with, but the problem still remains that they can not afford the $10.00 to attend with today's economy. There are programs out there for artist, but an artist has to be nominated for the award, or the awards are so small that it barely pays for studio equipment. It is a worthy program of sponsorship, but then the problems remains as to, how do I afford to pay employees, and provide insurance for them, if the grants available to artist are so small. Read more about the "Art for Kids Program" at http://www.ladyhawkofheartland.spaces.live.com. Or am I off my rocker, for wanting help with a program that would open the minds of young children, and cause them to challenge themselves to do better and achieve more. I am thinking that the program shows Entrepreneurship, or am I incorrect in my thinking. Blondell Lehocki.
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no, but it is a crime to use a monopoly in one area to help squash rivals in other areas, and that's what microsoft was convicted for.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft
My condolences, and my thoughts are with you and yours.
Actually, it doesn't. The efficient market hypothesis gets us to some price agreement and some notion that said price reflects "available" information. (Insert reference to Paul Newman's phone number problem.)

Absent that, it's still true that company X is worth Y to person Z if Y is willing to buy Z at valuation Y. The fact that someone would do the transaction at a different valuation doesn't change that fact.

"worth" is actually complicated and it's somewhat silly to think that it can be collapsed into a single number.
I find it funny that the author of this blog did not include his own school, The University of Cincinnati, at which he is the Associate Dean of faculty at their school of law. As if Cincinnati would be on the list of "25 Most Safe Colleges in America". Yeah right. I bet you'll think twice about taking a night class there.
Great to know! I can personally attest that boiling water of unknown provenance (even in cities/small towns) is definitely a good idea... I've had Giarda twice from drinking contaminated water (rain/tank water that I thought was safe) and I can say that both times were extremely unpleasant.

If you need further reason (and you're in a 3rd world country):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholera

'infected patients may die within three hours if medical treatment is not provided'... Scary indeed.
For bonus points, make a twitter-quine: as some part of its operation, have the bot tweet its own source code.
Am I reading this right?

All the evidence for global warming comes from a study that has never been peer reviewed? And can't be?

And, the study essentially fitted data to a model?
Although it seems now that for most people HD is something they notice and care about. So perhaps that hints at the need for people to be trained to appreciate quality?

In other words, do they like HD because it's better or because they've been told that it's better?

I noticed a difference immediately when I saw an HD demo. It was in 1999, and I saw it at a science center (COSI, Columbus, OH). But some of the people I was with literally could not figure out which TV was which.
The thing is, as TY pointed out Nichimen - I've read that essay awhile ago from pg how Lisp gave them competitive advantage... and if you look at Nichimen (spinoff from Symbolics) their path was almost the same. There were SubD's before in our industry (Catmull Clark, Ligthwave MetaNURBS that fori made), but when Nichimen made SubD's into Mirai (and later Nendo) it caused a revolution in 3D, especially modeling. Prior to that we were churning out NURBS for detailed characters and objects, some ventured into poly-by-poly modeling, and when Mirai came along (even if not alot of people used it) it was suddenly a box-modeling revolution. There were stars aligned for them though, they had a system built on top of Franz Allegro, Bay Raitt was there to give them input (the guy that modeled Gollum - look at the workflow that changed minds of modelers back then: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubgvomRTW80 ) and there was a stale air around other software packages.

This was still the era when PA/Maya was coming out, SI|XSI was on the horizon and packages cost were $15K+. Bad management ruined Nichimen.

There is a common motif amongst Nichimen, Naughty Dog, even Viaweb - they all had a system that let them react to and develop new stuff at levels and speed no one could've competed against. And if you look at the talk from Dan Weinreb, he is basically saying the same thing about them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xquJvmHF3S8
A conservative think tank shill serving vested interests by spreading FUD about climate change. How quaint.

All over the world, glaciers are receding rapidly, the arctic ice cap is disappearing during summer - changes that are very, very measurable and visible to anyone who cares to look. Satellite measuring does not reach back that far, but shows clear, undeniable upwards trends.

And this guy says measures taken to combat this should be reconsidered because one particular set of historical data may have been cooked?

I guess he didn't get the memo that denying the existence of global warning has become untenable and the methods of choice are now denying that humans caused it, or claiming that reducing CO2 emission is less cost-effective than protecting against the symptoms.
> 5. Many entrepreneurs express concerns that some VCs have tensions within their organization/partnership ...

I find this tons.
I suspect drats meant found guilty of abusing its monopoly.
Not wishing to be indelicate but ....

Another problem you might face is any relatives of Greg. With no corporates structure - or even one that just says 50:50 you may see wives/parents/cousins convinced that all startups are going to be ebay looking for their billions. Remember the saying: you only choose a spouse - you don't get to choose their family.

You may find you spend another few years working on your own to make this idea a success and then lose it all to the legal fees defending against multiple claims of who owns the other half.

It might be a good idea to make a break and restart the idea with just you.
Expanding on allenbrunson's point, that's why it's correct to refer to them as a convicted monopolist. The word is indeed there precisely because "monopolist" does not carry the meaning of "convicted".... to be honest I'm not actually sure what your problem with the phrase is.
> Miguel gave his life to free software.

RMS's choice of the word traitor implies that he understands this and is only commenting on recent actions of Miguel's.
My condolences. Must be hard for you. Every line of code you write, every business decision you make will remind you Greg from now on.

If I were you, I would name something on your business after him.
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There was a big hoopla recently about granite used for kitchen counters sometimes being radioactive.
Yeah, nichimen was a spinoff from symbolics, later turned into IZware and doomed by management. However Mirai and Nendo were softwares that revolutionized 3D workflow when it came out. It brought into the mainstream what we call now box-modeling. Bay Raitt (Gollum modeler, he is at Valve now I think) had a lot to do with it, and it was not the first software to offer such a workflow, but it was the most prominent one.
A lot of comments have pointed out that there are problems with the metric used in the article. Still, the differences aren't measured aren't off by 20 or 30 percent. Some states have 10 times the amount of venture money as others. Clearly there are factors that make some places better (in some absolute sense) than others for doing a startup. I think it would be interesting to see the same data on a city level.
After they've bought the cheap ones a few times and had to replace them after 3 months? You'd be surprised. Especially if the bulbs in question are in a high vaulted ceiling lamp.

It's not just the cost of the bulb, it's the reliability and the time it takes to keep replacing them that's important.
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The goal of the program is to invite brands into the conversation that's already going on around the web, to make it easy for them to do it on their terms.

No. He can't stop bullshitting; it's pathological.
Article lacks sources for its claims.

> Patrick J. Michaels is a senior fellow in environmental studies at the Cato Institute and author of Climate of Extremes: Global Warming Science They Don’t Want You to Know.

Yeah, figures. Want a grindstone for that axe?

Edit:
Quote from Wikipedia[1] about the author:

"Climate scientist Tom Wigley, [21] a lead author of parts of the report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, is quoted in Ross Gelbspan's book The Heat is On[22]: "Michaels' statements on [the subject of computer models] are a catalog of misrepresentation and misinterpretation… Many of the supposedly factual statements made in Michaels' testimony are either inaccurate or are seriously misleading."[23]

Peter Gleick, a conservation analyst and president of the Oakland-based Pacific Institute, said: "Pat Michaels is not one of the nation's leading researchers on climate change. On the contrary, he is one of a very small minority of nay-sayers who continue to dispute the facts and science about climate change in the face of compelling, overwhelming, and growing evidence."[24]"

Yeah, I'll take a pass on taking this article at face value.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Michaels
I imagine so. Miguel won an award from the FSF in 1999:

http://www.gnu.org/award/1999/1999.html
http://news.google.com/news?q=Apologist

Of the first 10, most are as you say, 2 are about actual apologies, and 1 is a "CIA apologist", which is in line with the above dictionary meaning.

It does tend to have the connotation you mention, but that isn't its only use in the mainstream press.
RMS comes under attack again
Sorry to hear that. I didn't know your friend, but reading your post I felt the sorrow in my gut. I hope you will cope and help other friends and family cope too.

Peace.
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>Seriously, are bricks really a big enough product to be called an industry?

Are you kidding? If nothing else, the "historic districts" of many cities in America would support a brick industry.
You know, it would make me buy Google Apps Premier edition, even though I don't need its other benefits.
I use screen for most of the work (terminals, emacs -nw, rtorrent, mail(emacs-nw+wanderlust) etc), along with stumpwm and conkeror.

Here are some configs, may be someone will find it useful

http://pastebin.com/f15ac6dfe

http://pastebin.com/m7658c531

And a screenshot: http://img136.yfrog.com/i/screenshotmz.png/
Today's xkcd http://xkcd.com/641/

I'm glad karma only goes to -8 per comment now, or I'd never have posted this :)
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There are quite a few out there who are interested in it, but their skillset leads them to Mono

Mono is an open source-licensed project, so if a MS developer starts working in Mono, aren't they effectively working with Open source??
You don't trust him, because he agrees with the view he expresses in that article?

This is easy to settle. He says the data don't exist. You apparently say the smart default is to assume that they do. So find the data, and that's the end of it. Right?

Your edit is pretty hilarious: he can't be right, because he's part of Cato and has published stuff arguing against climate change! Look, somebody at the Pacific Institute ("Research for People and the Planet") has published something saying so!

You might be right, but your argument is basically "Galileo is wrong, because he's a heretic. The Pope even said so. Is Galileo a Pope? I. Thought. Not."
Hmmm, evidently I made my point poorly.

All I was getting that is that Perl is a pretty cool language that runs the risk of becoming an obscure language because progress on it has the appearance of moving so slowly. For whatever it's worth, I don't think that it really is moving all that slowly, but Perl 6 was announced almost a decade ago (2001) and it has all the appearances of being a pretty bureaucratic process. I know there are a ton of really sharp people working on it... just like there are a lot of sharp people working on CL.

Until they get their PR house in order though, I honestly think that Perl will go the way of CL.
I think when lives may be on the line it's acceptable to draw attention to a lack of convincing data.

It's also worth noting that Calstar is starting with non-load-bearing brick markets, where lives are not on the line.

So perhaps there's more to it in this particular case.
Yes, and then they hear about how Mono is a terrible abomination according to rms. That's the crux of my point.
Just finished a redesign of my news site, ShortFormBlog. Would love feedback.
why are people so obsessed with how twitter will make money?

twitter has the finest consumer web minds on the case.
Hi guys,

My name's Ernie Smith, and I run this site called ShortFormBlog. It's something of a big, broad side project I do on top of my full-time job at the Washington Post Express, but the basic idea is that I try to use design and humor to give you the heart of a story using brevity.

It covers a little of everything, but focuses mostly on news, politics and technology, with little regular features here and there.

I've been working on the site for nearly ten months. In that time, I've seen what works and what doesn't with the site's design. So, I've been working hard to make sure it evolves along with the nature of how it's read.

I had three set goals when I put together the redesign:

1. Simplify the front page: I felt that reading the news blurbs on the front needed to be a simpler process, one that was uncluttered. I wanted the focus to be on the simple bites of information, not all the other stuff that comes with the territory. So I tried to get the furniture out of the way to emphasize content.

2. Make the inside pages easier to navigate: When the site started, the focus was on the front page experience over that of the inside pages. Over time, it became clear that most people were visiting the site from individual links. So a huge goal was to make the site as easy to navigate from a retweeted link as the front page.

3. Encourage exploration: There are a lot of posts on the site – at last count, nearly 4,500. That number is growing daily. I want to make the site something you can dig into and look around for a while.

I'd like to know four things: What you like, what you don't like, what's broken, and what's missing. Does something confuse you? Does something look really awesome? Can I expand on an idea further? Let me know. I want to make this site awesome. Any way I can help make it better, I'd like to.

For contrast, here's the site's current design: http://shortformblog.com/?wptheme=shrtfrmblg

Compare. Contrast. Try a few things. Let me know how to do this better. It's much appreciated.
In what operating environments should I expect CFLs to hit 10k hours?

I'm not getting anywhere near that in a socket with no cover (so there's no heat build-up and room temp is steady too) that's turned on/off once/weekday and stays on for 4-6 hours. Nope, no dimmer.

That's pretty much a best case for incandescents, I've had some last for years in those exact sockets, but I'm replacing CFLs pretty much every year.
How is it that people who want to see and check data on a subject of concern have been tarred with the brush of holocaust deniers? I'm starting to assume that anyone using the word "deny" or "denier" in the context of a question of science is trying to shut down research in favor of politics.
Wyoming has oil, which probably pushes out investment in other industries (why invest in a startup when you can invest in an oil well?). It may have a localized version of the Dutch disease. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_disease
Eh, no. I don't trust him because he's written anti-climate change before and doesn't give any sources for his claim that the data is basically fraudulent.

Seems to me he's just searching for arguments to discard the scientific consensus and not trying to further the debate at all.
"The plant is to be running before year's end. At first, the company will make only 'facing brick,' used on the outside of buildings, a $2 billion annual U.S. market. It plans to branch out into paving stones, roofing tile and other brick markets."
Also see his mandelbrot set/towers of hanoi using vim macros (not vim scripts, but macros):
http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/vim/index.php
I am more worried about the grammatical mistakes I see in my post than your objection. Why? Well I would hope that if we were talking about something else and I said "convicted killer" you wouldn't fly into a exclamation marked rage over the fact I should have said "convicted murderer" because there are circumstances under which it is legal to kill people. I think it's pretty clear what I was saying in that post. But you are technically correct in that it's theoretically possible to have a company that is a monopoly and does not abuse that power, although I cannot think of any examples in the real world where corporations in such a situation behave. Allenbrunson has the rest in his reply to you. And before anyone else objects regarding the details of the EU case[1] it sometimes use different terms as the EU is not quite a state yet but I'd argue "convicted" captures the meaning there too.

[1]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7392949.stm
There is definitely a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" sort of relationship to social networking.

Once upon a time I used MySpace, and found all the info I would get on it completely useless. So I stopped using MySpace. Within the last 4 months, just about everyone in my family has started using Facebook, and I have no interest in joining Facebook whatsoever, because to me it seems like it is just a cleaner web interface to the same sort of thing I could read on MySpace.

But lately, whenever I talk to someone in my family they will ask me why I haven't joined Facebook yet. I prefer to just get in touch with my family over phone calls and in person, I don't need to drill down into every last detail of their lives on a daily basis. So I continue to remain outside of the realm of Facebook.

I do like Twitter though, and no one in my family or within my close friends is using it, and they don't want to use it. It doesn't bother me that the people I follow and who follow me on twitter are mostly people outside of my family and are not my closest friends. A lot of the things I write on Twitter aren't things I think they would care about anyways.
That's a question you should ask every non-C programmer. But yeah, I run Movitz.

http://common-lisp.net/project/movitz/

Chew it.

[Edit: this, of course, is a wise-ass reply to something I considered a wise-ass question. I develop on Win32 and deploy on Linux]
http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/DCONWAY/Acme-Bleach-1.12/READ...
The idea that the entire case on global warming comes from a single data set that no one made a copy of is absurd on the face of it. Even if one were to willfully believe that the rest of the article is true, something which I am dubious about, it doesn't mean much in the greater scheme of climate science. One can always find a sloppy scientist. That's why scientists practice things like peer review and replication. The conclusion that global warming is real has been replicated across any number of studies. People opposed to the idea that global warming is real will point to any discrepancy, bit of sloppy science, or dispute on any detail as evidence that it must -all- be wrong. But it's a fallacious and misleading argument. A bit of sloppy science is nothing more than one bit of sloppy science. A slight dispute over details is nothing more than a slight dispute over details. The core of the position that global warming is real and caused by humans has overwhelming evidence behind it. One sloppy scientist doesn't change that fact.
I've scrolled past this headline 5 times now, and every time I've thought it said "Build a better BLUB for a $10 million prize".

This place has ruined my ability to read 4 letter words.
I already lost all respect for this guy and now this. He complains about critics of Microsoft yet turns around and does the same thing those critics did. His title is a poor choice considering the criticism he is already drawing from his involvement in the Mono project. Admittedly, I rushed through the read because I have a plane to catch but I don't understand where he's coming from with this. It might only provoke and add more fuel to the suspicion he has turned "traitor" to the *nix and open source community.
Strong arguments there, I cannot even question them. Probably the two that stand out are DSLs and impression of Lisp as slow, academic in nature.

I'll go read up on AI winter again, shame I wasn't around to witness that era. On a related note, I just got an email a few days ago for "Third Conference on Artificial General Intelligence, AGI-10 (in Lugano, Switzerland, March 5-8 2010)".
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25k hours is about three years of 24/7. You might be able to ignore the time value of money for that period, but you can't for 9 years, which is 25k hours of 8/7.

I doubt that there's a large fraction of lights that are on 24/7. I suspect that the big users are around 8/7 and between 6/5 and 10/5.