skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't hate the player, hate the game. :-)
I don't think I have most of those keys on my keyboard...anybody else?
Computational REST: A New Model for Decentralized, Internet-Scale Applications
This is a brilliant concept. Finally something new worth being excited about.
I made it out to the Awesome Found's Visualization content party. The event really drew out a great crowd, artists, entrepreneurs, scientists, etc. I hope the ScaleWell events can do something similar!
Some of us don't cut Apple any more slack. I am rather tired of the free pass they seem to get from others. They are probably worse than MS in terms of vendor lock-in but just don't have a large enough market share to bully people around.
That'll work, if you have access to 100% of the timings for 100% of the requests and can get that information without having your measurements also modify the results.

Otherwise, it's just easier to do samples and then collect meta-statistics (which are always normal). In that case you'll need to know error rates which require things like variance and std. deviation.

Another technique is to go with statistical process control theory which mostly rejects confidence intervals and instead focuses on live sampling of processes to watch for outliers that need justification. With those you're looking at std. deviation as a measurement of the range of what's been happening vs. what's currently happening.
I thought so at first as well, but if you go through the tutorial, the syntax actually begins to look quite elegant.

It just comes off as odd at first because it's dealing with concepts that are actually pretty unique (to my knowledge at least) - streams and latches.
Getting a Job in College: Second Thoughts
Jack Dorsey's Life Lessons [pic]
I'd rather discussions here avoid such broad and inflammatory generalizations.
PHP Must Die
And blame the player for playing the game.
And backslashes are among the characters I enjoy typing the least. But other than that I think it looks very interesting.
PushButton Tutorial Series - Updating Animation
Google Android personal thoughts
I remember buying a boxed version of SUSE Linux a long time ago. Other distributions have tried that business model as well. It doesn't work. Most Linux users expect software to be free of charge.
It's a free country, you are welcome to start your own awards show, with a perfect voting process if possible. Then we can make fun of you too.

My point is that criticizing is easy, but pulling of such an award show is not as easy as it looks. Actually, you'd be very aware of that fact if you attended the first Crunchies 3 years ago. This year, the transitions mostly worked out, they were not 2 hours late, and almost no awkward moments on stage.
Considering the article is a concrete introduction to statistics with applications and is passionate about your last point you seem to agree with Zed.
There is usually at least one comment putting forward this idea for every story about Apple or Google and I wouldn't say it's particularly controversial. "we" are a collection of people, many of us with differing ideas on many subjects.
I'd like to see what the numbers are with today's hardware. I wonder how much has changed in the last 13 years. Will report my findings here.
I tried a regulated vegetarian diet before and a diet like the Atkins diet before and experienced the following:

Veggies)

Bad:

-I typically felt kinda "blah", like I was on the verge of getting a cold

-generally low on energy

-injuries took forever to heal

-my joints ached after being on the diet for about 6 months

-I felt hungry almost immediately after eating

-I lost much less weight than on Atkins

Good:

-It's hard to describe, but I felt "clean" all the time. Like I had just taken a shower.

-I also tended to feel light, like moving about took less energy, but I felt like I had less energy overall

Atkins)

Bad:

-I felt kinda "gross" all the time, like oil was oozing from my pores and follicles.

-Expensive

-Most of the foods I wanted to eat were not on the approved list, and I got tired of eating on the diet after about 6 months

-I felt hungry all the time

-Hair and nails grew really fast...like freakishly so. I was cutting my finger nails like every 2 days at one point.

-I felt "heavy"

Good:

-I had super, non-stop, bottomless energy

-no midday loss of energy

-I could exercise for hours

-I lost tons more weight than on the veggie diet (about 3x as much in the same amount of time)

-Injuries healed super fast, maybe twice as fast as normal, and I got injured far less often than on the veggie diet, maybe 1:3 ratio

-I felt stronger, so even if I felt heavier, it was less effort to move about

-I packed on muscle, my bench press (without actually doing any weight lifting as a form of exercise) went from 140 to 210 in 6 months.
> Yeah, I tried to get a bunch of 16 year old Americans to make a bunch of shoes. Apparently they were not interested :(

Probably you tried to pay 7.25$, per hour did not you?
If you'll pay me 25 dollars per hour for making shoes - you can hire me.
American deindustrialization caused by MOVING INDUSTRIES OUT OF USA, (Even food industry partially moved to China - apple juice consumed in USA for example 75% made in China). Enginnering has _nothing_ to do about deindustrilization, in fact you do not need more than couple of engineers to run a rather big plastics factory, Drop of demand (but there is still a lot of it) for engineering position in universities is just a reflection of current state of industry in USA. Combination of very bad labor protection in USA (no health protection, third world minimal salary, [do not tell me 7.25/h is a good compensation]) and "free trade" policies supported by government results in deindustrialization.
Lack of good jobs causes enormous inequality in USA, as bad as in African countries. USA Gini (inequality index) = 46, higher than Nigeria = 43 and eqaul to Rwanda's. Canadian for comparison GINI = 32.

Guys, whoever give negative score - I do not care to be honest - I know I step on ambitions/complexes that USA is the best country in the world (whuch is not true) - it is you country, and you are going to live there. If you dislike grim reality, or lack education/life experience to understand the direction the country is going to - well that is your choice, which will pay back, and you will not like it.
I'm about halfway through Taubes' book (Good Calories, Bad Calories), and I also recommend it. So far, he has made a very strong case, and the theory that he supports seems to have better predictive power than the mainstream theory.
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I imagine myself having to read a couple of programs written in this language. It looks cluttered.
Which doesn't mean I think the concepts of the language are bad.
It now just looks like an explosion of \,],['s.
Graph-based approaches to program flow control are pretty interesting. The connecting of things to each other in a stream-like fashion is similar to Chuck, which you might enjoy.
If the article delivers on the hype, why not reward the author for having the walk to match the talk?
Agreed. There's a lot of semantics in that there syntax ;)
People would die for their iPhones, people would die for their BlackBerrys – and they feel like their lives are in there. People feel connected to their BlackBerrys. Some sleep with them next to their pillow. No one gives a crap about their Android phone, there’s zero emotional attachment.

This contrasts sharply with the response Pogue had on his review (http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/07/reader-responses-t...):

Reader feedback about my review of Google’s new cellphone yesterday was unusually voluminous and, in some sectors, vitriolic. Where I had written, “The Nexus One is an excellent app phone, fast and powerful but marred by some glitches,” some readers seemed to read, “You are a pathetic loser, your religion is bogus and your mother wears Army boots.”
here is this new army of Google defenders, raising their spears and chanting as though you’ve insulted….Apple.
The Switch From iPhone To Android, And Why Your First Impression Is Wrong
I think people tend to associate slack with quality. If a product is better than the average then people will tend to give it more slack. But this isn't uniform to everyone. Not everyone will give a value greater than zero for the slack.
Do not like it - do not buy, goddamnit.
If you think that people who buy Fair Trade are stupid - no we are not, and we are doing for a reason - we do not feel good when consume something made by slaves.
You can still shop for "free trade" stuff, nobody prevents you from doing that.
Seriously, why does anyone care? Do you want to use Linux on the desktop? Great! Use it! Why spend a bunch of time trying to convince Windows and OS X users to use something they don't want to. I really don't understand Linux users obsession with converting other people. I suppose it springs out of GNU and the RMS style wish to convert the world to FOSS. While I think it would be great if all software was Free, I don't think it's worth worrying over weather or not Linux is "ready" for the desktop.
I think it's pretty clear why geeks tend to go easier on them: they make good products.

When Google and Apple start making products that are on par with Microsoft products, I'm pretty sure they'll be just as reviled.
I got the interesting information about gears from this document:
http://www.nptel.iitm.ac.in/courses/IIT-MADRAS/Machine_Desig...

The reason for my comment that our ancestors were not as stupid as some contemporary people think, was in reaction on another post which stated that the Antikythera Mechanism was probably just a hundred-year old clock thrown overboard in recent times (I should have quoted that comment for clarity).

Some people cannot fathom that ancient people could realize impressive feats, just like we can. Take for example the pyramids: "the old Egyptians could never have build themselves, they must have gotten extraterrestrial help". This condescending view is also propagated by Von Daniken in his 'Chariots of the Gods' books.
I was just going to recommend this, too. It's hokey as hell, but it's actually a great intro -- After reading it, you'll know the vocabulary and fundamentals well enough to ask meaningful questions. It's also cheap, and a quick read. I just loaned my copy to my little brother for his stats class, and I'm betting he'll find it more useful than the dreadful (and expensive) intro textbook his professor chose.
I think the reason they get a lot more free passes is that their vendor lock-in actually works very well. When you have all Apple products in your house, stuff just kind of works together in ways that I never experienced with Microsoft's lock-in attempts. So you could argue that it's a bad thing, but unlike the way Microsoft tended to do it, Apple's way actually makes my life better for the most part.
PushButton Tutorial Series - Platforms
yes, why?
Have ever been to west palm beach, and then palm beach itself?
Difference is obvious. I am not even talking about Miami beach and Miami.
The first example given is a perl-golf style obfuscated thingy. Does that strike anyone else as possibly the absolute worst thing you could possible do when showing someone a language for the first time and wanting to make a good impression?

The next example is a little better, I still have no idea what it means but at least it looks like I possibly might once I've read the docs (which I will do now).
No, because taking less than the threshold is effectively meaningless. So, when you calculate the mean and standard deviation the calculation is altered by meaningless trivia. When you add in the latency and rendering times 1ms and 30ms might as well be the same number. What you really want is to round everything under your thresholds up to that threshold and then look at the breakout as x% take 100ms or less, y% take 1 second or less, and z% take less than 3 seconds etc.

You then look at that breakout based on what the page is, or the time of day ect. But, from a performance standpoint the the only really important number is the first number, once enough of your site is fast enough having a few slow areas, or some issues at peak times is reasonable, and once it's slow enough for a user to notice it's a problem.
I can't wait to turn it into webapp framework.
This community is Anti-MS (not all, but many); so you'll find a lot here that hates Microsoft and loves Google.
The word "monopoly" is often abused. Neither Apple nor Google have one. There are other phones than the iPhone. There are other MP3 players than the iPod. There are other computers than Macs. There are even other search engines than Google, as Microsoft will be happy to tell you.

Things were different back in the old days. One reason why people seem so much more relaxed about things is that the alternatives are so much easier to find than they used to be.
Feels like I'm playing myst except things are moving.
If you're of the mathematical school that thinks the best way to learn any math field is to walk through the history of how we got here, then I'd recommend the recent book "The Lady Tasting Tea". It traces through the history of the great mathematical minds who created the field of statistics, explains the problems they were solving, how and why they were able to solve them, and how future problems and solutions built up over time into the field of statistics.

It is an academic book, and is more of a history book that explains the math, rather than a math text book; which is why I found it note worthy. It's also worth reading solely for the detailed citations, from which you could completely learn the core of the field by "studying the master's" original papers.

http://www.amazon.com/Lady-Tasting-Tea-Statistics-Revolution...
How Mark Pincus won best CEO at the Crunchies
Eric Schmidt's dismissal of the notion that people have a right to privacy.

Wow, started out with word twisting, now it's up to out right lying about what he said? That's impressive.
I agree with your assessment of the 'scientism' of social sciences, and the rather absurd uses of statistical methods (that should be inapplicable because of data collective and basic assumption issues).

What I am to do is mostly descriptive statistics, but with a few simple tests (e.g. a test of variance with covariance). I've got three populations of civil war data and would like to compare features of those populations against each other (e.g. instance of civil war in period one vs. period two vs. period three). Controlling for # of states, or # of new states (say, within five years of their founding).

Most of the complicated stuff really can't be applied to stuff like data on civil wars, since the data doesn't meet basic assumptions of the models, but I would like to be able to say something more than just 'the data from period one looks different than the data from the other two periods.'
hmm, looks like it still takes about 86ms to get from west coast to east coast and back. Does this mean that the network is as fast as it's gonna get? For a while at least.
I think "PHP Must Die" is a lot exaggerated, I think "PHP should be improved" is a better title!
http://www.corbisimages.com/Enlargement/Enlargement.aspx?id=...

WWW rules.
I'm using linux from 15 years now.
First server-side only, quickly after for XWindow apps on client side, then on workstation.
I'm a proud early adopter of Linux/KDE and I did contribute as I could.

I'm absolutely sure Linux on the desktop can't succeed if it's not provided by the harware vendor.
I even tryed it, beeing the first hardware vendor selling Linux (corectly !) pre-installed laptops at entry level price, a few years ago.
BTW, this did kill my very long running bizz.
Execpt some American Online Magazines, I didn't recieve any help from European comunity. They were too busy fighting angainst Windows pre-installed systems, and for their own individual karma.
As a very skeeled but self-teached person, I'm now working in a gas station.

Think of it.

I keep sure Linux on the desktop can't go further if it's not provided by the hardware vendor. (RIP)
You know what, as I mentioned in other posts - inequality in USA is already as bad as in Africa and is rapidly approaching South American's numbers. Of course bottom line is not as bad as in Africa, but quality of life for poors is already totaly incomparable with Europe. So from the point of view of Africans or Brazilians - yes USA is not that bad. From Canadian/European point view - USA is rather troubled place.
na, a calendar should be a table.
True enough, but just because I get a better user experience in exchange for Freedom doesn't mean it's a good trade.
Also Google's privacy invasions including Eric Schmidt's dismissal of the notion that people have a right to privacy.

I'm sorry, but I understood his comment on this to mean "You can't put stuff on a server you don't own without...putting stuff on a server you don't own".

I wouldn't lump Google in with Apple at all...google, at least to me, still isn't doing any evil. Apple on the other hand leaves me speechless.
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... with Middle East, that already cost 3*10^12 $??
"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place" -- Eric Schmidt, 12/2009
I was there and I have a starkly different reaction. A lot of other people I talked to afterwards share your sentiment but I still can't shake off the slimeballey vibe he gave out. A few weeks later the Farmville scandal blew up.

I found Pincus' talk to be the worst--more so than the annual McAdoo flat-pack speech about funding.

Pincus didn't just meander, he started wandering around a Matrix simulation room and just kept opening doors and slamming them shut. His tone was also bitter, particularly about his thoughts about being "misaligned" at successfully exiting.

Worse was the video at the end. What was that? What was the point of that other than a direct recruitment video? Great entrepreneurs leverage great opportunities but to be so flagrant about it? That MTV quick-cut infomercial had no redeeming factor.

Tony Hsieh didn't speak of a nerd-nirvana perhaps, but what he did speak of was building an organization. He spoke of values and skillsets that the audience in attendance SHOULD think about and work TOWARDS. It's not of now, it's of leadership skillsets that's required in just another 5 years. Maybe less if the precocious attendees have their way.

But you did use the right word: blindingly.
it matters from the accessibility point of view. too bad that so many people don't care.
Everything is on a server in Google's world. They're even giving out free operating systems with the expectation that all of your data will end up residing on their servers anyways.
Quite interesting concept, but I looked through the code repository and didn't find any code generation at all. Only a parser. I think it may be very "alpha".
Even if you have all the data of your current run, that's still a sample (broadly speaking) of all the possible runs in the future. This is one of the core aspects of statistics, but it's so fundamental that it gets glossed over rather than getting drilled into people's head like they need. As a result, I have to tell people that when running a survey, total responses are more important than response rate.
I agree Erdos really should have won the fields medal. But I think that the accuracy rating of more prestigious awards are much higher than say the Crunchies.
Haskell IO without monads
This is very interesting, thank you. Any others like this?

I'll contribute something to you, in return: if you're interested in graph-based audio/visual programming, check out vvvv for Windows. It's like Processing, but visual (i.e., designed via UI), and very very fast. It was made by visual artists who actually use it to make big bucks, rather than computer science weenies.
Company presentation (evolution of their technology, 22 min, skip to ~8 min)

http://nvidia.fullviewmedia.com/GPU2009/1001-fairfield-immer...
Totally agree. This was obviously one of Zed's older, asshole dramatic posts and it doesn't read anywhere more clearly than him yelling about people failing to do statistics correctly and then blanket assuming normality on something pretty unlikely to be normal.

Your method is a safe bet as long as you can collect "enough" data to be sure that you're covering all cases you claim to be covering. That being said, power analysis and data interpretation (ramp up, confounders, etc.) are all more difficult and important than this rant conveys. One R function is not your cure-all.
Vb > Va does not imply that Va == 0. We cannot conclude that A has no value just because B has more value than A.
Prisoners of Parole
Am I reading this correctly? The only reason you stated is that he was able to make people excited, with no mention of substance? That the other guy seemed _boring_ to you?

When I interview somewhere I don't ask myself "is this CEO the most exciting person in this room". I want to see that he has good business acumen, that he makes smart decisions and recognizes when things are going bad and cuts losses appropriately. I want a business man, not a motivational speaker.
Yes, you sound like Nazi's on Nuremberg process - "we just executed orders". And that is true: the did not care about people whom the tortured. In fact the would in other circumstances be friendly and polite to them. Yet they really-really needed their salaries or premiums or move up on their military ladder or other stuff.
Yes, I know what he said and that's why I can say "out right lie".

In it's "not-out-of-context" form the "it" clearly means "search for it with a public, open, and FBI-seizable search engine"
If you don't like PHP, you're allowed not to use it.
But MS is the underdog now...
Wow, what a flickr stream
Yes, but so much would have to be improved that starting off with a clean slate might be easier, yes?
The weight gain lasted from when I was 170 pounds until I was 305. I had to stop running when I hit 240 or so.

At 305, I was still 30 pounds under my max...but something tells me it wasn't water weight.
The problem is most of the broken behavior in PHP is never going to be fixed because it would break compatibility.
Not long and you'll get porn movies shot like this.
Compared to ruby/python, sure. Compared to c/c++/erlang eh, not so much.
The site itself is implemented with PHP. Why doesn't the author draw a conclusion from his insight, abandons PHP, and starts eating his own dogfood?
I think there's a more relevant issue here: can we please stop designing languages that use prefix-zero to signify octal? It's a horrible trap lying in wait for those just learning their first language, and then you have to keep it in mind whenever you learn another one, to see whether it's "supported" in this new one as well.

Perhaps, instead, we can come up with some unified representation of a way to attach a base to a number, such as, say, [base]b[number], e.g. 2b0110001 or 16bFF, and use it in every language? (I'd say something about subscripts and their natural use née mathematics, but I'll hold that comment until the iTablet's soft keyboard layout makes people start rethinking APL-like languages.)
PHP like any other language has its shortcomings and its strong points.

The market place decides. If you want to get rid of PHP (or 'kill' it) you will have to displace it with something better.

The other alternative is to send in a patch for this bug or simply report it. I've used PHP for many years and while I certainly don't love some of its more subtle problems you can build an amazing amount of stuff in it.

I have personally had good success reporting bugs to the PHP devs.

That's a lot more productive than 'blogging' about it.

In case it isn't clear why the 08 does not print anything, the 8 is an illegal character in an octal string and is discarded.

A suitable error message would be 'invalid character in octal sequence' instead of a silent discard.
The improved version of PHP is Perl. Which has been around longer than PHP...