skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The answer to the question "how did they get started talking about qualia" is: by definition, the hypothetical Z-world is indistinguishable from ours. In our world, people talk about qualia. Therefore, in the Z-world, zombies talk about qualia.

Right. Which implies that the reason that we talk about qualia is not that we have them (otherwise zombies wouldn't), but for some completely different reason that just happens to exactly line up with the qualia that we in fact do have. That would be an astounding coincidence and is a major strike against the theory per Occam's Razor.
The first comment is amusing; tow trucks for bicycles? It is easy to fix a flat on your bike; stick a stick-on patch over the hole in the tube, inflate with your CO2 cartridge, and ride on. You don't even need to remove the wheel!

(When you get home, you can fix it "forever" with a glue-on patch.)

I think one of the biggest problems facing cycling advocates is the general lack of knowledge among people "considering" cycling. They don't know how to ride in traffic, they don't know how to maintain their bike, etc., etc., so they get scared and never try. (I didn't know these things when I first started riding as an adult, but Google fixed that problem for me in about 15 minutes.)
Agreed and +1. I hope/trust the OP consulted her co-founders before posting this, because I don't think it helps their chances.

It's insulting to Jessica to think that she'd give her "points" for being female. And it's insulting to YC founders to say that we'd somehow dock her for being a woman.

That being said-- both are possible. Spend a few months doing A/B testing, read about priming studies, and you realize just how much of our motivation is powered by our subconscious.

But just because it's possible doesn't mean that it isn't insulting.

I'm a white male, but I like to think that if I was a minority, I'd deal with it be being so fucking good that people couldn't ignore the fact rather than spending one IOTA of energy publicly accusing people of being likely to judge me unfairly...
OK, I'm sorry for asking if it was about your breasts. :/

I really don't think this has anything to do with your gender. Networking and just speaking to people is surprisingly difficult. If you are already expecting people not to speak to you properly then you will be giving loads of negative body language saying that you are unconfident.

I know because I have been in the same situation many times. My background in pharmaceuticals, and when I turn up to conferences I am about 10-20 years younger than everyone else. I feel incredibly paranoid about it and my lack of self-confidence is quite obvious. I just feel "unimportant". I've even had organiser laugh at me when they realised I was one of the speakers at a conference. They told me I was too young! Yeah, that really set me up well for that conference!

When I go to technology and PR/marketing events I feel great as I fit in with people there and it is so much easier to network and discuss our startup.

Things like Astia will give you guidance on pitching. I;m sure some of the skills are transferable in to networking.
It's highly unlikely that fair use would apply here, since the amount of copied work is 100% of the original. This is not using a small excerpt for edudcation purposes...

That being said, a DMCA notice on the site would protect the content provider. The way it works is that if you have a copyright claim against the site, they have a duty to take it down when you inform them. As long as they respect that, they are pretty much covered.
Original story with background:

http://www.cctv.com/english/special/news/20091026/103440.sht...
You can use this: http://linux.die.net/man/1/ps2ascii to convert the text to txt...

or you can use something like this: http://www.arizona-software.ch/graphclick/ to read the numbers off the plots.
Interesting. I have spent a bit of time on my bike in Seattle, and the thought of traffic never occurred to me. I think drivers there, like in Chicago, are used to cyclists and shouldn't cause you any problems.
It's a thread like this that make me appreciate the ability to collapse threads.

Tianaco, I don't want to argue the merits of your concerns but this is not the correct place to discuss it. Try sending PG an email? My immediate reactions were adjectives like baiting, hijacking and trolling. I don't mean to call you names, but this was just how this whole thread came off to me as.

I don't appreciate that when I come back to this thread that the majority of the comments about the state of the female entrepreneur. I also believe YC is the exception instead of the rule.
You should read it again; there's a 4-hour "maintenance window" every week where any required changes will be applied, but downtime is limited to the time necessary to apply the changes, not the entire four hours. And you can select the 4-hour window that's most convenient for you.

For larger sites, this seems like it would hardly be a problem...if you have a pool of RDS instances, you could just stagger the maintenance windows so you never have more than 1 of your instances down at a time.
I'm getting a 403 error on the page.

edit: Honestly, can someone the downvote? Clearly, I'm not the only one, as going to Hurl gives the same result: http://hurl.it/hurls/8160ac469b2d5a0b801c8288794badeff8f14b4....
Thanks for that. I was going to comment that the article carries a very complaining tone without giving any real solutions.
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btw for the down-voters, I was just being pragmatic. A 47% chance in a 95% male industry, makes a pretty good chance of some guy trying to sneak a peek. The quote was from pg's talk at Startup School last weekend, where he mentioned that having a startup doesn't make you popular with girls. http://www.paulgraham.com/really.html

Apologies if it came across as offensive.
Apple have already approved other GPS navigation apps, so there's no reason why Google's version would be a problem.
When I lived in Berkeley, a bicycle thief cut down a tree in my back yard to steal my roommate's bike which was locked to it. YMMV.
Perhaps because it's not adding much to the conversation? I don't particularly care that you're receiving a 403. Plus there are several other links to the information. Perhaps, "I'm getting a 403, but here's another link to the document." Lastly, while you may not be the only one, perhaps you're one of very few, and people are simply registering their disagreement via vote rather than comment.
He says that the legislature has more important things to be doing right now. You may not agree, but time is limited and governing is also about making the best use of time. He appears to believe the legislature is using it poorly.
Nerds are afraid of things they can't understand.
Nokia too. Nokia knows that hardware margins are approaching zero and were hoping to use their Maps and Messaging products to help make up for it. Now it looks like they'll have to give away Maps and Messaging for free just to keep up with Google.
The thing is, I'm ridiculously outgoing.

I even have my own event production company in New York City. I'm excellent at speaking with people.

I still need work on pitching, but I have no problem talking to everyone... since that's crucial in my other line of work.
Kleiner Perkins' first fund was $8M -- less than most companies raise today
Treating women exactly equally means that you're almost to the point of giving them a preference. ;-)
the right people is definitely the key! not all people are made to work remotely... just a fact of life.

being more of a front-end guy in web development I would LOVE to be able to brainstorm on the whiteboard (or paper!) with other team members. For me, this is the biggest drawback since I feel like the digital tools (balsamiq mockups and others) just don't quite accomplish the same thing.
It seems only about a third of the US population takes SAT.

I couldn't get the actual size of the 18-year-old cohort from US Census [1], but from various age groups it could be estimated to be ~4-5M, while SAT was taken by ~1.5M people in 2009 [2].

This would also roughly fit with 27% of the population which got bachelor degree or higher [3].

[1] http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/STTable?_bm=y&-qr_n...

[2] http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/cbs-2009-...

[3] http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/STTable?_bm=y&-geo_...
I think the best part is the response from Ammiano, to whom the comment was directed: "I think it was very creative. They probably think they are even now and it's time to bury the hatchet." A little tit-for-tat and then move on seems appropriate.
This isn't an entirely new thing though is it? I remember some of the YC alum saying they had actually done some phone interviews of YC applicants.
All Things Considered interviewed an expert today, he calculated 5.5/1,000,000,000,000.
> Moreover, it may be sufficient to have a positive attitude toward voting without actually ever voting.

Nice. Sort of like an election typhoid mary.

> This is a question about how much influence an individual has on others in terms of networking effects.

I agree that the influence an individual has on his social contacts is relevant here. However, I still insist that the individual's decision to vote is itself important.
Match.com isn't blocked.

And if I'm a Chinese (I am) in China visiting a western website the first thing I'd think is "OMG it's not in Chinese", after which I'd go look for a native version. Some sites do localization, but it's rarely done correctly. For example search results are still polluted with foreign information and some pages are only available in English.
Keep in mind, these are IT guys. I usually have to remind myself to look in someone's eyes when talking, be it man or woman. If I'm focusing on something else when someone is talking to me I might not even look at them at all.

From what I've read about the differences between men and women, women are MUCH MUCH more likely to pick up subtle body language gestures compared to men and try to analyze what they mean. Try not to take these things personally. Many times it might not even have anything to do with you.
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If you had a point I missed it or you need to reword what you said. It just reads like a bunch of information to me. This isn't a put-down, you seem to have a bunch of interesting information, but I'm not sure what you're getting at.

> The virtual good actually made Tencent, the largest IM provider became the most profitable company in China.

What 'virtual good?'

> And few months ago, one of my friends still argued that online-casual game has no market in U.S. because "the market was dominated by game console".

What does this have to do with the Chinese or innovation?

> The first widely-adapted webgame invented in China (www.mop.com), the company behind renren.com(largest facebook.com copycat in China).

What about these? You've listed them off, but are you relating these to the previous statement about 'online-casual games' having no market in the US? If so how does renren.com related to that? Are they the creators of mop.com? Even if this statement relates to the US having no market for casual online games, what point are you making? That the US is innovation-less because there are no popular/profitable online casual games?

> Those randomness (copycat vs. innovation) just amazed me how dynamic Chinese market is.

You didn't explain why the Chinese market is dynamic. Because of 'randomness?' How do you mean?

> There are too many innovations, but just too many are failed too early.

Too many innovative Chinese companies are failing before they 'make it big?'
Thanks to all your suggestions, Underscore 0.2.0 is out, with:

* "reduce" instead of "inject" (inject is now an alias).

* Other aliases added for Javascript 1.6+ standardized names (forEach, filter, every, some).

* "compose", and "lastIndexOf" added.
From the start of the second page: "Wu, who has a girlish hairstyle, ..." ... WTF?
Ask HN: Rewrite or Refactor?
I'm working for a company that has an older Rails app, that is about 12,000 LOC heavy. It is currently running Rails 1.2.6. I am new to this project, but just looking at the code, it seems very PHP-like (at least one of the controllers is 1000+ lines) and is IMO garbage. It has VERY VERY slim unit tests (1:0.1 Code to Test Ratio), and those are mostly just the blank tests that the generator builds for you. They want my recommendation on what to do. I am leaning heavily to rewriting in the latest version of Rails, using the correct development and programming practices, as well as actually planning it out. They want to just keep maintaining the current app until they can rewrite it in .NET. They think that they can rebuild it in .NET in 6 months, which I believe is a gross underestimate. Should I suggest rewriting it from scratch in the new version of Rails, or should I try to refactor what they have into something better, possibly avoiding the need for .NET?

Thanks!
FYI ADstruc, your website is wrong, you aren't the first marketplace of that sort. Check out Tapinko.
> Rationally the effort of you, personally, going to vote only matters if it changes the outcome.

As above, I disagree with you about what the real purpose of an individual's vote is.

> Therefore rationally there is no point in an individual voting.

If you find that rationality and logic indicate that an individual should not vote, then you haven't used enough of them.

Specifically, if everyone was rational according to the definition you're implying, then bad things would happen. That sounds to me like it's the wrong definition.

> Therefore I am willing to engage in a logically pointless activity in return for the emotional satisfaction I derive.

Ok, that makes sense.
I think most people (like me) couldn't care less what logos are on it, so it's effectively free advertising. shrug
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All I know is that even the experts will be surprised. In tech it's hard to predict six months from now let alone five years.
Yes, YC partners will still read all the applications.
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If they want to rebuild it in .NET, it's a lost cause.
Large portable propane tanks can only be changed by licensed operators for exactly this reason, because people negligently allowed valves to either get damaged or corrode. This creates the potential for a BLEVE, which if it occurs next to the house (which all these tanks are inevitably placed) it can either burn the house down or, in case of solid brick houses, has actually destroyed the walls.

I know back in England an old house on the main road had a BLEVE from one of these large tanks, it collapsed the rear wall and the interior structural walls, meaning the entire place was torn down. Virtually every window on the street, and the adjacent street, were shattered by the blast (including vehicle windows). The fire fighters believed the tank had been damaged by a falling slate roof tile, and the fence provided the fuel to cause the BLEVE. A year or two later and the UK brought out a law requiring large tanks to be changed by professionals, I believe Canada has similar regulations as well.

I only know I wouldn't want an explosion like that happening near a cottage (where I've also seen a lot of the larger tanks).
Something this article doesn't mention, but was crucial (IMO) to the success of the Weblogs, Inc virtual team I worked in for a long time, was real-world meetups. (I believe Jason Fried alluded to this as well at Startup School.)

Campfire, IRC, IM, Skype and active chat email lists are all great for feeling connected to people, but the first time I really felt part of the company itself - not just a remote node on a graph - was when I covered an event and hung out/coordinated with a load of other bloggers doing so. It really instilled a sense of camaraderie - it was a very high pressure task and it was great that we had been working together virtually for so long (and that some of the others had worked together in person before too), as that avoided some of the uncomfortable situations that can occur if a group of strangers tries to achieve something in a short space of time.

Obviously this only really worked for the blogging/journalis model, but sending a group of devs to an engineering conference, having a team retreat (we also did this but as I was in the UK, I never got to go) and generally finding excuses to hang out productively a couple times a year really makes a big difference to the team feeling, in my experience. It might be slightly different if you're writing code, not articles; mind you, at least if you end up disliking your cow-orkers in person, you don't have to spend that much time with them!
Well, let's get fancy:

f	%2.228	0.02228
u	%2.758	0.02758
c	%2.782	0.02782
k	%0.772	0.00772
y	%1.974	0.01974
o	%7.507	0.07507
u	%2.758	0.02758

=

1/185,399,389,457

This is global letter frequency, I need a table of first letter frequency.
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There really is something cool about knowing that you could completely tear the machine that you're using apart, and put it back together again with the tools in your backpack.
Actually, it just seems a completely empty argument that merely assumes it's conclusion.

Y's are exactly like human in every physical respect but they don't have Z. Therefore Z is not physical and since we're vacuously assuming Z, human must have something besides physical qualities.

I'm sure you could use something like the Flying Spaghetti Monster in the discussion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster).
Am I the only one that's getting 403'd when I try to access this page?
A lot depends on whether the code is unusable as-is - but it's a well established rule of thumb that a re-write of any codebase takes 3 times the back of the envelope calculation.
And yet I can't stop wondering how being a collection of atoms feels like anything.

I had (what I feel is) a similar question when I first encountered people writing about Lisp symbols.
Perhaps they could swap those climbing shoes for a pair of Vibram Fivefingers and teach it to walk toe-heel.
The article states that the tests used were V8 and Sunspider as built by Chrome and Webkit, respectively. Wouldn't it be prudent to use a Firefox built benchmark as well? Is there a Firefox benchmarking tool?
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I hate to tell you this but ... most people do both :) Don't think of them as crises, though, because they're not - they're just what it feels like to outgrow your life. The more often it happens, the more you're growing, so take heart in that.
What advantages would a "mix'n'match" approach like this have over something unified like Prototype (which, as far as I can tell, includes implementations of all the parts you are using)?

I have found Prototype much better for a "web-app" framework - I can build up complex controls and effects with the "OOP"/Inheritance framework, and I have access to all the functional tools I'm used to from Ruby.

JQuery, on the other hand, has always felt "lighter" - really great for a quick Carousel control on a marketing site, or a pop-up effect or something like that, but it quickly turns into spaghetti with anything more complex.

I'd be interested in other people's views on this split, especially people with experience using a whole toolset like yourself.
OpenOffice has the best save-as PDF feature.
We have been working remotely for a while. It is difficult but it can be done. I would like to add a couple of applications that we have used to make our life easier:

- Etherpad.com for real-time document colaboration
- Google documents, if privacy is not a concern

Also, because it is very difficult for us to get together, every time that we can do it we try to maximize the time (no dumb and useless meetings, going straight to the important points, etc.). As result, our face-to-face meetings are very productive.
Forbidden Error?
All three of the logos combined are smaller and less conspicuous than the giant Apple on the iphone.
Could not find a good first letter table, so made my own from gutenberg, so:

f	%3.779	0.0378
u	%1.487	0.0149
c	%3.511	0.0351
k	%0.690	0.0069
y	%1.620	0.0162
o	%6.264	0.0626
u	%1.487	0.0149

=

1/487,158,294,227
I'm the other poster, and I believe you weren't Technically Lying (http://lesswrong.com/lw/11y/not_technically_lying/) but why did you bring up that you hadn't used the driving directions? Maybe this had nothing to do with deceiving people into thinking you weren't associated with the product but I find it doubtful. A more honest self-review (if this really is accepted practice on iPhone) would just say why you think your product is good. It seems you're skating a little over the edge at best.
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Nobody can tell you what's best for your application and team. But here's some comments:

Rewrites from scratch are pretty much always a stupid idea, and so you and the rest of your team are both probably wrong. Rewriting, in .NET or "new" RoR, is probably a waste of resources, and will probably introduce a whole new slew of stupidities and problems. Citation: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html

12k LOC is less than 6 months worth of work for one motivated developer, for a reasonably specified application (a working example implementation is a reasonable specification). If you're a team working on it...well, if it takes you longer than 6 months, you've got bigger problems than just the ugliness of your codebase or the lack of test coverage. Then again, both you and your team are amateur enough to think rewriting is a great idea, and you're just arguing over which technology to rewrite it in, so maybe you can't actually finish it in 6 months. Maybe the practice and experience of doing dumb things and learning from those mistakes will help you all become better developers.

Anyway, even if it only takes 6 months, do you really want to be six months behind your competitors?
Is it already in production? Making money/creating value? Refactor.

No, this is not a rule of thumb. But an app already in production has a lot of little quirks already ironed out. That report one person really needs every third Friday of the month. When an Korean speaking costumer on a Spanish Windows Vista 64bits running Flash 7.0 reported a bug on Internet Explorer 6 with Norton blocking the referer.

Code has knowlegde. Use it.
It looks like every article on techcrunch.com is down. Probably some apache rewrite issue.
Good at what?
Not saying that your points aren't valid, but you should know that I've found western sites generally load far slower than Chinese ones in China. I completely gave up trying to use facebook without turning off images.
All the time. Especially for it's export to pdf feature; can't believe people still pay for "pdf printers"...
Dive in and start the re-write immediately.

This will inform either decision, and you'll look like you show a lot of initiative because you do.
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You're not. I am as well.
not sure why though
"When you take dancing lessons, you learn steps and you learn steps and you learn steps. It can go on for a long time. And then one day, you just learn to dance, and it is so different."

Bill Austin
JavaScript relative performance is still a bit meaningless right now, because market share still counts for more. If you were to write a web app that required the speed of Chrome, it would still suck for most visitors.

This performance mainly showcases Google's platforms (e.g. some netbook with Chrome OS?). Google can write bleeding-edge, speed-dependent web apps, since the whole user experience is based on Chrome.

For everyone else, this doesn't help much yet, but it does mean that the future is bright. Historically Apple and Mozilla have responded well to friendly jabs in benchmarks, so they'll surely work hard to make the next one look much better. And that's when the real fun begins. :)