skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Was he a good attorney? In my experience the range of good to bad in attorneys is as great as it is in programmers.
Why is "real" unemployment skyrocketing?
That's some fascinating cogsci. I'm only chattering on about my own observations so it's nice to read external studies. So the post was/wasn't something you were looking for?

Looking up Temporal Priming left me pretty confused could you elaborate on what you were expecting?
Ahh, nevermind. You meant when is it best to seek out seed funding/follow on rounds.
Wait -- his mom offered to buy him lodging (and possibly tuition). Is it really "frugal" to turn down a place to sleep, or just shortsighted?
Though whoever wants to pay the most for something, should have the best use for it. But I agree with your sentiment, that you users probably wouldn't like to see the side on eBay.
Homo sapiens will, eventually, be superseded by its descendants. A sufficiently intelligent super-human AI could annihilate us like we did the Neanderthals, but let's not forget we may be anthropomorphizing it a little bit too far here.

It could also possibly be no more interested in us than we are to the yeast we use to make bread.

Our survival depends on how annoying we are to them ;-)
I find myself increasing the proportion of Python I use, really for two reasons: the libraries that come with PythonWin; the PythonWin environment, not least the REPL. I agree that Python is rather prettier, but this has very little to do with it.
Classes and methods aren't objects, no closures, clunky collection APIs and no collection literals, impedance mismatch between primitives and arrays and objects, no default interface implementations, incredibly convoluted syntax for generics, etc, etc. Most of which could be fixed with minor changes, but because Java is so entrenched in the enterprise, backwards compatibility trumps everything.
I'm really not sure what was intended by this link. It's not actually a link to the eBook at all. However, the ABTests site itself looks interesting and useful.
This website addresses the scaffolding idea, but it isn't very well written. Do you know of any better resources? http://www.ccrnp.ncifcrf.gov/~toms/paper/ev/behe/
Zobrist Keys
And a layperson reading the WSJ hears the exact opposite. That's politics & demagogues, not climate scientists (in either case).

That is true. I personally rarely read the WSJ or NYTimes because I don't find either effective sources of truth.

But the links I sent you come from much better sources, in my opinion, than either the WSJ or NYTimes. Did you read any of the links? I mean, you seemed to agree before when I said that the climate scientists were like lawyers for the prosecution. So have you read the case for the defense ( a case that is written by people much smarter than WSJ writers)? For example, why specifically so you think Nir Shaviv is wrong? http://www.sciencebits.com/FittingElephants
Is there a specific part of the article that you have problems with, or just the topic in general?
We've been ironing out this process over the last year. We inject a venture with need resources up front and then taper them off. That way we don't continuously struggle with conflicts. Details at http://sproutbox.com/what.
If we can bring new intelligence to life, do we have the moral right to refrain from doing so? Also, would it be right to confine it to the box mentioned in the article while using its smarts to do useful work outside it? Shouldn't a trans-human AI be entitled a right to life?
Because it's ugly and requires a stylus. (You asked.)

Things like the Archos tablets are much more realistic. My Archos 5 is great for web browsing, and I am sure the Archos 9 is a fine computer replacement. It hasn't caught on yet because it's not for sale yet.
At the very early stages of a business, I think the CEOs should focus 80% of their time on marketing and growing their business (getting new customers, building community, etc), and 20% of their time developing the actual product. The dev team should launch just enough of the website to see if it sticks, and picks up traction. If it does, it should receive more time and lovin’
Yeah, that's a nice link.

I feel like I'm spamming this point sometimes, but I don't think it can be said enough: If you are a language designer and you want to displace Erlang, you shouldn't be targeting "shared-nothing concurrency" or "message passing"; those are merely the door fee. OTP is what you need to replicate/replace/supplant. All of it, including the cross-machine stuff. Believe me, there's room for improvement.
There is also much discussion here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=981271
Crunchpad being relaunched as JooJoo
Wow, my old boss Bob Wyman just said this is what he has been spending time in Google in last 3 years after PubSub.com v1.0 had gone under.

At the other hand, I am kind of scare of Google's expansion into every field.
Is there a standard for tagging an article's title if it's not recent - i.e. (2006) to put it in the correct context?
Apple Bans Another Developer, 1000+ Apps Pulled
Someone posted a comment that says:

Hasn't the Archos9 existed already at that price point?

http://www.archos.com/products/nb/archos_9/

Possibly with more features? Or is it vaporware?

But it seems to have been killed. I think he is right, though; the Archos is a much nicer device that's already shipping and that's cheaper.
> You are making a logical fallacy, namely the excluded middle. I never made the assertions you are mocking.

You alleged a conspiracy. If there's just one person ranting, there is no conspiracy; and a conspiracy of small number of people wouldn't be sustainable in a larger honest community, particularly under the scrutiny they are under. It's not a fallacy in this case: there is precious little middle ground for you to stand on.

> Regarding Steve McIntyre, he corrected Mann's data. He altered the consensus, and (for a short time) had the best existing analysis. That, by definition, makes him not a crackpot.

That makes him not a crackpot by your opinion. By mine, he barely altered the consensus with a minor correction while wildly overstating the impact of his changes, spending far more time doing advocacy, public relations, muckraking and FUD than actual science.

> Regarding antagonism, that's how science works. A good scientist will pick apart and search for flaws in any theory including his own.

I did not mean "I don't agree with your hypothesis" antagonism, I mean "I think you're a fraud!" antagonism. I think it's an understandable if unfortunate human response to get pissy and withdraw from engagement; and I think that's far more plausible than any actual fraud or conspiracy.

> They are responding in kind within the scientific endeavor. That corrupts the scientific process, regardless of how emotionally reasonable their response is.

Ah, so their internal shop-talk, posturing, boasting, etc. is part of the scientific endeavour, is it?

What I've seen is that their "responding in kind" takes the form of advocacy and outreach (like RealClimate.org, which -- not coincidentally -- was the subject of several of the more damaging emails), not substantial alterations to the practice of their science.

(Sidebar: I won't say there might not be substantial alterations to the research itself; for a parallel example in a different field, there are evolutionary biologists who are now choosing research topics specifically to provide more compelling evidence for evolution, rather than explore the unknowns of evolution, due to the rise of the "intelligent design" debate here in the US.

However, the pattern there is to become -more conservative- in spending time and effort in making the obvious even more obvious, not more in becoming more alarmist or speculative.)
I could imagine three CEO types competing for resources & timing on various projects, but I can't imagine skilled developers or designers working for them for long.
Who was it that said something like "standards are always outdated... that's why they're standards"?
Interesting. Being a cautious sort, though, I think I'll wait and see how they weather their first few failures there before getting one.
The name sounds _exactly_ like 'little kid's toy' in French, so, indeed, it follows that it will carry those connotations to French speaking people (you're not one, I'm guessing). Shakespeare may have found a rose by another name smelling just as sweet, but in the centuries since his time we've learned that varieties called 'poo-poo' just don't sell at the garden center.
Can anyone who has an Android phone who has tried this out for a few hours/days report on how well this works in practice? This looks pretty fantastic, especially if it can also read stuff like QR codes, etc.
I guarantee that we'll see people developing applications in JavaScript that run client side, using this under the hood, and they will have no idea how bad an idea this is from a security point of view.

There are good reasons that the classic website setup has the database on a different machine than the webserver firewalled in such a way that the database cannot talk directly to machines on the internet. As time goes by and attackers improve in sophistication, those reasons are becoming better, not worse.
Does anyone know what doing physics in Erlang is like on the zone or area servers? Or do most people just not do physics?

I would think that the physics is what makes things difficult. Of course, if you can think of a game where physics simulations are not as important, an Erlang engine really starts to make sense. At least that is my impression. I'd really be interested in hearing from anyone who has had experience with physics in Erlang.
> Am I the only one who thinks its gross? Tastes like frozen sour cream to me.

It's not frozen yogurt in the sense most people know yogurt. It's like frozen natural unflavored (well, now they have flavors) yogurt, sorta like greek yogurt. I actually like it because it's tart, I'm not a fan of more traditional sweet frozen yogurt when I can have richer ice cream instead. For plenty of people, it is an acquired taste...otherwise you can just go for their flavored yogurt. Pinkberry's chocolate flavor isn't really tart at all.

> I don't know a lot about the food business, but it seems like they're also in danger of being just another fad or over-expanding (ala Krispy Kreme).

Not only do I think it's a fad that's already passed, but also it doesn't help that a lot of other people saw potential here and went and opened up froyo shops on like every block in Los Angeles - pinkberry, red mango, yogurberry, yogurtland, cefiore, menchies, etc. Half of them (too generous maybe? two thirds?) have probably already gone out of business since that LA Times article was published in 2006 with the regularity with which they disappear and reappear and disappear. Not to mention the coffee shops, cafes and bakeries that decide to put in a froyo machine too.

Pinkberry itself, outside of a couple prime locations, is suffering here now. I regularly keep in touch with business brokers about businesses for sale here in LA, and there were multiple Pinkberries in the city that were for sale for extraordinarily ridiculous amounts of money (think 1 million+) that later the year were less than 1/4th the price and profit halved with no interested buyers.
i did a SIN run (what flyertalkers call the flight from anywhere to Singapore) from Seattle one weekend, and i got a lot done. A buddy and I flew SEA-SFO-LAX-NRT-SIN, and we got a LOT of work done. We got upgraded, worked on our laptops, spent 6 hours eating chili crabs in Singapore and listening to a drag cover band, and then flew back. It took all weekend, cost about $800 and pushed us both up to 1K status on United for the year, which was well worth more than $800...

Singapore is the most bang for the buck in terms of miles/$ and so people often use it as a way to get to the next level of status... for me the opportunity to focus on some projects i hadn't completed and get 1K status (including the upgrades which are easily worth thousands if you had to unload them on the upgrade grey market), plus hang out with a friend and have such an unusual experience, was worth it.
Intel's 'Larrabee' Chip Is Dead
Yahoo Privacy Tool Lets You Control Ad Tracking
This page claims to give some examples: http://www.don-lindsay-archive.org/creation/evolve_irreducib...

However, since this forum is populated mostly by computer programmers and entrepreneurs (including myself) rather than biologists, I find it's not a particularly advantageous place for discussing such topics. I probably shouldn't have waded into this thread to begin with. Please forgive me if I flag and move on.
Hmmm.... Either empty responses, or "Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 536870912 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 537587808 bytes) in Unknown on line 0". What is it actually supposed to do? Is it for looking for projects? or code in the projects?

Edit: Ah - it searches the Python's source, not any Python source... not very clear when looking at the page. Not very multi-client safe either - sometimes you get completion for something that you didn't write for some reason (just started writing 'push' and got completion with 'token, tokenize, ...')
Well, it depends on what you need. I think the best first book is the "The Image Processing Handbook, by John C. Russ". It is very expensive, but it is worth it when you don't where to start. After that you should look at books that are more focused/technical to the problem are working on.
Facebook Will Be Google-able (If Your Profile is Set to Public)
That's actually a quite common pattern in artificial life community (inspired by real world behaviors from insects):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigmergy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_colony_optimization

Also Sims had some "intelligence" embedded into objects instead of the agents:

http://www.gamedev.net/columns/events/coverage/feature.asp?f...
>But the links I sent you come from much better sources, in my opinion, than either the WSJ or NYTimes.

... For the link you repeated... blogs about politically charged topics are 'better source' than the NYT or WSJ? ;) I'd say they're equally horrible sources.

Why do I specifically think Nir Shaviv is wrong? I don't know that he is, but I know that he's failed to change the consensus, while his hypotheses have indeed been taken into account. (cite: a google search or two.)

So we're once again down to (a) a widespread conspiracy to hide the truth and force predetermined conclusions; or (b) an honest but imperfect process gradually iterating towards accuracy.

(N.b. If you accept his hypotheses about cosmic ray activity / solar warming, you also accept that warming is in fact happening (just not anthropogenic); if you find him convincing then by rights you ought to find McIntyre et al less so; yet everyone including you always seems to excerpt them side-by-side in some great litany of throwing it all at the wall and seeing what sticks...)

(Note: hit 'reply' by accident early, so this is an edit.)
The Chevy Nova completely flopped in Spanish speaking countries, primarily because in Spanish, "Nova" means "no go".
Criticism can be done with a positive or a negative twist.
Agree with the author that showing approval or casting insults is independent of criticism.

Being passionate about something doesn't mean ignoring the nuances of social interaction. It means caring enough to learn how to best suggest positive changes. Also, if we accept the possibility that our assumptions are false it can lighten the severity of our criticism.

It's hard to listen to a loud mouth know it all, even if you know they're right. The social inclination is preference to crash and burn and drag them down with you.
Google announces realtime search, voice searching and more
My Archos may be much less relevant when the Xperia X10 comes out (which I plan to get) but until then I have a dumb phone and want something to do on my 40 min ride to work. The Archos right now is my only good option.

Even when the X10 comes out, depending on the screen, I may keep using the Archos anyway. The screen size is nice enough to watch a tv show and the resolution is great. The cell phone screen may be too small.
The best description of math that I have ever encountered of what math is is the book The Mathematical Experience by Davis and Hersch.

Don't be scared by the fact that it is a book. It is very accessible since it is divided into little articles on different areas of math. A lay person can read it and gain a sense of what this math stuff is and how varied it is. A PhD can read the same material and will appreciate it on a much deeper level.

Let me give one data point. I know more mathematicians who became interested in math because of reading The Mathematical Experience than any other book. Seriously.
What's the difference? The data center employees handle physical stuff. It's not like the Linode HQ is close to Atlanta, Dallas or Fremont, either.
I wonder how all this story will affect the sales of the "joojoo" and of Apples coming Tablet. I was actually planning to get me a crunchpad but now I'll wait until all this settles down...
Here are a few physical facts off the top of my head which have no connection whatever with the results of this group:

Arctic sea ice decrease.

Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets speeding up.

Permafrost melting.

Bristlecone pines at altitude growing faster over the past 50 years.

Growing seasons expanding.

Birds migrating earlier or overwintering where they previously migrated.
Virgin Galactic unveils commercial spaceship
Orangecat, I actually agree with your remark. I just believe that these defects of the language are not great obstacles for building today new online services.
That's a bit of an edge case isn't it?
Augmented reality starts becoming more than just a pipe dream. Expect a lot more of this.

P.S. Just went to ARdevcamp at Hacker Dojo last Saturday- it was a really exciting event. There were a lot more people than I expected, and lots of interesting discussion about this emerging space.
Wasn't it obvious? I mean, this is applicable for almost any language, let it be C++, ASP, TCL or whatever isn't considered trendy anymore but it's proven and stable, and isn't completely unsuited for the task(COBOL, 4GL, RPG...)

Takes at the very least a year to became proficient in any language, and spending that time learning about your tools, that's is a luxury a startup doesn't have. Wasn't it pure common sense?
self-sufficient?
Why is it that so many people view interviewing as being about getting them to like you? I think it's about making sure that the job is a proper fit. Therefore, I'll answer it honestly. Worst case scenario is that I say what they don't want to hear and don't get a job I probably wasn't cut out for anyway.
dupe of: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=982042
These are fun:

http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/houses/purchase/

The chance the security guard keeps walking is much lower though.
This is pretty awesome. I've got a few VPS's with linode at their 3 other datacenters, I'm glad to be able to open up one here for a new monitoring node. I think they're the most well-run VPS provider I've dealt with.

Congrats to Tom & Chris on this one.
Are there any languages for which international standardization processes have not been either tombstones (like Smalltalk, repeatedly)

We're zombies!? Actually, that's kinda cool.

You can consider the Smalltalk image as a single program, with branching, mutating clones, which has been running continuously, modulo suspending (image save) since sometime in the 1970s. Maybe that's where our unkillable, repeatedly come-back-from-the-dead nature comes from?

(You can't build a Smalltalk-80 image from scratch because of "strange loops." We've been doing binary transformations to pre-existing images all this time! Even the Squeak image was produced this way. (Dolphin image as well, I believe))

But back to "standards." The Smalltalk standard was pretty wimpy for most if its iterations. It was a watered-down inter-corporate Détente. Not sure about the most recent one.
There isn't, but there should be. I voted your comment up in hopes the powers-that-be will see it.
Well, that's the theory. Better let someone else take on Murphy to determine if it's true in practice.
I'm surprised at the vitriol here. This was clearly a joint project that got hijacked out of greed.

I was looking forward to buying several Crunchpads, but it will be a cold day in hell before I ever buy a JooJoo, just from principle.
It works exactly as advertised. Delightfully accurately.
Also, the function name in the logo would raise a SyntaxError.
I have a grad-student friend who is much better off financially than the blogger, but decided to go the van route himself after reading about other van dwellers on line. I think the primary motivation was a desire to achieve as much independence as possible. He could quit his job tomorrow and not have to worry about scraping up any money for years, his only real concerns being cell phone, car insurance, gas, and food. He had other, environmental reasons (not being a consumer) for doing it as well, but basically I think you have to be obsessed with independence to take a step like this.

I admire people who are able to do it. Myself? No desire for it at all. I'm perfectly all right with the idea of interdependence.
Hard to hear Mike talking when his head is so far up his ass
See http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/08/reduciblecomplexit...

It is pseudoscience trying to mask itself as being legitimate. It confuses the public into thinking there is a controversy with regards to evolution where none exists.
Facebook take note: Network analysis reveals true connections
Try cradling a 10"+ tablet standing up on the metro on your way to/from work.

Tablets that aren't pocket-sized have failed over and over again for very good reasons, gorilla-arm chief among them.
That was a great recovery for dropbox - but note that at the end of the day they still needed dropbox.com. This isn't to say that you can't succeed despite a crappy domain name, but rather that when you haven't even locked down your brand yet, why commit to something that you can't secure the domain for?
Thanks for your feedback!

In regards to the issue of &apos; I didn't include it based on compatibility issues and this article's opinion http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2003/07/01/the_curse_of_apos/

I did totally forget to include &quot; and it will be added in an update later today.

A search box may be something I will implement in the future, but for now I do feel the dataset is small enough that people should be able to find what they need quickly enough. The suggestion is noted though.

Thanks.
No, it didn't: http://www.snopes.com/business/misxlate/nova.asp
I have a netbook with my full dev environment and 15 hours worth of battery life. I actually get a lot of good work done on the plane. And, I get a lot of uninterrupted time to code in my hotel.

Its also part of the way I'm wired. I grew up as a nomad of sorts, and I've been really stationary for the last 3 years, so getting to travel scratches an huge itch for me and it clears my mind so I can get into flow and code.
It's an interesting story but at $499 I don't see it selling all that well.

I'll continue to wait for the Apple Tablet.
Well put.

Does the world not already provide enough difficult challenges? I encourage others to test themselves by endeavoring to make the world a better place.

Yes, I know that sounds condescending, but I cannot stand the author's self-absorbtion: "By making life harder for myself, I prove how macho I am!"
What happens when you have to take your house in for service?
I have found the following two books useful. The fundamental algorithms in image processing can be found in this free book "Image Processing in C"

while the fundamental computer vision algorithms can be found in this free book "Introduction to Computer Vision"
by Prof. Mubarak Shah, one of the pioneers in this area.

Both books are available on Sciweavers.
up that source code! i already want to submit some patches!
Refusing to take money from a loved one isn't shortsightedness.