skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So why doesn't news.yc switch to that instead of using scribd? Seems like the way to go.

The only time I found a use for scribd is when some math paper got wiped by accident and I found a cached copy of it on scribd.
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"be relentlessly resourceful"

/obvious
WritersWeekly has a more cogent discussion on Scribd's business model:

"Secondly, there are a number of publishing businesses - sleeping with the enemy"

"The absence of "editorial intervention and approval" in combination with a highly flawed sign-up process"

http://www.writersweekly.com/this_weeks_article/005717_11182...
It's not their problem. It's Google Spreadsheet who is exposing people's information without them knowing.
Under what law? UK laws are different from US. I read a story in some news paper where UK cops were not allowed to maintain a database of abused children because while viewing the pictures by cops in line of duty was ok by the law, storage was not explicitly allowed.
It's something that's planned but I doubt it's going to be quite as heavyweight as the del one. Replacing the standard local bookmark shortcuts also seems a little intrusive to me. Open tag in tabs and and 'favourite tags' menu sound quite useful though.
From http://www.antikythera-mechanism.com :

"Though nearly 95 percent of these have been deciphered by experts, there as not been a publication of the full text of the inscription."

Has anyone been able to find any of this text published anywhere?
> This is a direct consequence of the fact that Californians are able to vote on ballot initiatives obligating that state's government to take on, sometimes quite expensive, commitments.

The voter mandated spending is less than the revenue, so the gap is due to spending that the legislature and governor insisted on.

> Pair this with the fact that Californians have made increasing their tax burden exceedingly difficult

Not true, and not relevant due to the above.

> the law enforcement brotherhoods and lobbyists will come after him.

It's interesting that you didn't mention the education lobbyists, who get 50% by statute.

> the people of California must be especially difficult to manage.

Let me suggest that politicians are not supposed to "manage" the people that they supposedly represent and should fail when they try.

BTW - CA has three strikes because politicians couldn't be trusted to keep violent thugs in jail. That was a change - until the 70s, they did.
That wasn't a dot matrix printer in the TV, it was a small demon that painted on command.
I like MatLab, but for me (biologist) it's a very intricate language to learn, and AFAIK not easy to use in multiple platforms where you don't have the framework installed. And "expensive" too (as Mathematica).
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In all fairness, plenty of doctors also don't understand Bayes theorem and conditional probability. I've had to explain to two doctors on separate occasions that P(A | B) ~ 0 does not imply that P(B | A) ~ 0.
You know, by commenting like this you're inviting me to chime in. Which means I might not shut up. ;)

Most spell checkers take the word you typed and generate some number of suggestions. Typically this is done by finding every word you can get from the misspelled word by making one or two changes. These changes are usually deleting letters, inserting letters, transposing letters, and changing letters.

What can we get from "helo"? help (o to p), hello (insert l), hell (delete o), etc.

Which one is the best one to choose? You're claiming that "helo" should always be hello.

Most spell checkers have some heuristic they use to rack and stack words. They may take into account which types of mistakes people make most often. This type of spell checker may say that a missing letter is a more likely error than accidentally changing an o to a p. Actually this is a bad example because o and p are next to each other on the keyboard. So some spell checkers would probably rate this error as very likely.

After the Deadline doesn't work like that. It looks at edit distance (how many changes were required) and it looks at how well the suggestion fits the context of the misspelled word.

If you type: "helo" by itself. AtD suggests help. Fine. How is AtD supposed to know you want hello when there are so many other good candidates?

So what does AtD do? It looks at context. Try these examples with AtD:

I need helo.

Make sure you say helo.

I helo my darling.

Now try these in your favorite writing software. Any one is fine with me. Go to MS Office, Firefox, Chrome, GMail, Apple text editor. You'll see the difference.
Because pg is constitutionally incapable of not pushing the products of YC companies, no matter how incompetent they are.

Witness the link to the useless webmynd firefox plugin in the footer, and his absolute refusal to link to the amazing http://searchyc.com
> True, it was a terrible example. The guy in the story obviously didn't care about the $11 and change, as much as he cared about seeing justice done. His impulse has value to society that far exceeds $11.

That last sentence is an important point. He's increasing the costs of the scammers.
How is this a "computer"? The article really doesn't explain and to me it looks more like a clock. Clearly a very advanced clock but a clock none the less.
I'm a native English speaker, and I still didn't think it communicated well.
Prolog may be easier to use. See the section on "Graphs" at

"P-99: Ninety-Nine Prolog Problems"

https://prof.ti.bfh.ch/hew1/informatik3/prolog/p-99/
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I don't know of that many applied math people using Fortran these days. If you need to use a fortran library, you can either call it directly from c, or write a wrapper (in c) which you can call from python/matlab/mathematica. Or you can probably just download the c wrapper.

The only people I know who use fortran are either a) old or b) their code is very old.
http://www.hfrp.org/publications-resources/browse-our-public...
Europe did not so much 'miss the transistor' because of a lack of inventiveness or the fact that they they'd already almost discovered it for any other reason than that recovering from the greatest war to that date Europe in 1948 was absolutely no match for any other country that had managed to stay in one piece.

What should amaze more I think is how much was achieved in fields not directly related to rebuilding in that period, in spite of that gigantic handicap.

The winter of '44 was one of the worst famines in living memory and by '48 the continent was still very much in recovery mode.

Also a lot of the achievements that put the US firmly on the map as the world leader in technology after the war were in fact pioneered in Germany during the war.

Not in the least the rocket technology that led to the successful moonshot.

Edit: reading further down in the article it's funny how they try to patent something they know for sure is already working and invented elsewhere.

The article also seems to contradict itself slightly, because the European device was unstable until they learned about the American one and the explanation behind the physics of it, but in the conclusion it writes: "And it seems clear from the still-sketchy historical record that they indeed had a working, reliable amplifier by that time." but the rest of the article has no real arguments underpinning that statement.

Very interesting read though.
Indeed. Anyone with a brain would have written that rant as a PDF before submitting it to HN.
$75 for 'The Sound of Music' and then the reporter very quickly says "porno costs more."
But as a rocket scientist, he says there is a lot of software ready-made for him to use, which even included graphics/animation, analysis of realtime data feeds, and limited finite-element analysis of the rocket's structure. Also, his boss had a good software budget at the time.
It seems strange to intentionally cripple your community in order to promote your investments.

It's a clear case of a conflict of interest.
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I haven't read the book, but it just doesn't seem very plausible that one needs about the same number of practice hours to become an expert at any of several hard but unrelated skills.

This presentation goes a bit beyond that and suggests that giving presentations is like brain surgery.

The actual research articles on the subject (Ericsson and others) are really interesting, though. It's not about a magic number, but the fact that deliberate practice has a marked effect on the level of expertise.
If you see one of your employees at this event, you should try to figure out what's wrong. If someone is motivated enough to be actively seeking other employment, it may be a sign that something is seriously wrong with your company.
This is a perfect example of scaffolding. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instructional_scaffolding
I think it's important to mention that the technology was not just pioneered in germany, but the actual pioneers moved to the US.
Are you planning to change or qualify this current post based on this thread?
Fully agree, perseverance is 90% of the battle.

Way too many people read Techcrunch and think that's the standard operating procedure for startups. The reality is that it can take you a year before you even hit 1,000 visitors a week...let alone a month.
How interesting that you find the question silly, when a bunch of mathematicians at Math Overflow, many of them more talented than you, actually took the time to give an honest reply. I was expecting something more intellectual from you...

For example, unsurprisingly, Reid Barton (who has won the Putnam many more times than you) likes to code in Haskell. See? That's an interesting reply. Mathematicians have delicate aesthetic sensitivities, so the languages they use will most likely reflect them.
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Very often Matlab. Very often badly. And for a programmer who has to watch, it is to weep.
And searchyc.com publicly launched before webmynd did!
I also thought the straight to Twitpic feature could lead to some embarrassing moments.
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You are absolutely right about that. I'm sorry, I can't mod you up or I would have.

Werner von Braun is an interesting case all by himself because anybody else in Germany with as much standing in the Nazi party and use of concentration camp resources for their research would have surely been executed after a swift trial in Neuremberg.

Instead von Braun was made a naturalized citizen of the US in '55.

Lots of other info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun
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Thanks - the incredibly strange thing is that I was thinking about exactly this idea this morning, just a few hours before reading your post. I just couldn't believe the coincidence!
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I think you're misunderstanding the purpose of the job fair. In my mind, most programmers aren't great at walking up to 20 random new people; it's draining for people who aren't naturally social (I know it's draining for me). Flipping up the natural order aligns the social people (Recruiters) with the social activities (Cold introduction, striking up a conversation).

For perspective, I'm going to the job fair looking for employees (IMVU Inc, we're hiring, we're awesome).
And even then, Scridb is still holding on to the document, meaning it is still stored in their database, which posts yet another legal problem because they store copyrighted documents without explicit authorization by the document's owner.

Copyright constrains your right to copy, not to store or to receive. Only through distribution can you infringe copyright.
Many epidemiologists seem to prefer Stata.

That seems to be a west coast thing. East coast epidemiologists that I know use some mix of S or SPSS or SAS.
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I beg to edit the word "copy", but I can't do it now.

Hmm so Codility' and SPOJ use a similar editor, so which one do they both use? Can I too get it :)

Thanks for pointing out. /me looks into EditArea
Can you send me an email or post your email address in the profile? I'd like to know what demonstrated validity you would need before using a genetic test to help make medication decisions. Right now I could bundle and sell a panel of genetic tests (Costing somewhere between $199 and $499 based on market research) to help psychiatrists make a decision about the first medication to try, but most of the research is one-off studies in limited populations. The 5-HTT one is the only one that's been well replicated; people with the right 5-HTT polymorphism respond to SSRIs.
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This immediately reminds of what IBM was making noise about doing around 2000: assigning partners and small teams, changing job focus every few months, and forcing more employees to work in a shifting open space rather than offices. I never heard what became of their work environment policies but I assume this was more a PR and recruiting move than an actual shift in process.

The 37s approach sounds like a formal structure culled from bits and pieces of Scrum and the always-unfortunately-named Extreme Programming.
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I find it very interesting that almost every single mathoverflow user (based on this page alone) uses their full name as their username on the site.

Compare that with stackoverflow and HN in which we use nicknames, made up names, etc.

Just interesting to see how different communities choose to handle something like this.
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This isn't "news" per se, and every good web developer should already have internalized a lot--if not all--of the information in this post. But, I found it again while browsing today, and enjoyed it as a refresher.
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So far I've been taking lots of responsibility for my failures :)
If you randomly shuffle them every few months, that should do it. Each dish will get roughly equal time as the "frequent use" dish.
What is really better - is to set up google search preferences to search in English language, instead of auto-detected by GEO-location or your browser's language settings.

You will be surprised by the huge difference in search results when you forces google to search only in English.

Also try to read English language news instead of your native. You will discover, that world is much bigger than those biased and poorly translated articles you can found on a popular localized sites.
Logistically speaking, it's more efficient to have 20 tables, and 200 people walking around, than to have 200 tables and 20 people walking around. There will always be more candidates than jobs, usually 10x more. This is the efficiency argument.

Saying programmers can't walk up to 20 random new people because it's "draining" to them is both offensive and unfair. Remember, programmers are grown men and women too. It's infantilizing. Capable professionals are more than willing to talk to you, either because they like what your company is doing, or because they have bills to pay.

If you think someone is too socially awkward to speak to random strangers, wait until they have a desk all to themselves, and now the strangers are coming to talk to them.
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Intent with no result. Write more when you've actually automated Shopify and your income.

Currently just a blog post speaking about how you plan on doing so? Not terribly interesting, sorry.
I have zero interest in speculating on potential future actions by the movie studios and distributors. I don't have a working crystal ball.

Yes. I write software for netflix.

Do you honestly believe that Apple has any choice as to how much data they provide? Do you think apple give detailed metrics because they're warm and kind business partners?

I'm pretty certain apple provides very detailed data because they sell digital ownership rights and PPV contracts. Their contracts/agreements with the distributors would mandate detailed reporting of each sale.

Netflix does not sell digital movie nor do they offer PPV.
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Ouch. I was expecting something about corporate image after a failed merger/acquisition, but I was pleasantly surprised.
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This is going to hurt. Akio Morita ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akio_Morita used this method on his design teams to build the first Camrecorder. [0] The idea behind this was to build a better product. The teams despised him for continually breaking them up.

[0] Sony, "Betamovie Beta" http://www.thehistoryof.net/the-history-of-camcorders.html
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I remember something Carl Sagan said...something along the lines (paraphrased) that the scholars at Alexandria questioned the movement of the stars but not of social conventions like slavery. The machines they made were made for the amusement of kings or for weapons but not for easing the burden of work or increasing comfort for the common man. So when the mobs came to burn the place down no one was there to stop them.
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I have no Gmail address at all, yet I use quite a few Google Account services. There's no requirement to have a Gmail account or use it as your Google Account login.
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So the plan is to buy stuff from China, make a store on shopify, and sell China's stuff to people? I see what China adds to the equation. I see what Shopify adds to the equation. I do not see what you add to the equation.

This does not bode well for your competitive prospects.
I don't know why people are upvoting this. There's nothing worth reading in that post.
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I didn't see a lot of insight here, but I upvoted it anyway for at least dealing with some of the trickier issues of programming.

If you think of programming in mathematical terms, it's almost like you're the polar opposite of the pragmatic practitioner. This whole idea of a perfect form is inane. Relational set theory gives us conceptual ways of talking about constructs. It's a tool, not a way of life. Somebody build a bad relational model? Well -- what do you mean by "bad"? Did the resulting code achieve the goals set at the beginning?

And when I got to the point in the abstract where it said no books had shown how to use it well, I was ready to bail out. I'm not sure what books the author has been reading. The ones I've seen have practical real-world examples of normalization all through them.
I'm all for map/reduce chaining.
You could circumvent this problem entirely by not owning too many dishes in the first place. Some problems don't need to be solved.
I'd need Positive and Negative Likelihood Ratios published in a peer-reviewed publication gathered from a population similar to the one I was treating. Preferably multi-site, and with replication of results by another independent research group.
"On the bad side, larger demand for tests means more waiting for everybody."

Absolutely false. Larger sustained demand for testing means the supply will be grown by market forces. Larger sustained demand could under some circumstances actually cut waiting for everybody if it meant being able to grow the supply past a useful economy-of-scale boundary.

The market is not a static entity. (At least until the government comes in and makes it a static entity, which I hear they're getting pretty close to. So, buck up! Soon you'll be right!)
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Lispers can bicker over technicalities and matters of taste, but any programmer of a Lisp dialect would prefer to move to another, instead of using something else like Java or C++. At least I would. Even small Scheme-like dialects that are embedded in big libraries and industrial applications (stuff like Lush[1]) is very palatable to any Lisper (Arc, Goo and other curiosities are also interesting.)

Not so with NewLisp. It's fundamentally broken in ways that would be make me look forward to ASP.NET over it. To give you an example; to calculate the value of Pi, they suggests one fire an external process and run the Unix bc(1) command to do that :-P http://www.newlisp.org/index.cgi?page=Code_Snippets

[1] http://lush.sourceforge.net/
Prospect theory has been around for almost 30 years and has it's own problems. But of course the experimental results are illuminating..

A good summary of these findings can be found in http://www.hss.caltech.edu/~camerer/ribe239.pdf, the intro to Advances in Behavioral Economics (2003)
It will be fascinating to watch how 37signals copes with its growth. If they can cultivate a corporate culture where people don't mind switching teams frequently, I'll be impressed. As soon as you get a multitude of personalities interacting, unless they are very disciplined and/or fully bought into the company vision, there will be some relationships and interactions that will be sought out and some that will be avoided. Even small teams have personality conflicts.

I expect the ideas behind this direction aren't being handed down by Jason and David from on high, but rather came from employee feedback. They're probably still small enough to test out some of these ideas without doing damage, so I'm interested to see what comes out of it and what modifications they make and what we can learn from this.
Minor quibble:

> (2) If terrorists should manage to kill or injure or seriously frighten any of us, they win."

Terrorists win when they achieve their objectives. Terrorism is a tool, not an end. As I understand it, Islamic terrorists want to provoke the US into armed confrontations with the Islamic world, and thereby increase extremism and generally cement the positions of hardliners, with particular focus on overthrowing the US-friendly Saudi regime.
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Python is a better "Lisp" than NewLisp.
Sure, if you have no sense of humor...