skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, mathematics is the language used to describe physics; it does not at all constrain what physical patterns are possible to express. With a bit of mental work mathematics can represent anything.

It is not at all clear that the phenotype space is constrained by simple mathematical patterns (such as "center" as you mentioned). This sounds like religious analogy, not scientific thinking.
Thanks Jason. That's pretty much the plan, though I'm focusing on "b" until Tuesday, "c" for the rest of my life at SetJam, and going to work overtime to make sure "a" happens in spite of putting it behind "b" and "c".
They just open sourced Grand Central Dispatch. They've deliberately chosen to work with open-source projects instead of in-house alternatives --- for instance, Konquerer and LLVM. It's a stretch to say they don't care about open source.

Open source clearly isn't their priority, but then, I'm glad of that, and happy not to be running Linux.
What´s your browser ? Looks like Netscape ...
Dead Salmon Can Judge Emotions (using fMRI and the multiple comparisons problem)
"On Writing Well" by Zinsser is also worthwhile:

http://bit.ly/2wH4VC (link to Google Books)
When looking at Ask.com compared to Google, Ask looks like a failure, but I wouldn't mind being the Ask.com of online video guides.

It's still one of the top 50 sites worldwide (according to Alexa at least), with a fraction of the employees of google and a pretty good demographic of users who click on ads. Its history may not be stellar but as a business, it's not a bad company.

Disclaimer: I used to work at Ask.com so I might not be all that objective.
And the lesson is that we should discard our obligations by moving back in with our parents and getting them to pay all our living expenses?

Kids make great entrepreneurs because the standards for success are pretty low. This kid is spending two hours making a scarf and then selling it for $18-$25.
I think you need to read about unix hard links, since they solve all 5 of your problems at once.

The name of each hard link is the hash of the file, and you are done.

Identical means identical, not close.

Each server will have a copy of attachments for email that lives on that server. No need to do it globally, just de-dup within each server.

I don't know if it saves much, but if your filesystem supports hard links, it's pretty much free.

That said, I don't know how google's GFS does things.
I'm sorry, but your argument that iTunes is "central" to the OS X experience is totally unconvincing. The logic you're employing here implies that Grapher.app is also central to the experience.

If you're not playing music and you don't own an iPhone, you simply don't ever run iTunes. On the other hand, there's probably no Macbook use case that avoids Safari, Finder, and either MS Office or Pages.app.
thanks for the answer... I was thinking of a more elaborate packaged solution, not just the view layer... something with built-in features, a kind of CMS maybe.
Thanks to OP for posting this! I was fretting renting a $$ hotel for the 6 days I was going to be there, and was about to either cancel my trip or make it a fly-in/fly-out thing. I've had some random recent unexpected expenses.

Just requested a room right next to Caltrain!
And the lesson is that we should discard our obligations by moving back in with our parents and getting them to pay all our living expenses?

No, that's not the lesson. Care to guess again?
Interview: Threadless CTO Harper Reed Heads to Rackspace
Bundling the browser with the OS was the right thing to do, independent of any other actions of MS. EVERY MODERN OPERATING SYSTEM COMES BUNDLED WITH A BROWSER. Mac OS, Ubuntu, even the Palm Pre.

People like picking on MS because they believe in their heart of hearts that it was some evil on MS's part which led to IE becoming the dominant browser, but that is not so. At the crucial moment MS had the better browser (IE 4 vs. Netscape 4), I made the switch myself to IE when nobody else was using it because it was a better experience (I currently use chrome for the same reasons). At a time when Netscape was bloated, slow, unstable and had serious usability problems, IE was faster, more stable, and had a better UI. MS bundled their browser with their OS. And, even more importantly, Netscape went into a phase of directionless thrashing around. We know now that they rewrote their code base for NS 4 for no reason whatsoever. They continued to churn their code for several years with no noticeable improvements to the core browser functionality. People tend to forget that Netscape effectively died at the height of the browser wars. They screwed up so bad that they dumped the browser on the open source community, which spent several years cleaning up the code until it finally turned into a decent browser.

But by then Netscape's failure and MS's success had already cemented IE as the dominant browser, at the time.

But despite IE's bundling there is today again a healthy competition amongst browsers. Firefox has a sizable marketshare with chrome, safari, opera and others as viable alternatives. Solid proof that with a better browser it's possible to compete against bundled browsers.
"Since everyone worked hard and they thought that I was going to grade them on a curve, there was a lot frustration that they wouldn't properly be recognized for their work. (In fact I gave half of them A's in the end.)"

I abhor the attitude of the students. Simply working hard is not always enough. Results matter. This is a problem in the corporate world as well.
Just curious, but will adding my gmail account as an IMAP account in another client cause any synchronization issues with accessing my mail on mail.google.com ?
Kristen Nicole sat down with Threadless CTO Harper Reed yesterday, just ahead of his announcement of his move to Rackspace. Harper is a prolific serial entrepreneur. Good read.
I read that article as 'mom employs 11 year old in her business'. Both as a laborer, a designer and as a marketing prop.

"Logan sells her creations in Hip Chics, the boutique her mother owns in Clemmons."

And why on earth did an 11 year old have to borrow $2500 from her grandmother to 'start her own business' ?
My son's high school physics teacher has something like this that appears to be a commercial product, with lots of IR remote controls that get pointed at an IR receiver connected to the teacher's laptop. He runs it sort of like Who Wants to be a Millionaire.
Around Europe, we say : 'The ball is round and the game lasts 90 minutes. The rest is all theory'.

This means, more or less, that there are so many unknowns that trying to analyze the game is bullshit - just enjoy it. Even the quality of the grass can change the game, or the humidity. But of course, sport journalists make a living out of over-analyzing it.
An incredibly long, well reasoned and cited, highly vitriolic and personally insulting to Romer take on the "charter city" idea. (Really, I'm not kidding it is incredibly long.)

Summary: There is an English word for charter city, and it is colony.

http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2009/08/from-cr...
Dropbox works fantastically well with Keepass, just save the .kdb file in your Dropbox folder. Open up Keepass on another system and there are all your password once you wenter the master password.

I'm probably preaching to the converted, I'm sure most people who frequent ycombinator know about that but I still thinks it's once of the best uses for it so far along with backing up critical files.

It's also one of the only online services where I actually am strongly considering subscribing and paying money to upgrade once I approach the 2GB limit.
It's not really making for an interesting conversation. (I didn't downmod).

BTW I do think the title is a little misleading. "Picks up 100,000 new riders" makes you imagine they have got traction and 100k new users. The actual article states that they are opening it up to a further 100k users. Maybe they'll get 100k takers, but I don't think it's quite the same thing as already having the users. Clever PR though ;)
A pretty good analysis. The Senate system is slightly crazy and often somewhat random in the way the last senator from each state gets elected, so they do have a chance. The only big problem is that the "respectable" parties may not like the idea of doing preference swaps with a party called the Pirate Party.

I guess it'll also depend on whether they run on a relatively sane platform or a completely wacko platform.
You know, mentioning that ww.com is NSFW would've been nice. I just visited the home page and was greeted by a picture of some guy touching himself. Gross.
Good as well: Politics & The English Language. (http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm)
I can't remember how many games I stopped watching 5 minutes before the end, because I was disappointed, only to later discover that the team I supported scored. Even better are score, counter-score, then score again.
Helvetica vs. Arial Quiz
Tell HN: NoSQL NYC Meetup/Mini-Conference - this Monday Evening (Oct. 5)
We are holding a Meetup/Mini-Conference in NY this coming Monday, October 5.

Full details are at: http://anyvite.com/events/home/1aczrvxjp6 including RSVP, which we request you please use so we don't flood our rented venue.

I know there's an upcoming NoSQL East conference in Atlanta at end of October, we had started planning and announcing this several months ago. Unfortunately, tracking down space and getting everything organized took a bit more time. We have finally nailed down a larger space to hold this in, and hope that despite the short notice some of you HNers would care to join us.

The idea here is a short meetup and learning; it's not always easy to duck out of work for a tech conference so we hope a few hours out of your evening will leave you feeling enlightened.

Speakers will be covering CouchDB, MongoDB (and a panel with representatives of both projects comparing and contrasting the at-the-surface-similar systems), AllegroGraph RDF Store and using Clojure with Hadoop.

We also are looking for people to present lightning talks on NoSQL topics, so if you have a 5 minute talk in mind that covers a NoSQL technology you think people should see, use cases, examples of projects you've deployed tech (or even replacing MySQL, Sybase, Oracle etc with a NoSQL system) please email me (Link to my "lightning talk signup' mail bucket is on the anyvite page).

Also, huge thanks goes out to 10Gen <http://www.10gen.com> who has done the legwork for securing and renting a venue for this event.
I know they removed a lot of crufty older code around that time, but I don't remember if it corresponded exactly.
IPhone Developers Accessing Users' Telephone Numbers for Telemarketing?
You can get a lot of statistics from a game of cricket, but it does not seem to have taken off in the U.S.
This is kind of like saying text-messaging is being killed by emailing. The issue isn't just backwards compatibility, but cross-platform compatibility.

Emailing a picture vs. using MMS only works if the receiver a) has mobile access to email and b) has said email "pushed" to their phone (or is checking constantly).
They just need an inductive charger like the Palm Pre.
Generally I agree, but there are some issues:

* Sometimes you'll read the material... and then the lecture will be a regurgitation of the material. For me, this means doodling in notebooks or falling asleep

* Other times you'll read the material... and it will be wildly different from what the Professor decides to cover. So now you've read something and you're just thinking about what the hell you're talking about

* Some teachers don't actually provide material

* Sometimes lecture is just about going over homework problems (this was mainly in intro courses, but it was SEVERELY lame if you got most of the answers right).

I think it's best when there's material to be covered and the teacher has extra insight to add or confusing elements that they can somehow explain better.
I should also mention this is being held in the evening, starting at 6pm.

Having never submitted before, I think I didn't realize links don't get hyperlinked in submission. The linked URL to signup/details is:

http://anyvite.com/events/home/1aczrvxjp6
First, thanks to mingyeow for submitting this link:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=839407

I scored 19 out of 20. All caps Mattel did me in. However, one bad thing is that I can now see just how bad Arial is compared to Helvetica and it's very annoying.

I really wasn't looking for something else to be anal-retentive about.
I absolutely agree. I actually taught several classes, but this was the only one where I had the freedom to choose the pacing, homework sets, and exams. I will never know whether my experience would have been easily replicated, or how important the factors you cite are. If anyone else tries something similar, I would be interested in hearing how it worked out for them.

That said, I was pushing students to use learning strategies that I have personally found to be incredibly valuable. I firmly believe that it is a good thing to read ahead before class, pay close attention during class, ask questions promptly and follow a regular review schedule later. This is both effective and takes surprisingly little time to do.

On a final note, I sympathize with your pain about not being rewarded for your teaching. The academic system rewards professors for research, not teaching, and teaching suffers greatly for it. Why the Professor Can't Teach is as relevant today as it was when it was 30 years ago. (You can find it online at http://www.marco-learningsystems.com/pages/kline/prof.html.) That was not the reason that I left academia, but it made my decision easier.
You rang? These are the incorporation-related docs used by over 25 of the companies that graduated from TheFunded Founder Institute. The Certificate of Incorporation creating the Class F common stock and the restricted stock purchase agreement were previously made available a few months ago. Adeo simply posted the rest of the docs that we were using.
On am individual movies page (eg http://movies.blinkindustries.com/movies/11751) "genes" should be "genres"

And as the other commentor says the demo account does not login at the moment.

Nice idea though - this is something I might use.

How are you getting movie info?
Fair enough. I would play down the significance where you played it up. Considering the equanimitous tone of the whole article, it seems unfair---or, at least, ungenerous---to take him to task for a colorful, one-off analogy.
I never had any problems. Just note that, when you read a mail on your IMAP account, it'll mark it as read on your webmail. Same for deleting/moving and whatever else you do.
Give it another try. Sometimes loading a page doesn't work and refreshing fixes it.

Also: With all respect, supporting Konqueror is really stretching support. It's got practically no market share, and isn't even the most popular Linux browser. I'm surprised it isn't working, though: I thought it ran WebKit, and so wouldn't mess up.
Results were there as well.
There's a great analysis of his suicide, I think in the book "The Moral Animal". It made a lot of sense, when viewed from his point of view.

Eastman was an energetic, engaging and vivacious young man who had been brought low by a series of illnesses -- including severe back problems such that he could hardly walk from room to room without pain. That prevented him from going out and photographing, which was his lifelong passion. His children were grown, and his company had succeeded past the point of needing him day to day.

His summary of the situation was a pretty good one.
Good question, a wormhole in the continuation mechanism? ;-)
Not exactly. The point is that the ratio of gmail's storage increase is so low that more and more people will inevitably bump against the limit in a couple of years.

It's not about how full the average inbox is today, but where it's headed.
ZOMG Gnuplot! Thank heavens I'm not the only one still using it. Seems like everyone is using spreadsheets for this now and just can't handle it when I send them ugly-but-scripted graph output.
Ballmer is misguided on several counts:

Chrome, firefox, and safari are much, much more likely to be used by the technically elite. These are the people who fix their friends' and relatives' computers, who design and build websites, who write about technology, they have the ability to influence the less sophisticated in browser choice.

More importantly, browsers are free (except Opera), and in the internet age the process of changing your choice of browser is about as difficult as posting to facebook. This makes browser market share potentially highly volatile. Firefox and chrome are slowly but steadily making gains in market share, and firefox is already within striking distance of becoming the dominant browser. There is very much the potential of reaching a tipping point where the featureset of IE becomes so outdated that it no longer becomes a viable browser choice. And if we ever reach that point, and I believe we very well could given the differential in pace of development of firefox/chrome/safari vs. IE, then the entire browser marketshare arena could be turned upside down overnight. One need only to look at the growth in popularity of twitter, for example, to see how fast things can change in the modern internet world.
Comparing Valuations: Twitter Industry vs Email Industry
Eh, I agree on the low likelihood but I think the massive value creation from a success renders the expected value high enough for it to be worth campaigning for. The problem of binding a sovereign is very real whether the titular sovereign (whoever, Namibia, Haiti, Cuba) or the world-sovereign (the US, obviously) to their stated policy is, ah, rather difficult.

Also, Dubai. Not shining bright at the moment but really 30 years ago there was practically nothing there and it hardly has Western standard rule of law even now, but look at what's there.

One way of setting this up I could see would be some country with massive illegal immigration problems setting up an SEZ without freedom of movement to the metropole, and allowing free immigration to that along with some very minimal law enforcment. I know Greece has insane immigration from illegals and it's not going to stop. Imagine they take some barren Agean rock, ~ Manhattan sized and allow free immigration with no minimum wage or constraints on voluntary contract for people over x years of age. Eastern Mediterranean New York in 15 years.

I think you overestimate the difficulty of physical infrastructure, that's a solved problem, throw money at it.
Adams is using "God" to encompass all supernatural beings and entities. The speech would have been twice as long if he had been completely politically correct throughout. You know what he means; saying simply "God != Religion" is a non-argument.
Sometimes genius is about breaking through to sanity despite being surrounded by collective insanity. For example, Galileo's work on kinematics required a break through in attitude: that the discussion of quantitative phenomena required measurement and calculation. Given the limitations of metrology at the time any-one who strayed away from adjectives and blather was doomed to confuse themselves with experimental error. Galileo had to break through the insanity of simply accepting those limitations and cultivate the sanity of plugging away at improving your experimental set up until you got usable numbers.

As a more modern example, the happy few who have made fortunes anticipating the current financial crisis have a claim on the title "financial genius". The insanity is believing that you cannot be too highly leveraged because house prices never fall. The genius lies in not getting sucked into the madness at the time; it looks unimpressive later, after the bubble has burst.

"Unimpressive later" but how did it look at the time? If you break through to sanity despite being surrounded by collective insanity, your contempories look at you askance before delivering their verdict: it is you that is mad.

This does horrible things to our ability to look at the realtion between genius and mental illness. Even if the route to genius lies in cultivating sanity, us mundane onlookers will still come away with the idea that geniuses are mad and be tempted to go in the opposite direction.

People love that Niels Bohr quote "We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough." but quantum mechanics does not need to be invented twice. The usual nature genius is to see through the turbid intellectual drama of one's own time to grasp ideas that will one day seem plodding and obvious.
As much as I respect George, I think its reverse applies to us hackers

"Have you ever noticed how other people's shit is stuff, and your own stuff is shit?"
851 words to convey the message, "No one wants to read your shit"? Really?
I don't understand what improvement this app is bringing. All he says is that he's disappointed in Campfire. There are more people in the comments here saying Campfire needs to be superseded. Why?

My business uses Campfire in place of an office and it works great. We make heavy use of the api to generate notifications of completed work (like a passively updated Yammer).

It's so important to me though, that I could easily be convinced to switch. But nobody seems to be able to say why I would want to. Even in the comments here, there are people talking about Mibbit and Shoptalkapp without saying why.
HMS Launches New Site, Album, Tour
Pushing the Limits of Windows: Handles
The problem with The Elements of Style is that White flagrantly, persistently and delightfully violates his own rules. Given that his writing is unfailingly charming and enjoyable to read, I have to wonder about value of those rules.
TotT: Literate Testing With Matchers
Wave Gigs
Wow. You were not exaggerating -- this is insanely long for a blog post. Thanks for giving me something entertaining to do for the next two hours at work.
Howard Tullman and the Chicago Tech Expo
Andrew [] jamlegend would be greatly appreciative. I'll be indebted to you, meaning you can have couchspace, etc.
Just launched.

Site: http://www.wavegigs.com

Blog: http://blog.wavegigs.com
Every time you mention GFS, you're really talking about Bigtable (which happens to be built on top of GFS)
Loaded three times, same result each time.

I agree that it's infeasible to support all browsers, and mine, in particular, is almost certainly not worth supporting. In most other circumstances I wouldn't bother to say anything, but here I thought the observation was worth making.

Not everyone sees your web site the way you do. How do you check/test?
Irate Android devs aim to replace Google's proprietary bits
If she really wants to become a fashion designer this really is the only useful thing she can do with her time. My little sister did the same sort of thing by selling her artwork. Her net gain over 4 years was probably less than if she had worked retail, but it was fun and informative. Few things are informative as looking at something you made that nobody wants to buy.

PS: I think my sister learned more about running a business doing this than most people get from an MBA. She paid for her own materials and would occasionally sell below cost to recover her capital, but she would also sell out of her more popular items, thus so forecasting future sales was important. She learned how to sell things one on one. She even got a taste for what people liked which is probably far more useful for an artist.
New Software from Numenta Acts Like Human Brain to Find People in Videos
Gmail does not support rich full-text search -- the indexer used is very limited. Among other things no synonyms, word stems, or subwords are indexed.
There's an extensive Java contingent on StackOverflow that might be more helpful. Not much Java love on HN.